Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 52:1 | [To the chiefe Musician, Maschil, A Psalme of Dauid: When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said vnto him, Dauid is come to the house of Ahimelech.] Why boastest thou thy selfe in mischiefe, O mightie man? the goodnesse of God indureth continually. |
| 52:2 | Thy tongue deuiseth mischiefes: like a sharpe rasor, working deceitfully. |
| 52:3 | Thou louest euill more then good; and lying rather then to speake righteousnesse. Selah. |
| 52:4 | Thou louest all deuouring words, O thou deceitfull tongue. |
| 52:5 | God shall likewise destroy thee for euer, hee shall take thee away and plucke thee out of thy dwelling place, and roote thee out of the land of the liuing. Selah. |
| 52:6 | The righteous also shall see, and feare, and shall laugh at him. |
| 52:7 | Loe, this is the man that made not God his strength: but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himselfe in his wickednesse. |
| 52:8 | But I am like a greene oliue tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for euer and euer. |
| 52:9 | I will prayse thee for euer, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name, for it is good before thy Saints. |
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.