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The Sonnini Manuscript: The Lost Chapter 29 of Acts
Acts29
Wycliffe's English Translation (1388)
Wyc
[No book] [1]The title of the thrittithe salm. To victorie, the salm of Dauid.
[No book] [2]Lord, Y hopide in thee, be Y not schent with outen ende; delyuere thou me in thi riytfulnesse.
[No book] [3]Bouwe doun thin eere to me; haaste thou to delyuere me. Be thou to me in to God defendere, and in to an hows of refuyt; that thou make me saaf.
[No book] [4]For thou art my strengthe and my refuyt; and for thi name thou schalt lede me forth, and schalt nurische me.
[No book] [5]Thou schalt lede me out of the snare, which thei hidden to me; for thou art my defendere.
[No book] [6]I bitake my spirit in to thin hondis; Lord God of treuthe, thou hast ayen bouyt me.
[No book] [7]Thou hatist hem that kepen vanytees superfluli.
[No book] [8]Forsothe Y hopide in the Lord; Y schal haue fulli ioie, and schal be glad in thi merci. For thou byheldist my mekenesse; thou sauedist my lijf fro nedis.
[No book] [9]And thou closidist not me togidere withynne the hondis of the enemy; thou hast sett my feet in a large place.
[No book] [10]Lord, haue thou merci on me, for Y am troblid; myn iye is troblid in ire, my soule and my wombe `ben troblid.
[No book] [11]For whi my lijf failide in sorewe; and my yeeris in weilynges. Mi vertu is maad feble in pouert; and my boonys ben disturblid.
[No book] [12]Ouer alle myn enemyes Y am maad schenship greetli to my neiyboris; and drede to my knowun. Thei that sien me with outforth, fledden fro me; Y am youun to foryetyng,
Author: John Wycliffe (1328 – 1384)
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