5. Thou doest prepare a table before me in the sight of mine adversaries: thou doest anoynt mine head with oyle, _and_ my cup runneth over.
6. Doubtlesse kindnesse and mercy shall follow mee all the dayes of my life, and I shall remaine a long season in the house of the Lord.
1. God is my shephearde, therefore I can lacke nothyng: he wyll cause me to repose myselfe in pasture full of grasse, and he wyll leade me vnto calme waters.
2. He wyll conuerte my soule; he wyll bring me foorth into the pathes of righteousnesse for his name sake.
3. Yea, though I walke through the valley of the shadowe of death, I wyll feare no euyll; for thou art with me, thy rodde and thy staffe be the thynges that do comfort me.
4. Thou wylt prepare a table before me in the presence of myne aduersaries; thou has annoynted my head with oyle, and my cup shalbe brymme full.
5. Truely felicitie and mercie shal folowe me all the dayes of my lyfe: and I wyll dwell in the house of God for a long tyme.
2. Our Lord ruleth one, and nothing shal be wanting to me: in place of pasture there he hath placed me.
3. Upon the water of refection he hath brought me vp: he hath conuerted my soule.
He hath conducted me upon the pathes of iustice for his name.
4. For, although I shal walke in the middes of the shadow of death, I will not feare euils: because thou art with me, Thy rod and thy staffe, they haue comforted me.
5. Thou hast prepared in my sight a table, against them; that truble me.
Thou hast fatted my head with oyle; and my chalice inebriating how goodlie is it!
6. And thy mercie shal folow me al the dayes of my life; And that I may dwel in the house of our Lord, in longitude of dayes.
_THE REVISION OF 1611--THE SO-CALLED AUTHORIZED VERSION._
At the accession of James I. the GENEVAN BIBLE and the BISHOPS’ BIBLE were, as we have seen, the Bibles in current use, the latter being the Bible upheld by ecclesiastical authority, the former the favourite Bible of the people at large. The Book of Psalms also in the version of the Great Bible survived, as it still does, in the psalter of the Prayer Book, and probably in some few parish churches old and worn copies of the Great Bible still maintained their place.
The state of religious parties at that date rendered it almost an impossibility that either of the two first-named versions should become universally accepted. The close connection of the Genevan Bible with the Puritan party, and the decidedly puritanic cast of some of its notes, created an insuperable prejudice against it in the minds of the more zealous advocates of Episcopal authority; while the inferiority[36] of the Bishops’ Bible as a version effectually barred its claim to an exclusive use. The need, then, for a new version was obvious, and a desire for it was probably felt by many of all parties.