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Bishops Bible 1568
| 7:1 | And in the fourth yere of king Darius, the word of the lorde came vnto Zacharia in the fourth day of the ninth moneth, which is called Casleu |
| 7:2 | What time as Sarasar & Rogommelech, and the men that were with them, sent vnto the house of God for to pray before the Lorde |
| 7:3 | And that they shoulde speake vnto the priestes which were in the house of the Lorde of hoastes, and to the prophetes, saying: should I wepe in the fifth moneth, & abstayne as I haue done nowe certaine yeres |
| 7:4 | Then came the worde of the Lorde of hoastes vnto me, saying |
| 7:5 | Speake vnto al the people of the land, and to the priestes, & say: When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth & seuenth moneth now this threescore & ten yeres, did ye fast vnto me |
| 7:6 | When ye did eate also & drincke, did ye not eate & drincke for your owne selues |
| 7:7 | Are not these the wordes which the Lord spake by his prophetes aforetime, when Hierusalem was yet inhabited & wealthy, she and the cities round about her, whe there dwelt men both toward the south and in the playne countreys |
| 7:8 | And the worde of the Lorde came vnto Zachari, saying |
| 7:9 | Thus saith the Lord of hoastes: Execute true iudgement, shew mercie & louing kindnes euery man to his brother |
| 7:10 | Do the wydow, the fatherlesse, the straungers and poore no wrong, and let no man imagine euil against his brother in his heart |
| 7:11 | Neuerthelesse, they would not take heede, but turned their backes, & stopped their eares that they should not heare |
| 7:12 | Yea, they made their heartes as an Adamant stone, lest they should heare the law and wordes which the Lorde of hoastes sent in his holy spirite by the prophetes aforetime: Wherfore the lord of hoastes was very wroth at them |
| 7:13 | And thus is it come to passe, that like as he cryed, and they would not heare: euen so they cryed, & I would not heare saith the Lord God of hoastes |
| 7:14 | But scattred them among al the nations whom they knew not: Thus the land was made so desolate after them, that there trauayled no man in it neither to nor fro: for that plesaunt lande was vtterly layd waste |
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.