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Matthew's Bible 1537
| 14:1 | To the chaunter, of Dauid. The folyshe bodyes saye in their hertes: tushe, there is no God. They are corrupt, & become abhominable in their doynges, there is not one that doth good. |
| 14:2 | The Lorde loked doune from heauen vpon the chyldren of men, too se if there were any that wolde vnderstande and seke after God. |
| 14:3 | But they are all gone out of the waye, they are altogether become vnprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no not one. |
| 14:4 | How can they haue vnderstandinge, that worke mischiefe, eatynge vp my people, as it were bread, & call not vpon the Lord? |
| 14:5 | Therfore shall they be brought in greate feare, for God standeth by the generacion of the righteous. |
| 14:6 | As for you ye haue made a mocke at the counsail of the poore, because he putteth hys trust in the Lorde. |
| 14:7 | Oh that the sauynge healthe were geuen vnto Israel out of Sion. Oh that the Lord wolde deliuer his people out of captiuitie. Then shoulde Iacob reioyse, & Israell should be right glad. |
Matthew's Bible 1537
The Matthew Bible, also known as Matthew's Version, was first published in 1537 by John Rogers, under the pseudonym "Thomas Matthew". It combined the New Testament of William Tyndale, and as much of the Old Testament as he had been able to translate before being captured and put to death, with the translations of Myles Coverdale as to the balance of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha, except the Apocryphal Prayer of Manasses. It is thus a vital link in the main sequence of English Bible translations.