Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible (Oxford) 1769
| 138:1 | I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee. |
| 138:2 | I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. |
| 138:3 | In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul. |
| 138:4 | All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, when they hear the words of thy mouth. |
| 138:5 | Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD. |
| 138:6 | Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off. |
| 138:7 | Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me. |
| 138:8 | The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands. |
King James Bible (Oxford) 1769
By the mid-18th century the wide variation in the various modernized printed texts of the Authorized Version, combined with the notorious accumulation of misprints, had reached the proportion of a scandal, and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge both sought to produce an updated standard text. First of the two was the Cambridge edition of 1760, the culmination of twenty-years work by Francis Sawyer Parris, who died in May of that year. This 1760 edition was reprinted without change in 1762 and in John Baskerville's fine folio edition of 1763. This was effectively superseded by the 1769 Oxford edition, edited by Benjamin Blayney.