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King James Bible 1611
| 28:1 | [A Psalme of Dauid.] Vnto thee will I cry, O Lord, my rocke, be not silent to mee: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that goe downe into the pit. |
| 28:2 | Heare the voyce of my supplications, when I cry vnto thee: when I lift vp my handes toward thy holy Oracle. |
| 28:3 | Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquitie: which speake peace to their neighbors, but mischiefe is in their hearts. |
| 28:4 | Giue them according to their deedes, and according to the wickednes of their endeuours: giue them after the worke of their handes, render to them their desert. |
| 28:5 | Because they regard not the workes of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shal destroy them, and not build them vp. |
| 28:6 | Blessed be the Lord, because he hath heard the voyce of my supplications. |
| 28:7 | The Lord is my strength, and my shield, my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly reioyceth, and with my song will I praise him. |
| 28:8 | The Lord is their strength, and hee is the sauing strength of his Anointed. |
| 28:9 | Saue thy people, and blesse thine inheritance, feede them also, and lift them vp for euer. |
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.