Textus Receptus Bibles
Bishops Bible 1568
| 64:1 | O Lorde heare my voyce in my prayer: preserue my life from feare of the enemie |
| 64:2 | Hyde me from the secrete counsayles of the malitious: from the conspiracie of the workers of iniquitie |
| 64:3 | Who haue whet their tongue lyke a sword: who haue drawne their arrow, euen a bitter worde |
| 64:4 | That they may priuily shoote at hym which is perfect: they do sodenly shoote at hym and feare not |
| 64:5 | They courage them selues in mischiefe: and comune among them selues how they may lay snares, and say, who shall see them |
| 64:6 | They searche out howe to do wrong, they put in practise fully that they haue diligently searched out: yea euen the secretes and bottome of euery one of their heartes |
| 64:7 | But the Lorde wyll sodenly shoote at them with a swyft arrowe: their plagues shalbe [apparaunt. |
| 64:8 | Yea they shall cause their owne tongues to be a meanes for to destroy the selues: insomuch that who so seeth them, shal desire to flee away [from them |
| 64:9 | And all men that see it shall say, this hath God done: for they shall well perceaue that it is his worke |
| 64:10 | The righteous wyll reioyce in God, and put his trust in hym: and all they that be vpright hearted wylbe glad |
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.