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Bishops Bible 1568
| 19:1 | Thou also take vp a lamentation for the princes of Israel |
| 19:2 | And say: wherfore lay thy mother that lionesse among the lions? she norished her young ones among the lions whelpes |
| 19:3 | One of her whelpes she brought vp, and it be came a lion, it learned to catche the pray and to deuour folke |
| 19:4 | The heathen hearde of hym, and caught hym in their snare, and brought hym in hookes vnto the lande of Egypt |
| 19:5 | Nowe when she sawe that she had wayted and her hope was lost, she toke another of her whelpes and made a lion of hym |
| 19:6 | Which went among the lions, and became a fearce lion, learned to catche the pray, and to deuour folke |
| 19:7 | He destroyed their palaces and made their cities waste, insomuch that the whole lande and euery thyng therin were vtterly desolate through the voyce of his roaryng |
| 19:8 | Then set the heathen together on euery side of the countreis agaynst him, layde their nettes for him, and toke him in their pit |
| 19:9 | So they put him in prison in chaynes, and brought him to the kyng of Babylon: they put him in holdes, that his voyce shoulde no more be hearde vpon the mountaynes of Israel |
| 19:10 | As for thy mother, she is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she brought foorth fruite and braunches by the aboundaunt waters |
| 19:11 | And she had strong roddes for the scepters of them that beare rule, and her stature was exalted on hye among the braunches, & she appeared in her height with the multitude of her braunches |
| 19:12 | But she was pluckt vp in wrath, cast out vpon the grounde, the east wynde dryed vp her fruite her braunches were broken of & withered, as for the roddes of her strength, the fire consumed them |
| 19:13 | And nowe she is planted in the wildernesse, in a dry and thirstie grounde |
| 19:14 | And there is a fire gone out of the rodde of her brauches, it hath deuoured her fruite, so that she hath no strong rodde for a scepter to rule: This is a lamentation, and shalbe for a lamentation |
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.