Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 5:1 | Heare yee this, O priests, and hearken, ye house of Israel, and giue yee eare, O house of the king: for iudgement is toward you, because yee haue beene a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread vpon Tabor. |
| 5:2 | And the reuolters are profound to make slaughter, though I haue bene a rebuker of them all. |
| 5:3 | I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whordome, and Israel is defiled. |
| 5:4 | They will not frame their doings to turne vnto their God: for the spirit of whoredomes is in the midst of them, and they haue not knowen the Lord. |
| 5:5 | And the pride of Israel doth testifie to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity: Iudah also shall fall with them. |
| 5:6 | They shall goe with their flocks, and with their heards to seeke the Lord: but they shall not finde him, he hath withdrawen himselfe from them. |
| 5:7 | They haue dealt treacherously against the Lord: for they haue begotten strange children, now shall a moneth deuoure them with their portions. |
| 5:8 | Blow yee the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry alowd at Beth-auen: after thee, O Beniamin. |
| 5:9 | Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel haue I made knowen that which shall surely be. |
| 5:10 | The Princes of Iudah were like them that remooue the bound: therefore I will powre out my wrath vpon them like water. |
| 5:11 | Ephraim is oppressed, and broken in iudgement: because he willingly walked after the commandement. |
| 5:12 | Therefore wil I be vnto Ephraim as a moth: and to the house of Iudah as rottennesse. |
| 5:13 | When Ephraim saw his sicknesse, and Iudah saw his wound: then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Iareb; yet could he not heale you, nor cure you of your wound. |
| 5:14 | For I will bee vnto Ephraim as a Lion, and as a yong Lion to the house of Iudah: I, euen I wil teare and goe away: I will take away, and none shall rescue him. |
| 5:15 | I will goe and returne to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seeke my face: in their affliction they will seeke me early. |
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.