Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 68:1 | To him that excelleth. A Psalme or song of David. God will arise, and his enemies shalbe scattered: they also that hate him, shall flee before him. |
| 68:2 | As the smoke vanisheth, so shalt thou driue them away: and as waxe melteth before the fire, so shall the wicked perish at the presence of God. |
| 68:3 | But the righteous shalbe glad, and reioyce before God: yea, they shall leape for ioye. |
| 68:4 | Sing vnto God, and sing prayses vnto his name: exalt him that rideth vpon the heauens, in his Name Iah, and reioyce before him. |
| 68:5 | He is a Father of the fatherlesse, and a Iudge of the widowes, euen God in his holy habitation. |
| 68:6 | God maketh the solitarie to dwell in families, and deliuereth them that were prisoners in stocks: but the rebellious shall dwell in a dry land. |
| 68:7 | O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people: when thou wentest through the wildernesse, (Selah) |
| 68:8 | The earth shooke, and the heauens dropped at the presence of this God: euen Sinai was moued at the presence of God, euen the God of Israel. |
| 68:9 | Thou, O God, sendest a gracious raine vpon thine inheritance, and thou didest refresh it when it was wearie. |
| 68:10 | Thy Congregation dwelled therein: for thou, O God, hast of thy goodnesse prepared it for the poore. |
| 68:11 | The Lord gaue matter to the women to tell of the great armie. |
| 68:12 | Kings of the armies did flee: they did flee, and she that remained in the house, deuided the spoyle. |
| 68:13 | Though ye haue lien among pots, yet shall ye be as the winges of a doue that is couered with siluer, and whose fethers are like yelowe golde. |
| 68:14 | When the Almightie scattered Kings in it, it was white as the snowe in Zalmon. |
| 68:15 | The mountaine of God is like the mountaine of Bashan: it is an high Mountaine, as mount Bashan. |
| 68:16 | Why leape ye, ye high mountaines? as for this Mountaine, God deliteth to dwell in it: yea, the Lord will dwell in it for euer. |
| 68:17 | The charets of God are twentie thousande thousand Angels, and the Lord is among them, as in the Sanctuarie of Sinai. |
| 68:18 | Thou art gone vp on high: thou hast led captiuitie captiue, and receiued giftes for men: yea, euen the rebellious hast thou led, that the Lord God might dwell there. |
| 68:19 | Praysed be the Lord, euen the God of our saluation, which ladeth vs dayly with benefites. Selah. |
| 68:20 | This is our God, euen the God that saueth vs: and to the Lord God belong the issues of death. |
| 68:21 | Surely God will wound the head of his enemies, and the hearie pate of him that walketh in his sinnes. |
| 68:22 | The Lord hath sayde, I will bring my people againe from Bashan: I will bring them againe from the depths of the Sea: |
| 68:23 | That thy foote may bee dipped in blood, and the tongue of thy dogges in the blood of the enemies, euen in it. |
| 68:24 | They haue seene, O God, thy goings, the goings of my God, and my King, which art in the Sanctuarie. |
| 68:25 | The singers went before, the players of instruments after: in the middes were the maides playing with timbrels. |
| 68:26 | Praise yee God in the assemblies, and the Lord, ye that are of the fountaine of Israel. |
| 68:27 | There was litle Beniamin with their ruler, and the princes of Iudah with their assemblie, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali. |
| 68:28 | Thy God hath appointed thy strength: stablish, O God, that, which thou hast wrought in vs, |
| 68:29 | Out of thy Temple vpon Ierusalem: and Kings shall bring presents vnto thee. |
| 68:30 | Destroy the company of the spearemen, and multitude of the mightie bulles with the calues of the people, that tread vnder feete pieces of siluer: scatter the people that delite in warre. |
| 68:31 | Then shall the princes come out of Egypt: Ethiopia shall hast to stretche her hands vnto God. |
| 68:32 | Sing vnto God, O yee kingdomes of the earth: sing praise vnto the Lord, (Selah) |
| 68:33 | To him that rideth vpon ye most high heauens, which were from the beginning: beholde, he will send out by his voice a mightie sound. |
| 68:34 | Ascribe the power to God: for his maiestie is vpon Israel, and his strength is in the cloudes. |
| 68:35 | O God, thou art terrible out of thine holie places: the God of Israel is hee that giueth strength and power vnto the people: praised be God. |
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.