< Jeremiah 10 >
1 The hous of Israel, here ye the word which the Lord spak on you.
to hear: hear [obj] [the] word which to speak: speak LORD upon you house: household Israel
2 The Lord seith these thingis, Nyle ye lerne aftir the weies of hethene men, and nyle ye drede of the signes of heuene, whiche signes hethene men dreden.
thus to say LORD to(wards) way: conduct [the] nation not to learn: learn and from sign: miraculous [the] heaven not to to be dismayed for to to be dismayed [the] nation from them
3 For the lawis of puplis ben veyn, for whi the werk of hondis of a crafti man hath kit doun with an axe a tre of the forest.
for statute [the] people vanity he/she/it for tree from wood to cut: cut him deed: work hand artificer in/on/with axe
4 He made it fair with siluer and gold; with naylis and hameris he ioynede it togidere, that it be not loosid.
in/on/with silver: money and in/on/with gold be beautiful him in/on/with nail and in/on/with hammer to strengthen: hold them and not to reel
5 Idols ben maad in the licnesse of a palm tree, and schulen not speke; tho schulen be takun and be borun, for tho moun not go; therfor nyle ye drede tho, for tho moun nether do yuel, nethir wel.
like/as palm cucumber field they(masc.) and not to speak: speak to lift: bear to lift: bear for not to march not to fear from them for not be evil and also be good nothing with them
6 Lord, noon is lijk thee; thou art greet, and thi name is greet in strengthe.
from nothing like you LORD great: large you(m. s.) and great: large name your in/on/with might
7 A! thou king of folkis, who schal not drede thee? for whi onour is thin among alle wise men of hethene men, and in alle the rewmes of hem noon is lijk thee.
who? not to fear: revere you king [the] nation for to/for you to befit for in/on/with all wise [the] nation and in/on/with all royalty their from nothing like you
8 Thei schulen be preued, vnwise and foolis togidere; the techyng of her vanyte is a tre.
and in/on/with one be brutish and be stupid discipline: instruction vanity tree: wood he/she/it
9 Siluer wlappid is brouyt fro Tharsis, and gold fro Ophaz; it is the werk of a crafti man, and of the hond of a worchere in metel; iacynct and purpur ben the clothing of tho; alle these thingis ben the werk of werk men.
silver: money to beat from Tarshish to come (in): bring and gold from Uphaz deed: work artificer and hand to refine blue and purple clothing their deed: work wise all their
10 Forsothe the Lord is veri God; he is God lyuynge, and a kyng euerlastynge; the erthe schal be mouyd togidere of his indignacioun, and hethene men schulen not suffre the manaassing of hym.
and LORD God truth: faithful he/she/it God alive and king forever: enduring from wrath his to shake [the] land: country/planet and not to sustain nation indignation his
11 Therfor thus ye schulen seie to hem, Goddis that maden not heuene and erthe, perische fro erthe, and fro these thingis that ben vndur heuene.
like/as this to say to/for them god [the] that heaven [the] and earth [the] not to make to destroy from earth: planet [the] and from under heaven [the] these
12 He is God, that makith the erthe in his strengthe, makith redi the world in his wisdom, and stretchith forth heuenes bi his prudence.
to make land: country/planet in/on/with strength his to establish: make world in/on/with wisdom his and in/on/with understanding his to stretch heaven
13 At his vois he yyueth the multitude of watris in heuene, and he reisith mystis fro the endis of erthe; he makith leitis into reyn, and ledith out wynd of his tresouris.
to/for voice to give: cry out he crowd water in/on/with heaven and to ascend: rise mist from end ([the] land: country/planet *Q(K)*) lightning to/for rain to make and to come out: send spirit: breath from treasure his
14 Ech man is maad a fool of kunnyng, ech crafti man is schent in a grauun ymage; for whi that that he wellide togidere is fals, and no spirit is in tho.
be brutish all man from knowledge to wither all to refine from idol for deception drink offering his and not spirit: breath in/on/with them
15 Tho ben veyn, and a werk worthi of scorn; tho schulen perische in the tyme of her visitacioun.
vanity they(masc.) deed: work delusion in/on/with time punishment their to perish
16 The part of Jacob is not lijk these, for he that formede alle thingis is God of Jacob, and Israel is the yerde of his eritage; the Lord of oostis is name to hym.
not like/as these portion Jacob for to form: formed [the] all he/she/it and Israel tribe inheritance his LORD Hosts name his
17 Thou that dwellist in bisegyng, gadere fro the lond thi schenschipe;
to gather from land: soil bundle your (to dwell *Q(K)*) in/on/with siege
18 for the Lord seith these thingis, Lo! Y schal caste awei fer the dwelleris of the loond in this while; and Y schal yyue tribulacioun to hem, so that thei be not foundun.
for thus to say LORD look! I to sling [obj] to dwell [the] land: country/planet in/on/with beat [the] this and to constrain to/for them because to find
19 Wo to me on my sorewe, my wounde is ful yuel; forsothe Y seide, Pleynli this is my sikenesse, and Y schal bere it.
woe! to/for me upon breaking my be weak: grieved wound my and I to say surely this sickness and to lift: bear him
20 My tabernacle is distried, alle my roopis ben brokun; my sones yeden out fro me, and ben not; noon is that schal stretche forth more my tente, and schal reyse my skynnes.
tent my to ruin and all cord my to tear son: child my to come out: come me and nothing they nothing to stretch still tent my and to arise: establish curtain my
21 For the scheepherdis diden folili, and souyten not the Lord; therfor thei vndurstoden not, and alle the flok of hem is scaterid.
for be brutish [the] to pasture and [obj] LORD not to seek upon so not be prudent and all pasturing their to scatter
22 Lo! the vois of hering cometh, and a greet mouynge togidere fro the lond of the north, that it sette the citees of Juda in to wildirnesse, and a dwellynge place of dragouns.
voice tidings behold to come (in): come and quaking great: large from land: country/planet north to/for to set: make [obj] city Judah devastation habitation jackal
23 Lord, Y woot, that the weie of a man is not of hym, nether it is of a man that he go, and dresse hise steppis.
to know LORD for not to/for man way: conduct his not to/for man to go: walk and to establish: prepare [obj] step his
24 Lord, chastise thou me; netheles in doom and not in thi strong veniaunce, lest perauenture thou dryue me to nouyt.
to discipline me LORD surely in/on/with justice not in/on/with face: anger your lest to diminish me
25 Schede out thin indignacioun on hethene men that knewen not thee, and on prouynces that clepiden not thi name to help; for thei eeten Jacob, and deuouriden hym, and wastiden hym, and destrieden the onour of hym.
to pour: pour rage your upon [the] nation which not to know you and upon family which in/on/with name your not to call: call to for to eat [obj] Jacob and to eat him and to end: destroy him and [obj] pasture his be desolate: destroyed