A   Wo is me: I am become as one, that goeth a gleenynge in the haruest. There are no mo grapes to eate, yet wolde I fayne (with all my herte) haue of the best frute. ^noteThere is not a godly man vp&obar; earth, there is not one rightuous am&obar;ge m&ebar;. They laboure all to shed bloude, ∧ euery m&abar; hunteth his brother to death: yet they saye they do well, when they do euell. As the prince wil, so sayeth the iudge: þt; he maye do him a pleasure agayne. The greate m&abar; speaketh what his herte desyreth, ∧ þe; hearers alowe him. The best off th&ebar; is but as a thistle, and the most rightuous of them is but as a brere in the hedge But when the daye of thy preachers commeth, þt; thou shalt be vysited: th&ebar; shal they be waisted a waye. ^noteLet no man beleue his frende, ner put his confid&ebar;ce in a prince. Kepe the porte of thy mouth, from her þt; lieth in thy bosome: ^note for þe; sonne shal put his father to dishonoure, the doughter shal ryse agaynst her mother, þe; doughter in lawe agaynst hir mother in lawe: and a mans foes shalbe euen they of his owne housholde.

B   Neuerthelesse I wil loke vp vnto þe; LORDE, I wil paciently abyde God my sauioure: my God shal heare me. O thou enemie of myne, reioyce not at my fall, ^note for I shal get vp agayne: and though I syt in darcknesse, yet þe; LORDE is my light. I will beare the punishment of the LORDE (for why, I haue offended him) till he syt in iudgment vpon my cause, and se that I haue right. He wil bringe me forth to the light, and I shal se his rightuosnesse.

She that is myne enemy shall loke vpon it, ∧ be confounded, which now saieth: ^note Where is thy LORDE God? Myne eyes shal beholde her, when she shalbe troden downe, as the claye in the stretes. ^noteThe tyme wil come, that thy gappes shal be made vp, and the lawe shal go abrode: and at that tyme shal they come vnto the, from Assur vnto the str&obar;ge cities, and from the stronge cities vnto the ryuer: from the one see to the other, from the one mountayne to the other.

Not &wt; stondinge the londe must be waisted, because of them that dwell therin, and for the frutes of their owne ymaginacions. Therfore fede thy people with thy rodde, the flocke of thine heretage which dwell desolate in the wodde: that they maye be fedde vpon the mount of Charmel, Basan ∧ Galaad as afore tyme. Maruelous thinges will I shewe them, ^note like as when they came out of Egipte. This shal the Heithen se, and be a&esset;shamed for all their power: ^note so that they shal laye their honde vpon their mouth, and stoppe their eares. ^noteThey shal licke the dust like a serpent, ∧ as the wormes of the earth, þt; tremble in their holes. They shalbe afrayed of the LORDE oure God, ∧ they shal feare þe;.

Where is there soch a God as thou? that pardonest wickednes, and forgeuest the offences of the remnaunt of thine heretage? He kepeth not his wrath for euer. And why? his delyte is to haue compassion: ^note he shal turne agayne, ∧ be mercyfull to vs: he shal put downe oure wickednesses, ∧ cast all oure synnes in to the botome of the see. Thou shalt kepe thy trust with Iacob, and thy mercy for Abraham, like as thou hast sworne vnto oure fathers longe agoo. The ende of the prophet Micheas.

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