Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 5:1 | [To the chiefe musician vpon Nehiloth, A Psalme of Dauid.] Giue eare to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation. |
| 5:2 | Hearken vnto the voice of my crie, my King, and my God: for vnto thee will I pray. |
| 5:3 | My voyce shalt thou heare in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer vnto thee, and will looke vp. |
| 5:4 | For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickednesse: neither shall euill dwell with thee. |
| 5:5 | The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest al workers of iniquity |
| 5:6 | Thou shalt destroy them that speake leasing: the Lord will abhorre the bloodie and deceitfull man. |
| 5:7 | But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy feare will I worship toward thy holy temple. |
| 5:8 | Lead me O Lord, in thy righteousnesse, because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face. |
| 5:9 | For there is no faithfulnes in their mouth, their inward part is very wickednesse: their throat is an open sepulchre, they flatter with their tongue. |
| 5:10 | Destroy thou them, O God, let them fall by their owne counsels: cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they haue rebelled against thee. |
| 5:11 | But let all those that put their trust in thee, reioyce: let them euer shout for ioy; because thou defendest them: let them also that loue thy name, be ioyfull in thee. |
| 5:12 | For thou, Lord, wilt blesse the righteous: with fauour wilt thou compasse him as with a shield. |
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.