Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 46:1 | [To the chiefe Musician for the sonnes of Korah, a song vpon Alamoth.] God is our refuge and strength: a very present helpe in trouble. |
| 46:2 | Therfore will not we feare, though the earth be remoued: and though the mountaines be caried into the midst of the sea. |
| 46:3 | Though the waters thereof roare, and be troubled, though the mountaines shake with the swelling thereof. Selah. |
| 46:4 | There is a riuer, the streames wherof shall make glad the citie of God: the holy place of the Tabernacles of the most High. |
| 46:5 | God is in the midst of her: she shal not be moued; God shall helpe her, and that right early. |
| 46:6 | The heathen raged, the kingdomes were mooued: he vttered his voyce, the earth melted. |
| 46:7 | The Lord of hosts is with vs; the God of Iacob is our refuge. Selah. |
| 46:8 | Come, behold the workes of the Lord, what desolations hee hath made in the earth. |
| 46:9 | He maketh warres to cease vnto the end of the earth: hee breaketh the bow, and cutteth the speare in sunder, he burneth the chariot in the fire. |
| 46:10 | Be stil, and know that I am God: I will bee exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. |
| 46:11 | The Lord of hosts is with vs; the God of Iacob is our refuge. Selah. |
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.