Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 76:1 | [To the chiefe musician on Neginoth, a Psalme or song of Asaph.] In Iudah is God knowen: his name is great in Israel. |
| 76:2 | In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Sion. |
| 76:3 | There brake he the arrowes of the bowe, the shield, and the sword, and the battell. Selah. |
| 76:4 | Thou art more glorious and excellent then the mountaines of pray. |
| 76:5 | The stout hearted are spoiled, they haue slept their sleepe: and none of the men of might haue found their hands. |
| 76:6 | At thy rebuke, O God of Iacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleepe. |
| 76:7 | Thou, euen thou art to be feared; and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry? |
| 76:8 | Thou didst cause iudgement to be heard from heauen: the earth feared and was still, |
| 76:9 | When God arose to iudgement, to saue all the meeke of the earth. Selah. |
| 76:10 | Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restraine. |
| 76:11 | Uowe, and pay vnto the Lord your God; let all that be round about him bring presents vnto him that ought to be feared. |
| 76:12 | Hee shall cut off the spirit of princes: hee is terrible to the kings of 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.