Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 38:1 | A Psalme of Dauid for remembrance. O Lord, rebuke mee not in thine anger, neither chastise me in thy wrath. |
| 38:2 | For thine arrowes haue light vpon me, and thine hand lyeth vpon me. |
| 38:3 | There is nothing sound in my flesh, because of thine anger: neither is there rest in my bones because of my sinne. |
| 38:4 | For mine iniquities are gone ouer mine head, and as a weightie burden they are too heauie for me. |
| 38:5 | My woundes are putrified, and corrupt because of my foolishnes. |
| 38:6 | I am bowed, and crooked very sore: I goe mourning all the day. |
| 38:7 | For my reines are full of burning, and there is nothing sound in my flesh. |
| 38:8 | I am weakened and sore broken: I roare for the very griefe of mine heart. |
| 38:9 | Lord, I powre my whole desire before thee, and my sighing is not hid from thee. |
| 38:10 | Mine heart panteth: my strength faileth me, and the light of mine eyes, euen they are not mine owne. |
| 38:11 | My louers and my friends stand aside from my plague, and my kinsmen stand a farre off. |
| 38:12 | They also, that seeke after my life, laye snares, and they that go about to do me euil, talke wicked things and imagine deceite continually. |
| 38:13 | But I as a deafe man heard not, and am as a dumme man, which openeth not his mouth. |
| 38:14 | Thus am I as a man, that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofes. |
| 38:15 | For on thee, O Lord, do I waite: thou wilt heare me, my Lord, my God. |
| 38:16 | For I said, Heare me, least they reioyce ouer me: for when my foote slippeth, they extol themselues against me. |
| 38:17 | Surely I am ready to halte, and my sorow is euer before me. |
| 38:18 | When I declare my paine, and am sory for my sinne, |
| 38:19 | Then mine enemies are aliue and are mightie, and they that hate me wrongfully are many. |
| 38:20 | They also, that rewarde euill for good, are mine aduersaries, because I follow goodnesse. |
| 38:21 | Forsake me not, O Lord: be not thou farre from me, my God. |
| 38:22 | Haste thee to helpe mee, O my Lord, my saluation. |
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.