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King James Bible 1611
| 2:1 | Then Ionah prayed vnto the Lord his God, out of the fishes belly, |
| 2:2 | And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction vnto the Lord, and hee heard mee; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voyce. |
| 2:3 | For thou hadst cast mee into the deepe, in the middest of the Seas, and the floods compassed me about: all thy billowes & thy waues passed ouer me. |
| 2:4 | Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will looke againe toward thy holy Temple. |
| 2:5 | The waters compassed mee about euen to the soule; the depth closed mee round about; the weedes were wrapt about my head. |
| 2:6 | I went downe to the bottomes of the mountaines: the earth with her barres was about me for euer: yet hast thou brought vp my life from corruption, O Lord my God. |
| 2:7 | When my soule fainted within mee, I remembred the Lord, and my prayer came in vnto thee, into thine holy Temple. |
| 2:8 | They that obserue lying vanities, forsake their owne mercy. |
| 2:9 | But I wil sacrifice vnto thee with the voice of thanksgiuing, I will pay that that I haue vowed: saluation is of the Lord. |
| 2:10 | And the Lord spake vnto the fish, and it vomited out Ionah vpon the drie land. |
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.