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King James Bible 1611
| 12:1 | [To the chiefe Musician vpon Sheminith. A Psalme of Dauid.] Helpe Lord, for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithfull faile from among the children of men. |
| 12:2 | They speake vanitie euery one with his neighbour: with flattering lips, and with a double heart do they speake. |
| 12:3 | The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things. |
| 12:4 | Who haue said, with our tongue wil we preuaile, our lips are our owne: who is Lord ouer vs? |
| 12:5 | For the oppression of the poore, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise (saith the Lord,) I will set him in safetie from him that puffeth at him. |
| 12:6 | The wordes of the Lord are pure wordes: as siluer tried in a fornace of earth purified seuen times. |
| 12:7 | Thou shalt keepe them, (O Lord,) thou shalt preserue them, from this generation for euer. |
| 12:8 | The wicked walke on euery side, when the vilest men are exalted. |
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.