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. III.
1 Wo `to the citee of blodis, al of lesyng,
ful of to-teryng; raueyn shal not go
awey fro thee.
2 Voice of scourge, and
voice of bir of wheel, and of hors makynge
noyse, and of a foure horsid cart
brennynge, and of kni&yogh;t steyinge vp,
and of shynynge swerd,
3 and smytynge
spere, and of the slayn multitude, and
greuouse fallynge, nether ther is eende
of careins. And thei shuln falle to gydre
in her bodies,
4 for multitude of the fornycaciouns
of the hoore fair and able,
and hauynge euel dedis, or wicchecraftis;
whiche solde folkis in her fornycaciouns,
and meynees in her poysouns.
5 Loo! Y
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to thee, saith the Lord God of oostis; and
Y shal shewe thi shamful thingis in thi
face; and Y shal shewe to folkis thi nakidnesse,
and to rewmes thin yuel fame.
6 And Y shal caste out on thee thin abomynaciouns,
and Y shal punyshe thee
with dispitis, and Y shal putte thee in to
ensaumple.
7 And it shal be, eche man
that shal see thee, shal lippe a&yogh;ein fro
thee, and shal saye, Nynyue is distruyed.
Who shal moue togydre the hed vpon
thee? wherof shal Y seke to thee a coumfortour?
8 Wher thou art better than
Alisaundre, of peplis whiche dwellith in
flodis? Waters in cumpas therof, whos
ritchessis the se, waters the wallis therof.
9 Ethiopie the strengthe therof, and Egypt,
and ther is noon eende; Affrik and Libie
weren in help therof.
10 Bot and it in
transmygracioun, or passing ouer, is led
in to caitiftee; the litil children therof
ben hirt in the heed of alle wayes. And
on the noble men therof thei senten lot,
and alle grete men therof ben sett togider
in the stockis.
11 And thou therfore
shalt be drunken, and thou shalt be dispisid,
and thou shalt seeke help of enmy.
12 Alle thi strengthis as a fijge tree, with
his vnripe fijgis; &yogh;if thei shuln be smyten
to gydre, thei shuln falle in to the mouth
of the etynge.
13 Loo! thi peple wymmen
in the mydil of thee; to thin enmyes, to
the opnynge the &yogh;atis of thi lond shuln
be shewid, or opnyd; fijr shal deuoure thi
barris, or lockis.
14 Drawe vp to thee water
for aseegyng, beelde thi strengthis; entre
in to fen, and trede, thou vndergoynge
holde a tijl.
15 There fijr shal ete thee,
thou shalt perishe by swerd, it shal deuoure
thee, as bruke; therfor be thou
gadrid togydre as bruke, be thou multiplied
as locust.
16 Thou madist thi marchaundises
mo than ben sterris of heuen;
bruke is sprad o brood, and flei&yogh;eth awey.
17 Thi keepers as locustis, and thi litel children
-- --
as locustis of locustis, whiche siten
to gidre in heggis in the day of cold;
the sunne is sprungen vp, and thei fledden
awey, and the place of hem is not
knowen, where thei weren.
18 Thi sheperdis
napten, thou kyng Assur, thi
princes shuln be biried; thi peple oft
derkid in hillis, and ther is not that
shal gadre.
19 Thi contricioun is not derk,
thi wound is warst; alle men that
herden thi heering, pressiden to gidre
hond on thee, for vpon whom passide
not thi malice euermore?
Here endith the [book] of Naum,
prophete, and bigynneth the book of
Abacuk, prophete.
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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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