Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible (Oxford) 1769
| 57:1 | Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast. |
| 57:2 | I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me. |
| 57:3 | He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth. |
| 57:4 | My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. |
| 57:5 | Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth. |
| 57:6 | They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah. |
| 57:7 | My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. |
| 57:8 | Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early. |
| 57:9 | I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations. |
| 57:10 | For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds. |
| 57:11 | Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the 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 This was effectively superseded by the 1769 Oxford edition, edited by Benjamin Blayney.