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I personalize and summarize the following two verses in the Wycliffe version of Deuteronomy like this:
Forsooth, in truth, indeed, if I hear and obey the Lord, then He shall…grant me more and more favour and will show me and my descendants things that will enable us to do all the words of His Law.
Rejoice that we have translations of the Bible which we can understand more easily than the first English translation of the Scripture. We must pray for those who do not have any of the Bible translated into their language.
We must also pray for and do what we can to assist the efforts of those who are working to translate the Bible into almost a thousand more languages.
One historian summarized John Wycliffe’s view of the impact of the Bible on our lives as, “Without knowledge of the Bible there can be no peace in the life of the Church or of society, and outside of it there is no real and abiding good; it is the one authority for the faith.” (http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/john-wycliffe.html).
A link to a very brief summary of “The “Early Version” of the “Wycliffe Bible”, hand-printed about 1382….”
is at http://www.biblegateway.com/versions/Wycliffe-Bible-WYC/.
Wycliffe Bible (WYC)
28 Forsooth if thou hearest the voice of thy Lord God, that thou do and keep all his commandments, which I command to thee today, thy Lord God shall make thee higher than all folks that live in earth. (But if thou hearest the voice of the Lord thy God, and do and obey all of his commandments, which I command to thee today, the Lord thy God shall raise thee up higher, that is, shall grant thee more favour, than all the other nations who live on the earth.)
Deuteronomy 20:29
29 Diverse things be hid, or privy, of our Lord God, that is, in his before-knowing, which things be showed to us, and to our sons (into) without end, that we do all the words of this law. (Some things be hid, or known only, by the Lord our God, that is, in his foreknowing, but other things be shown to us, and to our descendants into without end, so that we can do all the words of this law.)
Wycliffe Bible (WYC)
Psalm 98:1
Wycliffe Bible (WYC)
98 A psalm. Sing ye a new song to the Lord; for he hath done marvels. His right hand and his holy arm; hath made health to him. (A song. Sing ye a new song to the Lord; for he hath done marvellous deeds. His right hand, or his power, and his holy arm, have won him the victory.)
Proverbs 20:22
Wycliffe Bible (WYC)
22 Say thou not, I shall yield evil for evil; abide thou the Lord, and he shall deliver thee. (Say thou not, I shall give back evil for evil; wait thou for the Lord, and he shall save thee/and he shall rescue thee.)
[The Scriptures were copied and posted through the Wycliffe Bible at BibleGateway.com, Wycliffe Bible (WYC), 2001 by Terence P. Noble]