Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 50:1 | A Psalme of Asaph. The God of Gods, euen the Lord hath spoken and called the earth from the rising vp of the sunne vnto the going downe thereof. |
| 50:2 | Out of Zion, which is the perfection of beautie, hath God shined. |
| 50:3 | Our God shall come and shall not keepe silence: a fire shall deuoure before him, and a mightie tempest shall be mooued round about him. |
| 50:4 | Hee shall call the heauen aboue, and the earth to iudge his people. |
| 50:5 | Gather my Saints together vnto me, those that make a couenant with me with sacrifice. |
| 50:6 | And the heauens shall declare his righteousnes: for God is iudge himselfe. Selah. |
| 50:7 | Heare, O my people, and I wil speake: heare, O Israel, and I wil testifie vnto thee: for I am God, euen thy God. |
| 50:8 | I wil not reproue thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt offerings, that haue not bene continually before me. |
| 50:9 | I will take no bullocke out of thine house, nor goates out of thy foldes. |
| 50:10 | For all the beastes of the forest are mine, and the beastes on a thousand mountaines. |
| 50:11 | I knowe all the foules on the mountaines: and the wilde beastes of the fielde are mine. |
| 50:12 | If I bee hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and all that therein is. |
| 50:13 | Will I eate the flesh of bulles? or drinke the blood of goates? |
| 50:14 | Offer vnto God praise, and pay thy vowes vnto the most High, |
| 50:15 | And call vpon me in the day of trouble: so will I deliuer thee, and thou shalt glorifie me. |
| 50:16 | But vnto the wicked said God, What hast thou to doe to declare mine ordinances, that thou shouldest take my couenant in thy mouth, |
| 50:17 | Seeing thou hatest to bee reformed, and hast cast my wordes behinde thee? |
| 50:18 | For when thou seest a thiefe, thou runnest with him, and thou art partaker with the adulterers. |
| 50:19 | Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit. |
| 50:20 | Thou sittest, and speakest against thy brother, and slanderest thy mothers sonne. |
| 50:21 | These things hast thou done, and I held my tongue: therefore thou thoughtest that I was like thee: but I will reproue thee, and set them in order before thee. |
| 50:22 | Oh cosider this, ye that forget God, least I teare you in pieces, and there be none that can deliuer you. |
| 50:23 | He that offereth praise, shall glorifie mee: and to him, that disposeth his way aright, will I shew the saluation of God. |
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.