Textus Receptus Bibles
Bishops Bible 1568
| 40:1 | I wayted patiently vpon God, and he enclined vnto me his eare: and heard my crying |
| 40:2 | He brought me also out of an horrible pyt, out of the dirtie mire: and set my feete vpon a rocke, and directed my goynges |
| 40:3 | And he hath put a newe song in my mouth: euen a thankesgeuyng vnto our Lorde |
| 40:4 | Many shall see it, and feare: and shall put their trust in God |
| 40:5 | Blessed is the man that hath set his hope in God: and turned not vnto the proude, and to such as decline to lyes |
| 40:6 | O God my Lord, great are thy wonderous workes which thou hast done: & none can count in order thy benefites towarde vs, yf I woulde declare them and speake of them, they shoulde be mo then I am able to expresse |
| 40:7 | Thou wouldest haue no sacrifice or offeryng, but thou hast opened myne eares: thou hast not required burnt offerynges and sacrifice for sinne |
| 40:8 | Then sayde I, lo I am come: in the booke of thy lawe it is written of me that I shoulde fulfyll thy wyll O my God, I am content to do it, yea thy lawe is within the middest of my brest |
| 40:9 | I haue declared thy righteousnes in a great congregatio: lo I wil not refraine my lippes O God thou knowest [it. |
| 40:10 | I haue not hyd thy ryghteousnesse within my heart: my talkyng hath ben of thy trueth and of thy saluation. (40:11) I haue not concealed thy louyng mercie and trueth: from the great congregation |
| 40:11 | (40:12) Withdrawe not thou thy mercie from me O God: let thy louyng kyndnesse and thy trueth alway preserue me |
| 40:12 | (40:13) For innumerable troubles are come about me, my sinnes haue taken such holde vpon me that I am not able to loke vp: yea they are mo in number then the heeres of my head, & my heart hath fayled me |
| 40:13 | (40:14) O God let it be thy pleasure to deliuer me: make haste O God to helpe me |
| 40:14 | (40:15) Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seke after my soule to destroy it: let them be dryuen backwarde & be put to rebuke that wyshe me euyll |
| 40:15 | (40:16) Let them be desolate in recompence of their shame: that say vnto me, fye vpon thee, fye vpon thee |
| 40:16 | (40:17) Let all those that seeke thee be glad and ioyfull in thee: and let such as loue thy saluation, say alway God be magnified |
| 40:17 | (40:18) As for me I am afflicted and needye, but God careth for me: thou art my ayde and delyuerer, O my God make no long tarying |
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.