Isaiah · Chapter 27

[ edit] In þat dai viſeten ſhal þe Lord in his harde ſwerd, and gret, and ſtrong, vp on leuyaþan, an eddere, a leuour, and vp on leuyaþan, a crookid wounde ſerpent; and he ſhal ſle þe whal, þat is in þe ſe. In þat day þe vyneȝerd of good cleer wyn ſhal ſynge to hym. I þe Lord þat kepe it, feerli ſhal heelden out to it, leſt par auenture it be viſitid aȝen it; nyȝt and dai I kepe it, indignacioun is not to me. Who ſhal ȝyue me a þorne, and a brere? In bataile I ſhal go vp on it, I ſhal brennen it togidere. Or more I ſhal holde my ſtrengþe? He ſhal do pes to me, pes he ſhal don to me. Who ſhal go out wiþ bure fro Jacob?

Flouren and burioune ſhal Irael, and þey ſhul fulfille þe face of þe world wiþ ſed. Wheþer after þe plage of þe ſmytende hymſelf he ſmot hym? or as he ſlooȝ þe ſlayne men of hym, ſo he is ſlayn? In meſure aȝen meſure, whan leid to it ſhal be, he ſhal deme it; he biþoȝte in his harde ſpirit, by þe day of hete. Þerfor vp on þis ſhal ben forȝouen wickidneſſe to þe hous of Jacob, and þis al þe frute, þat be don awei his ſynne, whan he ſhal leyn alle þe ſtones of þe auter as þe hurtlid ſtones of aſkes. Stonde ſhul not þe maumet wodes, and þe maumet waſſhing temples.

Forſoþe þe ſtrengþid cite ſhal be deſolat, þe faire ſhal ben forſake, and lafte as deſert; þere ſhal be fed þe calf, and þere ſhal he lyn, and waſte þe ouermoſtes of it. In þe droȝte of his rip to-treden ſhul ben wymmen, comende and techende it. Forſoþe þer is not þe puple wys, þerfore ſhal not han mercy of it, þat made it; and þat foormede it, ſhal not ſpare to it. And it ſhal be, in þat dai ſhal þe Lord ſmyte, fro þe wombe of þe flod vnto þe ſtrem of Egipt; and ȝee ſhul be gedered togidere oon and oon, ȝee ſonus of Irael.

And it ſhal be, in þat dai ſhal be trumpid in a gret trumpe, and þer ſhul comen þat weren loſt, fro þe lond of Aſſiries, and þat weren caſt awei, fro þe lond of Egipt; and þei ſhul honouren þe Lord, in þe hoeli hil in Jeruſalem.