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  Book of Psalms
PSALM 1
1 Blessed is the man that
walketh not in the counsel of the
ungodly, nor standeth in the way of
sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of
the scornful.
2 But his delight is in the law
of the Lord; and in his law doth he
meditate day and night.
3 And he shall be like a tree
planted by the rivers of water, that
bringeth forth his fruit in his
season; his leaf also shall not
wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall
prosper.
4 The ungodly are not so: but
are like the chaff which the wind
driveth away.
5 Therefore the ungodly shall
not stand in the judgment, nor
sinners in the congregation of the
righteous.
6 For the Lord knoweth the way
of the righteous: but the way of the
ungodly shall perish.

PSALM 2
1 Why do the heathen rage, and
the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set
themselves, and the rulers take
counsel together, against the Lord,
and against his anointed, saying,
3 Let us break their bands
asunder, and cast away their cords
from us.
4 He that sitteth in the heavens
shall laugh: the Lord shall have them
in derision.
5 Then shall he speak unto them
in his wrath, and vex them in his
sore displeasure.
6 Yet have I set my king upon my
holy hill of Zion.
7 I will declare the decree: the
Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my
Son; this day have I begotten thee.
8 Ask of me, and I shall give
thee the heathen for thine
inheritance, and the uttermost parts
of the earth for thy possession.
9 Thou shalt break them with a
rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in
pieces like a potter's vessel.
10 Be wise now therefore, O ye
kings: be instructed, ye judges of
the earth.
11 Serve the Lord with fear, and
rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest he be
angry, and ye perish from the way,
when his wrath is kindled but a
little. Blessed are all they that put
their trust in him.

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

 PSALM 120
1 In my distress I cried unto
the Lord, and he heard me.
2 Deliver my soul, O Lord, from
lying lips, and from a deceitful
tongue.
3 What shall be given unto thee?
or what shall be done unto thee, thou
false tongue?
4 Sharp arrows of the mighty,
with coals of juniper.
5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in
Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of
Kedar!
6 My soul hath long dwelt with
him that hateth peace.
7 I am for peace: but when I
speak, they are for war.

PSALM 121
1 I will lift up mine eyes unto
the hills, from whence cometh my
help.
2 My help cometh from the Lord,
which made heaven and earth.
3 He will not suffer thy foot to
be moved: he that keepeth thee will
not slumber.
4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel
shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The Lord is thy keeper: the
Lord is thy shade upon thy right
hand.
6 The sun shall not smite thee
by day, nor the moon by night.
7 The Lord shall preserve thee
from all evil: he shall preserve thy
soul.
8 The Lord shall preserve thy
going out and thy coming in from this
time forth, and even for evermore.

PSALM 122
1 I was glad when they said unto
me, Let us go into the house of the
Lord.
2 Our feet shall stand within
thy gates, O Jerusalem.
3 Jerusalem is builded as a city
that is compact together:
4 Whither the tribes go up, the
tribes of the Lord, unto the
testimony of Israel, to give thanks
unto the name of the Lord.
5 For there are set thrones of
judgment, the thrones of the house of
David.
6 Pray for the peace of
Jerusalem: they shall prosper that
love thee.
7 Peace be within thy walls, and
prosperity within thy palaces.
8 For my brethren and
companions'sakes, I will now say,
Peace be within thee.
9 Because of the house of the
Lord our God I will seek thy good.

PSALM 123
1 Unto thee lift I up mine eyes,
O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
2 Behold, as the eyes of
servants look unto the hand of their
masters, and as the eyes of a maiden
unto the hand of her mistress; so our
eyes wait upon the Lord our God,
until that he have mercy upon us.
3 Have mercy upon us, O Lord,
have mercy upon us: for we are
exceedingly filled with contempt.
4 Our soul is exceedingly filled
with the scorning of those that are
at ease, and with the contempt of the
proud.

PSALM 124
1 If it had not been the Lord
who was on our side, now may Israel
say;
2 If it had not been the Lord
who was on our side, when men rose up
against us:
3 Then they had swallowed us up
quick, when their wrath was kindled
against us:
4 Then the waters had
overwhelmed us, the stream had gone
over our soul:
5 Then the proud waters had gone
over our soul.
6 Blessed be the Lord, who hath
not given us as a prey to their
teeth.
7 Our soul is escaped as a bird
out of the snare of the fowlers: the
snare is broken, and we are escaped.
8 Our help is in the name of the
Lord, who made heaven and earth.

PSALM 125
1 They that trust in the Lord
shall be as mount Zion, which cannot
be removed, but abideth for ever.
2 As the mountains are round
about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round
about his people from henceforth even
for ever.
3 For the rod of the wicked
shall not rest upon the lot of the
righteous; lest the righteous put
forth their hands unto iniquity.
4 Do good, O Lord, unto those
that be good, and to them that are
upright in their hearts.
5 As for such as turn aside unto
their crooked ways, the Lord shall
lead them forth with the workers of
iniquity: but peace shall be upon
Israel.

PSALM 126
When the Lord turned again the
captivity of Zion, we were like them
that dream.
2 Then was our mouth filled with
laughter, and our tongue with
singing: then said they among the
heathen, The Lord hath done great
things for them.
3 The Lord hath done great
things for us; whereof we are glad.
4 Turn again our captivity, O
Lord, as the streams in the south.
5 They that sow in tears shall
reap in joy.
6 He that goeth forth and
weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall
doubtless come again with rejoicing,
bringing his sheaves with him.

PSALM 127
1 Except the Lord build the
house, they labour in vain that build
it: except the Lord keep the city,
the watchman waketh but in vain.
2 It is vain for you to rise up
early, to sit up late, to eat the
bread of sorrows: for so he giveth
his beloved sleep.
3 Lo, children are an heritage
of the Lord: and the fruit of the
womb is his reward.
4 As arrows are in the hand of a
mighty man; so are children of the
youth.
5 Happy is the man that hath his
quiver full of them: they shall not
be ashamed, but they shall speak with
the enemies in the gate.

PSALM 128
1 Blessed is every one that
feareth the Lord; that walketh in his
ways.
2 For thou shalt eat the labour
of thine hands: happy shalt thou be,
and it shall be well with thee.
3 Thy wife shall be as a
fruitful vine by the sides of thine
house: thy children like olive plants
round about thy table.
4 Behold, that thus shall the
man be blessed that feareth the Lord.
5 The Lord shall bless thee out
of Zion: and thou shalt see the good
of Jerusalem all the days of thy
life.
6 Yea, thou shalt see thy
children's children, and peace upon
Israel.

PSALM 129
1 Many a time have they
afflicted me from my youth, may
Israel now say:
2 Many a time have they
afflicted me from my youth: yet they
have not prevailed against me.
3 The plowers plowed upon my
back: they made long their furrows.
4 The Lord is righteous: he hath
cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
5 Let them all be confounded and
turned back that hate Zion.
6 Let them be as the grass upon
the housetops, which withereth afore
it groweth up:
7 Wherewith the mower filleth
not his hand; nor he that bindeth
sheaves his bosom.
8 Neither do they which go by
say, The blessing of the Lord be upon
you: we bless you in the name of the
Lord.

PSALM 130
1 Out of the depths have I cried
unto thee, O Lord.
2 Lord, hear my voice: let thine
ears be attentive to the voice of my
supplications.
3 If thou, Lord, shouldest mark
iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
4 But there is forgiveness with
thee, that thou mayest be feared.
5 I wait for the Lord, my soul
doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
6 My soul waiteth for the Lord
more than they that watch for the
morning: I say, more than they that
watch for the morning.
7 Let Israel hope in the Lord:
for with the Lord there is mercy, and
with him is plenteous redemption.
8 And he shall redeem Israel
from all his iniquities.

PSALM 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.
2 Surely I have behaved and
quieted myself, as a child that is
weaned of his mother: my soul is even
as a weaned child.
3 Let Israel hope in the Lord
from henceforth and for ever.

PSALM 132
1 Lord, remember David, and all
his afflictions:
2 How he sware unto the Lord,
and vowed unto the mighty God of
Jacob;
3 Surely I will not come into
the tabernacle of my house, nor go up
into my bed;
4 I will not give sleep to mine
eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,
5 Until I find out a place for
the Lord, an habitation for the
mighty God of Jacob.
6 Lo, we heard of it at
Ephratah: we found it in the fields
of the wood.
7 We will go into his
tabernacles: we will worship at his
footstool.
8 Arise, O Lord, into thy rest;
thou, and the ark of thy strength.
9 Let thy priests be clothed
with righteousness; and let thy
saints shout for joy.
10 For thy servant David's sake
turn not away the face of thine
anointed.
11 The Lord hath sworn in truth
unto David; he will not turn from it;
Of the fruit of thy body will I set
upon thy throne.
12 If thy children will keep my
covenant and my testimony that I
shall teach them, their children
shall also sit upon thy throne for
evermore.
13 For the Lord hath chosen
Zion; he hath desired it for his
habitation.
14 This is my rest for ever:
here will I dwell; for I have desired
it.
15 I will abundantly bless her
provision: I will satisfy her poor
with bread.
16 I will also clothe her
priests with salvation: and her
saints shall shout aloud for joy.
17 There will I make the horn of
David to bud: I have ordained a lamp
for mine anointed.
18 His enemies will I clothe
with shame: but upon himself shall
his crown flourish.

PSALM 133
1 Behold, how good and how
pleasant it is for brethren to dwell
together in unity!
2 It is like the precious
ointment upon the head, that ran down
upon the beard, even Aaron's beard:
that went down to the skirts of his
garments;
3 As the dew of Hermon, and as
the dew that descended upon the
mountains of Zion: for there the Lord
commanded the blessing, even life for
evermore.

PSALM 134
1 Behold, bless ye the Lord, all
ye servants of the Lord, which by
night stand in the house of the Lord.
2 Lift up your hands in the
sanctuary, and bless the Lord.
3 The Lord that made heaven and
earth bless thee out of Zion.

PSALM 135
1 Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye
the name of the Lord; praise him, O
ye servants of the Lord.
2 Ye that stand in the house of
the Lord, in the courts of the house
of our God,
3 Praise the Lord; for the Lord
is good: sing praises unto his name;
for it is pleasant.
4 For the Lord hath chosen Jacob
unto himself, and Israel for his
peculiar treasure.
5 For I know that the Lord is
great, and that our Lord is above all
gods.
6 Whatsoever the Lord pleased,
that did he in heaven, and in earth,
in the seas, and all deep places.
7 He causeth the vapours to
ascend from the ends of the earth; he
maketh lightnings for the rain; he
bringeth the wind out of his
treasuries.
8 Who smote the firstborn of
Egypt, both of man and beast.
9 Who sent tokens and wonders
into the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon
Pharaoh, and upon all his servants.
10 Who smote great nations, and
slew mighty kings;
11 Sihon king of the Amorites,
and Og king of Bashan, and all the
kingdoms of Canaan:
12 And gave their land for an
heritage, an heritage unto Israel his
people.
13 Thy name, O Lord, endureth
for ever; and thy memorial, O Lord,
throughout all generations.
14 For the Lord will judge his
people, and he will repent himself
concerning his servants.
15 The idols of the heathen are
silver and gold, the work of men's
hands.
16 They have mouths, but they
speak not; eyes have they, but they
see not;
17 They have ears, but they hear
not; neither is there any breath in
their mouths.
18 They that make them are like
unto them: so is every one that
trusteth in them.
19 Bless the Lord, O house of
Israel: bless the Lord, O house of
Aaron:
20 Bless the Lord, O house of
Levi: ye that fear the Lord, bless
the Lord.
21 Blessed be the Lord out of
Zion, which dwelleth at Jerusalem.
Praise ye the Lord.

PSALM 136
1 O give thanks unto the Lord;
for he is good: for his mercy
endureth for ever.
2 O give thanks unto the God of
gods: for his mercy endureth for
ever.
3 O give thanks to the Lord of
lords: for his mercy endureth for
ever.
4 To him who alone doeth great
wonders: for his mercy endureth for
ever.
5 To him that by wisdom made the
heavens: for his mercy endureth for
ever.
6 To him that stretched out the
earth above the waters: for his mercy
endureth for ever.
7 To him that made great lights:
for his mercy endureth for ever:
8 The sun to rule by day: for
his mercy endureth for ever:
9 The moon and stars to rule by
night: for his mercy endureth for
ever.
10 To him that smote Egypt in
their firstborn: for his mercy
endureth for ever:
11 And brought out Israel from
among them: for his mercy endureth
for ever:
12 With a strong hand, and with
a stretched out arm: for his mercy
endureth for ever.
13 To him which divided the Red
sea into parts: for his mercy
endureth for ever:
14 And made Israel to pass
through the midst of it: for his
mercy endureth for ever:
15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his
host in the Red sea: for his mercy
endureth for ever.
16 To him which led his people
through the wilderness: for his mercy
endureth for ever.
17 To him which smote great
kings: for his mercy endureth for
ever:
18 And slew famous kings: for
his mercy endureth for ever:
19 Sihon king of the Amorites:
for his mercy endureth for ever:
20 And Og the king of Bashan:
for his mercy endureth for ever:
21 And gave their land for an
heritage: for his mercy endureth for
ever:
22 Even an heritage unto Israel
his servant: for his mercy endureth
for ever.
23 Who remembered us in our low
estate: for his mercy endureth for
ever:
24 And hath redeemed us from our
enemies: for his mercy endureth for
ever.
25 Who giveth food to all flesh:
for his mercy endureth for ever.
26 O give thanks unto the God of
heaven: for his mercy endureth for
ever.

PSALM 137
1 By the rivers of Babylon,
there we sat down, yea, we wept, when
we remembered Zion.
2 We hanged our harps upon the
willows in the midst thereof.
3 For there they that carried us
away captive required of us a song;
and they that wasted us required of
us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the
songs of Zion.
4 How shall we sing the Lord's
song in a strange land?
5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem,
let my right hand forget her cunning.
6 If I do not remember thee, let
my tongue cleave to the roof of my
mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem
above my chief joy.
7 Remember, O Lord, the children
of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who
said, Rase it, rase it, even to the
foundation thereof.
8 O daughter of Babylon, who art
to be destroyed; happy shall he be,
that rewardeth thee as thou hast
served us.
9 Happy shall he be, that taketh
and dasheth thy little ones against
the stones.

PSALM 138
1 I will praise thee with my
whole heart: before the gods will I
sing praise unto thee.
2 I will worship toward thy holy
temple, and praise thy name for thy
lovingkindness and for thy truth: for
thou hast magnified thy word above
all thy name.
3 In the day when I cried thou
answeredst me, and strengthenedst me
with strength in my soul.
4 All the kings of the earth
shall praise thee, O Lord, when they
hear the words of thy mouth.
5 Yea, they shall sing in the
ways of the Lord: for great is the
glory of the Lord.
6 Though the Lord be high, yet
hath he respect unto the lowly: but
the proud he knoweth afar off.
7 Though I walk in the midst of
trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou
shalt stretch forth thine hand
against the wrath of mine enemies,
and thy right hand shall save me.
8 The Lord will perfect that
which concerneth me: thy mercy, O
Lord, endureth for ever: forsake not
the works of thine own hands.

PSALM 139
1 O Lord, thou hast searched me,
and known me.
2 Thou knowest my downsitting
and mine uprising, thou understandest
my thought afar off.
3 Thou compasseth my path and my
lying down, and art acquainted with
all my ways.
4 For there is not a word in my
tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest
it altogether.
5 Thou hast beset me behind and
before, and laid thine hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too
wonderful for me; it is high, I
cannot attain unto it.
7 Whither shall I go from thy
spirit? or whither shall I flee from
thy presence?
8 If I ascend up into heaven,
thou art there: if I make my bed in
hell, behold, thou art there.
9 If I take the wings of the
morning, and dwell in the uttermost
parts of the sea;
10 Even there shall thy hand
lead me, and thy right hand shall
hold me.
11 If I say, Surely the darkness
shall cover me; even the night shall
be light about me.
12 Yea, the darkness hideth not
from thee; but the night shineth as
the day: the darkness and the light
are both alike to thee.
13 For thou hast possessed my
reins: thou hast covered me in my
mother's womb.
14 I will praise thee; for I am
fearfully and wonderfully made:
marvellous are thy works; and that my
soul knoweth right well.
15 My substance was not hid from
thee, when I was made in secret, and
curiously wrought in the lowest parts
of the earth.
16 Thine eyes did see my
substance, yet being unperfect; and
in thy book all my members were
written, which in continuance were
fashioned, when as yet there was none
of them.
17 How precious also are thy
thoughts unto me, O God! how great is
the sum of them!
18 If I should count them, they
are more in number than the sand:
when I awake, I am still with thee.
19 Surely thou wilt slay the
wicked, O God: depart from me
therefore, ye bloody men.
20 For they speak against thee
wickedly, and thine enemies take thy
name in vain.
21 Do not I hate them, O Lord,
that hate thee? and am not I grieved
with those that rise up against thee?
22 I hate them with perfect
hatred: I count them mine enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my
heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24 And see if there be any
wicked way in me, and lead me in the
way everlasting.

PSALM 140
1 Deliver me, O Lord, from the
evil man: preserve me from the
violent man;
2 Which imagine mischiefs in
their heart; continually are they
gathered together for war.
3 They have sharpened their
tongues like a serpent; adders'poison
is under their lips. Selah.
4 Keep me, O Lord, from the
hands of the wicked; preserve me from
the violent man; who have purposed to
overthrow my goings.
5 The proud have hid a snare for
me, and cords; they have spread a net
by the wayside; they have set gins
for me. Selah.
6 I said unto the Lord, Thou art
my God: hear the voice of my
supplications, O Lord.
7 O God the Lord, the strength
of my salvation, thou hast covered my
head in the day of battle.
8 Grant not, O Lord, the desires
of the wicked: further not his wicked
device; lest they exalt themselves.
Selah.
9 As for the head of those that
compass me about, let the mischief of
their own lips cover them.
10 Let burning coals fall upon
them: let them be cast into the fire;
into deep pits, that they rise not up
again.
11 Let not an evil speaker be
established in the earth: evil shall
hunt the violent man to overthrow
him.
12 I know that the Lord will
maintain the cause of the afflicted,
and the right of the poor.
13 Surely the righteous shall
give thanks unto thy name: the
upright shall dwell in thy presence.

PSALM 141
1 Lord, I cry unto thee: make
haste unto me; give ear unto my
voice, when I cry unto thee.
2 Let my prayer be set forth
before thee as incense; and the
lifting up of my hands as the evening
sacrifice.
3 Set a watch, O Lord, before my
mouth; keep the door of my lips.
4 Incline not my heart to any
evil thing, to practise wicked works
with men that work iniquity: and let
me not eat of their dainties.
5 Let the righteous smite me; it
shall be a kindness: and let him
reprove me; it shall be an excellent
oil, which shall not break my head:
for yet my prayer also shall be in
their calamities.
6 When their judges are
overthrown in stony places, they
shall hear my words; for they are
sweet.
7 Our bones are scattered at the
grave's mouth, as when one cutteth
and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
8 But mine eyes are unto thee, O
God the Lord: in thee is my trust;
leave not my soul destitute.
9 Keep me from the snares which
they have laid for me, and the gins
of the workers of iniquity.
10 Let the wicked fall into
their own nets, whilst that I withal
escape.

PSALM 142
1 I cried unto the Lord with my
voice; with my voice unto the Lord
did I make my supplication.
2 I poured out my complaint
before him; I shewed before him my
trouble.
3 When my spirit was overwhelmed
within me, then thou knewest my path.
In the way wherein I walked have they
privily laid a snare for me.
4 I looked on my right hand, and
beheld, but there was no man that
would know me: refuge failed me; no
man cared for my soul.
5 I cried unto thee, O Lord: I
said, Thou art my refuge and my
portion in the land of the living.
6 Attend unto my cry; for I am
brought very low: deliver me from my
persecutors; for they are stronger
than I.
7 Bring my soul out of prison,
that I may praise thy name: the
righteous shall compass me about; for
thou shalt deal bountifully with me.

PSALM 143
1 Hear my prayer, O Lord, give
ear to my supplications: in thy
faithfulness answer me, and in thy
righteousness.
2 And enter not into judgment
with thy servant: for in thy sight
shall no man living be justified.
3 For the enemy hath persecuted
my soul; he hath smitten my life down
to the ground; he hath made me to
dwell in darkness, as those that have
been long dead.
4 Therefore is my spirit
overwhelmed within me; my heart
within me is desolate.
5 I remember the days of old; I
meditate on all thy works; I muse on
the work of thy hands.
6 I stretch forth my hands unto
thee: my soul thirsteth after thee,
as a thirsty land. Selah.
7 Hear me speedily, O Lord: my
spirit faileth: hide not thy face
from me, lest I be like unto them
that go down into the pit.
8 Cause me to hear thy
lovingkindness in the morning; for in
thee do I trust: cause me to know the
way wherein I should walk; for I lift
up my soul unto thee.
9 Deliver me, O Lord, from mine
enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.
10 Teach me to do thy will; for
thou art my God: thy spirit is good;
lead me into the land of uprightness.
11 Quicken me, O Lord, for thy
name's sake: for thy
righteousness'sake bring my soul out
of trouble.
12 And of thy mercy cut off mine
enemies, and destroy all them that
afflict my soul: for I am thy
servant.

PSALM 144
1 Blessed be the Lord my
strength, which teacheth my hands to
war, and my fingers to fight:
2 My goodness, and my fortress;
my high tower, and my deliverer; my
shield, and he in whom I trust; who
subdueth my people under me.
3 Lord, what is man, that thou
takest knowledge of him! or the son
of man, that thou makest account of
him!
4 Man is like to vanity: his
days are as a shadow that passeth
away.
5 Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and
come down: touch the mountains, and
they shall smoke.
6 Cast forth lightning, and
scatter them: shoot out thine arrows,
and destroy them.
7 Send thine hand from above;
rid me, and deliver me out of great
waters, from the hand of strange
children;
8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity,
and their right hand is a right hand
of falsehood.
9 I will sing a new song unto
thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an
instrument of ten strings will I sing
praises unto thee.
10 It is he that giveth
salvation unto kings: who delivereth
David his servant from the hurtful
sword.
11 Rid me, and deliver me from
the hand of strange children, whose
mouth speaketh vanity, and their
right hand is a right hand of
falsehood:
12 That our sons may be as
plants grown up in their youth; that
our daughters may be as corner
stones, polished after the similitude
of a palace:
13 That our garners may be full,
affording all manner of store: that
our sheep may bring forth thousands
and ten thousands in our streets:
14 That our oxen may be strong
to labour; that there be no breaking
in, nor going out; that there be no
complaining in our streets.
15 Happy is that people, that is
in such a case: yea, happy is that
people, whose God is the Lord.

PSALM 145
1 I will extol thee, my God, O
king; and I will bless thy name for
ever and ever.
2 Every day will I bless thee;
and I will praise thy name for ever
and ever.
3 Great is the Lord, and greatly
to be praised; and his greatness is
unsearchable.
4 One generation shall praise
thy works to another, and shall
declare thy mighty acts.
5 I will speak of the glorious
honour of thy majesty, and of thy
wondrous works.
6 And men shall speak of the
might of thy terrible acts: and I
will declare thy greatness.
7 They shall abundantly utter
the memory of thy great goodness, and
shall sing of thy righteousness.
8 The Lord is gracious, and full
of compassion; slow to anger, and of
great mercy.
9 The Lord is good to all: and
his tender mercies are over all his
works.
10 All thy works shall praise
thee, O Lord; and thy saints shall
bless thee.
11 They shall speak of the glory
of thy kingdom, and talk of thy
power;
12 To make known to the sons of
men his mighty acts, and the glorious
majesty of his kingdom.
13 Thy kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom, and thy dominion endureth
throughout all generations.
14 The Lord upholdeth all that
fall, and raiseth up all those that
be bowed down.
15 The eyes of all wait upon
thee; and thou givest them their meat
in due season.
16 Thou openest thine hand, and
satisfiest the desire of every living
thing.
17 The Lord is righteous in all
his ways, and holy in all his works.
18 The Lord is nigh unto all
them that call upon him, to all that
call upon him in truth.
19 He will fulfil the desire of
them that fear him: he also will hear
their cry, and will save them.
20 The Lord preserveth all them
that love him: but all the wicked
will he destroy.
21 My mouth shall speak the
praise of the Lord: and let all flesh
bless his holy name for ever and
ever.

PSALM 146
1 Praise ye the Lord. Praise the
Lord, O my soul.
2 While I live will I praise the
Lord: I will sing praises unto my God
while I have any being.
3 Put not your trust in princes,
nor in the son of man, in whom there
is no help.
4 His breath goeth forth, he
returneth to his earth; in that very
day his thoughts perish.
5 Happy is he that hath the God
of Jacob for his help, whose hope is
in the Lord his God:
6 Which made heaven, and earth,
the sea, and all that therein is:
which keepeth truth for ever:
7 Which executeth judgment for
the oppressed: which giveth food to
the hungry. The Lord looseth the
prisoners:
8 The Lord openeth the eyes of
the blind: the Lord raiseth them that
are bowed down: the Lord loveth the
righteous:
9 The Lord preserveth the
strangers; he relieveth the
fatherless and widow: but the way of
the wicked he turneth upside down.
10 The Lord shall reign for
ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all
generations. Praise ye the Lord.

PSALM 147
1 Praise ye the Lord: for it is
good to sing praises unto our God;
for it is pleasant; and praise is
comely.
2 The Lord doth build up
Jerusalem: he gathereth together the
outcasts of Israel.
3 He healeth the broken in
heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
4 He telleth the number of the
stars; he calleth them all by their
names.
5 Great is our Lord, and of
great power: his understanding is
infinite.
6 The Lord lifteth up the meek:
he casteth the wicked down to the
ground.
7 Sing unto the Lord with
thanksgiving; sing praise upon the
harp unto our God:
8 Who covereth the heaven with
clouds, who prepareth rain for the
earth, who maketh grass to grow upon
the mountains.
9 He giveth to the beast his
food, and to the young ravens which
cry.
10 He delighteth not in the
strength of the horse: he taketh not
pleasure in the legs of a man.
11 The Lord taketh pleasure in
them that fear him, in those that
hope in his mercy.
12 Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem;
praise thy God, O Zion.
13 For he hath strengthened the
bars of thy gates; he hath blessed
thy children within thee.
14 He maketh peace in thy
borders, and filleth thee with the
finest of the wheat.
15 He sendeth forth his
commandment upon earth: his word
runneth very swiftly.
16 He giveth snow like wool: he
scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
17 He casteth forth his ice like
morsels: who can stand before his
cold?
18 He sendeth out his word, and
melteth them: he causeth his wind to
blow, and the waters flow.
19 He sheweth his word unto
Jacob, his statutes and his judgments
unto Israel.
20 He hath not dealt so with any
nation: and as for his judgments,
they have not known them. Praise ye
the Lord.

PSALM 148
1 Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye
the Lord from the heavens: praise him
in the heights.
2 Praise ye him, all his angels:
praise ye him, all his hosts.
3 Praise ye him, sun and moon:
praise him, all ye stars of light.
4 Praise him, ye heavens of
heavens, and ye waters that be above
the heavens.
5 Let them praise the name of
the Lord: for he commanded, and they
were created.
6 He hath also stablished them
for ever and ever: he hath made a
decree which shall not pass.
7 Praise the Lord from the
earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:
8 Fire, and hail; snow, and
vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his
word:
9 Mountains, and all hills;
fruitful trees, and all cedars:
10 Beasts, and all cattle;
creeping things, and flying fowl:
11 Kings of the earth, and all
people; princes, and all judges of
the earth:
12 Both young men, and maidens;
old men, and children:
13 Let them praise the name of
the Lord: for his name alone is
excellent; his glory is above the
earth and heaven.
14 He also exalteth the horn of
his people, the praise of all his
saints; even of the children of
Israel, a people near unto him.
Praise ye the Lord.

PSALM 149
1 Praise ye the Lord. Sing unto
the Lord a new song, and his praise
in the congregation of saints.
2 Let Israel rejoice in him that
made him: let the children of Zion be
joyful in their King.
3 Let them praise his name in
the dance: let them sing praises unto
him with the timbrel and harp.
4 For the Lord taketh pleasure
in his people: he will beautify the
meek with salvation.
5 Let the saints be joyful in
glory: let them sing aloud upon their
beds.
6 Let the high praises of God be
in their mouth, and a two-edged sword
in their hand;
7 To execute vengeance upon the
heathen, and punishments upon the
people;
8 To bind their kings with
chains, and their nobles with fetters
of iron;
9 To execute upon them the
judgment written: this honour have
all his saints. Praise ye the Lord.

PSALM 150
1 Praise ye the Lord. Praise God
in his sanctuary: praise him in the
firmament of his power.
2 Praise him for his mighty
acts: praise him according to his
excellent greatness.
3 Praise him with the sound of
the trumpet: praise him with the
psaltery and harp.
4 Praise him with the timbrel
and dance: praise him with stringed
instruments and organs.
5 Praise him upon the loud
cymbals: praise him upon the high
sounding cymbals.
6 Let every thing that hath
breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the
Lord.