Jeremiah 4
1 Israel, if thou turnest ayen, seith the Lord, turne thou to me; if thou takist awei thin offendyngis fro my face, thou schalt not be mouyd.
if to return: return Israel utterance LORD to(wards) me to return: return and if to turn aside: remove abomination your from face my and not to wander
2 And thou schalt swere, The Lord lyueth, in treuthe and in doom and in riytfulnesse; and alle folkis schulen blesse hym, and schulen preise hym.
and to swear alive LORD in/on/with truth: true in/on/with justice and in/on/with righteousness and to bless in/on/with him nation and in/on/with him to boast: boast
3 For the Lord God seith these thingis to a man of Juda and to a dwellere of Jerusalem, Make ye newe to you a lond tilid of the newe, and nyle ye sowe on thornes.
for thus to say LORD to/for man Judah and to/for Jerusalem to break to/for you fallow ground and not to sow to(wards) thorn
4 Men of Juda, and dwelleris of Jerusalem, be ye circumcidid to the Lord, and do ye awey the filthis of youre hertis; lest perauenture myn indignacioun go out as fier, and be kyndlid, and noon be that quenche, for the malice of youre thouytis.
to circumcise to/for LORD and to turn aside: remove foreskin heart your man Judah and to dwell Jerusalem lest to come out: issue like/as fire rage my and to burn: burn and nothing to quench from face: because evil deed your
5 Telle ye in Juda, and make ye herd in Jerusalem; speke ye, and synge ye with a trumpe in the lond; crye ye strongli, and seie ye, Be ye gaderid togidere, and entre we in to stronge citees.
to tell in/on/with Judah and in/on/with Jerusalem to hear: proclaim and to say (to blow *Q(K)*) trumpet in/on/with land: country/planet to call: call out to fill and to say to gather and to come (in): come to(wards) city [the] fortification
6 Reise ye a signe in Sion, coumforte ye, and nyle ye stonde; for Y bringe yuel fro the north, and a greet sorewe.
to lift: raise ensign Zion [to] to seek refuge not to stand: stand for distress: harm I to come (in): bring from north and breaking great: large
7 A lioun schal `rise vp fro his denne, and the robbere of folkis schal reise hym silf. He is goon out of his place, to sette thi lond in to wildirnesse; thi citees schulen be distried, abidynge stille with out dwellere.
to ascend: rise lion from thicket his and to ruin nation to set out to come out: come from place his to/for to set: make land: country/planet your to/for horror: destroyed city your to desolate from nothing to dwell
8 On this thing girde you with heiris; weile ye, and yelle, for the wraththe of the strong veniaunce of the Lord is not turned awei fro you.
upon this to gird sackcloth to mourn and to wail for not to return: turn back burning anger face: anger LORD from us
9 And it schal be, in that dai, seith the Lord, the herte of the king schal perische, and the herte of princis; and the prestis schulen wondre, and the prophetis schulen be astonyed.
and to be in/on/with day [the] he/she/it utterance LORD to perish heart [the] king and heart [the] ruler and be desolate: appalled [the] priest and [the] prophet to astounded
10 And Y seide, Alas! alas! alas! Lord God; therfor whether thou hast disseyued this puple and Jerusalem, seiynge, Pees schal be to you, and lo! a swerd is comun `til to the soule?
and to say alas! Lord YHWH/God surely to deceive to deceive to/for people [the] this and to/for Jerusalem to/for to say peace: well-being to be to/for you and to touch sword till [the] soul: life
11 In that tyme it schal be seide to this puple and to Jerusalem, A brennynge wynd in the weies that ben in desert, ben the weies of the douytir of my puple, not to wyndewe, and not to purge.
in/on/with time [the] he/she/it to say to/for people [the] this and to/for Jerusalem spirit: breath dazzling bareness in/on/with wilderness way: direction daughter people my not to/for to scatter and not to/for to purify
12 A spirit ful of hem schal come to me; and now Y, but Y schal speke my domes with hem.
spirit: breath full from these to come (in): come to/for me now also I to speak: speak justice: judgement with them
13 Lo! he schal stie as a cloude, and hise charis as a tempest; hise horsis ben swifter than eglis; wo to vs, for we ben distried.
behold like/as cloud to ascend: rise and like/as whirlwind chariot his to lighten from eagle horse his woe! to/for us for to ruin
14 Thou Jerusalem, waische thin herte fro malice, that thou be maad saaf. Hou long schulen noiful thouytis dwelle in thee?
to wash from distress: evil heart your Jerusalem because to save till how to lodge in/on/with entrails: among your plot evil: wickedness your
15 For whi the vois of a tellere fro Dan, and makynge knowun an idol fro the hil of Effraym.
for voice to tell from Dan and to hear: proclaim evil: trouble from mountain: mount (Mount) Ephraim
16 Reise, ye folkis; lo! it is herd in Jerusalem that keperis ben comun fro a fer lond, and yyuen her vois on the citees of Juda.
to remember to/for nation behold to hear: proclaim upon Jerusalem to watch to come (in): come from land: country/planet [the] distance and to give: cry out upon city Judah voice their
17 As the keperis of feeldis thei ben maad on it in cumpas; for it stiride me to wrathfulnesse, seith the Lord.
like/as to keep: guard field to be upon her from around for [obj] me to rebel utterance LORD
18 Thi weyes and thi thouytis han maad this to thee; this malice of thee, for it is bittir, for it touchide thin herte.
way: conduct your and deed your to make: do these to/for you this distress: harm your for to provoke for to touch till heart your
19 Mi wombe akith, my wombe akith; the wittis of myn herte ben disturblid in me. Y schal not be stille, for my soule herde the vois of a trumpe, the cry of batel.
belly my belly my (to wait: wait *Q(K)*) wall heart my to roar to/for me heart my not be quiet for voice: sound trumpet (to hear: hear *Q(K)*) soul: myself my shout battle
20 Sorewe is clepid on sorewe, and al the lond is distried; my tabernaclis ben wastid sudeynli, my skynnes ben wastid sudeynli.
breaking upon breaking to call: call out for to ruin all [the] land: country/planet suddenly to ruin tent my moment curtain my
21 Hou longe schal Y se hem that fleen, schal Y here the vois of a clarioun?
till how to see: see ensign to hear: hear voice: sound trumpet
22 For my fonned puple knew not me; thei ben vnwise sones, and cowardis; thei ben wise to do yuels, but thei kouden not do wel.
for fool(ish) people my [obj] me not to know son: child fool they(masc.) and not to understand they(masc.) wise they(masc.) to/for be evil and to/for be good not to know
23 Y bihelde the lond, and lo! it was void, and nouyt; and Y bihelde heuenes, and no liyt was in tho.
to see: see [obj] [the] land: country/planet and behold formlessness and void and to(wards) [the] heaven and nothing light their
24 Y siy munteyns, and lo! tho weren mouyd, and all litle hillis weren disturblid.
to see: see [the] mountain: mount and behold to shake and all [the] hill to lighten
25 Y lokide, and no man was, and ech brid of heuene was gon a wey.
to see: see and behold nothing [the] man and all bird [the] heaven to wander
26 Y bihelde, and lo! Carmele is forsakun, and alle citees therof ben distried fro the face of the Lord, and fro the face of the ire of his strong veniaunce.
to see: see and behold [the] plantation [the] wilderness and all city his to tear from face: before LORD from face: before burning anger face: anger his
27 For the Lord seith these thingis, Al the lond schal be forsakun, but netheles Y schal not make an endyng.
for thus to say LORD devastation to be all [the] land: country/planet and consumption not to make
28 The erthe schal mourne, and heuenys aboue schulen make sorewe, for that Y spak; Y thouyte, and it repentide not me, nether Y am turned awei fro it.
upon this to mourn [the] land: country/planet and be dark [the] heaven from above upon for to speak: speak to plan and not to be sorry: relent and not to return: repent from her
29 Ech citee fledde fro the vois of a knyyt, and of a man schetynge an arowe; thei entriden in to hard places, and stieden in to roochis of stoon; alle citees ben forsakun, and no man dwellith in tho.
from voice: sound horseman and to shoot bow to flee all [the] city to come (in): come in/on/with cloud and in/on/with rock to ascend: rise all [the] city to leave: forsake and nothing to dwell in/on/with them man: anyone
30 But what schalt thou `destried do? Whanne thou schalt clothe thee with reed scarlet, whanne thou schalt be ourned with a goldun broche, and schalt anoynte thin iyen with wommans oynement, thou schalt be araied in veyn; thi louyeris han dispisid thee, thei schulen seke thi soule.
(and you(f. s.) *Q(K)*) to ruin what? to make: do for to clothe scarlet for to adorn ornament gold for to tear in/on/with color eye your to/for vanity: vain be beautiful to reject in/on/with you to lust soul: life your to seek
31 For Y herd a vois as of a womman trauelynge of child, the angwischis as of a womman childynge; the vois of the douyter of Sion among hem that dien, and spreden abrood her hondis; Wo to me, for my soule failide for hem that ben slayn.
for voice like/as be weak: grieved to hear: hear distress like/as to be/bear firstborn voice daughter Zion to breathe to spread palm her woe! please to/for me for be faint soul: myself my to/for to kill
