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Bishops Bible 1568
| 1:1 | The burde which Habacuc the prophete dyd see |
| 1:2 | O Lorde, howe long shall I crye, and thou wilt not heare? euen crye out vnto thee for violence, and thou wilt not helpe |
| 1:3 | Why doest thou shew me iniquitie, and cause me to beholde sorowe? for spoyling and violence are before me, & there are that rayse vp stryfe and contention |
| 1:4 | Therfore the law is dissolued, & iudgement doth neuer go foorth: for the wicked doth compasse about the righteous, therfore wrong iudgement proceedeth |
| 1:5 | Behold among the heathen, and regarde, and wonder, and marueyll: for I will worke a worke in your dayes, ye will not beleue it though it be tolde you |
| 1:6 | For lo, I rayse vp the Chaldeans, that bitter and furious nation, whiche shall go vpon the breadth of the land, to possesse the dwelling places that are not theirs |
| 1:7 | They are terrible and fearfull: their iudgement and their dignitie shall procede of them selues |
| 1:8 | Their horses also are swifter then the leopardes, and are more fierce then the wolues in the euening, and their horsemen shall come from farre: they shall flee as the Egle hasting to meate |
| 1:9 | They come all to spoyle: before their faces shalbe an eastwinde, and they shall gather the captiuitie as the sande |
| 1:10 | And they shall mocke the kinges, and the princes shalbe a scorne vnto them: they shall deride euery stronghold, for they shall gather dust, and take it |
| 1:11 | Then shall they take a courage, and transgresse, and do wickedly, imputing this their power vnto their god |
| 1:12 | Art not thou of olde, O Lord my God, my holy one? we shall not dye, O Lord thou hast ordeined them for iudgement, and O God thou hast established them for correction |
| 1:13 | Thou art of pure eyes, and canst not see euyl, thou canst not behold wickednesse: wherfore then doest thou loke vpo the transgressours, and holdest thy tongue, when the wicked deuoureth the man that is more righteous then he |
| 1:14 | And makest men as the fishe of the sea, and as the creeping thinges that haue no ruler ouer them |
| 1:15 | They take vp all with the angle, they catche it in their net, and gather it in their yarne: wherof they reioyce and are glad |
| 1:16 | Therfore they sacrifice vnto their net, and burne incense vnto their yarne: because by them their portion is fat, and their meate plenteous |
| 1:17 | Shall they therfore stretche out their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations |
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.