Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 17:1 | [A prayer of Dauid.] Heare the right, O Lord, attend vnto my crie, giue eare vnto my prayer, that goeth not out of fained lips. |
| 17:2 | Let my sentence come forth from thy presence: let thine eyes beholde the things that are equall. |
| 17:3 | Thou hast prooued mine heart, thou hast visited me in the night, thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing: I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgresse. |
| 17:4 | Concerning the workes of men, by the word of thy lips, I haue kept me from the paths of the destroyer. |
| 17:5 | Hold vp my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not. |
| 17:6 | I haue called vpon thee, for thou wilt heare me, O God: incline thine eare vnto me, and heare my speach. |
| 17:7 | Shewe thy marueilous louing kindnesse, O thou that sauest by thy right hand, them which put their trust in thee, fro those that rise vp against them. |
| 17:8 | Keepe me as the apple of the eye: hide mee vnder the shadowe of thy wings, |
| 17:9 | From the wicked that oppresse me, from my deadly enemies, who compasse me about. |
| 17:10 | They are inclosed in their owne fat: with their mouth they speake proudly. |
| 17:11 | They haue now compassed vs in our steps: they haue set their eyes bowing downe to the earth: |
| 17:12 | Like as a lyon that is greedie of his pray, and as it were a yong lyon lurking in secret places. |
| 17:13 | Arise, O Lord, disappoint him, cast him downe: deliuer my soule from the wicked, which is thy sword: |
| 17:14 | From men which are thy hand, O Lord, from men of the world, which haue their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: They are full of children, and leaue the rest of their substance to their babes. |
| 17:15 | As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousnesse: I shall bee satisfied, when I awake, with thy likenesse. |
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.