Textus Receptus Bibles
The Great Bible 1539
| 144:1 | Of Dauid. Blessed be the Lord my strengthe, which teacheth my handes to warre, & my fyngers to fyght. |
| 144:2 | My hope and my fortresse, my castell, and delyuerer, my defender in whom I trust, whych subdueth my people that is vnder me. |
| 144:3 | Lorde, what is man, that thou hast soch respect vnto him? Or the sonne of man, that thou so regardest hym? |
| 144:4 | Man is lyke a thynge of naught, his tyme passeth awaye lyke a shadowe. |
| 144:5 | Bowe thy heauens, O Lorde, & come downe, touche the mountaynes, & they shall smoke. |
| 144:6 | Caste forth the lyghtynynge, & teare them, shote out thyne arowes, and consume them. |
| 144:7 | Sende downe thyne hande from aboue, delyuer me, & take me out of the great waters, from the hande of straunge chyldren, |
| 144:8 | Whose mouth talketh of vanyte, & theyr ryght hande is a ryght hande of wyckednes. |
| 144:9 | I wyll synge a newe songe vnto the, O God, & synge prayses vnto the vpon a tenstrynged lute. |
| 144:10 | Thou that geuest victory vnto kinges, and hast delyuered Dauid thy seruaunt from the parell of the swerde. |
| 144:11 | Saue me, and delyuer me from the hande of straunge chyldren, whose mouth talketh of vanite, and theyr ryght hande is a ryght hande of iniquite. |
| 144:12 | That oure sonnes maye growe vp as the yonge plantes, & that oure daughters maye be as the polyshed corners of the temple. |
| 144:13 | That oure garners may be full and plenteous with all maner of stoare: that once shepe maye brynge forth thousandes, and ten thousandes in oure stretes. |
| 144:14 | That oure oxen maye be stronge to laboure, that there be no decaye, no ledynge into captyuitie, & no complayninge in oure stretes. |
| 144:15 | Happye are the people that be in soche a case: yee blessed are the people, whych haue the Lorde for their God. |
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."