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. LXIV.
1 Wolde God thou shuldist to-breke heuenus,
and comen doun, fro thi face hillis
shulden flowe doun,
2 as out brennyng of
fyr they shulden vanshe awei, watris
shulden brenne with fyr; that knowen
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were maad thi name to thin enemys, fro
thi face Jentilis shulden ben disturbid.
3 Whan thou shalt do merueiles, wee shuln
not sustene. Thou descendedest, and fro
thi face mounteynes floweden doun.
4 Fro
the world thei herden not, ne with eres
parceyueden; the e&yogh;e sa&yogh; not, thou God,
withoute thee, what thingus thou hast
mad redi to men abidende thee.
5 Thou
a&yogh;en came to the gladere, and to the
doende ri&yogh;twisnesse; in thi weies thei
shul recorden of thee. Lo! thou wrathedist,
and wee han synned; in hem wee
weren euermor, and wee shul ben saaf.
6 And wee ben mad as vnclene, alle wee;
as the cloth of the womman roten blod
flowende, alle oure ri&yogh;twisnesses; and
wee fellen as a lef alle, and oure wickidnesses
as wind token awei vs.
7 Ther is
not, that inwardly clepe thi name, that
rise, and holde thee; thou hast hid thi
face fro vs, and thou hast hurtlid vs in
the hond of oure wickidnesse.
8 And
now, Lord, oure fader thou art; wee
forsothe clei, and oure makere thou, and
the werkus of thin hondus, alle wee.
9 Ne
wrathe thou, Lord, ynou&yogh;, and no more
haue thou mynde of oure wickidnesse.
10 Lo! Lord, bihold, thi puple alle wee. The
cite of thin hoeli mad is desert Sion,
desert mad is Jerusalem,
11 desolat is the
hous of oure halewing and of oure glorie,
where preiseden thee oure fadris,
mad is in out brennyng of fyr; and alle
oure desirable thingus ben turned in to
fallingus.
12 Whether vp on these thingus
thou shalt withholden thee, Lord? stille
shalt thou be, and tormenten vs hugeli?
1 Thei so&yogh;ten me, that biforn askeden not;
thei founden that so&yogh;ten not me.
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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