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