Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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CAP. XII.
1 Forsothe Samuel seide to alle Yrael,
Loo! I haue herd &yogh;oure voys aftir alle
thingis that &yogh;e han spokun to me, and I
haue ordeynd vpon &yogh;ou a kyng;
2 and nowe
the kyng goth before &yogh;ow. Forsothe Y
haue eeldid, and waxen hoor; forsothe
my sones ben with &yogh;ow; also conuersaunt
before &yogh;ou fro my &yogh;ongth vnto this
day.
3 Loo! Y am redi; spek &yogh;e to me
before the Lord, and before the crist of
hym; whether oxe of eny man Y took,
or asse; if eny man Y chalengide; if Y
oppresside eny man; if of the hoond of
eny man Y took &yogh;ift; and Y shal dispise
it to day, and restore to &yogh;ow.
4 And thei
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seiden, Thow hast not chalengid vs, ne
oppressid, ne takyn eny thing of the
hoond of eny man.
5 And he seide to
hem, Witnesse is the Lord a&yogh;ens &yogh;ow,
and witnesse the crist of hym in this
day; for &yogh;e han not founden in myn
hoond eny thing. And thei seiden, Witnesse.
6 And Samuel seith to the puple,
The Lord, that made Moysen and Aaron,
and ladde &yogh;oure fadres fro the loond of
Egipt, is ny&yogh;;
7 now thanne stondith, that
in doom I stryue a&yogh;ens &yogh;ow before the
Lord, of alle the mercyes of the Lord,
that he hath done with &yogh;ow, and with
&yogh;oure fadres.
8 What maner wise Jacob
wente into Egipt, and &yogh;oure fadres crieden
to the Lord; and the Lord sente
Moyses and Aaron, and ladde &yogh;oure fadres
out of Egipt, and sette hem in this
place.
9 The whiche for&yogh;eten of the Lord,
her God; and he took hem in the hoond
of Cysar, mayster of the kny&yogh;thod of
Asor, and in the hoond of Philistiens,
and in the hond of the king of Moab;
and thei fou&yogh;ten a&yogh;ens hem.
10 Forsothe
aftyrward thei cryeden to the Lord, and
seiden, We han synned, for we han forsakun
the Lord, and serueden to Baalym
and Astaroth; nowe thanne delyuer vs
fro the hoond of oure enemyes, and we
shulen serue to thee.
11 And the Lord sente
Jeroboal, and Bedan, and Barach, and
Jepte, and Samuel; and he delyuerde
&yogh;ow fro the hoond of &yogh;oure enemyes bi
enuyroun; and &yogh;e han dwellid trustily.
12 Forsothe seynge that Naas, the kyng of
the sones of Amon, was comen a&yogh;ens &yogh;ow,
&yogh;e seiden to me, Nay, but the kyng shal
comaunde to vs; whanne the Lord &yogh;our
God shulde regne in &yogh;ow.
13 Nowe thanne
&yogh;oure kyng is redi, whom &yogh;e han chosen
and askid; loo! the Lord hath &yogh;euen to
&yogh;ow a kyng.
14 If &yogh;e dreden the Lord, and
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serueth to hym, and herith the voys of
hym, and whettith not the mouth of the
Lord; and &yogh;e shulen ben, and the kyng
that comaundith to &yogh;ow, folowynge the
Lord &yogh;oure God.
15 Forsothe if &yogh;e heren
not the voys of the Lord, but whettith
out the word of hym, the hoond of the
Lord shal be vpon &yogh;ow, and vpon &yogh;oure
fadres.
16 But nowe stondith, and seeth
this greet thing that the Lord is to doo
in &yogh;oure si&yogh;t.
17 Whether not repynge tyme
of whete is to day? Y shal inwardly
clepe the Lord, and he shal &yogh;yue voicis,
and reynes; and &yogh;e shulen wite, and seen,
for greet yuel &yogh;e han doo to &yogh;ow in the
si&yogh;t of the Lord, askynge vpon &yogh;ow a
kyng.
18 And Samuel criede to the Lord,
and the Lord &yogh;af voicis and reynes in
that day.
19 And al the puple dredde wel
mych the Lord and Samuel; and al the
puple seide to Samuel, Prey for thi seruauntis
to the Lord thi God, that we
dyen not; forsothe we han addid to alle
oure synnes yuel, that we asken to vs a
kyng.
20 Forsothe Samuel seide to the puple,
Wole &yogh;e not drede; &yogh;e han doon alle
this yuel; neuerthelater wole &yogh;e not goo
awey fro the bak of the Lord, but
serueth to the Lord in al &yogh;oure herte;
21 and wole &yogh;e not bowe aside after veyn
thingis, that shulen not profyt &yogh;ou, ne
shulen delyuer &yogh;ou; for veyn thingis thei
ben.
22 And the Lord shal not forsake his
puple for his greet name; for the Lord
hath sworn to make &yogh;ow to hym a puple.
23 Forsothe God sheelde the synne fro me
in the Lord, that I ceese to prey for &yogh;ow;
and I shal teche &yogh;ow a ri&yogh;t weye and
good.
24 Therfor dredith the Lord, and
serueth to hym in treuth, and of al &yogh;oure
herte; forsothe &yogh;e han seen the greet
dedis, `the whiche he hath doon in &yogh;ow;
and if &yogh;e ben stedfast in malice,
25 and &yogh;e
and &yogh;oure kyng to gidre shulen perishe.
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Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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