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 Heere &yogh;e, sonys of Yrael, the word of
the Lord, for dome to the Lord with
dwellers of erthe; forsothe trewthe is not
-- --
and mercy is not, and science, or kunnynge,
of the Lord is not in erthe.
2 Cursidness,
and lesyng, and mansleaynge, and theft,
and auoutrie flowiden, and bloode touchide
bloode.
3 For this thing erthe shal mourne,
and eche man that dwellith theryn shal be
seeke, in beest of the feeld, and in brid of
heuen; bot and fishis of the se shuln be
gadrid.
4 Nethelese eche man deeme not,
and be not a man reproued; forsothe thi
peple as these that a&yogh;ein sayen the prest.
5 And thou shalt falle to day, and also the
prophete shal falle to gydre with thee;
in ny&yogh;t Y made thi modir for to be
stille.
6 And my peple was to gydre stille,
for it hadde not science; for thou hast
putte awey science, Y shal putte thee
awey, that thou be not set, or vse, in
presthode to me; thou hast for&yogh;ete the
lawe of thi God, and Y shal forgete thi
sonys.
7 Vp the multitude of hem, so thei
synnyden to me. Y shal chaunge the
glorie of hem in to yuel fame.
8 Thei
shuln ete the synnys of my peple, and to
the wickidnesse of hem thei shuln reyse
vp the soulis of hem.
9 And it shal be,
as the peple so the prest; and I shal
visite on hym the weyes of hym, and I
shal &yogh;elde to hym his thou&yogh;tis.
10 And thei
shuln ete, and shuln not be fulfillid; thei
diden fornycacioun, and cesiden not, for
thei forsoken the Lord in not kepynge.
11 Fornicacioun, and wijn, and drunkenesse
doth awey herte.
12 My peple axide in his
tree, and the staff of hym shal shewe to
hym; forsothe the spirit of fornicaciouns
disceyuyde hem, and thei diden fornicacioun
fro her God.
13 On hedis of hillis
thei maden sacrifice, and on litil hillis
thei brenneden tymyame, or encense, vnder
ook, and poplere, and terebynt, for
the shadew of it was good. Therfore &yogh;our
dou&yogh;ters shuln do fornicacioun, and &yogh;our
spousis, or wijfis, shuln be auoutressis.
14 Y shal not visite on &yogh;our dou&yogh;ters, whan
thei shuln do fornicacioun, and on &yogh;oure
-- --
wijues, whanne thei shuln do auowtrie;
for thei lyueden with hooris, and sacrifieden
with men turned in to wommans
maners. And peple not vndirstondynge
shal be beten.
15 &YOGH;if thou, Yrael, dost fornycacioun,
namely thou, Juda, trespasse
not; and nyl &yogh;e entre in to Galgala, and
stye &yogh;e not in to Bethauen, nether swere
&yogh;e, The Lord lyueth.
16 For as a cowe
waxinge wijlde Yrael bowide awey; now
the Lord shal feede hem as a lombe
in breed.
17 Parcener of ydolis Effraym,
leue &yogh;e hym;
18 the feest of hem is departid.
In fornicacioun thei diden fornicacioun,
the defenders of hem loueden
for to brynge to yuel fame.
19 A spirit
boonde hym in his weengis, and thei
shuln be confoundid of her sacrifices.
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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