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King James Bible 1611
| 1:1 | The burden of Nineueh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. |
| 1:2 | God is ielous, and the Lord reuengeth: the Lord reuengeth, and is furious, the Lord wil take vengeance on his aduersaries, and he reserueth wrath for his enemies. |
| 1:3 | The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlewind, and in the storme, and the clouds are the dust of his feete. |
| 1:4 | He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it drie, and drieth vp all the riuers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the floure of Lebanon languisheth. |
| 1:5 | The mountaines quake at him, and the hilles melt, and the earth is burnt at his presence, yea the world and all that dwell therein. |
| 1:6 | Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fiercenesse of his anger? his furie is powred out like fire, and the rocks are throwen downe by him. |
| 1:7 | The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble, & he knoweth them that trust in him. |
| 1:8 | But with an ouer-running flood he will make an vtter ende of the place thereof, and darkenesse shall pursue his enemies. |
| 1:9 | What doe ye imagine against the Lord ? he will make an vtter ende: affliction shall not rise vp the second time. |
| 1:10 | For while they be folden together as thornes, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be deuoured as stubble fully drie. |
| 1:11 | There is one come out of thee, that imagineth euill against the Lord: a wicked counseller. |
| 1:12 | Thus saith the Lord, Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut downe, when he shall passe through: though I haue afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more. |
| 1:13 | For now will I breake his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder. |
| 1:14 | And the Lord hath giuen a commandement concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sowen: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the grauen image, and the molten image, I wil make thy graue, for thou art vile. |
| 1:15 | Behold vpon the mountaines the feete of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace. O Iudah keepe thy solemne feasts, performe thy vowes: for the wicked shall no more passe through thee, he is vtterly cut off. |
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.