9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
1The title of the thre and seuentithe salm. The lernyng of Asaph. God, whi hast thou put awei in to the ende; thi strong veniaunce is wrooth on the scheep of thi leesewe?
2Be thou myndeful of thi gadering togidere; which thou haddist in possessioun fro the bigynnyng. Thou ayenbouytist the yerde of thin eritage; the hille of Syon in which thou dwellidist ther ynne.
3Reise thin hondis in to the prides of hem; hou grete thingis the enemy dide wickidli in the hooli.
4And thei that hatiden thee; hadden glorie in the myddis of thi solempnete.
5Thei settiden her signes, `ethir baneris, signes on the hiyeste, as in the outgoing; and thei knewen not.
6As in a wode of trees thei heweden doun with axis the yatis therof in to it silf; thei castiden doun it with an ax, and a brood fallinge ax.
7Thei brenten with fier thi seyntuarie; thei defouliden the tabernacle of thi name in erthe.
8The kynrede of hem seiden togidere in her herte; Make we alle the feest daies of God to ceesse fro the erthe.
9We han not seyn oure signes, now `no profete is; and he schal no more knowe vs.
10God, hou long schal the enemye seie dispit? the aduersarie territh to ire thi name in to the ende.
11Whi turnest thou awei thin hoond, and `to drawe out thi riythond fro the myddis of thi bosum, til in to the ende?
12Forsothe God oure kyng bifore worldis; wrouyte heelthe in the mydis of erthe.
13Thou madist sad the see bi thi vertu; thou hast troblid the heedis of dragouns in watris.
14Thou hast broke the heedis of `the dragoun; thou hast youe hym to mete to the puplis of Ethiopiens.
15Thou hast broke wellis, and strondis; thou madist drie the flodis of Ethan.
16The dai is thin, and the niyt is thin; thou madist the moreutid and the sunne.
17Thou madist alle the endis of erthe; somer and veer tyme, thou fourmedist tho.
18Be thou myndeful of this thing, the enemye hath seid schenschip to the Lord; and the vnwijs puple hath excitid to ire thi name.
19Bitake thou not to beestis men knoulechenge to thee; and foryete thou not in to the ende the soulis of thi pore men.
20Biholde in to thi testament; for thei that ben maad derk of erthe, ben fillid with the housis of wickidnessis.
21A meke man be not turned awei maad aschamed; a pore man and nedi schulen herie thi name.
22God, rise vp, deme thou thi cause; be thou myndeful of thin vpbreidyngis, of tho that ben al dai of the vnwise man.
23Foryete thou not the voices of thin enemyes; the pride of hem that haten thee, stieth euere.