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King James Bible 1611
| 6:1 | [To the chiefe musician on Neginoth vpon Sheminith, A Psalme of Dauid.] O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. |
| 6:2 | Haue mercy vpon me, O Lord, for I am weake: O Lord heale mee, for my bones are vexed. |
| 6:3 | My soule is also sore vexed: but thou, O Lord, how long? |
| 6:4 | Returne, O Lord, deliuer my soule: oh saue mee, for thy mercies sake. |
| 6:5 | For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the graue who shall giue thee thankes? |
| 6:6 | I am weary with my groning, all the night make I my bed to swim: I water my couch with my teares. |
| 6:7 | Mine eie is consumed because of griefe; it waxeth olde because of all mine enemies. |
| 6:8 | Depart from me, all yee workers of iniquitie: for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping. |
| 6:9 | The Lord hath heard my supplication; the Lord will receiue my prayer. |
| 6:10 | Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them returne and be ashamed suddainly. |
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.