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The Bishops' Bible (1568)
Bishop
The Didache
Didache
[1]Blesse God O my soule: and all that is within me [prayse] his holy name [No book]
[2]Blesse God O my soule: and forget not all his benefites [No book]
[3]Who forgeueth all thy wickednesse: and healeth all thine infirmities [No book]
[4]Who redeemeth thy lyfe from destruction: [and] crowneth thee with mercie and louyng kyndnesse [No book]
[5]Who satisfieth thy mouth with good thynges: causyng thy youth lyke an Egles to be renued [No book]
[6]God executeth iustice and iudgement: for all them that are oppressed with wrong [No book]
[7]He made his wayes knowen vnto Moyses: his workes vnto the children of Israel [No book]
[8]God is full of compassion and pitie: loth to be angry, and exceedyng great in mercie [No book]
[9]He vseth not to continue in chydyng: neither reserueth he [his anger] for euer [No book]
[10]He dealeth not with vs accordyng to our sinnes: nor rewardeth vs according to our wickednesse [No book]
[11]For accordyng to the hyghnesse of heauen aboue the earth: his mercie preuayleth to them that feare hym [No book]
[12][Loke] howe farre distaunt the east is from the west: so farre a sunder setteth he our sinnes from vs [No book]
[13]Yea lyke as a father pitieth [his owne] children: euen so is God mercifull vnto them that feare hym [No book]
[14]For he knoweth wherof we be made: he remembreth that we are but dust [No book]
[15]The dayes of man are as [the dayes] of an hearbe: he florisheth as a flowre in the fielde [No book]
[16]For the winde passeth ouer it, and it is no more [seene]: and the place therof knoweth it no more [No book]
[17]But the mercifull goodnesse of God endureth for euer and euer, vpon them that feare hym: and his righteousnesse vpon childers children [No book]
[18]Euen vpon such as kepe his couenaunt: and thinke vpon his commaundementes to do them [No book]
[19]God hath prepared his seate in heauen: and his kyngdome ruleth ouer all [No book]
[20]Blesse God O ye his angels mightie in operation: who fulfyll his worde in hearkening vnto the voyce of his word [No book]
[21]Blesse God all ye his hoastes: you his ministers that do his pleasure [No book]
[22]Blesse God all you his workes in all places of his dominion: O my soule blesse thou God [No book]
Source: studybible.org
Translation: Charles H. Hoole (1894)
Source: sacred-texts.com
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