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The Great Bible 1539
| 8:1 | To hym that excelleth in Githith, a Psalme of Dauid. O Lorde our gouernoure, howe excellent is thy name in all the world, thou that hast sett thy glory aboue the heauens? |
| 8:2 | Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklynges hast thou ordeyned strength because of thyne enemyes, that thou myghtest styll the enemye and the auenger. |
| 8:3 | For I wyll consydre thy heauens, euen the worcke of thy fyngers: the moone & the starres whych thou hast ordeyned. |
| 8:4 | What is man, that thou art myndfull of hym? and the sonne of man, that thou visytest hym? |
| 8:5 | Thou madest hym lower then the aungels, to crowne hym with glory & worshyppe. |
| 8:6 | Thou makest him to haue domynion in the workes of thy handes: and thou hast put all thynges in subieccion vnder his fete. |
| 8:7 | All shepe and oxen, ye and the beastes of the felde. |
| 8:8 | The foules of the ayre, and the fysshe of the see, & whatsoeuer walcketh thorow the pathes of the sees. |
| 8:9 | O Lorde oure gouernoure, howe excellent is thy name in all the worlde. |
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."