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King James Bible 1611
| 63:1 | [A Psalme of Dauid, when hee was in the wildernesse of Iudah.] O God, thou art my God, earely will I seeke thee: my soule thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, in a drie and thirstie lande, where no water is: |
| 63:2 | To see thy power and thy glory, so as I haue seen thee in the Sanctuary. |
| 63:3 | Because thy louing kindnes is better then life: my lips shal praise thee. |
| 63:4 | Thus will I blesse thee, while I liue: I will lift vp my handes in thy Name. |
| 63:5 | My soule shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatnesse: and my mouth shall praise thee with ioyfull lips: |
| 63:6 | When I remember thee vpon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches. |
| 63:7 | Because thou hast bene my helpe; therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I reioyce. |
| 63:8 | My soule followeth hard after thee: thy right hand vpholdeth me. |
| 63:9 | But those that seeke my soule to destroy it, shall goe into the lower parts of the earth. |
| 63:10 | They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes. |
| 63:11 | But the King shal reioyce in God; euery one that sweareth by him shall glorie: but the mouth of them that speake lies, shall be stopped. |
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.