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King James Bible 1611
| 39:1 | [To the chiefe Musician, euen to Ieduthun, A Psalme of Dauid.] I sayd, I will take heede to my waies, that I sinne not with my tongue: I will keepe my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. |
| 39:2 | I was dumbe with silence, I held my peace, euen from good, and my sorrow was stirred. |
| 39:3 | My heart was hot within mee, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue. |
| 39:4 | Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my dayes, what it is: that I may know how fraile I am. |
| 39:5 | Behold, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily euery man at his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah. |
| 39:6 | Surely euery man walketh in a vaine shew: surely they are disquieted in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. |
| 39:7 | And now Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. |
| 39:8 | Deliuer me from all my transgressions: make mee not the reproch of the foolish. |
| 39:9 | I was dumbe, I opened not my mouth; because thou diddest it. |
| 39:10 | Remooue thy stroke away from mee: I am consumed by the blowe of thine hand. |
| 39:11 | When thou with rebukes doest correct man for iniquitie, thou makest his beautie to consume away like a moth: surely euery man is vanitie. Selah. |
| 39:12 | Heare my prayer, O Lord, and giue eare vnto my crie, hold not thy peace at my teares: for I am a straunger with thee, and a soiourner, as all my fathers were. |
| 39:13 | O spare me, that I may recouer strength: before I goe hence, and be no more. |
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.