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King James Bible 1611
| 57:1 | [To the chiefe musician Al-taschith, Michtam of Dauid, when hee fled from Saul in the caue.] Be mercifull vnto mee, O God, be merciful vnto me, for my soule trusteth in thee: yea in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, vntill these calamities bee ouerpast. |
| 57:2 | I will crie vnto God most high: vnto God that perfourmeth all things for mee. |
| 57:3 | Hee shall send from heauen, and saue me from the reproch of him, that would swallow me vp; Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his trueth. |
| 57:4 | My soule is among lyons, and I lie euen among them that are set on fire: euen the sonnes of men, whose teeth are speares and arrowes, and their tongue a sharpe sword. |
| 57:5 | Be thou exalted, O God, aboue the heauens: let thy glory be aboue all the earth. |
| 57:6 | They haue prepared a net for my steppes, my soule is bowed downe: they haue digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselues. Selah. |
| 57:7 | My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing, and giue praise. |
| 57:8 | Awake vp my glory, awake psalterie and harpe; I my selfe will awake early. |
| 57:9 | I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people; I will sing vnto thee among the nations. |
| 57:10 | For thy mercy is great vnto the heauens, and thy trueth vnto the clouds. |
| 57:11 | Be thou exalted, O God, aboue the heauens: let thy glory be aboue all the earth. |
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.