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Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 45:1 | To him that excelleth on Shoshannim a song of love to give instruction, committed to the sonnes of Korah. Mine heart will vtter forth a good matter: I wil intreat in my workes of the King: my tongue is as the pen of a swift writer. |
| 45:2 | Thou art fayrer then the children of men: grace is powred in thy lips, because God hath blessed thee for euer. |
| 45:3 | Gird thy sword vpon thy thigh, O most mightie, to wit, thy worship and thy glory, |
| 45:4 | And prosper with thy glory: ride vpon the worde of trueth and of meekenes and of righteousnes: so thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. |
| 45:5 | Thine arrowes are sharpe to pearce the heart of the Kings enemies: therefore the people shall fall vnder thee. |
| 45:6 | Thy throne, O God, is for euer and euer: the scepter of thy kingdome is a scepter of righteousnesse. |
| 45:7 | Thou louest righteousnes, and hatest wickednesse, because God, euen thy God hath anoynted thee with the oyle of gladnes aboue thy fellowes. |
| 45:8 | All thy garments smelll of myrrhe and aloes, and cassia, when thou commest out of the yuorie palaces, where they haue made thee glad. |
| 45:9 | Kings daugthers were among thine honorable wiues: vpon thy right hand did stand the Queene in a vesture of golde of Ophir. |
| 45:10 | Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine eare: forget also thine owne people and thy fathers house. |
| 45:11 | So shall the King haue pleasure in thy beautie: for he is thy Lord, and reuerence thou him. |
| 45:12 | And the daughter of Tyrus with the rich of the people shall doe homage before thy face with presents. |
| 45:13 | The Kings daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of broydred golde. |
| 45:14 | She shalbe brought vnto the King in raiment of needle worke: the virgins that follow after her, and her companions shall be brought vnto thee. |
| 45:15 | With ioy and gladnes shall they be brought, and shall enter into the Kings palace. |
| 45:16 | In steade of thy fathers shall thy children be: thou shalt make them princes through all the earth. |
| 45:17 | I will make thy Name to be remembred through all generations: therefore shall the people giue thanks vnto thee world without ende. |
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.