Textus Receptus Bibles
The Great Bible 1539
| 108:1 | A songe and a Psalme of Dauid. O god my hert is ready I will synge, and geue prayse, wt the best membre that I haue. |
| 108:2 | Awake thou lute and harpe, I my selfe wyll awake ryght early. |
| 108:3 | I will geue thanckes vnto the (O Lorde) among the people, I wyll synge prayses vnto the among the nacions. |
| 108:4 | For thy mercy is greater then the heauens and thy trueth reacheth vnto the cloudes. |
| 108:5 | Set vp thy selfe (O God) aboue the heauens, and thy glory aboue all the earth. |
| 108:6 | That thy beloued maye be delyuered: let thy ryght hande saue them, and heare thou me. |
| 108:7 | God hath spoken in his holynes, I wyll reioyse. therfore, and deuyde Sichem, and meete out the valley of Suchoth. |
| 108:8 | Gilead is myne, and Manasses is myne, Ephraim also is the strength of my head, |
| 108:9 | Iuda is my lawgeuer. Moab is my washpotte, ouer Edom will I cast out my shoe: vpon Philistea will I triumphe. |
| 108:10 | Who wyll leade me in to the stronge cytie? And who wyll bryng me in to Edom? |
| 108:11 | Hast not thou forsaken vs (O God)? And wilt not thou God, go forth with oure hostes? |
| 108:12 | O helpe vs agaynst the enemye: for vayne is the helpe of man. |
| 108:13 | Thorow God we shall do great actes: & it is he, that shall treade downe our enemyes. |
The Great Bible 1539
The Great Bible of 1539 was the first authorized edition of the Bible in English, authorized by King Henry VIII of England to be read aloud in the church services of the Church of England. The Great Bible was prepared by Myles Coverdale, working under commission of Thomas, Lord Cromwell, Secretary to Henry VIII and Vicar General. In 1538, Cromwell directed the clergy to provide "one book of the bible of the largest volume in English, and the same set up in some convenient place within the said church that ye have care of, whereas your parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same and read it."