Textus Receptus Bibles
The Great Bible 1539
| 139:1 | To the chaunter, a psalme of Dauid. O lorde, thou hast searched me out, and knowen me. |
| 139:2 | Thou knowest my downe syttinge and myne vprysing: thou vnderstandest my thoughtes longe before. |
| 139:3 | Thou art about my path, and about my bedd: & spyest out all my wayes. |
| 139:4 | For lo, there is not a worde in my tonge, but thou, O Lorde knowest it all together. |
| 139:5 | Thou hast fassyoned me behynde and before, and layed thyne hande vpon me. |
| 139:6 | Soch knowledge is to wonderfull & excellent for me: I can not attayne vnto it. |
| 139:7 | Whyther shall I go then from thy sprete? or whither shall I go then from thy presence? |
| 139:8 | If I clyme vp into heauen, thou art ther: yf I go downe to hell thou, art there also. |
| 139:9 | If I take the wynges of the mornynge, & remayne in the vttermost partes of the see. |
| 139:10 | Euen ther also shall thy hande lead me: and thy right hande shall holde me |
| 139:11 | If I saye: paraduenture the darcknesse shall couer me, then shall my nyght be turned to daye. |
| 139:12 | Yee, the darcknes is no darcknes with the: but the night is all cleare as the daye, the darcknes & lyght (to the) are both a lyke. |
| 139:13 | For my reynes are thyne, thou hast couered me in my mothers wombe. |
| 139:14 | I will geue thankes vnto the: for I am fearfully & wonderously made: maruelous are thy workes, & that my soule knoweth right well. |
| 139:15 | My bones are not hyd from the, though I be made secretly and fasshioned beneth in the earth. |
| 139:16 | Thyne eyes dyd se my substaunce, yet being vnparfect: & in thy boke were all my membres written. Which daye by daye were fashyoned, when as yet there was none of them. |
| 139:17 | Howe deare are thy councels vnto me, O God? O howe great is the summe of them? |
| 139:18 | If I tell them, they are mo in nombre then the sande: when I wake vp, I am present wt the. |
| 139:19 | Wylt thou not slaye the wicked, O God? departe from me ye bloude thirsty men. |
| 139:20 | For they speake vnrighteously agaynst the: & thyne enemies take thy name in rayne. |
| 139:21 | Do not I hate them, O Lorde, that hate the? & am not I greued with those that ryse vp agaynst the? |
| 139:22 | Yee, I hate them ryght sore, euen as though they were myne enemyes. |
| 139:23 | Trye me, O God, and seke the grounde of myne hert: proue me and examen my thoughtes. |
| 139:24 | Loke well yf there be any waye of wyckednes in me, and leade me in the waye euerlastynge. |
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."