Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 95:1 | O come, let vs sing vnto the Lord: let vs make a ioyfull noise to the rocke of our saluation. |
| 95:2 | Let vs come before his presence with thanksgiuing: and make a ioyfull noise vnto him with psalmes. |
| 95:3 | For the Lord is a great God: and a great king aboue all Gods. |
| 95:4 | In his hand are the deepe places of the earth: the strength of the hilles is his also. |
| 95:5 | The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. |
| 95:6 | O come, let vs worship and bowe downe: let vs kneele before the Lord our maker. |
| 95:7 | For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheepe of his hand: to day if yee will heare his voyce, |
| 95:8 | Harden not your heart, as in the prouocation: and as in the day of temptation, in the wildernesse: |
| 95:9 | When your fathers tempted me: proued me, and sawe my worke. |
| 95:10 | Fortie yeeres long was I grieued with this generation: and sayd, It is a people that doe erre in their heart: and they haue not knowen my wayes. |
| 95:11 | Unto whom I sware in my wrath: that they should not enter into my rest. |
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.