The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books,

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The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books,
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Oxford,: University press,
1850.
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"The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books,." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AFZ9170.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2025.

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PSALM LXXIII. [ [verse 1] The title of the [Om. plures.] thre and seuentithe salm. The lernyng of Asaph [Asaph, of the caitifte of Babilon. K.] .]

God, whi hast thou put a wei in to the ende; thi strong veniaunce is wrooth on the scheep of thi leesewe? [verse 2] Be thou myndeful of thi gadering togidere; which thou haddist in possessioun fro the bigyn|nyng. Thou aȝenbouȝtist the ȝerde of thin eritage; the hille of Syon in which thou dwellidist ther ynne. [verse 3] Reise thin hondis in to the prides of hem [hem into the ende X sec. m.] ; hou grete thingis

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the enemy dide wickidli in the hooli. [verse 4] And thei that hatiden thee; hadden glorie in the myddis of thi solempnete. [verse 5] Thei set|tiden her signes [baners X.] , `ethir baneris [Om. VX.] , signes [to be signes I.] on the hiȝeste, as in the outgoing; and thei knewen not. [verse 6] As in a wode of trees thei heweden doun with axis the ȝatis therof in to it silf; thei castiden doun it with an ax, and a [with a I.] brood fallinge ax. [verse 7] Thei brenten with fier thi seyntuarie; thei defouliden the tabernacle of thi name in erthe. [verse 8] The kynrede of hem seiden togidere in her herte; Make we alle the feest daies of God to ceesse fro [in S.] the [Om. plures.] erthe. [verse 9] We han not seyn oure signes, now `no profete is [ther is no profete I.] ; and he schal no more knowe vs. [verse 10] God, hou long schal the enemye seie dispit? the [thin A.] aduersarie territh to ire thi name in to the ende. [verse 11] Whi turnest thou awei thin hoond, and [Om. I.] `to drawe out [Om. V.] thi riȝthond fro the myddis of thi bosum, til in [Om. K.] to the ende? [verse 12] Forsothe God oure kyng bifore worldis; wrouȝte heelthe in the mydis of erthe. [verse 13] Thou madist sad the see bi [in I.] thi vertu; thou hast troblid [troublid togidere K.] the heedis of dragouns [the dragouns FL.] in watris. [verse 14] Thou hast broke the heedis of `the dragoun [dragons K.] ; thou hast ȝoue hym to [to be I. Om. K.] mete to the puplis of E|thiopiens. [verse 15] Thou hast broke wellis, and strondis; thou madist drie the flodis of Ethan. [verse 16] The dai is thin, and the niȝt is thin; thou madist the moreutid and the sunne. [verse 17] Thou madist alle the endis of erthe [the erthe K.] ; somer and veer tyme [tyme, either springinge tyme i sec. m.] , thou fourm|edist tho. [verse 18] Be thou myndeful of this thing, the enemye hath seid schenschip to the Lord; and the vnwijs puple hath excitid to ire thi name. [verse 19] Bitake thou not to beestis men knoulechenge to thee; and forȝete thou not in to the ende the soulis of thi pore men. [verse 20] Biholde in to thi testament; for thei that ben maad derk of erthe, ben fillid with the housis of wickidnessis. [verse 21] A meke man be not turned awei maad aschamed;

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a pore man and nedi schulen herie thi name. [verse 22] God, rise vp, deme thou thi cause; be thou myndeful of thin vpbreidyngis [schenschipis, ether vpbreidyngis C et plures. shenshipis V.] , of tho that ben al dai of the vnwise man. [verse 23] Forȝete thou not the voices of thin ene|myes; the pride of hem that haten thee, stieth euere.

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