Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 17:1 | The prayer of Dauid. Heare the right, O Lord, consider my crye: hearken vnto my prayer of lips vnfained. |
| 17:2 | Let my sentence come forth from thy presence, and let thine eyes beholde equitie. |
| 17:3 | Thou hast prooued and visited mine heart in the night: thou hast tryed me, and foundest nothing: for I was purposed that my mouth should not offend. |
| 17:4 | Concerning the workes of men, by the wordes of thy lips I kept mee from the paths of the cruell man. |
| 17:5 | Stay my steps in thy paths, that my feete doe not slide. |
| 17:6 | I haue called vpon thee: surely thou wilt heare me, O God: incline thine eare to me, and hearken vnto my wordes. |
| 17:7 | Shewe thy marueilous mercies, thou that art the Sauiour of them that trust in thee, from such as resist thy right hand. |
| 17:8 | Keepe me as the apple of the eye: hide me vnder the shadowe of thy wings, |
| 17:9 | From the wicked that oppresse mee, from mine enemies, which compasse me round about for my soule. |
| 17:10 | They are inclosed in their owne fat, and they haue spoken proudely with their mouth. |
| 17:11 | They haue compassed vs now in our steps: they haue set their eyes to bring downe to the ground: |
| 17:12 | Like as a lyon that is greedy of pray, and as it were a lyons whelp lurking in secret places. |
| 17:13 | Vp Lord, disappoint him: cast him downe: deliuer my soule from the wicked with thy sworde, |
| 17:14 | From men by thine hand, O Lord, from men of the world, who haue their portion in this life, whose bellies thou fillest with thine hid treasure: their children haue ynough, and leaue the rest of their substance for their children. |
| 17:15 | But I will beholde thy face in righteousnes, and when I awake, I shalbe satisfied with thine image. |
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.