Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 21:1 | [To the chiefe Musician. A Psalme of Dauid.] The King shall ioy in thy strength, O Lord: and in thy saluation how greatly shall he reioyce? |
| 21:2 | Thou hast giuen him his hearts desire; and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah. |
| 21:3 | For thou preuentest him with the blessings of goodnesse: thou settest a Crowne of pure gold on his head. |
| 21:4 | He asked life of thee, and thou gauest it him, euen length of dayes for euer and euer. |
| 21:5 | His glory is great in thy saluation: honour and Maiestie hast thou layde vpon him. |
| 21:6 | For thou hast made him most blessed for euer: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance. |
| 21:7 | For the King trusteth in the Lord, and through the mercy of the most High, he shall not be moued. |
| 21:8 | Thine hand shall finde out all thine enemies, thy right hand shal finde out those that hate thee. |
| 21:9 | Thou shalt make them as a fiery ouen in the time of thine anger: the Lord shall swallow them vp in his wrath, and the fire shall deuoure them. |
| 21:10 | Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men. |
| 21:11 | For they intended euill against thee: they imagined a mischieuous deuice, which they are not able to performe. |
| 21:12 | Therefore shalt thou make them turne their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrowes vpon thy strings, against the face of them. |
| 21:13 | Be thou exalted, Lord, in thine owne strength: so will wee sing, aud praise thy power. |
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.