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Matthew's Bible 1537
| 2:1 | And Ionas prayed vnto the Lord his God, out of the fysshes bely, |
| 2:2 | & sayde: In my trouble I called vnto the Lord, & he herde me: out of the bely of hell I cryed, and thou herdest my voyce. |
| 2:3 | Thou haddest cast me downe depe in the myddest of the sea, and the floude compassed me aboute: yee all thy waues and roules of water went ouer me, |
| 2:4 | I thought that I had bene cast awaye out of thy syght: but I wyll yet agayne loke towarde thy holy temple. |
| 2:5 | The waters compased me, euen to the very soule, the depe laye aboute me, and the wedes were wrapte aboute myne head. |
| 2:6 | I went downe to the botome af the hylles, and was barred in wyth earth for euer. But thou, O Lorde my God, haste brought vp my lyfe agayne out of corrupcyon. |
| 2:7 | When my soule faynted within me, I thought vpon the Lord: & my prayer came in vnto the, euen in to thy holy temple. |
| 2:8 | They that holde of vayue vanyties, will forsake hys mercy. |
| 2:9 | But I wyll do the sacryfyce wyth the voyce of thankesgeuynge, and wil paye that I haue vowed: for why? saluacion commeth of the Lorde. |
| 2:10 | And the Lorde spake vnto the fysh, and it cast out Ionas agayne vpon the drye lande. |
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.