Textus Receptus Bibles
Bishops Bible 1568
| 3:1 | O God howe are myne enemies increased? many do ryse vp against me |
| 3:2 | Many say of my soule: there is no saluation for it in God. Selah |
| 3:3 | But thou O God art a buckler for me: thou art my worship, and the lifter vp of my head |
| 3:4 | I dyd call vpon God with my voyce, and he hearde me out of his holy hyll. Selah |
| 3:5 | I layde me downe and slept: and I rose vp agayne, for God sustayned me |
| 3:6 | I wyll not be afrayde of ten thousandes of the people: that haue set them selues against me rounde about |
| 3:7 | Arise vp O God, saue thou me O my Lorde: for thou hast smitten all myne enemies vpon the cheeke bone, thou hast broken the teeth of the vngodly |
| 3:8 | Saluation is of God: thy blessing is vpon thy people. Selah |
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.