Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible (Oxford) 1769
| 137:1 | By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. |
| 137:2 | We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. |
| 137:3 | For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. |
| 137:4 | How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land? |
| 137:5 | If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. |
| 137:6 | If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. |
| 137:7 | Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, Rase it, even to the foundation thereof. |
| 137:8 | O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. |
| 137:9 | Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. |
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 This was effectively superseded by the 1769 Oxford edition, edited by Benjamin Blayney.