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King James Bible 1611
| 81:1 | [To the chiefe Musician vpon Gittith. A Psalme of Asaph.] Sing alowd vnto God our strength: make a ioyfull noise vnto the God of Iacob. |
| 81:2 | Take a Psalme, and bring hither the timbrell: the pleasant harpe with the psalterie. |
| 81:3 | Blow vp the trumpet in the new Moone: in the time appointed on our solemne feast day. |
| 81:4 | For this was a Statute for Israel: and a Law of the God of Iacob. |
| 81:5 | This he ordained in Ioseph for a testimonie, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language, that I vnderstood not. |
| 81:6 | I remoued his shoulder from the burden: his handes were deliuered from the pots. |
| 81:7 | Thou calledst in trouble, and I deliuered thee, I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proued thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah. |
| 81:8 | Heare, O my people, and I will testifie vnto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken vnto me: |
| 81:9 | There shall no strange God be in thee: neither shalt thou worship any strange God. |
| 81:10 | I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. |
| 81:11 | But my people would not hearken to my voice: and Israel would none of me. |
| 81:12 | So I gaue them vp vnto their owne hearts lust: and they walked in in their owne counsels. |
| 81:13 | O that my people had hearkned vnto me: and Israel had walked in my wayes! |
| 81:14 | I should soone haue subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their aduersaries. |
| 81:15 | The haters of the Lord should haue submitted themselues vnto him: but their time should haue endured for euer. |
| 81:16 | Hee should haue fedde them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honie out of the rocke, should I haue satisfied thee. |
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.