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Bishops Bible 1568
| 1:1 | The burden of Niniue: The boke of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite |
| 1:2 | God is ielous, & the Lorde auengeth, the Lorde auengeth and hath wrath in store: the Lord auengeth vpon them that trouble hym, and he remembreth his enemies |
| 1:3 | The Lorde is slowe to anger, and also of great power, and in no case will not acquite the wicked, the Lordes dealing is with blustring tempest and whirle winde, and the cloudes are the dust of his feete |
| 1:4 | He rebuketh the sea and dryeth it vp, all the riuers also he maketh drye: Basan and Carmel are destroyed, the spring also of Libanon is destroyed |
| 1:5 | The mountaynes quake at his power and the hilles are resolued: the earth also burneth at his countenaunce, the worlde, and all that dwelleth therin |
| 1:6 | Who can stande before his wrath? or who can rise vp before the anger of his countenaunce, his fiercenesse is powred out like fire, yea the rockes cleaue in peeces at his might |
| 1:7 | The Lord is gratious, a strong holde in the day of trouble, and knoweth them that trust in hym |
| 1:8 | But with an ouerrunning flood he wil destroy her place, and will pursue his enemies with darkenesse |
| 1:9 | What imagine ye against the Lorde? he makes an vtter destruction: ye shall not be troubled twyse |
| 1:10 | For whyles the thornes cleaue together, and whyles they banquet out their feastes, they are deuoured vp as very drie stubble |
| 1:11 | There came out of thee such as thought euyll against the Lorde, such as gaue wicked counsell |
| 1:12 | Thus sayth the Lorde: Though ye be in concorde, and also many, yet so shall ye be cut downe, and passe: & though I haue afflicted thee O Hierusalem yet will I trouble thee no more |
| 1:13 | And nowe I will breake of his yoke from vpon thee, and I will breake thy bondes in sunder |
| 1:14 | The Lorde also hath geuen a commaundement touching thee that, there shalbe no more offpring of thy name: from the house of thy God, I will cut of carued and molten image, I will make it thy graue, for thou art vile |
| 1:15 | Behold vpon the mountaynes the feete of him that bringeth good tidinges, that preacheth peace: kepe thy festiual dayes O Iuda, paye thy vowes: for the wicked tiraunt shal hereafter passe no more through thee, he is vtterly cut of |
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.