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