Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 149:1 | Praise yee the Lord: Sing vnto the Lord a new song: and his prayse in the Congregation of Saints. |
| 149:2 | Let Israel reioyce in him that made him: let the children of Zion bee ioyfull in their King. |
| 149:3 | Let them praise his Name in the dance: let them sing praises vnto him with the timbrell and harpe. |
| 149:4 | For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people: hee will beautifie the meeke with saluation. |
| 149:5 | Let the Saints be ioyfull in glory: let them sing aloude vpon their beddes. |
| 149:6 | Let the high praises of God be in their mouth: and a two edged sword in their hand: |
| 149:7 | To execute vengeance vpon the heathen: and punishments vpon the people. |
| 149:8 | To binde their Kings with chaines: and their Nobles with fetters of yron. |
| 149:9 | To execute vpon them the iudgement written: This honour haue all his Saints. 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.