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Bishops Bible 1568
| 38:1 | Rebuke me not O God in thyne anger: neither chasten me in thy heauie displeasure |
| 38:2 | For thyne arrowes sticke fast in me: and thy hande presseth me sore |
| 38:3 | There is no helath in my flesh through thy displeasure: neither is there any rest in my bones by reason of my sinne |
| 38:4 | For my manyfolde wickednes is gone ouer my head: and like a sore burthen is to heauie for me to beare |
| 38:5 | My woundes stinke and are corrupt: through my foolishnes |
| 38:6 | I am become crooked, and am exceedingly pulled downe: I go a mourning all the day long |
| 38:7 | For my loynes are filled with heate: and there is no whole part in my body |
| 38:8 | I am feeble and sore smitten: I haue rored for the very disquietnesse of my heart |
| 38:9 | Lorde thou knowest all my desire: and my gronyng is not hyd from thee |
| 38:10 | My heart panteth, my strength hath fayled me: and the lyght of myne eyes is gone from me |
| 38:11 | My louers and my neygbours dyd stande on the other syde lokyng vpon my plague: and my kinsmen stoode a farre of |
| 38:12 | They also that sought after my lyfe layde snares for me: and they that went about to do me euyll, talked of wickednesse, and imagined deceipt all the day long |
| 38:13 | As for me, as one deafe I woulde not heare: and I was as one that is dumbe who coulde not open his mouth |
| 38:14 | I became euen as a man that heareth not: and who hath no replies in his mouth |
| 38:15 | For on thee O God I haue wayted: thou shalt aunswere for me O Lorde my God |
| 38:16 | For I sayde heare me lest that they shoulde triumph on me: who auaunce them selues greatly agaynst me when my foote doth slyp |
| 38:17 | Because I am disposed to a haltyng: and my sorowe is euer in my syght |
| 38:18 | Because I confesse my wickednesse: and am sory for my sinne |
| 38:19 | But myne enemies lyuyng without payne are mightie: & they that hate me wrongfully are increased in number |
| 38:20 | They also that rewarde euyl for good are agaynst me: because I folowe the thyng that is good |
| 38:21 | Forsake me not O God: O my Lorde be not thou farre fro me |
| 38:22 | Haste thee to helpe me: O Lorde my saluation |
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.