Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 34:1 | A Psalme of Dauid, when he changed his behauiour before Abimelech, who droue him away, and he departed. I will alway giue thankes vnto the Lord: his praise shalbe in my mouth continually. |
| 34:2 | My soule shall glory in the Lord: the humble shall heare it, and be glad. |
| 34:3 | Praise ye the Lord with me, and let vs magnifie his Name together. |
| 34:4 | I sought the Lord, and he heard me: yea, he deliuered me out of all my feare. |
| 34:5 | They shall looke vnto him, and runne to him: and their faces shall not be ashamed, saying, |
| 34:6 | This poore man cryed, and the Lord heard him, and saued him out of all his troubles. |
| 34:7 | The Angel of the Lord pitcheth round about them, that feare him, and deliuereth them. |
| 34:8 | Taste ye and see, howe gratious the Lord is: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. |
| 34:9 | Feare the Lord, ye his Saintes: for nothing wanteth to them that feare him. |
| 34:10 | The lyons doe lacke and suffer hunger, but they, which seeke the Lord, shall want nothing that is good. |
| 34:11 | Come children, hearken vnto me: I will teache you the feare of the Lord. |
| 34:12 | What man is he, that desireth life, and loueth long dayes for to see good? |
| 34:13 | Keepe thy tongue from euill, and thy lips, that they speake no guile. |
| 34:14 | Eschewe euill and doe good: seeke peace and follow after it. |
| 34:15 | The eyes of the Lord are vpon the righteous, and his eares are open vnto their crie. |
| 34:16 | But the face of the Lord is against them that doe euill, to cut off their remembrance from the earth. |
| 34:17 | The righteous crie, and the Lord heareth them, and deliuereth them out of all their troubles. |
| 34:18 | The Lord is neere vnto them that are of a contrite heart, and will saue such as be afflicted in Spirite. |
| 34:19 | Great are the troubles of the righteous: but the Lord deliuereth him out of them all. |
| 34:20 | He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken. |
| 34:21 | But malice shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous, shall perish. |
| 34:22 | The Lord redeemeth the soules of his seruants: and none, that trust in him, shall perish. |
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
The Geneva Bible is one of the most influential and historically significant translations of the Bible into English, preceding the King James translation by 51 years. It was the primary Bible of 16th century Protestantism and was the Bible used by William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, John Knox, John Donne, and John Bunyan. The language of the Geneva Bible was more forceful and vigorous and because of this, most readers strongly preferred this version at the time.
The Geneva Bible was produced by a group of English scholars who, fleeing from the reign of Queen Mary, had found refuge in Switzerland. During the reign of Queen Mary, no Bibles were printed in England, the English Bible was no longer used in churches and English Bibles already in churches were removed and burned. Mary was determined to return Britain to Roman Catholicism.
The first English Protestant to die during Mary's turbulent reign was John Rogers in 1555, who had been the editor of the Matthews Bible. At this time, hundreds of Protestants left England and headed for Geneva, a city which under the leadership of Calvin, had become the intellectual and spiritual capital of European Protestants.
One of these exiles was William Whittingham, a fellow of Christ Church at Oxford University, who had been a diplomat, a courtier, was much traveled and skilled in many languages including Greek and Hebrew. He eventually succeeded John Knox as the minister of the English congregation in Geneva. Whittingham went on to publish the 1560 Geneva Bible.
This version is significant because, it came with a variety of scriptural study guides and aids, which included verse citations that allow the reader to cross-reference one verse with numerous relevant verses in the rest of the Bible, introductions to each book of the Bible that acted to summarize all of the material that each book would cover, maps, tables, woodcut illustrations, indices, as well as other included features, all of which would eventually lead to the reputation of the Geneva Bible as history's very first study Bible.