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.
1:2 But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law
doth he meditate day and night.
1:3 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.
1:4 The ungodly [are] not so: but [are] like the chaff which the
wind driveth away.
1:5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor
sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
1:6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way
of the ungodly shall perish.
2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain
thing?
2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take
counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed,
[saying],
2:3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords
from us.
2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall
have them in derision.
2:5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in
his sore displeasure.
2:6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
2:7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou
[art] my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
2:8 Ask of me, and I shall give [thee] the heathen [for] thine
inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth [for] thy
possession.
2:9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash
them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
2:10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges
of the earth.
2:11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
2:12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish [from] the
way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed [are] all
they that put their trust in him.
3:1 <A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.>
LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many [are] they
that rise up against me.
3:2 Many [there be] which say of my soul, [There is] no help for
him in God. Selah.
3:3 But thou, O LORD, [art] a shield for me; my glory, and the
lifter up of mine head.
3:4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of
his holy hill. Selah.
3:5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained
me.
3:6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have
set [themselves] against me round about.
3:7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all
mine enemies [upon] the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth
of the ungodly.
3:8 Salvation [belongeth] unto the LORD: thy blessing [is] upon
thy people. Selah.
4:1 <To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David.>
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.
4:2 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.
4:3 But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for
himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.
4:4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon
your bed, and be still. Selah.
4:5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in
the LORD.
4:6 [There be] many that say, Who will shew us [any] good? LORD,
lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
4:7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time
[that] their corn and their wine increased.
4:8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD,
only makest me dwell in safety.
5:1 <To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David.>
Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
5:2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for
unto thee will I pray.
5:3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the
morning will I direct [my prayer] unto thee, and will look up.
5:4 For thou [art] not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness:
neither shall evil dwell with thee.
5:5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all
workers of iniquity.
5:6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will
abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
5:7 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.
5:8 Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine
enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
5:9 For [there is] no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward
part [is] very wickedness; their throat [is] an open sepulchre;
they flatter with their tongue.
5:10 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.
5:11 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.
5:12 For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt
thou compass him as [with] a shield.
6:1 <To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm
of David.> O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither
chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
6:2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I [am] weak: O LORD, heal
me; for my bones are vexed.
6:3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
6:4 Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies'
sake.
6:5 For in death [there is] no remembrance of thee: in the grave
who shall give thee thanks?
6:6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to
swim; I water my couch with my tears.
6:7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because
of all mine enemies.
6:8 Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD
hath heard the voice of my weeping.
6:9 The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive
my prayer.
6:10 Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them
return [and] be ashamed suddenly.
7:1 <Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the LORD,
concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite.> O LORD my God, in
thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute
me, and deliver me:
7:2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending [it] in pieces,
while [there is] none to deliver.
7:3 O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in
my hands;
7:4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me;
(yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
7:5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take [it]; yea, let him
tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the
dust. Selah.
7:6 Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of
the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me [to] the judgment
[that] thou hast commanded.
7:7 So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about:
for their sakes therefore return thou on high.
7:8 The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according
to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity [that is]
in me.
7:9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but
establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and
reins.
7:10 My defence [is] of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
7:11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry [with the
wicked] every day.
7:12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his
bow, and made it ready.
7:13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he
ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
7:14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived
mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
7:15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch
[which] he made.
7:16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his
violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
7:17 I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and
will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.
8:1 <To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.> O
LORD our Lord, how excellent [is] thy name in all the earth!
who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
8:2 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.
8:3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the
moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
8:4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of
man, that thou visitest him?
8:5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and
hast crowned him with glory and honour.
8:6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy
hands; thou hast put all [things] under his feet:
8:7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8:8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, [and
whatsoever] passeth through the paths of the seas.
8:9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent [is] thy name in all the
earth!
9:1 <To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben, A Psalm of David.>
I will praise [thee], O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew
forth all thy marvellous works.
9:2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to
thy name, O thou most High.
9:3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and
perish at thy presence.
9:4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest
in the throne judging right.
9:5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the
wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
9:6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and
thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with
them.
9:7 But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his
throne for judgment.
9:8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall
minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
9:9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge
in times of trouble.
9:10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee:
for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
9:11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare
among the people his doings.
9:12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them:
he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
9:13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble [which I
suffer] of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the
gates of death:
9:14 That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the
daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
9:15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit [that] they made: in
the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
9:16 The LORD is known [by] the judgment [which] he executeth:
the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion.
Selah.
9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, [and] all the nations
that forget God.
9:18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation
of the poor shall [not] perish for ever.
9:19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be
judged in thy sight.
9:20 Put them in fear, O LORD: [that] the nations may know
themselves [to be but] men. Selah.
10:1 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? [why] hidest thou
[thyself] in times of trouble?
10:2 The wicked in [his] pride doth persecute the poor: let them
be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
10:3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth
the covetous, [whom] the LORD abhorreth.
10:4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not
seek [after God]: God [is] not in all his thoughts.
10:5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments [are] far above
out of his sight: [as for] all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
10:6 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for [I
shall] never [be] in adversity.
10:7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under
his tongue [is] mischief and vanity.
10:8 He 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.
10:9 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.
10:10 He croucheth, [and] humbleth himself, that the poor may
fall by his strong ones.
10:11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth
his face; he will never see [it].
10:12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the
humble.
10:13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his
heart, Thou wilt not require [it].
10:14 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.
10:15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil [man]: seek
out his wickedness [till] thou find none.
10:16 The LORD [is] King for ever and ever: the heathen are
perished out of his land.
10:17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt
prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
10:18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of
the earth may no more oppress.
11:1 <To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David.> In the LORD
put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee [as] a bird to your
mountain?
11:2 For, lo, the wicked bend [their] bow, they make ready their
arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the
upright in heart.
11:3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
11:4 The LORD [is] in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne [is] in
heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
11:5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that
loveth violence his soul hateth.
11:6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone,
and an horrible tempest: [this shall be] the portion of their
cup.
11:7 For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his
countenance doth behold the upright.
12:1 <To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.>
Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail
from among the children of men.
12:2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: [with]
flattering lips [and] with a double heart do they speak.
12:3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, [and] the
tongue that speaketh proud things:
12:4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips
[are] our own: who [is] lord over us?
12:5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the
needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set [him] in
safety [from him that] puffeth at him.
12:6 The words of the LORD [are] pure words: [as] silver tried
in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
12:7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from
this generation for ever.
12:8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are
exalted.
13:1 <To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.> How long wilt
thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy
face from me?
13:2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrow
in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over
me?
13:3 Consider [and] hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes,
lest I sleep the [sleep of] death;
13:4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; [and]
those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
13:5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in
thy salvation.
13:6 I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt
bountifully with me.
14:1 <To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David.> 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.
14:2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men,
to see if there were any that did understand, [and] seek God.
14:3 They are all gone aside, they are [all] together become
filthy: [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.
14:4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up
my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
14:5 There were they in great fear: for God [is] in the
generation of the righteous.
14:6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD
[is] his refuge.
14:7 Oh that the salvation of Israel [were come] out of Zion!
when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob
shall rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad.
15:1 <A Psalm of David.> LORD, who shall abide in thy
tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
15:2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and
speaketh the truth in his heart.
15:3 [He that] backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to
his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
15:4 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.
15:5 [He that] putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh
reward against the innocent. He that doeth these [things] shall
never be moved.
16:1 <Michtam of David.> Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I
put my trust.
16:2 [O my soul], thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou [art] my
Lord: my goodness [extendeth] not to thee;
16:3 [But] to the saints that [are] in the earth, and [to] the
excellent, in whom [is] all my delight.
16:4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied [that] hasten [after]
another [god]: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer,
nor take up their names into my lips.
16:5 The LORD [is] the portion of mine inheritance and of my
cup: thou maintainest my lot.
16:6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant [places]; yea, I
have a goodly heritage.
16:7 I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins
also instruct me in the night seasons.
16:8 I have set the LORD always before me: because [he is] at my
right hand, I shall not be moved.
16:9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my
flesh also shall rest in hope.
16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou
suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
16:11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence [is]
fulness of joy; at thy right hand [there are] pleasures for
evermore.
17:1 <A Prayer of David.> Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto
my cry, give ear unto my prayer, [that goeth] not out of
feigned lips.
17:2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine
eyes behold the things that are equal.
17:3 Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited [me] in the
night; thou hast tried me, [and] shalt find nothing; I am
purposed [that] my mouth shall not transgress.
17:4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have
kept [me from] the paths of the destroyer.
17:5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, [that] my footsteps slip
not.
17:6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God:
incline thine ear unto me, [and hear] my speech.
17:7 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].
17:8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow
of thy wings,
17:9 From the wicked that oppress me, [from] my deadly enemies,
[who] compass me about.
17:10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they
speak proudly.
17:11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set
their eyes bowing down to the earth;
17:12 Like as a lion [that] is greedy of his prey, and as it
were a young lion lurking in secret places.
17:13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my
soul from the wicked, [which is] thy sword:
17:14 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.
17:15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I
shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
18:1 <To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David, the servant of
the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the
day [that] the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his
enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,> I will love
thee, O LORD, my strength.
18:2 The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the
horn of my salvation, [and] my high tower.
18:3 I will call upon the LORD, [who is worthy] to be praised:
so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
18:4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of
ungodly men made me afraid.
18:5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death
prevented me.
18:6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my
God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came
before him, [even] into his ears.
18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of
the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
18:8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of
his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
18:9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness
[was] under his feet.
18:10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly
upon the wings of the wind.
18:11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round
about him [were] dark waters [and] thick clouds of the skies.
18:12 At the brightness [that was] before him his thick clouds
passed, hail [stones] and coals of fire.
18:13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest
gave his voice; hail [stones] and coals of fire.
18:14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he
shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
18:15 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.
18:16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many
waters.
18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which
hated me: for they were too strong for me.
18:18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD
was my stay.
18:19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered
me, because he delighted in me.
18:20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness;
according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
18:21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not
wickedly departed from my God.
18:22 For all his judgments [were] before me, and I did not put
away his statutes from me.
18:23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine
iniquity.
18:24 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my
righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his
eyesight.
18:25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an
upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
18:26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the
froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
18:27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring
down high looks.
18:28 For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will
enlighten my darkness.
18:29 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have
I leaped over a wall.
18:30 [As for] God, his way [is] perfect: the word of the LORD
is tried: he [is] a buckler to all those that trust in him.
18:31 For who [is] God save the LORD? or who [is] a rock save
our God?
18:32 [It is] God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my
way perfect.
18:33 He maketh my feet like hinds' [feet], and setteth me upon
my high places.
18:34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is
broken by mine arms.
18:35 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.
18:36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not
slip.
18:37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither
did I turn again till they were consumed.
18:38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they
are fallen under my feet.
18:39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle:
thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
18:40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I
might destroy them that hate me.
18:41 They cried, but [there was] none to save [them: even] unto
the LORD, but he answered them not.
18:42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I
did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
18:43 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.
18:44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the
strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
18:45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their
close places.
18:46 The LORD liveth; and blessed [be] my rock; and let the God
of my salvation be exalted.
18:47 [It is] God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people
under me.
18:48 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.
18:49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the
heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.
18:50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy
to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.
19:1 <To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.> The heavens
declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his
handywork.
19:2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth
knowledge.
19:3 [There is] no speech nor language, [where] their voice is
not heard.
19:4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their
words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle
for the sun,
19:5 Which [is] as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, [and]
rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
19:6 His going forth [is] from the end of the heaven, and his
circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the
heat thereof.
19:7 The law of the LORD [is] perfect, converting the soul: the
testimony of the LORD [is] sure, making wise the simple.
19:8 The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart:
the commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes.
19:9 The fear of the LORD [is] clean, enduring for ever: the
judgments of the LORD [are] true [and] righteous altogether.
19:10 More to be desired [are they] than gold, yea, than much
fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
19:11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: [and] in keeping
of them [there is] great reward.
19:12 Who can understand [his] errors? cleanse thou me from
secret [faults].
19:13 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.
19:14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart,
be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my
redeemer.
20:1 <To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.> The LORD hear
thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend
thee;
20:2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out
of Zion;
20:3 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice;
Selah.
20:4 Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy
counsel.
20:5 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.
20:6 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.
20:7 Some [trust] in chariots, and some in horses: but we will
remember the name of the LORD our God.
20:8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and
stand upright.
20:9 Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.
21:1 <To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.> The king shall
joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly
shall he rejoice!
21:2 Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not
withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
21:3 For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness:
thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
21:4 He asked life of thee, [and] thou gavest [it] him, [even]
length of days for ever and ever.
21:5 His glory [is] great in thy salvation: honour and majesty
hast thou laid upon him.
21:6 For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast
made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.
21:7 For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of
the most High he shall not be moved.
21:8 Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand
shall find out those that hate thee.
21:9 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.
21:10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their
seed from among the children of men.
21:11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a
mischievous device, [which] they are not able [to perform].
21:12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, [when]
thou shalt make ready [thine arrows] upon thy strings against
the face of them.
21:13 Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: [so] will we
sing and praise thy power.
22:1 <To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of
David.> My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art
thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my
roaring?
22:2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and
in the night season, and am not silent.
22:3 But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the praises
of Israel.
22:4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst
deliver them.
22:5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in
thee, and were not confounded.
22:6 But I [am] a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and
despised of the people.
22:7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the
lip, they shake the head, [saying],
22:8 He trusted on the LORD [that] he would deliver him: let him
deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
22:9 But thou [art] he that took me out of the womb: thou didst
make me hope [when I was] upon my mother's breasts.
22:10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou [art] my God from
my mother's belly.
22:11 Be not far from me; for trouble [is] near; for [there is]
none to help.
22:12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan
have beset me round.
22:13 They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening
and a roaring lion.
22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of
joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my
bowels.
22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue
cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of
death.
22:16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked
have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
22:17 I may tell all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me.
22:18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my
vesture.
22:19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste
thee to help me.
22:20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power
of the dog.
22:21 Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from
the horns of the unicorns.
22:22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of
the congregation will I praise thee.
22:23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of
Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
22:24 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.
22:25 My praise [shall be] of thee in the great congregation: I
will pay my vows before them that fear him.
22:26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the
LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
22:27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the
LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before
thee.
22:28 For the kingdom [is] the LORD'S: and he [is] the governor
among the nations.
22:29 All [they that be] fat upon earth shall eat and worship:
all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and
none can keep alive his own soul.
22:30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord
for a generation.
22:31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto
a people that shall be born, that he hath done [this].
23:1 <A Psalm of David.> The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall
not want.
23:2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me
beside the still waters.
23:3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of
righteousness for his name's sake.
23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of
death, I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and
thy staff they comfort me.
23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine
enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of
my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
24:1 <A Psalm of David.> The earth [is] the LORD'S, and the
fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
24:2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it
upon the floods.
24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall
stand in his holy place?
24:4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not
lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
24:5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and
righteousness from the God of his salvation.
24:6 This [is] the generation of them that seek him, that seek
thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
24:7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye
everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
24:8 Who [is] this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty,
the LORD mighty in battle.
24:9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift [them] up, ye
everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
24:10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he [is] the
King of glory. Selah.
25:1 <[A Psalm] of David.> Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my
soul.
25:2 O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not
mine enemies triumph over me.
25:3 Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be
ashamed which transgress without cause.
25:4 Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.
25:5 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou [art] the God
of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
25:6 Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy
lovingkindnesses; for they [have been] ever of old.
25:7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions:
according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake,
O LORD.
25:8 Good and upright [is] the LORD: therefore will he teach
sinners in the way.
25:9 The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he
teach his way.
25:10 All the paths of the LORD [are] mercy and truth unto such
as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
25:11 For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it
[is] great.
25:12 What man [is] he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach
in the way [that] he shall choose.
25:13 His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit
the earth.
25:14 The secret of the LORD [is] with them that fear him; and
he will shew them his covenant.
25:15 Mine eyes [are] ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck
my feet out of the net.
25:16 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I [am]
desolate and afflicted.
25:17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged: [O] bring thou me
out of my distresses.
25:18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my
sins.
25:19 Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me
with cruel hatred.
25:20 O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for
I put my trust in thee.
25:21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on
thee.
25:22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.
26:1 <[A Psalm] of David.> Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked
in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; [therefore]
I shall not slide.
26:2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my
heart.
26:3 For thy lovingkindness [is] before mine eyes: and I have
walked in thy truth.
26:4 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with
dissemblers.
26:5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not
sit with the wicked.
26:6 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass
thine altar, O LORD:
26:7 That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell
of all thy wondrous works.
26:8 LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the
place where thine honour dwelleth.
26:9 Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody
men:
26:10 In whose hands [is] mischief, and their right hand is full
of bribes.
26:11 But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me,
and be merciful unto me.
26:12 My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations
will I bless the LORD.
27:1 <[A Psalm] of David.> The LORD [is] my light and my
salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD [is] the strength of my
life; of whom shall I be afraid?
27:2 When the wicked, [even] mine enemies and my foes, came upon
me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
27:3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not
fear: though war should rise against me, in this [will] I [be]
confident.
27:4 One [thing] have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek
after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days
of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in
his temple.
27:5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his
pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he
shall set me up upon a rock.
27:6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies
round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle
sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto
the LORD.
27:7 Hear, O LORD, [when] I cry with my voice: have mercy also
upon me, and answer me.
27:8 [When thou saidst], Seek ye my face; my heart said unto
thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
27:9 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.
27:10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD
will take me up.
27:11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path,
because of mine enemies.
27:12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for
false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe
out cruelty.
27:13 [I had fainted], unless I had believed to see the goodness
of the LORD in the land of the living.
27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall
strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
28:1 <[A Psalm] of David.> 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.
28:2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee,
when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
28:3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of
iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief
[is] in their hearts.
28:4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the
wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of
their hands; render to them their desert.
28:5 Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the
operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build
them up.
28:6 Blessed [be] the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of
my supplications.
28:7 The LORD [is] my strength and my shield; my heart trusted
in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth;
and with my song will I praise him.
28:8 The LORD [is] their strength, and he [is] the saving
strength of his anointed.
28:9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them
also, and lift them up for ever.
29:1 <A Psalm of David.> Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give
unto the LORD glory and strength.
29:2 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the
LORD in the beauty of holiness.
29:3 The voice of the LORD [is] upon the waters: the God of
glory thundereth: the LORD [is] upon many waters.
29:4 The voice of the LORD [is] powerful; the voice of the LORD
[is] full of majesty.
29:5 The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD
breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
29:6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion
like a young unicorn.
29:7 The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.
29:8 The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD
shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.
29:9 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.
29:10 The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth
King for ever.
29:11 The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will
bless his people with peace.
30:1 <A Psalm [and] Song [at] the dedication of the house of
David.> I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up,
and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.
30:2 O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
30:3 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.
30:4 Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at
the remembrance of his holiness.
30:5 For his anger [endureth but] a moment; in his favour [is]
life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy [cometh] in the
morning.
30:6 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
30:7 LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand
strong: thou didst hide thy face, [and] I was troubled.
30:8 I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made
supplication.
30:9 What profit [is there] in my blood, when I go down to the
pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
30:10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my
helper.
30:11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou
hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
30:12 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.
31:1 <To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.> In thee, O
LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in
thy righteousness.
31:2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my
strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
31:3 For thou [art] my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy
name's sake lead me, and guide me.
31:4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me:
for thou [art] my strength.
31:5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me,
O LORD God of truth.
31:6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust
in the LORD.
31:7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast
considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
31:8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou
hast set my feet in a large room.
31:9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye
is consumed with grief, [yea], my soul and my belly.
31:10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with
sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my
bones are consumed.
31:11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially
among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that
did see me without fled from me.
31:12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a
broken vessel.
31:13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear [was] on every
side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised
to take away my life.
31:14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou [art] my God.
31:15 My times [are] in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of
mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
31:16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy
mercies' sake.
31:17 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.
31:18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous
things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
31:19 [Oh] how great [is] 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!
31:20 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.
31:21 Blessed [be] the LORD: for he hath shewed me his
marvellous kindness in a strong city.
31:22 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.
31:23 O love the LORD, all ye his saints: [for] the LORD
preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud
doer.
31:24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart,
all ye that hope in the LORD.
32:1 <[A Psalm] of David, Maschil.> Blessed [is he whose]
transgression [is] forgiven, [whose] sin [is] covered.
32:2 Blessed [is] the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not
iniquity, and in whose spirit [there is] no guile.
32:3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring
all the day long.
32:4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture
is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
32:5 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.
32:6 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.
32:7 Thou [art] my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from
trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance.
Selah.
32:8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou
shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
32:9 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.
32:10 Many sorrows [shall be] to the wicked: but he that
trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
32:11 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout
for joy, all [ye that are] upright in heart.
33:1 Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: [for] praise is comely
for the upright.
33:2 Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery
[and] an instrument of ten strings.
33:3 Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
33:4 For the word of the LORD [is] right; and all his works [are
done] in truth.
33:5 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of
the goodness of the LORD.
33:6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the
host of them by the breath of his mouth.
33:7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he
layeth up the depth in storehouses.
33:8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of
the world stand in awe of him.
33:9 For he spake, and it was [done]; he commanded, and it stood
fast.
33:10 The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he
maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
33:11 The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of
his heart to all generations.
33:12 Blessed [is] the nation whose God [is] the LORD; [and] the
people [whom] he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
33:13 The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of
men.
33:14 From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the
inhabitants of the earth.
33:15 He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their
works.
33:16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a
mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
33:17 An horse [is] a vain thing for safety: neither shall he
deliver [any] by his great strength.
33:18 Behold, the eye of the LORD [is] upon them that fear him,
upon them that hope in his mercy;
33:19 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive
in famine.
33:20 Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he [is] our help and our
shield.
33:21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have
trusted in his holy name.
33:22 Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in
thee.
34:1 <[A Psalm] of David, when he changed his behaviour before
Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed.> I will bless
the LORD at all times: his praise [shall] continually [be] in
my mouth.
34:2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall
hear [thereof], and be glad.
34:3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name
together.
34:4 I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from
all my fears.
34:5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces
were not ashamed.
34:6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard [him], and saved
him out of all his troubles.
34:7 The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear
him, and delivereth them.
34:8 O taste and see that the LORD [is] good: blessed [is] the
man [that] trusteth in him.
34:9 O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for [there is] no want to
them that fear him.
34:10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that
seek the LORD shall not want any good [thing].
34:11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the
fear of the LORD.
34:12 What man [is he that] desireth life, [and] loveth [many]
days, that he may see good?
34:13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking
guile.
34:14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
34:15 The eyes of the LORD [are] upon the righteous, and his
ears [are open] unto their cry.
34:16 The face of the LORD [is] against them that do evil, to
cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
34:17 [The righteous] cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth
them out of all their troubles.
34:18 The LORD [is] nigh unto them that are of a broken heart;
and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
34:19 Many [are] the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD
delivereth him out of them all.
34:20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the
righteous shall be desolate.
34:22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of
them that trust in him shall be desolate.
35:1 <[A Psalm] of David.> Plead [my cause], O LORD, with them
that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
35:2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine
help.
35:3 Draw out also the spear, and stop [the way] against them
that persecute me: say unto my soul, I [am] thy salvation.
35:4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my
soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that
devise my hurt.
35:5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of
the LORD chase [them].
35:6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of
the LORD persecute them.
35:7 For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a
pit, [which] without cause they have digged for my soul.
35:8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net
that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let
him fall.
35:9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice
in his salvation.
35:10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who [is] like unto thee,
which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him,
yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
35:11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge
[things] that I knew not.
35:12 They rewarded me evil for good [to] the spoiling of my
soul.
35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing [was]
sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer
returned into mine own bosom.
35:14 I behaved myself as though [he had been] my friend [or]
brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth [for his]
mother.
35:15 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:
35:16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me
with their teeth.
35:17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from
their destructions, my darling from the lions.
35:18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will
praise thee among much people.
35:19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over
me: [neither] let them wink with the eye that hate me without a
cause.
35:20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful
matters against [them that are] quiet in the land.
35:21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, [and] said,
Aha, aha, our eye hath seen [it].
35:22 [This] thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord,
be not far from me.
35:23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, [even] unto my
cause, my God and my Lord.
35:24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness;
and let them not rejoice over me.
35:25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it:
let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
35:26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that
rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and
dishonour that magnify [themselves] against me.
35:27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my
righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be
magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his
servant.
35:28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness [and] of
thy praise all the day long.
36:1 <To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David the servant of
the LORD.> The transgression of the wicked saith within my
heart, [that there is] no fear of God before his eyes.
36:2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his
iniquity be found to be hateful.
36:3 The words of his mouth [are] iniquity and deceit: he hath
left off to be wise, [and] to do good.
36:4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a
way [that is] not good; he abhorreth not evil.
36:5 Thy mercy, O LORD, [is] in the heavens; [and] thy
faithfulness [reacheth] unto the clouds.
36:6 Thy righteousness [is] like the great mountains; thy
judgments [are] a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and
beast.
36:7 How excellent [is] thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the
children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
36:8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy
house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy
pleasures.
36:9 For with thee [is] the fountain of life: in thy light shall
we see light.
36:10 O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee;
and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
36:11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the
hand of the wicked remove me.
36:12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast
down, and shall not be able to rise.
37:1 <[A Psalm] of David.> Fret not thyself because of
evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of
iniquity.
37:2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither
as the green herb.
37:3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; [so] shalt thou dwell in
the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
37:4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee
the desires of thine heart.
37:5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he
shall bring [it] to pass.
37:6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light,
and thy judgment as the noonday.
37:7 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.
37:8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in
any wise to do evil.
37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon
the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
37:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked [shall] not [be]:
yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it [shall]
not [be].
37:11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight
themselves in the abundance of peace.
37:12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon
him with his teeth.
37:13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is
coming.
37:14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their
bow, to cast down the poor and needy, [and] to slay such as be
of upright conversation.
37:15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their
bows shall be broken.
37:16 A little that a righteous man hath [is] better than the
riches of many wicked.
37:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD
upholdeth the righteous.
37:18 The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their
inheritance shall be for ever.
37:19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the
days of famine they shall be satisfied.
37:20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD
[shall be] as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke
shall they consume away.
37:21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the
righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
37:22 For [such as be] blessed of him shall inherit the earth;
and [they that be] cursed of him shall be cut off.
37:23 The steps of a [good] man are ordered by the LORD: and he
delighteth in his way.
37:24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the
LORD upholdeth [him with] his hand.
37:25 I have been young, and [now] am old; yet have I not seen
the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
37:26 [He is] ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed [is]
blessed.
37:27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
37:28 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.
37:29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein
for ever.
37:30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue
talketh of judgment.
37:31 The law of his God [is] in his heart; none of his steps
shall slide.
37:32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay
him.
37:33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him
when he is judged.
37:34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt
thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou
shalt see [it].
37:35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading
himself like a green bay tree.
37:36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he [was] not: yea, I sought
him, but he could not be found.
37:37 Mark the perfect [man], and behold the upright: for the
end of [that] man [is] peace.
37:38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end
of the wicked shall be cut off.
37:39 But the salvation of the righteous [is] of the LORD: [he
is] their strength in the time of trouble.
37:40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall
deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust
in him.
38:1 <A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.> O LORD,
rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot
displeasure.
38:2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me
sore.
38:3 [There is] no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger;
neither [is there any] rest in my bones because of my sin.
38:4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy
burden they are too heavy for me.
38:5 My wounds stink [and] are corrupt because of my
foolishness.
38:6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all
the day long.
38:7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome [disease]: and
[there is] no soundness in my flesh.
38:8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the
disquietness of my heart.
38:9 Lord, all my desire [is] before thee; and my groaning is
not hid from thee.
38:10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light
of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my
kinsmen stand afar off.
38:12 They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me]: and
they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine
deceits all the day long.
38:13 But I, as a deaf [man], heard not; and [I was] as a dumb
man [that] openeth not his mouth.
38:14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth
[are] no reproofs.
38:15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my
God.
38:16 For I said, [Hear me], lest [otherwise] they should
rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify
[themselves] against me.
38:17 For I [am] ready to halt, and my sorrow [is] continually
before me.
38:18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my
sin.
38:19 But mine enemies [are] lively, [and] they are strong: and
they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
38:20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries;
because I follow [the thing that] good [is].
38:21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
38:22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
39:1 <To the chief Musician, [even] to Jeduthun, A Psalm of
David.> I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not
with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the
wicked is before me.
39:2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from good;
and my sorrow was stirred.
39:3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire
burned: [then] spake I with my tongue,
39:4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days,
what it [is; that] I may know how frail I [am].
39:5 Behold, 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.
39:6 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.
39:7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope [is] in thee.
39:8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the
reproach of the foolish.
39:9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst [it].
39:10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow
of thine hand.
39:11 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.
39:12 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].
39:13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go
hence, and be no more.
40:1 <To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.> I waited
patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my
cry.
40:2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the
miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, [and] established my
goings.
40:3 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.
40:4 Blessed [is] that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and
respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
40:5 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.
40:6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears
hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not
required.
40:7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book [it is]
written of me,
40:8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is]
within my heart.
40:9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation:
lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
40:10 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.
40:11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let
thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
40:12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine
iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to
look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore
my heart faileth me.
40:13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to
help me.
40:14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek
after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and
put to shame that wish me evil.
40:15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say
unto me, Aha, aha.
40:16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee:
let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be
magnified.
40:17 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.
41:1 <To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.> Blessed [is]
he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time
of trouble.
41:2 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; [and] he
shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him
unto the will of his enemies.
41:3 The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing:
thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
41:4 I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have
sinned against thee.
41:5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his
name perish?
41:6 And if he come to see [me], he speaketh vanity: his heart
gathereth iniquity to itself; [when] he goeth abroad, he
telleth [it].
41:7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do
they devise my hurt.
41:8 An evil disease, [say they], cleaveth fast unto him: and
[now] that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
41:9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did
eat of my bread, hath lifted up [his] heel against me.
41:10 But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up,
that I may requite them.
41:11 By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy
doth not triumph over me.
41:12 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and
settest me before thy face for ever.
41:13 Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and
to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
42:1 <To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.>
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul
after thee, O God.
42:2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I
come and appear before God?
42:3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they
continually say unto me, Where [is] thy God?
42:4 When I remember these [things], I pour out my soul in me:
for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the
house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a
multitude that kept holyday.
42:5 Why 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.
42:6 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.
42:7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all
thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
42:8 [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.
42:9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me?
why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
42:10 [As] with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me;
while they say daily unto me, Where [is] thy God?
42:11 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.
43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly
nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
43:2 For thou [art] the God of my strength: why dost thou cast
me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the
enemy?
43:3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let
them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
43:4 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.
43:5 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.
44:1 <To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.>
We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us,
[what] work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
44:2 [How] thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and
plantedst them; [how] thou didst afflict the people, and cast
them out.
44:3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword,
neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and
thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst
a favour unto them.
44:4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
44:5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy
name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
44:6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save
me.
44:7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them
to shame that hated us.
44:8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for
ever. Selah.
44:9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not
forth with our armies.
44:10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which
hate us spoil for themselves.
44:11 Thou hast given us like sheep [appointed] for meat; and
hast scattered us among the heathen.
44:12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase
[thy wealth] by their price.
44:13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a
derision to them that are round about us.
44:14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of
the head among the people.
44:15 My confusion [is] continually before me, and the shame of
my face hath covered me,
44:16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by
reason of the enemy and avenger.
44:17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee,
neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
44:18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps
declined from thy way;
44:19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons,
and covered us with the shadow of death.
44:20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out
our hands to a strange god;
44:21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets
of the heart.
44:22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are
counted as sheep for the slaughter.
44:23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast [us] not off
for ever.
44:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our
affliction and our oppression?
44:25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth
unto the earth.
44:26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
45:1 <To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of
Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves.> My heart is inditing a good
matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the
king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer.
45:2 Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured
into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
45:3 Gird thy sword upon [thy] thigh, O [most] mighty, with thy
glory and thy majesty.
45:4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and
meekness [and] righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach
thee terrible things.
45:5 Thine arrows [are] sharp in the heart of the king's
enemies; [whereby] the people fall under thee.
45:6 Thy throne, O God, [is] for ever and ever: the sceptre of
thy kingdom [is] a right sceptre.
45:7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore
God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above
thy fellows.
45:8 All thy garments [smell] of myrrh, and aloes, [and] cassia,
out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
45:9 Kings' daughters [were] among thy honourable women: upon
thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
45:10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear;
forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
45:11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he [is]
thy Lord; and worship thou him.
45:12 And the daughter of Tyre [shall be there] with a gift;
[even] the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
45:13 The king's daughter [is] all glorious within: her clothing
[is] of wrought gold.
45:14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of
needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be
brought unto thee.
45:15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they
shall enter into the king's palace.
45:16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou
mayest make princes in all the earth.
45:17 I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations:
therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.
46:1 <To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon
Alamoth.> God [is] our refuge and strength, a very present
help in trouble.
46:2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed,
and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
46:3 [Though] the waters thereof roar [and] be troubled,
[though] the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
46:4 [There is] a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the
city of God, the holy [place] of the tabernacles of the most
High.
46:5 God [is] in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God
shall help her, [and that] right early.
46:6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his
voice, the earth melted.
46:7 The LORD of hosts [is] with us; the God of Jacob [is] our
refuge. Selah.
46:8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he
hath made in the earth.
46:9 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.
46:10 Be still, and know that I [am] God: I will be exalted
among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
46:11 The LORD of hosts [is] with us; the God of Jacob [is] our
refuge. Selah.
47:1 <To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.> O
clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice
of triumph.
47:2 For the LORD most high [is] terrible; [he is] a great King
over all the earth.
47:3 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under
our feet.
47:4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of
Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
47:5 God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a
trumpet.
47:6 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our
King, sing praises.
47:7 For God [is] the King of all the earth: sing ye praises
with understanding.
47:8 God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne
of his holiness.
47:9 The princes of the people are gathered together, [even] the
people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth
[belong] unto God: he is greatly exalted.
48:1 <A Song [and] Psalm for the sons of Korah.> Great [is]
the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God,
[in] the mountain of his holiness.
48:2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, [is]
mount Zion, [on] the sides of the north, the city of the great
King.
48:3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
48:4 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
48:5 They saw [it, and] so they marvelled; they were troubled,
[and] hasted away.
48:6 Fear took hold upon them there, [and] pain, as of a woman
in travail.
48:7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
48:8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD
of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for
ever. Selah.
48:9 We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst
of thy temple.
48:10 According to thy name, O God, so [is] thy praise unto the
ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
48:11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be
glad, because of thy judgments.
48:12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers
thereof.
48:13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye
may tell [it] to the generation following.
48:14 For this God [is] our God for ever and ever: he will be
our guide [even] unto death.
49:1 <To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.>
Hear this, all [ye] people; give ear, all [ye] inhabitants of
the world:
49:2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
49:3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my
heart [shall be] of understanding.
49:4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark
saying upon the harp.
49:5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, [when] the
iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
49:6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in
the multitude of their riches;
49:7 None [of them] can by any means redeem his brother, nor
give to God a ransom for him:
49:8 (For the redemption of their soul [is] precious, and it
ceaseth for ever:)
49:9 That he should still live for ever, [and] not see
corruption.
49:10 For he seeth [that] wise men die, likewise the fool and
the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
49:11 Their inward thought [is, that] their houses [shall
continue] for ever, [and] their dwelling places to all
generations; they call [their] lands after their own names.
49:12 Nevertheless man [being] in honour abideth not: he is like
the beasts [that] perish.
49:13 This their way [is] their folly: yet their posterity
approve their sayings. Selah.
49:14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on
them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the
morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their
dwelling.
49:15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave:
for he shall receive me. Selah.
49:16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory
of his house is increased;
49:17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory
shall not descend after him.
49:18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and [men] will
praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
49:19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall
never see light.
49:20 Man [that is] in honour, and understandeth not, is like
the beasts [that] perish.
50:1 <A Psalm of Asaph.> The mighty God, [even] the LORD, hath
spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto
the going down thereof.
50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
50:3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire
shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round
about him.
50:4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth,
that he may judge his people.
50:5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a
covenant with me by sacrifice.
50:6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God
[is] judge himself. Selah.
50:7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will
testify against thee: I [am] God, [even] thy God.
50:8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt
offerings, [to have been] continually before me.
50:9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, [nor] he goats out
of thy folds.
50:10 For every beast of the forest [is] mine, [and] the cattle
upon a thousand hills.
50:11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts
of the field [are] mine.
50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world
[is] mine, and the fulness thereof.
50:13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of
goats?
50:14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the
most High:
50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver
thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
50:16 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?
50:17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words
behind thee.
50:18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him,
and hast been partaker with adulterers.
50:19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth
deceit.
50:20 Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou
slanderest thine own mother's son.
50:21 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.
50:22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you]
in pieces, and [there be] none to deliver.
50:23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that
ordereth [his] conversation [aright] will I shew the salvation
of God.
51:1 <To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the
prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.>
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness:
according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my
transgressions.
51:2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from
my sin.
51:3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin [is] ever
before me.
51:4 Against 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.
51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother
conceive me.
51:6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the
hidden [part] thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I
shall be whiter than snow.
51:8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; [that] the bones [which]
thou hast broken may rejoice.
51:9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine
iniquities.
51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right
spirit within me.
51:11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy
spirit from me.
51:12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me
[with thy] free spirit.
51:13 [Then] will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners
shall be converted unto thee.
51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my
salvation: [and] my tongue shall sing aloud of thy
righteousness.
51:15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth
thy praise.
51:16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give [it]:
thou delightest not in burnt offering.
51:17 The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit: a broken and
a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
51:18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the
walls of Jerusalem.
51:19 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.
52:1 <To the chief Musician, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David, when
Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David
is come to the house of Ahimelech.> Why boastest thou thyself
in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God [endureth]
continually.
52:2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working
deceitfully.
52:3 Thou lovest evil more than good; [and] lying rather than to
speak righteousness. Selah.
52:4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O [thou] deceitful tongue.
52:5 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.
52:6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at
him:
52:7 Lo, [this is] the man [that] made not God his strength; but
trusted in the abundance of his riches, [and] strengthened
himself in his wickedness.
52:8 But I [am] like a green olive tree in the house of God: I
trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
52:9 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done [it]:
and I will wait on thy name; for [it is] good before thy
saints.
53:1 <To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, [A Psalm]
of David.> 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.
53:2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to
see if there were [any] that did understand, that did seek God.
53:3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become
filthy; [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.
53:4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my
people [as] they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
53:5 There were they in great fear, [where] no fear was: for God
hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth [against] thee:
thou hast put [them] to shame, because God hath despised them.
53:6 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.
54:1 <To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, [A Psalm] of
David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David
hide himself with us?> Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge
me by thy strength.
54:2 Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
54:3 For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek
after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
54:4 Behold, God [is] mine helper: the Lord [is] with them that
uphold my soul.
54:5 He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy
truth.
54:6 I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name,
O LORD; for [it is] good.
54:7 For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and mine eye
hath seen [his desire] upon mine enemies.
55:1 <To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, [A Psalm] of
David.> Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself
from my supplication.
55:2 Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and
make a noise;
55:3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the
oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and
in wrath they hate me.
55:4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death
are fallen upon me.
55:5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath
overwhelmed me.
55:6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! [for then]
would I fly away, and be at rest.
55:7 Lo, [then] would I wander far off, [and] remain in the
wilderness. Selah.
55:8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm [and]
tempest.
55:9 Destroy, O Lord, [and] divide their tongues: for I have
seen violence and strife in the city.
55:10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof:
mischief also and sorrow [are] in the midst of it.
55:11 Wickedness [is] in the midst thereof: deceit and guile
depart not from her streets.
55:12 For [it was] not an enemy [that] reproached me; then I
could have borne [it]: neither [was it] he that hated me [that]
did magnify [himself] against me; then I would have hid myself
from him:
55:13 But [it was] thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine
acquaintance.
55:14 We took sweet counsel together, [and] walked unto the
house of God in company.
55:15 Let death seize upon them, [and] let them go down quick
into hell: for wickedness [is] in their dwellings, [and] among
them.
55:16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save
me.
55:17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry
aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
55:18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle [that
was] against me: for there were many with me.
55:19 God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of
old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear
not God.
55:20 He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace
with him: he hath broken his covenant.
55:21 [The words] of his mouth were smoother than butter, but
war [was] in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet
[were] they drawn swords.
55:22 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee:
he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
55:23 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.
56:1 <To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of
David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.> Be merciful
unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily
oppresseth me.
56:2 Mine enemies would daily swallow [me] up: for [they be]
many that fight against me, O thou most High.
56:3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
56:4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust;
I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
56:5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts [are]
against me for evil.
56:6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they
mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
56:7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in [thine] anger cast down
the people, O God.
56:8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy
bottle: [are they] not in thy book?
56:9 When I cry [unto thee], then shall mine enemies turn back:
this I know; for God [is] for me.
56:10 In God will I praise [his] word: in the LORD will I praise
[his] word.
56:11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man
can do unto me.
56:12 Thy vows [are] upon me, O God: I will render praises unto
thee.
56:13 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?
57:1 <To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when
he fled from Saul in the cave.> 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.
57:2 I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth
[all things] for me.
57:3 He shall send from heaven, and save me [from] the reproach
of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth
his mercy and his truth.
57:4 My soul [is] among lions: [and] I lie [even among] them
that are set on fire, [even] the sons of men, whose teeth [are]
spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
57:5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; [let] thy glory
[be] above all the earth.
57:6 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.
57:7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing
and give praise.
57:8 Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I [myself]
will awake early.
57:9 I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing
unto thee among the nations.
57:10 For thy mercy [is] great unto the heavens, and thy truth
unto the clouds.
57:11 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: [let] thy glory
[be] above all the earth.
58:1 <To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.> Do
ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge
uprightly, O ye sons of men?
58:2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of
your hands in the earth.
58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as
soon as they be born, speaking lies.
58:4 Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are]
like the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear;
58:5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming
never so wisely.
58:6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the
great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
58:7 Let them melt away as waters [which] run continually:
[when] he bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as
cut in pieces.
58:8 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.
58:9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them
away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his] wrath.
58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance:
he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
58:11 So that a man shall say, Verily [there is] a reward for
the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
59:1 <To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David; when
Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.> Deliver me
from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up
against me.
59:2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from
bloody men.
59:3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are
gathered against me; not [for] my transgression, nor [for] my
sin, O LORD.
59:4 They run and prepare themselves without [my] fault: awake
to help me, and behold.
59:5 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.
59:6 They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and
go round about the city.
59:7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords [are] in
their lips: for who, [say they], doth hear?
59:8 But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all
the heathen in derision.
59:9 [Because of] his strength will I wait upon thee: for God
[is] my defence.
59:10 The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see
[my desire] upon mine enemies.
59:11 Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy
power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
59:12 [For] the sin of their mouth [and] the words of their lips
let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and
lying [which] they speak.
59:13 Consume [them] in wrath, consume [them], that they [may]
not [be]: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the
ends of the earth. Selah.
59:14 And at evening let them return; [and] let them make a
noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
59:15 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they
be not satisfied.
59:16 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.
59:17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God [is] my
defence, [and] the God of my mercy.
60:1 <To the chief Musician upon Shushaneduth, Michtam of
David, to teach; when he strove with Aramnaharaim and with
Aramzobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley
of salt twelve thousand.> O God, thou hast cast us off, thou
hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to
us again.
60:2 Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it:
heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
60:3 Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us
to drink the wine of astonishment.
60:4 Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it
may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
60:5 That thy beloved may be delivered; save [with] thy right
hand, and hear me.
60:6 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will
divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
60:7 Gilead [is] mine, and Manasseh [is] mine; Ephraim also [is]
the strength of mine head; Judah [is] my lawgiver;
60:8 Moab [is] my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe:
Philistia, triumph thou because of me.
60:9 Who will bring me [into] the strong city? who will lead me
into Edom?
60:10 [Wilt] not thou, O God, [which] hadst cast us off? and
[thou], O God, [which] didst not go out with our armies?
60:11 Give us help from trouble: for vain [is] the help of man.
60:12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he [it is that]
shall tread down our enemies.
61:1 <To the chief Musician upon Neginah, [A Psalm] of David.>
Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.
61:2 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.
61:3 For thou hast been a shelter for me, [and] a strong tower
from the enemy.
61:4 I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in
the covert of thy wings. Selah.
61:5 For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given [me]
the heritage of those that fear thy name.
61:6 Thou wilt prolong the king's life: [and] his years as many
generations.
61:7 He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and
truth, [which] may preserve him.
61:8 So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may
daily perform my vows.
62:1 <To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.>
Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him [cometh] my salvation.
62:2 He only [is] my rock and my salvation; [he is] my defence;
I shall not be greatly moved.
62:3 How long will 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.
62:4 They only consult to cast [him] down from his excellency:
they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they
curse inwardly. Selah.
62:5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation [is]
from him.
62:6 He only [is] my rock and my salvation: [he is] my defence;
I shall not be moved.
62:7 In God [is] my salvation and my glory: the rock of my
strength, [and] my refuge, [is] in God.
62:8 Trust in him at all times; [ye] people, pour out your heart
before him: God [is] a refuge for us. Selah.
62:9 Surely men of low degree [are] vanity, [and] men of high
degree [are] a lie: to be laid in the balance, they [are]
altogether [lighter] than vanity.
62:10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery:
if riches increase, set not your heart [upon them].
62:11 God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power
[belongeth] unto God.
62:12 Also unto thee, O Lord, [belongeth] mercy: for thou
renderest to every man according to his work.
63:1 <A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of
Judah.> 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;
63:2 To see thy power and thy glory, so [as] I have seen thee in
the sanctuary.
63:3 Because thy lovingkindness [is] better than life, my lips
shall praise thee.
63:4 Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my
hands in thy name.
63:5 My soul shall be satisfied as [with] marrow and fatness;
and my mouth shall praise [thee] with joyful lips:
63:6 When I remember thee upon my bed, [and] meditate on thee in
the [night] watches.
63:7 Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of
thy wings will I rejoice.
63:8 My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth
me.
63:9 But those [that] seek my soul, to destroy [it], shall go
into the lower parts of the earth.
63:10 They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for
foxes.
63:11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth
by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall
be stopped.
64:1 <To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.> Hear my voice,
O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
64:2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the
insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
64:3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, [and] bend [their bows
to shoot] their arrows, [even] bitter words:
64:4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do
they shoot at him, and fear not.
64:5 They encourage themselves [in] an evil matter: they commune
of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
64:6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent
search: both the inward [thought] of every one [of them], and
the heart, [is] deep.
64:7 But God shall shoot at them [with] an arrow; suddenly shall
they be wounded.
64:8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon
themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
64:9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God;
for they shall wisely consider of his doing.
64:10 The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust
in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.
65:1 <To the chief Musician, A Psalm [and] Song of David.>
Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall
the vow be performed.
65:2 O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
65:3 Iniquities prevail against me: [as for] our transgressions,
thou shalt purge them away.
65:4 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.
65:5 [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:
65:6 Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; [being]
girded with power:
65:7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their
waves, and the tumult of the people.
65:8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at
thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and
evening to rejoice.
65:9 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.
65:10 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest
the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou
blessest the springing thereof.
65:11 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths
drop fatness.
65:12 They drop [upon] the pastures of the wilderness: and the
little hills rejoice on every side.
65:13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are
covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
66:1 <To the chief Musician, A Song [or] Psalm.> Make a joyful
noise unto God, all ye lands:
66:2 Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise
glorious.
66:3 Say unto God, How terrible [art thou in] thy works! through
the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit
themselves unto thee.
66:4 All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee;
they shall sing [to] thy name. Selah.
66:5 Come and see the works of God: [he is] terrible [in his]
doing toward the children of men.
66:6 He turned the sea into dry [land]: they went through the
flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
66:7 He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the
nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
66:8 O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his
praise to be heard:
66:9 Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet
to be moved.
66:10 For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as
silver is tried.
66:11 Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction
upon our loins.
66:12 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].
66:13 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay
thee my vows,
66:14 Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when
I was in trouble.
66:15 I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with
the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
66:16 Come [and] hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare
what he hath done for my soul.
66:17 I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with
my tongue.
66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear
[me]:
66:19 [But] verily God hath heard [me]; he hath attended to the
voice of my prayer.
66:20 Blessed [be] God, which hath not turned away my prayer,
nor his mercy from me.
67:1 <To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm [or] Song.>
God be merciful unto us, and bless us; [and] cause his face to
shine upon us; Selah.
67:2 That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health
among all nations.
67:3 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people
praise thee.
67:4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt
judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon
earth. Selah.
67:5 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people
praise thee.
67:6 [Then] shall the earth yield her increase; [and] God,
[even] our own God, shall bless us.
67:7 God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall
fear him.
68:1 <To the chief Musician, A Psalm [or] Song of David.> Let
God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that
hate him flee before him.
68:2 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.
68:3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God:
yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
68:4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that
rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before
him.
68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, [is]
God in his holy habitation.
68:6 God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those
which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry
[land].
68:7 O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou
didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
68:8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence
of God: [even] Sinai itself [was moved] at the presence of God,
the God of Israel.
68:9 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou
didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
68:10 Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast
prepared of thy goodness for the poor.
68:11 The Lord gave the word: great [was] the company of those
that published [it].
68:12 Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at
home divided the spoil.
68:13 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.
68:14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was [white] as
snow in Salmon.
68:15 The hill of God [is as] the hill of Bashan; an high hill
[as] the hill of Bashan.
68:16 Why leap ye, ye high hills? [this is] the hill [which] God
desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell [in it] for
ever.
68:17 The chariots of God [are] twenty thousand, [even]
thousands of angels: the Lord [is] among them, [as in] Sinai,
in the holy [place].
68:18 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].
68:19 Blessed [be] the Lord, [who] daily loadeth us [with
benefits, even] the God of our salvation. Selah.
68:20 [He that is] our God [is] the God of salvation; and unto
GOD the Lord [belong] the issues from death.
68:21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies, [and] the
hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
68:22 The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will
bring [my people] again from the depths of the sea:
68:23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of [thine]
enemies, [and] the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
68:24 They have seen thy goings, O God; [even] the goings of my
God, my King, in the sanctuary.
68:25 The singers went before, the players on instruments
[followed] after; among [them were] the damsels playing with
timbrels.
68:26 Bless ye God in the congregations, [even] the Lord, from
the fountain of Israel.
68:27 There [is] little Benjamin [with] their ruler, the princes
of Judah [and] their council, the princes of Zebulun, [and] the
princes of Naphtali.
68:28 Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God,
that which thou hast wrought for us.
68:29 Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring
presents unto thee.
68:30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the
bulls, with the calves of the people, [till every one] submit
himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people [that]
delight in war.
68:31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon
stretch out her hands unto God.
68:32 Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises
unto the Lord; Selah:
68:33 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.
68:34 Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency [is] over
Israel, and his strength [is] in the clouds.
68:35 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.
69:1 <To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, [A Psalm] of
David.> Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto [my]
soul.
69:2 I sink in deep mire, where [there is] no standing: I am
come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
69:3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail
while I wait for my God.
69:4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs
of mine head: they that would destroy me, [being] mine enemies
wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored [that] which I took not
away.
69:5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid
from thee.
69:6 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.
69:7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath
covered my face.
69:8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto
my mother's children.
69:9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the
reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
69:10 When I wept, [and chastened] my soul with fasting, that
was to my reproach.
69:11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb
to them.
69:12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I [was]
the song of the drunkards.
69:13 But as for me, my prayer [is] unto thee, O LORD, [in] an
acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me,
in the truth of thy salvation.
69:14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be
delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
69:15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep
swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
69:16 Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness [is] good: turn
unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
69:17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in
trouble: hear me speedily.
69:18 Draw nigh unto my soul, [and] redeem it: deliver me
because of mine enemies.
69:19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my
dishonour: mine adversaries [are] all before thee.
69:20 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.
69:21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they
gave me vinegar to drink.
69:22 Let their table become a snare before them: and [that
which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a
trap.
69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make
their loins continually to shake.
69:24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful
anger take hold of them.
69:25 Let their habitation be desolate; [and] let none dwell in
their tents.
69:26 For they persecute [him] whom thou hast smitten; and they
talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
69:27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come
into thy righteousness.
69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not
be written with the righteous.
69:29 But I [am] poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God,
set me up on high.
69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will
magnify him with thanksgiving.
69:31 [This] also shall please the LORD better than an ox [or]
bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
69:32 The humble shall see [this, and] be glad: and your heart
shall live that seek God.
69:33 For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his
prisoners.
69:34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every
thing that moveth therein.
69:35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of
Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
69:36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they
that love his name shall dwell therein.
70:1 <To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David, to bring to
remembrance.> [Make haste], O God, to deliver me; make haste
to help me, O LORD.
70:2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul:
let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire
my hurt.
70:3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that
say, Aha, aha.
70:4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee:
and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be
magnified.
70:5 But I [am] poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou
[art] my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
71:1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to
confusion.
71:2 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape:
incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
71:3 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.
71:4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of
the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
71:5 For thou [art] my hope, O Lord GOD: [thou art] my trust
from my youth.
71:6 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.
71:7 I am as a wonder unto many; but thou [art] my strong
refuge.
71:8 Let my mouth be filled [with] thy praise [and with] thy
honour all the day.
71:9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when
my strength faileth.
71:10 For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait
for my soul take counsel together,
71:11 Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for
[there is] none to deliver [him].
71:12 O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my
help.
71:13 Let them be confounded [and] consumed that are adversaries
to my soul; let them be covered [with] reproach and dishonour
that seek my hurt.
71:14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more
and more.
71:15 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness [and] thy
salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers [thereof].
71:16 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make
mention of thy righteousness, [even] of thine only.
71:17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto
have I declared thy wondrous works.
71:18 Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me
not; until I have shewed thy strength unto [this] generation,
[and] thy power to every one [that] is to come.
71:19 Thy righteousness also, O God, [is] very high, who hast
done great things: O God, who [is] like unto thee!
71:20 [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.
71:21 Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every
side.
71:22 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 Isr