Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 86:1 | A prayer of David. Incline thine eare, O Lord, and heare me: for I am poore and needy. |
| 86:2 | Preserue thou my soule, for I am mercifull: my God, saue thou thy seruant, that trusteth in thee. |
| 86:3 | Be mercifull vnto me, O Lord: for I crie vpon thee continually. |
| 86:4 | Reioyce the soule of thy seruant: for vnto thee, O Lord, doe I lift vp my soule. |
| 86:5 | For thou, Lord, art good and mercifull, and of great kindenes vnto all them, that call vpon thee. |
| 86:6 | Giue eare, Lord, vnto my prayer, and hearken to the voyce of my supplication. |
| 86:7 | In the day of my trouble I will call vpon thee: for thou hearest me. |
| 86:8 | Among the gods there is none like thee, O Lord, and there is none that can doe like thy workes. |
| 86:9 | All nations, whome thou hast made, shall come and worship before thee, O Lord, and shall glorifie thy Name. |
| 86:10 | For thou art great and doest wonderous things: thou art God alone. |
| 86:11 | Teach me thy way, O Lord, and I will walke in thy trueth: knit mine heart vnto thee, that I may feare thy Name. |
| 86:12 | I wil prayse thee, O Lord my God, with all mine heart: yea, I wil glorifie thy Name for euer. |
| 86:13 | For great is thy mercie toward me, and thou hast deliuered my soule from the lowest graue. |
| 86:14 | O God, the proude are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men haue sought my soule, and haue not set thee before them. |
| 86:15 | But thou, O Lord, art a pitifull God and mercifull, slowe to anger and great in kindenes and trueth. |
| 86:16 | Turne vnto me, and haue mercy vpon me: giue thy strength vnto thy seruant, and saue the sonne of thine handmayd. |
| 86:17 | Shew a token of thy goodnes towarde me, that they which hate me, may see it, and be ashamed, because thou, O Lord, hast holpen me and comforted me. |
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.