windows

¶ In the sixe hundredth yeere of Noahs life, in the second moneth, the seuenteenth day of the moneth, the same day, were al the fountaines of the great deepe broken vp, and the windowes of heauen were opened.

1611 marginal noteOr, flood-gates.

The fountaines also of the deepe, and the windowes of heauen were stopped, and the raine from heauen was restrained.

And for the house he made windowes of narrow lights.

1611 marginal noteOr, windowes broad within and narrow without: or, skewed and closed.

And there were windowes in three rowes, and light was against light in three rankes.

1611 marginal noteHebr. sight against sight.

And all the doores and postes were square, with the windowes: and light was against light in three rankes.

1611 marginal noteOr, spaces and pillars were square in prospect.

Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned, answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windowes in heauen, might this thing bee? and he saide, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eies, but shalt not eate thereof.

1611 marginal noteHeb. a LORD which belonged to the King, leaning vpon his hand.

And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now behold, if the LORD should make windowes in heauen, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eate thereof.

In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bowe themselues, and the grinders cease, because they are fewe, and those that looke out of the windowes be darkened:

1611 marginal noteOr, the grinders faile, because they grind litle.

My beloued is like a Roe, or a yong Hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh foorth at the windowe, shewing himselfe through the lattesse.

1611 marginal noteVerse 17.

1611 marginal noteHeb. flourishing.

And it shall come to passe, that he who fleeth from the noise of the feare, shall fall into the pit; and he that commeth vp out of the midst of the pit, shalbe taken in the snare: for the windowes from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth doe shake.

1611 marginal noteIere.48.44.