American King James Version

The Book of Psalms

1:1 Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.
1:2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law does he meditate day and night.
1:3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.
1:4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind drives 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 knows the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
2:3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
2:4 He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.
2:5 Then shall he speak to them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
2:6 Yet have I set my king on my holy hill of Zion.
2:7 I will declare the decree: the LORD has said to me, You are my Son; this day have I begotten you.
2:8 Ask of me, and I shall give you the heathen for your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
2:9 You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
2:10 Be wise now therefore, O you kings: be instructed, you 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 you perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
3:1 Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
3:2 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
3:3 But you, O LORD, are 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 out of his holy hill. Selah.
3:5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
3:6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.
3:7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for you have smitten all my enemies on the cheek bone; you have broken the teeth of the ungodly.
3:8 Salvation belongs to the LORD: your blessing is on your people. Selah.
4:1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: you have enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
4:2 O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame? how long will you love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
4:3 But know that the LORD has 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 on your bed, and be still. Selah.
4:5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.
4:6 There be many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift you up the light of your countenance on us.
4:7 You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
4:8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for you, LORD, only make me dwell in safety.
5:1 Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
5:2 Listen to the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for to you will I pray.
5:3 My voice shall you hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer to you, and will look up.
5:4 For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with you.
5:5 The foolish shall not stand in your sight: you hate all workers of iniquity.
5:6 You shall destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
5:7 But as for me, I will come into your house in the multitude of your mercy: and in your fear will I worship toward your holy temple.
5:8 Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your 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 you them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against you.
5:11 But let all those that put their trust in you rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because you defend them: let them also that love your name be joyful in you.
5:12 For you, LORD, will bless the righteous; with favor will you compass him as with a shield.
6:1 O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
6:2 Have mercy on me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
6:3 My soul is also sore vexed: but you, O LORD, how long?
6:4 Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for your mercies' sake.
6:5 For in death there is no remembrance of you: in the grave who shall give you thanks?
6:6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
6:7 My eye is consumed because of grief; it waxes old because of all my enemies.
6:8 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; for the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.
6:9 The LORD has heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.
6:10 Let all my enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.
7:1 O LORD my God, in you do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
7:2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
7:3 O LORD my God, If I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
7:4 If I have rewarded evil 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 on the earth, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah.
7:6 Arise, O LORD, in your anger, lift up yourself because of the rage of my enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that you have commanded.
7:7 So shall the congregation of the people compass you about: for their sakes therefore return you 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 tries the hearts and reins.
7:10 My defense is of God, which saves the upright in heart.
7:11 God judges the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.
7:12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.
7:13 He has also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordains his arrows against the persecutors.
7:14 Behold, he travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
7:15 He made a pit, and dig it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
7:16 His mischief shall return on his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down on his own pate.
7:17 I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.
8:1 O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! who have set your glory above the heavens.
8:2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings have you ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still the enemy and the avenger.
8:3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
8:4 What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit him?
8:5 For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and have crowned him with glory and honor.
8:6 You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands; you have 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 passes through the paths of the seas.
8:9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth!
9:1 I will praise you, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all your marvelous works.
9:2 I will be glad and rejoice in you: I will sing praise to your name, O you most High.
9:3 When my enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at your presence.
9:4 For you have maintained my right and my cause; you sat in the throne judging right.
9:5 You have rebuked the heathen, you have destroyed the wicked, you have put out their name for ever and ever.
9:6 O you enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and you have destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
9:7 But the LORD shall endure for ever: he has 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 your name will put their trust in you: for you, LORD, have not forsaken them that seek you.
9:11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwells in Zion: declare among the people his doings.
9:12 When he makes inquisition for blood, he remembers them: he forgets not the cry of the humble.
9:13 Have mercy on me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, you that lift me up from the gates of death:
9:14 That I may show forth all your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in your 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 executes: 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 your sight.
9:20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
10:1 Why stand you afar off, O LORD? why hide you yourself in times of trouble?
10:2 The wicked in his pride does persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
10:3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD abhors.
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; your judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffs at them.
10:6 He has 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 sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent: his eyes are privately set against the poor.
10:9 He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to catch the poor: he does catch the poor, when he draws him into his net.
10:10 He crouches, and humbles himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
10:11 He has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he hides his face; he will never see it.
10:12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up your hand: forget not the humble.
10:13 Why does the wicked scorn God? he has said in his heart, You will not require it.
10:14 You have seen it; for you behold mischief and spite, to requite it with your hand: the poor commits himself to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.
10:15 Break you the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till you find none.
10:16 The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
10:17 LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble: you will prepare their heart, you will cause your ear to hear:
10:18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
11:1 In the LORD put I my trust: how say you to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
11:2 For, see, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow on the string, that they may privately 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 tries the righteous: but the wicked and him that loves violence his soul hates.
11:6 On the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
11:7 For the righteous LORD loves righteousness; his countenance does behold the upright.
12:1 Help, LORD; for the godly man ceases; 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 speaks 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, said the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffs 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 You shall keep them, O LORD, you shall preserve them from this generation for ever.
12:8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
13:1 How long will you forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long will you hide your 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 your mercy; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
13:6 I will sing to the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me.
14:1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good.
14:2 The LORD looked down from heaven on 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 does 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 on the LORD.
14:5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
14:6 You 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 brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
15:1 Lord, who shall abide in your tabernacle? who shall dwell in your holy hill?
15:2 He that walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart.
15:3 He that backbites not with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor.
15:4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honors them that fear the LORD. He that swears to his own hurt, and changes not.
15:5 He that puts not out his money to usury, nor takes reward against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.
16:1 Preserve me, O God: for in you do I put my trust.
16:2 O my soul, you have said to the LORD, You are my Lord: my goodness extends not to you;
16:3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
16:4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
16:5 The LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: you maintain my lot.
16:6 The lines are fallen to me in pleasant places; yes, I have a goodly heritage.
16:7 I will bless the LORD, who has given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
16:8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
16:9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
16:10 For you will not leave my soul in hell; neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption.
16:11 You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures for ever more.
17:1 Hear the right, O LORD, attend to my cry, give ear to my prayer, that goes not out of feigned lips.
17:2 Let my sentence come forth from your presence; let your eyes behold the things that are equal.
17:3 You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
17:4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
17:5 Hold up my goings in your paths, that my footsteps slip not.
17:6 I have called on you, for you will hear me, O God: incline your ear to me, and hear my speech.
17:7 Show your marvelous loving kindness, O you that save by your right hand them which put their trust in you from those that rise up against them.
17:8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of your wings,
17:9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
17:10 They are enclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
17:11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
17:12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
17:13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is your sword:
17:14 From men which are your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
17:15 As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.
18:1 I will love you, 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 on 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 compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
18:6 In my distress I called on the LORD, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
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 on a cherub, and did fly: yes, he did fly on the wings of the wind.
18:11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
18:12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
18:13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
18:14 Yes, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightning, and discomfited them.
18:15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
18:16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
18:18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
18:19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
18:20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands has 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 has the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
18:25 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; with an upright man you will show yourself upright;
18:26 With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the fraudulent you will show yourself devious.
18:27 For you will save the afflicted people; but will bring down high looks.
18:28 For you will light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
18:29 For by you 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 girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect.
18:33 He makes my feet like hinds' feet, and sets me on my high places.
18:34 He teaches my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms.
18:35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation: and your right hand has held me up, and your gentleness has made me great.
18:36 You have 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 are fallen under my feet.
18:39 For you have girded me with strength to the battle: you have subdued under me those that rose up against me.
18:40 You have 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 did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
18:43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; and you have 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 out of their close places.
18:46 The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
18:47 It is God that avenges me, and subdues the people under me.
18:48 He delivers me from my enemies: yes, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.
18:49 Therefore will I give thanks to you, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises to your name.
18:50 Great deliverance gives he to his king; and shows mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for ever more.
19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows his handiwork.
19:2 Day to day utters speech, and night to night shows knowledge.
19:3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
19:4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun,
19:5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices 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 the heat thereof.
19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
19:8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
19:9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
19:11 Moreover by them is your servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
19:12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse you me from secret faults.
19:13 Keep back your 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 your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
20:1 The LORD hear you in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend you;
20:2 Send you help from the sanctuary, and strengthen you out of Zion;
20:3 Remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice; Selah.
20:4 Grant you according to your own heart, and fulfill all your counsel.
20:5 We will rejoice in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfill all your petitions.
20:6 Now know I that the LORD saves his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
20:7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
20:8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
20:9 Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.
21:1 The king shall joy in your strength, O LORD; and in your salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
21:2 You have given him his heart's desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.
21:3 For you prevent him with the blessings of goodness: you set a crown of pure gold on his head.
21:4 He asked life of you, and you gave it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
21:5 His glory is great in your salvation: honor and majesty have you laid on him.
21:6 For you have made him most blessed for ever: you have made him exceeding glad with your countenance.
21:7 For the king trusts in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
21:8 Your hand shall find out all your enemies: your right hand shall find out those that hate you.
21:9 You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
21:10 Their fruit shall you destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
21:11 For they intended evil against you: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
21:12 Therefore shall you make them turn their back, when you shall make ready your arrows on your strings against the face of them.
21:13 Be you exalted, LORD, in your own strength: so will we sing and praise your power.
22:1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
22:2 O my God, I cry in the day time, but you hear not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
22:3 But you are holy, O you that inhabit the praises of Israel.
22:4 Our fathers trusted in you: they trusted, and you did deliver them.
22:5 They cried to you, and were delivered: they trusted in you, and were not confounded.
22:6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
22:7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
22:8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
22:9 But you are he that took me out of the womb: you did make me hope when I was on my mother's breasts.
22:10 I was cast on you from the womb: you are my God from my mother's belly.
22:11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
22:12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
22:13 They gaped on 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 middle of my bowels.
22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue sticks to my jaws; and you have brought me into the dust of death.
22:16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
22:17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare on me.
22:18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots on my clothing.
22:19 But be not you far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste you 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 you have heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
22:22 I will declare your name to my brothers: in the middle of the congregation will I praise you.
22:23 You that fear the LORD, praise him; all you the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all you the seed of Israel.
22:24 For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither has he hid his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.
22:25 My praise shall be of you 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 you.
22:28 For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among the nations.
22:29 All they that be fat on 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 has done this.
23:1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
23:2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside the still waters.
23:3 He restores my soul: he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
23:4 Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me.
23:5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies: you anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.
23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
24:1 The earth is the LORD's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
24:2 For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.
24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
24:4 He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has 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 your face, O Jacob. Selah.
24:7 Lift up your heads, O you gates; and be you lift up, you 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 you gates; even lift them up, you everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
24:10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.
25:1 To you, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
25:2 O my God, I trust in you: let me not be ashamed, let not my enemies triumph over me.
25:3 Yes, let none that wait on you be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
25:4 Show me your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths.
25:5 Lead me in your truth, and teach me: for you are the God of my salvation; on you do I wait all the day.
25:6 Remember, O LORD, your tender mercies and your loving kindnesses; for they have been ever of old.
25:7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to your mercy remember you me for your 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 your name's sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity; for it is great.
25:12 What man is he that fears 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 toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
25:16 Turn you to me, and have mercy on me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
25:17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring you me out of my distresses.
25:18 Look on 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 you.
25:21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on you.
25:22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.
26:1 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 your loving kindness is before my eyes: and I have walked in your 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 your altar, O LORD:
26:7 That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all your wondrous works.
26:8 LORD, I have loved the habitation of your house, and the place where your honor dwells.
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 stands in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.
27:1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
27:2 When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came on me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
27:3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
27:4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.
27:5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up on a rock.
27:6 And now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies round about 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 on me, and answer me.
27:8 When you said, Seek you my face; my heart said to you, Your face, LORD, will I seek.
27:9 Hide not your face far from me; put not your servant away in anger: you have 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 your 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 are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
27:13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
28:1 To you will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if you be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
28:2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy oracle.
28:3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which 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 shall destroy them, and not build them up.
28:6 Blessed be the LORD, because he has 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 rejoices; 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 your people, and bless your inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
29:1 Give to the LORD, O you 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 on the waters: the God of glory thunders: the LORD is on 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 breaks the cedars; yes, the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
29:6 He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
29:7 The voice of the LORD divides the flames of fire.
29:8 The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
29:9 The voice of the LORD makes the hinds to calve, and discovers the forests: and in his temple does every one speak of his glory.
29:10 The LORD sits on the flood; yes, the LORD sits King for ever.
29:11 The LORD will give strength to his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.
30:1 I will extol you, O LORD; for you have lifted me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.
30:2 O LORD my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.
30:3 O LORD, you have brought up my soul from the grave: you have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
30:4 Sing to the LORD, O you saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
30:5 For his anger endures but a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
30:6 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
30:7 LORD, by your favor you have made my mountain to stand strong: you did hide your face, and I was troubled.
30:8 I cried to you, 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 you? shall it declare your truth?
30:10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy on me: LORD, be you my helper.
30:11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing: you have put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
30:12 To the end that my glory may sing praise to you, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you for ever.
31:1 In you, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in your righteousness.
31:2 Bow down your ear to me; deliver me speedily: be you my strong rock, for an house of defense to save me.
31:3 For you are my rock and my fortress; therefore for your name's sake lead me, and guide me.
31:4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privately for me: for you are my strength.
31:5 Into your hand I commit my spirit: you have 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 your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;
31:8 And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set my feet in a large room.
31:9 Have mercy on 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 fails 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 did see me without fled from me.
31:12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
31:13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
31:14 But I trusted in you, O LORD: I said, You are my God.
31:15 My times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.
31:16 Make your face to shine on your servant: save me for your mercies' sake.
31:17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called on you: 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 your goodness, which you have laid up for them that fear you; which you have worked for them that trust in you before the sons of men!
31:20 You shall hide them in the secret of your presence from the pride of man: you shall keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
31:21 Blessed be the LORD: for he has showed me his marvelous kindness in a strong city.
31:22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you.
31:23 O love the LORD, all you his saints: for the LORD preserves the faithful, and plentifully rewards the proud doer.
31:24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all you that hope in the LORD.
32:1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
32:2 Blessed is the man to whom the LORD imputes not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
32:3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
32:4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
32:5 I acknowledge my sin to you, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD; and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
32:6 For this shall every one that is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come near to him.
32:7 You are my hiding place; you shall preserve me from trouble; you shall compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go: I will guide you with my eye.
32:9 Be you 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 you.
32:10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusts in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
32:11 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous: and shout for joy, all you that are upright in heart.
33:1 Rejoice in the LORD, O you 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 loves 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 gathers the waters of the sea together as an heap: he lays up the depth in storehouses.
33:8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
33:9 For he spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
33:10 The LORD brings the counsel of the heathen to nothing: he makes the devices of the people of none effect.
33:11 The counsel of the LORD stands 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 has chosen for his own inheritance.
33:13 The LORD looks from heaven; he beholds all the sons of men.
33:14 From the place of his habitation he looks on all the inhabitants of the earth.
33:15 He fashions their hearts alike; he considers all their works.
33:16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
33:17 An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.
33:18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is on them that fear him, on 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 waits 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 your mercy, O LORD, be on us, according as we hope in you.
34:1 I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
34:2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
34:3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
34:4 I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
34:5 They looked 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 encamps round about them that fear him, and delivers them.
34:8 O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusts in him.
34:9 O fear the LORD, you 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, you children, listen to me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
34:12 What man is he that desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?
34:13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your 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 on 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 hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.
34:18 The LORD is near to them that are of a broken heart; and saves such as be of a contrite spirit.
34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivers him out of them all.
34:20 He keeps 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 redeems the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
35:1 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 your salvation.
35:4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
35:5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
35:6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.
35:7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have dig for my soul.
35:8 Let destruction come on him at unawares; and let his net that he has 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 to you, which deliver the poor from him that is too strong for him, yes, the poor and the needy from him that spoils him?
35:11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
35:12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.
35:14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourns for his mother.
35:15 But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yes, the attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
35:16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed on me with their teeth.
35:17 Lord, how long will you look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
35:18 I will give you thanks in the great congregation: I will praise you among much 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 has seen it.
35:22 This you have seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
35:23 Stir up yourself, and awake to my judgment, even to my cause, my God and my Lord.
35:24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to your 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, which has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
35:28 And my tongue shall speak of your righteousness and of your praise all the day long.
36:1 The transgression of the wicked said within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
36:2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
36:3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has left off to be wise, and to do good.
36:4 He devises mischief on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he abhors not evil.
36:5 Your mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
36:6 Your righteousness is like the great mountains; your judgments are a great deep: O LORD, you preserve man and beast.
36:7 How excellent is your loving kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of your wings.
36:8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of your house; and you shall make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
36:9 For with you is the fountain of life: in your light shall we see light.
36:10 O continue your loving kindness to them that know you; and your righteousness to the upright in heart.
36:11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
36:12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.
37:1 Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you 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 shall you dwell in the land, and truly you shall be fed.
37:4 Delight yourself also in the LORD: and he shall give you the desires of your heart.
37:5 Commit your way to the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
37:6 And he shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your judgment as the noonday.
37:7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.
37:8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not yourself in any wise to do evil.
37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait on the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
37:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yes, you shall 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 plots against the just, and gnashes on him with his teeth.
37:13 The LORD shall laugh at him: for he sees that his day is coming.
37:14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
37:15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
37:16 A little that a righteous man has is better than the riches of many wicked.
37:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholds the righteous.
37:18 The LORD knows 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 borrows, and pays not again: but the righteous shows mercy, and gives.
37:22 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.
37:23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delights in his way.
37:24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholds him with his hand.
37:25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
37:26 He is ever merciful, and lends; and his seed is blessed.
37:27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for ever more.
37:28 For the LORD loves judgment, and forsakes 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 speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of judgment.
37:31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
37:32 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to slay him.
37:33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
37:34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt you to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, you shall 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, see, 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 shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.
38:1 O lord, rebuke me not in your wrath: neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
38:2 For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses me sore.
38:3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
38:4 For my iniquities are gone over my head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
38:5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
38:6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
38:7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
38:8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
38:9 Lord, all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hid from you.
38:10 My heart pants, my strength fails me: as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
38:12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
38:13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that opens not his mouth.
38:14 Thus I was as a man that hears not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
38:15 For in you, O LORD, do I hope: you will hear, O Lord my God.
38:16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slips, 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 good is.
38:21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
38:22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
39:1 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 spoke I 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, you have made my days as an handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
39:6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.
39:7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in you.
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 you did it.
39:10 Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.
39:11 When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make 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 your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
39:13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
40:1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined to me, and heard my cry.
40:2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet on a rock, and established my goings.
40:3 And he has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
40:4 Blessed is that man that makes the LORD his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
40:5 Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order to you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
40:6 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.
40:7 Then said I, See, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
40:8 I delight to do your will, O my God: yes, your law is within my heart.
40:9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: see, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, you know.
40:10 I have not hid your righteousness within my heart; I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation: I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great congregation.
40:11 Withhold not you your tender mercies from me, O LORD: let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
40:12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: my iniquities have taken hold on me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart fails me.
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 you rejoice and be glad in you: let such as love your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
40:17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks on me: you are my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
41:1 Blessed is he that considers the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
41:2 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed on the earth: and you will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.
41:3 The LORD will strengthen him on the bed of languishing: you will make all his bed in his sickness.
41:4 I said, LORD, be merciful to me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against you.
41:5 My enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
41:6 And if he come to see me, he speaks vanity: his heart gathers iniquity to itself; when he goes abroad, he tells 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, sticks fast to him: and now that he lies he shall rise up no more.
41:9 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
41:10 But you, O LORD, be merciful to me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.
41:11 By this I know that you favor me, because my enemy does not triumph over me.
41:12 And as for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me before your face for ever.
41:13 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
42:1 As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God.
42:2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
42:3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is your 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 are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted in me? hope you 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 you from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
42:7 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterspouts: all your waves and your 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 have you 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 your God?
42:11 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope you in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
43:2 For you are the God of my strength: why do you cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
43:3 O send out your light and your truth: let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill, and to your tabernacles.
43:4 Then will I go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy: yes, on the harp will I praise you, O God my God.
43:5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
44:1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old.
44:2 How you did drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out.
44:3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you had a favor to them.
44:4 You are my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
44:5 Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
44:6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
44:7 But you have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated us.
44:8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise your name for ever. Selah.
44:9 But you have cast off, and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies.
44:10 You make us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
44:11 You have given us like sheep appointed for meat; and have scattered us among the heathen.
44:12 You sell your people for nothing, and do not increase your wealth by their price.
44:13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
44:14 You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
44:15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,
44:16 For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
44:17 All this is come on us; yet have we not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant.
44:18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way;
44:19 Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
44:20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
44:21 Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart.
44:22 Yes, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
44:23 Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
44:24 Why hide you your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
44:25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly sticks to the earth.
44:26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercies' sake.
45:1 My heart is gushing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
45:2 You are fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into your lips: therefore God has blessed you for ever.
45:3 Gird your sword on your thigh, O most mighty, with your glory and your majesty.
45:4 And in your majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and your right hand shall teach you terrible things.
45:5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under you.
45:6 Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the scepter of your kingdom is a right scepter.
45:7 You love righteousness, and hate wickedness: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
45:8 All your garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made you glad.
45:9 Kings' daughters were among your honorable women: on your right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
45:10 Listen, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; forget also your own people, and your father's house;
45:11 So shall the king greatly desire your beauty: for he is your Lord; and worship you him.
45:12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall entreat your favor.
45:13 The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of worked gold.
45:14 She shall be brought to the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought to you.
45:15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.
45:16 Instead of your fathers shall be your children, whom you may make princes in all the earth.
45:17 I will make your name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise you for ever and ever.
46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
46:2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the middle of the sea;
46:3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
46:4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
46:5 God is in the middle 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 has made in the earth.
46:9 He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow, and cuts the spear in sunder; he burns the chariot in the fire.
46:10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
46:11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
47:1 O clap your hands, all you 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 excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
47:5 God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
47:6 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises to our King, sing praises.
47:7 For God is the King of all the earth: sing you praises with understanding.
47:8 God reigns over the heathen: God sits on the throne of his holiness.
47:9 The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong to God: he is greatly exalted.
48:1 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, see, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
48:5 They saw it, and so they marveled; they were troubled, and hurried away.
48:6 Fear took hold on them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
48:7 You break 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 your loving kindness, O God, in the middle of your temple.
48:10 According to your name, O God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth: your right hand is full of righteousness.
48:11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of your judgments.
48:12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
48:13 Mark you well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that you 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.
49:1 Hear this, all you people; give ear, all you 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 on the harp.
49:5 Why should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
49:6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
49:7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
49:8 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceases for ever:)
49:9 That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
49:10 For he sees 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 stays 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 you afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
49:17 For when he dies 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 you, when you do well to yourself.
49:19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
49:20 Man that is in honor, and understands not, is like the beasts that perish.
50:1 The mighty God, even the LORD, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof.
50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined.
50:3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
50:4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
50:5 Gather my saints together 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 you: I am God, even your God.
50:8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
50:9 I will take no bullock out of your house, nor he goats out of your folds.
50:10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle on 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 you: 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 your vows to the most High:
50:15 And call on me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.
50:16 But to the wicked God said, What have you to do to declare my statutes, or that you should take my covenant in your mouth?
50:17 Seeing you hate instruction, and casts my words behind you.
50:18 When you saw a thief, then you consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers.
50:19 You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
50:20 You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
50:21 These things have you done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether such an one as yourself: but I will reprove you, and set them in order before your eyes.
50:22 Now consider this, you that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
50:23 Whoever offers praise glorifies me: and to him that orders his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God.
51:1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your loving kindness: according to the multitude of your 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 you, you only, have I sinned, and done this evil in your sight: that you might be justified when you speak, and be clear when you judge.
51:5 Behold, I was shaped in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
51:6 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part you shall 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 you have broken may rejoice.
51:9 Hide your 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 your presence; and take not your holy spirit from me.
51:12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation; and uphold me with your free spirit.
51:13 Then will I teach transgressors your ways; and sinners shall be converted to you.
51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, you God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
51:15 O Lord, open you my lips; and my mouth shall show forth your praise.
51:16 For you desire not sacrifice; else would I give it: you delight not in burnt offering.
51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
51:18 Do good in your good pleasure to Zion: build you the walls of Jerusalem.
51:19 Then shall you be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks on your altar.
52:1 Why boast you yourself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endures continually.
52:2 The tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
52:3 You love evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
52:4 You love all devouring words, O you deceitful tongue.
52:5 God shall likewise destroy you for ever, he shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
52:6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
52:7 See, 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 you for ever, because you have done it: and I will wait on your name; for it is good before your saints.
53:1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that does good.
53:2 God looked down from heaven on 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 does 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 on God.
53:5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God has scattered the bones of him that encamps against you: you have put them to shame, because God has despised them.
53:6 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
54:1 Save me, O God, by your name, and judge me by your strength.
54:2 Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
54:3 For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
54:4 Behold, God is my helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul.
54:5 He shall reward evil to my enemies: cut them off in your truth.
54:6 I will freely sacrifice to you: I will praise your name, O LORD; for it is good.
54:7 For he has delivered me out of all trouble: and my eye has seen his desire on my enemies.
55:1 Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not yourself 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 on me, and in wrath they hate me.
55:4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen on me.
55:5 Fearfulness and trembling are come on me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
55:6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
55:7 See, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
55:8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
55:9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
55:10 Day and night they go about it on the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the middle of it.
55:11 Wickedness is in the middle thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
55:12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
55:13 But it was you, 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 on 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 on God; and the LORD shall save me.
55:17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
55:18 He has delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
55:19 God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that stays of old.
Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
55:20 He has put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he has 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 your burden on the LORD, and he shall sustain you: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
55:23 But you, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in you.
56:1 Be merciful to me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresses me.
56:2 My enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O you most High.
56:3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in you.
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 gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
56:7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in your anger cast down the people, O God.
56:8 You tell my wanderings: put you my tears into your bottle: are they not in your book?
56:9 When I cry to you, 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 Your vows are on me, O God: I will render praises to you.
56:13 For you have delivered my soul from death: will not you deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
57:1 Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me: for my soul trusts in you: yes, in the shadow of your wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be over.
57:2 I will cry to God most high; to God that performes 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 you exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be above all the earth.
57:6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have dig a pit before me, into the middle whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
57:7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.
57:8 Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
57:9 I will praise you, O Lord, among the people: I will sing to you among the nations.
57:10 For your mercy is great to the heavens, and your truth to the clouds.
57:11 Be you exalted, O God, above the heavens: let your glory be above all the earth.
58:1 Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men?
58:2 Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
58:4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stops her ear;
58:5 Which will not listen 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 bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
58:8 As a snail which melts, 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 sees the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
58:11 So that a man shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous: truly he is a God that judges in the earth.
59:1 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, see, 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 You therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
59:6 They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
59:7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, does hear?
59:8 But you, O LORD, shall laugh at them; you shall have all the heathen in derision.
59:9 Because of his strength will I wait on you: for God is my defense.
59:10 The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire on my enemies.
59:11 Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by your 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 rules 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 round about the city.
59:15 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
59:16 But I will sing of your power; yes, I will sing aloud of your mercy in the morning: for you have been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble.
59:17 To you, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defense, and the God of my mercy.
60:1 O God, you have cast us off, you have scattered us, you have been displeased; O turn yourself to us again.
60:2 You have made the earth to tremble; you have broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shakes.
60:3 You have showed your people hard things: you have made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
60:4 You have given a banner to them that fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
60:5 That your beloved may be delivered; save with your right hand, and hear me.
60:6 God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
60:7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of my head; Judah is my lawgiver;
60:8 Moab is my wash pot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph you because of me.
60:9 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
60:10 Will not you, O God, which had cast us off? and you, O God, which did not go out with our armies?
60:11 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
60:12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
61:1 Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer.
61:2 From the end of the earth will I cry to you, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
61:3 For you have been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
61:4 I will abide in your tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of your wings. Selah.
61:5 For you, O God, have heard my vows: you have given me the heritage of those that fear your name.
61:6 You will 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 your name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.
62:1 Truly my soul waits on God: from him comes 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 you imagine mischief against a man? you shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall you be, and as a tottering fence.
62:4 They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
62:5 My soul, wait you only on 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; you 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 on them.
62:11 God has spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongs to God.
62:12 Also to you, O Lord, belongs mercy: for you render to every man according to his work.
63:1 O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
63:2 To see your power and your glory, so as I have seen you in the sanctuary.
63:3 Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
63:4 Thus will I bless you while I live: I will lift up my hands in your name.
63:5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise you with joyful lips:
63:6 When I remember you on my bed, and meditate on you in the night watches.
63:7 Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings will I rejoice.
63:8 My soul follows hard after you: your right hand upholds 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 swears by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
64:1 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 privately; they say, Who shall see them?
64:6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
64:7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
64:8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall on themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
64:9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.
64:10 The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.
65:1 Praise waits for you, O God, in Sion: and to you shall the vow be performed.
65:2 O you that hear prayer, to you shall all flesh come.
65:3 Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, you shall purge them away.
65:4 Blessed is the man whom you choose, and cause to approach to you, that he may dwell in your courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, even of your holy temple.
65:5 By terrible things in righteousness will you answer us, O God of our salvation; who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off on the sea:
65:6 Which by his strength sets fast the mountains; being girded with power:
65:7 Which stills 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 your tokens: you make the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
65:9 You visit the earth, and water it: you greatly enrich it with the river of God, which is full of water: you prepare them corn, when you have so provided for it.
65:10 You water the ridges thereof abundantly: you settle the furrows thereof: you make it soft with showers: you bless the springing thereof.
65:11 You crown the year with your goodness; and your paths drop fatness.
65:12 They drop on the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.
65:13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
66:1 Make a joyful noise to God, all you lands:
66:2 Sing forth the honor of his name: make his praise glorious.
66:3 Say to God, How terrible are you in your works! through the greatness of your power shall your enemies submit themselves to you.
66:4 All the earth shall worship you, and shall sing to you; they shall sing to your name. Selah.
66:5 Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
66:6 He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
66:7 He rules by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
66:8 O bless our God, you people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:
66:9 Which holds our soul in life, and suffers not our feet to be moved.
66:10 For you, O God, have proved us: you have tried us, as silver is tried.
66:11 You brought us into the net; you laid affliction on our loins.
66:12 You have caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but you brought us out into a wealthy place.
66:13 I will go into your house with burnt offerings: I will pay you my vows,
66:14 Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth has spoken, when I was in trouble.
66:15 I will offer to you burnt sacrifices of fatted calves, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
66:16 Come and hear, all you that fear God, and I will declare what he has 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 truly God has heard me; he has attended to the voice of my prayer.
66:20 Blessed be God, which has not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.
67:1 God be merciful to us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine on us; Selah.
67:2 That your way may be known on earth, your saving health among all nations.
67:3 Let the people praise you, O God; let all the people praise you.
67:4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for you shall judge the people righteously, and govern the nations on earth. Selah.
67:5 Let the people praise you, O God; let all the people praise you.
67:6 Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.
67:7 God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.
68:1 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 melts 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 rides on 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 sets the solitary in families: he brings out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
68:7 O God, when you went forth before your people, when you did 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 You, O God, did send a plentiful rain, whereby you did confirm your inheritance, when it was weary.
68:10 Your congregation has dwelled therein: you, O God, have prepared of your goodness for the poor.
68:11 The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.
68:12 Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.
68:13 Though you have lien among the pots, yet shall you be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
68:14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.
68:15 The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan.
68:16 Why leap you, you high hills? this is the hill which God desires 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 You have ascended on high, you have led captivity captive: you have received gifts for men; yes, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
68:19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads 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 shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goes 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 your foot may be dipped in the blood of your enemies, and the tongue of your dogs in the same.
68:24 They have seen your 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 tambourines.
68:26 Bless you God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.
68:27 There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
68:28 Your God has commanded your strength: strengthen, O God, that which you have worked for us.
68:29 Because of your temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents to you.
68:30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter you the people that delight in war.
68:31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands to God.
68:32 Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises to the Lord; Selah:
68:33 To him that rides on the heavens of heavens, which were of old; see, he does send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
68:34 Ascribe you strength to God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
68:35 O God, you are terrible out of your holy places: the God of Israel is he that gives strength and power to his people. Blessed be God.
69:1 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, you know my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from you.
69:6 Let not them that wait on you, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek you be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
69:7 Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.
69:8 I am become a stranger to my brothers, and an alien to my mother's children.
69:9 For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen on 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 you, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your 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 flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth on me.
69:16 Hear me, O LORD; for your loving kindness is good: turn to me according to the multitude of your tender mercies.
69:17 And hide not your face from your servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
69:18 Draw near to my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies.
69:19 You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: my adversaries are all before you.
69:20 Reproach has broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
69:21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
69:22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
69:24 Pour out your indignation on them, and let your 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 you have smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded.
69:27 Add iniquity to their iniquity: and let them not come into your 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 your 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 has 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 hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners.
69:34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moves therein.
69:35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
69:36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
70:1 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 you rejoice and be glad in you: and let such as love your salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
70:5 But I am poor and needy: make haste to me, O God: you are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
71:1 In you, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.
71:2 Deliver me in your righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline your ear to me, and save me.
71:3 Be you my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: you have given commandment to save me; for you are my rock and my fortress.
71:4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
71:5 For you are my hope, O Lord GOD: you are my trust from my youth.
71:6 By you have I been held up from the womb: you are he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of you.
71:7 I am as a wonder to many; but you are my strong refuge.
71:8 Let my mouth be filled with your praise and with your honor all the day.
71:9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength fails.
71:10 For my enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
71:11 Saying, God has 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 you more and more.
71:15 My mouth shall show forth your righteousness and your 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 your righteousness, even of your only.
71:17 O God, you have taught me from my youth: and till now have I declared your wondrous works.
71:18 Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed your strength to this generation, and your power to every one that is to come.
71:19 Your righteousness also, O God, is very high, who have done great things: O God, who is like to you!
71:20 You, which have showed me great and sore troubles, shall quicken me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
71:21 You shall increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
71:22 I will also praise you with the psaltery, even your truth, O my God: to you will I sing with the harp, O you Holy One of Israel.
71:23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to you; and my soul, which you have redeemed.
71:24 My tongue also shall talk of your righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought to shame, that seek my hurt.
72:1 Give the king your judgments, O God, and your righteousness to the king's son.
72:2 He shall judge your people with righteousness, and your 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 you as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.
72:6 He shall come down like rain on 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 endures.
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 cries; the poor also, and him that has 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 their blood be 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 an handful of corn in the earth on the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof 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 does 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.
73:1 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 near 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 plagued like other men.
73:6 Therefore pride compasses them about as a chain; violence covers 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 walks through the earth.
73:10 Therefore his people return here: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
73:11 And they say, How does 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 Truly I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.
73:14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
73:15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of your 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 understood I their end.
73:18 Surely you did set them in slippery places: you 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 wakes; so, O Lord, when you wake, you shall 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 you.
73:23 Nevertheless I am continually with you: you have held me by my right hand.
73:24 You shall guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
73:25 Whom have I in heaven but you? and there is none on earth that I desire beside you.
73:26 My flesh and my heart fails: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
73:27 For, see, they that are far from you shall perish: you have destroyed all them that go a whoring from you.
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 your works.
74:1 O God, why have you cast us off for ever? why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
74:2 Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old; the rod of your inheritance, which you have redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein you have dwelled.
74:3 Lift up your feet to the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in t