Psalm 1
1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. 4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
Psalm 2
1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, 3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. 4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. 5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. 6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. 7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. 8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. 9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. 10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. 11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. 12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Psalm 3
1
LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up
against me. 2 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him
in God. Selah. 3 But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the
lifter up of mine head. 4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard
me out of his holy hill. Selah. 5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for
the LORD sustained me. 6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people,
that have set themselves against me round about. 7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O
my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou
hast broken the teeth of the ungodly. 8 Salvation belongeth unto the LORD:
thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.
Psalm
4
1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer. 2 O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah. 3 But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him. 4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah. 5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD. 6 There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. 7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased. 8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
Psalm 5
1
To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words,
O LORD, consider my meditation. 2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King,
and my God: for unto thee will I pray. 3 My voice shalt thou hear in the
morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will
look up. 4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither
shall evil dwell with thee. 5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou
hatest all workers of iniquity. 6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak
leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
7 But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy:
and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple. 8 Lead me, O LORD, in
thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my
face.
9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very
wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their
tongue. 10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels;
cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have
rebelled against thee. 11 But let all those that put their trust in thee
rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them
also that love thy name be joyful in thee.
12 For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass
him as with a shield.
Psalm 6
1 To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David. O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. 3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long? 4 Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake. 5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks? 6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. 7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies. 8 Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping. 9 The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer. 10 Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.
Psalm 7
1 Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the LORD, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite. O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me: 2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver. 3 O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands; 4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:) 5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah. 6 Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded. 7 So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high. 8 The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me. 9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins. 10 My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart. 11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day. 12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. 13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors. 14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. 15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. 16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate. 17 I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.
Psalm 8
1 O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. 2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. 3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; 4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. 6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: 7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; 8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. 9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
Psalm 9
1 I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works. 2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High. 3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence. 4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.
5
Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put
out their name for ever and ever. 6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a
perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished
with them.7 But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne
for judgment. 8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall
minister judgment to the people in uprightness. 9 The LORD also will be a
refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. 10 And they that
know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not
forsaken them that seek thee. 11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in
Zion: declare among the people his doings. 12 When he maketh inquisition for
blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble. 13 Have
mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate
me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death: 14 That I may shew
forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in
thy salvation. 15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in
the net which they hid is their own foot taken. 16 The LORD is known by the
judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own
hands. Higgaion. Selah. 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the
nations that forget God. 18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the
expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever. 19 Arise, O LORD; let not
man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight. 20 Put them in fear, O
LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
Psalm
10
1Why standest thou
afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? 2The wicked
in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that
they have imagined. 3For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and
blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. 4The wicked, through the
pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his
thoughts. 5His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of
his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them. 6He hath said in his
heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity. 7His mouth
is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and
vanity. 8He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret
places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the
poor. 9He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to
catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
10He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong
ones. 11He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face;
he will never see it.
12Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
13Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou
wilt not require it. 14Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and
spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee;
thou art the helper of the fatherless. 15Break thou the arm of the wicked
and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none. 16The LORD is
King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land. 17LORD,
thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart,
thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: 18To judge the fatherless and the
oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
Psalm 11
1 In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain? 2For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. 3If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? 4The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men. 5The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. 6Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup. 7For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
Psalm 12
1 Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among
the children of men. 2They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with
flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. 3The LORD shall cut
off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things: 4Who
have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is
lord over us? 5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy,
now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that
puffeth at him. 6The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a
furnace of earth, purified seven times. 7Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou
shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. 8The wicked walk on every
side, when the vilest men are exalted.
Psalms 13
1 How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide
thy face from me? 2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow
in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? 3 Consider
and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of
death; 4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that
trouble me rejoice when I am moved. 5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my
heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. 6 I will sing unto the LORD, because
he hath dealt bountifully with me.
Psalms 14
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they
have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. 2 The LORD looked
down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did
understand, and seek God. 3 They are all gone aside, they are all together
become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 4 Have all the
workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread,
and call not upon the LORD. 5 There were they in great fear: for God is in
the generation of the righteous. 6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor,
because the LORD is his refuge. 7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come
out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob
shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
Psalms 15
1 Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the
truth in his heart. 3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil
to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour. 4 In whose
eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD.
He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not. 5 He that putteth not
out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that
doeth these things shall never be moved.
Psalms 16
1 Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust. 2 O my soul, thou hast
said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee; 3
But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is
all my delight. 4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after
another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up
their names into my lips. 5 The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and
of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. 6 The lines are fallen unto me in
pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. 7 I will bless the LORD, who
hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons. 8 I
have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall
not be moved. 9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh
also shall rest in hope. 10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither
wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 11 Thou wilt shew me the
path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are
pleasures for evermore.
Psalms 17
1 Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that
goeth not out of feigned lips. 2 Let my sentence come forth from thy
presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal. 3 Thou hast
proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me,
and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress. 4
Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the
paths of the destroyer. 5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps
slip not. 6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline
thine ear unto me, and hear my speech. 7 Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness,
O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from
those that rise up against them. 8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me
under the shadow of thy wings, 9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my
deadly enemies, who compass me about. 10 They are inclosed in their own fat:
with their mouth they speak proudly. 11 They have now compassed us in our
steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth; 12 Like as a lion
that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret
places. 13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul
from the wicked, which is thy sword: 14 From men which are thy hand, O LORD,
from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose
belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and
leave the rest of their substance to their babes. 15 As for me, I will
behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with
thy likeness.
Psalms 18
1 I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. 2 The LORD is my rock, and my
fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my
buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. 3 I will call upon
the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine
enemies. 4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men
made me afraid. 5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of
death prevented me. 6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto
my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him,
even into his ears. 7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations
also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. 8 There went
up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals
were kindled by it. 9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness
was under his feet. 10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did
fly upon the wings of the wind. 11 He made darkness his secret place; his
pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. 12
At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones
and coals of fire. 13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the
Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire. 14 Yea, he sent out
his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited
them. 15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the
world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of
thy nostrils. 16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many
waters. 17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated
me: for they were too strong for me. 18 They prevented me in the day of my
calamity: but the LORD was my stay. 19 He brought me forth also into a large
place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me. 20 The LORD rewarded me
according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath
he recompensed me. 21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not
wickedly departed from my God. 22 For all his judgments were before me, and
I did not put away his statutes from me. 23 I was also upright before him,
and I kept myself from mine iniquity. 24 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed
me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in
his eyesight. 25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an
upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright; 26 With the pure thou wilt shew
thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward. 27 For
thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks. 28 For
thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness. 29
For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a
wall. 30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he
is a buckler to all those that trust in him. 31 For who is God save the
LORD? or who is a rock save our God? 32 It is God that girdeth me with
strength, and maketh my way perfect. 33 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet,
and setteth me upon my high places. 34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that
a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. 35 Thou hast also given me the shield
of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness
hath made me great. 36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet
did not slip. 37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither
did I turn again till they were consumed. 38 I have wounded them that they
were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet. 39 For thou hast
girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those
that rose up against me. 40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine
enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me. 41 They cried, but there
was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not. 42 Then
did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as
the dirt in the streets. 43 Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the
people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have
not known shall serve me. 44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me:
the strangers shall submit themselves unto me. 45 The strangers shall fade
away, and be afraid out of their close places. 46 The LORD liveth; and
blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted. 47 It is God
that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me. 48 He delivereth me from
mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me:
thou hast delivered me from the violent man. 49 Therefore will I give thanks
unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name. 50
Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed,
to David, and to his seed for evermore.
Psalms 19
1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his
handywork. 2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth
knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not
heard. 4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to
the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, 5 Which
is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man
to run a race. 6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his
circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the
LORD is sure, making wise the simple. 8 The statutes of the LORD are right,
rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the
eyes. 9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of
the LORD are true and righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they
than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the
honeycomb. 11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them
there is great reward. 12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me
from secret faults. 13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins;
let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be
innocent from the great transgression. 14 Let the words of my mouth, and the
meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and
my redeemer.
Psalms 20
1 The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob
defend thee; 2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of
Zion; 3 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah. 4
Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel. 5 We
will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our
banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions. 6 Now know I that the LORD
saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving
strength of his right hand. 7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses:
but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. 8 They are brought down
and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright. 9 Save, LORD: let the king
hear us when we call.
Psalms 21
1 The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how
greatly shall he rejoice! 2 Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast
not withholden the request of his lips. Selah. 3 For thou preventest him
with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his
head. 4 He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days
for ever and ever. 5 His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty
hast thou laid upon him. 6 For thou hast made him most blessed for ever:
thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance. 7 For the king
trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be
moved. 8 Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall
find out those that hate thee. 9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the
time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the
fire shall devour them. 10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth,
and their seed from among the children of men. 11 For they intended evil
against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to
perform. 12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt
make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them. 13 Be
thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy
power.
Psalms 22
1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from
helping me, and from the words of my roaring? 2 O my God, I cry in the day
time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. 3
But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. 4 Our
fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. 5 They
cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not
confounded. 6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised
of the people. 7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the
lip, they shake the head, saying, 8 He trusted on the LORD that he would
deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. 9 But thou art
he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my
mother's breasts. 10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God
from my mother's belly. 11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for
there is none to help. 12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of
Bashan have beset me round. 13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a
ravening and a roaring lion. 14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones
are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my
bowels. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth
to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. 16 For dogs
have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced
my hands and my feet. 17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon
me. 18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. 19
But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. 21
Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the
unicorns. 22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the
congregation will I praise thee. 23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all
ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;
neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows
before them that fear him. 26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they
shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever. 27 All
the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the
kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. 28 For the kingdom is the
LORD's: and he is the governor among the nations. 29 All they that be fat
upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall
bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul. 30 A seed shall serve
him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. 31 They shall come,
and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that
he hath done this.
Psalms 23
1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He maketh me to lie down in
green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. 3 He restoreth my
soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 4
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no
evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. 5 Thou
preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest
my head with oil; my cup runneth over. 6 Surely goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD
for ever.
Psalms 24
1 The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that
dwell therein. 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it
upon the floods. 3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall
stand in his holy place? 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who
hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. 5 He shall
receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his
salvation. 6 This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy
face, O Jacob. Selah. 7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up,
ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. 8 Who is this
King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. 9 Lift
up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the
King of glory shall come in. 10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of
hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.
Psalms 25
1 Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul. 2 O my God, I trust in thee: let
me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. 3 Yea, let none
that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without
cause. 4 Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths. 5 Lead me in thy
truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait
all the day. 6 Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses;
for they have been ever of old. 7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my
transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness'
sake, O LORD. 8 Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach
sinners in the way. 9 The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will
he teach his way. 10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such
as keep his covenant and his testimonies. 11 For thy name's sake, O LORD,
pardon mine iniquity; for it is great. 12 What man is he that feareth the
LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose. 13 His soul shall
dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth. 14 The secret of the
LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant. 15 Mine
eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. 16
Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my
distresses. 18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my
sins. 19 Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with
cruel hatred. 20 O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for
I put my trust in thee. 21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I
wait on thee. 22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.
Psalms 26
1 Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also
in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide. 2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove
me; try my reins and my heart. 3 For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes:
and I have walked in thy truth. 4 I have not sat with vain persons, neither
will I go in with dissemblers. 5 I have hated the congregation of evil
doers; and will not sit with the wicked. 6 I will wash mine hands in
innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD: 7 That I may publish with
the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works. 8 LORD, I
have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour
dwelleth. 9 Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men: 10
In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes. 11 But
as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto
me. 12 My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless
the LORD.
Psalms 27
1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the
strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When the wicked, even mine
enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and
fell. 3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear:
though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. 4 One thing
have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the
house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD,
and to enquire in his temple. 5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me
in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall
set me up upon a rock. 6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine
enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices
of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD. 7 Hear, O LORD,
when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. 8 When
thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will
I seek. 9 Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger:
thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my
salvation. 10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will
take me up. 11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path,
because of mine enemies. 12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine
enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe
out cruelty. 13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of
the LORD in the land of the living. 14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage,
and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Psalms 28
1 Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou
be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. 2 Hear the
voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands
toward thy holy oracle. 3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the
workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is
in their hearts. 4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the
wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands;
render to them their desert. 5 Because they regard not the works of the
LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build
them up. 6 Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my
supplications. 7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in
him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song
will I praise him. 8 The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving
strength of his anointed. 9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance:
feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
Psalms 29
1 Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength. 2
Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the
beauty of holiness. 3 The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of
glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters. 4 The voice of the LORD is
powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty. 5 The voice of the LORD
breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon. 6 He
maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young
unicorn. 7 The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire. 8 The voice of
the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.
9 The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the
forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory. 10 The LORD
sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever. 11 The LORD
will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with
peace.
Psalms 30
1 I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made
my foes to rejoice over me. 2 O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou
hast healed me. 3 O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou
hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. 4 Sing unto the
LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his
holiness. 5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life:
weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. 6 And in my
prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. 7 LORD, by thy favour thou hast
made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was
troubled. 8 I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.
9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the
dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? 10 Hear, O LORD, and have
mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper. 11 Thou hast turned for me my
mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with
gladness; 12 To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be
silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
Psalms 31
1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in
thy righteousness. 2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou
my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me. 3 For thou art my rock
and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me. 4 Pull
me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my
strength. 5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O
LORD God of truth. 6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I
trust in the LORD. 7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast
considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities; 8 And hast
not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large
room. 9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is
consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. 10 For my life is spent with
grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine
iniquity, and my bones are consumed. 11 I was a reproach among all mine
enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine
acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me. 12 I am forgotten
as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. 13 For I have heard
the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel
together against me, they devised to take away my life. 14 But I trusted in
thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God. 15 My times are in thy hand: deliver
me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. 16 Make
thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake. 17 Let me
not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be
ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave. 18 Let the lying lips be put
to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against
the righteous. 19 Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for
them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee
before the sons of men! 20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy
presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion
from the strife of tongues. 21 Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me
his marvellous kindness in a strong city. 22 For I said in my haste, I am
cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my
supplications when I cried unto thee. 23 O love the LORD, all ye his saints:
for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud
doer. 24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that
hope in the LORD.
Psalms 32
1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 2
Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose
spirit there is no guile. 3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through
my roaring all the day long. 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me:
my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. 5 I acknowledge my
sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my
transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.
Selah. 6 For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time
when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall
not come nigh unto him. 7 Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me
from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will
guide thee with mine eye. 9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which
have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest
they come near unto thee. 10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he
that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about. 11 Be glad in the
LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright
in heart.
Psalms 33
1 Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.
2 Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an
instrument of ten strings. 3 Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a
loud noise. 4 For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done
in truth. 5 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the
goodness of the LORD. 6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and
all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. 7 He gathereth the waters
of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses. 8 Let
all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in
awe of him. 9 For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood
fast. 10 The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh
the devices of the people of none effect. 11 The counsel of the LORD
standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. 12 Blessed
is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for
his own inheritance. 13 The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the
sons of men. 14 From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the
inhabitants of the earth. 15 He fashioneth their hearts alike; he
considereth all their works. 16 There is no king saved by the multitude of
an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength. 17 An horse is a
vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.
18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that
hope in his mercy; 19 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them
alive in famine. 20 Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our
shield. 21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in
his holy name. 22 Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in
thee.
Psalms 34
1 I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my
mouth. 2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear
thereof, and be glad. 3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his
name together. 4 I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from
all my fears. 5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces
were not ashamed. 6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved
him out of all his troubles. 7 The angel of the LORD encampeth round about
them that fear him, and delivereth them. 8 O taste and see that the LORD is
good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. 9 O fear the LORD, ye his
saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. 10 The young lions do
lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good
thing. 11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of
the LORD. 12 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that
he may see good? 13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking
guile. 14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. 15 The
eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their
cry. 16 The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the
remembrance of them from the earth. 17 The righteous cry, and the LORD
heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. 18 The LORD is nigh
unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite
spirit. 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD
delivereth him out of them all. 20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them
is broken. 21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous
shall be desolate. 22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none
of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
Psalms 35
1 Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them
that fight against me. 2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for
mine help. 3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that
persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. 4 Let them be confounded
and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and
brought to confusion that devise my hurt. 5 Let them be as chaff before the
wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them. 6 Let their way be dark and
slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them. 7 For without cause
have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have
digged for my soul. 8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his
net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his
salvation. 10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which
deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and
the needy from him that spoileth him? 11 False witnesses did rise up; they
laid to my charge things that I knew not. 12 They rewarded me evil for good
to the spoiling of my soul. 13 But as for me, when they were sick, my
clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer
returned into mine own bosom. 14 I behaved myself as though he had been my
friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his
mother. 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves
together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I
knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not: 16 With hypocritical mockers
in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. 17 Lord, how long wilt
thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the
lions. 18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise
thee among much people. 19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully
rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a
cause. 20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters
against them that are quiet in the land. 21 Yea, they opened their mouth
wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it. 22 This thou hast
seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me. 23 Stir up
thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not
rejoice over me. 25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have
it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up. 26 Let them be ashamed and
brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed
with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me. 27 Let them
shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them
say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the
prosperity of his servant. 28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness
and of thy praise all the day long.
Psalms 36
1 The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no
fear of God before his eyes. 2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes,
until his iniquity be found to be hateful. 3 The words of his mouth are
iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good. 4 He
deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not
good; he abhorreth not evil. 5 Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy
faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds. 6 Thy righteousness is like the great
mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and
beast. 7 How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children
of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. 8 They shall be
abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them
drink of the river of thy pleasures. 9 For with thee is the fountain of
life: in thy light shall we see light. 10 O continue thy lovingkindness unto
them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart. 11 Let
not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked
remove me. 12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down,
and shall not be able to rise.
Psalms 37
1 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the
workers of iniquity. 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and
wither as the green herb. 3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou
dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. 4 Delight thyself also in
the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. 5 Commit thy
way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. 6 And
he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the
noonday. 7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself
because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth
wicked devices to pass. 8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not
thyself in any wise to do evil. 9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those
that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth. 10 For yet a little
while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his
place, and it shall not be. 11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and
shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. 12 The wicked plotteth
against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. 13 The LORD shall
laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming. 14 The wicked have drawn
out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and
to slay such as be of upright conversation. 15 Their sword shall enter into
their own heart, and their bows shall be broken. 16 A little that a
righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked. 17 For the arms
of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous. 18 The
LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for
ever. 19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of
famine they shall be satisfied. 20 But the wicked shall perish, and the
enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into
smoke shall they consume away. 21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not
again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth. 22 For such as be
blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall
be cut off. 23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he
delighteth in his way. 24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down:
for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand. 25 I have been young, and now am
old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
26 He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed. 27 Depart from
evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore. 28 For the LORD loveth judgment,
and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of
the wicked shall be cut off. 29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and
dwell therein for ever. 30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and
his tongue talketh of judgment. 31 The law of his God is in his heart; none
of his steps shall slide. 32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh
to slay him. 33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him
when he is judged. 34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt
thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it. 35
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green
bay tree. 36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but
he could not be found. 37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for
the end of that man is peace. 38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed
together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off. 39 But the salvation of
the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.
40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them
from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.
Psalms 38
1 O lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot
displeasure. 2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me
sore. 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is
there any rest in my bones because of my sin. 4 For mine iniquities are gone
over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. 5 My wounds
stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. 6 I am troubled; I am bowed
down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 7 For my loins are filled with
a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. 8 I am feeble
and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. 9
Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. 10
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it
also is gone from me. 11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore;
and my kinsmen stand afar off. 12 They also that seek after my life lay
snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and
imagine deceits all the day long. 13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I
was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. 14 Thus I was as a man that
heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. 15 For in thee, O LORD, do
I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. 16 For I said, Hear me, lest
otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify
themselves against me. 17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is
continually before me. 18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry
for my sin. 19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they
that hate me wrongfully are multiplied. 20 They also that render evil for
good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is. 21
Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me. 22 Make haste to help
me, O Lord my salvation.
Psalms 39
1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will
keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. 2 I was dumb
with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. 3
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I
with my tongue, 4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my
days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am. 5 Behold, thou hast made
my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily
every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. 6 Surely every man
walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up
riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. 7 And now, Lord, what wait I
for? my hope is in thee. 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me
not the reproach of the foolish. 9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth;
because thou didst it. 10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by
the blow of thine hand. 11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for
iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every
man is vanity. Selah. 12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry;
hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a
sojourner, as all my fathers were. 13 O spare me, that I may recover
strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Psalms 40
1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my
cry. 2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay,
and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. 3 And he hath put a
new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear,
and shall trust in the LORD. 4 Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his
trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. 5 Many,
O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy
thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto
thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be
numbered. 6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast
thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. 7 Then
said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, 8 I
delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. 9 I have
preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained
my lips, O LORD, thou knowest. 10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my
heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not
concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation. 11
Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness
and thy truth continually preserve me. 12 For innumerable evils have
compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am
not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my
heart faileth me. 13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste
to help me. 14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after
my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that
wish me evil. 15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say
unto me, Aha, aha. 16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in
thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help
and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
Psalms 41
1 Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time
of trouble. 2 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall
be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of
his enemies. 3 The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing:
thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. 4 I said, LORD, be merciful unto
me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee. 5 Mine enemies speak evil
of me, When shall he die, and his name perish? 6 And if he come to see me,
he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth
abroad, he telleth it. 7 All that hate me whisper together against me:
against me do they devise my hurt. 8 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth
fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more. 9 Yea, mine
own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath
lifted up his heel against me. 10 But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and
raise me up, that I may requite them. 11 By this I know that thou favourest
me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. 12 And as for me, thou
upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever. 13
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting.
Amen, and Amen.
Psalms 42
1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee,
O God. 2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come
and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while
they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? 4 When I remember these
things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went
with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a
multitude that kept holyday. 5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why
art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for
the help of his countenance. 6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me:
therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the
Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. 7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of
thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. 8 Yet the
LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and in the night his
song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. 9 I will say
unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of
the oppression of the enemy? 10 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies
reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God? 11 Why art thou
cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in
God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my
God.
Psalms 43
1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver
me from the deceitful and unjust man. 2 For thou art the God of my strength:
why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of
the enemy? 3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them
bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. 4 Then will I go unto
the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I
praise thee, O God my God. 5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art
thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is
the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 44
1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work
thou didst in their days, in the times of old. 2 How thou didst drive out
the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the
people, and cast them out. 3 For they got not the land in possession by
their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand,
and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour
unto them. 4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. 5
Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread
them under that rise up against us. 6 For I will not trust in my bow,
neither shall my sword save me. 7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies,
and hast put them to shame that hated us. 8 In God we boast all the day
long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah. 9 But thou hast cast off, and put
us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. 10 Thou makest us to turn
back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves. 11 Thou
hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the
heathen. 12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy
wealth by their price. 13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a
scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. 14 Thou makest us a
byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. 15 My
confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered
me, 16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of
the enemy and avenger. 17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not
forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. 18 Our heart
is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; 19 Though
thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the
shadow of death. 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched
out our hands to a strange god; 21 Shall not God search this out? for he
knoweth the secrets of the heart. 22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the
day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. 23 Awake, why sleepest
thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy
face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? 25 For our soul is
bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. 26 Arise for our
help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
Psalms 45
1 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have
made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. 2 Thou art
fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore
God hath blessed thee for ever. 3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most
mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. 4 And in thy majesty ride
prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right
hand shall teach thee terrible things. 5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart
of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee. 6 Thy throne, O
God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. 7
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God,
hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. 8 All thy
garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces,
whereby they have made thee glad. 9 Kings' daughters were among thy
honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also
thine own people, and thy father's house; 11 So shall the king greatly
desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him. 12 And the
daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people
shall intreat thy favour. 13 The king's daughter is all glorious within: her
clothing is of wrought gold. 14 She shall be brought unto the king in
raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be
brought unto thee. 15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought:
they shall enter into the king's palace. 16 Instead of thy fathers shall be
thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth. 17 I will make
thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people
praise thee for ever and ever.
Psalms 46
1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 2
Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the
mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; 3 Though the waters thereof
roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
Selah. 4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of
God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High. 5 God is in the
midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right
early. 6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice,
the earth melted. 7 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our
refuge. Selah. 8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he
hath made in the earth. 9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth;
he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot
in the fire. 10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among
the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. 11 The LORD of hosts is with
us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Psalms 47
1 O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of
triumph. 2 For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all
the earth. 3 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our
feet. 4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom
he loved. Selah. 5 God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a
trumpet. 6 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King,
sing praises. 7 For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with
understanding. 8 God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne
of his holiness. 9 The princes of the people are gathered together, even the
people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God:
he is greatly exalted.
Psalms 48
1 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in
the mountain of his holiness. 2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the
whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great
King. 3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge. 4 For, lo, the kings were
assembled, they passed by together. 5 They saw it, and so they marvelled;
they were troubled, and hasted away. 6 Fear took hold upon them there, and
pain, as of a woman in travail. 7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with
an east wind. 8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of
hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah. 9 We
have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple. 10
According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth:
thy right hand is full of righteousness. 11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the
daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments. 12 Walk about Zion,
and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. 13 Mark ye well her
bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation
following. 14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our
guide even unto death.
Psalms 49
1 Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world: 2
Both low and high, rich and poor, together. 3 My mouth shall speak of
wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding. 4 I will
incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp. 5
Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels
shall compass me about? 6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast
themselves in the multitude of their riches; 7 None of them can by any means
redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: 8 (For the redemption
of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:) 9 That he should still
live for ever, and not see corruption. 10 For he seeth that wise men die,
likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to
others. 11 Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for
ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands
after their own names. 12 Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he
is like the beasts that perish. 13 This their way is their folly: yet their
posterity approve their sayings. Selah. 14 Like sheep they are laid in the
grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over
them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their
dwelling. 15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he
shall receive me. Selah. 16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when
the glory of his house is increased; 17 For when he dieth he shall carry
nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him. 18 Though while he
lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to
thyself. 19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never
see light. 20 Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the
beasts that perish.
Psalms 50
1 The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the
rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. 2 Out of Zion, the perfection
of beauty, God hath shined. 3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep
silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous
round about him. 4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the
earth, that he may judge his people. 5 Gather my saints together unto me;
those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. 6 And the heavens
shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah. 7 Hear, O
my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am
God, even thy God. 8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt
offerings, to have been continually before me. 9 I will take no bullock out
of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. 10 For every beast of the
forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11 I know all the
fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. 12 If I
were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness
thereof. 13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? 14
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: 15 And
call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt
glorify me. 16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to
declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my words behind thee. 18 When
thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker
with adulterers. 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth
deceit. 20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest
thine own mother's son. 21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence;
thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will
reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. 22 Now consider this,
ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his
conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
Psalms 51
1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto
the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me
throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I
acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against thee,
thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou
mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. 5
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. 6
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou
shalt make me to know wisdom. 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean:
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8 Make me to hear joy and
gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. 9 Hide thy face
from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean
heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away from
thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. 12 Restore unto me the
joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. 13 Then will I
teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. 14
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my
tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. 15 O Lord, open thou my lips;
and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. 16 For thou desirest not
sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. 17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O
God, thou wilt not despise. 18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build
thou the walls of Jerusalem. 19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the
sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering:
then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
Psalms 52
1 Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God
endureth continually. 2 The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor,
working deceitfully. 3 Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather
than to speak righteousness. Selah. 4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O
thou deceitful tongue. 5 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall
take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out
of the land of the living. Selah. 6 The righteous also shall see, and fear,
and shall laugh at him: 7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his
strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened
himself in his wickedness. 8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house
of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever. 9 I will praise thee
for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is
good before thy saints.
Psalms 53
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and
have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good. 2 God looked
down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did
understand, that did seek God. 3 Every one of them is gone back: they are
altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 4 Have
the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat
bread: they have not called upon God. 5 There were they in great fear, where
no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against
thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them. 6 Oh that
the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the
captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
Psalms 54
1 Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength. 2 Hear my
prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth. 3 For strangers are risen
up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God
before them. Selah. 4 Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that
uphold my soul. 5 He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in
thy truth. 6 I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O
LORD; for it is good. 7 For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and
mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies.
Psalms 55
1 Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. 2
Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise; 3
Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked:
for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me. 4 My heart is
sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. 5
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away,
and be at rest. 7 Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the
wilderness. Selah. 8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and
tempest. 9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen
violence and strife in the city. 10 Day and night they go about it upon the
walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it. 11
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her
streets. 12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have
borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against
me; then I would have hid myself from him: 13 But it was thou, a man mine
equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. 14 We took sweet counsel together,
and walked unto the house of God in company. 15 Let death seize upon them,
and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings,
and among them. 16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save
me. 17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he
shall hear my voice. 18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle
that was against me: for there were many with me. 19 God shall hear, and
afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no
changes, therefore they fear not God. 20 He hath put forth his hands against
such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant. 21 The words of
his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words
were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords. 22 Cast thy burden upon
the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to
be moved. 23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of
destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days;
but I will trust in thee.
Psalms 56
1 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily
oppresseth me. 2 Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many
that fight against me, O thou most High. 3 What time I am afraid, I will
trust in thee. 4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust;
I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. 5 Every day they wrest my words:
all their thoughts are against me for evil. 6 They gather themselves
together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my
soul. 7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people,
O God. 8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are
they not in thy book? 9 When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn
back: this I know; for God is for me. 10 In God will I praise his word: in
the LORD will I praise his word. 11 In God have I put my trust: I will not
be afraid what man can do unto me. 12 Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will
render praises unto thee. 13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death:
wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in
the light of the living?
Psalms 57
1 Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in
thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these
calamities be overpast. 2 I will cry unto God most high; unto God that
performeth all things for me. 3 He shall send from heaven, and save me from
the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth
his mercy and his truth. 4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them
that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and
arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. 5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the
heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth. 6 They have prepared a net
for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into
the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah. 7 My heart is fixed, O
God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. 8 Awake up, my glory;
awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early. 9 I will praise thee, O
Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations. 10 For thy
mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds. 11 Be thou
exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth.
Psalms 58
1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O
ye sons of men? 2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of
your hands in the earth. 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go
astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. 4 Their poison is like the
poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; 5
Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. 6
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the
young lions, O LORD. 7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually:
when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces. 8
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely
birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun. 9 Before your pots can feel
the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in
his wrath. 10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he
shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. 11 So that a man shall say,
Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth
in the earth.
Psalms 59
1 Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up
against me. 2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from
bloody men. 3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered
against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD. 4 They run and
prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold. 5 Thou
therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the
heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah. 6 They return
at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city. 7
Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who,
say they, doth hear? 8 But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt
have all the heathen in derision. 9 Because of his strength will I wait upon
thee: for God is my defence. 10 The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God
shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies. 11 Slay them not, lest my
people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our
shield. 12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them
even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak. 13
Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know
that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah. 14 And at
evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round
about the city. 15 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they
be not satisfied. 16 But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of
thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the
day of my trouble. 17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my
defence, and the God of my mercy.
Psalms 60
1 O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been
displeased; O turn thyself to us again. 2 Thou hast made the earth to
tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh. 3
Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine
of astonishment. 4 Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it
may be displayed because of the truth. Selah. 5 That thy beloved may be
delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me. 6 God hath spoken in his
holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of
Succoth. 7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the
strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver; 8 Moab is my washpot; over Edom
will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me. 9 Who will
bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom? 10 Wilt not thou,
O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with
our armies? 11 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. 12
Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our
enemies.
Psalms 61
1 Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. 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. 3 For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower
from the enemy. 4 I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in
the covert of thy wings. Selah. 5 For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou
hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name. 6 Thou wilt prolong
the king's life: and his years as many generations. 7 He shall abide before
God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him. 8 So will I
sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.
Psalms 62
1 Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. 2 He only is
my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. 3
How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of
you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence. 4 They only
consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they
bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah. 5 My soul, wait thou
only upon God; for my expectation is from him. 6 He only is my rock and my
salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved. 7 In God is my salvation
and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. 8 Trust in
him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge
for us. Selah. 9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree
are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than
vanity. 10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if
riches increase, set not your heart upon them. 11 God hath spoken once;
twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God. 12 Also unto thee, O
Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his
work.
Psalms 63
1 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for
thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water
is; 2 To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the
sanctuary. 3 Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall
praise thee. 4 Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands
in thy name. 5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my
mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips: 6 When I remember thee upon my
bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches. 7 Because thou hast been my
help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. 8 My soul
followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me. 9 But those that
seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth. 10
They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes. 11 But the
king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but
the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
Psalms 64
1 Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the
enemy. 2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the
insurrection of the workers of iniquity: 3 Who whet their tongue like a
sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words: 4 That
they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and
fear not. 5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of
laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them? 6 They search out
iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of
every one of them, and the heart, is deep. 7 But God shall shoot at them
with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded. 8 So they shall make their
own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away. 9 And
all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely
consider of his doing. 10 The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall
trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.
Psalms 65
1 Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be
performed. 2 O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come. 3
Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge
them away. 4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach
unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the
goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple. 5 By terrible things in
righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the
confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon
the sea: 6 Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded
with power: 7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their
waves, and the tumult of the people. 8 They also that dwell in the uttermost
parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and
evening to rejoice. 9 Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly
enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest
them corn, when thou hast so provided for it. 10 Thou waterest the ridges
thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft
with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof. 11 Thou crownest the year
with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. 12 They drop upon the
pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. 13
The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with
corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Psalms 66
1 Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands: 2 Sing forth the honour of his
name: make his praise glorious. 3 Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy
works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit
themselves unto thee. 4 All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing
unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah. 5 Come and see the works of
God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men. 6 He turned the
sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice
in him. 7 He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let
not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah. 8 O bless our God, ye people,
and make the voice of his praise to be heard: 9 Which holdeth our soul in
life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved. 10 For thou, O God, hast
proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried. 11 Thou broughtest us
into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins. 12 Thou hast caused men
to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou
broughtest us out into a wealthy place. 13 I will go into thy house with
burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows, 14 Which my lips have uttered, and
my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble. 15 I will offer unto thee burnt
sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with
goats. Selah. 16 Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare
what he hath done for my soul. 17 I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was
extolled with my tongue. 18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will
not hear me: 19 But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice
of my prayer. 20 Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor
his mercy from me.
Psalms 67
1 God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon
us; Selah. 2 That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among
all nations. 3 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise
thee. 4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the
people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah. 5 Let the
people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee. 6 Then shall the
earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us. 7 God
shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.
Psalms 68
1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him
flee before him. 2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax
melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. 3
But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them
exceedingly rejoice. 4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him
that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him. 5 A
father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy
habitation. 6 God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those
which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land. 7 O
God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march
through the wilderness; Selah: 8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped
at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God,
the God of Israel. 9 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou
didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary. 10 Thy congregation hath
dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor. 11
The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it. 12
Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the
spoil. 13 Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings
of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold. 14 When
the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon. 15 The
hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan. 16
Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in;
yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever. 17 The chariots of God are twenty
thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in
the holy place. 18 Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity
captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also,
that the LORD God might dwell among them. 19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily
loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah. 20 He that
is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues
from death. 21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy
scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses. 22 The Lord said,
I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths
of the sea: 23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies,
and the tongue of thy dogs in the same. 24 They have seen thy goings, O God;
even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary. 25 The singers went
before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the
damsels playing with timbrels. 26 Bless ye God in the congregations, even
the Lord, from the fountain of Israel. 27 There is little Benjamin with
their ruler, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun,
and the princes of Naphtali. 28 Thy God hath commanded thy strength:
strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us. 29 Because of thy
temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee. 30 Rebuke the
company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the
people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou
the people that delight in war. 31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia
shall soon stretch out her hands unto God. 32 Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of
the earth; O sing praises unto the Lord; Selah: 33 To him that rideth upon
the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice,
and that a mighty voice. 34 Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is
over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds. 35 O God, thou art terrible
out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and
power unto his people. Blessed be God.
Psalms 69
1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. 2 I sink in deep
mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the
floods overflow me. 3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes
fail while I wait for my God. 4 They that hate me without a cause are more
than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies
wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away. 5 O God,
thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. 6 Let not
them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not
those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel. 7 Because
for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. 8 I am
become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them
that reproached thee are fallen upon me. 10 When I wept, and chastened my
soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. 11 I made sackcloth also my
garment; and I became a proverb to them. 12 They that sit in the gate speak
against me; and I was the song of the drunkards. 13 But as for me, my prayer
is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy
mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. 14 Deliver me out of the mire,
and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of
the deep waters. 15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep
swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. 16 Hear me, O
LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the
multitude of thy tender mercies. 17 And hide not thy face from thy servant;
for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. 18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem
it: deliver me because of mine enemies. 19 Thou hast known my reproach, and
my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee. 20
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for
some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar
to drink. 22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which
should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes
be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take
hold of them. 25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in
their tents. 26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk
to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. 27 Add iniquity unto their
iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness. 28 Let them be
blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the
righteous. 29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me
up on high. 30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify
him with thanksgiving. 31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox
or bullock that hath horns and hoofs. 32 The humble shall see this, and be
glad: and your heart shall live that seek God. 33 For the LORD heareth the
poor, and despiseth not his prisoners. 34 Let the heaven and earth praise
him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein. 35 For God will save
Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and
have it in possession. 36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it:
and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
Psalms 70
1 MAKE HASTE, O GOD, TO DELIVER ME; MAKE HASTE TO HELP ME, O LORD. 2 Let
them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned
backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt. 3 Let them be turned
back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha. 4 Let all those that
seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation
say continually, Let God be magnified. 5 But I am poor and needy: make haste
unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
Psalms 71
1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. 2
Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear
unto me, and save me. 3 Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may
continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my
rock and my fortress. 4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked,
out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. 5 For thou art my hope, O
Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth. 6 By thee have I been holden up
from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise
shall be continually of thee. 7 I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my
strong refuge. 8 Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour
all the day. 9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when
my strength faileth. 10 For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay
wait for my soul take counsel together, 11 Saying, God hath forsaken him:
persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him. 12 O God, be not
far from me: O my God, make haste for my help. 13 Let them be confounded and
consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach
and dishonour that seek my hurt. 14 But I will hope continually, and will
yet praise thee more and more. 15 My mouth shall shew forth thy
righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers
thereof. 16 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention
of thy righteousness, even of thine only. 17 O God, thou hast taught me from
my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. 18 Now also when
I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy
strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
19 Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things:
O God, who is like unto thee! 20 Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore
troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the
depths of the earth. 21 Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on
every side. 22 I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O
my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel. 23
My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou
hast redeemed. 24 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day
long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my
hurt.
Psalms 72
1 Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's
son. 2 He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with
judgment. 3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little
hills, by righteousness. 4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall
save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor. 5
They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all
generations. 6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers
that water the earth. 7 In his days shall the righteous flourish; and
abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth. 8 He shall have dominion
also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. 9 They
that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall
lick the dust. 10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring
presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. 11 Yea, all kings
shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him. 12 For he shall
deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no
helper. 13 He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of
the needy. 14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and
precious shall their blood be in his sight. 15 And he shall live, and to him
shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him
continually; and daily shall he be praised. 16 There shall be an handful of
corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall
shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the
earth. 17 His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as
long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him
blessed. 18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth
wondrous things. 19 And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the
whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen. 20 The prayers of
David the son of Jesse are ended.
Psalms 73
1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. 2 But
as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. 3 For I
was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 4 For
there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. 5 They are
not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. 6
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as
a garment. 7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart
could wish. 8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression:
they speak loftily. 9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their
tongue walketh through the earth. 10 Therefore his people return hither: and
waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. 11 And they say, How doth God
know? and is there knowledge in the most High? 12 Behold, these are the
ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. 13 Verily I have
cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. 14 For all the
day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. 15 If I say, I
will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy
children. 16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; 17
Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. 18
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into
destruction. 19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they
are utterly consumed with terrors. 20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O
Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. 21 Thus my heart
was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins. 22 So foolish was I, and
ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. 23 Nevertheless I am continually
with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. 24 Thou shalt guide me with
thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. 25 Whom have I in heaven but
thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. 26 My flesh
and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion
for ever. 27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast
destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee. 28 But it is good for me to
draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare
all thy works.
Psalms 74
1 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke
against the sheep of thy pasture? 2 Remember thy congregation, which thou
hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast
redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. 3 Lift up thy feet unto
the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the
sanctuary. 4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set
up their ensigns for signs. 5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up
axes upon the thick trees. 6 But now they break down the carved work thereof
at once with axes and hammers. 7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary,
they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the
ground. 8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have
burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. 9 We see not our signs:
there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how
long. 10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy
blaspheme thy name for ever? 11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy
right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom. 12 For God is my King of old, working
salvation in the midst of the earth. 13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy
strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. 14 Thou
brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the
people inhabiting the wilderness. 15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the
flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers. 16 The day is thine, the night also is
thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. 17 Thou hast set all the
borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. 18 Remember this,
that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have
blasphemed thy name. 19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the
multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full
of the habitations of cruelty. 21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed:
let the poor and needy praise thy name. 22 Arise, O God, plead thine own
cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. 23 Forget not
the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee
increaseth continually.
Psalms 75
1 Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that
thy name is near thy wondrous works declare. 2 When I shall receive the
congregation I will judge uprightly. 3 The earth and all the inhabitants
thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah. 4 I said unto the
fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: 5 Lift
not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck. 6 For promotion
cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. 7 But
God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. 8 For in the
hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture;
and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the
earth shall wring them out, and drink them. 9 But I will declare for ever; I
will sing praises to the God of Jacob. 10 All the horns of the wicked also
will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
Psalms 76
1 In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel. 2 In Salem also is his
tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion. 3 There brake he the arrows of
the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah. 4 Thou art more
glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey. 5 The stouthearted are
spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have
found their hands. 6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and
horse are cast into a dead sleep. 7 Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and
who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry? 8 Thou didst cause
judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still, 9 When
God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah. 10 Surely
the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou
restrain. 11 Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round
about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared. 12 He shall cut
off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
Psalms 77
1 I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave
ear unto me. 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in
the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. 3 I remembered
God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. 4
Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. 5 I
have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. 6 I call to
remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my
spirit made diligent search. 7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he
be favourable no more? 8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise
fail for evermore? 9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger
shut up his tender mercies? Selah. 10 And I said, This is my infirmity: but
I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High. 11 I will
remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
12 I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings. 13 Thy way,
O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God? 14 Thou art
the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the
people. 15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob
and Joseph. Selah. 16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they
were afraid: the depths also were troubled. 17 The clouds poured out water:
the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad. 18 The voice of
thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth
trembled and shook. 19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great
waters, and thy footsteps are not known. 20 Thou leddest thy people like a
flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Psalms 78
1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my
mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of
old: 3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 4 We
will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come
the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he
hath done. 5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in
Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to
their children: 6 That the generation to come might know them, even the
children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their
children: 7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works
of God, but keep his commandments: 8 And might not be as their fathers, a
stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart
aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. 9 The children of
Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; 11 And
forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them. 12 Marvellous
things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the
field of Zoan. 13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and
he made the waters to stand as an heap. 14 In the daytime also he led them
with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. 15 He clave the rocks
in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths. 16 He
brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like
rivers. 17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High
in the wilderness. 18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for
their lust. 19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a
table in the wilderness? 20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters
gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he
provide flesh for his people? 21 Therefore the LORD heard this, and was
wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against
Israel; 22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his
salvation: 23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the
doors of heaven, 24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had
given them of the corn of heaven. 25 Man did eat angels' food: he sent them
meat to the full. 26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by
his power he brought in the south wind. 27 He rained flesh also upon them as
dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: 28 And he let it fall
in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations. 29 So they did
eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; 30 They were
not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote
down the chosen men of Israel. 32 For all this they sinned still, and
believed not for his wondrous works. 33 Therefore their days did he consume
in vanity, and their years in trouble. 34 When he slew them, then they
sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God. 35 And they
remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer. 36
Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him
with their tongues. 37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were
they stedfast in his covenant. 38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave
their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger
away, and did not stir up all his wrath. 39 For he remembered that they were
but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. 40 How oft did
they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! 41 Yea,
they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. 42
They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the
enemy. 43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the
field of Zoan. 44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods,
that they could not drink. 45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them,
which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. 46 He gave also their
increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust. 47 He
destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost. 48 He
gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation,
and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. 50 He made a way to his
anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the
pestilence; 51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their
strength in the tabernacles of Ham: 52 But made his own people to go forth
like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. 53 And he led
them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their
enemies. 54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this
mountain, which his right hand had purchased. 55 He cast out the heathen
also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the
tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. 56 Yet they tempted and provoked
the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: 57 But turned back, and
dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a
deceitful bow. 58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and
moved him to jealousy with their graven images. 59 When God heard this, he
was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: 60 So that he forsook the tabernacle
of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men; 61 And delivered his strength
into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand. 62 He gave his people
over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance. 63 The fire
consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage. 64
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. 65
Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that
shouteth by reason of wine. 66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts:
he put them to a perpetual reproach. 67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle
of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: 68 But chose the tribe of
Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. 69 And he built his sanctuary like
high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever. 70 He chose
David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: 71 From following
the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and
Israel his inheritance. 72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his
heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
Psalms 79
1 O god, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have
they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. 2 The dead bodies of thy
servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh
of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. 3 Their blood have they shed
like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. 4 We are
become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are
round about us. 5 How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy
jealousy burn like fire? 6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not
known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name. 7 For
they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place. 8 O remember
not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent
us: for we are brought very low. 9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the
glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's
sake. 10 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be
known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy
servants which is shed. 11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee;
according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are
appointed to die; 12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their
bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. 13 So we
thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will
shew forth thy praise to all generations.
Psalms 80
1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock;
thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth. 2 Before Ephraim and
Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us. 3 Turn us
again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. 4 O LORD
God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink
in great measure. 6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our
enemies laugh among themselves. 7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause
thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of
Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. 9 Thou preparedst
room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the
land. 10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs
thereof were like the goodly cedars. 11 She sent out her boughs unto the
sea, and her branches unto the river. 12 Why hast thou then broken down her
hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? 13 The boar out
of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and
behold, and visit this vine; 15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath
planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself. 16 It is burned
with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. 17
Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom
thou madest strong for thyself. 18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken
us, and we will call upon thy name. 19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts,
cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Psalms 81
1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of
Jacob. 2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with
the psaltery. 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed,
on our solemn feast day. 4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of
the God of Jacob. 5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went
out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood
not. 6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from
the pots. 7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee
in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah.
Selah. 8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou
wilt hearken unto me; 9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt
thou worship any strange god. 10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee
out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 11 But my
people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. 12 So I
gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own
counsels. 13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked
in my ways! 14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand
against their adversaries. 15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted
themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. 16 He
should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out
of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
Psalms 82
1 God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked?
Selah. 3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and
needy. 4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all
the foundations of the earth are out of course. 6 I have said, Ye are gods;
and all of you are children of the most High. 7 But ye shall die like men,
and fall like one of the princes. 8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou
shalt inherit all nations.
Psalms 83
1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted
up the head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and
consulted against thy hidden ones. 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut
them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in
remembrance. 5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are
confederate against thee: 6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of
Moab, and the Hagarenes; 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines
with the inhabitants of Tyre; 8 Assur also is joined with them: they have
holpen the children of Lot. Selah. 9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as
to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison: 10 Which perished at Endor:
they became as dung for the earth. 11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like
Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna: 12 Who said, Let us
take to ourselves the houses of God in possession. 13 O my God, make them
like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. 14 As the fire burneth a wood,
and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire; 15 So persecute them with
thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm. 16 Fill their faces with
shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD. 17 Let them be confounded and
troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: 18 That men
may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all
the earth.
Psalms 84
1 How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! 2 My soul longeth, yea,
even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out
for the living God. 3 Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow
a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD
of hosts, my King, and my God. 4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house:
they will be still praising thee. Selah. 5 Blessed is the man whose strength
is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. 6 Who passing through the
valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. 7 They go
from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. 8
O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. 9
Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed. 10 For a
day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in
the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. 11 For the
LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good
thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. 12 O LORD of hosts,
blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
Psalms 85
1 Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the
captivity of Jacob. 2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou
hast covered all their sin. Selah. 3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath:
thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger. 4 Turn us, O
God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease. 5 Wilt thou
be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all
generations? 6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in
thee? 7 Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation. 8 I will hear
what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and
to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly. 9 Surely his salvation
is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land. 10 Mercy and
truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. 11
Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from
heaven. 12 Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall
yield her increase. 13 Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us
in the way of his steps.
Psalms 86
1 Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy. 2 Preserve
my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in
thee. 3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily. 4 Rejoice
the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. 5 For
thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all
them that call upon thee. 6 Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to
the voice of my supplications. 7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon
thee: for thou wilt answer me. 8 Among the gods there is none like unto
thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works. 9 All nations
whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall
glorify thy name. 10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art
God alone. 11 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my
heart to fear thy name. 12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my
heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore. 13 For great is thy mercy
toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell. 14 O God,
the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have
sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them. 15 But thou, O
Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, long suffering, and
plenteous in mercy and truth. 16 O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me;
give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid. 17
Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be
ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.
Psalms 87
1 His foundation is in the holy mountains. 2 The LORD loveth the gates of
Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 3 Glorious things are spoken of
thee, O city of God. Selah. 4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to
them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was
born there. 5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in
her: and the highest himself shall establish her. 6 The LORD shall count,
when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah. 7 As
well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my
springs are in thee.
Psalms 88
1 O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: 2 Let
my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; 3 For my soul is
full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. 4 I am counted
with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 5
Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou
rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid me
in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. 7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon
me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. 8 Thou hast put
away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto
them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. 9 Mine eye mourneth by reason
of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my
hands unto thee. 10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise
and praise thee? Selah. 11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the
grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction? 12 Shall thy wonders be known in
the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 13 But unto
thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
14 LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? 15
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors
I am distracted. 16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me
off. 17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about
together. 18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine
acquaintance into darkness.
Psalms 89
1 I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make
known thy faithfulness to all generations. 2 For I have said, Mercy shall be
built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very
heavens. 3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my
servant, 4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to
all generations. Selah. 5 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD:
thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. 6 For who in the
heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can
be likened unto the LORD? 7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of
the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. 8 O
LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy
faithfulness round about thee? 9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the
waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. 10 Thou hast broken Rahab in
pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy
strong arm. 11 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the
world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. 12 The north and the
south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. 13
Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. 14
Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall
go before thy face. 15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound:
they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance. 16 In thy name
shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be
exalted. 17 For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our
horn shall be exalted. 18 For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of
Israel is our king. 19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and
saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen
out of the people. 20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I
anointed him: 21 With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall
strengthen him. 22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of
wickedness afflict him. 23 And I will beat down his foes before his face,
and plague them that hate him. 24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be
with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted. 25 I will set his hand
also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. 26 He shall cry unto me,
Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. 27 Also I will
make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. 28 My mercy will
I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. 29
His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of
heaven. 30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; 31
If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; 32 Then will I
visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. 33
Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer
my faithfulness to fail. 34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the
thing that is gone out of my lips. 35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that
I will not lie unto David. 36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne
as the sun before me. 37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and
as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah. 38 But thou hast cast off and
abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. 39 Thou hast made void
the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to
the ground. 40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his
strong holds to ruin. 41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a
reproach to his neighbours. 42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his
adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. 43 Thou hast also
turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.
44 Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the
ground. 45 The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him
with shame. Selah. 46 How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall
thy wrath burn like fire? 47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast
thou made all men in vain? 48 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see
death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah. 49 Lord,
where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy
truth? 50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my
bosom the reproach of all the mighty people; 51 Wherewith thine enemies have
reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine
anointed. 52 Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.
Psalms 90
1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. 2 Before the
mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the
world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. 3 Thou turnest
man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. 4 For a thousand
years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in
the night. 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep:
in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. 6 In the morning it
flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 7
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou
hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy
countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our
years as a tale that is told. 10 The days of our years are threescore years
and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their
strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 11 Who
knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy
wrath. 12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto
wisdom. 13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy
servants. 14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be
glad all our days. 15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast
afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. 16 Let thy work
appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. 17 And let the
beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our
hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Psalms 91
1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under
the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my
fortress: my God; in him will I trust. 3 Surely he shall deliver thee from
the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. 4 He shall cover
thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth
shall be thy shield and buckler. 5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror
by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; 6 Nor for the pestilence
that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. 7
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but
it shall not come nigh thee. 8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and
see the reward of the wicked. 9 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my
refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; 10 There shall no evil befall
thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. 11 For he shall give
his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. 12 They shall
bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. 13
Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon
shalt thou trample under feet. 14 Because he hath set his love upon me,
therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known
my name. 15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him
in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. 16 With long life will I
satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
Psalms 92
1 IT IS A GOOD THING TO GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, AND TO SING PRAISES UNTO
THY NAME, O MOST HIGH: 2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning,
and thy faithfulness every night, 3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and
upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound. 4 For thou, LORD, hast
made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands. 5 O
LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep. 6 A brutish
man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this. 7 When the wicked
spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is
that they shall be destroyed for ever: 8 But thou, LORD, art most high for
evermore. 9 For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall
perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. 10 But my horn shalt
thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
11 Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall
hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me. 12 The righteous shall
flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 13 Those
that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our
God. 14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and
flourishing; 15 To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there
is no unrighteousness in him.
Psalms 93
1 The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with
strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished,
that it cannot be moved. 2 Thy throne is established of old: thou art from
everlasting. 3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up
their voice; the floods lift up their waves. 4 The LORD on high is mightier
than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. 5 Thy
testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.
Psalms 94
1 O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance
belongeth, shew thyself. 2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render
a reward to the proud. 3 LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the
wicked triumph? 4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all
the workers of iniquity boast themselves? 5 They break in pieces thy people,
O LORD, and afflict thine heritage. 6 They slay the widow and the stranger,
and murder the fatherless. 7 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither
shall the God of Jacob regard it. 8 Understand, ye brutish among the people:
and ye fools, when will ye be wise? 9 He that planted the ear, shall he not
hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see? 10 He that chastiseth the
heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he
know? 11 The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity. 12
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy
law; 13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the
pit be digged for the wicked. 14 For the LORD will not cast off his people,
neither will he forsake his inheritance. 15 But judgment shall return unto
righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it. 16 Who will
rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against
the workers of iniquity? 17 Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had
almost dwelt in silence. 18 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O
LORD, held me up. 19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts
delight my soul. 20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee,
which frameth mischief by a law? 21 They gather themselves together against
the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. 22 But the LORD
is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge. 23 And he shall bring
upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own
wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.
Psalms 95
1 O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock
of our salvation. 2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and
make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. 3 For the LORD is a great God, and
a great King above all gods. 4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth:
the strength of the hills is his also. 5 The sea is his, and he made it: and
his hands formed the dry land. 6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us
kneel before the LORD our maker. 7 For he is our God; and we are the people
of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of
temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and
saw my work. 10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and
said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my
ways: 11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my
rest.
Psalms 96
1 O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth. 2 Sing
unto the LORD, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to day. 3
Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people. 4 For the
LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.
5 For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
6 Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his
sanctuary. 7 Give unto the LORD, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the
LORD glory and strength. 8 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name:
bring an offering, and come into his courts. 9 O worship the LORD in the
beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth. 10 Say among the heathen
that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall
not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously. 11 Let the heavens
rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness
thereof. 12 Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all
the trees of the wood rejoice 13 Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he
cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and
the people with his truth.
Psalms 97
1 The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be
glad thereof. 2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and
judgment are the habitation of his throne. 3 A fire goeth before him, and
burneth up his enemies round about. 4 His lightnings enlightened the world:
the earth saw, and trembled. 5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of
the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. 6 The heavens
declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory. 7 Confounded be
all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship
him, all ye gods. 8 Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah
rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD. 9 For thou, LORD, art high above
all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods. 10 Ye that love the
LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them
out of the hand of the wicked. 11 Light is sown for the righteous, and
gladness for the upright in heart. 12 Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and
give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
Psalms 98
1 O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his
right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory. 2 The LORD hath
made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the
sight of the heathen. 3 He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward
the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of
our God. 4 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud
noise, and rejoice, and sing praise. 5 Sing unto the LORD with the harp;
with the harp, and the voice of a psalm. 6 With trumpets and sound of cornet
make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King. 7 Let the sea roar, and the
fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. 8 Let the floods
clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together 9 Before the LORD; for he
cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and
the people with equity.
Psalms 99
1 The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the
cherubims; let the earth be moved. 2 The LORD is great in Zion; and he is
high above all the people. 3 Let them praise thy great and terrible name;
for it is holy. 4 The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost
establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob. 5
Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy. 6
Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his
name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them. 7 He spake unto them
in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he
gave them. 8 Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that
forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions. 9 Exalt
the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is
holy.
Psalms 100
1 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. 2 Serve the LORD with
gladness: come before his presence with singing. 3 Know ye that the LORD he
is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people,
and the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and
into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. 5 For
the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all
generations.
Psalms 101
1 I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing. 2 I
will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I
will walk within my house with a perfect heart. 3 I will set no wicked thing
before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not
cleave to me. 4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a
wicked person. 5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off:
him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer. 6 Mine eyes
shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that
walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me. 7 He that worketh deceit shall
not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all
wicked doers from the city of the LORD.
Psalms 102
1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee. 2 Hide not thy face
from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the
day when I call answer me speedily. 3 For my days are consumed like smoke,
and my bones are burned as an hearth. 4 My heart is smitten, and withered
like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my
groaning my bones cleave to my skin. 6 I am like a pelican of the
wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. 7 I watch, and am as a sparrow
alone upon the house top. 8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they
that are mad against me are sworn against me. 9 For I have eaten ashes like
bread, and mingled my drink with weeping. 10 Because of thine indignation
and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down. 11 My days are
like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass. 12 But thou, O
LORD, shall endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations. 13
Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea,
the set time, is come. 14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and
favour the dust thereof. 15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD,
and all the kings of the earth thy glory. 16 When the LORD shall build up
Zion, he shall appear in his glory. 17 He will regard the prayer of the
destitute, and not despise their prayer. 18 This shall be written for the
generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the
LORD. 19 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from
heaven did the LORD behold the earth; 20 To hear the groaning of the
prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death; 21 To declare the name
of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem; 22 When the people are
gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD. 23 He weakened my
strength in the way; he shortened my days. 24 I said, O my God, take me not
away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations. 25
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the
work of thy hands. 26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of
them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and
they shall be changed: 27 But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no
end. 28 The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be
established before thee.
Psalms 103
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: 3 Who
forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; 4 Who
redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness
and tender mercies; 5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy
youth is renewed like the eagle's. 6 The LORD executeth righteousness and
judgment for all that are oppressed. 7 He made known his ways unto Moses,
his acts unto the children of Israel. 8 The LORD is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. 9 He will not always chide: neither
will he keep his anger for ever. 10 He hath not dealt with us after our
sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. 11 For as the heaven is
high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. 12 As
far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions
from us. 13 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them
that fear him. 14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he
flourisheth. 16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place
thereof shall know it no more. 17 But the mercy of the LORD is from
everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness
unto children's children; 18 To such as keep his covenant, and to those that
remember his commandments to do them. 19 The LORD hath prepared his throne
in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all. 20 Bless the LORD, ye his
angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto
the voice of his word. 21 Bless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts; ye ministers
of his, that do his pleasure. 22 Bless the LORD, all his works in all places
of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul.
Psalms 104
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art
clothed with honour and majesty. 2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a
garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: 3 Who layeth the
beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who
walketh upon the wings of the wind: 4 Who maketh his angels spirits; his
ministers a flaming fire: 5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it
should not be removed for ever. 6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a
garment: the waters stood above the mountains. 7 At thy rebuke they fled; at
the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. 8 They go up by the mountains;
they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not
again to cover the earth. 10 He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which
run among the hills. 11 They give drink to every beast of the field: the
wild asses quench their thirst. 12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven
have their habitation, which sing among the branches. 13 He watereth the
hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.
14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of
man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; 15 And wine that maketh
glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which
strengtheneth man's heart. 16 The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the
cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted; 17 Where the birds make their
nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house. 18 The high hills are
a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies. 19 He appointed
the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down. 20 Thou makest
darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep
forth. 21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from
God. 22 The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down
in their dens. 23 Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the
evening. 24 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made
them all: the earth is full of thy riches. 25 So is this great and wide sea,
wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. 26
There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play
therein. 27 These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat
in due season. 28 That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine
hand, they are filled with good. 29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled:
thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. 30 Thou
sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of
the earth. 31 The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall
rejoice in his works. 32 He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he
toucheth the hills, and they smoke. 33 I will sing unto the LORD as long as
I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. 34 My meditation
of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD. 35 Let the sinners be
consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the
LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms 105
1 O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds
among the people. 2 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his
wondrous works. 3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice
that seek the LORD. 4 Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face
evermore. 5 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders,
and the judgments of his mouth; 6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye
children of Jacob his chosen. 7 He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in
all the earth. 8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he
commanded to a thousand generations. 9 Which covenant he made with Abraham,
and his oath unto Isaac; 10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and
to Israel for an everlasting covenant: 11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the
land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance: 12 When they were but a few men
in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it. 13 When they went from one
nation to another, from one kingdom to another people; 14 He suffered no man
to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes; 15 Saying, Touch
not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm. 16 Moreover he called for a
famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread. 17 He sent a man
before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant: 18 Whose feet they
hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: 19 Until the time that his word
came: the word of the LORD tried him. 20 The king sent and loosed him; even
the ruler of the people, and let him go free. 21 He made him lord of his
house, and ruler of all his substance: 22 To bind his princes at his
pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom. 23 Israel also came into Egypt; and
Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. 24 And he increased his people greatly;
and made them stronger than their enemies. 25 He turned their heart to hate
his people, to deal subtilly with his servants. 26 He sent Moses his
servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen. 27 They shewed his signs among them,
and wonders in the land of Ham. 28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; and
they rebelled not against his word. 29 He turned their waters into blood,
and slew their fish. 30 Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the
chambers of their kings. 31 He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies,
and lice in all their coasts. 32 He gave them hail for rain, and flaming
fire in their land. 33 He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and
brake the trees of their coasts. 34 He spake, and the locusts came, and
caterpillers, and that without number, 35 And did eat up all the herbs in
their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground. 36 He smote also all the
firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength. 37 He brought them
forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among
their tribes. 38 Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them
fell upon them. 39 He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light
in the night. 40 The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them
with the bread of heaven. 41 He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out;
they ran in the dry places like a river. 42 For he remembered his holy
promise, and Abraham his servant. 43 And he brought forth his people with
joy, and his chosen with gladness: 44 And gave them the lands of the
heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people; 45 That they might
observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms 106
1 Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his
mercy endureth for ever. 2 Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? who
can shew forth all his praise? 3 Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he
that doeth righteousness at all times. 4 Remember me, O LORD, with the
favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation; 5
That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of
thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance. 6 We have sinned with
our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly. 7 Our
fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the
multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his
mighty power to be known. 9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried
up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness. 10 And he
saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the
hand of the enemy. 11 And the waters covered their enemies: there was not
one of them left. 12 Then believed they his words; they sang his praise. 13
They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel: 14 But lusted
exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. 15 And he gave
them their request; but sent leanness into their soul. 16 They envied Moses
also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD. 17 The earth opened and
swallowed up Dathan and covered the company of Abiram. 18 And a fire was
kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked. 19 They made a
calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image. 20 Thus they changed their
glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. 21 They forgat God
their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt; 22 Wondrous works in
the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea. 23 Therefore he said
that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the
breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them. 24 Yea, they
despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word: 25 But murmured in
their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD. 26 Therefore he
lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness: 27 To
overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the
lands. 28 They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices
of the dead. 29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and
the plague brake in upon them. 30 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed
judgment: and so the plague was stayed. 31 And that was counted unto him for
righteousness unto all generations for evermore. 32 They angered him also at
the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes: 33
Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his
lips. 34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD
commanded them: 35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their
works. 36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. 37 Yea,
they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, 38 And shed
innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom
they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with
blood. 39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring
with their own inventions. 40 Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled
against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance. 41 And he
gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over
them. 42 Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into
subjection under their hand. 43 Many times did he deliver them; but they
provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity. 44
Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry: 45 And
he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude
of his mercies. 46 He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried
them captives. 47 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the
heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise. 48
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let
all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms 107
1 O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for
ever. 2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the
hand of the enemy; 3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and
from the west, from the north, and from the south. 4 They wandered in the
wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in. 5 Hungry and
thirsty, their soul fainted in them. 6 Then they cried unto the LORD in
their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses. 7 And he led
them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation. 8
Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful
works to the children of men! 9 For he satisfieth the longing soul, and
filleth the hungry soul with goodness. 10 Such as sit in darkness and in the
shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron; 11 Because they
rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most
High: 12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down,
and there was none to help. 13 Then they cried unto the LORD in their
trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. 14 He brought them out
of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder. 15 Oh
that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works
to the children of men! 16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut
the bars of iron in sunder. 17 Fools because of their transgression, and
because of their iniquities, are afflicted. 18 Their soul abhorreth all
manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death. 19 Then they cry
unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.
20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their
destructions. 21 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for
his wonderful works to the children of men! 22 And let them sacrifice the
sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing. 23 They
that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; 24 These
see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep. 25 For he commandeth,
and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. 26 They
mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is
melted because of trouble. 27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a
drunken man, and are at their wit's end. 28 Then they cry unto the LORD in
their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. 29 He maketh
the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. 30 Then are they glad
because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven. 31 Oh
that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works
to the children of men! 32 Let them exalt him also in the congregation of
the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders. 33 He turneth
rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; 34 A
fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell
therein. 35 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground
into watersprings. 36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may
prepare a city for habitation; 37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards,
which may yield fruits of increase. 38 He blesseth them also, so that they
are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease. 39
Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and
sorrow. 40 He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in
the wilderness, where there is no way. 41 Yet setteth he the poor on high
from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock. 42 The righteous
shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth. 43 Whoso
is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the
lovingkindness of the LORD.
Psalms 108
1 O god, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.
2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early. 3 I will praise thee,
O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the
nations. 4 For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth
unto the clouds. 5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory
above all the earth; 6 That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy
right hand, and answer me. 7 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will
rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth. 8 Gilead
is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah
is my lawgiver; 9 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe;
over Philistia will I triumph. 10 Who will bring me into the strong city?
who will lead me into Edom? 11 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off?
and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts? 12 Give us help from
trouble: for vain is the help of man. 13 Through God we shall do valiantly:
for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
Psalms 109
1 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise; 2 For the mouth of the wicked and
the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against
me with a lying tongue. 3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred;
and fought against me without a cause. 4 For my love they are my
adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. 5 And they have rewarded me evil
for good, and hatred for my love. 6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let
Satan stand at his right hand. 7 When he shall be judged, let him be
condemned: and let his prayer become sin. 8 Let his days be few; and let
another take his office. 9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a
widow. 10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek
their bread also out of their desolate places. 11 Let the extortioner catch
all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. 12 Let there be
none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his
fatherless children. 13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation
following let their name be blotted out. 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers
be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted
out. 15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the
memory of them from the earth. 16 Because that he remembered not to shew
mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the
broken in heart. 17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he
delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him. 18 As he clothed
himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his
bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. 19 Let it be unto him as the
garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded
continually. 20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD,
and of them that speak evil against my soul. 21 But do thou for me, O GOD
the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. 23 I am gone
like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. 24
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness. 25 I
became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their
heads. 26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy: 27 That
they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it. 28 Let
them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let
thy servant rejoice. 29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let
them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle. 30 I will
greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the
multitude. 31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him
from those that condemn his soul.
Psalms 110
1 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine
enemies thy footstool. 2 The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of
Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. 3 Thy people shall be willing
in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the
morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. 4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not
repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. 5 The
Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. 6
He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead
bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries. 7 He shall drink of
the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.
Psalms 111
1 Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the
assembly of the upright, and in the congregation. 2 The works of the LORD
are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein. 3 His work is
honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever. 4 He hath
made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD is gracious and full of
compassion. 5 He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be
mindful of his covenant. 6 He hath shewed his people the power of his works,
that he may give them the heritage of the heathen. 7 The works of his hands
are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure. 8 They stand fast
for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness. 9 He sent
redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy
and reverend is his name. 10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of
wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his
praise endureth for ever.
Psalms 112
1 Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that
delighteth greatly in his commandments. 2 His seed shall be mighty upon
earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed. 3 Wealth and riches
shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever. 4 Unto the
upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of
compassion, and righteous. 5 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will
guide his affairs with discretion. 6 Surely he shall not be moved for ever:
the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. 7 He shall not be afraid
of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD. 8 His heart is
established, he shall not be afraid, until he see his desire upon his
enemies. 9 He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness
endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour. 10 The wicked
shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away:
the desire of the wicked shall perish.
Psalms 113
1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of
the LORD. 2 Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for
evermore. 3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the
LORD's name is to be praised. 4 The LORD is high above all nations, and his
glory above the heavens. 5 Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth
on high, 6 Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and
in the earth! 7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the
needy out of the dunghill; 8 That he may set him with princes, even with the
princes of his people. 9 He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be
a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms 114
1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange
language; 2 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion. 3 The sea saw
it, and fled: Jordan was driven back. 4 The mountains skipped like rams, and
the little hills like lambs. 5 What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou
fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? 6 Ye mountains, that ye
skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs? 7 Tremble, thou earth,
at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; 8 Which
turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
Psalms 115
1 Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy
mercy, and for thy truth's sake. 2 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where
is now their God? 3 But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever
he hath pleased. 4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: 6
They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: 7
They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not:
neither speak they through their throat. 8 They that make them are like unto
them; so is every one that trusteth in them. 9 O Israel, trust thou in the
LORD: he is their help and their shield. 10 O house of Aaron, trust in the
LORD: he is their help and their shield. 11 Ye that fear the LORD, trust in
the LORD: he is their help and their shield. 12 The LORD hath been mindful
of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless
the house of Aaron. 13 He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and
great. 14 The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
15 Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth. 16 The heaven,
even the heavens, are the LORD's: but the earth hath he given to the
children of men. 17 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down
into silence. 18 But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for
evermore. Praise the LORD.
Psalms 116
1 I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. 2
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as
long as I live. 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell
gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. 4 Then called I upon the name
of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. 5 Gracious is the
LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. 6 The LORD preserveth the
simple: I was brought low, and he helped me. 7 Return unto thy rest, O my
soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee. 8 For thou hast
delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from
falling. 9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. 10 I
believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: 11 I said in my
haste, All men are liars. 12 What shall I render unto the LORD for all his
benefits toward me? 13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the
name of the LORD. 14 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of
all his people. 15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his
saints. 16 O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of
thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds. 17 I will offer to thee the
sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD. 18 I
will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people. 19 In
the courts of the LORD's house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye
the LORD.
Psalms 117
1 O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. 2 For his
merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for
ever. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms 118
1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth
for ever. 2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy endureth for ever. 3 Let the
house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endureth for ever. 4 Let them now
that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endureth for ever. 5 I called upon
the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place. 6
The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me? 7 The LORD
taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon
them that hate me. 8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put
confidence in man. 9 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put
confidence in princes. 10 All nations compassed me about: but in the name of
the LORD will I destroy them. 11 They compassed me about; yea, they
compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. 12 They
compassed me about like bees: they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for
in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. 13 Thou hast thrust sore at me
that I might fall: but the LORD helped me. 14 The LORD is my strength and
song, and is become my salvation. 15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is
in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth
valiantly. 16 The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the
LORD doeth valiantly. 17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of
the LORD. 18 The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over
unto death. 19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them,
and I will praise the LORD: 20 This gate of the LORD, into which the
righteous shall enter. 21 I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and
art become my salvation. 22 The stone which the builders refused is become
the head stone of the corner. 23 This is the LORD's doing; it is marvellous
in our eyes. 24 This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice
and be glad in it. 25 Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech
thee, send now prosperity. 26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the
LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD. 27 God is the LORD,
which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the
horns of the altar. 28 Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my
God, I will exalt thee. 29 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for
his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms 119
1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. 2
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole
heart. 3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. 4 Thou hast
commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. 5 O that my ways were directed
to keep thy statutes! 6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect
unto all thy commandments. 7 I will praise thee with uprightness of heart,
when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. 8 I will keep thy
statutes: O forsake me not utterly. 9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse
his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. 10 With my whole
heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. 11 Thy
word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. 12 Blessed
art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes. 13 With my lips have I declared all
the judgments of thy mouth. 14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy
testimonies, as much as in all riches. 15 I will meditate in thy precepts,
and have respect unto thy ways. 16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I
will not forget thy word. 17 Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may
live, and keep thy word. 18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous
things out of thy law. 19 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy
commandments from me. 20 My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto
thy judgments at all times. 21 Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed,
which do err from thy commandments. 22 Remove from me reproach and contempt;
for I have kept thy testimonies. 23 Princes also did sit and speak against
me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes. 24 Thy testimonies also
are my delight and my counsellors.leth. 25 My soul cleaveth unto the dust:
quicken thou me according to thy word. 26 I have declared my ways, and thou
heardest me: teach me thy statutes. 27 Make me to understand the way of thy
precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. 28 My soul melteth for
heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word. 29 Remove from me the
way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. 30 I have chosen the way of
truth: thy judgments have I laid before me. 31 I have stuck unto thy
testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame. 32 I will run the way of thy
commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart. 33 Teach me, O LORD, the way
of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end. 34 Give me understanding,
and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. 35
Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight. 36
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. 37 Turn away
mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way. 38 Stablish
thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear. 39 Turn away my
reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good. 40 Behold, I have longed
after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness. 41 Let thy mercies come
also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word. 42 So shall
I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.
43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped
in thy judgments. 44 So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.
45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts. 46 I will speak of
thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed. 47 And I will
delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved. 48 My hands also
will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will
meditate in thy statutes. 49 Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which
thou hast caused me to hope. 50 This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy
word hath quickened me. 51 The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet
have I not declined from thy law. 52 I remembered thy judgments of old, O
LORD; and have comforted myself. 53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because
of the wicked that forsake thy law. 54 Thy statutes have been my songs in
the house of my pilgrimage. 55 I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the
night, and have kept thy law. 56 This I had, because I kept thy precepts. 57
Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words. 58 I
intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to
thy word. 59 I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
60 I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments. 61 The bands of
the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law. 62 At midnight
I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments. 63
I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy
precepts. 64 The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.
65 Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word.
66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy
commandments. 67 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept
thy word. 68 Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes. 69 The
proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my
whole heart. 70 Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy
statutes. 72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold
and silver. 73 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me
understanding, that I may learn thy commandments. 74 They that fear thee
will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word. 75 I know,
O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast
afflicted me. 76 Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort,
according to thy word unto thy servant. 77 Let thy tender mercies come unto
me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight. 78 Let the proud be ashamed;
for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in
thy precepts. 79 Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have
known thy testimonies. 80 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be
not ashamed. 81 My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
82 Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me? 83 For I
am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes. 84
How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on
them that persecute me? 85 The proud have digged pits for me, which are not
after thy law. 86 All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me
wrongfully; help thou me. 87 They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I
forsook not thy precepts. 88 Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I
keep the testimony of thy mouth. 89 For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in
heaven. 90 Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established
the earth, and it abideth. 91 They continue this day according to thine
ordinances: for all are thy servants. 92 Unless thy law had been my
delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. 93 I will never
forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me. 94 I am thine,
save me: for I have sought thy precepts. 95 The wicked have waited for me to
destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies. 96 I have seen an end of
all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad. 97 O how I love thy
law! it is my meditation all the day. 98 Thou through thy commandments hast
made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. 99 I have more
understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. 101 I
have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. 102
I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me. 103 How
sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 104
Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. 106 I have
sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments. 107
I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word. 108
Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and
teach me thy judgments. 109 My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not
forget thy law. 110 The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not
from thy precepts. 111 Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever:
for they are the rejoicing of my heart. 112 I have inclined mine heart to
perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end. 113 I hate vain thoughts: but
thy law do I love. 114 Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy
word. 115 Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of
my God. 116 Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me
not be ashamed of my hope. 117 Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I
will have respect unto thy statutes continually. 118 Thou hast trodden down
all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood. 119 Thou
puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy
testimonies. 120 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy
judgments. 121 I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine
oppressors. 122 Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud
oppress me. 123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy
righteousness. 124 Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach
me thy statutes. 125 I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may
know thy testimonies. 126 It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have
made void thy law. 127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea,
above fine gold. 128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all
things to be right; and I hate every false way. 129 Thy testimonies are
wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them. 130 The entrance of thy words
giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple. 131 I opened my
mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments. 132 Look thou upon me,
and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.
133 Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over
me. 134 Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes. 136
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law. 137
Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments. 138 Thy
testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful. 139 My
zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words. 140
Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it. 141 I am small and
despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts. 142 Thy righteousness is an
everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth. 143 Trouble and anguish
have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights. 144 The
righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and
I shall live. 145 I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep
thy statutes. 146 I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy
testimonies. 147 I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped
in thy word. 148 Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate
in thy word. 149 Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD,
quicken me according to thy judgment. 150 They draw nigh that follow after
mischief: they are far from thy law. 151 Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy
commandments are truth. 152 Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old
that thou hast founded them for ever. 153 Consider mine affliction, and
deliver me: for I do not forget thy law. 154 Plead my cause, and deliver me:
quicken me according to thy word. 155 Salvation is far from the wicked: for
they seek not thy statutes. 156 Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD:
quicken me according to thy judgments. 157 Many are my persecutors and mine
enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies. 158 I beheld the
transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word. 159 Consider
how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous
judgments endureth for ever. 161 Princes have persecuted me without a cause:
but my heart standeth in awe of thy word. 162 I rejoice at thy word, as one
that findeth great spoil. 163 I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
164 Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.
165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
166 LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments. 167 My
soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly. 168 I have kept
thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee. 169 Let
my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy
word. 170 Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy
word. 171 My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
172 My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are
righteousness. 173 Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
174 I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight. 175
Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not
forget thy commandments.
Psalms 120
1 In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me. 2 Deliver my soul,
O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. 3 What shall be given
unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue? 4 Sharp
arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. 5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in
Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! 6 My soul hath long dwelt with
him that hateth peace. 7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
Psalms 121
1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. 2 My
help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. 3 He will not suffer
thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. 4 Behold, he
that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. 5 The LORD is thy
keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand. 6 The sun shall not smite
thee by day, nor the moon by night. 7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all
evil: he shall preserve thy soul. 8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out
and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
Psalms 122
1 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. 2
Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. 3 Jerusalem is builded
as a city that is compact together: 4 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes
of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of
the LORD. 5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house
of David. 6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love
thee. 7 Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. 8 For
my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee. 9
Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.
Psalms 123
1 Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. 2
Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as
the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon
the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us. 3 Have mercy upon us, O
LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. 4 Our
soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and
with the contempt of the proud.
Psalms 124
1 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say; 2 If
it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us: 3
Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against
us: 4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. 6 Blessed be the LORD, who
hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. 7 Our soul is escaped as a bird
out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. 8
Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
Psalms 125
1 They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be
removed, but abideth for ever. 2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem,
so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever. 3 For
the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the
righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity. 4 Do good, O LORD, unto those
that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts. 5 As for such as
turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the
workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
Psalms 126
1 When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that
dream. 2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with
singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things
for them. 3 The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad. 4
Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south. 5 They that
sow in tears shall reap in joy. 6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing
precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his
sheaves with him.
Psalms 127
1 Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except
the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. 2 It is vain for
you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he
giveth his beloved sleep. 3 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and
the fruit of the womb is his reward. 4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty
man; so are children of the youth. 5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver
full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the
enemies in the gate.
Psalms 128
1 Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways. 2
For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it
shall be well with thee. 3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides
of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. 4
Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD. 5 The LORD
shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all
the days of thy life. 6 Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and
peace upon Israel.
Psalms 129
1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: 2
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not
prevailed against me. 3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long
their furrows. 4 The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the
wicked. 5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. 6 Let
them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth
up: 7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves
his bosom. 8 Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be
upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
Psalms 130
1 Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. 2 Lord, hear my voice:
let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. 3 If thou,
LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? 4 But there is
forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. 5 I wait for the LORD, my
soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. 6 My soul waiteth for the Lord
more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch
for the morning. 7 Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is
mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. 8 And he shall redeem Israel
from all his iniquities.
Psalms 131
1 Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise
myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. 2 Surely I have
behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul
is even as a weaned child. 3 Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and
for ever.
Psalms 132
1 Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions: 2 How he sware unto the
LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob; 3 Surely I will not come into
the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed; 4 I will not give sleep
to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids, 5 Until I find out a place for the
LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob. 6 Lo, we heard of it at
Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood. 7 We will go into his
tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool. 8 Arise, O LORD, into thy
rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength. 9 Let thy priests be clothed with
righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy. 10 For thy servant David's
sake turn not away the face of thine anointed. 11 The LORD hath sworn in
truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I
set upon thy throne. 12 If thy children will keep my covenant and my
testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy
throne for evermore. 13 For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it
for his habitation. 14 This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I
have desired it. 15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy
her poor with bread. 16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and
her saints shall shout aloud for joy. 17 There will I make the horn of David
to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed. 18 His enemies will I
clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.
Psalms 133
1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in
unity! 2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon
the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;
3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of
Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Psalms 134
1 Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD, which by night
stand in the house of the LORD. 2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and
bless the LORD. 3 The LORD that made heaven and earth bless thee out of
Zion.
Psalms 135
1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the name of the LORD; praise him, O ye
servants of the LORD. 2 Ye that stand in the house of the LORD, in the
courts of the house of our God. 3 Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good:
sing praises unto his name; for it is pleasant. 4 For the LORD hath chosen
Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure. 5 For I know that
the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods. 6 Whatsoever the
LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep
places. 7 He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he
maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.
8 Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast. 9 Who sent tokens
and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his
servants. 10 Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings; 11 Sihon king
of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan: 12
And gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people. 13
Thy name, O LORD, endureth for ever; and thy memorial, O LORD, throughout
all generations. 14 For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent
himself concerning his servants. 15 The idols of the heathen are silver and
gold, the work of men's hands. 16 They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes
have they, but they see not; 17 They have ears, but they hear not; neither
is there any breath in their mouths. 18 They that make them are like unto
them: so is every one that trusteth in them. 19 Bless the LORD, O house of
Israel: bless the LORD, O house of Aaron: 20 Bless the LORD, O house of
Levi: ye that fear the LORD, bless the LORD. 21 Blessed be the LORD out of
Zion, which dwelleth at Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms 136
1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for
ever. 2 O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever.
3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever. 4 To
him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever. 5 To him
that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever. 6 To him
that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for
ever. 7 To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever: 8
The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever: 9 The moon and
stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever. 10 To him that
smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever: 11 And
brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for ever: 12 With
a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for
ever. 13 To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth
for ever: 14 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy
endureth for ever: 15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for
his mercy endureth for ever. 16 To him which led his people through the
wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever. 17 To him which smote great
kings: for his mercy endureth for ever: 18 And slew famous kings: for his
mercy endureth for ever: 19 Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy
endureth for ever: 20 And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endureth for
ever: 21 And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for
ever: 22 Even an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy endureth
for ever. 23 Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for
ever: 24 And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for
ever. 25 Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever. 26 O
give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms 137
1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we
remembered Zion. 2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst
thereof. 3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a
song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of
the songs of Zion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land? 5
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. 6 If I
do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I
prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. 7 Remember, O LORD, the children of
Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the
foundation thereof. 8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy
shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. 9 Happy shall he
be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Psalms 138
1 I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise
unto thee. 2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for
thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above
all thy name. 3 In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and
strengthenedst me with strength in my soul. 4 All the kings of the earth
shall praise thee, O LORD, when they hear the words of thy mouth. 5 Yea,
they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD.
6 Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud
he knoweth afar off. 7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt
revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine
enemies, and thy right hand shall save me. 8 The LORD will perfect that
which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the
works of thine own hands.
Psalms 139
1 O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. 2 Thou knowest my downsitting
and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. 3 Thou compassest
my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. 4 For there
is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. 5
Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. 6 Such
knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. 7
Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy
presence? 8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in
hell, behold, thou art there. 9 If I take the wings of the morning, and
dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; 10 Even there shall thy hand lead
me, and thy right hand shall hold me. 11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall
cover me; even the night shall be light about me. 12 Yea, the darkness
hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the
light are both alike to thee. 13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast
covered me in my mother's womb. 14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully
and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth
right well. 15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in
secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Thine
eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my
members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there
was none of them. 17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how
great is the sum of them! 18 If I should count them, they are more in number
than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. 19 Surely thou wilt slay
the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men. 20 For they
speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain. 21 Do
not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those
that rise up against thee? 22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them
mine enemies. 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my
thoughts: 24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the
way everlasting.
Psalms 140
1 Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man; 2
Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered
together for war. 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent;
adders' poison is under their lips. Selah. 4 Keep me, O LORD, from the hands
of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to
overthrow my goings. 5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they
have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah. 6 I said
unto the LORD, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD.
7 O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in
the day of battle. 8 Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further
not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah. 9 As for the head
of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover
them. 10 Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire;
into deep pits, that they rise not up again. 11 Let not an evil speaker be
established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the
right of the poor. 13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name:
the upright shall dwell in thy presence.
Psalms 141
1 Lord, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I
cry unto thee. 2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the
lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. 3 Set a watch, O LORD,
before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. 4 Incline not my heart to any
evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me
not eat of their dainties. 5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a
kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall
not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities. 6
When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words;
for they are sweet. 7 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when
one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth. 8 But mine eyes are unto thee,
O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. 9 Keep me
from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of
iniquity. 10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal
escape.
Psalms 142
1 I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I
make my supplication. 2 I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed
before him my trouble. 3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou
knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare
for me. 4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that
would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. 5 I cried unto
thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the
living. 6 Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my
persecutors; for they are stronger than I. 7 Bring my soul out of prison,
that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou
shalt deal bountifully with me.
Psalms 143
1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness
answer me, and in thy righteousness. 2 And enter not into judgment with thy
servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. 3 For the enemy
hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath
made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead. 4 Therefore
is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. 5 I
remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of
thy hands. 6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after
thee, as a thirsty land. Selah. 7 Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit
faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down
into the pit. 8 Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in
thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift
up my soul unto thee. 9 Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto
thee to hide me. 10 Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit
is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. 11 Quicken me, O LORD, for
thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.
12 And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict
my soul: for I am thy servant.
Psalms 144
1 Blessed be the LORD my strength which teacheth my hands to war, and my
fingers to fight: 2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my
deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under
me. 3 LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of
man, that thou makest account of him! 4 Man is like to vanity: his days are
as a shadow that passeth away. 5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down:
touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. 6 Cast forth lightning, and
scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them. 7 Send thine hand
from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of
strange children; 8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a
right hand of falsehood. 9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a
psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee. 10
It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant
from the hurtful sword. 11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange
children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand
of falsehood: 12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth;
that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of
a palace: 13 That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store:
that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
14 That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor
going out; that there be no complaining in our streets. 15 Happy is that
people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the
LORD.
Psalms 145
1 I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and
ever. 2 Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and
ever. 3 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is
unsearchable. 4 One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall
declare thy mighty acts. 5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy
majesty, and of thy wondrous works. 6 And men shall speak of the might of
thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness. 7 They shall abundantly
utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.
8 The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great
mercy. 9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his
works. 10 All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall
bless thee. 11 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy
power; 12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious
majesty of his kingdom. 13 Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy
dominion endureth throughout all generations. 14 The LORD upholdeth all that
fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down. 15 The eyes of all wait
upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. 16 Thou openest
thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. 17 The LORD is
righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. 18 The LORD is nigh
unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. 19 He
will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry,
and will save them. 20 The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all
the wicked will he destroy. 21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD:
and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.
Psalms 146
1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul. 2 While I live will I
praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. 3
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no
help. 4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day
his thoughts perish. 5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help,
whose hope is in the LORD his God: 6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea,
and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever: 7 Which executeth
judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD
looseth the prisoners: 8 The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD
raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous: 9 The LORD
preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way
of the wicked he turneth upside down. 10 The LORD shall reign for ever, even
thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms 147
1 Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is
pleasant; and praise is comely. 2 The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he
gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. 3 He healeth the broken in heart,
and bindeth up their wounds. 4 He telleth the number of the stars; he
calleth them all by their names. 5 Great is our Lord, and of great power:
his understanding is infinite. 6 The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth
the wicked down to the ground. 7 Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing
praise upon the harp unto our God: 8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds,
who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the
mountains. 9 He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which
cry. 10 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not
pleasure in the legs of a man. 11 The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear
him, in those that hope in his mercy. 12 Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem;
praise thy God, O Zion. 13 For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates;
he hath blessed thy children within thee. 14 He maketh peace in thy borders,
and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat. 15 He sendeth forth his
commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly. 16 He giveth snow
like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. 17 He casteth forth his
ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold? 18 He sendeth out his word,
and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow. 19 He
sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. 20
He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have
not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms 148
1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the
heights. 2 Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts. 3
Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light. 4 Praise
him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens. 5 Let
them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created. 6
He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which
shall not pass. 7 Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:
8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his word: 9
Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars: 10 Beasts, and all
cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl: 11 Kings of the earth, and all
people; princes, and all judges of the earth: 12 Both young men, and
maidens; old men, and children: 13 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for
his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven. 14 He
also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of
the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms 149
1 Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise in the
congregation of saints. 2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the
children of Zion be joyful in their King. 3 Let them praise his name in the
dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp. 4 For the
LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with
salvation. 5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon
their beds. 6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged
sword in their hand; 7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and
punishments upon the people; 8 To bind their kings with chains, and their
nobles with fetters of iron; 9 To execute upon them the judgment written:
this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms 150
1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the
firmament of his power. 2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him
according to his excellent greatness. 3 Praise him with the sound of the
trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. 4 Praise him with the
timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. 5 Praise
him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. 6 Let
every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.