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. II.
1 Saye &yogh;e to &yogh;our bretheren, My peple;
and to &yogh;our sister, Wynnynge mercy;
deme &yogh;e &yogh;our modir,
2 deme &yogh;e, for she is
not my wijf, and Y not hir husbond. Do
she aweye hir fornicaciouns fro hir face,
and hir auowtries fro the mydil of her
tetis;
3 lest perauenture Y vnclothe hir
nakid, and sette hir vp the day of hir
birthe. And Y shal putte hir as a wildrenesse,
and ordeyne hir as a lond vnweyed,
or with outen weye, and shal
slea hir with thrist.
4 And of the sones
of hir Y shal not haue mercy, for thei
ben sonys of fornycacioun;
5 for the modir
of hem dide fornycacioun, she is confusid
that conceyuyde hem, for she saide,
Y shal go after my louers that &yogh;iuen
my looues to me, and my waters, and my
wolle, and my lynnen, and myn oyle, and
my drinke.
6 For this thing lo! Y shal
hegge thi weye with thornys, and I shal
hegge it with a walle, and it shal not
fynde his pathis.
7 And she shal sue hir
louers, and shal not cacche hem, and shal
seke hem, and shal not fynde hem; and
she shal saye, Y shal go, and Y shal
turne a&yogh;ein to my former husbond, for
wele it was to me thanne more than now.
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8 And this womman wiste not, for Y &yogh;aue
to hir wheet, wijne, and oyle; and multiplied
to hir syluer and gold, whiche
thei maden to Baal.
9 Therfore Y shal
turne, and shal take my wheet in hys
tyme, and my wijn in his tyme; and I
shal wei&yogh;e my wolle, and my lynnen,
whiche hiliden the yuel fame of hir.
10 And
now Y shal shewe the folye of hir in the
ee&yogh;en of hir louers, and a man shal not
delyuere hir fro myn hond;
11 and I shal
make alle the ioye of hir for to ceese, hir
solempnyte, hir neomynye, or new feest,
hir saboth, and alle feestis and tymys of
hir.
12 And I shal corrumpe, or distruye,
hir vyne &yogh;erd, and hir fijge tree, of which
she saide, These ben my hijris, whiche
my louers &yogh;auen to me; and Y shal putte
hir in to wijlde wode, and the beest of
the feeld shal eet hir.
13 And I shal visite
vpon hir the days of Baalym, in whiche
she brent ensence, and was ourned with
hir ere ring, and hir broche, and wente
aftir hir louers, and for&yogh;ate me, saith the
Lord.
14 For this thing loo! Y shal &yogh;eue
mylk to hir, and shal lede hir in to wildernesse,
and Y shal speke to hir herte;
15 and shal &yogh;eue to hir vijne tyliers of the
same place, and the valey of Achor, for
to opyn hope. And she shal synge there vp
the days of hir &yogh;outhe, and vp the days
of hir steying vp fro the lond of Egypt.
16 And it shal be in that day, saith the
Lord, she shal clepe me Myn husbond,
and she shal namore clepe me Baalym;
17 and Y shal take aweye the names of Balym
fro hir mouthe, and she shal namore
haue mynde of the name of hem.
18 And Y
shal smyte to hem a boond of pees in
that day with beest of the feeld, and with
brid of heuen, and with creepynge beest
of erthe. And Y shal breke to gydre bowe,
and swerd, and batel of the erthe; and
Y shal make hem for to sleepe tristili.
19 And I shal spouse thee to me in to with
outen eende, and Y shal spouse thee to
-- --
me in ri&yogh;twijsnesse, and in dome, and in
mercy, and in doyngis of mercy.
20 And
Y shal spouse thee to me in feith; and
thou shalt wite, for Y the Lord.
21 And
it shal be, in that day Y shal heere, saith
the Lord, and I shal heere heuens, and
thei shuln heere the erthe;
22 and the erthe
shal heere wheete, and wijn, and oyle, and
these shuln heere Jesrael.
23 And Y shal
sowe hir to me in to lond, and Y shal
haue mercy on hir that was with out
mercy.
24 And Y shal saye to not my peple,
Thou art my peple, and he shal saye,
Thou art my God.
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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