Textus Receptus Bibles
Bishops Bible 1568
| 115:1 | Geue praise not vnto vs O God, not vnto vs, but vnto thy name: for thy louing mercy, and for thy truethes sake |
| 115:2 | Wherfore shal the Heathen say: where is nowe their God |
| 115:3 | Truely our Lorde is in heauen: he hath done whatsoeuer pleased him |
| 115:4 | Their idols are siluer and gold: euen the workes of mens handes |
| 115:5 | They haue a mouth and speake not: they haue eyes and see not |
| 115:6 | They haue eares and heare not: they haue noses and smell not |
| 115:7 | They haue handes and handle not, they haue feete and walke not: and they vtter no sounde out of their throtes |
| 115:8 | They that make them are lyke vnto them: euery one that putteth his trust in them |
| 115:9 | But Israel trust thou in God: he is their ayde and their shielde |
| 115:10 | Ye house of Aaron trust you in God: he is their ayde and their shielde |
| 115:11 | Ye that feare God, trust ye in God: he is their ayde and their shielde |
| 115:12 | God hath ben myndfull of vs, he wyll blesse vs: he wyll blesse the house of Israel, he wyll blesse the house of Aaron |
| 115:13 | He wyll blesse those that feare God: the small with the great |
| 115:14 | God wyll encrease you more and more: both you and also your children |
| 115:15 | Ye are the blessed of God: which made heauen and earth |
| 115:16 | The heauen, the heauen I say is Gods: and he hath geuen the earth vnto the children of men |
| 115:17 | The dead prayse not thee O Lorde: neither all they that go downe into the place of scilence |
| 115:18 | But we wyll prayse the Lord: from this tyme foorth for euermore. Prayse ye the Lorde |
Bishops Bible 1568
The Bishops' Bible was produced under the authority of the established Church of England in 1568. It was substantially revised in 1572, and the 1602 edition was prescribed as the base text for the King James Bible completed in 1611. The thorough Calvinism of the Geneva Bible offended the Church of England, to which almost all of its bishops subscribed. They associated Calvinism with Presbyterianism, which sought to replace government of the church by bishops with government by lay elders. However, they were aware that the Great Bible of 1539 , which was the only version then legally authorized for use in Anglican worship, was severely deficient, in that much of the Old Testament and Apocrypha was translated from the Latin Vulgate, rather than from the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. In an attempt to replace the objectionable Geneva translation, they circulated one of their own, which became known as the Bishops' Bible.