Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 84:1 | [To the chiefe musician vpon Gittith, a Psalme for the sonnes of Korah.] How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hostes! |
| 84:2 | My soule longeth, yea euen fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh cryeth out for the liuing God. |
| 84:3 | Yea the sparrowe hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for her selfe, where she may lay her young, euen thine altars, O Lord of hostes, my king and my God. |
| 84:4 | Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they wilbe still praysing thee. Selah. |
| 84:5 | Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee: in whose heart are the wayes of them: |
| 84:6 | Who passing through the valley of Baca, make it a well: the raine also filleth the pooles. |
| 84:7 | They goe from strength to strength: euery one of them in Zion appeareth before God. |
| 84:8 | O Lord God of hostes, heare my prayer: giue eare, O God of Iacob. Selah. |
| 84:9 | Behold, O God our shield: and looke vpon the face of thine anointed. |
| 84:10 | For a day in thy courts, is better then a thousand: I had rather be a doore keeper in the house of my God, then to dwell in the tents of wickednesse. |
| 84:11 | For the Lord God is a sunne and shield: the Lord will giue grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walke vprightly. |
| 84:12 | O Lord of hostes: blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. |
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.