The Book of
Psalms
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.
1:2 But his delight
is
in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
1:3 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.
1:4 The ungodly
are
not so: but
are
like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
1:5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the
congregation of the righteous.
1:6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly
shall perish.
Psalms Chapter 2
2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel
together, against the LORD, and against his anointed,
saying
,
2:3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in
derision.
2:5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore
displeasure.
2:6
Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
2:7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou
art
my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
2:8 Ask of me, and I shall give
thee
the heathen
for
thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth
for
thy possession.
2:9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces
like a potter's vessel.
2:10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
2:11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
2:12 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.
Psalms Chapter 3
A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
3:1 LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many
are
they that rise up against me.
3:2 Many
there be
which say of my soul,
There is
no help for him in God. Selah.
3:3 But thou, O LORD,
art
a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
3:4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill.
Selah.
3:5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
3:6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set
themselves
against me round about.
3:7 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.
3:8 Salvation
belongeth
unto the LORD: thy blessing
is
upon thy people. Selah.
Psalms Chapter 4
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David.
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.
4:2 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.
4:3 But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the
LORD will hear when I call unto him.
4:4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and
be still. Selah.
4:5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.
4:6
There be
many that say, Who will shew us
any
good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
4:7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time
that
their corn and their wine increased.
4:8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me
dwell in safety.
Psalms Chapter 5
To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David.
5:1 Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
5:2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I
pray.
5:3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I
direct
my prayer
unto thee, and will look up.
5:4 For thou
art
not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with
thee.
5:5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of
iniquity.
5:6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody
and deceitful man.
5:7 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.
5:8 Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way
straight before my face.
5:9 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.
5:10 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.
5:11 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.
5:12 For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass
him as
with
a shield.
Psalms Chapter 6
To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.
6:1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot
displeasure.
6:2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I
am
weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
6:3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
6:4 Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.
For in death
there is
no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
6:6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water
my couch with my tears.
6:7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine
enemies.
6:8 Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the
voice of my weeping.
6:9 The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.
6:10 Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return
and
be ashamed suddenly.
Psalms Chapter 7
Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the LORD, concerning the words of Cush
the Benjamite.
7:1 O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that
persecute me, and deliver me:
7:2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending
it
in pieces, while
there is
none to deliver.
7:3 O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
7:4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have
delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
7:5 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.
7:6 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.
7:7 So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes
therefore return thou on high.
7:8 The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my
righteousness, and according to mine integrity
that is
in me.
7:9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just:
for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
7:10 My defence
is
of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
7:11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry
with the wicked
every day.
7:12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it
ready.
7:13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his
arrows against the persecutors.
7:14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and
brought forth falsehood.
7:15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch
which
he made.
7:16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall
come down upon his own pate.
7:17 I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing
praise to the name of the LORD most high.
Psalms Chapter 8
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.
8:1 O LORD our Lord, how excellent
is
thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
8:2 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.
8:3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the
stars, which thou hast ordained;
8:4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou
visitest him?
8:5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him
with glory and honour.
8:6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put
all
things
under his feet:
8:7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8:8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea,
and whatsoever
passeth through the paths of the seas.
8:9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent
is
thy name in all the earth!
Psalms Chapter 9
To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben, A Psalm of David.
9:1 I will praise
thee
, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.
9:2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou
most High.
9:3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy
presence.
9:4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne
judging right.
9:5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast
put out their name for ever and ever.
9:6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast
destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
9:7 But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for
judgment.
9:8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment
to the people in uprightness.
9:9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of
trouble.
9:10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD,
hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
9:11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people
his doings.
9:12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth
not the cry of the humble.
9:13 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:
9:14 That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion:
I will rejoice in thy salvation.
9:15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit
that
they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
9:16 The LORD is known
by
the judgment
which
he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion.
Selah.
9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell,
and
all the nations that forget God.
9:18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor
shall
not
perish for ever.
9:19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy
sight.
9:20 Put them in fear, O LORD:
that
the nations may know themselves
to be but
men. Selah.
Psalms Chapter 10
10:1 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD?
why
hidest thou
thyself
in times of trouble?
10:2 The wicked in
his
pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have
imagined.
10:3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous,
whom
the LORD abhorreth.
10:4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek
after God
: God
is
not in all his thoughts.
10:5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments
are
far above out of his sight:
as for
all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
10:6 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for
I shall
never
be
in adversity.
10:7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue
is
mischief and vanity.
10:8 He 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.
10:9 He 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.
10:10 He croucheth,
and
humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
10:11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he
will never see
it
.
10:12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
10:13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou
wilt not require
it
.
10:14 Thou 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.
10:15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil
man
: seek out his wickedness
till
thou find none.
10:16 The LORD
is
King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
10:17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their
heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
10:18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may
no more oppress.
Psalms Chapter 11
To the chief Musician,
A Psalm
of David.
11:1 In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee
as
a bird to your mountain?
11:2 For, lo, the wicked bend
their
bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot
at the upright in heart.
11:3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
11:4 The LORD
is
in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne
is
in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
11:5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence
his soul hateth.
11:6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible
tempest:
this shall be
the portion of their cup.
11:7 For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold
the upright.
Psalms Chapter 12
To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.
12:1 Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among
the children of men.
12:2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour:
with
flattering lips
and
with a double heart do they speak.
12:3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips,
and
the tongue that speaketh proud things:
12:4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips
are
our own: who
is
lord over us?
12:5 For 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.
12:6 The words of the LORD
are
pure words:
as
silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
12:7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this
generation for ever.
12:8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
Psalms Chapter 13
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
13:1 How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide
thy face from me?
13:2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul,
having
sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
13:3 Consider
and
hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the
sleep of
death;
13:4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him;
and
those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
13:5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
13:6 I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.
Psalms Chapter 14
To the chief Musician,
A Psalm
of David.
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.
14:2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there
were any that did understand,
and
seek God.
14:3 They are all gone aside, they are
all
together become filthy:
there is
none that doeth good, no, not one.
14:4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people
as
they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
14:5 There were they in great fear: for God
is
in the generation of the righteous.
14:6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD
is
his refuge.
14:7 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 Chapter 15
A Psalm of David.
15:LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
15:2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the
truth in his heart.
15:3
He that
backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up
a reproach against his neighbour.
15:4 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.
15:5
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 Chapter 16
Michtam of David.
16:1 Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
16:2
O my soul
, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou
art
my Lord: my goodness
extendeth
not to thee;
16:3
But
to the saints that
are
in the earth, and
to
the excellent, in whom
is
all my delight.
16:4 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.
16:5 The LORD
is
the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
16:6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant
places
; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
16:7 I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct
me in the night seasons.
16:8 I have set the LORD always before me: because
he is
at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
16:9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall
rest in hope.
16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine
Holy Oen to see corruption.
16:11 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 Chapter 17
A Prayer of David.
17:1 Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer,
that goeth
not out of feigned lips.
17:2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the
things that are equal.
17:3 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.
17:4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept
me from
the paths of the destroyer.
17:5 Hold up my goings in thy paths,
that
my footsteps slip not.
17:6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear
unto me,
and hear
my speech.
17:7 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
.
17:8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
17:9 From the wicked that oppress me,
from
my deadly enemies,
who
compass me about.
17:10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
17:11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing
down to the earth;
17:12 Like as a lion
that
is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
17:13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the
wicked,
which is
thy sword:
17:14 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.
17:15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied,
when I awake, with thy likeness.
Psalms Chapter 18
To the chief Musician,
A Psalm
of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this
song in the day
that
the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of
Saul: And he said,
18:1 I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
18:2 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.
18:3 I will call upon the LORD,
who is worthy
to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
18:4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me
afraid.
18:5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
18:6 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.
18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved
and were shaken, because he was wroth.
18:8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth
devoured: coals were kindled by it.
18:9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness
was
under his feet.
18:10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of
the wind.
18:11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him
were
dark waters
and
thick clouds of the skies.
18:12 At the brightness
that was
before him his thick clouds passed, hail
stones
and coals of fire.
18:13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice;
hail
stones
and coals of fire.
18:14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out
lightnings, and discomfited them.
18:15 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.
18:16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for
they were too strong for me.
18:18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
18:19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he
delighted in me.
18:20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the
cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
18:21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from
my God.
18:22 For all his judgments
were
before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
18:23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
18:24 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness,
according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
18:25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man
thou wilt shew thyself upright;
18:26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt
shew thyself froward.
18:27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
18:28 For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my
darkness.
18:29 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over
a wall.
18:30
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.
18:31 For who
is
God save the LORD? or who
is
a rock save our God?
18:32
It is
God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
18:33 He maketh my feet like hinds'
feet
, and setteth me upon my high places.
18:34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine
arms.
18:35 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.
18:36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
18:37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again
till they were consumed.
18:38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen
under my feet.
18:39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued
under me those that rose up against me.
18:40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy
them that hate me.
18:41 They cried, but
there was
none to save
them
:
even
unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
18:42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them
out as the dirt in the streets.
18:43 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.
18:44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall
submit themselves unto me.
18:45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
18:46 The LORD liveth; and blessed
be
my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
18:47
It is
God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
18:48 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.
18:49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and
sing praises unto thy name.
18:50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his
anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.
Psalms Chapter 19
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his
handywork.
19:2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
19:3
There is
no speech nor language,
where
their voice is not heard.
19:4 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,
19:5 Which
is
as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,
and
rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
19:6 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.
19:7 The law of the LORD
is
perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD
is
sure, making wise the simple.
19:8 The statutes of the LORD
are
right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD
is
pure, enlightening the eyes.
19:9 The fear of the LORD
is
clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD
are
true
and
righteous altogether.
19:10 More to be desired
are they
than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the
honeycomb.
19:11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned:
and
in keeping of them
there is
great reward.
19:12 Who can understand
his
errors? cleanse thou me from secret
faults
.
19:13 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.
19:14 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 Chapter 20
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
20:1 The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob
defend thee;
20:2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;
20:3 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
20:4 Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.
20:5 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.
20:6 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.
20:7 Some
trust
in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our
God.
20:8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
20:9 Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.
Psalms Chapter 21
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
21:1 The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how
greatly shall he rejoice!
21:2 Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the
request of his lips. Selah.
21:3 For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a
crown of pure gold on his head.
21:4 He asked life of thee,
and
thou gavest
it
him,
even
length of days for ever and ever.
21:5 His glory
is
great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.
21:6 For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding
glad with thy countenance.
21:7 For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High
he shall not be moved.
21:8 Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out
those that hate thee.
21:9 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.
21:10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among
the children of men.
21:11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device,
which
they are not able
to
perform
.
21:21 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back,
when
thou shalt make ready
thine arrows
upon thy strings against the face of them.
21:13 Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength:
so
will we sing and praise thy power.
Psalms Chapter 22
To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.
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?
22:2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night
season, and am not silent.
22:3 But thou
art
holy,
O thou
that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
22:4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
22:5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were
not confounded.
22:6 But I
am
a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
22:7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake
the head,
saying
,
22:8 He trusted on the LORD
that
he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
22:9 But thou
art
he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope
when I was
upon my mother's breasts.
22:10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou
art
my God from my mother's belly.
22:11 Be not far from me; for trouble
is
near; for
there is
none to help.
22:12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong
bulls
of Bashan have beset me round.
22:13 They gaped upon me
with
their mouths,
as
a ravening and a roaring lion.
22:14 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.
22:15 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.
22:16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me:
they pierced my hands and my feet.
22:17 I may tell all my bones: they look
and
stare upon me.
22:18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
22:19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help
me.
22:20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
22:21 Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of
the unicorns.
22:22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the
congregation will I praise thee.
22:23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him;
and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
22:24 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.
22:25 My praise
shall be
of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear
him.
22:26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek
him: your heart shall live for ever.
22:27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all
the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
22:28 For the kingdom
is
the LORD'S: and he
is
the governor among the nations.
22:29 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.
22:30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a
generation.
22:31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that
shall be born, that he hath done
this
.
Psalms Chapter 23
A Psalm of David.
23:1 The LORD
is
my shepherd; I shall not want.
23:2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still
waters.
23:3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his
name's sake.
23:4 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.
23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou
anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
23:6 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 Chapter 24
A Psalm of David.
24:1 The earth
is
the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
24:2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy
place?
24:4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his
soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
24:5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the
God of his salvation.
24:6 This
is
the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
24:7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors;
and the King of glory shall come in.
24:8 Who
is
this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
24:9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift
them
up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
24:10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he
is
the King of glory. Selah.
Psalms Chapter 25
A Psalm
of David.
25:1 Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
25:2 O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies
triumph over me.
25:3 Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which
transgress without cause.
25:4 Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.
25:5 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou
art
the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
25:6 Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they
have been
ever of old.
25:7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy
mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.
25:8 Good and upright
is
the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
25:9 The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
25:10 All the paths of the LORD
are
mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
25:11 For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it
is
great.
25:12 What man
is
he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way
that
he shall choose.
25:13 His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.
25:14 The secret of the LORD
is
with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.
25:15 Mine eyes
are
ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
25:16 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I
am
desolate and afflicted.
25:17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged:
O
bring thou me out of my distresses.
25:18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
25:19 Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel
hatred.
25:20 O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust
in thee.
25:21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
25:22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.
Psalms Chapter 26
A Psalm
of David.
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.
26:2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
26:3 For thy lovingkindness
is
before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.
26:4 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
26:5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the
wicked.
26:6 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O
LORD:
26:7 That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy
wondrous works.
26:8 LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine
honour dwelleth.
26:9 Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
26:10 In whose hands
is
mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
26:11 But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful
unto me.
26:12 My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the
LORD.
Psalms Chapter 27
A Psalm
of David.
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?
27:2 When the wicked,
even
mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and
fell.
27:3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though
war should rise against me, in this
will
I
be
confident.
27:4 Oen
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.
27:5 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.
27:6 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.
27:7 Hear, O LORD,
when
I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
27:8
When thou saidst
, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
27:9 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.
27:10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
27:11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine
enemies.
27:12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses
are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
27:13
I had fainted
, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the
living.
27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine
heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Psalms Chapter 28
A Psalm
of David.
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.
28:2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up
my hands toward thy holy oracle.
28:3 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.
28:4 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.
28:5 Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his
hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
28:6 Blessed
be
the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
28:7 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.
28:8 The LORD
is
their strength, and he
is
the saving strength of his anointed.
28:9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift
them up for ever.
Psalms Chapter 29
A Psalm of David.
29:1 Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.
29:2 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the
beauty of holiness.
29:3 The voice of the LORD
is
upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD
is
upon many waters.
29:4 The voice of the LORD
is
powerful; the voice of the LORD
is
full of majesty.
29:5 The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the
cedars of Lebanon.
29:6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young
unicorn.
29:7 The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.
29:8 The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the
wilderness of Kadesh.
29:9 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.
29:10 The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.
29:11 The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his
people with peace.
Psalms Chapter 30
A Psalm
and
Song
at
the dedication of the house of David.
30:1 I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made
my foes to rejoice over me.
30:2 O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
30:3 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.
30:4 Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance
of his holiness.
30:5 For his anger
endureth but
a moment; in his favour
is
life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy
cometh
in the morning.
30:6 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
30:7 LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst
hide thy face,
and
I was troubled.
30:8 I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.
30:9 What profit
is there
in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it
declare thy truth?
30:10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.
30:11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my
sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
30:12 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 Chapter 31
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
31:1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in
thy righteousness.
31:2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for
an house of defence to save me.
31:3 For thou
art
my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
31:4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou
art
my strength.
31:5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of
truth.
31:6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
31:7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my
trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
31:8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet
in a large room.
31:9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with
grief,
yea
, my soul and my belly.
31:10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength
faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
31:11 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.
31:12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
31:13 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.
31:14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou
art
my God.
31:15 My times
are
in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that
persecute me.
31:16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
31:17 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.
31:18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly
and contemptuously against the righteous.
31:19
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!
31:20 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.
31:21 Blessed
be
the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.
31:22 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.
31:23 O love the LORD, all ye his saints:
for
the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
31:24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope
in the LORD.
Psalms Chapter 32
A Psalm
of David, Maschil.
32: 1 Blessed
is he whose
transgression
is
forgiven,
whose
sin
is
covered.
32:2 Blessed
is
the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit
there is
no guile.
32:3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day
long.
32:4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into
the drought of summer. Selah.
32:5 I acknowledged 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.
32:6 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.
32:7 Thou
art
my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me
about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
32:8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will
guide thee with mine eye.
32:9 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.
32:10 Many sorrows
shall be
to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him
about.
32:11 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all
ye that are
upright in heart.
Psalms Chapter 33
33:1 Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous:
for
praise is comely for the upright.
33:2 Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery
and
an instrument of ten strings.
33:3 Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
33:4 For the word of the LORD
is
right; and all his works
are done
in truth.
33:5 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of
the LORD.
33:6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by
the breath of his mouth.
33:7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the
depth in storehouses.
33:8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world
stand in awe of him.
33:9 For he spake, and it was
done
; he commanded, and it stood fast.
33:10 The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the
devices of the people of none effect.
33:11 The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to
all generations.
33:12 Blessed
is
the nation whose God
is
the LORD;
and
the people
whom
he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
33:13 The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
33:14 From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of
the earth.
33:15 He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.
33:16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not
delivered by much strength.
33:17 An horse
is
a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver
any
by his great strength.
33:18 Behold, the eye of the LORD
is
upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
33:19 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
33:20 Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he
is
our help and our shield.
33:21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy
name.
33:22 Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.
Psalms Chapter 34
A Psalm
of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away,
and he departed.
34:1 I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise
shall
continually
be
in my mouth.
34:2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear
thereof
, and be glad.
34:3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
34:4 I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
34:5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not
ashamed.
34:6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard
him
, and saved him out of all his troubles.
34:7 The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and
delivereth them.
34:8 O taste and see that the LORD
is
good: blessed
is
the man
that
trusteth in him.
34:9 O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for
there is
no want to them that fear him.
34:10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD
shall not want any good
thing
.
34:11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the
LORD.
34:12 What man
is he that
desireth life,
and
loveth
many
days, that he may see good?
34:13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
34:14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
34:15 The eyes of the LORD
are
upon the righteous, and his ears
are open
unto their cry.
34:16 The face of the LORD
is
against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
34:17
The righteous
cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
34:18 The LORD
is
nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite
spirit.
34:19 Many
are
the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
34:20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be
desolate.
34:22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust
in him shall be desolate.
Psalms Chapter 35
A Psalm
of David.
35:1 Plead
my cause
, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against
me.
35:2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
35:3 Draw out also the spear, and stop
the way
against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I
am
thy salvation.
35:4 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.
35:5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase
them
.
35:6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD
persecute them.
35:7 For without cause have they hid for me their net
in
a pit,
which
without cause they have digged for my soul.
35:8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath
hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
35:9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his
salvation.
35:10 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?
35:11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge
things
that I knew not.
35:12 They rewarded me evil for good
to
the spoiling of my soul.
35:13 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.
35:14 I behaved myself as though
he had been
my friend
or
brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth
for his
mother.
35:15 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:
35:16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their
teeth.
35:17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions,
my darling from the lions.
35:18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee
among much people.
35:19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me:
neither
let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
35:20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against
them that are
quiet in the land.
35:21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me,
and
said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen
it
.
35:22
This
thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
35:23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment,
even
unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
35:24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not
rejoice over me.
35:25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not
say, We have swallowed him up.
35:26 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.
35:27 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.
35:28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness
and
of thy praise all the day long.
Psalms Chapter 36
To the chief Musician,
A Psalm
of David the servant of the LORD.
36:1 The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart,
that there is
no fear of God before his eyes.
36:2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to
be hateful.
36:3 The words of his mouth
are
iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise,
and
to do good.
36:4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way
that is
not good; he abhorreth not evil.
36:5 Thy mercy, O LORD,
is
in the heavens;
and
thy faithfulness
reacheth
unto the clouds.
36:6 Thy righteousness
is
like the great mountains; thy judgments
are
a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
36:7 How excellent
is
thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under
the shadow of thy wings.
36:8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou
shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
36:9 For with thee
is
the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
36:10 O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy
righteousness to the upright in heart.
36:11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the
wicked remove me.
36:12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall
not be able to rise.
Psalms Chapter 37
A Psalm
of David.
37:1 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the
workers of iniquity.
37:2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green
herb.
37:3 Trust in the LORD, and do good;
so
shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
37:4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of
thine heart.
37:5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring
it
to pass.
37:6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment
as the noonday.
37:7 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.
37:8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do
evil.
37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they
shall inherit the earth.
37:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked
shall
not
be
: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it
shall
not
be
.
37:11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the
abundance of peace.
37:12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his
teeth.
37:13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.
37:14 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.
37:15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be
broken.
37:16 A little that a righteous man hath
is
better than the riches of many wicked.
37:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the
righteous.
37:18 The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be
for ever.
37:19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine
they shall be satisfied.
37:20 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.
37:21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth
mercy, and giveth.
37:22 For
such as be
blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and
they that be
cursed of him shall be cut off.
37:23 The steps of a
good
man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
37:24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth
him with
his hand.
37:25 I have been young, and
now
am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging
bread.
37:26
He is
ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed
is
blessed.
37:27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
37:28 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.
37:29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.
37:30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of
judgment.
37:31 The law of his God
is
in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
37:32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
37:33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is
judged.
37:34 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
.
37:35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green
bay tree.
37:36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he
was
not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
37:37 Mark the perfect
man
, and behold the upright: for the end of
that
man
is
peace.
37:38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked
shall be cut off.
37:39 But the salvation of the righteous
is
of the LORD:
he is
their strength in the time of trouble.
37:40 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 Chapter 38
A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.
38:1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot
displeasure.
38:2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
38:3
There is
no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither
is there any
rest in my bones because of my sin.
38:4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are
too heavy for me.
38:5 My wounds stink
and
are corrupt because of my foolishness.
38:6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
38:7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome
disease
: and
there is
no soundness in my flesh.
38:8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness
of my heart.
38:9 Lord, all my desire
is
before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
38:10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes,
it also is gone from me.
38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand
afar off.
38:12 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.
38:13 But I, as a deaf
man
, heard not; and
I was
as a dumb man
that
openeth not his mouth.
38:14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth
are
no reproofs.
38:15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
38:16 For I said,
Hear me
, lest
otherwise
they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify
themselves
against me.
38:17 For I
am
ready to halt, and my sorrow
is
continually before me.
38:18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
38:19 But mine enemies
are
lively,
and
they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
38:20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I
follow
the thing that
good
is
.
38:21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
38:22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
Psalms Chapter 39
To the chief Musician,
even
to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.
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.
39:2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace,
even
from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
39:3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned:
then
spake I with my tongue,
39:4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it
is
;
that
I may know how frail I
am
.
39:5 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.
39:6 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.
39:7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope
is
in thee.
39:8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the
foolish.
39:9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst
it
.
39:10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
39:11 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.
39:12 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
.
39:13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no
more.
Psalms Chapter 40
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
40:1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my
cry.
40:2 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.
40:3 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.
40:4 Blessed
is
that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor
such as turn aside to lies.
40:5 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.
40:6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened:
burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
40:7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book
it is
written of me,
40:8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law
is
within my heart.
40:9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not
refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
40:10 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.
40:11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy
lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
40:12 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.
40:13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
40:14 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.
40:15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha,
aha.
40:16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as
love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
40:17 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 Chapter 41
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
41:1 Blessed
is
he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
41:2 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.
41:3 The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make
all his bed in his sickness.
41:4 I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against
thee.
41:5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
41:6 And if he come to see
me
, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself;
when
he goeth abroad, he telleth
it
.
41:7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my
hurt.
41:8 An evil disease,
say they
, cleaveth fast unto him: and
now
that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
41:9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my
bread, hath lifted up
his
heel against me.
41:10 But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may
requite them.
41:11 By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not
triumph over me.
41:12 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before
thy face for ever.
41:13 Blessed
be
the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
Psalms Chapter 42
To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.
42:1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee,
O God.
42:2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and
appear before God?
42:3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto
me, Where
is
thy God?
42:4 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.
42:5 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.
42:6 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.
42:7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and
thy billows are gone over me.
42:8
Yet
the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his
song
shall be
with me,
and
my prayer unto the God of my life.
42:9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?
42:10
As
with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto
me, Where
is
thy God?
42:11 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 Chapter 43
43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver
me from the deceitful and unjust man.
43:2 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?
43:3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me
unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
43:4 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.
43:5 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 Chapter 44
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.
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.
44:2
How
thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them;
how
thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
44:3 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.
44:4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
44:5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread
them under that rise up against us.
44:6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
44:7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that
hated us.
44:8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
44:9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our
armies.
44:10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil
for themselves.
44:11 Thou hast given us like sheep
appointed
for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
44:12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase
thy wealth
by their price.
44:13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to
them that are round about us.
44:14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among
the people.
44:15 My confusion
is
continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
44:16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the
enemy and avenger.
44:17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we
dealt falsely in thy covenant.
44:18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy
way;
44:19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us
with the shadow of death.
44:20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a
strange god;
44:21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
44:22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep
for the slaughter.
44:23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast
us
not off for ever.
44:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face,
and
forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
44:25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the
earth.
44:26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
Psalms Chapter 45
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song
of loves.
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.
45:2 Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips:
therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
45:3 Gird thy sword upon
thy
thigh, O
most
mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
45:4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness
and
righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
45:5 Thine arrows
are
sharp in the heart of the king's enemies;
whereby
the people fall under thee.
45:6 Thy throne, O God,
is
for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom
is
a right sceptre.
45:7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God,
hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
45:8 All thy garments
smell
of myrrh, and aloes,
and
cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
45:9 Kings' daughters
were
among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of
Ophir.
45:10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also
thine own people, and thy father's house;
45:11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he
is
thy Lord; and worship thou him.
45:12 And the daughter of Tyre
shall be there
with a gift;
even
the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
45:13 The king's daughter
is
all glorious within: her clothing
is
of wrought gold.
45:14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins
her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
45:15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into
the king's palace.
45:16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make
princes in all the earth.
45:17 I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall
the people praise thee for ever and ever.
Psalms Chapter 46
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.
46:1 God
is
our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
46:2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the
mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
46:3
Though
the waters thereof roar
and
be troubled,
though
the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
46:4
There is
a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy
place
of the tabernacles of the most High.
46:5 God
is
in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her,
and that
right early.
46:6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the
earth melted.
46:7 The LORD of hosts
is
with us; the God of Jacob
is
our refuge. Selah.
46:8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the
earth.
46:9 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.
46:10 Be still, and know that I
am
God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
46:11 The LORD of hosts
is
with us; the God of Jacob
is
our refuge. Selah.
Psalms Chapter 47
To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
47:1 O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of
triumph.
47:2 For the LORD most high
is
terrible;
he is
a great King over all the earth.
47:3 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.
47:4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he
loved. Selah.
47:5 God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
47:6 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing
praises.
47:7 For God
is
the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
47:8 God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his
holiness.
47:9 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 Chapter 48
A Song
and
Psalm for the sons of Korah.
48:1 Great
is
the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God,
in
the mountain of his holiness.
48:2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth,
is
mount Zion,
on
the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
48:3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
48:4 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
48:5 They saw
it
,
and
so they marvelled; they were troubled,
and
hasted away.
48:6 Fear took hold upon them there,
and
pain, as of a woman in travail.
48:7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
48:8 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.
48:9 We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
48:10 According to thy name, O God, so
is
thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of
righteousness.
48:11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of
thy judgments.
48:12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
48:13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell
it
to the generation following.
48:14 For this God
is
our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide
even
unto death.
Psalms Chapter 49
To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
49:1 Hear this, all
ye
people; give ear, all
ye
inhabitants of the world:
49:2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
49:3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart
shall be
of understanding.
49:4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the
harp.
49:5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil,
when
the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
49:6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of
their riches;
49:7 None
of them
can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
49:8 (For the redemption of their soul
is
precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)
49:9 That he should still live for ever,
and
not see corruption.
49:10 For he seeth
that
wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their
wealth to others.
49:11 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.
49:12 Nevertheless man
being
in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts
that
perish.
49:This their way
is
their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
49:14 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.
49:15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall
receive me. Selah.
49:Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is
increased;
49:17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not
descend after him.
49:18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and
men
will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
49:19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
49:20 Man
that is
in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts
that
perish.
Psalms Chapter 50
A Psalm of Asaph.
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.
50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
50:3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before
him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
50:4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may
judge his people.
50:5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me
by sacrifice.
50:6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God
is
judge himself. Selah.
50:7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against
thee: I
am
God,
even
thy God.
50:8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings,
to have been
continually before me.
50:9 I will take no bullock out of thy house,
nor
he goats out of thy folds.
50:10 For every beast of the forest
is
mine,
and
the cattle upon a thousand hills.
50:11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field
are
mine.
50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world
is
mine, and the fulness thereof.
50:13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
50:14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou
shalt glorify me.
50:16 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?
50:17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
50:18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been
partaker with adulterers.
50:19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
50:20 Thou sittest
and
speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
50:21 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.
50:22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear
you
in pieces, and
there be
none to deliver.
50:23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth
his
conversation
aright
will I shew the salvation of God.
Psalms Chapter 51
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him,
after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
51:1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according
unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
51:2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
51:3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin
is
ever before me.
51:4 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.
51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
51:6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden
part
thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter
than snow.
51:8 Make me to hear joy and gladness;
that
the bones
which
thou hast broken may rejoice.
51:9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
51:11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
51:12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me
with thy
free spirit.
51:13
Then
will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
51:14Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation:
and
my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
51:15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
51:16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give
it
: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
51:17 The sacrifices of God
are
a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
51:18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of
Jerusalem.
51:19 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 Chapter 52
A Psalm
of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David
is come to the house of Ahimelech.
52:1 Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God
endureth
continually.
52:2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
52:3 Thou lovest evil more than good;
and
lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
52:4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O
thou
deceitful tongue.
52:5 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.
52:6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
52:7 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.
52:8 But I
am
like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for
ever and ever.
52:9 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 Chapter 53
To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil,
A Psalm
of David.
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.
53:2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were
any
that did understand, that did seek God.
53:3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy;
there is
none that doeth good, no, not one.
53:4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people
as
they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
53:5 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.
53:6 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 Chapter 54
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil,
A Psalm
of David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself
with us?
54:1 Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.
54:2 Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
54:3 For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul:
they have not set God before them. Selah.
54:4 Behold, God
is
mine helper: the Lord
is
with them that uphold my soul.
54:5 He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth.
54:6 I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O LORD; for
it is
good.
54:7 For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and mine eye hath seen
his desire
upon mine enemies.
Psalms Chapter 55
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil,
A Psalm
of David.
55:1 Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
55:2 Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
55:3 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.
55:4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen
upon me.
55:5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed
me.
55:6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove!
for then
would I fly away, and be at rest.
55:7 Lo,
then
would I wander far off,
and
remain in the wilderness. Selah.
55:8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm
and
tempest.
55:9 Destroy, O Lord,
and
divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
55:10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and
sorrow
are
in the midst of it.
55:11 Wickedness
is
in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
55:12 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:
55:13 But
it was
thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
55:14 We took sweet counsel together,
and
walked unto the house of God in company.
55:15 Let death seize upon them,
and
let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness
is
in their dwellings,
and
among them.
55:16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
55:17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he
shall hear my voice.
55:18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle
that was
against me: for there were many with me.
55:19 God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah.
Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
55:20 He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath
broken his covenant.
55:21
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.
55:22 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never
suffer the righteous to be moved.
55:23 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 Chapter 56
To the chief Musician upon Jonath-elem-rechokim, Michtam of David, when the
Philistines took him in Gath.
56:1 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily
oppresseth me.
56:2 Mine enemies would daily swallow
me
up: for
they be
many that fight against me, O thou most High.
56:3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
56:4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear
what flesh can do unto me.
56:5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts
are
against me for evil.
56:6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps,
when they wait for my soul.
56:7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in
thine
anger cast down the people, O God.
56:8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle:
are they
not in thy book?
56:9 When I cry
unto thee
, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God
is
for me.
56:10 In God will I praise
his
word: in the LORD will I praise
his
word.
56:11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.
56:12 Thy vows
are
upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
56:13 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 Chapter 57
To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in
the cave.
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.
57:2 I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth
all things
for me.
57:3 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.
57:4 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.
57:5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens;
let
thy glory
be
above all the earth.
57:6 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.
57:7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.
57:8 Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I
myself
will awake early.
57:9 I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among
the nations.
57:10 For thy mercy
is
great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.
57:11 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens:
let
thy glory
be
above all the earth.
Psalms Chapter 58
To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.
58:1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O
ye sons of men?
58:2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in
the earth.
58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be
born, speaking lies.
58:4 Their poison
is
like the poison of a serpent:
they are
like the deaf adder
that
stoppeth her ear;
58:5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
58:6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the
young lions, O LORD.
58:7 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.
58:8 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.
58:9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a
whirlwind, both living, and in
his
wrath.
58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash
his feet in the blood of the wicked.
58:11 So that a man shall say, Verily
there is
a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Psalm Chapter 59
To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they
watched the house to kill him.
59:1 Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up
against me.
59:2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
59:3 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.
59:4 They run and prepare themselves without
my
fault: awake to help me, and behold.
59:5 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.
59:6 They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about
the city.
59:7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords
are
in their lips: for who,
say they
, doth hear?
59:8 But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in
derision.
59:9
Because of
his strength will I wait upon thee: for God
is
my defence.
59:10 The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see
my desire
upon mine enemies.
59:11 Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and
bring them down, O Lord our shield.
59:12
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.
59:13 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.
59:14 And at evening let them return;
and
let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
59:15 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not
satisfied.
59:16 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.
59:17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God
is
my defence,
and
the God of my mercy.
Psalms Chapter 60
To the chief Musician upon Shushan-eduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he
strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, when Joab returned, and smote of
Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand.
60:1 O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been
displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
60:2 Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the
breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
60:3 Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the
wine of astonishment.
60:4 Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed
because of the truth. Selah.
60:5 That thy beloved may be delivered; save
with
thy right hand, and hear me.
60:6 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem,
and mete out the valley of Succoth.
60:7 Gilead
is
mine, and Manasseh
is
mine; Ephraim also
is
the strength of mine head; Judah
is
my lawgiver;
60:8 Moab
is
my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because
of me.
60:9 Who will bring me
into
the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
60:10
Wilt
not thou, O God,
which
hadst cast us off? and
thou
, O God,
which
didst not go out with our armies?
60:11 Give us help from trouble: for vain
is
the help of man.
60:12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he
it is that
shall tread down our enemies.
Psalms Chapter 61
To the chief Musician upon Neginah,
A Psalm
of David.
61:1 Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.
61:2 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.
61:3 For thou hast been a shelter for me,
and
a strong tower from the enemy.
61:4 I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy
wings. Selah.
61:5 For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given
me
the heritage of those that fear thy name.
61:6 Thou wilt prolong the king's life:
and
his years as many generations.
61:7 He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth,
which
may preserve him.
61:8 So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my
vows.
Psalms Chapter 62
To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.
62:1 Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him
cometh
my salvation.
62:2 He only
is
my rock and my salvation;
he is
my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
62:3 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.
62:4 They only consult to cast
him
down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth,
but they curse inwardly. Selah.
62:5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation
is
from him.
62:6 He only
is
my rock and my salvation:
he is
my defence; I shall not be moved.
62:7 In God
is
my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength,
and
my refuge,
is
in God.
62:8 Trust in him at all times;
ye
people, pour out your heart before him: God
is
a refuge for us. Selah.
62:9 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.
62:10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches
increase, set not your heart
upon
them
.
62:11 God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power
belongeth
unto God.
62:12 Also unto thee, O Lord,
belongeth
mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.
Psalms Chapter 63
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
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;
63:2 To see thy power and thy glory, so
as
I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
63:3 Because thy lovingkindness
is
better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
63:4 Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
63:5 My soul shall be satisfied as
with
marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise
thee
with joyful lips:
63:6 When I remember thee upon my bed,
and
meditate on thee in the
night
watches.
63:7 Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will
I rejoice.
63:8 My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
63:9 But those
that
seek my soul, to destroy
it
, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
63:10 They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
63:11 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 Chapter 64
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
64:1 Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the
enemy.
64:2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of
the workers of iniquity:
64:3 Who whet their tongue like a sword,
and
bend
their bows to shoot
their arrows,
even
bitter words:
64:4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at
him, and fear not.
64:5 They encourage themselves
in
an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see
them?
64:6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the
inward
thought
of every one
of
them
, and the heart,
is
deep.
64:7 But God shall shoot at them
with
an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
64:8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see
them shall flee away.
64:9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall
wisely consider of his doing.
64:10 The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all
the upright in heart shall glory.
Psalms Chapter 65
To the chief Musician, A Psalm
and
Song of David.
65:1 Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be
performed.
65:2 O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
65:3 Iniquities prevail against me:
as for
our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.
65:4 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.
65:5
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:
65:6 Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains;
being
girded with power:
65:7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the
tumult of the people.
65:8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou
makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
65:9 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.
65:10 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows
thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
65:11 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.
65:12 They drop
upon
the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.
65:13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over
with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Psalms Chapter 66
To the chief Musician, A Song
or
Psalm.
66:1 Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:
66:2 Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious.
66:3 Say unto God, How terrible
art thou in
thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit
themselves unto thee.
66:4 All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall
sing
to
thy name. Selah.
66:5 Come and see the works of God:
he is
terrible
in his
doing toward the children of men.
66:6 He turned the sea into dry
land
: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
66:7 He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the
rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
66:8 O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:
66:9 Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.
66:10 For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
66:11 Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.
66:12 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
.
66:13 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,
66:14 Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in
trouble.
66:15 I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of
rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
66:16 Come
and
hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
66:17 I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.
66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear
me
:
66:19
But
verily God hath heard
me
; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
66:20 Blessed
be
God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.
Psalms Chapter 67
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm
or
Song.
67:1 God be merciful unto us, and bless us;
and
cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.
67:2 That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.
67:3 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.
67:4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the
people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.
67:5 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.
67:6
Then
shall the earth yield her increase;
and
God,
even
our own God, shall bless us.
767:7 God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.
Psalms Chapter 68
To the chief Musician, A Psalm
or
Song of David.
68:1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him
flee before him.
68:2 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.
68:3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them
exceedingly rejoice.
68:4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the
heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows,
is
God in his holy habitation.
68:6 God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are
bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry
land
.
68:7 O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march
through the wilderness; Selah:
68:8 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.
68:9 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine
inheritance, when it was weary.
68:10 Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy
goodness for the poor.
68:11 The Lord gave the word: great
was
the company of those that published
it
.
68:12 Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the
spoil.
68:13 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.
68:14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was
white
as snow in Salmon.
68:15 The hill of God
is as
the hill of Bashan; an high hill
as
the hill of Bashan.
68:16 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.
68:17 The chariots of God
are
twenty thousand,
even
thousands of angels: the Lord
is
among them,
as
in
Sinai, in the holy
place
.
68:18 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
.
68:19 Blessed
be
the Lord,
who
daily loadeth us
with benefits
,
even
the God of our salvation. Selah.
68:20
He that is
our God
is
the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord
belong
the issues from death.
68:21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies,
and
the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
68:22 The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring
my people
again from the depths of the sea:
68:23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of
thine
enemies,
and
the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
68:24 They have seen thy goings, O God;
even
the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.
68:25 The singers went before, the players on instruments
followed
after; among
them were
the damsels playing with timbrels.
68:26 Bless ye God in the congregations,
even
the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.
68:27 There
is
little Benjamin
with
their ruler, the princes of Judah
and
their council, the princes of Zebulun,
and
the princes of Naphtali.
868:28 Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which
thou
hast wrought for us.
68:29 Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee.
68:30 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.
68:31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her
hands unto God.
68:32 Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto the Lord;
Selah:
68:33 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.
68:34 Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency
is
over Israel, and his strength
is
in the clouds.
68:35 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 Chapter 69
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim,
A Psalm
of David.
69:1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto
my
soul.
69:2 I sink in deep mire, where
there is
no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
69:3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait
for my God.
69:4 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.
69:5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
69:6 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.
69:7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
69:8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's
children.
69:9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them
that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
69:10 When I wept,
and chastened
my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
69:11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
69:12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I
was
the song of the drunkards.
69:13 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.
69:14 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.
69:15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up,
and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
69:16 Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness
is
good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
69:17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me
speedily.
69:18 Draw nigh unto my soul,
and
redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
69:19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine
adversaries
are
all before thee.
69:20 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.
69:21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar
to drink.
69:22 Let their table become a snare before them: and
that which should have been
for
their
welfare,
let it
become
a trap.
69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins
continually to shake.
69:24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take
hold of them.
69:25 Let their habitation be desolate;
and
let none dwell in their tents.
69:26 For they persecute
him
whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast
wounded.
69:27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy
righteousness.
69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written
with the righteous.
69:29 But I
am
poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with
thanksgiving.
69:31
This
also shall please the LORD better than an ox
or
bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
69:32 The humble shall see
this
,
and
be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
69:33 For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
69:34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that
moveth therein.
69:35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may
dwell there, and have it in possession.
69:36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his
name shall dwell therein.
Psalms Chapter 70
To the chief Musician,
A Psalm
of David, to bring to remembrance.
70:1
Make haste
, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.
70:2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be
turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
70:3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.
70:4 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.
70:5 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 Chapter 71
71:1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.
71:2 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear
unto me, and save me.
71:3 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.
71:4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of
the unrighteous and cruel man.
571:5 For thou
art
my hope, O Lord GOD:
thou art
my trust from my youth.
71:6 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.
71:7 I am as a wonder unto many; but thou
art
my strong refuge.
71:8 Let my mouth be filled
with
thy praise
and with
thy honour all the day.
71:9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength
faileth.
71:10 For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul
take counsel together,
71:11 Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for
there is
none to deliver
him
.
71:12 O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
71:13 Let them be confounded
and
consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered
with
reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
71:14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.
71:15 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness
and
thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers
thereof
.
71:16 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy
righteousness,
even
of thine only.
71:17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared
thy wondrous works.
71:18 Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I
have shewed thy strength unto
this
generation,
and
thy power to every one
that
is to come.
71:19 Thy righteousness also, O God,
is
very high, who hast done great things: O God, who
is
like unto thee!
71:20
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.
71:21 Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
71:22 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 Oen of
Israel.
71:23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which
thou hast redeemed.
71:24 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 Chapter 72
A Psalm
for Solomon.
72:1 Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's
son.
72:2 He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
72:3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by
righteousness.
72:4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the
needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
72:5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all
generations.
72:6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers
that
water the earth.
72:7 In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long
as the moon endureth.
72:8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the
ends of the earth.
72:9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies
shall lick the dust.
72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of
Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
72:11 Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.
72:12 For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and
him
that hath no helper.
72:13 He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.
72:14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall
their blood be in his sight.
72:15 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.
72:16 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.
72:17 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.
72:18 Blessed
be
the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.
72:19 And blessed
be
his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled
with
his glory; Amen, and Amen.
72:20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
Psalms Chapter 73
A Psalm of Asaph.
73:1 Truly God
is
good to Israel,
even
to such as are of a clean heart.
73:2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
73:3 For I was envious at the foolish,
when
I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
73:4 For
there are
no bands in their death: but their strength
is
firm.
73:5 They
are
not in trouble
as other
men; neither are they plagued like
other
men.
73:6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them
as
a garment.
73:7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
73:8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly
concerning
oppression: they speak loftily.
73:9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through
the earth.
73:10 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full
cup
are wrung out to them.
73:11 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
73:12 Behold, these
are
the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase
in
riches.
73:13 Verily I have cleansed my heart
in
vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
73:14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
73:15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend
against
the generation of thy children.
73:16 When I thought to know this, it
was
too painful for me;
73:17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God;
then
understood I their end.
73:18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down
into destruction.
73:19 How are they
brought
into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
73:20 As a dream when
one
awaketh;
so
, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
73:21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
73:22 So foolish
was
I, and ignorant: I was
as
a beast before thee.
73:23 Nevertheless I
am
continually with thee: thou hast holden
me
by my right hand.
73:24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me
to
glory.
73:25 Whom have I in heaven
but thee
? and
there is
none upon earth
that
I desire beside thee.
73:26 My flesh and my heart faileth:
but
God
is
the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
73:27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed
all them that go a whoring from thee.
73:28 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 Chapter 74
Maschil of Asaph.
74:1 O God, why hast thou cast
us
off for ever?
why
doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
74:2 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.
74:3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations;
even
all
that
the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
74:4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their
ensigns
for
signs.
74:5
A man
was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
74:6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and
hammers.
74:7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled
by casting down
the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
74:8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned
up all the synagogues of God in the land.
74:9 We see not our signs:
there is
no more any prophet: neither
is there
among us any that knoweth how long.
74:10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme
thy name for ever?
74:11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck
it
out of thy bosom.
74:12 For God
is
my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
74:13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the
dragons in the waters.
74:14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces,
and
gavest him
to be
meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
74:15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty
rivers.
74:16 The day
is
thine, the night also
is
thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
74:17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and
winter.
74:18 Remember this,
that
the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and
that
the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
74:19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude
of the wicked
: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
74:20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full
of the habitations of cruelty.
74:21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy
name.
74:22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man
reproacheth thee daily.
74:23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up
against thee increaseth continually.
Psalms Chapter 75
To the chief Musician, Altaschith, A Psalm
or
Song of Asaph.
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.
75:2 When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
75:3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the
pillars of it. Selah.
75:4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up
the horn:
75:5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak
not with
a stiff neck.
75:6 For promotion
cometh
neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
75:7 But God
is
the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
75:8 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
.
75:9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
75:10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off;
but
the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
Psalms Chapter 76
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm
or
Song of Asaph.
76:1 In Judah
is
God known: his name
is
great in Israel.
76:2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
76:3 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the
battle. Selah.
76:4 Thou
art
more glorious
and
excellent than the mountains of prey.
76:5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the
men of might have found their hands.
76:6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a
dead sleep.
76:7 Thou,
even
thou,
art
to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?
76:8 Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and
was still,
76:9 When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.
76:10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt
thou restrain.
76:11 Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him
bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
76:12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes:
he is
terrible to the kings of the earth.
Psalms Chapter 77
To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph.
77:1 I cried unto God with my voice,
even
unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.
77:2 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.
77:3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was
overwhelmed. Selah.
77:4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
77:5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
77:6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart:
and my spirit made diligent search.
77:7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
77:8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth
his
promise fail for evermore?
77:9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender
mercies? Selah.
77:10 And I said, This
is
my infirmity:
but I will remember
the years of the right hand of the most High.
77:11 I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders
of old.
77:12 I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
77:13 Thy way, O God,
is
in the sanctuary: who
is so
great a God as
our
God?
77:14 Thou
art
the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.
77:15 Thou hast with
thine
arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
77:16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the
depths also were troubled.
77:17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows
also went abroad.
77:18 The voice of thy thunder
was
in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and
shook.
77:19 Thy way
is
in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
77:20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Psalms Chapter 78
Maschil of Asaph.
78:1 Give ear, O my people,
to
my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
78:3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
78:4 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.
78:5 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:
78:6 That the generation to come might know
them
,
even
the children
which
should be born;
who
should arise and declare
them
to their children:
78:7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God,
but keep his commandments:
78:8 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.
78:9 The children of Ephraim,
being
armed,
and
carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
78:10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
78:11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
78:12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of
Egypt,
in
the field of Zoan.
78:13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the
waters to stand as an heap.
78:14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a
light of fire.
78:15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave
them
drink as
out of
the great depths.
78:16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down
like rivers.
78:17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the
wilderness.
78:18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
78:19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the
wilderness?
78:20 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?
78:21 Therefore the LORD heard
this
, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up
against Israel;
78:22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
78:23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of
heaven,
78:24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the
corn of heaven.
78:25 Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
78:26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought
in the south wind.
78:27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the
sand of the sea:
78:28 And he let
it
fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
78:29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
78:30 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat
was
yet in their mouths,
78:31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote
down the chosen
men
of Israel.
78:32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
78:33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in
trouble.
78:34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired
early after God.
78:35 And they remembered that God
was
their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
78:36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto
him with their tongues.
78:37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his
covenant.
78:38 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.
78:39 For he remembered that they
were but
flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
78:40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness,
and
grieve him in the desert!
78:41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy Oen of
Israel.
78:42 They remembered not his hand,
nor
the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
78:43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of
Zoan:
78:44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could
not drink.
78:45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs,
which destroyed them.
78:46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto
the locust.
78:47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
78:48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot
thunderbolts.
78:49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation,
and trouble, by sending evil angels
among them
.
78:50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave
their life over to the pestilence;
78:51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of
their
strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
78:52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the
wilderness like a flock.
78:53 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea
overwhelmed their enemies.
78:54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary,
even to
this mountain,
which
his right hand had purchased.
78:55 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.
78:56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his
testimonies:
78:57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were
turned aside like a deceitful bow.
78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to
jealousy with their graven images.
78:59 When God heard
this
, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
78:60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent
which
he placed among men;
78:61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's
hand.
78:62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his
inheritance.
78:63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to
marriage.
78:64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
78:65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep,
and
like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
78:66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual
reproach.
78:67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of
Ephraim:
78:68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
78:69 And he built his sanctuary like high
palaces
, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
78:70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
78:71 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his
people, and Israel his inheritance.
78:72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them
by the skilfulness of his hands.
Psalms Chapter 79
A Psalm of Asaph.
79:1 O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have
they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
79:2 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.
79:3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and
there was
none to bury
them
.
79:4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them
that are round about us.
79:5 How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like
fire?
79:6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the
kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
79:7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
79:8 O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies
speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
79:9 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.
79:10 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.
79:11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the
greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;
79:12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach,
wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
79:13 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 Chapter 80
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim-eduth, A Psalm of Asaph.
80:1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock;
thou that dwellest
between
the cherubims, shine forth.
80:2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come
and
save us.
80:3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
80:4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy
people?
80:5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink
in great measure.
80:6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among
themselves.
80:7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall
be saved.
80:8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and
planted it.
80:9 Thou preparedst
room
before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
80:10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof
were like
the goodly cedars.
80:11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
80:12 Why hast thou
then
broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
80:13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field
doth devour it.
80:14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and
behold, and visit this vine;
80:15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch
that
thou madest strong for thyself.
80:16
It is
burned with fire,
it is
cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
80:17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man
whom
thou madest strong for thyself.
80:18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy
name.
80:19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall
be saved.
Psalms Chapter 81
To the chief Musician upon Gittith,
A Psalm
of Asaph.
81:1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of
Jacob.
81:2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the
psaltery.
81:3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn
feast day.
81:4 For this
was
a statute for Israel,
and
a law of the God of Jacob.
81:5 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.
81:6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the
pots.
81:7 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.
81:8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt
hearken unto me;
81:9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any
strange god.
81:10 I
am
the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth
wide, and I will fill it.
81:11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
81:12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust:
and
they walked in their own counsels.
81:13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me,
and
Israel had walked in my ways!
81:14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against
their adversaries.
81:15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but
their time should have endured for ever.
81:16 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 Chapter 82
A Psalm of Asaph.
82:1 God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
82:2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked?
Selah.
82:3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
82:4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid
them
out of the hand of the wicked.
82:5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all
the foundations of the earth are out of course.
82:6 I have said, Ye
are
gods; and all of you
are
children of the most High.
82:7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
82:8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.
Psalms Chapter 83
A Song
or
Psalm of Asaph.
83:1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
83:2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted
up the head.
83:3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against
thy hidden ones.
83:4 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.
83:5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate
against thee:
83:6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
83:7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of
Tyre;
83:8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot.
Selah.
83:9 Do unto them as
unto
the Midianites; as
to
Sisera, as
to
Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
83:10
Which
perished at Endor: they became
as
dung for the earth.
83:11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as
Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
83:12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
83:13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
83:14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on
fire;
83:15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
83:16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
83:17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to
shame, and perish:
83:18 That
men
may know that thou, whose name alone
is
JEHOVAH,
art
the most high over all the earth.
Psalms Chapter 84
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
84:1 How amiable
are
thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
84:2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart
and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
84:3 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.
84:4 Blessed
are
they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.
84:5 Blessed
is
the man whose strength
is
in thee; in whose heart
are
the ways
of them
.
84:6
Who
passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the
pools.
84:7 They go from strength to strength,
every one of them
in Zion appeareth before God.
84:8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
84:9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
84:10 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.
84:11 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.
84:12 O LORD of hosts, blessed
is
the man that trusteth in thee.
Psalms Chapter 85
To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
85:1 LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the
captivity of Jacob.
85:2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their
sin. Selah.
85:3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned
thyself
from the fierceness of thine anger.
85:4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
85:5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all
generations?
85:6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
85:7 Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.
85:8 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.
85:9 Surely his salvation
is
nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
85:10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed
each other
.
85:11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down
from heaven.
85:12 Yea, the LORD shall give
that which is
good; and our land shall yield her increase.
85:13 Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set
us
in the way of his steps.
Psalms Chapter 86
A Prayer of David.
86:1 Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I
am
poor and needy.
86:2 Preserve my soul; for I
am
holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.
86:3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.
86:4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my
soul.
86:5 For thou, Lord,
art
good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call
upon thee.
86:6 Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my
supplications.
86:7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.
86:8 Among the gods
there is
none like unto thee, O Lord; neither
are there any works
like unto thy works.
86:9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O
Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
86:10 For thou
art
great, and doest wondrous things: thou
art
God alone.
86:11 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to
fear thy name.
86:12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify
thy name for evermore.
86:13 For great
is
thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
86:14 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.
86:15 But thou, O Lord,
art
a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy
and truth.
86:16 O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy
servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
86:17 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 Chapter 87
A Psalm
or
Song for the sons of Korah.
87:1 His foundation
is
in the holy mountains.
87:2 The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
87:3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
87:4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold
Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this
man
was born there.
87:5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the
highest himself shall establish her.
87:6 The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people,
that
this
man
was born there. Selah.
87:7 As well the singers as the players on instruments
shall be there
: all my springs
are
in thee.
Psalms Chapter 88
A Song
or
Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth,
Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.
88:1 O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day
and
night before thee:
88:2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
88:3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
88:4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man
that hath
no strength:
88:5 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.
88:6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
88:7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted
me
with all thy waves. Selah.
88:8 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.
88:9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon
thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
88:10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise
and
praise thee? Selah.
88:11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave?
or
thy faithfulness in destruction?
88:12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land
of forgetfulness?
88:13 But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer
prevent thee.
88:14 LORD, why castest thou off my soul?
why
hidest thou thy face from me?
88:15 I
am
afflicted and ready to die from
my
youth up:
while
I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
88:16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
88:17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about
together.
88:18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me,
and
mine acquaintance into darkness.
Psalms Chapter 89
Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
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.
89:2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt
thou establish in the very heavens.
89:3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
89:4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all
generations. Selah.
89:5 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in
the congregation of the saints.
89:6 For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD?
who
among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
89:7 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.
89:8 O LORD God of hosts, who
is
a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?
89:9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou
stillest them.
89:10 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast
scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
89:11 The heavens
are
thine, the earth also
is
thine:
as for
the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
89:12 The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall
rejoice in thy name.
89:13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand,
and
high is thy right hand.
89:14 Justice and judgment
are
the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
89:15 Blessed
is
the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light
of thy countenance.
89:16 In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness
shall they be exalted.
89:17 For thou
art
the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.
89:18 For the LORD
is
our defence; and the Holy Oen of Israel
is
our king.
89:19 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.
89:20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
89:21 With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen
him.
89:22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict
him.
89:23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate
him.
89:24 But my faithfulness and my mercy
shall be
with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
89:25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
89:26 He shall cry unto me, Thou
art
my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
89:27 Also I will make him
my
firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
89:28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand
fast with him.
89:29 His seed also will I make
to endure
for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
89:30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
89:31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
89:32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity
with stripes.
89:33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor
suffer my faithfulness to fail.
89:34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my
lips.
89:35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
89:36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
89:37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and
as
a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
89:38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine
anointed.
89:39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his
crown
by casting it
to the ground.
89:40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds
to ruin.
89:41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
89:42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all
his enemies to rejoice.
89:43 Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to
stand in the battle.
89:44 Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the
ground.
89:45 The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with
shame. Selah.
89:46 How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn
like fire?
89:47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
89:48 What man
is he that
liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of
the grave? Selah.
89:49 Lord, where
are
thy former lovingkindnesses,
which
thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
89:50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants;
how
I do bear in my bosom
the reproach of
all the mighty people;
89:51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have
reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
89:52 Blessed
be
the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.
Psalms Chapter 90
A Prayer of Moses the man of God.
90:1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the
earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou
art
God.
90:3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
90:4 For a thousand years in thy sight
are but
as yesterday when it is past, and
as
a watch in the night.
90:5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are
as
a sleep: in the morning
they are
like grass
which
groweth up.
90:6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut
down, and withereth.
90:7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
90:8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret
sins
in the light of thy countenance.
90:9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a
tale
that is told .
90:10 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.
90:11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear,
so is
thy wrath.
90:12 So teach
us
to number our days, that we may apply
our
hearts unto wisdom.
90:13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
90:14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all
our days.
90:15 Make us glad according to the days
wherein
thou hast afflicted us,
and
the years
wherein
we have seen evil.
90:16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
90:17 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 Chapter 91
91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under
the shadow of the Almighty.
91:2 I will say of the LORD,
He is
my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
91:3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler,
and
from the noisome pestilence.
91:4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou
trust: his truth
shall be thy
shield and buckler.
91:5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night;
nor
for the arrow
that
flieth by day;
91:6
Nor
for the pestilence
that
walketh in darkness;
nor
for the destruction
that
wasteth at noonday.
91:7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand;
but
it shall not come nigh thee.
91:8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
91:9 Because thou hast made the LORD,
which is
my refuge,
even
the most High, thy habitation;
91:10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy
dwelling.
91:11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy
ways.
91:12 They shall bear thee up in
their
hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
91:13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon
shalt thou trample under feet.
91:14 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.
91:15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I
will be
with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
91:16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
Psalms Chapter 92
A Psalm
or
Song for the sabbath day.
92:1
It is a
good
thing
to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
92:2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness
every night,
92:3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp
with a solemn sound.
92:4 For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the
works of thy hands.
92:5 O LORD, how great are thy works!
and
thy thoughts are very deep.
92:6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
92:7 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:
92:8 But thou, LORD,
art most
high for evermore.
92:9 For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all
the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
92:10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like
the horn of
an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
92:11 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.
92:12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a
cedar in Lebanon.
92:13 Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the
courts of our God.
92:14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and
flourishing;
92:15 To shew that the LORD
is
upright:
he is
my rock, and
there is
no unrighteousness in him.
Psalms Chapter 93
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.
93:2 Thy throne
is
established of old: thou
art
from everlasting.
93:3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice;
the floods lift up their waves.
93:4 The LORD on high
is
mightier than the noise of many waters,
yea
,
than
the mighty waves of the sea.
93:5 Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for
ever.
Psalms Chapter 94
94:1 O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance
belongeth, shew thyself.
94:2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
94:3 LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
94:4
How long
shall they utter
and
speak hard things?
and
all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
94:5 They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
94:6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
94:7 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob
regard
it.
94:8 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and
ye
fools, when will ye be wise?
94:9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall
he not see?
94:10 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth
man knowledge,
shall not he
know
?
94:11 The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they
are
vanity.
94:12 Blessed
is
the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
94:13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit
be digged for the wicked.
94:14 For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his
inheritance.
94:15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in
heart shall follow it.
94:16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers?
or
who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
94:17 Unless the LORD
had been
my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
94:18 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
94:19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
94:20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth
mischief by a law?
94:21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and
condemn the innocent blood.
94:22 But the LORD is my defence; and my God
is
the rock of my refuge.
94:23 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 Chapter 95
95:1 O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock
of our salvation.
95:2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise
unto him with psalms.
95:3 For the LORD
is
a great God, and a great King above all gods.
95:4 In his hand
are
the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills
is
his also.
95:5 The sea
is
his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry
land
.
95:6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our
maker.
95:7 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,
95:8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation,
and
as
in
the day of temptation in the wilderness:
95:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
95:10 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:
95:11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
Psalms Chapter 96
96:1 O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
96:2 Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to
day.
96:3 Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people.
96:4 For the LORD
is
great, and greatly to be praised: he
is
to be feared above all gods.
96:5 For all the gods of the nations
are
idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
96:6 Honour and majesty
are
before him: strength and beauty
are
in his sanctuary.
96:7 Give unto the LORD, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory
and strength.
96:8 Give unto the LORD the glory
due unto
his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts.
96:9 O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the
earth.
96:10 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.
96:11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and
the fulness thereof.
96:12 Let the field be joyful, and all that
is
therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice
96:13 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 Chapter 97
97:1 The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be
glad
thereof
.
97:2 Clouds and darkness
are
round about him: righteousness and judgment
are
the habitation of his throne.
97:3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
97:4 His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
97:5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of
the Lord of the whole earth.
97:6 The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.
97:7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of
idols: worship him, all
ye
gods.
97:8 Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of
thy judgments, O LORD.
97:9 For thou, LORD,
art
high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.
97:10 Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints;
he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
97:11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
97:12 Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of
his holiness.
Psalms Chapter 98
A Psalm.
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.
98:2 The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly
shewed in the sight of the heathen.
98:3 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.
98:4 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and
rejoice, and sing praise.
98:5 Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.
98:6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the
King.
98:7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell
therein.
98:8 Let the floods clap
their
hands: let the hills be joyful together
98:9 Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness
shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
Psalms Chapter 99
99:1 The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth
between
the cherubims; let the earth be moved.
99:2 The LORD
is
great in Zion; and he
is
high above all the people.
99:3 Let them praise thy great and terrible name;
for
it
is
holy.
99:4 The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou
executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
99:5 Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool;
for
he
is
holy.
99:6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon
his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.
99:7 He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and
the ordinance
that
he gave them.
99:8 Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them,
though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.
99:9 Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God
is
holy.
Psalms Chapter Chapter 100
A Psalm of praise.
100:1 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
100:2 Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
100:3 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.
100:4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving,
and
into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him,
and
bless his name.
100:5 For the LORD
is
good; his mercy
is
everlasting; and his truth
endureth
to all generations.
Psalms Chapter 101
A Psalm of David.
101:1 I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.
101:2 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.
101:3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that
turn aside;
it
shall not cleave to me.
101:4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked
person.
101:5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath
an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
101:6 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.
101:7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth
lies shall not tarry in my sight.
101:8 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 Chapter 102
A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his
complaint before the LORD.
102:1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
102:2 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.
102:3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an
hearth.
102:4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my
bread.
102:5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
102:6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
102:7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
102:8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day;
and
they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
102:9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
102:10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up,
and cast me down.
102:11 My days
are
like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
102:12 But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all
generations.
102:13 Thou shalt arise,
and
have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
102:14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust
thereof.
102:15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the
earth thy glory.
102:16 When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
102:17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their
prayer.
102:18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which
shall be created shall praise the LORD.
102:19 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven
did the LORD behold the earth;
102:20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed
to death;
102:21 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
102:22 When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the
LORD.
102:23 He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
102:24 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years
are
throughout all generations.
102:25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens
are
the work of thy hands.
102:26 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:
102:27 But thou
art
the same, and thy years shall have no end.
102:28 The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be
established before thee.
Psalms Chapter 103
A Psalm
of David.
103:1 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me,
bless
his holy name.
103:2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
103:3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
103:4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with
lovingkindness and tender mercies;
103:5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good
things
;
so that
thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
103:6 The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
103:7 He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
103:8 The LORD
is
merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
103:9 He will not always chide: neither will he keep
his anger
for ever.
103:10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to
our iniquities.
103:11 For as the heaven is high above the earth,
so
great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
103:12 As far as the east is from the west,
so
far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
103:13 Like as a father pitieth
his
children,
so
the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
103:14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we
are
dust.
103:15
As for
man, his days
are
as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
103:16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof
shall know it no more.
103:17 But the mercy of the LORD
is
from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness
unto children's children;
103:18 To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his
commandments to do them.
103:19 The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth
over all.
103:20 Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his
commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
103:21 Bless ye the LORD, all
ye
his hosts;
ye
ministers of his, that do his pleasure.
103:22 Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the
LORD, O my soul.
Psalms Chapter 104
104:1 Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art
clothed with honour and majesty.
104:2 Who coverest
thyself
with light as
with
a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
104:3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds
his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
104:4 Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
104:5
Who
laid the foundations of the earth,
that
it should not be removed for ever.
104:6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as
with
a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
104:7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
104:8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place
which thou hast founded for them.
104:9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not
again to cover the earth.
104:10 He sendeth the springs into the valleys,
which
run among the hills.
104:11 They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their
thirst.
104:12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation,
which
sing among the branches.
104:13 He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the
fruit of thy works.
104:14 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;
104:15 And wine
that
maketh glad the heart of man,
and
oil to make
his
face to shine, and bread
which
strengtheneth man's heart.
104:16 The trees of the LORD are full
of sap
; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;
104:17 Where the birds make their nests:
as for
the stork, the fir trees
are
her house.
104:18 The high hills
are
a refuge for the wild goats;
and
the rocks for the conies.
104:19 He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
104:20 Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the
forest do creep
forth.
104:21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
104:22 The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in
their dens.
104:23 Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
104:24 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all:
the earth is full of thy riches.
104:25
So is
this great and wide sea, wherein
are
things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
104:26 There go the ships:
there is
that leviathan,
whom
thou hast made to play therein.
104:27 These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give
them
their meat in due season.
104:28
That
thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with
good.
104:29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath,
they die, and return to their dust.
104:30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the
face of the earth.
104:31 The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall rejoice in
his works.
104:32 He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and
they smoke.
104:33 I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my
God while I have my being.
104:34 My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.
104:35 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 Chapter 105
105:1 O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds
among the people.
105:2 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.
105:3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the
LORD.
105:4 Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
105:5 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the
judgments of his mouth;
105:6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.
105:7 He
is
the LORD our God: his judgments
are
in all the earth.
105:8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word
which
he commanded to a thousand generations.
105:9 Which
covenant
he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
105:10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law,
and
to Israel
for
an everlasting covenant:
105:11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your
inheritance:
105:12 When they were
but
a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
105:13 When they went from one nation to another, from
one
kingdom to another people;
105:14 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their
sakes;
105:15
Saying
, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
105:16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff
of bread.
105:17 He sent a man before them,
even
Joseph,
who
was sold for a servant:
105:18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
105:19 Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.
105:20 The king sent and loosed him;
even
the ruler of the people, and let him go free.
105:21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:
105:22 To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.
105:23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
105:24 And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their
enemies.
105:25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his
servants.
105:26 He sent Moses his servant;
and
Aaron whom he had chosen.
105:27 They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
105:28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his
word.
105:29 He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
105:30 Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their
kings.
105:31 He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies,
and
lice in all their coasts.
105:32 He gave them hail for rain,
and
flaming fire in their land.
105:33 He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of
their coasts.
105:34 He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without
number,
105:35 And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of
their ground.
105:36 He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their
strength.
105:37 He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and
there was
not one feeble
person
among their tribes.
105:38 Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.
105:39 He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.
105:40
The people
asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
105:41 He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry
places
like
a river.
105:42 For he remembered his holy promise,
and
Abraham his servant.
105:43 And he brought forth his people with joy,
and
his chosen with gladness:
105:44 And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of
the people;
105:45 That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the
LORD.
Psalms Chapter 106
106:1 Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for
he is
good: for his mercy
endureth
for ever.
106:2 Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD?
who
can shew forth all his praise?
106:3 Blessed
are
they that keep judgment,
and
he that doeth righteousness at all times.
106:4 Remember me, O LORD, with the favour
that thou bearest unto
thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;
106:5 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.
106:6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done
wickedly.
106:7 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.
106:8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his
mighty power to be known.
106:9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through
the depths, as through the wilderness.
106:10 And he saved them from the hand of him that hated
them
, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
106:11 And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.
106:12 Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.
106:13 They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
106:14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
106:15 And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
106:16 They envied Moses also in the camp,
and
Aaron the saint of the LORD.
106:17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of
Abiram.
106:18 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
106:19 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
106:20 Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth
grass.
106:21 They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
106:22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham,
and
terrible things by the Red sea.
106:23 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.
106:24 Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
106:25 But murmured in their tents,
and
hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.
106:26 Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the
wilderness:
106:27 To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in
the lands.
106:28 They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of
the dead.
106:29 Thus they provoked
him
to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
106:30 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and
so
the plague was stayed.
106:31 And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for
evermore.
106:32 They angered
him
also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
106:33 Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his
lips.
106:34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded
them:
106:35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
106:36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
106:37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
106:38 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.
106:39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with
their own inventions.
106:40 Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch
that he abhorred his own inheritance.
106:41 And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them
ruled over them.
106:42 Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection
under their hand.
106:43 Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked
him
with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
106:44 Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:
106:45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the
multitude of his mercies.
106:46 He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.
106:47 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.
106:48 Blessed
be
the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people
say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms Chapter 107
107:1 O give thanks unto the LORD, for
he is
good: for his mercy
endureth
for ever.
107:2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say
so
, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
107:3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west,
from the north, and from the south.
107:4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to
dwell in.
107:5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
107:6 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble,
and
he delivered them out of their distresses.
107:7 And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of
habitation.
107:8 Oh that
men
would praise the LORD
for
his goodness, and
for
his wonderful works to the children of men!
107:9 For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with
goodness.
107:10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
being
bound in affliction and iron;
107:11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the
counsel of the most High:
107:12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and
there was
none to help.
107:13 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble,
and
he saved them out of their distresses.
107:14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their
bands in sunder.
107:15 Oh that
men
would praise the LORD
for
his goodness, and
for
his wonderful works to the children of men!
107:16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in
sunder.
107:17 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities,
are afflicted.
107:18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the
gates of death.
107:19 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble,
and
he saveth them out of their distresses.
107:20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered
them
from their destructions.
107:21 Oh that
men
would praise the LORD
for
his goodness, and
for
his wonderful works to the children of men!
107:22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his
works with rejoicing.
107:23 They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
107:24 These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
107:25 For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the
waves thereof.
107:26 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their
soul is melted because of trouble.
107:27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their
wits' end.
107:28 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out
of their distresses.
107:29 He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
107:30 Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their
desired haven.
107:31 Oh that
men
would praise the LORD
for
his goodness, and
for
his wonderful works to the children of men!
107:32 Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise
him in the assembly of the elders.
107:33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry
ground;
107:34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell
therein.
107:35 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into
watersprings.
107:36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city
for habitation;
107:37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of
increase.
107:38 He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and
suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
107:39 Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction,
and sorrow.
107:40 He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the
wilderness,
where there is
no way.
107:41 Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh
him
families like a flock.
107:42 The righteous shall see
it
, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
107:43 Whoso
is
wise, and will observe these
things
, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
Psalms Chapter 108
A Song
or
Psalm of David.
108:1 O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my
glory.
108:2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I
myself
will awake early.
108:3 I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises
unto thee among the nations.
108:4 For thy mercy
is
great above the heavens: and thy truth
reacheth
unto the clouds.
108:5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the
earth;
108:6 That thy beloved may be delivered: save
with
thy right hand, and answer me.
108:7 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem,
and mete out the valley of Succoth.
108:8 Gilead
is
mine; Manasseh
is
mine; Ephraim also
is
the strength of mine head; Judah
is
my lawgiver;
108:9 Moab
is
my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.
108:10 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
108:11
Wilt
not
thou
, O God,
who
hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
108:12 Give us help from trouble: for vain
is
the help of man.
108:13 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he
it is that
shall tread down our enemies.
Psalms Chapter 109
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
109:1 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
109:2 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.
109:3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me
without a cause.
109:4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I
give myself unto
prayer.
109:5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
109:6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
109:7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become
sin.
109:8 Let his days be few;
and
let another take his office.
109:9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
109:10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek
their bread
also out of their desolate places.
109:11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil
his labour.
109:12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to
favour his fatherless children.
109:13 Let his posterity be cut off;
and
in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
109:14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not
the sin of his mother be blotted out.
109:15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory
of them from the earth.
109:16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor
and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
109:17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in
blessing, so let it be far from him.
109:18 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.
109:19 Let it be unto him as the garment
which
covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
109:20
Let
this
be
the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil
against my soul.
109:21 But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy
mercy
is
good, deliver thou me.
109:22 For I
am
poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
109:23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as
the locust.
109:24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
109:25 I became also a reproach unto them:
when
they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
109:26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
109:27 That they may know that this
is
thy hand;
that
thou, LORD, hast done it.
109:28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed;
but let thy servant rejoice.
109:29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover
themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
109:30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him
among the multitude.
109:31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save
him
from those that condemn his soul.
Psalms Chapter 110
A Psalm of David.
110:1 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine
enemies thy footstool.
110:2 The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the
midst of thine enemies.
110:3 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.
110:4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou
art
a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
110:5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his
wrath.
110:6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill
the places
with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
110:7 He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the
head.
Psalms Chapter 111
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.
111:2 The works of the LORD
are
great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
111:3 His work
is
honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
111:4 He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD
is
gracious and full of compassion.
111:5 He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of
his covenant.
111:6 He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them
the heritage of the heathen.
111:7 The works of his hands
are
verity and judgment; all his commandments
are
sure.
111:8 They stand fast for ever and ever,
and are
done in truth and uprightness.
111:9 He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for
ever: holy and reverend
is
his name.
111:10 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 Chapter 112
112:1 Praise ye the LORD. Blessed
is
the man
that
feareth the LORD,
that
delighteth greatly in his commandments.
112:2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall
be blessed.
112:3 Wealth and riches
shall be
in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
112:4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness:
he is
gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
112:5 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with
discretion.
112:6 Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in
everlasting remembrance.
112:7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in
the LORD.
112:8 His heart
is
established, he shall not be afraid, until he see
his desire
upon his enemies.
112:9 He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth
for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.
112:10 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 Chapter 113
113:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of
the LORD.
113:2 Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore.
113:3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD'S
name
is
to be praised.
113:4 The LORD
is
high above all nations,
and
his glory above the heavens.
113:5 Who
is
like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,
113:6 Who humbleth
himself
to behold
the things that are
in heaven, and in the earth!
113:7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust,
and
lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;
113:8 That he may set
him
with princes,
even
with the princes of his people.
113:9 He maketh the barren woman to keep house,
and to be
a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms Chapter 114
114:1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of
strange language;
114:2 Judah was his sanctuary,
and
Israel his dominion.
114:3 The sea saw
it
, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
114:4 The mountains skipped like rams,
and
the little hills like lambs.
114:5 What
ailed
thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan,
that
thou wast driven back?
114:6 Ye mountains,
that
ye skipped like rams;
and
ye little hills, like lambs?
114:7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the
God of Jacob;
114:8 Which turned the rock
into
a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
Psalms Chapter 115
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.
115:2 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where
is
now their God?
115:3 But our God
is
in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.
115:4 Their idols
are
silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
115:5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:
115:6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:
115:7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not:
neither speak they through their throat.
115:8 They that make them are like unto them;
so is
every one that trusteth in them.
115:9 O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he
is
their help and their shield.
115:10 O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he
is
their help and their shield.
115:11 Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he
is
their help and their shield.
115:12 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.
115:13 He will bless them that fear the LORD,
both
small and great.
115:14 The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
115:15 Ye
are
blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
115:16 The heaven,
even
the heavens,
are
the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
115:17 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
115:18 But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise
the LORD.
Psalms Chapter 116
116:1 I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice
and
my supplications.
116:2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon
him
as long as I live.
116:3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon
me: I found trouble and sorrow.
116:4 Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver
my soul.
116:5 Gracious
is
the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God
is
merciful.
116:6 The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
116:7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with
thee.
116:8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears,
and
my feet from falling.
116:9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
116:10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
116:11 I said in my haste, All men
are
liars.
116:12 What shall I render unto the LORD
for
all his benefits toward me?
116:13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD.
116:14 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.
116:15 Precious in the sight of the LORD
is
the death of his saints.
116:16 O LORD, truly I
am
thy servant; I
am
thy servant,
and
the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
116:17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon
the name of the LORD.
116:18 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people,
116:19 In the courts of the LORD'S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem.
Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms Chapter 117
117:1 O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
117:2 For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD
endureth
for ever. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms Chapter 118
118:1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for
he is
good: because his mercy
endureth
for ever.
118:2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy
endureth
for ever.
118:3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy
endureth
for ever.
118:4 Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy
endureth
for ever.
118:5 I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me,
and set me
in a large place.
118:6 The LORD
is
on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?
118:7 The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see
my desire
upon them that hate me.
118:8
It is
better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
118:9
It is
better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.
118:10 All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I
destroy them.
118:11 They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name
of the LORD I will destroy them.
118:12 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.
118:13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.
118:14 The LORD
is
my strength and song, and is become my salvation.
118:15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation
is
in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth
valiantly.
118:16 The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD doeth
valiantly.
118:17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
118:18 The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto
death.
118:19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them,
and
I will praise the LORD:
118:20 This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.
118:21 I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.
118:22 The stone
which
the builders refused is become the head
stone
of the corner.
118:23 This is the LORD'S doing; it
is
marvellous in our eyes.
118:24 This
is
the day
which
the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
118:25 Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now
prosperity.
118:26 Blessed
be
he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house
of the LORD.
118:27 God
is
the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords,
even
unto the horns of the altar.
118:28 Thou
art
my God, and I will praise thee:
thou art
my God, I will exalt thee.
118:29 O give thanks unto the LORD; for
he is
good: for his mercy
endureth
for ever.
Psalms Chapter 119
ALEPH.
119:1 Blessed
are
the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
119:2 Blessed
are
they that keep his testimonies,
and that
seek him with the whole heart.
119:3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
119:4 Thou hast commanded
us
to keep thy precepts diligently.
119:5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
119:6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy
commandments.
119:7 I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned
thy righteous judgments.
119:8 I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
BETH.
119:9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed
thereto
according to thy word.
119:10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy
commandments.
119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
119:12 Blessed
art
thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
119:13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
119:14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as
much as
in all riches.
119:15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
119:16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
GIMEL.
119:17 Deal bountifully with thy servant,
that
I may live, and keep thy word.
119:18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
119:19 I
am
a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
119:20 My soul breaketh for the longing
that it hath
unto thy judgments at all times.
119:21 Thou hast rebuked the proud
that are
cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
119:22 Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.
119:23 Princes also did sit
and
speak against me:
but
thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
DALETH.
119:24 Thy testimonies also
are
my delight
and
my counsellors.
119:25 My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
119:26 I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.
119:27 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy
wondrous works.
119:28 My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy
word.
119:29 Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
119:30 I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid
before me.
119:31 I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.
119:32 I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my
heart.
HE.
119:33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it
unto
the end.
119:34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it
with
my
whole heart.
119:35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
119:36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
119:37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity;
and
quicken thou me in thy way.
119:38 Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who
is devoted
to thy fear.
119:39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments
are
good.
119:40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy
righteousness.
VAU.
119:41 Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD,
even
thy salvation, according to thy word.
119:42 So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust
in thy word.
119:43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped
in thy judgments.
119:44 So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.
119:45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
119:46 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be
ashamed.
119:47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
119:48 My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved;
and I will meditate in thy statutes.
ZAIN.
119:49 Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to
hope.
119:50 This
is
my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
119:51 The proud have had me greatly in derision:
yet
have I not declined from thy law.
119:52 I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.
119:53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy
law.
119:54 Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
119:55 I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.
119:56 This I had, because I kept thy precepts.
CHETH.
119:57
Thou art
my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.
119:58 I intreated thy favour with
my
whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.
119:59 I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
119:60 I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
119:61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me:
but
I have not forgotten thy law.
119:62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy
righteous judgments.
119:63 I
am
a companion of all
them
that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
119:64 The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.
TETH.
119:65 Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word.
119:66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy
commandments.
119:67 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
119:68 Thou
art
good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
119:69 The proud have forged a lie against me:
but
I will keep thy precepts with
my
whole heart.
119:70 Their heart is as fat as grease;
but
I delight in thy law.
119:71
It is
good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
119:72 The law of thy mouth
is
better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
JOD.
119:73 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I
may learn thy commandments.
119:74 They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped
in thy word.
119:75 I know, O LORD, that thy judgments
are
right, and
that
thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
119:76 Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to
thy word unto thy servant.
119:77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law
is
my delight.
119:78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a
cause:
but
I will meditate in thy precepts.
119:79 Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy
testimonies.
119:80 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
CAPH.
119:81 My soul fainteth for thy salvation:
but
I hope in thy word.
119:82 Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
119:83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke;
yet
do I not forget thy statutes.
119:84 How many
are
the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that
persecute me?
119:85 The proud have digged pits for me, which
are
not after thy law.
119:86 All thy commandments
are
faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
119:87 They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.
119:88 Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of
thy mouth.
LAMED.
119:89 For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
119:90 Thy faithfulness
is
unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.
119:91 They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all
are
thy servants.
119:92 Unless thy law
had been
my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
119:93 I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
119:94 I
am
thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.
119:95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me:
but
I will consider thy testimonies.
119:96 I have seen an end of all perfection:
but
thy commandment
is
exceeding broad.
MEM.
119:97 O how love I thy law! it
is
my meditation all the day.
119:98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for
they
are
ever with me.
119:99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies
are
my meditation.
119:100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
119:101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy
word.
119:102 I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.
119:103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste!
yea
,
sweeter
than honey to my mouth!
119:104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false
way.
NUN.
119:105 Thy word
is
a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
119:106 I have sworn, and I will perform
it
, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
119:107 I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.
119:108 Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and
teach me thy judgments.
119:109 My soul
is
continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.
119:110 The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
119:111 Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they
are
the rejoicing of my heart.
119:112 I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway,
even unto
the end.
SAMECH.
119:113 I hate
vain
thoughts: but thy law do I love.
119:114 Thou
art
my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.
119:115 Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my
God.
119:116 Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be
ashamed of my hope.
119:117 Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy
statutes continually.
119:118 Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their
deceit
is
falsehood.
119:119 Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth
like
dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.
119:120 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
AIN.
119:121 I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
119:122 Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
119:123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy
righteousness.
119:124 Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy
statutes.
119:125 I
am
thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.
119:126
It is
time for
thee
, LORD, to work:
for
they have made void thy law.
119:127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
119:128 Therefore I esteem all
thy
precepts
concerning
all
things to be
right;
and
I hate every false way.
PE.
119:129 Thy testimonies
are
wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.
119:130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto
the simple.
119:131 I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.
119:132 Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto
those that love thy name.
119:133 Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over
me.
119:134 Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
119:135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.
119:136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
TZADDI.
119:137 Righteous
art
thou, O LORD, and upright
are
thy judgments.
119:138 Thy testimonies
that
thou hast commanded
are
righteous and very faithful.
119:139 My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy
words.
119:140 Thy word
is
very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.
119:141 I
am
small and despised:
yet
do not I forget thy precepts.
119:142 Thy righteousness
is
an everlasting righteousness, and thy law
is
the truth.
119:143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me:
yet
thy commandments
are
my delights.
119:144 The righteousness of thy testimonies
is
everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
KOPH.
119:145 I cried with
my
whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
119:146 I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
119:147 I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
119:148 Mine eyes prevent the
night
watches, that I might meditate in thy word.
119:149 Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me
according to thy judgment.
119:150 They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.
119:151 Thou
art
near, O LORD; and all thy commandments
are
truth.
119:152 Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded
them for ever.
RESH.
119:153 Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
119:154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
119:155 Salvation
is
far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
119:156 Great
are
thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.
119:157 Many
are
my persecutors and mine enemies;
yet
do I not decline from thy testimonies.
119:158 I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy
word.
119:159 Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy
lovingkindness.
119:160 Thy word
is
true
from
the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments
endureth
for ever.
SCHIN.
119:161 Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in
awe of thy word.
119:162 I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
119:163 I hate and abhor lying:
but
thy law do I love.
119:164 Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.
119:165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend
them.
119:166 LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.
119:167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
119:168 I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways
are
before thee.
TAU.
119:169 Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding
according to thy word.
119:170 Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.
119:171 My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
119:172 My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments
are
righteousness.
119:173 Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
119:174 I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law
is
my delight.
119:175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help
me.
119:176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not
forget thy commandments.
Psalms Chapter 120
A Song of degrees.
120:1 In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
120:2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips,
and
from a deceitful tongue.
120:3 What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou
false tongue?
120:4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
120:5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech,
that
I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
120:6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
120:7 I
am for
peace: but when I speak, they
are
for war.
Psalms Chapter 121
A Song of degrees.
121:1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
121:2 My help
cometh
from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
121:3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not
slumber.
121:4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
121:5 The LORD
is
thy keeper: the LORD
is
thy shade upon thy right hand.
121:6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
121:7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
121:8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time
forth, and even for evermore.
Psalms Chapter 122
A Song of degrees of David.
122:1 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
122:2 Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
122:3 Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:
122:4 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of
Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.
122:5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
122:7 Peace be within thy walls,
and
prosperity within thy palaces.
122:8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace
be
within thee.
122:9 Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.
Psalms Chapter 123
A Song of degrees.
123:1 Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
123:2 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.
123:3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly
filled with contempt.
123:4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at
ease,
and
with the contempt of the proud.
Psalms Chapter 124
A Song of degrees of David.
124:1 If
it had not been
the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;
124:2 If
it had not been
the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
124:3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against
us:
124:4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
124:5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
124:6 Blessed
be
the LORD, who hath not given us
as
a prey to their teeth.
124:7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare
is broken, and we are escaped.
124:8 Our help
is
in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
Psalms Chapter 125
A Song of degrees.
125:1 They that trust in the LORD
shall be
as mount Zion,
which
cannot be removed,
but
abideth for ever.
125:2 As the mountains
are
round about Jerusalem, so the LORD
is
round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
125:3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous;
lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
125:4 Do good, O LORD, unto
those that be
good, and
to them that are
upright in their hearts.
125:5 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 Chapter 126
A Song of degrees.
126:1 When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that
dream.
126:2 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.
126:3 The LORD hath done great things for us;
whereof
we are glad.
126:4 Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
126:5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
126:6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless
come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves
with him.
Psalms Chapter 127
A Song of degrees for Solomon.
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.
127:2
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.
127:3 Lo, children
are
an heritage of the LORD:
and
the fruit of the womb
is his
reward.
127:4 As arrows
are
in the hand of a mighty man; so
are
children of the youth.
127:5 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 Chapter 128
A Song of degrees.
128:1 Blessed
is
every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.
128:2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy
shalt
thou
be
, and
it shall be
well with thee.
128:3 Thy wife
shall be
as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants
round about thy table.
128:4 Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.
128:5 The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of
Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
128:6 Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children,
and
peace upon Israel.
Psalms Chapter 129
A Song of degrees.
129:1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
129:2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not
prevailed against me.
129:3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
129:4 The LORD
is
righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
129:5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
129:6 Let them be as the grass
upon
the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
129:7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his
bosom.
129:8 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 Chapter 130
A Song of degrees.
130:1 Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.
130:2 Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my
supplications.
130:3 If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
130:4 But
there is
forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
130:5 I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
130:6 My soul
waiteth
for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning:
I say
,
more than
they that watch for the morning.
130:7 Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD
there is
mercy, and with him
is
plenteous redemption.
130:8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
Psalms Chapter 131
A Song of degrees of David.
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.
131:2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of
his mother: my soul
is
even as a weaned child.
131:3 Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.
Psalms Chapter 132
A Song of degrees.
132:1 LORD, remember David,
and
all his afflictions:
132:2 How he sware unto the LORD,
and
vowed unto the mighty
God
of Jacob;
132:3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my
bed;
132:4 I will not give sleep to mine eyes,
or
slumber to mine eyelids,
132:5 Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty
God
of Jacob.
132:6 Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.
132:7 We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.
132:8 Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.
132:9 Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout
for joy.
132:10 For thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.
132:11 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.
132:12 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.
132:13 For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired
it
for his habitation.
132:14 This
is
my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
132:15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with
bread.
132:16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall
shout aloud for joy.
132:17 There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for
mine anointed.
132:18 His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown
flourish.
Psalms Chapter 133
A Song of degrees of David.
133:1 Behold, how good and how pleasant
it is
for brethren to dwell together in unity!
133:2
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;
133:3 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 Chapter 134
A Song of degrees.
134:1 Behold, bless ye the LORD, all
ye
servants of the LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD.
134:2 Lift up your hands
in
the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
134:3 The LORD that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.
Psalms Chapter 135
135:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the name of the LORD; praise
him
, O ye servants of the LORD.
135:2 Ye that stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our
God,
135:3 Praise the LORD; for the LORD
is
good: sing praises unto his name; for
it is
pleasant.
135:4 For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself,
and
Israel for his peculiar treasure.
135:5 For I know that the LORD
is
great, and
that
our Lord
is
above all gods.
135:6 Whatsoever the LORD pleased,
that
did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
135:7 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.
135:8 Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.
135:9
Who
sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and
upon all his servants.
135:10 Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;
135:11 Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms
of Canaan:
135:12 And gave their land
for
an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people.
135:13 Thy name, O LORD,
endureth
for ever;
and
thy memorial, O LORD, throughout all generations.
135:14 For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself
concerning his servants.
135:15 The idols of the heathen
are
silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
135:16 They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;
135:17 They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there
any
breath in their mouths.
135:18 They that make them are like unto them:
so is
every one that trusteth in them.
135:19 Bless the LORD, O house of Israel: bless the LORD, O house of Aaron:
135:20 Bless the LORD, O house of Levi: ye that fear the LORD, bless the LORD.
135:21 Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, which dwelleth at Jerusalem. Praise ye
the LORD.
Psalms Chapter 136
136:1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for
he is
good: for his mercy
endureth
for ever.
136:2 O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy
endureth
for ever.
136:3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy
endureth
for ever.
136:4 To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy
endureth
for ever.
136:5 To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy
endureth
for ever.
136:6 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy
endureth
for ever.
136:7 To him that made great lights: for his mercy
endureth
for ever:
136:8 The sun to rule by day: for his mercy
endureth
for ever:
136:9 The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy
endureth
for ever.
136:10 To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy
endureth
for ever:
136:11 And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy
endureth
for ever:
136:12 With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy
endureth
for ever.
136:13 To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy
endureth
for ever:
136:14 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy
endureth
for ever:
136:15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy
endureth
for ever.
136:16 To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy
endureth
for ever.
136:17 To him which smote great kings: for his mercy
endureth
for ever:
136:18 And slew famous kings: for his mercy
endureth
for ever:
136:19 Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy
endureth
for ever:
136:20 And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy
endureth
for ever:
136:21 And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy
endureth
for ever:
136:22
Even
an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy
endureth
for ever.
136:23 Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy
endureth
for ever:
136:24 And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy
endureth
for ever.
136:25 Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy
endureth
for ever.
136:26 O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy
endureth
for ever.
Psalms Chapter 137
137:1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we
remembered Zion.
137:2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
137:3 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.
137:4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
137:5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget
her cunning
.
137:6 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.
137:7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said,
Rase
it
, rase
it
,
even
to the foundation thereof.
137:8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy
shall he be
, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
137:9 Happy
shall he be
, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Psalms Chapter 138
A Psalm
of David.
138:1 I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing
praise unto thee.
138:2 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.
138:3 In the day when I cried thou answeredst me,
and
strengthenedst me
with
strength in my soul.
138:4 All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, when they hear the
words of thy mouth.
138:5 Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great
is
the glory of the LORD.
138:6 Though the LORD
be
high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.
138:7 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.
138:8 The LORD will perfect
that which
concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD,
endureth
for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
Psalms Chapter 139
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
139:1 O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known
me.
139:2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my
thought afar off.
139:3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted
with
all my ways.
139:4 For
there is
not a word in my tongue,
but
, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
139:5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
139:6
Such
knowledge
is
too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot
attain
unto it.
139:7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy
presence?
139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou
art
there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou
art there
.
139:9
If
I take the wings of the morning,
and
dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
139:10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
139:11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be
light about me.
139:12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the
day: the darkness and the light
are
both alike
to thee
.
139:13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's
womb.
139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully
and
wonderfully made: marvellous
are
thy works; and
that
my soul knoweth right well.
139:15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret,
and
curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
139:16 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.
139:17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum
of them!
139:18
If
I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am
still with thee.
139:19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye
bloody men.
139:20 For they speak against thee wickedly,
and
thine enemies take
thy name
in vain.
139:21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with
those that rise up against thee?
139:22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
139:24 And see if
there be any
wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Psalms Chapter 140
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
140:1 Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
140:2 Which imagine mischiefs in
their
heart; continually are they gathered together
for
war.
140:3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison
is
under their lips. Selah.
140:4 Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the
violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
140:5 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.
140:6 I said unto the LORD, Thou
art
my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD.
140:7 O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head
in the day of battle.
140:8 Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked
device;
lest
they exalt themselves. Selah.
140:9
As for
the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips
cover them.
140:10 Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into
deep pits, that they rise not up again.
1
40:11 Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the
violent man to overthrow
him
.
140:12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted,
and
the right of the poor.
140:13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall
dwell in thy presence.
Psalms Chapter 141
A Psalm of David.
141:1 LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I
cry unto thee.
141:2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee
as
incense;
and
the lifting up of my hands
as
the evening sacrifice.
141:3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
141:4 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.
141:5 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.
141:6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my
words; for they are sweet.
141:7 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and
cleaveth
wood
upon the earth.
141:8 But mine eyes
are
unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
141:9 Keep me from the snares
which
they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
141:10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.
Psalms Chapter 142
Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave.
142:1 I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I
make my supplication.
142:2 I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
142:3 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.
142:4 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.
142:5 I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou
art
my refuge
and
my portion in the land of the living.
142:6 Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my
persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
142:7 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 Chapter 143
A Psalm of David.
143:1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness
answer me,
and
in thy righteousness.
143:2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no
man living be justified.
143:3 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.
143:4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is
desolate.
143:5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the
work of thy hands.
143:6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul
thirsteth
after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
143:7 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.
143:8 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.
143:9 Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.
143:10 Teach me to do thy will; for thou
art
my God: thy spirit
is
good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
143:11 Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake
bring my soul out of trouble.
143:12 And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict
my soul: for I
am
thy servant.
Psalms Chapter 144
A Psalm
of David.
144:1 Blessed
be
the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war,
and
my fingers to fight:
144:2 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.
144:3 LORD, what
is
man, that thou takest knowledge of him!
or
the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days
are
as a shadow that passeth away.
144:5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they
shall smoke.
144:6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and
destroy them.
144:7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters,
from the hand of strange children;
144:8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand
is
a right hand of falsehood.
144:9 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.
10144:10
It is he
that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the
hurtful sword.
144:11 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:
144:12 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:
144:13
That
our garners
may be
full, affording all manner of store:
that
our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
144:14
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.
144:15 Happy
is that
people, that is in such a case:
yea
, happy
is that
people, whose God
is
the LORD.
Psalms Chapter 145
David's
Psalm
of praise.
145:1 I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and
ever.
145:2 Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and
ever.
145:3 Great
is
the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness
is
unsearchable.
145:4 Oen generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy
mighty acts.
145:5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous
works.
145:6 And
men
shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy
greatness.
145:7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall
sing of thy righteousness.
145:8 The LORD
is
gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
145:9 The LORD
is
good to all: and his tender mercies
are
over all his works.
145:10 All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless
thee.
145:11 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power;
145:12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious
majesty of his kingdom.
145:13 Thy kingdom
is
an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion
endureth
throughout all generations.
145:14 The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all
those that be
bowed down.
145:15 The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due
season.
145:16 Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living
thing.
145:17 The LORD
is
righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
145:18 The LORD
is
nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.
145:19 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their
cry, and will save them.
145:20 The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he
destroy.
145:21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his
holy name for ever and ever.
Psalms Chapter 146
146:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
146:2 While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God
while I have any being.
146:3 Put not your trust in princes,
nor
in the son of man, in whom
there is
no help.
146:4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his
thoughts perish.
146:5 Happy
is he
that
hath
the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope
is
in the LORD his God:
146:6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein
is
: which keepeth truth for ever:
146:7 Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the
hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
146:8 The LORD openeth
the eyes of
the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the
righteous:
146:9 The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow:
but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
146:10 The LORD shall reign for ever,
even
thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms Chapter 147
147:1 Praise ye the LORD: for
it is
good to sing praises unto our God; for
it is
pleasant;
and
praise is comely.
147:2 The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of
Israel.
147:3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
147:4 He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by
their
names.
147:5 Great
is
our Lord, and of great power: his understanding
is
infinite.
147:6 The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.
147:7 Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our
God:
147:8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth,
who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
147:9 He giveth to the beast his food,
and
to the young ravens which cry.
147:10 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure
in the legs of a man.
147:11 The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in
his mercy.
147:12 Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.
147:13 For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy
children within thee.
147:14 He maketh peace
in
thy borders,
and
filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.
147:15 He sendeth forth his commandment
upon
earth: his word runneth very swiftly.
147:16 He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
147:17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
147:18 He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow,
and
the waters flow.
147:19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto
Israel.
147:20 He hath not dealt so with any nation: and
as for his
judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms Chapter 148
148:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him in
the heights.
148:2 Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.
148:3 Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
148:4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that
be
above the heavens.
148:5 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were
created.
148:6 He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree
which shall not pass.
148:7 Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:
148:8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
148:9 Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:
148:10 Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:
148:11 Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the
earth:
148:12 Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:
148:13 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent;
his glory
is
above the earth and heaven.
148:14 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 Chapter 149
149:1 Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song,
and
his praise in the congregation of saints.
149:2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be
joyful in their King.
149:3 Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him
with the timbrel and harp.
149:4 For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek
with salvation.
149:5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.
149:6
Let
the high
praises
of God
be
in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;
149:7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen,
and
punishments upon the people;
149:8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
149:9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his
saints. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms Chapter 150
150:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the
firmament of his power.
150:2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent
greatness.
150:3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery
and harp.
150:4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed
instruments and organs.
150:5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding
cymbals.
150:6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.
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