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The Great Bible 1539
| 31:1 | To the chaunter a Psalme of Dauid. In the, O Lord, haue I put my trust: let me neuer be put to confusyon: delyuer me in thy ryghteousnesse. |
| 31:2 | Bowe downe thine eare to me, make haste to delyuer me. |
| 31:3 | And be thou my stronge rocke, and a house of defence, that thou mayest saue me. |
| 31:4 | For thou art my stronge rocke, & my castell: Be thou also my guyde, & leade me for thy names sake. |
| 31:5 | Drawe me out of the nett that they haue layed priuely for me, for thou art my strength. |
| 31:6 | Into thy handes I commende my sprete: For thou hast redemed me, O Lorde thou God of treuth. |
| 31:7 | I haue hated them that holde of supersticious vanityes, & my trust hath bene in the Lorde. |
| 31:8 | I wyll be glad and reioyse in thy mercy: for thou hast consydred my trouble, & hast knowne my soule in aduersytees. |
| 31:9 | Thou hast not shut me vp in to the hande of the enemye, but hast set my fete in a large rowme. |
| 31:10 | Haue mercy vpon me, O Lorde, for I am in trouble, & myne eye is consumed for very heuynesse, yee my soule & my body. |
| 31:11 | For my lyfe is waxen olde with heuynesse, & my yeares with mournynge. |
| 31:12 | My strength fayleth me because of myne iniquite, and my bones are corrupte. |
| 31:13 | I became a reprofe amonge all myne enemyes, but specially amonge my neyghbours, and they of myne acquayntaunce were afrayed of me: & they that dyd se me without, conueyed them selues fro me. |
| 31:14 | I am cleane forgotten, as a deed man oute of mynde: I am be come lyke a broken vessell. |
| 31:15 | For I haue herde the blasphemy of the multitude: and feare is on euerye syde whyle they conspire together agaynst me, & take ther counsell to take awaye my lyfe. |
| 31:16 | But my hope hath bene in the, O Lorde, I haue sayde: thou art my God. |
| 31:17 | My tyme is in thy hande: delyuer me from the hande of myne enemyes, and from them that persecute me. |
| 31:18 | Shewe thy seruaunt the light of thy countenaunce, and saue me for thy mercyes sake. |
| 31:19 | Let me not be confounded, O Lorde, for I haue called vpon the: let the vngodly be put to confusion, and be put to sylence in the graue. |
| 31:20 | Let the lyenge lyppes be put to sylence, which cruelly, disdainfully, & despitefully, speake against the ryghteous. |
| 31:21 | O howe plentyfull is thy goodnesse, which thou hast layed vp, for them that feare the? and that thou hast prepared for them, the put their trust in the, euen before the sonnes of men? |
| 31:22 | Thou shalt hyde them priuely by thine awne presence from the prouokinges of all men: thou shalt kepe them secretly in thy tabernacle, from the stryfe of tonges. |
| 31:23 | Thankes be to the Lorde, for he hath shewed me maruelous greate kyndnesse in a stronge citie. And when I made hast, I sayde: I am cast out of thy syght. |
| 31:24 | Neuertheles, thou herdest the voyce of my prayer, when I cryed vnto the. O loue the Lorde, all ye his saintes, for the Lorde preserueth them that are faythfull, and plenteously rewardeth he the proude doer. Be stronge, & he shall stablyshe youre hart, all ye that put your trust in 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."