Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 145:1 | A Psalme of David of Praise. O my God and King, I will extold thee, and will blesse thy Name for euer and euer. |
| 145:2 | I will blesse thee dayly, and prayse thy Name for euer and euer. |
| 145:3 | Great is the Lord, and most worthy to be praysed, and his greatnes is incomprehensible. |
| 145:4 | Generation shall praise thy works vnto generation, and declare thy power. |
| 145:5 | I wil meditate of the beautie of thy glorious maiestie, and thy wonderfull workes, |
| 145:6 | And they shall speake of the power of thy fearefull actes, and I will declare thy greatnes. |
| 145:7 | They shall breake out into the mention of thy great goodnes, and shall sing aloude of thy righteousnesse. |
| 145:8 | The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great mercie. |
| 145:9 | The Lord is good to all, and his mercies are ouer all his workes. |
| 145:10 | All thy workes prayse thee, O Lord, and thy Saints blesse thee. |
| 145:11 | They shewe the glory of thy kingdome, and speake of thy power, |
| 145:12 | To cause his power to be knowen to the sonnes of men, and the glorious renoume of his kingdome. |
| 145:13 | Thy kingdome is an euerlasting kingdome, and thy dominion endureth throughout all ages. |
| 145:14 | The Lord vpholdeth all that fall, and lifteth vp all that are ready to fall. |
| 145:15 | The eyes of all waite vpon thee, and thou giuest them their meate in due season. |
| 145:16 | Thou openest thine hand, and fillest all things liuing of thy good pleasure. |
| 145:17 | The Lord is righteous in all his wayes, and holy in all his workes. |
| 145:18 | The Lord is neere vnto all that call vpon him: yea, to all that call vpon him in trueth. |
| 145:19 | He wil fulfill the desire of them that feare him: he also wil heare their cry, and wil saue them. |
| 145:20 | The Lord preserueth all them that loue him: but he will destroy all the wicked. |
| 145:21 | My mouth shall speake the prayse of the Lord, and all flesh shall blesse his holy Name for euer and euer. |
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.