Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 17:1 | My breath is corrupt, my dayes are extinct, the graues are ready for me. |
| 17:2 | Are there not mockers with mee? and doeth not mine eye continue in their prouocation? |
| 17:3 | Lay downe now, put me in a suretie with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? |
| 17:4 | For thou hast hid their heart from vnderstanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. |
| 17:5 | Hee that speaketh flattery to his friends, euen the eyes of his children shall faile. |
| 17:6 | He hath made me also a by-word of the people, and afore time I was as a tabret. |
| 17:7 | Mine eye also is dimme by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. |
| 17:8 | Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stirre vp himselfe against the hypocrite. |
| 17:9 | The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath cleane hands shalbe stronger, and stronger. |
| 17:10 | But as for you all, doe you returne, and come now, for I cannot find one wise man among you. |
| 17:11 | My dayes are past, my purposes are broken off, euen the thoughts of my heart: |
| 17:12 | They change the night into day: the light is short, because of darknes. |
| 17:13 | If I waite, the graue is mine house: I haue made my bedde in the darknesse. |
| 17:14 | I haue said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worme, Thou art my mother, and my sister. |
| 17:15 | And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? |
| 17:16 | They shall goe downe to the barres of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. |
King James Bible 1611
The commissioning of the King James Bible took place at a conference at the Hampton Court Palace in London England in 1604. When King James came to the throne he wanted unity and stability in the church and state, but was well aware that the diversity of his constituents had to be considered. There were the Papists who longed for the English church to return to the Roman Catholic fold and the Latin Vulgate. There were Puritans, loyal to the crown but wanting even more distance from Rome. The Puritans used the Geneva Bible which contained footnotes that the king regarded as seditious. The Traditionalists made up of Bishops of the Anglican Church wanted to retain the Bishops Bible.
The king commissioned a new English translation to be made by over fifty scholars representing the Puritans and Traditionalists. They took into consideration: the Tyndale New Testament, the Matthews Bible, the Great Bible and the Geneva Bible. The great revision of the Bible had begun. From 1605 to 1606 the scholars engaged in private research. From 1607 to 1609 the work was assembled. In 1610 the work went to press, and in 1611 the first of the huge (16 inch tall) pulpit folios known today as "The 1611 King James Bible" came off the printing press.