| Chapter 1 |
| 1 | Blessed {is} the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. |
| 2 | But his delight {is} in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. |
| 3 | And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. |
| 4 | The ungodly {are} not so: but {are} like the chaff which the wind driveth away. |
| 5 | Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. |
| 6 | For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. |
| Chapter 2 |
| 1 | Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? |
| 2 | The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, {saying}, |
| 3 | Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. |
| 4 | He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. |
| 5 | Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. |
| 6 | Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. |
| 7 | I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou {art} my son; this day have I begotten thee. |
| 8 | Ask of me, and I shall give {thee} the heathen {for} thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for {thy} possession. |
| 9 | Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. |
| 10 | Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. |
| 11 | Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. |
| 12 | Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish {from} the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed {are} all they that put their trust in him. |
| Chapter 3 |
| 1 | Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many {are} they that rise up against me. |
| 2 | Many {there be} which say of my soul, {There is} no help for him in God. Selah. |
| 3 | But thou, O Lord, {art} a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. |
| 4 | I cried unto the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah. |
| 5 | I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me. |
| 6 | I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set {themselves} against me round about. |
| 7 | Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies {upon} the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly. |
| 8 | Salvation {belongeth} unto the Lord: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah. |
| Chapter 4 |
| 1 | Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me {when I was} in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer. |
| 2 | O ye sons of men, how long {will ye turn} my glory into shame? how {long} will ye love vanity, {and} seek after leasing? Selah. |
| 3 | But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the Lord will hear when I call unto him. |
| 4 | Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah. |
| 5 | Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the Lord. |
| 6 | {There be} many that say, Who will shew us {any} good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. |
| 7 | Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time {that} their corn and their wine increased. |
| 8 | I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety. |
| Chapter 5 |
| 1 | Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation. |
| 2 | Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my king, and my God: for unto thee will I pray. |
| 3 | My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct {my prayer} unto thee, and will look up. |
| 4 | For thou {art} not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee. |
| 5 | The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. |
| 6 | Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man. |
| 7 | But as for me, I will come {into} thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: {and} in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple. |
| 8 | Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face. |
| 9 | For {there is} no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part {is} very wickedness; their throat {is} an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. |
| 10 | Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee. |
| 11 | But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee. |
| 12 | For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as {with} a shield. |
| Chapter 6 |
| 1 | O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. |
| 2 | Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I {am} weak: O Lord, heal me; for my bones are vexed. |
| 3 | My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O Lord, how long? |
| 4 | Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies’ sake. |
| 5 | For in death {there is} no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks? |
| 6 | I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. |
| 7 | Mine eye is consumed because grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies. |
| 8 | Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping. |
| 9 | The Lord hath heard my supplication; the Lord will receive my prayer. |
| 10 | Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return {and} be ashamed suddenly. |
| Chapter 7 |
| 1 | O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me: |
| 2 | Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending {it} in pieces, while {there is} none to deliver. |
| 3 | O Lord my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands; |
| 4 | If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:) |
| 5 | Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take {it}; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah. |
| 6 | Arise, O Lord, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me {to} the judgment that {thou} hast commanded. |
| 7 | So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high. |
| 8 | The Lord shall judge the people: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that {is in} me. |
| 9 | Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins. |
| 10 | My defence {is} of God, which saveth the upright in heart. |
| 11 | God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry {with the wicked} every day. |
| 12 | If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. |
| 13 | He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors. |
| 14 | Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. |
| 15 | He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch {which} he made. |
| 16 | His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate. |
| 17 | I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high. |
| Chapter 8 |
| 1 | O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. |
| 2 | Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. |
| 3 | When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; |
| 4 | What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? |
| 5 | For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. |
| 6 | Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all {things} under his feet: |
| 7 | All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; |
| 8 | The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, {and whatsoever} passeth through the paths of the seas. |
| 9 | O Lord our Lord, how excellent {is} thy name in all the earth! |
| Chapter 9 |
| 1 | I will praise {thee}, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works. |
| 2 | I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High. |
| 3 | When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence. |
| 4 | For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right. |
| 5 | Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever. |
| 6 | O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them. |
| 7 | But the Lord shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment. |
| 8 | And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness. |
| 9 | The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. |
| 10 | And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee. |
| 11 | Sing praises to the Lord, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings. |
| 12 | When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble. |
| 13 | Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider my trouble {which I suffer} of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death: |
| 14 | That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation. |
| 15 | The heathen are sunk down in the pit {that} they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. |
| 16 | The Lord is known {by} the judgment {which} he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. |
| 17 | The wicked shall be turned into hell, {and} all the nations that forget God. |
| 18 | For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not {perish} for ever. |
| 19 | Arise, O Lord; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight. |
| 20 | Put them in fear, O Lord: {that} the nations may know themselves {to be but} men. Selah. |
| Chapter 10 |
| 1 | Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? {why} hidest thou {thyself} in times of trouble? |
| 2 | The wicked in {his} pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. |
| 3 | For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, {whom} the Lord abhorreth. |
| 4 | The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek {after God}: God {is} not in all his thoughts. |
| 5 | His ways are always grievous; thy judgments {are} far above out of his sight: {as for} all his enemies, he puffeth at them. |
| 6 | He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for {I shall} never {be} in adversity. |
| 7 | His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and Fraud: under his tongue {is} mischief and vanity. |
| 8 | He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. |
| 9 | He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. |
| 10 | He croucheth, {and} humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones. |
| 11 | He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see {it}. |
| 12 | Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. |
| 13 | Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require {it}. |
| 14 | Thou hast seen {it}; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite {it} with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless. |
| 15 | Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil {man}: seek out his wickedness {till} thou find none. |
| 16 | The Lord {is} king for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land. |
| 17 | Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: |
| 18 | To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress. |
| Chapter 11 |
| 1 | In the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee {as} a bird to your mountain? |
| 2 | For, lo, the wicked bend {their} bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. |
| 3 | If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? |
| 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. |
| 5 | The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. |
| 6 | Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: {this shall be} the portion of their cup. |
| 7 | For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright. |
| Chapter 12 |
| 1 | Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. |
| 2 | They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: {with} flattering lips {and} with a double heart do they speak. |
| 3 | The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, {and} the tongue that speaketh proud things: |
| 4 | Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips {are} our own: who {is} lord over us? |
| 5 | For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set {him} in safety {from him that} puffeth at him. |
| 6 | The words of the Lord {are} pure words: {as} silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. |
| 7 | Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. |
| 8 | The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted. |
| Chapter 13 |
| 1 | How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? |
| 2 | How long shall I take counsel in my soul, {having} sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? |
| 3 | Consider {and} hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the {sleep of} death; |
| 4 | Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; {and} those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved. |
| 5 | But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. |
| 6 | I will sing unto the Lord, because he hath dealt bountifully with me. |
| Chapter 14 |
| 1 | The fool hath said in his heart, {There is} no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, {there is} none that doeth good. |
| 2 | The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, {and} seek God. |
| 3 | They are all gone aside, they are {all} together become filthy: {there is} none that doeth good, no, not one. |
| 4 | Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people {as} they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord. |
| 5 | There were they in great fear: for God {is} in the generation of the righteous. |
| 6 | Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord {is} his refuge. |
| 7 | Oh that the salvation of Israel {were come} out of Zion! when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, {and} Israel shall be glad. |
| Chapter 15 |
| 1 | Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? |
| 2 | He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. |
| 3 | {He that} backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour. |
| 4 | In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the Lord. {He that} sweareth to {his own} hurt, and changeth not. |
| 5 | {He that} putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these {things} shall never be moved. |
| Chapter 16 |
| 1 | Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust. |
| 2 | {O my soul}, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou {art} my Lord: my goodness {extendeth} not to thee; |
| 3 | {But} to the saints that {are} in the earth, and {to} the excellent, in whom {is} all my delight. |
| 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. |
| 5 | The Lord {is} the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. |
| 6 | The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant {places}; yea, I have a goodly heritage. |
| 7 | I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons. |
| 8 | I have set the Lord always before me: because {he is} at my right hand, I shall not be moved. |
| 9 | Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. |
| 10 | For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. |
| 11 | Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence {is} fulness of joy; at thy right hand {there are} pleasures for evermore. |
| Chapter 17 |
| 1 | Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, {that goeth} not out of feigned lips. |
| 2 | Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal. |
| 3 | Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited {me} in the night; thou hast tried me, {and} shalt find nothing; I am purposed {that} my mouth shall not transgress. |
| 4 | Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept {me from} the paths of the destroyer. |
| 5 | Hold up my goings in thy paths, {that} my footsteps slip not. |
| 6 | I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, {and hear} my speech. |
| 7 | Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust {in thee} from those that rise up {against them}. |
| 8 | Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings, |
| 9 | From the wicked that oppress me, {from} my deadly enemies, {who} compass me about. |
| 10 | They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly. |
| 11 | They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth; |
| 12 | Like as a lion {that} is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. |
| 13 | Arise, O Lord, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, {which is} thy sword: |
| 14 | From men {which are} thy hand, O Lord, from men of the world, {which have} their portion in {this} life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid {treasure}: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their {substance} to their babes. |
| 15 | As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. |
| Chapter 18 |
| 1 | I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. |
| 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. |
| 3 | I will call upon the Lord, {who is worthy} to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. |
| 4 | The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. |
| 5 | The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. |
| 6 | In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, {even} into his ears. |
| 7 | Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. |
| 8 | There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. |
| 9 | He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness {was} under his feet. |
| 10 | And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. |
| 11 | He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him {were} dark waters {and} thick clouds of the skies. |
| 12 | At the brightness {that was} before him his thick clouds passed, hail {stones} and coals of fire. |
| 13 | The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail {stones} and coals of fire. |
| 14 | Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them. |
| 15 | Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils. |
| 16 | He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. |
| 17 | He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me. |
| 18 | They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay. |
| 19 | He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me. |
| 20 | The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. |
| 21 | For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God. |
| 22 | For all his judgments {were} before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me. |
| 23 | I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity. |
| 24 | Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. |
| 25 | With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright; |
| 26 | With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward. |
| 27 | For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks. |
| 28 | For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness. |
| 29 | For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall. |
| 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. |
| 31 | For who {is} God save the Lord? or who {is} a rock save our God? |
| 32 | {It is} God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect. |
| 33 | He maketh my feet like hinds’ {feet}, and setteth me upon my high places. |
| 34 | He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. |
| 35 | Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great. |
| 36 | Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip. |
| 37 | I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed. |
| 38 | I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet. |
| 39 | For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me. |
| 40 | Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me. |
| 41 | They cried, but {there was} none to save {them: even} unto the Lord, but he answered them not. |
| 42 | Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets. |
| 43 | Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; {and} thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people {whom} I have not known shall serve me. |
| 44 | As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me. |
| 45 | The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places. |
| 46 | The Lord liveth; and blessed {be} my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted. |
| 47 | {It is} God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me. |
| 48 | He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man. |
| 49 | Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name. |
| 50 | Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore. |
| Chapter 19 |
| 1 | The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. |
| 2 | Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. |
| 3 | {There is} no speech nor language, {where} their voice is not heard. |
| 4 | Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, |
| 5 | Which {is} as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, {and} rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. |
| 6 | His going forth {is} from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. |
| 7 | The law of the Lord {is} perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the {Lord} is sure, making wise the simple. |
| 8 | The statutes of the Lord {are} right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord {is} pure, enlightening the eyes. |
| 9 | The fear of the Lord {is} clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord {are} true {and} righteous altogether. |
| 10 | More to be desired {are they} than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. |
| 11 | Moreover by them is thy servant warned: {and} in keeping of them {there} is great reward. |
| 12 | Who can understand {his} errors? cleanse thou me from secret {faults}. |
| 13 | Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous {sins}; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. |
| 14 | Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer. |
| Chapter 20 |
| 1 | The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; |
| 2 | Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion; |
| 3 | Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah. |
| 4 | Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel. |
| 5 | We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up {our} banners: the Lord fulfil all thy petitions. |
| 6 | Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand. |
| 7 | Some {trust} in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God. |
| 8 | They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright. |
| 9 | Save, Lord: let the king hear us when we call. |
| Chapter 21 |
| 1 | The king shall joy in thy strength, O Lord; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! |
| 2 | Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah. |
| 3 | For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head. |
| 4 | He asked life of thee, {and} thou gavest {it} him, {even} length of days for ever and ever. |
| 5 | His glory {is} great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him. |
| 6 | For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance. |
| 7 | For the king trusteth in the Lord, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved. |
| 8 | Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee. |
| 9 | Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the Lord shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them. |
| 10 | Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men. |
| 11 | For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, {which} they are not able {to perform}. |
| 12 | Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, {when} thou shalt make ready {thine arrows} upon thy strings against the face of them. |
| 13 | Be thou exalted, Lord, in thine own strength: {so} will we sing and praise thy power. |
| Chapter 22 |
| 1 | My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? {why art thou so} far from helping me, {and from} the words of my roaring? |
| 2 | O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. |
| 3 | But thou {art} holy, {O thou} that inhabitest the praises of Israel. |
| 4 | Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. |
| 5 | They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. |
| 6 | But I {am} a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. |
| 7 | All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, {saying}, |
| 8 | He trusted on the Lord {that} he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. |
| 9 | But thou {art} he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope {when I was} upon my mother’s breasts. |
| 10 | I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou {art} my God from my mother’s belly. |
| 11 | Be not far from me; for trouble {is} near; for {there is} none to help. |
| 12 | Many bulls have compassed me: strong {bulls} of Bashan have beset me round. |
| 13 | They gaped upon me {with} their mouths, {as} a ravening and a roaring lion. |
| 14 | I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. |
| 15 | My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. |
| 16 | For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. |
| 17 | I may tell all my bones: they look {and} stare upon me. |
| 18 | They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. |
| 19 | But be not thou far from me, O Lord: O my strength, haste thee to help me. |
| 20 | Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. |
| 21 | Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. |
| 22 | I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. |
| 23 | Ye that fear the Lord, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel. |
| 24 | For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard. |
| 25 | My praise {shall be} of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him. |
| 26 | The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live for ever. |
| 27 | All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. |
| 28 | For the kingdom {is} the Lord’s: and he {is} the governor among the nations. |
| 29 | All {they that be} fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul. |
| 30 | A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. |
| 31 | They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done {this}. |
| Chapter 23 |
| 1 | The Lord {is} my shepherd; I shall not want. |
| 2 | He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. |
| 3 | He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. |
| 4 | Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou {art} with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. |
| 5 | Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup Runneth over. |
| 6 | Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. |
| Chapter 24 |
| 1 | The earth {is} the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. |
| 2 | For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. |
| 3 | Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? |
| 4 | He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. |
| 5 | He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. |
| 6 | This {is} the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah. |
| 7 | Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. |
| 8 | Who {is} this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. |
| 9 | Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift {them} up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. |
| 10 | Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he {is} the King of glory. Selah. |
| Chapter 25 |
| 1 | Unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. |
| 2 | O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. |
| 3 | Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause. |
| 4 | Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths. |
| 5 | Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou {art} the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. |
| 6 | Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they {have been} ever of old. |
| 7 | Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness’ sake, O Lord. |
| 8 | Good and upright {is} the Lord: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. |
| 9 | The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way. |
| 10 | All the paths of the Lord {are} mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. |
| 11 | For thy name’s sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity; for it {is} great. |
| 12 | What man {is} he that feareth the Lord? him shall he teach in the way {that} he shall choose. |
| 13 | His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth. |
| 14 | The secret of the Lord {is} with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant. |
| 15 | Mine eyes {are} ever toward the Lord; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. |
| 16 | Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I {am} desolate and afflicted. |
| 17 | The troubles of my heart are enlarged: {O} bring thou me out of my distresses. |
| 18 | Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins. |
| 19 | Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred. |
| 20 | O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee. |
| 21 | Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee. |
| 22 | Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. |
| Chapter 26 |
| 1 | Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the Lord; {therefore} I shall not slide. |
| 2 | Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart. |
| 3 | For thy lovingkindness {is} before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth. |
| 4 | I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers. |
| 5 | I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked. |
| 6 | I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O Lord: |
| 7 | That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works. |
| 8 | Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth. |
| 9 | Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men: |
| 10 | In whose hands {is} mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes. |
| 11 | But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me. |
| 12 | My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the Lord. |
| Chapter 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? |
| 2 | When the wicked, {even} mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 5 | For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. |
| 6 | And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the Lord. |
| 7 | Hear, O Lord, {when} I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. |
| 8 | {When thou saidst}, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek. |
| 9 | Hide not thy face {far} from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. |
| 10 | When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up. |
| 11 | Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. |
| 12 | Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. |
| 13 | {I had fainted}, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. |
| 14 | Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord. |
| Chapter 28 |
| 1 | Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, {if} thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. |
| 2 | Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle. |
| 3 | Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief {is} in their hearts. |
| 4 | Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert. |
| 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. |
| 6 | Blessed {be} the Lord, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications. |
| 7 | The Lord {is} my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him. |
| 8 | The Lord {is} their strength, and he {is} the saving strength of his anointed. |
| 9 | Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever. |
| Chapter 29 |
| 1 | Give unto the Lord, O ye mighty, give unto the Lord glory and strength. |
| 2 | Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. |
| 3 | The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord {is} upon many waters. |
| 4 | The voice of the Lord {is} powerful; the voice of the Lord {is} full of majesty. |
| 5 | The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars; yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon. |
| 6 | He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn. |
| 7 | The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire. |
| 8 | The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness; the Lord shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh. |
| 9 | The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of {his} glory. |
| 10 | The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth king for ever. |
| 11 | The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace. |
| Chapter 30 |
| 1 | I Will extol thee, O Lord; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me. |
| 2 | O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. |
| 3 | O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. |
| 4 | Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. |
| 5 | For his anger {endureth but} a moment; in his favour {is} life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy {cometh} in the morning. |
| 6 | And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. |
| 7 | Lord, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, {and} I was troubled. |
| 8 | I cried to thee, O Lord; and unto the Lord I made supplication. |
| 9 | What profit {is there} in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? |
| 10 | Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me: Lord, be thou my helper. |
| 11 | Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; |
| 12 | To the end that {my} glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever. |
| Chapter 31 |
| 1 | In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness. |
| 2 | Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me. |
| 3 | For thou {art} my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me. |
| 4 | Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou {art} my strength. |
| 5 | Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth. |
| 6 | I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord. |
| 7 | I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities; |
| 8 | And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room. |
| 9 | Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, {yea}, my soul and my belly. |
| 10 | For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed. |
| 11 | I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me. |
| 12 | I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. |
| 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. |
| 14 | But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou {art} my God. |
| 15 | My times {are} in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. |
| 16 | Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies’ sake. |
| 17 | Let me not be ashamed, O Lord; for {I} have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, {and} let them be silent in the grave. |
| 18 | Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous. |
| 19 | {Oh} how great {is} thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; {which} thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! |
| 20 | Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues. |
| 21 | Blessed {be} the Lord: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city. |
| 22 | For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee. |
| 23 | O love the Lord, all ye his saints: {for} the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer. |
| 24 | Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord. |
| Chapter 32 |
| 1 | Blessed {is he whose} transgression {is} forgiven, {whose} sin {is} covered. |
| 2 | Blessed {is} the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit {there is} no guile. |
| 3 | When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. |
| 4 | For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. |
| 5 | I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. |
| 6 | For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. |
| 7 | Thou {art} my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah. |
| 8 | I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. |
| 9 | Be ye not as the horse, {or} as the mule, {which} have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. |
| 10 | Many sorrows {shall be} to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about. |
| 11 | Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all {ye that are} upright in heart. |
| Chapter 33 |
| 1 | Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous: {for} praise is comely for the upright. |
| 2 | Praise the Lord with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and {an} instrument of ten strings. |
| 3 | Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise. |
| 4 | For the word of the Lord {is} right; and all his works {are done} in truth. |
| 5 | He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. |
| 6 | By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. |
| 7 | He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses. |
| 8 | Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. |
| 9 | For he spake, and it was {done}; he commanded, and it stood fast. |
| 10 | The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. |
| 11 | The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. |
| 12 | Blessed {is} the nation whose God {is} the Lord; {and} the people {whom} he hath chosen for his own inheritance. |
| 13 | The Lord looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men. |
| 14 | From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth. |
| 15 | He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works. |
| 16 | There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength. |
| 17 | An horse {is} a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver {any} by his great strength. |
| 18 | Behold, the eye of the Lord {is} upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; |
| 19 | To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. |
| 20 | Our soul waiteth for the Lord: he {is} our help and our shield. |
| 21 | For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. |
| 22 | Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we hope in thee. |
| Chapter 34 |
| 1 | I Will bless the Lord at all times: his praise {shall} continually {be} in my mouth. |
| 2 | My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear {thereof}, and be glad. |
| 3 | O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. |
| 4 | I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. |
| 5 | They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. |
| 6 | This poor man cried, and the Lord heard {him}, and saved him out of all his troubles. |
| 7 | The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. |
| 8 | O taste and see that the Lord {is} good: blessed {is} the man {that} trusteth in him. |
| 9 | O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for {there is} no want to them that fear him. |
| 10 | The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good {thing}. |
| 11 | Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. |
| 12 | What man {is he that} desireth life, {and} loveth {many} days, that he may see good? |
| 13 | Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. |
| 14 | Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. |
| 15 | The eyes of the Lord {are} upon the righteous, and his ears {are open} unto their cry. |
| 16 | The face of the Lord {is} against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. |
| 17 | {The righteous} cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. |
| 18 | The Lord {is} nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. |
| 19 | Many {are} the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. |
| 20 | He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken. |
| 21 | Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. |
| 22 | The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate. |
| Chapter 35 |
| 1 | Plead {my cause}, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. |
| 2 | Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help. |
| 3 | Draw out also the spear, and stop {the way} against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I {am} thy salvation. |
| 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. |
| 5 | Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord chase {them}. |
| 6 | Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the Lord persecute them. |
| 7 | For without cause have they hid for me their net {in} a pit, {which} without cause they have digged for my soul. |
| 8 | Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall. |
| 9 | And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord: it shall rejoice in his salvation. |
| 10 | All my bones shall say, Lord, who {is} like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him? |
| 11 | False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge {things} that I knew not. |
| 12 | They rewarded me evil for good {to} the spoiling of my soul. |
| 13 | But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing {was} sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. |
| 14 | I behaved myself as though {he had been} my friend {or} brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth {for his} mother. |
| 15 | But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: {yea}, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew {it} not; they did tear {me}, and ceased not: |
| 16 | With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. |
| 17 | Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. |
| 18 | I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people. |
| 19 | Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: {neither} let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause. |
| 20 | For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against {them that are} quiet in the land. |
| 21 | Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, {and} said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen {it}. |
| 22 | {This} thou hast seen, O Lord: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me. |
| 23 | Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, {even} unto my cause, my God and my Lord. |
| 24 | Judge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me. |
| 25 | Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up. |
| 26 | Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify {themselves} against me. |
| 27 | Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. |
| 28 | And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness {and} of thy praise all the day long. |
| Chapter 36 |
| 1 | The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, {that there is} no fear of God before his eyes. |
| 2 | For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful. |
| 3 | The words of his mouth {are} iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, {and} to do good. |
| 4 | He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way {that is} not good; he abhorreth not evil. |
| 5 | Thy mercy, O Lord, {is} in the heavens; {and} thy faithfulness {reacheth} unto the clouds. |
| 6 | Thy righteousness {is} like the great mountains; thy judgments {are} a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast. |
| 7 | How excellent {is} thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. |
| 8 | They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. |
| 9 | For with thee {is} the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light. |
| 10 | O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart. |
| 11 | Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me. |
| 12 | There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise. |
| Chapter 37 |
| 1 | Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. |
| 2 | For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. |
| 3 | Trust in the Lord, and do good; {so} shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. |
| 4 | Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. |
| 5 | Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring {it} to pass. |
| 6 | And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday. |
| 7 | Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. |
| 8 | Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. |
| 9 | For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth. |
| 10 | For yet a little while, and the wicked {shall} not {be}: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it {shall} not {be}. |
| 11 | But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. |
| 12 | The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. |
| 13 | The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming. |
| 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. |
| 15 | Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken. |
| 16 | A little that a righteous man hath {is} better than the riches of many wicked. |
| 17 | For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the Lord upholdeth the righteous. |
| 18 | The Lord knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever. |
| 19 | They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied. |
| 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. |
| 21 | The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth. |
| 22 | For {such as be} blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and {they that be} cursed of him shall be cut off. |
| 23 | The steps of a {good} man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way. |
| 24 | Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth {him with} his hand. |
| 25 | I have been young, and {now} am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. |
| 26 | {He is} ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed {is} blessed. |
| 27 | Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore. |
| 28 | For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. |
| 29 | The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever. |
| 30 | The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. |
| 31 | The law of his God {is} in his heart; none of his steps shall slide. |
| 32 | The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. |
| 33 | The Lord will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged. |
| 34 | Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see {it}. |
| 35 | I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. |
| 36 | Yet he passed away, and, lo, he {was} not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. |
| 37 | Mark the perfect {man}, and behold the upright: for the end of {that} man {is} peace. |
| 38 | But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off. |
| 39 | But the salvation of the righteous {is} of the Lord: {he is} their strength in the time of trouble. |
| 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. |
| Chapter 38 |
| 1 | O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. |
| 2 | For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. |
| 3 | {There is} no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither {is there any} rest in my bones because of my sin. |
| 4 | For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. |
| 5 | My wounds stink {and} are corrupt because of my foolishness. |
| 6 | I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. |
| 7 | For my loins are filled with a loathsome {disease}: and {there is} no soundness in my flesh. |
| 8 | I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. |
| 9 | Lord, all my desire {is} before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. |
| 10 | My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. |
| 11 | My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. |
| 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. |
| 13 | But I, as a deaf {man}, heard not; and {I was} as a dumb man {that} openeth not his mouth. |
| 14 | Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth {are} no reproofs. |
| 15 | For in thee, O Lord, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. |
| 16 | For I said, {Hear me}, lest {otherwise} they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify {themselves} against me. |
| 17 | For I {am} ready to halt, and my sorrow {is} continually before me. |
| 18 | For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. |
| 19 | But mine enemies {are} lively, {and} they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied. |
| 20 | They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow {the thing that} good {is}. |
| 21 | Forsake me not, O Lord: O my God, be not far from me. |
| 22 | Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation. |
| Chapter 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. |
| 2 | I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, {even} from good; and my sorrow was stirred. |
| 3 | My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: {then} spake I with my tongue, |
| 4 | Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it {is: that} I may know how frail I {am}. |
| 5 | Behold, thou hast made my days {as} an handbreadth; and mine age {is} as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state {is} altogether vanity. Selah. |
| 6 | Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up {riches}, and knoweth not who shall gather them. |
| 7 | And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope {is} in thee. |
| 8 | Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. |
| 9 | I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst {it}. |
| 10 | Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. |
| 11 | When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man {is} vanity. Selah. |
| 12 | Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I {am} a stranger with thee, {and} a sojourner, as all my fathers {were}. |
| 13 | O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. |
| Chapter 40 |
| 1 | I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. |
| 2 | He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, {and} established my goings. |
| 3 | And he hath put a new song in my mouth, {even} praise unto our God: many shall see it, {and} fear, and shall trust in the Lord. |
| 4 | Blessed {is} that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. |
| 5 | Many, O Lord my God, {are} thy wonderful works {which} thou hast done, and thy thoughts {which are} to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: {if} I would declare and speak {of them}, they are more than can be numbered. |
| 6 | Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. |
| 7 | Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book {it is} written of me, |
| 8 | I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law {is} within my heart. |
| 9 | I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest. |
| 10 | I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation. |
| 11 | Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me. |
| 12 | For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me. |
| 13 | Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, make haste to help me. |
| 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. |
| 15 | Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha. |
| 16 | Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified. |
| 17 | But I {am} poor and needy; {yet} the Lord thinketh upon me: thou {art} my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God. |
| Chapter 41 |
| 1 | Blessed {is} he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. |
| 2 | The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; {and} he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. |
| 3 | The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. |
| 4 | I said, Lord, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee. |
| 5 | Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish? |
| 6 | And if he come to see {me}, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; {when} he goeth abroad, he telleth {it}. |
| 7 | All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt. |
| 8 | An evil disease, {say they}, cleaveth fast unto him: and {now} that he lieth he shall rise up no more. |
| 9 | Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up {his} heel against me. |
| 10 | But thou, O Lord, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them. |
| 11 | By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. |
| 12 | And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever. |
| 13 | Blessed {be} the Lord God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen. |
| Chapter 42 |
| 1 | As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. |
| 2 | My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? |
| 3 | My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where {is} thy God? |
| 4 | When I remember these {things}, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday. |
| 5 | Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and {why} art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for {the} help of his countenance. |
| 6 | O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. |
| 7 | Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. |
| 8 | {Yet} the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song {shall be} with me, {and} my prayer unto the God of my life. |
| 9 | I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? |
| 10 | {As} with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where {is} thy God? |
| 11 | Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, {who is} the health of my countenance, and my God. |
| Chapter 43 |
| 1 | Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. |
| 2 | For thou {art} the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? |
| 3 | O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. |
| 4 | Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God. |
| 5 | Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, {who is} the health of my countenance, and my God. |
| Chapter 44 |
| 1 | We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, {what} work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. |
| 2 | {How} thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; {how} thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. |
| 3 | For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them. |
| 4 | Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. |
| 5 | Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. |
| 6 | For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. |
| 7 | But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us. |
| 8 | In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah. |
| 9 | But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. |
| 10 | Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves. |
| 11 | Thou hast given us like sheep {appointed} for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen. |
| 12 | Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase {thy wealth} by their price. |
| 13 | Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. |
| 14 | Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. |
| 15 | My confusion {is} continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, |
| 16 | For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger. |
| 17 | All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. |
| 18 | Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; |
| 19 | Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. |
| 20 | If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange God; |
| 21 | Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. |
| 22 | Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. |
| 23 | Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast {us} not off for ever. |
| 24 | Wherefore hidest thou thy face, {and} forgettest our affliction and our oppression? |
| 25 | For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. |
| 26 | Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake. |
| Chapter 45 |
| 1 | My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue {is} the pen of a ready writer. |
| 2 | Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. |
| 3 | Gird thy sword upon {thy} thigh, O {most} mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. |
| 4 | And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness {and} righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. |
| 5 | Thine arrows {are} sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; {whereby} the people fall under thee. |
| 6 | Thy throne, O God, {is} for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom {is} a right sceptre. |
| 7 | Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. |
| 8 | All thy garments {smell} of myrrh, and aloes, {and} cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad. |
| 9 | Kings’ daughters {were} among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir. |
| 10 | Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house; |
| 11 | So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he {is} thy Lord; and worship thou him. |
| 12 | And the daughter of Tyre {shall be there} with a gift; {even} the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour. |
| 13 | The king’s daughter {is} all glorious within: her clothing {is} of wrought gold. |
| 14 | She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee. |
| 15 | With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace. |
| 16 | Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth. |
| 17 | I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever. |
| Chapter 46 |
| 1 | God {is} our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. |
| 2 | Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; |
| 3 | {Though} the waters thereof roar {and} be troubled, {though} the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah. |
| 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. |
| 5 | God {is} in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, {and that} right early. |
| 6 | The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. |
| 7 | The Lord of hosts {is} with us; the God of Jacob {is} our refuge. Selah. |
| 8 | Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth. |
| 9 | He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. |
| 10 | Be still, and know that I {am} God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. |
| 11 | The Lord of hosts {is} with us; the God of Jacob {is} our refuge. Selah. |
| Chapter 47 |
| 1 | O Clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. |
| 2 | For the Lord most high {is} terrible; {he is} a great King over all the earth. |
| 3 | He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet. |
| 4 | He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah. |
| 5 | God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet. |
| 6 | Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises. |
| 7 | For God {is} the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding. |
| 8 | God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness. |
| 9 | The princes of the people are gathered together, {even} the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth {belong} unto God: he is greatly exalted. |
| Chapter 48 |
| 1 | Great {is} the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, {in} the mountain of his holiness. |
| 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. |
| 3 | God is known in her palaces for a refuge. |
| 4 | For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together. |
| 5 | They saw {it, and} so they marvelled; they were troubled, {and} hasted away. |
| 6 | Fear took hold upon them there, {and} pain, as of a woman in travail. |
| 7 | Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind. |
| 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. |
| 9 | We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple. |
| 10 | According to thy name, O God, so {is} thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness. |
| 11 | Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments. |
| 12 | Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. |
| 13 | Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell {it} to the generation following. |
| 14 | For this God {is} our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide {even} unto death. |
| Chapter 49 |
| 1 | Hear this, all {ye} people; give ear, all {ye} inhabitants of the world: |
| 2 | Both low and high, rich and poor, together. |
| 3 | My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart {shall be} of understanding. |
| 4 | I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp. |
| 5 | Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, {when} the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about? |
| 6 | They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; |
| 7 | None {of them} can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: |
| 8 | (For the redemption of their soul {is} precious, and it ceaseth for ever:) |
| 9 | That he should still live for ever, {and} not see corruption. |
| 10 | For he seeth {that} wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. |
| 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. |
| 12 | Nevertheless man {being} in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts {that} perish. |
| 13 | This their way {is} their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah. |
| 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. |
| 15 | But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah. |
| 16 | Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased; |
| 17 | For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him. |
| 18 | Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and {men} will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself. |
| 19 | He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light. |
| 20 | Man {that is} in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts {that} perish. |
| Chapter 50 |
| 1 | The mighty God, {even} the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. |
| 2 | Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. |
| 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. |
| 4 | He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people. |
| 5 | Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. |
| 6 | And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is {judge} himself. Selah. |
| 7 | Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I {am} God, {even} thy God. |
| 8 | I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings {to have been} continually before me. |
| 9 | I will take no bullock out of thy house, {nor} he goats out of thy folds. |
| 10 | For every beast of the forest {is} mine, {and} the cattle upon a thousand hills. |
| 11 | I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field {are} mine. |
| 12 | If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world {is} mine, and the fulness thereof. |
| 13 | Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? |
| 14 | Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: |
| 15 | And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. |
| 16 | But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or {that} thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? |
| 17 | Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. |
| 18 | When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. |
| 19 | Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. |
| 20 | Thou sittest {and} speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son. |
| 21 | These {things} hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether {such an one} as thyself: {but} I will reprove thee, and set {them} in order before thine eyes. |
| 22 | Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear {you} in pieces, and {there be} none to deliver. |
| 23 | Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation {aright} will {I} shew the salvation of God. |
| Chapter 51 |
| 1 | Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. |
| 2 | Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. |
| 3 | For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin {is} ever before me. |
| 4 | Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done {this} evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, {and} be clear when thou Judgest. |
| 5 | Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. |
| 6 | Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden {part} thou shalt make me to know wisdom. |
| 7 | Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. |
| 8 | Make me to hear joy and gladness; {that} the bones {which} thou hast broken may rejoice. |
| 9 | Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. |
| 10 | Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. |
| 11 | Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. |
| 12 | Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me {with thy} free spirit. |
| 13 | {Then} will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. |
| 14 | Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: {and} my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. |
| 15 | O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. |
| 16 | For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give {it}: thou delightest not in burnt offering. |
| 17 | The sacrifices of God {are} a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. |
| 18 | Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. |
| 19 | Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar. |
| Chapter 52 |
| 1 | Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God {endureth} continually. |
| 2 | Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully. |
| 3 | Thou lovest evil more than good; {and} lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. |
| 4 | Thou lovest all devouring words, O {thou} deceitful tongue. |
| 5 | God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall {take} thee away, and pluck thee out of {thy} dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. |
| 6 | The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him: |
| 7 | Lo, {this is} the man {that} made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, {and} strengthened himself in his wickedness. |
| 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. |
| 9 | I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done {it}: and I will wait on thy name; for {it is} good before thy saints. |
| Chapter 53 |
| 1 | The fool hath said in his heart, {There is} no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: {there is} none that doeth good. |
| 2 | God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were {any} that did understand, that did seek God. |
| 3 | Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; {there is} none that doeth good, no, not one. |
| 4 | Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people {as} they eat bread: they have not called upon God. |
| 5 | There were they in great fear, {where} no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth {against} thee: thou hast put {them} to shame, because God hath despised them. |
| 6 | Oh that the salvation of Israel were {come out} of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and {Israel} shall be glad. |
| Chapter 54 |
| 1 | Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength. |
| 2 | Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth. |
| 3 | For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah. |
| 4 | Behold, God {is} mine helper: the Lord {is} with them that uphold my soul. |
| 5 | He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth. |
| 6 | I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O Lord; for {it is} good. |
| 7 | For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and mine eye hath seen {his desire} upon mine enemies. |
| Chapter 55 |
| 1 | Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. |
| 2 | Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise; |
| 3 | Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me. |
| 4 | My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. |
| 5 | Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. |
| 6 | And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! {for then} would I fly away, and be at rest. |
| 7 | Lo, {then} would I wander far off, {and} remain in the wilderness. Selah. |
| 8 | I would hasten my escape from the windy storm {and} tempest. |
| 9 | Destroy, O Lord, {and} divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. |
| 10 | Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow {are} in the midst of it. |
| 11 | Wickedness {is} in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets. |
| 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: |
| 13 | But {it was} thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. |
| 14 | We took sweet counsel together, {and} walked unto the house of God in company. |
| 15 | Let death seize upon them, {and} let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness {is} in their dwellings, {and} among them. |
| 16 | As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me. |
| 17 | Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice. |
| 18 | He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle {that was} against me: for there were many with me. |
| 19 | God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God. |
| 20 | He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant. |
| 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. |
| 22 | Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. |
| 23 | But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee. |
| Chapter 56 |
| 1 | Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me. |
| 2 | Mine enemies would daily swallow {me} up: for {they be} many that fight against me, O thou most High. |
| 3 | What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. |
| 4 | In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. |
| 5 | Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts {are} against me for evil. |
| 6 | They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul. |
| 7 | Shall they escape by iniquity? in {thine} anger cast down the people, O God. |
| 8 | Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: {are they} not in thy book? |
| 9 | When I cry {unto thee}, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God {is} for me. |
| 10 | In God will I praise {his} word: in the Lord will I praise {his} word. |
| 11 | In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me. |
| 12 | Thy vows {are} upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee. |
| 13 | For thou hast delivered my soul from death: {wilt} not {thou deliver} my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living? |
| Chapter 57 |
| 1 | Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until {these} calamities be overpast. |
| 2 | I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth {all things} for me. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 5 | Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; {let} thy glory {be} above all the earth. |
| 6 | They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen {themselves}. Selah. |
| 7 | My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. |
| 8 | Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I {myself} will awake early. |
| 9 | I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations. |
| 10 | For thy mercy {is} great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds. |
| 11 | Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: {let} thy glory {be} above all the earth. |
| Chapter 58 |
| 1 | Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? |
| 2 | Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. |
| 3 | The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. |
| 4 | Their poison {is} like the poison of a serpent: {they are} like the deaf adder {that} stoppeth her ear; |
| 5 | Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. |
| 6 | Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord. |
| 7 | Let them melt away as waters {which} run continually: {when} he bendeth {his bow to shoot} his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces. |
| 8 | As a snail {which} melteth, let {every one of them} pass away: {like} the untimely birth of a woman, {that} they may not see the sun. |
| 9 | Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in {his} wrath. |
| 10 | The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. |
| 11 | So that a man shall say, Verily {there is} a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. |
| Chapter 59 |
| 1 | Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me. |
| 2 | Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men. |
| 3 | For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not {for} my transgression, nor {for} my sin, O Lord. |
| 4 | They run and prepare themselves without {my} fault: awake to help me, and behold. |
| 5 | Thou therefore, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah. |
| 6 | They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city. |
| 7 | Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords {are} in their lips: for who, {say they}, doth hear? |
| 8 | But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision. |
| 9 | {Because of} his strength will I wait upon thee: for God {is} my defence. |
| 10 | The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see {my desire} upon mine enemies. |
| 11 | Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield. |
| 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. |
| 13 | Consume {them} in wrath, consume {them}, that they {may} not {be}: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah. |
| 14 | And at evening let them return; {and} let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city. |
| 15 | Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied. |
| 16 | But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble. |
| 17 | Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God {is} my defence, and {the} God of my mercy. |
| Chapter 60 |
| 1 | O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again. |
| 2 | Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh. |
| 3 | Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment. |
| 4 | Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah. |
| 5 | That thy beloved may be delivered; save {with} thy right hand, and hear me. |
| 6 | God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth. |
| 7 | Gilead {is} mine, and Manasseh {is} mine; Ephraim also is {the} strength of mine head; Judah {is} my lawgiver; |
| 8 | Moab {is} my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me. |
| 9 | Who will bring me {into} the strong city? who will lead me into Edom? |
| 10 | {Wilt} not thou, O God, {which} hadst cast us off? and {thou}, O God, {which} didst not go out with our armies? |
| 11 | Give us help from trouble: for vain {is} the help of man. |
| 12 | Through God we shall do valiantly: for he {it is that} shall tread down our enemies. |