Isaiah 18

¹ and ensence brennynge in fier; ² as a sad vessel of gold, ourned with ech preciouse stoon; ³ as an olyue tree spryngynge forth, and a cipresse tree reisynge it silf an hiy; while he took the stoole of glorie, and was clothid in the perfeccioun of vertu. ⁴ In the stiyng of the hooli auter, the clothing of hoolynesse yaf glorie. ⁵ Forsothe in takynge partis of the hoond of prestis, and he stood bisidis the auter. The coroun of britheren, as a plauntyng of cedre in the hil Liban, was aboute hym; ⁶ so thei stoden aboute hym as boowis of palm tree, and alle the sones of Aaron stoden in her glorie. ⁷ Sotheli the offryng of the Lord was in the hondis of hem, bifore al the synagoge of Israel; and he vside ful endyng on the auter, to alarge the offryng of the hiy kyng.