Psalms 6
John Wycliffe Bible (c.1395)
1 The title of the sixte salm. To the ouercomere in salmes, the salm of Dauid, `on the eiythe.
2 Lord, repreue thou not me in thi stronge veniaunce; nether chastice thou me in thin ire.
3 Lord, haue thou merci on me, for Y am sijk; Lord, make thou me hool, for alle my boonys ben troblid.
4 And my soule is troblid greetli; but thou, Lord, hou long?
5 Lord, be thou conuertid, and delyuere my soule; make thou me saaf, for thi merci.
6 For noon is in deeth, which is myndful of thee; but in helle who schal knouleche to thee?
7 I traueilide in my weilyng, Y schal waische my bed bi ech nyyt; Y schal moiste, `ether make weet, my bedstre with my teeris.
8 Myn iye is disturblid of woodnesse; Y waxe eld among alle myn enemyes.
9 Alle ye that worchen wickidnesse, departe fro me; for the Lord hath herd the vois of my wepyng.
10 The Lord hath herd my bisechyng; the Lord hath resseyued my preier.
11 Alle my enemyes be aschamed, and be disturblid greetli; be thei turned togidere, and be thei aschamed ful swiftli.
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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