Textus Receptus Bibles
Bishops Bible 1568
| 121:1 | I will lift vp myne eyes vnto the hilles: from whence my helpe shall come |
| 121:2 | My helpe commeth from God: who hath made heauen and earth |
| 121:3 | He wyll not suffer thy foote to moue: he wyll not sleepe that kepeth thee |
| 121:4 | Beholde, he that kepeth Israel: wyll neither slumber nor sleepe |
| 121:5 | God hym selfe is thy keper: God is thy defence vpon thy ryght hande |
| 121:6 | The sunne shal not hurt thee by day: neither the moone by nyght |
| 121:7 | God wyll preserue thee from all euill: he wyll preserue thy soule |
| 121:8 | God wyll preserue thy goyng out and thy commyng in: from this tyme foorth for euermore |
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.