2 WYC My strengthe and my preisyng is the Lord; and he is maad to me in to heelthe. This is my God, and Y schal glorifie hym; the God of my fadir, and Y schal enhaunse hym. BSB BSB: The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
3 WYC The Lord is as a man fiyter, his name is Almiyti; BSB BSB: The LORD is a warrior, the LORD is His name.
4 WYC he castide doun in to the see the charis of Farao, and his oost. Hise chosun princis weren drenchid in the reed see; BSB BSB: Pharaoh’s chariots and army He has cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.
5 WYC the depe watris hiliden hem; thei yeden doun in to the depthe as a stoon. BSB BSB: The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone.
6 WYC Lord, thi riythond is magnyfied in strengthe; Lord, thi riythond smoot the enemye. BSB BSB: Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.
7 WYC And in the mychilnesse of thi glorie thou hast put doun alle myn aduersaries; thou sentist thin ire, that deuouride hem as stobil. BSB BSB: You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.
8 WYC And watris weren gaderid in the spirit of thi woodnesse; flowinge watir stood, depe watris weren gaderid in the middis of the see. BSB BSB: At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.
9 WYC The enemy seide, Y schal pursue, and Y schal take; Y schal departe spuylis, my soule schal be fillid. I schal drawe out my swerde; myn hond schal sle hem. BSB BSB: The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’
10 WYC Thi spirit blew, and the see hilide hem; thei weren drenchid as leed in grete watris. BSB BSB: But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
11 WYC Lord, who is lijk thee in stronge men, who is lijk thee? thou art greet doere in hoolynesse; ferdful, and preisable, and doynge myraclis. BSB BSB: Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?
12 WYC Thou heldist forth thin hond, and the erthe deuouride hem; BSB BSB: You stretched out Your right hand, and the earth swallowed them up.
13 WYC thou were ledere in thi merci to thy puple, which thou ayen bouytist; and thou hast bore hym in thi strengthe to thin holi dwellyng place. BSB BSB: With loving devotion You will lead the people You have redeemed; with Your strength You will guide them to Your holy dwelling.
14 WYC Puplis stieden, and weren wroothe; sorewis helden the dwelleris of Filistiym. BSB BSB: The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the dwellers of Philistia.
15 WYC Thanne the pryncis of Edom weren disturblid; tremblyng held the stronge men of Moab. BSB BSB: Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed; trembling will seize the leaders of Moab; those who dwell in Canaan will melt away,
16 WYC Alle the dwelleris of Canaan `weren starke; inward drede falle on hem, and outward drede in the greetnesse of thin arm. Be thei maad vnmouable as a stoon, til thi puple passe, Lord; til this thi puple passe, whom thou weldidist. BSB BSB: and terror and dread will fall on them. By the power of Your arm they will be as still as a stone until Your people pass by, O LORD, until the people You have bought pass by.
17 WYC Thou schalt brynge hem in, and thou schalt plaunte in the hil of thin eritage; in the moost stidefast dwellyng place which thou hast wrouyt, Lord; Lord, thi seyntuarie, which thin hondis made stidefast. BSB BSB: You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance—the place, O LORD, You have prepared for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, Your hands have established.
18 WYC The Lord schal `regne in to the world and ferthere. BSB BSB: The LORD will reign forever and ever!”
19 WYC Forsothe Farao, `a ridere, entride with his charis and knyytis in to the see, and the Lord brouyte the watris of the se on hem; sotheli the sones of Israel yeden bi the drie place, in the myddis of the see. BSB BSB: For when Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought the waters of the sea back over them. But the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.
20 WYC Therfore Marie, profetesse, the `sistir of Aaron, took a tympan in hir hond, and alle the wymmen yeden out aftir hyr with tympans and cumpanyes; BSB BSB: Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
21 WYC to whiche sche song bifore, and seide, Synge we to the Lord, for he is magnyfied gloriousli; he castide doun in to the see the hors and the stiere of hym. BSB BSB: And Miriam sang back to them: “Sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted; the horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.”
22 WYC Forsothe Moises took Israel fro the reed see, and thei yeden out in to the deseert of Sur, and thei yeden thre daies bi the wildirnesse, and thei founden not watir. BSB BSB: Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the Desert of Shur. For three days they walked in the desert without finding water.
23 WYC And thei camen in to Marath, and thei miyten not drynk the watris of Marath, for tho weren bittere; wherfor and he puttide a couenable name to the place, and clepide it Mara, that is, bitternesse. BSB BSB: And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the water there because it was bitter. (That is why it was named Marah.)
24 WYC And the puple grutchide ayens Moises, and seide, What schulen we drynke? BSB BSB: So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”
25 WYC And Moises criede to the Lord, which schewide to hym a tre; and whanne he hadde put that tre in to watris, tho weren turned in to swetnesse. There the Lord ordeynede comaundementis and domes to the puple, and there he asayede the puple, BSB BSB: And Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them,
26 WYC and seide, If thou schalt here the vois of thi Lord God, and schalt do that that is riytful byfore hym, and schalt obeie to his comaundementis, and schalt kepe alle hise heestis, Y schal not brynge yn on thee al the syknesse, which Y puttide in Egipt, for Y am thi Lord Sauyour. BSB BSB: saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”