Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 146:1 | Praise yee the Lord: prayse the Lord, O my soule. |
| 146:2 | While I liue, will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises vnto my God, while I haue any being. |
| 146:3 | Put not your trust in Princes: nor in the sonne of man, in whom there is no helpe. |
| 146:4 | His breath goeth foorth, he returneth to his earth: in that very day his thoughts perish. |
| 146:5 | Happy is he that hath the God of Iacob for his helpe: whose hope is in the Lord his God: |
| 146:6 | Which made heauen and earth, the Sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth trueth for euer: |
| 146:7 | Which executeth iudgement for the oppressed, which giueth food to the hungry: the Lord looseth the prisoners. |
| 146:8 | The Lord openeth the eyes of the blinde, the Lord raiseth them that are bowed downe: the Lord loueth the righteous. |
| 146:9 | The Lord preserueth the strangers, he relieueth the fatherlesse and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth vpside downe. |
| 146:10 | The Lord shall reigne for euer, euen thy God, O Zion, vnto all generations: Praise ye the Lord. |
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.