1 WYC The `title of the seuene and seuentithe salm. The lernyng of Asaph. Mi puple, perseyue ye my lawe; bowe youre eere in to the wordis of my mouth. BSB BSB: A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.
2 WYC I schal opene my mouth in parablis; Y schal speke perfite resouns fro the bigynnyng. BSB BSB: I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,
3 WYC Hou grete thingis han we herd, aud we han knowe tho; and oure fadris. telden to vs. BSB BSB: that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
4 WYC Tho ben not hid fro the sones of hem; in anothir generacioun. And thei telden the heriyngis of the Lord, and the vertues of hym; and hise merueilis, whyche he dide. BSB BSB: We will not hide them from their children but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might and the wonders He has performed.
5 WYC And he reiside witnessyng in Jacob; and he settide lawe in Israel. Hou grete thingis comaundide he to oure fadris, to make tho knowun to her sones; BSB BSB: For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,
6 WYC that another generacioun knowe. Sones, that schulen be born, and schulen rise vp; schulen telle out to her sones. BSB BSB: that the coming generation would know them—even children yet to be born—to arise and tell their own children
7 WYC That thei sette her hope in God, and foryete not the werkis of God; and that thei seke hise comaundementis. BSB BSB: that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.
8 WYC Lest thei be maad a schrewid generacioun; and terrynge to wraththe, as the fadris of hem. A generacioun that dresside not his herte; and his spirit was not bileued with God. BSB BSB: Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
9 WYC The sones of Effraym, bendinge a bouwe and sendynge arowis; weren turned in the dai of batel. BSB BSB: The archers of Ephraim turned back on the day of battle.
10 WYC Thei kepten not the testament of God; and thei nolden go in his lawe. BSB BSB: They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.
11 WYC And thei foryaten hise benefices; and hise merueils, whiche he schewide to hem. BSB BSB: They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.
12 WYC He dide merueils bifore the fadris of hem in the loond of Egipt; in the feeld of Taphneos. BSB BSB: He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
13 WYC He brak the see, and ledde hem thorou; and he ordeynede the watris as in a bouge. BSB BSB: He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.
14 WYC And he ledde hem forth in a cloude of the dai; and al niyt in the liytnyng of fier. BSB BSB: He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
15 WYC He brak a stoon in deseert; and he yaf watir to hem as in a myche depthe. BSB BSB: He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.
16 WYC And he ledde watir out of the stoon; and he ledde forth watris as floodis. BSB BSB: He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.
17 WYC And thei `leiden to yit to do synne ayens hym; thei excitiden hiye God in to ire, in a place with out water. BSB BSB: But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
18 WYC And thei temptiden God in her hertis; that thei axiden meetis to her lyues. BSB BSB: They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
19 WYC And thei spaken yuel of God; thei seiden, Whether God may make redi a bord in desert? BSB BSB: They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?
20 WYC For he smoot a stoon, and watris flowiden; and streemys yeden out in aboundaunce. Whether also he may yyue breed; ether make redi a bord to his puple? BSB BSB: When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”
21 WYC Therfor the Lord herde, and delaiede; and fier was kindelid in Jacob, and the ire of God stiede on Israel. BSB BSB: Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel,
22 WYC For thei bileueden not in God; nether hopiden in his heelthe. BSB BSB: because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.
23 WYC And he comaundide to the cloudis aboue; and he openyde the yatis of heuene. BSB BSB: Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.
24 WYC And he reynede to hem manna for to eete; and he yaf to hem breed of heuene. BSB BSB: He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.
25 WYC Man eet the breed of aungels; he sent to hem meetis in aboundance. BSB BSB: Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.
26 WYC He turnede ouere the south wynde fro heuene; and he brouyte in bi his vertu the weste wynde. BSB BSB: He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.
27 WYC And he reynede fleischis as dust on hem; and `he reinede volatils fethered, as the grauel of the see. BSB BSB: He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.
28 WYC And tho felden doun in the myddis of her castels; aboute the tabernaclis of hem. BSB BSB: He felled them in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.
29 WYC And thei eeten, and weren fillid greetli, and he brouyte her desire to hem; BSB BSB: So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved.
30 WYC thei weren not defraudid of her desier. Yit her metis weren in her mouth; BSB BSB: Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,
31 WYC and the ire of God stiede on hem. And he killide the fatte men of hem; and he lettide the chosene men of Israel. BSB BSB: God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.
32 WYC In alle these thingis thei synneden yit; and bileuede not in the merueils of God. BSB BSB: In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.
33 WYC And the daies of hem failiden in vanytee; and the yeeris of hem faileden with haste. BSB BSB: So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.
34 WYC Whanne he killide hem, thei souyten hym; and turneden ayen, and eerli thei camen to hym. BSB BSB: When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.
35 WYC And thei bithouyten, that God is the helper of hem; and `the hiy God is the ayenbier of hem. BSB BSB: And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
36 WYC And thei loueden hym in her mouth; and with her tunge thei lieden to hym. BSB BSB: But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.
37 WYC Forsothe the herte of hem was not riytful with hym; nethir thei weren had feithful in his testament. BSB BSB: Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.
38 WYC But he is merciful, and he schal be maad merciful to the synnes of hem; and he schal not destrie hem. And he dide greetli, to turne awei his yre; and he kyndelide not al his ire. BSB BSB: And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.
39 WYC And he bithouyte, that thei ben fleische; a spirit goynge, and not turnynge ayen. BSB BSB: He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
40 WYC Hou oft maden thei hym wrooth in desert; thei stireden hym in to ire in a place with out watir. BSB BSB: How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
41 WYC And thei weren turned, and temptiden God; and thei wraththiden the hooli of Israel. BSB BSB: Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42 WYC Thei bithouyten not on his hond; in the dai in the which he ayen bouyte hem fro the hond of the trobler. BSB BSB: They did not remember His power—the day He redeemed them from the adversary,
43 WYC As he settide hise signes in Egipt; and hise grete wondris in the feeld of Taphneos. BSB BSB: when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.
44 WYC And he turnede the flodis of hem and the reynes of hem in to blood; that thei schulden not drynke. BSB BSB: He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.
45 WYC He sente a fleisch flie in to hem, and it eet hem; and he sente a paddok, and it loste hem. BSB BSB: He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
46 WYC And he yaf the fruytis of hem to rust; and he yaf the trauels of hem to locustis. BSB BSB: He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
47 WYC And he killide the vynes of hem bi hail; and the moore trees of hem bi a frost. BSB BSB: He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
48 WYC And he bitook the beestis of hem to hail; and the possessioun of hem to fier. BSB BSB: He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.
49 WYC He sente in to hem the ire of his indignacioun; indignacioun, and ire, and tribulacioun, sendingis in bi iuel aungels. BSB BSB: He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity—a band of destroying angels.
50 WYC He made weie to the path of his ire, and he sparide not fro the deth of her lyues; and he closide togidere in deth the beestis of hem. BSB BSB: He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.
51 WYC And he smoot al the first gendrid thing in the lond of Egipt; the first fruytis of alle the trauel of hem in the tabernaclis of Cham. BSB BSB: He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.
52 WYC And he took awei his puple as scheep; and he ledde hem forth as a flok in desert. BSB BSB: He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
53 WYC And he ledde hem forth in hope, and thei dredden not; and the see hilide the enemyes of hem. BSB BSB: He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.
54 WYC And he brouyte hem in to the hil of his halewyng; in to the hil which his riythond gat. And he castide out hethene men fro the face of hem; and bi lot he departide to hem the lond in a cord of delyng. BSB BSB: He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.
55 WYC And he made the lynagis of Israel to dwelle in the tabernaclis of hem. BSB BSB: He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
56 WYC And thei temptiden, and wraththiden heiy God; and thei kepten not hise witnessyngis. BSB BSB: But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
57 WYC And thei turneden awei hem silf, and thei kepten not couenaunt; as her fadris weren turned in to a schrewid bouwe. BSB BSB: They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.
58 WYC Thei stiriden him in to ire in her litle hillis; and thei terriden hym to indignacioun of her grauen ymagis. BSB BSB: They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
59 WYC God herde, and forsook; and brouyte to nouyt Israel greetli. BSB BSB: On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.
60 WYC And he puttide awei the tabernacle of Sylo; his tabernacle where he dwellide among men. BSB BSB: He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.
61 WYC And he bitook the vertu of hem in to caitiftee; and the fairnesse of hem in to the hondis of the enemye. BSB BSB: He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.
62 WYC And he closide togidere his puple in swerd; and he dispiside his erytage. BSB BSB: He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage.
63 WYC Fier eet the yonge men of hem; and the virgyns of hem weren not biweilid. BSB BSB: Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.
64 WYC The prestis of hem fellen doun bi swerd; and the widewis of hem weren not biwept. BSB BSB: His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.
65 WYC And the Lord was reisid, as slepynge; as miyti greetli fillid of wiyn. BSB BSB: Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.
66 WYC And he smoot hise enemyes on the hynderere partis; he yaf to hem euerlastyng schenschipe. BSB BSB: He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.
67 WYC And he puttide awei the tabernacle of Joseph; and he chees not the lynage of Effraym. BSB BSB: He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.
68 WYC But he chees the lynage of Juda; he chees the hil of Syon, which he louede. BSB BSB: But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
69 WYC And he as an vnicorn bildide his hooli place; in the lond, which he foundide in to worldis. BSB BSB: He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.
70 WYC And he chees Dauid his seruaunt, and took hym vp fro the flockis of scheep; he took hym fro bihynde scheep with lambren. BSB BSB: He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
71 WYC To feed Jacob his seruaunt; and Israel his eritage. BSB BSB: from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.
72 WYC And he fedde hem in the innocens of his herte; and he ledde hem forth in the vndurstondyngis of his hondis. BSB BSB: So David shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands.
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