Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 103:1 | A Psalme of David. My soule, prayse thou the Lord, and all that is within me, prayse his holy Name. |
| 103:2 | My soule, prayse thou the Lord, and forget not all his benefites. |
| 103:3 | Which forgiueth all thine iniquitie, and healeth all thine infirmities. |
| 103:4 | Which redeemeth thy life from the graue, and crowneth thee with mercy and compassions. |
| 103:5 | Which satisfieth thy mouth with good things: and thy youth is renued like the eagles. |
| 103:6 | The Lord executeth righteousnes and iudgement to all that are oppressed. |
| 103:7 | He made his wayes knowen vnto Moses, and his workes vnto the children of Israel. |
| 103:8 | The Lord is full of compassion and mercie, slowe to anger and of great kindnesse. |
| 103:9 | He will not alway chide, neither keepe his anger for euer. |
| 103:10 | He hath not dealt with vs after our sinnes, nor rewarded vs according to our iniquities. |
| 103:11 | For as high as the heauen is aboue ye earth, so great is his mercie toward them that feare him. |
| 103:12 | As farre as the East is from the West: so farre hath he remooued our sinnes from vs. |
| 103:13 | As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord compassion on them that feare him. |
| 103:14 | For he knoweth whereof we be made: he remembreth that we are but dust. |
| 103:15 | The dayes of man are as grasse: as a flowre of the fielde, so florisheth he. |
| 103:16 | For the winde goeth ouer it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall knowe it no more. |
| 103:17 | But the louing kindnesse of the Lord endureth for euer and euer vpon them that feare him, and his righteousnes vpon childrens children, |
| 103:18 | Vnto them that keepe his couenant, and thinke vpon his commandements to doe them. |
| 103:19 | The Lord hath prepared his throne in heauen, and his Kingdome ruleth ouer all. |
| 103:20 | Prayse the Lord, ye his Angels, that excell in strength, that doe his commandement in obeying the voyce of his worde. |
| 103:21 | Prayse the Lord, all ye his hostes, ye his seruants that doe his pleasure. |
| 103:22 | Prayse the Lord, all ye his workes, in all places of his dominion: my soule, prayse thou the Lord. |
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.