Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 83:1 | A song, or Psalme committed to Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: bee not still, and cease not, O God. |
| 83:2 | For lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee, haue lifted vp the head. |
| 83:3 | They haue taken craftie counsell against thy people, and haue consulted against thy secret ones. |
| 83:4 | They haue said, Come and let vs cut them off from being a nation: and let the name of Israel be no more in remembrance. |
| 83:5 | For they haue consulted together in heart, and haue made a league against thee: |
| 83:6 | The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Agarims: |
| 83:7 | Gebal and Ammon, and Amalech, the Philistims with the inhabitants of Tyrus: |
| 83:8 | Asshur also is ioyned with them: they haue bene an arme to the children of Lot. Selah. |
| 83:9 | Doe thou to them as vnto the Midianites: as to Sisera and as to Iabin at the riuer of Kishon. |
| 83:10 | They perished at En-dor, and were dung for the earth. |
| 83:11 | Make them, euen their princes like Oreb and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes like Zebah and like Zalmuna. |
| 83:12 | Which haue said, Let vs take for our possession the habitations of God. |
| 83:13 | O my God, make them like vnto a wheele, and as the stubble before the winde. |
| 83:14 | As the fire burneth the forest, and as the flame setteth the mountaines on fire: |
| 83:15 | So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraide with thy storme. |
| 83:16 | Fill their faces with shame, that they may seeke thy Name, O Lord. |
| 83:17 | Let them be confounded and troubled for euer: yea, let them be put to shame and perish, |
| 83:18 | That they may knowe that thou, which art called Iehouah, art alone, euen the most High ouer all the earth. |
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.