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.
But his delight is in the law of the LORD;
and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
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.
The ungodly are not so: but are like the
chaff which the wind driveth away.
Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the
judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
For the LORD knoweth the way of the
righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my
meditation.
Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King,
and my God: for unto thee will I pray.
My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O
LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will
look up.
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in
wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
The foolish shall not stand in thy sight:
thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing:
the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
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.
Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because
of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
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.
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.
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.
For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous;
with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why
hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the
poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have
imagined.
For the wicked boasteth of his heart's
desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
The wicked, through the pride of his
countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his
thoughts.
His ways are always grievous; thy judgments
are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth
at them.
He hath said in his heart, I shall not be
moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and
fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
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.
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.
He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that
the poor may fall by his strong ones.
He hath said in his heart, God hath
forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand:
forget not the humble.
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he
hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
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.
Break thou the arm of the wicked and the
evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
The LORD is King for ever and ever: the
heathen are perished out of his land.
LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the
humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to
hear:
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed,
that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
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.
The LORD looked down from heaven upon the
children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and
seek God.
They are all gone aside, they are all
together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not
one.
Have all the workers of iniquity no
knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not
upon the LORD.
There were they in great fear: for God is in
the generation of the righteous.
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor,
because the LORD is his refuge.
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.
Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my
trust.
O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD,
Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
But to the saints that are in the earth, and
to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
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.
The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance
and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant
places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
I will bless the LORD, who hath given me
counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
I have set the LORD always before me:
because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory
rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell;
neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy
presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures
for evermore.
Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry,
give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
Let my sentence come forth from thy
presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.
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.
Concerning the works of men, by the word of
thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my
footsteps slip not.
I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear
me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.
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.
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me
under the shadow of thy wings,
From the wicked that oppress me, from my
deadly enemies, who compass me about.
They are inclosed in their own fat: with
their mouth they speak proudly.
They have now compassed us in our steps:
they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey,
and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him
down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:
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.
As for me, I will behold thy face in
righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy
likeness.
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.
I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to
be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the
floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the
snares of death prevented me.
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.
Then the earth shook and trembled; the
foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was
wroth.
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils,
and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
He bowed the heavens also, and came down:
and darkness was under his feet.
And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly:
yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
He made darkness his secret place; his
pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the
skies.
At the brightness that was before him his
thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and
the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered
them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
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.
He sent from above, he took me, he drew me
out of many waters.
He delivered me from my strong enemy, and
from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
They prevented me in the day of my
calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
He brought me forth also into a large
place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
The LORD rewarded me according to my
righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he
recompensed me.
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and
have not wickedly departed from my God.
For all his judgments were before me, and I
did not put away his statutes from me.
I was also upright before him, and I kept
myself from mine iniquity.
Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me
according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my
hands in his eyesight.
With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself
merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure;
and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
For thou wilt save the afflicted people;
but wilt bring down high looks.
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my
God will enlighten my darkness.
For by thee I have run through a troop; and
by my God have I leaped over a wall.
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.
For who is God save the LORD? or who is a
rock save our God?
It is God that girdeth me with strength,
and maketh my way perfect.
He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and
setteth me upon my high places.
He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow
of steel is broken by mine arms.
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.
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that
my feet did not slip.
I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken
them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
I have wounded them that they were not able
to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
For thou hast girded me with strength unto
the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against
me.
Thou hast also given me the necks of mine
enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
They cried, but there was none to save
them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
Then did I beat them small as the dust
before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the
streets.
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.
As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey
me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
The strangers shall fade away, and be
afraid out of their close places.
The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock;
and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth
the people under me.
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.
Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O
LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.
Great deliverance giveth he to his king;
and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for
evermore.
The heavens declare the glory of God; and
the firmament sheweth his handywork.
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto
night sheweth knowledge.
There is no speech nor language, where their
voice is not heard.
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,
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his
chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
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.
The law of the LORD is perfect, converting
the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the
simple.
The statutes of the LORD are right,
rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure,
enlightening the eyes.
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for
ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous
altogether.
More to be desired are they than gold, yea,
than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the
honeycomb.
Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and
in keeping of them there is great reward.
Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou
me from secret faults.
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.
Let the words of my mouth, and the
meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my
strength, and my redeemer.
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?
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my
foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
Though an host should encamp against me, my
heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this
will I be confident.
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.
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.
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.
Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have
mercy also upon me, and answer me.
When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart
said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
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.
When my father and my mother forsake me,
then the LORD will take me up.
Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a
plain path, because of mine enemies.
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine
enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as
breathe out cruelty.
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see
the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and
he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
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.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I
cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
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.
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.
Because they regard not the works of the
LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and
not build them up.
Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard
the voice of my supplications.
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.
The LORD is their strength, and he is the
saving strength of his anointed.
Save thy people, and bless thine
inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me
never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me
speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save
me.
For thou art my rock and my fortress;
therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
Pull me out of the net that they have laid
privily for me: for thou art my strength.
Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou
hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
I have hated them that regard lying
vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for
thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in
adversities;
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the
enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in
trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my
belly.
For my life is spent with grief, and my
years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity,
and my bones are consumed.
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.
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I
am like a broken vessel.
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.
But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou
art my God.
My times are in thy hand: deliver me from
the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant:
save me for thy mercies' sake.
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.
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which
speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the
righteous.
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!
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.
Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me
his marvellous kindness in a strong city.
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.
O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the
LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud
doer.
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen
your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.
Blessed is he whose transgression is
forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD
imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old
through my roaring all the day long.
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon
me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
I acknowledge 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.
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.
Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt
preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of
deliverance. Selah.
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the
way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
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.
Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he
that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye
righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in
heart.
Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that
strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand
up for mine help.
Draw out also the spear, and stop the way
against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy
salvation.
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.
Let them be as chaff before the wind: and
let the angel of the LORD chase them.
Let their way be dark and slippery: and let
the angel of the LORD persecute them.
For without cause have they hid for me their
net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my
soul.
Let destruction come upon him at unawares;
and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very
destruction let him fall.
And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it
shall rejoice in his salvation.
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?
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to
my charge things that I knew not.
They rewarded me evil for good to the
spoiling of my soul.
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.
I behaved myself as though he had been my
friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for
his mother.
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:
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they
gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my
soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
I will give thee thanks in the great
congregation: I will praise thee among much people.
Let not them that are mine enemies
wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that
hate me without a cause.
For they speak not peace: but they devise
deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
Yea, they opened their mouth wide against
me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not
silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment,
even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy
righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so
would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
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.
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.
And my tongue shall speak of thy
righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
Fret not thyself because of evildoers,
neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
For they shall soon be cut down like the
grass, and wither as the green herb.
Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt
thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he
shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in
him; and he shall bring it to pass.
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness
as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
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.
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret
not thyself in any wise to do evil.
For evildoers shall be cut off: but those
that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
For yet a little while, and the wicked
shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it
shall not be.
But the meek shall inherit the earth; and
shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
The wicked plotteth against the just, and
gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
The LORD shall laugh at him: for he seeth
that his day is coming.
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.
Their sword shall enter into their own
heart, and their bows shall be broken.
A little that a righteous man hath is
better than the riches of many wicked.
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken:
but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.
The LORD knoweth the days of the upright:
and their inheritance shall be for ever.
They shall not be ashamed in the evil time:
and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
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.
The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again:
but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
For such as be blessed of him shall inherit
the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.
The steps of a good man are ordered by the
LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
Though he fall, he shall not be utterly
cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.
I have been young, and now am old; yet have
I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his
seed is blessed.
Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell
for evermore.
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.
The righteous shall inherit the land, and
dwell therein for ever.
The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom,
and his tongue talketh of judgment.
The law of his God is in his heart; none of
his steps shall slide.
The wicked watcheth the righteous, and
seeketh to slay him.
The LORD will not leave him in his hand,
nor condemn him when he is judged.
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.
I have seen the wicked in great power, and
spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not:
yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Mark the perfect man, and behold the
upright: for the end of that man is peace.
But the transgressors shall be destroyed
together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
But the salvation of the righteous is of
the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.
And the LORD shall help them, and deliver
them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because
they trust in him.
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.
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace,
even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
My heart was hot within me, while I was
musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the
measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I
am.
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.
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.
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is
in thee.
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make
me not the reproach of the foolish.
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because
thou didst it.
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am
consumed by the blow of thine hand.
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.
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.
O spare me, that I may recover strength,
before I go hence, and be no more.
I waited patiently for the LORD; and he
inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
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.
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.
Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his
trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to
lies.
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.
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not
desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering
hast thou not required.
Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of
the book it is written of me,
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy
law is within my heart.
I have preached righteousness in the great
congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou
knowest.
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.
Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from
me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually
preserve me.
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.
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD,
make haste to help me.
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.
Let them be desolate for a reward of their
shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be
glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The
LORD be magnified.
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.
As the hart panteth after the water brooks,
so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living
God: when shall I come and appear before God?
My tears have been my meat day and night,
while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
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.
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.
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.
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy
waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness
in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my
prayer unto the God of my life.
I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou
forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the
enemy?
As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies
reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
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.
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against
an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust
man.
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?
O send out thy light and thy truth: let them
lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy
tabernacles.
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.
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.
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.
How thou didst drive out the heathen with
thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people,
and cast them out.
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.
Thou art my King, O God: command
deliverances for Jacob.
Through thee will we push down our enemies:
through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against
us.
For I will not trust in my bow, neither
shall my sword save me.
But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and
hast put them to shame that hated us.
In God we boast all the day long, and praise
thy name for ever. Selah.
But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame;
and goest not forth with our armies.
Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy:
and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for
meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
Thou sellest thy people for nought, and
dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
Thou makest us a reproach to our
neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about
us.
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen,
a shaking of the head among the people.
My confusion is continually before me, and
the shame of my face hath covered me,
For the voice of him that reproacheth and
blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
All this is come upon us; yet have we not
forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
Our heart is not turned back, neither have
our steps declined from thy way;
Though thou hast sore broken us in the
place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
If we have forgotten the name of our God,
or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
Shall not God search this out? for he
knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day
long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise,
cast us not off for ever.
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and
forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our
belly cleaveth unto the earth.
Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy
mercies' sake.
O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto
God with the voice of triumph.
For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a
great King over all the earth.
He shall subdue the people under us, and the
nations under our feet.
He shall choose our inheritance for us, the
excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with
the sound of a trumpet.
Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing
praises unto our King, sing praises.
For God is the King of all the earth: sing
ye praises with understanding.
God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth
upon the throne of his holiness.
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.
Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye
inhabitants of the world:
Both low and high, rich and poor,
together.
My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the
meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will
open my dark saying upon the harp.
Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil,
when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
They that trust in their wealth, and boast
themselves in the multitude of their riches;
None of them can by any means redeem his
brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
(For the redemption of their soul is
precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)
That he should still live for ever, and not
see corruption.
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise
the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to
others.
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.
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth
not: he is like the beasts that perish.
This their way is their folly: yet their
posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
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.
But God will redeem my soul from the power
of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
Be not thou afraid when one is made rich,
when the glory of his house is increased;
For when he dieth he shall carry nothing
away: his glory shall not descend after him.
Though while he lived he blessed his soul:
and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
He shall go to the generation of his
fathers; they shall never see light.
Man that is in honour, and understandeth
not, is like the beasts that perish.
The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken,
and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down
thereof.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God
hath shined.
Our God shall come, and shall not keep
silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very
tempestuous round about him.
He shall call to the heavens from above, and
to the earth, that he may judge his people.
Gather my saints together unto me; those
that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
And the heavens shall declare his
righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O
Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy
God.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices
or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor
he goats out of thy folds.
For every beast of the forest is mine, and
the cattle upon a thousand hills.
I know all the fowls of the mountains: and
the wild beasts of the field are mine.
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee:
for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the
blood of goats?
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy
vows unto the most High:
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I
will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
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?
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth
my words behind thee.
When thou sawest a thief, then thou
consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy
tongue frameth deceit.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy
brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
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.
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest
I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to
him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation
of God.
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy
lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies
blot out my transgressions.
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and
cleanse me from my sin.
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my
sin is ever before me.
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.
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin
did my mother conceive me.
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward
parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know
wisdom.
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean:
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the
bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all
mine iniquities.
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and
renew a right spirit within me.
Cast me not away from thy presence; and
take not thy holy spirit from me.
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;
and uphold me with thy free spirit.
Then will I teach transgressors thy ways;
and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,
thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy
righteousness.
O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth
shall shew forth thy praise.
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would
I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit:
a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion:
build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
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.
Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O
mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp
razor, working deceitfully.
Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying
rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou
deceitful tongue.
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.
The righteous also shall see, and fear, and
shall laugh at him:
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.
But I am like a green olive tree in the
house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
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.
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.
God looked down from heaven upon the
children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that
did seek God.
Every one of them is gone back: they are
altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not
one.
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge?
who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon
God.
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.
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.
Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not
thyself from my supplication.
Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my
complaint, and make a noise;
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.
My heart is sore pained within me: and the
terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me,
and horror hath overwhelmed me.
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove!
for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain
in the wilderness. Selah.
I would hasten my escape from the windy
storm and tempest.
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues:
for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Day and night they go about it upon the
walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of
it.
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit
and guile depart not from her streets.
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:
But it was thou, a man mine equal, my
guide, and mine acquaintance.
We took sweet counsel together, and walked
unto the house of God in company.
Let death seize upon them, and let them go
down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and
among them.
As for me, I will call upon God; and the
LORD shall save me.
Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I
pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
He hath delivered my soul in peace from the
battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
God shall hear, and afflict them, even he
that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore
they fear not God.
He hath put forth his hands against such as
be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.
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.
Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall
sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
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.
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.
I will cry unto God most high; unto God that
performeth all things for me.
He shall send from heaven, and save me from
the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send
forth his mercy and his truth.
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.
Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens;
let thy glory be above all the earth.
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.
My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed:
I will sing and give praise.
Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and
harp: I myself will awake early.
I will praise thee, O Lord, among the
people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.
For thy mercy is great unto the heavens,
and thy truth unto the clouds.
Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens:
let thy glory be above all the earth.
Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and
unto thee shall the vow be performed.
O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall
all flesh come.
Iniquities prevail against me: as for our
transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.
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.
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:
Which by his strength setteth fast the
mountains; being girded with power:
Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the
noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
They also that dwell in the uttermost parts
are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning
and evening to rejoice.
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.
Thou waterest the ridges thereof
abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft
with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
Thou crownest the year with thy goodness;
and thy paths drop fatness.
They drop upon the pastures of the
wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.
The pastures are clothed with flocks; the
valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they
also sing.
Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered:
let them also that hate him flee before him.
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.
But let the righteous be glad; let them
rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
Sing unto God, sing praises to his name:
extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice
before him.
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of
the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
God setteth the solitary in families: he
bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious
dwell in a dry land.
O God, when thou wentest forth before thy
people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
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.
Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain,
whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was
weary.
Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou,
O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.
The Lord gave the word: great was the
company of those that published it.
Kings of armies did flee apace: and she
that tarried at home divided the spoil.
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.
When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it
was white as snow in Salmon.
The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan;
an high hill as the hill of Bashan.
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.
The chariots of God are twenty thousand,
even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in
the holy place.
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.
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us
with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
He that is our God is the God of salvation;
and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
But God shall wound the head of his
enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in
his trespasses.
The Lord said, I will bring again from
Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the
sea:
That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of
thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
They have seen thy goings, O God; even the
goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.
The singers went before, the players on
instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing
with timbrels.
Bless ye God in the congregations, even the
Lord, from the fountain of Israel.
There is little Benjamin with their ruler,
the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and
the princes of Naphtali.
Thy God hath commanded thy strength:
strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.
Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall
kings bring presents unto thee.
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.
Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia
shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O
sing praises unto the Lord; Selah:
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.
Ascribe ye strength unto God: his
excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
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.
Save me, O God; for the waters are come in
unto my soul.
I sink in deep mire, where there is no
standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow
me.
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried:
mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
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.
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my
sins are not hid from thee.
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.
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach;
shame hath covered my face.
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and
an alien unto my mother's children.
For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me
up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon
me.
When I wept, and chastened my soul with
fasting, that was to my reproach.
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I
became a proverb to them.
They that sit in the gate speak against me;
and I was the song of the drunkards.
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.
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.
Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither
let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon
me.
Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is
good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender
mercies.
And hide not thy face from thy servant; for
I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it:
deliver me because of mine enemies.
Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame,
and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
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.
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in
my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Let their table become a snare before them:
and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a
trap.
Let their eyes be darkened, that they see
not; and make their loins continually to shake.
Pour out thine indignation upon them, and
let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
Let their habitation be desolate; and let
none dwell in their tents.
For they persecute him whom thou hast
smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast
wounded.
Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let
them not come into thy righteousness.
Let them be blotted out of the book of the
living, and not be written with the righteous.
But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy
salvation, O God, set me up on high.
I will praise the name of God with a song,
and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
This also shall please the LORD better than
an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
The humble shall see this, and be glad: and
your heart shall live that seek God.
For the LORD heareth the poor, and
despiseth not his prisoners.
Let the heaven and earth praise him, the
seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
For God will save Zion, and will build the
cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in
possession.
The seed also of his servants shall inherit
it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me
never be put to confusion.
Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause
me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
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.
Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the
wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art
my trust from my youth.
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.
I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my
strong refuge.
Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and
with thy honour all the day.
Cast me not off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength faileth.
For mine enemies speak against me; and they
that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute
and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
O God, be not far from me: O my God, make
haste for my help.
Let them be confounded and consumed that
are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and
dishonour that seek my hurt.
But I will hope continually, and will yet
praise thee more and more.
My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness
and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers
thereof.
I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD:
I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
O God, thou hast taught me from my youth:
and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
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.
Thy righteousness also, O God, is very
high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto
thee!
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.
Thou shalt increase my greatness, and
comfort me on every side.
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.
My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing
unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
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.
Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy
righteousness unto the king's son.
He shall judge thy people with
righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
The mountains shall bring peace to the
people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
He shall judge the poor of the people, he
shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the
oppressor.
They shall fear thee as long as the sun and
moon endure, throughout all generations.
He shall come down like rain upon the mown
grass: as showers that water the earth.
In his days shall the righteous flourish;
and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.
He shall have dominion also from sea to sea,
and from the river unto the ends of the earth.
They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow
before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.
The kings of Tarshish and of the isles
shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer
gifts.
Yea, all kings shall fall down before him:
all nations shall serve him.
For he shall deliver the needy when he
crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
He shall spare the poor and needy, and
shall save the souls of the needy.
He shall redeem their soul from deceit and
violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
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.
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.
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.
Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel,
who only doeth wondrous things.
And blessed be his glorious name for ever:
and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and
Amen.
O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever?
why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
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.
Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual
desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the
sanctuary.
Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy
congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
A man was famous according as he had lifted
up axes upon the thick trees.
But now they break down the carved work
thereof at once with axes and hammers.
They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they
have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the
ground.
They said in their hearts, Let us destroy
them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the
land.
We see not our signs: there is no more any
prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
O God, how long shall the adversary
reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy
right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
For God is my King of old, working
salvation in the midst of the earth.
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength:
thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in
pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the
wilderness.
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the
flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
The day is thine, the night also is thine:
thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth:
thou hast made summer and winter.
Remember this, that the enemy hath
reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy
name.
O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove
unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of
thy poor for ever.
Have respect unto the covenant: for the
dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of
cruelty.
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let
the poor and needy praise thy name.
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause:
remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the
tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth
continually.
Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto
thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous
works declare.
When I shall receive the congregation I will
judge uprightly.
The earth and all the inhabitants thereof
are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly:
and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not
with a stiff neck.
For promotion cometh neither from the east,
nor from the west, nor from the south.
But God is the judge: he putteth down one,
and setteth up another.
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.
But I will declare for ever; I will sing
praises to the God of Jacob.
All the horns of the wicked also will I cut
off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline
your ears to the words of my mouth.
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will
utter dark sayings of old:
Which we have heard and known, and our
fathers have told us.
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.
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:
That the generation to come might know them,
even the children which should be born; who should arise and
declare them to their children:
That they might set their hope in God, and
not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
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.
The children of Ephraim, being armed, and
carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
They kept not the covenant of God, and
refused to walk in his law;
And forgat his works, and his wonders that
he had shewed them.
Marvellous things did he in the sight of
their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
He divided the sea, and caused them to pass
through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
In the daytime also he led them with a
cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and
gave them drink as out of the great depths.
He brought streams also out of the rock,
and caused waters to run down like rivers.
And they sinned yet more against him by
provoking the most High in the wilderness.
And they tempted God in their heart by
asking meat for their lust.
Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can
God furnish a table in the wilderness?
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?
Therefore the LORD heard this, and was
wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up
against Israel;
Because they believed not in God, and
trusted not in his salvation:
Though he had commanded the clouds from
above, and opened the doors of heaven,
And had rained down manna upon them to eat,
and had given them of the corn of heaven.
Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat
to the full.
He caused an east wind to blow in the
heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and
feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
And he let it fall in the midst of their
camp, round about their habitations.
So they did eat, and were well filled: for
he gave them their own desire;
They were not estranged from their lust.
But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
The wrath of God came upon them, and slew
the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
For all this they sinned still, and
believed not for his wondrous works.
Therefore their days did he consume in
vanity, and their years in trouble.
When he slew them, then they sought him:
and they returned and enquired early after God.
And they remembered that God was their
rock, and the high God their redeemer.
Nevertheless they did flatter him with
their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
For their heart was not right with him,
neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
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.
For he remembered that they were but flesh;
a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
How oft did they provoke him in the
wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and
limited the Holy One of Israel.
They remembered not his hand, nor the day
when he delivered them from the enemy.
How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and
his wonders in the field of Zoan.
And had turned their rivers into blood; and
their floods, that they could not drink.
He sent divers sorts of flies among them,
which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
He gave also their increase unto the
caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
He destroyed their vines with hail, and
their sycomore trees with frost.
He gave up their cattle also to the hail,
and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
He cast upon them the fierceness of his
anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels
among them.
He made a way to his anger; he spared not
their soul from death, but gave their life over to the
pestilence;
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the
chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
But made his own people to go forth like
sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
And he led them on safely, so that they
feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
And he brought them to the border of his
sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had
purchased.
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.
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high
God, and kept not his testimonies:
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully
like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful
bow.
For they provoked him to anger with their
high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven
images.
When God heard this, he was wroth, and
greatly abhorred Israel:
So that he forsook the tabernacle of
Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
And delivered his strength into captivity,
and his glory into the enemy's hand.
He gave his people over also unto the
sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
The fire consumed their young men; and
their maidens were not given to marriage.
Their priests fell by the sword; and their
widows made no lamentation.
Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep,
and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
And he smote his enemies in the hinder
parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
Moreover he refused the tabernacle of
Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount
Zion which he loved.
And he built his sanctuary like high
palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
He chose David also his servant, and took
him from the sheepfolds:
From following the ewes great with young he
brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his
inheritance.
So he fed them according to the integrity
of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
O god, the heathen are come into thine
inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid
Jerusalem on heaps.
The dead bodies of thy servants have they
given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy
saints unto the beasts of the earth.
Their blood have they shed like water round
about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
We are become a reproach to our neighbours,
a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever?
shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that
have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called
upon thy name.
For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste
his dwelling place.
O remember not against us former iniquities:
let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very
low.
Help us, O God of our salvation, for the
glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy
name's sake.
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is
their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the
revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
Let the sighing of the prisoner come before
thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those
that are appointed to die;
And render unto our neighbours sevenfold
into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached
thee, O Lord.
So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture
will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to
all generations.
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the
courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living
God.
Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and
the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even
thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
Blessed are they that dwell in thy house:
they will be still praising thee. Selah.
Blessed is the man whose strength is in
thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
Who passing through the valley of Baca make
it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
They go from strength to strength, every one
of them in Zion appeareth before God.
O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give
ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the
face of thine anointed.
For a day in thy courts is better than a
thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than
to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the
LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from
them that walk uprightly.
O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that
trusteth in thee.
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in
all generations.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or
ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from
everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest,
Return, ye children of men.
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as
yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Thou carriest them away as with a flood;
they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which
groweth up.
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth
up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by
thy wrath are we troubled.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee,
our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
For all our days are passed away in thy
wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
The days of our years are threescore years
and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet
is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we
fly away.
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even
according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
So teach us to number our days, that we may
apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent
thee concerning thy servants.
O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we
may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Make us glad according to the days wherein
thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen
evil.
Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and
thy glory unto their children.
And let the beauty of the LORD our God be
upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the
work of our hands establish thou it.
The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with
majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath
girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be
moved.
Thy throne is established of old: thou art
from everlasting.
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the
floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their
waves.
The LORD on high is mightier than the noise
of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness
becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come
unto thee.
Hide not thy face from me in the day when I
am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call
answer me speedily.
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my
bones are burned as an hearth.
My heart is smitten, and withered like
grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
By reason of the voice of my groaning my
bones cleave to my skin.
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am
like an owl of the desert.
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the
house top.
Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and
they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and
mingled my drink with weeping.
Because of thine indignation and thy
wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
My days are like a shadow that declineth;
and I am withered like grass.
But thou, O LORD, shall endure for ever;
and thy remembrance unto all generations.
Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon
Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
For thy servants take pleasure in her
stones, and favour the dust thereof.
So the heathen shall fear the name of the
LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
When the LORD shall build up Zion, he
shall appear in his glory.
He will regard the prayer of the
destitute, and not despise their prayer.
This shall be written for the generation
to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the
LORD.
For he hath looked down from the height of
his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to
loose those that are appointed to death;
To declare the name of the LORD in Zion,
and his praise in Jerusalem;
When the people are gathered together, and
the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.
He weakened my strength in the way; he
shortened my days.
I said, O my God, take me not away in the
midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of
the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
They shall perish, but thou shalt endure:
yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt
thou change them, and they shall be changed:
But thou art the same, and thy years shall
have no end.
The children of thy servants shall
continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.
Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the
LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD?
who can shew forth all his praise?
Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he
that doeth righteousness at all times.
Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that
thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;
That I may see the good of thy chosen, that
I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with
thine inheritance.
We have sinned with our fathers, we have
committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in
Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but
provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
Nevertheless he saved them for his name's
sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was
dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the
wilderness.
And he saved them from the hand of him
that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
And the waters covered their enemies:
there was not one of them left.
Then believed they his words; they sang
his praise.
They soon forgat his works; they waited
not for his counsel:
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,
and tempted God in the desert.
And he gave them their request; but sent
leanness into their soul.
They envied Moses also in the camp, and
Aaron the saint of the LORD.
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan
and covered the company of Abiram.
And a fire was kindled in their company;
the flame burned up the wicked.
They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped
the molten image.
Thus they changed their glory into the
similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
They forgat God their saviour, which had
done great things in Egypt;
Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and
terrible things by the Red sea.
Therefore he said that he would destroy
them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to
turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they
believed not his word:
But murmured in their tents, and hearkened
not unto the voice of the LORD.
Therefore he lifted up his hand against
them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:
To overthrow their seed also among the
nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor,
and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
Thus they provoked him to anger with their
inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
Then stood up Phinehas, and executed
judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
And that was counted unto him for
righteousness unto all generations for evermore.
They angered him also at the waters of
strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
Because they provoked his spirit, so that
he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
They did not destroy the nations,
concerning whom the LORD commanded them:
But were mingled among the heathen, and
learned their works.
And they served their idols: which were a
snare unto them.
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their
daughters unto devils,
And shed innocent blood, even the blood of
their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the
idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
Thus were they defiled with their own
works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
Therefore was the wrath of the LORD
kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own
inheritance.
And he gave them into the hand of the
heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them.
Their enemies also oppressed them, and
they were brought into subjection under their hand.
Many times did he deliver them; but they
provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their
iniquity.
Nevertheless he regarded their affliction,
when he heard their cry:
And he remembered for them his covenant,
and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
He made them also to be pitied of all
those that carried them captives.
Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us
from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to
triumph in thy praise.
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from
everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen.
Praise ye the LORD.
Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that
dwellest in the heavens.
Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto
the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the
hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until
that he have mercy upon us.
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon
us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the
scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the
proud.
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat
down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the
midst thereof.
For there they that carried us away captive
required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us
mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
How shall we sing the LORD's song in a
strange land?
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right
hand forget her cunning.
If I do not remember thee, let my tongue
cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my
chief joy.
Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in
the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the
foundation thereof.
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be
destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast
served us.
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth
thy little ones against the stones.
I will praise thee with my whole heart:
before the gods will I sing praise unto thee.
I will worship toward thy holy temple, and
praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou
hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
In the day when I cried thou answeredst me,
and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.
All the kings of the earth shall praise
thee, O LORD, when they hear the words of thy mouth.
Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the
LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD.
Though the LORD be high, yet hath he
respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou
wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the
wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
The LORD will perfect that which concerneth
me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of
thine own hands.
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine
uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
Thou compassest my path and my lying down,
and art acquainted with all my ways.
For there is not a word in my tongue, but,
lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
Thou hast beset me behind and before, and
laid thine hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it
is high, I cannot attain unto it.
Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or
whither shall I flee from thy presence?
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there:
if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
If I take the wings of the morning, and
dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy
right hand shall hold me.
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover
me; even the night shall be light about me.
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee;
but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are
both alike to thee.
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou
hast covered me in my mother's womb.
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and
wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul
knoweth right well.
My substance was not hid from thee, when I
was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of
the earth.
Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being
unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in
continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of
them.
How precious also are thy thoughts unto
me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they are more in
number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God:
depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
For they speak against thee wickedly, and
thine enemies take thy name in vain.
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate
thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against
thee?
I hate them with perfect hatred: I count
them mine enemies.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try
me, and know my thoughts:
And see if there be any wicked way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
Lord, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me;
give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as
incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening
sacrifice.
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep
the door of my lips.
Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to
practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not
eat of their dainties.
Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a
kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil,
which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in
their calamities.
When their judges are overthrown in stony
places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.
Our bones are scattered at the grave's
mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the
Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
Keep me from the snares which they have
laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
Let the wicked fall into their own nets,
whilst that I withal escape.
Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my
supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy
righteousness.
And enter not into judgment with thy
servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he
hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell
in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within
me; my heart within me is desolate.
I remember the days of old; I meditate on
all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.
I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul
thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit
faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that
go down into the pit.
Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the
morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I
should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.
Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I
flee unto thee to hide me.
Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my
God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake:
for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.
And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and
destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.