Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 10:1 | Why standest thou farre off, O Lord, and hidest thee in due time, euen in affliction? |
| 10:2 | The wicked with pride doeth persecute the poore: let them be taken in the craftes that they haue imagined. |
| 10:3 | For the wicked hath made boast of his owne heartes desire, and the couetous blesseth himselfe: he contemneth the Lord. |
| 10:4 | The wicked is so proude that hee seeketh not for God: hee thinketh alwayes, There is no God. |
| 10:5 | His wayes alway prosper: thy iudgements are hie aboue his sight: therefore defieth he all his enemies. |
| 10:6 | He saith in his heart, I shall neuer be moued, nor be in danger. |
| 10:7 | His mouth is full of cursing and deceite and fraude: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie. |
| 10:8 | He lieth in waite in the villages: in the secret places doeth hee murder the innocent: his eyes are bent against the poore. |
| 10:9 | He lyeth in waite secretly, euen as a lyon in his denne: he lyeth in waite to spoyle the poore: he doeth spoyle the poore, when he draweth him into his net. |
| 10:10 | He croucheth and boweth: therefore heaps of the poore doe fall by his might. |
| 10:11 | He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth away his face, and will neuer see. |
| 10:12 | Arise, O Lord God: lift vp thine hande: forget not the poore. |
| 10:13 | Wherefore doeth the wicked contemne God? he saith in his heart, Thou wilt not regard. |
| 10:14 | Yet thou hast seene it: for thou beholdest mischiefe and wrong, that thou mayest take it into thine handes: the poore committeth himselfe vnto thee: for thou art the helper of the fatherlesse. |
| 10:15 | Breake thou the arme of the wicked and malicious: searche his wickednes, and thou shalt finde none. |
| 10:16 | The Lord is King for euer and euer: the heathen are destroyed foorth of his land. |
| 10:17 | Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the poore: thou preparest their heart: thou bendest thine eare to them, |
| 10:18 | To iudge the fatherlesse and poore, that earthly man cause to feare no more. |
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
The Geneva Bible is one of the most influential and historically significant translations of the Bible into English, preceding the King James translation by 51 years. It was the primary Bible of 16th century Protestantism and was the Bible used by William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, John Knox, John Donne, and John Bunyan. The language of the Geneva Bible was more forceful and vigorous and because of this, most readers strongly preferred this version at the time.
The Geneva Bible was produced by a group of English scholars who, fleeing from the reign of Queen Mary, had found refuge in Switzerland. During the reign of Queen Mary, no Bibles were printed in England, the English Bible was no longer used in churches and English Bibles already in churches were removed and burned. Mary was determined to return Britain to Roman Catholicism.
The first English Protestant to die during Mary's turbulent reign was John Rogers in 1555, who had been the editor of the Matthews Bible. At this time, hundreds of Protestants left England and headed for Geneva, a city which under the leadership of Calvin, had become the intellectual and spiritual capital of European Protestants.
One of these exiles was William Whittingham, a fellow of Christ Church at Oxford University, who had been a diplomat, a courtier, was much traveled and skilled in many languages including Greek and Hebrew. He eventually succeeded John Knox as the minister of the English congregation in Geneva. Whittingham went on to publish the 1560 Geneva Bible.
This version is significant because, it came with a variety of scriptural study guides and aids, which included verse citations that allow the reader to cross-reference one verse with numerous relevant verses in the rest of the Bible, introductions to each book of the Bible that acted to summarize all of the material that each book would cover, maps, tables, woodcut illustrations, indices, as well as other included features, all of which would eventually lead to the reputation of the Geneva Bible as history's very first study Bible.