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King James Bible 1611
| 36:1 | [To the chiefe musician, A Psalme of Dauid, the seruant of the Lord.] The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no feare of God before his eyes. |
| 36:2 | For he flatterech himselfe in his owne eyes, vntill his iniquitie be found to be hatefull. |
| 36:3 | The words of his mouth are iniquitie and deceit: he hath left off to bee wise, and to doe good. |
| 36:4 | Hee deuiseth mischiefe vpon his bed, he setteth himselfe in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not euill. |
| 36:5 | Thy mercie (O Lord) is in the heauens; and thy faithfulnesse reacheth vnto the cloudes. |
| 36:6 | Thy righteousnesse is like the great mountaines; thy iudgements are a great deepe; O Lord, thou preseruest man and beast. |
| 36:7 | How excellent is thy louing kindnesse, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust vnder the shadowe of thy wings. |
| 36:8 | They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatnesse of thy house: and thou shalt make them drinke of the riuer of thy pleasures. |
| 36:9 | For with thee is the fountaine of life: in thy light shall we see light. |
| 36:10 | O continue thy louing kindnesse vnto them that know thee; and thy righteousnesse to the vpright in heart. |
| 36:11 | Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remoue me. |
| 36:12 | There are the workers of iniquitie fallen: they are cast downe, and shal not be able to rise. |
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.