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King James Bible 1611
| 138:1 | [A Psalme of Dauid.] I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise vnto thee. |
| 138:2 | I will worship towards thy holy temple, and praise thy name, for thy louing kindnesse and for thy trueth: for thou hast magnified thy word aboue all thy name. |
| 138:3 | In the day when I cried, thou answeredst me: and strengthenedst me with strength in my soule. |
| 138:4 | All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O Lord: when they heare the words of thy mouth. |
| 138:5 | Yea they shall sing in the wayes of the Lord: for great is the glory of the Lord. |
| 138:6 | Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect vnto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afarre off. |
| 138:7 | Though I walke in the mids of trouble, thou wilt reuiue me, thou shalt stretch foorth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies: and thy right hand shall saue me. |
| 138:8 | The Lord wil perfit that which concerneth me: thy mercie, O Lord, endureth for euer: forsake not the works of thine owne hands. |
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.