Zephaniah 2
Zephaniah chapter 2 from the John Wycliffe Bible (c.1395)
1 Y schal not do the strong veniaunce of my wraththe. Y schal not turne, to leese Effraym; for Y am God, and not man. Y am hooli in the myddis of thee, and Y schal not entre in to a citee. 2 Thei schulen go after the Lord. He shal rore as a lioun, for he shal rore, and the sones of the see schulen drede. 3 And thei schulen fle awei as a brid fro Egipt, and as a culuer fro the lond of Assiriens. And Y schal sette hem in her housis, seith the Lord. 4 Effraym cumpasside me in denying, the hous of Israel in gile. But Judas a witnesse yede doun with God, and with feithful seyntis. 6 Effraym fedith wynd, and sueth heete. Al dai he multiplieth leesyng, and distriyng; and he made boond of pees with Assiriens, and bar oile in to Egipt. 7 Therfor the doom of the Lord is with Juda, and visityng is on Jacob; bi the weies of hym, and bi the fyndyngis of hym he schal yelde to hym. 8 In the wombe he supplauntide his brother, and in his strengthe he was dressid with the aungel. 9 And he was strong to the aungel, and was coumfortid; he wepte, and preiede hym; in Bethel he foond hym, and there he spak with vs. 10 And the Lord God of oostis, the Lord, is the memorial of hym. 11 And thou schalt turne to thi God. Kepe thou merci and doom, and hope thou euere in thi God. 12 Chanaan louyde fals caleng, a gileful balaunce in his hond. 13 And Effraym seide, Netheles Y am maad riche, Y haue founde an idol to me; alle my trauelis schulen not fynde to me the wickidnesse, whiche Y synnede. 14 And Y am thi Lord God fro the lond of Egipt; yit Y schal make thee to sitte in tabernaclis, as in the daies of feeste. 15 And Y spak bi profetis, and Y multiplied profesie, and Y was licned in the hond of profetis.
