Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 41:1 | [To the chiefe Musician. A Psalme of Dauid.] Blessed is he that considereth the poore; the Lord will deliuer him in time of trouble. |
| 41:2 | The Lord will preserue him, and keepe him aliue, and he shall be blessed vpon the earth; and thou wilt not deliuer him vnto the will of his enemies. |
| 41:3 | The Lord will strengthen him vpon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sicknesse. |
| 41:4 | I sayd, Lord be mercifull vnto me, heale my soule, for I haue sinned against thee. |
| 41:5 | Mine enemies speake euill of me: when shall hee die, and his name perish? |
| 41:6 | And if hee come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquitie to it selfe, when he goeth abroad, he telleth it. |
| 41:7 | All that hate me, whisper together against me; against me doe they deuise my hurt. |
| 41:8 | An euill disease, say they, cleaueth fast vnto him; and now that he lyeth, he shall rise vp no more. |
| 41:9 | Yea mine owne familiar friend in whom I trusted, which did eate of my bread, hath lift vp his heele against me. |
| 41:10 | But thou, O Lord, be mercifull vnto mee, and raise me up vp that I may requite them. |
| 41:11 | By this I know that thou fauourest me: because mine enemie doeth not triumph ouer me. |
| 41:12 | And as for me, thou vpholdest me in mine integritie; and settest me before thy face for euer. |
| 41:13 | Blessed bee the Lord God of Israel, from euerlasting, and to euerlasting. Amen, and Amen. |
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.