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[verse 1] The charge of the desert se. As whirlewyndus fro Affrich comen, fro the [Om. AEGHK.] desert cam, fro the orrible lond. [verse 2] An hard viseoun told is to me; that vnleeuende is, vnfeithfully doth [shal E pr. vice.] ; and he [Om. C et E pr. m. that he K.] that `is dis|troȝere [distroȝere is C pr. m. E pr. m.] , wasteth. Steeȝh vp, Elam, and bisege, Medeba; al his weilyng I made to cesen. [verse 3] Therfore ben fulfild my lendys with sorewe; anguysh weldide me, as
anguysh of the trauailende with child; I fel doun, whan I herde; I am disturbid, whan I saȝ. [verse 4] Myche languysshede myn herte, dercnesses stoneid maden me; Ba|bilon, my looued, put is to me `in to [in A.] myracle. [verse 5] Sett the bord, bihold in [in to C pr. m.] a toothil; etende and drinkende riseth, ȝee princes, taketh to the terget. [verse 6] These thingus forsothe seide [seith AK. Om. G pr. m. H.] the Lord to me, Go, and put a tootere; and what euere thing he shal see, telle he. [verse 7] And he saȝ a char of two horse men, a steȝere of [vp GHK. vp vpon A.] an asse, and a steȝere vp of a camayle; and [verse 8] he beheeld bisily by [Om. AGHK.] myche looking, and he criede as a leoun, Vp on the toothil of the Lord I am stondende contynuelly bi day, and vp on my warde I am stond|ende alle nyȝtus. [verse 9] Lo! this cam, a man steȝere of the carte of horse men. And he answerde, and seide, Is falle, is falle Babilon; and alle [alle his E pr. m.] grauen thingus of hys godus ben to-brosid in to the erthe. [verse 10] My [With E pr. m.] thressing, and the doȝter of my cornflor, the thingus that I herde of the Lord of ostes, God of Irael, I [Om. E pr. m.] tolde to ȝou. [verse 11] The charge of Duma. To me he crieth fro Seir, O! kepere, what of the nyȝt? O! kepere, what of the nyȝt? [verse 12] The kepere seide, Ther cometh morutid, and nyȝt; if ȝee sechen, secheth, and beth conuertid, and cometh. [verse 13] The charge in Araby. In the wilde wode at euen ȝee shul slepen, in the sties of Dodanym. [verse 14] Aȝencomende to the thristi berth water, that dwellen the [in the K.] lond of the south; with loeues aȝen|cometh to the fleende. [verse 15] Fro the face for|sothe [Om. A.] of swerdes thei fledden, fro the face of the swerd stondende on, fro the face of the bowe bend, fro the face of the greuous bataile. [verse 16] For these thingus seith the Lord to me, Ȝit in o ȝer, as in the ȝer of an hirid man, and ther shal ben take awey al the glorie of Cedar. [verse 17] And the relikis of the noumbre of the stronge
