Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 77:1 | For the excellent musician Ieduthun. A Psalme committed to Asaph. My voyce came to God, when I cryed: my voyce came to God, and he heard me. |
| 77:2 | In the day of my trouble I sought ye Lord: my sore ranne and ceased not in the night: my soule refused comfort. |
| 77:3 | I did thinke vpon God, and was troubled: I praied, and my spirit was full of anguish. Selah. |
| 77:4 | Thou keepest mine eyes waking: I was astonied and could not speake. |
| 77:5 | Then I considered the daies of olde, and the yeeres of ancient time. |
| 77:6 | I called to remembrance my song in the night: I communed with mine owne heart, and my spirit searched diligently. |
| 77:7 | Will the Lord absent him selfe for euer? and will he shewe no more fauour? |
| 77:8 | Is his mercie cleane gone for euer? doeth his promise faile for euermore? |
| 77:9 | Hath God forgotten to be mercifull? hath he shut vp his teder mercies in displeasure? Selah. |
| 77:10 | And I sayde, This is my death: yet I remembred the yeeres of the right hand of the most High. |
| 77:11 | I remembred the workes of the Lord: certainely I remembred thy wonders of olde. |
| 77:12 | I did also meditate all thy woorkes, and did deuise of thine actes, saying, |
| 77:13 | Thy way, O God, is in the Sanctuarie: who is so great a God as our God! |
| 77:14 | Thou art ye God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy power among the people. |
| 77:15 | Thou hast redeemed thy people with thine arme, euen the sonnes of Iaakob and Ioseph. Selah. |
| 77:16 | The waters sawe thee, O God: the waters sawe thee, and were afraide: yea, the depths trembled. |
| 77:17 | The cloudes powred out water: the heauens gaue a sounde: yea, thine arrowes went abroade. |
| 77:18 | The voyce of thy thunder was rounde about: the lightnings lightened the worlde: the earth trembled and shooke. |
| 77:19 | Thy way is in the Sea, and thy paths in the great waters, and thy footesteps are not knowen. |
| 77:20 | Thou diddest leade thy people like sheepe by the hand of Moses and Aaron. |
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.