Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 48:1 | [A song, and Psalme for the sonnes of Korah.] Great is the Lord, and greatly to bee praised in the citie of our God, in the mountaine of his holinesse. |
| 48:2 | Beautifull for situation, the ioy of the whole earth is mout Sion, on the sides of the North, the citie of the great King. |
| 48:3 | God is knowen in her palaces for a refuge. |
| 48:4 | For loe, the kings were assembled: they passed by together. |
| 48:5 | They sawe it, and so they marueiled, they were troubled and hasted away. |
| 48:6 | Feare tooke holde vpon them there, and paine, as of a woman in trauaile. |
| 48:7 | Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an East wind. |
| 48:8 | As we haue heard, so haue wee seene in the citie of the Lord of hosts, in the citie of our God, God will establish it for euer. Selah, |
| 48:9 | Wee haue thought of thy louing kindnesse, O God, in the middest of thy Temple. |
| 48:10 | According to thy Name, O God, so is thy praise vnto the endes of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousnesse. |
| 48:11 | Let mount Sion reioyce, let the daughters of Iudah be glad, because of thy iudgements. |
| 48:12 | Walke about Sion, and goe round about her: tell the towres thereof. |
| 48:13 | Marke yee well her bulwarkes, consider her palaces; that yee may tell it to the generation following. |
| 48:14 | For this God is our God for euer, and euer; he will be our guide euen vnto death. |
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.