Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible (Oxford) 1769
| 61:1 | Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. |
| 61:2 | From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. |
| 61:3 | For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. |
| 61:4 | I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah. |
| 61:5 | For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name. |
| 61:6 | Thou wilt prolong the king's life: and his years as many generations. |
| 61:7 | He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him. |
| 61:8 | So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows. |
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 This was effectively superseded by the 1769 Oxford edition, edited by Benjamin Blayney.