Inverness Chapelyard

A chilly wind and mostly dull but it brightened briefly with another trip to Chapelyard cemetery in Inverness. This is a memorial to William Mackintosh of Holm and Katherine Fraser, his spouse, and their children. The stone has a date of 1713 but no actual dates of death. There's a reference at the bottom just above the date to psalm 84 verses 11 & 12. In the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) translation this reads as:-

I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of ungodliness.
For the Lord God is a light and defence: the Lord will give grace and worship, and no good thing shall he withhold from them that live a godly life.

The King James Bible gives a somewhat different rendering (both the original 1611 text and what is now commonly referred to as King James). Rather odd some people might think that the BCP (dating 1669) does not use the translation from the 1611 Bible, which was very well established by then, but relies very heavily on the much earlier translation of Miles Coverdale, Bishop of Exeter, died 1559. Presumably someone decided that Coverdale's versions were better.