Psalms 115
John Wycliffe Bible (c.1395)
1 I bileuede, for which thing Y spak; forsoth Y was maad low ful myche.
2 I seide in my passing; Ech man is a lier.
3 What schal Y yelde to the Lord; for alle thingis which he yeldide to me?
4 I schal take the cuppe of heelthe; and Y schal inwardli clepe the name of the Lord.
5 I schal yelde my vowis to the Lord bifor al his puple;
6 the deth of seyntis of the Lord is precious in his siyt.
7 O! Lord, for Y am thi seruant; Y am thi seruaunt, and the sone of thi handmaide. Thou hast broke my bondys,
8 to thee Y schal offre a sacrifice of heriyng; and Y schal inwardli clepe the name of the Lord.
9 I schal yelde my vowis to the Lord, in the siyt of al his puple;
10 in the porchis of the hous of the Lord, in the myddil of thee, Jerusalem.
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John Wycliffe Bible (c.1395) · Middle English
John Wycliffe Bible (c.1395)
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The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books, in the earliest English versions made from the Latin Vulgate by John Wycliffe and his followers, c.1395 Source text https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(Wycliffe) John Wycliffe organized the first complete translation of the Bible into Middle English in the 1380s. The translation from the Vulgate was a collaborative effort, and it is not clear which portions are actually Wycliffe's work. Church authorities officially condemned the translators of the Bible into vernacular languages and called these he