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Wycliffe's English Translation (1388)
Wyc
The First Book of Clement
1Clem
[1]The `title of the hundrid and eiyte and fourtithe salm. Alleluya. Ye of heuenes, herie the Lord; herie ye hym in hiye thingis. [No book]
[2]Alle hise aungels, herie ye hym; alle hise vertues, herye ye hym. [No book]
[3]Sunne and moone, herie ye hym; alle sterris and liyt, herie ye hym. [No book]
[4]Heuenes of heuenes, herie ye hym; and the watris that ben aboue heuenes, [No book]
[5]herie ye the name of the Lord. [No book]
[6]For he seide, and thingis weren maad; he comaundide, and thingis weren maad of nouyt. He ordeynede tho thingis in to the world, and in to the world of world; he settide a comaundement, and it schal not passe. [No book]
[7]Ye of erthe, herie ye the Lord; dragouns, and alle depthis of watris. [No book]
[8]Fier, hail, snow, iys, spiritis of tempestis; that don his word. [No book]
[9]Mounteyns, and alle litle hillis; trees berynge fruyt, and alle cedris. [No book]
[10]Wielde beestis, and alle tame beestis; serpentis, and fetherid briddis. [No book]
[11]The kingis of erthe, and alle puplis; the princis, and alle iugis of erthe. [No book]
[12]Yonge men, and virgyns, elde men with yongere, herie ye the name of the Lord; [No book]
[13]for the name of hym aloone is enhaunsid. [No book]
[14]His knouleching be on heuene and erthe; and he hath enhaunsid the horn of his puple. An ympne be to alle hise seyntis; to the children of Israel, to a puple neiyynge to hym. [No book]
Author: John Wycliffe (1328 – 1384)
Translation: Charles H. Hoole (1885)
Source: www.earlychristianwritings.com
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