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. I.
1 The word of the Lord, that is maad to
Sophonye, sone of Chusy, sone of Godolie,
sone of Amasie, sone of Ezechie, in
the days of Josye, the sone of Amon,
kyng of Juda.
2 Y gaderynge shal gadre
alle thingus fro face of erthe, saith the
Lord;
3 gadrynge man and beeste, gadrynge
volatilis of heuen, and fishes of the
se; and fallyngis of vnpytous men shuln
ben, and Y shal leese men fro face of
the erthe, saith the Lord.
4 And Y shal
stretche out myn hond vpon Juda, and
vpon alle the dwellers of Jerusalem; and
Y shal leese of this place the relikis of
Baal, and the names of kepers of the
housis, with the prestis;
5 and hem that
worshipen vpon roues the kny&yogh;thod of
heuen, and worshipen, and sweren in
the Lord, and sweren in Melchon;
6 and
whiche ben turned awey byhynde the
bac of the Lord, and whiche sou&yogh;ten, or
axiden, not the Lord, nether enserchiden
hym.
7 Be &yogh;e stille fro face of the
Lord God, for ni&yogh; is the day of the
Lord; for the Lord made redi a sacrifice,
halewide his clepid men.
8 And it shal
be, in the day of offryng of the Lord, Y
shal visite vpon princes, and vpon sones
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of the kyng, and vpon alle that ben
clothid with pilgrim, or straunge, clothing.
9 And Y shal visite vpon eche that
proudli entrith vpon the threshfold in
that day, whiche fulfillen the hous of the
Lord her God with wickidnesse and gyle.
10 And ther shal be in that day, saith the
Lord, a voys of crye fro the &yogh;ate of fishis,
and &yogh;oulynge fro the secounde, or that
streete of Jerusalem, and grete contricioun
fro litil hillis.
11 &YOGH;oule &yogh;e, dwellers
of Pyle, or of tauern; alle the peple of
Canaan was stille to gidre, alle wlappid
in syluer perishiden.
12 And it shal be, in
that tyme Y shal seeke Jerusalem in
lanternys, and Y shal visite vpon alle
men pi&yogh;t in her darstis, whiche sayen in
her hertis, The Lord shal not do wel, and
he shal not do yuel.
13 And the strengthe
of hem shal be in to rauyshyng, and the
hous of hem in to desert; and thei shuln
beelde housis, and shuln not enhabite;
and thei shuln plante vyne &yogh;erdus, and
thei shuln not drynke the wijn of hem.
14 Ni&yogh; is the grete day of the Lord, ni&yogh; and
swyft ful myche; the voys of day of the
Lord bitter, a stronge man shal be in
tribulacioun there.
15 The ilk day a day
of wrath, day of tribulacioun and anguysh,
the day of needynesse, or sorewe
with out coumfort, and myseisetee, or
wretchidnesse, day of derknessis and
myst, day of cloude and whirlwynde,
16 day of trumpe and noyse vpon stronge
cytees and vpon hee&yogh;e corners.
17 And Y
shal truble men, and thei shuln walke as
blynde, for to the Lord thei han synned;
and the blood of hem shal be shed out
as erthe, and the bodyes of hem as
tordis.
18 Bot and the syluer of hem, and
the gold of hem, shal not mowe delyuere
hem in the day of wrath of the Lord; in
fijr of his feruour al erthe shal be deuoured,
for he shal make eende with
haastyng to alle men enhabitynge erthe.
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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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