Office. Crowley's lyrics are mainly based on Leo Jud's Biblia Sacrosancta, which was in turn a fresh translation from the Hebrew that maintained fidelity to its lyrical arrangement. Crowley rendered all the psalms in simple iambic fourteeners which conform to the single, short, four-part tune that is printed at the beginning of the psalter. From Crowley's rendition of Psalm 24: The earth and al that it holdeth, do to the lorde belonge: The world and al that dwel therein as wel the olde as yonge. For it is he that aboue al the seas hath it founded: And that aboue the freshe waters hathe the same prepared. For the sake of comparison, here is how the same text is rendered in contemporary English Bibles: The earth is the Lord's, and all that therein is: the compass of the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas and prepared it upon the floods. (Psalm 24:1-2 Coverdale, 1535) The earth is Gods and all that therin is: the worlde, and they that dwell therein. For he hath laide the foundation of it vpon the seas: and he hath set it sure vpon the fluddes. (Psalm 24:1-2 Bishop's Bible, 1568) The earth is the Lordes, and all that therein is: the worlde and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it vpon the seas: and established it vpon the floods. (Psalm 24:1-2 Geneva Bible, 1587) The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. (Psalm 24:1-2 Authorised, 1611) Sternhold and Hopkins ('Old Version') Thomas Sternhold published his first, short collection of nineteen Certayn Psalmes between mid-1547 and early 1549. In December 1549, his posthumous : was printed, containing thirty-seven psalms by Sternhold and, in a separate section at the end, seven psalms by John Hopkins. This collection was taken to the Continent with Protestant exiles during the reign of Mary Tudor, and editors in Geneva both revised the original texts and gradually added more over several editions. In 1562, the publisher John Day brought together most of the psalm versions from the Genevan editions and many new psalms by John Hopkins, Thomas Norton, and John Markant to make up The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Collected into English Meter. In addition to metrical versions of all