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King James Bible 1611
| 45:1 | [To the chiefe Musician vpon Shoshannim, for the sonnes of Korah, Maschil: a song of loues.] My heart is inditing a good matter: I speake of the things which I haue made, touching the King: my tongue is the penne of a ready writer. |
| 45:2 | Thou art fairer then the children of men: grace is powred into thy lips: therfore God hath blessed thee for euer. |
| 45:3 | Gird thy sword vpon thy thigh, O most mightie: with thy glory and thy maiestie. |
| 45:4 | And in thy maiestie ride prosperously, because of trueth and meekenes, and righteousnesse: and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. |
| 45:5 | Thine arrowes are sharpe in the heart of the Kings enemies; whereby the people fall vnder thee. |
| 45:6 | Thy throne (O God) is for euer and euer: the scepter of thy kingdome is a right scepter. |
| 45:7 | Thou louest righteousnesse, and hatest wickednesse: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oyle of gladnesse aboue thy fellowes. |
| 45:8 | All thy garments smell of myrrhe, and aloes, and cassia: out of the Iuorie palaces, whereby they haue made thee glad. |
| 45:9 | Kings daughters were among thy honourable women: vpon thy right hand did stand the Queene in golde of Ophir. |
| 45:10 | Hearken (O daughter) and consider, and incline thine eare; forget also thine owne people, and thy fathers house. |
| 45:11 | So shall the king greatly desire thy beautie: for he is thy Lord, and worship thou him. |
| 45:12 | And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift, euen the rich among the people shall intreate thy fauour. |
| 45:13 | The kings daughter is all glorious within; her clothing is of wrought gold. |
| 45:14 | She shall bee brought vnto the king in raiment of needle worke: the virgins her companions that followe her, shall be brought vnto thee. |
| 45:15 | With gladnesse and reioycing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the kings palace. |
| 45:16 | In stead of thy fathers shall bee thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth. |
| 45:17 | I will make thy name to bee remembred in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for euer and 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.