and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
eþer forsakun. It schal not be kit, and it schal not be diggid, and breris and thornes schulen growe vp on it; and Y schal comaunde to cloudis, þat tho reyne not reyn on it.