Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 135:1 | Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Name of the Lord: ye seruants of the Lord, praise him. |
| 135:2 | Ye that stande in the House of the Lord, and in the courtes of the House of our God, |
| 135:3 | Praise ye the Lord: for the Lord is good: sing praises vnto his Name: for it is a comely thing. |
| 135:4 | For the Lord hath chosen Iaakob to himselfe, and Israel for his chiefe treasure. |
| 135:5 | For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is aboue all gods. |
| 135:6 | Whatsoeuer pleased the Lord, that did hee in heauen and in earth, in the sea, and in all the depths. |
| 135:7 | He bringeth vp the cloudes from the ends of the earth, and maketh the lightnings with ye raine: he draweth foorth the winde out of his treasures. |
| 135:8 | He smote the first borne of Egypt both of man and beast. |
| 135:9 | He hath sent tokens and wonders into the middes of thee, O Egypt, vpon Pharaoh, and vpon all his seruants. |
| 135:10 | He smote many nations, and slew mightie Kings: |
| 135:11 | As Sihon King of the Amorites, and Og King of Bashan, and all the kingdomes of Canaan: |
| 135:12 | And gaue their lande for an inheritance, euen an inheritance vnto Israel his people. |
| 135:13 | Thy Name, O Lord, endureth for euer: O Lord, thy remembrance is from generation to generation. |
| 135:14 | For the Lord will iudge his people, and be pacified towardes his seruants. |
| 135:15 | The idoles of the heathen are siluer and golde, euen the worke of mens handes. |
| 135:16 | They haue a mouth, and speake not: they haue eyes and see not. |
| 135:17 | They haue eares and heare not, neither is there any breath in their mouth. |
| 135:18 | They that make them, are like vnto them: so are all that trust in them. |
| 135:19 | Praise the Lord, ye house of Israel: praise the Lord, ye house of Aaron. |
| 135:20 | Praise the Lord, ye house of Leui: ye that feare the Lord, praise the Lord. |
| 135:21 | Praised bee the Lord out of Zion, which dwelleth in Ierusalem. Praise ye 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.