plena est terra. ¶ He lufis mercy and dome; of the mercy of lord ful is the erth. ¶ He lufis forto doe mercy in this life. & dome in the tother. and that is soth: for of his mercy ful is the erth: for in ilk sted he forgifes synn, and his word is prechid.
6. Verbo domini celi firmati sunt: & spiritu oris eius omnis virtus eorum. ¶ Thorgh the word of lord heuens ere festid; and thorgh the gast of his mouth all the vertu of thaim. ¶ That is, thorgh godis sun ere haly men stabild in luf, and fully leryd: and thurgh the haly gast all thaire vertu is strenghid and made perfit.
7. Congregans sicut in vtre aquas maris: ponens in thesauris abissos. ¶ Gadirand as in [S ins. 'a.'] gourde waters of the see; settand in tresours depnes. ¶ That is, god in the hertis closes of wickid men [S god closes in the hertis of wicked menne.] , as in a vessell of lethire, the bitternes of thaire willes, that thai ouer cum noght haly men, and noy noght bot at godis suffrynge. settand depnes, that is, tha that ere depe in malice, in his tresors: that he make his knyghtis riche of thaim, when he suffirs thaim to tourmente his sereuauntis til thaire coroun.
8. Timeat dominum omnis terra: ab eo autem com|moueantur omnes inhabitantes orbem. ¶ All the erth dred the lord: bot of him be stird all wonand in the warld. ¶ The erth, that is ilk man, dred oure lord, that he leue synn: and all that wonys in the warld, that is, all that standis in haly kirke perfitly, be stirid of him and of nan other. If the deuel or man or neddire or leon rise agayn the; dred god. noght thaim. for all tha ere vn|dire him.
9. Quia ipse dixit, & facta sunt: ipse mandauit, & creata sunt. ¶ ffor he sayd and thai ere mayde; he bade and thai ere shapyn. ¶ He sayd, that is he wild, & thai ere made. that is, thai ere fourmyd of vnfourmyd matere: he bade with his worde, and thai ere shapyn in fourme. of noght. for thai may noght doe bot that he suffirs. A man has will to noy. of him self: bot myght to noy he has noght bot if god gif it him.
10. Dominus dissipat consilia gencium, reprobat autem cogitaciones populorum: & reprobat consilia principum. ¶ Lord skaters the counsails of genge, and he reproues the thoghtis of folke: and he reproues the counsaile of princes.
