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The Geneva Bible (1560)
Geneva
Wycliffe's English Translation (1388)
Wyc
[1]Why standest thou far off, O Lord, and hidest thee in due time, even in affliction? [1]The title of the tenthe salm. To the victorie of Dauid.
[2]The wicked with pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the crafts that they have imagined. [2]I triste in the Lord; hou seien ye to my soule, Passe thou ouere in to an hil, as a sparowe doith?
[3]For the wicked hath made boast of his own heart's desire, and the covetous blesseth himself: he contemneth the Lord. [3]For lo! synneris han bent a bouwe; thei han maad redi her arowis in an arowe caas; `for to schete in derknesse riytful men in herte.
[4]The wicked is so proud that he seeketh not for God: he thinketh always, There is no God. [4]For thei han distryed, whom thou hast maad perfit; but what dide the riytful man?
[5]His ways alway prosper: thy judgments are high above his sight: therefore defieth he all his enemies. [5]The Lord is in his hooli temple; he is Lord, his seete is in heuene. Hise iyen biholden on a pore man; hise iyelidis axen the sones of men.
[6]He saith in his heart, I shall never be moved, nor be in danger. [6]The Lord axith a iust man, and vnfeithful man; but he, that loueth wickidnesse, hatith his soule.
[7]His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and iniquity. [7]He schal reyne snaris on `synful men; fier, brymston, and the spirit of tempestis ben the part of the cuppe of hem.
[8]He lieth in wait in the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are bent against the poor. [8]For the Lord is riytful, and louede riytfulnessis; his cheer siy equite, `ethir euennesse.
[9]He lieth in wait secretly, even as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to spoil the poor: he doth spoil the poor, when he draweth him into his net. 9[No verse]
[10]He croucheth and boweth: therefore heaps of the poor do fall by his might. 10[No verse]
[11]He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth away his face, and will never see. 11[No verse]
[12]Arise, O Lord God: lift up thine hand: forget not the poor. 12[No verse]
[13]Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? He saith in his heart, Thou wilt not regard. 13[No verse]
[14]Yet thou hast seen it: for thou beholdest mischief and wrong, that thou mayest take it into thine hands: the poor committeth himself unto thee : for thou art the helper of the fatherless. 14[No verse]
[15]Break thou the arm of the wicked and malicious: search his wickedness, and thou shalt find none. 15[No verse]
[16]The Lord is King forever and ever: the heathen are destroyed forth of his land. 16[No verse]
[17]Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the poor: thou preparest their heart: thou bendest thine ear to them, 17[No verse]
[18]To judge the fatherless and poor, that earthly man cause to fear no more. 18[No verse]
Source: archive.org
Author: John Wycliffe (1328 – 1384)
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