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King James Bible 1611
| 85:1 | [To the chiefe musician, a Psalme for the sonnes of Korah.] Lord, thou hast bene fauourable vnto thy land: thou hast brought backe the captiuity of Iacob. |
| 85:2 | Thou hast forgiuen the iniquitie of thy people, thou hast couered all their sinne. Selah. |
| 85:3 | Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thy selfe from the fiercenesse of thine anger. |
| 85:4 | Turne vs, O God of our saluation: and cause thine anger towards vs to cease. |
| 85:5 | Wilt thou be angry with vs for euer? wilt thou drawe out thine anger to all generations? |
| 85:6 | Wilt thou not reuiue vs againe: that thy people may reioyce in thee? |
| 85:7 | Shew vs thy mercy, O Lord; and graunt vs thy saluation. |
| 85:8 | I will heare what God the Lord will speake: for hee will speake peace vnto his people, and to his Saints: but let them not turne againe to folly. |
| 85:9 | Surely his saluation is nigh them that feare him; that glory may dwell in our land. |
| 85:10 | Mercy and truth are met together: righteousnesse and peace haue kissed each other. |
| 85:11 | Truth shall spring out of the earth: and righteousnesse shall looke downe from heauen. |
| 85:12 | Yea the Lord shall giue that which is good: and our land shall yeeld her increase. |
| 85:13 | Righteousnes shall go before him: and shall set vs in the way of his steps. |
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.