Textus Receptus Bibles
The Great Bible 1539
| 64:1 | To the chaunter, a psalme of Dauid. Heare my voyce (O God) in my prayer preserue my lyfe from feare of the enemye. |
| 64:2 | Hyde me from the gathering together of the froward, & from the insurrection of wicked doers. |
| 64:3 | Which haue whett their tonge lyke a swearde, & shote out theyr arowes, euen bytter wordes. |
| 64:4 | That they maye preuely shote at him which is perfecte: sodenly do they hit him & feare not. |
| 64:5 | They courage them selues in myschefe, and commune amonge them selues, how they maye laye snares: and saye, that no man shall se them. |
| 64:6 | They ymagin wickednes, & practyse it that they kepe secrete amonge them selues, euery man in the depe of his hert. |
| 64:7 | But God shal sodenly shote at them with a swift arowe, that they shalbe wounded. |
| 64:8 | Yee, their awne tonges shall make them fall, in so moch that who so seeth them, shall laugh them to scorne. |
| 64:9 | And all men that se it, shall saye: this hath God done, for they shall perceaue that it is hys woreke. |
| 64:10 | The righteous shall reioyse in the Lord, and put his trust in hym: and all they that are true of herte, shalbe glad. |
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."