Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 65:1 | [To the chiefe musician, a Psalme and song of Dauid.] Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and vnto thee shall the vowe be performed. |
| 65:2 | O thou that hearest prayer, vnto thee shall all flesh come. |
| 65:3 | Iniquities preuaile against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away. |
| 65:4 | Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causest to approach vnto thee, that hee may dwell in thy Courts: we shalbe satisfied with the goodnesse of thy house, euen of thy holy temple. |
| 65:5 | By terrible things in righteousnesse, wilt thou answere vs, O God of our saluation: who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are a farre off vpon the sea. |
| 65:6 | Which by his strength setteth fast the mountaines; being girded with power. |
| 65:7 | Which stilleth the noise of the seas; the noise of their waues, and the tumult of the people. |
| 65:8 | They also that dwell in the vttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning, and euening to reioyce. |
| 65:9 | Thou visitest the earth and waterest it: thou greatly inrichest it with the riuer of God which is full of water; thou preparest them corne, when thou hast so prouided for it. |
| 65:10 | Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrowes thereof: thou makest it soft with showres, thou blessest the springing thereof. |
| 65:11 | Thou crownest the yeere with thy goodnesse; and thy paths drop fatnesse. |
| 65:12 | They drop vpon the pastures of the wildernesse; and the little hilles reioyce on euery side. |
| 65:13 | The pastures are cloathed with flockes; the valleis also are couered ouer with corne; they shout for ioy, they also sing. |
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.