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Bishops Bible 1568
| 144:1 | Blessed be God my rocke: who teacheth my handes to warre, and my fingers to fyght |
| 144:2 | My holynesse and my fortresse, my refuge, and my only deliuerer: my buckler, in hym I haue put my trust, who subdueth my people vnder me |
| 144:3 | O God, what is man that thou doest knowe hym? what is the sonne of man that thou doest thynke of hym |
| 144:4 | Man is lyke a thyng of naught: his dayes be lyke a shadowe that passeth away |
| 144:5 | Bowe thy heauens O God and come downe: touche the mountaynes and they shall smoke |
| 144:6 | Cast out terrible lightninges and feare them: shoote out thyne arrowes and consume them |
| 144:7 | Sende downe thine hand from aboue: deliuer me and take me out of the great waters, from the hande of the children of an other deuotion then I am |
| 144:8 | Whose mouth vttereth vanitie: and their ryght hande is a ryght hande of falshood |
| 144:9 | O Lorde I wyll syng a newe song vnto thee: and I wyll syng psalmes vnto thee vpon a Lute, and vpon an instrument of ten strynges |
| 144:10 | Who geueth victorie vnto kynges: who redeemeth Dauid his seruaunt from peryll of the sworde |
| 144:11 | Redeeme me and deliuer me from the hande of the children of an other deuotion then I am: whose mouth vttereth vanitie, and their ryght hande is a ryght hande of falshood |
| 144:12 | That our sonnes may growe vp in their youth as young plantes: that our daughters may be as corners stones grauen after the fashion as a palace is |
| 144:13 | That the corners of our houses may be fylled, yeeldyng foorth all maner of stoore: that our cattell may bring foorth thousandes, yea ten thousandes in our streates |
| 144:14 | That our oxen may be strong to labour that there be no decay: no leadyng into captiuitie, and no complaynyng in our streates |
| 144:15 | Happy are the people that be in such a case: blessed is the people who haue God for their 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.