Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 76:1 | To him that excelleth on Neginoth. A Psalme or song committed to Asaph. God is knowen in Iudah: his Name is great in Israel. |
| 76:2 | For in Shalem is his Tabernacle, and his dwelling in Zion. |
| 76:3 | There brake he the arrowes of the bowe, the shielde and the sword and the battell. Selah. |
| 76:4 | Thou art more bright and puissant, then the mountaines of pray. |
| 76:5 | The stout hearted are spoyled: they haue slept their sleepe, and all the men of strength haue not found their hands. |
| 76:6 | At thy rebuke, O God of Iaakob, both the chariot and horse are cast a sleepe. |
| 76:7 | Thou, euen thou art to be feared: and who shall stand in thy sight, when thou art angrie! |
| 76:8 | Thou didest cause thy iudgement to bee heard from heauen: therefore the earth feared and was still, |
| 76:9 | When thou, O God, arose to iudgement, to helpe all the meeke of the earth. Selah. |
| 76:10 | Surely the rage of man shall turne to thy praise: the remnant of the rage shalt thou restrayne. |
| 76:11 | Vowe and performe vnto the Lord your God, all ye that be rounde about him: let them bring presents vnto him that ought to be feared. |
| 76:12 | He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the Kings of the earth. |
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.