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Chapter 38
Psal Wycliffe 38:1  The title of the eiyte and threttithe salm. For victorie, to Iditum, the song of Dauid.
Psal Wycliffe 38:2  I seide, Y schal kepe my weies; that Y trespasse not in my tunge. I settide kepyng to my mouth; whanne a synnere stood ayens me.
Psal Wycliffe 38:3  I was doumb, and was mekid ful gretli, and was stille fro goodis; and my sorewe was renulid.
Psal Wycliffe 38:4  Myn herte was hoot with ynne me; and fier schal brenne out in my thenkyng.
Psal Wycliffe 38:5  I spak in my tunge; Lord, make thou myn eende knowun to me. And the noumbre of my daies what it is; that Y wite, what failith to me.
Psal Wycliffe 38:6  Lo! thou hast set my daies mesurable; and my substaunce is as nouyt bifor thee. Netheles al vanytee; ech man lyuynge.
Psal Wycliffe 38:7  Netheles a man passith in ymage; but also he is disturblid veynli. He tresorith; and he noot, to whom he `schal gadere tho thingis.
Psal Wycliffe 38:8  And now which is myn abiding? whether not the Lord? and my substaunce is at thee.
Psal Wycliffe 38:9  Delyuere thou me fro alle my wickidnessis; thou hast youe me schenschip to the vnkunnynge.
Psal Wycliffe 38:10  I was doumbe, and openyde not my mouth; for thou hast maad,
Psal Wycliffe 38:12  Fro the strengthe of thin hond Y failide in blamyngis; for wickidnesse thou hast chastisid man. And thou madist his lijf to faile as an yreyne; netheles ech man is disturblid in veyn.
Psal Wycliffe 38:13  Lord, here thou my preier and my bisechyng; perseyue thou with eeris my teeris.
Psal Wycliffe 38:14  Be thou not stille, for Y am a comelyng at thee; and a pilgrime, as alle my fadris. Foryyue thou to me, that Y be refreischid, bifor that Y go; and Y schal no more be.