Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible (Oxford) 1769
| 143:1 | Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness. |
| 143:2 | And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. |
| 143:3 | For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead. |
| 143:4 | Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. |
| 143:5 | I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands. |
| 143:6 | I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah. |
| 143:7 | Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. |
| 143:8 | Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee. |
| 143:9 | Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me. |
| 143:10 | Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. |
| 143:11 | Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble. |
| 143:12 | And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant. |
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 This was effectively superseded by the 1769 Oxford edition, edited by Benjamin Blayney.