Psalms 72:19 in 8 translations
7 distinct wordings, grouped by what each translation is trying to do. Differences from the King James text are marked below.
Early modern English
Seventeenth-century wording and sentence shape. Familiar, rhythmic, and the version most quotations you have heard are taken from.
And blessed his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled his glory; Amen, and Amen.
1611 / 1769 · Public domain · The Authorised Version, revised to the 1769 Blayney text. Includes the Apocrypha as printed in 1611.
Literal, word-for-word
Follows Hebrew and Greek word order and grammar closely, even where the English becomes stiff. Useful for seeing what the underlying sentence is doing.
And blessed be his glorious name for ever; And let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen, and Amen.
1901 · Public domain · The American revision of the English Revised Version. Deliberately literal, and the base text behind several later translations.
And blessed be his glorious name for ever! and let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen, and Amen.
1890 · Public domain · John Nelson Darby's translation, made for close study rather than public reading. Often exposes grammatical detail other versions smooth over.
And blessed is the Name of His honour to the age, And the whole earth is filled with His honour. Amen, and amen!
1898 · Public domain · The most extreme word-for-word rendering here, keeping Hebrew and Greek tense and word order at the cost of natural English.
Modern English
Contemporary vocabulary and punctuation, aiming for the sentence a present-day reader would write while staying close to the source.
Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen.
2000s · Public domain · A modern-English update of the ASV. Reads close to contemporary speech while staying in the literal tradition. Includes the Apocrypha.
These 2 editions word this verse identically.
And blest be forever his glorious name. Let all the earth be filled with his glory. Amen and Amen.
in progress · Public domain (CC0) · A modern open-licensed translation, still being completed. Some Old Testament books are not yet available.
Simplified English
Built from a deliberately small vocabulary so the sense stays reachable for new readers and non-native speakers. Trades nuance for clarity.
Praise to the glory of his noble name for ever; let all the earth be full of his glory. So be it, So be it.
1949 · Public domain · Written with roughly a thousand basic English words plus a small Bible vocabulary. The plainest reading available here.
What changes between the King James and modern wording
The modern rendering is printed below with every word that differs from the King James text marked, so the actual divergence is visible rather than left for you to spot.
blessed be his glorious name forever! let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
Word-for-word swaps
- and→forever
The verses either side
King James text. A comparison is easier to judge when you can see the sentence the verse sits inside.