Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 148:1 | Praise yee the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heauens: praise him in the heights. |
| 148:2 | Praise yee him all his Angels: praise ye him all his hosts. |
| 148:3 | Praise ye him Sunne and Moone: praise him all ye starres of light. |
| 148:4 | Praise him ye heauens of heauens: and ye waters that be aboue the heauens. |
| 148:5 | Let them praise the Name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created. |
| 148:6 | Hee hath also stablished them for euer and euer: he hath made a decree which shall not passe. |
| 148:7 | Praise the Lord from the earth: ye dragons and all deepes. |
| 148:8 | Fire and haile, snow and vapour: stormie wind fulfilling his word. |
| 148:9 | Mountaines and all hilles: fruitfull trees, and all cedars. |
| 148:10 | Beastes and all cattell: creeping things, and flying foule. |
| 148:11 | Kings of the earth, and all people: Princes, and all Iudges of the earth. |
| 148:12 | Both young men and maidens: olde men and children. |
| 148:13 | Let them praise the Name of the Lord, for his Name alone is excellent: his glory is aboue the earth and heauen. |
| 148:14 | Hee also exalteth the horne of his people, the praise of all his Saints; euen of the children of Israel, a people neere vnto him. Praise ye the Lord. |
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.