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. IV.
1 Aleph. Hou bicome derc is gold,
chaungid is the best colour? scatered ben
the stonus of the seyntuarie in the hed
of alle stretus.
2 Beth. The sonus of Sion
glorious, and wrappid with the chef gold,
in to erthene vesseles, werk of the hondis
of a crockere.
3 Gimel. But and the cruel
beestis clepid lamya, nakeden ther tetes,
&yogh;eeuen ther whelpus souken; the do&yogh;ter
of my puple cruel, as an ostrich in desert.
4 Deleth. Cleuede to the tonge of the
soukende to his palet in thrist; the litil
childer askeden bred, and ther was not
that shulde breke to them.
5 He. That
eeten voluptuously, dieden in weies; that
weren nurshid in `faire clois of saffroun,
han clippid thostus.
6 Vau. And more
mad is the wickednesse of the do&yogh;ter of
my puple than the synne of Sodomys,
that is turned vp so doun in a moment,
and toc not in to it hondus.
7 Sai. Whittere
is Nazareis than sno&yogh;, shynendere
than mylc; reddere than old yuer, than
safyr fairere.
8 Heth. Gretli blakid is
aboue colis the face of hem, and thei
ben not knowen in stretus; cleuede to
the skyn to the bonus of hem, it driede,
-- --
and mad is as a tree.
9 Teth. Betere was
to the slayn men with swerd, than to the
slayn men with hungir; for thei anoen
ben dead, these ful out faileden, ben towastid
of the bareynesse of the erthe.
10 Joth. The hondus of merciful wymmen
setheden ther sonus; mad thei ben the
metus of hem in the contricioun of the
do&yogh;ter of my puple.
11 Caf. The Lord fulfilde
his wodnesse, helde out the wrathe
of his indignacioun; and the Lord tende
vp fyr in Sion, and deuourede his foundemens.
12 Lameth. Leeueden not the kingis
of the lond, and alle the dwelleris of the
world, that gon in shulde the ferr enemy
and the ny&yogh; enemy bi the &yogh;atus of
Jerusalem.
13 Men. For the synnes of
his profetus, and the wickidnessis of his
prestus, that heeldeden out in his myddil
the blod of ri&yogh;twis men.
14 Nun. Erreden
the blinde in stretus, defoulid ben in
blod; and whan thei my&yogh;te not entre,
thei heelden ther swolwis.
15 Sameth. Goth
awei, &yogh;ee defoulid, thei crieden to them,
departeth awei, goth awei, wileth not
touche; forsothe thei iangleden, and ben
to-stired; seiden among Jentiles, He shal
no more lei to, that he dwelle in hem.
16 Ain. The face of the Lord deuydede
them, he shal not adde, that he beholde
them; the faces of prestus thei shameden
not, ne of the olde men thei reweden.
17 Fee. Whan &yogh;it wee shulde stonden alyue,
faileden oure e&yogh;en to oure veyn help;
whanne wee bihelden takende heed to
the folc of kinde, that saue vs my&yogh;te not.
18 Sade. Thei maden slidery oure steppis
in the weie of oure stretes; ne&yogh;hede oure
ende, fulfild ben oure da&yogh;es, for comen is
oure ende.
19 Cof. Swiftere weren oure
pursueres than egles of heuene vp on the
mounteinus; thei pursueden vs, in desert
thei setteden aspies to vs.
20 Res. The
spirit of oure mouth, Crist Lord, taken is
in oure synnes; to whom we seiden, In
-- --
thi shadewe wee shul lyue in folkus of
kinde.
21 Syn. Io&yogh;e, and glade, thou do&yogh;ter
of Edom, that dwellist in the lond of
Hus; to thee also shal come the chalis,
thou shalt be drunke, and nakened.
22 Tau.
Fulfilde is thi wickenesse, thou do&yogh;ter of
Sion; he shal no more adde, that he ouerpasse
thee; he shal visite thi wickenesse,
thou do&yogh;ter of Edom, discouere he shal
thi synnes.
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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