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King James Bible 1611
| 51:1 | [To the chiefe Musician. A Psalme of Dauid, when Nathan the Prophet came vnto him, after hee had gone in to Bath-sheba.] Haue mercie vpon mee, O God, according to thy louing kindnesse: according vnto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. |
| 51:2 | Wash mee throughly from mine iniquitie, and clense me from my sinne. |
| 51:3 | For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sinne is euer before mee. |
| 51:4 | Against thee, thee onely haue I sinned, and done this euill in thy sight: that thou mightest bee iustified when thou speakest, and be cleare when thou iudgest. |
| 51:5 | Behold, I was shapen in iniquitie: and in sinne did my mother conceiue me. |
| 51:6 | Behold, thou desirest trueth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisedome. |
| 51:7 | Purge me with hyssope, and I shalbe cleane: wash me, and I shall be whiter then snow. |
| 51:8 | Make mee to heare ioy and gladnesse: that the bones which thou hast broken, may reioyce. |
| 51:9 | Hide thy face from my sinnes; and blot out all mine iniquities. |
| 51:10 | Create in mee a cleane heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within mee. |
| 51:11 | Cast mee not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy Spirit from me. |
| 51:12 | Restore vnto me the ioy of thy saluation: and vphold mee with thy free Spirit. |
| 51:13 | Then will I teach transgressours thy wayes, and sinners shalbe conuerted vnto thee. |
| 51:14 | Deliuer mee from blood-guiltinesse, O God, thou God of my saluation: and my tongue shall sing alowd of thy righteousnesse. |
| 51:15 | O Lord open thou my lips, and my mouth shall shew foorth thy praise. |
| 51:16 | For thou desirest not sacrifice: else would I giue it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. |
| 51:17 | The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. |
| 51:18 | Doe good in thy good pleasure vnto Sion: build thou the walles of Ierusalem. |
| 51:19 | Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousnesse, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullockes vpon thine altar. |
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.