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I haue dygged and dronke vp the straunge waters, and with ye soles of my fete haue I dryed vp the See.

Let the See make a noyse, and the fulnesse therof: let the felde be ioyfull, and all that therin is.

and so wyll we hewe ye tymber vpon Libanus, as moch as thou nedest, and wyll brynge it by flotes in the See vnto Iapho, from whence thou mayest brynge it vp to Ierusalem.

Then wente Salomon vnto Ezeon Geber, and vnto Eloth by the See syde in the londe of Edomea.

And Hiram sent him shippes by his seruauntes which had knowlege of the See, and they wente with Salomos seruauntes vnto Ophir, and fetched from thence foure hundreth and fyftye talentes of golde, and broughte it vnto kynge Salomon.

For the kynges shippes wente vpon the See with the seruauntes of Hira, & came once in thre yeare, and brought golde, syluer, Yuery, Apes and Pecockes.

And they came and tolde Iosaphat, and sayde: There cometh a greate multitude agaynst the from beyonde the See of Syria, & beholde, they are at Hazezon Thamar, that is Engaddi.

Tomorow shal ye go downe vnto the. And beholde, they go vp by Sis, and ye shal fynde them at the reed see by the broke before the wyldernes of Ieruel:

And he agreed with him to make shippes, for to go vpon the see. And they made the shippes at Ezeon Gaber.

But Elieser the sonne of Dodana of Maresa prophecied agaynst Iosaphat, and sayde: Because thou hast agreed with Ahasia, therfore hath the LORDE broken thy workes. And so ye shippes were broken, & mighte not go vpon the See.

Neuertheles they gaue money vnto ye masons and carpenters, and meate and drynke and oyle vnto them of Zidon and of Tyre, to brynge the Cedre tymbre from Libanus by See vnto Ioppa, acordinge to the comaundement of Cyrus the kynge of Persia.

LORDE, thou art alone, thou hast made heauen, and the heauen of all heauens, with all their hoost, the earth and all that therin is, the See and all that is therin: thou geuest life vnto all, and ye hoost of heauen bowe themselues vnto the.

And hast considered the mysery of oure fathers in Egipte, and herde their complainte by the reed See,

And the reed See partedst thou in sunder before them, so that they wete thorow the myddes of the See drye shod: & their persecuters threwest thou in to the depe as a stone, in the mightie waters,

And the kynge Ahasuerus layed tribute vpon the londe, and vpon the Iles of the See.

for then shulde it be heuyer, then the sonde of the see. This is the cause, that my wordes are so soroufull.

Am I a see or a whalfysh, that thou kepest me so in preson?

He himself alone spredeth out ye heauens, and goeth vpon the wawes of the see.

His length exceadeth the length of the earth, and his bredth ye bredth of the see.

Speake to the earth, and it shall shewe the: Or to the fyshes of the see, and they shal certifie the.