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Bishops Bible 1568
| 55:1 | O Lorde geue eare vnto my prayer: and hide not thy selfe from my petition |
| 55:2 | Take heede vnto me, and heare me: I can not choose but mourne in my prayer, and make a noyse |
| 55:3 | Deliuer me from the voyce of the enemie, and from the present affliction of the wicked: for they are minded to do me mischiefe, and are set malitiously against me |
| 55:4 | My heart trembleth within me: and the feare of death is fallen vpon me |
| 55:5 | Fearefulnes and trembling are come vpon me: and an horrible dread hath ouerwhelmed me |
| 55:6 | And I sayde, O that I had wynges like a doue: for then woulde I flee away, and be at rest |
| 55:7 | Lo, then woulde I fleeing get me away farre of: and remayne in the wyldernesse. Selah |
| 55:8 | Then woulde I make hast to escape: from the stormie wynde, and from the tempest |
| 55:9 | Destroy their tongues O Lorde, and deuide them: for I haue seene oppression and strife in the citie |
| 55:10 | They do compasse it day and night within the walles: mischiefe also and labour, are in the midst of it |
| 55:11 | Malice is in the midst of it: disceipt and guyle go not out of her streates |
| 55:12 | Truely he was not mine enemie that hath done me this dishonour, for then I coulde haue borne it: neither was he one that seemed to hate me that dyd magnifie hym selfe against me, for then I woulde haue hyd my selfe from him |
| 55:13 | But it was euen thou whom I esteemed as my selfe: my guyde, and myne owne familier companion |
| 55:14 | We delighted greatly to conferre our secretes together: we walked deuoutly in the house of God felowe lyke |
| 55:15 | Let death sodainly come vpon them, let them go downe quicke into hell: for wickednes is in their dwellinges and among them |
| 55:16 | As for me I wyll crye vnto the Lord: and God wyll saue me |
| 55:17 | In the euening and morning, and at noone day wyll I pray, and that most instantly: and he wyll heare my voyce |
| 55:18 | He hath redeemed my soule through peace from the battayle that was against me: for there were many with me |
| 55:19 | The Lorde who sitteth a ruler from the beginning, wyll heare me and afflict them, Selah: forsomuche as there is no chaunge in them, and for that they do not feare God |
| 55:20 | He layde his handes vpon such as be at peace with him: and he brake his couenaunt |
| 55:21 | The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his wordes were smother then oyle, and yet be they very swordes |
| 55:22 | O cast thy burthen vpon God, and he wyll vpholde thee: he wyll not suffer at any time the righteous to moue |
| 55:23 | And as for them: thou O Lorde wylt hurle headlong into the pit of destruction. (55:24) The bloodthirstie and deceiptfull men shal not liue out halfe their dayes: neuerthelesse I wyll put my full trust in thee |
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.