Psalms 69
John Wycliffe Bible (c.1395)
1 The titil of the nyne and sixtithe salm. To the victorie `of Dauid, `to haue mynde.
2 God, biholde thou in to myn heelp; Lord, hast thou to helpe me.
3 Be thei schent, and aschamed; that seken my lijf. Be thei turned a bak; and schame thei, that wolen yuels to me.
4 Be thei turned awei anoon, and schame thei; that seien to me, Wel! wel!
5 Alle men that seken thee, make fulli ioie, and be glad in thee; and thei that louen thin heelthe, seie euere, The Lord be magnyfied.
6 Forsothe Y am a nedi man, and pore; God, helpe thou me. Thou art myn helper and my delyuerere; Lord, tarye thou not.
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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