Textus Receptus Bibles
Julia E. Smith Translation 1876
| 96:1 | Sing ye to Jehovah a new song: sing ye to Jehovah all the earth. |
| 96:2 | Sing ye to Jehovah, praise his name; announce glad tidings; from day to day, his salvation. |
| 96:3 | Recount his glory among the nations, his wonders among all peoples. |
| 96:4 | For great is Jehovah, and being greatly praised: he is terrible above all gods. |
| 96:5 | For all the gods of the peoples are nothings: and Jehovah made the heavens: |
| 96:6 | Majesty and honor are before him; strength and beauty in his holy place. |
| 96:7 | Give to Jehovah, ye families of the peoples, give to Jehovah glory and strength. |
| 96:8 | Give to Jehovah the glory of his name: lift ye up a gift and come to his enclosures. |
| 96:9 | Worship ye to Jehovah in the ornaments of holiness: tremble ye from his face, all the earth. |
| 96:10 | Say ye among the nations, Jehovah reigned: also the habitable globe shall be prepared, it shall not be moved: he will judge the peoples in uprightness. |
| 96:11 | The heavens shall be glad, and., the earth shall rejoice: the sea shall be moved, and its fulness. |
| 96:12 | The field shall exult and all that is in it: then shall all the trees of the, forest rejoice. |
| 96:13 | Before the face of Jehovah; for he came, for he came to judge the earth: he will judge the habitable globe in justice, and the peoples in his faithfulness. |
Julia E. Smith Translation 1876
The Julia Evelina Smith Parker Translation is considered the first complete translation of the Bible into English by a woman. The Bible was titled The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally from the Original Tongues, and was published in 1876.
Julia Smith, of Glastonbury, Connecticut had a working knowledge of Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Her father had been a Congregationalist minister before he became a lawyer. Having read the Bible in its original languages, she set about creating her own translation, which she completed in 1855, after a number of drafts. The work is a strictly literal rendering, always translating a Greek or Hebrew word with the same word wherever possible. Smith accomplished this work on her own in the span of eight years (1847 to 1855). She had sought out no help in the venture, even writing, "I do not see that anybody can know more about it than I do." Smith's insistence on complete literalness, plus an effort to translate each original word with the same English word, combined with an odd notion of Hebrew tenses (often translating the Hebrew imperfect tense with the English future) results in a translation that is mechanical and often nonsensical. However, such a translation if overly literal might be valuable to consult in checking the meaning of some individual verse. One notable feature of this translation was the prominent use of the Divine Name, Jehovah, throughout the Old Testament of this Bible version.
In 1876, at 84 years of age some 21 years after completing her work, she finally sought publication. The publication costs ($4,000) were personally funded by Julia and her sister Abby Smith. The 1,000 copies printed were offered for $2.50 each, but her household auction in 1884 sold about 50 remaining copies.
The translation fell into obscurity as it was for the most part too literal and lacked any flow. For example, Jer. 22:23 was given as follows: "Thou dwelling in Lebanon, building as nest in the cedars, how being compassionated in pangs coming to thee the pain as in her bringing forth." However, the translation was the only Contemporary English translation out of the original languages available to English readers until the publication of The British Revised Version in 1881-1894.(The New testament was published in 1881, the Old in 1884, and the Apocrypha in 1894.) This makes it an invaluable Bible for its period.