Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 57:1 | The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and mercifull men are taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from the euill to come. |
| 57:2 | Hee shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his vprightnesse. |
| 57:3 | But draw neere hither, yee sonnes of the sorceresse, the seed of the adulterer, and the whore. |
| 57:4 | Against whom doe ye sport your selues? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seede of falsehood? |
| 57:5 | Inflaming your selues with idoles vnder euery greene tree, slaying the children in the valleys vnder the cliftes of the rockes? |
| 57:6 | Among the smooth stones of the streame is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: euen to them hast thou powred a drinke offering, thou hast offered a meate offering. Should I receiue comfort in these? |
| 57:7 | Upon a loftie and high mountaine hast thou set thy bed: euen thither wentest thou vp to offer sacrifice. |
| 57:8 | Behinde the doores also and the posts hast thou set vp thy remembrance: for thou hast discouered thy selfe to an other then mee, and art gone vp: thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made a couenant with them: thou louedst their bed where thou sawest it. |
| 57:9 | And thou wentest to the king with oyntment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers farre off, and didst debase thy selfe euen vnto hell. |
| 57:10 | Thou art wearied in the greatnesse of thy way; yet saydst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieued. |
| 57:11 | And of whom hast thou bene afraid or feared, that thou hast lyed, and hast not remembred me, nor layed it to thy heart? haue not I held my peace euen of old, and thou fearest me not? |
| 57:12 | I will declare thy righteousnes; and thy workes, for they shall not profit thee. |
| 57:13 | When thou criest, let thy companies deliuer thee: but the winde shall cary them all away; Uanitie shall take them: but hee that putteth his trust in me, shall possesse the land, and shall inherit my holy mountaine. |
| 57:14 | And shall say, Cast yee vp, cast yee vp; prepare the way, take vp the stumbling blocke out of the way of my people. |
| 57:15 | For thus saith the High and loftie One that inhabiteth eternitie, whose Name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place: with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to reuiue the spirit of the humble, and to reuiue the heart of the contrite ones. |
| 57:16 | For I will not contend for euer, neither will I be alwayes wroth: for the spirit should faile before me, and the soules which I haue made. |
| 57:17 | For the iniquitie of his couetousnesse was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and hee went on frowardly in the way of his heart. |
| 57:18 | I haue seene his wayes, and will heale him: I will leade him also, and restore comforts vnto him, and to his mourners. |
| 57:19 | I create the fruite of the lippes; peace, peace to him that is farre off, and to him that is neere, sayth the Lord, and I will heale him. |
| 57:20 | But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast vp myre and dirt. |
| 57:21 | There is no peace, sayth my God, to the wicked. |
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.