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King James Bible 1611
| 47:1 | [To the chiefe musician, a psalme for the sonnes of Korah.] O Clap your hands (all ye people:) shoute vnto God with the voyce of triumph: |
| 47:2 | For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great King ouer all the earth. |
| 47:3 | Hee shall subdue the people vnder vs, and the nations vnder our feet. |
| 47:4 | He shall chuse our inheritance for vs, the excellencie of Iacob whom hee loued. Selah. |
| 47:5 | God is gone vp with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet. |
| 47:6 | Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises vnto our King, sing praises. |
| 47:7 | For God is the King of all the earth, sing ye praises with vnderstanding. |
| 47:8 | God reigneth ouer the heathen: God sitteth vpon the throne of his holinesse. |
| 47:9 | The princes of the people are gathered together, euen the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong vnto God: hee is greatly exalted. |
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.