Psalms 19
John Wycliffe Bible (c.1395)
1 The title of the nyntenthe salm. To victorie, the salm of Dauid.
2 The Lord here thee in the dai of tribulacioun; the name of God of Jacob defende thee.
3 Sende he helpe to thee fro the hooli place; and fro Syon defende he thee.
4 Be he myndeful of al thi sacrifice; and thi brent sacrifice be maad fat.
5 Yyue he to thee aftir thin herte; and conferme he al thi counsel.
6 We schulen be glad in thin helthe; and we schulen be magnyfied in the name of oure God.
7 The Lord fille alle thin axyngis; nowe Y haue knowe, that the Lord hath maad saaf his crist. He schal here hym fro his hooly heuene; the helthe of his riyt hond is in poweris.
8 Thes in charis, and these in horsis; but we schulen inwardli clepe in the name of oure Lord God.
9 Thei ben boundun, and felden doun; but we han rise, and ben reisid.
10 Lord, make thou saaf the kyng; and here thou vs in the dai in which we inwardli clepen thee.
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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