Textus Receptus Bibles
Bishops Bible 1568
| 2:1 | And Ionas prayed vnto the Lorde his God out of the fisshes belly |
| 2:2 | And saide: In affliction I cryed vnto the Lorde, and he heard me: out of the belly of hell cryed I, and thou heardest my voyce |
| 2:3 | Thou haddest cast me downe into the deepe, into the middest of the sea, and the floods compassed me about: all thy billowes and waues passed ouer me |
| 2:4 | And I saide: I am cast away out of thy sight, yet wyll I loke againe toward thyne holy temple |
| 2:5 | The waters compassed me euen vnto the soule, the deapth closed me on euery side, and the weedes were wrapt about my head |
| 2:6 | I went downe to the bottome of the mountaines, the earth with her barres was about me for euer: yet hast thou brought vp my lyfe from corruption, O Lorde my God |
| 2:7 | When my soule fainted within me, I remembred the Lorde, and my prayer came in vnto thee into thy holy temple |
| 2:8 | They that holde vpon lying vanitie, forsake his mercie |
| 2:9 | But I wyll sacrifice vnto thee with the voyce of thankesgeuing, and wyll pay that that I haue vowed: for saluation is of the Lorde |
| 2:10 | And the Lorde spake vnto the fisshe, and it cast out Ionas vpon the drye lande |
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.