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Psalms 1:1-150:6 (KJV)  
    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in
the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. [2] But his delight is in
the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. [3] And he shall be
like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season;
his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. [4] The ungodly
are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. [5] Therefore the ungodly
shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. [6]
For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. 
    [2:1] Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? [2] The kings of
the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and
against his anointed, saying, [3] Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their
cords from us. [4] He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them
in derision. [5] Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore
displeasure. [6] Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. [7] I will declare the
decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. [8]
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost
parts of the earth for thy possession. [9] Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou
shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. [10] Be wise now therefore, O ye kings:
be instructed, ye judges of the earth. [11] Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with
trembling. [12] Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his
wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. 
    [3:1] A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
    Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
[2] Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah. [3] But
thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. [4] I cried
unto the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah. [5] I laid me
down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me. [6] I will not be afraid of ten
thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about. [7] Arise, O Lord;
save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast
broken the teeth of the ungodly. [8] Salvation belongeth unto the Lord: thy blessing is
upon thy people. Selah. 
    [4:1] To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David.
    Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in
distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer. [2] O ye sons of men, how long will ye
turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
[3] But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the Lord will
hear when I call unto him. [4] Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart
upon your bed, and be still. Selah. [5] Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put
your trust in the Lord. [6] There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift
thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. [7] Thou hast put gladness in my heart,
more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased. [8] I will both lay me
down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety. 
    [5:1] To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David.
    Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation. [2] Hearken unto the voice of
my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray. [3] My voice shalt thou hear in
the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
[4] For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell
with thee. [5] The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of
iniquity. [6] Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the bloody
and deceitful man. [7] But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy
mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple. [8] Lead me, O Lord, in thy
righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face. [9] For
there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their
throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. [10] Destroy thou them, O
God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their
transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee. [11] But let all those that put
their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them:
let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee. [12] For thou, Lord, wilt bless the
righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield. 
    [6:1] To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.
    O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. [2]
Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak: O Lord, heal me; for my bones are vexed. [3]
My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O Lord, how long? [4] Return, O Lord, deliver my
soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake. [5] For in death there is no remembrance of thee:
in the grave who shall give thee thanks? [6] I am weary with my groaning; all the night
make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. [7] Mine eye is consumed because
of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies. [8] Depart from me, all ye workers
of iniquity; for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping. [9] The Lord hath heard my
supplication; the Lord will receive my prayer. [10] Let all mine enemies be ashamed and
sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly. 
    [7:1] Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the Lord, concerning the words of Cush
the Benjamite.
    O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me,
and deliver me: [2] Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there
is none to deliver. [3] O Lord my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my
hands; [4] If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have
delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:) [5] Let the enemy persecute my soul, and
take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust.
Selah. [6] Arise, O Lord, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine
enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded. [7] So shall the
congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on
high. [8] The Lord shall judge the people: judge me, O Lord, according to my
righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me. [9] Oh let the wickedness
of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the
hearts and reins. [10] My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart. [11] God
judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day. [12] If he turn not,
he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. [13] He hath also
prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the
persecutors. [14] Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and
brought forth falsehood. [15] He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch
which he made. [16] His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing
shall come down upon his own pate. [17] I will praise the Lord according to his
righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high. 
    [8:1] To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.
    O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory
above the heavens. [2] Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained
strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
[3] When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which
thou hast ordained; [4] What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man,
that thou visitest him? [5] For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and
hast crowned him with glory and honour. [6] Thou madest him to have dominion over the
works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: [7] All sheep and oxen, yea,
and the beasts of the field; [8] The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and
whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. [9] O Lord our Lord, how excellent is
thy name in all the earth! 
    [9:1] To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben, A Psalm of David.
    I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy
marvellous works. [2] I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name,
O thou most High. [3] When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at
thy presence. [4] For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the
throne judging right. [5] Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked,
thou hast put out their name for ever and ever. [6] O thou enemy, destructions are come
to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
[7] But the Lord shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment. [8] And
he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in
uprightness. [9] The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of
trouble. [10] And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord,
hast not forsaken them that seek thee. [11] Sing praises to the Lord, which dwelleth in
Zion: declare among the people his doings. [12] When he maketh inquisition for blood, he
remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble. [13] Have mercy upon me, O
Lord; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up
from the gates of death: [14] That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the
daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation. [15] The heathen are sunk down in the
pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. [16] The Lord is
known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own
hands. Higgaion. Selah. [17] The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations
that forget God. [18] For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the
poor shall not perish for ever. [19] Arise, O Lord; let not man prevail: let the heathen
be judged in thy sight. [20] Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations may know
themselves to be but men. Selah. 
    [10:1] Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of
trouble? [2] The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the
devices that they have imagined. [3] For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and
blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth. [4] The wicked, through the pride of his
countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. [5] His ways are
always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he
puffeth at them. [6] He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never
be in adversity. [7] His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue
is mischief and vanity. [8] He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the
secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. [9]
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he
doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. [10] He croucheth, and humbleth
himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones. [11] He hath said in his heart, God
hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it. [12] Arise, O Lord; O God, lift
up thine hand: forget not the humble. [13] Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath
said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. [14] Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest
mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee;
thou art the helper of the fatherless. [15] Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil
man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none. [16] The Lord is King for ever and
ever: the heathen are perished out of his land. [17] Lord, thou hast heard the desire of
the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: [18] To
judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress. 
    [11:1] To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
    In the Lord put I my trust: How say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
[2] For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that
they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. [3] If the foundations be destroyed, what
can the righteous do? [4] The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's throne is in heaven:
his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men. [5] The Lord trieth the righteous:
but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. [6] Upon the wicked he shall
rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of
their cup. [7] For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold
the upright. 
    [12:1] To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.
    Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children
of men. [2] They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with
a double heart do they speak. [3] The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the
tongue that speaketh proud things: [4] Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail;
our lips are our own: who is lord over us? [5] For the oppression of the poor, for the
sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him
that puffeth at him. [6] The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a
furnace of earth, purified seven times. [7] Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt
preserve them from this generation for ever. [8] The wicked walk on every side, when the
vilest men are exalted. 
    [13:1] To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
    How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face
from me? [2] How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily?
how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? [3] Consider and hear me, O Lord my God:
lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; [4] Lest mine enemy say, I have
prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved. [5] But I have
trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. [6] I will sing unto the
Lord, because he hath dealt bountifully with me. 
    [14:1] To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
    The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done
abominable works, there is none that doeth good. [2] The Lord looked down from heaven
upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. [3]
They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth
good, no, not one. [4] Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my
people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord. [5] There were they in great fear:
for God is in the generation of the righteous. [6] Ye have shamed the counsel of the
poor, because the Lord is his refuge. [7] Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out
of Zion! when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice,
and Israel shall be glad. 
    [15:1] A Psalm of David.
    Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? [2] He
that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
[3] He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh
up a reproach against his neighbour. [4] In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he
honoureth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
[5] He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent.
He that doeth these things shall never be moved. 
    [16:1] Michtam of David.
    Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust. [2] O my soul, thou hast said
unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee; [3] But to the saints
that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight. [4] Their sorrows
shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I
not offer, nor take up their names into my lips. [5] The Lord is the portion of mine
inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. [6] The lines are fallen unto me in
pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. [7] I will bless the Lord, who hath given
me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons. [8] I have set the Lord
always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. [9] Therefore my
heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. [10] For thou
wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see
corruption. [11] Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy;
at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. 
    [17:1] A Prayer of David.
    Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not
out of feigned lips. [2] Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes
behold the things that are equal. [3] Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me
in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth
shall not transgress. [4] Concerning the words of men, by the word of thy lips I have
kept me from the paths of the destroyer. [5] Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my
footsteps slip not. [6] I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline
thine ear unto me, and hear my speech. [7] Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou
that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up
against them. [8] Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
[9] From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about. [10]
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly. [11] They have
now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth; [12]
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret
places. [13] Arise, O Lord, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the
wicked, which is thy sword: [14] From men which are thy hand, O Lord, from men of the
world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid
treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their
babes. [15] As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied,
when I awake, with thy likeness. 
    [18:1] To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who spake
unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand
of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,
    I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. [2] The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and
my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my
salvation, and my high tower. [3] I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised:
so shall I be saved from mine enemies. [4] The sorrows of death compassed me, and the
floods of ungodly men made me afraid. [5] The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the
snares of death prevented me. [6] In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto
my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his
ears. [7] Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and
were shaken, because he was wroth. [8] There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and
fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. [9] He bowed the heavens also,
and came down: and darkness was under his feet. [10] And he rode upon a cherub, and did
fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. [11] He made darkness his secret place;
his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. [12] At the
brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
[13] The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones
and coals of fire. [14] Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out
lightnings, and discomfited them. [15] Then the channels of waters were seen, and the
foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the
breath of thy nostrils. [16] He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many
waters. [17] He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they
were too strong for me. [18] They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord
was my stay. [19] He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because
he delighted in me. [20] The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to
the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. [21] For I have kept the ways of the
Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God. [22] For all his judgments were before
me, and I did not put away his statutes from me. [23] I was also upright before him, and
I kept myself from mine iniquity. [24] Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according
to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. [25] With
the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself
upright; [26] With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt
shew thyself froward. [27] For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down
high looks. [28] For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my
darkness. [29] For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a
wall. [30] As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler
to all those that trust in him. [31] For who is God save the Lord? or who is a rock save
our God? [32] It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect. [33] He
maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places. [34] He teacheth my
hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. [35] Thou hast also given me
the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness
hath made me great. [36] Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
[37] I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they
were consumed. [38] I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen
under my feet. [39] For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast
subdued under me those that rose up against me. [40] Thou hast also given me the necks of
mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me. [41] They cried, but there was none
to save them: even unto the Lord, but he answered them not. [42] Then did I beat them
small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets. [43]
Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head
of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me. [44] As soon as they hear
of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me. [45] The
strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places. [46] The Lord liveth;
and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted. [47] It is God that
avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me. [48] He delivereth me from mine enemies:
yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from
the violent man. [49] Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the heathen,
and sing praises unto thy name. [50] Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth
mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore. 
    [19:1] To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
    The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. [2]
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. [3] There is no
speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. [4] Their line is gone out through
all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle
for the sun, [5] Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a
strong man to run a race. [6] His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his
circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. [7] The law
of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making
wise the simple. [8] The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the
commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. [9] The fear of the Lord is
clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
[10] More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than
honey and the honeycomb. [11] Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of
them there is great reward. [12] Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from
secret faults. [13] Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have
dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great
transgression. [14] Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be
acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer. 
    [20:1] To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
    The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;
[2] Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion; [3] Remember all
thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah. [4] Grant thee according to thine
own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel. [5] We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the
name of our God we will set up our banners: the Lord fulfil all thy petitions. [6] Now
know I that the Lord saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the
saving strength of his right hand. [7] Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we
will remember the name of the Lord our God. [8] They are brought down and fallen: but we
are risen, and stand upright. [9] Save, Lord: let the king hear us when we call. 
    [21:1] To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
    The king shall joy in thy strength, O Lord; and in thy salvation how greatly shall
he rejoice! [2] Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the
request of his lips. Selah. [3] For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness:
thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head. [4] He asked life of thee, and thou gavest
it him, even length of days for ever and ever. [5] His glory is great in thy salvation:
honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him. [6] For thou hast made him most blessed for
ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance. [7] For the king trusteth
in the Lord, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved. [8] Thine hand
shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee. [9]
Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the Lord shall swallow
them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them. [10] Their fruit shalt thou destroy
from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men. [11] For they intended
evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to
perform. [12] Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready
thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them. [13] Be thou exalted, Lord, in
thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power. 
    [22:1] To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.
    My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and
from the words of my roaring? [2] O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not;
and in the night season, and am not silent. [3] But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest
the praises of Israel. [4] Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst
deliver them. [5] They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and
were not confounded. [6] But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of
the people. [7] All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they
shake the head saying, [8] He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him
deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. [9] But thou art he that took me out of the
womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts. [10] I was cast upon
thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly. [11] Be not far from me; for
trouble is near; for there is none to help. [12] Many bulls have compassed me: strong
bulls of Bashan have beset me round. [13] They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a
ravening and a roaring lion. [14] I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of
joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. [15] My strength is
dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me
into the dust of death. [16] For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have
inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. [17] I may tell all my bones: they look
and stare upon me. [18] They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
[19] But be not thou far from me, O Lord: O my strength, haste thee to help me. [20]
Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. [21] Save me from
the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. [22] I will
declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
[23] Ye that fear the Lord, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear
him, all ye the seed of Israel. [24] For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction
of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he
heard. [25] My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows
before them that fear him. [26] The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise
the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live for ever. [27] All the ends of the world
shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship
before thee. [28] For the kingdom is the Lord's: and he is the governor among the
nations. [29] All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go
down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul. [30] A seed
shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. [31] They shall
come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath
done this. 
    [23:1] A Psalm of David.
    The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. [2] He maketh me to lie down in green
pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. [3] He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me
in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. [4] Yea, though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy
staff they comfort me. [5] Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine
enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. [6] Surely goodness and
mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
for ever. 
    [24:1] A Psalm of David.
    The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell
therein. [2] For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
[3] Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? [4]
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity,
nor sworn deceitfully. [5] He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness
from the God of his salvation. [6] This is the generation of them that seek him, that
seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah. [7] Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye
everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. [8] Who is this King of glory?
The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. [9] Lift up your heads, O ye
gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. [10]
Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah. 
    [25:1] A Psalm of David.
    Unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. [2] O my God, I trust in thee: let me not
be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. [3] Yea, let none that wait on thee be
ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause. [4] Shew me thy ways, O
Lord; teach me thy paths. [5] Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of
my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. [6] Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and
thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old. [7] Remember not the sins of my
youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness'
sake, O Lord. [8] Good and upright is the Lord: therefore will he teach sinners in the
way. [9] The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way. [10] All
the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his
testimonies. [11] For thy name's sake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.
[12] What man is he that feareth the Lord? him shall he teach in the way that he shall
choose. [13] His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth. [14] The
secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant. [15]
Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. [16] Turn
thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted. [17] The troubles
of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses. [18] Look upon mine
affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins. [19] Consider mine enemies; for they are
many; and they hate me with cruel hatred. [20] O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not
be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee. [21] Let integrity and uprightness preserve me;
for I wait on thee. [22] Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. 
    [26:1] A Psalm of David.
    Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the
Lord; therefore I shall not slide. [2] Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and
my heart. [3] For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.
[4] I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers. [5] I have
hated the congregation of evildoers; and will not sit with the wicked. [6] I will wash
mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O Lord: [7] That I may publish
with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works. [8] Lord, I have
loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth. [9] Gather
not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men: [10] In whose hands is mischief,
and their right hand is full of bribes. [11] But as for me, I will walk in mine
integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me. [12] My foot standeth in an even place: in
the congregations will I bless the Lord. 
    [27:1] A Psalm of David.
    The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength
of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? [2] When the wicked, even mine enemies and my
foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. [3] Though an host should
encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this
will I be confident. [4] One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after;
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty
of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple. [5] For in the time of trouble he shall hide
me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up
upon a rock. [6] And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me:
therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing
praises unto the Lord. [7] Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon
me, and answer me. [8] When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy
face, Lord, will I seek. [9] Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in
anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
[10] When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up. [11] Teach
me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. [12] Deliver me
not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and
such as breathe out cruelty. [13] I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the
goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. [14] Wait on the Lord: be of good
courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord. 
    [28:1] A Psalm of David.
    Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent
to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. [2] Hear the voice of my
supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle. [3]
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to
their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts. [4] Give them according to their
deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of
their hands; render to them their desert. [5] Because they regard not the works of the
Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up. [6]
Blessed be the Lord, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications. [7] The Lord is
my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart
greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him. [8] The Lord is their strength,
and he is the saving strength of his anointed. [9] Save thy people, and bless thine
inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever. 
    [29:1] A Psalm of David.
    Give unto the Lord, O ye mighty, give unto the Lord glory and strength. [2] Give
unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.
[3] The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is
upon many waters. [4] The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of
majesty. [5] The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars; yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars
of Lebanon. [6] He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young
unicorn. [7] The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire. [8] The voice of the Lord
shaketh the wilderness; the Lord shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh. [9] The voice of the
Lord maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every
one speak of his glory. [10] The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth King
for ever. [11] The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord will bless his
people with peace. 
    [30:1] A Psalm and Song at the dedication of the house of David.
    I will extol thee, O Lord; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to
rejoice over me. [2] O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. [3] O
Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should
not go down to the pit. [4] Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at
the remembrance of his holiness. [5] For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour
is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. [6] And in my
prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. [7] Lord, by thy favour thou hast made my
mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled. [8] I cried to
thee, O Lord; and unto the Lord I made supplication. [9] What profit is there in my
blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
[10] Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me: Lord, be thou my helper. [11] Thou hast turned
for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with
gladness; [12] To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O
Lord my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever. 
    [31:1] To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
    In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy
righteousness. [2] Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock,
for an house of defence to save me. [3] For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore
for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me. [4] Pull me out of the net that they have laid
privily for me: for thou art my strength. [5] Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou
hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth. [6] I have hated them that regard lying vanities:
but I trust in the Lord. [7] I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast
considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities; [8] And hast not shut me
up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room. [9] Have mercy upon
me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my
belly. [10] For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength
faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed. [11] I was a reproach among
all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance:
they that did see me without fled from me. [12] I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind:
I am like a broken vessel. [13] For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every
side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
[14] But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God. [15] My times are in thy
hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. [16]
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake. [17] Let me not
be ashamed, O Lord; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them
be silent in the grave. [18] Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous
things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous. [19] Oh how great is thy
goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for
them that trust in thee before the sons of men! [20] Thou shalt hide them in the secret
of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from
the strife of tongues. [21] Blessed be the Lord: for he hath shewed me his marvellous
kindness in a strong city. [22] For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine
eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
[23] O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and
plentifully rewardeth the proud doer. [24] Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen
your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord. 
    [32:1] A Psalm of David, Maschil.
    Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. [2] Blessed is
the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
[3] When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. [4] For
day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of
summer. Selah. [5] I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I
said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of
my sin. Selah. [6] For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when
thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto
him. [7] Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt
compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah. [8] I will instruct thee and teach
thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. [9] Be ye not as
the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with
bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. [10] Many sorrows shall be to the wicked:
but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about. [11] Be glad in the
Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart. 
    [33:1] Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.
[2] Praise the Lord with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten
strings. [3] Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise. [4] For the word
of the Lord is right; and all his works are done in truth. [5] He loveth righteousness
and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. [6] By the word of the Lord
were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. [7] He
gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in
storehouses. [8] Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world
stand in awe of him. [9] For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
[10] The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the
people of none effect. [11] The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, the thoughts of
his heart to all generations. [12] Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord: and the
people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. [13] The Lord looketh from heaven; he
beholdeth all the sons of men. [14] From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all
the inhabitants of the earth. [15] He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all
their works. [16] There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not
delivered by much strength. [17] An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he
deliver any by his great strength. [18] Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that
fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; [19] To deliver their soul from death, and to
keep them alive in famine. [20] Our soul waiteth for the Lord: he is our help and our
shield. [21] For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy
name. [22] Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we hope in thee. 
    [34:1] A Psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove
him away, and he departed.
    I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. [2]
My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. [3]
O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. [4] I sought the Lord,
and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. [5] They looked unto him, and were
lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. [6] This poor man cried, and the Lord heard
him, and saved him out of all his troubles. [7] The angel of the Lord encampeth round
about them that fear him, and delivereth them. [8] O taste and see that the Lord is good:
blessed is the man that trusteth in him. [9] O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is
no want to them that fear him. [10] The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they
that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing. [11] Come, ye children, hearken unto
me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. [12] What man is he that desireth life, and
loveth many days, that he may see good? [13] Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from
speaking guile. [14] Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. [15] The
eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. [16] The
face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from
the earth. [17] The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all
their troubles. [18] The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth
such as be of a contrite spirit. [19] Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the
Lord delivereth him out of them all. [20] He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is
broken. [21] Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be
desolate. [22] The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust
in him shall be desolate. 
    [35:1] A Psalm of David.
    Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight
against me. [2] Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help. [3] Draw out
also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am
thy salvation. [4] Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let
them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt. [5] Let them be as
chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord chase them. [6] Let their way be
dark and slippery: and let the angel of the Lord persecute them. [7] For without cause
have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my
soul. [8] Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid
catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall. [9] And my soul shall be joyful
in the Lord: it shall rejoice in his salvation. [10] All my bones shall say, Lord, who is
like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the
poor and the needy from him that spoileth him? [11] False witnesses did rise up; they
laid to my charge things that I knew not. [12] They rewarded me evil for good to the
spoiling of my soul. [13] But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth:
I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. [14] I
behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one
that mourneth for his mother. [15] But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered
themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew
it not; they did tear me, and ceased not: [16] With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they
gnashed upon me with their teeth. [17] Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul
from their destructions, my darling from the lions. [18] I will give thee thanks in the
great congregation: I will praise thee among much people. [19] Let not them that are mine
enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me
without a cause. [20] For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against
them that are quiet in the land. [21] Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and
said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it. [22] This thou hast seen, O Lord: keep not silence:
O Lord, be not far from me. [23] Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my
cause, my God and my Lord. [24] Judge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousness;
and let them not rejoice over me. [25] Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we
have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up. [26] Let them be ashamed and brought
to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and
dishonour that magnify themselves against me. [27] Let them shout for joy, and be glad,
that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the Lord be magnified,
which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. [28] And my tongue shall speak of
thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long. 
    [36:1] To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord.
    The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God
before his eyes. [2] For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be
found to be hateful. [3] The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off
to be wise, and to do good. [4] He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in
a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil. [5] Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens;
and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds. [6] Thy righteousness is like the great
mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast. [7] How
excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust
under the shadow of thy wings. [8] They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of
thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. [9] For with
thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light. [10] O continue thy
lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
[11] Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove
me. [12] There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be
able to rise. 
    [37:1] A Psalm of David.
    Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers
of iniquity. [2] For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green
herb. [3] Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily
thou shalt be fed. [4] Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the
desires of thine heart. [5] Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall
bring it to pass. [6] And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy
judgment as the noonday. [7] Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not
thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked
devices to pass. [8] Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to
do evil. [9] For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they
shall inherit the earth. [10] For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea,
thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. [11] But the meek shall
inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. [12] The
wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. [13] The Lord
shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming. [14] The wicked have drawn out
the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as
be of upright conversation. [15] Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their
bows shall be broken. [16] A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches
of many wicked. [17] For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the Lord upholdeth
the righteous. [18] The Lord knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall
be for ever. [19] They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine
they shall be satisfied. [20] But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord
shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
[21] The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and
giveth. [22] For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be
cursed of him shall be cut off. [23] The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and
he delighteth in his way. [24] Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the
Lord upholdeth him with his hand. [25] I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not
seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. [26] He is ever merciful, and
lendeth; and his seed is blessed. [27] Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for
evermore. [28] For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are
preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. [29] The righteous shall
inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever. [30] The mouth of the righteous speaketh
wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. [31] The law of his God is in his heart; none
of his steps shall slide. [32] The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay
him. [33] The Lord will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
[34] Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land:
when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it. [35] I have seen the wicked in great
power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. [36] Yet he passed away, and, lo, he
was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. [37] Mark the perfect man, and
behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. [38] But the transgressors shall be
destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off. [39] But the salvation of the
righteous is of the Lord: he is their strength in the time of trouble. [40] And the Lord
shall help them and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them,
because they trust in him. 
    [38:1] A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.
    O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. [2]
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. [3] There is no
soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones
because of my sin. [4] For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden
they are too heavy for me. [5] My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
[6] I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. [7] For my
loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. [8] I
am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. [9]
Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. [10] My heart
panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
[11] My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
[12] They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt
speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. [13] But I, as a deaf
man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. [14] Thus I was as a
man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. [15] For in thee, O Lord, do I
hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. [16] For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should
rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me. [17] For I am
ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. [18] For I will declare mine
iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. [19] But mine enemies are lively, and they are
strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied. [20] They also that render evil
for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is. [21] Forsake me
not, O Lord: O my God, be not far from me. [22] Make haste to help me, O Lord my
salvation. 
    [39:1] To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.
    I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my
mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. [2] I was dumb with silence, I held
my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. [3] My heart was hot within me,
while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue, [4] Lord, make me to
know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
[5] Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before
thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. [6] Surely every
man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and
knoweth not who shall gather them. [7] And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in
thee. [8] Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
[9] I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. [10] Remove thy stroke away
from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. [11] When thou with rebukes dost
correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely
every man is vanity. Selah. [12] Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold
not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my
fathers were. [13] O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no
more. 
    [40:1] To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
    I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. [2] He
brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a
rock, and established my goings. [3] And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise
unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord. [4] Blessed is
that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn
aside to lies. [5] Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and
thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I
would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. [6] Sacrifice and
offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin
offering hast thou not required. [7] Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book
it is written of me, [8] I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my
heart. [9] I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not
refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest. [10] I have not hid thy righteousness within my
heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy
lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation. [11] Withhold not thou thy
tender mercies from me, O Lord: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve
me. [12] For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold
upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head:
therefore my heart faileth me. [13] Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, make haste
to help me. [14] Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to
destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. [15] Let them
be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha. [16] Let all those
that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say
continually, The Lord be magnified. [17] But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh
upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God. 
    [41:1] To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
    Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of
trouble. [2] The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon
the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. [3] The Lord will
strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
[4] I said, Lord, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee. [5]
Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish? [6] And if he come
to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth
abroad, he telleth it. [7] All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do
they devise my hurt. [8] An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that
he lieth he shall rise up no more. [9] Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted,
which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. [10] But thou, O Lord, be
merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them. [11] By this I know that thou
favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. [12] And as for me, thou
upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever. [13] Blessed be
the Lord God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen. 
    [42:1] To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.
    As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
[2] My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before
God? [3] My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me,
Where is thy God? [4] When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had
gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and
praise, with a multitude that kept holyday. [5] Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and
why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help
of his countenance. [6] O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I
remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. [7]
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are
gone over me. [8] Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the
night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. [9] I will say
unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression
of the enemy? [10] As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say
daily unto me, Where is thy God? [11] Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou
disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of
my countenance, and my God. 
    [43:1] Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me
from the deceitful and unjust man. [2] For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou
cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? [3] O send out thy
light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy
tabernacles. [4] Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea,
upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God. [5] Why art thou cast down, O my soul?
and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is
the health of my countenance, and my God. 
    [44:1] To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.
    We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst
in their days, in the times of old. [2] How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy
hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. [3] For
they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save
them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou
hadst a favour unto them. [4] Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
[5] Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under
that rise up against us. [6] For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save
me. [7] But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated
us. [8] In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah. [9] But
thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. [10] Thou
makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves. [11]
Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the
heathen. [12] Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by
their price. [13] Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to
them that are round about us. [14] Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking
of the head among the people. [15] My confusion is continually before me, and the shame
of my face hath covered me, [16] For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth;
by reason of the enemy and avenger. [17] All this is come upon us; yet have we not
forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. [18] Our heart is not
turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; [19] Though thou hast sore
broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. [20] If we
have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; [21]
Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. [22] Yea, for thy
sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. [23]
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. [24] Wherefore hidest
thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? [25] For our soul is
bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. [26] Arise for our help, and
redeem us for thy mercies' sake. 
    [45:1] To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song
of loves.
    My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching
the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. [2] Thou art fairer than the children
of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. [3] Gird
thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. [4] And in thy
majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right
hand shall teach thee terrible things. [5] Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the
king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee. [6] Thy throne, O God, is for ever
and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. [7] Thou lovest righteousness,
and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of
gladness above thy fellows. [8] All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia,
out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad. [9] Kings' daughters were
among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
[10] Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own
people, and thy father's house; [11] So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he
is thy Lord; and worship thou him. [12] And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a
gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour. [13] The king's daughter
is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold. [14] She shall be brought unto
the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be
brought unto thee. [15] With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall
enter into the king's palace. [16] Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom
thou mayest make princes in all the earth. [17] I will make thy name to be remembered in
all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever. 
    [46:1] To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.
    God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. [2] Therefore will
not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the
midst of the sea; [3] Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the
mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah. [4] There is a river, the streams
whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most
High. [5] God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and
that right early. [6] The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice,
the earth melted. [7] The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah. [8] Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the
earth. [9] He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and
cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. [10] Be still, and know
that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. [11]
The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. 
    [47:1] To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
    O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. [2] For
the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth. [3] He shall
subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet. [4] He shall choose our
inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah. [5] God is gone up with
a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet. [6] Sing praises to God, sing praises:
sing praises unto our King, sing praises. [7] For God is the King of all the earth: sing
ye praises with understanding. [8] God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the
throne of his holiness. [9] The princes of the people are gathered together, even the
people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly
exalted. 
    [48:1] A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah.
    Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain
of his holiness. [2] Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion,
on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. [3] God is known in her palaces
for a refuge. [4] For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together. [5] They
saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away. [6] Fear took hold
upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail. [7] Thou breakest the ships of
Tarshish with an east wind. [8] As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord
of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah. [9] We have
thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple. [10] According to thy
name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of
righteousness. [11] Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because
of thy judgments. [12] Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
[13] Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the
generation following. [14] For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our
guide even unto death. 
    [49:1] To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
    Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world: [2] Both low
and high, rich and poor, together. [3] My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation
of my heart shall be of understanding. [4] I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will
open my dark saying upon the harp. [5] Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when
the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about? [6] They that trust in their wealth, and
boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; [7] None of them can by any means
redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: [8] (For the redemption of their
soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:) [9] That he should still live for ever, and
not see corruption. [10] For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the
brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. [11] Their inward thought is,
that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations;
they call their lands after their own names. [12] Nevertheless man being in honour
abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish. [13] This their way is their folly: yet
their posterity approve their sayings. Selah. [14] Like sheep they are laid in the grave;
death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning;
and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. [15] But God will redeem
my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah. [16] Be not thou
afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased; [17] For when he
dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him. [18] Though
while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to
thyself. [19] He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
[20] Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish. 
    [50:1] A Psalm of Asaph.
    The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of
the sun unto the going down thereof. [2] Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath
shined. [3] Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before
him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. [4] He shall call to the heavens
from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people. [5] Gather my saints together
unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. [6] And the heavens shall
declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah. [7] Hear, O my people, and I
will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. [8] I will
not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually
before me. [9] I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
[10] For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. [11] I
know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. [12] If I
were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. [13]
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? [14] Offer unto God
thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: [15] And call upon me in the day of
trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. [16] But unto the wicked God
saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my
covenant in thy mouth? [17] Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind
thee. [18] When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been
partaker with adulterers. [19] Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth
deceit. [20] Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own
mother's son. [21] These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that
I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order
before thine eyes. [22] Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces,
and there be none to deliver. [23] Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that
ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God. 
    [51:1] To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto
him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
    Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the
multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. [2] Wash me throughly from
mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. [3] For I acknowledge my transgressions: and
my sin is ever before me. [4] Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil
in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou
judgest. [5] Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. [6]
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make
me to know wisdom. [7] Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall
be whiter than snow. [8] Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast
broken may rejoice. [9] Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
[10] Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. [11] Cast me
not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. [12] Restore unto me
the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. [13] Then will I teach
transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. [14] Deliver me from
bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy
righteousness. [15] O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
[16] For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt
offering. [17] The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart,
O God, thou wilt not despise. [18] Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the
walls of Jerusalem. [19] Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness,
with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine
altar. 
    [52:1] To the chief Musician, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came
and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech.
    Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth
continually. [2] Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.
[3] Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
[4] Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue. [5] God shall likewise
destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place,
and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. [6] The righteous also shall see, and
fear, and shall laugh at him: [7] Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but
trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness. [8]
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for
ever and ever. [9] I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will
wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints. 
    [53:1] To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David.
    The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done
abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good. [2] God looked down from heaven upon
the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God. [3]
Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that
doeth good, no, not one. [4] Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my
people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God. [5] There were they in great
fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against
thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them. [6] Oh that the
salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his
people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. 
    [54:1] To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when the
Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us?
    Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength. [2] Hear my prayer, O
God; give ear to the words of my mouth. [3] For strangers are risen up against me, and
oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah. [4] Behold, God
is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul. [5] He shall reward evil unto
mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth. [6] I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will
praise thy name, O Lord; for it is good. [7] For he hath delivered me out of all trouble:
and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies. 
    [55:1] To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David.
    Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. [2] Attend
unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise; [3] Because of the voice
of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me,
and in wrath they hate me. [4] My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of
death are fallen upon me. [5] Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath
overwhelmed me. [6] And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly
away, and be at rest. [7] Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness.
Selah. [8] I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest. [9] Destroy, O
Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. [10] Day
and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the
midst of it. [11] Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from
her streets. [12] For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it:
neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have
hid myself from him: [13] But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine
acquaintance. [14] We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in
company. [15] Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for
wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them. [16] As for me, I will call upon God;
and the Lord shall save me. [17] Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry
aloud: and he shall hear my voice. [18] He hath delivered my soul in peace from the
battle that was against me: for there were many with me. [19] God shall hear, and afflict
them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they
fear not God. [20] He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he
hath broken his covenant. [21] The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war
was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords. [22] Cast
thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous
to be moved. [23] But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction:
bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee. 
    [56:1] To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, when the
Philistines took him in Gath.
    Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily
oppresseth me. [2] Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight
against me, O thou most High. [3] What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. [4] In God
I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do
unto me. [5] Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
[6] They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they
wait for my soul. [7] Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people,
O God. [8] Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in
thy book? [9] When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for
God is for me. [10] In God will I praise his word: in the Lord will I praise his word.
[11] In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me. [12] Thy
vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee. [13] For thou hast delivered my
soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God
in the light of the living? 
    [57:1] To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul
in the cave.
    Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea,
in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast. [2]
I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me. [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. [4] My soul is among lions: and I lie even
among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows,
and their tongue a sharp sword. [5] Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy
glory be above all the earth. [6] They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed
down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen
themselves. Selah. [7] My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give
praise. [8] Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early. [9]
I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.
[10] For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds. [11] Be thou
exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth. 
    [58:1] To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.
    Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons
of men? [2] Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the
earth. [3] The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be
born, speaking lies. [4] Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the
deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; [5] Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers,
charming never so wisely. [6] Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the
great teeth of the young lions, O Lord. [7] Let them melt away as waters which run
continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
[8] As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of
a woman, that they may not see the sun. [9] Before your pots can feel the thorns, he
shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath. [10] The
righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood
of the wicked. [11] So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous:
verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. 
    [59:1] To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they
watched the house to kill him.
    Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.
[2] Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men. [3] For, lo,
they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my
transgression, nor for my sin, O Lord. [4] They run and prepare themselves without my
fault: awake to help me, and behold. [5] Thou therefore, O Lord God of hosts, the God of
Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors.
Selah. [6] They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the
city. [7] Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say
they, doth hear? [8] But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the
heathen in derision. [9] Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my
defence. [10] The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon
mine enemies. [11] Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and
bring them down, O Lord our shield. [12] For the sin of their mouth and the words of
their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they
speak. [13] Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know
that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah. [14] And at evening let them
return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city. [15] Let them
wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied. [16] But I will sing of
thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my
defence and refuge in the day of my trouble. [17] Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing:
for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy. 
    [60:1] To the chief Musician upon Shushan-eduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he
strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in
the valley of salt twelve thousand.
    O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O
turn thyself to us again. [2] Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it:
heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh. [3] Thou hast shewed thy people hard things:
thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment. [4] Thou hast given a banner to them
that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah. [5] That thy
beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me. [6] God hath spoken in
his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
[7] Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head;
Judah is my lawgiver; [8] Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe:
Philistia, triumph thou because of me. [9] Who will bring me into the strong city? who
will lead me into Edom? [10] Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O
God, which didst not go out with our armies? [11] Give us help from trouble: for vain is
the help of man. [12] Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread
down our enemies. 
    [61:1] To the chief Musician upon Neginah, A Psalm of David.
    Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. [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. [3]
For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. [4] I will abide
in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah. [5] For thou,
O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name.
[6] Thou wilt prolong the king's life: and his years as many generations. [7] He shall
abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him. [8] So will
I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows. 
    [62:1] To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.
    Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. [2] He only is my rock
and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. [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. [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. [5] My
soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him. [6] He only is my rock and
my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved. [7] In God is my salvation and my
glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. [8] Trust in him at all times;
ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah. [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. [10] Trust not in oppression, and become not
vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them. [11] God hath spoken
once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God. [12] Also unto thee, O
Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work. 
    [63:1] A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
    O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh
longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; [2] To see thy power and
thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. [3] Because thy lovingkindness is
better than life, my lips shall praise thee. [4] Thus will I bless thee while I live: I
will lift up my hands in thy name. [5] My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and
fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips: [6] When I remember thee upon
my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches. [7] Because thou hast been my help,
therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. [8] My soul followeth hard after
thee: thy right hand upholdeth me. [9] But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall
go into the lower parts of the earth. [10] They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a
portion for foxes. [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. 
    [64:1] To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
    Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy. [2]
Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of
iniquity: [3] Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their
arrows, even bitter words: [4] That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do
they shoot at him, and fear not. [5] They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they
commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them? [6] They search out
iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of
them, and the heart, is deep. [7] But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly
shall they be wounded. [8] So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves:
all that see them shall flee away. [9] And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work
of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing. [10] The righteous shall be glad in
the Lord, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory. 
    [65:1] To the chief Musician, A Psalm and Song of David.
    Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed.
[2] O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come. [3] Iniquities prevail
against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away. [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. [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: [6]
Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power: [7] Which
stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
[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. [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. [10] Thou waterest the
ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with
showers: thou blessest the springing thereof. [11] Thou crownest the year with thy
goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. [12] They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness:
and the little hills rejoice on every side. [13] The pastures are clothed with flocks;
the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing. 
    [66:1] To the chief Musician, A Song or Psalm.
    Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands: [2] Sing forth the honour of his name:
make his praise glorious. [3] Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through
the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee. [4] All the
earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.
[5] Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of
men. [6] He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did
we rejoice in him. [7] He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let
not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah. [8] O bless our God, ye people, and make the
voice of his praise to be heard: [9] Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not
our feet to be moved. [10] For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver
is tried. [11] Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.
[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. [13] I will go into thy house with burnt
offerings: I will pay thee my vows, [14] Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath
spoken, when I was in trouble. [15] I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings,
with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah. [16] Come and hear,
all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul. [17] I cried unto
him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue. [18] If I regard iniquity in my
heart, the Lord will not hear me: [19] But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to
the voice of my prayer. [20] Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor
his mercy from me. 
    [67:1] To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song.
    God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.
[2] That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations. [3] Let
the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee. [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. [5] Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people
praise thee. [6] Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God,
shall bless us. [7] God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him. 
    [68:1] To the chief Musician, A Psalm or Song of David.
    Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before
him. [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. [3] But let the righteous be glad; let them
rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice. [4] Sing unto God, sing praises to
his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name Jah, and rejoice before him.
[5] A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
[6] God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with
chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land. [7] O God, when thou wentest forth before
thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah: [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. [9] Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou
didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary. [10] Thy congregation hath dwelt
therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor. [11] The Lord gave the
word: great was the company of those that published it. [12] Kings of armies did flee
apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil. [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. [14] When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in
Salmon. [15] The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of
Bashan. [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. [17] The chariots of God are twenty thousand,
even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place. [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. [19] Blessed
be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
[20] He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto God the Lord belong the issues
from death. [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. [22] The Lord said, I will bring again from
Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea: [23] That thy foot may
be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same. [24]
They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.
[25] The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were
the damsels playing with timbrels. [26] Bless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord,
from the fountain of Israel. [27] There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes
of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali. [28] Thy
God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.
[29] Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee. [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. [31] Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto
God. [32] Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto the Lord; Selah:
[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. [34] Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency
is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds. [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. 
    [69:1] To chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.
    Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. [2] I sink in deep mire,
where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. [3]
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. [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. [5] O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. [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. [7] Because for thy sake
I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. [8] I am become a stranger unto my
brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children. [9] For the zeal of thine house hath
eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. [10]
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. [11] I made
sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them. [12] They that sit in the gate
speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards. [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. [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. [15] Let not the
waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her
mouth upon me. [16] Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me
according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. [17] And hide not thy face from thy
servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. [18] Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem
it: deliver me because of mine enemies. [19] Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame,
and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee. [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. [21] They gave me also gall for my meat; and
in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. [22] Let their table become a snare before
them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. [23] Let
their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
[24] Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
[25] Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents. [26] For they
persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast
wounded. [27] Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy
righteousness. [28] Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written
with the righteous. [29] But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up
on high. [30] I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with
thanksgiving. [31] This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bullock that hath
horns and hoofs. [32] The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live
that seek God. [33] For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners. [34]
Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein. [35]
For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there,
and have it in possession. [36] The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they
that love his name shall dwell therein. 
    [70:1] To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.
    Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Lord. [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. [3] Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame
that say, Aha, aha. [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. [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. 
    [71:1] In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. [2]
Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and
save me. [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. [4] Deliver me, O my
God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. [5]
For thou art my hope, O Lord God: thou art my trust from my youth. [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. [7] I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my
strong refuge. [8] Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the
day. [9] Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
[10] For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel
together, [11] Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none
to deliver him. [12] O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help. [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. [14] But I will hope continually, and will
yet praise thee more and more. [15] My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy
salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof. [16] I will go in the strength
of the Lord God: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only. [17] O
God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
[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. [19] Thy
righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like
unto thee! [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. [21] Thou shalt increase
my greatness, and comfort me on every side. [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. [23] My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which
thou hast redeemed. [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. 
    [72:1] A Psalm for Solomon.
    Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son. [2]
He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment. [3] The
mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness. [4] He
shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall
break in pieces the oppressor. [5] They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon
endure, throughout all generations. [6] He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass:
as showers that water the earth. [7] In his days shall the righteous flourish; and
abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth. [8] He shall have dominion also from sea
to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. [9] They that dwell in the
wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust. [10] The kings of
Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer
gifts. [11] Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him. [12]
For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no
helper. [13] He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.
[14] He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood
be in his sight. [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. [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.
[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. [18] Blessed be the Lord
God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. [19] And blessed be his glorious
name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen. [20] The
prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended. 
    [73:1] A Psalm of Asaph.
    Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. [2] But as for
me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. [3] For I was envious at
the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. [4] For there are no bands in their
death: but their strength is firm. [5] They are not in trouble as other men; neither are
they plagued like other men. [6] Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain;
violence covereth them as a garment. [7] Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have
more than heart could wish. [8] They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning
oppression: they speak loftily. [9] They set their mouth against the heavens, and their
tongue walketh through the earth. [10] Therefore his people return hither: and waters of
a full cup are wrung out to them. [11] And they say, How doth God know? and is there
knowledge in the most High? [12] Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world;
they increase in riches. [13] Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my
hands in innocency. [14] For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every
morning. [15] If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation
of thy children. [16] When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; [17] Until
I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. [18] Surely thou didst set
them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. [19] How are they
brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. [20] As
a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
[21] Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins. [22] So foolish was I, and
ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. [23] Nevertheless I am continually with thee:
thou hast holden me by my right hand. [24] Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and
afterward receive me to glory. [25] Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none
upon earth that I desire beside thee. [26] My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the
strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. [27] For, lo, they that are far from thee
shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee. [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. 
    [74:1] Maschil of Asaph.
    O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the
sheep of thy pasture? [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. [3] Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy
hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. [4] Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy
congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs. [5] A man was famous according as he
had lifted up axes upon the thick trees. [6] But now they break down the carved work
thereof at once with axes and hammers. [7] They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they
have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground. [8] They said
in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of
God in the land. [9] We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there
among us any that knoweth how long. [10] O God, how long shall the adversary reproach?
shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? [11] Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy
right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom. [12] For God is my King of old, working salvation
in the midst of the earth. [13] Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest
the heads of the dragons in the waters. [14] Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in
pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. [15] Thou
didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers. [16] The day is
thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. [17] Thou hast
set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. [18] Remember this,
that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy
name. [19] O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked:
forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever. [20] Have respect unto the covenant:
for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. [21] O let not
the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name. [22] Arise, O God,
plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. [23] Forget
not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth
continually. 
    [75:1] To the chief Musician, Altaschith, A Psalm or Song of Asaph.
    Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name
is near thy wondrous works declare. [2] When I shall receive the congregation I will
judge uprightly. [3] The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up
the pillars of it. Selah. [4] I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the
wicked, Lift not up the horn: [5] Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff
neck. [6] For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the
south. [7] But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. [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. [9] But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God
of Jacob. [10] All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the
righteous shall be exalted. 
    [76:1] To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song of Asaph.
    In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel. [2] In Salem also is his
tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion. [3] There brake he the arrows of the bow, the
shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah. [4] Thou art more glorious and excellent
than the mountains of prey. [5] The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their
sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands. [6] At thy rebuke, O God of
Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep. [7] Thou, even thou, art to
be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry? [8] Thou didst cause
judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still, [9] When God arose to
judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah. [10] Surely the wrath of man shall
praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain. [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. [12] He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the
earth. 
    [77:1] To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph.
    I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto
me. [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. [3] I remembered God, and was troubled: I
complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. [4] Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am
so troubled that I cannot speak. [5] I have considered the days of old, the years of
ancient times. [6] I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own
heart: and my spirit made diligent search. [7] Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will
he be favourable no more? [8] Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for
evermore? [9] Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender
mercies? Selah. [10] And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of
the right hand of the most High. [11] I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I
will remember thy wonders of old. [12] I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of
thy doings. [13] Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?
[14] Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the
people. [15] Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph.
Selah. [16] The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths
also were troubled. [17] The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine
arrows also went abroad. [18] The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings
lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. [19] Thy way is in the sea, and thy
path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known. [20] Thou leddest thy people
like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. 
    [78:1] Maschil of Asaph.
    Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. [2] I
will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: [3] Which we have
heard and known, and our fathers have told us. [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. [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: [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: [7]
That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his
commandments: [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. [9] The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned
back in the day of battle. [10] They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in
his law; [11] And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them. [12]
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the
field of Zoan. [13] He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the
waters to stand as an heap. [14] In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all
the night with a light of fire. [15] He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them
drink as out of the great depths. [16] He brought streams also out of the rock, and
caused waters to run down like rivers. [17] And they sinned yet more against him by
provoking the most High in the wilderness. [18] And they tempted God in their heart by
asking meat for their lust. [19] Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish
a table in the wilderness? [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?
[21] Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob,
and anger also came up against Israel; [22] Because they believed not in God, and trusted
not in his salvation: [23] Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the
doors of heaven, [24] And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of
the corn of heaven. [25] Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full. [26] He
caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
[27] He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the
sea: [28] And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
[29] So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; [30] They
were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths, [31]
The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen
men of Israel. [32] For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous
works. [33] Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
[34] When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after
God. [35] And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
[36] Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with
their tongues. [37] For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in
his covenant. [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. [39] For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and
cometh not again. [40] How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in
the desert! [41] Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of
Israel. [42] They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the
enemy. [43] How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
[44] And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
[45] He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which
destroyed them. [46] He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour
unto the locust. [47] He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with
frost. [48] He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot
thunderbolts. [49] He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation,
and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. [50] He made a way to his anger; he
spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; [51] And
smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
[52] But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness
like a flock. [53] And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea
overwhelmed their enemies. [54] And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even
to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased. [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. [56] Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not
his testimonies: [57] But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they
were turned aside like a deceitful bow. [58] For they provoked him to anger with their
high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. [59] When God heard
this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: [60] So that he forsook the tabernacle
of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men; [61] And delivered his strength into
captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand. [62] He gave his people over also unto
the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance. [63] The fire consumed their young men;
and their maidens were not given to marriage. [64] T