Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 9:1 | To him that excelleth vpon Muth Laben. A Psalme of Dauid. I will praise the Lord with my whole heart: I will speake of all thy marueilous workes. |
| 9:2 | I will bee glad, and reioyce in thee: I will sing praise to thy Name, O most High, |
| 9:3 | For that mine enemies are turned backe: they shall fall, and perish at thy presence. |
| 9:4 | For thou hast maintained my right and my cause: thou art set in the throne, and iudgest right. |
| 9:5 | Thou hast rebuked the heathen: thou hast destroyed the wicked: thou hast put out their name for euer and euer. |
| 9:6 | O enemie, destructions are come to a perpetual end, and thou hast destroyed the cities: their memoriall is perished with them. |
| 9:7 | But the Lord shall sit for euer: hee hath prepared his throne for iudgement. |
| 9:8 | For he shall iudge the worlde in righteousnes, and shall iudge the people with equitie. |
| 9:9 | The Lord also wil be a refuge for the poore, a refuge in due time, euen in affliction. |
| 9:10 | And they that know thy Name, will trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not failed them that seeke thee. |
| 9:11 | Sing praises to the Lord, which dwelleth in Zion: shewe the people his workes. |
| 9:12 | For whe he maketh inquisition for blood, hee remembreth it, and forgetteth not the complaint of the poore. |
| 9:13 | Haue mercie vpon mee, O Lord: consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate mee, thou that liftest me vp from the gates of death, |
| 9:14 | That I may shewe all thy praises within the gates of the daughter of Zion, and reioyce in thy saluation. |
| 9:15 | The heathen are sunken downe in the pit that they made: in the nette that they hid, is their foote taken. |
| 9:16 | The Lord is knowen by executing iudgement: the wicked is snared in the worke of his owne handes. Higgaion. Selah. |
| 9:17 | The wicked shall turne into hell, and all nations that forget God. |
| 9:18 | For the poore shall not bee alway forgotten: the hope of the afflicted shall not perish for euer. |
| 9:19 | Vp Lord: let not man preuaile: let the heathen be iudged in thy sight. |
| 9:20 | Put them in feare, O Lord, that the heathen may knowe that they are but men. 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.