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The Bishops' Bible (1568)
Bishop
King James Version
KJV
[1]I am the man that thorowe the rodde of his wrath haue experience of miserie [1]I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
[2]He droue me foorth and led me, yea into darknesse, but not into light [2]He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
[3]Against me is he turned, he turneth his hande dayly against me [3]Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
[4]My flesh and my skinne hath he made olde, and my bones hath he bruised [4]My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
[5]He hath buylded rounde about me, and closed me in with gall and trauaile [5]He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
[6]He hath set me in darknesse, as they that be dead for euer [6]He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
[7]He hath so hedged me in, that I can not get out, and hath layde heauie linkes vpon me [7]He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
[8]Though I crye and call pitiously, yet heareth he not my prayer [8]Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
[9]He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, and made my pathes crooked [9]He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
[10]He layeth wayte for me lyke a beare, and as a lion in a hole [10]He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
[11]He hath marred my wayes, and broken me in peeces, he hath layde me waste altogether [11]He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
[12]He hath bent his bowe, and made me as it were a marke to shoote at [12]He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
[13]The arrowes of his quiuer hath he shot, euen into my reynes [13]He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
[14]I am laughed to scorne of all my people, they make songues vpon me all the day long [14]I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
[15]He hath filled me with bitternesse, and geuen me wormewood to drinke [15]He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
[16]He hath smitten my teeth in peeces with stones, and roulled me in the dust [16]He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
[17]He hath put my soule out of rest, I forget all good thinges [17]And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
[18]I thought in my selfe, I am vndone, there is no hope for me in the Lorde [18]And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
[19]O remember yet my miserie and my trouble, the wormewood and the gall [19]Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
[20]Yea thou shalt remember them, for my soule melteth away in me [20]My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
[21]Whyle I consider these thinges in my heart, I get a hope agayne [21]This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
[22][namely] it is of the Lordes mercies that we are not vtterly consumed, for truely his pitifull compassion hath not ceassed [22]It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
[23]Newe mercyes shall the Lord shewe vpon thee early in the day springing, (O Lorde) great is thy faythfulnesse [23]They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
[24]The Lorde is my portion saith my soule therefore wyll I hope in hym [24]The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
[25]O howe good is the Lord vnto them that put their trust in hym, and to the soule that seeketh after hym [25]The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
[26]The good man with stilnesse and pacience, taryeth for the health of the Lorde [26]It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
[27]O howe good is it for a man to take the yoke vpon him from his youth vp [27]It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth.
[28]He sitteth alone, he holdeth hym styll, because he hath taken [the Lordes yoke] vpon hym [28]He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
[29]He layeth his face vpon the earth, if there happen to be any hope [29]He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
[30]He offreth his cheeke to the smyter, he wyll be content with reproffes [30]He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
[31]For the Lord wil not forsake for euer [31]For the LORD will not cast off for ever:
[32]But though he punishe, yet according to the multitude of his mercies he receaueth to grace agayne [32]But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
[33]For he doth not plague willingly, and afflict the chyldren of men [33]For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
[34]To treade all the prysoners of the earth vnder his feete [34]To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.
[35]To moue the iudgement of man before the most highest [35]To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
[36]To condemne a man in his cause: the Lord hath not pleasure in such thinges [36]To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.
[37]What is he then that saith, there should some thing be done without the Lordes commaundement [37]Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
[38]Out of the mouth of the most highest goeth not euyll and good [38]Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
[39]Wherefore then murmureth the liuing man? let hym murmure at his owne sinne [39]Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
[40]Let vs looke well vpon our wayes, and remember our selues, and turne agayne to the Lorde [40]Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
[41]Let vs lift our heartes with our handes vnto the Lorde that is in heauen [41]Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
[42]We haue ben dissemblers and haue offended, wylt thou therefore not be intreated [42]We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
[43]Thou hast couered vs in thy wrath, and persecuted vs: thou hast slayne vs without any fauour [43]Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
[44]Thou hast hid thy selfe in a cloude, that our prayer should not go through [44]Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
[45]Thou hast made vs outcastes, and to be despised among the people [45]Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
[46]All our enemies gape vpon vs [46]All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
[47]Feare and pit is come vpon vs, yea deceipt and destruction [47]Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
[48]Whole riuers of water gushe out of mine eyes for the hurt of my people [48]Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
[49]Myne eyes runne and cannot ceasse, for there is no rest [49]Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission.
[50]O Lorde, when wylt thou looke downe from heauen and consider [50]Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
[51]Mine eyes breaketh my heart, because of all the daughters of my citie [51]Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
[52]Mine enemies hunted me out sharply like a byrde, yea & that without a cause [52]Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
[53]They haue put downe my life into a pit, and they haue cast stones vpon me [53]They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
[54]They haue powred water vpon my head: then thought I, nowe am I vndone [54]Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
[55]I called vpon thy name O Lorde out of the deepe pit [55]I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
[56]Thou hast heard my voyce, and hast not turned away thyne eares from my sighing and crying [56]Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
[57]Thou hast inclyned thy selfe vnto me when I called vpon thee: and hast said, feare not [57]Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
[58]Thou (O Lorde) hast mayntayned the cause of my soule, and hast redeemed my lyfe [58]O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
[59]O Lorde, thou hast seene my wrong, take thou my cause vpon thee [59]O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
[60]Thou hast well considered howe they go about to do me harme, and that all their counsels are against me [60]Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
[61]Thou hast hearde their despitefull wordes O Lorde, yea and all the imaginations against me [61]Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
[62]The lippes of mine enemies, and their deuises that they take against me al the day long [62]The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
[63]Thou seest also their sitting downe and their rising vp, they make their songes of nothing but of me [63]Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
[64]Rewarde them, O Lorde, according to the workes of their handes [64]Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
[65]Geue them an obstinate heart, euen thy curse [65]Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
[66]Persecute them O Lorde with thyne indignation, and roote them out from vnder the heauen [66]Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
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