Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 141:1 | [A Psalme of Dauid.] Lord, I crie vnto thee, make haste vnto mee: giue eare vnto my voice, when I crie vnto thee. |
| 141:2 | Let my prayer bee set foorth before thee as incense: and the lifting vp of my hands as the Euening sacrifice. |
| 141:3 | Set a watch (O Lord) before my mouth: keepe the doore of my lips. |
| 141:4 | Incline not my heart to any euill thing, to practise wicked workes with men that worke iniquitie: and let mee not eate of their dainties. |
| 141:5 | Let the righteous smite mee, it shalbe a kindnesse: and let him reprooue me, it shalbe an excellent oile, which shall not breake my head: for yet my prayer also shalbe in their calamities. |
| 141:6 | When their Iudges are ouerthrowen in stonie places, they shall heare my words, for they are sweet. |
| 141:7 | Our bones are scattered at the graues mouth: as when one cutteth and cleaueth wood vpon the earth. |
| 141:8 | But mine eyes are vnto thee, O God the Lord: in thee is my trust, leaue not my soule destitute. |
| 141:9 | Keepe mee from the snare which they haue laide for me, and the grinnes of the workers of iniquitie. |
| 141:10 | Let the wicked fall into their owne nets: whilest that I withal escape. |
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.