Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible (Oxford) 1769
| 6:1 | Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. |
| 6:2 | After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. |
| 6:3 | Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. |
| 6:4 | O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. |
| 6:5 | Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth. |
| 6:6 | For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. |
| 6:7 | But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. |
| 6:8 | Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood. |
| 6:9 | And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness. |
| 6:10 | I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. |
| 6:11 | Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people. |
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 This was effectively superseded by the 1769 Oxford edition, edited by Benjamin Blayney.