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King James Bible 1611
| 34:1 | [A Psalme of Dauid, when he changed his behauiour before Abimelech: who droue him away & he departed.] I will blesse the Lord at all times: his prayse shall continually bee in my mouth. |
| 34:2 | My soule shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall heare thereof, and be glad. |
| 34:3 | O magnifie the Lord with me, and let vs exalt his name together. |
| 34:4 | I sought the Lord, and hee heard me; and deliuered mee from all my feares. |
| 34:5 | They looked vnto him, and were lightned: and their faces were not ashamed. |
| 34:6 | This poore man cried, and the Lord heard him; and saued him out of all his troubles. |
| 34:7 | The Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that feare him, and deliuereth them. |
| 34:8 | O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. |
| 34:9 | O feare the Lord yee his Saints: for there is no want to them that feare him. |
| 34:10 | The young lyons doe lacke, and suffer hunger: but they that seeke the Lord, shall not want any good thing. |
| 34:11 | Come yee children, hearken vnto me: I will teach you the feare of the Lord. |
| 34:12 | What man is hee that desireth life; and loueth many dayes, that he may see good? |
| 34:13 | Keepe thy tongue from euill, and thy lippes from speaking guile. |
| 34:14 | Depart from euill, and doe good: seeke peace and pursue it. |
| 34:15 | The eies of the Lord are vpon the righteous; and his eares are open vnto their crie. |
| 34:16 | The face of the Lord is against them that doe euill; to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. |
| 34:17 | The righteous crie, and the Lord heareth; and deliuereth them out of all their troubles. |
| 34:18 | The Lord is nigh vnto them that are of a broken heart: and saueth such as be of a contrite spirit. |
| 34:19 | Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord deliuereth him out of them all. |
| 34:20 | He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken. |
| 34:21 | Euill shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shalbe desolate. |
| 34:22 | The Lord redeemech the soule of his seruants: and none of them that trust in him, shalbe desolate. |
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.