Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 86:1 | [A prayer of Dauid.] Bow downe thine eare, O Lord, heare me: for I am poore & needy. |
| 86:2 | Preserue my soule, for I am holy: O thou my God, saue thy seruant, that trusteth in thee. |
| 86:3 | Be merciful vnto me, O Lord: for I cry vnto thee daily. |
| 86:4 | Reioyce the soule of thy seruant: for vnto thee (O Lord) doe I lift vp my soule. |
| 86:5 | For thou Lord art good, and ready to forgiue: and plenteous in mercie vnto all them that call vpon thee. |
| 86:6 | Giue eare O Lord, vnto my prayer: and attend to the voice of my supplications. |
| 86:7 | In the day of my trouble I will call vpon thee: for thou wilt answere mee. |
| 86:8 | Among the gods there is none like vnto thee (O Lord:) neither are there any workes like vnto thy workes. |
| 86:9 | All nations whom thou hast made, shall come and worship before thee, O Lord: and shall glorifie thy Name. |
| 86:10 | For thou art great, and doest wonderous things: thou art God alone. |
| 86:11 | Teach me thy way, O Lord, I will walke in thy trueth: vnite my heart to feare thy Name. |
| 86:12 | I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I wil glorifie thy Name for euermore. |
| 86:13 | For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast deliuered my soule from the lowest hell. |
| 86:14 | O God, the proud are risen against mee, and the assemblies of violent men haue sought after my soule: and haue not set thee before them. |
| 86:15 | But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious: long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and trueth. |
| 86:16 | O turne vnto me, and haue mercie vpon me, giue thy strength vnto thy seruant: and saue the sonne of thine handmaid. |
| 86:17 | Shew me a token for good, that they which hate me may see it, and bee ashamed: because thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comforted me. |
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.