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Bishops Bible 1568
| 73:1 | Truely the Lorde is very good vnto Israel: vnto such as haue a cleane heart |
| 73:2 | Neuerthelesse, my feete were almost gone from me: my steppes had almost slypt |
| 73:3 | For I enuied at the case of the foolishe: I sawe the wicked flowe in all kynde of prosperitie |
| 73:4 | For there be no bondes of death that can holde them: and the galaries of their houses be strong |
| 73:5 | They come in no misfortune lyke other folke: neither are they plagued lyke other men |
| 73:6 | And this is the cause that pride compasse them rounde about: and crueltie couereth them as a garment |
| 73:7 | Their eyes stande out for fatnesse: and the cogitations of their heartes do passe from them |
| 73:8 | They make other dissolute, they speake oppression with iniurie: they talke proudely and presumptuously |
| 73:9 | For they stretch foorth their mouth vnto the heauen: and their tongue goeth through the worlde |
| 73:10 | Therfore God his people turneth thither: and there is drawen vnto them waters in a full [cuppe. |
| 73:11 | And they say, howe shoulde God perceaue it? is there knowledge in the most hyghest |
| 73:12 | Lo these vngodly and fortunate in the worlde: do possesse riches |
| 73:13 | Truely I haue cleansed my heart in vayne: and wasshed my handes in innocencie |
| 73:14 | All the day long I haue ben scourged: and chastened euery mornyng |
| 73:15 | If I shoulde say that I woulde iudge after this sort: lo then I shoulde condempne the generation of thy children |
| 73:16 | Therfore I considered howe I might vnderstande this: but it was to paynefull in myne eyes |
| 73:17 | Untyll I went vnto the sanctuarie of God: and vnderstood the ende of them |
| 73:18 | Truely thou doest set them in slippery places: and castest them downe headlong for to be destroyed |
| 73:19 | Oh howe be they brought to a destruction euen vpon a sodayne: they faynt, they consume away for very dread |
| 73:20 | They be as a dreame to a man after he is once waked: O Lorde thou wylt cause their image to be dispised in the citie |
| 73:21 | Ueryly thus was my heart inflamed: thus was my reynes pricked |
| 73:22 | So foolishe was I and voyde of vnderstanding: I was euen a bruite beast before thee |
| 73:23 | Neuerthelesse I am alway with thee: for thou hast holden me by my ryght hande |
| 73:24 | Thou hast guyde me with thy counsayle: and after that thou receauedst me with glorie |
| 73:25 | Whom haue I in heauen but thee? and there is none vpon earth that I desire besides thee |
| 73:26 | My fleshe and my heart fayleth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for euer |
| 73:27 | For lo, they that kepe them selues a loofe from thee shall perishe: thou destroyest euery one that committeth fornication agaynst thee |
| 73:28 | But it is good for me to come neare vnto God: wherfore I put my trust in thee O Lorde God, that I may declare all thy workes |
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.