Textus Receptus Bibles
Bishops Bible 1568
| 129:1 | Israel may now say: they haue troubled me often from my youth vp |
| 129:2 | They haue troubled me often from my youth vp: but they haue not preuayled against me |
| 129:3 | The plowemen plowed vpon my backe: they made long forrowes |
| 129:4 | But God who is iust: hath cut a peeces the snares of the vngodly |
| 129:5 | All they that beare an euyll wyll to Sion: shalbe confounded, and be made to turne backe from it |
| 129:6 | They shall be as the grasse growing vpon the house toppes: whiche withereth afore that it be shot foorth [to his growth. |
| 129:7 | Whereof the mower fylleth not his hande: neither he that byndeth vp the sheaues his armes full |
| 129:8 | And they which go by, say not so much as the blessing of God be vpon you: we blesse you in the name of 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.