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Geneva Bible 1560/1599

 

   

48:1A song or Psalme committed to the sonnes of Korah. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praysed, in the Citie of our God, euen vpon his holy Mountaine.
48:2Mount Zion, lying Northwarde, is faire in situation: it is the ioy of the whole earth, and the Citie of the great King.
48:3In the palaces thereof God is knowen for a refuge.
48:4For lo, the Kings were gathered, and went together.
48:5When they sawe it, they marueiled: they were astonied, and suddenly driuen backe.
48:6Feare came there vpon them, and sorowe, as vpon a woman in trauaile.
48:7As with an East winde thou breakest the shippes of Tarshish, so were they destroyed.
48:8As we haue heard, so haue we seene in the citie of the Lord of hostes, in the Citie of our God: God will stablish it for euer. Selah.
48:9We waite for thy louing kindnes, O God, in the middes of thy Temple.
48:10O God, according vnto thy Name, so is thy prayse vnto the worlds end: thy right hand is full of righteousnes.
48:11Let mount Zion reioyce, and the daughters of Iudah be glad, because of thy iudgements.
48:12Compasse about Zion, and goe round about it, and tell the towres thereof.
48:13Marke well the wall thereof: beholde her towres, that ye may tell your posteritie.
48:14For this God is our God for euer and euer: he shall be our guide vnto the death.
Geneva Bible 1560/1599

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.