Webster - Psalms

Chapter 1

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 scoffers.

1:2  But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

1:3  And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth its fruit in season; its leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he doeth shall prosper.

1:4  The ungodly [are] not so: but [are] like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

1:5  Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

1:6  For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Chapter 2

2:1  Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

2:2  The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, [saying],

2:3  Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

2:4  He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

2:5  Then shall he speak to them in his wrath, and trouble them in his sore displeasure.

2:6  Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

2:7  I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said to me, Thou [art] my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

2:8  Ask of me, and I will give [thee] the heathen [for] thy inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth [for] thy possession.

2:9  Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

2:10  Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.

2:11  Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

2:12  Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish [from] the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed [are] all they that put their trust in him.

Chapter 3

3:1  A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. LORD, how are they multiplied that trouble me? many [are] they that rise up against me.

3:2  Many [there are] who say of my soul, [There is] no help for him in God. Selah.

3:3  But thou, O LORD, [art] a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head.

3:4  I cried to the LORD with my voice, and he heard me from his holy hill. Selah.

3:5  I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.

3:6  I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set [themselves] against me on all sides.

3:7  Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all my enemies [upon] the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

3:8  Salvation [belongeth] to the LORD: thy blessing [is] upon thy people. Selah.

Chapter 4

4:1  To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me [when I was] in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

4:2  O ye sons of men, how long [will ye turn] my glory into shame? [how long] will ye love vanity, [and] seek after falsehood? Selah.

4:3  But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call to him.

4:4  Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

4:5  Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.

4:6  [There are] many that say, Who will show us [any] good? LORD, lift thou upon us the light of thy countenance.

4:7  Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time [when] their corn and their wine increased.

4:8  I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep; for thou only, LORD, makest me dwell in safety.

Chapter 5

5:1  To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.

5:2  Hearken to the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for to thee will I pray.

5:3  My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct [my prayer] to thee, and will look up.

5:4  For thou [art] not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.

5:5  The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

5:6  Thou shalt destroy them that speak falsehood: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

5:7  But as for me, I will come [into] thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: [and] in thy fear will I worship towards thy holy temple.

5:8  Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness, because of my enemies; make thy way straight before my face.

5:9  For [there is] no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part [is] very wickedness; their throat [is] an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue.

5:10  Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

5:11  But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.

5:12  For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favor wilt thou compass him as [with] a shield.

Chapter 6

6:1  To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

6:2  Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I [am] weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are agitated.

6:3  My soul is also greatly disquieted: but thou, O LORD, how long?

6:4  Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: Oh save me for thy mercies sake.

6:5  For in death [there is] no remembrance of thee: in the grave who will give thee thanks?

6:6  I am weary with my groaning; all the night I make my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

6:7  My eye is consumed because of grief; it groweth old because of all my enemies.

6:8  Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.

6:9  The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.

6:10  Let all my enemies be ashamed and greatly disquieted: let them return [and] be suddenly ashamed.

Chapter 7

7:1  Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD, concerning the words of Cush the Benjaminite. O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:

7:2  Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending [it] in pieces, while [there is] none to deliver.

7:3  O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there is iniquity in my hands;

7:4  If I have rewarded evil to him that was at peace with me; (yes, I have delivered him that without cause is my enemy:)

7:5  Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take [it]; yes, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah.

7:6  Arise, O LORD, in thy anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of my enemies: and awake for me [to] the judgment [that] thou hast commanded.

7:7  So shall the congregation of the people encompass thee: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.

7:8  The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity [that is] in me.

7:9  Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

7:10  My defense [is] from God, who saveth the upright in heart.

7:11  God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry [with the wicked] every day.

7:12  If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

7:13  He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

7:14  Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

7:15  He made a pit, and digged it, and hath fallen into the ditch [which] he made.

7:16  His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

7:17  I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.

Chapter 8

8:1  To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. O LORD our Lord, how excellent [is] thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

8:2  Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thy enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

8:3  When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers; the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

8:4  What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

8:5  For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor.

8:6  Thou hast made him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all [things] under his feet:

8:7  All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field;

8:8  The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, [and whatever] passeth through the paths of the seas.

8:9  O LORD our Lord, how excellent [is] thy name in all the earth!

Chapter 9

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 wonderful works.

9:2  I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.

9:3  When my enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

9:4  For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou sattest on the throne judging right.

9:5  Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.

9:6  O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial hath perished with them.

9:7  But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.

9:8  And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.

9:9  The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

9:10  And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

9:11  Sing praises to the LORD, who dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.

9:12  When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

9:13  Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble [which I suffer] from them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

9:14  That I may show forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.

9:15  The heathen are sunk down in the pit [that] they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

9:16  The LORD is known [by] the judgment [which] he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

9:17  The wicked shall be turned into hell, [and] all the nations that forget God.

9:18  For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall [not] perish for ever.

9:19  Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.

9:20  Put them in fear, O LORD: [that] the nations may know themselves [to be but] men. Selah.

Chapter 10

10:1  Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? [why] hidest thou [thyself] in times of trouble?

10:2  The wicked in [his] pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

10:3  For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, [whom] the LORD abhorreth.

10:4  The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek [after God]: God [is] not in all his thoughts.

10:5  His ways are always grievous; thy judgments [are] far above out of his sight: [as for] all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

10:6  He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for [I shall] never [be] in adversity.

10:7  His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity.

10:8  He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

10:9  He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

10:10  He croucheth, [and] humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

10:11  He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see [it].

10:12  Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thy hand: forget not the humble.

10:13  Why doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require [it].

10:14  Thou hast seen [it]; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite [it] with thy hand: the poor committeth himself to thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

10:15  Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil [man]: seek out his wickedness [till] thou shalt find none.

10:16  The LORD [is] King for ever and ever: the heathen have perished out of his land.

10:17  LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thy ear to hear:

10:18  To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

Chapter 11

11:1  To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David. In the LORD I put my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee [as] a bird to your mountain?

11:2  For lo, the wicked bend [their] bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

11:3  If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

11:4  The LORD [is] in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne [is] in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men.

11:5  The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

11:6  Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest: [this shall be] the portion of their cup.

11:7  For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance beholdeth the upright.

Chapter 12

12:1  To the chief Musician upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David. Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

12:2  They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: [with] flattering lips [and] with a double heart do they speak.

12:3  The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, [and] the tongue that speaketh proud things:

12:4  Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips [are] our own: who [is] lord over us?

12:5  For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set [him] in safety [from him that] puffeth at him.

12:6  The words of the LORD [are] pure words: [as] silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

12:7  Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

12:8  The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

Chapter 13

13:1  To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

13:2  How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

13:3  Consider [and] hear me, O LORD my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep [the sleep] of death;

13:4  Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him; [and] those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

13:5  But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

13:6  I will sing to the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.

Chapter 14

14:1  To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David. The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, [there is] none that doeth good.

14:2  The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, [and] seek God.

14:3  They are all gone aside, they are [all] together become filthy: [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.

14:4  Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

14:5  There were they in great fear: for God [is] in the generation of the righteous.

14:6  Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD [is] his refuge.

14:7  Oh that the salvation of Israel [were come] out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad.

Chapter 15

15:1  A Psalm of David. LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?

15:2  He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

15:3  [He that] backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor.

15:4  In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoreth them that fear the LORD. [He that] sweareth to [his own] hurt, and changeth not.

15:5  [He that] putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these [things] shall never be moved.

Chapter 16

16:1  Michtam of David. Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.

16:2  [O my soul], thou hast said to the LORD, Thou [art] my Lord: my goodness [extendeth] not to thee;

16:3  [But] to the saints that [are] in the earth, and [to] the excellent, in whom [is] all my delight.

16:4  Their sorrows shall be multiplied [that] hasten [after] another [god]: their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take their names into my lips.

16:5  The LORD [is] the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.

16:6  The lines have fallen to me in pleasant [places]; yes, I have a goodly heritage.

16:7  I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night season.

16:8  I have set the LORD always before me: because [he is] at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

16:9  Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.

16:10  For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thy Holy One to see corruption.

16:11  Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence [is] fullness of joy; at thy right hand [are] pleasures for evermore.

Chapter 17

17:1  A Prayer of David. Hear the right, O LORD, attend to my cry, give ear to my prayer, [that goeth] not out of feigned lips.

17:2  Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thy eyes behold the things that are equal.

17:3  Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited [me] in the night; thou hast tried me, [and] shalt find nothing; I have purposed [that] my mouth shall not transgress.

17:4  Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept [me from] the paths of the destroyer.

17:5  Uphold my goings in thy paths, [that] my footsteps slip not.

17:6  I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thy ear to me, [and hear] my speech.

17:7  Show thy wonderful loving-kindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them who put their trust [in thee] from those that rise up [against them].

17:8  Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shade of thy wings.

17:9  From the wicked that oppress me, [from] my deadly enemies, [who] encompass me,

17:10  They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

17:11  They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

17:12  Like as a lion [that] is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

17:13  Arise, O LORD disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, [who is] thy sword:

17:14  From men [who are] thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, [who have] their portion in [this] life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid [treasure]: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their [substance] to their babes.

17:15  As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

Chapter 18

18:1  To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David, the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song in the day [that] the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said, I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

18:2  The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, [and] my high tower.

18:3  I will call upon the LORD, [who is worthy] to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies.

18:4  The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

18:5  The sorrows of hell encompassed me: the snares of death seized me.

18:6  In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, [even] into his ears.

18:7  Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

18:8  There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

18:9  He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness [was] under his feet.

18:10  And he rode upon a cherub, and flew; yes, he flew upon the wings of the wind.

18:11  He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion around him [were] dark waters [and] thick clouds of the skies.

18:12  At the brightness [that was] before him his thick clouds passed, hail [stones] and coals of fire.

18:13  The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail [stones] and coals of fire.

18:14  Yes, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

18:15  Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

18:16  He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

18:17  He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them who hated me: for they were too strong for me.

18:18  They attacked me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

18:19  He brought me forth also in a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

18:20  The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

18:21  For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

18:22  For all his judgments [were] before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.

18:23  I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.

18:24  Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

18:25  With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt show thyself upright;

18:26  With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt contend.

18:27  For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.

18:28  For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

18:29  For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

18:30  [As for] God, his way [is] perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he [is] a buckler to all those that trust in him.

18:31  For who [is] God save the LORD? or who [is] a rock save our God?

18:32  [It is] God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

18:33  He maketh my feet like hinds' [feet], and setteth me upon my high places.

18:34  He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms.

18:35  Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath held me up and thy gentleness hath made me great.

18:36  Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.

18:37  I have pursued my enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

18:38  I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they have fallen under my feet.

18:39  For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

18:40  Thou hast also given me the necks of my enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.

18:41  They cried, but [there was] none to save [them]: [even] to the LORD, but he answered them not.

18:42  Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

18:43  Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; [and] thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people [whom] I have not known shall serve me.

18:44  As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves to me.

18:45  The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid from their close places.

18:46  The LORD liveth; and blessed [be] my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

18:47  [It is] God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.

18:48  He delivereth me from my enemies: yes, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.

18:49  Therefore will I give thanks to thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises to thy name.

18:50  He giveth great deliverance to his king; and showeth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for ever.

Chapter 19

19:1  To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth the work of his hands.

19:2  Day to day uttereth speech, and night to night showeth knowledge.

19:3  [There is] no speech nor language, [where] their voice is not heard.

19:4  Their line hath gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,

19:5  Which [is] as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, [and] rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.

19:6  His going forth [is] from the end of the heaven, and his circuit to the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from his heat.

19:7  The law of the LORD [is] perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD [is] sure, making wise the simple.

19:8  The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes.

19:9  The fear of the LORD [is] clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD [are] true [and] righteous altogether.

19:10  More to be desired [are they] than gold, yes, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honey-comb.

19:11  Moreover, by them is thy servant warned: [and] in keeping of them [there is] great reward.

19:12  Who can understand [his] errors? cleanse thou me from secret [faults].

19:13  Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous [sins]; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

19:14  Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

Chapter 20

20:1  To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee.

20:2  Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion.

20:3  Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt-sacrifice. Selah.

20:4  Grant thee according to thy own heart, and fulfill all thy counsel.

20:5  We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up [our] banners: the LORD fulfill all thy petitions.

20:6  Now I know that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.

20:7  Some [trust] in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.

20:8  They are brought down and fallen: but we are raised, and stand upright.

20:9  Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.

Chapter 21

21:1  To the chief Musician, a Psalm of David. The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!

21:2  Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.

21:3  For thou hast met him with the blessings of goodness: thou hast set a crown of pure gold on his head.

21:4  He asked life of thee, [and] thou gavest [it] to him, [even] length of days for ever and ever.

21:5  His glory [is] great in thy salvation: honor and majesty hast thou laid upon him.

21:6  For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.

21:7  For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

21:8  Thy hand shall find out all thy enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.

21:9  Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thy anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

21:10  Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

21:11  For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, [which] they are not able [to perform].

21:12  Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, [when] thou shalt make ready [thy arrows] upon thy strings against the face of them.

21:13  Be thou exalted, LORD, in thy own strength: [so] will we sing and praise thy power.

Chapter 22

22:1  To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou so far] from helping me, [and from] the words of my roaring?

22:2  O my God, I cry in the day-time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

22:3  But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

22:4  Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

22:5  They cried to thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

22:6  But I [am] a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

22:7  All they that see me deride me: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying],

22:8  He trusted on the LORD [that] he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

22:9  But thou [art] he that brought me forth into life: thou didst make me hope [when I was] upon my mother's breasts.

22:10  I was cast upon thee from my birth: thou [art] my God from the time I was born.

22:11  Be not far from me; for trouble [is] near; for [there is] none to help.

22:12  Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round.

22:13  They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion.

22:14  I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

22:15  My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

22:16  For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

22:17  I may number all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me.

22:18  They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

22:19  But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

22:20  Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.

22:21  Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

22:22  I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

22:23  Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.

22:24  For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

22:25  My praise [shall be] of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

22:26  The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

22:27  All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

22:28  For the kingdom [is] the LORD'S: and he [is] the governor among the nations.

22:29  All [they that are] fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

22:30  A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

22:31  They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, that he hath done [this].

Chapter 23

23:1  A Psalm of David. The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want.

23:2  He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

23:3  He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

23:4  Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shades of death, I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

23:5  Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

23:6  Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

Chapter 24

24:1  A Psalm of David. The earth [is] the LORD'S, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

24:2  For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

24:3  Who shall ascend upon the hill of the LORD? and who shall stand in his holy place?

24:4  He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

24:5  He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

24:6  This [is] the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.

24:7  Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

24:8  Who [is] this King of glory? the LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.

24:9  Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift [them] up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

24:10  Who is this King of glory? the LORD of hosts, he [is] the King of glory. Selah.

Chapter 25

25:1  [A Psalm] of David. To thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.

25:2  O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not my enemies triumph over me,

25:3  Also, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed who transgress without cause.

25:4  Show me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.

25:5  Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou [art] the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

25:6  Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy loving kindnesses; for they [have been] ever of old.

25:7  Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

25:8  Good and upright [is] the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.

25:9  The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.

25:10  All the paths of the LORD [are] mercy and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

25:11  For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity; for it [is] great.

25:12  What man [is] he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way [that] he shall choose.

25:13  His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.

25:14  The secret of the LORD [is] with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.

25:15  My eyes [are] ever towards the LORD; for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

25:16  Turn thee to me, and have mercy upon me; for I [am] desolate and afflicted.

25:17  The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.

25:18  Look upon my affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.

25:19  Consider my enemies, for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

25:20  O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.

25:21  Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.

25:22  Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

Chapter 26

26:1  [A Psalm] of David. Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in my integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; [therefore] I shall not slide.

26:2  Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

26:3  For thy loving-kindness [is] before my eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.

26:4  I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.

26:5  I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

26:6  I will wash my hands in innocence: so will I compass thy altar, O LORD:

26:7  That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.

26:8  LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thy honor dwelleth.

26:9  Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:

26:10  In whose hands [is] mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

26:11  But as for me, I will walk in my integrity: redeem me, and be merciful to me.

26:12  My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.

Chapter 27

27:1  [A Psalm] of David. The LORD [is] my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD [is] the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

27:2  When the wicked, [even] my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

27:3  Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this [will] I [be] confident.

27:4  One [thing] have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

27:5  For in the time of trouble he will hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle will he hide me; he will set me up upon a rock.

27:6  And now shall my head be lifted above my enemies around me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.

27:7  Hear, O LORD, [when] I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

27:8  [When thou saidst], Seek ye my face; my heart said to thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

27:9  Hide not thy face from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

27:10  When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

27:11  Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies.

27:12  Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies: for false witnesses have risen against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

27:13  [I had fainted], unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

27:14  Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he will strengthen thy heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

Chapter 28

28:1  [A Psalm] of David. To thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, [if] thou shouldst be silent to me, I should become like them that go down into the pit.

28:2  Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to thee, when I lift my hands towards thy holy oracle.

28:3  Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief [is] in their hearts.

28:4  Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.

28:5  Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he will destroy them, and not build them up.

28:6  Blessed [be] the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

28:7  The LORD [is] my strength, and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

28:8  The LORD [is] their strength, and he [is] the saving strength of his anointed.

28:9  Save thy people, and bless thy inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.

Chapter 29

29:1  A Psalm of David. Give to the LORD, O ye mighty, give to the LORD glory and strength.

29:2  Give to the LORD, the glory due to his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.

29:3  The voice of the LORD [is] upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD [is] upon many waters.

29:4  The voice of the LORD [is] powerful; the voice of the LORD [is] full of majesty.

29:5  The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yes, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

29:6  He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

29:7  The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.

29:8  The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.

29:9  The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and maketh bare the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of [his] glory.

29:10  The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yes, the LORD sitteth king for ever.

29:11  The LORD will give strength to his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.

Chapter 30

30:1  A Psalm [and] Song, [at] the dedication of the house of David. I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.

30:2  O LORD my God, I cried to thee, and thou hast healed me.

30:3  O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

30:4  Sing to the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

30:5  For his anger [endureth but] a moment; in his favor [is] life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy [cometh] in the morning.

30:6  And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.

30:7  LORD, by thy favor thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, [and] I was troubled.

30:8  I cried to thee, O LORD; and to the LORD I made supplication.

30:9  What profit [is there] in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

30:10  Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.

30:11  Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

30:12  To the end that [my] glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to thee for ever.

Chapter 31

31:1  To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.

31:2  Bow down thy ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for a house of defense to save me.

31:3  For thou [art] my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.

31:4  Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou [art] my strength.

31:5  Into thy hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

31:6  I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

31:7  I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

31:8  And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my foot in a large room.

31:9  Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, [yes], my soul and my belly.

31:10  For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

31:11  I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintance: they that saw me without fled from me.

31:12  I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

31:13  For I have heard the slander of many: fear [was] on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

31:14  But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou [art] my God.

31:15  My times [are] in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.

31:16  Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.

31:17  Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

31:18  Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

31:19  [Oh] how great [is] thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; [which] thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

31:20  Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

31:21  Blessed [be] the LORD: for he hath showed me his wonderful kindness in a strong city.

31:22  For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thy eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried to thee.

31:23  O love the LORD, all ye his saints: [for] the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

31:24  Be of good courage, and he will strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.

Chapter 32

32:1  [A Psalm] of David, Maschil. Blessed [is he whose] transgression [is] forgiven, [whose] sin [is] covered.

32:2  Blessed [is] the man to whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit [there is] no guile.

32:3  When I kept silence, my bones became old through my roaring all the day long.

32:4  For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drouth of summer. Selah.

32:5  I acknowledged my sin to thee, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

32:6  For this shall every one that is godly pray to thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh to him.

32:7  Thou [art] my hiding place; thou wilt preserve me from trouble; thou wilt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

32:8  I will instruct thee, and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with my eye.

32:9  Be ye not as the horse, [or] as the mule, [which] have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near to thee.

32:10  Many sorrows [shall be] to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall encompass him.

32:11  Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all [ye that are] upright in heart.

Chapter 33

33:1  Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: [for] praise is comely for the upright.

33:2  Praise the LORD with harp: sing to him with the psaltery [and] an instrument of ten strings.

33:3  Sing to him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise.

33:4  For the word of the LORD [is] right; and all his works [are done] in truth.

33:5  He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.

33:6  By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

33:7  He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap: he layeth up the depth in store-houses.

33:8  Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

33:9  For he spoke, and it was [done]; he commanded, and it stood fast.

33:10  The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to naught: he maketh the devices of the people of no effect.

33:11  The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

33:12  Blessed [is] the nation whose God [is] the LORD; [and] the people [whom] he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

33:13  The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.

33:14  From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.

33:15  He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.

33:16  There is no king saved by the multitude of a host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

33:17  A horse [is] a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver [any] by his great strength.

33:18  Behold, the eye of the LORD [is] upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;

33:19  To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

33:20  Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he [is] our help and our shield.

33:21  For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

33:22  Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.

Chapter 34

34:1  [A Psalm] of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed. I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise [shall] continually [be] in my mouth.

34:2  My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear [of it] and be glad.

34:3  O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.

34:4  I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

34:5  They looked to him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

34:6  This poor man cried, and the LORD heard [him], and saved him out of all his troubles.

34:7  The angel of the LORD encampeth around them that fear him, and delivereth them.

34:8  O taste and see that the LORD [is] good: blessed [is] the man [that] trusteth in him.

34:9  O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for [there is] no want to them that fear him.

34:10  The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good [thing].

34:11  Come, ye children, hearken to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

34:12  What man [is he that] desireth life, [and] loveth [many] days, that he may see good?

34:13  Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

34:14  Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

34:15  The eyes of the LORD [are] upon the righteous, and his ears [are open] to their cry.

34:16  The face of the LORD [is] against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

34:17  [The righteous] cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

34:18  The LORD [is] nigh to them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as are of a contrite spirit.

34:19  Many [are] the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

34:20  He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.

34:21  Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

34:22  The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

Chapter 35

35:1  [A Psalm] of David. Plead [my cause], O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

35:2  Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.

35:3  Draw out also the spear, and stop [the way] against them that persecute me: say to my soul, I [am] thy salvation.

35:4  Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

35:5  Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase [them].

35:6  Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.

35:7  For without cause they have hid for me their net [in] a pit, [which] without cause they have digged for my soul.

35:8  Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

35:9  And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.

35:10  All my bones shall say, LORD, who [is] like thee, who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, even the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

35:11  False witnesses arose; they laid to my charge [things] that I knew not.

35:12  They rewarded me evil for good [to] the spoiling of my soul.

35:13  But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing [was] sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.

35:14  I behaved myself as though [he had been] my friend [or] brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth [for his] mother.

35:15  But in my adversity they rejoiced, and assembled themselves: [yes], the abjects assembled themselves against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear [me], and ceased not:

35:16  With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

35:17  Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

35:18  I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among many people.

35:19  Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: [neither] let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

35:20  For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against [them that are] quiet in the land.

35:21  Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me, [and] said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen [it].

35:22  [This] thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

35:23  Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, [even] to my cause, my God and my Lord.

35:24  Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

35:25  Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

35:26  Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at my hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify [themselves] against me.

35:27  Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause: yes, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, who hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

35:28  And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness [and] of thy praise all the day long.

Chapter 36

36:1  To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David the servant of the LORD. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, [that there is] no fear of God before his eyes.

36:2  For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity is found to be hateful.

36:3  The words of his mouth [are] iniquity and deceit: he hath ceased to be wise, [and] to do good.

36:4  He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way [that is] not good; he abhorreth not evil.

36:5  Thy mercy, O LORD, [is] in the heavens; [and] thy faithfulness [reacheth] to the clouds.

36:6  Thy righteousness [is] like the great mountains; thy judgments [are] a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.

36:7  How excellent [is] thy loving-kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

36:8  They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

36:9  For with thee [is] the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

36:10  O continue thy loving-kindness to them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.

36:11  Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

36:12  There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

Chapter 37

37:1  [A Psalm] of David. Fret not thyself because of evil doers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

37:2  For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

37:3  Trust in the LORD, and do good; [so] shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.

37:4  Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he will give thee the desires of thy heart.

37:5  Commit thy way to the LORD; trust also in him; and he will bring [it] to pass.

37:6  And he will bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noon-day.

37:7  Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

37:8  Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

37:9  For evil doers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.

37:10  For yet a little while, and the wicked [shall] not [be]: yes, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it [shall] not [be].

37:11  But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

37:12  The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

37:13  The Lord will laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.

37:14  The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, [and] to slay such as are of upright deportment.

37:15  Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

37:16  A little that a righteous man hath [is] better than the riches of many wicked.

37:17  For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.

37:18  The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.

37:19  They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

37:20  But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD [shall be] as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

37:21  The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous showeth mercy, and giveth.

37:22  For [such as are] blessed by him shall inherit the earth; and [they that are] cursed by him shall be cut off.

37:23  The steps of a [good] man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.

37:24  Though he should fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth [him with] his hand.

37:25  I have been young, and [now] am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

37:26  [He is] ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed [is] blessed.

37:27  Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.

37:28  For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

37:29  The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.

37:30  The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.

37:31  The law of his God [is] in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

37:32  The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

37:33  The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

37:34  Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he will exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see [it].

37:35  I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

37:36  Yet he passed away, and lo, he [was] not: yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

37:37  Mark the perfect [man], and behold the upright: for the end of [that] man [is] peace.

37:38  But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

37:39  But the salvation of the righteous [is] of the LORD: [he is] their strength in the time of trouble.

37:40  And the LORD will help them, and deliver them: he will deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

Chapter 38

38:1  A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

38:2  For thy arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand falleth heavy upon me.

38:3  [There is] no soundness in my flesh because of thy anger; neither [is there any] rest in my bones because of my sin.

38:4  For my iniquities have gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

38:5  My wounds are offensive, [and] are corrupt because of my foolishness.

38:6  I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

38:7  For my loins are filled with a lothsome [disease]: and [there is] no soundness in my flesh.

38:8  I am feeble and grievously broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

38:9  Lord, all my desire [is] before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

38:10  My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of my eyes, that also is gone from me.

38:11  My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my affliction; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

38:12  They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me]: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

38:13  But I, as a deaf [man], heard not; and [I was] as a dumb man [that] openeth not his mouth.

38:14  Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth [are] no reproofs.

38:15  For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.

38:16  For I said, [Hear me], lest [otherwise] they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify [themselves] against me.

38:17  For I [am] ready to halt, and my sorrow [is] continually before me.

38:18  For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

38:19  But my enemies [are] lively, [and] they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

38:20  They also that render evil for good are my adversaries; because I follow [the thing that is] good.

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.

Chapter 39

39:1  To the chief Musician, [even] to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

39:2  I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

39:3  My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: [then] I spoke with my tongue.

39:4  LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it [is]; [that] I may know how frail I [am].

39:5  Behold, thou hast made my days [as] a hand-breadth; and my age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.

39:6  Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.

39:7  And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope [is] in thee.

39:8  Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

39:9  I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst [it].

39:10  Remove thy stroke away from me; I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

39:11  When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man [is] vanity. Selah.

39:12  Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I [am] a stranger with thee, [and] a sojourner, as all my fathers [were].

39:13  O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

Chapter 40

40:1  To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined to me, and heard my cry.

40:2  He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, [and] established my goings.

40:3  And he hath put a new song in my mouth, [even] praise to our God: many shall see [it], and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

40:4  Blessed [is] that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

40:5  Many, O LORD, my God, [are] thy wonderful works [which] thou hast done, and thy thoughts [which are] toward us, they cannot be reckoned up in order to thee: [if] I would declare and speak [of them], they are more than can be numbered.

40:6  Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; my ears hast thou opened: burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required.

40:7  Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book [it is] written of me,

40:8  I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart.

40:9  I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

40:10  I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy loving-kindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

40:11  Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy loving-kindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

40:12  For innumerable evils have encompassed me: my iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart faileth me.

40:13  Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.

40:14  Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

40:15  Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say to me, Aha, aha.

40:16  Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.

40:17  But I [am] poor and needy; [yet] the Lord thinketh upon me: thou [art] my help and my deliverer; make no delay, O my God.

Chapter 41

41:1  To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Blessed [is] he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in the time of trouble.

41:2  The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; [and] he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him to the will of his enemies.

41:3  The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

41:4  I said, LORD, be merciful to me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

41:5  My enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

41:6  And if he cometh to see [me], he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; [when] he goeth abroad, he telleth [it].

41:7  All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

41:8  An evil disease, [say they], cleaveth fast to him: and [now] that he lieth he shall rise no more.

41:9  Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, hath lifted up [his] heel against me.

41:10  But thou, O LORD, be merciful to me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.

41:11  By this I know that thou favorest me, because my enemy doth not triumph over me.

41:12  And as for me, thou upholdest me in my integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.

41:13  Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and amen.

Chapter 42

42:1  To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so my soul panteth after thee, O God.

42:2  My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

42:3  My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where [is] thy God?

42:4  When I remember these [things], I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holy-day.

42:5  Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and [why] art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him [for] the help of his countenance.

42:6  O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

42:7  Deep calleth to deep at the noise of thy water-spouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

42:8  [Yet] the LORD will command his loving-kindness in the day-time, and in the night his song [shall be] with me, [and] my prayer to the God of my life.

42:9  I will say to God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

42:10  [As] with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say daily to me, Where [is] thy God?

42:11  Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.

Chapter 43

43:1  Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

43:2  For thou [art] the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

43:3  O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me to thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

43:4  Then will I go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy: yes, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.

43:5  Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who] is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Chapter 44

44:1  To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, [what] work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

44:2  [How] thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and didst plant them; [how] thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.

44:3  For they obtained not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favor to them.

44:4  Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

44:5  Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name we will tread them under that rise up against us.

44:6  For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

44:7  But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.

44:8  In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.

44:9  But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

44:10  Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they who hate us plunder for themselves.

44:11  Thou hast given us like sheep [appointed] for food; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

44:12  Thou sellest thy people for naught, and dost not increase [thy wealth] by their price.

44:13  Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are around us.

44:14  Thou makest us a by-word among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

44:15  My confusion [is] continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

44:16  For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.

44:17  All this is come upon us; yet we have not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

44:18  Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

44:19  Though thou hast severely broke us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shades of death.

44:20  If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

44:21  Will not God search out this? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

44:22  Yes, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

44:23  Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast [us] not off for ever.

44:24  Why hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

44:25  For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to the earth.

44:26  Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.

Chapter 45

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 concerning the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer.

45:2  Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

45:3  Gird thy sword upon [thy] thigh, O [most] mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.

45:4  And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness [and] righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

45:5  Thy arrows [are] sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; [by which] the people fall under thee.

45:6  Thy throne, O God, [is] for ever and ever: the scepter of thy kingdom [is] a scepter of justice.

45:7  Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

45:8  All thy garments [smell] of myrrh, and aloes, [and] cassia, out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made thee glad.

45:9  Kings daughters [were] among thy honorable women: upon thy right hand stood the queen in gold of Ophir.

45:10  Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thy ear; forget also thy own people, and thy father's house;

45:11  So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he [is] thy lord; and worship thou him.

45:12  And the daughter of Tyre [shall be there] with a gift; [even] the rich among the people shall entreat thy favor.

45:13  The king's daughter [is] all glorious within: her clothing [is] of wrought gold.

45:14  She shall be brought to the king in raiment of needle-work: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought to thee.

45:15  With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.

45:16  Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

45:17  I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.

Chapter 46

46:1  To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. God [is] our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

46:2  Therefore will we not fear, though the earth shall be removed, and though the mountains shall be carried into the midst of the sea;

46:3  [Though] its waters shall roar [and] be disturbed, [though] the mountains shake with the swelling of it. Selah.

46:4  [There is] a river, the streams of which shall make glad the city of God, the holy [place] of the tabernacles of the Most High.

46:5  God [is] in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, [and that] right early.

46:6  The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

46:7  The LORD of hosts [is] with us; the God of Jacob [is] our refuge. Selah.

46:8  Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.

46:9  He maketh wars to cease to the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear asunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.

46:10  Be still, and know that I [am] God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

46:11  The LORD of hosts [is] with us; the God of Jacob [is] our refuge. Selah.

Chapter 47

47:1  To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. O clap your hands, all ye people; shout to God with the voice of triumph.

47:2  For the LORD most high [is] terrible; [he is] a great King over all the earth.

47:3  He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.

47:4  He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellence of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

47:5  God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.

47:6  Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises to our King, sing praises.

47:7  For God [is] the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.

47:8  God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.

47:9  The princes of the people are assembled, [even] the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth [belong] to God: he is greatly exalted.

Chapter 48

48:1  A Song [and] Psalm for the sons of Korah. Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, [in] the mountain of his holiness.

48:2  Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, [is] mount Zion, [on] the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

48:3  God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

48:4  For lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.

48:5  They saw [it], [and] so they wondered; they were troubled, [and] hasted away.

48:6  Fear took hold upon them there, [and] pain, as of a woman in travail.

48:7  Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

48:8  As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.

48:9  We have thought of thy loving-kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

48:10  According to thy name, O God, so [is] thy praise to the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

48:11  Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

48:12  Walk about Zion, and go round her: number her towers.

48:13  Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell [it] to the generation following.

48:14  For this God [is] our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide [even] to death.

Chapter 49

49:1  To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. Hear this, all [ye] people; give ear, all [ye] inhabitants of the world:

49:2  Both low and high, rich and poor together.

49:3  My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart [shall be] of understanding.

49:4  I will incline my ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

49:5  Why should I fear in the days of evil, [when] the iniquity of my heels shall encompass me?

49:6  They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

49:7  None [of them] can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

49:8  (For the redemption of their soul [is] precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)

49:9  That he should still live for ever, [and] not see corruption.

49:10  For he seeth [that] wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

49:11  Their inward thought [is], [that] their houses [shall continue] for ever, [and] their dwelling places to all generations; they call [their] lands after their own names.

49:12  Nevertheless man [being] in honor abideth not: he is like the beasts [that] perish.

49:13  This their way [is] their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

49:14  Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

49:15  But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.

49:16  Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;

49:17  For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.

49:18  Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and [men] will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.

49:19  He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

49:20  Man [that is] in honor, and understandeth not, is like the beasts [that] perish.

Chapter 50

50:1  A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, [even] the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising to the setting of the sun.

50:2  Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

50:3  Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous around him.

50:4  He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

50:5  Gather my saints together to me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

50:6  And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God [is] judge himself. Selah.

50:7  Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I [am] God, [even] thy God.

50:8  I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt-offerings, [to have been] continually before me.

50:9  I will take no bullock out of thy house, [nor] he-goats out of thy folds.

50:10  For every beast of the forest [is] mine, [and] the cattle upon a thousand hills.

50:11  I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field [are] mine.

50:12  If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world [is] mine, and the fullness thereof.

50:13  Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

50:14  Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows to the Most High:

50:15  And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

50:16  But to the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or [that] thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

50:17  Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

50:18  When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

50:19  Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

50:20  Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thy own mother's son.

50:21  These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether [such an one] as thyself: [but] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.

50:22  Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you] in pieces, and [there be] none to deliver.

50:23  Whoever offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth [his] deportment [aright] will I show the salvation of God.

Chapter 51

51:1  To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness: according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

51:2  Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

51:3  For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin [is] ever before me.

51:4  Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done [this] evil in thy sight: that thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, [and] be clear when thou judgest.

51:5  Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

51:6  Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden [part] thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

51:7  Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

51:8  Make me to hear joy and gladness; [that] the bones [which] thou hast broken may rejoice.

51:9  Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

51:10  Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

51:11  Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

51:12  Restore to me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me [with thy] free spirit.

51:13  [Then] will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted to thee.

51:14  Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: [and] my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

51:15  O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth thy praise.

51:16  For thou desirest not sacrifice: else would I give [it]: thou delightest not in burnt-offering.

51:17  The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

51:18  Do good in thy good pleasure to Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

51:19  Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt-offering and whole burnt-offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thy altar.

Chapter 52

52:1  To the chief Musician, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech. Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God [endureth] continually.

52:2  Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

52:3  Thou lovest evil more than good; [and] lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

52:4  Thou lovest all devouring words, O [thou] deceitful tongue.

52:5  God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of [thy] dwelling-place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

52:6  The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:

52:7  Lo, [this is] the man [that] made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, [and] strengthened himself in his wickedness.

52:8  But I [am] like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

52:9  I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done [it]: and I will wait on thy name; for [it is] good before thy saints.

Chapter 53

53:1  To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David. The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God. They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity: [there is] none that doeth good.

53:2  God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were [any] that did understand, that did seek God.

53:3  Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.

53:4  Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread! they have not called upon God.

53:5  There they were in great fear, [where] no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth [against] thee: thou hast put [them] to shame, because God hath despised them.

53:6  O 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.

Chapter 54

54:1  To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us? Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.

54:2  Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.

54:3  For strangers have risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

54:4  Behold, God [is] my helper: the Lord [is] with them that uphold my soul.

54:5  He will reward evil to my enemies; cut them off in thy truth.

54:6  I will freely sacrifice to thee: I will praise thy name, O LORD; for [it is] good.

54:7  For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and my eye hath seen [its desire] upon my enemies.

Chapter 55

55:1  To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.

55:2  Attend to me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;

55:3  Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

55:4  My heart is severely pained within me: and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

55:5  Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.

55:6  And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! [for then] I would fly away, and be at rest.

55:7  Lo, [then] I would wander far off, [and] remain in the wilderness. Selah.

55:8  I would hasten my escape from the windy storm [and] tempest.

55:9  Destroy, O Lord, [and] divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

55:10  Day and night they go about it upon its walls: mischief also and sorrow [are] in the midst of it.

55:11  Wickedness [is] in the midst of it: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

55:12  For [it was] not an enemy [that] reproached me; then I could have borne [it]: neither [was it] he that hated me [that] magnified [himself] against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

55:13  But [it was] thou, a man my equal, my guide, and my acquaintance.

55:14  We took sweet counsel together, [and] walked to the house of God in company.

55:15  Let death seize upon them, [and] let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness [is] in their dwellings, [and] among them.

55:16  As for me, I will call upon God: and the LORD will save me.

55:17  Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he will hear my voice.

55:18  He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle [that was] against me: for there were many with me.

55:19  God will hear and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.

55:20  He hath put forth his hands against such as are at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.

55:21  [The words] of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war [was] in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet [were] they drawn swords.

55:22  Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he will sustain thee: he will never suffer the righteous to be moved.

55:23  But thou, O God, wilt 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.

Chapter 56

56:1  To the chief Musician upon Jonathelem-rechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful to me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.

56:2  My enemies would daily swallow [me] up: for [they are] many that fight against me, O thou Most High.

56:3  In the time when I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

56:4  In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do to me.

56:5  Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts [are] against me for evil.

56:6  They assemble themselves, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

56:7  Shall they escape by iniquity; in [thy] anger cast down the people, O God.

56:8  Thou numberest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: [are they] not in thy book?

56:9  When I cry [to thee], then shall my enemies turn back: this I know; for God [is] for me.

56:10  In God will I praise [his] word: in the LORD will I praise [his] word.

56:11  In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do to me.

56:12  Thy vows [are] upon me, O God: I will render praises to thee.

56:13  For thou hast delivered my soul from death: [wilt thou] not [deliver] my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

Chapter 57

57:1  To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave. Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yes, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until [these] calamities are overpast.

57:2  I will cry to God most high; to God that performeth [all things] for me.

57:3  He shall send from heaven, and save me [from] the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

57:4  My soul [is] among lions: [and] I lie [even among] them that are set on fire, [even] the sons of men, whose teeth [are] spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

57:5  Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; [let] thy glory [be] above all the earth.

57:6  They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst of which they have fallen [themselves]. Selah.

57:7  My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.

57:8  Awake, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I [myself] will awake early.

57:9  I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing to thee among the nations.

57:10  For thy mercy [is] great to the heavens, and thy truth to the clouds.

57:11  Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: [let] thy glory [be] above all the earth.

Chapter 58

58:1  To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

58:2  Yes, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

58:3  The wicked are estranged from their birth: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

58:4  Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear;

58:5  Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

58:6  Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

58:7  Let them melt away as waters [which] run continually: [when] he bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

58:8  As a snail [which] melteth, let [every one of them] pass away: [like] the untimely birth of a woman, [that] they may not see the sun.

58:9  Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his] wrath.

58:10  The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

58:11  So that a man shall say, Verily [there is] a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

Chapter 59

59:1  To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.

59:2  Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

59:3  For lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not [for] my transgression, nor [for] my sin, O LORD.

59:4  They run and prepare themselves without [my] fault: awake to help me, and behold.

59:5  Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.

59:6  They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go about the city.

59:7  Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords [are] in their lips: for who, [say they], doth hear?

59:8  But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.

59:9  [Because of] his strength will I wait upon thee: for God [is] my defense.

59:10  The God of my mercy will succor me: God will let me see [my desire] upon my enemies.

59:11  Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

59:12  [For] the sin of their mouth [and] the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying [which] they speak.

59:13  Consume [them] in wrath, consume [them], that they [may] not [be]: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah.

59:14  And at evening let them return; [and] let them make a noise like a dog, and go about the city.

59:15  Let them wander up and down for food, and grudge if they are not satisfied.

59:16  But I will sing of thy power; yes, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble.

59:17  To thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God [is] my defense, [and] the God of my mercy.

Chapter 60

60:1  To the chief Musician upon Shushan-eduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand. O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.

60:2  Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal its breaches; for it shaketh.

60:3  Thou hast shown thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

60:4  Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

60:5  That thy beloved may be delivered; save [with] thy right hand, and hear me.

60:6  God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.

60:7  Gilead [is] mine, and Manasseh [is] mine; Ephraim also [is] the strength of my head; Judah [is] my lawgiver;

60:8  Moab [is] my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.

60:9  Who will bring me [into] the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

60:10  [Wilt] thou not, O God, [who] hadst cast us off? and [thou], O God, [who] didst not go out with our armies?

60:11  Give us help from trouble: for vain [is] the help of man.

60:12  Through God we shall do valiantly: for he will tread down our enemies.

Chapter 61

61:1  To the chief Musician upon Neginah, [A Psalm] of David. Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer.

61:2  From the end of the earth will I cry to thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock [that] is higher than I.

61:3  For thou hast been a shelter for me, [and] a strong tower from the enemy.

61:4  I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.

61:5  For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given [me] the heritage of those that fear thy name.

61:6  Thou wilt prolong the king's life: [and] his years as many generations.

61:7  He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, [which] may preserve him.

61:8  So will I sing praise to thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.

Chapter 62

62:1  To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him [cometh] my salvation.

62:2  He only [is] my rock and my salvation; [he is] my defense; I shall not be greatly moved.

62:3  How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall [shall ye be], [and as] a tottering fence.

62:4  They only consult to cast [him] down from his excellence: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

62:5  My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation [is] from him.

62:6  He only [is] my rock and my salvation: [he is] my defense; I shall not be moved.

62:7  In God [is] my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, [and] my refuge, [is] in God.

62:8  Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God [is] a refuge for us. Selah.

62:9  Surely men of low degree [are] vanity, [and] men of high degree [are] a lie: to be laid in the balance, they [are] altogether [lighter] than vanity.

62:10  Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart [upon them].

62:11  God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power [belongeth] to God.

62:12  Also to thee, O Lord, [belongeth] mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.

Chapter 63

63:1  A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou [art] my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

63:2  To see thy power and thy glory, so [as] I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

63:3  Because thy loving-kindness [is] better than life, my lips shall praise thee.

63:4  Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.

63:5  My soul shall be satisfied as [with] marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise [thee] with joyful lips:

63:6  When I remember thee upon my bed, [and] meditate on thee in the [night] watches.

63:7  Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.

63:8  My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.

63:9  But those [that] seek my soul to destroy [it], shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

63:10  They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.

63:11  But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

Chapter 64

64:1  To the chief Musician, a Psalm of David. Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

64:2  Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

64:3  Who whet their tongue like a sword, [and] bend [their bows to shoot] their arrows, [even] bitter words:

64:4  That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

64:5  They encourage themselves [in] an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who will see them?

64:6  They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward [thought] of every one [of them], and the heart, [is] deep.

64:7  But God shall shoot at them [with] an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.

64:8  So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

64:9  And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.

64:10  The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.

Chapter 65

65:1  To the chief Musician, A Psalm [and] Song of David. Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Zion: and to thee shall the vow be performed.

65:2  O thou that hearest prayer, to thee shall all flesh come.

65:3  Iniquities prevail against me: [as for] our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.

65:4  Blessed [is the man whom] thou choosest, and causest to approach [to thee], [that] he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, [even] of thy holy temple.

65:5  [By] terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; [who art] the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off [upon] the sea:

65:6  Who by his strength setteth fast the mountains; [being] girded with power:

65:7  Who stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.

65:8  They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.

65:9  Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, [which] is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.

65:10  Thou waterest the ridges of it abundantly: thou settlest the furrows of it: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing of it.

65:11  Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.

65:12  They drop [upon] the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.

65:13  The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.

Chapter 66

66:1  To the chief Musician, A Song [or] Psalm. Make a joyful noise to God, all ye lands:

66:2  Sing forth the honor of his name: make his praise glorious.

66:3  Say to God, How terrible [art thou in] thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thy enemies submit themselves to thee.

66:4  All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing to thee; they shall sing [to] thy name. Selah.

66:5  Come and see the works of God: [he is] terrible [in his] doing towards the children of men.

66:6  He turned the sea into dry [land]: they went through the flood on foot: there we rejoiced in him.

66:7  He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.

66:8  O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:

66:9  Who holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.

66:10  For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

66:11  Thou hast brought us into the net; thou hast laid affliction upon our loins.

66:12  Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy [place].

66:13  I will go into thy house with burnt-offerings: I will pay thee my vows,

66:14  Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.

66:15  I will offer to thee burnt-sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.

66:16  Come [and] hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.

66:17  I cried to him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.

66:18  If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear [me]:

66:19  [But] verily God hath heard [me]; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.

66:20  Blessed [be] God, who hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.

Chapter 67

67:1  To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm [or] Song. God be merciful to us, and bless us; [and] cause his face to shine upon us. Selah.

67:2  That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.

67:3  Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.

67:4  O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.

67:5  Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.

67:6  [Then] shall the earth yield her increase; [and] God, [even] our own God, will bless us.

67:7  God will bless us, and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.

Chapter 68

68:1  To the chief Musician, A Psalm [or] Song of David. Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.

68:2  As smoke is driven away, [so] drive [them] away: as wax melteth before the fire, [so] let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

68:3  But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yes, let them exceedingly rejoice.

68:4  Sing to God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.

68:5  A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, [is] God in his holy habitation.

68:6  God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those who are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry [land].

68:7  O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:

68:8  The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: [even] Sinai itself [was moved] at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

68:9  Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, by which thou didst confirm thy inheritance, when it was weary.

68:10  Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.

68:11  The Lord gave the word: great [was] the company of those that published [it].

68:12  Kings of armies fled apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.

68:13  Though ye have lain among the pots, [yet shall ye be as] the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.

68:14  When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was [white] as snow in Salmon.

68:15  The hill of God [is as] the hill of Bashan; a high hill [as] the hill of Bashan.

68:16  Why leap ye, ye lofty hills? [this is] the hill [which] God desireth to dwell in; yes, the LORD will dwell [in it] for ever.

68:17  The chariots of God [are] twenty thousand, [even] thousands of angels: the Lord [is] among them, [as in] Sinai, in the holy [place].

68:18  Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yes, [for] the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell [among them].

68:19  Blessed [be] the Lord, [who] daily loadeth us [with benefits], [even] the God of our salvation. Selah.

68:20  [He that is] our God [is] the God of salvation; and to GOD the Lord [belong] the issues from death.

68:21  But God will wound the head of his enemies, [and] the hairy scalp of such one as goeth on still in his trespasses.

68:22  The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring [my people] again from the depths of the sea.

68:23  That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thy enemies, [and] the tongue of thy dogs in the same.

68:24  They have seen thy goings, O God; [even] the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.

68:25  The singers went before, the players on instruments [followed] after; among [them were] the damsels playing with timbrels.

68:26  Bless ye God in the congregations, [even] the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.

68:27  There [is] little Benjamin [with] their ruler, the princes of Judah [and] their counsel, the princes of Zebulun, [and] the princes of Naphtali.

68:28  Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.

68:29  Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents to thee.

68:30  Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, [till every one shall] submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people [that] delight in war.

68:31  Princes shall come out of Egypt; Cush shall soon stretch out her hands to God.

68:32  Sing to God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises [to] the Lord; Selah:

68:33  To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, [which were] of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, [and that] a mighty voice.

68:34  Ascribe ye strength to God: his excellence [is] over Israel, and his strength [is] in the clouds.

68:35  O God, [thou art] terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel [is] he that giveth strength and power to [his] people. Blessed [be] God.

Chapter 69

69:1  To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, [A Psalm] of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in to [my] soul.

69:2  I sink in deep mire, where [there is] no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

69:3  I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I wait for my God.

69:4  They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: they that would destroy me, [being] my enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored [that] which I took not away.

69:5  O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.

69:6  Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.

69:7  Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

69:8  I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to my mother's children.

69:9  For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee have fallen upon me.

69:10  When I wept, [and chastened] my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

69:11  I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

69:12  They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I [was] the song of the drunkards.

69:13  But as for me, my prayer [is] to thee, O LORD, [in] an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.

69:14  Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

69:15  Let not the water-flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

69:16  Hear me, O LORD; for thy loving-kindness [is] good: turn to me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

69:17  And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.

69:18  Draw nigh to my soul, [and] redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies.

69:19  Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: my adversaries [are] all before thee.

69:20  Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] none; and for comforters, but I found none.

69:21  They gave me also gall for my food; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

69:22  Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap.

69:23  Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.

69:24  Pour out thy indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

69:25  Let their habitation be desolate; [and] let none dwell in their tents.

69:26  For they persecute [him] whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

69:27  Add iniquity to their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.

69:28  Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

69:29  But I [am] poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

69:30  I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

69:31  [This] also shall please the LORD better than an ox [or] bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

69:32  The humble shall see [this], [and] be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.

69:33  For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

69:34  Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.

69:35  For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

69:36  The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

Chapter 70

70:1  To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David to bring to remembrance. [Make haste], O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.

70:2  Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

70:3  Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.

70:4  Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.

70:5  But I [am] poor and needy: make haste to me, O God: thou [art] my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no delay.

Chapter 71

71:1  In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.

71:2  Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thy ear to me, and save me.

71:3  Be thou my strong habitation, to which I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou [art] my rock and my fortress.

71:4  Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

71:5  For thou [art] my hope, O Lord GOD: [thou art] my trust from my youth.

71:6  By thee have I been sustained from my birth: thou art he that brought me into life: my praise [shall be] continually of thee.

71:7  I am as a wonder to many; but thou [art] my strong refuge.

71:8  Let my mouth be filled [with] thy praise [and with] thy honor all the day.

71:9  Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

71:10  For my enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,

71:11  Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for [there is] none to deliver [him].

71:12  O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.

71:13  Let them be confounded [and] consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered [with] reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt.

71:14  But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.

71:15  My mouth shall show forth thy righteousness [and] thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers [thereof].

71:16  I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, [even] of thine only.

71:17  O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.

71:18  Now also when I am old and gray-headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have shown thy strength to [this] generation, [and] thy power to every one [that] is to come.

71:19  Thy righteousness also, O God, [is] very high, who hast done great things: O God, who [is] like to thee!

71:20  [Thou], who hast shown me great and severe troubles, wilt revive me again, and wilt bring me again from the depths of the earth.

71:21  Thou wilt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.

71:22  I will also praise thee with the psaltery, [even] thy truth, O my God: to thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.

71:23  My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.

71:24  My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought to shame, that seek my hurt.

Chapter 72

72:1  [A Psalm] for Solomon. Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness to the king's son.

72:2  He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.

72:3  The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.

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.

72:5  They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.

72:6  He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers [that] water the earth.

72:7  In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.

72:8  He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth.

72:9  They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

72:10  The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

72:11  Yes, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.

72:12  For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and [him] that hath no helper.

72:13  He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.

72:14  He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall be their blood in his sight.

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.

72:16  There shall be a handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit of it shall shake like Lebanon: and [they] of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

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.

72:18  Blessed [be] the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.

72:19  And blessed [be] his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled [with] his glory; Amen, and amen.

72:20  The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

Chapter 73

73:1  A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God [is] good to Israel, [even] to such as are of a clean heart.

73:2  But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

73:3  For I was envious at the foolish, [when] I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

73:4  For [there are] no bands in their death: but their strength [is] firm.

73:5  They [are] not in trouble [as other] men; neither are they afflicted like [other] men.

73:6  Therefore pride encompasseth them as a chain; violence covereth them [as] a garment.

73:7  Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

73:8  They are corrupt, and speak wickedly [concerning] oppression: they speak loftily.

73:9  They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

73:10  Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full [cup] are wrung out to them.

73:11  And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High?

73:12  Behold, these [are] the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase [in] riches.

73:13  Verily I have cleansed my heart [in] vain, and washed my hands in innocence.

73:14  For all the day long have I been afflicted, and chastened every morning.

73:15  If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend [against] the generation of thy children.

73:16  When I thought to know this, it [was] too painful for me;

73:17  Until I went into the sanctuary of God; [then] I understood their end.

73:18  Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou didst cast them down into destruction.

73:19  How are they [brought] into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

73:20  As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so], O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.

73:21  Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

73:22  So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I was [as] a beast before thee.

73:23  Nevertheless I [am] continually with thee: thou hast held [me] by my right hand.

73:24  Thou wilt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me [to] glory.

73:25  Whom have I in heaven [but thee]? and [there is] none upon earth [that] I desire besides thee.

73:26  My flesh and my heart faileth: [but] God [is] the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

73:27  For lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go astray from thee.

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.

Chapter 74

74:1  Maschil of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast [us] off for ever? [why] doth thy anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

74:2  Remember thy congregation, [which] thou hast purchased of old: the rod of thy inheritance, [which] thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, in which thou hast dwelt.

74:3  Lift up thy feet to the perpetual desolations; [even] all [that] the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

74:4  Thy enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns [for] signs.

74:5  [A man] was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

74:6  But now they break down the carved work of it at once with axes and hammers.

74:7  They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled [by casting down] the dwelling-place of thy name to the ground.

74:8  They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

74:9  We see not our signs: [there is] no more any prophet: neither [is there] among us any that knoweth how long.

74:10  O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

74:11  Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck [it] out of thy bosom.

74:12  For God [is] my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

74:13  Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou didst break the heads of the dragons in the waters.

74:14  Thou didst break the head of leviathan in pieces, [and] didst give him [to be] food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

74:15  Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou didst dry up mighty rivers.

74:16  The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

74:17  Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

74:18  Remember this, the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

74:19  O deliver not the soul of thy turtle dove to the multitude [of the wicked]: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

74:20  Have respect to the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

74:21  O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

74:22  Arise, O God, plead thy own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

74:23  Forget not the voice of thy enemies: the tumult of those that rise against thee increaseth continually.

Chapter 75

75:1  To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, A Psalm [or] Song of Asaph. To thee, O God, do we give thanks, [to thee] do we give thanks: for [that] thy name is near, thy wondrous works declare.

75:2  When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.

75:3  The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.

75:4  I said to the fools, Deal not foolishly; and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

75:5  Lift not up your horn on high: speak [not with] a stiff neck.

75:6  For promotion [cometh] neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

75:7  But God [is] the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

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 of it all the wicked of the earth shall wring [them] out, [and] drink [them].

75:9  But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

75:10  All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; [but] the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

Chapter 76

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.

76:2  In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.

76:3  There he broke the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.

76:4  Thou [art] more glorious [and] excellent than the mountains of prey.

76:5  The stout-hearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.

76:6  At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

76:7  Thou, [even] thou, [art] to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

76:8  Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,

76:9  When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.

76:10  Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath wilt thou restrain.

76:11  Vow, and pay to the LORD your God: let all that are about him bring presents to him that ought to be feared.

76:12  He shall cut off the spirit of princes: [he is] terrible to the kings of the earth.

Chapter 77

77:1  To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph. I cried to God with my voice, [even] to God with my voice; and he gave ear to me.

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.

77:3  I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

77:4  Thou holdest my eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

77:5  I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

77:6  I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with my own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

77:7  Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favorable no more?

77:8  Is his mercy wholly gone for ever? doth [his] promise fail for evermore?

77:9  Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

77:10  And I said, This [is] my infirmity: [but I will remember] the years of the right hand of the Most High.

77:11  I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.

77:12  I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.

77:13  Thy way, O God, [is] in the sanctuary: who [is so] great a God as [our] God!

77:14  Thou [art] the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.

77:15  Thou hast with [thy] arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

77:16  The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were disturbed.

77:17  The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thy arrows also went abroad.

77:18  The voice of thy thunder [was] in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.

77:19  Thy way [is] in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.

77:20  Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Chapter 78

78:1  Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, [to] my law: incline your ear to the words of my mouth.

78:2  I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

78:3  Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

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.

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:

78:6  That the generation to come might know [them], [even] the children [who] should be born; [who] should arise and declare [them] to their children:

78:7  That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

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 steadfast with God.

78:9  The children of Ephraim, [being] armed, [and] carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

78:10  They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

78:11  And forgot his works, and his wonders that he had shown them.

78:12  Marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, [in] the field of Zoan.

78:13  He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap.

78:14  In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.

78:15  He cleaved the rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as [out of] the great depths.

78:16  He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

78:17  And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the Most High in the wilderness.

78:18  And they tempted God in their heart by asking food for their desire.

78:19  Yes, they spoke against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

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?

78:21  Therefore the LORD heard [this], and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

78:22  Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

78:23  Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

78:24  And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.

78:25  Man ate angels' food: he sent them food to the full.

78:26  He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.

78:27  He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:

78:28  And he let [it] fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations.

78:29  So they ate, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;

78:30  They were not estranged from their desire: but while their meat [was] yet in their mouths,

78:31  The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen [men] of Israel.

78:32  For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

78:33  Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

78:34  When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.

78:35  And they remembered that God [was] their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

78:36  Nevertheless they flattered him with their mouth, and they lied to him with their tongues.

78:37  For their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant.

78:38  But he, [being] full of compassion, forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: yes, many a time he turned his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

78:39  For he remembered that they [were but] flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

78:40  How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, [and] grieve him in the desert!

78:41  Yes, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

78:42  They remembered not his hand, [nor] the day when he delivered them from the enemy.

78:43  How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:

78:44  And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

78:45  He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

78:46  He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

78:47  He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost.

78:48  He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

78:49  He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels [among them].

78:50  He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

78:51  And smote all the first-born in Egypt; the chief of [their] strength in the tabernacles of Ham:

78:52  But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

78:53  And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

78:54  And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, [even to] this mountain, [which] his right hand had purchased.

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.

78:56  Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

78:57  But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

78:58  For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

78:59  When God heard [this], he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

78:60  So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent [which] he placed among men;

78:61  And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.

78:62  He gave over his people also to the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.

78:63  The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

78:64  Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

78:65  Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, [and] like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

78:66  And he smote his enemies in the hinder part: he put them to a perpetual reproach.

78:67  Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

78:68  But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.

78:69  And he built his sanctuary like high [palaces], like the earth which he hath established for ever.

78:70  He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheep-folds:

78:71  From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

78:72  So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

Chapter 79

79:1  A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen have come into thy inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

79:2  The dead bodies of thy servants have they given [to be] food to the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints, to the beasts of the earth.

79:3  Their blood have they shed like water around Jerusalem; and [there was] none to bury [them].

79:4  We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them that are around us.

79:5  How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

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.

79:7  For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling-place.

79:8  O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily succor us: for we are brought very low.

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.

79:10  Why should the heathen say, Where [is] their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight [by] avenging the blood of thy servants [which is] shed.

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;

79:12  And render to our neighbors seven-fold into their bosom their reproach, with which they have reproached thee, O Lord.

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.

Chapter 80

80:1  To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim Eduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest [between] the cherubim, shine forth.

80:2  Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come [and] save us.

80:3  Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

80:4  O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

80:5  Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

80:6  Thou makest us a strife to our neighbors: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

80:7  Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

80:8  Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

80:9  Thou preparedst [room] before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

80:10  The hills were covered with the shade of it, and its boughs [were like] the goodly cedars.

80:11  She sent out her boughs to the sea, and her branches to the river.

80:12  Why hast thou [then] broke down her hedges, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck her?

80:13  The boar from the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

80:14  Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

80:15  And the vineyard which thy right hand planted, and the branch [that] thou madest strong for thyself.

80:16  [It is] burnt with fire, [it is] cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

80:17  Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man [whom] thou madest strong for thyself.

80:18  So will we not go back from thee: revive us, and we will call upon thy name.

80:19  Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

Chapter 81

81:1  To the chief Musician upon Gittith, [A Psalm] of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength: make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.

81:2  Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

81:3  Blow the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

81:4  For this [was] a statute for Israel, [and] a law of the God of Jacob.

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.

81:6  I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

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.

81:8  Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee; O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me;

81:9  There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

81:10  I [am] the LORD thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

81:11  But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would not obey me.

81:12  So I gave them up to their own hearts lust: [and] they walked in their own counsels.

81:13  O that my people had hearkened to me, [and] Israel had walked in my ways!

81:14  I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

81:15  The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves to him: and their time should have endured for ever.

81:16  He would have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock I should have satisfied thee.

Chapter 82

82:1  A Psalm of Asaph. God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.

82:2  How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

82:3  Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

82:4  Deliver the poor and needy: deliver [them] from the hand of the wicked.

82:5  They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

82:6  I have said, Ye [are] gods; and all of you [are] children of the Most High.

82:7  But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

82:8  Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou wilt inherit all nations.

Chapter 83

83:1  A song, [or] Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

83:2  For lo, thy enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

83:3  They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

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.

83:5  For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee,

83:6  The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;

83:7  Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;

83:8  Assur also is joined with them: they have helped the children of Lot. Selah.

83:9  Do to them as [to] the Midianites; as [to] Sisera, as [to] Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

83:10  [Who] perished at En-dor: they became [as] dung for the earth.

83:11  Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yes, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

83:12  Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

83:13  O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

83:14  As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

83:15  So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

83:16  Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

83:17  Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yes, let them be put to shame, and perish:

83:18  That [men] may know that thou, whose name alone [is] JEHOVAH, [art] the most high over all the earth.

Chapter 84

84:1  To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. How amiable [are] thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

84:2  My soul longeth, and even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

84:3  Yes, the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, [even] thy altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

84:4  Blessed [are] they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.

84:5  Blessed [is] the man whose strength [is] in thee; in whose heart [are] the ways [of them].

84:6  [Who] passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.

84:7  They go from strength to strength, [every one of them] in Zion appeareth before God.

84:8  O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.

84:9  Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thy anointed.

84:10  For a day in thy courts [is] better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

84:11  For the LORD God [is] a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

84:12  O LORD of hosts, blessed [is] the man that trusteth in thee.

Chapter 85

85:1  To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. LORD, thou hast been favorable to thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.

85:2  Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.

85:3  Thou hast taken away all thy wrath; thou hast turned [thyself] from the fierceness of thy anger.

85:4  Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thy anger towards us to cease.

85:5  Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thy anger to all generations?

85:6  Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?

85:7  Show us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.

85:8  I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace to his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

85:9  Surely his salvation [is] nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.

85:10  Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed [each other].

85:11  Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

85:12  Yes, the LORD will give [that which is] good; and our land shall yield her increase.

85:13  Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set [us] in the way of his steps.

Chapter 86

86:1  A Prayer of David. Bow down thy ear, O LORD, hear me: for I [am] poor and needy.

86:2  Preserve my soul; for I [am] holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.

86:3  Be merciful to me, O Lord: for I cry to thee daily.

86:4  Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for to thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

86:5  For thou, Lord, [art] good, and ready to forgive; and abundant in mercy to all them that call upon thee.

86:6  Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.

86:7  In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.

86:8  Among the gods [there is] none like thee, O Lord; neither [are there any works] like thy works.

86:9  All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.

86:10  For thou [art] great, and doest wondrous things: thou [art] God alone.

86:11  Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

86:12  I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.

86:13  For great [is] thy mercy towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

86:14  O God, the proud have risen against me, and the assemblies of violent [men] have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

86:15  But thou, O Lord, [art] a God full of compassion, and gracious; long-suffering, and abundant in mercy and truth.

86:16  O turn to me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength to thy servant, and save the son of thy handmaid.

86:17  Show me a token for good; that they who hate me may see [it], and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast helped me, and comforted me.

Chapter 87

87:1  A Psalm [or] Song for the sons of Korah. His foundation [is] in the holy mountains.

87:2  The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

87:3  Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

87:4  I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Cush; this [man] was born there.

87:5  And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the Highest himself shall establish her.

87:6  The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, [that] this [man] was born there. Selah.

87:7  As well the singers as the players on instruments [shall be there]: all my springs [are] in thee.

Chapter 88

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:

88:2  Let my prayer come before thee: incline thy ear to my cry;

88:3  For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh to the grave.

88:4  I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that hath] no strength:

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.

88:6  Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

88:7  Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves. Selah.

88:8  Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination to them: [I am] shut up, and I cannot come forth.

88:9  My eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands to thee.

88:10  Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and] praise thee? Selah.

88:11  Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? [or] thy faithfulness in destruction?

88:12  Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

88:13  But to thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer come before thee.

88:14  LORD, why castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest thou thy face from me?

88:15  I [am] afflicted and ready to die from [my] youth up: [while] I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

88:16  Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

88:17  They came around me daily like water; they encompassed me together.

88:18  Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, [and] my acquaintance into darkness.

Chapter 89

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.

89:2  For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness wilt thou establish in the very heavens.

89:3  I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant,

89:4  Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.

89:5  And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD; thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.

89:6  For who in the heaven can be compared to the LORD? [who] among the sons of the mighty can be likened to the LORD?

89:7  God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence by all [them that are] about him.

89:8  O LORD God of hosts, who [is] a strong LORD like to thee? or to thy faithfulness around thee?

89:9  Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when its waves arise, thou stillest them.

89:10  Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thy enemies with thy strong arm.

89:11  The heavens [are] thine, the earth also [is] thine: [as for] the world, and the fullness of it, thou hast founded them.

89:12  The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.

89:13  Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, [and] high is thy right hand.

89:14  Justice and judgment [are] the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

89:15  Blessed [are] the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.

89:16  In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.

89:17  For thou [art] the glory of their strength: and in thy favor our horn shall be exalted.

89:18  For the LORD [is] our defense; and the Holy One of Israel [is] our king.

89:19  Then thou didst speak in vision to thy holy one, and say, I have laid help upon [one that is] mighty; I have exalted [one] chosen out of the people.

89:20  I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:

89:21  With whom my hand shall be established: my arm also shall strengthen him.

89:22  The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

89:23  And I will beat down his foes before his face, and afflict them that hate him.

89:24  But my faithfulness and my mercy [shall be] with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

89:25  I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.

89:26  He shall cry to me, Thou [art] my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

89:27  Also I will make him [my] first-born, higher than the kings of the earth.

89:28  My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

89:29  His seed also will I make [to endure] for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

89:30  If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

89:31  If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

89:32  Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

89:33  Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

89:34  My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that hath gone out of my lips.

89:35  Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie to David.

89:36  His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.

89:37  It shall be established for ever as the moon, and [as] a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.

89:38  But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thy anointed.

89:39  Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown [by casting it] to the ground.

89:40  Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.

89:41  All that pass by the way plunder him: he is a reproach to his neighbors.

89:42  Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

89:43  Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.

89:44  Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.

89:45  The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.

89:46  How long, LORD, wilt thou hide thyself? for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?

89:47  Remember how short my time is: why hast thou made all men in vain?

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.

89:49  Lord, where [are] thy former loving-kindnesses, [which] thou didst swear to David in thy truth?

89:50  Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; [how] I do bear in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty people;

89:51  With which thy enemies have reproached, O LORD; with which they have reproached the footsteps of thy anointed

89:52  Blessed [be] the LORD for evermore. Amen and amen.

Chapter 90

90:1  A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations.

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.

90:3  Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

90:4  For a thousand years in thy sight [are but] as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.

90:5  Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep; in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth.

90:6  In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

90:7  For we are consumed by thy anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

90:8  Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance.

90:9  For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years, as a tale [that is told].

90:10  The days of our years [are] seventy years; and if by reason of strength [they are] eighty years, yet [is] their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

90:11  Who knoweth the power of thy anger? even according to thy fear, [so is] thy wrath.

90:12  So teach [us] to number [our] days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

90:13  Return, O LORD, how long? and repent thou concerning thy servants.

90:14  O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

90:15  Make us glad according to the days [in which] thou hast afflicted us, [and] the years [in which] we have seen evil.

90:16  Let thy work appear to thy servants, and thy glory to their children.

90:17  And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yes, the work of our hands establish thou it.

Chapter 91

91:1  He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

91:2  I will say of the LORD, [He is] my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

91:3  Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, [and] from the noisome pestilence.

91:4  He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth [shall be thy] shield and buckler.

91:5  Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; [nor] for the arrow [that] flieth by day;

91:6  [Nor] for the pestilence [that] walketh in darkness; [nor] for the destruction [that] wasteth at noon-day.

91:7  A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; [but] it shall not come nigh thee.

91:8  Only with thy eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

91:9  Because thou hast made the LORD [who is] my refuge, [even] the Most High, thy habitation;

91:10  There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

91:11  For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

91:12  They shall bear thee up in [their] hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

91:13  Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

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.

91:15  He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I [will be] with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honor him.

91:16  With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.

Chapter 92

92:1  A Psalm [or] Song for the sabbath day. [It is a] good [thing] to give thanks to the LORD, and to sing praises to thy name, O Most High.

92:2  To show forth thy loving-kindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night.

92:3  Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.

92:4  For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.

92:5  O LORD, how great are thy works! [and] thy thoughts are very deep.

92:6  A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

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:

92:8  But thou, LORD, [art most] high for evermore.

92:9  For lo, thy enemies, O LORD, for lo, thy enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

92:10  But my horn shalt thou exalt like [the horn of] an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

92:11  My eye also shall see [my desire] on my enemies, [and] my ears shall hear [my desire] of the wicked that rise up against me.

92:12  The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

92:13  Those that are planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.

92:14  They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;

92:15  To show that the LORD [is] upright: [he is] my rock, and [there is] no unrighteousness in him.

Chapter 93

93:1  The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, [with which] he hath girded himself: the world also is established, that it cannot be moved.

93:2  Thy throne [is] established of old: thou [art] from everlasting.

93:3  The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift their waves.

93:4  The LORD on high [is] mightier than the noise of many waters, [yes], [than] the mighty waves of the sea.

93:5  Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thy house, O LORD, for ever.

Chapter 94

94:1  O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, show thyself.

94:2  Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.

94:3  LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

94:4  [How long] shall they utter [and] speak hard things? [and] all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

94:5  They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thy heritage.

94:6  They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

94:7  Yet they say, The LORD will not see, neither will the God of Jacob regard [it].

94:8  Understand, ye brutish among the people: and [ye] fools, when will ye be wise?

94:9  He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?

94:10  He that chastiseth the heathen, shall he not correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, [shall he not know]?

94:11  The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they [are] vanity.

94:12  Blessed [is] the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;

94:13  That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

94:14  For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

94:15  But judgment shall return to righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

94:16  Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? [or] who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

94:17  Unless the LORD [had been] my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

94:18  When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

94:19  In the multitude of my thoughts within me, thy comforts delight my soul.

94:20  Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

94:21  They assemble themselves against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

94:22  But the LORD is my defense; and my God [is] the rock of my refuge.

94:23  And he will bring upon them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness; [yes], the LORD our God will cut them off.

Chapter 95

95:1  O come, let us sing to the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.

95:2  Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.

95:3  For the LORD [is] a great God, and a great King above all gods.

95:4  In his hand [are] the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills [is] his also.

95:5  The sea [is] his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry [land].

95:6  O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

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,

95:8  Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, [and] as [in] the day of temptation in the wilderness:

95:9  When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

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:

95:11  To whom I swore in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.

Chapter 96

96:1  O sing to the LORD a new song: sing to the LORD, all the earth.

96:2  Sing to the LORD, bless his name; show forth his salvation from day to day.

96:3  Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people.

96:4  For the LORD [is] great, and greatly to be praised: he [is] to be feared above all gods.

96:5  For all the gods of the nations [are] idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

96:6  Honor and majesty [are] before him: strength and beauty [are] in his sanctuary.

96:7  Give to the LORD, O ye kindreds of the people, give to the LORD glory and strength.

96:8  Give to the LORD the glory [due to] his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts.

96:9  O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.

96:10  Say among the heathen [that] the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he will judge the people righteously.

96:11  Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fullness of it.

96:12  Let the field be joyful, and all that [is] in it: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the LORD:

96:13  For he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he will judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

Chapter 97

97:1  The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad.

97:2  Clouds and darkness surround him: righteousness and judgment [are] the habitation of his throne.

97:3  A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

97:4  His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.

97:5  The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

97:6  The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.

97:7  Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols; worship him, all [ye] gods.

97:8  Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.

97:9  For thou, LORD, [art] high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.

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.

97:11  Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

97:12  Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

Chapter 98

98:1  A Psalm. O sing to the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvelous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.

98:2  The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shown in the sight of the heathen.

98:3  He hath remembered his mercy and his truth towards the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

98:4  Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.

98:5  Sing to the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.

98:6  With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.

98:7  Let the sea roar, and the fullness of it, the world, and they that dwell therein.

98:8  Let the floods clap [their] hands: let the hills be joyful together

98:9  Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness will he judge the world, and the people with equity.

Chapter 99

99:1  The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he setteth [between] the cherubim; let the earth be moved.

99:2  The LORD [is] great in Zion; and he [is] high above all people.

99:3  Let them praise thy great and terrible name; [for] it [is] holy.

99:4  The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

99:5  Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; [for] he [is] holy.

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.

99:7  He spoke to them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance [that] he gave them.

99:8  Thou didst answer them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.

99:9  Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God [is] holy.

Chapter 100

100:1  A Psalm of praise. Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all ye lands.

100:2  Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

100:3  Know ye that the LORD he [is] God: [it is] he [that] hath made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

100:4  Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, [and] into his courts with praise: be thankful to him, [and] bless his name.

100:5  For the LORD [is] good; his mercy [is] everlasting; and his truth [endureth] to all generations.

Chapter 101

101:1  A Psalm of David. I will sing of mercy and judgment: to thee, O LORD, will I sing.

101:2  I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come to me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

101:3  I will set no wicked thing before my eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

101:4  A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked [person].

101:5  Whoever privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I cut off: him that hath a high look and a proud heart I will not suffer.

101:6  My eyes [shall be] upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.

101:7  He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.

101:8  I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all who practice wickedness from the city of the LORD.

Chapter 102

102:1  A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come to thee.

102:2  Hide not thy face from me in the day [when] I am in trouble; incline thy ear to me: in the day [when] I call, answer me speedily.

102:3  For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

102:4  My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

102:5  By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my skin.

102:6  I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.

102:7  I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.

102:8  My enemies reproach me all the day; [and] they that are enraged against me are sworn against me.

102:9  For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

102:10  Because of thy indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.

102:11  My days [are] like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

102:12  But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance to all generations.

102:13  Thou shalt arise, [and] have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favor her, yes, the set time, is come.

102:14  For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favor the dust thereof.

102:15  So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD: and all the kings of the earth thy glory.

102:16  When the LORD shall build up Zion, he will appear in his glory.

102:17  He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.

102:18  This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.

102:19  For he hath looked down from the hight of his sanctuary; from heaven hath the LORD beheld the earth;

102:20  To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;

102:21  To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;

102:22  When the people are assembled, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.

102:23  He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.

102:24  I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years [are] throughout all generations.

102:25  Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens [are] the work of thy hands.

102:26  They shall perish, but thou wilt endure: yes, all of them shall grow old like a garment; as a vesture wilt thou change them, and they shall be changed:

102:27  But thou [art] the same, and thy years will have no end.

102:28  The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.

Chapter 103

103:1  [A Psalm] of David. Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, [bless] his holy name.

103:2  Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:

103:3  Who forgiveth all thy iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;

103:4  Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies;

103:5  Who satisfieth thy mouth with good [things]; [so that] thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.

103:6  The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

103:7  He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the children of Israel.

103:8  The LORD [is] merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in mercy.

103:9  He will not always chide: neither will he keep [his anger] for ever.

103:10  He hath not dealt with us according to our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

103:11  For as the heaven is high above the earth, [so] great is his mercy towards them that fear him.

103:12  As far as the east is from the west, [so] far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

103:13  Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

103:14  For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we [are] dust.

103:15  [As for] man, his days [are] as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

103:16  For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and its place shall know it no more.

103:17  But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness to children's children;

103:18  To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.

103:19  The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.

103:20  Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening to the voice of his word.

103:21  Bless ye the LORD, all [ye] his hosts; [ye] ministers of his, that do his pleasure.

103:22  Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul.

Chapter 104

104:1  Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honor and majesty.

104:2  Who coverest [thyself] with light as [with] a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

104:3  Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:

104:4  Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:

104:5  [Who] laid the foundations of the earth, [that] it should not be removed for ever.

104:6  Thou coveredst it with the deep as [with] a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

104:7  At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.

104:8  They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys to the place which thou hast founded for them.

104:9  Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.

104:10  He sendeth the springs into the valleys, [which] run among the hills.

104:11  They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.

104:12  By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, [which] sing among the branches.

104:13  He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.

104:14  He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

104:15  And wine [that] maketh glad the heart of man, [and] oil to make [his] face to shine, and bread [which] strengtheneth man's heart.

104:16  The trees of the LORD are full [of sap]; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;

104:17  Where the birds make their nests: [as for] the stork, the fir-trees [are] her house.

104:18  The high hills [are] a refuge for the wild goats; [and] the rocks for the conies.

104:19  He appointeth the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.

104:20  Thou makest darkness, and it is night: in which all the beasts of the forest do creep [forth].

104:21  The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.

104:22  The sun ariseth, they collect, and lay themselves down in their dens.

104:23  Man goeth forth to his work and to his labor until the evening.

104:24  O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

104:25  [So is] this great and wide sea, in which [are] creeping animals innumerable, both small and great beasts.

104:26  There go the ships: [there is] that leviathan, [which] thou hast made to play therein.

104:27  These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give [them] their food in due season.

104:28  [That which] thou givest them, they gather: thou openest thy hand, they are filled with good.

104:29  Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

104:30  Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.

104:31  The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works.

104:32  He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.

104:33  I will sing to the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

104:34  My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.

104:35  Let sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.

Chapter 105

105:1  O give thanks to the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people.

105:2  Sing to him, sing psalms to him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.

105:3  Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.

105:4  Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.

105:5  Remember his wonderful works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;

105:6  O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.

105:7  He [is] the LORD our God: his judgments [are] in all the earth.

105:8  He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word [which] he commanded to a thousand generations.

105:9  Which [covenant] he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;

105:10  And confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, [and] to Israel [for] an everlasting covenant:

105:11  Saying, To thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:

105:12  When they were a few men in number; yes, very few, and strangers in it.

105:13  When they went from one nation to another, from [one] kingdom to another people;

105:14  He suffered no man to do them wrong: yes, he reproved kings for their sakes;

105:15  [Saying], Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

105:16  Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he broke the whole staff of bread.

105:17  He sent a man before them, [even] Joseph, [who] was sold for a servant:

105:18  Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:

105:19  Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.

105:20  The king sent and loosed him; [even] the ruler of the people, and let him go free.

105:21  He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:

105:22  To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.

105:23  Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

105:24  And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.

105:25  He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.

105:26  He sent Moses his servant; [and] Aaron whom he had chosen.

105:27  They showed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

105:28  He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.

105:29  He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.

105:30  Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings.

105:31  He spoke, and there came divers sorts of flies, [and] lice in all their borders.

105:32  He gave them hail for rain, [and] flaming fire in their land.

105:33  He smote their vines also and their fig-trees; and broke the trees of their borders.

105:34  He spoke, and the locusts came, and caterpillars, and that without number,

105:35  And ate up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.

105:36  He smote also all the first-born in their land, the chief of all their strength.

105:37  He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and [there was] not one feeble [person] among their tribes.

105:38  Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.

105:39  He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.

105:40  [The people] asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

105:41  He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places [like] a river.

105:42  For he remembered his holy promise, [and] Abraham his servant.

105:43  And he brought forth his people with joy, [and] his chosen with gladness:

105:44  And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labor of the people;

105:45  That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.

Chapter 106

106:1  Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks to the LORD; for [he is] good: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

106:2  Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? [who] can show forth all his praise?

106:3  Blessed [are] they that keep judgment, [and] he that doeth righteousness at all times.

106:4  Remember me, O LORD, with the favor [that thou bearest to] thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;

106:5  That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thy inheritance.

106:6  We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

106:7  Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked [him] at the sea, [even] at the Red sea.

106:8  Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.

106:9  He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.

106:10  And he saved them from the hand of him that hated [them], and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

106:11  And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.

106:12  Then they believed his words; they sang his praise.

106:13  They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:

106:14  But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

106:15  And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.

106:16  They envied Moses also in the camp, [and] Aaron the saint of the LORD.

106:17  The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

106:18  And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

106:19  They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped the molten image.

106:20  Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

106:21  They forgot God their savior, who had done great things in Egypt;

106:22  Wondrous works in the land of Ham, [and] terrible things by the Red sea.

106:23  Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy [them].

106:24  Yes, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

106:25  But murmured in their tents, [and] hearkened not to the voice of the LORD.

106:26  Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:

106:27  To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.

106:28  They joined themselves also to Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

106:29  Thus they provoked [him] to anger with their inventions: and the plague broke in upon them.

106:30  Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and [so] the plague was stayed.

106:31  And that was counted to him for righteousness to all generations for ever.

106:32  They angered [him] also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:

106:33  Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.

106:34  They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:

106:35  But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.

106:36  And they served their idols: which were a snare to them.

106:37  Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons,

106:38  And shed innocent blood, [even] the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

106:39  Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went astray with their own inventions.

106:40  Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

106:41  And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them.

106:42  Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

106:43  Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked [him] with their counsel; and were brought low for their iniquity.

106:44  Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:

106:45  And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

106:46  He made them also to be pitied by all those that carried them captives.

106:47  Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks to thy holy name, [and] to triumph in thy praise.

106:48  Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.

Chapter 107

107:1  O give thanks to the LORD, for [he is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

107:2  Let the redeemed of the LORD say [so], whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

107:3  And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.

107:4  They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

107:5  Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

107:6  Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, [and] he delivered them out of their distresses.

107:7  And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

107:8  Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and [for] his wonderful works to the children of men!

107:9  For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

107:10  Such as sit in darkness and in the shades of death, [being] bound in affliction and iron;

107:11  Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the Most High:

107:12  Therefore he brought down their heart with labor; they fell down, and [there was] none to help.

107:13  Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, [and] he saved them out of their distresses.

107:14  He brought them out of darkness and the shades of death, and broke their bands asunder.

107:15  Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and [for] his wonderful works to the children of men!

107:16  For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron asunder.

107:17  Fools, because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

107:18  Their soul abhorreth all manner of food; and they draw near to the gates of death.

107:19  Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble, he saveth them out of their distresses.

107:20  He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered [them] from their destructions.

107:21  Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and [for] his wonderful works to the children of men!

107:22  And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.

107:23  They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business on great waters;

107:24  These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.

107:25  For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up its waves.

107:26  They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.

107:27  They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.

107:28  Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.

107:29  He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves [of the sea] are still.

107:30  Then are they glad because they are quiet; so he bringeth them to their desired haven.

107:31  Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and [for] his wonderful works to the children of men!

107:32  Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

107:33  He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the water-springs into dry ground;

107:34  A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it.

107:35  He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into water-springs.

107:36  And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;

107:37  And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.

107:38  He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.

107:39  Again, they are diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

107:40  He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, [where there is] no way.

107:41  Yet he setteth the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.

107:42  The righteous shall see [it], and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

107:43  Whoever [is] wise, and will observe these [things], even they shall understand the loving-kindness of the LORD.

Chapter 108

108:1  A Song [or] Psalm of David. O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.

108:2  Awake, psaltery and harp: I [myself] will awake early.

108:3  I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises to thee among the nations.

108:4  For thy mercy [is] great above the heavens: and thy truth [reacheth] to the clouds.

108:5  Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth;

108:6  That thy beloved may be delivered: save [with] thy right hand, and answer me.

108:7  God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.

108:8  Gilead [is] mine; Manasseh [is] mine; Ephraim also [is] the strength of my head; Judah [is] my lawgiver;

108:9  Moab [is] my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.

108:10  Who will bring me into the strong city: who will lead me into Edom?

108:11  [Wilt] not [thou], O God, [who] hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our armies?

108:12  Give us help from trouble: for vain [is] the help of man.

108:13  Through God we shall do valiantly: for he will tread down our enemies.

Chapter 109

109:1  To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

109:2  For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

109:3  They encompassed me also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

109:4  For my love they are my adversaries: but I [give myself to] prayer.

109:5  And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

109:6  Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

109:7  When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

109:8  Let his days be few; [and] let another take his office.

109:9  Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

109:10  Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek [their bread] also out of their desolate places.

109:11  Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let strangers spoil his labor.

109:12  Let there be none to extend mercy to him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.

109:13  Let his posterity be cut off; [and] in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

109:14  Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

109:15  Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

109:16  Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

109:17  As he loved cursing, so let it come to him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

109:18  As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

109:19  Let it be to him as the garment [which] covereth him, and for a girdle with which he is girded continually.

109:20  [Let] this [be] the reward of my adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

109:21  But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy [is] good, deliver thou me.

109:22  For I [am] poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

109:23  I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

109:24  My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

109:25  I became also a reproach to them: [when] they looked upon me they shook their heads.

109:26  Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

109:27  That they may know that this [is] thy hand; [that] thou, LORD, hast done it.

109:28  Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

109:29  Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

109:30  I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yes, I will praise him among the multitude.

109:31  For he will stand at the right hand of the poor, to save [him] from those that condemn his soul.

Chapter 110

110:1  A Psalm of David. The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool.

110:2  The LORD will send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thy enemies.

110:3  Thy people [shall be] willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness: from the womb of the morning, thou hast the dew of thy youth.

110:4  The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek.

110:5  The Lord at thy right hand will strike through kings in the day of his wrath.

110:6  He will judge among the heathen, he will fill [the places] with the dead bodies; he will wound the heads over many countries.

110:7  He will drink of the brook in the way: therefore will he lift up the head.

Chapter 111

111:1  Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with [my] whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and [in] the congregation.

111:2  The works of the LORD [are] great, sought out by all them that have pleasure in them.

111:3  His work [is] honorable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.

111:4  He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD [is] gracious and full of compassion.

111:5  He hath given food to them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant.

111:6  He hath shown his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.

111:7  The works of his hands [are] verity and judgment; all his commandments [are] sure.

111:8  They stand fast for ever and ever, [and are] done in truth and uprightness.

111:9  He sent redemption to his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend [is] his name.

111:10  The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do [his commandments]: his praise endureth for ever.

Chapter 112

112:1  Praise ye the LORD. Blessed [is] the man [that] feareth the LORD, [that] delighteth greatly in his commandments.

112:2  His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

112:3  Wealth and riches [shall be] in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever.

112:4  To the upright there ariseth light in darkness: [he is] gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

112:5  A good man showeth favor, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

112:6  Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.

112:7  He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.

112:8  His heart [is] established, he shall not be afraid, until he seeth [his desire] upon his enemies.

112:9  He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honor.

112:10  The wicked shall see [it], and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

Chapter 113

113:1  Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD.

113:2  Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore.

113:3  From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same the LORD'S name [is] to be praised.

113:4  The LORD [is] high above all nations, [and] his glory above the heavens.

113:5  Who [is] like to the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high.

113:6  Who humbleth [himself] to behold [the things that are] in heaven, and in the earth!

113:7  He raiseth the poor out of the dust, [and] lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;

113:8  That he may set [him] with princes, [even] with the princes of his people.

113:9  He maketh the barren woman to keep house, [and to be] a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.

Chapter 114

114:1  When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of a foreign language;

114:2  Judah was his sanctuary, [and] Israel his dominion.

114:3  The sea saw [it], and fled: Jordan was driven back.

114:4  The mountains skipped like rams, [and] the little hills like lambs.

114:5  What [ailed] thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, [that] thou wast driven back?

114:6  Ye mountains, [that] ye skipped like rams; [and] ye little hills, like lambs?

114:7  Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

114:8  Who turned the rock [into] a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

Chapter 115

115:1  Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to thy name give glory, for thy mercy, [and] for thy truth's sake.

115:2  Why should the heathen say, Where [is] now their God?

115:3  But our God [is] in the heavens: he hath done whatever he pleased.

115:4  Their idols [are] silver and gold; the work of men's hands.

115:5  They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:

115:6  They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:

115:7  They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.

115:8  They that make them are like them; [so is] every one that trusteth in them.

115:9  O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he [is] their help and their shield.

115:10  O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he [is] their help and their shield.

115:11  Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he [is] their help and their shield.

115:12  The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless [us]; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.

115:13  He will bless them that fear the LORD, [both] small and great.

115:14  The LORD will increase you more and more, you and your children.

115:15  Ye [are] blessed of the LORD who made heaven and earth.

115:16  The heaven, [even] the heavens, [are] the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.

115:17  The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.

115:18  But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for ever. Praise the LORD.

Chapter 116

116:1  I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice [and] my supplications.

116:2  Because he hath inclined his ear to me, therefore will I call upon [him] as long as I live.

116:3  The sorrows of death encompassed me, and the pains of hell came upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

116:4  Then I called upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.

116:5  Gracious [is] the LORD, and righteous; yes, our God [is] merciful.

116:6  The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.

116:7  Return to thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.

116:8  For thou hast delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, [and] my feet from falling.

116:9  I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

116:10  I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:

116:11  I said in my haste, All men [are] liars.

116:12  What shall I render to the LORD [for] all his benefits towards me?

116:13  I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD.

116:14  I will pay my vows to the LORD now in the presence of all his people.

116:15  Precious in the sight of the LORD [is] the death of his saints.

116:16  O LORD, truly I [am] thy servant; I [am] thy servant, the son of thy handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.

116:17  I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.

116:18  I will pay my vows to the LORD now in the presence of all his people,

116:19  In the courts of the LORD'S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.

Chapter 117

117:1  O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.

117:2  For his merciful kindness is great towards us: and the truth of the LORD [endureth] for ever. Praise ye the LORD.

Chapter 118

118:1  O give thanks to the LORD; for [he is] good: because his mercy [endureth] for ever.

118:2  Let Israel now say, that his mercy [endureth] for ever.

118:3  Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy [endureth] for ever.

118:4  Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy [endureth] for ever.

118:5  I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, [and set me] in a large place.

118:6  The LORD [is] on my side; I will not fear: what can man do to me?

118:7  The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see [my desire] upon them that hate me.

118:8  [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.

118:9  [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.

118:10  All nations encompassed me: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.

118:11  They encompassed me; yes, they encompassed me: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

118:12  They encompassed me like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

118:13  Thou hast violently thrust at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.

118:14  The LORD [is] my strength and song, and is become my salvation.

118:15  The voice of rejoicing and salvation [is] in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.

118:16  The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.

118:17  I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.

118:18  The LORD hath chastened me severely: but he hath not given me over to death.

118:19  Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will enter them, [and] I will praise the LORD:

118:20  This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.

118:21  I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.

118:22  The stone [which] the builders refused is become the head [stone] of the corner.

118:23  This is the LORD'S doing; it [is] wonderful in our eyes.

118:24  This [is] the day [which] the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

118:25  Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.

118:26  Blessed [be] he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.

118:27  God [is] the LORD, who hath shown us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, [even] to the horns of the altar.

118:28  Thou [art] my God, and I will praise thee: [thou art] my God, I will exalt thee.

118:29  O give thanks to the LORD; for [he is] good: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

Chapter 119

119:1  ALEPH. Blessed [are] the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.

119:2  Blessed [are] they that keep his testimonies, [and that] seek him with the whole heart.

119:3  They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.

119:4  Thou hast commanded [us] to keep thy precepts diligently.

119:5  O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

119:6  Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect to all thy commandments.

119:7  I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.

119:8  I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.

119:9  BETH. Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed [to it], according to thy word.

119:10  With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

119:11  Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.

119:12  Blessed [art] thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.

119:13  With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.

119:14  I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as [much as] in all riches.

119:15  I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect to thy ways.

119:16  I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

119:17  GIMEL. Deal bountifully with thy servant, [that] I may live, and keep thy word.

119:18  Open thou my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

119:19  I [am] a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

119:20  My soul breaketh for the longing [that it hath] to thy judgments at all times.

119:21  Thou hast rebuked the proud [that are] cursed, who do err from thy commandments.

119:22  Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.

119:23  Princes also did sit [and] speak against me: [but] thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.

119:24  Thy testimonies also [are] my delight, [and] my counselors.

119:25  DALETH. My soul cleaveth to the dust: revive thou me according to thy word.

119:26  I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.

119:27  Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.

119:28  My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according to thy word.

119:29  Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.

119:30  I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid [before me].

119:31  I have adhered to thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.

119:32  I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

119:33  HE. Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it [to] the end.

119:34  Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yes, I shall observe it with [my] whole heart.

119:35  Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for in that do I delight.

119:36  Incline my heart to thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

119:37  Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity; [and] revive thou me in thy way.

119:38  Establish thy word to thy servant, who [is devoted] to thy fear.

119:39  Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments [are] good.

119:40  Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: revive me in thy righteousness.

119:41  VAU. Let thy mercies come also to me, O LORD, [even] thy salvation, according to thy word.

119:42  So shall I have with which to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.

119:43  And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.

119:44  So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.

119:45  And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.

119:46  I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.

119:47  And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.

119:48  My hands also will I lift to thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

119:49  ZAIN. Remember the word to thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.

119:50  This [is] my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath revived me.

119:51  The proud have had me greatly in derision: [yet] I have not declined from thy law.

119:52  I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.

119:53  Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.

119:54  Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

119:55  I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.

119:56  This I had, because I kept thy precepts.

119:57  CHETH. [Thou art] my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.

119:58  I entreated thy favor with [my] whole heart: be merciful to me according to thy word.

119:59  I thought on my ways, and turned my feet to thy testimonies.

119:60  I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.

119:61  The bands of the wicked have robbed me: [but] I have not forgotten thy law.

119:62  At midnight I will rise to give thanks to thee, because of thy righteous judgments.

119:63  I [am] a companion of all [them] that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.

119:64  The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.

119:65  TETH. Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according to thy word.

119:66  Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.

119:67  Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

119:68  Thou [art] good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.

119:69  The proud have forged a lie against me: [but] I will keep thy precepts with [my] whole heart.

119:70  Their heart is as gross as fat; [but] I delight in thy law.

119:71  [It is] good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

119:72  The law of thy mouth [is] better to me than thousands of gold and silver.

119:73  JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.

119:74  They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.

119:75  I know, O LORD, that thy judgments [are] right, and [that] thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.

119:76  Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word to thy servant.

119:77  Let thy tender mercies come to me, that I may live: for thy law [is] my delight.

119:78  Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: [but] I will meditate in thy precepts.

119:79  Let those that fear thee turn to me, and those that have known thy testimonies.

119:80  Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I may not be ashamed.

119:81  CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: [but] I hope in thy word.

119:82  My eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

119:83  For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; [yet] I do not forget thy statutes.

119:84  How many [are] the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?

119:85  The proud have digged pits for me, which [are] not according to thy law.

119:86  All thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.

119:87  They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.

119:88  Revive me after thy loving-kindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.

119:89  LAMED. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.

119:90  Thy faithfulness [is] to all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.

119:91  They continue this day according to thy ordinances: for all [are] thy servants.

119:92  Unless thy law [had been] my delights, I should then have perished in my affliction.

119:93  I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast revived me.

119:94  I [am] thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.

119:95  The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: [but] I will consider thy testimonies.

119:96  I have seen an end of all perfection: [but] thy commandment [is] exceeding broad.

119:97  MEM. O how I love thy law! it [is] my meditation all the day.

119:98  Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than my enemies: for they [are] ever with me.

119:99  I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies [are] my meditation.

119:100  I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.

119:101  I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.

119:102  I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.

119:103  How sweet are thy words to my taste! [yes, sweeter] than honey to my mouth!

119:104  Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

119:105  NUN. Thy word [is] a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.

119:106  I have sworn, and I will perform [it], that I will keep thy righteous judgments.

119:107  I am afflicted very much: revive me, O LORD, according to thy word.

119:108  Accept, I beseech thee, the free-will-offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.

119:109  My soul [is] continually in my hand: yet I do not forget thy law.

119:110  The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.

119:111  Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they [are] the rejoicing of my heart.

119:112  I have inclined my heart to perform thy statutes always, [even to] the end.

119:113  SAMECH. I hate [vain] thoughts: but thy law do I love.

119:114  Thou [art] my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.

119:115  Depart from me, ye evil-doers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.

119:116  Uphold me according to thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.

119:117  Support me, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect to thy statutes continually.

119:118  Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.

119:119  Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth [like] dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.

119:120  My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.

119:121  AIN. I have done judgment and justice; leave me not to my oppressors.

119:122  Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.

119:123  My eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.

119:124  Deal with thy servant according to thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.

119:125  I [am] thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.

119:126  [It is] time for [thee], LORD, to work: [for] they have made void thy law.

119:127  Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yes, above fine gold.

119:128  Therefore I esteem all [thy] precepts [concerning] all [things to be] right; [and] I hate every false way.

119:129  PE. Thy testimonies [are] wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.

119:130  The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding to the simple.

119:131  I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.

119:132  Look thou upon me, and be merciful to me, as thou usest to do to those that love thy name.

119:133  Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

119:134  Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.

119:135  Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: and teach me thy statutes.

119:136  Rivers of waters run down my eyes, because they keep not thy law.

119:137  TSADDI. Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, and upright [are] thy judgments.

119:138  Thy testimonies [that] thou hast commanded [are] righteous and very faithful.

119:139  My zeal hath consumed me; because my enemies have forgotten thy words.

119:140  Thy word [is] very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.

119:141  I [am] small and despised: [yet] I do not forget thy precepts.

119:142  Thy righteousness [is] an everlasting righteousness, and thy law [is] the truth.

119:143  Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: [yet] thy commandments [are] my delights.

119:144  The righteousness of thy testimonies [is] everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.

119:145  KOPH. I cried with [my] whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.

119:146  I cried to thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.

119:147  I came before the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.

119:148  My eyes anticipated the [night] watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

119:149  Hear my voice, according to thy loving-kindness: O LORD, revive me according to thy judgment.

119:150  They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.

119:151  Thou [art] near, O LORD; and all thy commandments [are] truth.

119:152  Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.

119:153  RESH. Consider my affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.

119:154  Plead my cause, and deliver me: revive me according to thy word.

119:155  Salvation [is] far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.

119:156  Great [are] thy tender mercies, O LORD: revive me according to thy judgments.

119:157  Many [are] my persecutors and my enemies; [yet] I do not decline from thy testimonies.

119:158  I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.

119:159  Consider how I love thy precepts: revive me, O LORD, according to thy loving-kindness.

119:160  Thy word [is] true [from] the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments [endureth] for ever.

119:161  SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.

119:162  I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.

119:163  I hate and abhor lying: [but] thy law do I love.

119:164  Seven times a day do I praise thee, because of thy righteous judgments.

119:165  Great peace have they who love thy law: and nothing shall cause them to stumble.

119:166  LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and performed thy commandments.

119:167  My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.

119:168  I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways [are] before thee.

119:169  TAU. Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word.

119:170  Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.

119:171  My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.

119:172  My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments [are] righteousness.

119:173  Let thy hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.

119:174  I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law [is] my delight.

119:175  Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.

119:176  I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

Chapter 120

120:1  A Song of degrees. In my distress I cried to the LORD, and he heard me.

120:2  Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, [and] from a deceitful tongue.

120:3  What shall be given to thee? or what shall be done to thee, thou false tongue?

120:4  Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

120:5  Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, [that] I dwell in the tents of Kedar!

120:6  My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.

120:7  I [am] for peace: but when I speak, they [are] for war.

Chapter 121

121:1  A Song of degrees. I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from whence cometh my help.

121:2  My help [cometh] from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

121:3  He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

121:4  Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

121:5  The LORD [is] thy keeper: the LORD [is] thy shade upon thy right hand.

121:6  The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

121:7  The LORD will preserve thee from all evil: he will preserve thy soul.

121:8  The LORD will preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for ever.

Chapter 122

122:1  A Song of degrees of David. I was glad when they said to me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.

122:2  Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.

122:3  Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together:

122:4  Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, to the testimony of Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.

122:5  For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.

122:6  Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.

122:7  Peace be within thy walls, [and] prosperity within thy palaces.

122:8  For my brethren and companions' sake, I will now say, Peace [be] within thee.

122:9  Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.

Chapter 123

123:1  A Song of degrees. To thee I raise my eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.

123:2  Behold, as the eyes of servants [look] to the hand of their masters, [and] as the eyes of a maiden to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes [wait] upon the LORD our God, until he shall have mercy upon us.

123:3  Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us; for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

123:4  Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, [and] with the contempt of the proud.

Chapter 124

124:1  A Song of degrees of David. If [it had not been] the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;

124:2  If [it had not been] the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:

124:3  Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

124:4  Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

124:5  Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

124:6  Blessed [be] the LORD, who hath not given us [as] a prey to their teeth.

124:7  Our soul hath escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare [is] broken, and we have escaped.

124:8  Our help [is] in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

Chapter 125

125:1  A Song of degrees. They that trust in the LORD, [shall be] as mount Zion, [which] cannot be removed, [but] abideth for ever.

125:2  [As] the mountains [are] round Jerusalem, so the LORD [is] around his people from henceforth even for ever.

125:3  For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands to iniquity.

125:4  Do good, O LORD, to [those that] are good, and to [them that are] upright in their hearts.

125:5  As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: [but] peace [shall be] upon Israel.

Chapter 126

126:1  A Song of degrees. When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.

126:2  Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.

126:3  The LORD hath done great things for us; [of which] we are glad.

126:4  Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.

126:5  They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

126:6  He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless return with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves [with him].

Chapter 127

127:1  A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD shall build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the LORD shall keep the city, the watchman waketh in vain.

127:2  [It is] vain for you to rise early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: [for] so he giveth his beloved sleep.

127:3  Lo, children [are] a heritage of the LORD: [and] the fruit of the womb [is his] reward.

127:4  As arrows [are] in the hand of a mighty man: so [are] children of the youth.

127:5  Happy [is] the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

Chapter 128

128:1  A Song of degrees. Blessed [is] every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.

128:2  For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: happy [shalt] thou be, and [it shall be] well with thee.

128:3  Thy wife [shall be] as a fruitful vine by the sides of thy house: thy children like olive plants around thy table.

128:4  Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.

128:5  The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

128:6  Yes, thou shalt see thy children's children, [and] peace upon Israel.

Chapter 129

129:1  A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

129:2  Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

129:3  The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

129:4  The LORD [is] righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

129:5  Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

129:6  Let them be as the grass [upon] the house-tops, which withereth before it groweth up:

129:7  With which the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves, his bosom.

129:8  Neither do they who go by, say, The blessing of the LORD [be] upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.

Chapter 130

130:1  A Song of degrees. Out of the depths have I cried to thee, O LORD.

130:2  Lord, hear my voice: let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.

130:3  If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

130:4  But [there is] forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.

130:5  I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

130:6  My soul [waiteth] for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: [I say], [more than] they that watch for the morning.

130:7  Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD [there is] mercy, and with him [is] plenteous redemption.

130:8  And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

Chapter 131

131:1  A Song of degrees of David. LORD, my heart [is] not haughty, nor my eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.

131:2  Surely I have behaved and quieted myself as a child that is weaned by his mother: my soul [is] even as a weaned child.

131:3  Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.

Chapter 132

132:1  A Song of degrees. LORD, remember David [and] all his afflictions;

132:2  How he swore to the LORD, [and] vowed to the mighty [God] of Jacob;

132:3  Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;

132:4  I will not give sleep to my eyes, [or] slumber to my eyelids,

132:5  Until I find a place for the LORD, a habitation for the mighty [God] of Jacob.

132:6  Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.

132:7  We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.

132:8  Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.

132:9  Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.

132:10  For thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thy anointed.

132:11  The LORD hath sworn [in] truth to David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.

132:12  If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them; their children also shall sit upon thy throne for ever.

132:13  For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired [it] for his habitation.

132:14  This [is] my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.

132:15  I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.

132:16  I will also clothe her priests with salvation, and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.

132:17  There will I make the horn of David to bud, I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.

132:18  His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.

Chapter 133

133:1  A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant [it is] for brethren to dwell together in unity!

133:2  [It is] like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, [even] Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garment;

133:3  As the dew of Hermon, [and as the dew] that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, [even] life for ever.

Chapter 134

134:1  A Song of degrees. Behold, bless ye the LORD, all [ye] servants of the LORD, who by night stand in the house of the LORD.

134:2  Lift up your hands [in] the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.

134:3  The LORD that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.

Chapter 135

135:1  Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the name of the LORD; praise [him], O ye servants of the LORD.

135:2  Ye that stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God,

135:3  Praise the LORD; for the LORD [is] good; sing praises to his name; for [it is] pleasant.

135:4  For the LORD hath chosen Jacob to himself, [and] Israel for his peculiar treasure.

135:5  For I know that the LORD [is] great, and [that] our Lord [is] above all gods.

135:6  Whatever the LORD pleased, [that] did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.

135:7  He causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.

135:8  Who smote the first-born of Egypt, both of man and beast.

135:9  [Who] sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants.

135:10  Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;

135:11  Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan:

135:12  And gave their land [for] a heritage, a heritage to Israel his people.

135:13  Thy name, O LORD, [endureth] for ever; [and] thy memorial, O LORD, throughout all generations.

135:14  For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent concerning his servants.

135:15  The idols of the heathen [are] silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

135:16  They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not.

135:17  They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there [any] breath in their mouths.

135:18  They that make them are like them: [so is] every one that trusteth in them.

135:19  Bless the LORD, O house of Israel: bless the LORD, O house of Aaron:

135:20  Bless the LORD, O house of Levi: ye that fear the LORD, bless the LORD.

135:21  Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, who dwelleth at Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.

Chapter 136

136:1  O give thanks to the LORD; for [he is] good: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

136:2  O give thanks to the God of gods: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

136:3  O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

136:4  To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

136:5  To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

136:6  To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

136:7  To him that made great lights: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:

136:8  The sun to rule by day: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:

136:9  The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

136:10  To him that smote Egypt in their first-born: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:

136:11  And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:

136:12  With a strong hand, and with an out-stretched arm: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

136:13  To him who divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

136:14  And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:

136:15  But overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red sea: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

136:16  To him who led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

136:17  To him who smote great kings: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:

136:18  And slew famous kings: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

136:19  Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:

136:20  And Og king of Bashan: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:

136:21  And gave their land for a heritage: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:

136:22  [Even] a heritage to Israel his servant: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

136:23  Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:

136:24  And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

136:25  Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

136:26  O give thanks to the God of heaven: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

Chapter 137

137:1  By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

137:2  We hung our harps upon the willows in the midst of it.

137:3  For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us [required of us] mirth, [saying], Sing us [one] of the songs of Zion.

137:4  How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land?

137:5  If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget [her skill].

137:6  If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

137:7  Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze [it], raze [it], [even] to its foundation.

137:8  O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy [shall he be], that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

137:9  Happy [shall he be], that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

Chapter 138

138:1  [A Psalm] of David. I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise to thee.

138:2  I will worship towards thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy loving-kindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

138:3  In the day when I cried thou didst answer me, [and] strengthen me [with] strength in my soul.

138:4  All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, when they hear the words of thy mouth.

138:5  Yes, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great [is] the glory of the LORD.

138:6  Though the LORD [is] high, yet hath he respect to the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.

138:7  Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou wilt stretch forth thy hand against the wrath of my enemies, and thy right hand will save me.

138:8  The LORD will perfect [that which] concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, [endureth] for ever: forsake not the works thy own hands.

Chapter 139

139:1  To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known [me].

139:2  Thou knowest my down-sitting and my up rising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

139:3  Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted [with] all my ways.

139:4  For [there is] not a word on my tongue, [but] lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

139:5  Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thy hand upon me.

139:6  [Such] knowledge [is] too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot [attain] to it.

139:7  Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

139:8  If I ascend into heaven, thou [art] there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou [art there].

139:9  [If] I take the wings of the morning, [and] dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

139:10  Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

139:11  If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

139:12  Yes, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light [are] both alike [to thee].

139:13  For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

139:14  I will praise thee: for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made: wonderful [are] thy works; and [that] my soul well knoweth.

139:15  My substance was not hid from thee when I was made in secret, [and] curiously formed in the lowest parts of the earth.

139:16  Thy eyes saw my substance, yet being imperfect; and in thy book all [my members] were written, [which] in continuance were fashioned, when [as yet there was] none of them.

139:17  How precious also are thy thoughts to me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

139:18  [If] I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

139:19  Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.

139:20  For they speak against thee wickedly, [and] thy enemies take [thy name] in vain.

139:21  Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

139:22  I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them my enemies.

139:23  Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts:

139:24  And see if [there is any] wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Chapter 140

140:1  To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;

140:2  Who imagine mischiefs in [their] heart; continually are they assembled [for] war.

140:3  They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adder's poison [is] under their lips. Selah.

140:4  Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.

140:5  The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the way side: they have set gins for me. Selah.

140:6  I said to the LORD, Thou [art] my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD.

140:7  O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

140:8  Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; [lest] they exalt themselves. Selah.

140:9  [As for] the head of those that encompass me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

140:10  Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not again.

140:11  Let not an evil speaker be established on the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow [him].

140:12  I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, [and] the right of the poor.

140:13  Surely the righteous shall give thanks to thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.

Chapter 141

141:1  A Psalm of David. LORD, I cry to thee: make haste to me; give ear to my voice, when I cry to thee.

141:2  Let my prayer be set forth before thee [as] incense; [and] the lifting up of my hands [as] the evening sacrifice.

141:3  Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

141:4  Incline not my heart to [any] evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.

141:5  Let the righteous smite me; [it shall be] a kindness: and let him reprove me; [it shall be] an excellent oil, [which] shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also [shall be] in their calamities.

141:6  When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.

141:7  Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth.

141:8  But my eyes [are] to thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.

141:9  Keep me from the snare [which] they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

141:10  Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst I escape.

Chapter 142

142:1  Maschil of David; a prayer when he was in the cave. I cried to the LORD with my voice; with my voice to the LORD I made my supplication.

142:2  I poured out my complaint before him; I showed before him my trouble.

142:3  When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way in which I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.

142:4  I looked on [my] right hand, and beheld, but [there was] no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

142:5  I cried to thee, O LORD: I said, Thou [art] my refuge [and] my portion in the land of the living.

142:6  Attend to my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

142:7  Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall encompass me; for thou wilt deal bountifully with me.

Chapter 143

143:1  A Psalm of David. Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, [and] in thy righteousness.

143:2  And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

143:3  For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

143:4  Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

143:5  I remember the days of old, I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.

143:6  I stretch forth my hands to thee: my soul [thirsteth] after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.

143:7  Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like them that go down into the pit.

143:8  Cause me to hear thy loving-kindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way in which I should walk; for I lift up my soul to thee.

143:9  Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies: I flee to thee to hide me.

143:10  Teach me to do thy will; for thou [art] my God: thy spirit [is] good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

143:11  Revive me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.

143:12  And of thy mercy cut off my enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I [am] thy servant.

Chapter 144

144:1  [A Psalm] of David. Blessed [be] the LORD my strength, who teacheth my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight;

144:2  My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and [he] in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.

144:3  LORD, what [is] man, that thou takest knowledge of him! [or] the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

144:4  Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.

144:5  Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

144:6  Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot thy arrows, and destroy them.

144:7  Send thy hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;

144:8  Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood.

144:9  I will sing a new song to thee, O God: upon a psaltery [and] an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises to thee.

144:10  [It is he] that giveth salvation to kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.

144:11  Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood:

144:12  That our sons [may be] as plants grown up in their youth; [that] our daughters [may be] as corner stones, polished [after] the similitude of a palace:

144:13  [That] our granaries [may be] full, affording all manner of store; [that] our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:

144:14  [That] our oxen [may be] strong to labor; that [there be] no breaking in, nor going out; that [there be] no complaining in our streets.

144:15  Happy [is that] people, that is in such a case: [yes], happy [is that] people, whose God [is] the LORD.

Chapter 145

145:1  David's [Psalm] of praise. I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.

145:2  Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.

145:3  Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness [is] unsearchable.

145:4  One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

145:5  I will speak of the glorious honor of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.

145:6  And [men] shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness.

145:7  They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.

145:8  The LORD [is] gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

145:9  The LORD [is] good to all: and his tender mercies [are] over all his works.

145:10  All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee.

145:11  They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power;

145:12  To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.

145:13  Thy kingdom [is] an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion [endureth] throughout all generations.

145:14  The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all [those that are] bowed down.

145:15  The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their food in due season.

145:16  Thou openest thy hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living creature.

145:17  The LORD [is] righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

145:18  The LORD [is] nigh to all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.

145:19  He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.

145:20  The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

145:21  My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.

Chapter 146

146:1  Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.

146:2  While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises to my God while I have any being.

146:3  Put not your trust in princes, [nor] in the son of man, in whom [there is] no help.

146:4  His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

146:5  Happy [is he] that [hath] the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope [is] in the LORD his God:

146:6  Who made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that [is] in them: who keepeth truth for ever:

146:7  Who executeth judgment for the oppressed: who giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:

146:8  The LORD openeth [the eyes of] the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:

146:9  The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

146:10  The LORD will reign for ever, [even] thy God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise ye the LORD.

Chapter 147

147:1  Praise ye the LORD: for [it is] good to sing praises to our God; for [it is] pleasant; [and] praise is comely.

147:2  The LORD buildeth up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

147:3  He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

147:4  He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by [their] names.

147:5  Great [is] our Lord, and of great power: his understanding [is] infinite.

147:6  The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.

147:7  Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp to our God:

147:8  Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

147:9  He giveth to the beast his food, [and] to the young ravens which cry.

147:10  He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.

147:11  The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.

147:12  Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.

147:13  For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.

147:14  He maketh peace [in] thy borders, [and] filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.

147:15  He sendeth forth his commandment [upon] earth: his word runneth very swiftly.

147:16  He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes.

147:17  He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?

147:18  He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, [and] the waters flow.

147:19  He showeth his word to Jacob, his statutes and his judgments to Israel.

147:20  He hath not dealt so with any nation: and [as for his] judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.

Chapter 148

148:1  Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the hights.

148:2  Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.

148:3  Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.

148:4  Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that [are] above the heavens.

148:5  Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.

148:6  He hath also established them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.

148:7  Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:

148:8  Fire, and hail; snow, and vapors; stormy wind fulfilling his word:

148:9  Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:

148:10  Beasts, and all cattle; creeping animals, and flying fowl:

148:11  Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth:

148:12  Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:

148:13  Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory [is] above the earth and heaven.

148:14  He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; [even] of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise ye the LORD.

Chapter 149

149:1  Praise ye the LORD. Sing to the LORD a new song, [and] his praise in the congregation of saints.

149:2  Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

149:3  Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises to him with the timbrel and harp:

149:4  For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.

149:5  Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.

149:6  [Let] the high [praises] of God [be] in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand;

149:7  To execute vengeance upon the heathen, [and] punishments upon the people;

149:8  To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

149:9  To execute upon them the judgment written: this honor have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.

Chapter 150

150:1  Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.

150:2  Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.

150:3  Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.

150:4  Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.

150:5  Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.

150:6  Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.