God

Therefore their daies did hee consume in vanitie, and their yeeres hastily.

And when hee slewe them, they sought him and they returned, and sought God earely.

And they remembred that God was their strength, and the most high God their redeemer.

But they flattered him with their mouth, and dissembled with him with their tongue.

For their heart was not vpright with him: neither were they faithfull in his couenant.

Yet he being merciful forgaue their iniquitie, and destroied them not, but oft times called backe his anger, and did not stirre vp all his wrath.

For he remembered that they were flesh: yea, a winde that passeth and commeth not againe.

How oft did they prouoke him in the wildernes? and grieue him in the desert?

Yea, they returned, and tempted God, and limited the Holie one of Israel.

They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he deliuered them from the enemie,

Nor him that set his signes in Egypt, and his wonders in the fielde of Zoan,

Hee cast vpon them the fiercenesse of his anger, indignation and wrath, and vexation by the sending out of euill Angels.

He made a way to his anger: he spared not their soule from death, but gaue their life to the pestilence,

But hee made his people to goe out like sheepe, and led them in the wildernes like a flocke.

Yea, he caried them out safely, and they feared not, and the Sea couered their enemies.

And he brought them vnto the borders of his Sanctuarie: euen to this Mountaine, which his right hand purchased.

Yet they tempted, and prouoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies,

And they prouoked him to anger with their high places, and mooued him to wrath with their grauen images.

God heard this and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel,

So that hee forsooke the habitation of Shilo, euen the Tabernacle where hee dwelt among men,

And deliuered his power into captiuitie, and his beautie into the enemies hand.

And hee gaue vp his people to the sworde, and was angrie with his inheritance.

But the Lord awaked as one out of sleepe, and as a strong man that after his wine crieth out,

And smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and put them to a perpetuall shame.

Yet he refused the tabernacle of Ioseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: