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Matthew's Bible 1537
| 78:1 | An instruccyon of Asaph. Heare my lawe, O my people, enclyne your eares vnto the wordes of my mouth. |
| 78:2 | I wyll open my mouth in parables, and speake of thynges of olde. |
| 78:3 | Whych we haue herde and knowne, and such as our fathers haue told vs. |
| 78:4 | That we shoulde not hyde them from the chyldren of the generations to come: but to shewe the honoure of the Lorde, hys myghte and wonderfull worckes that he hath done. |
| 78:5 | He made a couenaunte wyth Iacob, and gaue Israel a lawe, whiche he commaunded oure forefathers to teache their chyldren. |
| 78:6 | That their posterytye myghte knowe it, and the chyldren whych were yet vnborne. To thintent that when they came vp they myghte shewe their chyldren the same. |
| 78:7 | That they also myghte put their truste in God, & not to forget what he had done, but to kepe his commaundementes, |
| 78:8 | And not to be as their forefathers, a froward and ouerthwarte generatyon, a generation that set not their herte a ryghte, and whose spirite was not true towarde God. |
| 78:9 | Lyke as the chyldren of Ephraim, which beyng harnessed and carieng bowes, turned them selues backe in tyme of battayl. |
| 78:10 | They kept not the couenant of god, and wold not walke in his law. |
| 78:11 | They forgate what he had done, and the wonderfull workes that he had shewed for them. |
| 78:12 | Maruelous thynges dyd he in the sighte of our fathers in the lande of Egipt, euen in the felde of Zoan. |
| 78:13 | He deuided the sea & let them go thorowe it, & made the waters to stande like a wall. |
| 78:14 | In the daye tyme he ledde them with a cloude, and all the night thorow with a light of fyre. |
| 78:15 | He cloaue the harde rockes in the wildernesse, & gaue them drynke therof, as it hadde bene out of the great deapth. |
| 78:16 | He brought waters out of the stony rock, so that they gusshed out lyke the ryuers. |
| 78:17 | Yet for all this they synned agaynste hym, and prouoked the moost hyest in the wyldernes. |
| 78:18 | They tempted God in their hertes, and requyred meate for their lust. |
| 78:19 | For they spoke agaynst God, & sayde: yea yea, God shall prepare a table in the wildernesse, shall he? |
| 78:20 | Lo, he smote the stony rocke, that the watery streames gusshed out, and the streames flowed with all: but how can he geue bread and prouyde flesh for hys people? |
| 78:21 | When the Lord hearde this, he was wroth so the fyre was kyndled in Iacob, and heauy displeasure agaynst Israel. |
| 78:22 | Because they beleued not in God, & putte not their trust in hys helpe. |
| 78:23 | So he commaunded the cloudes aboue, & opened the dores of heauen. |
| 78:24 | He rayned doune Manna vpon them for to eate, and gaue them bread from heauen. |
| 78:25 | Then eate they aungels fode, for he sentte them meate ynough. |
| 78:26 | He caused the East wynd to blowe vnder the heauen, & thorow hys power he brought in the South wynde. |
| 78:27 | He made flesh to raine vpon them as thicke as dust, and fethered foules like as the sande of the sea. |
| 78:28 | He let it fall amonge their tentes rounde about theyr habitacions. |
| 78:29 | So they eate, and were fylled, for he gaue them their owne desyre. |
| 78:30 | They were not disapoynted of their lust. But whyle the meate was yet in their mouthes: |
| 78:31 | the heuy wrath of God came vpon them, slewe the welthiest of them, & smote doune the chosen men of Israel. |
| 78:32 | But for all this they sinned yet more, and beleued not hys wonderous workes. |
| 78:33 | Therfore their dayes were consumed in vanyte, and sodenly their yeares were gone. |
| 78:34 | When he slewe them, they sought hym, & turned them early vnto God. |
| 78:35 | They thoughte then that God was theyr succour, and that the hye God was their redemer. |
| 78:36 | Neuerthelesse they dyd but flatter him in their mouthes, and dissembled with hym in their tonges. |
| 78:37 | For their herte was not whole with him, neither continued they in his couenaunt. |
| 78:38 | But he was so mercifull, that he forgaue their misdedes, and destroyed them not. Yea, many a tyme turned he hys wrathe awaye, and wolde not suffre hys whole dyspleasure to aryse. |
| 78:39 | For he considered that they wer but flesh: euen a wynde that passeth awaye, and commeth not agayne. |
| 78:40 | O how ofte haue they greued hym in the wyldernesse? How many a tyme haue they prouoked hym in the deserte? |
| 78:41 | They turned backe, and tempted God, & moued the holy one in Israel. |
| 78:42 | They thought not of hys hand, in the day when he delyuered them from the hande of the enemye. |
| 78:43 | Howe he had wroughte hys myracles in Egypte, and hys wonders in the lande of Zoan. |
| 78:44 | How he turned their waters into bloude, so that they myghte not dryncke of the ryuers. |
| 78:45 | How he sent lyce among them, to eate them vp, and frogges to destroye them. |
| 78:46 | How he gaue their frutes vnto the catyrpyller, & their labour vnto the greshopper. |
| 78:47 | How he bete doune theyr vyneyardes wt hayle stones, and their molbery trees wyth the frost. |
| 78:48 | How he smote theyr cattel with haylestones, & their flockes with hote thonder boltes. |
| 78:49 | How he sent vppon them the furiousnesse of his wrath, anger & displeasure: with trouble and falling in of euell aungels. |
| 78:50 | When he made a waye to hys fearful indignacion, and spared not their soules from death, yea, & gaue their cattell ouer to the pestilence. |
| 78:51 | When he smote al the first born in Egipt, the mooste principall and mightyest in the dwellynges of Ham. |
| 78:52 | But as for his owne people, he lead them forth lyke shepe, and caried them in the wyldernesse lyke a flocke. |
| 78:53 | He brought them out safely, that they shoulde not feare, and ouerwhelmed their enemyes with the sea. |
| 78:54 | He caryed them vnto the borders of his Sanctuary: euen into thys hyl, which he purchased with hys ryghthande. |
| 78:55 | He dyd cast out the Heathen before them, caused their lande to be deuyded among them for an heritage, and made the trybes of Israel to dwell in their tentes. |
| 78:56 | For all this they tempted & displeased the most hye God, and kept not hys couenaunt. |
| 78:57 | But turned their backes, and fell awaye lyke their forefathers, startynge asyde like a broken boowe. |
| 78:58 | And so they greued hym with theyr hye places, & prouoked him with their ymages. |
| 78:59 | When God hearde thys, he was wroth, and toke sore dyspleasure at Israell. |
| 78:60 | So that he forsoke the Tabernacle in Silo, euen his habitacyon wherin he dwelte amonge men. |
| 78:61 | He delyuered their power into captyuitye and their glory into the enemies hande. |
| 78:62 | He gaue his people ouer into the swearde for he was wroth wyth hys herytage. |
| 78:63 | The fyre consumed their yonge men, and their maydens were not geuen to mariage. |
| 78:64 | Their Prestes were slaine with the swerd and there were no wyddowes to make lamentacyon. |
| 78:65 | So the Lorde, awaked as one oute of slepe, and lyke a gyaunte refreshed wyth wyne. |
| 78:66 | He smote hys enemyes in the hynder partes, and put them to perpetuall shame. |
| 78:67 | He refused the tabernacle of Ioseph, and chose not the trybe of Ephraim. |
| 78:68 | Neuertheles, he chose the trybe of Iuda, euen the hyll of Syon which he loued. |
| 78:69 | And there he buylded hys temple on hye, and layd the foundation of it like the ground that it myght perpetually endure. |
| 78:70 | He chose Dauid also hys seruaunte, and toke hym away from the shepe foldes. |
| 78:71 | As he was folowynge the yewes greate with yonge, he toke him, that he myghte fede Iacob hys people, & Israel hys enherytance. |
| 78:72 | So he fedde them wyth a fayethfull and true herte, and ruled them wyth diligence of of his power. |
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.