Psalms 81
John Wycliffe Bible (c.1395)
1 The title of the oon and eiytetithe salm. Of Asaph. God stood in the synagoge of goddis; forsothe he demeth goddis in the myddil.
2 Hou longe demen ye wickidnesse; and taken the faces of synneris?
3 Deme ye to the nedi man, and to the modirles child; iustifie ye the meke man and pore.
4 Raueische ye out a pore man; and delyuere ye the nedi man fro the hond of the synner.
5 Thei knewen not, nether vndirstoden, thei goen in derknessis; alle the foundementis of erthe schulen be moued.
6 I seide, Ye ben goddis; and alle ye ben the sones of hiy God.
7 But ye schulen die as men; and ye schulen falle doun as oon of the princis.
8 Ryse, thou God, deme thou the erthe; for thou schalt haue eritage in alle folkis.
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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