Wycliffe (Late) [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] [B02020].
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CAP. XXXI.
1 And it was don in the enleuenthe &yogh;eer,
in the thridde moneth, in the firste dai of
the monethe, the word of the Lord was
maad to me,
2 and he seide, Thou, sone of
man, seie to Farao, kyng of Egipt, and to
his puple, To whom art thou maad lijk in
thi greetnesse?
3 Lo! Assur as a cedre
in Liban, fair in braunchis, and ful of
boowis, and hi&yogh; bi hi&yogh;nesse; and his hei&yogh;te
was reisid among thicke bowis.
4 Watris
-- --
nurschiden hym, the depthe of watris enhaunside
him; hise floodis fletiden out in
the cumpas of hise rootis, and he sente
out hise strondis to alle the trees of the
cuntrei.
5 Therfor his hi&yogh;nesse was enhaunsid
ouer alle trees of the cuntrei, and
hise trees weren multiplied, and hise
braunchis weren reisid, for many watris.
6 And whanne he hadde stretchid forth his
schadewe, alle the volatils of the eir
maden nestis in hise braunchis; and alle
the beestis of forestis gendriden vndur
hise boowis, and the cumpeny of ful many
folkis dwellide vndur the schadewynge
place of hym.
7 And he was ful fair in his
greetnesse, and in alargyng of hise trees;
for the roote of hym was bisidis many
watris.
8 Cedris in the paradijs of God
weren not hi&yogh;ere than he; fir trees atteyneden
not euenli to the hi&yogh;nesse of
hym, and plane trees weren not euene
with the boowis of hym. Ech tree of paradijs
of God was not maad lic hym and his
fairnesse.
9 For Y made hym fair, and with
many and thicke boowis; and alle the trees
of lust, that weren in the paradijs of God,
hadden enuye to hym.
10 Therfor the Lord
God seith these thingis, For that that he
was reisid in hi&yogh;nesse, and he &yogh;af his hy&yogh;nesse
greene and thicke, and his herte was
reisid in his hi&yogh;nesse;
11 now Y haue &yogh;oue
hym in to the hondis of the strongeste
man of hethene men. And he doynge schal
do to that Assur; aftir the vnfeithfulnesse
of hym Y castide hym out.
12 And aliens,
and the moost cruel men of naciouns,
schulen kitte hym doun, and schulen caste
hym forth on hillis. And hise braunchis
schulen falle doun in alle grete valeis,
and hise trees schulen be brokun in alle
roochis of stoon of erthe. And alle the
puplis of erthe schulen go awei fro his
schadewing place, and schulen forsake
hym.
13 Alle volatils of the eir dwelliden in
the fallyng of hym, and alle beestis of the
cuntrei weren in the braunchis of hym.
14 Wherfor alle the trees of watris schulen
-- --
not be reisid in hir hi&yogh;nesse, nether schulen
sette hir hi&yogh;nesse among places ful of
woode, and ful of boowis, and alle trees
that ben moistid of watris schulen not
stonde in the hi&yogh;nesse of tho. For alle thei
ben &yogh;ouun in to deth, to the ferthest lond
in the myddis of the sones of men, to hem
that goon doun in to the lake.
15 The Lord
God seith these thingis, In the dai whanne
he &yogh;ede doun to hellis, Y brou&yogh;te yn
mourenyng; Y hilide hym with depthe of
watris, and I forbede his flodis, and Y
refreynede many watris. The Liban was
sori on him, and alle the trees of the feeld
16 weren shakun of the soun of his falling.
I mouide togidere hethene men, whanne
Y ledde hym doun to helle, with hem that
&yogh;eden doun in to the lake. And alle trees
of likyng, noble trees, and ful cleere in the
Liban, alle that weren moistid with watris,
weren coumfortid in the loweste lond.
17 For whi also thei schulen go doun with
hym to helle, to slayn men with swerd;
and the arm of ech man schal sitte vndur
the schadewyng place of hym, in the myddis
of naciouns.
18 To whom art thou licned,
thou noble and hi&yogh; among the trees of
likyng? Lo! thou art led doun with the
trees of likyng to the fertheste lond. In
the myddis of vncircumcidid men thou
schalt slepe, with hem that ben slayn bi
swerd. Thilke is Farao, and al the multitude
of hym, seith the Lord God.
Wycliffe (Late) [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] [B02020].
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