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The Great Bible 1539
| 97:1 | The Lorde is kynge, the earth maye be glad therof: yee the multytude of the Iles maye be glad therof. |
| 97:2 | Cloudes and darcknesse are rounde aboute hym, ryghteousnesse and iudgment are the habitacyon of his seate. |
| 97:3 | There shall go a fyre before hym, and burne vp hys enemyes on euery syde. |
| 97:4 | His lightenynges gaue shyne vnto the worlde, the earth sawe it and was afrayed. |
| 97:5 | The hilles melted lyke waxe at the presence of the Lorde, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. |
| 97:6 | The heauens haue declared his ryghteousnes, & all the people haue sene hys glory. |
| 97:7 | Confounded be all they that worshipe carued ymages, and that delyte in vayne goddes: worshipe hym all ye goddes. |
| 97:8 | Sion heard of it and reioysed: and the daughters of Iuda were glad because of thy iudgementes, O Lorde. |
| 97:9 | For thou Lorde art hyer then all that are in the earth, thou art exalted farre aboue all goddes. |
| 97:10 | O ye that loue the Lorde, se that ye hate the thynge whych is euell: the Lorde preserueth the soules of hys saynctes, he shall delyuer them from the hande of the vngodly. |
| 97:11 | There is spronge vp a lyght for the ryghteous, and a ioyfull gladnesse for soch as be true herted. |
| 97:12 | Reioyse in the Lorde, ye ryghteous: and geue thanckes for a remembraunce of his holynesse. |
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."