This 341-Year-Old Bible Reveals a Different Psalm 23

This 1685 King James Bible is bound with three separate books of Psalms: the standard King James Old Testament text, the 1682 Book of Common Prayer Psalter dating back to the 1539 Great Bible, and a metrical Psalter meant to be sung. All three render "The Lord is my shepherd" differently, and none of them were considered a mistake or a contradiction. In this investigation, we open all three to the exact same passage, Psalm 23, and trace the story back to Miles Coverdale, the exiled translator behind "therefore can I lack nothing," who later helped produce the very Geneva Bible whose "I shall not want" the King James translators would choose over his own words. Along the way: why King James called the Geneva Bible "the worst" English Bible over its marginal notes, how the Bishops' Bible connects the King James Version directly back to Coverdale's own translation lineage, and why English Christians used multiple faithful translations side by side for over a century without ever treating it as a threat to Scripture's reliability. This isn't a video about which translation of Psalm 23 is correct. It's about what faithful transmission of the Bible actually looked like before the era of a single standardized text, and what that history means for how we read differing translations today. Everything referenced in this video is independently searchable. Check the sources yourself rather than taking my word for it. For a deeper walk through how the Bible's text and translation history actually took shape, including the full argument this video only has room to summarize, visit GCLmedia.org and explore the Scriptorium. CHAPTERS 0:00 Has the Bible changed, or is its message still the same? 0:50 The modern assumption: different wording means something's wrong 1:30 Opening three books of Psalms to the same passage 2:29 Meet Dr. Gerald Lewis and the 1685 King James Bible 3:14 The question this Bible answers 4:03 Was this ever seen as a contradiction? 4:59 Reading Psalm 23 in all three translations 7:03 Miles Coverdale: exile, poverty, and the Great Bible 8:16 The Geneva Bible connection nobody expects 9:41 Real rivals, but not rival translations 10:34 Why King James chose Geneva's wording anyway 11:54 Three lights in one cathedral 12:44 Answering the hard question 13:48 Three traditions, one shepherd 14:12 What to look for in your own Bible 15:15 Where to go deeper #Psalm23 #KingJamesBible #BibleHistory