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Wycliffe (Early) [1850], 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: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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PSALM CIV. Alleluia, Alleluia.

1    noteKnoulecheth to the Lord, and inwardly clepeth his name; telleth out among Jentilis his werkis. 2   Singeth to hym, and doth salm to hym, and tellith alle his merueilis; 3   be &yogh;ee preisid in his holi name. Glade the herte of &yogh;ou sechende the Lord; 4   secheth the Lord, and beth confermed; secheth his face euermor. 5   Haueth mynde of his merueilis, that he dide; his wonders, and the domes of his mouth. 6   The sed of Abraham, his seruaunt; the sonus of Jacob, his chosen. 7   He the Lord oure God; in al erthe his domes. 8   Myndeful he was in to the world of his testament; of the woord that he sente in to a thousend ieneraciouns. 9   The whiche he disposide to Abraham; and of his oth to Isaac. 10   And he sette it to Jacob in to an heste; and to Irael in to euere lastende testament. 11   Seiende, To thee I shal &yogh;eue the lond of Chanaan; the litle corde of &yogh;oure eritage. 12   Whan thei weren in short noumbre; most fewe and tilieris of it. 13   And thei passiden thur&yogh; fro folc in to folc; and fro reume in to an other puple. 14   He lafte not a man to no&yogh;e to them; and he chastiside for hem kingis. 15   Wileth not touche my cristis; and in my profetis wileth not ben waried. 16   And he clepide hungir vp on the erthe; and alle fastnesse of bred he to-ponede. 17   He sente beforn hem a man; and into a thral Joseph is sold. 18   Thei mekeden in stockis his feet, iren passide thur&yogh; hys lif; 19   to the time that his woord shulde come. The speche of the Lord enflaumede hym; 20   the king sente and loosede hym, the prince of puplis and lafte hym. 21   He sette hym lord of his hous; and prince of all his possessioun. 22   That he

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shulde enforme his princis as hymself; and his olde men prudence he shulde teche. 23   And Irael entride in to Egipt; and Jacob a tiliere was in the lond of Cham. 24   And he encrecide his puple hugely; and fastnede hym vpon his enemys. 25   He turned the herte of hem, that thei hateden his puple; and treccherie shulden do in to his seruauns. 26   He sente Moises, his seruaunt; and Aron, hym whom he ches. 27   And he putte in hem the woordis of his tocnes; and of his wonders in the lond of Cham. 28   He sente dercnessis, and made derc; and vntymely he fullfilde not his woordis. 29   And he turnede the watris of hem in to blod; and slo&yogh; the fisshis of hem. 30   And the lond of hem &yogh;af froggis; in the preue chaumbris of ther kingus. 31   He seide, and ther cam an hound flee&yogh;e; and gnattis in alle the coostis of hem. 32   And he putte the reynes of hem hayl; fyr brennende in the lond of hem. 33   And he smot the vynes of hem, and the fige placis of hem; and he to-broside the wode of the coostis of hem. 34   He seide, and ther cam a locust; and worte werm of the whiche was no noumbre. 35   And it eet al the hei in the lond of hem; and eet al the frut of the lond of hem. 36   And he smot alle the firste goten in the lond of hem; the firste frutis of alle the trauaile of hem. 37   And he bro&yogh;te hem out with syluer and gold; and ther was not a syk man in the linagis of hem. 38   Egipt gladede in ther forth going; for ther drede lai in vp on hem. 39   He stra&yogh;te out a cloude, in to the proteccioun of hem; and fyr, that he shulde li&yogh;te to hem by the ny&yogh;t. 40   Thei askeden, and ther kam a kurlu; and with the bred of heuene he fulfilde hem. 41   He to-brac the ston, and ther flowiden watris; ther wenten awei flodis in the drie. 42   For myndeful he was of his holi woord; that he hadde to

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Abraham, his child. 43   And he bro&yogh;te out his puple in ful out io&yogh;ing; and his chosene in glading. 44   And he &yogh;af to them the regiouns of Jentilis; and the traualis of puplis thei weldeden. 45   That thei kepe his iustifiyngus; and his lawe they a&yogh;een seche.
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Wycliffe (Early) [1850], 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: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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