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Bishops Bible 1568
| 103:1 | Blesse God O my soule: and all that is within me prayse his holy name |
| 103:2 | Blesse God O my soule: and forget not all his benefites |
| 103:3 | Who forgeueth all thy wickednesse: and healeth all thine infirmities |
| 103:4 | Who redeemeth thy lyfe from destruction: and crowneth thee with mercie and louyng kyndnesse |
| 103:5 | Who satisfieth thy mouth with good thynges: causyng thy youth lyke an Egles to be renued |
| 103:6 | God executeth iustice and iudgement: for all them that are oppressed with wrong |
| 103:7 | He made his wayes knowen vnto Moyses: his workes vnto the children of Israel |
| 103:8 | God is full of compassion and pitie: loth to be angry, and exceedyng great in mercie |
| 103:9 | He vseth not to continue in chydyng: neither reserueth he his anger for euer |
| 103:10 | He dealeth not with vs accordyng to our sinnes: nor rewardeth vs according to our wickednesse |
| 103:11 | For accordyng to the hyghnesse of heauen aboue the earth: his mercie preuayleth to them that feare hym |
| 103:12 | Loke howe farre distaunt the east is from the west: so farre a sunder setteth he our sinnes from vs |
| 103:13 | Yea lyke as a father pitieth his owne children: euen so is God mercifull vnto them that feare hym |
| 103:14 | For he knoweth wherof we be made: he remembreth that we are but dust |
| 103:15 | The dayes of man are as the dayes of an hearbe: he florisheth as a flowre in the fielde |
| 103:16 | For the winde passeth ouer it, and it is no more seene: and the place therof knoweth it no more |
| 103:17 | But the mercifull goodnesse of God endureth for euer and euer, vpon them that feare hym: and his righteousnesse vpon childers children |
| 103:18 | Euen vpon such as kepe his couenaunt: and thinke vpon his commaundementes to do them |
| 103:19 | God hath prepared his seate in heauen: and his kyngdome ruleth ouer all |
| 103:20 | Blesse God O ye his angels mightie in operation: who fulfyll his worde in hearkening vnto the voyce of his word |
| 103:21 | Blesse God all ye his hoastes: you his ministers that do his pleasure |
| 103:22 | Blesse God all you his workes in all places of his dominion: O my soule blesse thou God |
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.