Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible (Oxford) 1769
| 124:1 | If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say; |
| 124:2 | If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us: |
| 124:3 | Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: |
| 124:4 | Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: |
| 124:5 | Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. |
| 124:6 | Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. |
| 124:7 | Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. |
| 124:8 | Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth. |
King James Bible (Oxford) 1769
By the mid-18th century the wide variation in the various modernized printed texts of the Authorized Version, combined with the notorious accumulation of misprints, had reached the proportion of a scandal, and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge both sought to produce an updated standard text. First of the two was the Cambridge edition of 1760, the culmination of twenty-years work by Francis Sawyer Parris, who died in May of that year. This 1760 edition was reprinted without change in 1762 and in John Baskerville's fine folio edition of 1763. This was effectively superseded by the 1769 Oxford edition, edited by Benjamin Blayney.