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 And the Lord made redy a grete fisshe,
that he shulde swelow Jonas; and Jonas
was in wombe of the fishe three days
and three ni&yogh;tis.
2 And Jonas preyede to
the Lord his God of the fishis wombe,
and saide,
3 Y cryede to God of my tribulacioun,
and he herde me; of the
wombe of helle Y criede, and thou herdist
my voice.
4 Thou castidist me doun in
to depnesse in the hert of the se, and the
flood aboute &yogh;aue me; alle thi swelowis
and wawis passiden on me.
5 And Y saide,
Y am cast awey fro the si&yogh;t of thin ee&yogh;en;
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netheles eftsoone Y shal see thin holy
6 temple Waters enuirounden me vn to
my soule, depnesse encloside me, the se
hillide myn hed.
7 To the vtmest places
of hillis Y wente doun, the herris of erthe
closiden me to gydre, in to with outen
eend; and thou shalt reyse vp my lijf of
corrupcioun, Lord my God.
8 Whanne my
soule was angwishid in me, Y bithou&yogh;te
of the Lord, that my prayer cum to thee,
to thyn holy temple.
9 Thei that kepen
vanytees, ydely shuln forsake her mercy.
10 Y forsothe in voice of preysyng shal offre
to thee; what euer thingis Y vowide, Y
shal &yogh;eelde to the Lord, for helth.
11 And
the Lord saide to the fishe, and it castide
out Jonas in to lond.
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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