Wycliffe (Late) [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] [B02020].
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PSALM LXXXVIII.
1 The title of the ei&yogh;te and ei&yogh;tetithe salm.
The lernyng of Ethan, Ezraite note.
2 I schal synge with outen ende; the mercies
of the Lord. In generacioun and in
to generacioun; Y schal telle thi treuthe
with my mouth.
3 For thou seidist, With
outen ende merci schal be bildid in
heuenes; thi treuthe schal be maad redi
in tho.
4 I disposide a testament to my
chosun men; Y swoor to Dauid, my seruaunt,
5 Til in to with outen ende I schal
make redi thi seed. And Y schal bilde
thi seete; in generacioun, and in to generacioun.
6 Lord, heuenes schulen knouleche
thi merueilis; and thi treuthe in the chirche
of seyntis.
7 For who in the cloudis schal
be maad euene to the Lord; schal be lijk
God among the sones of God?
8 God,
which is glorified in the counsel of
seyntis; is greet, and dreedful ouere alle
that ben in his cumpas.
9 Lord God of
vertues, who is lijk thee? Lord, thou art
mi&yogh;ti, and thi treuthe is in thi cumpas.
10 Thou art Lord of the power of the see;
forsothe thou aswagist the stiryng of the
wawis therof.
11 Thou madist lowe the
proude, as woundid; in the arm of thi
vertu thou hast scaterid thin enemyes.
12 Heuenes ben thin, and erthe is thin; thou
hast foundid the world, and the fulnesse
therof;
13 thou madist of nou&yogh;t the north
and the see. Thabor and Hermon schulen
make ful out ioye in thi name;
14 thin arm
with power. Thin hond be maad stidefast,
and thi ri&yogh;thond be enhaunsid;
15 ri&yogh;tfulnesse
and doom is the makyng redy of
thi seete. Merci and treuthe schulen go
bifore thi face;
16 blessid is the puple that
kan hertli song. Lord, thei schulen go
in the li&yogh;t of thi cheer;
17 and in thi name
thei schulen make ful out ioye al dai; and
thei schulen be enhaunsid in thi ri&yogh;tfulnesse.
18 For thou art the glorie of the
vertu of hem; and in thi good plesaunce
-- --
oure horn schal be enhaunsid.
19 For oure
takyng vp is of the Lord; and of the hooli
of Israel oure kyng.
20 Thanne thou spakist
in reuelacioun to thi seyntis, and seidist,
Y haue set help in the my&yogh;ti; and Y haue
enhaunsid the chosun man of my puple.
21 I foond Dauid, my seruaunt; Y anoyntide
hym with myn hooli oile.
22 For myn hond
schal helpe him; and myn arm schal conferme
hym.
23 The enemye schal no thing
profite in him; and the sone of wickidnesse
schal not `ley to, for to anoye him.
24 And
Y schal sle hise enemyes fro his face; and
Y schal turne in to fli&yogh;t hem that haten
hym.
25 And my treuthe and mercy schal
be with him; and his horn schal be enhaunsid
in my name.
26 And Y schal sette
his hond in the see; and his ri&yogh;t hoond in
flodis.
27 He schal inwardli clepe me, Thou
art my fadir; my God, and the vptaker of
myn heelthe.
28 And Y schal sette him the
firste gendrid sone; hi&yogh;er than the kyngis
of erthe.
29 With outen ende Y schal kepe
my merci to hym; and my testament feithful
to him.
30 And Y schal sette his seed
in to the world of world; and his trone as
the daies of heuene.
31 Forsothe if hise
sones forsaken my lawe; and goen not in
my domes.
32 If thei maken vnhooli my
ri&yogh;tfulnessis; and kepen not my comaundementis.
33 I schal visite in a &yogh;erde the wickidnessis
of hem; and in betyngis the synnes
of hem.
34 But Y schal not scatere my
mercy fro hym; and in my treuthe Y schal
not anoye hym.
35 Nethir Y schal make
vnhooli my testament; and Y schal not
make voide tho thingis that comen forth
of my lippis.
36 Onys Y swoor in myn
hooli;
37 Y schal not lie to Dauid, his seed
schal dwelle with outen ende.
38 And his
trone as sunne in my si&yogh;t, and as a perfit
mone with outen ende; and a feithful witnesse
in heuene.
39 But thou hast put awei,
and hast dispisid; and hast dilaied thi
crist.
40 Thou hast turned awei the testament
of thi seruaunt; thou madist
-- --
vnhooli his seyntuarie in erthe.
41 Thou
distriedist alle the heggis therof; thou
hast set the stidefastnesse therof drede.
42 Alle men passynge bi the weie rauyschiden
him; he is maad schenschipe to hise nei&yogh;boris.
43 Thou hast enhaunsid the ri&yogh;thond
of men oppressinge him; thou hast gladid
alle hise enemyes.
44 Thou hast turned awei
the help of his swerd; and thou helpidist
not hym in batel.
45 Thou destriedist him
fro clensing; and thou hast hurtlid doun
his seete in erthe.
46 Thou hast maad lesse
the daies of his time; thou hast bisched
him with schenschip.
47 Lord, hou longe
turnest thou awei in to the ende; schal
thin ire brenne out as fier?
48 Bithenke
thou what is my substaunce; for whether
thou hast ordeyned veynli alle the sones
of men?
49 Who is a man, that schal lyue,
and schal not se deth; schal delyuere his
soule fro the hond of helle?
50 Lord, where
ben thin elde mercies; as thou hast swore
to Dauid in thi treuthe?
51 Lord, be thou
myndeful of the schenschipe of thi seruauntis,
of many hethene men; whiche Y
helde togidere in my bosum.
52 Whiche
thin enemyes, Lord, diden schenschipfuli;
for thei dispisiden the chaungyng of thi
crist.
53 Blessid be the Lord with outen
ende; be it don, be it don.
Wycliffe (Late) [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] [B02020].
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