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. VIII.
1 And it is doon in the sixte &yogh;eer, in the
sixte moneth, in the fifthe day of the
moneth, Y sate in myn hous, and the
oolde men of Juda saten before me; and
the hoond of the Lord God fel there vpon
me.
2 And I see&yogh;, and loo! a liknes as
the biholdynge of fier; fro the biholdynge
of the leendis of hym and bynethe was
fier, and fro the leendis of hym and aboue
as biholdynge of shynynge, as the seynge
of electre, that is, metal maad of gold
and siluer, bri&yogh;ter than gold.
3 And the
liknes of an hoond sent out cau&yogh;te me in
the heer of myn heed; and a spirit lifte
me vp bitwix heuen and erthe, and
ledde me in to Jerusalem, in the visioun
of God, besidis the inner dore that biholdith
to the north, where the idol of
zele, or enuye, was set, for to styre enuye.
4 And loo! there the glorie of God of Israel,
after the visioun which Y see&yogh; in
the feeld.
5 And he seide to me, Sone of
man, reys thin eyen to the weye of the
north; and loo! fro the north of the &yogh;aat
of the auter, the ydol of enuye in that
entrynge.
6 And he seide to me, Sone of
man, gessist thou whether thou seest
what thes men don, the greet abomynaciouns
whiche the hows of Israel doth
here, that Y goo a wey fer fro my seyntuarie?
and &yogh;it thou conuertid shal see
gretter abomynaciouns.
7 And he ledde
me in to the dore of the porche; and Y
see&yogh;, and loo! an hoole in the wal.
8 And
he seide to me, Sone of man, dig the wal;
and whanne Y hadde thur&yogh; diggide the
wal, o dore aperide.
9 And he seide to me,
Go thou yn, and se the werst abomynaciouns,
whiche thes men doon here.
10 `And
I gon in, see&yogh;; and loo! eche lyknes of
crepynge thingis, and abomynacioun of
beestis, and alle the ydolis of the hous of
Israel, weren peyntid in compas in the
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wal bi alle.
11 And seuenti men of the
eldris of the hous of Israel; and Jeconye,
the sone of Saphan, stode in the mydil
of hem, stoondynge before the peyntyngis;
and eche hadde a censer in his
hoond, and the vapour, or smoke, of a
cloud roos togider of the ensence.
12 And
he seide to me, Certis, sone of man, thou
seest whiche thingis the eldre men of the
hows of Israel doon in derknessis, eche
in the hid place of his couche; forsothe
thei seyn, The Lord seeth not vs, the
Lord hath forsakyn the loond.
13 And the
Lord seide to me, &YOGH;it thou conuertid shal
see gretter abomynaciouns, whiche thes
men don.
14 And he ledde me yn, bi the
dore of the &yogh;ate of the hows of the Lord,
that biheelde to the north; and loo! there
saten wymmen, mournynge a mawmet
of letcherie, that is clepid Adonydes.
15 And he seide to me, Certis, sone of man,
thou hast seen; &yogh;it thou conuertid shal
see gretter abomynaciouns than thes.
16 And he ledde me in, in to the innermore
porche of the hows of the Lord; and loo!
in the dore of the temple of the Lord,
bitwixe the vestiarie and the auter, as
fyue and twenti men hauynge the backis
a&yogh;ens the temple of the Lord, and the
faces to the eest; and thei worshipeden
at the rysynge of the sunne.
17 And he
seide to me, Certis, mannus sone, thou
shalt see, whether this thing is li&yogh;t to
the hous of Juda, that thei shulden doo
thes abomynaciouns, whiche thei diden
here? For thei fulfillynge the erthe with
wickidnes, ben turned to gidre to terre me
to wraththe; and loo! thei applien, or
leyn to, a braunche to her nose thrillis.
18 Therfor and Y shal doo in my woodnes;
myn eye shal not spare to hem, nether
I shal haue mercy; and whanne thei
shulen crie to myn erys with greet vois,
Y shal not here hem.
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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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