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King James Bible 1611
| 75:1 | [To the chiefe musician Al-taschith, A Psalme or song of Asaph.] Unto thee, O God, doe we giue thankes, vnto thee doe we giue thanks: for that thy name is nere, thy wonderous works declare. |
| 75:2 | When I shall receiue the congregation, I will iudge vprightly. |
| 75:3 | The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolued: I beare vp the pillars of it. Selah. |
| 75:4 | I said vnto the fooles, Deale not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not vp the horne. |
| 75:5 | Lift not vp your horne on high: speake not with a stiffe necke. |
| 75:6 | For promotion commeth neither from the East, nor from the West, nor from the South. |
| 75:7 | But God is the iudge: he putteth downe one, and setteth vp another. |
| 75:8 | For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full of mixture, and he powreth out of the same: but the dregges thereof all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drinke them. |
| 75:9 | But I will declare for euer; I will sing praises to the God of Iacob. |
| 75:10 | All the hornes of the wicked also will I cut off; but the hornes of the righteous shall be exalted. |
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.