The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books,

CAP. X.

[verse 1] The hous of Israel, here ȝe the word which the Lord spak on ȝou. [verse 2] The Lord seith these thingis, Nyle ȝe lerne aftir the weies of hethene men, and nyle ȝe drede of the signes of heuene, whiche signes hethene men dreden. [verse 3] For the lawis of puplis ben veyn, for whi the werk of hondis of a crafti man hath kit doun with an axe a tre of the forest. [verse 4] He made it fair with siluer and gold; with naylis and hameris he ioynede it [Om. CEFGHIKMNPQRSUVX.] togidere, that it be not loosid. [verse 5] Idols ben maad in the lic|nesse of a palm tree, and schulen not speke; tho schulen be takun and be bo|run, for tho moun not go; therfor nyle

ȝe drede tho, for tho [thei N.] moun nether do yuel, nethir wel. [verse 6] Lord, noon is lijk thee; thou art greet, and thi name is greet in strengthe. [verse 7] A! thou king of folkis, who schal not drede thee? for whi onour is thin among alle wise men of hethene men, and in alle the rewmes of hem noon is lijk thee. [verse 8] Thei schulen be preued, vnwise and foolis togidere; the techyng of her vanyte is a tre. [verse 9] Siluer wlappid is brouȝt fro Tharsis, and gold fro Ophaz; it is the werk of a crafti man, and of the hond of a worchere in metel; iacynct and purpur ben the clothing of tho [hem N.] ; alle these thingis ben the werk of werk men. [verse 10] Forsothe the Lord is veri God; he is God lyuynge, and a kyng euerlastynge; the erthe schal be mouyd togidere of his indignacioun, and hethene men schulen not suffre the manaassing of hym. [verse 11] Therfor thus ȝe schulen seie to hem, Goddis that maden not heuene and erthe, perische fro erthe [the erthe I.] , and fro these thingis that ben vndur he|uene. [verse 12] He is God, that makith the erthe in his strengthe, makith [that makith I.] redi the world in his wisdom, and stretchith forth he|uenes bi his prudence. [verse 13] At his vois he ȝyueth the multitude of watris in heuene, and he reisith mystis fro the endis of erthe; he makith leitis into reyn, and ledith out wynd of his tresouris. [verse 14] Ech man is maad a fool of kunnyng, ech crafti man is schent in a grauun ymage; for whi that that [Om. N.] he wellide togidere is fals, and no spirit is in tho [hem N.] . [verse 15] Tho ben veyn, and a werk worthi of scorn; tho schulen perische in the tyme of her visitacioun. [verse 16] The part of Jacob is not lijk these, for he that formede alle thingis is God of Jacob, and Israel is the ȝerde of his eritage; the Lord of oostis is name to hym. [verse 17] Thou that dwellist in bisegyng, gadere fro the [verse 18] lond thi schenschipe; for the Lord seith these thingis, Lo! Y schal caste awei fer

the dwelleris of the loond in this while; and Y schal ȝyue tribulacioun to hem, so that thei be not foundun. [verse 19] Wo to me on my sorewe, my wounde is ful yuel; for|sothe Y seide, Pleynli this is my sike|nesse, and Y schal bere it. [verse 20] My tabernacle is distried, alle my roopis ben brokun; my sones ȝeden out fro me, and ben not; noon is that schal stretche forth more my tente, and schal reyse my skynnes. [verse 21] For the scheepherdis diden folili, and souȝten not the Lord; therfor thei vndurstoden not, and alle the flok of hem is scaterid. [verse 22] Lo! the vois of hering cometh, and a greet mouynge togidere fro the lond of the north, that it sette the citees of Juda in to wildirnesse, and a dwellynge place of dragouns. [verse 23] Lord, Y woot, that the weie of a man is not of hym, nether it is of a man that he go, and dresse hise steppis. [verse 24] Lord, chastise thou me; netheles in doom and not in thi strong veniaunce, lest per|auenture thou dryue me to nouȝt. [verse 25] Schede [Heelde I.] out [thou N.] thin indignacioun on hethene men that knewen not thee, and on prouynces that clepiden [clepen I.] not thi name to help; for thei eeten Jacob, and deuouriden hym, and wastiden hym, and destrieden the onour of hym.