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[verse 1] Here ȝe whiche thingis the Lord spek|ith. Rise thou, stryue thou bi doom aȝens mounteyns, and litle hillis here thi vois. [verse 2] Mounteyns, and the stronge foundementis of erthe, here the doom of the Lord; for the doom of the Lord with [shal be with U sec. m.] his puple, and he schal be demyd with Israel. [verse 3] Mi
puple, what haue Y don to thee, ether what was Y greuouse to thee? Answere thou to me. [verse 4] For Y ledde thee out of the lond of Egipt, and of the hous of seruage Y delyuerede thee; and Y sente bifore thi face Moises, and Aaron, and Marye. [verse 5] My puple, bithenke, Y preie, what Ba|laac, kyng of Moab, thouȝte, and what Balaam, sone of Beor, of Sethym, answer|ide to hym til to Galgala, that thou schuldist knowe the riȝtwisnesse of the Lord. [verse 6] What worthi thing schal Y offre to the Lord? schal Y bowe the knee to the hiȝe God? Whether Y schal offre to hym brent sacrifices, and calues of o ȝeer? [verse 7] Whether God mai be paid in thousyndis of wetheris, ether in many thousyndis of fatte geet buckis? Whether Y schal ȝyue my firste bigetun for my greet trespas, the fruyt of my wombe for synne of my soule? [verse 8] Y schal schewe to thee, thou man, what is good, and what the Lord axith of thee; forsothe for to do doom, and for to loue merci, and be bisi for to walke with thi God. [verse 9] The vois of the Lord cri|eth to the citee, and heelthe schal be to alle men dredynge thi name. Ȝe lynagis, here; and who schal approue it? [verse 10] Ȝit fier is in the hous of the [Om. CEFHNPQRSUX pr. m. Y.] vnpitouse man [men ES.] , the [and U.] tresouris of wickidnesse, and a lesse me|sure ful of wraththe. [verse 11] Whether Y schal iustifie the wickid balaunce, and the gile|ful [verse 12] weiȝtis of litil [a litil IS.] sak, in whiche riche men therof ben [Om. S.] fillid with wickidnesse? And men dwellynge ther ynne spaken lees|yng, and the tunge of hem was gileful in the mouth of hem. [verse 13] And Y therfor bigan for to smyte thee, in perdicioun on thi synnes. [verse 14] Thou schalt ete, and schalt not be fillid, and thi mekyng is in the middil of thee; and thou schalt take, and schalt not saue; and which thou schalt saue, Y schal ȝyue in to swerd. [verse 15] Thou schalt sowe, and schalt not repe; thou schalt trede the [in the U.] `frut of [Om. A pr. m. ERU.] oliue [oliue tre CFIKMQS. slyme H.] , and schalt not [Om. U.] be anoyntid [oyntid CFGHINQRX. noyntid S.] with oile; and must, and
schalt not drynke wyn. [verse 16] And thou kept|ist [kepist U.] the heestis of Amry, and al the werk of the [Om HQRU pr. m.] hous of Acab, and hast walkid in the lustis [voluptees, ether lustis C et ceteri.] of hem [men EPY.] , that Y schulde ȝyue thee in to perdicioun, and men dwellynge in it in to scornyng [hissing, ether scorn|yng C et ceteri.] , and ȝe schulen bere the schenschipe of my puple.