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King James Bible 1611
| 99:1 | The Lord raigneth, let the people tremble: he sitteth betweene the Cherubims, let the earth bee mooued. |
| 99:2 | The Lord is great in Zion: and he is high aboue all people. |
| 99:3 | Let them praise thy great and terrible Name: for it is holy. |
| 99:4 | The Kings strength also loueth iudgement, thou doest establish equitie: thou executest iudgement and righteousnes in Iacob. |
| 99:5 | Exalt yee the Lord our God, and worship at his footstoole: for he is holy. |
| 99:6 | Moses and Aaron among his Priests, and Samuel among them that call vpon his Name: they called vpon the Lord, and he answered them. |
| 99:7 | He spake vnto them in the cloudie pillar: they kept his Testimonies, and the Ordinance that he gaue them. |
| 99:8 | Thou answeredst them, O Lord our God: thou wast a God that forgauest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inuentions. |
| 99:9 | Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at his holy hill: for the Lord our God is holy. |
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.