Psalms

^1:1 Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.

^1:2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law does he meditate day and night.

^1:3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he does shall prosper.

^1:4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

^1:5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

^1:6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

^2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

^2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

^2:3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

^2:4 He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.

^2:5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

^2:6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

^2:7 I will declare the decree: the LORD has said unto me, You are my Son; this day have I begotten you.

^2:8 Ask of me, and I shall give you the heathen for yours inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

^2:9 You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

^2:10 Be wise now therefore, O all of you kings: be instructed, all of you judges of the earth.

^2:11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

^2:12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and all of you perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

^3:1 Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.

^3:2 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.

^3:3 But you, O LORD, are a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.

^3:4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.

^3:5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.

^3:6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.

^3:7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for you have smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; you have broken the teeth of the ungodly.

^3:8 Salvation belongs unto the LORD: your blessing is upon your people. Selah.

^4:1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: you have enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

^4:2 O all of you sons of men, how long will all of you turn my glory into shame? how long will all of you love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.

^4:3 But know that the LORD has set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.

^4:4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

^4:5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.

^4:6 There be many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift you up the light of your countenance upon us.

^4:7 You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.

^4:8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for you, LORD, only make me dwell in safety.

^5:1 Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.

^5:2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto you will I pray.

^5:3 My voice shall you hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto you, and will look up.

^5:4 For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with you.

^5:5 The foolish shall not stand in your sight: you hate all workers of iniquity.

^5:6 You shall destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will detest the bloody and deceitful man.

^5:7 But as for me, I will come into your house in the multitude of your mercy: and in your fear will I worship toward your holy temple.

^5:8 Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness because of mine enemies; make your way straight before my face.

^5:9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open tomb; they flatter with their tongue.

^5:10 Destroy you them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against you.

^5:11 But let all those that put their trust in you rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because you defend them: let them also that love your name be joyful in you.

^5:12 For you, LORD, will bless the righteous; with favour will you compass him as with a shield.

^6:1 O LORD, rebuke me not in yours anger, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

^6:2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

^6:3 My soul is also sore vexed: but you, O LORD, how long?

^6:4 Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for your mercies' sake.

^6:5 For in death there is no remembrance of you: in the grave who shall give you thanks?

^6:6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

^6:7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxs old because of all mine enemies.

^6:8 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; for the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.

^6:9 The LORD has heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.

^6:10 Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.

^7:1 O LORD my God, in you do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:

^7:2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

^7:3 O LORD my God, If I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

^7:4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)

^7:5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

^7:6 Arise, O LORD, in yours anger, lift up yourself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that you have commanded.

^7:7 So shall the congregation of the people compass you about: for their sakes therefore return you on high.

^7:8 The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.

^7:9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God tries the hearts and reins.

^7:10 My defence is of God, which saves the upright in heart.

^7:11 God judges the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

^7:12 If he turn not, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.

^7:13 He has also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordains his arrows against the persecutors.

^7:14 Behold, he labors with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

^7:15 He made a pit, and dug it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

^7:16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own crown of the head.

^7:17 I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.

^8:1 O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! who have set your glory above the heavens.

^8:2 Out of the mouth of babes and infants have you ordained strength because of yours enemies, that you might still the enemy and the avenger.

^8:3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

^8:4 What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit him?

^8:5 For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and have crowned him with glory and honour.

^8:6 You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet:

^8:7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

^8:8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas.

^8:9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth!

^9:1 I will praise you, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all your marvellous works.

^9:2 I will be glad and rejoice in you: I will sing praise to your name, O you most High.

^9:3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at your presence.

^9:4 For you have maintained my right and my cause; you sat in the throne judging right.

^9:5 You have rebuked the heathen, you have destroyed the wicked, you have put out their name for ever and ever.

^9:6 O you enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and you have destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.

^9:7 But the LORD shall endure for ever: he has prepared his throne for judgment.

^9:8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.

^9:9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

^9:10 And they that know your name will put their trust in you: for you, LORD, have not forsaken them that seek you.

^9:11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwells in Zion: declare among the people his doings.

^9:12 When he makes inquisition for blood, he remembers them: he forgets not the cry of the humble.

^9:13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, you that lift me up from the gates of death:

^9:14 That I may show forth all your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in your salvation.

^9:15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

^9:16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executes: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

^9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

^9:18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

^9:19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in your sight.

^9:20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

^10:1 Why stand you far off, O LORD? why hide you yourself in times of trouble?

^10:2 The wicked in his pride does persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

^10:3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD detests.

^10:4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

^10:5 His ways are always grievous; your judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffs at them.

^10:6 He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.

^10:7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

^10:8 He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent: his eyes are privately set against the poor.

^10:9 He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to catch the poor: he does catch the poor, when he draws him into his net.

^10:10 He crouches, and humbles himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

^10:11 He has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he hides his face; he will never see it.

^10:12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up yours hand: forget not the humble.

^10:13 Wherefore does the wicked contemn God? he has said in his heart, You will not require it.

^10:14 You have seen it; for you behold mischief and spite, to requite it with your hand: the poor commits himself unto you; you are the helper of the fatherless.

^10:15 Break you the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till you find none.

^10:16 The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.

^10:17 LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble: you will prepare their heart, you will cause yours ear to hear:

^10:18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

^11:1 In the LORD put I my trust: how say all of you to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

^11:2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privately shoot at the upright in heart.

^11:3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

^11:4 The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

^11:5 The LORD tries the righteous: but the wicked and him that loves violence his soul hates.

^11:6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

^11:7 For the righteous LORD loves righteousness; his countenance does behold the upright.

^12:1 Help, LORD; for the godly man ceases; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

^12:2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

^12:3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things:

^12:4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

^12:5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffs at him.

^12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

^12:7 You shall keep them, O LORD, you shall preserve them from this generation for ever.

^12:8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

^13:1 How long will you forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long will you hide your face from me?

^13:2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

^13:3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

^13:4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

^13:5 But I have trusted in your mercy; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.

^13:6 I will sing unto the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me.

^14:1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good.

^14:2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

^14:3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that does good, no, not one.

^14:4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

^14:5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

^14:6 All of you have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

^14:7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

^15:1 Lord, who shall abide in your tabernacle? who shall dwell in your holy hill?

^15:2 He that walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart.

^15:3 He that backbites not with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbour, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbour.

^15:4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honors them that fear the LORD. He that swears to his own hurt, and changes not.

^15:5 He that puts not out his money to interest, nor takes reward against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.

^16:1 Preserve me, O God: for in you do I put my trust.

^16:2 O my soul, you have said unto the LORD, You are my Lord: my goodness extends not to you;

^16:3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

^16:4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.

^16:5 The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: you maintain my lot.

^16:6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

^16:7 I will bless the LORD, who has given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.

^16:8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

^16:9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices: my flesh also shall rest in hope.

^16:10 For you will not leave my soul in hell; neither will you suffer yours Holy One to see corruption.

^16:11 You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

^17:1 Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goes not out of feigned lips.

^17:2 Let my sentence come forth from your presence; let yours eyes behold the things that are equal.

^17:3 You have proved mine heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

^17:4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

^17:5 Hold up my activities in your paths, that my footsteps slip not.

^17:6 I have called upon you, for you will hear me, O God: incline yours ear unto me, and hear my speech.

^17:7 Show your marvellous loving kindness, O you that save by your right hand them which put their trust in you from those that rise up against them.

^17:8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of your wings,

^17:9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

^17:10 They are enclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

^17:11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

^17:12 Like a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

^17:13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is your sword:

^17:14 From men which are your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

^17:15 As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.

^18:1 I will love you, O LORD, my strength.

^18:2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

^18:3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

^18:4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

^18:5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

^18:6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

^18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was angry.

^18:8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

^18:9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

^18:10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

^18:11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

^18:12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

^18:13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.

^18:14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and humiliated them.

^18:15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

^18:16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

^18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

^18:18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

^18:19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

^18:20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.

^18:21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

^18:22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.

^18:23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

^18:24 Therefore has the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

^18:25 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; with an upright man you will show yourself upright;

^18:26 With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the perverse you will show yourself perverse.

^18:27 For you will save the afflicted people; but will bring down high looks.

^18:28 For you will light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

^18:29 For by you I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

^18:30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.

^18:31 For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?

^18:32 It is God that girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect.

^18:33 He makes my feet like hinds' feet, and sets me upon my high places.

^18:34 He teaches my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

^18:35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation: and your right hand has held me up, and your gentleness has made me great.

^18:36 You have enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.

^18:37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I return till they were consumed.

^18:38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

^18:39 For you have girded me with strength unto the battle: you have subdued under me those that rose up against me.

^18:40 You have also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.

^18:41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

^18:42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

^18:43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; and you have made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

^18:44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.

^18:45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.

^18:46 The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

^18:47 It is God that avenges me, and subdues the people under me.

^18:48 He delivers me from mine enemies: yea, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.

^18:49 Therefore will I give thanks unto you, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto your name.

^18:50 Great deliverance gives he to his king; and shows mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.

^19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows his handiwork.

^19:2 Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night shows knowledge.

^19:3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

^19:4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun,

^19:5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.

^19:6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

^19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

^19:8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

^19:9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

^19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

^19:11 Moreover by them is your servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.

^19:12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse you me from secret faults.

^19:13 Keep back your servant also from arrogant sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

^19:14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

^20:1 The LORD hear you in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend you;

^20:2 Send you help from the sanctuary, and strengthen you out of Zion;

^20:3 Remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice; Selah.

^20:4 Grant you according to yours own heart, and fulfill all your counsel.

^20:5 We will rejoice in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfill all your petitions.

^20:6 Now know I that the LORD saves his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.

^20:7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.

^20:8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.

^20:9 Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.

^21:1 The king shall joy in your strength, O LORD; and in your salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!

^21:2 You have given him his heart's desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.

^21:3 For you prevent him with the blessings of goodness: you set a crown of pure gold on his head.

^21:4 He asked life of you, and you gave it him, even length of days for ever and ever.

^21:5 His glory is great in your salvation: honour and majesty have you laid upon him.

^21:6 For you have made him most blessed for ever: you have made him exceeding glad with your countenance.

^21:7 For the king trusts in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

^21:8 Yours hand shall find out all yours enemies: your right hand shall find out those that hate you.

^21:9 You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of yours anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

^21:10 Their fruit shall you destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

^21:11 For they intended evil against you: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

^21:12 Therefore shall you make them turn their back, when you shall make ready yours arrows upon your strings against the face of them.

^21:13 Be you exalted, LORD, in yours own strength: so will we sing and praise your power.

^22:1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

^22:2 O my God, I cry in the day time, but you hear not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

^22:3 But you are holy, O you that inhabit the praises of Israel.

^22:4 Our fathers trusted in you: they trusted, and you did deliver them.

^22:5 They cried unto you, and were delivered: they trusted in you, and were not confounded.

^22:6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

^22:7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

^22:8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

^22:9 But you are he that took me out of the womb: you did make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

^22:10 I was cast upon you from the womb: you are my God from my mother's belly.

^22:11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

^22:12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

^22:13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

^22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

^22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; and you have brought me into the dust of death.

^22:16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

^22:17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

^22:18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

^22:19 But be not you far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste you to help me.

^22:20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.

^22:21 Save me from the lion's mouth: for you have heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

^22:22 I will declare your name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise you.

^22:23 All of you that fear the LORD, praise him; all you the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all you the seed of Israel.

^22:24 For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither has he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

^22:25 My praise shall be of you in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

^22:26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

^22:27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.

^22:28 For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among the nations.

^22:29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

^22:30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

^22:31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he has done this.

^23:1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not lack.

^23:2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside the still waters.

^23:3 He restores my soul: he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

^23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me.

^23:5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: you anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.

^23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

^24:1 The earth is the LORD's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

^24:2 For he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

^24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?

^24:4 He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

^24:5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

^24:6 This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek your face, O Jacob. Selah.

^24:7 Lift up your heads, O all of you gates; and be all of you lift up, all of you everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

^24:8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.

^24:9 Lift up your heads, O all of you gates; even lift them up, all of you everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

^24:10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.

^25:1 Unto you, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.

^25:2 O my God, I trust in you: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.

^25:3 Yea, let none that wait on you be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.

^25:4 Show me your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths.

^25:5 Lead me in your truth, and teach me: for you are the God of my salvation; on you do I wait all the day.

^25:6 Remember, O LORD, your tender mercies and your loving kindnesses; for they have been ever of old.

^25:7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to your mercy remember you me for your goodness' sake, O LORD.

^25:8 Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.

^25:9 The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.

^25:10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

^25:11 For your name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.

^25:12 What man is he that fears the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.

^25:13 His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.

^25:14 The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.

^25:15 Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.

^25:16 Turn you unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.

^25:17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring you me out of my distresses.

^25:18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.

^25:19 Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

^25:20 O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in you.

^25:21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on you.

^25:22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

^26:1 Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.

^26:2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

^26:3 For your loving kindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in your truth.

^26:4 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.

^26:5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

^26:6 I will wash mine hands in innocence: so will I compass yours altar, O LORD:

^26:7 That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all your wondrous works.

^26:8 LORD, I have loved the habitation of your house, and the place where yours honour dwells.

^26:9 Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:

^26:10 In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

^26:11 But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.

^26:12 My foot stands in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.

^27:1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

^27:2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

^27:3 Though an host should camp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

^27:4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.

^27:5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

^27:6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.

^27:7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

^27:8 When you said, Seek all of you my face; my heart said unto you, Your face, LORD, will I seek.

^27:9 Hide not your face far from me; put not your servant away in anger: you have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

^27:10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

^27:11 Teach me your way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.

^27:12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

^27:13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

^27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen yours heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

^28:1 Unto you will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if you be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

^28:2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy oracle.

^28:3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

^28:4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.

^28:5 Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

^28:6 Blessed be the LORD, because he has heard the voice of my supplications.

^28:7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoices; and with my song will I praise him.

^28:8 The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

^28:9 Save your people, and bless yours inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.

^29:1 Give unto the LORD, O all of you mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.

^29:2 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.

^29:3 The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thunders: the LORD is upon many waters.

^29:4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

^29:5 The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; yea, the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon.

^29:6 He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn (p. ox).

^29:7 The voice of the LORD divides the flames of fire.

^29:8 The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

^29:9 The voice of the LORD makes the hinds to calve, and discovers the forests: and in his temple does every one speak of his glory.

^29:10 The LORD sits upon the flood; yea, the LORD sits King for ever.

^29:11 The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.

^30:1 I will extol you, O LORD; for you have lifted me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

^30:2 O LORD my God, I cried unto you, and you have healed me.

^30:3 O LORD, you have brought up my soul from the grave: you have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

^30:4 Sing unto the LORD, O all of you saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

^30:5 For his anger endures but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

^30:6 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.

^30:7 LORD, by your favour you have made my mountain to stand strong: you did hide your face, and I was troubled.

^30:8 I cried to you, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.

^30:9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? shall it declare your truth?

^30:10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be you my helper.

^30:11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing: you have put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

^30:12 To the end that my glory may sing praise to you, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto you for ever.

^31:1 In you, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in your righteousness.

^31:2 Bow down yours ear to me; deliver me speedily: be you my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.

^31:3 For you are my rock and my fortress; therefore for your name's sake lead me, and guide me.

^31:4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privately for me: for you are my strength.

^31:5 Into yours hand I commit my spirit: you have redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

^31:6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

^31:7 I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;

^31:8 And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set my feet in a large room.

^31:9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

^31:10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

^31:11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

^31:12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

^31:13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

^31:14 But I trusted in you, O LORD: I said, You are my God.

^31:15 My times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

^31:16 Make your face to shine upon your servant: save me for your mercies' sake.

^31:17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon you: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

^31:18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

^31:19 Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for them that fear you; which you have wrought for them that trust in you before the sons of men!

^31:20 You shall hide them in the secret of your presence from the pride of man: you shall keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

^31:21 Blessed be the LORD: for he has showed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.

^31:22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before yours eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried unto you.

^31:23 O love the LORD, all you his saints: for the LORD perserves the faithful, and plentifully rewards the proud doer.

^31:24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all you that hope in the LORD.

^32:1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

^32:2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputes not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

^32:3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

^32:4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

^32:5 I acknowledge my sin unto you, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

^32:6 For this shall every one that is godly pray unto you in a time when you may be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

^32:7 You are my hiding place; you shall preserve me from trouble; you shall compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

^32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go: I will guide you with mine eye.

^32:9 Be all of you not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto you.

^32:10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusts in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.

^32:11 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, all of you righteous: and shout for joy, all you that are upright in heart.

^33:1 Rejoice in the LORD, O all of you righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.

^33:2 Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.

^33:3 Sing unto him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise.

^33:4 For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.

^33:5 He loves righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.

^33:6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

^33:7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as an heap: he lays up the depth in storehouses.

^33:8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

^33:9 For he spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

^33:10 The LORD brings the counsel of the heathen to nothing: he makes the devices of the people of no effect.

^33:11 The counsel of the LORD stands for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

^33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

^33:13 The LORD looks from heaven; he beholds all the sons of men.

^33:14 From the place of his habitation he looks upon all the inhabitants of the earth.

^33:15 He fashions their hearts alike; he considers all their works.

^33:16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

^33:17 An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.

^33:18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;

^33:19 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

^33:20 Our soul waits for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.

^33:21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

^33:22 Let your mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in you.

^34:1 I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

^34:2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

^34:3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.

^34:4 I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

^34:5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

^34:6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

^34:7 The angel of the LORD camps round about them that fear him, and delivers them.

^34:8 O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusts in him.

^34:9 O fear the LORD, all of you his saints: for there is no lack to them that fear him.

^34:10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

^34:11 Come, all of you children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

^34:12 What man is he that desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?

^34:13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking guile.

^34:14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

^34:15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

^34:16 The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

^34:17 The righteous cry, and the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

^34:18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saves such as be of a contrite spirit.

^34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivers him out of them all.

^34:20 He keeps all his bones: not one of them is broken.

^34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

^34:22 The LORD redeems the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

^35:1 Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

^35:2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.

^35:3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am your salvation.

^35:4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

^35:5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.

^35:6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.

^35:7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have dug for my soul.

^35:8 Let destruction come upon him at unexpectedly; and let his net that he has hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

^35:9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.

^35:10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto you, which deliver the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoils him?

^35:11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

^35:12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

^35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

^35:14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourns for his mother.

^35:15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the outcasts gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

^35:16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

^35:17 Lord, how long will you look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

^35:18 I will give you thanks in the great congregation: I will praise you among much people.

^35:19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

^35:20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

^35:21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.

^35:22 This you have seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

^35:23 Stir up yourself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.

^35:24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to your righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

^35:25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

^35:26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

^35:27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

^35:28 And my tongue shall speak of your righteousness and of your praise all the day long.

^36:1 The transgression of the wicked says within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

^36:2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.

^36:3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has left off to be wise, and to do good.

^36:4 He devises mischief upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he detests not evil.

^36:5 Your mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and your faithfulness reachs unto the clouds.

^36:6 Your righteousness is like the great mountains; your judgments are a great deep: O LORD, you preserve man and beast.

^36:7 How excellent is your loving kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of your wings.

^36:8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of your house; and you shall make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

^36:9 For with you is the fountain of life: in your light shall we see light.

^36:10 O continue your loving kindness unto them that know you; and your righteousness to the upright in heart.

^36:11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

^36:12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

^37:1 Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you envious against the workers of iniquity.

^37:2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

^37:3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shall you dwell in the land, and verily you shall be fed.

^37:4 Delight yourself also in the LORD: and he shall give you the desires of yours heart.

^37:5 Commit your way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

^37:6 And he shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your judgment as the noonday.

^37:7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.

^37:8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not yourself in any way to do evil.

^37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.

^37:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, you shall diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

^37:11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

^37:12 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes upon him with his teeth.

^37:13 The LORD shall laugh at him: for he sees that his day is coming.

^37:14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

^37:15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

^37:16 A little that a righteous man has is better than the riches of many wicked.

^37:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholds the righteous.

^37:18 The LORD knows the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.

^37:19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

^37:20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

^37:21 The wicked borrows, and pays not again: but the righteous shows mercy, and gives.

^37:22 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.

^37:23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delights in his way.

^37:24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholds him with his hand.

^37:25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

^37:26 He is ever merciful, and lends; and his seed is blessed.

^37:27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.

^37:28 For the LORD loves judgment, and forsakes not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

^37:29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.

^37:30 The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of judgment.

^37:31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

^37:32 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to slay him.

^37:33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

^37:34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt you to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

^37:35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

^37:36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

^37:37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

^37:38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

^37:39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

^37:40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

^38:1 O lord, rebuke me not in your wrath: neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

^38:2 For yours arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses me sore.

^38:3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of yours anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

^38:4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

^38:5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

^38:6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

^38:7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

^38:8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the chaos of my heart.

^38:9 Lord, all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hid from you.

^38:10 My heart pants, my strength fails me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

^38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand far off.

^38:12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

^38:13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that opens not his mouth.

^38:14 Thus I was as a man that hears not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

^38:15 For in you, O LORD, do I hope: you will hear, O Lord my God.

^38:16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.

^38:17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

^38:18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

^38:19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

^38:20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.

^38:21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.

^38:22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.

^39:1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

^39:2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

^39:3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spoke I with my tongue,

^39:4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.

^39:5 Behold, you have made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before you: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

^39:6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.

^39:7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in you.

^39:8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

^39:9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because you did it.

^39:10 Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of yours hand.

^39:11 When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

^39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

^39:13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go behind, and be no more.

^40:1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

^40:2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my activities.

^40:3 And he has put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

^40:4 Blessed is that man that makes the LORD his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

^40:5 Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

^40:6 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; mine ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.

^40:7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

^40:8 I delight to do your will, O my God: yea, your law is within my heart.

^40:9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, you know.

^40:10 I have not hid your righteousness within my heart; I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation: I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great congregation.

^40:11 Withhold not you your tender mercies from me, O LORD: let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

^40:12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart fails me.

^40:13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.

^40:14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

^40:15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

^40:16 Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: let such as love your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.

^40:17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks upon me: you are my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

^41:1 Blessed is he that considers the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

^41:2 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and you will not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.

^41:3 The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: you will make all his bed in his sickness.

^41:4 I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against you.

^41:5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

^41:6 And if he comes to see me, he speaks vanity: his heart gathers iniquity to itself; when he goes abroad, he tells it.

^41:7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

^41:8 An evil disease, say they, cleaves fast unto him: and now that he lies he shall rise up no more.

^41:9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

^41:10 But you, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.

^41:11 By this I know that you favour me, because mine enemy does not triumph over me.

^41:12 And as for me, you uphold me in mine integrity, and set me before your face for ever.

^41:13 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.

^42:1 As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God.

^42:2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

^42:3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is your God?

^42:4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

^42:5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted in me? hope you in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

^42:6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember you from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

^42:7 Deep calls unto deep at the noise of your waterspouts: all your waves and your billows are gone over me.

^42:8 Yet the LORD will command his loving kindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

^42:9 I will say unto God my rock, Why have you forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

^42:10 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is your God?

^42:11 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope you in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

^43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

^43:2 For you are the God of my strength: why do you cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

^43:3 O send out your light and your truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto your holy hill, and to your tabernacles.

^43:4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise you, O God my God.

^43:5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

^44:1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old.

^44:2 How you did drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out.

^44:3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand, and yours arm, and the light of your countenance, because you had a favour unto them.

^44:4 You are my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

^44:5 Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

^44:6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

^44:7 But you have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated us.

^44:8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise your name for ever. Selah.

^44:9 But you have cast off, and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies.

^44:10 You make us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

^44:11 You have given us like sheep appointed for food; and have scattered us among the heathen.

^44:12 You sell your people for nothing, and do not increase your wealth by their price.

^44:13 You make us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

^44:14 You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

^44:15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,

^44:16 For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; by reason of the enemy and avenger.

^44:17 All this has come upon us; yet have we not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant.

^44:18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way;

^44:19 Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

^44:20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

^44:21 Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart.

^44:22 Yea, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

^44:23 Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

^44:24 Wherefore hide you your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

^44:25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaves unto the earth.

^44:26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercies' sake.

^45:1 My heart is composing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made concerning the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

^45:2 You are fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into your lips: therefore God has blessed you for ever.

^45:3 Gird your sword upon your thigh, O most mighty, with your glory and your majesty.

^45:4 And in your majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and your right hand shall teach you terrible things.

^45:5 Yours arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under you.

^45:6 Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of your kingdom is a right sceptre.

^45:7 You love righteousness, and hate wickedness: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

^45:8 All your garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made you glad.

^45:9 Kings' daughters were among your honourable women: upon your right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

^45:10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline yours ear; forget also yours own people, and your father's house;

^45:11 So shall the king greatly desire your beauty: for he is your Lord; and worship you him.

^45:12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall implore your favour.

^45:13 The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.

^45:14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto you.

^45:15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.

^45:16 Instead of your fathers shall be your children, whom you may make princes in all the earth.

^45:17 I will make your name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise you for ever and ever.

^46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

^46:2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; </