Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 4:1 | Heare the worde of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controuersie with the inhabitants of the lande, because there is no trueth nor mercie nor knowledge of God in the lande. |
| 4:2 | By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and whoring they breake out, and blood toucheth blood. |
| 4:3 | Therefore shall the land mourne, and euery one that dwelleth therein, shall be cut off, with the beasts of the fielde, and with the foules of the heauen, and also the fishes of the sea shall be taken away. |
| 4:4 | Yet let none rebuke, nor reproue another: for thy people are as they that rebuke the Priest. |
| 4:5 | Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the Prophet shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother. |
| 4:6 | My people are destroyed for lacke of knowledge: because thou hast refused knowledge, I will also refuse thee, that thou shalt be no Priest to me: and seeing thou hast forgotten the Lawe of thy God, I will also forget thy children. |
| 4:7 | As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I chaunge their glorie into shame. |
| 4:8 | They eate vp the sinnes of my people, and lift vp their mindes in their iniquitie. |
| 4:9 | And there shalbe like people, like Priest: for I wil visite their wayes vpon them, and reward them their deedes. |
| 4:10 | For they shall eate, and not haue ynough: they shall commit adulterie, and shall not increase, because they haue left off to take heede to ye Lord. |
| 4:11 | Whoredome, and wine, and newe wine take away their heart. |
| 4:12 | My people aske counsell at their stockes, and their staffe teacheth them: for the spirite of fornications hath caused them to erre, and they haue gone a whoring from vnder their God. |
| 4:13 | They sacrifice vpon the toppes of ye mountaines, and burne incense vpon the hilles vnder the okes, and the poplar tree, and the elme, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall be harlots, and your spouses shall be whores. |
| 4:14 | I will not visite your daughters when they are harlots: nor your spouses when they are whores: for they themselues are separated with harlots, and sacrifice with whores: therefore the people that doeth not vnderstand, shall fall. |
| 4:15 | Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Iudah sinne: come not ye vnto Gilgal, neither goe ye vp to Beth-auen, nor sweare, The Lord liueth. |
| 4:16 | For Israel is rebellious as an vnruly heyfer. Nowe the Lord will feede them as a lambe in a large place. |
| 4:17 | Ephraim is ioyned to idoles: let him alone. |
| 4:18 | Their drunkennes stinketh: they haue committed whoredome: their rulers loue to say with shame, Bring ye. |
| 4:19 | The winde hath bounde them vp in her wings, and they shalbe ashamed of their sacrifices. |
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.