Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 46:1 | To him that excelleth upon Alamoth a song committed to the sonnes of Korah. God is our hope and strength, and helpe in troubles, ready to be found. |
| 46:2 | Therefore will not we feare, though the earth be moued, and though the mountaines fall into the middes of the sea. |
| 46:3 | Though the waters thereof rage and be troubled, and the mountaines shake at the surges of the same. Selah, |
| 46:4 | Yet there is a Riuer, whose streames shall make glad the citie of God: euen the Sanctuarie of the Tabernacles of the most High. |
| 46:5 | God is in the middes of it: therefore shall it not be moued: God shall helpe it very earely. |
| 46:6 | When the nations raged, and the kingdomes were moued, God thundred, and the earth melted. |
| 46:7 | The Lord of hostes is with vs: the God of Iaakob is our refuge. Selah. |
| 46:8 | Come, and behold the workes of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth. |
| 46:9 | He maketh warres to cease vnto the endes of the world: he breaketh the bowe and cutteth the speare, and burneth the chariots with fire. |
| 46:10 | Be still and knowe that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, and I wil be exalted in the earth. |
| 46:11 | The Lord of hostes is with vs: the God of Iaakob is our refuge. Selah. |
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.