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The Great Bible 1539
| 48:1 | A songe of a Psalme of the children of Corah Greate is the Lorde, & hyelye to be praysed, in the cytie of oure God, euen vpon his holy hyll. |
| 48:2 | The hyll of Sion is a fayre place, & the ioye of the whole earth: vpon the north syde lyeth the cytie of the great kyng. |
| 48:3 | God is well knowne in her palaces, as a sure refuge. |
| 48:4 | For lo, the kynges are gathered, & gone by together. |
| 48:5 | They marueled, to se soch thinges: they were astonied, and sodenly cast downe. |
| 48:6 | Feare came there vpon them, & sorowe, as vpon a woman in her trauayle. |
| 48:7 | Thou shalt breake the shyppes of the see, thorow the east wynde. |
| 48:8 | Lyke as we haue herd, so haue we sene in the cytie of the Lord of Hostes, in the cytie of oure God. God vpholdeth the same for euer. Sela. |
| 48:9 | We wayte for thy louyng kyndnesse (O God) in the myddest of thy temple. |
| 48:10 | (O God) accordyng vnto thy name, so is thy prayse vnto the worldes ende: thy ryght hand is full of ryghteousnes. |
| 48:11 | Let the mount Sion reioyse, and the daughters of Iuda be glad because of thy iudgementes. |
| 48:12 | Walke about Sion, and go round about her, and tell the towres therof. |
| 48:13 | Marcke well her bulworkes, set vp her houses, that ye maye tell them that come after. |
| 48:14 | For thys God is oure God for euer & euer, he shall be ouer gyde vnto death. |
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."