Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 108:1 | [A song or Psalme of Dauid.] O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing & giue praise, euen with my glory. |
| 108:2 | Awake psaltery and harpe: I my selfe will awake early. |
| 108:3 | I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: and I wil sing praises vnto thee among the nations. |
| 108:4 | For thy mercy is great aboue the heauens: and thy trueth reacheth vnto the clouds. |
| 108:5 | Be thou exalted, O God, aboue the heauens: and thy glory aboue all the earth: |
| 108:6 | That thy beloued may bee deliuered: saue with thy right hand, and answere me. |
| 108:7 | God hath spoken in his holinesse, I wil reioyce, I will diuide Shechem: and mete out the valley of Succoth. |
| 108:8 | Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine, Ephraim also is the strength of mine head: Iudah is my Lawgiuer. |
| 108:9 | Moab is my wash pot, ouer Edom wil I cast out my shooe: ouer Philistia will I triumph. |
| 108:10 | Who wil bring me into the strong citie? who will leade me into Edom? |
| 108:11 | Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast vs off? and wilt not thou, O God, goe foorth with our hostes? |
| 108:12 | Giue vs helpe from trouble: for vaine is the helpe of man. |
| 108:13 | Through God wee shall doe valiantly: for hee it is that shall tread downe our enemies. |
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.