Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 139:1 | [To the chiefe Musician, A Psalme of Dauid.] O Lord, thou hast searched mee, and knowen me. |
| 139:2 | Thou knowest my downe sitting, and mine vprising: thou vnderstandest my thought afarre off. |
| 139:3 | Thou compassest my path, and my lying downe, and art acquainted with all my wayes. |
| 139:4 | For there is not a worde in my tongue: but lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether. |
| 139:5 | Thou hast beset me behind, and before: and laid thine hand vpon me. |
| 139:6 | Such knowledge is too wonderfull for me: it is high, I cannot attaine vnto it. |
| 139:7 | Whither shall I goe from thy spirit? or whither shall I flie from thy presence? |
| 139:8 | If I ascend vp into heauen, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. |
| 139:9 | If I take the wings of the morning: and dwell in the vttermost parts of the Sea: |
| 139:10 | Euen there shall thy hand leade me: and thy right hand shall hold me. |
| 139:11 | If I say, Surely the darkenes shall couer me: euen the night shall bee light about me. |
| 139:12 | Yea the darkenesse hideth not from thee, but the night shineth as the day: the darknes and the light are both alike to thee. |
| 139:13 | For thou hast possessed my reines: thou hast couered me in my mothers wombe. |
| 139:14 | I will praise thee, for I am fearefully and wonderfully made, marueilous are thy works: and that my soule knoweth right well. |
| 139:15 | My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret: and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. |
| 139:16 | Thine eyes did see my substance yet being vnperfect, and in thy booke all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned: when as yet there was none of them. |
| 139:17 | Howe precious also are thy thoughts vnto me, O God: how great is the summe of them? |
| 139:18 | If I should count them, they are moe in number then the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. |
| 139:19 | Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men. |
| 139:20 | For they speake against thee wickedly: and thine enemies take thy name in vaine. |
| 139:21 | Doe not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and am not I grieued with those that rise vp against thee? |
| 139:22 | I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies. |
| 139:23 | Search me, O God, and knowe my heart: trie mee, and knowe my thoughts: |
| 139:24 | And see if there bee any wicked way in me: and leade me in the way euerlasting. |
King James Bible 1611
The commissioning of the King James Bible took place at a conference at the Hampton Court Palace in London England in 1604. When King James came to the throne he wanted unity and stability in the church and state, but was well aware that the diversity of his constituents had to be considered. There were the Papists who longed for the English church to return to the Roman Catholic fold and the Latin Vulgate. There were Puritans, loyal to the crown but wanting even more distance from Rome. The Puritans used the Geneva Bible which contained footnotes that the king regarded as seditious. The Traditionalists made up of Bishops of the Anglican Church wanted to retain the Bishops Bible.
The king commissioned a new English translation to be made by over fifty scholars representing the Puritans and Traditionalists. They took into consideration: the Tyndale New Testament, the Matthews Bible, the Great Bible and the Geneva Bible. The great revision of the Bible had begun. From 1605 to 1606 the scholars engaged in private research. From 1607 to 1609 the work was assembled. In 1610 the work went to press, and in 1611 the first of the huge (16 inch tall) pulpit folios known today as "The 1611 King James Bible" came off the printing press.