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Psalm 1

¹Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful. ²But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and he meditates in his law day and night. ³And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bring forth its fruit in its season; its leaf also shall not wither; and what ever he does shall prosper.

⁴The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. ⁵Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. ⁶For the LORD knows the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

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Psalm 2

¹Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing? ²The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his anointed, saying, ³Let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us. ⁴He who sits in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. ⁵Then he shall speak to them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure. ⁶I have still set my king on my holy hill of Zion.

⁷I will declare the decree: the LORD has said to me, You are my Son; this day I have begotten you. ⁸Ask of me and I shall give you the heathen for your inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession. ⁹You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

¹⁰Be wise now therefore, O you kings: be instructed, you judges of the earth. ¹¹Serve the LORD with fear and rejoice with trembling. ¹²Kiss the Son, lest he is angry and you perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in him.

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Psalm 3

A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.

¹ LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are those who rise up against me. ²Many there are who say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah. ³But you, O LORD, are a shield for me; my glory and the lifter up of my head.

⁴I cried to the LORD with my voice and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah. ⁵I laid down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me. ⁶I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people who have set themselves against me round about. ⁷Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for you have struck all my enemies on the cheek bone; you have broken the teeth of the ungodly. ⁸Salvation belongs to the LORD: your blessing is on your people. Selah.

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Psalm 4

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David.

¹ Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: you have enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy on me and hear my prayer. ²O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame? how long will you love vanity and seek after falsehood? Selah. ³But know that the LORD has set him who is godly apart for himself: the LORD will hear when I call to him. ⁴Stand in awe and do not sin: commune with your own heart on your bed and be still. Selah. ⁵Offer the sacrifices of righteousness and put your trust in the LORD.

⁶There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift up the light of your countenance on us. ⁷You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that the corn and their wine increased. ⁸I will both lay me down in peace and sleep O LORD, for you only make me dwell in safety.

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Psalm 5

To the chief Musician on Nehiloth, A Psalm of David.

¹ Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation. ²Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God: for I will pray to you. ³ You shall hear my voice in the morning, O LORD; in the morning I will direct my prayer to you and will look up. ⁴For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness: neither does evil dwell with you. ⁵The foolish shall not stand in your sight: you hate all workers of iniquity. ⁶You shall destroy those who speak falsehood: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

⁷But as for me, I will come into your house in the multitude of your mercy: and I will worship toward your holy temple in your fear. ⁸Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before my face. ⁹For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue. ¹⁰Destroy them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against you. ¹¹But let all those that put their trust in you rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because you defend them: let them also that love your name be joyful in you. ¹²For you, LORD, will bless the righteous; you will compass him with favor as with a shield.

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Psalm 6

To the chief Musician on Neginoth on Sheminith, A Psalm of David.

¹ O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure. ²Have mercy on me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. ³My soul is also sore vexed: but you, O LORD, how long? ⁴Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for your mercies' sake. ⁵For in death there is no remembrance of you: in the grave who shall give you thanks? ⁶I am weary with my groaning; all the night I make my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. ⁷My eye is consumed because of grief; it grows old because of all my enemies.

⁸Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; for the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping. ⁹The LORD has heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer. ¹⁰Let all my enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.

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Psalm 7

Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite.

¹ O LORD my God, I put my trust in you: save me from all those who persecute me and deliver me: ²Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver. ³O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there is iniquity in my hands; ⁴If I have rewarded evil to him that was at peace with me; (yes, I have delivered him that is my enemy without cause:) ⁵Let the enemy persecute my soul and take it; yes, let him tread down my life on the earth and lay my honor in the dust. Selah. ⁶Arise, O LORD, in your anger, lift up yourself because of the rage of my enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that you have commanded. ⁷So shall the congregation of the people compass you about: therefore return on high for their sakes. ⁸The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to my integrity that is in me. ⁹Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: God tries the hearts and reins for the righteous.

¹⁰My defense is from God, who saves the upright in heart. ¹¹God judges the righteous and God is angry with the wicked every day. ¹²If he does not turn, he will whet his sword; he has bent his bow and made it ready. ¹³He has also prepared the instruments of death for him; he ordains his arrows against the persecutors. ¹⁴Behold, he travails with iniquity and has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. ¹⁵He made a pit and dug it and had fallen into the ditch which he made. ¹⁶His mischief shall return on his own head and his violent dealing shall come down on his own pate. ¹⁷I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.

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Psalm 8

To the chief Musician on Gittith, A Psalm of David.

¹ O LORD our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! who has set your glory above the heavens. ²Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings you have ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still the enemy and the avenger.

³When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained; ⁴What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit him? ⁵For you have made him a little lower than the angels and have crowned him with glory and honor. ⁶You made him have dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet: ⁷All sheep and oxen, yes and the animals of the field; ⁸The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea and what ever passes through the paths of the seas. ⁹O LORD our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth!

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Psalm 9

To the chief Musician on Muthlabben, A Psalm of David.

¹ I will praise you, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all your marvelous works. ²I will be glad and rejoice in you: I will sing praise to your name, O most High. ³When my enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at your presence. ⁴For you have maintained my right and my cause; you sat in the throne judging right. ⁵You have rebuked the heathen, you have destroyed the wicked, you have put out their name for ever and ever. ⁶O you enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and you have destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them. ⁷But the LORD shall endure for ever: he has prepared his throne for judgment. ⁸And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness. ⁹The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. ¹⁰And those who know your name will put their trust in you: for you, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.

¹¹Sing praises to the LORD, those who dwell in Zion declare among the people his doings. ¹²When he makes inquisition for blood, he remembers them: he does not forget the cry of the humble. ¹³Have mercy on me, O LORD, you who lifts me up from the gates of death; consider my trouble which I suffer from those who hate me, : ¹⁴That I may show forth all your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in your salvation. ¹⁵The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: their own foot is taken in the net which they hid. ¹⁶The LORD is known by the judgment which he executes: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion [Meditation]. Selah. ¹⁷The wicked shall be turned into hell and all the nations that forget God. ¹⁸For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever. ¹⁹Arise, O LORD; do not let man prevail: let the heathen be judged in your sight. ²⁰Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

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Psalm 10

¹Why do you stand afar off, O LORD? why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? ²The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. ³For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD abhors. ⁴The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. ⁵His ways are always grievous; your judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffs at them. ⁶He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity. ⁷His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity. ⁸He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places he murders the innocent: his eyes are secretly set against the poor. ⁹He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to catch the poor: he catches the poor, when he draws him into his net. ¹⁰He crouches and humbles himself, so that the poor may fall by his strong ones. ¹¹He has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he hides his face; he will never see it.

¹²Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up your hand: do not forget the humble. ¹³Why does the wicked provoke God? he has said in his heart, You will not require it. ¹⁴You have seen it; for you behold mischief and spite and allow it with your hand: the poor commits himself to you; you are the helper of the fatherless. ¹⁵Break the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till you find none. ¹⁶The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land. ¹⁷LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble: you will prepare their heart, you will cause your ear to hear: ¹⁸To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may oppress no more.

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Psalm 11

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

¹ I put my trust in the LORD: how do you say to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain? ²For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow on the string, that they may secretly shoot at the upright in heart. ³If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?

⁴The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men. ⁵The LORD tries the righteous: but his soul hates the wicked and he who loves violence. ⁶He shall rain snares on the wicked, fire and brimstone and a horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup. ⁷For the righteous LORD loves righteousness; his countenance beholds the upright.

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Psalm 12

To the chief Musician on Sheminith, A Psalm of David.

¹ Help, LORD; for the godly man ceases; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. ²They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: they speak with flattering lips and with a double heart. ³The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips and the tongue which speaks proud things: ⁴Who have said, With our tongue we will prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? ⁵Now I will arise for the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffs at him. ⁶The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. ⁷You shall keep them, O LORD, you shall preserve them from this generation for ever. ⁸The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

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Psalm 13

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

¹ How long will you forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long will you hide your face from me? ²How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me? ³Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; ⁴Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those who trouble me rejoice when I am moved. ⁵But I have trusted in your mercy; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. ⁶I will sing to the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me.

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Psalm 14

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

¹ The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is no one who does good. ²The LORD looked down from heaven on the children of men to see if there were any that understood and seek God. ³They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that does good, no, not one.

⁴Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call on the LORD. ⁵There, they were in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous. ⁶You have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge. ⁷Oh that the salvation of Israel had come out of Zion! when the LORD brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice and Israel shall be glad.

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Psalm 15

A Psalm of David.

¹ LORD, who shall abide in your tabernacle? who shall dwell in your holy hill? ²He that walks uprightly and works righteousness and speaks the truth in his heart. ³He that does not backbite with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor. ⁴In whose eyes a vile person is condemned; but he honors those who fear the LORD. He who swears to his own hurt and does not change. ⁵He who does not put out his money to usury, nor takes reward against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.

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Psalm 16

Michtam of David.

¹ Preserve me, O God: for in you I put my trust. ²O my soul, you have said to the LORD, You are my Lord: my goodness does not extend to you; ³But to the saints that are in the earth and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight. ⁴Their sorrows shall be multiplied who hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take up their names into my lips. ⁵The LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: you maintain my lot. ⁶The lines are fallen to me in pleasant places; yes, I have a goodly heritage. ⁷I will bless the LORD who has given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.

⁸I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. ⁹Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices: my flesh also shall rest in hope. ¹⁰For you will not leave my soul in hades; neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption. ¹¹You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fulness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

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Psalm 17

A Prayer of David.

¹ Hear the right, O LORD, attend to my cry, give ear to my prayer that does not go out of feigned lips. ²Let my sentence come forth from your presence; let your eyes behold the things that are equal. ³You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me and shall find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress. ⁴Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the paths of the destroyer. ⁵Hold up my goings in your paths, so that my footsteps do not slip. ⁶I have called on you, for you will hear me, O God: incline your ear to me and hear my speech. ⁷Show your marvelous loving kindness, O you who saves by your right hand those who put their trust in you from those that rise up against them.

⁸Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of your wings, ⁹From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about. ¹⁰They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly. ¹¹They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth; ¹²Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. ¹³Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, by your sword: ¹⁴From men who are your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, who have their portion in this life and whose belly you fill with your hidden treasure: they are full of children and leave the rest of their substance to their babes. ¹⁵As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.

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Psalm 18

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spoke to 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,

¹ I will love you, O LORD, my strength. ²The 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. ³I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies. ⁴The sorrows of death compassed me and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. ⁵The sorrows of hades compassed me about: the snares of death went before me. ⁶In my distress I called on the LORD and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of his temple and my cry came before him, even into his ears. ⁷Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was angry. ⁸A smoke went up out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. ⁹He bowed the heavens also and came down: and darkness was under his feet. ¹⁰And he rode on a cherub and flew: yes, he flew on the wings of the wind. ¹¹He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. ¹²In the brightness that was before him were his thick clouds, hail stones and coals of fire passed. ¹³The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire. ¹⁴Yes, he sent out his arrows and scattered them and he shot out lightnings and confused them. ¹⁵Then the channels of waters were seen and the foundations of the world were discovered at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils. ¹⁶He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. ¹⁷He delivered me from my strong enemy and from those who hated me: for they were too strong for me. ¹⁸They went before me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay. ¹⁹He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me because he delighted in me.

²⁰The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me. ²¹For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God. ²²For all his judgments were before me and I did not put away his statutes from me. ²³I was also upright before him and I kept myself from my iniquity. ²⁴Therefore has the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. ²⁵With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; with an upright man you will show yourself upright; ²⁶With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the crooked you will show yourself shrewd. ²⁷For you will save the afflicted people; but will bring down high looks. ²⁸For you will light my lamp: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

²⁹For by you I have run through a troop; and by my God I have leaped over a wall. ³⁰As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him. ³¹For who is God except the LORD? or who is a rock except our God? ³²It is God who girds me with strength and makes my way perfect. ³³He makes my feet like hinds' feet and sets me on my high places. ³⁴He teaches my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms. ³⁵You have also given me the shield of your salvation: and your right hand has held me up and your gentleness has made me great. ³⁶You have enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip. ³⁷I have pursued my enemies and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed. ³⁸I have wounded them so that they were not able to rise: they have fallen under my feet. ³⁹For you have girded me with strength in the battle: you have subdued those that rose up against me under me. ⁴⁰You have also given me the necks of my enemies; that I might destroy those who hate me. ⁴¹They cried, but there was no one to save them: even to the LORD, but he did not answer them. ⁴²Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I cast them out as dirt in the streets. ⁴³You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; and you have made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I had not known shall serve me. ⁴⁴As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves to me. ⁴⁵The strangers shall fade away and be afraid out of their close places. ⁴⁶The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted. ⁴⁷It is God who avenges me and subdues the people under me. ⁴⁸He delivers me from my enemies: yes, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man. ⁴⁹Therefore I will give thanks to you, O LORD, among the heathen and sing praises to your name. ⁵⁰He gives great deliverance to his king; and shows mercy to his anointed, to David and to his seed for evermore.

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Psalm 19

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

¹ The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows his handy work. ²Day to day they utter speech and night to night they show knowledge. ³There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. ⁴Their line is gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world. He has set a tabernacle for the sun in them, ⁵Who is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber and rejoices as a strong man to run a race. ⁶Its going forth is from the end of the heaven and its circuit to the ends of it: and there is nothing hidden from its heat.

⁷The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. ⁸The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. ⁹The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are altogether true and righteous. ¹⁰They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. ¹¹Moreover by them is your servant warned: and there is great reward in keeping them. ¹²Who can understand his errors? cleanse me from secret faults. ¹³Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then I shall be upright and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. ¹⁴Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength and my redeemer.

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Psalm 20

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

¹ The LORD hears you in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defends you; ²He sends you help from the sanctuary and strengthens you out of Zion; ³He remembers all your offerings, and accepts your burnt sacrifice; Selah. ⁴Grants you according to your own heart and fulfils all your counsel. ⁵We will rejoice in your salvation and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfils all your petitions.

⁶Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand. ⁷Some trust in chariots and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. ⁸They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright. ⁹Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.

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Psalm 21

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

¹ The king shall joy in your strength, O LORD; and in your salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! ²You have given his heart's desire to him and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah. ³For you go before him with the blessings of goodness: you set a crown of pure gold on his head. ⁴He asked life of you and you gave it to him, even length of days for ever and ever. ⁵His glory is great in your salvation: you have laid honor and majesty on him. ⁶For you have made him most blessed for ever: you have made him exceeding glad with your countenance.

⁷For the king trusts in the LORD and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved. ⁸Your hand shall find out all your enemies: your right hand shall find out those that hate you. ⁹You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath and the fire shall devour them. ¹⁰ You shall destroy their fruit from the earth and their seed from among the children of men. ¹¹For they intended evil against you: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform. ¹²Therefore you shall make them turn their back, when you shall make your arrows ready on your strings against the face of them. ¹³Be exalted, LORD, in your own strength: so we will sing and praise your power.

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Psalm 22

To the chief Musician on Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.

¹ My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why are you so far from helping me and from the words of my roaring? ²O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you do not hear; and in the night season I am not silent. ³But you are holy, O you who inhabits the praises of Israel. ⁴Our fathers trusted in you: they trusted and you delivered them. ⁵They cried to you and were delivered: they trusted in you and were not confounded. ⁶But I am a worm and no man; a reproach of men and despised of the people. ⁷All those who see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake their head, saying, ⁸He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. ⁹But you are he who took me out of the womb: you made me hope when I was on my mother's breasts. ¹⁰I was cast on you from the womb: you are my God from my mother's belly.

¹¹Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is no one to help. ¹²Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. ¹³They gaped on me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. ¹⁴I 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. ¹⁵My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaves to my jaws and you have brought me into the dust of death. ¹⁶For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. ¹⁷I may tell all my bones: they look and stare on me. ¹⁸They part my garments among them and cast lots on my vesture. ¹⁹But be not far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste to help me. ²⁰Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. ²¹Save me from the lion's mouth: for you have heard me from the horns of the wild goats.

²²I will declare your name to my brothers: I will praise you in the midst of the congregation . ²³You that fear the LORD, praise him; all you the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all you the seed of Israel. ²⁴For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard. ²⁵My praise shall be of you in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before those who fear him. ²⁶The meek shall eat and be satisfied: those who seek him shall praise the LORD: your heart shall live for ever. ²⁷All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before you. ²⁸For the kingdom is the LORD'S: and he is the governor among the nations. ²⁹All those who are fat on earth shall eat and worship: all those who go down to the dust shall bow before him: and no one can keep his own soul alive. ³⁰A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. ³¹They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, that he has done this.

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Psalm 23

A Psalm of David.

¹ The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. ²He makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside the still waters. ³He restores my soul: he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. ⁴Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for you are with me; your rod and your staff comfort me. ⁵You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies: you anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over. ⁶Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

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Psalm 24

A Psalm of David.

¹ The earth and its fulness is the LORD'S, the world and those who dwell in it. ²For he has founded it on the seas and established it on the floods.

³Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? ⁴He that has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. ⁵He shall receive the blessing from the LORD and righteousness from the God of his salvation. ⁶This is the generation of those who seek him, who seek your face, O Jacob. Selah.

⁷Lift up your heads, O you gates; and be lifted up, you everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. ⁸Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. ⁹Lift up your heads, O you gates; even lift them up, you everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. ¹⁰Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.

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Psalm 25

A Psalm of David.

¹ To you, O LORD, do I lift up my soul. ²O my God, I trust in you: let me not be ashamed, let my enemies not triumph over me. ³Yes, let no one who waits on you be ashamed: let them be ashamed who transgress without cause. ⁴Show me your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths. ⁵Lead me in your truth and teach me: for you are the God of my salvation; on you do I wait all the day. ⁶Remember your tender mercies and your loving kindnesses, O LORD, for they have been ever from of old. ⁷Do not remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to your mercy remember me for your goodness' sake, O LORD.

⁸The LORD is good and upright : therefore he will teach sinners in the way. ⁹He will guide the meek in judgment and he will teach the meek his way. ¹⁰All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. ¹¹For your name's sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity; for it is great. ¹²What man is he who fears the LORD? he shall teach him in the way that he shall choose. ¹³His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth. ¹⁴The secret of the LORD is with those who fear him and he will show them his covenant.

¹⁵My eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. ¹⁶Turn to me, and have mercy on me; for I am desolate and afflicted. ¹⁷The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring me out of my distresses. ¹⁸Look on my affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins. ¹⁹Consider my enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred. ²⁰O keep my soul and deliver me: do not let me be ashamed; for I put my trust in you. ²¹Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on you. ²² O God, Redeem Israel out of all his troubles.

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Psalm 26

A Psalm of David.

¹ Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in my integrity: I have also trusted in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide. ² O LORD, examine me and prove me; try my reins and my heart. ³For your loving kindness is before my eyes and I have walked in your truth. ⁴I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go with dissemblers. ⁵I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

⁶I will wash my hands in innocency: so will I surround your altar, O LORD: ⁷ So that I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving and tell of all your wondrous works. ⁸LORD, I have loved the habitation of your house and the place where your honor dwells. ⁹Do not gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men: ¹⁰In whose hands is mischief and their right hand is full of bribes. ¹¹But as for me, I will walk in my integrity: redeem me and be merciful to me. ¹²My foot stands in an even place: I will bless the LORD in the congregations.

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Psalm 27

A Psalm of David.

¹ The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? ²When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. ³Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this I will be confident. ⁴One thing I have desired of the LORD, that I will 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. ⁵For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle he shall hide me; he shall set me on a rock. ⁶And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies round about me: therefore I will offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.

⁷Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also on me and answer me. ⁸When you said, Seek my face; my heart said to you, Your face, LORD, I will seek. ⁹Hide not your face far from me; put not your servant away in anger: you have been my help; O God of my salvation do not leave me nor forsake me. ¹⁰When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. ¹¹Teach me your way, O LORD and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies. ¹²Do not deliver me over to the will of my enemies: for false witnesses and such as breathe out cruelty have risen up against me. ¹³I would have fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. ¹⁴Wait on the LORD: be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

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Psalm 28

A Psalm of David.

¹I will cry to you, O LORD my rock; do not be silent to me: lest, if you are silent to me, I may become like those who go down into the pit. ²Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy oracle. ³Do not draw me away with the wicked and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts. ⁴Give them according to their deeds and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert. ⁵Because they do not regard the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them and not build them up.

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Psalm 29

A Psalm of David.

¹ O you mighty, give to the LORD, give to the LORD glory and strength. ²Give to the LORD the glory due to his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. ³The voice of the LORD is on the waters: the God of glory thunders: the LORD is on many waters. ⁴The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty. ⁵The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; yes, the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon. ⁶He also makes them to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Syria like a young wild goat. ⁷The voice of the LORD divides the flames of fire. ⁸The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. ⁹The voice of the LORD makes the hinds to calve and discovers the forests: and in his temple every one speaks of his glory. ¹⁰The LORD sits on the flood; yes, the LORD sits as King for ever. ¹¹The LORD will give strength to his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.

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Psalm 30

A Psalm and Song at the dedication of the house of David.

¹ I will extol you, O LORD; for you have lifted me up and have not made my foes to rejoice over me. ²O LORD my God, I cried to you and you have healed me. ³O LORD, you have brought up my soul from the grave: you have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. ⁴Sing to the LORD, O you saints of his and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. ⁵For his anger endures but a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

⁶And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. ⁷LORD, by your favor you have made my mountain to stand strong: you hid your face and I was troubled. ⁸I cried to you, O LORD; and to the LORD I made supplication. ⁹What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? shall it declare your truth? ¹⁰Hear, O LORD and have mercy on me: LORD, be my helper. ¹¹You have turned my mourning into dancing for me: you have put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness; ¹²To the end that my glory may sing praise to you and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you for ever.

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Psalm 31

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

¹ In you, O LORD, I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in your righteousness. ²Bow down your ear to me; deliver me speedily: be my strong rock, for a house of defense to save me. ³For you are my rock and my fortress; therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me. ⁴Pull me out of the net that they have secretly laid for me: for you are my strength. ⁵I commit my spirit into your hand: you have redeemed me, O LORD God of truth. ⁶I have hated those who regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD. ⁷I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities; ⁸And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set my feet in a large room.

⁹Have mercy on me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my belly. ¹⁰For my life is spent with grief and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity and my bones are consumed. ¹¹I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors and a fear to my acquaintance: those who saw me out side fled from me. ¹²I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. ¹³For 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. ¹⁴But I trusted in you, O LORD: I said, You are my God. ¹⁵My times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me. ¹⁶Make your face to shine on your servant: save me for your mercies' sake. ¹⁷Do not let me be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called on you: let the wicked be ashamed and let them be silent in the grave. ¹⁸Let the lying lips which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous be put to silence.

¹⁹Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you; which you have wrought for those who trust in you before the sons of men! ²⁰You shall hide them in the secret of your presence from the pride of man: you shall keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues. ²¹Blessedbe the LORD: for he shown me his marvelous kindness in a strong city. ²²For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you. ²³O love the LORD, all you his saints: for the LORD preserves the faithful and plentifully rewards the proud doer. ²⁴Be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart, all you that hope in the LORD.

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Psalm 32

A Psalm of David, Maschil.

¹ Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. ²Blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity and in whose spirit there is no guile. ³When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. ⁴For day and night your hand was heavy on me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. ⁵I acknowledged my sin to you and I have not hidden my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD; and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah. ⁶Every one who is godly shall pray to you for this in a time when you may be found: surely the floods of great waters shall not come near to him.

⁷You are my hiding place; you shall preserve me from trouble; you shall compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah. ⁸I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go: I will guide you with my eye. ⁹Do not be as the horse or as the mule who have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with a bit and bridle, lest they come near to you. ¹⁰Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but mercy shall compass him who trusts in the LORD. ¹¹Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, you righteous: and shout for joy, all you that are upright in heart.

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Psalm 33

¹Rejoice in the LORD, O you righteous: for praise is comely for the upright. ²Praise the LORD with the harp: sing to him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. ³Sing to him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise. ⁴For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth. ⁵He loves righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD. ⁶The heavens were made by the word of the LORD; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. ⁷He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap: he lays up the deep in storehouses. ⁸Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. ⁹For he spoke and it was done; he commanded and it stood fast. ¹⁰The LORD brings the counsel of the heathen to nothing: he makes the devices of the people of no effect. ¹¹The counsel of the LORD stands for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

¹²Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance. ¹³The LORD looks from heaven; he beholds all the sons of men. ¹⁴From the place of his habitation he looks on all the inhabitants of the earth. ¹⁵He fashions their hearts alike; he considers all their works. ¹⁶No king is saved by the multitude of an army: a mighty man is not delivered by great strength. ¹⁷A horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength. ¹⁸Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his mercy; ¹⁹To deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine. ²⁰Our soul waits for the LORD: he is our help and our shield. ²¹For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. ²²Let your mercy, O LORD, be on us, according as we hope in you.

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Psalm 34

A Psalm of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech; who drove him away and he departed.

¹ I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. ²My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear of it and be glad. ³O magnify the LORD with me and let us exalt his name together. ⁴I sought the LORD and he heard me and he delivered me from all my fears. ⁵They looked to him and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. ⁶This poor man cried and the LORD heard him and saved him out of all his troubles. ⁷The angel of the LORD encamps round about those who fear him and he delivers them. ⁸O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man who trusts in him. ⁹O fear the LORD, you his saints: for there is no lack to those who fear him. ¹⁰The young lions lack and suffer hunger: but those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

¹¹Come, you children, listen to me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD. ¹²What man is he who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good? ¹³Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking guile. ¹⁴Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. ¹⁵The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous and his ears are open to their cry. ¹⁶The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. ¹⁷The righteous cry, and the LORD hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. ¹⁸The LORD is near to those who are of a broken heart; and he saves such as are of a contrite spirit. ¹⁹The afflictions of the righteous are many: but the LORD delivers him out of them all. ²⁰He keeps all his bones: not one of them is broken. ²¹Evil shall slay the wicked: and those who hate the righteous shall be desolate. ²²The LORD redeems the soul of his servants: and none of those who trust in him shall be desolate.

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Psalm 35

A Psalm of David.

¹ Plead my cause, O LORD, with those who strive with me: fight against those who fight against me. ²Take hold of shield and buckler and stand up as my help. ³Draw out the spear also and stop the way against those who persecute me: say to my soul, I am your salvation. ⁴Let those who seek after my soul be confounded and put to shame: let those who plan my hurt be turned back and brought to confusion. ⁵Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them. ⁶Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them. ⁷For without cause they have hidden their net for me in a pit, which they have dug for my soul without cause. ⁸Let destruction come on him unaware; and let his net that he has hidden catch himself: let him fall into that very destruction. ⁹And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation. ¹⁰All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him, yes, the poor and the needy from him who spoils him?

¹¹False witnesses rose up; they laid to my charge things that I did not know. ¹²They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul. ¹³But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom. ¹⁴I behaved myself as though he was my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one who mourns for his mother. ¹⁵But in my adversity they gathered themselves together and rejoiced: yes, the blighted gathered themselves together against me and I did not know it; they tore me and did not cease: ¹⁶They gnashed on me with their teeth in feasts with hypocritical mockers.

¹⁷Dearest Lord how long will you look on? rescue my soul from their destructions from the lions. ¹⁸I will give you thanks in the great congregation: I will praise you among many people. ¹⁹Let not those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let those who hate me without a cause wink with the eye. ²⁰For they do not speak peace: but they plan deceitful matters against those who are quiet in the land. ²¹Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me and said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it. ²²O LORD, you have seen this: do not keep silence: O Lord, do not be far from me. ²³Stir up yourself and awake to my judgment, even to my cause, O my God and my Lord. ²⁴O LORD my God, judge me according to your righteousness; and do not let them rejoice over me. ²⁵Do not let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: do not let them say, We have swallowed him up. ²⁶Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together who rejoice at my hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me. ²⁷Let those who favor my righteous cause shout for joy and be glad, yes, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. ²⁸And my tongue shall speak of your righteousness and of your praise all the day long.

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Psalm 36

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD.

¹ The transgression of the wicked says within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes. ²For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity is found to be hateful. ³The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has stopped from being wise and doing good. ⁴He plans mischief on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not hate evil.

⁵O LORD, your mercy, is in the heavens; and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. ⁶Your righteousness is like the great mountains; your judgments are a great deep: O LORD, you preserve man and beast. ⁷How excellent is your loving kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of your wings. ⁸They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of your house; and you shall make them drink of the river of your pleasures. ⁹For the fountain of life is with you: we shall see light in your light. ¹⁰O continue your loving kindness to those who know you; and your righteousness to the upright in heart. ¹¹Let not the foot of pride come against me and let not the hand of the wicked remove me. ¹²There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down and shall not be able to rise.

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Psalm 37

A Psalm of David.

¹ Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you envious against the workers of iniquity. ²For they shall soon be cut down like the grass and wither as the green herb. ³Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shall you dwell in the land and verily you shall be fed. ⁴Delight yourself also in the LORD; and he shall give you the desires of your heart. ⁵Commit your way to the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. ⁶And he shall bring forth your righteousness as the light and your judgment as the noonday.

⁷Rest in the LORD and wait patiently for him: fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked plans to pass. ⁸Cease from anger and forsake wrath: fret not yourself in any way to do evil. ⁹For evildoers shall be cut off: but those who wait on the LORD shall inherit the earth. ¹⁰For yet a little while and the wicked shall not be: yes, you shall diligently consider his place and it shall not be. ¹¹But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. ¹²The wicked plots against the just and gnashes on him with his teeth. ¹³The Lord shall laugh at him: for he sees that his day is coming. ¹⁴The wicked have drawn out the sword and have bent their bow to cast down the poor and needy and to kill such as be of upright conversation. ¹⁵Their sword shall enter into their own heart and their bows shall be broken. ¹⁶A little that a righteous man has is better than the riches of many wicked. ¹⁷For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholds the righteous. ¹⁸The LORD knows the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever. ¹⁹They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied. ²⁰But the wicked shall perish and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume, into smoke they shall consume away.

²¹The wicked borrows and does not repay: but the righteous shows mercy and gives. ²²For those who are blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and those who are cursed of him shall be cut off. ²³The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delights in his way. ²⁴Though he falls, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholds him with his hand. ²⁵I have been young and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. ²⁶He is ever merciful and lends; and his seed is blessed. ²⁷Depart from evil and do good; and dwell for evermore. ²⁸For the LORD loves judgment and does not forsake his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. ²⁹The righteous shall inherit the land and dwell in it for ever. ³⁰The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom and his tongue talks of judgment. ³¹The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide. ³²The wicked watches the righteous and seeks to slay him. ³³The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

³⁴Wait on the LORD and keep his way and he shall exalt you to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, you shall see it. ³⁵I have seen the wicked in great power and spreading himself like a green bay tree. ³⁶Yet he passed away and lo, he was not: yes, I sought him, but he could not be found. ³⁷Mark the perfect man and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. ³⁸But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off. ³⁹But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble. ⁴⁰And the LORD shall help them and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked and save them, because they trust in him.

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Psalm 38

A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.

¹ O LORD, do not rebuke me in your wrath: neither chasten me in your hot displeasure. ²For your arrows stick fast in me and your hand presses me sorely. ³There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. ⁴For my iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. ⁵My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. ⁶I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. ⁷For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. ⁸I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. ⁹Lord, all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hidden from you. ¹⁰My heart pants, my strength fails me: as for the light of my eyes, it is also gone from me. ¹¹My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand far off.

¹²Those also who seek after my life lay snares for me: and those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things and imagine deceits all the day long. ¹³But I, like a deaf man, did not hear; and I was like a dumb man who did not open his mouth. ¹⁴Thus I was like a man who does not hear and in whose mouth are no reproofs. ¹⁵For I hope in you, O LORD: that you will hear, O Lord my God. ¹⁶For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me. ¹⁷For I am ready to halt and my sorrow is continually before me. ¹⁸For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. ¹⁹But my enemies are lively and they are strong: and those who hate me wrongfully are multiplied. ²⁰Those also who render evil for good are my adversaries; because I follow the thing that is good. ²¹Do not forsake me, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me. ²²Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.

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Psalm 39

To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.

¹ I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I do not sin with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. ²I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. ³My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then I spoke with my tongue, ⁴LORD, make me to know my end and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. ⁵Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: verily every man in his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. ⁶Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are troubled in vain: he heaps up riches and does not know who shall gather them.

⁷And now, Lord, what do I wait for? my hope is in you. ⁸Deliver me from all my transgressions: do not make me the reproach of the foolish. ⁹I was dumb, I did not open my mouth; because you did it. ¹⁰Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand. ¹¹When you correct man for iniquity with rebukes, you make his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah. ¹²Hear my prayer, O LORD and give ear to my cry; do not hold your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you and a sojourner, like all my fathers were. ¹³O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go from here and be no more.

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Psalm 40

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

¹ I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined to me and heard my cry. ²He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay and set my feet on a rock and established my goings. ³And he has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God: many shall see it and fear and shall trust in the LORD. ⁴Blessed is that man who makes the LORD his trust and does not respect the proud, nor those who turn aside to lies. ⁵O LORD my God, your wonderful works which you have done and your thoughts toward us are many: they cannot be reckoned up in order to you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

⁶Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; you have opened my ears: burnt offering and sin offering you have not required. ⁷Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, ⁸I delight to do your will, O my God: yes, your law is within my heart. ⁹I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo O LORD, you know I have not refrained my lips. ¹⁰I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart; I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation: I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great congregation.

¹¹Do not withhold you your tender mercies from me, O LORD: let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me. ¹²For innumerable evils have compassed me about: my iniquities have taken hold on me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart fails me. ¹³ O LORD, be pleased to deliver me: O LORD, hurry to help me. ¹⁴Let them be ashamed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. ¹⁵Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame who say to me, Aha, aha. ¹⁶Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you: let those who love your salvation say continually, The LORD is magnified. ¹⁷But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks on me: you are my help and my deliverer; do not wait, O my God.

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Psalm 41

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

¹ Blessed is he who considers the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. ²The LORD will preserve him and keep him alive and he shall be blessed on the earth and you will not deliver him to the will of his enemies. ³The LORD will strengthen him on the bed of languishing: you will make all his bed in his sickness. ⁴I said, LORD, be merciful to me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against you.

⁵My enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die and his name perish? ⁶And if he comes to see me, he speaks vanity: his heart gathers iniquity to itself; when he goes abroad, he tells it. ⁷All who hate me whisper together against me: against me they plan my hurt. ⁸They say, An evil disease cleaves fast to him: and now that he lies down he shall noy rise up any more. ⁹Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me. ¹⁰But you, O LORD, be merciful to me and raise me up, that I may reward them. ¹¹By this I know that you favor me, because my enemy does not triumph over me. ¹²And as for me, you uphold me in my integrity and set me before your face for ever. ¹³Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting and to everlasting. Amen and Amen.

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Psalm 42

To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.

¹ As the hart pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, O God. ²My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? ³My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is your God? ⁴When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I went with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude who kept a holy day. ⁵Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

⁶O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore I will remember you from the land of Jordan and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. ⁷Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterspouts: all your waves and your billows are gone over me. ⁸Yet the LORD will command his loving kindness in the day time and his song and my prayer shall be with me in the night to the God of my life. ⁹I will say to God my rock, Why have you forgotten me? why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? ¹⁰As with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say daily to me, Where is your God? ¹¹Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you troubled within me? hope in God: for I shall still praise him, who is the health of my countenance and my God.

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Psalm 43

¹Judge me, O God and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. ²For you are the God of my strength: why do you cast me off? why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? ³O send out your light and your truth: let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your tabernacles. ⁴Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy: yes, I will praise you on the harp, O God my God. ⁵Why are you cast down O my soul? and why are you troubled within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance and my God.

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Psalm 44

To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.

¹ O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us what work you did in their days, in the times of old. ²How you drove out the heathen with your hand and planted them; how you afflicted the people and cast them out. ³For they did not get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand and your arm and the light of your countenance, because you had them in favor. ⁴You are my King, O God: command deliverance for Jacob. ⁵Through you we will push down our enemies: through your name we will tread under those who rise up against us. ⁶For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. ⁷But you have saved us from our enemies and have put to shame those who hated us. ⁸In God we boast all the day long and praise your name for ever. Selah.

⁹But you have us cast off and put us to shame; and you do not go out with our armies. ¹⁰You make us turn back from the enemy: and those who hate us spoil for themselves. ¹¹You have given us like sheep appointed for meat; and have scattered us among the heathen. ¹²You sell your people for nothing and do not increase your wealth by their price. ¹³You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to those who are round about us. ¹⁴You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. ¹⁵My confusion is continually before me and the shame of my face has covered me, ¹⁶By reason of the enemy and avenger, because of the voice of him who reproaches and blasphemes.

¹⁷All this is come on us; yet we have not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant. ¹⁸Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way; ¹⁹Though you have sorely broken us in the place of dragons and covered us with the shadow of death. ²⁰If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; ²¹Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart. ²²Yes, for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. ²³Awake, why do you sleep, O Lord? arise, do not cast us off for ever. ²⁴Why do you hide your face and forget our affliction and our oppression? ²⁵For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaves to the earth. ²⁶Arise for our help and redeem us for your mercies' sake.

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Psalm 45

To the chief Musician on Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves.

¹ My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. ²You are fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into your lips: therefore God has blessed you for ever. ³Gird your sword on your thigh, O most mighty, with your glory and your majesty. ⁴And in your majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and your right hand shall teach you terrible things. ⁵Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under you.

⁶Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the scepter of your kingdom is a right scepter. ⁷You loved righteousness and hated wickedness: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows. ⁸All your garments smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made you glad. ⁹Kings' daughters were among your honorable women: on your right hand stood the queen in gold of Ophir.

¹⁰Listen, O daughter and consider and incline your ear; forget also your own people and your father's house; ¹¹So shall the king greatly desire your beauty: for he is your Lord; and worship him. ¹²And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall entreat your favor. ¹³The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold. ¹⁴She shall be brought to the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought to you. ¹⁵With gladness and rejoicing they shall be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace. ¹⁶Instead of your fathers shall be your children, whom you may make princes in all the earth. ¹⁷I will make your name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise you for ever and ever.

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Psalm 46

To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song on Alamoth.

¹ God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. ²Therefore we will not fear, though the earth is removed and though the mountains are carried into the midst of the sea; ³Though the its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains shake with the its swelling. Selah. ⁴There is a river, the streams of which shall make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High. ⁵God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her and that right early.

⁶The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. ⁷The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. ⁸Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he has made in the earth. ⁹He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow and cuts the spear asunder; he burns the chariot in the fire. ¹⁰Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. ¹¹The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

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Psalm 47

To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.

¹ O clap your hands, all you people; shout to God with the voice of triumph. ²For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth. ³He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet. ⁴He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

⁵God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet. ⁶Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises to our King, sing praises. ⁷For God is the King of all the earth: sing praises with understanding. ⁸God reigns over the heathen: God sits on the throne of his holiness. ⁹The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong to God: he is greatly exalted.

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Psalm 48

A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah.

¹ Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. ²Mount Zion, the city of the great King is beautiful for situation on the sides of the north, the joy of the whole earth. ³God is known in her palaces for a refuge. ⁴For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together. ⁵They saw it and so they marveled; they were troubled, and hurried away. ⁶Fear took hold on them there and pain, like a woman in travail. ⁷You break the ships of Carthage with an east wind.

⁸As 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. ⁹We have thought of your loving kindness, O God, in the midst of your temple. ¹⁰According to your name, O God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth: your right hand is full of righteousness. ¹¹Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of your judgments. ¹²Walk about Zion and go round about her: tell her towers. ¹³Mark you well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that you may tell it to the generation following. ¹⁴For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even to death.

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Psalm 49

To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.

¹ Hear this, all you people; give ear, all you inhabitants of the world: ²Both low and high, rich and poor, together. ³My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding. ⁴I will incline my ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying on the harp. ⁵Why should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?

⁶those who trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; ⁷None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: ⁸(For the redemption of their soul is precious and it ceases for ever:)⁹That he should still live for ever and not see corruption. ¹⁰For he sees that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish and leave their wealth to others. ¹¹Their 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. ¹²Nevertheless man being in honor does not abide: he is like the animals who perish. ¹³This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approves their sayings. Selah. ¹⁴They are laid in the grave like sheep; death shall shepherd them and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their strength shall wear away; Sheol is their abode. ¹⁵But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol; For he will receive me. Selah ¹⁶ Do not be afraid when one is made rich, When the glory of his house is increased. ¹⁷For when he dies he shall carry nothing away; His glory shall not descend after him. ¹⁸Though while he lived he blessed his soul (And men praise you, when you do well to yourself,) ¹⁹He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see the light. ²⁰Man who is in honor, and does not understand is like the animals who perish.

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Psalm 50

A Psalm of Asaph.

¹ The mighty God, even the LORD, has spoken and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the its going down. ² God has shined out of Zion, the perfection of beauty. ³Our God shall come and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. ⁴He shall call to the heavens from above and to the earth, that he may judge his people. ⁵Gather my saints together to me; those that who made a covenant with me by sacrifice. ⁶And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God judges himself. Selah.

⁷Hear, O my people and I will speak; O Israel and I will testify against you: I am God, even your God. ⁸I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. ⁹I will take no bullock out of your house, nor he goats out of your folds. ¹⁰For every animal of the forest is mine and the cattle on a thousand hills. ¹¹I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild anmals of the field are mine. ¹²If I were hungry, I would not tell you: for the world and its fulness is mine. ¹³Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? ¹⁴Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay your vows to the most High: ¹⁵And call on me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you and you shall glorify me.

¹⁶But to the wicked God says, What have you to do to declare my statutes, or that you should take my covenant in your mouth? ¹⁷Seeing you hate instruction and cast my words behind you. ¹⁸When you saw a thief, then you consented with him and have been partaker with adulterers. ¹⁹You give your mouth to evil and your tongue frames deceit. ²⁰You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son. ²¹You have done these things and I kept quiet; you thought that I was altogether such an one like yourself: but I will reprove you and set them in order before your eyes. ²²Now consider this, you that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces and there is no one to deliver. ²³Who ever offers praise glorifies me: and to him that orders his conversation aright I will show the salvation of God.

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Psalm 51

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

¹ Have mercy on me, O God, according to your loving kindness: according to the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions. ²Wash me throughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. ³For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. ⁴Against you only, I have sinned and done this evil in your sight: that you might be justified when you speak and be clear when you judge. ⁵Behold, I was shaped in iniquity; and my mother conceived me in a sinful world. ⁶Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden parts you shall make me know wisdom.

⁷Purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean: wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. ⁸Make me hear joy and gladness; that the bones which you have broken may rejoice. ⁹Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities. ¹⁰Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. ¹¹Do not cast me away from your presence; nor take your holy spirit from me. ¹²Restore to me the joy of your salvation; and uphold me with your free spirit. ¹³Then I will teach transgressors your ways; and sinners shall be converted to you.

¹⁴ O God, God of my salvation deliver me from bloodguiltiness: and my tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness. ¹⁵O Lord, open my lips; and my mouth shall show forth your praise. ¹⁶For you do not desire sacrifice; or I would give it: you do not delight in burnt offerings. ¹⁷The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: O God, you will not despise a broken and a contrite heart. ¹⁸Do good to Zion in your good pleasure: build the walls of Jerusalem. ¹⁹Then you shall be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks on your altar.

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Psalm 52

To the chief Musician, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech.

¹ Why do you boast yourself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endures continually. ²Your tongue plans mischief working deceitfully like a sharp razor. ³You love evil more than good; and lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah. ⁴You love all destroying words, O you deceitful tongue. ⁵God shall likewise destroy you for ever, he shall take you away and pluck you out of your dwelling place and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

⁶The righteous also shall see and fear and shall laugh at him. ⁷Lo, this is the man who did not make God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches and strengthened himself in his wickedness. ⁸But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever. ⁹I will praise you for ever, because you have done it: and I will wait on your name; for it is good before your saints.

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Psalm 53

To the chief Musician on Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David.

¹ The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt and have done abominable iniquity: there is no one that does good. ²God looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any that understood, who sought God. ³Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is no one who does good, no, not one. ⁴Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called on God. ⁵They were there in great fear, where no fear was: for God has scattered the bones of him that encamps against you: you have put them to shame, because God has despised them. ⁶Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice and Israel shall be glad.

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Psalm 54

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Does not David hide himself with us?

¹ Save me, O God, by your name and judge me by your strength. ²Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth. ³For strangers have risen up against me and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

⁴Behold, God is my helper: the Lord is with those who uphold my soul. ⁵He shall reward evil to my enemies: cut them off in your truth. ⁶I will freely sacrifice to you: I will praise your name, O LORD; for it is good. ⁷For he has delivered me out of all trouble: and my eye has seen his desire on my enemies.

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Psalm 55

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David.

¹ O God give ear to my prayer and do not hide yourself from my supplication. ²Attend to me and hear me: I mourn in my complaint and make a noise; ³Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity on me and in wrath they hate me. ⁴My heart is sorely pained within me: and the terrors of death have fallen on me. ⁵Fearfulness and trembling have come on me and horror has overwhelmed me. ⁶And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then I would fly away and be at rest. ⁷Lo, then I would wander far off and remain in the wilderness. Selah. ⁸I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.

⁹Destroy, O Lord and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. ¹⁰Day and night they go about it on its walls: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it. ¹¹Wickedness is in its midst: deceit and guile do not depart from her streets. ¹²For 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 hidden myself from him: ¹³But it was you, a man my equal, my guide and my acquaintance. ¹⁴We took sweet counsel together and walked to the house of God in company. ¹⁵Let death seize on them and let them go down quick into Sheol: for wickedness is in their dwellings and among them.

¹⁶As for me, I will call on God; and the LORD shall save me. ¹⁷Evening and morning and at noon, I will pray and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice. ¹⁸He has delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me. ¹⁹God shall hear and afflict them, even he that abides of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they do not fear God. ²⁰He has put forth his hands against such as are at peace with him: he has broken his covenant. ²¹The 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. ²²Cast your burden on the LORD and he shall sustain you: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. ²³But you, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in you.

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Psalm 56

To the chief Musician on Jonat helem rechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.

¹ Be merciful to me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresses me. ²My enemies would swallow me up daily: for they are many who fight against me, O you most High. ³At the time that I am afraid, I will trust in you. ⁴In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do to me. ⁵Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil. ⁶They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul. ⁷Shall they escape by iniquity? Cast down the people in your anger, O God.

⁸You know my wanderings: put my tears into your bottle: are they not in your book? ⁹When I cry to you, then my enemies shall turn back: this I know; for God is for me. ¹⁰In God I will praise his word: in the LORD I will praise his word. ¹¹In God I have put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do to me. ¹²Your vows are on me, O God: I will render praises to you. ¹³For you have delivered my soul from death: will you not deliver my feet from falling, so that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

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Psalm 57

To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave.

¹ Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me: for my soul trusts in you: yes, in the shadow of your wings I will make my refuge, until these calamities have past over. ²I will cry to God most high; to God who performs all things for me. ³He shall send from heaven and save me from the reproach of him who would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth. ⁴My soul is among lions: and I lie even among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows and their tongue a sharp sword. ⁵Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be above all the earth. ⁶They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have dug a pit before me, they have fallen themselves into its midst. Selah.

⁷My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. ⁸Wake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early. ⁹I will praise you, O Lord, among the people: I will sing to you among the nations. ¹⁰For your mercy is great to the heavens and your truth to the clouds. ¹¹Be exalted, O God, above the heavens: let your glory be above all the earth.

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Psalm 58

To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.

¹ Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men? ²Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. ³The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies. ⁴Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder who stops her ear; ⁵Who will not listen to the voice of charmers, charming ever so wisely?

⁶O God, break their teeth in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD. ⁷Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as though cut in pieces. ⁸As a snail which melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, so that they may not see the sun. ⁹Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living and in his wrath. ¹⁰The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. ¹¹So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God who judges in the earth.

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Psalm 59

To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent and they watched the house to kill him.

¹ Deliver me from my enemies, O my God: defend me from those who rise up against me. ²Deliver me from the workers of iniquity and save me from bloody men. ³For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD. ⁴They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me and behold. ⁵You therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: do not be merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah. ⁶They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog and go round about the city. ⁷Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for they say who hears?

⁸But you, O LORD, shall laugh at them; you shall have all the heathen in derision. ⁹Because of his strength will I wait on you: for God is my defense. ¹⁰The God of my mercy shall go before me: God shall let me see my desire on my enemies. ¹¹Do not kill them, lest my people forget: scatter them by your power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield. ¹²For 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. ¹³Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God rules in Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah. ¹⁴And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog and go round about the city. ¹⁵Let them wander up and down for meat and grudge if they are not satisfied. ¹⁶But I will sing of your power; yes, I will sing aloud of your mercy in the morning: for you have been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble. ¹⁷To you, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defense and the God of my mercy.

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Psalm 60

To the chief Musician on Shushaneduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah, when Joab returned and struck twelve thousand of Edom in the valley of salt

¹ O God, you have cast us off, you have scattered us, you have been displeased; O turn yourself to us again. ²You have made the earth to tremble; you have broken it: heal its breaches for it shakes. ³You have shown your people hard things: you have made us drink the wine of astonishment. ⁴You have given a banner to those who fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah. ⁵ Save with your right hand so that your beloved may be delivered; and hear me.

⁶God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem and mete out the valley of Succoth. ⁷Gilead is mine and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of my head; Judah is my lawgiver; ⁸Moab is my washpot; I will cast out my shoe over Edom: Philistia, you triumph because of me. ⁹Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom? ¹⁰Will not you, O God, who has cast us off? and you, O God, who did not go out with our armies? ¹¹Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. ¹²Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is he who shall tread down our enemies.

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Psalm 61

To the chief Musician on Neginah, A Psalm of David.

¹ Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer. ²I will cry to you from the end of the earth, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. ³For you have been a shelter for me and a strong tower from the enemy. ⁴I will abide in your tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of your wings. Selah.

⁵For you, O God, have heard my vows: you have given me the heritage of those who fear your name. ⁶You will prolong the king's life: and his years as many generations. ⁷He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him. ⁸So I will sing praise to your name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.

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Psalm 62

To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.

¹ Truly my soul waits on God: from him comes my salvation. ²He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defense; I shall not be greatly moved. ³How long will you imagine mischief against a man? all of you shall be killed: you shall be as a bowing wall and as a tottering fence. ⁴They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah. ⁵O my soul, wait only on God; for my expectation is from him. ⁶He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defense; I shall not be moved. ⁷My salvation and my glory is in God: the rock of my strength and my refuge, is in God.

⁸Trust in him at all times; you people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah. ⁹Surely 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. ¹⁰Do not trust in oppression and do not become vain in robbery: if riches increase do not set your heart on them. ¹¹God has spoken once; twice I have heard this; that power belongs to God. ¹²Also to you, O Lord, belongs mercy: for you render to every man according to his work.

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Psalm 63

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.

¹ O God, you are my God; I will seek you early: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where there is no water; ²To see your power and your glory, just as I have seen you in the sanctuary.

³Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you. ⁴Thus will I bless you while I live: I will lift up my hands in your name. ⁵My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise you with joyful lips: ⁶When I remember you on my bed and meditate on you in the night watches.

⁷Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings I will rejoice. ⁸My soul follows hard after you: your right hand upholds me. ⁹But those who seek to destroy my soul shall go into the lower parts of the earth. ¹⁰They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes. ¹¹But the king shall rejoice in God; every one who swears by him shall glory: but the mouth of those who speak lies shall be stopped.

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Psalm 64

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

¹ Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy. ²Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity: ³Who whet their tongue like a sword and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words: ⁴That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: they suddenly shoot at him and do not fear. ⁵They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them? ⁶They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them and the heart, is deep.

⁷But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; they shall suddenly be wounded. ⁸So they shall make their own tongue to fall on themselves: all that see them shall flee away. ⁹And all men shall fear and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider his doings. ¹⁰The righteous shall be glad in the LORD and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.

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Psalm 65

To the chief Musician, A Psalm and Song of David.

¹ Praise waits for you, O God, in Sion: and to you shall the vow be performed. ²O you who hears prayer, all flesh shall come to you. ³Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, you shall purge them away. ⁴Blessed is the man whom you choose and cause to approach to you, that he may dwell in your courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, even of your holy temple. ⁵You will answer us in righteousness with terrible things, O God of our salvation; who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of those who are afar off on the sea: ⁶Who by his strength sets fast the mountains; being girded with power: ⁷Who stills the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves and the tumult of the people. ⁸They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at your tokens: you make the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice. ⁹You visited the earth and watered it: you greatly enriched it with the river of God, which is full of water: you prepared corn for them, when you have so provided for it. ¹⁰You watered its ridges abundantly: you settled its furrows: you made it soft with showers: you blessed its springing. ¹¹You crowned the year with your goodness; and your paths drop fatness. ¹²They drop on the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. ¹³The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout and sing for joy.

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Psalm 66

To the chief Musician, A Song or Psalm.

¹ Make a joyful noise to God, all you lands: ²Sing forth the honor of his name: make his praise glorious. ³Say to God, How terrible you are in your works! through the greatness of your power your enemies shall submit themselves to you. ⁴All the earth shall worship you and shall sing to you; they shall sing to your name. Selah. ⁵Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doings toward the children of men. ⁶He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: we rejoiced in him there. ⁷He rules by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.

⁸O bless our God, you people and make the voice of his praise heard: ⁹Who holds our soul in life and does not suffer our feet to be moved. ¹⁰For you, O God, have proved us: you have tried us, as silver is tried. ¹¹You brought us into the net; you laid affliction on our loins. ¹²You have caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but you brought us out into a wealthy place.

¹³I will go into your house with burnt offerings: I will pay you my vows, ¹⁴Which my lips have uttered and my mouth has spoken, when I was in trouble. ¹⁵I will offer to you burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah. ¹⁶Come and hear, all you that fear God and I will declare what he has done for my soul. ¹⁷I cried to him with my mouth and he was extolled with my tongue. ¹⁸If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: ¹⁹But verily God has heard me; he has attended to the voice of my prayer. ²⁰Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.

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Psalm 67

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song.

¹ God be merciful to us and bless us; and cause his face to shine on us; Selah. ²That your way may be known on earth, your saving health among all nations. ³Let the people praise you, O God; let all the people praise you. ⁴O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for you shall judge the people righteously and govern the nations on earth. Selah. ⁵Let the people praise you, O God; let all the people praise you. ⁶Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us. ⁷God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.

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Psalm 68

To the chief Musician, A Psalm or Song of David.

¹ Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him. ²As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. ³But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yes, let them exceedingly rejoice. ⁴Sing to God, sing praises to his name: extol him who rides on the heavens by his name YAH and rejoice before him. ⁵God is a father of the fatherless and a judge of the widows in his holy habitation. ⁶God sets the lonely persons in families: he brings out those who are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dryland.

⁷O God, when you went forth before your people, when you marched through the wilderness; Selah: ⁸The 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. ⁹You, O God, sent a plentiful rain, by which you confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary. ¹⁰Your congregation has dwelled in it: you, O God, have prepared of your goodness for the poor. ¹¹The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those who published it. ¹²Kings of armies fled quickly: and she who tarried at home divided the spoil. ¹³Though you have laid among the pots, yet shall you be as the wings of a dove covered with silver and her feathers with yellow gold. ¹⁴When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.

¹⁵The hill of God is like the hill of Bashan; a high hill like the hill of Bashan. ¹⁶Why do you leap, you high hills? this is the hill which God desires to dwell in; yes, the LORD will dwell in it for ever. ¹⁷The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place. ¹⁸You have ascended on high, you have led captivity captive: you have received gifts for men; yes, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them. ¹⁹Blessed is the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah. ²⁰He who is our God is the God of salvation; and the issues of death belong to GOD the Lord. ²¹But God shall wound the head of his enemies and the hairy scalp of such a one who still goes on in his trespasses.

²²The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea: ²³That your foot may be dipped in the blood of your enemies and the tongue of your dogs in the same. ²⁴They have seen your goings in the sanctuary, O God; even the goings of my God my King. ²⁵The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels. ²⁶Bless God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel. ²⁷There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali. ²⁸Your God has commanded your strength: strengthen, O God, that which you have wrought for us. ²⁹Kings shall bring presents to you because of your temple at Jerusalem. ³⁰Rebuke the company of spear men, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submits himself with pieces of silver: scatter the people who delight in war. ³¹Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands to God.

³²Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises to the Lord; Selah: ³³To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which were of old; lo, he sends out his voice and that a mighty voice. ³⁴Ascribe strength to God: his excellency is over Israel and his strength is in the clouds. ³⁵O God, you are terrible out of your holy places: the God of Israel is he that gives strength and power to his people. Blessed be God.

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Psalm 69

To the chief Musician on Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.

¹ Save me, O God; for the waters are come in to my soul. ²I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. ³I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I wait for my God. ⁴Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: those who would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I did not take away. ⁵O God, you know my foolishness; and my sins are not hidden from you. ⁶O Lord GOD of hosts, do not let those who wait on you be ashamed for my sake: O God of Israel let not those who seek you be confounded for my sake. ⁷Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face. ⁸I am become a stranger to my brothers and an alien to my mother's children. ⁹For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of those who reproached you have fallen on me. ¹⁰When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. ¹¹I also made sackcloth my garment; and I became a proverb to them. ¹²Those who sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

¹³But as for me, O LORD, my prayer is to you in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me in the truth of your salvation. ¹⁴Deliver me out of the mire and do not let me sink: let me be delivered out of the deep waters and from those who hate me. ¹⁵Do not let the water flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up and do not let the pit shut her mouth on me. ¹⁶ O LORD hear me, for your loving kindness is good: turn to me according to the multitude of your tender mercies. ¹⁷And do not hide your face from your servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. ¹⁸Draw near to my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies. ¹⁹You have known my reproach and my shame and my dishonor: my adversaries are all before you. ²⁰Reproach has broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was no one; and for comforters, but I found no one. ²¹They gave me also gall for my meat and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²²Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. ²³Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see; and make their loins continually to shake. ²⁴Pour out your indignation on them and let your wrathful anger take hold of them. ²⁵Let their habitation be desolate; and let no one dwell in their tents. ²⁶For they persecute him whom you have struck; and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded. ²⁷Add iniquity to their iniquity: and do not let them come into your righteousness. ²⁸Let them be blotted out of the book of the living and not be written with the righteous. ²⁹But I am poor and sorrowful: O God, let your salvation set me up on high.

³⁰I will praise the name of God with a song and will magnify him with thanksgiving. ³¹This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that has horns and hoofs. ³²The humble shall see this and be glad: and your heart shall live who seek God. ³³For the LORD hears the poor, and does not despise his prisoners. ³⁴Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas and every thing that moves in it. ³⁵For God will save Zion and will build the cities of Judah: so that they may dwell there and have it in possession. ³⁶The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and those who love his name shall dwell in it.

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Psalm 70

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.

¹O God, hurry to deliver me; O LORD hurry to help me. ²Let those be ashamed and confounded who seek after my soul: let them be turned backward and put to confusion, who desire my hurt. ³Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha. ⁴Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you: and let such as love your salvation say continually, Let God be magnified. ⁵But I am poor and needy: O God: hurry to me, O LORD you are my help and my deliverer, do not wait.

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Psalm 71

¹In you, O LORD, I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. ²Deliver me in your righteousness and cause me to escape: incline your ear to me and save me. ³Be my strong habitation, to which I may continually resort: you have given a commandment to save me; for you are my rock and my fortress. ⁴ O my God, deliver me out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. ⁵For you are my hope, O Lord GOD: you are my trust from my youth. ⁶I have been held up from the womb by you : you are he who took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of you. ⁷I am like a wonder to many; but you are my strong refuge. ⁸Let my mouth be filled with your praise and with your honor all the day. ⁹Do not cast me off in the time of old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails. ¹⁰For my enemies speak against me; and those who lay wait for my soul take counsel together, ¹¹Saying, God has forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is no one to deliver him. ¹²O God, do not be far from me: O my God, hurry for my help. ¹³Let them be confounded and consumed who are adversaries to my soul; let those who seek my hurt be covered with reproach and dishonor.

¹⁴But I will continually hope and will still praise you more and more. ¹⁵My mouth shall show forth your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for I do not know the numbers of them. ¹⁶I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours only. ¹⁷O God, you have taught me from my youth: and I have declared your wondrous works before. ¹⁸Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, do not forsake me; until I have shown your strength to this generation and your power to every one who is to come. ¹⁹Your righteousness also. O God, you, who has done great things are very high: O God, who is like you! ²⁰You shall quicken me again and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth, you have shown great and sore troubles to me. ²¹You shall increase my greatness and comfort me on every side. ²²I will also praise you with the psaltery, even your truth, O my God: to you will I sing with the harp, O you Holy One of Israel. ²³My lips and my soul which you have redeemed shall greatly rejoice when I sing to you. ²⁴My tongue also shall talk of your righteousness all the day long: for those who seek my hurt are confounded, for they are brought to shame.

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Psalm 72

A Psalm for Solomon.

¹ Give the king your judgments, O God and your righteousness to the king's son.

²He shall judge your people with righteousness and your poor with judgment. ³The mountains and the little hills shall bring peace by righteousness to the people. ⁴He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy and shall break in pieces the oppressor. ⁵They shall fear you as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations. ⁶He shall come down like rain on the mown grass: as showers that water the earth. ⁷In his days the righteous and abundance of peace shall flourish as long as the moon endures. ⁸He shall have dominion also from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth. ⁹Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust. ¹⁰The kings of Carthage and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. ¹¹Yes, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him. ¹²For he shall deliver the needy when he cries; the poor also and him who has no helper. ¹³He shall spare the poor and needy and shall save the souls of the needy. ¹⁴He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and their blood shall be precious in his sight. ¹⁵And he shall live and the gold of Sheba shall be given to him: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and he shall be praised daily. ¹⁶There shall be a handful of corn in the earth on the top of the mountains; its fruit shall shake like Lebanon: and those of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth. ¹⁷His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.

¹⁸Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only does wondrous things. ¹⁹And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen and Amen. ²⁰The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

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Psalm 73

A Psalm of Asaph.

¹ Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. ²But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well near slipped. ³For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. ⁴For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. ⁵They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. ⁶Therefore pride compasses them about as a chain; violence covers them as a garment. ⁷Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. ⁸They are corrupt and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. ⁹They set their mouth against the heavens and their tongue walks through the earth. ¹⁰Therefore his people return here: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. ¹¹And they say, How does God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? ¹²Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. ¹³Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain and washed my hands in innocency. ¹⁴For all the day long I have been plagued and chastened every morning.

¹⁵If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of your children. ¹⁶When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; ¹⁷Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I understood their end. ¹⁸Surely you set them in slippery places: you cast them down to destruction. ¹⁹How are they brought to desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. ²⁰As a dream when one wakes; so, O Lord, when you awake, you shall despise their image.

²¹Thus my heart was grieved and I was pricked in my reins. ²²So foolish was I and ignorant: I was like an anamal before you. ²³But I am continually with you: you have held me by my right hand. ²⁴You shall guide me with your counsel and afterward receive me to glory. ²⁵Whom have I in heaven but you? and there is no one on earth who I desire beside you. ²⁶My flesh and my heart fails: but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever. ²⁷For, lo, those who are far from you shall perish: you have destroyed all those who go whoring from you. ²⁸But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all your works.

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Psalm 74

Maschil of Asaph.

¹ O God, why have you cast us off for ever? why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture? ²Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old; the rod of your inheritance, which you have redeemed; this mount Zion in which you have dwelled. ³Lift up your feet to the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary. ⁴Your enemies roar in the midst of your congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs. ⁵A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes on the thick trees. ⁶But now they break down its carved work at once with axes and hammers. ⁷They have cast fire into your sanctuary, they have defiled it by casting down to the ground the dwelling place of your name. ⁸They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the congregations of God in the land. ⁹We do not see our signs: there is no longer any prophet: neither is there among us any that knows how long. ¹⁰O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme your name for ever? ¹¹Why do you withdraw your hand, even your right hand? pluck it out of your bosom.

¹²For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. ¹³You divided the sea by your strength: you broke the heads of the dragons in the waters. ¹⁴You broke the heads of leviathan in pieces and gave him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. ¹⁵You split the fountain and the flood: you dried up mighty rivers. ¹⁶The day is yours, the night also is yours: you have prepared the light and the sun. ¹⁷You have set all the borders of the earth: you have made summer and winter.

¹⁸O LORD remember this, that the enemy has reproached and the foolish people have blasphemed your name. ¹⁹O do not deliver the soul of your dove to the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of your poor for ever. ²⁰Have respect to the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. ²¹O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise your name. ²²Arise, O God, plead your own cause: remember how the foolish man reproaches you daily. ²³Do not forget the voice of your enemies: the tumult of those who rise up against you increases continually.

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Psalm 75

To the chief Musician, Altaschith, A Psalm or Song of Asaph.

¹ To you, O God, do we give thanks, to you do we give thanks: so that your name is near, your wondrous works declare. ²When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly. ³The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved: I bear up its pillars. Selah. ⁴I said to the fools, Do not deal foolishly: and to the wicked, Do not lift up the horn: ⁵Do not lift up your horn on high: do not speak with a stiff neck.

⁶For exalting comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. ⁷But God is the judge: he puts down one and sets up another. ⁸For there is a cup in the hand of the LORD, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he pours out of the same: but the dregs, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out and drink them. ⁹But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. ¹⁰ I will also cut off all the horns of the wicked; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

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Psalm 76

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song of Asaph.

¹ God is known in Judah: his name is great in Israel. ²His tabernacle is in Salem and also his dwelling place is in Zion. ³There he broke the arrows of the bow, the shield and the sword and the battle. Selah. ⁴You are more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey. ⁵The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands. ⁶At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

⁷You, even you, are to be feared: and who may stand in your sight when once you are angry? ⁸You caused judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared and was still, ⁹When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah. ¹⁰Surely the wrath of man shall praise you: you shall restrain the remainder of wrath. ¹¹Vow and pay to the LORD your God: let all that are round about him bring presents to him who should be feared. ¹²He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.

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Psalm 77

To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph.

¹ I cried to God with my voice, even to God with my voice; and he gave ear to me. ²I sought the Lord in the day of my trouble: my sore ran in the night and did not stop: my soul refused to be comforted. ³I remembered God and was troubled: I complained and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. ⁴You keep my eyes awake: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. ⁵I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. ⁶I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with my own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. ⁷Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he not be favorable any more? ⁸Is his mercy clean gone for ever? does his promise fail for evermore? ⁹Has God forgotten to be gracious? has he shut up his tender mercies in anger? Selah. ¹⁰And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

¹¹I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember your wonders of old. ¹²I will meditate also of all your work and talk of your doings. ¹³Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God? ¹⁴You are the God who does wonders: you have declared your strength among the people. ¹⁵You have redeemed your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph with your arm. Selah. ¹⁶The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled. ¹⁷The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: your arrows also went abroad. ¹⁸The voice of your thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. ¹⁹Your way is in the sea and your path in the great waters and your footsteps are not known. ²⁰You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

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Psalm 78

Maschil of Asaph.

¹ Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. ²I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: ³Which we have heard and known and our fathers have told us. ⁴We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD and his strength and his wonderful works that he has done. ⁵For he established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: ⁶That the generation to come might know them, even the children who should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: ⁷That they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: ⁸And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that did not set their heart aright and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

⁹The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. ¹⁰They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to walk in his law; ¹¹And forgot his works, and his wonders that he had shown them. ¹²Marvellous things he did in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. ¹³He divided the sea and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap. ¹⁴In the daytime also he led them with a cloud and all the night with a light of fire. ¹⁵He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as out of the great depths. ¹⁶He brought streams also out of the rock and caused waters to run down like rivers. ¹⁷And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. ¹⁸And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. ¹⁹Yes, they spoke against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? ²⁰Behold, he struck the rock, so that the waters gushed out and the streams overflowed; can he also give bread? can he provide flesh for his people? ²¹Therefore the LORD heard this and was angry: so a fire was kindled against Jacob and anger also came up against Israel; ²²Because they did not believe in God and did not trust in his salvation: ²³Though he had commanded the clouds from above and opened the doors of heaven, ²⁴And had rained down manna on them to eat and had given them of the corn of heaven. ²⁵Man ate angels' food: he sent them meat to the full. ²⁶He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind. ²⁷He rained flesh also on them as dust and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: ²⁸And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations. ²⁹So they ate and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; ³⁰They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was still in their mouths. ³¹The wrath of God came on them and slew the fattest of them and struck down the chosen men of Israel. ³²For all this they still sinned and did not believe for his wondrous works. ³³Therefore he consumed their days in vanity and their years in trouble. ³⁴When he killed them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God. ³⁵And they remembered that God was their rock and the high God their redeemer. ³⁶But they flattered him with their mouth and they lied to him with their tongues. ³⁷For their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant. ³⁸But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them: yes, many times he turned his anger away and did not stir up all his wrath. ³⁹For he remembered that they were flesh; a wind that passes away and dord not come again.

⁴⁰How often did they provoke him in the wilderness and grieve him in the desert! ⁴¹Yes, they turned back and tempted God and limited the Holy One of Israel. ⁴²They did not remember his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. ⁴³How he had wrought his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the field of Zoan: ⁴⁴And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, so that they could not drink. ⁴⁵He sent different sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. ⁴⁶He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust. ⁴⁷He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore trees with frost. ⁴⁸He also gave up their cattle to the hail and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. ⁴⁹He cast the fierceness of his anger on them, wrath and indignation and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. ⁵⁰He made a way for his anger; he did not spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; ⁵¹And struck all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: ⁵²But made his own people to go forth like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. ⁵³And he led them on safely, so that they did not fear: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. ⁵⁴And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased. ⁵⁵He cast out the heathen also before them and divided them an inheritance by line and made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents. ⁵⁶Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God and did not keep his testimonies: ⁵⁷But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. ⁵⁸For they provoked him to anger with their high places and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. ⁵⁹When God heard this, he was angry and greatly abhorred Israel: ⁶⁰So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men; ⁶¹And delivered his strength into captivity and his glory into the enemy's hand. ⁶²He gave his people over also to the sword; and was angry with his inheritance. ⁶³The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given in marriage. ⁶⁴Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. ⁶⁵Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep and like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine. ⁶⁶And he struck his enemies in the hind parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach. ⁶⁷Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim. ⁶⁸But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. ⁶⁹And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he has established for ever. ⁷⁰He chose David also his servant and took him from the sheep folds: ⁷¹From following the ewes great with young. He brought him to feed Jacob his people and Israel his inheritance. ⁷²So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

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Psalm 79

A Psalm of Asaph.

¹ O God, the heathen have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. ²They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be meat for the fowls of the heaven and the flesh of your saints to the animalss of the earth. ³ They have shed their blood like water round about Jerusalem; and there was no one to bury them. ⁴We are become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those who are round about us. ⁵How long, LORD? Will you be angry for ever? Shall your jealousy burn like fire?

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Psalm 80

To the chief Musician on Shoshannimeduth, A Psalm of Asaph.

¹ Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who led Joseph like a flock; you who dwells between the cherubim, shine forth. ²Stir up your strength before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh and come and save us. ³Turn us again, O God and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved. ⁴O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people? ⁵You fed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure. ⁶You make us a strife to our neighbors: and our enemies laugh among themselves. ⁷Turn us again, O God of hosts and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved.

⁸You have brought a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the heathen and planted it. ⁹You prepared room before it and caused it to take deep root and it filled the land. ¹⁰The hills were covered with its shadow and its boughs were like the goodly cedars. ¹¹She sent out her boughs to the sea and her branches to the river. ¹²Why have you then broken down her hedges, so that all those who pass by the way pluck her? ¹³The boar out of the wood wastes it and the wild animal of the field devours it. ¹⁴Return, we beseech you, O God of hosts: look down from heaven and behold and visit this vine; ¹⁵And the vineyard which your right hand has planted, and the branch that you made strong for yourself. ¹⁶It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of your countenance. ¹⁷Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself. ¹⁸Quicken us, so that we will not go back from you: and we will call on your name. ¹⁹Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved.

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Psalm 81

To the chief Musician on Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph.

¹Sing aloud to God our strength: make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob. ²Take a psalm and bring the timbrel here, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. ³Blow the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. ⁴For this was a statute for Israel and a law of the God of Jacob. ⁵He ordained this in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I did not understand. ⁶I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots. ⁷You called in trouble and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder: I proved you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

⁸Hear, O my people and I will testify to you: O Israel, if you will listen to me; ⁹There shall be no strange god among you; neither shall you worship any strange god. ¹⁰I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it. ¹¹But my people would not listen to my voice; and Israel would have none of me. ¹²So I gave them up to their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels. ¹³Oh that my people had listened to me and Israel had walked in my ways! ¹⁴I should soon have subdued their enemies and turned my hand against their adversaries. ¹⁵The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves to him: and their time should have endured for ever. ¹⁶He would also have fed them with the finest of the wheat: and I would have satisfied you with honey out of the rock.

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Psalm 82

A Psalm of Asaph.

¹ God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods. ²How long will you judge unjustly and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. ³Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. ⁴Deliver the poor and needy: deliver them out of the hand of the wicked. ⁵They do not know, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

⁶I have said, you are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. ⁷But you shall die like men and fall like one of the princes. ⁸Arise, O God, judge the earth: for you shall inherit all nations.

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Psalm 83

A Song or Psalm of Asaph.

¹ Do not keep silence, O God: do not hold your peace and do not be still, O God. ²For, lo, your enemies make a tumult: and those who hate you have lifted up the head. ³They have taken crafty counsel against your people and consulted against your hidden ones. ⁴They have said, Come and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may not be in remembrance any more: ⁵For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against you: ⁶The tabernacles of Edom and the Ishmaelites; of Moab and the Hagarenes; ⁷Gebal, and Ammon and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; ⁸Assur also is joined with them: they have helped the children of Lot. Selah.

⁹Do to them as to the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison: ¹⁰Who perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth. ¹¹Make their nobles like Orb and like Zee: yes, all their princes as Zebah and as Zalmunna: ¹²Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession. ¹³O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. ¹⁴As the fire burns wood and as the flame sets the mountains on fire; ¹⁵So persecute them with your tempest, and make them afraid with your storm. ¹⁶Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek your name, O LORD. ¹⁷Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yes, let them be put to shame, and perish. ¹⁸That men may know that you, whose name alone is YHWH, are the most high over all the earth.

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Psalm 84

To the chief Musician on Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.

¹ How amiable are your tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! ²My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crie out for the living God. ³Yes, the sparrow has found a house and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God. ⁴Blessed are those who dwell in your house: they will be still praising you. Selah. ⁵Blessed is the man whose strength is in you; in whose heart are the ways of them. ⁶Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also fills the pools. ⁷They go from strength to strength, every one of them appears before God in Zion.

⁸O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. ⁹Behold, O God our shield and look on the face of your anointed. ¹⁰For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. ¹¹For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: he will not withhold any good thing from those who walk uprightly. ¹²O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in you.

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Psalm 85

To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.

¹ LORD, you have been favorable to your land: you have brought back the captivity of Jacob. ²You have forgiven the iniquity of your people, you have covered all their sin. Selah. ³You have taken away all your wrath: you have turned yourself from the fierceness of your anger. ⁴Turn us, O God of our salvation and cause your anger toward us to stop. ⁵Will you be angry with us for ever? will you draw out your anger to all generations? ⁶Will you not revive us again: that your people may rejoice in you? ⁷Show us your mercy, O LORD and grant us your salvation.

⁸I will hear what the LORD God will speak: for he will speak peace to his people and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly. ⁹Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him; so that glory may dwell in our land. ¹⁰Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. ¹¹Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. ¹²Yes, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase. ¹³Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.

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Psalm 86

A Prayer of David.

¹ Bow down your ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy. ²Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O my God, save your servant who trusts in you. ³Be merciful to me, O Lord: for I cry to you daily. ⁴Rejoice the soul of your servant: for I lift up my soul to you, O Lord. ⁵For you, Lord, are good and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy to all those who call on you. ⁶Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications. ⁷In the day of my trouble I will call on you: for you will answer me.

⁸Among the gods there is no one like to you, O Lord; neither are there any works like your works. ⁹All nations whom you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord; and shall glorify your name. ¹⁰For you are great and do wondrous things: you are God alone. ¹¹Teach me your way, O LORD; I will walk in your truth: unite my heart to fear your name. ¹²I will praise you, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify your name for evermore. ¹³For great is your mercy toward me: and you have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol. ¹⁴O God, the proud are risen against me and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set you before them. ¹⁵But you, O Lord, are a God full of compassion and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. ¹⁶O turn to me and have mercy on me; give your strength to your servant and save the son of your handmaid. ¹⁷Show me a token for good; that they who hate me may see it and be ashamed: because you, LORD, have helped me and comforted me.

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Psalm 87

A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah.

¹ His foundation is in the holy mountains. ²The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places [Heb. mishkuniym] of Jacob. ³Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah.

⁴I will make mention of Rachab and Babylon to those who know me: behold Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there. ⁵And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her. ⁶The LORD shall count, when he writes up the people, that this man was born there. Selah. ⁷The singers as well as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in you.

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Psalm 88

A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician on Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.

¹ O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you: ²Let my prayer come before you: incline your ear to my cry; ³For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws near to the grave. ⁴I am counted with those who go down into the pit: I am as a man who has no strength: ⁵Free among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more: and they are cut off from your hand. ⁶You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the depths. ⁷Your wrath lies hard on me and you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah. ⁸You have put away my acquaintances far from me; you have made me an abomination to them: I am shut up and I cannot come forth. ⁹My eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily to you, I have stretched out my hands to you.

¹⁰Will you show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise you? Selah. ¹¹Shall your loving kindness be declared in the grave? or your faithfulness in destruction? ¹²Shall your wonders be known in the dark? and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? ¹³But to you I have cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer go before you. ¹⁴LORD, why do you cast off my soul? why do you hide your face from me? ¹⁵I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer your terrors I am distracted. ¹⁶Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have cut me off. ¹⁷They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. ¹⁸You have put my lover and friend and acquaintances into darkness far from me.

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Psalm 89

Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.

¹ I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known your faithfulness to all generations. ²For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: your faithfulness shall you establish in the very heavens. ³I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant. ⁴Your seed I will establish for ever and build up your throne to all generations. Selah.

⁵And the heavens shall praise your wonders, O LORD: your faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. ⁶For who in the heaven can be compared to the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened to the LORD? ⁷God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all those who are about him. ⁸O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like you? or as your faithfulness round about you?⁹You rule the raging of the sea: when its waves arise, you still them. ¹⁰You have broken Rachab in pieces, as one who is slain; you have scattered your enemies with your strong arm. ¹¹The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours: as for the world and its fulness, you have founded them. ¹²You have created them the north and the south: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in your name. ¹³You have a mighty arm: strong is your hand and high is your right hand. ¹⁴Justice and judgment are the habitation of your throne: mercy and truth shall go before your face.

¹⁵Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound: O LORD, they shall walk in the light of your countenance. ¹⁶They shall rejoice in your name all the day: and in your righteousness they shall be exalted. ¹⁷For you are the glory of their strength: and in your favor our horn shall be exalted. ¹⁸For the LORD is our defense; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.

¹⁹Then you spoke in a vision to your holy one and said, I have laid help on one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. ²⁰I have found David my servant; I have anointed him with my holy oil : ²¹With whom my hand shall be established: my arm also shall strengthen him. ²²The enemy shall not exact on him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him. ²³And I will beat down his foes before his face and plague those who hate him. ²⁴But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and his horn be shall exalted in my name. ²⁵I will set his hand also in the sea and his right hand in the rivers. ²⁶He shall cry to me, You are my father, my God and the rock of my salvation. ²⁷Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. ²⁸I will keep my mercy for him for evermore and my covenant shall stand fast with him. ²⁹I will also make his seed to endure for ever and his throne as the days of heaven. ³⁰If his children forsake my law and do not walk in my judgments; ³¹If they break my statutes and do not keep my commandments; ³²Then I will visit their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes. ³³But I will not utterly take from him my loving kindness nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. ³⁴ I will not break my covenant nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. ³⁵Once I have sworn by my holiness that I will not lie to David. ³⁶His seed shall endure for ever and his throne as the sun before me. ³⁷It shall be established for ever as the moon and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.

³⁸But you have cast off and abhorred, you have been angry with your anointed. ³⁹You have made void the covenant of your servant: you have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. ⁴⁰You have broken down all his hedges; you have brought his strong holds to ruin. ⁴¹All who pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbors. ⁴²You have set up the right hand of his adversaries; you have made all his enemies to rejoice. ⁴³You have also turned the edge of his sword and have not made him to stand in the battle. ⁴⁴You have made his glory to cease and cast his throne down to the ground. ⁴⁵You have shortened the days of his youth: you have covered him with shame. Selah. ⁴⁶ LORD, how long will you hide yourself for ever? shall your wrath burn like fire? ⁴⁷Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain? ⁴⁸What man is he who lives and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah. ⁴⁹Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your truth? ⁵⁰Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants; how I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people; ⁵¹With which your enemies have reproached, O LORD; with which they have reproached the footsteps of your anointed. ⁵²Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen and Amen.

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Psalm 90

A Prayer of Moses the man of God.

¹ Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. ²Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. ³You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men. ⁴For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past and as a watch in the night. ⁵You carry them away as with a flood; they are like a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up. ⁶In the morning it flourishes and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers.

⁷For we are consumed by your anger and by your wrath we are troubled. ⁸You have set our iniquities before you, our secrets is in the light of your countenance. ⁹For all our days are passed away in your anger: we spend our years as a story that is told. ¹⁰The days of our years are seventy; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years their strength is still labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off and we fly away. ¹¹Who knows the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so is your anger.

¹²So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom. ¹³O LORD, return and repent concerning your servants, how long? ¹⁴O satisfy us early with your mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. ¹⁵Make us glad according to the days in which you have afflicted us and the years in which we have seen evil. ¹⁶Let your work appear to your servants and your glory to their children. ¹⁷And let the beauty of the LORD our God be on us: and establish the work of our hands on us; yes, establish the work of our hands.

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Psalm 91

¹He who dwells in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. ²I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him I will trust. ³Surely he shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the noisome pestilence. ⁴He shall cover you with his feathers and you shall trust under his wings: his truth shall be your shield and buckler. ⁵You shall not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flies by day; ⁶Nor for the pestilence that walks in darkness; nor for the destruction that wastes at noonday. ⁷A thousand shall fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you. ⁸Only with your eyes you shall behold and see the reward of the wicked.

⁹Because you have made the LORD your habitation, even the most High who is my refuge; ¹⁰There shall no evil befall you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling. ¹¹For he shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways. ¹²They shall bear you up in their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone. ¹³You shall tread on the lion and adder: you shall trample the young lion and the dragon under feet. ¹⁴Because he has set his love on me, therefore I deliver will him: I will set him on high, because he has known my name. ¹⁵He shall call on me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him. ¹⁶ I will satisfy him with long life and show him my salvation.

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Psalm 92

A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day.

¹ It is a good thing to give thanks to the LORD and to sing praises to your name, O most High: ²To show forth your loving kindness in the morning and your faithfulness every night, ³On an instrument of ten strings and on the psaltery; on the harp with a solemn sound. ⁴For you, LORD, have made me glad through your work: I will triumph in the works of your hands. ⁵O LORD, how great are your works! and your thoughts are very deep. ⁶A brutish man does not know; neither does a fool understand this.

⁷When the wicked spring as the grass and when all the workers of iniquity flourish; it will be that they shall be destroyed for ever: ⁸But you, LORD, are most high for evermore. ⁹For, lo, your enemies, O LORD, for, lo, your enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. ¹⁰But you shall exalt my horn like the horns of a wild goat: I shall be anointed with fresh oil. ¹¹My eye shall see also my desire on my enemies and my ears shall hear my desire of the wicked who rise up against me. ¹²The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. ¹³Those who are planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. ¹⁴They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; ¹⁵To show that the LORD is upright: he is my rock and there is no unrighteousness in him.

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Psalm 93

¹The LORD reigns, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, with which he has girded himself: the world also is established, so that it cannot be moved. ²Your throne is established of old: you are from everlasting. ³The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. ⁴The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yes, than the mighty waves of the sea. ⁵Your testimonies are very sure: holiness becomes your house, O LORD, for ever.

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Psalm 94

¹O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs; O God, to whom vengeance belongs, show yourself. ²Lift up yourself, you judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud. ³LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?⁴How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? ⁵O LORD, they break your people in pieces and afflict your heritage. ⁶They slay the widow and the stranger and murder the fatherless. ⁷Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it. ⁸Understand, you brutish among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise? ⁹He who planted the ear, shall he not hear? he who formed the eye, shall he not see? ¹⁰He who chastises the heathen, shall he not correct? he who teaches man knowledge, shall not he know? ¹¹The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

¹²O LORD, blessed is the man whom you chasten and teach out of your law; ¹³That you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked. ¹⁴For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance. ¹⁵But judgment shall return to righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it. ¹⁶Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? ¹⁷Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul would almost dwell in silence. ¹⁸O LORD, when I said, My foot slips your mercy held me up. ¹⁹Your comforts delight my soul in the multitude of my thoughts within me . ²⁰Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, who fashions mischief by a law? ²¹They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous and condemn the innocent blood. ²²But the LORD is my defense; and my God is the rock of my refuge. ²³And he shall bring their own iniquity on them and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yes, the LORD our God shall cut them off.

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Psalm 95

¹O come, let us sing to the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. ²Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving and make a joyful noise to him with psalms. ³For the LORD is a great God and a great King above all gods. ⁴In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is also his. ⁵The sea is his and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. ⁶O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

⁷For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. Today if you will hear his voice, ⁸Harden not your heart, as in the provocation and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: ⁹When your fathers tempted me, proved me and saw my work. ¹⁰Forty years long was I grieved with this generation and said, It is a people who err in their heart and they have not known my ways: ¹¹To whom I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

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Psalm 96

¹O sing to the LORD a new song: sing to the LORD, all the earth. ²Sing to the LORD, bless his name; show forth his salvation from day to day. ³Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people. ⁴For the LORD is great and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods. ⁵For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens. ⁶Honor and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. ⁷Give to the LORD, O you kindreds of the people, give to the LORD glory and strength. ⁸Give to the LORD the glory due to his name: bring an offering and come into his courts. ⁹O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.

¹⁰Say among the heathen that the LORD reigns: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously. ¹¹Let the heavens rejoice and let the earth be glad; let the sea and its fulness roar. ¹²Let the field be joyful and all that is in it: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice ¹³Before the LORD: for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness and the people with his truth.

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Psalm 97

¹The LORD reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad. ²Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne. ³A fire goes before him and burns up his enemies round about. ⁴His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw and trembled. ⁵The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. ⁶The heavens declare his righteousness and all the people see his glory. ⁷All those who serve graven images and who boast themselves of idols are confounded, worship him, all you gods.

⁸Zion heard and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of your judgments, O LORD. ⁹For you, LORD, are high above all the earth: you are exalted far above all gods. ¹⁰You who love the LORD, hate evil: he preserves the souls of his saints; he delivers them out of the hand of the wicked. ¹¹Light is sown for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart. ¹²Rejoice in the LORD, you righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

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Psalm 98

A Psalm.

¹ O sing to the LORD a new song; for he has done marvelous things: his right hand and his holy arm, has gotten him the victory. ²The LORD has made known his salvation: his righteousness he has openly shown in the sight of the heathen. ³He has remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

⁴Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise and rejoice and sing praise. ⁵Sing to the LORD with the harp; with the harp and the voice of a psalm. ⁶Make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King with trumpets and the sound of the cornet. ⁷Let the sea roar and its fulness; the world and those who dwell in it. ⁸Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together ⁹before the LORD; for he comes to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world and the people with equity.

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Psalm 99

¹The LORD reigns; let the people tremble: he sits between the cherubim; let the earth be moved. ²The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people. ³Let them praise your great and terrible name; for it is holy. ⁴The king's strength also loves judgment; you establish equity, you execute judgment and righteousness in Jacob. ⁵Exalt the LORD our God and worship at his footstool for he is holy.

⁶Moses and Aaron among his priests and Samuel among those who call on his name; they called on the LORD and he answered them. ⁷He spoke to them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies and the ordinance that he gave them. ⁸You answered them, O LORD our God: you were a God who forgave them, though you took vengeance on their inventions. ⁹Exalt the LORD our God and worship at his holy hill for the LORD our God is holy.

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Psalm 100

A Psalm of praise.

¹ Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all you lands. ²Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing. ³Know you that the LORD is God: it is he who has made us and not we ourselves; we are his people and the sheep of his pasture. ⁴Enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise: be thankful to him and bless his name. ⁵For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endures to all generations.

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Psalm 101

A Psalm of David.

¹ I will sing of mercy and judgment: to you, O LORD, I will sing. ²I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. ³I will set no wicked thing before my eyes: I hate the work of those who turn aside; it shall not cleave to me. ⁴A perverse heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person. ⁵Who ever secretly slanders his neighbor, I will cut him off: I will not suffer him who has a high look and a proud heart. ⁶My eyes shall be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he who walks in a perfect way shall serve me. ⁷He who works deceit shall not dwell within my house: he who tells lies shall not tarry in my sight. ⁸I will destroy all the wicked of the land early; so that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.

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Psalm 102

A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before the LORD.

¹ Hear my prayer, O LORD and let my cry come to you. ²Do not hide your face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline your ear to me. In the day when I call answer me speedily. ³For my days are consumed like smoke and my bones are burned as a hearth. ⁴My heart is struck and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. ⁵my bones cleave to my skin by reason of the voice of my groaning. ⁶I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. ⁷I watch and I am like a sparrow alone on the house top. ⁸My enemies reproach me all the day; and those who are mad against me have sworn against me. ⁹For I have eaten ashes like bread and mingled my drink with weeping, ¹⁰Because of your indignation and your wrath: for you have lifted me up and cast me down. ¹¹My days are like a shadow that declines; and I am withered like grass.

¹²But you, O LORD, shall endure for ever; and your remembrance to all generations. ¹³You shall arise and have mercy on Zion: for the time to favor her, yes, the set time, has come. ¹⁴For your servants take pleasure in her stones and favor its dust. ¹⁵So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD and all the kings of the earth your glory. ¹⁶When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory. ¹⁷He will regard the prayer of the destitute and not despise their prayer. ¹⁸This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people who shall be created shall praise the LORD. ¹⁹For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven the LORD beheld the earth; ²⁰To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those who are appointed to death; ²¹To declare the name of the LORD in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem; ²²When the people and the kingdoms are gathered together to serve the LORD.

²³He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days. ²⁴I said, O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days: your years are throughout all generations. ²⁵You have laid the foundation of the earth of old: and the heavens are the work of your hands. ²⁶They shall perish, but you shall endure: yes, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture you shall change them and they shall be changed: ²⁷But you are the same and your years shall have no end. ²⁸The children of your servants shall continue and their seed shall be established before you.

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Psalm 103

A Psalm of David.

¹ Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. ²Bless the LORD, O my soul and do not forget all his benefits: ³Who forgives all your iniquities; who heals all your diseases; ⁴Who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies; ⁵Who satisfies your mouth with good things; so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

⁶The LORD executes righteousness and judgment for all who are oppressed. ⁷He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the children of Israel. ⁸The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and plenteous in mercy. ⁹He will not always chide: neither will he stay angry for ever. ¹⁰He has not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. ¹¹For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward those who fear him. ¹²As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. ¹³Like a father pities his children, so the LORD pities those who fear him. ¹⁴For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust. ¹⁵As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. ¹⁶For the wind passes over it and it is gone; and its place shall know it no more. ¹⁷But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him and his righteousness to children's children; ¹⁸To such as keep his covenant and to those who remember his commandments to do them.

¹⁹The LORD has prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom rules over all. ²⁰Bless the LORD, you his angels, who excel in strength, who do his commandments, listening to the voice of his word. ²¹Bless the LORD, all you his hosts; you ministers of his, who do his pleasure. ²²Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul.

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Psalm 104

¹Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, you are very great; you are clothed with honor and majesty. ²Who covers yourself with light as with a garment: who stretches out the heavens like a curtain: ³Who lays the beams of his chambers in the waters: who makes the clouds his chariot: who walks on the wings of the wind: ⁴Who makes his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire: ⁵Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever. ⁶You covered it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. ⁷At your rebuke they fled; at the voice of your thunder they hurried away. ⁸They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys to the place which you have founded for them. ⁹You have set a bound that they may not pass over; that they do not turn again to cover the earth.

¹⁰He sends the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills. ¹¹They give drink to every animal of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst. ¹²By them shall the fowls of the heaven, which sing among the branches have their habitation. ¹³He waters the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your works. ¹⁴He causes the grass to grow for the cattle and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; ¹⁵And wine that makes glad the heart of man and oil to make his face to shine and bread which strengthens man's heart. ¹⁶The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted; ¹⁷Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house. ¹⁸The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.

¹⁹He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knows its going down. ²⁰You make darkness and it is night: where all the animals of the forest creep forth. ²¹The young lions roar after their prey and seek their meat from God. ²²The sun rises, they gather themselves together and lay down in their dens. ²³Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until the evening. ²⁴O LORD, how manifold are your works! you have made them all in wisdom: the earth is full of your riches. ²⁵So is this great and wide sea, where there are innumerable creeping things, both small and great animals. ²⁶There the ships go: there is that leviathan, whom you have made to play there. ²⁷These all wait on you; that you may give them their meat in due season. ²⁸What you give them they gather: you open your hand, they are filled with good. ²⁹You hide your face, they are troubled: you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust. ³⁰You send forth your spirit, they are created: and you renew the face of the earth.

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Psalm 105

¹O give thanks to the LORD; call on his name: make known his deeds among the people. ²Sing to him, sing psalms to him: talk of all his wondrous works. ³Glory in his holy name: let the heart of those who seek the LORD rejoice. ⁴Seek the LORD and his strength: seek his face evermore. ⁵Remember his marvelous works that he has done; his wonders and the judgments of his mouth; ⁶O you seed of Abraham his servant, you children of Jacob his chosen. ⁷He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth.

⁸He has remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. ⁹Which covenant he made with Abraham and his oath to Isaac; ¹⁰And confirmed the same to Jacob for a law and to Israel for an everlasting covenant: ¹¹Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance: ¹²When they were but a few men in number; yes, very few and strangers in it. ¹³When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people; ¹⁴He suffered no man to do them wrong: yes, he reproved kings for their sakes; ¹⁵Saying, Do not touch my anointed and do no harm to my prophets. ¹⁶Moreover he called for a famine in the land: he broke the whole staff of bread. ¹⁷He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant: ¹⁸Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: ¹⁹Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him. ²⁰The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people and let him go free. ²¹He made him lord of his house and ruler of all his substance: ²²To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom. ²³Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. ²⁴And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.

²⁵He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtly with his servants. ²⁶He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen. ²⁷They showed his signs among them and wonders in the land of Ham. ²⁸He sent darkness and made it dark; and they did not rebell against his word. ²⁹He turned their waters into blood and slew their fish. ³⁰Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings. ³¹He spoke and different sorts of flies and lice came in all their coasts. ³²He gave them hail for rain and flaming fire in their land. ³³He struck their vines also and their fig trees; and broke the trees of their coasts. ³⁴He spoke and the locusts and caterpillarsc ame and that without number, ³⁵And did eat up all the herbs in their land and devoured the fruit of their ground. ³⁶He also struck all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength. ³⁷He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes. ³⁸Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell on them. ³⁹He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night. ⁴⁰The people asked, and he brought quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven. ⁴¹He opened the rock and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river. ⁴²For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant. ⁴³And he brought forth his people with joy and his chosen with gladness: ⁴⁴And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labor of the people; ⁴⁵That they might observe his statutes and keep his laws. Praise the LORD.

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Psalm 106

¹Praise the LORD. O give thanks to the LORD for he is good for his mercy endures for ever. ²Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD, who can show forth all his praise? ³Blessed are those who keep judgment and he who does righteousness at all times. ⁴Remember me, O LORD, with the favor that you bear to your people: O visit me with your salvation; ⁵That I may see the goodness of your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.

⁶We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly. ⁷Our fathers did not understand your wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of your mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red Sea. ⁸Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power be known. ⁹He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness. ¹⁰And he saved them from the hand of him who hated them and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. ¹¹And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left. ¹²Then they believed his words; they sang his praise.

¹³They soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel: ¹⁴But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness and tempted God in the desert. ¹⁵And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul. ¹⁶They envied Moses also in the camp and Aaron the saint of the LORD. ¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the company of Abiram. ¹⁸And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked. ¹⁹They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped the molten image. ²⁰Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eats grass. ²¹They forgot God their savior, who had done great things in Egypt; ²²Wondrous works in the land of Ham and terrible things by the Red Sea. ²³Therefore he said that he would destroy them, if Moses his chosen had not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them. ²⁴Yes, they despised the pleasant land, they did not believe his word: ²⁵But murmured in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD. ²⁶Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness: ²⁷To also overthrow their seed among the nations and to scatter them in the lands. ²⁸They joined themselves also to Baalpeor and ate the sacrifices of the dead. ²⁹Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague broke on them. ³⁰Then Phinehas stood up and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed. ³¹And that was counted to him for righteousness to all generations for evermore. ³²They also angered him at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes: ³³Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.

³⁴They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them: ³⁵But were mingled among the heathen and learned their works. ³⁶And they served their idols: which were a snare to them. ³⁷Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to devils, ³⁸And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood. ³⁹Thus they were defiled with their own works, and went whoring with their own inventions. ⁴⁰Therefore the wrath of the LORD was kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance. ⁴¹And he gave them into the hand of the heathen and those who hated them ruled over them. ⁴²Their enemies also oppressed them and they were brought into subjection under their hand. ⁴³He delivered them many times; but they provoked him with their counsel and were brought low for their iniquity. ⁴⁴Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry: ⁴⁵And he remembered for them his covenant and repented according to the multitude of his mercies. ⁴⁶He made them also to be pitied by all those who carried them captives. ⁴⁷O LORD our God save us and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks to your holy name and to triumph in your praise. ⁴⁸Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise you the LORD.

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Psalm 107

¹O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endures for ever. ²Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the enemy; ³And gathered them out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. ⁴They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in. ⁵Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. ⁶Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble and he delivered them out of their distresses. ⁷And he led them out by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation. ⁸Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men! ⁹For he satisfies the longing soul and fills the hungry soul with goodness. ¹⁰Such as those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron; ¹¹Because they rebelled against the words of God and condemned the counsel of the most High. ¹²Therefore he brought their heart down with labor; they fell down and there was no one to help. ¹³Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble and he saved them out of their distresses. ¹⁴He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke their bands asunder. ¹⁵Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men! ¹⁶For he has broken the gates of brass and cut the bars of iron asunder.

¹⁷Fools are afflicted because of their transgression and because of their iniquities, ¹⁸Their soul abhors all manner of meat; and they draw near to the gates of death. ¹⁹Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble and he saves them out of their distresses. ²⁰He sent his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. ²¹Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men! ²²And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare his works with rejoicing.

²³those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters; ²⁴These see the works of the LORD and his wonders in the deep. ²⁵For he commands and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves. ²⁶They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. ²⁷They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are at their wits' end. ²⁸Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble and he brings them out of their distresses. ²⁹He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still. ³⁰Then they are glad because they are quiet; so he brings them to their desired haven. ³¹Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men! ³²Let them also exalt him in the congregation of the people and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

³³He turns rivers into a wilderness and the water springs into dry ground; ³⁴He turns a fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of those who dwell there. ³⁵He turns the wilderness into a standing water and dry ground into water springs. ³⁶And he makes the hungry to dwell there, that they may prepare a city for habitation; ³⁷And sow the fields and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase. ³⁸He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and does not allow their cattle to decrease. ³⁹Again, they are diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction and sorrow. ⁴⁰He pours contempt on princes and causes them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way. ⁴¹Yet he sets the poor on high from affliction and makes his families like a flock. ⁴²The righteous shall see it and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth. ⁴³Who ever is wise and will observe these things, even they shall understand the loving kindness of the LORD.

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Psalm 108

A Song or Psalm of David.

¹ O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory. ²Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early. ³I will praise you, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises to you among the nations. ⁴For your mercy is great above the heavens: and your truth reaches to the clouds. ⁵Be exalted, O God, above the heavens: and your glory above all the earth;

⁶So that your beloved may be delivered: save with your right hand and answer me. ⁷God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem and measure out the valley of Succoth. ⁸Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of my head; Judah is my lawgiver; ⁹Moab is my wash pot; I will cast my shoe out over Edom; I will triumph over Philistia. ¹⁰Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom? ¹¹Will not you, O God who has cast us off and will not you, O God, go forth with our armies? ¹²Give us help from trouble: for the help of man is vain. ¹³Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is who shall tread down our enemies.

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Psalm 109

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

¹ Do not hold your peace, O God of my praise; ²For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. ³They also compassed me about with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. ⁴Instead of love they are my adversaries: but I give myself to prayer. ⁵And they have rewarded me evil for good and hatred for my love.

⁶Set you a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. ⁷When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. ⁸Let his days be few; and let another take his office. ⁹Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. ¹⁰Let his children be continually vagabonds and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. ¹¹Let the extortioner catch all that he has; and let the strangers spoil his labor. ¹²Let there be no one to extend mercy to him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children. ¹³Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. ¹⁴Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out. ¹⁵Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth. ¹⁶Because he did not remember to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, so that he might even slay the broken in heart. ¹⁷As he loved cursing, so let it come to him: as he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him. ¹⁸As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water and like oil into his bones. ¹⁹Let it be to him as the garment which covers him and for a girdle with which he is girded continually. ²⁰Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the LORD and of those who speak evil against my soul.

²¹But O GOD the Lord, you do good for me, for your name's sake: because your mercy is good, deliver me. ²²For I am poor and needy and my heart is wounded within me. ²³I have gone like the shadow when it declines: I am tossed up and down as the locust. ²⁴My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh fails of fatness. ²⁵I became also a reproach to them: when they looked at me they shook their heads. ²⁶ O LORD my God: help me, O save me according to your mercy: ²⁷So that they may know that this is your hand; that you, LORD, have done it. ²⁸Let them curse, but you bless: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let your servant rejoice. ²⁹Let my adversaries be clothed with shame and let them cover themselves as with a mantle with their own confusion. ³⁰I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yes, I will praise him among the multitude. ³¹For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those who condemn his soul.

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Psalm 110

A Psalm of David.

¹ The LORD said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool. ²The LORD shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion: you shall rule in the midst of your enemies. ³Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: you have the dew of your youth. ⁴The LORD has sworn and will not repent, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

⁵The Lord at your right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. ⁶He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries. ⁷He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore he shall lift up the head.

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Psalm 111

¹Praise the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation. ²The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all those who have pleasure in them. ³His work is honorable and glorious: and his righteousness endures for ever. ⁴He has made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD is gracious and full of compassion. ⁵He has given meat to those who fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant.

⁶He has shown his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen. ⁷The works of his hands are truth and judgment; all his commandments are sure. ⁸They stand fast for ever and ever and are done in truth and uprightness. ⁹He sent redemption to his people: he has commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name. ¹⁰The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: those who do his commandments all have a good understanding: his praise endures for ever.

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Psalm 112

¹Praise the LORD. Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who delights greatly in his commandments. ²His seed shall be mighty on earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed. ³Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endures for ever. ⁴To the upright there rises light in the darkness: he is gracious and full of compassion and righteous. ⁵A good man shows favor and lends: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

⁶Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. ⁷He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD. ⁸His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he sees his desire on his enemies. ⁹He has dispersed, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honor. ¹⁰The wicked shall see it and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

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Psalm 113

¹Praise the LORD. Praise, O you servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD. ²Blessed is the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. ³The LORD'S name is to be praised from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same. ⁴The LORD is high above all nations and his glory above the heavens. ⁵Who is like to the LORD our God, who dwells on high, ⁶Who humbles himself to behold the things that are in heaven and in the earth! ⁷He raises up the poor out of the dust and lifts the needy out of the dunghill; ⁸That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people. ⁹He makes the barren woman to keep house and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD.

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Psalm 114

¹When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; ²Judah was his sanctuary and Israel his dominion. ³The sea saw it and fled: Jordan was driven back. ⁴The mountains skipped like rams and the little hills like lambs. ⁵What ailed you, O you sea, that you fled? you Jordan, that you were driven back? ⁶You mountains, that you skipped like rams; and you little hills, like lambs? ⁷Tremble earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; ⁸Who turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

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Psalm 115

¹Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your mercy and for your truth's sake. ²Why should the heathen say, Where is their God now? ³But our God is in the heavens: he has done what ever he has pleased. ⁴Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. ⁵They have mouths, but they do not speak, they have eyes, but they do not see. ⁶They have ears, but they do not hear: they have noses, but they do not smell: ⁷They have hands, but they do not handle: they have feet, but they do not walk: neither do they speak through their throat. ⁸Those who make them are like them, so is every one who trusts in them.

⁹O Israel, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. ¹⁰O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. ¹¹You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. ¹²The LORD has been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron. ¹³He will bless those who fear the LORD, both small and great. ¹⁴The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children. ¹⁵You are blessed of the LORD who made heaven and earth. ¹⁶The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but he has given the earth to the children of men. ¹⁷The dead do not praise the LORD, neither any who go down into silence. ¹⁸But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD.

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Psalm 116

¹I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my supplications. ²Because he has inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live. ³The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of Sheol got hold of me: I found trouble and sorrow. ⁴Then I called on the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech you, deliver my soul. ⁵Gracious is the LORD and righteous; yes, our God is merciful. ⁶The LORD preserves the simple: I was brought low and he helped me. ⁷Return to your rest, O my soul; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you. ⁸Because you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears and my feet from falling. ⁹I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

¹⁰I believed, therefore I have spoken: I was greatly afflicted. ¹¹I said in my haste, All men are liars. ¹²What shall I render to the LORD for all his benefits toward me? ¹³I will take the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD. ¹⁴I will pay my vows to the LORD now in the presence of all his people. ¹⁵Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. ¹⁶O LORD, I am truly your servant; I am your servant and the son of your handmaid: you have loosed my bonds. ¹⁷I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call on the name of the LORD. ¹⁸I will pay my vows to the LORD now in the presence of all his people, ¹⁹In the courts of the LORD'S house, in the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise you the LORD.

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Psalm 117

¹O praise the LORD, all you nations: praise him, all you people. ²For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endures for ever. Praise the LORD.

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Psalm 118

¹O give thanks to the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endures for ever. ²Now let Israel say that his mercy endures for ever. ³Now let the house of Aaron say that his mercy endures for ever. ⁴Now let those who fear the LORD say that his mercy endures for ever. ⁵I called on the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me and set me in a large place. ⁶The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do to me? ⁷The LORD takes my part with those who help me: therefore I shall see my desire on those who hate me. ⁸It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. ⁹It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes. ¹⁰All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. ¹¹They compassed me about; yes, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. ¹²They surrounded me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. ¹³You have thrust at me sore that I might fall: but the LORD helped me. ¹⁴The LORD is my strength and song and has become my salvation. ¹⁵The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly. ¹⁶The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly. ¹⁷I shall not die, but live and declare the works of the LORD. ¹⁸The LORD has chastened me sore: but he has not given me over to death.

¹⁹Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them and I will praise the LORD: ²⁰This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter. ²¹I will praise you: for you have heard me and have become my salvation. ²²The stone which the builders refused has become the head stone of the corner. ²³This is the LORD'S doing, it is marvelous in our eyes. ²⁴This is the day that the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. ²⁵Save now, I beseech you, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech you, send now prosperity. ²⁶Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD. ²⁷God is the LORD, who has shown us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar. ²⁸You are my God, and I will praise you: you are my God, I will exalt you. ²⁹O give thanks to the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endures for ever.

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Psalm 119

¹ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. ²Blessed are those who keep his testimonies and who seek him with the whole heart. ³They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
⁴You have commanded us to keep your precepts diligently. ⁵O that my ways were directed to keep your statutes! ⁶Then I shall not be ashamed, when I have respect to all your commandments.
⁷I will praise you with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned your righteous judgments. ⁸I will keep your statutes: O do not utterly forsake me.
⁹BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed according to your word. ¹⁰With my whole heart I have sought you: O let me not wander from your commandments. ¹¹Your word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against you. ¹²Blessed are you, O LORD: teach me your statutes. ¹³I have declared all the judgments of your mouth with my lips. ¹⁴I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches. ¹⁵I will meditate on your precepts and have respect to your ways. ¹⁶I will delight myself in your statutes: I will not forget your word.
¹⁷GIMEL. Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live and keep your word. ¹⁸Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. ¹⁹I am a stranger in the earth: do not hide your commandments from me. ²⁰My soul breaks for the longing that it has to your judgments at all times. ²¹You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who err from your commandments. ²²Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept your testimonies. ²³Princes also sat and spoke against me: but your servant meditated in your statutes. ²⁴Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.
²⁵DALETH. My soul cleaves to the dust: quicken me according to your word. ²⁶I have declared my ways and you heard me: teach me your statutes. ²⁷Make me to understand the way of your precepts: so I shall talk of your wondrous works. ²⁸My soul melts for heaviness: strengthen me according to your word. ²⁹Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me your law graciously. ³⁰I have chosen the way of truth: I have laid your judgments before me. ³¹I have stuck to your testimonies: O LORD, do not put me to shame. ³²I will run the way of your commandments, when you shall enlarge my heart.
³³HE. O LORD, ieach me the way of your statutes; and I shall keep it to the end. ³⁴Give me understanding and I shall keep your law; yes, I shall observe it with my whole heart. ³⁵Make me to go in the path of your commandments; for there I delight. ³⁶Incline my heart to your testimonies and not to covetousness. ³⁷Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken me in your way. ³⁸Establish your word to your servant, who is devoted to your fear. ³⁹Turn away my reproach which I fear: for your judgments are good. ⁴⁰Behold, I have longed after your precepts: quicken me in your righteousness.
⁴¹WAW. Let your mercies also come to me, O LORD, even our salvation, according to your word. ⁴²So I shall have something to answer him who reproaches me: for I trust in your word. ⁴³And do not take the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in your judgments. ⁴⁴So I shall keep your law continually for ever and ever. ⁴⁵And I will walk at liberty: for I seek your precepts. ⁴⁶I will speak of your testimonies also before kings and will not be ashamed. ⁴⁷And I will delight myself in your commandments, which I have loved. ⁴⁸With my hands I will also lift up to your commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in your statutes.
⁴⁹ZAYIN. Remember the word to your servant, on which you have caused me to hope. ⁵⁰This is my comfort in my affliction: for your word has quickened me. ⁵¹The proud have had me in great derision: yet I have not declined from your law. ⁵²I remembered your judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself. ⁵³Horror had taken hold on me because of the wicked who forsake your law. ⁵⁴Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. ⁵⁵O LORD, I have remembered your name in the night and have kept your law. ⁵⁶ I did this because I kept your precepts.
⁵⁷HETH. You are my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep your words. ⁵⁸I entreated your favor with my whole heart: be merciful to me according to your word. ⁵⁹I thought on my ways and turned my feet to your testimonies. ⁶⁰I made haste and did not delay to keep your commandments. ⁶¹The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten your law. ⁶²At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you because of your righteous judgments. ⁶³I am a companion of all those who fear you and of those who keep your precepts. ⁶⁴The earth, O LORD, is full of your mercy: teach me your statutes.
⁶⁵TETH. You have dealt well with your servant, O LORD, according to your word. ⁶⁶Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed your commandments. ⁶⁷Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept your word. ⁶⁸You are good and do good; teach me your statutes. ⁶⁹The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep your precepts with my whole heart. ⁷⁰Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in your law. ⁷¹It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn your statutes. ⁷²The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
⁷³YOD. Your hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments. ⁷⁴Those who fear you will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in your word. ⁷⁵O LORD, I know that your judgments are right and that you have afflicted me in faithfulness. ⁷⁶ I pray you, let your merciful kindness be for comfort to your servant according to your word. ⁷⁷Let your tender mercies come to me that I may live: for your law is my delight. ⁷⁸Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in your precepts. ⁷⁹Let those who fear you turn to me and those who have known your testimonies. ⁸⁰Let my heart be sound in your statutes; so that I am not ashamed.
⁸¹KAPH. My soul faints for your salvation: but I hope in your word. ⁸²My eyes fail for your word, saying, When will you comfort me? ⁸³For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget your statutes. ⁸⁴How many are the days of your servant? when will you execute judgment on those who persecute me? ⁸⁵The proud have dug pits for me, which are not after your law. ⁸⁶All your commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help me. ⁸⁷They almost consumed me on earth; but I did not forsake your precepts. ⁸⁸Quicken me after your loving kindness; so I shall keep the testimony of your mouth.
⁸⁹LAMED. O LORD, your word is settled in heaven for ever. ⁹⁰Your faithfulness is to all generations: you have established the earth and it abides. ⁹¹They continue this day according to your ordinances: for all are your servants. ⁹²Unless your law had been my delight, then I should have perished in my affliction. ⁹³I will never forget your precepts: for you have quickened me with them. ⁹⁴I am yours, save me; for I have sought your precepts. ⁹⁵The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider your testimonies. ⁹⁶I have seen an end of all perfection: but your commandment is exceedingly broad.
⁹⁷MEM. O how love I your law! it is my meditation all the day. ⁹⁸You have made me wiser than my enemies through your commandments: for they are ever with me. ⁹⁹I have more understanding than all my teachers: for your testimonies are my meditation. ¹⁰⁰I understand more than the ancients, because I keep your precepts. ¹⁰¹I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep your word. ¹⁰²I have not departed from your judgments: for you have taught me. ¹⁰³How sweet are your words to my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! ¹⁰⁴Through your precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
¹⁰⁵NUN. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. ¹⁰⁶I have sworn and I will perform it, that I will keep your righteous judgments. ¹⁰⁷I am very greatly afflicted: quicken me, O LORD, according to your word. ¹⁰⁸I beseech you, accept the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD and teach me your judgments. ¹⁰⁹My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget your law. ¹¹⁰The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I did not err from your precepts. ¹¹¹ I have taken your testimonies as a heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart. ¹¹²I have inclined my heart to perform your statutes always, even to the end.
¹¹³SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts: but I love your law. ¹¹⁴You are my hiding place and my shield: I hope in your word. ¹¹⁵Depart from me, you evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God. ¹¹⁶Uphold me according to your word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope. ¹¹⁷Hold me up and I shall be safe: and I will have respect to your statutes continually. ¹¹⁸You have trodden down all those who err from your statutes: for their deceit is falsehood. ¹¹⁹You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love your testimonies. ¹²⁰My flesh trembles for fear of you; and I am afraid of your judgments.
¹²¹AYIN. I have done judgment and justice: do not leave me to my oppressors. ¹²²Be surety for your servant for good: let not the proud oppress me. ¹²³My eyes fail for your salvation and for the word of your righteousness. ¹²⁴Deal with your servant according to your mercy and teach me your statutes. ¹²⁵I am your servant; give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies. ¹²⁶It is time for you, LORD, to work: for they have made void your law. ¹²⁷Therefore I love your commandments above gold; yes, above fine gold. ¹²⁸Therefore I esteem all your precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
¹²⁹PE. Your testimonies are wonderful: therefore my soul keeps them. ¹³⁰The entrance of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple. ¹³¹I opened my mouth and panted: for I longed for your commandments. ¹³²Look on me and be merciful to me, as you used to do to those that love your name. ¹³³Order my steps in your word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. ¹³⁴Deliver me from the oppression of man: so I will keep your precepts. ¹³⁵Make your face to shine on your servant; and teach me your statutes. ¹³⁶Rivers of waters run down my eyes, because they keep not your law.
¹³⁷TSADDI. You are righteous, O LORD and your judgments upright. ¹³⁸Your testimonies that you have commanded are righteous and very faithful. ¹³⁹My zeal has consumed me, because my enemies have forgotten your words. ¹⁴⁰Your word is very pure: therefore your servant loves it. ¹⁴¹I am small and despised: yet I do not forget your precepts. ¹⁴²Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness and your law is the truth. ¹⁴³Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet your commandments are my delights. ¹⁴⁴The righteousness of your testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding and I shall live.
¹⁴⁵QOPH. I cried with my whole heart; hear me O LORD: I will keep your statutes. ¹⁴⁶I cried to you; save me and I shall keep your testimonies. ¹⁴⁷I went before the dawning of the morning and cried: I hoped in your word. ¹⁴⁸My eyes go before the night watches, that I might meditate in your word. ¹⁴⁹Hear my voice according to your loving kindness: O LORD, quicken me according to your judgment. ¹⁵⁰They draw near who follow after mischief: they are far from your law. ¹⁵¹You are near, O LORD; and all your commandments are truth. ¹⁵²Concerning your testimonies, I have known of old that you have founded them for ever.
¹⁵³RESH. Consider my affliction and deliver me: for I do not forget your law. ¹⁵⁴Plead my cause and deliver me: quicken me according to your word. ¹⁵⁵Salvation is far from the wicked: for they do not seek your statutes. ¹⁵⁶Great are your tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to your judgments. ¹⁵⁷Many are my persecutors and my enemies; yet I do not decline from your testimonies. ¹⁵⁸I beheld the transgressors and was grieved; because they did not keep your word. ¹⁵⁹Consider how I love your precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to your loving kindness. ¹⁶⁰Your word is true from the beginning: and every one of your righteous judgments endures for ever.
¹⁶¹SHIN. Princes have persecuted me without cause: but my heart stands in awe of your word. ¹⁶²I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great spoil. ¹⁶³I hate and abhor lying: but your law I love. ¹⁶⁴ I praise you seven times a day because of your righteous judgments. ¹⁶⁵Those who love your law have great peace and nothing shall offend them. ¹⁶⁶LORD, I have hoped for your salvation and have done your commandments. ¹⁶⁷My soul has kept your testimonies; and I love them exceedingly. ¹⁶⁸I have kept your precepts and your testimonies: for all my ways are before you.
¹⁶⁹TAU. Let my cry come near before you, O LORD: give me understanding according to your word. ¹⁷⁰Let my supplication come before you: deliver me according to your word. ¹⁷¹My lips shall utter praise, when you have taught me your statutes. ¹⁷²My tongue shall speak of your word: for all your commandments are righteousness. ¹⁷³Let your hand help me; for I have chosen your precepts. ¹⁷⁴I have longed for your salvation, O LORD; and your law is my delight. ¹⁷⁵Let my soul live and it shall praise you; and let your judgments help me. ¹⁷⁶I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant; for I do not forget your commandments.

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Psalm 120

A Song of degrees.

¹ In my distress I cried to the LORD and he heard me. ²Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue. ³What shall be given to you? or what shall be done to you, you false tongue? ⁴Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

⁵Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! ⁶My soul has long dwelt with him who hates peace. ⁷I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

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Psalm 121

A Song of degrees.

¹ I will lift up my eyes to the hills, Where does my help come from? ²My help comes from the LORD who made heaven and earth. ³He will not suffer your foot to be moved: he who keeps you will not slumber. ⁴Behold, he who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. ⁵The LORD is your keeper: the LORD is your shade on your right hand. ⁶The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. ⁷The LORD shall preserve you from all evil: he shall preserve your soul. ⁸The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth and even for evermore.

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Psalm 122

A Song of degrees of David.

¹ I was glad when they said to me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. ²Our feet shall stand within your gates, O Jerusalem. ³Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together: ⁴Where the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, to the testimony of Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD. ⁵For judgment thrones are set there, the thrones of the house of David.

⁶Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper who love you. ⁷Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces. ⁸For my brothers and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within you. ⁹ I will seek your good because of the house of the LORD our God.

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Psalm 123

A Song of degrees.

¹ To you I lift up my eyes, O you who dwells in the heavens. ²Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters and as the eyes of a maiden to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait on the LORD our God, until he shall have mercy on us. ³Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy on us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. ⁴Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those who are at ease and with the contempt of the proud.

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Psalm 124

A Song of degrees of David.

¹ If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, Israel may now say; ²If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us: ³Then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us: ⁴Then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul: ⁵Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

⁶Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth. ⁷Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken and we are escaped. ⁸Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

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Psalm 125

A Song of degrees.

¹Those who trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides for ever. ²As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from now even for ever. ³For the rod of the wicked shall not rest on the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands to iniquity.

⁴O LORD, do good to those who are good and to those who are upright in their hearts. ⁵As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be on Israel.

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Psalm 126

A Song of degrees.

¹ When the LORD returned the captivity of Zion again, we were like those who dream. ²Then our mouth was filled with laughter and our tongue with singing: then they said among the heathen, The LORD has done great things for them. ³The LORD has done great things for us; of which we are glad.

⁴Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south. ⁵Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy. ⁶He who goes forth and weeps, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

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Psalm 127

A Song of degrees for Solomon.

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

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Psalm 128

A Song of degrees.

¹ Blessed is every one who fears the LORD; who walks in his ways. ²For you shall eat the labor of your hands: happy shall you be and it shall be well with you. ³Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of your house: your children like olive plants round about your table. ⁴Behold, the man who fears the LORD shall be blessed this way. ⁵The LORD shall bless you out of Zion: and you shall see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life. ⁶Yes, you shall see your children's children and peace on Israel.

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Psalm 129

A Song of degrees.

¹ Many times they have afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: ²Many times they have afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. ³The plowers plowed on my back: they made their furrows long. ⁴The LORD is righteous: he has cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

⁵Let them all be confounded and turned back who hate Zion. ⁶Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up: ⁷With which the mower does not fill his hand; nor he who binds sheaves his bosom. ⁸Neither do they who go by say, The blessing of the LORD be on you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.

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Psalm 130

A Song of degrees.

¹ Out of the depths have I cried to you, O LORD. ²Lord, hear my voice: let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. ³If you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? ⁴But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be feared.

⁵I wait for the LORD, my soul waits and in his word I hope. ⁶My soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning: I say, more than those who watch for the morning. ⁷Let Israel hope in the LORD: for there is mercy with the LORD and with him is plenteous redemption. ⁸And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

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Psalm 131

A Song of degrees of David.

¹LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. ²Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child who is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child. ³Let Israel hope in the LORD from now and for ever. BACK   TOP  BOOK TITLES

Psalm 132

¹A Song of degrees. LORD, remember David and all his afflictions: ²How he swore to the LORD and vowed to the mighty God of Jacob; ³Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed; ⁴I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids, ⁵Until I find out a place for the LORD, a habitation for the mighty God of Jacob. ⁶Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood. ⁷We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool. ⁸Arise, O LORD, into your rest; you and the ark of your strength. ⁹Let your priests be clothed with righteousness; and let your saints shout for joy. ¹⁰For your servant David's sake do not turn away the face of your anointed.

¹¹The LORD has sworn in truth to David; he will not turn from it; I will set of the fruit of your body on your throne. ¹²If your children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit on your throne for evermore. ¹³For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation. ¹⁴This is my rest for ever: here I will dwell; for I have desired it. ¹⁵I will bless her provision abundantly: I will satisfy her poor with bread. ¹⁶I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy. ¹⁷I will make the horn of David to bud there: I have ordained a lamp for my anointed. ¹⁸His enemies I will clothe with shame: but on his crown shall flourish himself. BACK   TOP  BOOK TITLES

Psalm 133

A Song of degrees of David.

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

Psalm 134

A Song of degrees.

¹ Behold, bless you the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who by night stand in the house of the LORD. ²Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and bless the LORD. ³The LORD who made heaven and earth bless you out of Zion. BACK   TOP  BOOK TITLES

Psalm 135

¹Praise the LORD. Praise the name of the LORD; praise him, O you servants of the LORD. ²You who stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God, ³Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good: sing praises to his name; for it is pleasant. ⁴For the LORD has chosen Jacob to himself and Israel for his peculiar treasure.

⁵For I know that the LORD is great and that our Lord is above all gods. ⁶What ever the LORD pleased, that he did in heaven and in earth, in the seas and all deep places. ⁷He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain; he brings the wind out of his treasuries. ⁸Who struck the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast. ⁹Who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of you, O Egypt, on Pharaoh and on all his servants. ¹⁰Who struck great nations and slew mighty kings; ¹¹Sihon king of the Amorites and Og king of Bashan and all the kingdoms of Canaan: ¹²And gave their land for a heritage, a heritage to Israel his people. ¹³O LORD, your name endures for ever; and your memorial, O LORD, throughout all generations. ¹⁴For the LORD will judge his people and he will change himself concerning his servants.

¹⁵The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. ¹⁶They have mouths, but they do not speak; they have eyes, but they do not see; ¹⁷They have ears, but they do not hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths. ¹⁸those who make them are like to them: so is every one who trusts in them. ¹⁹Bless the LORD, O house of Israel: bless the LORD, O house of Aaron: ²⁰Bless the LORD, O house of Levi: you who fear the LORD, bless the LORD. ²¹Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, who dwells at Jerusalem. Praise you the LORD. BACK   TOP  BOOK TITLES

Psalm 136

¹O give thanks to the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endures for ever. ²O give thanks to the God of gods: for his mercy endures for ever. ³O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endures for ever. ⁴To him who alone does great wonders: for his mercy endures for ever. ⁵To him who by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endures for ever. ⁶To him who stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endures for ever. ⁷To him who made great lights: for his mercy endures for ever: ⁸The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endures for ever: ⁹The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endures for ever.

¹⁰To him who struck Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endures for ever: ¹¹And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endures for ever: ¹²With a strong hand and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endures for ever. ¹³To him who divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endures for ever: ¹⁴And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endures for ever: ¹⁵But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endures for ever. ¹⁶To him who led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endures for ever. ¹⁷To him who struck great kings: for his mercy endures for ever: ¹⁸And slew famous kings: for his mercy endures for ever: ¹⁹Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endures for ever: ²⁰And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endures for ever: ²¹And gave their land for a heritage: for his mercy endures for ever: ²²Even a heritage to Israel his servant: for his mercy endures for ever.

²³Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endures for ever: ²⁴And has redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endures for ever. ²⁵Who gives food to all flesh: for his mercy endures for ever. ²⁶O give thanks to the God of heaven: for his mercy endures for ever. BACK   TOP  BOOK TITLES

Psalm 137

¹By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion. ²We hanged our harps on the willows in the midst of them. ³For there those who carried us away captive required a song from us; and those who wasted us required mirth from us, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. ⁴How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land? ⁵If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget. ⁶If I do not remember you, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

⁷O LORD, remember the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to its foundation. ⁸O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed; happy shall he be, who rewards you as you have served us. ⁹Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the stones. BACK   TOP  BOOK TITLES

Psalm 138

A Psalm of David.

¹ I will praise you with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise to you. ²I will worship toward your holy temple and praise your name for your loving kindness and for your truth: for you have magnified your word above all your name. ³In the day when I cried you answered me, and strengthened me with strength in my soul. ⁴All the kings of the earth shall praise you, O LORD, when they hear the words of your mouth. ⁵Yes, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD.

⁶Though the LORD is high, yet he has respect to the lowly: but he knows the proud afar off. ⁷Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will revive me: you shall stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies and your right hand shall save me. ⁸The LORD will perfect that which concerns me: O LORD, your mercy, endures for ever: forsake not the works of your own hands. BACK   TOP  BOOK TITLES

Psalm 139

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

¹ O LORD, you have searched me and known me. ²You know my downsitting and my uprising, you understand my thought afar off. ³You compass my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. ⁴For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, you know it altogether. ⁵You have beset me behind and before and laid your hand on me. ⁶Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain to it.

⁷Where shall I go from your spirit? or where shall I flee from your presence? ⁸If I ascend up to heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there. ⁹If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; ¹⁰Even there your hand shall lead me and your right hand shall hold me. ¹¹If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. ¹²Yes, the darkness does not hide from you; but the night shines as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you. ¹³For you have possessed my reins: you have covered me in my mother's womb. ¹⁴I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are your works; and that my soul knows right well. ¹⁵My substance was not hidden from you, when I was made in secret and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. ¹⁶Your eyes saw my substance, yet being imperfect; and in your book all my members were written, which were fashioned in continuance, when as yet there were none of them.

¹⁷How precious also are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the sum of them! ¹⁸If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with you. ¹⁹Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, you bloody men. ²⁰For they speak against you wickedly and your enemies take your name in vain. ²¹Do I not hate them, O LORD, who hate you? and am I not grieved with those who rise up against you? ²²I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them my enemies. ²³Search me, O God and know my heart: try me and know my thoughts: ²⁴And see if there is any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting. BACK   TOP  BOOK TITLES

Psalm 140

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

¹ Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man; ²Who imagine mischiefs in their heart; they are continually gathered together for war. ³They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah. ⁴Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man who has purposed to overthrow my goings. ⁵The proud have hid a snare and cords for me,; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah. ⁶I said to the LORD, You are my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD. ⁷O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.

⁸O LORD, do not grant the desires of the wicked: do not further his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah. ⁹As for the head of those who compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them. ¹⁰Let burning coals fall on them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again. ¹¹Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him. ¹²I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted and the right of the poor. ¹³Surely the righteous shall give thanks to your name: the upright shall dwell in your presence. BACK   TOP  BOOK TITLES

Psalm 141

A Psalm of David.

¹ LORD, I cry to you: hurry to me; give ear to my voice, when I cry to you. ²Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. ³Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. ⁴Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men who work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.

⁵Let the righteous strike me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities. ⁶When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet. ⁷Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cuts and cleaves wood on the earth. ⁸But my eyes are to you, O GOD the Lord: in you is my trust; do not leave my soul destitute. ⁹Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me and the gins of the workers of iniquity. ¹⁰Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I altogether escape. BACK   TOP  BOOK TITLES

Psalm 142

Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave.

¹ I cried to the LORD with my voice; I made my supplication to the LORD with my voice. ²I poured out my complaint before him; I showed my trouble before him. ³When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then you knew my path. They have secretly laid a snare for me in the way where I walked.

⁴I looked on my right hand and beheld, but there was no man who would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. ⁵I cried to you, O LORD: I said, You are my refuge and my portion in the land of the living. ⁶Attend to my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I. ⁷Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise your name: the righteous shall compass me about; for you shall deal bountifully with me. BACK   TOP  BOOK TITLES

Psalm 143

A Psalm of David.

¹ Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications. Answer me in your faithfulness and in your righteousness. ²And do not enter into judgment with your servant: for in your sight no man living shall be justified. ³For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has struck my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in darkness, as those who have been long dead. ⁴Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. ⁵I remember the days of old; I meditate on all your works; I muse on the work of your hands. ⁶I stretch forth my hands to you: my soul thirsts after you, as a thirsty land. Selah.

⁷Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: do not hide your face from me, lest I be like them who go down into the pit. ⁸Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning; for in you I trust: cause me to know the way where I should walk; for I lift up my soul to you. ⁹Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies: I flee to you to hide me. ¹⁰Teach me to do your will; for you are my God: your spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. ¹¹Quicken me, O LORD, for your name's sake: for your righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble. ¹²And by your mercy cut off my enemies and destroy all those who afflict my soul: for I am your servant. BACK   TOP  BOOK TITLES

Psalm 144

A Psalm of David.

¹ Blessed is the LORD my strength, who teaches my hands to war and my fingers to fight: ²My goodness and my fortress; my high tower and my deliverer; my shield and he in whom I trust; who subdues my people under me. ³LORD, what is man, that you take knowledge of him! or the son of man, that you make account of him! ⁴Man is like vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away. ⁵O LORD, bow your heavens and come down: touch the mountains and they shall smoke. ⁶Cast forth lightning and scatter them: shoot out your arrows and destroy them. ⁷Send your hand from above; rid me and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children; ⁸Whose mouth speaks vanity and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

⁹I will sing a new song to you, O God: on a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to you. ¹⁰It is he who gives salvation to kings: who delivers David his servant from the hurtful sword. ¹¹Rid me and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaks vanity and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood: ¹²That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace: ¹³That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets: ¹⁴That our oxen may be strong to labor; so that there is there isno breaking in, nor going out; so that there is no complaining in our streets. ¹⁵Happy are that peothe people who are in such a case: yes, happy are the people, whose God is the LORD. BACK   TOP  BOOK TITLES

Psalm 145

David's Psalm of praise.

¹ I will extol you, my God, O king; and I will bless your name for ever and ever. ²Every day I will bless you; and I will praise your name for ever and ever. ³Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable. ⁴One generation to another shall praise your works, and shall declare your mighty acts. ⁵I will speak of the glorious honor of your majesty and of your wondrous works. ⁶And men shall speak of the might of your terrible acts: and I will declare your greatness. ⁷They shall abundantly utter the memory of your great goodness and shall sing of your righteousness. ⁸The LORD is gracious and full of compassion; slow to anger and of great mercy. ⁹The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

¹⁰All your works shall praise you, O LORD; and your saints shall bless you. ¹¹They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom and talk of your power; ¹²To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts and the glorious majesty of his kingdom. ¹³Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations. ¹⁴The LORD upholds all who fall and raises up all those who are bowed down. ¹⁵The eyes of all wait on you; and you give them their meat in due season. ¹⁶You open your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. ¹⁷The LORD is righteous in all his ways and holy in all his works. ¹⁸The LORD is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. ¹⁹He will fulfil the desire of those who fear him: he also will hear their cry and will save them. ²⁰The LORD preserves all those who love him: but he will destroy all the wicked. ²¹My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever. BACK   TOP  BOOK TITLES

Psalm 146

¹Praise the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul. ²While I live I will praise the LORD: I will sing praises to my God while I have any being. ³Do not put your trust in princes, nor in the son of man in whom there is no help. ⁴His breath goes forth, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

⁵Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God: ⁶Who made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them: which keeps truth for ever: ⁷Who executes judgment for the oppressed: who gives food to the hungry. The LORD loosens the prisoners: ⁸The LORD opens the eyes of the blind: the LORD raises those who are bowed down: the LORD loves the righteous: ⁹The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down. ¹⁰The LORD shall reign for ever, even your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise you the LORD. BACK   TOP  BOOK TITLES

Psalm 147

¹Praise you the LORD: for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely. ²The LORD builds up Jerusalem: he gathers together the outcasts of Israel. ³He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds. ⁴He tells the number of the stars; he calls them all by their names. ⁵Great is our Lord and of great power: his understanding is infinite. ⁶The LORD lifts up the meek: he casts the wicked down to the ground. ⁷Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise on the harp to our God: ⁸Who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the mountains. ⁹He gives his foodto the animal and to the young ravens who cry. ¹⁰He does not delight in the strength of the horse: he takes no pleasure in the legs of a man. ¹¹The LORD takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his mercy.

¹²Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion. ¹³For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; he has blessed your children within you. ¹⁴He makes peace in your borders and fills you with the finest of the wheat. ¹⁵He sends forth his commandment on earth: his word runs very swiftly. ¹⁶He gives snow like wool: he scatters the hoarfrost like ashes. ¹⁷He casts forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold? ¹⁸He sends out his word and melts them: he causes his wind to blow and the waters flow. ¹⁹He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his judgments to Israel. ²⁰He has not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise you the LORD. BACK   TOP  BOOK TITLES

Psalm 148

¹Praise the LORD. Praise the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the heights. ²Praise him, all his angels: praise him, all his hosts. ³Praise him, sun and moon: praise him, all you stars of light. ⁴Praise him, you heavens of heavens and you waters that are above the heavens. ⁵Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded and they were created. ⁶He has also established them for ever and ever: he has made a decree which shall not pass.

⁷Praise the LORD from the earth, you dragons and all deeps. ⁸Fire and hail; snow and vapor; stormy wind fulfilling his word. ⁹Mountains and all hills; fruitful trees and all cedars: ¹⁰animals, and all cattle; creeping things and flying fowl: ¹¹Kings of the earth and all people; princes and all judges of the earth: ¹²Both young men and maidens; old men and children: ¹³Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven. ¹⁴He also exalts the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise you the LORD. BACK   TOP  BOOK TITLES

Psalm 149

¹Praise the LORD. Sing to the LORD a new song and his praise in the congregation of saints. ²Let Israel rejoice in him who made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. ³Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises to him with the timbrel and harp. ⁴For the LORD takes pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation. ⁵Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud on their beds.

⁶Let the high praises of God be in their mouth and a two edged sword in their hand; ⁷To execute vengeance on the heathen and punishments on the people; ⁸To bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron; ⁹To execute on them the judgment written: this honor have all his saints. Praise the LORD. BACK   TOP  BOOK TITLES

Psalm 150

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

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