The Book of Psalms

   Book I


Psalm 1

{1:1} Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the
      ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the
      seat of the scornful.
{1:2} But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth
      he meditate day and night.
{1:3} And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that
      bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not
      wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
{1:4} The ungodly [are] not so: but [are] like the chaff which the wind
      driveth away.
{1:5} Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor
      sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
{1:6} For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the
      ungodly shall perish.



Psalm 2

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

{2:2} The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take
      counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed,
      [saying,]
{2:3} Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from
      us.
{2:4} He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have
      them in derision.
{2:5} Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his
      sore displeasure.
{2:6} Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
{2:7} I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou [art]
      my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
{2:8} Ask of me, and I shall give [thee] the heathen [for] thine
      inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth [for] thy
      possession.
{2:9} Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in
      pieces like a potter's vessel.
{2:10} Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of
      the earth.
{2:11} Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
{2:12} Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish [from] the way,
      when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed [are] all they
      that put their trust in him.


Psalm 3

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



   {3:1} LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many [are] they
      that rise up against me.
{3:2} Many [there be] which say of my soul, [There is] no help for him
      in God. Selah.
{3:3} But thou, O LORD, [art] a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter
      up of mine head.
{3:4} I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his
      holy hill. Selah.
{3:5} I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
{3:6} I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set
      [themselves] against me round about.
{3:7} Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine
      enemies [upon] the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the
      ungodly.
{3:8} Salvation [belongeth] unto the LORD: thy blessing [is] upon thy
      people. Selah.


Psalm 4

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



   {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.
{4:2} O ye sons of men, how long [will ye turn] my glory into shame?
      [how long] will ye love vanity, [and] seek after leasing? Selah.
{4:3} But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for
      himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.
{4:4} Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your
      bed, and be still. Selah.
{4:5} Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the
      LORD.
{4:6} [There be] many that say, Who will shew us [any] good? LORD, lift
      thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
{4:7} Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time [that]
      their corn and their wine increased.
{4:8} I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only
      makest me dwell in safety.


Psalm 5

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



   {5:1} Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
{5:2} Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto
      thee will I pray.
{5:3} My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning
      will I direct [my prayer] unto thee, and will look up.
{5:4} For thou [art] not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness:
      neither shall evil dwell with thee.
{5:5} The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers
      of iniquity.
{5:6} Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor
      the bloody and deceitful man.
{5:7} But as for me, I will come [into] thy house in the multitude of
      thy mercy: [and] in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy
      temple.
{5:8} Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies;
      make thy way straight before my face.
{5:9} For [there is] no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part
      [is] very wickedness; their throat [is] an open sepulchre; they
      flatter with their tongue.
{5:10} Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels;
      cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they
      have rebelled against thee.
{5:11} But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them
      ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also
      that love thy name be joyful in thee.
{5:12} For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou
      compass him as [with] a shield.


Psalm 6

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



   {6:1} O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in
      thy hot displeasure.
{6:2} Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I [am] weak: O LORD, heal me; for
      my bones are vexed.
{6:3} My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
{6:4} Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.
{6:5} For in death [there is] no remembrance of thee: in the grave who
      shall give thee thanks?
{6:6} I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim;
      I water my couch with my tears.
{6:7} Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of
      all mine enemies.
{6:8} Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath
      heard the voice of my weeping.
{6:9} The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my
      prayer.
{6:10} Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return
      [and] be ashamed suddenly.


Psalm 7

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



   {7:1} O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all
      them that persecute me, and deliver me:
{7:2} Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending [it] in pieces, while
      [there is] none to deliver.
{7:3} O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my
      hands;
{7:4} If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea,
      I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
{7:5} Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take [it;] yea, let him
      tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the
      dust. Selah.
{7:6} Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the
      rage of mine enemies: and awake for me [to] the judgment [that]
      thou hast commanded.
{7:7} So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for
      their sakes therefore return thou on high.
{7:8} The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to
      my righteousness, and according to mine integrity [that is] in me.
{7:9} Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish
      the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
{7:10} My defence [is] of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
{7:11} God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry [with the wicked]
      every day.
{7:12} If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow,
      and made it ready.
{7:13} He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he
      ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
{7:14} Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived
      mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
{7:15} He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch
      [which] he made.
{7:16} His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent
      dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
{7:17} I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will
      sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.


Psalm 8

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



   {8:1} O LORD our Lord, how excellent [is] thy name in all the earth!
      who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
{8:2} Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained
      strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the
      enemy and the avenger.
{8:3} When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon
      and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
{8:4} What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man,
      that thou visitest him?
{8:5} For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast
      crowned him with glory and honour.
{8:6} Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;
      thou hast put all [things] under his feet:
{8:7} All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
{8:8} The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, [and whatsoever]
      passeth through the paths of the seas.
{8:9} O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!


Psalm 9

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



   {9:1} I will praise [thee,] O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew
      forth all thy marvellous works.
{9:2} I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy
      name, O thou most High.
{9:3} When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at
      thy presence.
{9:4} For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in
      the throne judging right.
{9:5} Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked,
      thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
{9:6} O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou
      hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
{9:7} But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne
      for judgment.
{9:8} And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister
      judgment to the people in uprightness.
{9:9} The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in
      times of trouble.
{9:10} And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for
      thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
{9:11} Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among
      the people his doings.
{9:12} When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he
      forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
{9:13} Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble [which I suffer]
      of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of
      death:
{9:14} That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the
      daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
{9:15} The heathen are sunk down in the pit [that] they made: in the
      net which they hid is their own foot taken.
{9:16} The LORD is known [by] the judgment [which] he executeth: the
      wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
{9:17} The wicked shall be turned into hell, [and] all the nations that
      forget God.
{9:18} For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of
      the poor shall [not] perish for ever.
{9:19} Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in
      thy sight.
{9:20} Put them in fear, O LORD: [that] the nations may know themselves
      [to be but] men. Selah.


Psalm 10

{10:1} Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? [why] hidest thou [thyself]
      in times of trouble?
{10:2} The wicked in [his] pride doth persecute the poor: let them be
      taken in the devices that they have imagined.
{10:3} For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the
      covetous, [whom] the LORD abhorreth.
{10:4} The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek
      [after God:] God [is] not in all his thoughts.
{10:5} His ways are always grievous; thy judgments [are] far above out
      of his sight: [as for] all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
{10:6} He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for [I shall]
      never [be] in adversity.
{10:7} His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his
      tongue [is] mischief and vanity.
{10:8} He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret
      places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set
      against the poor.
{10:9} He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait
      to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him
      into his net.
{10:10} He croucheth, [and] humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by
      his strong ones.
{10:11} He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his
      face; he will never see [it.]
{10:12} Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
{10:13} Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his
      heart, Thou wilt not require [it.]
{10:14} Thou hast seen [it;] for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to
      requite [it] with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto
      thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
{10:15} Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil [man:] seek out
      his wickedness [till] thou find none.
{10:16} The LORD [is] King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished
      out of his land.
{10:17} LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt
      prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
{10:18} To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the
      earth may no more oppress.


Psalm 11

To the chief Musician, A [Psalm] of David.



   {11:1} In the LORD put I my trust: How say ye to my soul, Flee [as]
      a bird to your mountain?
{11:2} For, lo, the wicked bend [their] bow, they make ready their
      arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright
      in heart.
{11:3} If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
{11:4} The LORD [is] in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne [is] in
      heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
{11:5} The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that
      loveth violence his soul hateth.
{11:6} Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an
      horrible tempest: [this shall be] the portion of their cup.
{11:7} For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance
      doth behold the upright.


Psalm 12

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



   {12:1} Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail
      from among the children of men.
{12:2} They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: [with]
      flattering lips [and] with a double heart do they speak.
{12:3} The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, [and] the tongue
      that speaketh proud things:
{12:4} Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips [are]
      our own: who [is] lord over us?
{12:5} For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy,
      now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set [him] in safety
      [from him that] puffeth at him.
{12:6} The words of the LORD [are] pure words: [as] silver tried in a
      furnace of earth, purified seven times.
{12:7} Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this
      generation for ever.
{12:8} The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.


Psalm 13

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.



   {13:1} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt
      thou hide thy face from me?
{13:2} How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrow in my
      heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
{13:3} Consider [and] hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I
      sleep the [sleep of] death;
{13:4} Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; [and] those
      that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
{13:5} But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy
      salvation.
{13:6} I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully
      with me.


Psalm 14

To the chief Musician, A [Psalm] of David.



   {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.
{14:2} The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to
      see if there were any that did understand, [and] seek God.
{14:3} They are all gone aside, they are [all] together become filthy:
      [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.
{14:4} Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my
      people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
{14:5} There were they in great fear: for God [is] in the generation of
      the righteous.
{14:6} Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD [is]
      his refuge.
{14:7} Oh that the salvation of Israel [were come] out of Zion! when
      the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall
      rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad.


Psalm 15

A Psalm of David.



   {15:1} LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in
      thy holy hill?
{15:2} He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and
      speaketh the truth in his heart.
{15:3} [He that] backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his
      neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
{15:4} In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them
      that fear the LORD. [He that] sweareth to [his own] hurt, and
      changeth not.
{15:5} [He that] putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward
      against the innocent. He that doeth these [things] shall never be
      moved.


Psalm 16

Michtam of David.



   {16:1} Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
{16:2} [O my soul,] thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou [art] my Lord:
      my goodness [extendeth] not to thee;
{16:3} [But] to the saints that [are] in the earth, and [to] the
      excellent, in whom [is] all my delight.
{16:4} Their sorrows shall be multiplied [that] hasten [after] another
      [god:] their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take
      up their names into my lips.
{16:5} The LORD [is] the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup:
      thou maintainest my lot.
{16:6} The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant [places;] yea, I have a
      goodly heritage.
{16:7} I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also
      instruct me in the night seasons.
{16:8} I have set the LORD always before me: because [he is] at my
      right hand, I shall not be moved.
{16:9} Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh
      also shall rest in hope.
{16:10} For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou
      suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
{16:11} Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence [is]
      fulness of joy; at thy right hand [there are] pleasures for
      evermore.


Psalm 17

A Prayer of David.



   {17:1} Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my
      prayer, [that goeth] not out of feigned lips.
{17:2} Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes
      behold the things that are equal.
{17:3} Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited [me] in the
      night; thou hast tried me, [and] shalt find nothing; I am
      purposed [that] my mouth shall not transgress.
{17:4} Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept
      [me from] the paths of the destroyer.
{17:5} Hold up my goings in thy paths, [that] my footsteps slip not.
{17:6} I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline
      thine ear unto me, [and hear] my speech.
{17:7} 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.]
{17:8} Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy
      wings,
{17:9} From the wicked that oppress me, [from] my deadly enemies, [who]
      compass me about.
{17:10} They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak
      proudly.
{17:11} They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their
      eyes bowing down to the earth;
{17:12} Like as a lion [that] is greedy of his prey, and as it were a
      young lion lurking in secret places.
{17:13} Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul
      from the wicked, [which is] thy sword:
{17:14} From men [which are] thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world,
      [which have] their portion in [this] life, and whose belly thou
      fillest with thy hid [treasure:] they are full of children, and
      leave the rest of their [substance] to their babes.
{17:15} As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be
      satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.


Psalm 18

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



   {18:1} I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
{18:2} The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my
      God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn
      of my salvation, [and] my high tower.
{18:3} I will call upon the LORD, [who is worthy] to be praised: so
      shall I be saved from mine enemies.
{18:4} The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men
      made me afraid.
{18:5} The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death
      prevented me.
{18:6} In my distress I called 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.
{18:7} Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the
      hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
{18:8} There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his
      mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
{18:9} He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness [was]
      under his feet.
{18:10} And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon
      the wings of the wind.
{18:11} He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him
      [were] dark waters [and] thick clouds of the skies.
{18:12} At the brightness [that was] before him his thick clouds
      passed, hail [stones] and coals of fire.
{18:13} The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave
      his voice; hail [stones] and coals of fire.
{18:14} Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot
      out lightnings, and discomfited them.
{18:15} Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of
      the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of
      the breath of thy nostrils.
{18:16} He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
{18:17} He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated
      me: for they were too strong for me.
{18:18} They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was
      my stay.
{18:19} He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me,
      because he delighted in me.
{18:20} The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according
      to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
{18:21} For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly
      departed from my God.
{18:22} For all his judgments [were] before me, and I did not put away
      his statutes from me.
{18:23} I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine
      iniquity.
{18:24} Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my
      righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his
      eyesight.
{18:25} With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an
      upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
{18:26} With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward
      thou wilt shew thyself froward.
{18:27} For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down
      high looks.
{18:28} For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten
      my darkness.
{18:29} For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I
      leaped over a wall.
{18:30} [As for] God, his way [is] perfect: the word of the LORD is
      tried: he [is] a buckler to all those that trust in him.
{18:31} For who [is] God save the LORD? or who [is] a rock save our God?
{18:32} [It is] God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way
      perfect.
{18:33} He maketh my feet like hinds' [feet,] and setteth me upon my
      high places.
{18:34} He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken
      by mine arms.
{18:35} Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy
      right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me
      great.
{18:36} Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
{18:37} I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I
      turn again till they were consumed.
{18:38} I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are
      fallen under my feet.
{18:39} For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou
      hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
{18:40} Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might
      destroy them that hate me.
{18:41} They cried, but [there was] none to save [them: even] unto the
      LORD, but he answered them not.
{18:42} Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did
      cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
{18:43} Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; [and]
      thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people [whom] I have
      not known shall serve me.
{18:44} As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers
      shall submit themselves unto me.
{18:45} The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close
      places.
{18:46} The LORD liveth; and blessed [be] my rock; and let the God of
      my salvation be exalted.
{18:47} [It is] God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
{18:48} He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up
      above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from
      the violent man.
{18:49} Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the
      heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.
{18:50} Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to
      his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.


Psalm 19

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.



   {19:1} The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament
      sheweth his handywork.
{19:2} Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth
      knowledge.
{19:3} [There is] no speech nor language, [where] their voice is not
      heard.
{19:4} Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to
      the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the
      sun,
{19:5} Which [is] as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, [and]
      rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
{19:6} His going forth [is] from the end of the heaven, and his circuit
      unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat
      thereof.
{19:7} The law of the LORD [is] perfect, converting the soul: the
      testimony of the LORD [is] sure, making wise the simple.
{19:8} The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart: the
      commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes.
{19:9} The fear of the LORD [is] clean, enduring for ever: the
      judgments of the LORD [are] true [and] righteous altogether.
{19:10} More to be desired [are they] than gold, yea, than much fine
      gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
{19:11} Moreover by them is thy servant warned: [and] in keeping of
      them [there is] great reward.
{19:12} Who can understand [his] errors? cleanse thou me from secret
      [faults.]
{19:13} Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous [sins;] let them
      not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall
      be innocent from the great transgression.
{19:14} Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be
      acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.


Psalm 20

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.



   {20:1} The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God
      of Jacob defend thee;
{20:2} Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of
      Zion;
{20:3} Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice;
      Selah.
{20:4} Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy
      counsel.
{20:5} We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we
      will set up [our] banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.
{20:6} Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him
      from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
{20:7} Some [trust] in chariots, and some in horses: but we will
      remember the name of the LORD our God.
{20:8} They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand
      upright.
{20:9} Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.


Psalm 21

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.



   {21:1} The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy
      salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
{21:2} Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden
      the request of his lips. Selah.
{21:3} For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou
      settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
{21:4} He asked life of thee, [and] thou gavest [it] him, [even] length
      of days for ever and ever.
{21:5} His glory [is] great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast
      thou laid upon him.
{21:6} For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him
      exceeding glad with thy countenance.
{21:7} For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the
      most High he shall not be moved.
{21:8} Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand
      shall find out those that hate thee.
{21:9} Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger:
      the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall
      devour them.
{21:10} Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed
      from among the children of men.
{21:11} For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a
      mischievous device, [which] they are not able [to perform.]
{21:12} Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, [when] thou
      shalt make ready [thine arrows] upon thy strings against the face
      of them.
{21:13} Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: [so] will we sing
      and praise thy power.


Psalm 22

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



   {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?
{22:2} O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the
      night season, and am not silent.
{22:3} But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the praises of
      Israel.
{22:4} Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst
      deliver them.
{22:5} They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee,
      and were not confounded.
{22:6} But I [am] a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised
      of the people.
{22:7} All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip,
      they shake the head [saying,]
{22:8} He trusted on the LORD [that] he would deliver him: let him
      deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
{22:9} But thou [art] he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make
      me hope [when I was] upon my mother's breasts.
{22:10} I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou [art] my God from my
      mother's belly.
{22:11} Be not far from me; for trouble [is] near; for [there is] none
      to help.
{22:12} Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have
      beset me round.
{22:13} They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening and a
      roaring lion.
{22:14} I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint:
      my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
{22:15} My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth
      to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
{22:16} For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have
      inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
{22:17} I may tell all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me.
{22:18} They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
{22:19} But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee
      to help me.
{22:20} Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of
      the dog.
{22:21} Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the
      horns of the unicorns.
{22:22} I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the
      congregation will I praise thee.
{22:23} Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob,
      glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
{22:24} For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the
      afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he
      cried unto him, he heard.
{22:25} My praise [shall be] of thee in the great congregation: I will
      pay my vows before them that fear him.
{22:26} The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD
      that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
{22:27} All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the
      LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before
      thee.
{22:28} For the kingdom [is] the LORD'S: and he [is] the governor among
      the nations.
{22:29} All [they that 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.
{22:30} A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a
      generation.
{22:31} They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a
      people that shall be born, that he hath done [this.]


Psalm 23

A Psalm of David.



   {23:1} The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want.
{23:2} He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside
      the still waters.
{23:3} He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of
      righteousness for his name's sake.
{23:4} 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.
{23:5} Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine
      enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
{23:6} Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my
      life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.


Psalm 24

A Psalm of David.



   {24:1} The earth [is] the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the
      world, and they that dwell therein.
{24:2} For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon
      the floods.
{24:3} Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand
      in his holy place?
{24:4} He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted
      up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
{24:5} He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness
      from the God of his salvation.
{24:6} This [is] the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy
      face, O Jacob. Selah.
{24:7} Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye
      everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
{24:8} Who [is] this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the
      LORD mighty in battle.
{24:9} Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift [them] up, ye
      everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
{24:10} Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he [is] the King
      of glory. Selah.


Psalm 25

A [Psalm] of David.



   {25:1} Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
{25:2} O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine
      enemies triumph over me.
{25:3} Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed
      which transgress without cause.
{25:4} Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.
{25:5} Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou [art] the God of my
      salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
{25:6} Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses;
      for they [have been] ever of old.
{25:7} Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions:
      according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O
      LORD.
{25:8} Good and upright [is] the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners
      in the way.
{25:9} The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach
      his way.
{25:10} All the paths of the LORD [are] mercy and truth unto such as
      keep his covenant and his testimonies.
{25:11} For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it [is]
      great.
{25:12} What man [is] he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in
      the way [that] he shall choose.
{25:13} His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the
      earth.
{25:14} The secret of the LORD [is] with them that fear him; and he
      will shew them his covenant.
{25:15} Mine eyes [are] ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my
      feet out of the net.
{25:16} Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I [am] desolate
      and afflicted.
{25:17} The troubles of my heart are enlarged: [O] bring thou me out of
      my distresses.
{25:18} Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
{25:19} Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with
      cruel hatred.
{25:20} O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I
      put my trust in thee.
{25:21} Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
{25:22} Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.


Psalm 26

A [Psalm] of David.



   {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.
{26:2} Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
{26:3} For thy lovingkindness [is] before mine eyes: and I have walked
      in thy truth.
{26:4} I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with
      dissemblers.
{26:5} I have hated the congregation of evildoers; and will not sit
      with the wicked.
{26:6} I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine
      altar, O LORD:
{26:7} That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of
      all thy wondrous works.
{26:8} LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place
      where thine honour dwelleth.
{26:9} Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
{26:10} In whose hands [is] mischief, and their right hand is full of
      bribes.
{26:11} But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be
      merciful unto me.
{26:12} My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I
      bless the LORD.


Psalm 27

A [Psalm] of David.



   {27:1} The LORD [is] my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
      the LORD [is] the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
{27:2} When the wicked, [even] mine enemies and my foes, came upon me
      to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
{27:3} Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not
      fear: though war should rise against me, in this [will] I [be]
      confident.
{27:4} One [thing] have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after;
      that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my
      life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his
      temple.
{27:5} For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in
      the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up
      upon a rock.
{27:6} And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round
      about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of
      joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
{27:7} Hear, O LORD, [when] I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon
      me, and answer me.
{27:8} [When thou saidst,] Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee,
      Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
{27:9} Hide not thy face [far] from me; put not thy servant away in
      anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me,
      O God of my salvation.
{27:10} When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will
      take me up.
{27:11} Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because
      of mine enemies.
{27:12} Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false
      witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out
      cruelty.
{27:13} [I had fainted,] unless I had believed to see the goodness of
      the LORD in the land of the living.
{27:14} Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen
      thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.


Psalm 28

A [Psalm] of David.



   {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.
{28:2} Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I
      lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
{28:3} Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of
      iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief
      [is] in their hearts.
{28:4} Give them according to their deeds, and according to the
      wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their
      hands; render to them their desert.
{28:5} Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation
      of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
{28:6} Blessed [be] the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my
      supplications.
{28:7} The LORD [is] my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in
      him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and
      with my song will I praise him.
{28:8} The LORD [is] their strength, and he [is] the saving strength of
      his anointed.
{28:9} Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also,
      and lift them up for ever.


Psalm 29

A Psalm of David.



   {29:1} Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and
      strength.
{29:2} Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD
      in the beauty of holiness.
{29:3} The voice of the LORD [is] upon the waters: the God of glory
      thundereth: the LORD [is] upon many waters.
{29:4} The voice of the LORD [is] powerful; the voice of the LORD [is]
      full of majesty.
{29:5} The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD
      breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
{29:6} He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like
      a young unicorn.
{29:7} The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.
{29:8} The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh
      the wilderness of Kadesh.
{29:9} The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth
      the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of [his]
      glory.
{29:10} The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for
      ever.
{29:11} The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will
      bless his people with peace.


Psalm 30

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



   {30:1} I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and
      hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.
{30:2} O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
{30:3} O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast
      kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
{30:4} Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the
      remembrance of his holiness.
{30:5} For his anger [endureth but] a moment; in his favour is life:
      weeping may endure for a night, but joy [cometh] in the morning.
{30:6} And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
{30:7} LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong:
      thou didst hide thy face, [and] I was troubled.
{30:8} I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.
{30:9} What profit [is there] in my blood, when I go down to the pit?
      Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
{30:10} Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.
{30:11} Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put
      off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
{30:12} To the end that [my] glory may sing praise to thee, and not be
      silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.


Psalm 31

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.



   {31:1} In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed:
      deliver me in thy righteousness.
{31:2} Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong
      rock, for an house of defence to save me.
{31:3} For thou [art] my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's
      sake lead me, and guide me.
{31:4} Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for
      thou [art] my strength.
{31:5} Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O
      LORD God of truth.
{31:6} I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the
      LORD.
{31:7} I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast
      considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
{31:8} And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast
      set my feet in a large room.
{31:9} Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is
      consumed with grief, [yea,] my soul and my belly.
{31:10} For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my
      strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are
      consumed.
{31:11} I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among
      my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see
      me without fled from me.
{31:12} I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken
      vessel.
{31:13} For I have heard the slander of many: fear [was] on every side:
      while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take
      away my life.
{31:14} But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou [art] my God.
{31:15} My times [are] in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine
      enemies, and from them that persecute me.
{31:16} Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy
      mercies' sake.
{31:17} Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let
      the wicked be ashamed, [and] let them be silent in the grave.
{31:18} Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous
      things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
{31:19} [Oh] how great [is] thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for
      them that fear thee; [which] thou hast wrought for them that
      trust in thee before the sons of men!
{31:20} Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the
      pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from
      the strife of tongues.
{31:21} Blessed [be] the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous
      kindness in a strong city.
{31:22} For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes:
      nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I
      cried unto thee.
{31:23} O love the LORD, all ye his saints: [for] the LORD preserveth
      the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
{31:24} Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye
      that hope in the LORD.


Psalm 32

A [Psalm] of David, Maschil.



   {32:1} Blessed [is he whose] transgression [is] forgiven, [whose]
      sin [is] covered.
{32:2} Blessed [is] the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity,
      and in whose spirit [there is] no guile.
{32:3} When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all
      the day long.
{32:4} For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is
      turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
{32:5} I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not
      hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and
      thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
{32:6} For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time
      when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters
      they shall not come nigh unto him.
{32:7} Thou [art] my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble;
      thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
{32:8} I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt
      go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
{32:9} Be ye not as the horse, [or] as the mule, [which] have no
      understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle,
      lest they come near unto thee.
{32:10} Many sorrows [shall be] to the wicked: but he that trusteth in
      the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
{32:11} Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for
      joy, all [ye that are] upright in heart.


Psalm 33

{33:1} Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: [for] praise is comely for
      the upright.
{33:2} Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery [and]
      an instrument of ten strings.
{33:3} Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
{33:4} For the word of the LORD [is] right; and all his works [are
      done] in truth.
{33:5} He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the
      goodness of the LORD.
{33:6} By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host
      of them by the breath of his mouth.
{33:7} He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he
      layeth up the depth in storehouses.
{33:8} Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the
      world stand in awe of him.
{33:9} For he spake, and it was [done;] he commanded, and it stood fast.
{33:10} The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he
      maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
{33:11} The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his
      heart to all generations.
{33:12} Blessed [is] the nation whose God [is] the LORD: [and] the
      people [whom] he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
{33:13} The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
{33:14} From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the
      inhabitants of the earth.
{33:15} He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their
      works.
{33:16} There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty
      man is not delivered by much strength.
{33:17} An horse [is] a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver
      [any] by his great strength.
{33:18} Behold, the eye of the LORD [is] upon them that fear him, upon
      them that hope in his mercy;
{33:19} To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in
      famine.
{33:20} Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he [is] our help and our shield.
{33:21} For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in
      his holy name.
{33:22} Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.


Psalm 34

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



   {34:1} I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise [shall]
      continually [be] in my mouth.
{34:2} My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear
      [thereof,] and be glad.
{34:3} O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
{34:4} I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my
      fears.
{34:5} They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were
      not ashamed.
{34:6} This poor man cried, and the LORD heard [him,] and saved him out
      of all his troubles.
{34:7} The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him,
      and delivereth them.
{34:8} O taste and see that the LORD [is] good: blessed [is] the man
      [that] trusteth in him.
{34:9} O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for [there is] no want to them
      that fear him.
{34:10} The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek
      the LORD shall not want any good [thing.]
{34:11} Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear
      of the LORD.
{34:12} What man [is he that] desireth life, [and] loveth [many] days,
      that he may see good?
{34:13} Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
{34:14} Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
{34:15} The eyes of the LORD [are] upon the righteous, and his ears
      [are open] unto their cry.
{34:16} The face of the LORD [is] against them that do evil, to cut off
      the remembrance of them from the earth.
{34:17} [The righteous] cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them
      out of all their troubles.
{34:18} The LORD [is] nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and
      saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
{34:19} Many [are] the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD
      delivereth him out of them all.
{34:20} He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
{34:21} Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous
      shall be desolate.
{34:22} The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them
      that trust in him shall be desolate.


Psalm 35

A [Psalm] of David.



   {35:1} Plead [my cause,] O LORD, with them that strive with me:
      fight against them that fight against me.
{35:2} Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
{35:3} Draw out also the spear, and stop [the way] against them that
      persecute me: say unto my soul, I [am] thy salvation.
{35:4} Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul:
      let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my
      hurt.
{35:5} Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the
      LORD chase [them.]
{35:6} Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the
      LORD persecute them.
{35:7} For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit,
      [which] without cause they have digged for my soul.
{35:8} Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that
      he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him
      fall.
{35:9} And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his
      salvation.
{35:10} All my bones shall say, LORD, who [is] like 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?
{35:11} False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge [things]
      that I knew not.
{35:12} They rewarded me evil for good [to] the spoiling of my soul.
{35:13} But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing [was]
      sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned
      into mine own bosom.
{35:14} I behaved myself as though [he had been] my friend [or]
      brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth [for his]
      mother.
{35:15} But in 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:
{35:16} With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with
      their teeth.
{35:17} Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their
      destructions, my darling from the lions.
{35:18} I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will
      praise thee among much people.
{35:19} Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me:
      [neither] let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
{35:20} For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters
      against [them that are] quiet in the land.
{35:21} Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, [and] said, Aha,
      aha, our eye hath seen [it.]
{35:22} [This] thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not
      far from me.
{35:23} Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, [even] unto my
      cause, my God and my Lord.
{35:24} Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and
      let them not rejoice over me.
{35:25} Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let
      them not say, We have swallowed him up.
{35:26} Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that
      rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and
      dishonour that magnify [themselves] against me.
{35:27} Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous
      cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified,
      which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
{35:28} And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness [and] of thy
      praise all the day long.


Psalm 36

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



   {36:1} The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, [that
      there is] no fear of God before his eyes.
{36:2} For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be
      found to be hateful.
{36:3} The words of his mouth [are] iniquity and deceit: he hath left
      off to be wise, [and] to do good.
{36:4} He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way
      [that is] not good; he abhorreth not evil.
{36:5} Thy mercy, O LORD, [is] in the heavens; [and] thy faithfulness
      [reacheth] unto the clouds.
{36:6} Thy righteousness [is] like the great mountains; thy judgments
      [are] a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
{36:7} How excellent [is] thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the
      children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
{36:8} They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy
      house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy
      pleasures.
{36:9} For with thee [is] the fountain of life: in thy light shall we
      see light.
{36:10} O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy
      righteousness to the upright in heart.
{36:11} Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand
      of the wicked remove me.
{36:12} There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down,
      and shall not be able to rise.


Psalm 37

A [Psalm] of David.



   {37:1} Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou
      envious against the workers of iniquity.
{37:2} For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as
      the green herb.
{37:3} Trust in the LORD, and do good; [so] shalt thou dwell in the
      land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
{37:4} Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the
      desires of thine heart.
{37:5} Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall
      bring [it] to pass.
{37:6} And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy
      judgment as the noonday.
{37:7} Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself
      because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who
      bringeth wicked devices to pass.
{37:8} Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any
      wise to do evil.
{37:9} For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the
      LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
{37:10} For yet a little while, and the wicked [shall] not [be:] yea,
      thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it [shall] not [be.]
{37:11} But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight
      themselves in the abundance of peace.
{37:12} The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him
      with his teeth.
{37:13} The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is
      coming.
{37:14} The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow,
      to cast down the poor and needy, [and] to slay such as be of
      upright conversation.
{37:15} Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows
      shall be broken.
{37:16} A little that a righteous man hath [is] better than the riches
      of many wicked.
{37:17} For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD
      upholdeth the righteous.
{37:18} The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance
      shall be for ever.
{37:19} They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of
      famine they shall be satisfied.
{37:20} But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD [shall
      be] as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall
      they consume away.
{37:21} The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous
      sheweth mercy, and giveth.
{37:22} For [such as be] blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and
      [they that be] cursed of him shall be cut off.
{37:23} The steps of a [good] man are ordered by the LORD: and he
      delighteth in his way.
{37:24} Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD
      upholdeth [him with] his hand.
{37:25} I have been young, and [now] am old; yet have I not seen the
      righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
{37:26} [He is] ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed [is] blessed.
{37:27} Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
{37:28} For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints;
      they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be
      cut off.
{37:29} The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for
      ever.
{37:30} The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue
      talketh of judgment.
{37:31} The law of his God [is] in his heart; none of his steps shall
      slide.
{37:32} The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
{37:33} The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when
      he is judged.
{37:34} Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to
      inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see
      [it.]
{37:35} I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself
      like a green bay tree.
{37:36} Yet he passed away, and, lo, he [was] not: yea, I sought him,
      but he could not be found.
{37:37} Mark the perfect [man,] and behold the upright: for the end of
      [that] man [is] peace.
{37:38} But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of
      the wicked shall be cut off.
{37:39} But the salvation of the righteous [is] of the LORD: [he is]
      their strength in the time of trouble.
{37:40} And the LORD shall help them and deliver them: he shall deliver
      them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.


Psalm 38

A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.



   {38:1} O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy
      hot displeasure.
{38:2} For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
{38:3} [There is] no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger;
      neither [is there any] rest in my bones because of my sin.
{38:4} For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden
      they are too heavy for me.
{38:5} My wounds stink [and] are corrupt because of my foolishness.
{38:6} I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the
      day long.
{38:7} For my loins are filled with a loathsome [disease:] and [there
      is] no soundness in my flesh.
{38:8} I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the
      disquietness of my heart.
{38:9} Lord, all my desire [is] before thee; and my groaning is not hid
      from thee.
{38:10} My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of
      mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
{38:11} My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my
      kinsmen stand afar off.
{38:12} They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me:] and they
      that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits
      all the day long.
{38:13} But I, as a deaf [man,] heard not; and [I was] as a dumb man
      [that] openeth not his mouth.
{38:14} Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth [are]
      no reproofs.
{38:15} For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
{38:16} For I said, [Hear me,] lest [otherwise] they should rejoice
      over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify [themselves] against
      me.
{38:17} For I [am] ready to halt, and my sorrow [is] continually before
      me.
{38:18} For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
{38:19} But mine enemies [are] lively, [and] they are strong: and they
      that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
{38:20} They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries;
      because I follow [the thing that] good [is.]
{38:21} Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
{38:22} Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.


Psalm 39

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



   {39:1} I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my
      tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is
      before me.
{39:2} I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from good; and
      my sorrow was stirred.
{39:3} My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned:
      [then] spake I with my tongue,
{39:4} LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what
      it [is; that] I may know how frail I [am.]
{39:5} Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age
      [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state
      [is] altogether vanity. Selah.
{39:6} 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.
{39:7} And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope [is] in thee.
{39:8} Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach
      of the foolish.
{39:9} I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst [it.]
{39:10} Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of
      thine hand.
{39:11} When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou
      makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man
      [is] vanity. Selah.
{39:12} Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear 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.]
{39:13} O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and
      be no more.


Psalm 40

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.



   {40:1} I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and
      heard my cry.
{40:2} He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry
      clay, and set my feet upon a rock, [and] established my goings.
{40:3} And he hath put a new song in my mouth, [even] praise unto our
      God: many shall see [it,] and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
{40:4} Blessed [is] that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and
      respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
{40:5} Many, O LORD my God, [are] thy wonderful works [which] thou hast
      done, and thy thoughts [which are] 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.
{40:6} Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast
      thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not
      required.
{40:7} Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book [it is]
      written of me,
{40:8} I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my
      heart.
{40:9} I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I
      have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
{40:10} I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have
      declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed
      thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
{40:11} Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy
      lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
{40:12} For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities
      have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they
      are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth
      me.
{40:13} Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help
      me.
{40:14} Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my
      soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame
      that wish me evil.
{40:15} Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto
      me, Aha, aha.
{40:16} Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let
      such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
{40:17} But I [am] poor and needy; [yet] the Lord thinketh upon me:
      thou [art] my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.


Psalm 41

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.



   {41:1} Blessed [is] he that considereth the poor: the LORD will
      deliver him in time of trouble.
{41:2} The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; [and] he shall
      be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the
      will of his enemies.
{41:3} The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou
      wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
{41:4} I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have
      sinned against thee.
{41:5} Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name
      perish?
{41:6} And if he come to see [me,] he speaketh vanity: his heart
      gathereth iniquity to itself; [when] he goeth abroad, he telleth
      [it.]
{41:7} All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they
      devise my hurt.
{41:8} An evil disease, [say they,] cleaveth fast unto him: and [now]
      that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
{41:9} Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat
      of my bread, hath lifted up [his] heel against me.
{41:10} But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I
      may requite them.
{41:11} By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth
      not triumph over me.
{41:12} And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest
      me before thy face for ever.
{41:13} Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to
      everlasting. Amen, and Amen.

Book II

Psalm 42

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



   {42:1} As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my
      soul after thee, O God.
{42:2} My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come
      and appear before God?
{42:3} My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually
      say unto me, Where [is] thy God?
{42:4} When I remember these [things,] I pour out my soul in me: for I
      had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of
      God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept
      holyday.
{42:5} Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why [art] thou disquieted
      in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him [for] the
      help of his countenance.
{42:6} O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I
      remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites,
      from the hill Mizar.
{42:7} Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy
      waves and thy billows are gone over me.
{42:8} [Yet] the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime,
      and in the night his song [shall be] with me, [and] my prayer
      unto the God of my life.
{42:9} I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go
      I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
{42:10} [As] with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while
      they say daily unto me, Where [is] thy God?
{42:11} Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted
      within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is]
      the health of my countenance, and my God.


Psalm 43

{43:1} Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O
      deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
{43:2} For thou [art] the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me
      off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
{43:3} O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them
      bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
{43:4} Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy:
      yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
{43:5} Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted
      within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the
      health of my countenance, and my God.


Psalm 44

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



   {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.
{44:2} [How] thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and
      plantedst them; [how] thou didst afflict the people, and cast
      them out.
{44:3} For they got not the land in possession by their own sword,
      neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and
      thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a
      favour unto them.
{44:4} Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
{44:5} Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name
      will we tread them under that rise up against us.
{44:6} For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
{44:7} But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to
      shame that hated us.
{44:8} In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever.
      Selah.
{44:9} But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth
      with our armies.
{44:10} Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate
      us spoil for themselves.
{44:11} Thou hast given us like sheep [appointed] for meat; and hast
      scattered us among the heathen.
{44:12} Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase [thy
      wealth] by their price.
{44:13} Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a
      derision to them that are round about us.
{44:14} Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the
      head among the people.
{44:15} My confusion [is] continually before me, and the shame of my
      face hath covered me,
{44:16} For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by
      reason of the enemy and avenger.
{44:17} All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee,
      neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
{44:18} Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined
      from thy way;
{44:19} Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and
      covered us with the shadow of death.
{44:20} If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our
      hands to a strange god;
{44:21} Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of
      the heart.
{44:22} Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are
      counted as sheep for the slaughter.
{44:23} Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast [us] not off for
      ever.
{44:24} Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our affliction
      and our oppression?
{44:25} For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto
      the earth.
{44:26} Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.


Psalm 45

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



   {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.
{45:2} Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into
      thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
{45:3} Gird thy sword upon [thy] thigh, O [most] mighty, with thy glory
      and thy majesty.
{45:4} And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and
      meekness [and] righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee
      terrible things.
{45:5} Thine arrows [are] sharp in the heart of the king's enemies;
      [whereby] the people fall under thee.
{45:6} Thy throne, O God, [is] for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy
      kingdom [is] a right sceptre.
{45:7} Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God,
      thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy
      fellows.
{45:8} All thy garments [smell] of myrrh, and aloes, [and] cassia, out
      of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
{45:9} Kings' daughters [were] among thy honourable women: upon thy
      right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
{45:10} Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear;
      forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
{45:11} So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he [is] thy
      Lord; and worship thou him.
{45:12} And the daughter of Tyre [shall be there] with a gift; [even]
      the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
{45:13} The king's daughter [is] all glorious within: her clothing [is]
      of wrought gold.
{45:14} She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework:
      the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto
      thee.
{45:15} With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall
      enter into the king's palace.
{45:16} Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest
      make princes in all the earth.
{45:17} I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations:
      therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.


Psalm 46

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



   {46:1} God [is] our refuge and strength, a very present help in
      trouble.
{46:2} Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and
      though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
{46:3} [Though] the waters thereof roar [and] be troubled, [though] the
      mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
{46:4} [There is] a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city
      of God, the holy [place] of the tabernacles of the most High.
{46:5} God [is] in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall
      help her, [and that] right early.
{46:6} The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his
      voice, the earth melted.
{46:7} The LORD of hosts [is] with us; the God of Jacob [is] our
      refuge. Selah.
{46:8} Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath
      made in the earth.
{46:9} He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh
      the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot
      in the fire.
{46:10} Be still, and know that I [am] God: I will be exalted among the
      heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
{46:11} The LORD of hosts [is] with us; the God of Jacob [is] our
      refuge. Selah.


Psalm 47

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



   {47:1} O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the
      voice of triumph.
{47:2} For the LORD most high [is] terrible; [he is] a great King over
      all the earth.
{47:3} He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our
      feet.
{47:4} He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob
      whom he loved. Selah.
{47:5} God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a
      trumpet.
{47:6} Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King,
      sing praises.
{47:7} For God [is] the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with
      understanding.
{47:8} God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of
      his holiness.
{47:9} The princes of the people are gathered together, [even] the
      people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth
      [belong] unto God: he is greatly exalted.


Psalm 48

A Song [and] Psalm for the sons of Korah.



   {48:1} Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of
      our God, [in] the mountain of his holiness.
{48:2} Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, [is] mount
      Zion, [on] the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
{48:3} God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
{48:4} For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
{48:5} They saw [it, and] so they marvelled; they were troubled, [and]
      hasted away.
{48:6} Fear took hold upon them there, [and] pain, as of a woman in
      travail.
{48:7} Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
{48:8} As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of
      hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever.
      Selah.
{48:9} We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of
      thy temple.
{48:10} According to thy name, O God, so [is] thy praise unto the ends
      of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
{48:11} Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad,
      because of thy judgments.
{48:12} Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers
      thereof.
{48:13} Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may
      tell [it] to the generation following.
{48:14} For this God [is] our God for ever and ever: he will be our
      guide [even] unto death.


Psalm 49

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



   {49:1} Hear this, all [ye] people; give ear, all [ye] inhabitants of
      the world:
{49:2} Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
{49:3} My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart
      [shall be] of understanding.
{49:4} I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying
      upon the harp.
{49:5} Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, [when] the iniquity
      of my heels shall compass me about?
{49:6} They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the
      multitude of their riches;
{49:7} None [of them] can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to
      God a ransom for him:
{49:8} (For the redemption of their soul [is] precious, and it ceaseth
      for ever:)
{49:9} That he should still live for ever, [and] not see corruption.
{49:10} For he seeth [that] wise men die, likewise the fool and the
      brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
{49:11} Their inward thought [is, that] their houses [shall continue]
      for ever, [and] their dwelling places to all generations; they
      call [their] lands after their own names.
{49:12} Nevertheless man [being] in honour abideth not: he is like the
      beasts [that] perish.
{49:13} This their way [is] their folly: yet their posterity approve
      their sayings. Selah.
{49:14} Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on
      them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the
      morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their
      dwelling.
{49:15} But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he
      shall receive me. Selah.
{49:16} Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his
      house is increased;
{49:17} For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall
      not descend after him.
{49:18} Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and [men] will
      praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
{49:19} He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never
      see light.
{49:20} Man [that is] in honour, and understandeth not, is like the
      beasts [that] perish.


Psalm 50

A Psalm of Asaph.



   {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.
{50:2} Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
{50:3} Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall
      devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about
      him.
{50:4} He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that
      he may judge his people.
{50:5} Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a
      covenant with me by sacrifice.
{50:6} And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God [is]
      judge himself. Selah.
{50:7} Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will
      testify against thee: I [am] God, [even] thy God.
{50:8} I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt
      offerings, [to have been] continually before me.
{50:9} I will take no bullock out of thy house, [nor] he goats out of
      thy folds.
{50:10} For every beast of the forest [is] mine, [and] the cattle upon
      a thousand hills.
{50:11} I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of
      the field [are] mine.
{50:12} If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world [is]
      mine, and the fulness thereof.
{50:13} Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
{50:14} Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most
      High:
{50:15} And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee,
      and thou shalt glorify me.
{50:16} But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare
      my statutes, or [that] thou shouldest take my covenant in thy
      mouth?
{50:17} Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind
      thee.
{50:18} When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and
      hast been partaker with adulterers.
{50:19} Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
{50:20} Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou
      slanderest thine own mother's son.
{50:21} These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou
      thoughtest that I was altogether [such an one] as thyself: [but]
      I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.
{50:22} Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you] in
      pieces, and [there be] none to deliver.
{50:23} Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth
      [his] conversation [aright] will I shew the salvation of God.


Psalm 51

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



   {51:1} Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness:
      according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my
      transgressions.
{51:2} Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
{51:3} For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin [is] ever before
      me.
{51:4} Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done [this] evil in
      thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest,
      [and] be clear when thou judgest.
{51:5} Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother
      conceive me.
{51:6} Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the
      hidden [part] thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
{51:7} Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall
      be whiter than snow.
{51:8} Make me to hear joy and gladness; [that] the bones [which] thou
      hast broken may rejoice.
{51:9} Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
{51:10} Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit
      within me.
{51:11} Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy
      spirit from me.
{51:12} Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me [with
      thy] free spirit.
{51:13} [Then] will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall
      be converted unto thee.
{51:14} Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my
      salvation: [and] my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
{51:15} O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy
      praise.
{51:16} For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give [it:] thou
      delightest not in burnt offering.
{51:17} The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit: a broken and a
      contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
{51:18} Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of
      Jerusalem.
{51:19} Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of
      righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then
      shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.


Psalm 52

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



   {52:1} Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the
      goodness of God [endureth ]continually.
{52:2} Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working
      deceitfully.
{52:3} Thou lovest evil more than good; [and] lying rather than to
      speak righteousness. Selah.
{52:4} Thou lovest all devouring words, O [thou] deceitful tongue.
{52:5} God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee
      away, and pluck thee out of [thy] dwelling place, and root thee
      out of the land of the living. Selah.
{52:6} The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
{52:7} Lo, [this is] the man [that] made not God his strength; but
      trusted in the abundance of his riches, [and] strengthened
      himself in his wickedness.
{52:8} But I [am] like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust
      in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
{52:9} I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done [it:] and I
      will wait on thy name; for [it is] good before thy saints.


Psalm 53

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



   {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.
{53:2} God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if
      there were [any] that did understand, that did seek God.
{53:3} Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become
      filthy; [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.
{53:4} Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people
      [as] they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
{53:5} There 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.
{53:6} Oh that the salvation of Israel [were come] out of Zion! When
      God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall
      rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad.


Psalm 54

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



   {54:1} Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.
{54:2} Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
{54:3} For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after
      my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
{54:4} Behold, God [is] mine helper: the Lord [is] with them that
      uphold my soul.
{54:5} He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy
      truth.
{54:6} I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O
      LORD; for [it is] good.
{54:7} For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and mine eye hath
      seen [his desire] upon mine enemies.


Psalm 55

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



   {55:1} Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my
      supplication.
{55:2} Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a
      noise;
{55:3} Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of
      the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they
      hate me.
{55:4} My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are
      fallen upon me.
{55:5} Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath
      overwhelmed me.
{55:6} And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! [for then] would I
      fly away, and be at rest.
{55:7} Lo, [then] would I wander far off, [and] remain in the
      wilderness. Selah.
{55:8} I would hasten my escape from the windy storm [and] tempest.
{55:9} Destroy, O Lord, [and] divide their tongues: for I have seen
      violence and strife in the city.
{55:10} Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief
      also and sorrow [are] in the midst of it.
{55:11} Wickedness [is] in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart
      not from her streets.
{55:12} For [it was] not an enemy [that] reproached me; then I could
      have borne [it:] neither [was it] he that hated me [that] did
      magnify [himself] against me; then I would have hid myself from
      him:
{55:13} But [it was] thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine
      acquaintance.
{55:14} We took sweet counsel together, [and] walked unto the house of
      God in company.
{55:15} Let death seize upon them, [and] let them go down quick into
      hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, [and] among them.
{55:16} As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
{55:17} Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud:
      and he shall hear my voice.
{55:18} He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle [that was]
      against me: for there were many with me.
{55:19} God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old.
      Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
{55:20} He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with
      him: he hath broken his covenant.
{55:21} [The words] of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war
      [was] in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet [were]
      they drawn swords.
{55:22} Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he
      shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
{55:23} But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of
      destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half
      their days; but I will trust in thee.


Psalm 56

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



   {56:1} Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he
      fighting daily oppresseth me.
{56:2} Mine enemies would daily swallow [me] up: for [they be] many
      that fight against me, O thou most High.
{56:3} What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
{56:4} In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I
      will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
{56:5} Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts [are] against
      me for evil.
{56:6} They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark
      my steps, when they wait for my soul.
{56:7} Shall they escape by iniquity? in [thine] anger cast down the
      people, O God.
{56:8} Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle:
      [are they] not in thy book?
{56:9} When I cry [unto thee,] then shall mine enemies turn back: this
      I know; for God [is] for me.
{56:10} In God will I praise [his] word: in the LORD will I praise
      [his] word.
{56:11} In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can
      do unto me.
{56:12} Thy vows [are] upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
{56:13} For thou hast delivered my soul from death: [wilt] not [thou
      deliver] my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the
      light of the living?


Psalm 57

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



   {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.
{57:2} I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth [all
      things] for me.
{57:3} He shall send from heaven, and save [from] the reproach of him
      that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy
      and his truth.
{57:4} My soul [is] among lions: [and] I lie [even among] them that are
      set on fire, [even] the sons of men, whose teeth [are] spears and
      arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
{57:5} Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; [let] thy glory [be]
      above all the earth.
{57:6} They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down:
      they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are
      fallen [themselves.] Selah.
{57:7} My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and
      give praise.
{57:8} Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I [myself] will
      awake early.
{57:9} I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto
      thee among the nations.
{57:10} For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the
      clouds.
{57:11} Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: [let] thy glory [be]
      above all the earth.


Psalm 58

To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.



   {58:1} Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge
      uprightly, O ye sons of men?
{58:2} Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your
      hands in the earth.
{58:3} The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon
      as they be born, speaking lies.
{58:4} Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like
      the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear;
{58:5} Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never
      so wisely.
{58:6} Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great
      teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
{58:7} Let them melt away as waters [which] run continually: [when] he
      bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as cut in
      pieces.
{58:8} As a snail [which] melteth, let [every one of them] pass away:
      [like] the untimely birth of a woman, [that] they may not see the
      sun.
{58:9} Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as
      with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his] wrath.
{58:10} The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he
      shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
{58:11} So that a man shall say, Verily [there is] a reward for the
      righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.


Psalm 59

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



   {59:1} Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them
      that rise up against me.
{59:2} Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody
      men.
{59:3} For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered
      against me; not [for] my transgression, nor [for] my sin, O LORD.
{59:4} They run and prepare themselves without [my] fault: awake to
      help me, and behold.
{59:5} Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to
      visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked
      transgressors. Selah.
{59:6} They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go
      round about the city.
{59:7} Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords [are] in their
      lips: for who, [say they,] doth hear?
{59:8} But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the
      heathen in derision.
{59:9} [Because of] his strength will I wait upon thee: for God [is] my
      defence.
{59:10} The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see [my
      desire] upon mine enemies.
{59:11} Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy
      power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
{59:12} [For] the sin of their mouth [and] the words of their lips let
      them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying
      [which] they speak.
{59:13} Consume [them] in wrath, consume [them,] that they [may] not
      [be:] and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of
      the earth. Selah.
{59:14} And at evening let them return; [and] let them make a noise
      like a dog, and go round about the city.
{59:15} Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not
      satisfied.
{59:16} But I will sing of 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.
{59:17} Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God [is] my defence,
      [and] the God of my mercy.


Psalm 60

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



   {60:1} O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou
      hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
{60:2} Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal
      the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
{60:3} Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to
      drink the wine of astonishment.
{60:4} Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be
      displayed because of the truth. Selah.
{60:5} That thy beloved may be delivered; save [with] thy right hand,
      and hear me.
{60:6} God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide
      Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
{60:7} Gilead [is] mine, and Manasseh [is] mine; Ephraim also [is] the
      strength of mine head; Judah [is] my lawgiver;
{60:8} Moab [is] my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe:
      Philistia, triumph thou because of me.
{60:9} Who will bring me [into] the strong city? who will lead me into
      Edom?
{60:10} [Wilt] not thou, O God, [which] hadst cast us off? and [thou,]
      O God, [which] didst not go out with our armies?
{60:11} Give us help from trouble: for vain [is] the help of man.
{60:12} Through God we shall do valiantly: for he [it is that] shall
      tread down our enemies.


Psalm 61

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



   {61:1} Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.
{61:2} From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is
      overwhelmed: lead me to the rock [that] is higher than I.
{61:3} For thou hast been a shelter for me, [and] a strong tower from
      the enemy.
{61:4} I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the
      covert of thy wings. Selah.
{61:5} For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given [me] the
      heritage of those that fear thy name.
{61:6} Thou wilt prolong the king's life: [and] his years as many
      generations.
{61:7} He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth,
      [which] may preserve him.
{61:8} So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily
      perform my vows.


Psalm 62

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



   {62:1} Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him [cometh] my
      salvation.
{62:2} He only [is] my rock and my salvation; [he is] my defence; I
      shall not be greatly moved.
{62:3} How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be
      slain all of you: as a bowing wall [shall ye be, and as] a
      tottering fence.
{62:4} They only consult to cast [him] down from his excellency: they
      delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse
      inwardly. Selah.
{62:5} My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation [is] from
      him.
{62:6} He only [is] my rock and my salvation: [he is] my defence; I
      shall not be moved.
{62:7} In God [is] my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength,
      [and] my refuge, [is] in God.
{62:8} Trust in him at all times; [ye] people, pour out your heart
      before him: God [is] a refuge for us. Selah.
{62:9} Surely men of low degree [are] vanity, [and] men of high degree
      [are] a lie: to be laid in the balance, they [are] altogether
      [lighter] than vanity.
{62:10} Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if
      riches increase, set not your heart [upon them.]
{62:11} God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power
      [belongeth] unto God.
{62:12} Also unto thee, O Lord, [belongeth] mercy: for thou renderest
      to every man according to his work.


Psalm 63

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



   {63:1} O God, thou [art] my God; early will I seek thee: my soul
      thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and
      thirsty land, where no water is;
{63:2} To see thy power and thy glory, so [as] I have seen thee in the
      sanctuary.
{63:3} Because thy lovingkindness [is] better than life, my lips shall
      praise thee.
{63:4} Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in
      thy name.
{63:5} My soul shall be satisfied as [with] marrow and fatness; and my
      mouth shall praise [thee] with joyful lips:
{63:6} When I remember thee upon my bed, [and] meditate on thee in the
      [night] watches.
{63:7} Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy
      wings will I rejoice.
{63:8} My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
{63:9} But those [that] seek my soul, to destroy [it,] shall go into
      the lower parts of the earth.
{63:10} They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
{63:11} But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by
      him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be
      stopped.


Psalm 64

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.



   {64:1} Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from
      fear of the enemy.
{64:2} Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the
      insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
{64:3} Who whet their tongue like a sword, [and] bend [their bows to
      shoot] their arrows, [even] bitter words:
{64:4} That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they
      shoot at him, and fear not.
{64:5} They encourage themselves [in] an evil matter: they commune of
      laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
{64:6} They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search:
      both the inward [thought] of every one [of them,] and the heart,
      [is] deep.
{64:7} But God shall shoot at them [with] an arrow; suddenly shall they
      be wounded.
{64:8} So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all
      that see them shall flee away.
{64:9} And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for
      they shall wisely consider of his doing.
{64:10} The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in
      him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.


Psalm 65

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



   {65:1} Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall
      the vow be performed.
{65:2} O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
{65:3} Iniquities prevail against me: [as for] our transgressions, thou
      shalt purge them away.
{65:4} Blessed [is the man whom] thou choosest, and causest to approach
      [unto thee, that] he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be
      satisfied with the goodness of thy house, [even] of thy holy
      temple.
{65:5} By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God
      of our salvation; [who art] the confidence of all the ends of the
      earth, and of them that are afar off [upon] the sea:
{65:6} Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; [being] girded
      with power:
{65:7} Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves,
      and the tumult of the people.
{65:8} They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy
      tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to
      rejoice.
{65:9} Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest
      it with the river of God, [which] is full of water: thou
      preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
{65:10} Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the
      furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest
      the springing thereof.
{65:11} Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop
      fatness.
{65:12} They drop [upon] the pastures of the wilderness: and the little
      hills rejoice on every side.
{65:13} The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are
      covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.


Psalm 66

To the chief Musician, A Song [or] Psalm.



   {66:1} Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:
{66:2} Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious.
{66:3} Say unto God, How terrible [art thou in] thy works! through the
      greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto
      thee.
{66:4} All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they
      shall sing [to] thy name. Selah.
{66:5} Come and see the works of God: [he is] terrible [in his] doing
      toward the children of men.
{66:6} He turned the sea into dry [land:] they went through the flood
      on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
{66:7} He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations:
      let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
{66:8} O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to
      be heard:
{66:9} Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be
      moved.
{66:10} For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver
      is tried.
{66:11} Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon
      our loins.
{66:12} Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through
      fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy
      [place.]
{66:13} I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee
      my vows,
{66:14} Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I
      was in trouble.
{66:15} I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the
      incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
{66:16} Come [and] hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what
      he hath done for my soul.
{66:17} I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my
      tongue.
{66:18} If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear [me:]
{66:19} [But] verily God hath heard [me;] he hath attended to the voice
      of my prayer.
{66:20} Blessed [be] God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his
      mercy from me.


Psalm 67

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



   {67:1} God be merciful unto us, and bless us; [and] cause his face
      to shine upon us; Selah.
{67:2} That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among
      all nations.
{67:3} Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise
      thee.
{67:4} O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge
      the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.
{67:5} Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise
      thee.
{67:6} [Then] shall the earth yield her increase; [and] God, [even] our
      own God, shall bless us.
{67:7} God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.


Psalm 68

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



   {68:1} Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also
      that hate him flee before him.
{68:2} As smoke is driven away, [so] drive [them] away: as wax melteth
      before the fire, [so] let the wicked perish at the presence of
      God.
{68:3} But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea,
      let them exceedingly rejoice.
{68:4} Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth
      upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
{68:5} A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, [is] God
      in his holy habitation.
{68:6} God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those
      which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry
      [land.]
{68:7} O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou
      didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
{68:8} The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of
      God: [even] Sinai itself [was moved] at the presence of God, the
      God of Israel.
{68:9} Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst
      confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
{68:10} Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared
      of thy goodness for the poor.
{68:11} The Lord gave the word: great [was] the company of those that
      published [it.]
{68:12} Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home
      divided the spoil.
{68:13} Though ye have lien among the pots, [yet shall ye be as] the
      wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow
      gold.
{68:14} When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was [white] as snow
      in Salmon.
{68:15} The hill of God [is as] the hill of Bashan; an high hill [as]
      the hill of Bashan.
{68:16} Why leap ye, ye high hills? [this is] the hill [which] God
      desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell [in it] for ever.
{68:17} The chariots of God [are] twenty thousand, [even] thousands of
      angels: the Lord [is] among them, [as in] Sinai, in the holy
      [place.]
{68:18} Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive:
      thou hast received gifts for men; yea, [for] the rebellious also,
      that the LORD God might dwell [among them.]
{68:19} Blessed [be] the Lord, [who] daily loadeth us [with benefits,
      even] the God of our salvation. Selah.
{68:20} [He that is] our God [is] the God of salvation; and unto God
      the Lord [belong] the issues from death.
{68:21} But God shall wound the head of his enemies, [and] the hairy
      scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
{68:22} The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring [my
      people] again from the depths of the sea:
{68:23} That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of [thine] enemies,
      [and] the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
{68:24} They have seen thy goings, O God; [even] the goings of my God,
      my King, in the sanctuary.
{68:25} The singers went before, the players on instruments [followed]
      after; among [them were] the damsels playing with timbrels.
{68:26} Bless ye God in the congregations, [even] the Lord, from the
      fountain of Israel.
{68:27} There [is] little Benjamin [with] their ruler, the princes of
      Judah [and] their council, the princes of Zebulun, [and] the
      princes of Naphtali.
{68:28} Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that
      which thou hast wrought for us.
{68:29} Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents
      unto thee.
{68:30} Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls,
      with the calves of the people, [till every one] submit himself
      with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people [that] delight in
      war.
{68:31} Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch
      out her hands unto God.
{68:32} Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto
      the Lord; Selah:
{68:33} To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, [which were] of
      old; lo, he doth send out his voice, [and that] a mighty voice.
{68:34} Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency [is] over Israel,
      and his strength [is] in the clouds.
{68:35} O God, [thou art] terrible out of thy holy places: the God of
      Israel [is] he that giveth strength and power unto [his] people.
      Blessed [be] God.


Psalm 69

To chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A [Psalm] of David.



   {69:1} Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto [my] soul.
{69:2} I sink in deep mire, where [there is] no standing: I am come
      into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
{69:3} I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail
      while I wait for my God.
{69:4} They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of
      mine head: they that would destroy me, [being] mine enemies
      wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored [that] which I took not
      away.
{69:5} O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from
      thee.
{69:6} Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed
      for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my
      sake, O God of Israel.
{69:7} Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered
      my face.
{69:8} I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my
      mother's children.
{69:9} For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches
      of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
{69:10} When I wept, [and chastened] my soul with fasting, that was to
      my reproach.
{69:11} I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to
      them.
{69:12} They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I [was] the
      song of the drunkards.
{69:13} But as for me, my prayer [is] unto thee, O LORD, [in] an
      acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in
      the truth of thy salvation.
{69:14} Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be
      delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
{69:15} Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep
      swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
{69:16} Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness [is] good: turn unto me
      according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
{69:17} And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble:
      hear me speedily.
{69:18} Draw nigh unto my soul, [and] redeem it: deliver me because of
      mine enemies.
{69:19} Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour:
      mine adversaries [are] all before thee.
{69:20} Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and
      I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] none; and for
      comforters, but I found none.
{69:21} They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave
      me vinegar to drink.
{69:22} Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which
      should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap.
{69:23} Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their
      loins continually to shake.
{69:24} Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful
      anger take hold of them.
{69:25} Let their habitation be desolate; [and] let none dwell in their
      tents.
{69:26} For they persecute [him] whom thou hast smitten; and they talk
      to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
{69:27} Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into
      thy righteousness.
{69:28} Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be
      written with the righteous.
{69:29} But I [am] poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me
      up on high.
{69:30} I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him
      with thanksgiving.
{69:31} [This] also shall please the LORD better than an ox [or]
      bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
{69:32} The humble shall see [this, and] be glad: and your heart shall
      live that seek God.
{69:33} For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
{69:34} Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing
      that moveth therein.
{69:35} For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah:
      that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
{69:36} The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that
      love his name shall dwell therein.


Psalm 70

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



   {70:1} [Make haste,] O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O
      LORD.
{70:2} Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let
      them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my
      hurt.
{70:3} Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say,
      Aha, aha.
{70:4} Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and
      let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be
      magnified.
{70:5} But I [am] poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou [art]
      my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.


Psalm 71

{71:1} In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to
      confusion.
{71:2} Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline
      thine ear unto me, and save me.
{71:3} Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually
      resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou [art] my
      rock and my fortress.
{71:4} Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the
      hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
{71:5} For thou [art] my hope, O Lord GOD: [thou art] my trust from my
      youth.
{71:6} By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that
      took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise [shall be]
      continually of thee.
{71:7} I am as a wonder unto many; but thou [art] my strong refuge.
{71:8} Let my mouth be filled [with] thy praise [and with] thy honour
      all the day.
{71:9} Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my
      strength faileth.
{71:10} For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for
      my soul take counsel together,
{71:11} Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for
      [there is] none to deliver [him.]
{71:12} O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
{71:13} Let them be confounded [and] consumed that are adversaries to
      my soul; let them be covered [with] reproach and dishonour that
      seek my hurt.
{71:14} But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and
      more.
{71:15} My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness [and] thy salvation
      all the day; for I know not the numbers [thereof.]
{71:16} I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention
      of thy righteousness, [even] of thine only.
{71:17} O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I
      declared thy wondrous works.
{71:18} Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not;
      until I have shewed thy strength unto [this] generation, [and]
      thy power to every one [that] is to come.
{71:19} Thy righteousness also, O God, [is] very high, who hast done
      great things: O God, who [is] like unto thee!
{71:20} [Thou,] which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt
      quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of
      the earth.
{71:21} Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
{71:22} I will also praise thee with the psaltery, [even] thy truth, O
      my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of
      Israel.
{71:23} My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my
      soul, which thou hast redeemed.
{71:24} My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day
      long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame,
      that seek my hurt.


Psalm 72

A [Psalm] for Solomon.



   {72:1} Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness
      unto the king's son.
{72:2} He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with
      judgment.
{72:3} The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little
      hills, by righteousness.
{72:4} He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the
      children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
{72:5} They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure,
      throughout all generations.
{72:6} He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers
      [that] water the earth.
{72:7} In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace
      so long as the moon endureth.
{72:8} He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river
      unto the ends of the earth.
{72:9} They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his
      enemies shall lick the dust.
{72:10} The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents:
      the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
{72:11} Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall
      serve him.
{72:12} For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also,
      and [him] that hath no helper.
{72:13} He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of
      the needy.
{72:14} He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and
      precious shall their blood be in his sight.
{72:15} And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of
      Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; [and] daily
      shall he be praised.
{72:16} There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of
      the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and
      [they] of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
{72:17} His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as
      long as the sun: and [men] shall be blessed in him: all nations
      shall call him blessed.
{72:18} Blessed [be] the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth
      wondrous things.
{72:19} And blessed [be] his glorious name for ever: and let the whole
      earth be filled [with] his glory; Amen, and Amen.
{72:20} The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

Book III

Psalm 73

A Psalm of Asaph.



   {73:1} Truly God [is] good to Israel, [even] to such as are of a
      clean heart.
{73:2} But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh
      slipped.
{73:3} For I was envious at the foolish, [when] I saw the prosperity of
      the wicked.
{73:4} For [there are] no bands in their death: but their strength [is]
      firm.
{73:5} They [are] not in trouble [as other] men; neither are they
      plagued like [other] men.
{73:6} Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence
      covereth them [as] a garment.
{73:7} Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart
      could wish.
{73:8} They are corrupt, and speak wickedly [concerning] oppression:
      they speak loftily.
{73:9} They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue
      walketh through the earth.
{73:10} Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full [cup]
      are wrung out to them.
{73:11} And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the
      most High?
{73:12} Behold, these [are] the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they
      increase [in] riches.
{73:13} Verily I have cleansed my heart [in] vain, and washed my hands
      in innocency.
{73:14} For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every
      morning.
{73:15} If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend [against]
      the generation of thy children.
{73:16} When I thought to know this, it [was] too painful for me;
{73:17} Until I went into the sanctuary of God; [then] understood I
      their end.
{73:18} Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst
      them down into destruction.
{73:19} How are they [brought] into desolation, as in a moment! they
      are utterly consumed with terrors.
{73:20} As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so,] O Lord, when thou awakest,
      thou shalt despise their image.
{73:21} Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
{73:22} So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I was [as] a beast before
      thee.
{73:23} Nevertheless I [am] continually with thee: thou hast holden
      [me] by my right hand.
{73:24} Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me
      [to] glory.
{73:25} Whom have I in heaven [but thee?] and [there is] none upon
      earth [that] I desire beside thee.
{73:26} My flesh and my heart faileth: [but] God [is] the strength of
      my heart, and my portion for ever.
{73:27} For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast
      destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
{73:28} But [it is] good for me to draw near to God: I have put my
      trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.


Psalm 74

Maschil of Asaph.



   {74:1} O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? [why] doth thine
      anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
{74:2} Remember thy congregation, [which] thou hast purchased of old;
      the rod of thine inheritance, [which] thou hast redeemed; this
      mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
{74:3} Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; [even] all
      [that] the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
{74:4} Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set
      up their ensigns [for] signs.
{74:5} [A man] was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the
      thick trees.
{74:6} But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with
      axes and hammers.
{74:7} They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled [by
      casting down] the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
{74:8} They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they
      have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
{74:9} We see not our signs: [there is] no more any prophet: neither
      [is there] among us any that knoweth how long.
{74:10} O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy
      blaspheme thy name for ever?
{74:11} Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck [it]
      out of thy bosom.
{74:12} For God [is] my King of old, working salvation in the midst of
      the earth.
{74:13} Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the
      heads of the dragons in the waters.
{74:14} Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, [and] gavest him
      [to be] meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
{74:15} Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up
      mighty rivers.
{74:16} The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast
      prepared the light and the sun.
{74:17} Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made
      summer and winter.
{74:18} Remember this, [that] the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and
      [that] the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
{74:19} O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude [of
      the wicked:] forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
{74:20} Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the
      earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
{74:21} O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy
      praise thy name.
{74:22} Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish
      man reproacheth thee daily.
{74:23} Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that
      rise up against thee increaseth continually.


Psalm 75

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



   {75:1} Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, [unto thee] do we give
      thanks: for [that] thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.
{75:2} When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
{75:3} The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear
      up the pillars of it. Selah.
{75:4} I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked,
      Lift not up the horn:
{75:5} Lift not up your horn on high: speak [not with] a stiff neck.
{75:6} For promotion [cometh] neither from the east, nor from the west,
      nor from the south.
{75:7} But God [is] the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up
      another.
{75:8} For in the hand of the LORD [there is] a cup, and the wine is
      red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but
      the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring [them]
      out, [and] drink [them.]
{75:9} But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of
      Jacob.
{75:10} All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; [but] the
      horns of the righteous shall be exalted.


Psalm 76

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



   {76:1} In Judah [is] God known: his name [is] great in Israel.
{76:2} In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
{76:3} There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword,
      and the battle. Selah.
{76:4} Thou [art] more glorious [and] excellent than the mountains of
      prey.
{76:5} The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and
      none of the men of might have found their hands.
{76:6} At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are
      cast into a dead sleep.
{76:7} Thou, [even] thou, [art] to be feared: and who may stand in thy
      sight when once thou art angry?
{76:8} Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth
      feared, and was still,
{76:9} When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth.
      Selah.
{76:10} Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of
      wrath shalt thou restrain.
{76:11} Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round
      about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
{76:12} He shall cut off the spirit of princes: [he is] terrible to the
      kings of the earth.


Psalm 77

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



   {77:1} I cried unto God with my voice, [even] unto God with my
      voice; and he gave ear unto me.
{77:2} In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the
      night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
{77:3} I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit
      was overwhelmed. Selah.
{77:4} Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot
      speak.
{77:5} I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
{77:6} I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine
      own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
{77:7} Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no
      more?
{77:8} Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth [his] promise fail for
      evermore?
{77:9} Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his
      tender mercies? Selah.
{77:10} And I said, This [is] my infirmity: [but I will remember] the
      years of the right hand of the most High.
{77:11} I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember
      thy wonders of old.
{77:12} I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
{77:13} Thy way, O God, [is] in the sanctuary: who [is so] great a God
      as [our] God?
{77:14} Thou [art] the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy
      strength among the people.
{77:15} Thou hast with [thine] arm redeemed thy people, the sons of
      Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
{77:16} The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were
      afraid: the depths also were troubled.
{77:17} The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine
      arrows also went abroad.
{77:18} The voice of thy thunder [was] in the heaven: the lightnings
      lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
{77:19} Thy way [is] in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and
      thy footsteps are not known.
{77:20} Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and
      Aaron.


Psalm 78

Maschil of Asaph.



   {78:1} Give ear, O my people, [to] my law: incline your ears to the
      words of my mouth.
{78:2} I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of
      old:
{78:3} Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
{78:4} We will not hide [them] from their children, shewing to the
      generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and
      his wonderful works that he hath done.
{78:5} For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in
      Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make
      them known to their children:
{78:6} That the generation to come might know [them, even] the children
      [which] should be born; [who] should arise and declare [them] to
      their children:
{78:7} That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works
      of God, but keep his commandments:
{78:8} And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious
      generation; a generation [that] set not their heart aright, and
      whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
{78:9} The children of Ephraim, [being] armed, [and] carrying bows,
      turned back in the day of battle.
{78:10} They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his
      law;
{78:11} And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
{78:12} Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the
      land of Egypt, [in] the field of Zoan.
{78:13} He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he
      made the waters to stand as an heap.
{78:14} In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night
      with a light of fire.
{78:15} He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as
      [out of] the great depths.
{78:16} He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to
      run down like rivers.
{78:17} And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High
      in the wilderness.
{78:18} And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their
      lust.
{78:19} Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table
      in the wilderness?
{78:20} Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the
      streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh
      for his people?
{78:21} Therefore the LORD heard [this,] and was wroth: so a fire was
      kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
{78:22} Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his
      salvation:
{78:23} Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the
      doors of heaven,
{78:24} And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them
      of the corn of heaven.
{78:25} Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
{78:26} He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power
      he brought in the south wind.
{78:27} He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls
      like as the sand of the sea:
{78:28} And he let [it] fall in the midst of their camp, round about
      their habitations.
{78:29} So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their
      own desire;
{78:30} They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat
      [was] yet in their mouths,
{78:31} The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them,
      and smote down the chosen [men] of Israel.
{78:32} For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his
      wondrous works.
{78:33} Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years
      in trouble.
{78:34} When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and
      enquired early after God.
{78:35} And they remembered that God [was] their rock, and the high God
      their redeemer.
{78:36} Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they
      lied unto him with their tongues.
{78:37} For their heart was not right with him, neither were they
      stedfast in his covenant.
{78:38} But he, [being] full of compassion, forgave [their] iniquity,
      and destroyed [them] not: yea, many a time turned he his anger
      away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
{78:39} For he remembered that they [were but] flesh; a wind that
      passeth away, and cometh not again.
{78:40} How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, [and] grieve
      him in the desert!
{78:41} Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One
      of Israel.
{78:42} They remembered not his hand, [nor] the day when he delivered
      them from the enemy.
{78:43} How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the
      field of Zoan:
{78:44} And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that
      they could not drink.
{78:45} He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them;
      and frogs, which destroyed them.
{78:46} He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their
      labour unto the locust.
{78:47} He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees
      with frost.
{78:48} He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to
      hot thunderbolts.
{78:49} He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and
      indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels [among them.]
{78:50} He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from
      death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
{78:51} And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of [their]
      strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
{78:52} But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them
      in the wilderness like a flock.
{78:53} And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea
      overwhelmed their enemies.
{78:54} And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, [even to]
      this mountain, [which] his right hand had purchased.
{78:55} He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an
      inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in
      their tents.
{78:56} Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not
      his testimonies:
{78:57} But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers:
      they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
{78:58} For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and
      moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
{78:59} When God heard [this,] he was wroth, and greatly abhorred
      Israel:
{78:60} So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent [which]
      he placed among men;
{78:61} And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into
      the enemy's hand.
{78:62} He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with
      his inheritance.
{78:63} The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not
      given to marriage.
{78:64} Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no
      lamentation.
{78:65} Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, [and] like a mighty
      man that shouteth by reason of wine.
{78:66} And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a
      perpetual reproach.
{78:67} Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the
      tribe of Ephraim:
{78:68} But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
{78:69} And he built his sanctuary like high [palaces,] like the earth
      which he hath established for ever.
{78:70} He chose David also his servant, and took him from the
      sheepfolds:
{78:71} From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed
      Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
{78:72} So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and
      guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.


Psalm 79

A Psalm of Asaph.



   {79:1} O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy
      temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
{79:2} The dead bodies of thy servants have they given [to be] meat
      unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the
      beasts of the earth.
{79:3} Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and
      [there was] none to bury [them.]
{79:4} We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision
      to them that are round about us.
{79:5} How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy
      burn like fire?
{79:6} Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee,
      and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
{79:7} For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
{79:8} O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender
      mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
{79:9} Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and
      deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
{79:10} Wherefore should the heathen say, Where [is] their God? let him
      be known among the heathen in our sight [by] the revenging of the
      blood of thy servants [which is] shed.
{79:11} Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to
      the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed
      to die;
{79:12} And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their
      reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
{79:13} So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks
      for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.


Psalm 80

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



   {80:1} Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like
      a flock; thou that dwellest [between] the cherubims, shine forth.
{80:2} Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength,
      and come [and] save us.
{80:3} Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall
      be saved.
{80:4} O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the
      prayer of thy people?
{80:5} Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears
      to drink in great measure.
{80:6} Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies
      laugh among themselves.
{80:7} Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and
      we shall be saved.
{80:8} Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the
      heathen, and planted it.
{80:9} Thou preparedst [room] before it, and didst cause it to take
      deep root, and it filled the land.
{80:10} The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs
      thereof [were like] the goodly cedars.
{80:11} She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the
      river.
{80:12} Why hast thou [then] broken down her hedges, so that all they
      which pass by the way do pluck her?
{80:13} The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of
      the field doth devour it.
{80:14} Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven,
      and behold, and visit this vine;
{80:15} And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the
      branch [that] thou madest strong for thyself.
{80:16} [It is] burned with fire, [it is] cut down: they perish at the
      rebuke of thy countenance.
{80:17} Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of
      man [whom] thou madest strong for thyself.
{80:18} So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call
      upon thy name.
{80:19} Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine;
      and we shall be saved.


Psalm 81

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



   {81:1} Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto
      the God of Jacob.
{81:2} Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp
      with the psaltery.
{81:3} Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on
      our solemn feast day.
{81:4} For this [was] a statute for Israel, [and] a law of the God of
      Jacob.
{81:5} This he ordained in Joseph [for] a testimony, when he went out
      through the land of Egypt: [where] I heard a language [that] I
      understood not.
{81:6} I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered
      from the pots.
{81:7} Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee
      in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of
      Meribah. Selah.
{81:8} Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if
      thou wilt hearken unto me;
{81:9} There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou
      worship any strange god.
{81:10} I [am] the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of
      Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
{81:11} But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would
      none of me.
{81:12} So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: [and] they
      walked in their own counsels.
{81:13} Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, [and] Israel had
      walked in my ways!
{81:14} I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand
      against their adversaries.
{81:15} The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto
      him: but their time should have endured for ever.
{81:16} He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and
      with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.


Psalm 82

A Psalm of Asaph.



   {82:1} God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth
      among the gods.
{82:2} How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the
      wicked? Selah.
{82:3} Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and
      needy.
{82:4} Deliver the poor and needy: rid [them] out of the hand of the
      wicked.
{82:5} They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in
      darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
{82:6} I have said, Ye [are] gods; and all of you [are] children of the
      most High.
{82:7} But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
{82:8} Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all
      nations.


Psalm 83

A Song [or] Psalm of Asaph.



   {83:1} Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not
      still, O God.
{83:2} For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee
      have lifted up the head.
{83:3} They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted
      against thy hidden ones.
{83:4} They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from [being] a
      nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
{83:5} For they have consulted together with one consent: they are
      confederate against thee:
{83:6} The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the
      Hagarenes;
{83:7} Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the
      inhabitants of Tyre;
{83:8} Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of
      Lot. Selah.
{83:9} Do unto them as [unto] the Midianites; as [to] Sisera, as [to]
      Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
{83:10} [Which] perished at Endor: they became [as] dung for the earth.
{83:11} Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their
      princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
{83:12} Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in
      possession.
{83:13} O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the
      wind.
{83:14} As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the
      mountains on fire;
{83:15} So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with
      thy storm.
{83:16} Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O
      LORD.
{83:17} Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be
      put to shame, and perish:
{83:18} That [men] may know that thou, whose name alone [is] JEHOVAH,
      [art] the most high over all the earth.


Psalm 84

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



   {84:1} How amiable [are] thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
{84:2} My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD:
      my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
{84:3} Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for
      herself, where she may lay her young, [even] thine altars, O LORD
      of hosts, my King, and my God.
{84:4} Blessed [are] they that dwell in thy house: they will be still
      praising thee. Selah.
{84:5} Blessed [is] the man whose strength [is] in thee; in whose heart
      [are] the ways [of them.]
{84:6} [Who] passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the
      rain also filleth the pools.
{84:7} They go from strength to strength, [every one of them] in Zion
      appeareth before God.
{84:8} O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob.
      Selah.
{84:9} Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine
      anointed.
{84:10} For a day in thy courts [is] better than a thousand. I had
      rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in
      the tents of wickedness.
{84:11} For the LORD God [is] a sun and shield: the LORD will give
      grace and glory: no good [thing] will he withhold from them that
      walk uprightly.
{84:12} O LORD of hosts, blessed [is] the man that trusteth in thee.


Psalm 85

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



   {85:1} LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast
      brought back the captivity of Jacob.
{85:2} Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered
      all their sin. Selah.
{85:3} Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned [thyself]
      from the fierceness of thine anger.
{85:4} Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us
      to cease.
{85:5} Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine
      anger to all generations?
{85:6} Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in
      thee?
{85:7} Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.
{85:8} I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak
      peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn
      again to folly.
{85:9} Surely his salvation [is] nigh them that fear him; that glory
      may dwell in our land.
{85:10} Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have
      kissed [each other.]
{85:11} Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall
      look down from heaven.
{85:12} Yea, the LORD shall give [that which is] good; and our land
      shall yield her increase.
{85:13} Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set [us] in the
      way of his steps.


Psalm 86

A Prayer of David.



   {86:1} Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I [am] poor and
      needy.
{86:2} Preserve my soul; for I [am] holy: O thou my God, save thy
      servant that trusteth in thee.
{86:3} Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.
{86:4} Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I
      lift up my soul.
{86:5} For thou, Lord, [art] good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous
      in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
{86:6} Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my
      supplications.
{86:7} In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt
      answer me.
{86:8} Among the gods [there is] none like unto thee, O Lord; neither
      [are there any works] like unto thy works.
{86:9} All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before
      thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
{86:10} For thou [art] great, and doest wondrous things: thou [art] God
      alone.
{86:11} Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my
      heart to fear thy name.
{86:12} I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I
      will glorify thy name for evermore.
{86:13} For great [is] thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my
      soul from the lowest hell.
{86:14} O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of
      violent [men] have sought after my soul; and have not set thee
      before them.
{86:15} But thou, O Lord, [art] a God full of compassion, and gracious,
      longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
{86:16} O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto
      thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
{86:17} Show me a token for good; that they which hate me may see [it,]
      and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast helped me, and comforted
      me.


Psalm 87

A Psalm [or] Song for the sons of Korah.



   {87:1} His foundation [is] in the holy mountains.
{87:2} The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of
      Jacob.
{87:3} Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
{87:4} I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me:
      behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this [man] was born
      there.
{87:5} And of Zion it shall be said, This and [that man] was born in
      her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
{87:6} The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this
      man was born there. Selah.
{87:7} As well the singers as the players on instruments [shall be
      there:] all my springs [are] in thee.


Psalm 88

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



   {88:1} O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day [and] night
      before thee:
{88:2} Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
{88:3} For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto
      the grave.
{88:4} I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man
      [that hath] no strength:
{88:5} Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom
      thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
{88:6} Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
{88:7} Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with
      all thy waves. Selah.
{88:8} Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made
      me an abomination unto them: [I am] shut up, and I cannot come
      forth.
{88:9} Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called
      daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
{88:10} Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and]
      praise thee? Selah.
{88:11} Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? [or] thy
      faithfulness in destruction?
{88:12} Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness
      in the land of forgetfulness?
{88:13} But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my
      prayer prevent thee.
{88:14} LORD, why castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest thou thy face
      from me?
{88:15} I [am] afflicted and ready to die from [my] youth up: [while] I
      suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
{88:16} Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
{88:17} They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me
      about together.
{88:18} Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, [and] mine
      acquaintance into darkness.


Psalm 89

Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.



   {89:1} I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my
      mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
{89:2} For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy
      faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
{89:3} I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David
      my servant,
{89:4} Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to
      all generations. Selah.
{89:5} And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy
      faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
{89:6} For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? [who] among
      the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
{89:7} God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and
      to be had in reverence of all [them that are] about him.
{89:8} O LORD God of hosts, who [is] a strong LORD like unto thee? or
      to thy faithfulness round about thee?
{89:9} Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise,
      thou stillest them.
{89:10} Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou
      hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
{89:11} The heavens [are] thine, the earth also [is] thine: [as for]
      the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
{89:12} The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and
      Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
{89:13} Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, [and] high is thy
      right hand.
{89:14} Justice and judgment [are] the habitation of thy throne: mercy
      and truth shall go before thy face.
{89:15} Blessed [is] the people that know the joyful sound: they shall
      walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
{89:16} In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy
      righteousness shall they be exalted.
{89:17} For thou [art] the glory of their strength: and in thy favour
      our horn shall be exalted.
{89:18} For the LORD [is] our defence; and the Holy One of Israel [is]
      our king.
{89:19} Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have
      laid help upon [one that is] mighty; I have exalted [one] chosen
      out of the people.
{89:20} I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed
      him:
{89:21} With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall
      strengthen him.
{89:22} The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness
      afflict him.
{89:23} And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them
      that hate him.
{89:24} But my faithfulness and my mercy [shall be] with him: and in my
      name shall his horn be exalted.
{89:25} I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the
      rivers.
{89:26} He shall cry unto me, Thou [art] my father, my God, and the
      rock of my salvation.
{89:27} Also I will make him [my] firstborn, higher than the kings of
      the earth.
{89:28} My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant
      shall stand fast with him.
{89:29} His seed also will I make [to endure] for ever, and his throne
      as the days of heaven.
{89:30} If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
{89:31} If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
{89:32} Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their
      iniquity with stripes.
{89:33} Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from
      him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
{89:34} My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone
      out of my lips.
{89:35} Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
{89:36} His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun
      before me.
{89:37} It shall be established for ever as the moon, and [as] a
      faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
{89:38} But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with
      thine anointed.
{89:39} Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast
      profaned his crown [by casting it] to the ground.
{89:40} Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his
      strong holds to ruin.
{89:41} All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his
      neighbours.
{89:42} Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast
      made all his enemies to rejoice.
{89:43} Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made
      him to stand in the battle.
{89:44} Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to
      the ground.
{89:45} The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered
      him with shame. Selah.
{89:46} How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy
      wrath burn like fire?
{89:47} Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men
      in vain?
{89:48} What man [is he that] liveth, and shall not see death? shall he
      deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
{89:49} Lord, where [are] thy former lovingkindnesses, [which] thou
      swarest unto David in thy truth?
{89:50} Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; [how] I do bear
      in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty people;
{89:51} Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they
      have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
{89:52} Blessed [be] the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.

Book IV

Psalm 90

A Prayer of Moses the man of God.



   {90:1} LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
{90:2} Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst
      formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to
      everlasting, thou [art] God.
{90:3} Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children
      of men.
{90:4} For a thousand years in thy sight [are but] as yesterday when it
      is past, and [as] a watch in the night.
{90:5} Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep:
      in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up.
{90:6} In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it
      is cut down, and withereth.
{90:7} For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we
      troubled.
{90:8} Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in
      the light of thy countenance.
{90:9} For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our
      years as a tale [that is told.]
{90:10} The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by
      reason of strength [they be] fourscore years, yet [is] their
      strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly
      away.
{90:11} Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy
      fear, [so is] thy wrath.
{90:12} So teach [us] to number our days, that we may apply [our]
      hearts unto wisdom.
{90:13} Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy
      servants.
{90:14} O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be
      glad all our days.
{90:15} Make us glad according to the days [wherein] thou hast
      afflicted us, [and] the years [wherein] we have seen evil.
{90:16} Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their
      children.
{90:17} And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and
      establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of
      our hands establish thou it.


Psalm 91

{91:1} He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall
      abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
{91:2} I will say of the LORD, [He is] my refuge and my fortress: my
      God; in him will I trust.
{91:3} Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, [and]
      from the noisome pestilence.
{91:4} He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt
      thou trust: his truth [shall be thy] shield and buckler.
{91:5} Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; [nor] for the
      arrow [that] flieth by day;
{91:6} [Nor] for the pestilence [that] walketh in darkness; [nor] for
      the destruction [that] wasteth at noonday.
{91:7} A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right
      hand; [but] it shall not come nigh thee.
{91:8} Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the
      wicked.
{91:9} Because thou hast made the LORD, [which is] my refuge, [even]
      the most High, thy habitation;
{91:10} There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come
      nigh thy dwelling.
{91:11} For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in
      all thy ways.
{91:12} They shall bear thee up in [their] hands, lest thou dash thy
      foot against a stone.
{91:13} Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and
      the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
{91:14} Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver
      him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
{91:15} He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I [will be] with
      him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
{91:16} With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.


Psalm 92

A Psalm [or] Song for the sabbath day.



   {92:1} [It is a] good [thing] to give thanks unto the LORD, and to
      sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
{92:2} To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy
      faithfulness every night,
{92:3} Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon
      the harp with a solemn sound.
{92:4} For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will
      triumph in the works of thy hands.
{92:5} O LORD, how great are thy works! [and] thy thoughts are very
      deep.
{92:6} A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
{92:7} When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of
      iniquity do flourish; [it is] that they shall be destroyed for
      ever:
{92:8} But thou, LORD, [art most] high for evermore.
{92:9} For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall
      perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
{92:10} But my horn shalt thou exalt like [the horn of] an unicorn: I
      shall be anointed with fresh oil.
{92:11} Mine eye also shall see [my desire] on mine enemies, [and] mine
      ears shall hear [my desire] of the wicked that rise up against me.
{92:12} The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow
      like a cedar in Lebanon.
{92:13} Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish
      in the courts of our God.
{92:14} They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be
      fat and flourishing;
{92:15} To shew that the LORD [is] upright: [he is] my rock, and [there
      is] no unrighteousness in him.


Psalm 93

{93:1} The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is
      clothed with strength, [wherewith] he hath girded himself: the
      world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
{93:2} Thy throne [is] established of old: thou [art] from everlasting.
{93:3} The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up
      their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

{93:4} The LORD on high [is] mightier than the noise of many waters,
      [yea, than] the mighty waves of the sea.
{93:5} Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O
      LORD, for ever.


Psalm 94

{94:1} O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom
      vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
{94:2} Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the
      proud.
{94:3} LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked
      triumph?
{94:4} [How long] shall they utter [and] speak hard things? [and] all
      the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
{94:5} They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine
      heritage.
{94:6} They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
{94:7} Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of
      Jacob regard [it.]
{94:8} Understand, ye brutish among the people: and [ye] fools, when
      will ye be wise?
{94:9} He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the
      eye, shall he not see?
{94:10} He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that
      teacheth man knowledge, [shall not he know?]
{94:11} The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they [are] vanity.
{94:12} Blessed [is] the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest
      him out of thy law;
{94:13} That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity,
      until the pit be digged for the wicked.
{94:14} For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he
      forsake his inheritance.
{94:15} But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the
      upright in heart shall follow it.
{94:16} Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? [or] who will
      stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
{94:17} Unless the LORD [had been] my help, my soul had almost dwelt in
      silence.
{94:18} When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
{94:19} In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight
      my soul.
{94:20} Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which
      frameth mischief by a law?
{94:21} They gather themselves together against the soul of the
      righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
{94:22} But the LORD is my defence; and my God [is] the rock of my
      refuge.
{94:23} And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut
      them off in their own wickedness; [yea,] the LORD our God shall
      cut them off.


Psalm 95

{95:1} O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to
      the rock of our salvation.
{95:2} Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a
      joyful noise unto him with psalms.
{95:3} For the LORD [is] a great God, and a great King above all gods.
{95:4} In his hand [are] the deep places of the earth: the strength of
      the hills [is] his also.
{95:5} The sea [is] his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry
      [land.]
{95:6} O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the
      LORD our maker.
{95:7} For he [is] our God; and we [are] the people of his pasture, and
      the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
{95:8} Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, [and as in] the
      day of temptation in the wilderness:
{95:9} When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
{95:10} Forty years long was I grieved with [this] generation, and
      said, It [is] a people that do err in their heart, and they have
      not known my ways:
{95:11} Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into
      my rest.


Psalm 96

{96:1} O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the
      earth.
{96:2} Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; shew forth his salvation
      from day to day.
{96:3} Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all
      people.
{96:4} For the LORD [is] great, and greatly to be praised: he [is] to
      be feared above all gods.
{96:5} For all the gods of the nations [are] idols: but the LORD made
      the heavens.
{96:6} Honour and majesty [are] before him: strength and beauty [are]
      in his sanctuary.
{96:7} Give unto the LORD, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the
      LORD glory and strength.
{96:8} Give unto the LORD the glory [due unto] his name: bring an
      offering, and come into his courts.
{96:9} O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him,
      all the earth.
{96:10} Say among the heathen [that] the LORD reigneth: the world also
      shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge
      the people righteously.
{96:11} Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea
      roar, and the fulness thereof.
{96:12} Let the field be joyful, and all that [is] therein: then shall
      all the trees of the wood rejoice
{96:13} Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the
      earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the
      people with his truth.


Psalm 97

{97:1} The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of
      isles be glad [thereof.]
{97:2} Clouds and darkness [are] round about him: righteousness and
      judgment [are] the habitation of his throne.
{97:3} A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
{97:4} His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and
      trembled.
{97:5} The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the
      presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
{97:6} The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see
      his glory.
{97:7} Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast
      themselves of idols: worship him, all [ye] gods.
{97:8} Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced
      because of thy judgments, O LORD.
{97:9} For thou, LORD, [art] high above all the earth: thou art exalted
      far above all gods.
{97:10} Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of
      his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
{97:11} Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright
      in heart.
{97:12} Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the
      remembrance of his holiness.


Psalm 98

A Psalm.



   {98:1} O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous
      things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the
      victory.
{98:2} The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath
      he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
{98:3} He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of
      Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our
      God.
{98:4} Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud
      noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
{98:5} Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice
      of a psalm.
{98:6} With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the
      LORD, the King.
{98:7} Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they
      that dwell therein.
{98:8} Let the floods clap [their] hands: let the hills be joyful
      together
{98:9} Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with
      righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with
      equity.


Psalm 99

{99:1} The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth [between]
      the cherubims; let the earth be moved.
{99:2} The LORD [is] great in Zion; and he [is] high above all the
      people.
{99:3} Let them praise thy great and terrible name; [for] it [is] holy.
{99:4} The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish
      equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
{99:5} Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; [for]
      he [is] holy.
{99:6} Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that
      call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered
      them.
{99:7} He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his
      testimonies, and the ordinance [that] he gave them.
{99:8} Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that
      forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.
{99:9} Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the
      LORD our God [is] holy.


Psalm 100

A Psalm of praise.



   {100:1} Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
{100:2} Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with
      singing.
{100:3} Know ye that the LORD he [is] God: [it is] he [that] hath made
      us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of
      his pasture.
{100:4} Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, [and] into his courts
      with praise: be thankful unto him, [and] bless his name.
{100:5} For the LORD [is] good; his mercy [is] everlasting; and his
      truth [endureth] to all generations.


Psalm 101

A Psalm of David.



   {101:1} I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I
      sing.
{101:2} I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou
      come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
{101:3} I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of
      them that turn aside; [it] shall not cleave to me.
{101:4} A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked
      [person.]
{101:5} Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him
      that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
{101:6} Mine eyes [shall be] upon the faithful of the land, that they
      may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall
      serve me.
{101:7} He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that
      telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
{101:8} I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut
      off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.


Psalm 102

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



   {102:1} Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
{102:2} Hide not thy face from me in the day [when] I am in trouble;
      incline thine ear unto me: in the day [when] I call answer me
      speedily.
{102:3} For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as
      an hearth.
{102:4} My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget
      to eat my bread.
{102:5} By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my
      skin.
{102:6} I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the
      desert.
{102:7} I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
{102:8} Mine enemies reproach me all the day; [and] they that are mad
      against me are sworn against me.
{102:9} For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with
      weeping,
{102:10} Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast
      lifted me up, and cast me down.
{102:11} My days [are] like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered
      like grass.
{102:12} But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance
      unto all generations.
{102:13} Thou shalt arise, [and] have mercy upon Zion: for the time to
      favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
{102:14} For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the
      dust thereof.
{102:15} So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the
      kings of the earth thy glory.
{102:16} When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his
      glory.
{102:17} He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise
      their prayer.
{102:18} This shall be written for the generation to come: and the
      people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
{102:19} For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from
      heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
{102:20} To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are
      appointed to death;
{102:21} To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in
      Jerusalem;
{102:22} When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to
      serve the LORD.
{102:23} He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
{102:24} I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days:
      thy years [are] throughout all generations.
{102:25} Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the
      heavens [are] the work of thy hands.
{102:26} They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them
      shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change
      them, and they shall be changed:
{102:27} But thou [art] the same, and thy years shall have no end.
{102:28} The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed
      shall be established before thee.


Psalm 103

A [Psalm] of David.



   {103:1} Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me,
      [bless] his holy name.
{103:2} Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
{103:3} Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy
      diseases;
{103:4} Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with
      lovingkindness and tender mercies;
{103:5} Who satisfieth thy mouth with good [things; so that] thy youth
      is renewed like the eagle's.
{103:6} The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are
      oppressed.
{103:7} He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children
      of Israel.
{103:8} The LORD [is] merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and
      plenteous in mercy.
{103:9} He will not always chide: neither will he keep [his anger] for
      ever.
{103:10} He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us
      according to our iniquities.
{103:11} For as the heaven is high above the earth, [so] great is his
      mercy toward them that fear him.
{103:12} As far as the east is from the west, [so] far hath he removed
      our transgressions from us.
{103:13} Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth
      them that fear him.
{103:14} For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we [are] dust.
{103:15} [As for] man, his days [are] as grass: as a flower of the
      field, so he flourisheth.
{103:16} For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place
      thereof shall know it no more.
{103:17} But the mercy of the LORD [is] from everlasting to everlasting
      upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's
      children;
{103:18} To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his
      commandments to do them.
{103:19} The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his
      kingdom ruleth over all.
{103:20} Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do
      his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
{103:21} Bless ye the LORD, all [ye] his hosts; [ye] ministers of his,
      that do his pleasure.
{103:22} Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion:
      bless the LORD, O my soul.


Psalm 104

{104:1} Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great;
      thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
{104:2} Who coverest [thyself] with light as [with] a garment: who
      stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
{104:3} Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh
      the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
{104:4} Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
{104:5} [Who] laid the foundations of the earth, [that] it should not
      be removed for ever.
{104:6} Thou coveredst it with the deep as [with] a garment: the waters
      stood above the mountains.
{104:7} At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they
      hasted away.
{104:8} They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto
      the place which thou hast founded for them.
{104:9} Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they
      turn not again to cover the earth.
{104:10} He sendeth the springs into the valleys, [which] run among the
      hills.
{104:11} They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses
      quench their thirst.
{104:12} By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation,
      [which] sing among the branches.
{104:13} He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is
      satisfied with the fruit of thy works.
{104:14} He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the
      service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
{104:15} And wine [that] maketh glad the heart of man, [and] oil to
      make [his] face to shine, and bread [which] strengtheneth man's
      heart.
{104:16} The trees of the LORD are full [of sap;] the cedars of
      Lebanon, which he hath planted;
{104:17} Where the birds make their nests: [as for] the stork, the fir
      trees [are] her house.
{104:18} The high hills [are] a refuge for the wild goats; [and] the
      rocks for the conies.
{104:19} He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going
      down.
{104:20} Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts
      of the forest do creep [forth.]
{104:21} The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat
      from God.
{104:22} The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them
      down in their dens.
{104:23} Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the
      evening.
{104:24} O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made
      them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
{104:25} [So is] this great and wide sea, wherein [are] things creeping
      innumerable, both small and great beasts.
{104:26} There go the ships: [there is] that leviathan, [whom] thou
      hast made to play therein.
{104:27} These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give [them] their
      meat in due season.
{104:28} [That] thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand,
      they are filled with good.
{104:29} Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away
      their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
{104:30} Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou
      renewest the face of the earth.
{104:31} The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall
      rejoice in his works.
{104:32} He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the
      hills, and they smoke.
{104:33} I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing
      praise to my God while I have my being.
{104:34} My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the
      LORD.
{104:35} Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the
      wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the
      LORD.


Psalm 105

{105:1} O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his
      deeds among the people.
{105:2} Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his
      wondrous works.
{105:3} Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that
      seek the LORD.
{105:4} Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
{105:5} Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders,
      and the judgments of his mouth;
{105:6} O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his
      chosen.
{105:7} He [is] the LORD our God: his judgments [are] in all the earth.
{105:8} He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word [which] he
      commanded to a thousand generations.
{105:9} Which [covenant] he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
{105:10} And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, [and] to Israel
      [for] an everlasting covenant:
{105:11} Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of
      your inheritance:
{105:12} When they were [but] a few men in number; yea, very few, and
      strangers in it.
{105:13} When they went from one nation to another, from [one] kingdom
      to another people;
{105:14} He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings
      for their sakes;
{105:15} [Saying,] Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
{105:16} Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the
      whole staff of bread.
{105:17} He sent a man before them, [even] Joseph, [who] was sold for a
      servant:
{105:18} Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
{105:19} Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried
      him.
{105:20} The king sent and loosed him; [even] the ruler of the people,
      and let him go free.
{105:21} He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:
{105:22} To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators
      wisdom.
{105:23} Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land
      of Ham.
{105:24} And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger
      than their enemies.
{105:25} He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly
      with his servants.
{105:26} He sent Moses his servant; [and] Aaron whom he had chosen.
{105:27} They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of
      Ham.
{105:28} He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not
      against his word.
{105:29} He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
{105:30} Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers
      of their kings.
{105:31} He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, [and] lice in
      all their coasts.
{105:32} He gave them hail for rain, [and] flaming fire in their land.
{105:33} He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the
      trees of their coasts.
{105:34} He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that
      without number,
{105:35} And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the
      fruit of their ground.
{105:36} He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of
      all their strength.
{105:37} He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and [there
      was] not one feeble [person] among their tribes.
{105:38} Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell
      upon them.
{105:39} He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in
      the night.
{105:40} [The people] asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them
      with the bread of heaven.
{105:41} He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the
      dry places [like] a river.
{105:42} For he remembered his holy promise, [and] Abraham his servant.
{105:43} And he brought forth his people with joy, [and] his chosen
      with gladness:
{105:44} And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the
      labour of the people;
{105:45} That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws.
      Praise ye the LORD.


Psalm 106

{106:1} Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is]
      good: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
{106:2} Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? [who] can shew forth
      all his praise?
{106:3} Blessed [are] they that keep judgment, [and] he that doeth
      righteousness at all times.
{106:4} Remember me, O LORD, with the favour [that thou bearest unto]
      thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;
{106:5} That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in
      the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine
      inheritance.
{106:6} We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we
      have done wickedly.
{106:7} Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they
      remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked [him]
      at the sea, [even] at the Red sea.
{106:8} Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might
      make his mighty power to be known.
{106:9} He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led
      them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
{106:10} And he saved them from the hand of him that hated [them,] and
      redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
{106:11} And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of
      them left.
{106:12} Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.
{106:13} They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
{106:14} But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in
      the desert.
{106:15} And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their
      soul.
{106:16} They envied Moses also in the camp, [and] Aaron the saint of
      the LORD.
{106:17} The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the
      company of Abiram.
{106:18} And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up
      the wicked.
{106:19} They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
{106:20} Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox
      that eateth grass.
{106:21} They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in
      Egypt;
{106:22} Wondrous works in the land of Ham, [and] terrible things by
      the Red sea.
{106:23} Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses
      his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his
      wrath, lest he should destroy [them.]
{106:24} Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his
      word:
{106:25} But murmured in their tents, [and] hearkened not unto the
      voice of the LORD.
{106:26} Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow
      them in the wilderness:
{106:27} To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter
      them in the lands.
{106:28} They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and ate the
      sacrifices of the dead.
{106:29} Thus they provoked [him] to anger with their inventions: and
      the plague brake in upon them.
{106:30} Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and [so] the
      plague was stayed.
{106:31} And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all
      generations for evermore.
{106:32} They angered [him] also at the waters of strife, so that it
      went ill with Moses for their sakes:
{106:33} Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly
      with his lips.
{106:34} They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD
      commanded them:
{106:35} But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
{106:36} And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
{106:37} Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto
      devils,
{106:38} And shed innocent blood, [even] the blood of their sons and of
      their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan:
      and the land was polluted with blood.
{106:39} Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a
      whoring with their own inventions.
{106:40} Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his
      people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
{106:41} And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that
      hated them ruled over them.
{106:42} Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into
      subjection under their hand.
{106:43} Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked [him] with
      their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
{106:44} Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their
      cry:
{106:45} And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented
      according to the multitude of his mercies.
{106:46} He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them
      captives.
{106:47} Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen,
      to give thanks unto thy holy name, [and] to triumph in thy praise.
{106:48} Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to
      everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.

Book V

Psalm 107

{107:1} O give thanks unto the LORD, for [he is] good: for his mercy
      [endureth] for ever.
{107:2} Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from
      the hand of the enemy;
{107:3} And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the
      west, from the north, and from the south.
{107:4} They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found
      no city to dwell in.
{107:5} Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
{107:6} Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, [and] he
      delivered them out of their distresses.
{107:7} And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a
      city of habitation.
{107:8} Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and
      [for] his wonderful works to the children of men!
{107:9} For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul
      with goodness.
{107:10} Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, [being]
      bound in affliction and iron;
{107:11} Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned
      the counsel of the most High:
{107:12} Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell
      down, and [there was] none to help.
{107:13} Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, [and] he saved
      them out of their distresses.
{107:14} He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and
      brake their bands in sunder.
{107:15} Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and
      [for] his wonderful works to the children of men!
{107:16} For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of
      iron in sunder.
{107:17} Fools because of their transgression, and because of their
      iniquities, are afflicted.
{107:18} Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near
      unto the gates of death.
{107:19} Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, [and] he saveth
      them out of their distresses.
{107:20} He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered [them] from
      their destructions.
{107:21} Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and
      [for] his wonderful works to the children of men!
{107:22} And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and
      declare his works with rejoicing.
{107:23} They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in
      great waters;
{107:24} These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
{107:25} For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth
      up the waves thereof.
{107:26} They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths:
      their soul is melted because of trouble.
{107:27} They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are
      at their wit's end.
{107:28} Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth
      them out of their distresses.
{107:29} He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are
      still.
{107:30} Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them
      unto their desired haven.
{107:31} Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and
      [for] his wonderful works to the children of men!
{107:32} Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and
      praise him in the assembly of the elders.
{107:33} He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into
      dry ground;
{107:34} A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them
      that dwell therein.
{107:35} He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry
      ground into watersprings.
{107:36} And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare
      a city for habitation;
{107:37} And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield
      fruits of increase.
{107:38} He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly;
      and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
{107:39} Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression,
      affliction, and sorrow.
{107:40} He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander
      in the wilderness, [where there is] no way.
{107:41} Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh
      [him] families like a flock.
{107:42} The righteous shall see [it,] and rejoice: and all iniquity
      shall stop her mouth.
{107:43} Whoso [is] wise, and will observe these [things,] even they
      shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.


Psalm 108

A Song [or] Psalm of David.



   {108:1} O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even
      with my glory.
{108:2} Awake, psaltery and harp: I [myself] will awake early.
{108:3} I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing
      praises unto thee among the nations.
{108:4} For thy mercy [is] great above the heavens: and thy truth
      [reacheth] unto the clouds.
{108:5} Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above
      all the earth;
{108:6} That thy beloved may be delivered: save [with] thy right hand,
      and answer me.
{108:7} God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide
      Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
{108:8} Gilead [is] mine; Manasseh [is] mine; Ephraim also [is] the
      strength of mine head; Judah [is] my lawgiver;
{108:9} Moab [is] my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over
      Philistia will I triumph.
{108:10} Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into
      Edom?
{108:11} [Wilt] not [thou,] O God, [who] hast cast us off? and wilt not
      thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
{108:12} Give us help from trouble: for vain [is] the help of man.
{108:13} Through God we shall do valiantly: for he [it is that] shall
      tread down our enemies.


Psalm 109

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.



   {109:1} Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
{109:2} For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are
      opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying
      tongue.
{109:3} They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought
      against me without a cause.
{109:4} For my love they are my adversaries: but I [give myself unto]
      prayer.
{109:5} And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
{109:6} Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his
      right hand.
{109:7} When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his
      prayer become sin.
{109:8} Let his days be few; [and] let another take his office.
{109:9} Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
{109:10} Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them
      seek [their bread] also out of their desolate places.
{109:11} Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the
      strangers spoil his labour.
{109:12} Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there
      be any to favour his fatherless children.
{109:13} Let his posterity be cut off; [and] in the generation
      following let their name be blotted out.
{109:14} Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD;
      and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
{109:15} Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off
      the memory of them from the earth.
{109:16} Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted
      the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in
      heart.
{109:17} As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted
      not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
{109:18} As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment,
      so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his
      bones.
{109:19} Let it be unto him as the garment [which] covereth him, and
      for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
{109:20} [Let] this [be] the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD,
      and of them that speak evil against my soul.
{109:21} But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake:
      because thy mercy [is] good, deliver thou me.
{109:22} For I [am] poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
{109:23} I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up
      and down as the locust.
{109:24} My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of
      fatness.
{109:25} I became also a reproach unto them: [when] they looked upon me
      they shaked their heads.
{109:26} Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
{109:27} That they may know that this [is] thy hand; [that] thou, LORD,
      hast done it.
{109:28} Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be
      ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
{109:29} Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover
      themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
{109:30} I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will
      praise him among the multitude.
{109:31} For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save
      [him] from those that condemn his soul.


Psalm 110

A Psalm of David.



   {110:1} The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until
      I make thine enemies thy footstool.
{110:2} The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule
      thou in the midst of thine enemies.
{110:3} Thy people [shall be] willing in the day of thy power, in the
      beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the
      dew of thy youth.
{110:4} The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou [art] a priest
      for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
{110:5} The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the
      day of his wrath.
{110:6} He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill [the places]
      with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many
      countries.
{110:7} He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift
      up the head.


Psalm 111

{111:1} Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with [my] whole
      heart, in the assembly of the upright, and [in] the congregation.
{111:2} The works of the LORD [are] great, sought out of all them that
      have pleasure therein.
{111:3} His work [is] honourable and glorious: and his righteousness
      endureth for ever.
{111:4} He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD
      [is] gracious and full of compassion.
{111:5} He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be
      mindful of his covenant.
{111:6} He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may
      give them the heritage of the heathen.
{111:7} The works of his hands [are] verity and judgment; all his
      commandments [are] sure.
{111:8} They stand fast for ever and ever, [and are] done in truth and
      uprightness.
{111:9} He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his
      covenant for ever: holy and reverend [is] his name.
{111:10} The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: a good
      understanding have all they that do [his commandments:] his
      praise endureth for ever.


Psalm 112

{112:1} Praise ye the LORD. Blessed [is] the man [that] feareth the
      LORD, [that] delighteth greatly in his commandments.
{112:2} His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the
      upright shall be blessed.
{112:3} Wealth and riches [shall be] in his house: and his
      righteousness endureth for ever.
{112:4} Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: [he is]
      gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
{112:5} A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his
      affairs with discretion.
{112:6} Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be
      in everlasting remembrance.
{112:7} He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed,
      trusting in the LORD.
{112:8} His heart [is] established, he shall not be afraid, until he
      see [his desire] upon his enemies.
{112:9} He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness
      endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.
{112:10} The wicked shall see [it,] and be grieved; he shall gnash with
      his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.


Psalm 113

{113:1} Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise
      the name of the LORD.
{113:2} Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for
      evermore.
{113:3} From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the
      LORD'S name [is] to be praised.
{113:4} The LORD [is] high above all nations, [and] his glory above the
      heavens.
{113:5} Who [is] like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,
{113:6} Who humbleth [himself] to behold [the things that are] in
      heaven, and in the earth!
{113:7} He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, [and] lifteth the needy
      out of the dunghill;
{113:8} That he may set [him] with princes, [even] with the princes of
      his people.
{113:9} He maketh the barren woman to keep house, [and to be] a joyful
      mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.


Psalm 114

{114:1} When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people
      of strange language;
{114:2} Judah was his sanctuary, [and] Israel his dominion.
{114:3} The sea saw [it,] and fled: Jordan was driven back.
{114:4} The mountains skipped like rams, [and] the little hills like
      lambs.
{114:5} What [ailed] thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan,
      [that] thou wast driven back?
{114:6} Ye mountains, [that] ye skipped like rams; [and] ye little
      hills, like lambs?
{114:7} Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the
      presence of the God of Jacob;
{114:8} Which turned the rock [into] a standing water, the flint into a
      fountain of waters.


Psalm 115

{115:1} Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory,
      for thy mercy, [and] for thy truth's sake.
{115:2} Wherefore should the heathen say, Where [is] now their God?
{115:3} But our God [is] in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he
      hath pleased.
{115:4} Their idols [are] silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
{115:5} They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they
      see not:
{115:6} They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they
      smell not:
{115:7} They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they
      walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
{115:8} They that make them are like unto them; [so is] every one that
      trusteth in them.
{115:9} O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he [is] their help and their
      shield.
{115:10} O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he [is] their help and
      their shield.
{115:11} Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he [is] their help
      and their shield.
{115:12} The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless [us;] he will
      bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.
{115:13} He will bless them that fear the LORD, [both] small and great.
{115:14} The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your
      children.
{115:15} Ye [are] blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
{115:16} The heaven, [even] the heavens, [are] the LORD'S: but the
      earth hath he given to the children of men.
{115:17} The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into
      silence.
{115:18} But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for
      evermore. Praise the LORD.


Psalm 116

{116:1} I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice [and] my
      supplications.
{116:2} Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call
      upon [him] as long as I live.
{116:3} The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat
      hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
{116:4} Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech
      thee, deliver my soul.
{116:5} Gracious [is] the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God [is]
      merciful.
{116:6} The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he
      helped me.
{116:7} Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt
      bountifully with thee.
{116:8} For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from
      tears, [and] my feet from falling.
{116:9} I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
{116:10} I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
{116:11} I said in my haste, All men [are] liars.
{116:12} What shall I render unto the LORD [for] all his benefits
      toward me?
{116:13} I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of
      the LORD.
{116:14} I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all
      his people.
{116:15} Precious in the sight of the LORD [is] the death of his saints.
{116:16} O LORD, truly I [am] thy servant; I [am] thy servant, [and]
      the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
{116:17} I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will
      call upon the name of the LORD.
{116:18} I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all
      his people,
{116:19} In the courts of the LORD'S house, in the midst of thee, O
      Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.


Psalm 117

{117:1} O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
{117:2} For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of
      the LORD [endureth] for ever. Praise ye the LORD.


Psalm 118

{118:1} O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good: because his
      mercy [endureth] for ever.
{118:2} Let Israel now say, that his mercy [endureth] for ever.
{118:3} Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy [endureth] for
      ever.
{118:4} Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy [endureth]
      for ever.
{118:5} I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, [and
      set me] in a large place.
{118:6} The LORD [is] on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto
      me?
{118:7} The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall
      I see [my desire] upon them that hate me.
{118:8} [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in
      man.
{118:9} [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in
      princes.
{118:10} All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD
      will I destroy them.
{118:11} They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in
      the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
{118:12} They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the
      fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
{118:13} Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD
      helped me.
{118:14} The LORD [is] my strength and song, and is become my salvation.
{118:15} The voice of rejoicing and salvation [is] in the tabernacles
      of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
{118:16} The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the
      LORD doeth valiantly.
{118:17} I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
{118:18} The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over
      unto death.
{118:19} Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them,
      [and] I will praise the LORD:
{118:20} This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.
{118:21} I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my
      salvation.
{118:22} The stone [which] the builders refused is become the head
      [stone] of the corner.
{118:23} This is the LORD'S doing; it [is] marvellous in our eyes.
{118:24} This [is] the day [which] the LORD hath made; we will rejoice
      and be glad in it.
{118:25} Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send
      now prosperity.
{118:26} Blessed [be] he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have
      blessed you out of the house of the LORD.
{118:27} God [is] the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the
      sacrifice with cords, [even] unto the horns of the altar.
{118:28} Thou [art] my God, and I will praise thee: [thou art] my God,
      I will exalt thee.
{118:29} O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good: for his mercy
      [endureth] for ever.


Psalm 119

ALEPH.



   {119:1} Blessed [are] the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law
      of the LORD.
{119:2} Blessed [are] they that keep his testimonies, [and that] seek
      him with the whole heart.
{119:3} They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
{119:4} Thou hast commanded [us] to keep thy precepts diligently.
{119:5} O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
{119:6} Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy
      commandments.
{119:7} I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have
      learned thy righteous judgments.
{119:8} I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.

BETH.

{119:9} Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed
      [thereto] according to thy word.
{119:10} With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander
      from thy commandments.
{119:11} Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin
      against thee.
{119:12} Blessed [art] thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
{119:13} With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
{119:14} I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as [much as] in
      all riches.
{119:15} I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy
      ways.
{119:16} I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy
      word.

GIMEL.

{119:17} Deal bountifully with thy servant, [that] I may live, and keep
      thy word.
{119:18} Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of
      thy law.
{119:19} I [am] a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from
      me.
{119:20} My soul breaketh for the longing [that it hath] unto thy
      judgments at all times.
{119:21} Thou hast rebuked the proud [that are] cursed, which do err
      from thy commandments.
{119:22} Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy
      testimonies.
{119:23} Princes also did sit [and] speak against me: [but] thy servant
      did meditate in thy statutes.
{119:24} Thy testimonies also [are] my delight [and] my counsellors.

DALETH.

{119:25} My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to
      thy word.
{119:26} I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy
      statutes.
{119:27} Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk
      of thy wondrous works.
{119:28} My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according
      unto thy word.
{119:29} Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law
      graciously.
{119:30} I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid
      [before me.]
{119:31} I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.
{119:32} I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt
      enlarge my heart.

HE.

{119:33} Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it
      [unto] the end.
{119:34} Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall
      observe it with [my] whole heart.
{119:35} Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do
      I delight.
{119:36} Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
{119:37} Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; [and] quicken thou
      me in thy way.
{119:38} Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who [is devoted] to thy
      fear.
{119:39} Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments [are]
      good.
{119:40} Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy
      righteousness.

VAU.

{119:41} Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, [even] thy
      salvation, according to thy word.
{119:42} So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me:
      for I trust in thy word.
{119:43} And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I
      have hoped in thy judgments.
{119:44} So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.
{119:45} And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
{119:46} I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will
      not be ashamed.
{119:47} And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have
      loved.
{119:48} My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I
      have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

ZAIN

{119:49} Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast
      caused me to hope.
{119:50} This [is] my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath
      quickened me.
{119:51} The proud have had me greatly in derision: [yet] have I not
      declined from thy law.
{119:52} I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted
      myself.
{119:53} Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that
      forsake thy law.
{119:54} Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
{119:55} I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have
      kept thy law.
{119:56} This I had, because I kept thy precepts.

CHETH.

{119:57} [Thou art] my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep
      thy words.
{119:58} I intreated thy favour with [my] whole heart: be merciful unto
      me according to thy word.
{119:59} I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
{119:60} I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
{119:61} The bands of the wicked have robbed me: [but] I have not
      forgotten thy law.
{119:62} At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of
      thy righteous judgments.
{119:63} I [am] a companion of all [them] that fear thee, and of them
      that keep thy precepts.
{119:64} The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.

TETH.

{119:65} Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto
      thy word.
{119:66} Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy
      commandments.
{119:67} Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy
      word.
{119:68} Thou [art] good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
{119:69} The proud have forged a lie against me: [but] I will keep thy
      precepts with [my] whole heart.
{119:70} Their heart is as fat as grease; [but] I delight in thy law.
{119:71} [It is] good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might
      learn thy statutes.
{119:72} The law of thy mouth [is] better unto me than thousands of
      gold and silver.

JOD.

{119:73} Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me
      understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
{119:74} They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I
      have hoped in thy word.
{119:75} I know, O LORD, that thy judgments [are] right, and that
      [thou] in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
{119:76} Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort,
      according to thy word unto thy servant.
{119:77} Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy
      law [is] my delight.
{119:78} Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me
      without a cause: [but] I will meditate in thy precepts.
{119:79} Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have
      known thy testimonies.
{119:80} Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.

CAPH.

{119:81} My soul fainteth for thy salvation: [but] I hope in thy word.
{119:82} Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
{119:83} For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; [yet] do I not
      forget thy statutes.
{119:84} How many [are] the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute
      judgment on them that persecute me?
{119:85} The proud have digged pits for me, which [are] not after thy
      law.
{119:86} All thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me
      wrongfully; help thou me.
{119:87} They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy
      precepts.
{119:88} Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the
      testimony of thy mouth.

LAMED.

{119:89} For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
{119:90} Thy faithfulness [is] unto all generations: thou hast
      established the earth, and it abideth.
{119:91} They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all
      [are] thy servants.
{119:92} Unless thy law [had been] my delights, I should then have
      perished in mine affliction.
{119:93} I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast
      quickened me.
{119:94} I [am] thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.
{119:95} The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: [but] I will
      consider thy testimonies.
{119:96} I have seen an end of all perfection: [but] thy commandment
      [is] exceeding broad.

MEM.

{119:97} O how love I thy law! it [is] my meditation all the day.
{119:98} Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine
      enemies: for they [are] ever with me.
{119:99} I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy
      testimonies [are] my meditation.
{119:100} I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy
      precepts.
{119:101} I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might
      keep thy word.
{119:102} I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught
      me.
{119:103} How sweet are thy words unto my taste! [yea, sweeter] than
      honey to my mouth!
{119:104} Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate
      every false way.

NUN.

{119:105} Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
{119:106} I have sworn, and I will perform [it,] that I will keep thy
      righteous judgments.
{119:107} I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto
      thy word.
{119:108} Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O
      LORD, and teach me thy judgments.
{119:109} My soul [is] continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy
      law.
{119:110} The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy
      precepts.
{119:111} Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for
      they [are] the rejoicing of my heart.
{119:112} I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway,
      [even unto] the end.

SAMECH.

{119:113} I hate [vain] thoughts: but thy law do I love.
{119:114} Thou [art] my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.
{119:115} Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the
      commandments of my God.
{119:116} Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let
      me not be ashamed of my hope.
{119:117} Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect
      unto thy statutes continually.
{119:118} Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes:
      for their deceit [is] falsehood.
{119:119} Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth [like] dross:
      therefore I love thy testimonies.
{119:120} My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy
      judgments.

AIN.

{119:121} I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine
      oppressors.
{119:122} Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress
      me.
{119:123} Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy
      righteousness.
{119:124} Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me
      thy statutes.
{119:125} I [am] thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know
      thy testimonies.
{119:126} [It is] time for [thee,] LORD, to work: [for] they have made
      void thy law.
{119:127} Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine
      gold.
{119:128} Therefore I esteem all [thy] precepts [concerning] all
      [things to be] right; [and] I hate every false way.

PE.

{119:129} Thy testimonies [are] wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep
      them.
{119:130} The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth
      understanding unto the simple.
{119:131} I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy
      commandments.
{119:132} Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to
      do unto those that love thy name.
{119:133} Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have
      dominion over me.
{119:134} Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy
      precepts.
{119:135} Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy
      statutes.
{119:136} Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not
      thy law.

TZADDE.

{119:137} Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, and upright [are] thy judgments.
{119:138} Thy testimonies [that] thou hast commanded [are] righteous
      and very faithful.
{119:139} My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten
      thy words.
{119:140} Thy word [is] very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.
{119:141} I [am] small and despised: [yet] do not I forget thy precepts.
{119:142} Thy righteousness [is] an everlasting righteousness, and thy
      law [is] the truth.
{119:143} Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: [yet] thy
      commandments [are] my delights.
{119:144} The righteousness of thy testimonies [is] everlasting: give
      me understanding, and I shall live.

KOPH.

{119:145} I cried with [my] whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep
      thy statutes.
{119:146} I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
{119:147} I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in
      thy word.
{119:148} Mine eyes prevent the [night] watches, that I might meditate
      in thy word.
{119:149} Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD,
      quicken me according to thy judgment.
{119:150} They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from
      thy law.
{119:151} Thou [art] near, O LORD; and all thy commandments [are] truth.
{119:152} Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou
      hast founded them for ever.

RESH.

{119:153} Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget
      thy law.
{119:154} Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy
      word.
{119:155} Salvation [is] far from the wicked: for they seek not thy
      statutes.
{119:156} Great [are] thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according
      to thy judgments.
{119:157} Many [are] my persecutors and mine enemies; [yet] do I not
      decline from thy testimonies.
{119:158} I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they
      kept not thy word.
{119:159} Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD,
      according to thy lovingkindness.
{119:160} Thy word [is] true [from] the beginning: and every one of thy
      righteous judgments [endureth] for ever.

SCHIN.

{119:161} Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart
      standeth in awe of thy word.
{119:162} I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
{119:163} I hate and abhor lying: [but] thy law do I love.
{119:164} Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous
      judgments.
{119:165} Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall
      offend them.
{119:166} LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy
      commandments.
{119:167} My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them
      exceedingly.
{119:168} I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways
      [are] before thee.

TAU.

{119:169} Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me
      understanding according to thy word.
{119:170} Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to
      thy word.
{119:171} My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy
      statutes.
{119:172} My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments
      [are] righteousness.
{119:173} Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
{119:174} I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law [is] my
      delight.
{119:175} Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy
      judgments help me.
{119:176} I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I
      do not forget thy commandments.


Psalm 120

A Song of degrees.



   {120:1} In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
{120:2} Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, [and] from a
      deceitful tongue.
{120:3} What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee,
      thou false tongue?
{120:4} Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
{120:5} Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, [that] I dwell in the
      tents of Kedar!
{120:6} My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
{120:7} I [am for] peace: but when I speak, they [are] for war.


Psalm 121

A Song of degrees.



   {121:1} I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh
      my help.
{121:2} My help [cometh] from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
{121:3} He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee
      will not slumber.
{121:4} Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
{121:5} The LORD [is] thy keeper: the LORD [is] thy shade upon thy
      right hand.
{121:6} The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
{121:7} The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve
      thy soul.
{121:8} The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from
      this time forth, and even for evermore.


Psalm 122

A Song of degrees of David.



   {122:1} I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house
      of the LORD.
{122:2} Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
{122:3} Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:
{122:4} Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the
      testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.
{122:5} For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house
      of David.
{122:6} Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love
      thee.
{122:7} Peace be within thy walls, [and] prosperity within thy palaces.
{122:8} For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace
      [be] within thee.
{122:9} Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.


Psalm 123

A Song of degrees.



   {123:1} Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the
      heavens.
{123:2} Behold, as the eyes of servants [look] unto the hand of their
      masters, [and] as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her
      mistress; so our eyes [wait] upon the LORD our God, until that he
      have mercy upon us.
{123:3} Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are
      exceedingly filled with contempt.
{123:4} Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that
      are at ease, [and] with the contempt of the proud.


Psalm 124

A Song of degrees of David.



   {124:1} If [it had not been] the LORD who was on our side, now may
      Israel say;
{124:2} If [it had not been] the LORD who was on our side, when men
      rose up against us:
{124:3} Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was
      kindled against us:
{124:4} Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over
      our soul:
{124:5} Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
{124:6} Blessed [be] the LORD, who hath not given us [as] a prey to
      their teeth.
{124:7} Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers:
      the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
{124:8} Our help [is] in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and
      earth.


Psalm 125

A Song of degrees.



   {125:1} They that trust in the LORD [shall be] as mount Zion,
      [which] cannot be removed, [but] abideth for ever.
{125:2} As the mountains [are] round about Jerusalem, so the LORD [is]
      round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
{125:3} For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the
      righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
{125:4} Do good, O LORD, unto [those that be] good, and [to them that
      are] upright in their hearts.
{125:5} As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD
      shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: [but] peace
      [shall be] upon Israel.


Psalm 126

A Song of degrees.



   {126:1} When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were
      like them that dream.
{126:2} Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with
      singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done
      great things for them.
{126:3} The LORD hath done great things for us; [whereof] we are glad.
{126:4} Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
{126:5} They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
{126:6} He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall
      doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves [with
      him.]


Psalm 127

A Song of degrees for Solomon.



   {127:1} Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that
      build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh
      [but] in vain.
{127:2} [It is] vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat
      the bread of sorrows: [for] so he giveth his beloved sleep.
{127:3} Lo, children [are] an heritage of the LORD: [and] the fruit of
      the womb [is his] reward.
{127:4} As arrows [are] in the hand of a mighty man; so [are] children
      of the youth.
{127:5} Happy [is] the man that hath his quiver full of them: they
      shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in
      the gate.


Psalm 128

A Song of degrees.



   {128:1} Blessed [is] every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh
      in his ways.
{128:2} For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy [shalt]
      thou [be,] and [it shall be] well with thee.
{128:3} Thy wife [shall be] as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine
      house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
{128:4} Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the
      LORD.
{128:5} The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the
      good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
{128:6} Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, [and] peace upon
      Israel.


Psalm 129

A Song of degrees.



   {129:1} Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel
      now say:
{129:2} Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have
      not prevailed against me.
{129:3} The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
{129:4} The LORD [is] righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the
      wicked.
{129:5} Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
{129:6} Let them be as the grass [upon] the housetops, which withereth
      afore it groweth up:
{129:7} Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth
      sheaves his bosom.
{129:8} Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD [be]
      upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.


Psalm 130

A Song of degrees.



   {130:1} Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.
{130:2} Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice
      of my supplications.
{130:3} If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall
      stand?
{130:4} But [there is] forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be
      feared.
{130:5} I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I
      hope.
{130:6} My soul [waiteth] for the Lord more than they that watch for
      the morning: [I say, more than] they that watch for the morning.
{130:7} Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD [there is]
      mercy, and with him [is] plenteous redemption.
{130:8} And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.


Psalm 131

A Song of degrees of David.



   {131:1} LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither
      do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for
      me.
{131:2} Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is
      weaned of his mother: my soul [is] even as a weaned child.
{131:3} Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.


Psalm 132

A Song of degrees.



   {132:1} LORD, remember David, [and] all his afflictions:
{132:2} How he sware unto the LORD, [and] vowed unto the mighty [God]
      of Jacob;
{132:3} Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go
      up into my bed;
{132:4} I will not give sleep to mine eyes, [or] slumber to mine
      eyelids,
{132:5} Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the
      mighty [God] of Jacob.
{132:6} Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of
      the wood.
{132:7} We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his
      footstool.
{132:8} Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.
{132:9} Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy
      saints shout for joy.
{132:10} For thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine
      anointed.
{132:11} The LORD hath sworn [in] truth unto David; he will not turn
      from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.
{132:12} If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I
      shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne
      for evermore.
{132:13} For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired [it] for his
      habitation.
{132:14} This [is] my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have
      desired it.
{132:15} I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor
      with bread.
{132:16} I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints
      shall shout aloud for joy.
{132:17} There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a
      lamp for mine anointed.
{132:18} His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall
      his crown flourish.


Psalm 133

A Song of degrees of David.



   {133:1} Behold, how good and how pleasant [it is] for brethren to
      dwell together in unity!
{133:2} [It is] like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down
      upon the beard, [even] Aaron's beard: that went down to the
      skirts of his garments;
{133:3} As the dew of Hermon, [and as the dew] that descended upon the
      mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing,
      [even] life for evermore.


Psalm 134

A Song of degrees.



   {134:1} Behold, bless ye the LORD, all [ye] servants of the LORD,
      which by night stand in the house of the LORD.
{134:2} Lift up your hands [in] the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
{134:3} The LORD that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.


Psalm 135

{135:1} Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the name of the LORD; praise
      [him,] O ye servants of the LORD.
{135:2} Ye that stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the
      house of our God,
{135:3} Praise the LORD; for the LORD [is] good: sing praises unto his
      name; for [it is] pleasant.
{135:4} For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, [and] Israel for
      his peculiar treasure.
{135:5} For I know that the LORD [is] great, and [that] our Lord [is]
      above all gods.
{135:6} Whatsoever the LORD pleased, [that] did he in heaven, and in
      earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
{135:7} He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he
      maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his
      treasuries.
{135:8} Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.
{135:9} [Who] sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt,
      upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants.
{135:10} Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;
{135:11} Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the
      kingdoms of Canaan:
{135:12} And gave their land [for] an heritage, an heritage unto Israel
      his people.
{135:13} Thy name, O LORD, [endureth] for ever; [and] thy memorial, O
      LORD, throughout all generations.
{135:14} For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself
      concerning his servants.
{135:15} The idols of the heathen [are] silver and gold, the work of
      men's hands.
{135:16} They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they
      see not;
{135:17} They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there [any]
      breath in their mouths.
{135:18} They that make them are like unto them: [so is] every one that
      trusteth in them.
{135:19} Bless the LORD, O house of Israel: bless the LORD, O house of
      Aaron:
{135:20} Bless the LORD, O house of Levi: ye that fear the LORD, bless
      the LORD.
{135:21} Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, which dwelleth at Jerusalem.
      Praise ye the LORD.


Psalm 136

{136:1} O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good: for his mercy
      [endureth] for ever.
{136:2} O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy [endureth]
      for ever.
{136:3} O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy [endureth]
      for ever.
{136:4} To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy [endureth]
      for ever.
{136:5} To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy
      [endureth] for ever.
{136:6} To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his
      mercy [endureth] for ever.
{136:7} To him that made great lights: for his mercy [endureth] for
      ever:
{136:8} The sun to rule by day: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:
{136:9} The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy [endureth]
      for ever.
{136:10} To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy
      [endureth] for ever:
{136:11} And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy
      [endureth] for ever:
{136:12} With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his
      mercy [endureth] for ever.
{136:13} To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy
      [endureth] for ever:
{136:14} And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy
      [endureth] for ever:
{136:15} But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his
      mercy [endureth] for ever.
{136:16} To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his
      mercy [endureth] for ever.
{136:17} To him which smote great kings: for his mercy [endureth] for
      ever:
{136:18} And slew famous kings: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:
{136:19} Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:
{136:20} And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:
{136:21} And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy [endureth]
      for ever:
{136:22} [Even] an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy
      [endureth] for ever.
{136:23} Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy [endureth]
      for ever:
{136:24} And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy
      [endureth] for ever.
{136:25} Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy [endureth] for
      ever.
{136:26} O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy [endureth]
      for ever.


Psalm 137

{137:1} By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when
      we remembered Zion.
{137:2} We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
{137:3} For there they that carried us away captive required of us a
      song; and they that wasted us [required of us] mirth, [saying,]
      Sing us [one] of the songs of Zion.
{137:4} How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
{137:5} If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget [her
      cunning.]
{137:6} If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of
      my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
{137:7} Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem;
      who said, Rase [it,] rase [it, even] to the foundation thereof.
{137:8} O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy [shall he
      be,] that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
{137:9} Happy [shall he be,] that taketh and dasheth thy little ones
      against the stones.


Psalm 138

A [Psalm] of David.



   {138:1} I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will
      I sing praise unto thee.
{138:2} I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for
      thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy
      word above all thy name.
{138:3} In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, [and]
      strengthenedst me [with] strength in my soul.
{138:4} All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, when they
      hear the words of thy mouth.
{138:5} Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great [is]
      the glory of the LORD.
{138:6} Though the LORD [be] high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly:
      but the proud he knoweth afar off.
{138:7} Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me:
      thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine
      enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
{138:8} The LORD will perfect [that which] concerneth me: thy mercy, O
      LORD, [endureth] for ever: forsake not the works of thine own
      hands.


Psalm 139

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.



   {139:1} O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known [me.]
{139:2} Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou
      understandest my thought afar off.
{139:3} Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted
      [with] all my ways.
{139:4} For [there is] not a word in my tongue, [but,] lo, O LORD, thou
      knowest it altogether.
{139:5} Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon
      me.
{139:6} [Such] knowledge [is] too wonderful for me; it is high, I
      cannot [attain] unto it.
{139:7} Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee
      from thy presence?
{139:8} If I ascend up into heaven, thou [art] there: if I make my bed
      in hell, behold, thou [art there.]
{139:9} [If] I take the wings of the morning, [and] dwell in the
      uttermost parts of the sea;
{139:10} Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall
      hold me.
{139:11} If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night
      shall be light about me.
{139:12} Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth
      as the day: the darkness and the light [are] both alike [to thee.]
{139:13} For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my
      mother's womb.
{139:14} I will praise thee; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made:
      marvellous [are] thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well.
{139:15} My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret,
      [and] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
{139:16} Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in
      thy book all [my members] were written, [which] in continuance
      were fashioned, when [as yet there was] none of them.
{139:17} How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great
      is the sum of them!
{139:18} [If] I should count them, they are more in number than the
      sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
{139:19} Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me
      therefore, ye bloody men.
{139:20} For they speak against thee wickedly, [and] thine enemies take
      [thy name] in vain.
{139:21} Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I
      grieved with those that rise up against thee?
{139:22} I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
{139:23} Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my
      thoughts:
{139:24} And see if [there be any] wicked way in me, and lead me in the
      way everlasting.


Psalm 140

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.



   {140:1} Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the
      violent man;
{140:2} Which imagine mischiefs in [their] heart; continually are they
      gathered together [for] war.
{140:3} They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders'
      poison [is] under their lips. Selah.
{140:4} Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from
      the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
{140:5} The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread
      a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
{140:6} I said unto the LORD, Thou [art] my God: hear the voice of my
      supplications, O LORD.
{140:7} O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered
      my head in the day of battle.
{140:8} Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his
      wicked device; [lest] they exalt themselves. Selah.
{140:9} [As for] the head of those that compass me about, let the
      mischief of their own lips cover them.
{140:10} Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the
      fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
{140:11} Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil
      shall hunt the violent man to overthrow [him.]
{140:12} I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted,
      [and] the right of the poor.
{140:13} Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the
      upright shall dwell in thy presence.


Psalm 141

A Psalm of David.



   {141:1} LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my
      voice, when I cry unto thee.
{141:2} Let my prayer be set forth before thee [as] incense; [and] the
      lifting up of my hands [as] the evening sacrifice.
{141:3} Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
{141:4} Incline not my heart to [any] evil thing, to practise wicked
      works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their
      dainties.
{141:5} Let the righteous smite me; [it shall be] a kindness: and let
      him reprove me; [it shall be] an excellent oil, [which] shall not
      break my head: for yet my prayer also [shall be] in their
      calamities.
{141:6} When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall
      hear my words; for they are sweet.
{141:7} Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one
      cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth.
{141:8} But mine eyes [are] unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my
      trust; leave not my soul destitute.
{141:9} Keep me from the snares [which] they have laid for me, and the
      gins of the workers of iniquity.
{141:10} Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal
      escape.


Psalm 142

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



   {142:1} I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the
      LORD did I make my supplication.
{142:2} I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my
      trouble.
{142:3} When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my
      path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare
      for me.
{142:4} I looked on [my] right hand, and beheld, but [there was] no man
      that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
{142:5} I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou [art] my refuge [and]
      my portion in the land of the living.
{142:6} Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from
      my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
{142:7} Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the
      righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully
      with me.


Psalm 143

A Psalm of David.



   {143:1} Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy
      faithfulness answer me, [and] in thy righteousness.
{143:2} And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight
      shall no man living be justified.
{143:3} For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life
      down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as
      those that have been long dead.
{143:4} Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within
      me is desolate.
{143:5} I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse
      on the work of thy hands.
{143:6} I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul [thirsteth] after
      thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
{143:7} Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face
      from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
{143:8} Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee
      do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I
      lift up my soul unto thee.
{143:9} Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide
      me.
{143:10} Teach me to do thy will; for thou [art] my God: thy spirit
      [is] good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
{143:11} Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy
      righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.
{143:12} And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them
      that afflict my soul: for I [am] thy servant.


Psalm 144

A [Psalm] of David.



   {144:1} Blessed [be] the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands
      to war, [and] my fingers to fight:
{144:2} My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer;
      my shield, and [he] in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under
      me.
{144:3} LORD, what [is] man, that thou takest knowledge of him! [or]
      the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
{144:4} Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth
      away.
{144:5} Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains,
      and they shall smoke.
{144:6} Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows,
      and destroy them.
{144:7} Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great
      waters, from the hand of strange children;
{144:8} Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right
      hand of falsehood.
{144:9} I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery [and]
      an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
{144:10} [It is he] that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth
      David his servant from the hurtful sword.
{144:11} Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children,
      whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right
      hand of falsehood:
{144:12} That our sons [may be] as plants grown up in their youth;
      [that] our daughters [may be] as corner stones, polished [after]
      the similitude of a palace:
{144:13} [That] our garners [may be] full, affording all manner of
      store: [that] our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten
      thousands in our streets:
{144:14} [That] our oxen [may be] strong to labour; [that there be] no
      breaking in, nor going out; that [there be] no complaining in our
      streets.
{144:15} Happy [is that] people, that is in such a case: [yea,] happy
      [is that] people, whose God [is] the LORD.


Psalm 145

David's [Psalm] of praise.



   {145:1} I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name
      for ever and ever.
{145:2} Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for
      ever and ever.
{145:3} Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his
      greatness [is] unsearchable.
{145:4} One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall
      declare thy mighty acts.
{145:5} I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy
      wondrous works.
{145:6} And [men] shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I
      will declare thy greatness.
{145:7} They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness,
      and shall sing of thy righteousness.
{145:8} The LORD [is] gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger,
      and of great mercy.
{145:9} The LORD [is] good to all: and his tender mercies [are] over
      all his works.
{145:10} All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall
      bless thee.
{145:11} They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy
      power;
{145:12} To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the
      glorious majesty of his kingdom.
{145:13} Thy kingdom [is] an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion
      [endureth] throughout all generations.
{145:14} The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all [those
      that be] bowed down.
{145:15} The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their
      meat in due season.
{145:16} Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every
      living thing.
{145:17} The LORD [is] righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his
      works.
{145:18} The LORD [is] nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all
      that call upon him in truth.
{145:19} He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will
      hear their cry, and will save them.
{145:20} The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked
      will he destroy.
{145:21} My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh
      bless his holy name for ever and ever.


Psalm 146

{146:1} Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
{146:2} While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto
      my God while I have any being.
{146:3} Put not your trust in princes, [nor] in the son of man, in whom
      [there is] no help.
{146:4} His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very
      day his thoughts perish.
{146:5} Happy [is he] that [hath] the God of Jacob for his help, whose
      hope [is] in the LORD his God:
{146:6} Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein
      [is:] which keepeth truth for ever:
{146:7} Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food
      to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
{146:8} The LORD openeth [the eyes of] the blind: the LORD raiseth them
      that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
{146:9} The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless
      and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
{146:10} The LORD shall reign for ever, [even] thy God, O Zion, unto
      all generations. Praise ye the LORD.


Psalm 147

{147:1} Praise ye the LORD: for [it is] good to sing praises unto our
      God; for [it is] pleasant; [and] praise is comely.
{147:2} The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the
      outcasts of Israel.
{147:3} He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
{147:4} He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by
      [their] names.
{147:5} Great [is] our Lord, and of great power: his understanding [is]
      infinite.
{147:6} The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the
      ground.
{147:7} Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp
      unto our God:
{147:8} Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the
      earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
{147:9} He giveth to the beast his food, [and] to the young ravens
      which cry.
{147:10} He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not
      pleasure in the legs of a man.
{147:11} The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that
      hope in his mercy.
{147:12} Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.
{147:13} For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath
      blessed thy children within thee.
{147:14} He maketh peace [in] thy borders, [and] filleth thee with the
      finest of the wheat.
{147:15} He sendeth forth his commandment [upon] earth: his word
      runneth very swiftly.
{147:16} He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoar frost like
      ashes.
{147:17} He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before
      his cold?
{147:18} He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind
      to blow, [and] the waters flow.
{147:19} He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments
      unto Israel.
{147:20} He hath not dealt so with any nation: and [as for his]
      judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.


Psalm 148

{148:1} Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise
      him in the heights.
{148:2} Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.
{148:3} Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
{148:4} Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that [be]
      above the heavens.
{148:5} Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and
      they were created.
{148:6} He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a
      decree which shall not pass.
{148:7} Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:
{148:8} Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his
      word:
{148:9} Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:
{148:10} Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:
{148:11} Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of
      the earth:
{148:12} Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:
{148:13} Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is
      excellent; his glory [is] above the earth and heaven.
{148:14} He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his
      saints; [even] of the children of Israel, a people near unto him.
      Praise ye the LORD.


Psalm 149

{149:1} Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, [and] his
      praise in the congregation of saints.
{149:2} Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of
      Zion be joyful in their King.
{149:3} Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises
      unto him with the timbrel and harp.
{149:4} For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify
      the meek with salvation.
{149:5} Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon
      their beds.
{149:6} [Let] the high [praises] of God [be] in their mouth, and a
      twoedged sword in their hand;
{149:7} To execute vengeance upon the heathen, [and] punishments upon
      the people;
{149:8} To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters
      of iron;
{149:9} To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all
      his saints. Praise ye the LORD.


Psalm 150

{150:1} Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in
      the firmament of his power.
{150:2} Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his
      excellent greatness.
{150:3} Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the
      psaltery and harp.
{150:4} Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed
      instruments and organs.
{150:5} Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high
      sounding cymbals.
{150:6} Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the
      LORD.