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The Great Bible 1539
| 129:1 | A songe of the stayres. Many a tyme haue they fought agaynst me fro my youth vp (maye Israel nowe saye.) |
| 129:2 | Yee, many a tyme haue they vexed me fro my youth vp, but they haue not preuayled agaynst me. |
| 129:3 | The plowers plowed vpon my backe, & made longe forowes. |
| 129:4 | But the ryghteous Lorde hath hewen the snares of the vngodly in peces. |
| 129:5 | Let them be confounded and turned backwarde, as many as haue euyll wyll at Sion. |
| 129:6 | Let them be euen as the grasse growynge vpon the house toppes, whych wythereth afore it be pluckte vp. |
| 129:7 | Wherof the mower fylleth not hys hande, nether he that byndeth vp the sheaues, hys bosome. |
| 129:8 | So that they whych go by, saye not so moche: as the Lorde prospere you, we wysh you good lucke in the name of the Lorde. |
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."