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The Book of Psalms

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Psalm 1

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

Psalm 2

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

Psalm 3

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

LORD,  how are they increased that trouble me!  many  are  they that rise up against me.  Many  there be  which say of my soul,   There is  no help for him in God.  Selah.  But thou,  O LORD,   art  a shield for me;  my glory,  and the lifter up of mine head.  I cried unto the LORD with my voice,  and he heard me out of his holy hill.  Selah.  I laid me down and slept;  I awaked;  for the LORD sustained me.  I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people,  that have set  themselves  against me round about.  Arise,  O LORD;  save me,  O my God:  for thou hast smitten all mine enemies  upon  the cheek bone;  thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.  Salvation  belongeth  unto the LORD:  thy blessing  is  upon thy people.  Selah. 

Psalm 4

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

Hear me when I call,  O God of my righteousness:  thou hast enlarged me  when I was  in distress;  have mercy upon me,  and hear my prayer.  O ye sons of men,  how long  will ye turn  my glory into shame?   how long  will ye love vanity,   and  seek after leasing?  Selah.  But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself:  the LORD will hear when I call unto him.  Stand in awe,  and sin not:  commune with your own heart upon your bed,  and be still.  Selah.  Offer the sacrifices of righteousness,  and put your trust in the LORD.   There be  many that say,  Who will shew us  any  good?  LORD,  lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.  Thou hast put gladness in my heart,  more than in the time  that  their corn and their wine increased.  I will both lay me down in peace,  and sleep:  for thou,  LORD,  only makest me dwell in safety. 

Psalm 5

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

Give ear to my words,  O LORD,  consider my meditation.  Hearken unto the voice of my cry,  my King,  and my God:  for unto thee will I pray.  My voice shalt thou hear in the morning,  O LORD;  in the morning will I direct  my prayer  unto thee,  and will look up.  For thou  art  not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness:  neither shall evil dwell with thee.  The foolish shall not stand in thy sight:  thou hatest all workers of iniquity.  Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing:  the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.  But as for me,  I will come  into  thy house in the multitude of thy mercy:   and  in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.  Lead me,  O LORD,  in thy righteousness because of mine enemies;  make thy way straight before my face.  For  there is  no faithfulness in their mouth;  their inward part  is  very wickedness;  their throat  is  an open sepulchre;  they flatter with their tongue.  Destroy thou them,  O God;  let them fall by their own counsels;  cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions;  for they have rebelled against thee.  But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice:  let them ever shout for joy,  because thou defendest them:  let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.  For thou,  LORD,  wilt bless the righteous;  with favour wilt thou compass him as  with  a shield. 

Psalm 6

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

O LORD,  rebuke me not in thine anger,  neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.  Have mercy upon me,  O LORD;  for I  am  weak:  O LORD,  heal me;  for my bones are vexed.  My soul is also sore vexed:  but thou,  O LORD,  how long?  Return,  O LORD,  deliver my soul:  oh save me for thy mercies' sake.  For in death  there is  no remembrance of thee:  in the grave who shall give thee thanks?  I am weary with my groaning;  all the night make I my bed to swim;  I water my couch with my tears.  Mine eye is consumed because of grief;  it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.  Depart from me,  all ye workers of iniquity;  for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.  The LORD hath heard my supplication;  the LORD will receive my prayer.  Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed:  let them return  and  be ashamed suddenly. 

Psalm 7

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

O Lord my God,  in thee do I put my trust:  save me from all them that persecute me,  and deliver me:  Lest he tear my soul like a lion,  rending  it  in pieces,  while  there is  none to deliver.  O LORD my God,  if I have done this;  if there be iniquity in my hands;  If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me;  (yea,  I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:) Let the enemy persecute my soul,  and take  it ;  yea,  let him tread down my life upon the earth,  and lay mine honour in the dust.  Selah.  Arise,  O LORD,  in thine anger,  lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies:  and awake for me  to  the judgment  that  thou hast commanded.  So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about:  for their sakes therefore return thou on high.  The LORD shall judge the people:  judge me,  O LORD,  according to my righteousness,  and according to mine integrity  that is  in me.  Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end;  but establish the just:  for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.  My defence  is  of God,  which saveth the upright in heart.  God judgeth the righteous,  and God is angry  with the wicked  every day.  If he turn not,  he will whet his sword;  he hath bent his bow,  and made it ready.  He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death;  he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.  Behold,  he travaileth with iniquity,  and hath conceived mischief,  and brought forth falsehood.  He made a pit,  and digged it,  and is fallen into the ditch  which  he made.  His mischief shall return upon his own head,  and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.  I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness:  and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high. 

Psalm 8

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

O LORD our Lord,  how excellent  is  thy name in all the earth!  who hast set thy glory above the heavens.  Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies,  that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.  When I consider thy heavens,  the work of thy fingers,  the moon and the stars,  which thou hast ordained;  What is man,  that thou art mindful of him?  and the son of man,  that thou visitest him?  For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels,  and hast crowned him with glory and honour.  Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;  thou hast put all  things  under his feet:  All sheep and oxen,  yea,  and the beasts of the field;  The fowl of the air,  and the fish of the sea,   and whatsoever  passeth through the paths of the seas.  O LORD our Lord,  how excellent is thy name in all the earth! 

Psalm 9

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

I will praise  thee ,  O LORD,  with my whole heart;  I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.  I will be glad and rejoice in thee:  I will sing praise to thy name,  O thou most High.  When mine enemies are turned back,  they shall fall and perish at thy presence.  For thou hast maintained my right and my cause;  thou satest in the throne judging right.  Thou hast rebuked the heathen,  thou hast destroyed the wicked,  thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.  O thou enemy,  destructions are come to a perpetual end:  and thou hast destroyed cities;  their memorial is perished with them.  But the LORD shall endure for ever:  he hath prepared his throne for judgment.  And he shall judge the world in righteousness,  he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.  The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed,  a refuge in times of trouble.  And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee:  for thou,  LORD,  hast not forsaken them that seek thee.  Sing praises to the LORD,  which dwelleth in Zion:  declare among the people his doings.  When he maketh inquisition for blood,  he remembereth them:  he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.  Have mercy upon me,  O LORD;  consider my trouble  which I suffer  of them that hate me,  thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:  That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion:  I will rejoice in thy salvation.  The heathen are sunk down in the pit  that  they made:  in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.  The LORD is known  by  the judgment  which  he executeth:  the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.  Higgaion.  Selah.  The wicked shall be turned into hell,   and  all the nations that forget God.  For the needy shall not alway be forgotten:  the expectation of the poor shall  not  perish for ever.  Arise,  O LORD;  let not man prevail:  let the heathen be judged in thy sight.  Put them in fear,  O LORD:   that  the nations may know themselves  to be but  men.  Selah. 

Psalm 10

Why standest thou afar off,  O LORD?   why  hidest thou  thyself  in times of trouble?  The wicked in  his  pride doth persecute the poor:  let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.  For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire,  and blesseth the covetous,   whom  the LORD abhorreth.  The wicked,  through the pride of his countenance,  will not seek  after God :  God  is  not in all his thoughts.  His ways are always grievous;  thy judgments  are  far above out of his sight:   as for  all his enemies,  he puffeth at them.  He hath said in his heart,  I shall not be moved:  for  I shall  never  be  in adversity.  His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud:  under his tongue  is  mischief and vanity.  He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages:  in the secret places doth he murder the innocent:  his eyes are privily set against the poor.  He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den:  he lieth in wait to catch the poor:  he doth catch the poor,  when he draweth him into his net.  He croucheth,   and  humbleth himself,  that the poor may fall by his strong ones.  He hath said in his heart,  God hath forgotten:  he hideth his face;  he will never see  it .  Arise,  O LORD;  O God,  lift up thine hand:  forget not the humble.  Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God?  he hath said in his heart,  Thou wilt not require  it .  Thou hast seen  it ;  for thou beholdest mischief and spite,  to requite  it  with thy hand:  the poor committeth himself unto thee;  thou art the helper of the fatherless.  Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil  man :  seek out his wickedness  till  thou find none.  The LORD  is  King for ever and ever:  the heathen are perished out of his land.  LORD,  thou hast heard the desire of the humble:  thou wilt prepare their heart,  thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:  To judge the fatherless and the oppressed,  that the man of the earth may no more oppress. 

Psalm 11

To the chief Musician,  A  Psalm  of David. 

In the LORD put I my trust:  How say ye to my soul,  Flee  as  a bird to your mountain?  For,  lo,  the wicked bend  their  bow,  they make ready their arrow upon the string,  that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.  If the foundations be destroyed,  what can the righteous do?  The LORD  is  in his holy temple,  the LORD'S throne  is  in heaven:  his eyes behold,  his eyelids try,  the children of men.  The LORD trieth the righteous:  but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.  Upon the wicked he shall rain snares,  fire and brimstone,  and an horrible tempest:   this shall be  the portion of their cup.  For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness;  his countenance doth behold the upright. 

Psalm 12

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

Help,  LORD;  for the godly man ceaseth;  for the faithful fail from among the children of men.  They speak vanity every one with his neighbour:   with  flattering lips  and  with a double heart do they speak.  The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips,   and  the tongue that speaketh proud things:  Who have said,  With our tongue will we prevail;  our lips  are  our own:  who  is  lord over us?  For the oppression of the poor,  for the sighing of the needy,  now will I arise,  saith the LORD;  I will set  him  in safety  from him that  puffeth at him.  The words of the LORD  are  pure words:   as  silver tried in a furnace of earth,  purified seven times.  Thou shalt keep them,  O LORD,  thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.  The wicked walk on every side,  when the vilest men are exalted. 

Psalm 13

To the chief Musician,  A Psalm of David. 

How long wilt thou forget me,  O LORD?  for ever?  how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?  How long shall I take counsel in my soul,   having  sorrow in my heart daily?  how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?  Consider  and  hear me,  O LORD my God:  lighten mine eyes,  lest I sleep the  sleep of  death;  Lest mine enemy say,  I have prevailed against him;   and  those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.  But I have trusted in thy mercy;  my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.  I will sing unto the LORD,  because he hath dealt bountifully with me. 

Psalm 14

To the chief Musician,  A  Psalm  of David. 

The fool hath said in his heart,   There is  no God.  They are corrupt,  they have done abominable works,   there is  none that doeth good.  The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men,  to see if there were any that did understand,   and  seek God.  They are all gone aside,  they are  all  together become filthy:   there is  none that doeth good,  no,  not one.  Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge?  who eat up my people  as  they eat bread,  and call not upon the LORD.  There were they in great fear:  for God  is  in the generation of the righteous.  Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor,  because the LORD  is  his refuge.  Oh that the salvation of Israel  were come  out of Zion!  when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people,  Jacob shall rejoice,   and  Israel shall be glad. 

Psalm 15

A Psalm of David. 

LORD,  who shall abide in thy tabernacle?  who shall dwell in thy holy hill?  He that walketh uprightly,  and worketh righteousness,  and speaketh the truth in his heart.   He that  backbiteth not with his tongue,  nor doeth evil to his neighbour,  nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.  In whose eyes a vile person is contemned;  but he honoureth them that fear the LORD.   He that  sweareth to  his own  hurt,  and changeth not.   He that  putteth not out his money to usury,  nor taketh reward against the innocent.  He that doeth these  things  shall never be moved. 

Psalm 16

Michtam of David. 

Preserve me,  O God:  for in thee do I put my trust.   O my soul ,  thou hast said unto the LORD,  Thou  art  my Lord:  my goodness  extendeth  not to thee;   But  to the saints that  are  in the earth,  and  to  the excellent,  in whom  is  all my delight.  Their sorrows shall be multiplied  that  hasten  after  another  god :  their drink offerings of blood will I not offer,  nor take up their names into my lips.  The LORD  is  the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup:  thou maintainest my lot.  The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant  places ;  yea,  I have a goodly heritage.  I will bless the LORD,  who hath given me counsel:  my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.  I have set the LORD always before me:  because  he is  at my right hand,  I shall not be moved.  Therefore my heart is glad,  and my glory rejoiceth:  my flesh also shall rest in hope.  For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell;  neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.  Thou wilt shew me the path of life:  in thy presence  is  fulness of joy;  at thy right hand  there are  pleasures for evermore. 

Psalm 17

A Prayer of David. 

Hear the right,  O LORD,  attend unto my cry,  give ear unto my prayer,   that goeth  not out of feigned lips.  Let my sentence come forth from thy presence;  let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.  Thou hast proved mine heart;  thou hast visited  me  in the night;  thou hast tried me,   and  shalt find nothing;  I am purposed  that  my mouth shall not transgress.  Concerning the works of men,  by the word of thy lips I have kept  me from  the paths of the destroyer.  Hold up my goings in thy paths,   that  my footsteps slip not.  I have called upon thee,  for thou wilt hear me,  O God:  incline thine ear unto me,   and hear  my speech.  Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness,  O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust  in thee  from those that rise up  against them .  Keep me as the apple of the eye,  hide me under the shadow of thy wings,  From the wicked that oppress me,   from  my deadly enemies,   who  compass me about.  They are inclosed in their own fat:  with their mouth they speak proudly.  They have now compassed us in our steps:  they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;  Like as a lion  that  is greedy of his prey,  and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.  Arise,  O LORD,  disappoint him,  cast him down:  deliver my soul from the wicked,   which is  thy sword:  From men  which are  thy hand,  O LORD,  from men of the world,   which have  their portion in  this  life,  and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid  treasure :  they are full of children,  and leave the rest of their  substance  to their babes.  As for me,  I will behold thy face in righteousness:  I shall be satisfied,  when I awake,  with thy likeness. 

Psalm 18

To the chief Musician,  A  Psalm  of David,  the servant of the LORD,  who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day  that  the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies,  and from the hand of Saul:  And he said, 

I will love thee,  O LORD,  my strength.  The LORD  is  my rock,  and my fortress,  and my deliverer;  my God,  my strength,  in whom I will trust;  my buckler,  and the horn of my salvation,   and  my high tower.  I will call upon the LORD,   who is worthy  to be praised:  so shall I be saved from mine enemies.  The sorrows of death compassed me,  and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.  The sorrows of hell compassed me about:  the snares of death prevented me.  In my distress I called upon the LORD,  and cried unto my God:  he heard my voice out of his temple,  and my cry came before him,   even  into his ears.  Then the earth shook and trembled;  the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken,  because he was wroth.  There went up a smoke out of his nostrils,  and fire out of his mouth devoured:  coals were kindled by it.  He bowed the heavens also,  and came down:  and darkness  was  under his feet.  And he rode upon a cherub,  and did fly:  yea,  he did fly upon the wings of the wind.  He made darkness his secret place;  his pavilion round about him  were  dark waters  and  thick clouds of the skies.  At the brightness  that was  before him his thick clouds passed,  hail  stones  and coals of fire.  The LORD also thundered in the heavens,  and the Highest gave his voice;  hail  stones  and coals of fire.  Yea,  he sent out his arrows,  and scattered them;  and he shot out lightnings,  and discomfited them.  Then the channels of waters were seen,  and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke,  O LORD,  at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.  He sent from above,  he took me,  he drew me out of many waters.  He delivered me from my strong enemy,  and from them which hated me:  for they were too strong for me.  They prevented me in the day of my calamity:  but the LORD was my stay.  He brought me forth also into a large place;  he delivered me,  because he delighted in me.  The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness;  according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.  For I have kept the ways of the LORD,  and have not wickedly departed from my God.  For all his judgments  were  before me,  and I did not put away his statutes from me.  I was also upright before him,  and I kept myself from mine iniquity.  Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness,  according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.  With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful;  with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;  With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure;  and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.  For thou wilt save the afflicted people;  but wilt bring down high looks.  For thou wilt light my candle:  the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.  For by thee I have run through a troop;  and by my God have I leaped over a wall.   As for  God,  his way  is  perfect:  the word of the LORD is tried:  he  is  a buckler to all those that trust in him.  For who  is  God save the LORD?  or who  is  a rock save our God?   It is  God that girdeth me with strength,  and maketh my way perfect.  He maketh my feet like hinds'  feet ,  and setteth me upon my high places.  He teacheth my hands to war,  so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.  Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation:  and thy right hand hath holden me up,  and thy gentleness hath made me great.  Thou hast enlarged my steps under me,  that my feet did not slip.  I have pursued mine enemies,  and overtaken them:  neither did I turn again till they were consumed.  I have wounded them that they were not able to rise:  they are fallen under my feet.  For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle:  thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.  Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies;  that I might destroy them that hate me.  They cried,  but  there was  none to save  them:  even  unto the LORD,  but he answered them not.  Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind:  I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.  Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people;   and  thou hast made me the head of the heathen:  a people  whom  I have not known shall serve me.  As soon as they hear of me,  they shall obey me:  the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.  The strangers shall fade away,  and be afraid out of their close places.  The LORD liveth;  and blessed  be  my rock;  and let the God of my salvation be exalted.   It is  God that avengeth me,  and subdueth the people under me.  He delivereth me from mine enemies:  yea,  thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me:  thou hast delivered me from the violent man.  Therefore will I give thanks unto thee,  O LORD,  among the heathen,  and sing praises unto thy name.  Great deliverance giveth he to his king;  and sheweth mercy to his anointed,  to David,  and to his seed for evermore. 

Psalm 19

To the chief Musician,  A Psalm of David. 

The heavens declare the glory of God;  and the firmament sheweth his handywork.  Day unto day uttereth speech,  and night unto night sheweth knowledge.   There is  no speech nor language,   where  their voice is not heard.  Their line is gone out through all the earth,  and their words to the end of the world.  In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,  Which  is  as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,   and  rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.  His going forth  is  from the end of the heaven,  and his circuit unto the ends of it:  and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.  The law of the LORD  is  perfect,  converting the soul:  the testimony of the LORD  is  sure,  making wise the simple.  The statutes of the LORD  are  right,  rejoicing the heart:  the commandment of the LORD  is  pure,  enlightening the eyes.  The fear of the LORD  is  clean,  enduring for ever:  the judgments of the LORD  are  true  and  righteous altogether.  More to be desired  are they  than gold,  yea,  than much fine gold:  sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.  Moreover by them is thy servant warned:   and  in keeping of them  there is  great reward.  Who can understand  his  errors?  cleanse thou me from secret  faults .  Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous  sins ;  let them not have dominion over me:  then shall I be upright,  and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.  Let the words of my mouth,  and the meditation of my heart,  be acceptable in thy sight,  O LORD,  my strength,  and my redeemer. 

Psalm 20

To the chief Musician,  A Psalm of David. 

The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble;  the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;  Send thee help from the sanctuary,  and strengthen thee out of Zion;  Remember all thy offerings,  and accept thy burnt sacrifice;  Selah.  Grant thee according to thine own heart,  and fulfil all thy counsel.  We will rejoice in thy salvation,  and in the name of our God we will set up  our  banners:  the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.  Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed;  he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.  Some  trust  in chariots,  and some in horses:  but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.  They are brought down and fallen:  but we are risen,  and stand upright.  Save,  LORD:  let the king hear us when we call. 

Psalm 21

To the chief Musician,  A Psalm of David. 

The king shall joy in thy strength,  O LORD;  and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!  Thou hast given him his heart's desire,  and hast not withholden the request of his lips.  Selah.  For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness:  thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.  He asked life of thee,   and  thou gavest  it  him,   even  length of days for ever and ever.  His glory  is  great in thy salvation:  honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.  For thou hast made him most blessed for ever:  thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.  For the king trusteth in the LORD,  and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.  Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies:  thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.  Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger:  the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath,  and the fire shall devour them.  Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth,  and their seed from among the children of men.  For they intended evil against thee:  they imagined a mischievous device,   which  they are not able  to perform .  Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back,   when  thou shalt make ready  thine arrows  upon thy strings against the face of them.  Be thou exalted,  LORD,  in thine own strength:   so  will we sing and praise thy power. 

Psalm 22

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

My God,  my God,  why hast thou forsaken me?   why art thou so  far from helping me,   and from  the words of my roaring?  O my God,  I cry in the daytime,  but thou hearest not;  and in the night season,  and am not silent.  But thou  art  holy,   O thou  that inhabitest the praises of Israel.  Our fathers trusted in thee:  they trusted,  and thou didst deliver them.  They cried unto thee,  and were delivered:  they trusted in thee,  and were not confounded.  But I  am  a worm,  and no man;  a reproach of men,  and despised of the people.  All they that see me laugh me to scorn:  they shoot out the lip,  they shake the head  saying ,  He trusted on the LORD  that  he would deliver him:  let him deliver him,  seeing he delighted in him.  But thou  art  he that took me out of the womb:  thou didst make me hope  when I was  upon my mother's breasts.  I was cast upon thee from the womb:  thou  art  my God from my mother's belly.  Be not far from me;  for trouble  is  near;  for  there is  none to help.  Many bulls have compassed me:  strong  bulls  of Bashan have beset me round.  They gaped upon me  with  their mouths,   as  a ravening and a roaring lion.  I am poured out like water,  and all my bones are out of joint:  my heart is like wax;  it is melted in the midst of my bowels.  My strength is dried up like a potsherd;  and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws;  and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.  For dogs have compassed me:  the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me:  they pierced my hands and my feet.  I may tell all my bones:  they look  and  stare upon me.  They part my garments among them,  and cast lots upon my vesture.  But be not thou far from me,  O LORD:  O my strength,  haste thee to help me.  Deliver my soul from the sword;  my darling from the power of the dog.  Save me from the lion's mouth:  for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.  I will declare thy name unto my brethren:  in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.  Ye that fear the LORD,  praise him;  all ye the seed of Jacob,  glorify him;  and fear him,  all ye the seed of Israel.  For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;  neither hath he hid his face from him;  but when he cried unto him,  he heard.  My praise  shall be  of thee in the great congregation:  I will pay my vows before them that fear him.  The meek shall eat and be satisfied:  they shall praise the LORD that seek him:  your heart shall live for ever.  All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD:  and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.  For the kingdom  is  the LORD'S:  and he  is  the governor among the nations.  All  they that be  fat upon earth shall eat and worship:  all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him:  and none can keep alive his own soul.  A seed shall serve him;  it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.  They shall come,  and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born,  that he hath done  this . 

Psalm 23

A Psalm of David. 

The LORD  is  my shepherd;  I shall not want.  He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:  he leadeth me beside the still waters.  He restoreth my soul:  he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.  Yea,  though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,  I will fear no evil:  for thou  art  with me;  thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.  Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:  thou anointest my head with oil;  my cup runneth over.  Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:  and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever. 

Psalm 24

A Psalm of David. 

The earth  is  the LORD'S,  and the fulness thereof;  the world,  and they that dwell therein.  For he hath founded it upon the seas,  and established it upon the floods.  Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD?  or who shall stand in his holy place?  He that hath clean hands,  and a pure heart;  who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity,  nor sworn deceitfully.  He shall receive the blessing from the LORD,  and righteousness from the God of his salvation.  This  is  the generation of them that seek him,  that seek thy face,  O Jacob.  Selah.  Lift up your heads,  O ye gates;  and be ye lift up,  ye everlasting doors;  and the King of glory shall come in.  Who  is  this King of glory?  The LORD strong and mighty,  the LORD mighty in battle.  Lift up your heads,  O ye gates;  even lift  them  up,  ye everlasting doors;  and the King of glory shall come in.  Who is this King of glory?  The LORD of hosts,  he  is  the King of glory.  Selah. 

Psalm 25

A  Psalm  of David. 

Unto thee,  O LORD,  do I lift up my soul.  O my God,  I trust in thee:  let me not be ashamed,  let not mine enemies triumph over me.  Yea,  let none that wait on thee be ashamed:  let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.  Shew me thy ways,  O LORD;  teach me thy paths.  Lead me in thy truth,  and teach me:  for thou  art  the God of my salvation;  on thee do I wait all the day.  Remember,  O LORD,  thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses;  for they  have been  ever of old.  Remember not the sins of my youth,  nor my transgressions:  according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake,  O LORD.  Good and upright  is  the LORD:  therefore will he teach sinners in the way.  The meek will he guide in judgment:  and the meek will he teach his way.  All the paths of the LORD  are  mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.  For thy name's sake,  O LORD,  pardon mine iniquity;  for it  is  great.  What man  is  he that feareth the LORD?  him shall he teach in the way  that  he shall choose.  His soul shall dwell at ease;  and his seed shall inherit the earth.  The secret of the LORD  is  with them that fear him;  and he will shew them his covenant.  Mine eyes  are  ever toward the LORD;  for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.  Turn thee unto me,  and have mercy upon me;  for I  am  desolate and afflicted.  The troubles of my heart are enlarged:   O  bring thou me out of my distresses.  Look upon mine affliction and my pain;  and forgive all my sins.  Consider mine enemies;  for they are many;  and they hate me with cruel hatred.  O keep my soul,  and deliver me:  let me not be ashamed;  for I put my trust in thee.  Let integrity and uprightness preserve me;  for I wait on thee.  Redeem Israel,  O God,  out of all his troubles. 

Psalm 26

A  Psalm  of David. 

Judge me,  O LORD;  for I have walked in mine integrity:  I have trusted also in the LORD;   therefore  I shall not slide.  Examine me,  O LORD,  and prove me;  try my reins and my heart.  For thy lovingkindness  is  before mine eyes:  and I have walked in thy truth.  I have not sat with vain persons,  neither will I go in with dissemblers.  I have hated the congregation of evildoers;  and will not sit with the wicked.  I will wash mine hands in innocency:  so will I compass thine altar,  O LORD:  That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving,  and tell of all thy wondrous works.  LORD,  I have loved the habitation of thy house,  and the place where thine honour dwelleth.  Gather not my soul with sinners,  nor my life with bloody men:  In whose hands  is  mischief,  and their right hand is full of bribes.  But as for me,  I will walk in mine integrity:  redeem me,  and be merciful unto me.  My foot standeth in an even place:  in the congregations will I bless the LORD. 

Psalm 27

A  Psalm  of David. 

The LORD  is  my light and my salvation;  whom shall I fear?  the LORD  is  the strength of my life;  of whom shall I be afraid?  When the wicked,   even  mine enemies and my foes,  came upon me to eat up my flesh,  they stumbled and fell.  Though an host should encamp against me,  my heart shall not fear:  though war should rise against me,  in this  will  I  be  confident.  One  thing  have I desired of the LORD,  that will I seek after;  that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life,  to behold the beauty of the LORD,  and to inquire in his temple.  For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion:  in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me;  he shall set me up upon a rock.  And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me:  therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy;  I will sing,  yea,  I will sing praises unto the LORD.  Hear,  O LORD,   when  I cry with my voice:  have mercy also upon me,  and answer me.   When thou saidst ,  Seek ye my face;  my heart said unto thee,  Thy face,  LORD,  will I seek.  Hide not thy face  far  from me;  put not thy servant away in anger:  thou hast been my help;  leave me not,  neither forsake me,  O God of my salvation.  When my father and my mother forsake me,  then the LORD will take me up.  Teach me thy way,  O LORD,  and lead me in a plain path,  because of mine enemies.  Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies:  for false witnesses are risen up against me,  and such as breathe out cruelty.   I had fainted ,  unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.  Wait on the LORD:  be of good courage,  and he shall strengthen thine heart:  wait,  I say,  on the LORD. 

Psalm 28

A  Psalm  of David. 

Unto thee will I cry,  O LORD my rock;  be not silent to me:  lest,   if  thou be silent to me,  I become like them that go down into the pit.  Hear the voice of my supplications,  when I cry unto thee,  when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.  Draw me not away with the wicked,  and with the workers of iniquity,  which speak peace to their neighbours,  but mischief  is  in their hearts.  Give them according to their deeds,  and according to the wickedness of their endeavours:  give them after the work of their hands;  render to them their desert.  Because they regard not the works of the LORD,  nor the operation of his hands,  he shall destroy them,  and not build them up.  Blessed  be  the LORD,  because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.  The LORD  is  my strength and my shield;  my heart trusted in him,  and I am helped:  therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth;  and with my song will I praise him.  The LORD  is  their strength,  and he  is  the saving strength of his anointed.  Save thy people,  and bless thine inheritance:  feed them also,  and lift them up for ever. 

Psalm 29

A Psalm of David. 

Give unto the LORD,  O ye mighty,  give unto the LORD glory and strength.  Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name;  worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.  The voice of the LORD  is  upon the waters:  the God of glory thundereth:  the LORD  is  upon many waters.  The voice of the LORD  is  powerful;  the voice of the LORD  is  full of majesty.  The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars;  yea,  the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.  He maketh them also to skip like a calf;  Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.  The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.  The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness;  the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.  The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve,  and discovereth the forests:  and in his temple doth every one speak of  his  glory.  The LORD sitteth upon the flood;  yea,  the LORD sitteth King for ever.  The LORD will give strength unto his people;  the LORD will bless his people with peace. 

Psalm 30

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

I will extol thee,  O LORD;  for thou hast lifted me up,  and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.  O LORD my God,  I cried unto thee,  and thou hast healed me.  O LORD,  thou hast brought up my soul from the grave:  thou hast kept me alive,  that I should not go down to the pit.  Sing unto the LORD,  O ye saints of his,  and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.  For his anger  endureth but  a moment;  in his favour is life:  weeping may endure for a night,  but joy  cometh  in the morning.  And in my prosperity I said,  I shall never be moved.  LORD,  by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong:  thou didst hide thy face,   and  I was troubled.  I cried to thee,  O LORD;  and unto the LORD I made supplication.  What profit  is there  in my blood,  when I go down to the pit?  Shall the dust praise thee?  shall it declare thy truth?  Hear,  O LORD,  and have mercy upon me:  LORD,  be thou my helper.  Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing:  thou hast put off my sackcloth,  and girded me with gladness;  To the end that  my  glory may sing praise to thee,  and not be silent.  O LORD my God,  I will give thanks unto thee for ever. 

Psalm 31

To the chief Musician,  A Psalm of David. 

In thee,  O LORD,  do I put my trust;  let me never be ashamed:  deliver me in thy righteousness.  Bow down thine ear to me;  deliver me speedily:  be thou my strong rock,  for an house of defence to save me.  For thou  art  my rock and my fortress;  therefore for thy name's sake lead me,  and guide me.  Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me:  for thou  art  my strength.  Into thine hand I commit my spirit:  thou hast redeemed me,  O LORD God of truth.  I have hated them that regard lying vanities:  but I trust in the LORD.  I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy:  for thou hast considered my trouble;  thou hast known my soul in adversities;  And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy:  thou hast set my feet in a large room.  Have mercy upon me,  O LORD,  for I am in trouble:  mine eye is consumed with grief,   yea ,  my soul and my belly.  For my life is spent with grief,  and my years with sighing:  my strength faileth because of mine iniquity,  and my bones are consumed.  I was a reproach among all mine enemies,  but especially among my neighbours,  and a fear to mine acquaintance:  they that did see me without fled from me.  I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind:  I am like a broken vessel.  For I have heard the slander of many:  fear  was  on every side:  while they took counsel together against me,  they devised to take away my life.  But I trusted in thee,  O LORD:  I said,  Thou  art  my God.  My times  are  in thy hand:  deliver me from the hand of mine enemies,  and from them that persecute me.  Make thy face to shine upon thy servant:  save me for thy mercies' sake.  Let me not be ashamed,  O LORD;  for I have called upon thee:  let the wicked be ashamed,   and  let them be silent in the grave.  Let the lying lips be put to silence;  which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.   Oh  how great  is  thy goodness,  which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee;   which  thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!  Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man:  thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.  Blessed  be  the LORD:  for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.  For I said in my haste,  I am cut off from before thine eyes:  nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.  O love the LORD,  all ye his saints:   for  the LORD preserveth the faithful,  and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.  Be of good courage,  and he shall strengthen your heart,  all ye that hope in the LORD. 

Psalm 32

A  Psalm  of David,  Maschil. 

Blessed  is he whose  transgression  is  forgiven,   whose  sin  is  covered.  Blessed  is  the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity,  and in whose spirit  there is  no guile.  When I kept silence,  my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.  For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me:  my moisture is turned into the drought of summer.  Selah.  I acknowledged my sin unto thee,  and mine iniquity have I not hid.  I said,  I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD;  and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.  Selah.  For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found:  surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.  Thou  art  my hiding place;  thou shalt preserve me from trouble;  thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance.  Selah.  I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go:  I will guide thee with mine eye.  Be ye not as the horse,   or  as the mule,   which  have no understanding:  whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle,  lest they come near unto thee.  Many sorrows  shall be  to the wicked:  but he that trusteth in the LORD,  mercy shall compass him about.  Be glad in the LORD,  and rejoice,  ye righteous:  and shout for joy,  all  ye that are  upright in heart. 

Psalm 33

Rejoice in the LORD,  O ye righteous:   for  praise is comely for the upright.  Praise the LORD with harp:  sing unto him with the psaltery  and  an instrument of ten strings.  Sing unto him a new song;  play skilfully with a loud noise.  For the word of the LORD  is  right;  and all his works  are done  in truth.  He loveth righteousness and judgment:  the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.  By the word of the LORD were the heavens made;  and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.  He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap:  he layeth up the depth in storehouses.  Let all the earth fear the LORD:  let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.  For he spake,  and it was  done ;  he commanded,  and it stood fast.  The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought:  he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.  The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever,  the thoughts of his heart to all generations.  Blessed  is  the nation whose God  is  the LORD:   and  the people  whom  he hath chosen for his own inheritance.  The LORD looketh from heaven;  he beholdeth all the sons of men.  From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.  He fashioneth their hearts alike;  he considereth all their works.  There is no king saved by the multitude of an host:  a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.  An horse  is  a vain thing for safety:  neither shall he deliver  any  by his great strength.  Behold,  the eye of the LORD  is  upon them that fear him,  upon them that hope in his mercy;  To deliver their soul from death,  and to keep them alive in famine.  Our soul waiteth for the LORD:  he  is  our help and our shield.  For our heart shall rejoice in him,  because we have trusted in his holy name.  Let thy mercy,  O LORD,  be upon us,  according as we hope in thee. 

Psalm 34

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

I will bless the LORD at all times:  his praise  shall  continually  be  in my mouth.  My soul shall make her boast in the LORD:  the humble shall hear  thereof ,  and be glad.  O magnify the LORD with me,  and let us exalt his name together.  I sought the LORD,  and he heard me,  and delivered me from all my fears.  They looked unto him,  and were lightened:  and their faces were not ashamed.  This poor man cried,  and the LORD heard  him ,  and saved him out of all his troubles.  The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him,  and delivereth them.  O taste and see that the LORD  is  good:  blessed  is  the man  that  trusteth in him.  O fear the LORD,  ye his saints:  for  there is  no want to them that fear him.  The young lions do lack,  and suffer hunger:  but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good  thing .  Come,  ye children,  hearken unto me:  I will teach you the fear of the LORD.  What man  is he that  desireth life,   and  loveth  many  days,  that he may see good?  Keep thy tongue from evil,  and thy lips from speaking guile.  Depart from evil,  and do good;  seek peace,  and pursue it.  The eyes of the LORD  are  upon the righteous,  and his ears  are open  unto their cry.  The face of the LORD  is  against them that do evil,  to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.   The righteous  cry,  and the LORD heareth,  and delivereth them out of all their troubles.  The LORD  is  nigh unto them that are of a broken heart;  and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.  Many  are  the afflictions of the righteous:  but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.  He keepeth all his bones:  not one of them is broken.  Evil shall slay the wicked:  and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.  The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants:  and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate. 

Psalm 35

A  Psalm  of David. 

Plead  my cause ,  O LORD,  with them that strive with me:  fight against them that fight against me.  Take hold of shield and buckler,  and stand up for mine help.  Draw out also the spear,  and stop  the way  against them that persecute me:  say unto my soul,  I  am  thy salvation.  Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul:  let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.  Let them be as chaff before the wind:  and let the angel of the LORD chase  them .  Let their way be dark and slippery:  and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.  For without cause have they hid for me their net  in  a pit,   which  without cause they have digged for my soul.  Let destruction come upon him at unawares;  and let his net that he hath hid catch himself:  into that very destruction let him fall.  And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD:  it shall rejoice in his salvation.  All my bones shall say,  LORD,  who  is  like unto thee,  which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him,  yea,  the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?  False witnesses did rise up;  they laid to my charge  things  that I knew not.  They rewarded me evil for good  to  the spoiling of my soul.  But as for me,  when they were sick,  my clothing  was  sackcloth:  I humbled my soul with fasting;  and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.  I behaved myself as though  he had been  my friend  or  brother:  I bowed down heavily,  as one that mourneth  for his  mother.  But in mine adversity they rejoiced,  and gathered themselves together:   yea ,  the abjects gathered themselves together against me,  and I knew  it  not;  they did tear  me ,  and ceased not:  With hypocritical mockers in feasts,  they gnashed upon me with their teeth.  Lord,  how long wilt thou look on?  rescue my soul from their destructions,  my darling from the lions.  I will give thee thanks in the great congregation:  I will praise thee among much people.  Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me:   neither  let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.  For they speak not peace:  but they devise deceitful matters against  them that are  quiet in the land.  Yea,  they opened their mouth wide against me,   and  said,  Aha,  aha,  our eye hath seen  it .   This  thou hast seen,  O LORD:  keep not silence:  O Lord,  be not far from me.  Stir up thyself,  and awake to my judgment,   even  unto my cause,  my God and my Lord.  Judge me,  O LORD my God,  according to thy righteousness;  and let them not rejoice over me.  Let them not say in their hearts,  Ah,  so would we have it:  let them not say,  We have swallowed him up.  Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt:  let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify  themselves  against me.  Let them shout for joy,  and be glad,  that favour my righteous cause:  yea,  let them say continually,  Let the LORD be magnified,  which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.  And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness  and  of thy praise all the day long. 

Psalm 36

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

The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart,   that there is  no fear of God before his eyes.  For he flattereth himself in his own eyes,  until his iniquity be found to be hateful.  The words of his mouth  are  iniquity and deceit:  he hath left off to be wise,   and  to do good.  He deviseth mischief upon his bed;  he setteth himself in a way  that is  not good;  he abhorreth not evil.  Thy mercy,  O LORD,   is  in the heavens;   and  thy faithfulness  reacheth  unto the clouds.  Thy righteousness  is  like the great mountains;  thy judgments  are  a great deep:  O LORD,  thou preservest man and beast.  How excellent  is  thy lovingkindness,  O God!  therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.  They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house;  and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.  For with thee  is  the fountain of life:  in thy light shall we see light.  O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee;  and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.  Let not the foot of pride come against me,  and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.  There are the workers of iniquity fallen:  they are cast down,  and shall not be able to rise. 

Psalm 37

A  Psalm  of David. 

Fret not thyself because of evildoers,  neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.  For they shall soon be cut down like the grass,  and wither as the green herb.  Trust in the LORD,  and do good;   so  shalt thou dwell in the land,  and verily thou shalt be fed.  Delight thyself also in the LORD;  and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.  Commit thy way unto the LORD;  trust also in him;  and he shall bring  it  to pass.  And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light,  and thy judgment as the noonday.  Rest in the LORD,  and wait patiently for him:  fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way,  because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.  Cease from anger,  and forsake wrath:  fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.  For evildoers shall be cut off:  but those that wait upon the LORD,  they shall inherit the earth.  For yet a little while,  and the wicked  shall  not  be :  yea,  thou shalt diligently consider his place,  and it  shall  not  be .  But the meek shall inherit the earth;  and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.  The wicked plotteth against the just,  and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.  The Lord shall laugh at him:  for he seeth that his day is coming.  The wicked have drawn out the sword,  and have bent their bow,  to cast down the poor and needy,   and  to slay such as be of upright conversation.  Their sword shall enter into their own heart,  and their bows shall be broken.  A little that a righteous man hath  is  better than the riches of many wicked.  For the arms of the wicked shall be broken:  but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.  The LORD knoweth the days of the upright:  and their inheritance shall be for ever.  They shall not be ashamed in the evil time:  and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.  But the wicked shall perish,  and the enemies of the LORD  shall be  as the fat of lambs:  they shall consume;  into smoke shall they consume away.  The wicked borroweth,  and payeth not again:  but the righteous sheweth mercy,  and giveth.  For  such as be  blessed of him shall inherit the earth;  and  they that be  cursed of him shall be cut off.  The steps of a  good  man are ordered by the LORD:  and he delighteth in his way.  Though he fall,  he shall not be utterly cast down:  for the LORD upholdeth  him with  his hand.  I have been young,  and  now  am old;  yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken,  nor his seed begging bread.   He is  ever merciful,  and lendeth;  and his seed  is  blessed.  Depart from evil,  and do good;  and dwell for evermore.  For the LORD loveth judgment,  and forsaketh not his saints;  they are preserved for ever:  but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.  The righteous shall inherit the land,  and dwell therein for ever.  The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom,  and his tongue talketh of judgment.  The law of his God  is  in his heart;  none of his steps shall slide.  The wicked watcheth the righteous,  and seeketh to slay him.  The LORD will not leave him in his hand,  nor condemn him when he is judged.  Wait on the LORD,  and keep his way,  and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land:  when the wicked are cut off,  thou shalt see  it .  I have seen the wicked in great power,  and spreading himself like a green bay tree.  Yet he passed away,  and,  lo,  he  was  not:  yea,  I sought him,  but he could not be found.  Mark the perfect  man ,  and behold the upright:  for the end of  that  man  is  peace.  But the transgressors shall be destroyed together:  the end of the wicked shall be cut off.  But the salvation of the righteous  is  of the LORD:   he is  their strength in the time of trouble.  And the LORD shall help them and deliver them:  he shall deliver them from the wicked,  and save them,  because they trust in him. 

Psalm 38

A Psalm of David,  to bring to remembrance. 

O LORD,  rebuke me not in thy wrath:  neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.  For thine arrows stick fast in me,  and thy hand presseth me sore.   There is  no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger;  neither  is there any  rest in my bones because of my sin.  For mine iniquities are gone over mine head:  as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.  My wounds stink  and  are corrupt because of my foolishness.  I am troubled;  I am bowed down greatly;  I go mourning all the day long.  For my loins are filled with a loathsome  disease :  and  there is  no soundness in my flesh.  I am feeble and sore broken:  I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.  Lord,  all my desire  is  before thee;  and my groaning is not hid from thee.  My heart panteth,  my strength faileth me:  as for the light of mine eyes,  it also is gone from me.  My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore;  and my kinsmen stand afar off.  They also that seek after my life lay snares  for me :  and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things,  and imagine deceits all the day long.  But I,  as a deaf  man ,  heard not;  and  I was  as a dumb man  that  openeth not his mouth.  Thus I was as a man that heareth not,  and in whose mouth  are  no reproofs.  For in thee,  O LORD,  do I hope:  thou wilt hear,  O Lord my God.  For I said,   Hear me ,  lest  otherwise  they should rejoice over me:  when my foot slippeth,  they magnify  themselves  against me.  For I  am  ready to halt,  and my sorrow  is  continually before me.  For I will declare mine iniquity;  I will be sorry for my sin.  But mine enemies  are  lively,   and  they are strong:  and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.  They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries;  because I follow  the thing that  good  is .  Forsake me not,  O LORD:  O my God,  be not far from me.  Make haste to help me,  O Lord my salvation. 

Psalm 39

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

I said,  I will take heed to my ways,  that I sin not with my tongue:  I will keep my mouth with a bridle,  while the wicked is before me.  I was dumb with silence,  I held my peace,   even  from good;  and my sorrow was stirred.  My heart was hot within me,  while I was musing the fire burned:   then  spake I with my tongue,  LORD,  make me to know mine end,  and the measure of my days,  what it  is;  that  I may know how frail I  am .  Behold,  thou hast made my days  as  an handbreadth;  and mine age  is  as nothing before thee:  verily every man at his best state  is  altogether vanity.  Selah.  Surely every man walketh in a vain shew:  surely they are disquieted in vain:  he heapeth up  riches ,  and knoweth not who shall gather them.  And now,  Lord,  what wait I for?  my hope  is  in thee.  Deliver me from all my transgressions:  make me not the reproach of the foolish.  I was dumb,  I opened not my mouth;  because thou didst  it .  Remove thy stroke away from me:  I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.  When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity,  thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth:  surely every man  is  vanity.  Selah.  Hear my prayer,  O LORD,  and give ear unto my cry;  hold not thy peace at my tears:  for I  am  a stranger with thee,   and  a sojourner,  as all my fathers  were .  O spare me,  that I may recover strength,  before I go hence,  and be no more. 

Psalm 40

To the chief Musician,  A Psalm of David. 

I waited patiently for the LORD;  and he inclined unto me,  and heard my cry.  He brought me up also out of an horrible pit,  out of the miry clay,  and set my feet upon a rock,   and  established my goings.  And he hath put a new song in my mouth,   even  praise unto our God:  many shall see  it ,  and fear,  and shall trust in the LORD.  Blessed  is  that man that maketh the LORD his trust,  and respecteth not the proud,  nor such as turn aside to lies.  Many,  O LORD my God,   are  thy wonderful works  which  thou hast done,  and thy thoughts  which are  to us-ward:  they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee:   if  I would declare and speak  of them ,  they are more than can be numbered.  Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire;  mine ears hast thou opened:  burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.  Then said I,  Lo,  I come:  in the volume of the book  it is  written of me,  I delight to do thy will,  O my God:  yea,  thy law  is  within my heart.  I have preached righteousness in the great congregation:  lo,  I have not refrained my lips,  O LORD,  thou knowest.  I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart;  I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation:  I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.  Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me,  O LORD:  let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.  For innumerable evils have compassed me about:  mine iniquities have taken hold upon me,  so that I am not able to look up;  they are more than the hairs of mine head:  therefore my heart faileth me.  Be pleased,  O LORD,  to deliver me:  O LORD,  make haste to help me.  Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it;  let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.  Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me,  Aha,  aha.  Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee:  let such as love thy salvation say continually,  The LORD be magnified.  But I  am  poor and needy;   yet  the Lord thinketh upon me:  thou  art  my help and my deliverer;  make no tarrying,  O my God. 

Psalm 41

To the chief Musician,  A Psalm of David. 

Blessed  is  he that considereth the poor:  the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.  The LORD will preserve him,  and keep him alive;   and  he shall be blessed upon the earth:  and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.  The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing:  thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.  I said,  LORD,  be merciful unto me:  heal my soul;  for I have sinned against thee.  Mine enemies speak evil of me,  When shall he die,  and his name perish?  And if he come to see  me ,  he speaketh vanity:  his heart gathereth iniquity to itself;   when  he goeth abroad,  he telleth  it .  All that hate me whisper together against me:  against me do they devise my hurt.  An evil disease,   say they ,  cleaveth fast unto him:  and  now  that he lieth he shall rise up no more.  Yea,  mine own familiar friend,  in whom I trusted,  which did eat of my bread,  hath lifted up  his  heel against me.  But thou,  O LORD,  be merciful unto me,  and raise me up,  that I may requite them.  By this I know that thou favourest me,  because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.  And as for me,  thou upholdest me in mine integrity,  and settest me before thy face for ever.  Blessed  be  the LORD God of Israel from everlasting,  and to everlasting.  Amen,  and Amen. 

Psalm 42

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

As the hart panteth after the water brooks,  so panteth my soul after thee,  O God. 

My soul thirsteth for God,  for the living God:  when shall I come and appear before God?  My tears have been my meat day and night,  while they continually say unto me,  Where  is  thy God?  When I remember these  things ,  I pour out my soul in me:  for I had gone with the multitude,  I went with them to the house of God,  with the voice of joy and praise,  with a multitude that kept holyday.  Why art thou cast down,  O my soul?  and why  art  thou disquieted in me?  hope thou in God:  for I shall yet praise him  for  the help of his countenance.  O my God,  my soul is cast down within me:  therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan,  and of the Hermonites,  from the hill Mizar.  Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts:  all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.   Yet  the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime,  and in the night his song  shall be  with me,   and  my prayer unto the God of my life.  I will say unto God my rock,  Why hast thou forgotten me?  why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?   As  with a sword in my bones,  mine enemies reproach me;  while they say daily unto me,  Where  is  thy God?  Why art thou cast down,  O my soul?  and why art thou disquieted within me?  hope thou in God:  for I shall yet praise him,   who is  the health of my countenance,  and my God. 


Psalm 43

Judge me,  O God,  and plead my cause against an ungodly nation:  O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.  For thou  art  the God of my strength:  why dost thou cast me off?  why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?  O send out thy light and thy truth:  let them lead me;  let them bring me unto thy holy hill,  and to thy tabernacles.  Then will I go unto the altar of God,  unto God my exceeding joy:  yea,  upon the harp will I praise thee,  O God my God.  Why art thou cast down,  O my soul?  and why art thou disquieted within me?  hope in God:  for I shall yet praise him,   who is  the health of my countenance,  and my God. 

Psalm 44

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

We have heard with our ears,  O God,  our fathers have told us,   what  work thou didst in their days,  in the times of old.   How  thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand,  and plantedst them;   how  thou didst afflict the people,  and cast them out.  For they got not the land in possession by their own sword,  neither did their own arm save them:  but thy right hand,  and thine arm,  and the light of thy countenance,  because thou hadst a favour unto them.  Thou art my King,  O God:  command deliverances for Jacob.  Through thee will we push down our enemies:  through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.  For I will not trust in my bow,  neither shall my sword save me.  But thou hast saved us from our enemies,  and hast put them to shame that hated us.  In God we boast all the day long,  and praise thy name for ever.  Selah.  But thou hast cast off,  and put us to shame;  and goest not forth with our armies.  Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy:  and they which hate us spoil for themselves.  Thou hast given us like sheep  appointed  for meat;  and hast scattered us among the heathen.  Thou sellest thy people for nought,  and dost not increase  thy wealth  by their price.  Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours,  a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.  Thou makest us a byword among the heathen,  a shaking of the head among the people.  My confusion  is  continually before me,  and the shame of my face hath covered me,  For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth;  by reason of the enemy and avenger.  All this is come upon us;  yet have we not forgotten thee,  neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.  Our heart is not turned back,  neither have our steps declined from thy way;  Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons,  and covered us with the shadow of death.  If we have forgotten the name of our God,  or stretched out our hands to a strange god;  Shall not God search this out?  for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.  Yea,  for thy sake are we killed all the day long;  we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.  Awake,  why sleepest thou,  O Lord?  arise,  cast  us  not off for ever.  Wherefore hidest thou thy face,   and  forgettest our affliction and our oppression?  For our soul is bowed down to the dust:  our belly cleaveth unto the earth.  Arise for our help,  and redeem us for thy mercies' sake. 

Psalm 45

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

My heart is inditing a good matter:  I speak of the things which I have made touching the king:  my tongue  is  the pen of a ready writer.  Thou art fairer than the children of men:  grace is poured into thy lips:  therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.  Gird thy sword upon  thy  thigh,  O  most  mighty,  with thy glory and thy majesty.  And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness  and  righteousness;  and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.  Thine arrows  are  sharp in the heart of the king's enemies;   whereby  the people fall under thee.  Thy throne,  O God,   is  for ever and ever:  the sceptre of thy kingdom  is  a right sceptre.  Thou lovest righteousness,  and hatest wickedness:  therefore God,  thy God,  hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.  All thy garments  smell  of myrrh,  and aloes,   and  cassia,  out of the ivory palaces,  whereby they have made thee glad.  Kings' daughters  were  among thy honourable women:  upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.  Hearken,  O daughter,  and consider,  and incline thine ear;  forget also thine own people,  and thy father's house;  So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty:  for he  is  thy Lord;  and worship thou him.  And the daughter of Tyre  shall be there  with a gift;   even  the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.  The king's daughter  is  all glorious within:  her clothing  is  of wrought gold.  She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework:  the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.  With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought:  they shall enter into the king's palace.  Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children,  whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.  I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations:  therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever. 

Psalm 46

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

God  is  our refuge and strength,  a very present help in trouble.  Therefore will not we fear,  though the earth be removed,  and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;   Though  the waters thereof roar  and  be troubled,   though  the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.  Selah.   There is  a river,  the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God,  the holy  place  of the tabernacles of the most High.  God  is  in the midst of her;  she shall not be moved:  God shall help her,   and that  right early.  The heathen raged,  the kingdoms were moved:  he uttered his voice,  the earth melted.  The LORD of hosts  is  with us;  the God of Jacob  is  our refuge.  Selah.  Come,  behold the works of the LORD,  what desolations he hath made in the earth.  He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth;  he breaketh the bow,  and cutteth the spear in sunder;  he burneth the chariot in the fire.  Be still,  and know that I  am  God:  I will be exalted among the heathen,  I will be exalted in the earth.  The LORD of hosts  is  with us;  the God of Jacob  is  our refuge.  Selah. 

Psalm 47

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

O clap your hands,  all ye people;  shout unto God with the voice of triumph.  For the LORD most high  is  terrible;   he is  a great King over all the earth.  He shall subdue the people under us,  and the nations under our feet.  He shall choose our inheritance for us,  the excellency of Jacob whom he loved.  Selah.  God is gone up with a shout,  the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.  Sing praises to God,  sing praises:  sing praises unto our King,  sing praises.  For God  is  the King of all the earth:  sing ye praises with understanding.  God reigneth over the heathen:  God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.  The princes of the people are gathered together,   even  the people of the God of Abraham:  for the shields of the earth  belong  unto God:  he is greatly exalted. 

Psalm 48

A Song  and  Psalm for the sons of Korah. 

Great  is  the LORD,  and greatly to be praised in the city of our God,   in  the mountain of his holiness.  Beautiful for situation,  the joy of the whole earth,   is  mount Zion,   on  the sides of the north,  the city of the great King.  God is known in her palaces for a refuge.  For,  lo,  the kings were assembled,  they passed by together.  They saw  it,  and  so they marvelled;  they were troubled,   and  hasted away.  Fear took hold upon them there,   and  pain,  as of a woman in travail.  Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.  As we have heard,  so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts,  in the city of our God:  God will establish it for ever.  Selah.  We have thought of thy lovingkindness,  O God,  in the midst of thy temple.  According to thy name,  O God,  so  is  thy praise unto the ends of the earth:  thy right hand is full of righteousness.  Let mount Zion rejoice,  let the daughters of Judah be glad,  because of thy judgments.  Walk about Zion,  and go round about her:  tell the towers thereof.  Mark ye well her bulwarks,  consider her palaces;  that ye may tell  it  to the generation following.  For this God  is  our God for ever and ever:  he will be our guide  even  unto death. 

Psalm 49

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

Hear this,  all  ye  people;  give ear,  all  ye  inhabitants of the world:  Both low and high,  rich and poor,  together.  My mouth shall speak of wisdom;  and the meditation of my heart  shall be  of understanding.  I will incline mine ear to a parable:  I will open my dark saying upon the harp.  Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil,   when  the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?  They that trust in their wealth,  and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;  None  of them  can by any means redeem his brother,  nor give to God a ransom for him:  (For the redemption of their soul  is  precious,  and it ceaseth for ever:) That he should still live for ever,   and  not see corruption.  For he seeth  that  wise men die,  likewise the fool and the brutish person perish,  and leave their wealth to others.  Their inward thought  is,  that  their houses  shall continue  for ever,   and  their dwelling places to all generations;  they call  their  lands after their own names.  Nevertheless man  being  in honour abideth not:  he is like the beasts  that  perish.  This their way  is  their folly:  yet their posterity approve their sayings.  Selah.  Like sheep they are laid in the grave;  death shall feed on them;  and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning;  and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.  But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave:  for he shall receive me.  Selah.  Be not thou afraid when one is made rich,  when the glory of his house is increased;  For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away:  his glory shall not descend after him.  Though while he lived he blessed his soul:  and  men  will praise thee,  when thou doest well to thyself.  He shall go to the generation of his fathers;  they shall never see light.  Man  that is  in honour,  and understandeth not,  is like the beasts  that  perish. 

Psalm 50

A Psalm of Asaph. 

The mighty God,   even  the LORD,  hath spoken,  and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.  Out of Zion,  the perfection of beauty,  God hath shined.  Our God shall come,  and shall not keep silence:  a fire shall devour before him,  and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.  He shall call to the heavens from above,  and to the earth,  that he may judge his people.  Gather my saints together unto me;  those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.  And the heavens shall declare his righteousness:  for God  is  judge himself.  Selah.  Hear,  O my people,  and I will speak;  O Israel,  and I will testify against thee:  I  am  God,   even  thy God.  I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings,   to have been  continually before me.  I will take no bullock out of thy house,   nor  he goats out of thy folds.  For every beast of the forest  is  mine,   and  the cattle upon a thousand hills.  I know all the fowls of the mountains:  and the wild beasts of the field  are  mine.  If I were hungry,  I would not tell thee:  for the world  is  mine,  and the fulness thereof.  Will I eat the flesh of bulls,  or drink the blood of goats?  Offer unto God thanksgiving;  and pay thy vows unto the most High:  And call upon me in the day of trouble:  I will deliver thee,  and thou shalt glorify me.  But unto the wicked God saith,  What hast thou to do to declare my statutes,  or  that  thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?  Seeing thou hatest instruction,  and castest my words behind thee.  When thou sawest a thief,  then thou consentedst with him,  and hast been partaker with adulterers.  Thou givest thy mouth to evil,  and thy tongue frameth deceit.  Thou sittest  and  speakest against thy brother;  thou slanderest thine own mother's son.  These  things  hast thou done,  and I kept silence;  thou thoughtest that I was altogether  such an one  as thyself:   but  I will reprove thee,  and set  them  in order before thine eyes.  Now consider this,  ye that forget God,  lest I tear  you  in pieces,  and  there be  none to deliver.  Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me:  and to him that ordereth  his  conversation  aright  will I shew the salvation of God. 

Psalm 51

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

Have mercy upon me,  O God,  according to thy lovingkindness:  according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.  Wash me throughly from mine iniquity,  and cleanse me from my sin.  For I acknowledge my transgressions:  and my sin  is  ever before me.  Against thee,  thee only,  have I sinned,  and done  this  evil in thy sight:  that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest,   and  be clear when thou judgest.  Behold,  I was shapen in iniquity;  and in sin did my mother conceive me.  Behold,  thou desirest truth in the inward parts:  and in the hidden  part  thou shalt make me to know wisdom.  Purge me with hyssop,  and I shall be clean:  wash me,  and I shall be whiter than snow.  Make me to hear joy and gladness;   that  the bones  which  thou hast broken may rejoice.  Hide thy face from my sins,  and blot out all mine iniquities.  Create in me a clean heart,  O God;  and renew a right spirit within me.  Cast me not away from thy presence;  and take not thy holy spirit from me.  Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;  and uphold me  with thy  free spirit.   Then  will I teach transgressors thy ways;  and sinners shall be converted unto thee.  Deliver me from bloodguiltiness,  O God,  thou God of my salvation:   and  my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.  O Lord,  open thou my lips;  and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.  For thou desirest not sacrifice;  else would I give  it :  thou delightest not in burnt offering.  The sacrifices of God  are  a broken spirit:  a broken and a contrite heart,  O God,  thou wilt not despise.  Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion:  build thou the walls of Jerusalem.  Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness,  with burnt offering and whole burnt offering:  then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar. 

Psalm 52

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

Why boastest thou thyself in mischief,  O mighty man?  the goodness of God  endureth  continually.  Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs;  like a sharp rasor,  working deceitfully.  Thou lovest evil more than good;   and  lying rather than to speak righteousness.  Selah.  Thou lovest all devouring words,  O  thou  deceitful tongue.  God shall likewise destroy thee for ever,  he shall take thee away,  and pluck thee out of  thy  dwelling place,  and root thee out of the land of the living.  Selah.  The righteous also shall see,  and fear,  and shall laugh at him:  Lo,   this is  the man  that  made not God his strength;  but trusted in the abundance of his riches,   and  strengthened himself in his wickedness.  But I  am  like a green olive tree in the house of God:  I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.  I will praise thee for ever,  because thou hast done  it :  and I will wait on thy name;  for  it is  good before thy saints. 

Psalm 53

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

The fool hath said in his heart,   There is  no God.  Corrupt are they,  and have done abominable iniquity:   there is  none that doeth good.  God looked down from heaven upon the children of men,  to see if there were  any  that did understand,  that did seek God.  Every one of them is gone back:  they are altogether become filthy;   there is  none that doeth good,  no,  not one.  Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge?  who eat up my people  as  they eat bread:  they have not called upon God.  There were they in great fear,   where  no fear was:  for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth  against  thee:  thou hast put  them  to shame,  because God hath despised them.  Oh that the salvation of Israel  were come  out of Zion!  When God bringeth back the captivity of his people,  Jacob shall rejoice,   and  Israel shall be glad. 

Psalm 54

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

Save me,  O God,  by thy name,  and judge me by thy strength.  Hear my prayer,  O God;  give ear to the words of my mouth.  For strangers are risen up against me,  and oppressors seek after my soul:  they have not set God before them.  Selah.  Behold,  God  is  mine helper:  the Lord  is  with them that uphold my soul.  He shall reward evil unto mine enemies:  cut them off in thy truth.  I will freely sacrifice unto thee:  I will praise thy name,  O LORD;  for  it is  good.  For he hath delivered me out of all trouble:  and mine eye hath seen  his desire  upon mine enemies. 

Psalm 55

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

Give ear to my prayer,  O God;  and hide not thyself from my supplication.  Attend unto me,  and hear me:  I mourn in my complaint,  and make a noise;  Because of the voice of the enemy,  because of the oppression of the wicked:  for they cast iniquity upon me,  and in wrath they hate me.  My heart is sore pained within me:  and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.  Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me,  and horror hath overwhelmed me.  And I said,  Oh that I had wings like a dove!   for then  would I fly away,  and be at rest.  Lo,   then  would I wander far off,   and  remain in the wilderness.  Selah.  I would hasten my escape from the windy storm  and  tempest.  Destroy,  O Lord,   and  divide their tongues:  for I have seen violence and strife in the city.  Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof:  mischief also and sorrow  are  in the midst of it.  Wickedness  is  in the midst thereof:  deceit and guile depart not from her streets.  For  it was  not an enemy  that  reproached me;  then I could have borne  it :  neither  was it  he that hated me  that  did magnify  himself  against me;  then I would have hid myself from him:  But  it was  thou,  a man mine equal,  my guide,  and mine acquaintance.  We took sweet counsel together,   and  walked unto the house of God in company.  Let death seize upon them,   and  let them go down quick into hell:  for wickedness is in their dwellings,   and  among them.  As for me,  I will call upon God;  and the LORD shall save me.  Evening,  and morning,  and at noon,  will I pray,  and cry aloud:  and he shall hear my voice.  He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle  that was  against me:  for there were many with me.  God shall hear,  and afflict them,  even he that abideth of old.  Selah.  Because they have no changes,  therefore they fear not God.  He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him:  he hath broken his covenant.   The words  of his mouth were smoother than butter,  but war  was  in his heart:  his words were softer than oil,  yet  were  they drawn swords.  Cast thy burden upon the LORD,  and he shall sustain thee:  he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.  But thou,  O God,  shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction:  bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days;  but I will trust in thee. 

Psalm 56

To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim,  Michtam of David,  when the Philistines took him in Gath. 

Be merciful unto me,  O God:  for man would swallow me up;  he fighting daily oppresseth me.  Mine enemies would daily swallow  me  up:  for  they be  many that fight against me,  O thou most High.  What time I am afraid,  I will trust in thee.  In God I will praise his word,  in God I have put my trust;  I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.  Every day they wrest my words:  all their thoughts  are  against me for evil.  They gather themselves together,  they hide themselves,  they mark my steps,  when they wait for my soul.  Shall they escape by iniquity?  in  thine  anger cast down the people,  O God.  Thou tellest my wanderings:  put thou my tears into thy bottle:   are they  not in thy book?  When I cry  unto thee ,  then shall mine enemies turn back:  this I know;  for God  is  for me.  In God will I praise  his  word:  in the LORD will I praise  his  word.  In God have I put my trust:  I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.  Thy vows  are  upon me,  O God:  I will render praises unto thee.  For thou hast delivered my soul from death:   wilt  not  thou deliver  my feet from falling,  that I may walk before God in the light of the living? 

Psalm 57

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

Be merciful unto me,  O God,  be merciful unto me:  for my soul trusteth in thee:  yea,  in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge,  until  these  calamities be overpast.  I will cry unto God most high;  unto God that performeth  all things  for me.  He shall send from heaven,  and save  from  the reproach of him that would swallow me up.  Selah.  God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.  My soul  is  among lions:   and  I lie  even among  them that are set on fire,   even  the sons of men,  whose teeth  are  spears and arrows,  and their tongue a sharp sword.  Be thou exalted,  O God,  above the heavens;   let  thy glory  be  above all the earth.  They have prepared a net for my steps;  my soul is bowed down:  they have digged a pit before me,  into the midst whereof they are fallen  themselves .  Selah.  My heart is fixed,  O God,  my heart is fixed:  I will sing and give praise.  Awake up,  my glory;  awake,  psaltery and harp:  I  myself  will awake early.  I will praise thee,  O Lord,  among the people:  I will sing unto thee among the nations.  For thy mercy is great unto the heavens,  and thy truth unto the clouds.  Be thou exalted,  O God,  above the heavens:   let  thy glory  be  above all the earth. 

Psalm 58

To the chief Musician,  Altaschith,  Michtam of David. 

Do ye indeed speak righteousness,  O congregation?  do ye judge uprightly,  O ye sons of men?  Yea,  in heart ye work wickedness;  ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.  The wicked are estranged from the womb:  they go astray as soon as they be born,  speaking lies.  Their poison  is  like the poison of a serpent:   they are  like the deaf adder  that  stoppeth her ear;  Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers,  charming never so wisely.  Break their teeth,  O God,  in their mouth:  break out the great teeth of the young lions,  O LORD.  Let them melt away as waters  which  run continually:   when  he bendeth  his bow to shoot  his arrows,  let them be as cut in pieces.  As a snail  which  melteth,  let  every one of them  pass away:   like  the untimely birth of a woman,   that  they may not see the sun.  Before your pots can feel the thorns,  he shall take them away as with a whirlwind,  both living,  and in  his  wrath.  The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance:  he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.  So that a man shall say,  Verily  there is  a reward for the righteous:  verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. 

Psalm 59

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

Deliver me from mine enemies,  O my God:  defend me from them that rise up against me.  Deliver me from the workers of iniquity,  and save me from bloody men.  For,  lo,  they lie in wait for my soul:  the mighty are gathered against me;  not  for  my transgression,  nor  for  my sin,  O LORD.  They run and prepare themselves without  my  fault:  awake to help me,  and behold.  Thou therefore,  O LORD God of hosts,  the God of Israel,  awake to visit all the heathen:  be not merciful to any wicked transgressors.  Selah.  They return at evening:  they make a noise like a dog,  and go round about the city.  Behold,  they belch out with their mouth:  swords  are  in their lips:  for who,   say they ,  doth hear?  But thou,  O LORD,  shalt laugh at them;  thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.   Because of  his strength will I wait upon thee:  for God  is  my defence.  The God of my mercy shall prevent me:  God shall let me see  my desire  upon mine enemies.  Slay them not,  lest my people forget:  scatter them by thy power;  and bring them down,  O Lord our shield.   For  the sin of their mouth  and  the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride:  and for cursing and lying  which  they speak.  Consume  them  in wrath,  consume  them ,  that they  may  not  be :  and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth.  Selah.  And at evening let them return;   and  let them make a noise like a dog,  and go round about the city.  Let them wander up and down for meat,  and grudge if they be not satisfied.  But I will sing of thy power;  yea,  I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning:  for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.  Unto thee,  O my strength,  will I sing:  for God  is  my defence,   and  the God of my mercy. 

Psalm 60

To the chief Musician upon Shushan-eduth,  Michtam of David,  to teach;  when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah,  when Joab returned,  and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand. 

O God,  thou hast cast us off,  thou hast scattered us,  thou hast been displeased;  O turn thyself to us again.  Thou hast made the earth to tremble;  thou hast broken it:  heal the breaches thereof;  for it shaketh.  Thou hast shewed thy people hard things:  thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.  Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee,  that it may be displayed because of the truth.  Selah.  That thy beloved may be delivered;  save  with  thy right hand,  and hear me.  God hath spoken in his holiness;  I will rejoice,  I will divide Shechem,  and mete out the valley of Succoth.  Gilead  is  mine,  and Manasseh  is  mine;  Ephraim also  is  the strength of mine head;  Judah  is  my lawgiver;  Moab  is  my washpot;  over Edom will I cast out my shoe:  Philistia,  triumph thou because of me.  Who will bring me  into  the strong city?  who will lead me into Edom?   Wilt  not thou,  O God,   which  hadst cast us off?  and  thou ,  O God,   which  didst not go out with our armies?  Give us help from trouble:  for vain  is  the help of man.  Through God we shall do valiantly:  for he  it is that  shall tread down our enemies. 

Psalm 61

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

Hear my cry,  O God;  attend unto my prayer.  From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee,  when my heart is overwhelmed:  lead me to the rock  that  is higher than I.  For thou hast been a shelter for me,   and  a strong tower from the enemy.  I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever:  I will trust in the covert of thy wings.  Selah.  For thou,  O God,  hast heard my vows:  thou hast given  me  the heritage of those that fear thy name.  Thou wilt prolong the king's life:   and  his years as many generations.  He shall abide before God for ever:  O prepare mercy and truth,   which  may preserve him.  So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever,  that I may daily perform my vows. 

Psalm 62

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

Truly my soul waiteth upon God:  from him  cometh  my salvation.  He only  is  my rock and my salvation;   he is  my defence;  I shall not be greatly moved.  How long will ye imagine mischief against a man?  ye shall be slain all of you:  as a bowing wall  shall ye be,  and as  a tottering fence.  They only consult to cast  him  down from his excellency:  they delight in lies:  they bless with their mouth,  but they curse inwardly.  Selah.  My soul,  wait thou only upon God;  for my expectation  is  from him.  He only  is  my rock and my salvation:   he is  my defence;  I shall not be moved.  In God  is  my salvation and my glory:  the rock of my strength,   and  my refuge,   is  in God.  Trust in him at all times;   ye  people,  pour out your heart before him:  God  is  a refuge for us.  Selah.  Surely men of low degree  are  vanity,   and  men of high degree  are  a lie:  to be laid in the balance,  they  are  altogether  lighter  than vanity.  Trust not in oppression,  and become not vain in robbery:  if riches increase,  set not your heart  upon them .  God hath spoken once;  twice have I heard this;  that power  belongeth  unto God.  Also unto thee,  O Lord,   belongeth  mercy:  for thou renderest to every man according to his work. 

Psalm 63

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

O God,  thou  art  my God;  early will I seek thee:  my soul thirsteth for thee,  my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land,  where no water is;  To see thy power and thy glory,  so  as  I have seen thee in the sanctuary.  Because thy lovingkindness  is  better than life,  my lips shall praise thee.  Thus will I bless thee while I live:  I will lift up my hands in thy name.  My soul shall be satisfied as  with  marrow and fatness;  and my mouth shall praise  thee  with joyful lips:  When I remember thee upon my bed,   and  meditate on thee in the  night  watches.  Because thou hast been my help,  therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.  My soul followeth hard after thee:  thy right hand upholdeth me.  But those  that  seek my soul,  to destroy  it ,  shall go into the lower parts of the earth.  They shall fall by the sword:  they shall be a portion for foxes.  But the king shall rejoice in God;  every one that sweareth by him shall glory:  but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. 

Psalm 64

To the chief Musician,  A Psalm of David. 

Hear my voice,  O God,  in my prayer:  preserve my life from fear of the enemy.  Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked;  from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:  Who whet their tongue like a sword,   and  bend  their bows to shoot  their arrows,   even  bitter words:  That they may shoot in secret at the perfect:  suddenly do they shoot at him,  and fear not.  They encourage themselves  in  an evil matter:  they commune of laying snares privily;  they say,  Who shall see them?  They search out iniquities;  they accomplish a diligent search:  both the inward  thought  of every one  of them ,  and the heart,   is  deep.  But God shall shoot at them  with  an arrow;  suddenly shall they be wounded.  So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves:  all that see them shall flee away.  And all men shall fear,  and shall declare the work of God;  for they shall wisely consider of his doing.  The righteous shall be glad in the LORD,  and shall trust in him;  and all the upright in heart shall glory. 

Psalm 65

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

Praise waiteth for thee,  O God,  in Sion:  and unto thee shall the vow be performed.  O thou that hearest prayer,  unto thee shall all flesh come.  Iniquities prevail against me:   as for  our transgressions,  thou shalt purge them away.  Blessed  is the man whom  thou choosest,  and causest to approach  unto thee,  that  he may dwell in thy courts:  we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house,   even  of thy holy temple.  By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us,  O God of our salvation;   who art  the confidence of all the ends of the earth,  and of them that are afar off  upon  the sea:  Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains;   being  girded with power:  Which stilleth the noise of the seas,  the noise of their waves,  and the tumult of the people.  They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens:  thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.  Thou visitest the earth,  and waterest it:  thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God,   which  is full of water:  thou preparest them corn,  when thou hast so provided for it.  Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly:  thou settlest the furrows thereof:  thou makest it soft with showers:  thou blessest the springing thereof.  Thou crownest the year with thy goodness;  and thy paths drop fatness.  They drop  upon  the pastures of the wilderness:  and the little hills rejoice on every side.  The pastures are clothed with flocks;  the valleys also are covered over with corn;  they shout for joy,  they also sing. 

Psalm 66

To the chief Musician,  A Song  or  Psalm. 

Make a joyful noise unto God,  all ye lands:  Sing forth the honour of his name:  make his praise glorious.  Say unto God,  How terrible  art thou in  thy works!  through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.  All the earth shall worship thee,  and shall sing unto thee;  they shall sing  to  thy name.  Selah.  Come and see the works of God:   he is  terrible  in his  doing toward the children of men.  He turned the sea into dry  land :  they went through the flood on foot:  there did we rejoice in him.  He ruleth by his power for ever;  his eyes behold the nations:  let not the rebellious exalt themselves.  Selah.  O bless our God,  ye people,  and make the voice of his praise to be heard:  Which holdeth our soul in life,  and suffereth not our feet to be moved.  For thou,  O God,  hast proved us:  thou hast tried us,  as silver is tried.  Thou broughtest us into the net;  thou laidst affliction upon our loins.  Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads;  we went through fire and through water:  but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy  place .  I will go into thy house with burnt offerings:  I will pay thee my vows,  Which my lips have uttered,  and my mouth hath spoken,  when I was in trouble.  I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings,  with the incense of rams;  I will offer bullocks with goats.  Selah.  Come  and  hear,  all ye that fear God,  and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.  I cried unto him with my mouth,  and he was extolled with my tongue.  If I regard iniquity in my heart,  the Lord will not hear  me :   But  verily God hath heard  me ;  he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.  Blessed  be  God,  which hath not turned away my prayer,  nor his mercy from me. 

Psalm 67

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

God be merciful unto us,  and bless us;   and  cause his face to shine upon us;  Selah.  That thy way may be known upon earth,  thy saving health among all nations.  Let the people praise thee,  O God;  let all the people praise thee.  O let the nations be glad and sing for joy:  for thou shalt judge the people righteously,  and govern the nations upon earth.  Selah.  Let the people praise thee,  O God;  let all the people praise thee.   Then  shall the earth yield her increase;   and  God,   even  our own God,  shall bless us.  God shall bless us;  and all the ends of the earth shall fear him. 

Psalm 68

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

Let God arise,  let his enemies be scattered:  let them also that hate him flee before him.  As smoke is driven away,   so  drive  them  away:  as wax melteth before the fire,   so  let the wicked perish at the presence of God.  But let the righteous be glad;  let them rejoice before God:  yea,  let them exceedingly rejoice.  Sing unto God,  sing praises to his name:  extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH,  and rejoice before him.  A father of the fatherless,  and a judge of the widows,   is  God in his holy habitation.  God setteth the solitary in families:  he bringeth out those which are bound with chains:  but the rebellious dwell in a dry  land .  O God,  when thou wentest forth before thy people,  when thou didst march through the wilderness;  Selah:  The earth shook,  the heavens also dropped at the presence of God:   even  Sinai itself  was moved  at the presence of God,  the God of Israel.  Thou,  O God,  didst send a plentiful rain,  whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance,  when it was weary.  Thy congregation hath dwelt therein:  thou,  O God,  hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.  The Lord gave the word:  great  was  the company of those that published  it .  Kings of armies did flee apace:  and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.  Though ye have lien among the pots,   yet shall ye be as  the wings of a dove covered with silver,  and her feathers with yellow gold.  When the Almighty scattered kings in it,  it was  white  as snow in Salmon.  The hill of God  is as  the hill of Bashan;  an high hill  as  the hill of Bashan.  Why leap ye,  ye high hills?   this is  the hill  which  God desireth to dwell in;  yea,  the LORD will dwell  in it  for ever.  The chariots of God  are  twenty thousand,   even  thousands of angels:  the Lord  is  among them,   as in  Sinai,  in the holy  place .  Thou hast ascended on high,  thou hast led captivity captive:  thou hast received gifts for men;  yea,   for  the rebellious also,  that the LORD God might dwell  among them .  Blessed  be  the Lord,   who  daily loadeth us  with benefits,  even  the God of our salvation.  Selah.   He that is  our God  is  the God of salvation;  and unto God the Lord  belong  the issues from death.  But God shall wound the head of his enemies,   and  the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.  The Lord said,  I will bring again from Bashan,  I will bring  my people  again from the depths of the sea:  That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of  thine  enemies,   and  the tongue of thy dogs in the same.  They have seen thy goings,  O God;   even  the goings of my God,  my King,  in the sanctuary.  The singers went before,  the players on instruments  followed  after;  among  them were  the damsels playing with timbrels.  Bless ye God in the congregations,   even  the Lord,  from the fountain of Israel.  There  is  little Benjamin  with  their ruler,  the princes of Judah  and  their council,  the princes of Zebulun,   and  the princes of Naphtali.  Thy God hath commanded thy strength:  strengthen,  O God,  that which thou hast wrought for us.  Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee.  Rebuke the company of spearmen,  the multitude of the bulls,  with the calves of the people,   till every one  submit himself with pieces of silver:  scatter thou the people  that  delight in war.  Princes shall come out of Egypt;  Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.  Sing unto God,  ye kingdoms of the earth;  O sing praises unto the Lord;  Selah:  To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens,   which were  of old;  lo,  he doth send out his voice,   and that  a mighty voice.  Ascribe ye strength unto God:  his excellency  is  over Israel,  and his strength  is  in the clouds.  O God,   thou art  terrible out of thy holy places:  the God of Israel  is  he that giveth strength and power unto  his  people.  Blessed  be  God. 

Psalm 69

To chief Musician upon Shoshannim,  A  Psalm  of David. 

Save me,  O God;  for the waters are come in unto  my  soul.  I sink in deep mire,  where  there is  no standing:  I am come into deep waters,  where the floods overflow me.  I am weary of my crying:  my throat is dried:  mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.  They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head:  they that would destroy me,   being  mine enemies wrongfully,  are mighty:  then I restored  that  which I took not away.  O God,  thou knowest my foolishness;  and my sins are not hid from thee.  Let not them that wait on thee,  O Lord GOD of hosts,  be ashamed for my sake:  let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake,  O God of Israel.  Because for thy sake I have borne reproach;  shame hath covered my face.  I am become a stranger unto my brethren,  and an alien unto my mother's children.  For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up;  and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.  When I wept,   and chastened  my soul with fasting,  that was to my reproach.  I made sackcloth also my garment;  and I became a proverb to them.  They that sit in the gate speak against me;  and I  was  the song of the drunkards.  But as for me,  my prayer  is  unto thee,  O LORD,   in  an acceptable time:  O God,  in the multitude of thy mercy hear me,  in the truth of thy salvation.  Deliver me out of the mire,  and let me not sink:  let me be delivered from them that hate me,  and out of the deep waters.  Let not the waterflood overflow me,  neither let the deep swallow me up,  and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.  Hear me,  O LORD;  for thy lovingkindness  is  good:  turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.  And hide not thy face from thy servant;  for I am in trouble:  hear me speedily.  Draw nigh unto my soul,   and  redeem it:  deliver me because of mine enemies.  Thou hast known my reproach,  and my shame,  and my dishonour:  mine adversaries  are  all before thee.  Reproach hath broken my heart;  and I am full of heaviness:  and I looked  for some  to take pity,  but  there was  none;  and for comforters,  but I found none.  They gave me also gall for my meat;  and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.  Let their table become a snare before them:  and  that which should have been  for  their  welfare,   let it become  a trap.  Let their eyes be darkened,  that they see not;  and make their loins continually to shake.  Pour out thine indignation upon them,  and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.  Let their habitation be desolate;   and  let none dwell in their tents.  For they persecute  him  whom thou hast smitten;  and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.  Add iniquity unto their iniquity:  and let them not come into thy righteousness.  Let them be blotted out of the book of the living,  and not be written with the righteous.  But I  am  poor and sorrowful:  let thy salvation,  O God,  set me up on high.  I will praise the name of God with a song,  and will magnify him with thanksgiving.   This  also shall please the LORD better than an ox  or  bullock that hath horns and hoofs.  The humble shall see  this,  and  be glad:  and your heart shall live that seek God.  For the LORD heareth the poor,  and despiseth not his prisoners.  Let the heaven and earth praise him,  the seas,  and every thing that moveth therein.  For God will save Zion,  and will build the cities of Judah:  that they may dwell there,  and have it in possession.  The seed also of his servants shall inherit it:  and they that love his name shall dwell therein. 

Psalm 70

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

 Make haste ,  O God,  to deliver me;  make haste to help me,  O LORD.  Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul:  let them be turned backward,  and put to confusion,  that desire my hurt.  Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say,  Aha,  aha.  Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee:  and let such as love thy salvation say continually,  Let God be magnified.  But I  am  poor and needy:  make haste unto me,  O God:  thou  art  my help and my deliverer;  O LORD,  make no tarrying. 

Psalm 71

In thee,  O LORD,  do I put my trust:  let me never be put to confusion.  Deliver me in thy righteousness,  and cause me to escape:  incline thine ear unto me,  and save me.  Be thou my strong habitation,  whereunto I may continually resort:  thou hast given commandment to save me;  for thou  art  my rock and my fortress.  Deliver me,  O my God,  out of the hand of the wicked,  out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.  For thou  art  my hope,  O Lord GOD:   thou art  my trust from my youth.  By thee have I been holden up from the womb:  thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels:  my praise  shall be  continually of thee.  I am as a wonder unto many;  but thou  art  my strong refuge.  Let my mouth be filled  with  thy praise  and with  thy honour all the day.  Cast me not off in the time of old age;  forsake me not when my strength faileth.  For mine enemies speak against me;  and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,  Saying,  God hath forsaken him:  persecute and take him;  for  there is  none to deliver  him .  O God,  be not far from me:  O my God,  make haste for my help.  Let them be confounded  and  consumed that are adversaries to my soul;  let them be covered  with  reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.  But I will hope continually,  and will yet praise thee more and more.  My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness  and  thy salvation all the day;  for I know not the numbers  thereof .  I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD:  I will make mention of thy righteousness,   even  of thine only.  O God,  thou hast taught me from my youth:  and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.  Now also when I am old and greyheaded,  O God,  forsake me not;  until I have shewed thy strength unto  this  generation,   and  thy power to every one  that  is to come.  Thy righteousness also,  O God,   is  very high,  who hast done great things:  O God,  who  is  like unto thee!   Thou ,  which hast shewed me great and sore troubles,  shalt quicken me again,  and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.  Thou shalt increase my greatness,  and comfort me on every side.  I will also praise thee with the psaltery,   even  thy truth,  O my God:  unto thee will I sing with the harp,  O thou Holy One of Israel.  My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee;  and my soul,  which thou hast redeemed.  My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long:  for they are confounded,  for they are brought unto shame,  that seek my hurt. 

Psalm 72

A  Psalm  for Solomon. 

Give the king thy judgments,  O God,  and thy righteousness unto the king's son.  He shall judge thy people with righteousness,  and thy poor with judgment.  The mountains shall bring peace to the people,  and the little hills,  by righteousness.  He shall judge the poor of the people,  he shall save the children of the needy,  and shall break in pieces the oppressor.  They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure,  throughout all generations.  He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass:  as showers  that  water the earth.  In his days shall the righteous flourish;  and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.  He shall have dominion also from sea to sea,  and from the river unto the ends of the earth.  They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him;  and his enemies shall lick the dust.  The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents:  the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.  Yea,  all kings shall fall down before him:  all nations shall serve him.  For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth;  the poor also,  and  him  that hath no helper.  He shall spare the poor and needy,  and shall save the souls of the needy.  He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence:  and precious shall their blood be in his sight.  And he shall live,  and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba:  prayer also shall be made for him continually;   and  daily shall he be praised.  There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains;  the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon:  and  they  of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.  His name shall endure for ever:  his name shall be continued as long as the sun:  and  men  shall be blessed in him:  all nations shall call him blessed.  Blessed  be  the LORD God,  the God of Israel,  who only doeth wondrous things.  And blessed  be  his glorious name for ever:  and let the whole earth be filled  with  his glory;  Amen,  and Amen.  The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended. 

Psalm 73

A Psalm of Asaph. 

Truly God  is  good to Israel,   even  to such as are of a clean heart.  But as for me,  my feet were almost gone;  my steps had well nigh slipped.  For I was envious at the foolish,   when  I saw the prosperity of the wicked.  For  there are  no bands in their death:  but their strength  is  firm.  They  are  not in trouble  as other  men;  neither are they plagued like  other  men.  Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain;  violence covereth them  as  a garment.  Their eyes stand out with fatness:  they have more than heart could wish.  They are corrupt,  and speak wickedly  concerning  oppression:  they speak loftily.  They set their mouth against the heavens,  and their tongue walketh through the earth.  Therefore his people return hither:  and waters of a full  cup  are wrung out to them.  And they say,  How doth God know?  and is there knowledge in the most High?  Behold,  these  are  the ungodly,  who prosper in the world;  they increase  in  riches.  Verily I have cleansed my heart  in  vain,  and washed my hands in innocency.  For all the day long have I been plagued,  and chastened every morning.  If I say,  I will speak thus;  behold,  I should offend  against  the generation of thy children.  When I thought to know this,  it  was  too painful for me;  Until I went into the sanctuary of God;   then  understood I their end.  Surely thou didst set them in slippery places:  thou castedst them down into destruction.  How are they  brought  into desolation,  as in a moment!  they are utterly consumed with terrors.  As a dream when  one  awaketh;   so ,  O Lord,  when thou awakest,  thou shalt despise their image.  Thus my heart was grieved,  and I was pricked in my reins.  So foolish  was  I,  and ignorant:  I was  as  a beast before thee.  Nevertheless I  am  continually with thee:  thou hast holden  me  by my right hand.  Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel,  and afterward receive me  to  glory.  Whom have I in heaven  but thee  ?  and  there is  none upon earth  that  I desire beside thee.  My flesh and my heart faileth:   but  God  is  the strength of my heart,  and my portion for ever.  For,  lo,  they that are far from thee shall perish:  thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.  But  it is  good for me to draw near to God:  I have put my trust in the Lord GOD,  that I may declare all thy works. 

Psalm 74

Maschil of Asaph. 

O God,  why hast thou cast us off for ever?   why  doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?  Remember thy congregation,   which  thou hast purchased of old;  the rod of thine inheritance,   which  thou hast redeemed;  this mount Zion,  wherein thou hast dwelt.  Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations;   even  all  that  the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.  Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations;  they set up their ensigns  for  signs.   A man  was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.  But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.  They have cast fire into thy sanctuary,  they have defiled  by casting down  the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.  They said in their hearts,  Let us destroy them together:  they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.  We see not our signs:   there is  no more any prophet:  neither  is there  among us any that knoweth how long.  O God,  how long shall the adversary reproach?  shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?  Why withdrawest thou thy hand,  even thy right hand?  pluck  it  out of thy bosom.  For God  is  my King of old,  working salvation in the midst of the earth.  Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength:  thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.  Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces,   and  gavest him  to be  meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.  Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood:  thou driedst up mighty rivers.  The day  is  thine,  the night also  is  thine:  thou hast prepared the light and the sun.  Thou hast set all the borders of the earth:  thou hast made summer and winter.  Remember this,   that  the enemy hath reproached,  O LORD,  and  that  the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.  O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude  of the wicked :  forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.  Have respect unto the covenant:  for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.  O let not the oppressed return ashamed:  let the poor and needy praise thy name.  Arise,  O God,  plead thine own cause:  remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.  Forget not the voice of thine enemies:  the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually. 

Psalm 75

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

Unto thee,  O God,  do we give thanks,   unto thee  do we give thanks:  for  that  thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.  When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.  The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved:  I bear up the pillars of it.  Selah.  I said unto the fools,  Deal not foolishly:  and to the wicked,  Lift not up the horn:  Lift not up your horn on high:  speak  not with  a stiff neck.  For promotion  cometh  neither from the east,  nor from the west,  nor from the south.  But God  is  the judge:  he putteth down one,  and setteth up another.  For in the hand of the LORD  there is  a cup,  and the wine is red;  it is full of mixture;  and he poureth out of the same:  but the dregs thereof,  all the wicked of the earth shall wring  them  out,   and  drink  them .  But I will declare for ever;  I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.  All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off;   but  the horns of the righteous shall be exalted. 

Psalm 76

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

In Judah  is  God known:  his name  is  great in Israel.  In Salem also is his tabernacle,  and his dwelling place in Zion.  There brake he the arrows of the bow,  the shield,  and the sword,  and the battle.  Selah.  Thou  art  more glorious  and  excellent than the mountains of prey.  The stouthearted are spoiled,  they have slept their sleep:  and none of the men of might have found their hands.  At thy rebuke,  O God of Jacob,  both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.  Thou,   even  thou,   art  to be feared:  and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?  Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven;  the earth feared,  and was still,  When God arose to judgment,  to save all the meek of the earth.  Selah.  Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee:  the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.  Vow,  and pay unto the LORD your God:  let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.  He shall cut off the spirit of princes:   he is  terrible to the kings of the earth. 

Psalm 77

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

I cried unto God with my voice,   even  unto God with my voice;  and he gave ear unto me.  In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord:  my sore ran in the night,  and ceased not:  my soul refused to be comforted.  I remembered God,  and was troubled:  I complained,  and my spirit was overwhelmed.  Selah.  Thou holdest mine eyes waking:  I am so troubled that I cannot speak.  I have considered the days of old,  the years of ancient times.  I call to remembrance my song in the night:  I commune with mine own heart:  and my spirit made diligent search.  Will the Lord cast off for ever?  and will he be favourable no more?  Is his mercy clean gone for ever?  doth  his  promise fail for evermore?  Hath God forgotten to be gracious?  hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?  Selah.  And I said,  This  is  my infirmity:   but I will remember  the years of the right hand of the most High.  I will remember the works of the LORD:  surely I will remember thy wonders of old.  I will meditate also of all thy work,  and talk of thy doings.  Thy way,  O God,   is  in the sanctuary:  who  is so  great a God as  our  God?  Thou  art  the God that doest wonders:  thou hast declared thy strength among the people.  Thou hast with  thine  arm redeemed thy people,  the sons of Jacob and Joseph.  Selah.  The waters saw thee,  O God,  the waters saw thee;  they were afraid:  the depths also were troubled.  The clouds poured out water:  the skies sent out a sound:  thine arrows also went abroad.  The voice of thy thunder  was  in the heaven:  the lightnings lightened the world:  the earth trembled and shook.  Thy way  is  in the sea,  and thy path in the great waters,  and thy footsteps are not known.  Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. 

Psalm 78

Maschil of Asaph. 

Give ear,  O my people,   to  my law:  incline your ears to the words of my mouth.  I will open my mouth in a parable:  I will utter dark sayings of old:  Which we have heard and known,  and our fathers have told us.  We will not hide  them  from their children,  shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD,  and his strength,  and his wonderful works that he hath done.  For he established a testimony in Jacob,  and appointed a law in Israel,  which he commanded our fathers,  that they should make them known to their children:  That the generation to come might know  them,  even  the children  which  should be born;   who  should arise and declare  them  to their children:  That they might set their hope in God,  and not forget the works of God,  but keep his commandments:  And might not be as their fathers,  a stubborn and rebellious generation;  a generation  that  set not their heart aright,  and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.  The children of Ephraim,   being  armed,   and  carrying bows,  turned back in the day of battle.  They kept not the covenant of God,  and refused to walk in his law;  And forgat his works,  and his wonders that he had shewed them.  Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers,  in the land of Egypt,   in  the field of Zoan.  He divided the sea,  and caused them to pass through;  and he made the waters to stand as an heap.  In the daytime also he led them with a cloud,  and all the night with a light of fire.  He clave the rocks in the wilderness,  and gave  them  drink as  out of  the great depths.  He brought streams also out of the rock,  and caused waters to run down like rivers.  And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.  And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.  Yea,  they spake against God;  they said,  Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?  Behold,  he smote the rock,  that the waters gushed out,  and the streams overflowed;  can he give bread also?  can he provide flesh for his people?  Therefore the LORD heard  this ,  and was wroth:  so a fire was kindled against Jacob,  and anger also came up against Israel;  Because they believed not in God,  and trusted not in his salvation:  Though he had commanded the clouds from above,  and opened the doors of heaven,  And had rained down manna upon them to eat,  and had given them of the corn of heaven.  Man did eat angels' food:  he sent them meat to the full.  He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven:  and by his power he brought in the south wind.  He rained flesh also upon them as dust,  and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:  And he let  it  fall in the midst of their camp,  round about their habitations.  So they did eat,  and were well filled:  for he gave them their own desire;  They were not estranged from their lust.  But while their meat  was  yet in their mouths,  The wrath of God came upon them,  and slew the fattest of them,  and smote down the chosen  men  of Israel.  For all this they sinned still,  and believed not for his wondrous works.  Therefore their days did he consume in vanity,  and their years in trouble.  When he slew them,  then they sought him:  and they returned and inquired early after God.  And they remembered that God  was  their rock,  and the high God their redeemer.  Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth,  and they lied unto him with their tongues.  For their heart was not right with him,  neither were they stedfast in his covenant.  But he,   being  full of compassion,  forgave  their  iniquity,  and destroyed  them  not:  yea,  many a time turned he his anger away,  and did not stir up all his wrath.  For he remembered that they  were but  flesh;  a wind that passeth away,  and cometh not again.  How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness,   and  grieve him in the desert!  Yea,  they turned back and tempted God,  and limited the Holy One of Israel.  They remembered not his hand,   nor  the day when he delivered them from the enemy.  How he had wrought his signs in Egypt,  and his wonders in the field of Zoan:  And had turned their rivers into blood;  and their floods,  that they could not drink.  He sent divers sorts of flies among them,  which devoured them;  and frogs,  which destroyed them.  He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller,  and their labour unto the locust.  He destroyed their vines with hail,  and their sycomore trees with frost.  He gave up their cattle also to the hail,  and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.  He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger,  wrath,  and indignation,  and trouble,  by sending evil angels  among them .  He made a way to his anger;  he spared not their soul from death,  but gave their life over to the pestilence;  And smote all the firstborn in Egypt;  the chief of  their  strength in the tabernacles of Ham:  But made his own people to go forth like sheep,  and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.  And he led them on safely,  so that they feared not:  but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.  And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary,   even to  this mountain,   which  his right hand had purchased.  He cast out the heathen also before them,  and divided them an inheritance by line,  and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.  Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God,  and kept not his testimonies:  But turned back,  and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers:  they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.  For they provoked him to anger with their high places,  and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.  When God heard  this ,  he was wroth,  and greatly abhorred Israel:  So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh,  the tent  which  he placed among men;  And delivered his strength into captivity,  and his glory into the enemy's hand.  He gave his people over also unto the sword;  and was wroth with his inheritance.  The fire consumed their young men;  and their maidens were not given to marriage.  Their priests fell by the sword;  and their widows made no lamentation.  Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep,   and  like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.  And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts:  he put them to a perpetual reproach.  Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph,  and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:  But chose the tribe of Judah,  the mount Zion which he loved.  And he built his sanctuary like high  palaces ,  like the earth which he hath established for ever.  He chose David also his servant,  and took him from the sheepfolds:  From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people,  and Israel his inheritance.  So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart;  and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. 

Psalm 79

A Psalm of Asaph. 

O God,  the heathen are come into thine inheritance;  thy holy temple have they defiled;  they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.  The dead bodies of thy servants have they given  to be  meat unto the fowls of the heaven,  the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.  Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem;  and  there was  none to bury  them .  We are become a reproach to our neighbours,  a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.  How long,  LORD?  wilt thou be angry for ever?  shall thy jealousy burn like fire?  Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee,  and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.  For they have devoured Jacob,  and laid waste his dwelling place.  O remember not against us former iniquities:  let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us:  for we are brought very low.  Help us,  O God of our salvation,  for the glory of thy name:  and deliver us,  and purge away our sins,  for thy name's sake.  Wherefore should the heathen say,  Where  is  their God?  let him be known among the heathen in our sight  by  the revenging of the blood of thy servants  which is  shed.  Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee;  according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;  And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach,  wherewith they have reproached thee,  O Lord.  So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever:  we will shew forth thy praise to all generations. 

Psalm 80

To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim-Eduth,  A Psalm of Asaph. 

Give ear,  O Shepherd of Israel,  thou that leadest Joseph like a flock;  thou that dwellest  between  the cherubims,  shine forth.  Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength,  and come  and  save us.  Turn us again,  O God,  and cause thy face to shine;  and we shall be saved.  O LORD God of hosts,  how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?  Thou feedest them with the bread of tears;  and givest them tears to drink in great measure.  Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours:  and our enemies laugh among themselves.  Turn us again,  O God of hosts,  and cause thy face to shine;  and we shall be saved.  Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt:  thou hast cast out the heathen,  and planted it.  Thou preparedst  room  before it,  and didst cause it to take deep root,  and it filled the land.  The hills were covered with the shadow of it,  and the boughs thereof  were like  the goodly cedars.  She sent out her boughs unto the sea,  and her branches unto the river.  Why hast thou  then  broken down her hedges,  so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?  The boar out of the wood doth waste it,  and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.  Return,  we beseech thee,  O God of hosts:  look down from heaven,  and behold,  and visit this vine;  And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted,  and the branch  that  thou madest strong for thyself.   It is  burned with fire,   it is  cut down:  they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.  Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand,  upon the son of man  whom  thou madest strong for thyself.  So will not we go back from thee:  quicken us,  and we will call upon thy name.  Turn us again,  O LORD God of hosts,  cause thy face to shine;  and we shall be saved. 

Psalm 81

To the chief Musician upon Gittith,  a Psalm of Asaph. 

Sing aloud unto God our strength:  make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.  Take a psalm,  and bring hither the timbrel,  the pleasant harp with the psaltery.  Blow up the trumpet in the new moon,  in the time appointed,  on our solemn feast day.  For this  was  a statute for Israel,   and  a law of the God of Jacob.  This he ordained in Joseph  for  a testimony,  when he went out through the land of Egypt:   where  I heard a language  that  I understood not.  I removed his shoulder from the burden:  his hands were delivered from the pots.  Thou calledst in trouble,  and I delivered thee;  I answered thee in the secret place of thunder:  I proved thee at the waters of Meribah.  Selah.  Hear,  O my people,  and I will testify unto thee:  O Israel,  if thou wilt hearken unto me;  There shall no strange god be in thee;  neither shalt thou worship any strange god.  I  am  the LORD thy God,  which brought thee out of the land of Egypt:  open thy mouth wide,  and I will fill it.  But my people would not hearken to my voice;  and Israel would none of me.  So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust:   and  they walked in their own counsels.  Oh that my people had hearkened unto me,   and  Israel had walked in my ways!  I should soon have subdued their enemies,  and turned my hand against their adversaries.  The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him:  but their time should have endured for ever.  He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat:  and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. 

Psalm 82

A Psalm of Asaph. 

God standeth in the congregation of the mighty;  he judgeth among the gods.  How long will ye judge unjustly,  and accept the persons of the wicked?  Selah.  Defend the poor and fatherless:  do justice to the afflicted and needy.  Deliver the poor and needy:  rid  them  out of the hand of the wicked.  They know not,  neither will they understand;  they walk on in darkness:  all the foundations of the earth are out of course.  I have said,  Ye  are  gods;  and all of you  are  children of the most High.  But ye shall die like men,  and fall like one of the princes.  Arise,  O God,  judge the earth:  for thou shalt inherit all nations. 

Psalm 83

A Song  or  Psalm of Asaph. 

Keep not thou silence,  O God:  hold not thy peace,  and be not still,  O God.  For,  lo,  thine enemies make a tumult:  and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.  They have taken crafty counsel against thy people,  and consulted against thy hidden ones.  They have said,  Come,  and let us cut them off from  being  a nation;  that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.  For they have consulted together with one consent:  they are confederate against thee:  The tabernacles of Edom,  and the Ishmaelites;  of Moab,  and the Hagarenes;  Gebal,  and Ammon,  and Amalek;  the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;  Assur also is joined with them:  they have holpen the children of Lot.  Selah.  Do unto them as  unto  the Midianites;  as  to  Sisera,  as  to  Jabin,  at the brook of Kison:   Which  perished at Endor:  they became  as  dung for the earth.  Make their nobles like Oreb,  and like Zeeb:  yea,  all their princes as Zebah,  and as Zalmunna:  Who said,  Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.  O my God,  make them like a wheel;  as the stubble before the wind.  As the fire burneth a wood,  and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;  So persecute them with thy tempest,  and make them afraid with thy storm.  Fill their faces with shame;  that they may seek thy name,  O LORD.  Let them be confounded and troubled for ever;  yea,  let them be put to shame,  and perish:  That  men  may know that thou,  whose name alone  is  JEHOVAH,   art  the most high over all the earth. 

Psalm 84

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

How amiable  are  thy tabernacles,  O LORD of hosts!  My soul longeth,  yea,  even fainteth for the courts of the LORD:  my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.  Yea,  the sparrow hath found an house,  and the swallow a nest for herself,  where she may lay her young,   even  thine altars,  O LORD of hosts,  my King,  and my God.  Blessed  are  they that dwell in thy house:  they will be still praising thee.  Selah.  Blessed  is  the man whose strength  is  in thee;  in whose heart  are  the ways  of them .   Who  passing through the valley of Baca make it a well;  the rain also filleth the pools.  They go from strength to strength,   every one of them  in Zion appeareth before God.  O LORD God of hosts,  hear my prayer:  give ear,  O God of Jacob.  Selah.  Behold,  O God our shield,  and look upon the face of thine anointed.  For a day in thy courts  is  better than a thousand.  I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God,  than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.  For the LORD God  is  a sun and shield:  the LORD will give grace and glory:  no good  thing  will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.  O LORD of hosts,  blessed  is  the man that trusteth in thee. 

Psalm 85

To the chief Musician,  A Psalm for the sons of Korah.  LORD,  thou hast been favourable unto thy land:  thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.  Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people,  thou hast covered all their sin.  Selah.  Thou hast taken away all thy wrath:  thou hast turned  thyself  from the fierceness of thine anger.  Turn us,  O God of our salvation,  and cause thine anger toward us to cease.  Wilt thou be angry with us for ever?  wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?  Wilt thou not revive us again:  that thy people may rejoice in thee?  Shew us thy mercy,  O LORD,  and grant us thy salvation.  I will hear what God the LORD will speak:  for he will speak peace unto his people,  and to his saints:  but let them not turn again to folly.  Surely his salvation  is  nigh them that fear him;  that glory may dwell in our land.  Mercy and truth are met together;  righteousness and peace have kissed  each other .  Truth shall spring out of the earth;  and righteousness shall look down from heaven.  Yea,  the LORD shall give  that which is  good;  and our land shall yield her increase.  Righteousness shall go before him;  and shall set  us  in the way of his steps. 

Psalm 86

A Prayer of David. 

Bow down thine ear,  O LORD,  hear me:  for I  am  poor and needy.  Preserve my soul;  for I  am  holy:  O thou my God,  save thy servant that trusteth in thee.  Be merciful unto me,  O Lord:  for I cry unto thee daily.  Rejoice the soul of thy servant:  for unto thee,  O Lord,  do I lift up my soul.  For thou,  Lord,   art  good,  and ready to forgive;  and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.  Give ear,  O LORD,  unto my prayer;  and attend to the voice of my supplications.  In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee:  for thou wilt answer me.  Among the gods  there is  none like unto thee,  O Lord;  neither  are there any works  like unto thy works.  All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee,  O Lord;  and shall glorify thy name.  For thou  art  great,  and doest wondrous things:  thou  art  God alone.  Teach me thy way,  O LORD;  I will walk in thy truth:  unite my heart to fear thy name.  I will praise thee,  O Lord my God,  with all my heart:  and I will glorify thy name for evermore.  For great  is  thy mercy toward me:  and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.  O God,  the proud are risen against me,  and the assemblies of violent  men  have sought after my soul;  and have not set thee before them.  But thou,  O Lord,   art  a God full of compassion,  and gracious,  longsuffering,  and plenteous in mercy and truth.  O turn unto me,  and have mercy upon me;  give thy strength unto thy servant,  and save the son of thine handmaid.  Show me a token for good;  that they which hate me may see  it ,  and be ashamed:  because thou,  LORD,  hast helped me,  and comforted me. 

Psalm 87

A Psalm  or  Song for the sons of Korah. 

His foundation  is  in the holy mountains.  The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.  Glorious things are spoken of thee,  O city of God.  Selah.  I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me:  behold Philistia,  and Tyre,  with Ethiopia;  this  man  was born there.  And of Zion it shall be said,  This and  that man  was born in her:  and the highest himself shall establish her.  The LORD shall count,  when he writeth up the people,  that this man was born there.  Selah.  As well the singers as the players on instruments  shall be there :  all my springs  are  in thee. 

Psalm 88

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

O LORD God of my salvation,  I have cried day  and  night before thee:  Let my prayer come before thee:  incline thine ear unto my cry;  For my soul is full of troubles:  and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.  I am counted with them that go down into the pit:  I am as a man  that hath  no strength:  Free among the dead,  like the slain that lie in the grave,  whom thou rememberest no more:  and they are cut off from thy hand.  Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit,  in darkness,  in the deeps.  Thy wrath lieth hard upon me,  and thou hast afflicted  me  with all thy waves.  Selah.  Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me;  thou hast made me an abomination unto them:   I am  shut up,  and I cannot come forth.  Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction:  LORD,  I have called daily upon thee,  I have stretched out my hands unto thee.  Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead?  shall the dead arise  and  praise thee?  Selah.  Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave?   or  thy faithfulness in destruction?  Shall thy wonders be known in the dark?  and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?  But unto thee have I cried,  O LORD;  and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.  LORD,  why castest thou off my soul?   why  hidest thou thy face from me?  I  am  afflicted and ready to die from  my  youth up:   while  I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.  Thy fierce wrath goeth over me;  thy terrors have cut me off.  They came round about me daily like water;  they compassed me about together.  Lover and friend hast thou put far from me,   and  mine acquaintance into darkness. 

Psalm 89

Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. 

I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever:  with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.  For I have said,  Mercy shall be built up for ever:  thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.  I have made a covenant with my chosen,  I have sworn unto David my servant,  Thy seed will I establish for ever,  and build up thy throne to all generations.  Selah.  And the heavens shall praise thy wonders,  O LORD:  thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.  For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD?   who  among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?  God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints,  and to be had in reverence of all  them that are  about him.  O LORD God of hosts,  who  is  a strong LORD like unto thee?  or to thy faithfulness round about thee?  Thou rulest the raging of the sea:  when the waves thereof arise,  thou stillest them.  Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces,  as one that is slain;  thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.  The heavens  are  thine,  the earth also  is  thine:   as for  the world and the fulness thereof,  thou hast founded them.  The north and the south thou hast created them:  Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.  Thou hast a mighty arm:  strong is thy hand,   and  high is thy right hand.  Justice and judgment  are  the habitation of thy throne:  mercy and truth shall go before thy face.  Blessed  is  the people that know the joyful sound:  they shall walk,  O LORD,  in the light of thy countenance.  In thy name shall they rejoice all the day:  and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.  For thou  art  the glory of their strength:  and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.  For the LORD  is  our defence;  and the Holy One of Israel  is  our king.  Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one,  and saidst,  I have laid help upon  one that is  mighty;  I have exalted  one  chosen out of the people.  I have found David my servant;  with my holy oil have I anointed him:  With whom my hand shall be established:  mine arm also shall strengthen him.  The enemy shall not exact upon him;  nor the son of wickedness afflict him.  And I will beat down his foes before his face,  and plague them that hate him.  But my faithfulness and my mercy  shall be  with him:  and in my name shall his horn be exalted.  I will set his hand also in the sea,  and his right hand in the rivers.  He shall cry unto me,  Thou  art  my father,  my God,  and the rock of my salvation.  Also I will make him  my  firstborn,  higher than the kings of the earth.  My mercy will I keep for him for evermore,  and my covenant shall stand fast with him.  His seed also will I make  to endure  for ever,  and his throne as the days of heaven.  If his children forsake my law,  and walk not in my judgments;  If they break my statutes,  and keep not my commandments;  Then will I visit their transgression with the rod,  and their iniquity with stripes.  Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him,  nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.  My covenant will I not break,  nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.  Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.  His seed shall endure for ever,  and his throne as the sun before me.  It shall be established for ever as the moon,  and  as  a faithful witness in heaven.  Selah.  But thou hast cast off and abhorred,  thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.  Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant:  thou hast profaned his crown  by casting it  to the ground.  Thou hast broken down all his hedges;  thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.  All that pass by the way spoil him:  he is a reproach to his neighbours.  Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries;  thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.  Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword,  and hast not made him to stand in the battle.  Thou hast made his glory to cease,  and cast his throne down to the ground.  The days of his youth hast thou shortened:  thou hast covered him with shame.  Selah.  How long,  LORD?  wilt thou hide thyself for ever?  shall thy wrath burn like fire?  Remember how short my time is:  wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?  What man  is he that  liveth,  and shall not see death?  shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave?  Selah.  Lord,  where  are  thy former lovingkindnesses,   which  thou swarest unto David in thy truth?  Remember,  Lord,  the reproach of thy servants;   how  I do bear in my bosom  the reproach of  all the mighty people;  Wherewith thine enemies have reproached,  O LORD;  wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.  Blessed  be  the LORD for evermore.  Amen,  and Amen. 

Psalm 90

A Prayer of Moses the man of God. 

LORD,  thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.  Before the mountains were brought forth,  or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world,  even from everlasting to everlasting,  thou  art  God.  Thou turnest man to destruction;  and sayest,  Return,  ye children of men.  For a thousand years in thy sight  are but  as yesterday when it is past,  and  as  a watch in the night.  Thou carriest them away as with a flood;  they are  as  a sleep:  in the morning  they are  like grass  which  groweth up.  In the morning it flourisheth,  and groweth up;  in the evening it is cut down,  and withereth.  For we are consumed by thine anger,  and by thy wrath are we troubled.  Thou hast set our iniquities before thee,  our secret  sins  in the light of thy countenance.  For all our days are passed away in thy wrath:  we spend our years as a tale  that is told .  The days of our years  are  threescore years and ten;  and if by reason of strength  they be  fourscore years,  yet  is  their strength labour and sorrow;  for it is soon cut off,  and we fly away.  Who knoweth the power of thine anger?  even according to thy fear,   so is  thy wrath.  So teach  us  to number our days,  that we may apply  our  hearts unto wisdom.  Return,  O LORD,  how long?  and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.  O satisfy us early with thy mercy;  that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.  Make us glad according to the days  wherein  thou hast afflicted us,   and  the years  wherein  we have seen evil.  Let thy work appear unto thy servants,  and thy glory unto their children.  And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us:  and establish thou the work of our hands upon us;  yea,  the work of our hands establish thou it. 

Psalm 91

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.  I will say of the LORD,   He is  my refuge and my fortress:  my God;  in him will I trust.  Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler,   and  from the noisome pestilence.  He shall cover thee with his feathers,  and under his wings shalt thou trust:  his truth  shall be thy  shield and buckler.  Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night;   nor  for the arrow  that  flieth by day;   Nor  for the pestilence  that  walketh in darkness;   nor  for the destruction  that  wasteth at noonday.  A thousand shall fall at thy side,  and ten thousand at thy right hand;   but  it shall not come nigh thee.  Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.  Because thou hast made the LORD,   which is  my refuge,   even  the most High,  thy habitation;  There shall no evil befall thee,  neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.  For he shall give his angels charge over thee,  to keep thee in all thy ways.  They shall bear thee up in  their  hands,  lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.  Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder:  the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.  Because he hath set his love upon me,  therefore will I deliver him:  I will set him on high,  because he hath known my name.  He shall call upon me,  and I will answer him:  I  will be  with him in trouble;  I will deliver him,  and honour him.  With long life will I satisfy him,  and shew him my salvation. 

Psalm 92

A Psalm  or  Song for the sabbath day. 

 It is a  good  thing  to give thanks unto the LORD,  and to sing praises unto thy name,  O most High:  To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning,  and thy faithfulness every night,  Upon an instrument of ten strings,  and upon the psaltery;  upon the harp with a solemn sound.  For thou,  LORD,  hast made me glad through thy work:  I will triumph in the works of thy hands.  O LORD,  how great are thy works!   and  thy thoughts are very deep.  A brutish man knoweth not;  neither doth a fool understand this.  When the wicked spring as the grass,  and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish;   it is  that they shall be destroyed for ever:  But thou,  LORD,   art most  high for evermore.  For,  lo,  thine enemies,  O LORD,  for,  lo,  thine enemies shall perish;  all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.  But my horn shalt thou exalt like  the horn of  an unicorn:  I shall be anointed with fresh oil.  Mine eye also shall see  my desire  on mine enemies,   and  mine ears shall hear  my desire  of the wicked that rise up against me.  The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree:  he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.  Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.  They shall still bring forth fruit in old age;  they shall be fat and flourishing;  To shew that the LORD  is  upright:   he is  my rock,  and  there is  no unrighteousness in him. 

Psalm 93

The LORD reigneth,  he is clothed with majesty;  the LORD is clothed with strength,   wherewith  he hath girded himself:  the world also is stablished,  that it cannot be moved.  Thy throne  is  established of old:  thou  art  from everlasting.  The floods have lifted up,  O LORD,  the floods have lifted up their voice;  the floods lift up their waves.  The LORD on high  is  mightier than the noise of many waters,   yea,  than  the mighty waves of the sea.  Thy testimonies are very sure:  holiness becometh thine house,  O LORD,  for ever. 

Psalm 94

O LORD God,  to whom vengeance belongeth;  O God,  to whom vengeance belongeth,  shew thyself.  Lift up thyself,  thou judge of the earth:  render a reward to the proud.  LORD,  how long shall the wicked,  how long shall the wicked triumph?   How long  shall they utter  and  speak hard things?   and  all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?  They break in pieces thy people,  O LORD,  and afflict thine heritage.  They slay the widow and the stranger,  and murder the fatherless.  Yet they say,  The LORD shall not see,  neither shall the God of Jacob regard  it .  Understand,  ye brutish among the people:  and  ye  fools,  when will ye be wise?  He that planted the ear,  shall he not hear?  he that formed the eye,  shall he not see?  He that chastiseth the heathen,  shall not he correct?  he that teacheth man knowledge,   shall not he know  ?  The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man,  that they  are  vanity.  Blessed  is  the man whom thou chastenest,  O LORD,  and teachest him out of thy law;  That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity,  until the pit be digged for the wicked.  For the LORD will not cast off his people,  neither will he forsake his inheritance.  But judgment shall return unto righteousness:  and all the upright in heart shall follow it.  Who will rise up for me against the evildoers?   or  who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?  Unless the LORD  had been  my help,  my soul had almost dwelt in silence.  When I said,  My foot slippeth;  thy mercy,  O LORD,  held me up.  In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.  Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee,  which frameth mischief by a law?  They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous,  and condemn the innocent blood.  But the LORD is my defence;  and my God  is  the rock of my refuge.  And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity,  and shall cut them off in their own wickedness;   yea ,  the LORD our God shall cut them off. 

Psalm 95

O come,  let us sing unto the LORD:  let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.  Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving,  and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.  For the LORD  is  a great God,  and a great King above all gods.  In his hand  are  the deep places of the earth:  the strength of the hills  is  his also.  The sea  is  his,  and he made it:  and his hands formed the dry  land .  O come,  let us worship and bow down:  let us kneel before the LORD our maker.  For he  is  our God;  and we  are  the people of his pasture,  and the sheep of his hand.  To day if ye will hear his voice,  Harden not your heart,  as in the provocation,   and as in  the day of temptation in the wilderness:  When your fathers tempted me,  proved me,  and saw my work.  Forty years long was I grieved with  this  generation,  and said,  It  is  a people that do err in their heart,  and they have not known my ways:  Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest. 

Psalm 96

O sing unto the LORD a new song:  sing unto the LORD,  all the earth.  Sing unto the LORD,  bless his name;  shew forth his salvation from day to day.  Declare his glory among the heathen,  his wonders among all people.  For the LORD  is  great,  and greatly to be praised:  he  is  to be feared above all gods.  For all the gods of the nations  are  idols:  but the LORD made the heavens.  Honour and majesty  are  before him:  strength and beauty  are  in his sanctuary.  Give unto the LORD,  O ye kindreds of the people,  give unto the LORD glory and strength.  Give unto the LORD the glory  due unto  his name:  bring an offering,  and come into his courts.  O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness:  fear before him,  all the earth.  Say among the heathen  that  the LORD reigneth:  the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved:  he shall judge the people righteously.  Let the heavens rejoice,  and let the earth be glad;  let the sea roar,  and the fulness thereof.  Let the field be joyful,  and all that  is  therein:  then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice Before the LORD:  for he cometh,  for he cometh to judge the earth:  he shall judge the world with righteousness,  and the people with his truth. 

Psalm 97

The LORD reigneth;  let the earth rejoice;  let the multitude of isles be glad  thereof .  Clouds and darkness  are  round about him:  righteousness and judgment  are  the habitation of his throne.  A fire goeth before him,  and burneth up his enemies round about.  His lightnings enlightened the world:  the earth saw,  and trembled.  The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD,  at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.  The heavens declare his righteousness,  and all the people see his glory.  Confounded be all they that serve graven images,  that boast themselves of idols:  worship him,  all  ye  gods.  Zion heard,  and was glad;  and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments,  O LORD.  For thou,  LORD,   art  high above all the earth:  thou art exalted far above all gods.  Ye that love the LORD,  hate evil:  he preserveth the souls of his saints;  he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.  Light is sown for the righteous,  and gladness for the upright in heart.  Rejoice in the LORD,  ye righteous;  and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. 

Psalm 98

A Psalm. 

O sing unto the LORD a new song;  for he hath done marvellous things:  his right hand,  and his holy arm,  hath gotten him the victory.  The LORD hath made known his salvation:  his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.  He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel:  all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.  Make a joyful noise unto the LORD,  all the earth:  make a loud noise,  and rejoice,  and sing praise.  Sing unto the LORD with the harp;  with the harp,  and the voice of a psalm.  With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD,  the King.  Let the sea roar,  and the fulness thereof;  the world,  and they that dwell therein.  Let the floods clap  their  hands:  let the hills be joyful together Before the LORD;  for he cometh to judge the earth:  with righteousness shall he judge the world,  and the people with equity. 

Psalm 99

The LORD reigneth;  let the people tremble:  he sitteth  between  the cherubims;  let the earth be moved.  The LORD  is  great in Zion;  and he  is  high above all the people.  Let them praise thy great and terrible name;   for  it  is  holy.  The king's strength also loveth judgment;  thou dost establish equity,  thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.  Exalt ye the LORD our God,  and worship at his footstool;   for  he  is  holy.  Moses and Aaron among his priests,  and Samuel among them that call upon his name;  they called upon the LORD,  and he answered them.  He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar:  they kept his testimonies,  and the ordinance  that  he gave them.  Thou answeredst them,  O LORD our God:  thou wast a God that forgavest them,  though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.  Exalt the LORD our God,  and worship at his holy hill;  for the LORD our God  is  holy. 

Psalm 100

A Psalm of praise. 

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

Psalm 101

A Psalm of David. 

I will sing of mercy and judgment:  unto thee,  O LORD,  will I sing.  I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way.  O when wilt thou come unto me?  I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.  I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes:  I hate the work of them that turn aside;   it  shall not cleave to me.  A froward heart shall depart from me:  I will not know a wicked  person .  Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour,  him will I cut off:  him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.  Mine eyes  shall be  upon the faithful of the land,  that they may dwell with me:  he that walketh in a perfect way,  he shall serve me.  He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house:  he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.  I will early destroy all the wicked of the land;  that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD. 

Psalm 102

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

Hear my prayer,  O LORD,  and let my cry come unto thee.  Hide not thy face from me in the day  when  I am in trouble;  incline thine ear unto me:  in the day  when  I call answer me speedily.  For my days are consumed like smoke,  and my bones are burned as an hearth.  My heart is smitten,  and withered like grass;  so that I forget to eat my bread.  By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.  I am like a pelican of the wilderness:  I am like an owl of the desert.  I watch,  and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.  Mine enemies reproach me all the day;   and  they that are mad against me are sworn against me.  For I have eaten ashes like bread,  and mingled my drink with weeping,  Because of thine indignation and thy wrath:  for thou hast lifted me up,  and cast me down.  My days  are  like a shadow that declineth;  and I am withered like grass.  But thou,  O LORD,  shalt endure for ever;  and thy remembrance unto all generations.  Thou shalt arise,   and  have mercy upon Zion:  for the time to favour her,  yea,  the set time,  is come.  For thy servants take pleasure in her stones,  and favour the dust thereof.  So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD,  and all the kings of the earth thy glory.  When the LORD shall build up Zion,  he shall appear in his glory.  He will regard the prayer of the destitute,  and not despise their prayer.  This shall be written for the generation to come:  and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.  For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary;  from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;  To hear the groaning of the prisoner;  to loose those that are appointed to death;  To declare the name of the LORD in Zion,  and his praise in Jerusalem;  When the people are gathered together,  and the kingdoms,  to serve the LORD.  He weakened my strength in the way;  he shortened my days.  I said,  O my God,  take me not away in the midst of my days:  thy years  are  throughout all generations.  Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth:  and the heavens  are  the work of thy hands.  They shall perish,  but thou shalt endure:  yea,  all of them shall wax old like a garment;  as a vesture shalt thou change them,  and they shall be changed:  But thou  art  the same,  and thy years shall have no end.  The children of thy servants shall continue,  and their seed shall be established before thee. 

Psalm 103

A  Psalm  of David. 

Bless the LORD,  O my soul:  and all that is within me,   bless  his holy name.  Bless the LORD,  O my soul,  and forget not all his benefits:  Who forgiveth all thine iniquities;  who healeth all thy diseases;  Who redeemeth thy life from destruction;  who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;  Who satisfieth thy mouth with good  things;  so that  thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.  The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.  He made known his ways unto Moses,  his acts unto the children of Israel.  The LORD  is  merciful and gracious,  slow to anger,  and plenteous in mercy.  He will not always chide:  neither will he keep  his anger  for ever.  He hath not dealt with us after our sins;  nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.  For as the heaven is high above the earth,   so  great is his mercy toward them that fear him.  As far as the east is from the west,   so  far hath he removed our transgressions from us.  Like as a father pitieth  his  children,   so  the LORD pitieth them that fear him.  For he knoweth our frame;  he remembereth that we  are  dust.   As for  man,  his days  are  as grass:  as a flower of the field,  so he flourisheth.  For the wind passeth over it,  and it is gone;  and the place thereof shall know it no more.  But the mercy of the LORD  is  from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him,  and his righteousness unto children's children;  To such as keep his covenant,  and to those that remember his commandments to do them.  The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens;  and his kingdom ruleth over all.  Bless the LORD,  ye his angels,  that excel in strength,  that do his commandments,  hearkening unto the voice of his word.  Bless ye the LORD,  all  ye  his hosts;   ye  ministers of his,  that do his pleasure.  Bless the LORD,  all his works in all places of his dominion:  bless the LORD,  O my soul. 

Psalm 104

Bless the LORD,  O my soul.  O LORD my God,  thou art very great;  thou art clothed with honour and majesty.  Who coverest  thyself  with light as  with  a garment:  who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:  Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters:  who maketh the clouds his chariot:  who walketh upon the wings of the wind:  Who maketh his angels spirits;  his ministers a flaming fire:   Who  laid the foundations of the earth,   that  it should not be removed for ever.  Thou coveredst it with the deep as  with  a garment:  the waters stood above the mountains.  At thy rebuke they fled;  at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.  They go up by the mountains;  they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.  Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over;  that they turn not again to cover the earth.  He sendeth the springs into the valleys,   which  run among the hills.  They give drink to every beast of the field:  the wild asses quench their thirst.  By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation,   which  sing among the branches.  He watereth the hills from his chambers:  the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.  He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle,  and herb for the service of man:  that he may bring forth food out of the earth;  And wine  that  maketh glad the heart of man,   and  oil to make  his  face to shine,  and bread  which  strengtheneth man's heart.  The trees of the LORD are full  of sap ;  the cedars of Lebanon,  which he hath planted;  Where the birds make their nests:   as for  the stork,  the fir trees  are  her house.  The high hills  are  a refuge for the wild goats;   and  the rocks for the conies.  He appointed the moon for seasons:  the sun knoweth his going down.  Thou makest darkness,  and it is night:  wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep  forth .  The young lions roar after their prey,  and seek their meat from God.  The sun ariseth,  they gather themselves together,  and lay them down in their dens.  Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.  O LORD,  how manifold are thy works!  in wisdom hast thou made them all:  the earth is full of thy riches.   So is  this great and wide sea,  wherein  are  things creeping innumerable,  both small and great beasts.  There go the ships:   there is  that leviathan,   whom  thou hast made to play therein.  These wait all upon thee;  that thou mayest give  them  their meat in due season.   That  thou givest them they gather:  thou openest thine hand,  they are filled with good.  Thou hidest thy face,  they are troubled:  thou takest away their breath,  they die,  and return to their dust.  Thou sendest forth thy spirit,  they are created:  and thou renewest the face of the earth.  The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever:  the LORD shall rejoice in his works.  He looketh on the earth,  and it trembleth:  he toucheth the hills,  and they smoke.  I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live:  I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.  My meditation of him shall be sweet:  I will be glad in the LORD.  Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth,  and let the wicked be no more.  Bless thou the LORD,  O my soul.  Praise ye the LORD. 

Psalm 105

O give thanks unto the LORD;  call upon his name:  make known his deeds among the people.  Sing unto him,  sing psalms unto him:  talk ye of all his wondrous works.  Glory ye in his holy name:  let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.  Seek the LORD,  and his strength:  seek his face evermore.  Remember his marvellous works that he hath done;  his wonders,  and the judgments of his mouth;  O ye seed of Abraham his servant,  ye children of Jacob his chosen.  He  is  the LORD our God:  his judgments  are  in all the earth.  He hath remembered his covenant for ever,  the word  which  he commanded to a thousand generations.  Which  covenant  he made with Abraham,  and his oath unto Isaac;  And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law,   and  to Israel  for  an everlasting covenant:  Saying,  Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan,  the lot of your inheritance:  When they were  but  a few men in number;  yea,  very few,  and strangers in it.  When they went from one nation to another,  from  one  kingdom to another people;  He suffered no man to do them wrong:  yea,  he reproved kings for their sakes;   Saying ,  Touch not mine anointed,  and do my prophets no harm.  Moreover he called for a famine upon the land:  he brake the whole staff of bread.  He sent a man before them,   even  Joseph,   who  was sold for a servant:  Whose feet they hurt with fetters:  he was laid in iron:  Until the time that his word came:  the word of the LORD tried him.  The king sent and loosed him;   even  the ruler of the people,  and let him go free.  He made him lord of his house,  and ruler of all his substance:  To bind his princes at his pleasure;  and teach his senators wisdom.  Israel also came into Egypt;  and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.  And he increased his people greatly;  and made them stronger than their enemies.  He turned their heart to hate his people,  to deal subtilly with his servants.  He sent Moses his servant;   and  Aaron whom he had chosen.  They shewed his signs among them,  and wonders in the land of Ham.  He sent darkness,  and made it dark;  and they rebelled not against his word.  He turned their waters into blood,  and slew their fish.  Their land brought forth frogs in abundance,  in the chambers of their kings.  He spake,  and there came divers sorts of flies,   and  lice in all their coasts.  He gave them hail for rain,   and  flaming fire in their land.  He smote their vines also and their fig trees;  and brake the trees of their coasts.  He spake,  and the locusts came,  and caterpillers,  and that without number,  And did eat up all the herbs in their land,  and devoured the fruit of their ground.  He smote also all the firstborn in their land,  the chief of all their strength.  He brought them forth also with silver and gold:  and  there was  not one feeble  person  among their tribes.  Egypt was glad when they departed:  for the fear of them fell upon them.  He spread a cloud for a covering;  and fire to give light in the night.   The people  asked,  and he brought quails,  and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.  He opened the rock,  and the waters gushed out;  they ran in the dry places  like  a river.  For he remembered his holy promise,   and  Abraham his servant.  And he brought forth his people with joy,   and  his chosen with gladness:  And gave them the lands of the heathen:  and they inherited the labour of the people;  That they might observe his statutes,  and keep his laws.  Praise ye the LORD. 

Psalm 106

Praise ye the LORD.  O give thanks unto the LORD;  for  he is  good:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever.  Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD?   who  can shew forth all his praise?  Blessed  are  they that keep judgment,   and  he that doeth righteousness at all times.  Remember me,  O LORD,  with the favour  that thou bearest unto  thy people:  O visit me with thy salvation;  That I may see the good of thy chosen,  that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation,  that I may glory with thine inheritance.  We have sinned with our fathers,  we have committed iniquity,  we have done wickedly.  Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt;  they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies;  but provoked  him  at the sea,   even  at the Red sea.  Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake,  that he might make his mighty power to be known.  He rebuked the Red sea also,  and it was dried up:  so he led them through the depths,  as through the wilderness.  And he saved them from the hand of him that hated  them ,  and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.  And the waters covered their enemies:  there was not one of them left.  Then believed they his words;  they sang his praise.  They soon forgat his works;  they waited not for his counsel:  But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,  and tempted God in the desert.  And he gave them their request;  but sent leanness into their soul.  They envied Moses also in the camp,   and  Aaron the saint of the LORD.  The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,  and covered the company of Abiram.  And a fire was kindled in their company;  the flame burned up the wicked.  They made a calf in Horeb,  and worshipped the molten image.  Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.  They forgat God their saviour,  which had done great things in Egypt;  Wondrous works in the land of Ham,   and  terrible things by the Red sea.  Therefore he said that he would destroy them,  had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach,  to turn away his wrath,  lest he should destroy  them .  Yea,  they despised the pleasant land,  they believed not his word:  But murmured in their tents,   and  hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.  Therefore he lifted up his hand against them,  to overthrow them in the wilderness:  To overthrow their seed also among the nations,  and to scatter them in the lands.  They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor,  and ate the sacrifices of the dead.  Thus they provoked  him  to anger with their inventions:  and the plague brake in upon them.  Then stood up Phinehas,  and executed judgment:  and  so  the plague was stayed.  And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.  They angered  him  also at the waters of strife,  so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:  Because they provoked his spirit,  so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.  They did not destroy the nations,  concerning whom the LORD commanded them:  But were mingled among the heathen,  and learned their works.  And they served their idols:  which were a snare unto them.  Yea,  they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,  And shed innocent blood,   even  the blood of their sons and of their daughters,  whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan:  and the land was polluted with blood.  Thus were they defiled with their own works,  and went a whoring with their own inventions.  Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people,  insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.  And he gave them into the hand of the heathen;  and they that hated them ruled over them.  Their enemies also oppressed them,  and they were brought into subjection under their hand.  Many times did he deliver them;  but they provoked  him  with their counsel,  and were brought low for their iniquity.  Nevertheless he regarded their affliction,  when he heard their cry:  And he remembered for them his covenant,  and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.  He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.  Save us,  O LORD our God,  and gather us from among the heathen,  to give thanks unto thy holy name,   and  to triumph in thy praise.  Blessed  be  the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting:  and let all the people say,  Amen.  Praise ye the LORD. 

Psalm 107

O give thanks unto the LORD,  for  he is  good:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever.  Let the redeemed of the LORD say so,  whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;  And gathered them out of the lands,  from the east,  and from the west,  from the north,  and from the south.  They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way;  they found no city to dwell in.  Hungry and thirsty,  their soul fainted in them.  Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble,   and  he delivered them out of their distresses.  And he led them forth by the right way,  that they might go to a city of habitation.  Oh that  men  would praise the LORD  for  his goodness,  and  for  his wonderful works to the children of men!  For he satisfieth the longing soul,  and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.  Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,   being  bound in affliction and iron;  Because they rebelled against the words of God,  and contemned the counsel of the most High:  Therefore he brought down their heart with labour;  they fell down,  and  there was  none to help.  Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble,   and  he saved them out of their distresses.  He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,  and brake their bands in sunder.  Oh that  men  would praise the LORD  for  his goodness,  and  for  his wonderful works to the children of men!  For he hath broken the gates of brass,  and cut the bars of iron in sunder.  Fools because of their transgression,  and because of their iniquities,  are afflicted.  Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat;  and they draw near unto the gates of death.  Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble,   and  he saveth them out of their distresses.  He sent his word,  and healed them,  and delivered  them  from their destructions.  Oh that  men  would praise the LORD  for  his goodness,  and  for  his wonderful works to the children of men!  And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving,  and declare his works with rejoicing.  They that go down to the sea in ships,  that do business in great waters;  These see the works of the LORD,  and his wonders in the deep.  For he commandeth,  and raiseth the stormy wind,  which lifteth up the waves thereof.  They mount up to the heaven,  they go down again to the depths:  their soul is melted because of trouble.  They reel to and fro,  and stagger like a drunken man,  and are at their wit's end.  Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble,  and he bringeth them out of their distresses.  He maketh the storm a calm,  so that the waves thereof are still.  Then are they glad because they be quiet;  so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.  Oh that  men  would praise the LORD  for  his goodness,  and  for  his wonderful works to the children of men!  Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people,  and praise him in the assembly of the elders.  He turneth rivers into a wilderness,  and the watersprings into dry ground;  A fruitful land into barrenness,  for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.  He turneth the wilderness into a standing water,  and dry ground into watersprings.  And there he maketh the hungry to dwell,  that they may prepare a city for habitation;  And sow the fields,  and plant vineyards,  which may yield fruits of increase.  He blesseth them also,  so that they are multiplied greatly;  and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.  Again,  they are minished and brought low through oppression,  affliction,  and sorrow.  He poureth contempt upon princes,  and causeth them to wander in the wilderness,   where there is  no way.  Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction,  and maketh  him  families like a flock.  The righteous shall see  it ,  and rejoice:  and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.  Whoso  is  wise,  and will observe these  things ,  even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD. 

Psalm 108

A Song  or  Psalm of David. 

O God,  my heart is fixed;  I will sing and give praise,  even with my glory.  Awake,  psaltery and harp:  I  myself  will awake early.  I will praise thee,  O LORD,  among the people:  and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.  For thy mercy  is  great above the heavens:  and thy truth  reacheth  unto the clouds.  Be thou exalted,  O God,  above the heavens:  and thy glory above all the earth;  That thy beloved may be delivered:  save  with  thy right hand,  and answer me.  God hath spoken in his holiness;  I will rejoice,  I will divide Shechem,  and mete out the valley of Succoth.  Gilead  is  mine;  Manasseh  is  mine;  Ephraim also  is  the strength of mine head;  Judah  is  my lawgiver;  Moab  is  my washpot;  over Edom will I cast out my shoe;  over Philistia will I triumph.  Who will bring me into the strong city?  who will lead me into Edom?   Wilt  not  thou ,  O God,   who  hast cast us off?  and wilt not thou,  O God,  go forth with our hosts?  Give us help from trouble:  for vain  is  the help of man.  Through God we shall do valiantly:  for he  it is that  shall tread down our enemies. 

Psalm 109

To the chief Musician,  A Psalm of David. 

Hold not thy peace,  O God of my praise;  For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me:  they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.  They compassed me about also with words of hatred;  and fought against me without a cause.  For my love they are my adversaries:  but I  give myself unto  prayer.  And they have rewarded me evil for good,  and hatred for my love.  Set thou a wicked man over him:  and let Satan stand at his right hand.  When he shall be judged,  let him be condemned:  and let his prayer become sin.  Let his days be few;   and  let another take his office.  Let his children be fatherless,  and his wife a widow.  Let his children be continually vagabonds,  and beg:  let them seek  their bread  also out of their desolate places.  Let the extortioner catch all that he hath;  and let the strangers spoil his labour.  Let there be none to extend mercy unto him:  neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.  Let his posterity be cut off;   and  in the generation following let their name be blotted out.  Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD;  and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.  Let them be before the LORD continually,  that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.  Because that he remembered not to shew mercy,  but persecuted the poor and needy man,  that he might even slay the broken in heart.  As he loved cursing,  so let it come unto him:  as he delighted not in blessing,  so let it be far from him.  As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment,  so let it come into his bowels like water,  and like oil into his bones.  Let it be unto him as the garment  which  covereth him,  and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.   Let  this  be  the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD,  and of them that speak evil against my soul.  But do thou for me,  O GOD the Lord,  for thy name's sake:  because thy mercy  is  good,  deliver thou me.  For I  am  poor and needy,  and my heart is wounded within me.  I am gone like the shadow when it declineth:  I am tossed up and down as the locust.  My knees are weak through fasting;  and my flesh faileth of fatness.  I became also a reproach unto them:   when  they looked upon me they shaked their heads.  Help me,  O LORD my God:  O save me according to thy mercy:  That they may know that this  is  thy hand;   that  thou,  LORD,  hast done it.  Let them curse,  but bless thou:  when they arise,  let them be ashamed;  but let thy servant rejoice.  Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame,  and let them cover themselves with their own confusion,  as with a mantle.  I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth;  yea,  I will praise him among the multitude.  For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor,  to save  him  from those that condemn his soul. 

Psalm 110

A Psalm of David. 

The LORD said unto my Lord,  Sit thou at my right hand,  until I make thine enemies thy footstool.  The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion:  rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.  Thy people  shall be  willing in the day of thy power,  in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning:  thou hast the dew of thy youth.  The LORD hath sworn,  and will not repent,  Thou  art  a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.  The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.  He shall judge among the heathen,  he shall fill  the places  with the dead bodies;  he shall wound the heads over many countries.  He shall drink of the brook in the way:  therefore shall he lift up the head. 

Psalm 111

Praise ye the LORD.  I will praise the LORD with  my  whole heart,  in the assembly of the upright,  and  in  the congregation.  The works of the LORD  are  great,  sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.  His work  is  honourable and glorious:  and his righteousness endureth for ever.  He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered:  the LORD  is  gracious and full of compassion.  He hath given meat unto them that fear him:  he will ever be mindful of his covenant.  He hath shewed his people the power of his works,  that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.  The works of his hands  are  verity and judgment;  all his commandments  are  sure.  They stand fast for ever and ever,   and are  done in truth and uprightness.  He sent redemption unto his people:  he hath commanded his covenant for ever:  holy and reverend  is  his name.  The fear of the LORD  is  the beginning of wisdom:  a good understanding have all they that do  his commandments :  his praise endureth for ever. 

Psalm 112

Praise ye the LORD.  Blessed  is  the man  that  feareth the LORD,   that  delighteth greatly in his commandments.  His seed shall be mighty upon earth:  the generation of the upright shall be blessed.  Wealth and riches  shall be  in his house:  and his righteousness endureth for ever.  Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness:   he is  gracious,  and full of compassion,  and righteous.  A good man sheweth favour,  and lendeth:  he will guide his affairs with discretion.  Surely he shall not be moved for ever:  the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.  He shall not be afraid of evil tidings:  his heart is fixed,  trusting in the LORD.  His heart  is  established,  he shall not be afraid,  until he see  his desire  upon his enemies.  He hath dispersed,  he hath given to the poor;  his righteousness endureth for ever;  his horn shall be exalted with honour.  The wicked shall see  it ,  and be grieved;  he shall gnash with his teeth,  and melt away:  the desire of the wicked shall perish. 

Psalm 113

Praise ye the LORD.  Praise,  O ye servants of the LORD,  praise the name of the LORD.  Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore.  From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD'S name  is  to be praised.  The LORD  is  high above all nations,   and  his glory above the heavens.  Who  is  like unto the LORD our God,  who dwelleth on high,  Who humbleth  himself  to behold  the things that are  in heaven,  and in the earth!  He raiseth up the poor out of the dust,   and  lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;  That he may set  him  with princes,   even  with the princes of his people.  He maketh the barren woman to keep house,   and to be  a joyful mother of children.  Praise ye the LORD. 

Psalm 114

When Israel went out of Egypt,  the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;  Judah was his sanctuary,   and  Israel his dominion.  The sea saw  it ,  and fled:  Jordan was driven back.  The mountains skipped like rams,   and  the little hills like lambs.  What  ailed  thee,  O thou sea,  that thou fleddest?  thou Jordan,   that  thou wast driven back?  Ye mountains,   that  ye skipped like rams;   and  ye little hills,  like lambs?  Tremble,  thou earth,  at the presence of the Lord,  at the presence of the God of Jacob;  Which turned the rock  into  a standing water,  the flint into a fountain of waters. 

Psalm 115

Not unto us,  O LORD,  not unto us,  but unto thy name give glory,  for thy mercy,   and  for thy truth's sake.  Wherefore should the heathen say,  Where  is  now their God?  But our God  is  in the heavens:  he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.  Their idols  are  silver and gold,  the work of men's hands.  They have mouths,  but they speak not:  eyes have they,  but they see not:  They have ears,  but they hear not:  noses have they,  but they smell not:  They have hands,  but they handle not:  feet have they,  but they walk not:  neither speak they through their throat.  They that make them are like unto them;   so is  every one that trusteth in them.  O Israel,  trust thou in the LORD:  he  is  their help and their shield.  O house of Aaron,  trust in the LORD:  he  is  their help and their shield.  Ye that fear the LORD,  trust in the LORD:  he  is  their help and their shield.  The LORD hath been mindful of us:  he will bless  us ;  he will bless the house of Israel;  he will bless the house of Aaron.  He will bless them that fear the LORD,   both  small and great.  The LORD shall increase you more and more,  you and your children.  Ye  are  blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.  The heaven,   even  the heavens,   are  the LORD'S:  but the earth hath he given to the children of men.  The dead praise not the LORD,  neither any that go down into silence.  But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore.  Praise the LORD. 

Psalm 116

I love the LORD,  because he hath heard my voice  and  my supplications.  Because he hath inclined his ear unto me,  therefore will I call upon  him  as long as I live.  The sorrows of death compassed me,  and the pains of hell gat hold upon me:  I found trouble and sorrow.  Then called I upon the name of the LORD;  O LORD,  I beseech thee,  deliver my soul.  Gracious  is  the LORD,  and righteous;  yea,  our God  is  merciful.  The LORD preserveth the simple:  I was brought low,  and he helped me.  Return unto thy rest,  O my soul;  for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.  For thou hast delivered my soul from death,  mine eyes from tears,   and  my feet from falling.  I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.  I believed,  therefore have I spoken:  I was greatly afflicted:  I said in my haste,  All men  are  liars.  What shall I render unto the LORD  for  all his benefits toward me?  I will take the cup of salvation,  and call upon the name of the LORD.  I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.  Precious in the sight of the LORD  is  the death of his saints.  O LORD,  truly I  am  thy servant;  I  am  thy servant,   and  the son of thine handmaid:  thou hast loosed my bonds.  I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving,  and will call upon the name of the LORD.  I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people,  In the courts of the LORD'S house,  in the midst of thee,  O Jerusalem.  Praise ye the LORD. 

Psalm 117

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

Psalm 118

O give thanks unto the LORD;  for  he is  good:  because his mercy  endureth  for ever.  Let Israel now say,  that his mercy  endureth  for ever.  Let the house of Aaron now say,  that his mercy  endureth  for ever.  Let them now that fear the LORD say,  that his mercy  endureth  for ever.  I called upon the LORD in distress:  the LORD answered me,   and set me  in a large place.  The LORD  is  on my side;  I will not fear:  what can man do unto me?  The LORD taketh my part with them that help me:  therefore shall I see  my desire  upon them that hate me.   It is  better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.   It is  better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.  All nations compassed me about:  but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.  They compassed me about;  yea,  they compassed me about:  but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.  They compassed me about like bees;  they are quenched as the fire of thorns:  for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.  Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall:  but the LORD helped me.  The LORD  is  my strength and song,  and is become my salvation.  The voice of rejoicing and salvation  is  in the tabernacles of the righteous:  the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.  The right hand of the LORD is exalted:  the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.  I shall not die,  but live,  and declare the works of the LORD.  The LORD hath chastened me sore:  but he hath not given me over unto death.  Open to me the gates of righteousness:  I will go into them,   and  I will praise the LORD:  This gate of the LORD,  into which the righteous shall enter.  I will praise thee:  for thou hast heard me,  and art become my salvation.  The stone  which  the builders refused is become the head  stone  of the corner.  This is the LORD'S doing;  it  is  marvellous in our eyes.  This  is  the day  which  the LORD hath made;  we will rejoice and be glad in it.  Save now,  I beseech thee,  O LORD:  O LORD,  I beseech thee,  send now prosperity.  Blessed  be  he that cometh in the name of the LORD:  we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.  God  is  the LORD,  which hath shewed us light:  bind the sacrifice with cords,   even  unto the horns of the altar.  Thou  art  my God,  and I will praise thee:   thou art  my God,  I will exalt thee.  O give thanks unto the LORD;  for  he is  good:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever. 

Psalm 119

ALEPH. 

Blessed  are  the undefiled in the way,  who walk in the law of the LORD.  Blessed  are  they that keep his testimonies,   and that  seek him with the whole heart.  They also do no iniquity:  they walk in his ways.  Thou hast commanded  us  to keep thy precepts diligently.  O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!  Then shall I not be ashamed,  when I have respect unto all thy commandments.  I will praise thee with uprightness of heart,  when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.  I will keep thy statutes:  O forsake me not utterly. 

BETH. 

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?  by taking heed  thereto  according to thy word.  With my whole heart have I sought thee:  O let me not wander from thy commandments.  Thy word have I hid in mine heart,  that I might not sin against thee.  Blessed  art  thou,  O LORD:  teach me thy statutes.  With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.  I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies,  as  much as  in all riches.  I will meditate in thy precepts,  and have respect unto thy ways.  I will delight myself in thy statutes:  I will not forget thy word. 

GIMEL. 

Deal bountifully with thy servant,   that  I may live,  and keep thy word.  Open thou mine eyes,  that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.  I  am  a stranger in the earth:  hide not thy commandments from me.  My soul breaketh for the longing  that it hath  unto thy judgments at all times.  Thou hast rebuked the proud  that are  cursed,  which do err from thy commandments.  Remove from me reproach and contempt;  for I have kept thy testimonies.  Princes also did sit  and  speak against me:   but  thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.  Thy testimonies also  are  my delight  and  my counsellors. 

DALETH. 

My soul cleaveth unto the dust:  quicken thou me according to thy word.  I have declared my ways,  and thou heardest me:  teach me thy statutes.  Make me to understand the way of thy precepts:  so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.  My soul melteth for heaviness:  strengthen thou me according unto thy word.  Remove from me the way of lying:  and grant me thy law graciously.  I have chosen the way of truth:  thy judgments have I laid  before me .  I have stuck unto thy testimonies:  O LORD,  put me not to shame.  I will run the way of thy commandments,  when thou shalt enlarge my heart. 

HE. 

Teach me,  O LORD,  the way of thy statutes;  and I shall keep it  unto  the end.  Give me understanding,  and I shall keep thy law;  yea,  I shall observe it with  my  whole heart.  Make me to go in the path of thy commandments;  for therein do I delight.  Incline my heart unto thy testimonies,  and not to covetousness.  Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity;   and  quicken thou me in thy way.  Stablish thy word unto thy servant,  who  is devoted  to thy fear.  Turn away my reproach which I fear:  for thy judgments  are  good.  Behold,  I have longed after thy precepts:  quicken me in thy righteousness. 

VAU. 

Let thy mercies come also unto me,  O LORD,   even  thy salvation,  according to thy word.  So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me:  for I trust in thy word.  And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth;  for I have hoped in thy judgments.  So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.  And I will walk at liberty:  for I seek thy precepts.  I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings,  and will not be ashamed.  And I will delight myself in thy commandments,  which I have loved.  My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments,  which I have loved;  and I will meditate in thy statutes. 

ZAIN. 

Remember the word unto thy servant,  upon which thou hast caused me to hope.  This  is  my comfort in my affliction:  for thy word hath quickened me.  The proud have had me greatly in derision:   yet  have I not declined from thy law.  I remembered thy judgments of old,  O LORD;  and have comforted myself.  Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.  Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.  I have remembered thy name,  O LORD,  in the night,  and have kept thy law.  This I had,  because I kept thy precepts. 

CHETH. 

 Thou art  my portion,  O LORD:  I have said that I would keep thy words.  I intreated thy favour with  my  whole heart:  be merciful unto me according to thy word.  I thought on my ways,  and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.  I made haste,  and delayed not to keep thy commandments.  The bands of the wicked have robbed me:   but  I have not forgotten thy law.  At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.  I  am  a companion of all  them  that fear thee,  and of them that keep thy precepts.  The earth,  O LORD,  is full of thy mercy:  teach me thy statutes. 

TETH. 

Thou hast dealt well with thy servant,  O LORD,  according unto thy word.  Teach me good judgment and knowledge:  for I have believed thy commandments.  Before I was afflicted I went astray:  but now have I kept thy word.  Thou  art  good,  and doest good;  teach me thy statutes.  The proud have forged a lie against me:   but  I will keep thy precepts with  my  whole heart.  Their heart is as fat as grease;   but  I delight in thy law.   It is  good for me that I have been afflicted;  that I might learn thy statutes.  The law of thy mouth  is  better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. 

JOD. 

Thy hands have made me and fashioned me:  give me understanding,  that I may learn thy commandments.  They that fear thee will be glad when they see me;  because I have hoped in thy word.  I know,  O LORD,  that thy judgments  are  right,  and that  thou  in faithfulness hast afflicted me.  Let,  I pray thee,  thy merciful kindness be for my comfort,  according to thy word unto thy servant.  Let thy tender mercies come unto me,  that I may live:  for thy law  is  my delight.  Let the proud be ashamed;  for they dealt perversely with me without a cause:   but  I will meditate in thy precepts.  Let those that fear thee turn unto me,  and those that have known thy testimonies.  Let my heart be sound in thy statutes;  that I be not ashamed. 

CAPH. 

My soul fainteth for thy salvation:   but  I hope in thy word.  Mine eyes fail for thy word,  saying,  When wilt thou comfort me?  For I am become like a bottle in the smoke;   yet  do I not forget thy statutes.  How many  are  the days of thy servant?  when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?  The proud have digged pits for me,  which  are  not after thy law.  All thy commandments  are  faithful:  they persecute me wrongfully;  help thou me.  They had almost consumed me upon earth;  but I forsook not thy precepts.  Quicken me after thy lovingkindness;  so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth. 

LAMED. 

For ever,  O LORD,  thy word is settled in heaven.  Thy faithfulness  is  unto all generations:  thou hast established the earth,  and it abideth.  They continue this day according to thine ordinances:  for all  are  thy servants.  Unless thy law  had been  my delights,  I should then have perished in mine affliction.  I will never forget thy precepts:  for with them thou hast quickened me.  I  am  thine,  save me;  for I have sought thy precepts.  The wicked have waited for me to destroy me:   but  I will consider thy testimonies.  I have seen an end of all perfection:   but  thy commandment  is  exceeding broad. 

MEM. 

O how love I thy law!  it  is  my meditation all the day.  Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies:  for they  are  ever with me.  I have more understanding than all my teachers:  for thy testimonies  are  my meditation.  I understand more than the ancients,  because I keep thy precepts.  I have refrained my feet from every evil way,  that I might keep thy word.  I have not departed from thy judgments:  for thou hast taught me.  How sweet are thy words unto my taste!   yea,  sweeter  than honey to my mouth!  Through thy precepts I get understanding:  therefore I hate every false way.  N

UN

Thy word  is  a lamp unto my feet,  and a light unto my path.  I have sworn,  and I will perform  it ,  that I will keep thy righteous judgments.  I am afflicted very much:  quicken me,  O LORD,  according unto thy word.  Accept,  I beseech thee,  the freewill offerings of my mouth,  O LORD,  and teach me thy judgments.  My soul  is  continually in my hand:  yet do I not forget thy law.  The wicked have laid a snare for me:  yet I erred not from thy precepts.  Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever:  for they  are  the rejoicing of my heart.  I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway,   even unto  the end. 

SAMECH. 

I hate  vain  thoughts:  but thy law do I love.  Thou  art  my hiding place and my shield:  I hope in thy word.  Depart from me,  ye evildoers:  for I will keep the commandments of my God.  Uphold me according unto thy word,  that I may live:  and let me not be ashamed of my hope.  Hold thou me up,  and I shall be safe:  and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.  Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes:  for their deceit  is  falsehood.  Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth  like  dross:  therefore I love thy testimonies.  My flesh trembleth for fear of thee;  and I am afraid of thy judgments. 

AIN. 

I have done judgment and justice:  leave me not to mine oppressors.  Be surety for thy servant for good:  let not the proud oppress me.  Mine eyes fail for thy salvation,  and for the word of thy righteousness.  Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy,  and teach me thy statutes.  I  am  thy servant;  give me understanding,  that I may know thy testimonies.   It is  time for  thee ,  LORD,  to work:   for  they have made void thy law.  Therefore I love thy commandments above gold;  yea,  above fine gold.  Therefore I esteem all  thy  precepts  concerning  all  things to be  right;   and  I hate every false way. 

PE. 

Thy testimonies  are  wonderful:  therefore doth my soul keep them.  The entrance of thy words giveth light;  it giveth understanding unto the simple.  I opened my mouth,  and panted:  for I longed for thy commandments.  Look thou upon me,  and be merciful unto me,  as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.  Order my steps in thy word:  and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.  Deliver me from the oppression of man:  so will I keep thy precepts.  Make thy face to shine upon thy servant;  and teach me thy statutes.  Rivers of waters run down mine eyes,  because they keep not thy law. 

TZADDE. 

Righteous  art  thou,  O LORD,  and upright  are  thy judgments.  Thy testimonies  that  thou hast commanded  are  righteous and very faithful.  My zeal hath consumed me,  because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.  Thy word  is  very pure:  therefore thy servant loveth it.  I  am  small and despised:   yet  do not I forget thy precepts.  Thy righteousness  is  an everlasting righteousness,  and thy law  is  the truth.  Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me:   yet  thy commandments  are  my delights.  The righteousness of thy testimonies  is  everlasting:  give me understanding,  and I shall live. 

KOPH. 

I cried with  my  whole heart;  hear me,  O LORD:  I will keep thy statutes.  I cried unto thee;  save me,  and I shall keep thy testimonies.  I prevented the dawning of the morning,  and cried:  I hoped in thy word.  Mine eyes prevent the  night  watches,  that I might meditate in thy word.  Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness:  O LORD,  quicken me according to thy judgment.  They draw nigh that follow after mischief:  they are far from thy law.  Thou  art  near,  O LORD;  and all thy commandments  are  truth.  Concerning thy testimonies,  I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever. 

RESH. 

Consider mine affliction,  and deliver me:  for I do not forget thy law.  Plead my cause,  and deliver me:  quicken me according to thy word.  Salvation  is  far from the wicked:  for they seek not thy statutes.  Great  are  thy tender mercies,  O LORD:  quicken me according to thy judgments.  Many  are  my persecutors and mine enemies;   yet  do I not decline from thy testimonies.  I beheld the transgressors,  and was grieved;  because they kept not thy word.  Consider how I love thy precepts:  quicken me,  O LORD,  according to thy lovingkindness.  Thy word  is  true  from  the beginning:  and every one of thy righteous judgments  endureth  for ever. 

SCHIN. 

Princes have persecuted me without a cause:  but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.  I rejoice at thy word,  as one that findeth great spoil.  I hate and abhor lying:   but  thy law do I love.  Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.  Great peace have they which love thy law:  and nothing shall offend them.  LORD,  I have hoped for thy salvation,  and done thy commandments.  My soul hath kept thy testimonies;  and I love them exceedingly.  I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies:  for all my ways  are  before thee. 

TAU. 

Let my cry come near before thee,  O LORD:  give me understanding according to thy word.  Let my supplication come before thee:  deliver me according to thy word.  My lips shall utter praise,  when thou hast taught me thy statutes.  My tongue shall speak of thy word:  for all thy commandments  are  righteousness.  Let thine hand help me;  for I have chosen thy precepts.  I have longed for thy salvation,  O LORD;  and thy law  is  my delight.  Let my soul live,  and it shall praise thee;  and let thy judgments help me.  I have gone astray like a lost sheep;  seek thy servant;  for I do not forget thy commandments. 

Psalm 120

A Song of degrees. 

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

Psalm 121

A Song of degrees. 

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

Psalm 122

A Song of degrees of David. 

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

Psalm 123

A Song of degrees. 

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

Psalm 124

A Song of degrees of David. 

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

Psalm 125

A Song of degrees. 

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

Psalm 126

A Song of degrees. 

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

Psalm 127

A Song of degrees for Solomon. 

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

Psalm 128

A Song of degrees. 

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

Psalm 129

A Song of degrees. 

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

Psalm 130

A Song of degrees. 

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

Psalm 131

A Song of degrees of David. 

LORD,  my heart is not haughty,  nor mine eyes lofty:  neither do I exercise myself in great matters,  or in things too high for me.  Surely I have behaved and quieted myself,  as a child that is weaned of his mother:  my soul  is  even as a weaned child.  Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever. 

Psalm 132

A Song of degrees. 

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

Psalm 133

A Song of degrees of David. 

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

Psalm 134

A Song of degrees. 

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

Psalm 135

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

Psalm 136

O give thanks unto the LORD;  for  he is  good:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever.  O give thanks unto the God of gods:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever.  O give thanks to the Lord of lords:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever.  To him who alone doeth great wonders:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever.  To him that by wisdom made the heavens:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever.  To him that stretched out the earth above the waters:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever.  To him that made great lights:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever:  The sun to rule by day:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever:  The moon and stars to rule by night:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever.  To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever:  And brought out Israel from among them:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever:  With a strong hand,  and with a stretched out arm:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever.  To him which divided the Red sea into parts:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever:  And made Israel to pass through the midst of it:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever:  But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever.  To him which led his people through the wilderness:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever.  To him which smote great kings:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever:  And slew famous kings:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever:  Sihon king of the Amorites:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever:  And Og the king of Bashan:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever:  And gave their land for an heritage:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever:   Even  an heritage unto Israel his servant:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever.  Who remembered us in our low estate:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever:  And hath redeemed us from our enemies:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever.  Who giveth food to all flesh:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever.  O give thanks unto the God of heaven:  for his mercy  endureth  for ever. 

Psalm 137

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

Psalm 138

A  Psalm  of David. 

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

Psalm 139

To the chief Musician,  A Psalm of David. 

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

Psalm 140

To the chief Musician,  A Psalm of David. 

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

Psalm 141

A Psalm of David. 

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

Psalm 142

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

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

Psalm 143

A Psalm of David. 

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

Psalm 144

A  Psalm  of David. 

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

Psalm 145

David's  Psalm  of praise. 

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

Psalm 146

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

Psalm 147

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

Psalm 148

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

Psalm 149

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

Psalm 150

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