1O Lorde Almightie, O God of Israel, the soule that is in trouble, and the spirite that is vexed, cryeth vnto thee. 2Heare, O Lord, and haue mercie: for thou art mercifull, and haue pitie vpon vs, because wee haue sinned before thee. 3For thou endurest for euer, & we vtterly perish. 4O Lorde Almightie, the God of Israel, heare nowe the prayer of the dead Israelites, and of their children, which haue sinned before thee, and not hearkened vnto the voyce of thee ther God, wherefore these plagues hang vpon vs. 5Remember not ye wickednesse of our fathers, but thinke vpo thy power, & thy Name at this time. 6For thou art the Lorde our God, and thee, O Lord, will we prayse. 7And for this cause hast thou put thy feare in our hearts, that we should call vpon thy Name, and prayse thee in our captiuitie: for we haue considered in our mindes all the wickednesse of our fathers, that sinned before thee. 8Beholde, we are yet this day in our captiuitie, where thou hast scattered vs, to be a reproche and a curse, and subiect to payments, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which are departed from the Lord their God. 9O Israel, heare ye comandements of life: hearken vnto them, that thou maiest learne wisdome. 10What is the cause, O Israel, that thou art in thine enemies land, and art waxen olde in a strange countrey? 11And art defiled with the dead? and art counted with them, that goe downe to the graues? 12Thou hast forsaken ye fountaine of wisdome. 13For if thou hadst walked in the way of God, thou shouldest haue remayned safe for euer. 14Learne where is wisedome, where is strength, where is vnderstanding, that thou maiest know also from whence commeth long continuance, and life, and where the light of the eyes, and peace is. 15Who hath found out her place? or who hath come into her treasures? 16Where are the princes of the heathen, & such as ruled the beastes vpon the earth? 17They that had their pastime with the foules of the heauen, that hoarded vp siluer & gold, wherein men trust, & made none ende of their gathering? 18For they that coyned siluer, & were so careful of their worke, & whose inuention had none ende, 19Are come to nought, and gone downe to hel, and other men are come vp in their steades. 20When they were young, they sawe the light, and dwelt vpon the earth: but they vnderstood not the way of knowledge, 21Neither perceiued the pathes thereof, neither haue their children receiued it: but they were farre off from that way. 22It hath not bene heard off in the land of Chanaan, neither hath it bene seene in Theman, 23Nor the Agarines that sought after wisdome vpon the earth, nor the marchants of Nerran, and of Theman, nor the expounders of fables, nor the searchers out of wisdome haue knowen the way of wisdome, neither doe they thinke vpon the pathes thereof. 24O Israel, howe great is the House of God! and howe large is the place of his possession! 25It is great, and hath none ende: it is hie, and vnmeasurable. 26There were the gyants, famous from the beginning, that were of so great stature, and so expert in warre. 27Those did not the Lord choose, neither gaue he the way of knowledge vnto them. 28But they were destroyed, because they had no wisdome, & perished through their owne foolishnes. 29Who hath gone vp into heauen, to take her, and brought her downe from the cloudes? 30Who hath gone ouer the sea to finde her, and hath brought her, rather then fine golde? 31No man knoweth her wayes, neither considereth her pathes. 32But he that knoweth al things, knoweth her, and he hath found her out with his vnderstanding: this same is he which hath prepared the earth for euermore, and hath filled it with foure footed beastes. 33When he sendeth out the light, it goeth: and when he calleth it againe, it obeyeth him with feare. 34And the starres shine in their watch, and reioyce. When he calleth them, they say, Here we be: and so with cherefulnesse they shewe light vnto him that made them. 35This is our God, and there shall none other be compared vnto him. 36He hath found out all the way of knowledge, and hath giuen it vnto Iacob his seruant, and to Israel his beloued. 37Afterwarde he was seene vpon earth, and dwelt among men.