Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible (Oxford) 1769
| 141:1 | Lord, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee. |
| 141:2 | Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. |
| 141:3 | Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. |
| 141:4 | Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties. |
| 141:5 | Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities. |
| 141:6 | When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet. |
| 141:7 | Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth. |
| 141:8 | But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. |
| 141:9 | Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity. |
| 141:10 | Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape. |
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 This was effectively superseded by the 1769 Oxford edition, edited by Benjamin Blayney.