Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 3:1 | A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet vpon Sigionoth. |
| 3:2 | O Lord, I haue heard thy speach, and was afraide: O Lord, reuiue thy worke in the midst of the yeeres, in the midst of the yeeres make knowen; in wrath remember mercy. |
| 3:3 | God came from Teman, and the holy on from mount Paran Selah. His glory couered the heauens and the earth was full of his praise. |
| 3:4 | And his brightnesse was as the light: he had hornes comming out of his hand, and there was the hiding of his power: |
| 3:5 | Before him went the pestilence, and burning coales went forth at his feete. |
| 3:6 | He stood and measured the earth: hee beheld and droue asunder the nations, and the euerlasting mountaines were scattered, the perpetuall hilles did bowe: his wayes are euerlasting. |
| 3:7 | I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtaines of the land of Midian did tremble. |
| 3:8 | Was the Lord displeased against the riuers? was thine anger against the riuers? was thy wrath against the Sea, that thou didst ride vpon thine horses, and thy charets of saluation? |
| 3:9 | Thy bow was made quite naked according to the oathes of the tribes, euen thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleaue the earth with riuers. |
| 3:10 | The mountaines sawe thee, and they trembled: the ouerflowing of the water passed by: the deepe vttered his voyce, and lift vp his hands on high. |
| 3:11 | The Sunne and Moone stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrowes they went, and at the shining of thy glittering speare. |
| 3:12 | Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger. |
| 3:13 | Thou wentest forth for the saluation of thy people, euen for saluation with thine Anointed, thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discouering the foundation vnto the necke. Selah. |
| 3:14 | Thou didst strike through with his staues the head of his villages: they came out as a whirle-winde to scatter me: their reioycing was as to deuoure the poore secretly. |
| 3:15 | Thou didst walke through the Sea with thine horses, through the heape of great waters. |
| 3:16 | When I heard, my belly trembled: my lips quiuered at the voice: rottennesse entred into my bones, and I trembled in my selfe, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when hee commeth vp vnto the people, he wil inuade them with his troupes. |
| 3:17 | Although the fig tree shall not blossome, neither shall fruite bee in the vines: the labour of the Oliue shall faile, and the fields shal yeeld no meat, the flocke shall be cut off from the folde, and there shalbe no heard in the stalles: |
| 3:18 | Yet I will reioyce in the Lord: I will ioy in the God of my saluation. |
| 3:19 | The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hindes feet, and he will make me to walke vpon mine high places. To the chiefe singer on my stringed instruments. |
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.