Psalms 147
John Wycliffe Bible (c.1395)
1 It is wel plesaunt to the Lord on men that dreden hym; and in hem that hopen on his mercy.
2 Jerusalem, herie thou the Lord; Syon, herie thou thi God.
3 For he hath coumfortid the lockis of thi yatis; he hath blessid thi sones in thee.
4 Which hath set thi coostis pees; and fillith thee with the fatnesse of wheete.
5 Which sendith out his speche to the erthe; his word renneth swiftli.
6 Which yyueth snow as wolle; spredith abrood a cloude as aische.
7 He sendith his cristal as mussels; who schal suffre bifore the face of his cooldnesse?
8 He schal sende out his word, and schal melte tho; his spirit schal blowe, and watris schulen flowe.
9 Which tellith his word to Jacob; and hise riytfulnessis and domes to Israel. He dide not so to ech nacioun; and he schewide not hise domes to hem.
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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