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