Textus Receptus Bibles
The Great Bible 1539
| 87:1 | A Psalme and songe of the sonnes of Corah. Her foundacions are vpon the holy hylles: the Lorde loueth the gates of Sion more then all the dwellynges of Iacob. |
| 87:2 | Uery excellent thynges are spoken of the, thou cyte of God. Selah. |
| 87:3 | I wyll thynke vpon Rahab and Babylon, wyth them that knowe me. |
| 87:4 | Beholde, yee the Philistynes also, and they of Tyre with the Morians. Lo, there was he borne. |
| 87:5 | And of Syon it shalbe reported, that he was borne in her, and the moost hyest shall stablish her. |
| 87:6 | The Lorde shall rehearse it, whan he wryteth vp the people, that he was borne there. Selah. |
| 87:7 | The syngers also and trompetters shall he rehearse. All my freshe sprynges shalbe in the. |
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."