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Bishops Bible 1568
| 61:1 | Heare my crying O Lorde: geue eare vnto my prayer |
| 61:2 | From the endes of the earth I wyll call vnto thee when my heart is in heauines: oh set me vp on the rocke that is higher then I |
| 61:3 | For thou hast ben my hope: and a strong towre for me against the face of the enemie |
| 61:4 | I wyll dwell in thy tabernacle for euer: my trust shalbe vnder the couering of thy wynges. Selah |
| 61:5 | For thou O Lorde hast hearde my vowes: and hast geuen an heritage vnto those that feare thy name |
| 61:6 | Thou wilt adde dayes vnto the kings dayes: and his yeres shalbe a generation and a generation |
| 61:7 | He shall dwell before the Lorde for euer: O appoynt thy louing mercy and faithfulnes, that thei may preserue him |
| 61:8 | So wyll I sing psalmes vnto thy name: that I may day by day perfourme my vowes |
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.