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;
46:3
Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the
mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
46:4
There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the
city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
46:5
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God
shall help her, and that right early.
46:6
The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his
voice, the earth melted.
46:7
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah.
46:8 Come,
behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he has made in the earth.
46:9 He makes
wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaks the bow, and cuts the spear
in two; he burns the chariot in the fire.
46:10
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among
the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
46:11
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah.
47:1 O
clap your hands, all you people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
47:2 For
the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
47:3 He shall
subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.
47:4
He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of
Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
47:5
God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of
a trumpet.
47:6 Sing
praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.
47:7 For
God is the King of all the earth: sing all of you praises with understanding.
47:8 God
reigns over the heathen: God sits upon the throne of his holiness.
47:9
The princes of the people are gathered together, even the
people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he
is greatly exalted.
48:1
Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city
of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
48:2
Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is
mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
48:3
God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
48:4
For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
48:5 They
saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
48:6
Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman
in travail.
48:7 You
break the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
48:8
As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD
of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
48:9 We have
thought of your loving kindness, O God, in the midst of your temple.
48:10
According to your name, O God, so is your praise unto the
ends of the earth: your right hand is full of righteousness.
48:11
Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad,
because of your judgments.
48:12
Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers
thereof.
48:13 Mark
all of you well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that all of you may tell it
to the generation following.
48:14
For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our
guide even unto death.
49:1
Hear this, all you people; give ear, all you inhabitants
of the world:
49:2 Both
low and high, rich and poor, together.
49:3
My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my
heart shall be of understanding.
49:4
I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark
saying upon the harp.
49:5
Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity
of my heels shall compass me about?
49:6
They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in
the multitude of their riches;
49:7
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give
to God a ransom for him:
49:8
(For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceases
for ever:)
49:9 That
he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
49:10
For he sees that wise men die, likewise the fool and the
brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
49:11
Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue
for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands
after their own names.
49:12
Nevertheless man being in honour abides not: he is like
the beasts that perish.
49:13
This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve
their sayings. Selah.
49:14
Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed
on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their
beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
49:15
But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave:
for he shall receive me. Selah.
49:16
Be not you afraid when one is made rich, when the glory
of his house is increased;
49:17
For when he dies he shall carry nothing away: his glory
shall not descend after him.
49:18
Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will
praise you, when you do well to yourself.
49:19
He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall
never see light.
49:20
Man that is in honour, and understands not, is like the
beasts that perish.
50:1
The mighty God, even the LORD, has spoken, and called the
earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
50:2
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined.
50:3 Our
God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and
it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
50:4
He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth,
that he may judge his people.
50:5
Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made
a covenant with me by sacrifice.
50:6
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God
is judge himself. Selah.
50:7
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will
testify against you: I am God, even your God.
50:8
I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt
offerings, to have been continually before me.
50:9
I will take no bullock out of your house, nor he goats out
of your folds.
50:10 For
every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
50:11 I know
all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
50:12 If
I were hungry, I would not tell you: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.
50:13 Will
I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
50:14
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay your vows unto the
most High:
50:15 And
call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you shall glorify
me.
50:16 But
unto the wicked God says, What have you to do to declare my statutes, or that
you should take my covenant in your mouth?
50:17
Seeing you hate instruction, and casts my words behind you.
50:18 When
you saw a thief, then you consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers.
50:19 You
give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
50:20
You sit and speak against your brother; you slander yours
own mother's son.
50:21
These things have you done, and I kept silence; you thought
that I was altogether such an one as yourself: but I will reprove you, and set
them in order before yours eyes.
50:22
Now consider this, all of you that forget God, lest I tear
you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
50:23
Whoso offers praise glorifies me: and to him that orders
his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God.
51:1
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your loving kindness:
according unto the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
51:2 Wash
me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
51:3
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever
before me.
51:4 Against
you, you only, have I sinned, and done this evil in your sight: that you might
be justified when you speak, and be clear when you judge.
51:5
Behold, I was formed in iniquity; and in sin did my mother
conceive me.
51:6 Behold,
you desire truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part you shall make me
to know wisdom.
51:7 Purge
me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
51:8 Make
me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
51:9 Hide
your face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit
within me.
51:11 Cast
me not away from your presence; and take not your holy spirit from me.
51:12 Restore
unto me the joy of your salvation; and uphold me with your free spirit.
51:13 Then
will I teach transgressors your ways; and sinners shall be converted unto you.
51:14 Deliver
me from blood guiltiness, O God, you God of my salvation: and my tongue shall
sing aloud of your righteousness.
51:15
O Lord, open you my lips; and my mouth shall show forth
your praise.
51:16 For
you desire not sacrifice; else would I give it: you delight not in burnt offering.
51:17 The
sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, you
will not despise.
51:18
Do good in your good pleasure unto Zion: build you the walls
of Jerusalem.
51:19 Then
shall you be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering
and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon yours altar.
52:1 Why
boast you yourself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endures continually.
52:2 The
tongue devises evil; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
52:3
You love evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak
righteousness. Selah.
52:4
You love all devouring words, O you deceitful tongue.
52:5 God
shall likewise destroy you for ever, he shall take you away, and pluck you out
of your dwelling place, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
52:6 The
righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
52:7
Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but
trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
52:8 But
I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God
for ever and ever.
52:9
I will praise you for ever, because you have done it: and
I will wait on your name; for it is good before your saints.
53:1
The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt
are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that does good.
53:2 God
looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that
did understand, that did seek God.
53:3
Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become
filthy; there is none that does good, no, not one.
53:4
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my
people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
53:5
There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God
has scattered the bones of him that camps against you: you have put them to shame,
because God has despised them.
53:6
Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When
God brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall
be glad.
54:1 Save
me, O God, by your name, and judge me by your strength.
54:2
Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
54:3 For
strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have
not set God before them. Selah.
54:4
Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold
my soul.
54:5 He
shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in your truth.
54:6
I will freely sacrifice unto you: I will praise your name,
O LORD; for it is good.
54:7
For he has delivered me out of all trouble: and mine eye
has seen his desire upon mine enemies.
55:1
Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not yourself from
my supplication.
55:2 Attend
unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
55:3
Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression
of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
55:4 My heart
is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
55:5 Fearfulness
and trembling are come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
55:6
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would
I fly away, and be at rest.
55:7
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness.
Selah.
55:8 I
would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
55:9
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen
violence and strife in the city.
55:10
Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief
also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
55:11
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart
not from her streets.
55:12
For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could
have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against
me; then I would have hid myself from him:
55:13
But it was you, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
55:14 We
took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
55:15 Let
death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is
in their dwellings, and among them.
55:16
As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save
me.
55:17 Evening,
and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
55:18 He
has delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there
were many with me.
55:19
God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abides of
old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
55:20 He
has put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he has broken his
covenant.
55:21 The
words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words
were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
55:22
Cast your burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain you:
he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
55:23
But you, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction:
bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust
in you.
56:1 Be
merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresses
me.
56:2 Mine
enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O you
most High.
56:3 What
time I am afraid, I will trust in you.
56:4
In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust;
I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
56:5
Every day they shift my words: all their thoughts are against
me for evil.
56:6 They
gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they
wait for my soul.
56:7
Shall they escape by iniquity? in yours anger cast down
the people, O God.
56:8
You tell my wanderings: put you my tears into your bottle:
are they not in your book?
56:9
When I cry unto you, then shall mine enemies turn back:
this I know; for God is for me.
56:10
In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise
his word.
56:11 In
God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.
56:12 Your
vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto you.
56:13
For you have delivered my soul from death: will not you
deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
57:1 Be
merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusts in you: yea,
in the shadow of your wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities pass
over.
57:2 I
will cry unto God most high; unto God that performs all things for me.
57:3 He shall
send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up.
Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
57:4
My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are
set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their
tongue a sharp sword.
57:5
Be you exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory
be above all the earth.
57:6
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed
down: they have dug a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves.
Selah.
57:7 My
heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.
57:8 Awake
up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
57:9
I will praise you, O Lord, among the people: I will sing
unto you among the nations.
57:10
For your mercy is great unto the heavens, and your truth
unto the clouds.
57:11
Be you exalted, O God, above the heavens: let your glory
be above all the earth.
58:1
Do all of you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation?
do all of you judge uprightly, O all of you sons of men?
58:2
Yea, in heart all of you work wickedness; all of you weigh
the violence of your hands in the earth.
58:3
The wicked are cut off from the womb: they go astray as
soon as they be born, speaking lies.
58:4
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like
the deaf adder that stops her ear;
58:5
Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming
never so wisely.
58:6 Break
their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions,
O LORD.
58:7 Let
them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bends his bow to shoot
his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
58:8
As a snail which melts, let every one of them pass away:
like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
58:9
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them
away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
58:10
The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance:
he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
58:11
So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the
righteous: verily he is a God that judges in the earth.
59:1
Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them
that rise up against me.
59:2
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from
bloody men.
59:3 For,
lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for
my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.
59:4
They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake
to help me, and behold.
59:5
You therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake
to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
59:6 They
return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
59:7 Behold,
they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they,
does hear?
59:8 But
you, O LORD, shall laugh at them; you shall have all the heathen in derision.
59:9 Because
of his strength will I wait upon you: for God is my defence.
59:10
The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see
my desire upon mine enemies.
59:11
Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by your
power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
59:12
For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let
them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
59:13 Consume
them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God
rules in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.
59:14
And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise
like a dog, and go round about the city.
59:15
Let them wander up and down for food, and grudge if they
be not satisfied.
59:16
But I will sing of your power; yea, I will sing aloud of
your mercy in the morning: for you have been my defence and refuge in the day
of my trouble.
59:17 Unto
you, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy.
60:1 O
God, you have cast us off, you have scattered us, you have been displeased; O
turn yourself to us again.
60:2
You have made the earth to tremble; you have broken it:
heal the breaches thereof; for it shakes.
60:3
You have showed your people hard things: you have made us
to drink the wine of astonishment.
60:4
You have given a banner to them that fear you, that it may
be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
60:5
That your beloved may be delivered; save with your right
hand, and hear me.
60:6
God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide
Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
60:7
Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the
strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
60:8
Moab is my pot for washing; over Edom will I cast out my
shoe: Philistia, triumph you because of me.
60:9
Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me
into Edom?
60:10 Will
not you, O God, which had cast us off? and you, O God, which did not go out with
our armies?
60:11 Give
us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
60:12
Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall
tread down our enemies.
61:1
Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.
61:2
From the end of the earth will I cry unto you, when my heart
is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
61:3
For you have been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from
the enemy.
61:4 I
will abide in your tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of your wings.
Selah.
61:5 For
you, O God, have heard my vows: you have given me the heritage of those that fear
your name.
61:6 You
will prolong the king's life: and his years as many generations.
61:7
He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and
truth, which may preserve him.
61:8
So will I sing praise unto your name for ever, that I may
daily perform my vows.
62:1
Truly my soul waits upon God: from him comes my salvation.
62:2 He
only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
62:3 How
long will all of you imagine mischief against a man? all of you shall be slain
all of you: as a bowing wall shall all of you be, and as a tottering fence.
62:4 They
only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they
bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
62:5
My soul, wait you only upon God; for my expectation is from
him.
62:6 He
only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
62:7 In God
is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
62:8 Trust
in him at all times; all of you people, pour out your heart before him: God is
a refuge for us. Selah.
62:9
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree
are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
62:10 Trust
not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not
your heart upon them.
62:11
God has spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power
belongs unto God.
62:12
Also unto you, O Lord, belongs mercy: for you render to
every man according to his work.
63:1
O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts
for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
63:2 To
see your power and your glory, so as I have seen you in the sanctuary.
63:3 Because
your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
63:4
Thus will I bless you while I live: I will lift up my hands
in your name.
63:5 My
soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise
you with joyful lips:
63:6
When I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in
the night watches.
63:7
Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of
your wings will I rejoice.
63:8
My soul follows hard after you: your right hand upholds
me.
63:9 But
those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
63:10 They
shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
63:11
But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that swears
by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
64:1 Hear
my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
64:2 Hide
me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers
of iniquity:
64:3 Who
sharpen their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows,
even bitter words:
64:4
That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do
they shoot at him, and fear not.
64:5
They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune
of laying snares privately; they say, Who shall see them?
64:6
They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search:
both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
64:7 But
God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
64:8 So they
shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee
away.
64:9 And
all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider
of his doing.
64:10 The
righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright
in heart shall glory.
65:1
Praise waits for you, O God, in Sion: and unto you shall
the vow be performed.
65:2
O you that hear prayer, unto you shall all flesh come.
65:3 Iniquities
prevail against me: as for our transgressions, you shall purge them away.
65:4 Blessed
is the man whom you choose, and cause to approach unto you, that he may dwell
in your courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, even of
your holy temple.
65:5
By terrible things in righteousness will you answer us,
O God of our salvation; who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and
of them that are far off upon the sea:
65:6
Which by his strength sets fast the mountains; being girded
with power:
65:7 Which
stills the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the
people.
65:8 They
also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at your tokens: you make the
utmost limit of the morning and evening to rejoice.
65:9
You visit the earth, and water it: you greatly enrich it
with the river of God, which is full of water: you prepare them corn, when you
have so provided for it.
65:10
You water the ridges thereof abundantly: you settle the
furrows thereof: you make it soft with showers: you bless the springing thereof.
65:11 You
crown the year with your goodness; and your paths drop fatness.
65:12
They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little
hills rejoice on every side.
65:13
The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are
covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
66:1
Make a joyful noise unto God, all you lands:
66:2
Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious.
66:3 Say
unto God, How terrible are you in your works! through the greatness of your power
shall yours enemies submit themselves unto you.
66:4
All the earth shall worship you, and shall sing unto you;
they shall sing to your name. Selah.
66:5
Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing
toward the children of men.
66:6
He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood
on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
66:7
He rules by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations:
let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
66:8
O bless our God, all of you people, and make the voice of
his praise to be heard:
66:9
Which holds our soul in life, and suffers not our feet to
be moved.
66:10 For
you, O God, have proved us: you have tried us, as silver is tried.
66:11
You brought us into the net; you laid affliction upon our
loins.
66:12 You
have caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water:
but you brought us out into a wealthy place.
66:13
I will go into your house with burnt offerings: I will pay
you my vows,
66:14 Which
my lips have uttered, and my mouth has spoken, when I was in trouble.
66:15 I will
offer unto you burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will
offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
66:16
Come and hear, all you that fear God, and I will declare
what he has done for my soul.
66:17
I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with
my tongue.
66:18 If
I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
66:19
But verily God has heard me; he has attended to the voice
of my prayer.
66:20 Blessed
be God, which has not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.
67:1
God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face
to shine upon us; Selah.
67:2
That your way may be known upon earth, your saving health
among all nations.
67:3
Let the people praise you, O God; let all the people praise
you.
67:4 O
let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for you shall judge the people righteously,
and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.
67:5
Let the people praise you, O God; let all the people praise
you.
67:6 Then
shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.
67:7 God
shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.
68:1
Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also
that hate him flee before him.
68:2
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melts
before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
68:3
But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God:
yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
68:4
Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that
rides upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is
God in his holy habitation.
68:6
God sets the solitary in families: he brings out those which
are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
68:7
O God, when you went forth before your people, when you
did march through the wilderness; Selah:
68:8
The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence
of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
68:9 You,
O God, did send a plentiful rain, whereby you did confirm yours inheritance, when
it was weary.
68:10 Your
congregation has dwelt therein: you, O God, have prepared of your goodness for
the poor.
68:11 The
Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.
68:12 Kings
of armies did flee swiftly: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.
68:13 Though
all of you have lien among the pots, yet shall all of you be as the wings of a
dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
68:14
When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as
snow in Salmon.
68:15 The
hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan.
68:16 Why
leap all of you, all of you high hills? this is the hill which God desires to
dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.
68:17
The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands
of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.
68:18
You have ascended on high, you have led captivity captive:
you have received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God
might dwell among them.
68:19
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits, even
the God of our salvation. Selah.
68:20
He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD
the Lord belong the issues from death.
68:21
But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy
scalp of such an one as goes on still in his trespasses.
68:22
The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring
my people again from the depths of the sea:
68:23
That your foot may be dipped in the blood of yours enemies,
and the tongue of your dogs in the same.
68:24
They have seen your activities, O God; even the activities
of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.
68:25
The singers went before, the players on instruments followed
after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
68:26
Bless all of you God in the congregations, even the Lord,
from the fountain of Israel.
68:27
There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of
Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
68:28 Your
God has commanded your strength: strengthen, O God, that which you have wrought
for us.
68:29 Because
of your temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto you.
68:30
Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls,
with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver:
scatter you the people that delight in war.
68:31
Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch
out her hands unto God.
68:32
Sing unto God, all of you kingdoms of the earth; O sing
praises unto the Lord; Selah:
68:33
To him that rides upon the heavens of heavens, which were
of old; lo, he does send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
68:34
Ascribe all of you strength unto God: his excellency is
over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
68:35
O God, you are terrible out of your holy places: the God
of Israel is he that gives strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.
69:1 Save
me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
69:2
I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come
into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
69:3
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail
while I wait for my God.
69:4
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs
of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty:
then I restored that which I took not away.
69:5
O God, you know my foolishness; and my sins are not hid
from you.
69:6 Let
not them that wait on you, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not
those that seek you be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
69:7
Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered
my face.
69:8 I
am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an foreigner unto my mother's children.
69:9 For
the zeal of yours house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached
you are fallen upon me.
69:10
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was
to my reproach.
69:11 I
made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
69:12
They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the
song of the drunkards.
69:13
But as for me, my prayer is unto you, O LORD, in an acceptable
time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation.
69:14 Deliver
me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate
me, and out of the deep waters.
69:15
Let not the flood of waters overflow me, neither let the
deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
69:16
Hear me, O LORD; for your loving kindness is good: turn
unto me according to the multitude of your tender mercies.
69:17
And hide not your face from your servant; for I am in trouble:
hear me speedily.
69:18
Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because
of mine enemies.
69:19
You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour:
mine adversaries are all before you.
69:20
Reproach has broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness:
and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but
I found none.
69:21 They
gave me also gall for my food; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
69:22 Let
their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their
welfare, let it become a trap.
69:23
Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make
their loins continually to shake.
69:24
Pour out yours indignation upon them, and let your wrathful
anger take hold of them.
69:25
Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in
their tents.
69:26 For
they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk to the grief of those
whom you have wounded.
69:27
Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come
into your righteousness.
69:28
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not
be written with the righteous.
69:29
But I am poor and sorrowful: let your salvation, O God,
set me up on high.
69:30
I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify
him with thanksgiving.
69:31
This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock
that has horns and hoofs.
69:32
The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall
live that seek God.
69:33
For the LORD hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners.
69:34 Let
the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moves therein.
69:35 For
God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there,
and have it in possession.
69:36
The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they
that love his name shall dwell therein.
70:1
MAKE HASTE, O GOD, TO DELIVER ME; MAKE HASTE TO HELP ME,
O LORD.
70:2 Let
them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward,
and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
70:3
Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that
say, Aha, aha.
70:4 Let
all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: and let such as love your
salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
70:5
But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: you
are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
71:1
In you, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to
confusion.
71:2 Deliver
me in your righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline yours ear unto me, and
save me.
71:3 Be
you my strong habitation, unto which I may continually resort: you have given
commandment to save me; for you are my rock and my fortress.
71:4
Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out
of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
71:5
For you are my hope, O Lord GOD: you are my trust from my
youth.
71:6 By
you have I been held up from the womb: you are he that took me out of my mother's
bowels: my praise shall be continually of you.
71:7
I am as a wonder unto many; but you are my strong refuge.
71:8 Let
my mouth be filled with your praise and with your honour all the day.
71:9 Cast
me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength fails.
71:10 For
mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel
together,
71:11 Saying,
God has forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
71:12 O
God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
71:13
Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries
to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
71:14 But
I will hope continually, and will yet praise you more and more.
71:15
My mouth shall show forth your righteousness and your salvation
all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
71:16
I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention
of your righteousness, even of yours only.
71:17
O God, you have taught me from my youth: and until now have
I declared your wondrous works.
71:18
Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me
not; until I have showed your strength unto this generation, and your power to
every one that is to come.
71:19
Your righteousness also, O God, is very high, who have done
great things: O God, who is like unto you!
71:20
You, which have showed me great and sore troubles, shall
restore life in me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
71:21 You
shall increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
71:22
I will also praise you with the psaltery, even your truth,
O my God: unto you will I sing with the harp, O you Holy One of Israel.
71:23 My
lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto you; and my soul, which you have redeemed.
71:24 My
tongue also shall talk of your righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded,
for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.
72:1
Give the king your judgments, O God, and your righteousness
unto the king's son.
72:2
He shall judge your people with righteousness, and your
poor with judgment.
72:3
The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little
hills, by righteousness.
72:4
He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the
children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
72:5
They shall fear you as long as the sun and moon endure,
throughout all generations.
72:6
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers
that water the earth.
72:7
In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance
of peace so long as the moon endures.
72:8
He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the
river unto the ends of the earth.
72:9
They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him;
and his enemies shall lick the dust.
72:10
The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents:
the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
72:11
Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall
serve him.
72:12 For
he shall deliver the needy when he cries; the poor also, and him that has no helper.
72:13 He
shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.
72:14 He
shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood
be in his sight.
72:15
And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold
of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be
praised.
72:16 There
shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit
thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass
of the earth.
72:17 His
name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and
men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
72:18
Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only does
wondrous things.
72:19
And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole
earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
72:20
The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
73:1 Truly
God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
73:2
But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well
nigh slipped.
73:3 For
I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
73:4 For
there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
73:5
They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued
like other men.
73:6 Therefore
pride compasses them about as a chain; violence covers them as a garment.
73:7 Their
eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
73:8
They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression:
they speak loftily.
73:9
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue
walks through the earth.
73:10
Therefore his people return here: and waters of a full cup
are wrung out to them.
73:11
And they say, How does God know? and is there knowledge
in the most High?
73:12
Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world;
they increase in riches.
73:13
Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands
in innocence.
73:14 For
all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
73:15
If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against
the generation of your children.
73:16
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
73:17 Until
I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
73:18
Surely you did set them in slippery places: you casted them
down into destruction.
73:19
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they
are utterly consumed with terrors.
73:20
As a dream when one awakes; so, O Lord, when you awake,
you shall despise their image.
73:21
Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
73:22 So
foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before you.
73:23
Nevertheless I am continually with you: you have held me
by my right hand.
73:24
You shall guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive
me to glory.
73:25 Whom
have I in heaven but you? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside you.
73:26 My
flesh and my heart fails: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion
for ever.
73:27 For,
lo, they that are far from you shall perish: you have destroyed all them that
go a whoring from you.
73:28
But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my
trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all your works.
74:1
O God, why have you cast us off for ever? why does yours
anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
74:2
Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of
old; the rod of yours inheritance, which you have redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein
you have dwelt.
74:3 Lift
up your feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done
wickedly in the sanctuary.
74:4
Yours enemies roar in the midst of your congregations; they
set up their ensigns for signs.
74:5
A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon
the thick trees.
74:6 But
now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
74:7 They
have cast fire into your sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling
place of your name to the ground.
74:8
They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together:
they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
74:9
We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither
is there among us any that knows how long.
74:10
O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the
enemy blaspheme your name for ever?
74:11
Why withdraw you your hand, even your right hand? pluck
it out of your bosom.
74:12
For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst
of the earth.
74:13 You
did divide the sea by your strength: you brake the heads of the dragons in the
waters.
74:14 You
brake the heads of leviathan (p. sea serpent) in pieces, and gave him to be food
to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
74:15
You did cleave the fountain and the flood: you dried up
mighty rivers.
74:16 The
day is yours, the night also is yours: you have prepared the light and the sun.
74:17 You
have set all the borders of the earth: you have made summer and winter.
74:18 Remember
this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have
blasphemed your name.
74:19
O deliver not the soul of your turtledove unto the multitude
of the wicked: forget not the congregation of your poor for ever.
74:20
Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the
earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
74:21
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and
needy praise your name.
74:22
Arise, O God, plead yours own cause: remember how the foolish
man reproaches you daily.
74:23
Forget not the voice of yours enemies: the tumult of those
that rise up against you increases continually.
75:1
Unto you, O God, do we give thanks, unto you do we give
thanks: for that your name is near your wondrous works declare.
75:2
When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
75:3 The
earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of
it. Selah.
75:4 I
said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
75:5 Lift
not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
75:6
For promotion comes neither from the east, nor from the
west, nor from the south.
75:7
But God is the judge: he puts down one, and sets up another.
75:8 For
in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture;
and he pours out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth
shall wring them out, and drink them.
75:9
But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the
God of Jacob.
75:10 All
the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall
be exalted.
76:1 In
Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.
76:2
In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place
in Zion.
76:3 There
brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
76:4 You
are more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.
76:5
The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep:
and none of the men of might have found their hands.
76:6
At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse
are cast into a dead sleep.
76:7
You, even you, are to be feared: and who may stand in your
sight when once you are angry?
76:8
You did cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth
feared, and was still,
76:9
When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the
earth. Selah.
76:10 Surely
the wrath of man shall praise you: the remainder of wrath shall you restrain.
76:11 Vow,
and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents
unto him that ought to be feared.
76:12
He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to
the kings of the earth.
77:1
I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice;
and he gave ear unto me.
77:2
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran
in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
77:3
I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my
spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
77:4
You hold mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot
speak.
77:5 I
have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
77:6
I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with
mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
77:7
Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable
no more?
77:8 Is
his mercy clean gone for ever? does his promise fail for evermore?
77:9
Has God forgotten to be gracious? has he in anger shut up
his tender mercies? Selah.
77:10
And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the
years of the right hand of the most High.
77:11
I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember
your wonders of old.
77:12
I will meditate also of all your work, and talk of your
doings.
77:13 Your
way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?
77:14
You are the God that do wonders: you have declared your
strength among the people.
77:15
You have with yours arm redeemed your people, the sons of
Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
77:16
The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you; they were
afraid: the depths also were troubled.
77:17
The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound:
yours arrows also went abroad.
77:18
The voice of your thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings
lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
77:19
Your way is in the sea, and your path in the great waters,
and your footsteps are not known.
77:20
You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and
Aaron.
78:1 Give
ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
78:2 I will
open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
78:3
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told
us.
78:4 We
will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the
praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he has done.
78:5 For
he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded
our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
78:6
That the generation to come might know them, even the children
which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
78:7 That
they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his
commandments:
78:8 And
might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation
that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
78:9 The
children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of
battle.
78:10 They
kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
78:11
And forgotten about his works, and his wonders that he had
showed them.
78:12 Marvellous
things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field
of Zoan.
78:13 He
divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand
as an heap.
78:14 In
the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
78:15 He
clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
78:16 He
brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
78:17 And
they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
78:18 And
they tempted God in their heart by asking food for their lust.
78:19
Yea, they spoke against God; they said, Can God furnish
a table in the wilderness?
78:20
Behold, he stroke the rock, that the waters gushed out,
and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his
people?
78:21 Therefore
the LORD heard this, and was angry: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger
also came up against Israel;
78:22
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his
salvation:
78:23 Though
he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
78:24 And
had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
78:25 Man
did eat angels' food: he sent them food to the full.
78:26
He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his
power he brought in the south wind.
78:27
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls
like the sand of the sea:
78:28
And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about
their habitations.
78:29
So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them
their own desire;
78:30
They were not cut off from their lust. But while their food
was yet in their mouths,
78:31
The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of
them, and stroke down the chosen men of Israel.
78:32
For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his
wondrous works.
78:33 Therefore
their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
78:34
When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned
and enquired early after God.
78:35
And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high
God their redeemer.
78:36
Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and
they lied unto him with their tongues.
78:37
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they
steadfast in his covenant.
78:38
But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity,
and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not
stir up all his wrath.
78:39
For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that
passes away, and comes not again.
78:40
How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve
him in the desert!
78:41
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy
One of Israel.
78:42 They
remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
78:43 How
he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan.
78:44 And
had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
78:45 He
sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed
them.
78:46 He
gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust.
78:47 He
destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
78:48 He
gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
78:49 He
cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble,
by sending evil angels among them.
78:50
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from
death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
78:51
And stroke all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their
strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
78:52
But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided
them in the wilderness like a flock.
78:53
And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but
the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
78:54
And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even
to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
78:55
He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them
an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
78:56 Yet
they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
78:57 But
turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside
like a deceitful bow.
78:58
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and
moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
78:59
When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred
Israel:
78:60 So
that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
78:61 And
delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
78:62 He
gave his people over also unto the sword; and was angry with his inheritance.
78:63 The
fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
78:64 Their
priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
78:65
Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty
man that shouts by reason of wine.
78:66
And he stroke his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them
to a perpetual reproach.
78:67
Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose
not the tribe of Ephraim:
78:68
But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
78:69 And
he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he has established
for ever.
78:70 He
chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
78:71
From following the ewes great with young he brought him
to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
78:72
So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart;
and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
79:1
O god, the heathen are come into yours inheritance; your
holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
79:2
The dead bodies of your servants have they given to be food
unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of your saints unto the beasts of the
earth.
79:3 Their
blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury
them.
79:4 We
are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are
round about us.
79:5 How
long, LORD? will you be angry for ever? shall your jealousy burn like fire?
79:6 Pour
out your wrath upon the heathen that have not known you, and upon the kingdoms
that have not called upon your name.
79:7
For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling
place.
79:8 O
remember not against us former iniquities: let your tender mercies speedily prevent
us: for we are brought very low.
79:9
Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name:
and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for your name's sake.
79:10
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let
him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of your
servants which is shed.
79:11
Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you; according
to the greatness of your power preserve you those that are appointed to die;
79:12 And
render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith
they have reproached you, O Lord.
79:13
So we your people and sheep of your pasture will give you
thanks for ever: we will show forth your praise to all generations.
80:1
Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you that lead Joseph like
a flock; you that dwell between the cherubims, shine forth.
80:2
Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up your strength,
and come and save us.
80:3
Turn us again, O God, and cause your face to shine; and
we shall be saved.
80:4
O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry against
the prayer of your people?
80:5
You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears
to drink in great measure.
80:6
You make us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies
laugh among themselves.
80:7
Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause your face to shine;
and we shall be saved.
80:8
You have brought a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out
the heathen, and planted it.
80:9
You prepared room before it, and did cause it to take deep
root, and it filled the land.
80:10
The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs
thereof were like the goodly cedars.
80:11
She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto
the river.
80:12 Why
have you then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do
pluck her?
80:13 The
boar out of the wood does waste it, and the wild beast of the field does devour
it.
80:14 Return,
we plead to you, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit
this vine;
80:15 And
the vineyard which your right hand has planted, and the branch that you made strong
for yourself.
80:16 It
is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.
80:17 Let
your hand be upon the man of your right hand, upon the son of man whom you made
strong for yourself.
80:18
So will not we go back from you: quicken us, and we will
call upon your name.
80:19
Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause your face to shine;
and we shall be saved.
81:1
Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto
the God of Jacob.
81:2
Take a psalm, and bring here the timbrel, the pleasant harp
with the psaltery.
81:3
Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed,
on our solemn feast day.
81:4
For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God
of Jacob.
81:5 This
he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt:
where I heard a language that I understood not.
81:6
I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered
from the pots.
81:7 You
called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of
thunder: I proved you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
81:8
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto you: O Israel,
if you will hearken unto me;
81:9
There shall no strange god be in you; neither shall you
worship any strange god.
81:10
I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land
of Egypt: open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
81:11
But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel
refused me.
81:12 So
I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
81:13 Oh
that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
81:14 I should
soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
81:15 The
haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should
have endured for ever.
81:16
He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat:
and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied you.
82:1
God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges
among the gods.
82:2 How
long will all of you judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
82:3 Defend
the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
82:4
Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of
the wicked.
82:5 They
know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations
of the earth are out of course.
82:6
I have said, All of you are gods; and all of you are children
of the most High.
82:7
But all of you shall die like men, and fall like one of
the princes.
82:8 Arise,
O God, judge the earth: for you shall inherit all nations.
83:1
Keep not you silence, O God: hold not your peace, and be
not still, O God.
83:2
For, lo, yours enemies make a tumult: and they that hate
you have lifted up the head.
83:3
They have taken crafty counsel against your people, and
consulted against your hidden ones.
83:4
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being
a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
83:5
For they have consulted together with one consent: they
are confederate against you:
83:6
The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and
the Hagarenes;
83:7 Gebal,
and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
83:8
Assur also is joined with them: they have helped the children
of Lot. Selah.
83:9 Do
unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
83:10 Which
perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
83:11
Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their
princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
83:12
Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in
possession.
83:13 O
my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
83:14
As the fire burns a wood, and as the flame sets the mountains
on fire;
83:15 So
persecute them with your tempest, and make them afraid with your storm.
83:16 Fill
their faces with shame; that they may seek your name, O LORD.
83:17
Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them
be put to shame, and perish:
83:18
That men may know that you, whose name alone is JEHOVAH,
are the most high over all the earth.
84:1
How lovely are your tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
84:2 My soul
longs, yea, even faints for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh cries
out for the living God.
84:3
Yea, the sparrow has found an house, and the swallow a nest
for herself, where she may lay her young, even yours altars, O LORD of hosts,
my King, and my God.
84:4
Blessed are they that dwell in your house: they will be
still praising you. Selah.
84:5
Blessed is the man whose strength is in you; in whose heart
are the ways of them.
84:6
Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the
rain also fills the pools.
84:7
They go from strength to strength, every one of them in
Zion appears before God.
84:8
O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of
Jacob. Selah.
84:9 Behold,
O God our shield, and look upon the face of yours anointed.
84:10
For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I had
rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
84:11 For
the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good
thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
84:12
O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in you.
85:1 Lord,
you have been favourable unto your land: you have brought back the captivity of
Jacob.
85:2 You
have forgiven the iniquity of your people, you have covered all their sin. Selah.
85:3 You
have taken away all your wrath: you have turned yourself from the fierceness of
yours anger.
85:4 Turn
us, O God of our salvation, and cause yours anger toward us to cease.
85:5 Will
you be angry with us for ever? will you draw out yours anger to all generations?
85:6 Will
you not revive us again: that your people may rejoice in you?
85:7
Show us your mercy, O LORD, and grant us your salvation.
85:8 I
will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people,
and to his saints: but let them not return to folly.
85:9
Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory
may dwell in our land.
85:10
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace
have kissed each other.
85:11
Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall
look down from heaven.
85:12
Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land
shall yield her increase.
85:13
Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the
way of his steps.
86:1
Bow down yours ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
86:2 Preserve
my soul; for I am holy: O you my God, save your servant that trusts in you.
86:3 Be merciful
unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto you daily.
86:4
Rejoice the soul of your servant: for unto you, O Lord,
do I lift up my soul.
86:5
For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; and abundant
in mercy unto all them that call upon you.
86:6
Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice
of my supplications.
86:7
In the day of my trouble I will call upon you: for you will
answer me.
86:8 Among
the gods there is none like unto you, O Lord; neither are there any works like
unto your works.
86:9 All
nations whom you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord; and shall
glorify your name.
86:10
For you are great, and do wondrous things: you are God alone.
86:11 Teach
me your way, O LORD; I will walk in your truth: unite my heart to fear your name.
86:12 I
will praise you, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify your name
for evermore.
86:13 For
great is your mercy toward me: and you have delivered my soul from the low hell.
86:14 O
God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought
after my soul; and have not set you before them.
86:15
But you, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious,
long suffering, and abundant in mercy and truth.
86:16
O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give your strength
unto your servant, and save the son of yours handmaid.
86:17
Show me a token for good; that they which hate me may see
it, and be ashamed: because you, LORD, have helped me, and comforted me.
87:1 His
foundation is in the holy mountains.
87:2
The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings
of Jacob.
87:3 Glorious
things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah.
87:4
I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know
me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.
87:5 And
of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself
shall establish her.
87:6
The LORD shall count, when he writes up the people, that
this man was born there. Selah.
87:7
As well the singers as the players on instruments shall
be there: all my springs are in you.
88:1
O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before
you:
88:2 Let
my prayer come before you: incline yours ear unto my cry;
88:3
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws nigh
unto the grave.
88:4 I
am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that has no strength:
88:5 Free
among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more:
and they are cut off from your hand.
88:6
You have laid me in the low pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
88:7 Your
wrath lies hard upon me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
88:8 You
have put away mine acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination unto
them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
88:9
Mine eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called
daily upon you, I have stretched out my hands unto you.
88:10
Will you show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise
and praise you? Selah.
88:11
Shall your loving kindness be declared in the grave? or
your faithfulness in destruction?
88:12
Shall your wonders be known in the dark? and your righteousness
in the land of forgetfulness?
88:13
But unto you have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall
my prayer prevent you.
88:14
LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your face from
me?
88:15 I
am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer your terrors I
am distracted.
88:16 Your
fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have cut me off.
88:17
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed
me about together.
88:18
Lover and friend have you put far from me, and mine acquaintance
into darkness.
89:1 I
will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known
your faithfulness to all generations.
89:2
For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: your
faithfulness shall you establish in the very heavens.
89:3
I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto
David my servant,
89:4
Your seed will I establish for ever, and build up your throne
to all generations. Selah.
89:5
And the heavens shall praise your wonders, O LORD: your
faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
89:6
For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who
among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
89:7
God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints,
and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
89:8
O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto you?
or to your faithfulness round about you?
89:9
You rule the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise,
you still them.
89:10 You
have broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; you have scattered yours enemies
with your strong arm.
89:11
The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours: as for the
world and the fullness thereof, you have founded them.
89:12
The north and the south you have created them: Tabor and
Hermon shall rejoice in your name.
89:13
You have a mighty arm: strong is your hand, and high is
your right hand.
89:14
Justice and judgment are the habitation of your throne:
mercy and truth shall go before your face.
89:15
Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall
walk, O LORD, in the light of your countenance.
89:16
In your name shall they rejoice all the day: and in your
righteousness shall they be exalted.
89:17
For you are the glory of their strength: and in your favour
our horn shall be exalted.
89:18
For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel
is our king.
89:19 Then
you spoke in vision to your holy one, and said, I have laid help upon one that
is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
89:20
I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed
him:
89:21 With
whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.
89:22 The
enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
89:23 And
I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
89:24 But
my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn
be exalted.
89:25 I
will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
89:26
He shall cry unto me, You are my father, my God, and the
rock of my salvation.
89:27
Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings
of the earth.
89:28 My
mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with
him.
89:29 His
seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
89:30 If
his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
89:31
If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
89:32 Then
will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
89:33 Nevertheless
my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness
to fail.
89:34 My
covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
89:35 Once
have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
89:36
His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun
before me.
89:37 It
shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven.
Selah.
89:38 But
you have cast off and abhorred, you have been angry with yours anointed.
89:39 You
have made void the covenant of your servant: you have profaned his crown by casting
it to the ground.
89:40
You have broken down all his hedges; you have brought his
strong holds to ruin.
89:41
All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to
his neighbours.
89:42 You
have set up the right hand of his adversaries; you have made all his enemies to
rejoice.
89:43 You
have also turned the edge of his sword, and have not made him to stand in the
battle.
89:44 You
have made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
89:45 The
days of his youth have you shortened: you have covered him with shame. Selah.
89:46 How
long, LORD? will you hide yourself for ever? shall your wrath burn like fire?
89:47 Remember
how short my time is: wherefore have you made all men in vain?
89:48
What man is he that lives, and shall not see death? shall
he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
89:49
Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you
sware unto David in your truth?
89:50
Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants; how I do
bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
89:51
Wherewith yours enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith
they have reproached the footsteps of yours anointed.
89:52
Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.
90:1 Lord,
you have been our dwelling place in all generations.
90:2
Before the mountains were brought forth, before even you
had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you
are God.
90:3 You
turn man to destruction; and says, Return, all of you children of men.
90:4 For
a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a
watch in the night.
90:5
You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep:
in the morning they are like grass which grows up.
90:6
In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening
it is cut down, and withers.
90:7
For we are consumed by yours anger, and by your wrath are
we troubled.
90:8 You
have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.
90:9 For
all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that
is told.
90:10 The
days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they
be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut
off, and we fly away.
90:11
Who knows the power of yours anger? even according to your
fear, so is your wrath.
90:12
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts
unto wisdom.
90:13 Return,
O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants.
90:14
O satisfy us early with your mercy; that we may rejoice
and be glad all our days.
90:15
Make us glad according to the days wherein you have afflicted
us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
90:16
Let your work appear unto your servants, and your glory
unto their children.
90:17
And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish
you the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish you it.
91:1 He
that dwells in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow
of the Almighty.
91:2 I
will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
91:3 Surely
he shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the dangerous pestilence.
91:4 He
shall cover you with his feathers, and under his wings shall you trust: his truth
shall be your shield and buckler.
91:5
You shall not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for
the arrow that flies by day;
91:6
Nor for the pestilence that walks in darkness; nor for the
destruction that wastes at noonday.
91:7
A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at
your right hand; but it shall not come nigh you.
91:8
Only with yours eyes shall you behold and see the reward
of the wicked.
91:9 Because
you have made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, your habitation;
91:10 There
shall no evil befall you, neither shall any plague come nigh your dwelling.
91:11 For
he shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.
91:12 They
shall bear you up in their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone.
91:13 You
shall tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shall you trample
under feet.
91:14 Because
he has set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high,
because he has known my name.
91:15
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be
with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
91:16
With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.
92:1 IT
IS A GOOD THING TO GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, AND TO SING PRAISES UNTO Your NAME,
O MOST HIGH:
92:2 To
show forth your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night,
92:3 Upon
an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn
sound.
92:4 For
you, LORD, have made me glad through your work: I will triumph in the works of
your hands.
92:5 O
LORD, how great are your works! and your thoughts are very deep.
92:6
A brutish man knows not; neither does a fool understand
this.
92:7 When
the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish;
it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
92:8
But you, LORD, are most high for evermore.
92:9
For, lo, yours enemies, O LORD, for, lo, yours enemies shall
perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
92:10
But my horn shall you exalt like the horn of an unicorn
(p. ox): I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
92:11
Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine
ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
92:12
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall
grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
92:13
Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish
in the courts of our God.
92:14
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall
be fat and flourishing;
92:15
To show that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there
is no unrighteousness in him.
93:1
The LORD reigns, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is
clothed with strength, wherewith he has girded himself: the world also is established,
that it cannot be moved.
93:2
Your throne is established of old: you are from everlasting.
93:3 The
floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods
lift up their waves.
93:4
The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters,
yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
93:5
Your testimonies are very sure: holiness becomes yours house,
O LORD, for ever.
94:1
O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongs; O God, to whom vengeance
belongs, show yourself.
94:2
Lift up yourself, you judge of the earth: render a reward
to the proud.
94:3 LORD,
how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
94:4
How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all
the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
94:5
They break in pieces your people, O LORD, and afflict yours
heritage.
94:6 They
slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
94:7
Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the
God of Jacob regard it.
94:8
Understand, all of you brutish among the people: and all
of you fools, when will all of you be wise?
94:9
He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed
the eye, shall he not see?
94:10
He that chastises the heathen, shall not he correct? he
that teaches man knowledge, shall not he know?
94:11
The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
94:12 Blessed
is the man whom you chasten, O LORD, and teach him out of your law;
94:13
That you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until
the pit be dug for the wicked.
94:14
For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will
he forsake his inheritance.
94:15
But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the
upright in heart shall follow it.
94:16
Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will
stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
94:17
Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt
in silence.
94:18 When
I said, My foot slips; your mercy, O LORD, held me up.
94:19
In the multitude of my thoughts within me your comforts
delight my soul.
94:20
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, which
frames mischief by a law?
94:21
They gather themselves together against the soul of the
righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
94:22
But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my
refuge.
94:23 And
he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own
wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.
95:1
O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful
noise to the rock of our salvation.
95:2
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make
a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
95:3
For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all
gods.
95:4 In
his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
95:5 The
sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
95:6
O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before
the LORD our maker.
95:7
For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture,
and the sheep of his hand. To day if all of you will hear his voice,
95:8
Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in
the day of temptation in the wilderness:
95:9
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
95:10 Forty
years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do
go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
95:11
Unto whom I swore in my wrath that they should not enter
into my rest.
96:1 O
sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
96:2
Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; show forth his salvation
from day to day.
96:3 Declare
his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people.
96:4
For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is
to be feared above all gods.
96:5
For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD
made the heavens.
96:6
Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are
in his sanctuary.
96:7
Give unto the LORD, O all of you families of the people,
give unto the LORD glory and strength.
96:8
Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an
offering, and come into his courts.
96:9
O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before
him, all the earth.
96:10
Say among the heathen that the LORD reigns: the world also
shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
96:11 Let
the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fullness
thereof.
96:12 Let
the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the
wood rejoice
96:13 Before
the LORD: for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth: he shall judge the world
with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
97:1
The LORD reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude
of isles be glad thereof.
97:2
Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and
judgment are the habitation of his throne.
97:3
A fire goes before him, and burns up his enemies round about.
97:4 His
lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
97:5
The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at
the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
97:6
The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people
see his glory.
97:7 Confounded
be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship
him, all you gods.
97:8
Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced
because of your judgments, O LORD.
97:9
For you, LORD, are high above all the earth: you are exalted
far above all gods.
97:10
All of you that love the LORD, hate evil: he perserves the
souls of his saints; he delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
97:11
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright
in heart.
97:12 Rejoice
in the LORD, all of you righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
98:1 O
sing unto the LORD a new song; for he has done marvellous things: his right hand,
and his holy arm, has got him the victory.
98:2
The LORD has made known his salvation: his righteousness
has he openly showed in the sight of the heathen.
98:3
He has remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house
of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
98:4 Make
a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and
sing praise.
98:5 Sing
unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.
98:6 With
trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.
98:7 Let
the sea roar, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
98:8 Let
the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together
98:9
Before the LORD; for he comes to judge the earth: with righteousness
shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
99:1
The LORD reigns; let the people tremble: he sits between
the cherubims; let the earth be moved.
99:2
The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the
people.
99:3 Let
them praise your great and terrible name; for it is holy.
99:4
The king's strength also loves judgment; you do establish
equity, you execute judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
99:5
Exalt all of you the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool;
for he is holy.
99:6 Moses
and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they
called upon the LORD, and he answered them.
99:7
He spoke unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies,
and the ordinance that he gave them.
99:8
You answered them, O LORD our God: you were a God that forgave
them, though you took vengeance of their inventions.
99:9
Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for
the LORD our God is holy.
100:1
Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all you lands.
100:2 Serve
the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
100:3
Know all of you that the LORD he is God: it is he that has
made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
100:4 Enter
into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful
unto him, and bless his name.
100:5
For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his
truth endures to all generations.
101:1
I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto you, O LORD, will
I sing.
101:2 I
will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when will you come unto me? I will
walk within my house with a perfect heart.
101:3
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the
work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
101:4
A perverse heart shall depart from me: I will not know a
wicked person.
101:5 Whoso
privately slanders his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that has an high look
and a proud heart will not I suffer.
101:6
Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they
may dwell with me: he that walks in a perfect way, he shall serve me.
101:7 He
that works deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that tells lies shall not
tarry in my sight.
101:8
I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I
may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.
102:1
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto you.
102:2 Hide
not your face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline yours ear unto
me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
102:3
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned
as an hearth.
102:4 My
heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
102:5 By
reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
102:6
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl
of the desert.
102:7 I
watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
102:8
Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are
mad against me are sworn against me.
102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink
with weeping.
102:10 Because
of yours indignation and your wrath: for you have lifted me up, and cast me down.
102:11 My
days are like a shadow that declines; and I am withered like grass.
102:12
But you, O LORD, shall endure for ever; and your remembrance
unto all generations.
102:13
You shall arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time
to favour her, yea, the set time, has come.
102:14
For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour
the dust thereof.
102:15
So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all
the kings of the earth your glory.
102:16
When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his
glory.
102:17 He
will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
102:18 This
shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created
shall praise the LORD.
102:19
For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary;
from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
102:20
To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that
are appointed to death;
102:21
To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise
in Jerusalem;
102:22 When
the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.
102:23 He
weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
102:24
I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days:
your years are throughout all generations.
102:25
Of old have you laid the foundation of the earth: and the
heavens are the work of your hands.
102:26
They shall perish, but you shall endure: yea, all of them
shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shall you change them, and they shall
be changed:
102:27 But
you are the same, and your years shall have no end.
102:28
The children of your servants shall continue, and their
seed shall be established before you.
103:1
Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless
his holy name.
103:2 Bless
the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
103:3
Who forgives all yours iniquities; who heals all your diseases;
103:4 Who
redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving kindness and tender
mercies;
103:5 Who
satisfies your mouth with good things; so that your youth is renewed like the
eagle's.
103:6 The
LORD executes righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
103:7
He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children
of Israel.
103:8 The
LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in mercy.
103:9
He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger
for ever.
103:10 He
has not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
103:11 For
as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that
fear him.
103:12 As
far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from
us.
103:13 Like
a father pities his children, so the LORD pities them that fear him.
103:14
For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.
103:15 As
for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
103:16 For
the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no
more.
103:17 But
the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him,
and his righteousness unto children's children;
103:18
To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember
his commandments to do them.
103:19
The LORD has prepared his throne in the heavens; and his
kingdom rules over all.
103:20
Bless the LORD, all of you his angels, that excel in strength,
that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
103:21
Bless all of you the LORD, all you his hosts; all of you
ministers of his, that do his pleasure.
103:22
Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion:
bless the LORD, O my soul.
104:1
Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, you are very great;
you are clothed with honour and majesty.
104:2
Who cover yourself with light as with a garment: who stretch
out the heavens like a curtain:
104:3
Who lays the beams of his chambers in the waters: who makes
the clouds his chariot: who walks upon the wings of the wind:
104:4
Who makes his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
104:5 Who
laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
104:6 You
covered it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
104:7 At
your rebuke they fled; at the voice of your thunder they hasted away.
104:8 They
go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which you have
founded for them.
104:9
You have set a bound that they may not pass over; that they
turn not again to cover the earth.
104:10
He sends the springs into the valleys, which run among the
hills.
104:11 They
give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.
104:12 By
them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the
branches.
104:13 He
waters the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your
works.
104:14 He
causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that
he may bring forth food out of the earth;
104:15
And wine that makes glad the heart of man, and oil to make
his face to shine, and bread which strengthens man's heart.
104:16
The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon,
which he has planted;
104:17
Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the
fir trees are her house.
104:18
The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the
rocks for the conies.
104:19
He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knows his going
down.
104:20 You
make darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep
forth.
104:21 The
young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.
104:22
The sun arises, they gather themselves together, and lay
them down in their dens.
104:23
Man goes forth unto his work and to his labour until the
evening.
104:24 O
LORD, how manifold are your works! in wisdom have you made them all: the earth
is full of your riches.
104:25
So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping
innumerable, both small and great beasts.
104:26
There go the ships: there is that leviathan (p. sea serpent),
whom you have made to play therein.
104:27
These wait all upon you; that you may give them their food
in due season.
104:28 That
you give them they gather: you open yours hand, they are filled with good.
104:29 You
hide your face, they are troubled: you take away their breath, they die, and return
to their dust.
104:30 You
send forth your spirit, they are created: and you renew the face of the earth.
104:31 The
glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works.
104:32 He
looks on the earth, and it trembles: he touches the hills, and they smoke.
104:33 I
will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while
I have my being.
104:34
My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the
LORD.
104:35 Let
the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless
you the LORD, O my soul. Praise all of you the LORD.
105:1
O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known
his deeds among the people.
105:2
Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk all of you of
all his wondrous works.
105:3
Glory all of you in his holy name: let the heart of them
rejoice that seek the LORD.
105:4
Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
105:5 Remember
his marvellous works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;
105:6 O
all of you seed of Abraham his servant, all of you children of Jacob his chosen.
105:7 He
is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
105:8
He has remembered his covenant for ever, the word which
he commanded to a thousand generations.
105:9
Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
105:10 And
confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:
105:11 Saying,
Unto you will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:
105:12 When
they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
105:13 When
they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;
105:14 He
suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;
105:15 Saying,
Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
105:16
Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake
the whole staff of bread.
105:17
He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for
a servant:
105:18 Whose
feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
105:19
Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD
tried him.
105:20 The
king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.
105:21 He
made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:
105:22
To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators
wisdom.
105:23 Israel
also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
105:24
And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger
than their enemies.
105:25
He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtlely
with his servants.
105:26
He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.
105:27 They
showed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
105:28
He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not
against his word.
105:29
He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
105:30 Their
land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings.
105:31 He
spoke, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.
105:32 He
gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.
105:33
He stroke their vines also and their fig trees; and brake
the trees of their coasts.
105:34
He spoke, and the locusts came, and caterpillars, and that
without number,
105:35
And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured
the fruit of their ground.
105:36
He stroke also all the firstborn in their land, the chief
of all their strength.
105:37
He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there
was not one feeble person among their tribes.
105:38
Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them
fell upon them.
105:39
He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light
in the night.
105:40 The
people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
105:41 He
opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a
river.
105:42 For
he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
105:43
And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen
with gladness:
105:44 And
gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;
105:45 That
they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise all of you the LORD.
106:1 Praise
all of you the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy
endures for ever.
106:2
Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? who can show
forth all his praise?
106:3
Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that does righteousness
at all times.
106:4 Remember
me, O LORD, with the favour that you bear unto your people: O visit me with your
salvation;
106:5 That
I may see the good of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your
nation, that I may glory with yours inheritance.
106:6
We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity,
we have done wickedly.
106:7
Our fathers understood not your wonders in Egypt; they remembered
not the multitude of your mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red
sea.
106:8 Nevertheless
he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
106:9 He
rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths,
as through the wilderness.
106:10
And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them,
and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
106:11
And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one
of them left.
106:12 Then
believed they his words; they sang his praise.
106:13
They soon forgotten about his works; they waited not for
his counsel:
106:14 But
lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
106:15
And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their
soul.
106:16 They
envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.
106:17
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the
company of Abiram.
106:18
And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned
up the wicked.
106:19 They
made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
106:20
Thus they changed their glory into the embodiment of an
ox that eats grass.
106:21
They forgotten about God their saviour, which had done great
things in Egypt;
106:22
Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by
the Red sea.
106:23 Therefore
he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him
in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
106:24
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not
his word:
106:25 But
murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.
106:26 Therefore
he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:
106:27 To
overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
106:28 They
joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
106:29 Thus
they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon
them.
106:30 Then
stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
106:31 And
that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.
106:32 They
angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their
sakes:
106:33 Because
they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke without due consideration with his
lips.
106:34 They
did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:
106:35 But
were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
106:36
And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
106:37 Yea,
they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
106:38
And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and
of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land
was polluted with blood.
106:39
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a
whoring with their own inventions.
106:40
Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his
people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
106:41
And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they
that hated them ruled over them.
106:42
Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought
into subjection under their hand.
106:43
Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with
their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
106:44
Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard
their cry:
106:45 And
he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of
his mercies.
106:46 He
made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.
106:47
Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen,
to give thanks unto your holy name, and to triumph in your praise.
106:48
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting:
and let all the people say, Amen. Praise all of you the LORD.
107:1
O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy
endures for ever.
107:2
Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he has redeemed
from the hand of the enemy;
107:3
And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from
the west, from the north, and from the south.
107:4
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they
found no city to dwell in.
107:5
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
107:6 Then
they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their
distresses.
107:7 And
he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
107:8 Oh
that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to
the children of men!
107:9
For he satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry
soul with goodness.
107:10
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being
bound in affliction and iron;
107:11
Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned
the counsel of the most High:
107:12
Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they
fell down, and there was none to help.
107:13
Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved
them out of their distresses.
107:14
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,
and brake their bands in two.
107:15
Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and
for his wonderful works to the children of men!
107:16
For he has broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of
iron in two.
107:17 Fools
because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
107:18 Their
soul detests all manner of food; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
107:19 Then
they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saves them out of their distresses.
107:20 He
sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
107:21 Oh
that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to
the children of men!
107:22
And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and
declare his works with rejoicing.
107:23
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business
in great waters;
107:24
These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the
deep.
107:25 For
he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up the waves thereof.
107:26 They
mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted
because of trouble.
107:27
They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man,
and are at their know's end.
107:28
Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he brings
them out of their distresses.
107:29
He makes the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are
still.
107:30 Then
are they glad because they be quiet; so he brings them unto their desired haven.
107:31 Oh
that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to
the children of men!
107:32
Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people,
and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
107:33
He turns rivers into a wilderness, and the fountains into
dry ground;
107:34 A
fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
107:35 He
turns the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into fountains.
107:36 And
there he makes the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;
107:37 And
sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.
107:38 He
blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffers not their
cattle to decrease.
107:39
Again, they are diminished and brought low through oppression,
affliction, and sorrow.
107:40
He pours contempt upon princes, and causes them to wander
in the wilderness, where there is no way.
107:41
Yet sets he the poor on high from affliction, and makes
him families like a flock.
107:42
The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity
shall stop her mouth.
107:43
Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they
shall understand the loving kindness of the LORD.
108:1
O god, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even
with my glory.
108:2 Awake,
psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
108:3
I will praise you, O LORD, among the people: and I will
sing praises unto you among the nations.
108:4
For your mercy is great above the heavens: and your truth
reachs unto the clouds.
108:5
Be you exalted, O God, above the heavens: and your glory
above all the earth;
108:6
That your beloved may be delivered: save with your right
hand, and answer me.
108:7
God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide
Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
108:8
Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength
of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
108:9
Moab is my pot for washing; over Edom will I cast out my
shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.
108:10
Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me
into Edom?
108:11 Will
not you, O God, who have cast us off? and will not you, O God, go forth with our
hosts?
108:12 Give
us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
108:13
Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall
tread down our enemies.
109:1
Hold not your peace, O God of my praise;
109:2
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful
are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
109:3 They
compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a
cause.
109:4 For
my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
109:5
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for
my love.
109:6 Set
you a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
109:7
When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his
prayer become sin.
109:8
Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
109:9 Let
his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
109:10
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let
them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
109:11
Let the extortionist catch all that he has; and let the
strangers spoil his labour.
109:12
Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let
there be any to favour his fatherless children.
109:13
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following
let their name be blotted out.
109:14
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD;
and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
109:15
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut
off the memory of them from the earth.
109:16
Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted
the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
109:17
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted
not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
109:18
As he clothed himself with cursing like with his garment,
so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
109:19 Let
it be unto him as the garment which covers him, and for a girdle wherewith he
is girded continually.
109:20
Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD,
and of them that speak evil against my soul.
109:21
But do you for me, O GOD the Lord, for your name's sake:
because your mercy is good, deliver you me.
109:22
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within
me.
109:23 I
am gone like the shadow when it declines: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
109:24 My
knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh fails of fatness.
109:25
I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon
me they shook their heads.
109:26
Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to your mercy:
109:27 That
they may know that this is your hand; that you, LORD, have done it.
109:28
Let them curse, but bless you: when they arise, let them
be ashamed; but let your servant rejoice.
109:29
Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them
cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
109:30
I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will
praise him among the multitude.
109:31
For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save
him from those that condemn his soul.
110:1
The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit you at my right hand, until
I make yours enemies your footstool.
110:2
The LORD shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion:
rule you in the midst of yours enemies.
110:3
Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in
the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: you have the dew of your
youth.
110:4 The
LORD has sworn, and will not repent, You are a priest for ever after the order
of Melchizedek.
110:5 The
Lord at your right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
110:6 He
shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies;
he shall wound the heads over many countries.
110:7
He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall
he lift up the head.
111:1
Praise all of you the LORD. I will praise the LORD with
my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.
111:2 The
works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
111:3 His
work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endures for ever.
111:4 He
has made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD is gracious and full of
compassion.
111:5 He
has given food unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant.
111:6 He
has showed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage
of the heathen.
111:7 The
works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.
111:8 They
stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.
111:9
He sent redemption unto his people: he has commanded his
covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.
111:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good
understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endures for ever.
112:1 Praise
all of you the LORD. Blessed is the man that fears the LORD, that delights greatly
in his commandments.
112:2
His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the
upright shall be blessed.
112:3
Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness
endures for ever.
112:4
Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness: he
is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
112:5
A good man shows favour, and lends: he will guide his affairs
with discretion.
112:6
Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall
be in everlasting remembrance.
112:7
He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed,
trusting in the LORD.
112:8
His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until
he see his desire upon his enemies.
112:9
He has dispersed, he has given to the poor; his righteousness
endures for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.
112:10
The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash
with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
113:1 Praise
all of you the LORD. Praise, O all of you servants of the LORD, praise the name
of the LORD.
113:2 Blessed
be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore.
113:3
From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same
the LORD's name is to be praised.
113:4
The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above
the heavens.
113:5 Who
is like unto the LORD our God, who dwells on high,
113:6
Who humbles himself to behold the things that are in heaven,
and in the earth!
113:7
He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy
out of the dunghill;
113:8
That he may set him with princes, even with the princes
of his people.
113:9 He
makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise
all of you the LORD.
114:1
When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a
people of strange language;
114:2
Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
114:3 The
sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
114:4
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like
lambs.
114:5 What
ailed you, O you sea, that you fled? you Jordan, that you were driven back?
114:6 All
of you mountains, that all of you skipped like rams; and all of you little hills,
like lambs?
114:7 Tremble,
you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;
114:8 Which
turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
115:1 Not
unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto your name give glory, for your mercy, and
for your truth's sake.
115:2
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
115:3 But
our God is in the heavens: he has done whatsoever he has pleased.
115:4
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
115:5 They
have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:
115:6
They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but
they smell not:
115:7 They
have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak
they through their throat.
115:8
They that make them are like unto them; so is every one
that trusts in them.
115:9
O Israel, trust you in the LORD: he is their help and their
shield.
115:10 O
house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.
115:11 All
of you that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.
115:12 The
LORD has been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel;
he will bless the house of Aaron.
115:13
He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great.
115:14 The
LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
115:15
All of you are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and
earth.
115:16 The
heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's: but the earth has he given to the children
of men.
115:17 The
dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
115:18
But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for
evermore. Praise the LORD.
116:1
I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my supplications.
116:2 Because
he has inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.
116:3 The
sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell got hold upon me: I found
trouble and sorrow.
116:4
Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I plead
to you, deliver my soul.
116:5
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.
116:6 The
LORD perserves the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
116:7
Return unto your rest, O my soul; for the LORD has dealt
bountifully with you.
116:8
For you have delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from
tears, and my feet from falling.
116:9
I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
116:10 I
believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
116:11
I said in my haste, All men are liars.
116:12
What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward
me?
116:13 I
will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD.
116:14
I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of
all his people.
116:15
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
116:16 O
LORD, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, and the son of yours handmaid:
you have loosed my bonds.
116:17
I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will
call upon the name of the LORD.
116:18
I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of
all his people.
116:19
In the courts of the LORD's house, in the midst of you,
O Jerusalem. Praise all of you the LORD.
117:1
O praise the LORD, all you nations: praise him, all you
people.
117:2 For
his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endures for
ever. Praise all of you the LORD.
118:1
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his
mercy endures for ever.
118:2
Let Israel now say, that his mercy endures for ever.
118:3 Let
the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endures for ever.
118:4
Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endures
for ever.
118:5 I
called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large
place.
118:6 The
LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?
118:7
The LORD takes my part with them that help me: therefore
shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.
118:8
It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence
in man.
118:9 It
is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.
118:10
All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD
will I destroy them.
118:11
They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but
in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
118:12
They compassed me about like bees: they are quenched as
the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
118:13
You have thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD
helped me.
118:14 The
LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.
118:15
The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles
of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly.
118:16
The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of
the LORD does valiantly.
118:17
I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the
LORD.
118:18 The
LORD has chastened me sore: but he has not given me over unto death.
118:19
Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them,
and I will praise the LORD:
118:20
This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.
118:21 I
will praise you: for you have heard me, and are become my salvation.
118:22
The stone which the builders refused is become the head
stone of the corner.
118:23
This is the LORD's doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.
118:24 This
is the day which the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
118:25 Save
now, I plead to you, O LORD: O LORD, I plead to you, send now prosperity.
118:26 Blessed
be he that comes in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house
of the LORD.
118:27 God
is the LORD, which has showed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto
the horns of the altar.
118:28
You are my God, and I will praise you: you are my God, I
will exalt you.
118:29
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy
endures for ever.
119:1
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law
of the LORD.
119:2 Blessed
are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
119:3 They
also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
119:4
You have commanded us to keep your precepts diligently.
119:5 O
that my ways were directed to keep your statutes!
119:6
Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all
your commandments.
119:7
I will praise you with uprightness of heart, when I shall
have learned your righteous judgments.
119:8
I will keep your statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
119:9 Wherewithal
shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to your word.
119:10 With
my whole heart have I sought you: O let me not wander from your commandments.
119:11 Your
word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against you.
119:12
Blessed are you, O LORD: teach me your statutes.
119:13 With
my lips have I declared all the judgments of your mouth.
119:14
I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much
as in all riches.
119:15
I will meditate in your precepts, and have respect unto
your ways.
119:16 I
will delight myself in your statutes: I will not forget your word.
119:17
Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live, and
keep your word.
119:18
Open you mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out
of your law.
119:19 I
am a stranger in the earth: hide not your commandments from me.
119:20
My soul breaks for the longing that it has unto your judgments
at all times.
119:21 You
have rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do go astray from your commandments.
119:22 Remove
from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept your testimonies.
119:23
Princes also did sit and speak against me: but your servant
did meditate in your statutes.
119:24
Your testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.leth.
119:25 My
soul cleaves unto the dust: you restore life in me according to your word.
119:26 I
have declared my ways, and you heard me: teach me your statutes.
119:27
Make me to understand the way of your precepts: so shall
I talk of your wondrous works.
119:28
My soul melts for heaviness: strengthen you me according
unto your word.
119:29
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me your law graciously.
119:30 I
have chosen the way of truth: your judgments have I laid before me.
119:31
I have stuck unto your testimonies: O LORD, put me not to
shame.
119:32 I
will run the way of your commandments, when you shall enlarge my heart.
119:33 Teach
me, O LORD, the way of your statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
119:34 Give
me understanding, and I shall keep your law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole
heart.
119:35 Make
me to go in the path of your commandments; for therein do I delight.
119:36
Incline my heart unto your testimonies, and not to covetousness.
119:37 Turn
away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and you restore life in me in your way.
119:38 Establish
your word unto your servant, who is devoted to your fear.
119:39
Turn away my reproach which I fear: for your judgments are
good.
119:40 Behold,
I have longed after your precepts: restore life in me in your righteousness.
119:41 Let
your mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even your salvation, according to your
word.
119:42 So
shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproaches me: for I trust in your word.
119:43 And
take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in your judgments.
119:44 So
shall I keep your law continually for ever and ever.
119:45
And I will walk at liberty: for I seek your precepts.
119:46 I
will speak of your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.
119:47 And
I will delight myself in your commandments, which I have loved.
119:48
My hands also will I lift up unto your commandments, which
I have loved; and I will meditate in your statutes.
119:49
Remember the word unto your servant, upon which you have
caused me to hope.
119:50
This is my comfort in my affliction: for your word has quickened
me.
119:51 The
proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from your law.
119:52 I
remembered your judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.
119:53
Horror has taken hold upon me because of the wicked that
forsake your law.
119:54
Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
119:55 I
have remembered your name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept your law.
119:56 This
I had, because I kept your precepts.
119:57
You are my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep
your words.
119:58 I
implored your favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to your
word.
119:59 I
thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto your testimonies.
119:60
I made haste, and delayed not to keep your commandments.
119:61 The
bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten your law.
119:62 At
midnight I will rise to give thanks unto you because of your righteous judgments.
119:63 I
am a companion of all them that fear you, and of them that keep your precepts.
119:64 The
earth, O LORD, is full of your mercy: teach me your statutes.
119:65
You have dealt well with your servant, O LORD, according
unto your word.
119:66
Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed
your commandments.
119:67
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept
your word.
119:68 You
are good, and do good; teach me your statutes.
119:69
The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep
your precepts with my whole heart.
119:70
Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in your law.
119:71 It
is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn your statutes.
119:72 The
law of your mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
119:73 Your
hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn your
commandments.
119:74 They
that fear you will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in your word.
119:75 I
know, O LORD, that your judgments are right, and that you in faithfulness have
afflicted me.
119:76 Let,
I pray you, your merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to your word unto
your servant.
119:77 Let
your tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for your law is my delight.
119:78 Let
the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I
will meditate in your precepts.
119:79
Let those that fear you turn unto me, and those that have
known your testimonies.
119:80
Let my heart be sound in your statutes; that I be not ashamed.
119:81 My
soul faints for your salvation: but I hope in your word.
119:82
Mine eyes fail for your word, saying, When will you comfort
me?
119:83 For
I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget your statutes.
119:84 How
many are the days of your servant? when will you execute judgment on them that
persecute me?
119:85 The
proud have dug pits for me, which are not after your law.
119:86
All your commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully;
help you me.
119:87 They
had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not your precepts.
119:88
Restore life in me after your loving kindness; so shall
I keep the testimony of your mouth.
119:89
For ever, O LORD, your word is settled in heaven.
119:90 Your
faithfulness is unto all generations: you have established the earth, and it abides.
119:91 They
continue this day according to yours ordinances: for all are your servants.
119:92 Unless
your law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
119:93 I
will never forget your precepts: for with them you have quickened me.
119:94 I
am yours, save me: for I have sought your precepts.
119:95
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will
consider your testimonies.
119:96
I have seen an end of all perfection: but your commandment
is exceeding broad.
119:97
O how I love your law! it is my meditation all the day.
119:98 You
through your commandments have made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever
with me.
119:99 I
have more understanding than all my teachers: for your testimonies are my meditation.
119:100 I
understand more than the ancients, because I keep your precepts.
119:101
I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might
keep your word.
119:102
I have not departed from your judgments: for you have taught
me.
119:103 How
sweet are your words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
119:104 Through
your precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
119:105
Your word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
119:106 I
have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep your righteous judgments.
119:107 I
am afflicted very much: restore life in me, O LORD, according unto your word.
119:108 Accept,
I plead to you, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me your
judgments.
119:109 My
soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget your law.
119:110
The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from
your precepts.
119:111
Your testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for
they are the rejoicing of my heart.
119:112
I have inclined mine heart to perform your statutes always,
even unto the end.
119:113
I hate vain thoughts: but your law do I love.
119:114
You are my hiding place and my shield: I hope in your word.
119:115 Depart
from me, all of you evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
119:116 Uphold
me according unto your word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my
hope.
119:117 Hold
you me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto your statutes continually.
119:118 You
have trodden down all them that go astray from your statutes: for their deceit
is falsehood.
119:119 You
put away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love your testimonies.
119:120 My
flesh trembles for fear of you; and I am afraid of your judgments.
119:121
I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
119:122 Be
guarantor for your servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
119:123
Mine eyes fail for your salvation, and for the word of your
righteousness.
119:124
Deal with your servant according unto your mercy, and teach
me your statutes.
119:125
I am your servant; give me understanding, that I may know
your testimonies.
119:126
It is time for you, LORD, to work: for they have made void
your law.
119:127 Therefore
I love your commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
119:128
Therefore I esteem all your precepts concerning all things
to be right; and I hate every false way.
119:129
Your testimonies are wonderful: therefore does my soul keep
them.
119:130 The
entrance of your words gives light; it gives understanding unto the simple.
119:131 I
opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for your commandments.
119:132
Look you upon me, and be merciful unto me, as you use to
do unto those that love your name.
119:133
Order my steps in your word: and let not any iniquity have
dominion over me.
119:134
Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep your
precepts.
119:135 Make
your face to shine upon your servant; and teach me your statutes.
119:136
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not
your law.
119:137 Righteous
are you, O LORD, and upright are your judgments.
119:138
Your testimonies that you have commanded are righteous and
very faithful.
119:139
My zeal has consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten
your words.
119:140 Your
word is very pure: therefore your servant loves it.
119:141
I am small and despised: yet do not I forget your precepts.
119:142 Your
righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your law is the truth.
119:143 Trouble
and anguish have taken hold on me: yet your commandments are my delights.
119:144 The
righteousness of your testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I
shall live.
119:145 I
cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep your statutes.
119:146 I
cried unto you; save me, and I shall keep your testimonies.
119:147
I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped
in your word.
119:148 Mine
eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in your word.
119:149
Hear my voice according unto your loving kindness: O LORD,
restore life in me according to your judgment.
119:150
They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far
from your law.
119:151
You are near, O LORD; and all your commandments are truth.
119:152 Concerning
your testimonies, I have known of old that you have founded them for ever.
119:153 Consider
mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget your law.
119:154
Plead my cause, and deliver me: restore life in me according
to your word.
119:155 Salvation
is far from the wicked: for they seek not your statutes.
119:156
Great are your tender mercies, O LORD: restore life in me
according to your judgments.
119:157
Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline
from your testimonies.
119:158
I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they
kept not your word.
119:159
Consider how I love your precepts: restore life in me, O
LORD, according to your loving kindness.
119:160
Your word is true from the beginning: and every one of your
righteous judgments endures for ever.
119:161
Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart
stands in awe of your word.
119:162
I rejoice at your word, as one that finds great spoil.
119:163 I
hate and detest lying: but your law do I love.
119:164
Seven times a day do I praise you because of your righteous
judgments.
119:165 Great
peace have they which love your law: and nothing shall offend them.
119:166
LORD, I have hoped for your salvation, and done your commandments.
119:167 My
soul has kept your testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
119:168
I have kept your precepts and your testimonies: for all
my ways are before you.
119:169
Let my cry come near before you, O LORD: give me understanding
according to your word.
119:170
Let my supplication come before you: deliver me according
to your word.
119:171 My
lips shall utter praise, when you have taught me your statutes.
119:172
My tongue shall speak of your word: for all your commandments
are righteousness.
119:173
Let yours hand help me; for I have chosen your precepts.
119:174 I
have longed for your salvation, O LORD; and your law is my delight.
119:175
Let my soul live, and it shall praise you; and let your
judgments help me.
119:176
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant;
for I do not forget your commandments.
120:1
In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
120:2 Deliver
my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
120:3
What shall be given unto you? or what shall be done unto
you, you false tongue?
120:4
Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
120:5 Woe
is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
120:6
My soul has long dwelt with him that hates peace.
120:7 I am
for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
121:1
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence comes
my help.
121:2 My
help comes from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
121:3
He will not suffer your foot to be moved: he that keeps
you will not slumber.
121:4
Behold, he that keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
121:5 The
LORD is your keeper: the LORD is your shade upon your right hand.
121:6
The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
121:7 The
LORD shall preserve you from all evil: he shall preserve your soul.
121:8
The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in
from this time forth, and even for evermore.
122:1
I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house
of the LORD.
122:2 Our
feet shall stand within your gates, O Jerusalem.
122:3
Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together:
122:4 Where
the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give
thanks unto the name of the LORD.
122:5
For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the
house of David.
122:6 Pray
for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love you.
122:7
Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.
122:8 For
my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within you.
122:9 Because
of the house of the LORD our God I will seek your good.
123:1
Unto you lift I up mine eyes, O you that dwell in the heavens.
123:2 Behold,
as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of
a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God,
until that he have mercy upon us.
123:3
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are
exceedingly filled with contempt.
123:4
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those
that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
124:1
If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may
Israel say;
124:2 If
it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
124:3 Then
they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
124:4 Then
the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
124:5
Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
124:6
Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their
teeth.
124:7 Our
soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken,
and we are escaped.
124:8
Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and
earth.
125:1 They
that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abides
for ever.
125:2 As
the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people
from henceforth even for ever.
125:3
For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of
the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
125:4 Do
good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.
125:5 As
for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth
with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
126:1
When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were
like them that dream.
126:2
Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue
with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD has done great things
for them.
126:3 The
LORD has done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
126:4
Return our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
126:5 They
that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
126:6
He that goes forth and weeps, bearing precious seed, shall
doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
127:1
Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that
build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman wakes but in vain.
127:2 It
is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows:
for so he gives his beloved sleep.
127:3
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit
of the womb is his reward.
127:4
As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children
of the youth.
127:5 Happy
is the man that has his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they
shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
128:1
Blessed is every one that fears the LORD; that walks in
his ways.
128:2 For
you shall eat the labour of yours hands: happy shall you be, and it shall be well
with you.
128:3 Your
wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of yours house: your children like
olive plants round about your table.
128:4
Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that fears the
LORD.
128:5 The
LORD shall bless you out of Zion: and you shall see the good of Jerusalem all
the days of your life.
128:6
Yea, you shall see your children's children, and peace upon
Israel.
129:1 Many
a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
129:2
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they
have not prevailed against me.
129:3
The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
129:4 The
LORD is righteous: he has cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
129:5
Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
129:6 Let
them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up:
129:7 Wherewith
the mower fills not his hand; nor he that binds sheaves his bosom.
129:8
Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD
be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
130:1
Out of the depths have I cried unto you, O LORD.
130:2 Lord,
hear my voice: let yours ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
130:3 If
you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
130:4
But there is forgiveness with you, that you may be feared.
130:5 I
wait for the LORD, my soul does wait, and in his word do I hope.
130:6
My soul waits for the Lord more than they that watch for
the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
130:7
Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is
mercy, and with him is abundant redemption.
130:8
And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
131:1 Lord,
my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in
great matters, or in things too high for me.
131:2
Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that
is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
131:3
Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.
132:1 Lord,
remember David, and all his afflictions:
132:2
How he swore unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God
of Jacob;
132:3 Surely
I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;
132:4 I will
not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,
132:5
Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for
the mighty God of Jacob.
132:6
Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields
of the wood.
132:7 We
will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.
132:8
Arise, O LORD, into your rest; you, and the ark of your
strength.
132:9 Let
your priests be clothed with righteousness; and let your saints shout for joy.
132:10 For
your servant David's sake turn not away the face of yours anointed.
132:11
The LORD has sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn
from it; Of the fruit of your body will I set upon your throne.
132:12
If your children will keep my covenant and my testimony
that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon your throne for evermore.
132:13 For
the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation.
132:14
This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have
desired it.
132:15 I
will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.
132:16 I
will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud
for joy.
132:17 There
will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.
132:18 His
enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.
133:1 Behold,
how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
133:2 It
is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even
Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;
133:3
As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon
the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for
evermore.
134:1 Behold,
bless all of you the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, which by night stand
in the house of the LORD.
134:2
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
134:3 The
LORD that made heaven and earth bless you out of Zion.
135:1
Praise all of you the LORD. Praise all of you the name of
the LORD; praise him, O all of you servants of the LORD.
135:2
All of you that stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts
of the house of our God.
135:3
Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good: sing praises unto
his name; for it is pleasant.
135:4
For the LORD has chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for
his exclusive treasure.
135:5
For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is
above all gods.
135:6 Whatsoever
the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep
places.
135:7 He
causes the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for
the rain; he brings the wind out of his treasuries.
135:8
Who stroke the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.
135:9 Who
sent tokens and wonders into the midst of you, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon
all his servants.
135:10
Who stroke great nations, and slew mighty kings;
135:11 Sihon
king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan:
135:12 And
gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people.
135:13
Your name, O LORD, endures for ever; and your memorial,
O LORD, throughout all generations.
135:14
For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself
concerning his servants.
135:15
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of
men's hands.
135:16 They
have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;
135:17
They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any
breath in their mouths.
135:18
They that make them are like unto them: so is every one
that trusts in them.
135:19
Bless the LORD, O house of Israel: bless the LORD, O house
of Aaron:
135:20 Bless
the LORD, O house of Levi: all of you that fear the LORD, bless the LORD.
135:21 Blessed
be the LORD out of Zion, which dwells at Jerusalem. Praise all of you the LORD.
136:1 O
give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endures for ever.
136:2 O give
thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endures for ever.
136:3
O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endures
for ever.
136:4 To
him who alone does great wonders: for his mercy endures for ever.
136:5
To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endures
for ever.
136:6 To
him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endures for ever.
136:7 To
him that made great lights: for his mercy endures for ever:
136:8
The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endures for ever:
136:9 The
moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endures for ever.
136:10
To him that stroke Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy
endures for ever:
136:11
And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endures
for ever:
136:12 With
a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endures for ever.
136:13 To
him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endures for ever:
136:14 And
made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endures for ever:
136:15 But
overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endures for ever.
136:16 To
him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endures for ever.
136:17 To
him which stroke great kings: for his mercy endures for ever:
136:18
And slew famous kings: for his mercy endures for ever:
136:19 Sihon
king of the Amorites: for his mercy endures for ever:
136:20
And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endures for ever:
136:21 And
gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy endures for ever:
136:22
Even an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy
endures for ever.
136:23
Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endures
for ever:
136:24 And
has redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endures for ever.
136:25
Who gives food to all flesh: for his mercy endures for ever.
136:26 O
give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endures for ever.
137:1
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept,
when we remembered Zion.
137:2
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
137:3 For
there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted
us required of us delight, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
137:4
How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?
137:5 If
I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
137:6
If I do not remember you, let my tongue cleave to the roof
of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
137:7
Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem;
who said, Demolish it, demolish it, even to the foundation thereof.
137:8
O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed; happy shall
he be, that rewards you as you have served us.
137:9
Happy shall he be, that takes and dashes your little ones
against the stones.
138:1
I will praise you with my whole heart: before the gods will
I sing praise unto you.
138:2
I will worship toward your holy temple, and praise your
name for your loving kindness and for your truth: for you have magnified your
word above all your name.
138:3
In the day when I cried you answered me, and strengthened
me with strength in my soul.
138:4
All the kings of the earth shall praise you, O LORD, when
they hear the words of your mouth.
138:5
Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great
is the glory of the LORD.
138:6
Though the LORD be high, yet has he respect unto the lowly:
but the proud he knows far off.
138:7
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will revive me:
you shall stretch forth yours hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and your
right hand shall save me.
138:8
The LORD will perfect that which concerns me: your mercy,
O LORD, endures for ever: forsake not the works of yours own hands.
139:1
O lord, you have searched me, and known me.
139:2
You know my sitting down and mine rising up, you understand
my thought far off.
139:3
You compass my path and my lying down, and are acquainted
with all my ways.
139:4
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, you
know it altogether.
139:5
You have beset me behind and before, and laid yours hand
upon me.
139:6 Such
knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
139:7 Where
shall I go from your spirit? or where shall I flee from your presence?
139:8 If
I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, you
are there.
139:9 If
I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
139:10 Even
there shall your hand lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
139:11
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night
shall be light about me.
139:12
Yea, the darkness hides not from you; but the night shines
as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you.
139:13
For you have possessed my reins: you have covered me in
my mother's womb.
139:14
I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:
marvellous are your works; and that my soul knows right well.
139:15
My substance was not hid from you, when I was made in secret,
and curiously wrought in the low parts of the earth.
139:16
Yours eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect; and
in your book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned,
when as yet there was none of them.
139:17
How precious also are your thoughts unto me, O God! how
great is the sum of them!
139:18
If I should count them, they are more in number than the
sand: when I awake, I am still with you.
139:19
Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore,
all of you bloody men.
139:20
For they speak against you wickedly, and yours enemies take
your name in vain.
139:21
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate you? and am not I
grieved with those that rise up against you?
139:22
I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
139:23 Search
me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
139:24
And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in
the way everlasting.
140:1
Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from
the violent man;
140:2
Which imagine evil in their heart; continually are they
gathered together for war.
140:3
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders'
poison is under their lips. Selah.
140:4
Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve
me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my activities.
140:5 The
proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside;
they have set gins for me. Selah.
140:6
I said unto the LORD, You are my God: hear the voice of
my supplications, O LORD.
140:7
O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered
my head in the day of battle.
140:8
Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not
his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
140:9
As for the head of those that compass me about, let the
mischief of their own lips cover them.
140:10
Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into
the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
140:11
Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil
shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
140:12
I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted,
and the right of the poor.
140:13
Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto your name: the
upright shall dwell in your presence.
141:1
Lord, I cry unto you: make haste unto me; give ear unto
my voice, when I cry unto you.
141:2
Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense; and the
lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
141:3
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my
lips.
141:4 Incline
not my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity:
and let me not eat of their dainties.
141:5
Let the righteous strike me; it shall be a kindness: and
let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head:
for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
141:6
When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall
hear my words; for they are sweet.
141:7
Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one
cuts and cleaves wood upon the earth.
141:8
But mine eyes are unto you, O GOD the Lord: in you is my
trust; leave not my soul destitute.
141:9
Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and
the gins of the workers of iniquity.
141:10
Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I likewise
escape.
142:1 I
cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.
142:2 I
poured out my complaint before him; I showed before him my trouble.
142:3
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then you knew
my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privately laid a snare for me.
142:4 I
looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me:
refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
142:5
I cried unto you, O LORD: I said, You are my refuge and
my portion in the land of the living.
142:6
Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me
from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
142:7
Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise your name:
the righteous shall compass me about; for you shall deal bountifully with me.
143:1 Hear
my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in your faithfulness answer me,
and in your righteousness.
143:2
And enter not into judgment with your servant: for in your
sight shall no man living be justified.
143:3
For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my
life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have
been long dead.
143:4 Therefore
is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
143:5
I remember the days of old; I meditate on all your works;
I meditate on the work of your hands.
143:6
I stretch forth my hands unto you: my soul thirsts after
you, as a thirsty land. Selah.
143:7
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: hide not your
face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
143:8
Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning; for
in you do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift
up my soul unto you.
143:9
Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto you to
hide me.
143:10 Teach
me to do your will; for you are my God: your spirit is good; lead me into the
land of uprightness.
143:11
Restore life in me, O LORD, for your name's sake: for your
righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.
143:12
And of your mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all
them that afflict my soul: for I am your servant.
144:1
Blessed be the LORD my strength which teaches my hands to
war, and my fingers to fight:
144:2
My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer;
my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdues my people under me.
144:3
LORD, what is man, that you take knowledge of him! or the
son of man, that you make account of him!
144:4
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes
away.
144:5 Bow
your heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
144:6 Cast
forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out yours arrows, and destroy them.
144:7 Send
yours hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand
of strange children;
144:8
Whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right
hand of falsehood.
144:9
I will sing a new song unto you, O God: upon a psaltery
and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto you.
144:10
It is he that gives salvation unto kings: who delivers David
his servant from the hurtful sword.
144:11
Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children,
whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
144:12 That
our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as
corner stones, polished after the embodiment of a palace:
144:13
That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store:
that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
144:14 That
our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out;
that there be no complaining in our streets.
144:15
Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy
is that people, whose God is the LORD.
145:1
I will extol you, my God, O king; and I will bless your
name for ever and ever.
145:2
Every day will I bless you; and I will praise your name
for ever and ever.
145:3
Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness
is unsearchable.
145:4
One generation shall praise your works to another, and shall
declare your mighty acts.
145:5
I will speak of the glorious honour of your majesty, and
of your wondrous works.
145:6
And men shall speak of the might of your terrible acts:
and I will declare your greatness.
145:7
They shall abundantly utter the memory of your great goodness,
and shall sing of your righteousness.
145:8
The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger,
and of great mercy.
145:9
The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over
all his works.
145:10 All
your works shall praise you, O LORD; and your saints shall bless you.
145:11 They
shall speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk of your power;
145:12
To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the
glorious majesty of his kingdom.
145:13
Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion
endures throughout all generations.
145:14
The LORD upholds all that fall, and raises up all those
that be bowed down.
145:15
The eyes of all wait upon you; and you give them their food
in due season.
145:16 You
open yours hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
145:17
The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his
works.
145:18 The
LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.
145:19 He
will fulfill the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and
will save them.
145:20
The LORD perserves all them that love him: but all the wicked
will he destroy.
145:21
My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all
flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.
146:1
Praise all of you the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
146:2 While
I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any
being.
146:3 Put
not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
146:4 His
breath goes forth, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
146:5 Happy
is he that has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
146:6 Which
made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keeps truth for
ever:
146:7 Which
executes judgment for the oppressed: which gives food to the hungry. The LORD
looses the prisoners:
146:8
The LORD opens the eyes of the blind: the LORD raises them
that are bowed down: the LORD loves the righteous:
146:9
The LORD perserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless
and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
146:10
The LORD shall reign for ever, even your God, O Zion, unto
all generations. Praise all of you the LORD.
147:1
Praise all of you the LORD: for it is good to sing praises
unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
147:2
The LORD does build up Jerusalem: he gathers together the
outcasts of Israel.
147:3
He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
147:4 He
tells the number of the stars; he calls them all by their names.
147:5
Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding
is infinite.
147:6 The
LORD lifts up the meek: he casts the wicked down to the ground.
147:7
Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the
harp unto our God:
147:8
Who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares rain for
the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.
147:9
He gives to the beast his food, and to the young ravens
which cry.
147:10 He
delights not in the strength of the horse: he takes not pleasure in the legs of
a man.
147:11 The
LORD takes pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
147:12 Praise
the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion.
147:13
For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; he has blessed
your children within you.
147:14
He makes peace in your borders, and fills you with the finest
of the wheat.
147:15 He
sends forth his commandment upon earth: his word runs very swiftly.
147:16
He gives snow like wool: he scatters the hoarfrost like
ashes.
147:17 He
casts forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
147:18
He sends out his word, and melts them: he causes his wind
to blow, and the waters flow.
147:19
He shows his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments
unto Israel.
147:20 He
has not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known
them. Praise all of you the LORD.
148:1
Praise all of you the LORD. Praise all of you the LORD from
the heavens: praise him in the heights.
148:2
Praise all of you him, all his angels: praise all of you
him, all his hosts.
148:3
Praise all of you him, sun and moon: praise him, all you
stars of light.
148:4 Praise
him, all of you heavens of heavens, and all of you waters that be above the heavens.
148:5 Let
them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.
148:6 He
has also established them for ever and ever: he has made a decree which shall
not pass.
148:7 Praise
the LORD from the earth, all of you dragons, and all deeps:
148:8
Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling
his word:
148:9 Mountains,
and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:
148:10
Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:
148:11 Kings
of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth:
148:12
Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:
148:13 Let
them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is
above the earth and heaven.
148:14
He also exalts the horn of his people, the praise of all
his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise all
of you the LORD.
149:1
Praise all of you the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song,
and his praise in the congregation of saints.
149:2
Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children
of Zion be joyful in their King.
149:3
Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises
unto him with the timbrel and harp.
149:4
For the LORD takes pleasure in his people: he will beautify
the meek with salvation.
149:5
Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon
their beds.
149:6 Let
the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand;
149:7 To
execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
149:8
To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters
of iron;
149:9 To
execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise
all of you the LORD.
150:1
Praise all of you the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary:
praise him in the firmament of his power.
150:2
Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to
his excellent greatness.
150:3
Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with
the psaltery and harp.
150:4
Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed
instruments and organs.
150:5
Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high
sounding cymbals.
150:6
Let every thing that has breath praise the LORD. Praise
all of you the LORD.