Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible (Oxford) 1769
| 2:1 | Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly, |
| 2:2 | And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. |
| 2:3 | For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. |
| 2:4 | Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. |
| 2:5 | The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. |
| 2:6 | I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God. |
| 2:7 | When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple. |
| 2:8 | They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. |
| 2:9 | But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD. |
| 2:10 | And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. |
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 This was effectively superseded by the 1769 Oxford edition, edited by Benjamin Blayney.