that is necessarie here if thai will be thoght on thare. If pore men be that has na tholemodnes i. wen that god will forgett thaim.
20. Exurge domine, non confortetur homo: iudicentur gentes in conspectu tuo. ¶ Rise lord, man be noght strenghid; demed be genge in thi sight. ¶ Here the prophet prays that the dome ware comen. for spekand of the end of the warld thurgh lyghtnynge of his hert. he bi held the comynge [S. U comen.] of antecrist: whare fore he was rad [S adrede.] , and cried, rise lord for to deme: that the thol|modnes of pore perisch noght. and man be noght strenghid. that is the utter man haf noght maistry of the inere. na antecrist be noght ledere of the pore: bot demed be genge. that is thorgh him be thai put in tyll synn in thi syght. thof thai seme florischand bifor men.
21. Constitue domine legis latorem super eos: sciant gentes quoniam homines sunt. ¶ Sett lord bryngere of laghe obouen thaim; wit genge that thai ere men. ¶ ffor thai wild noght luf the and thi laghe. sett antecrist, bryngere of wickid laghe, obouen thaim, that is in dampnacioun of thaim: and swa witt genge that lifis as thaim list. wit thai thurgh tourment. that thai ere men. that is that thai ware foles, noght seruaunt till crist bot till antecrist.
22. Vt quid domine recessisti longe: despicis in opor|tunitatibus in tribulacione. ¶ Whi lord departid thou ferre: thou dispises in tydfulnesis in tribulacyon. ¶ God semes fere gane. when he helpis [S. U hepis.] noght als tyte as men wild. bot whi does he that; for thaire goed, to proue thaire paciens. for thou despisis in nedfulneses [S tidfulness.] in tribulacyon. that is nedfully [S tidfully.] thou suffirs vs to be angird and tribled, that oure synnes swa be purged and oure mede be the mare.
23. Dum superbit impius incenditur pauper: compre|henduntur in consilijs quibus cogitant. ¶ I whils the wickid prides kyndeld is the pore; takyn thai ere in counsailes in whilk thai thynke. ¶ As wha say. thou suffirs men to be in anguys, that the pore be kyndeld in ȝernynge of thi comynge. for whils the wicked shewis malice the pore is brent in the luf of god, or purged of synn, and the wickid ere taken in counsails, that is in the thoght in the whilk thai thoght to take other men.
24. Quoniam laudatur peccator in desideriis anime sue: & iniquus benedicitur. ¶ ffor the synfull is loued in ȝernyngis of his saule: and the wickid is blissyd. ¶ Thaire will & thaire
