Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 30:1 | A Psalme or song of the dedication of the house of David. I will magnifie thee, O Lord: for thou hast exalted mee, and hast not made my foe to reioyce ouer me. |
| 30:2 | O Lord my God, I cried vnto thee, and thou hast restored me. |
| 30:3 | O Lord, thou hast brought vp my soule out of the graue: thou hast reuiued me from them that goe downe into the pit. |
| 30:4 | Sing praises vnto the Lord, ye his Saintes, and giue thankes before the remembrance of his Holinesse. |
| 30:5 | For he endureth but a while in his anger: but in his fauour is life: weeping may abide at euening, but ioy commeth in the morning. |
| 30:6 | And in my prosperitie I sayde, I shall neuer be moued. |
| 30:7 | For thou Lord of thy goodnes hadest made my mountaine to stande strong: but thou didest hide thy face, and I was troubled. |
| 30:8 | Then cried I vnto thee, O Lord, and praied to my Lord. |
| 30:9 | What profite is there in my blood, when I go downe to the pit? shall the dust giue thankes vnto thee? or shall it declare thy trueth? |
| 30:10 | Heare, O Lord, and haue mercy vpon me: Lord, be thou mine helper. |
| 30:11 | Thou hast turned my mourning into ioy: thou hast loosed my sacke and girded mee with gladnesse. |
| 30:12 | Therefore shall my tongue praise thee and not cease: O Lord my God, I will giue thankes vnto thee for 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.