Textus Receptus Bibles
Coverdale Bible 1535
| 51:1 | Haue mercy vpon me (o God) after thy goodnes, & acordinge vnto thy greate mercies, do awaye myne offences. |
| 51:2 | Wash me well fro my wickednesse, & clense me fro my synne. |
| 51:3 | For I knowlege my fautes, and my synne is euer before me. |
| 51:4 | Agaynst the only, agaynst the haue I synned, and done euell in thy sight: that thou mightest be iustified in thy saynges, and shuldest ouercome when thou art iudged. |
| 51:5 | Beholde, I was borne in wickednesse, and in synne hath my mother conceaued me. |
| 51:6 | But lo, thou hast a pleasure in the treuth, and hast shewed me secrete wy?dome. |
| 51:7 | O reconcile me with Isope, and I shal be clene: wash thou me, and I shalbe whyter then snowe. |
| 51:8 | Oh let me heare of ioye and gladnesse, that the bones which thou hast broken, maye reioyse. |
| 51:9 | Turne thy face fro my synnes, and put out all my my?dedes. |
| 51:10 | Make me a clene hert (o God) and renue a right sprete within me. |
| 51:11 | Cast me not awaie from thy presence, and take not thy holy sprete fro me. |
| 51:12 | O geue me the comforte of thy helpe agayne, and stablish me with thy fre sprete. |
| 51:13 | Then shal I teach thy wayes vnto the wicked, that synners maye be conuerted vnto the. |
| 51:14 | Delyuer me from bloudegyltynesse o God, thou that art the God of my health, that my tonge maye prayse thy rightuousnesse. |
| 51:15 | Open my lippes (O LORDE) that my mouth maye shewe thy prayse. |
| 51:16 | For yf thou haddest pleasure in sacrifice, I wolde geue it the: but thou delytest not in burntofferynges. |
| 51:17 | The sacrifice of God is a troubled sprete, a broken and a cotrite hert (o God) shalt thou not despise. |
| 51:18 | O be fauorable and gracious vnto Sion, that the walles of Ierusalem maye be buylded. |
| 51:19 | For then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of rightuousnesse, with the burntofferynges and oblacions: then shal they laye bullockes vpon thine aulter. |
Coverdale Bible 1535
The Coverdale Bible, compiled by Myles Coverdale and published in 1535, was the first complete English translation of the Bible to contain both the Old and New Testament and translated from the original Hebrew and Greek. The later editions (folio and quarto) published in 1539 were the first complete Bibles printed in England. The 1539 folio edition carried the royal license and was, therefore, the first officially approved Bible translation in English.
Tyndale never had the satisfaction of completing his English Bible; but during his imprisonment, he may have learned that a complete translation, based largely upon his own, had actually been produced. The credit for this achievement, the first complete printed English Bible, is due to Miles Coverdale (1488-1569), afterward bishop of Exeter (1551-1553).
The details of its production are obscure. Coverdale met Tyndale in Hamburg, Germany in 1529, and is said to have assisted him in the translation of the Pentateuch. His own work was done under the patronage of Oliver Cromwell, who was anxious for the publication of an English Bible; and it was no doubt forwarded by the action of Convocation, which, under Archbishop Cranmer's leading, had petitioned in 1534 for the undertaking of such a work.
Coverdale's Bible was probably printed by Froschover in Zurich, Switzerland and was published at the end of 1535, with a dedication to Henry VIII. By this time, the conditions were more favorable to a Protestant Bible than they had been in 1525. Henry had finally broken with the Pope and had committed himself to the principle of an English Bible. Coverdale's work was accordingly tolerated by authority, and when the second edition of it appeared in 1537 (printed by an English printer, Nycolson of Southwark), it bore on its title-page the words, "Set forth with the King's most gracious license." In licensing Coverdale's translation, King Henry probably did not know how far he was sanctioning the work of Tyndale, which he had previously condemned.
In the New Testament, in particular, Tyndale's version is the basis of Coverdale's, and to a somewhat less extent this is also the case in the Pentateuch and Jonah; but Coverdale revised the work of his predecessor with the help of the Zurich German Bible of Zwingli and others (1524-1529), a Latin version by Pagninus, the Vulgate, and Luther. In his preface, he explicitly disclaims originality as a translator, and there is no sign that he made any noticeable use of the Greek and Hebrew; but he used the available Latin, German, and English versions with judgment. In the parts of the Old Testament which Tyndale had not published he appears to have translated mainly from the Zurich Bible. [Coverdale's Bible of 1535 was reprinted by Bagster, 1838.]
In one respect Coverdale's Bible was groundbreaking, namely, in the arrangement of the books of the. It is to Tyndale's example, no doubt, that the action of Coverdale is due. His Bible is divided into six parts -- (1) Pentateuch; (2) Joshua -- Esther; (3) Job -- "Solomon's Balettes" (i.e. Canticles); (4) Prophets; (5) "Apocrypha, the books and treatises which among the fathers of old are not reckoned to be of like authority with the other books of the Bible, neither are they found in the canon of the Hebrew"; (6) the New Testament. This represents the view generally taken by the Reformers, both in Germany and in England, and so far as concerns the English Bible, Coverdale's example was decisive.