Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 19:1 | Moreouer, take thou vp a lamentation for the princes of Israel, |
| 19:2 | And say, What is thy mother? a lyonesse: shee lay downe among lions, she nourished her whelpes among yong lions. |
| 19:3 | And shee brought vp one of her whelps: it became a yong lion, & it learned to catch the pray, it deuoured men. |
| 19:4 | The nations also heard of him, hee was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chaines vnto the land of Egypt. |
| 19:5 | Now when she saw that shee had waited, and her hope was lost, then she tooke another of her whelps, and made him a yong lion. |
| 19:6 | And he went vp and downe among the lions, he became a yong lion, and learned to catch the pray, and deuoured men. |
| 19:7 | And he knew there desolate palaces, and he laied waste their cities, and the land was desolate, and the fulnesse thereof by the noise of his roaring. |
| 19:8 | Then the nations set against him on euery side from the prouinces, and spread their net ouer him: he was taken in their pit. |
| 19:9 | And they put him in ward in chaines, and brought him to the king of Babylon, they brought him into holds, that his voyce should no more be heard vpon the mountaines of Israel. |
| 19:10 | Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters, she was fruitfull and full of branches by reason of many waters, |
| 19:11 | And she had strong rods for the scepters of them that beare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thicke branches, & she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches. |
| 19:12 | But she was plucked vp in fury: she was cast downe to the ground, and the East wind dryed vp her fruite: her strong rods were broken and withered, the fire consumed them. |
| 19:13 | And now she is planted in the wildernesse, in a dry and thirsty ground. |
| 19:14 | And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath deuoured her fruite, so that she hath no strong rod to be a scepter to rule: this is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation. |
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.