CHAPTER 1
¹Blessed 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.   ²But his delight is in the law of the; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.   ³And 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.   ⁴The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.   ⁵Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.   ⁶For the knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.  

CHAPTER 2
¹Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing ?   ²The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the, and against his anointed, saying,   ³Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.   ⁴He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.   ⁵Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.   ⁶Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.   ⁷I will declare the decree: the hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.   ⁸Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.   ⁹Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.   ¹⁰Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.   ¹¹Serve the with fear, and rejoice with trembling.   ¹²Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.  

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

CHAPTER 4
¹Hear 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.   ²O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame ? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing ? Selah.   ³But know that the hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the will hear when I call unto him.   ⁴Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.   ⁵Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the.   ⁶There be many that say, Who will shew us any good ?, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.   ⁷Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.   ⁸I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou,, only makest me dwell in safety.  

CHAPTER 5
¹Give ear to my words, O, consider my meditation.   ²Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.   ³My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.   ⁴For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.   ⁵The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.   ⁶Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.   ⁷But 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.   ⁸Lead me, O, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.   ⁹For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.   ¹⁰Destroy 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.   ¹¹But 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.   ¹²For thou,, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CHAPTER 14
¹The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.   ²The looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.   ³They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.   ⁴Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge ? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the.   ⁵There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.   ⁶Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the is his refuge.   ⁷Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion ! when the bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.  

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

CHAPTER 16
¹Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.   ²O my soul, thou hast said unto the, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;   ³But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.   ⁴Their 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.   ⁵The is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.   ⁶The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.   ⁷I will bless the, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.   ⁸I have set the always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.   ⁹Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.   ¹⁰For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.   ¹¹Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.  

CHAPTER 17
¹Hear the right, O, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.   ²Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.   ³Thou 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.   ⁴Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.   ⁵Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.   ⁶I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, my speech.   ⁷Shew 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.   ⁸Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,   ⁹From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.   ¹⁰They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.   ¹¹They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;   ¹²Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.   ¹³Arise, O, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:   ¹⁴From men which are thy hand, O, 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.   ¹⁵As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.  

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

CHAPTER 19
¹The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.   ²Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.   ³There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.   ⁴Their 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,   ⁵Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.   ⁶His 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.   ⁷The law of the is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the is sure, making wise the simple.   ⁸The statutes of the are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the is pure, enlightening the eyes.   ⁹The fear of the is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the are true and righteous altogether.   ¹⁰More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.   ¹¹Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.   ¹²Who can understand his errors ? cleanse thou me from secret faults.   ¹³Keep 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.   ¹⁴Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O, my strength, and my redeemer.  

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

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

CHAPTER 22
¹My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring ?   ²O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.   ³But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.   ⁴Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.   ⁵They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.   ⁶But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.   ⁷All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,   ⁸He trusted on the that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.   ⁹But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.   ¹⁰I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.   ¹¹Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.   ¹²Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.   ¹³They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.   ¹⁴I 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.   ¹⁵My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.   ¹⁶For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.   ¹⁷I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.   ¹⁸They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.   ¹⁹But be not thou far from me, O: O my strength, haste thee to help me.   ²⁰Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.   ²¹Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.   ²²I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.   ²³Ye that fear the, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.   ²⁴For 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.   ²⁵My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.   ²⁶The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.   ²⁷All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.   ²⁸For the kingdom is the: and he is the governor among the nations.   ²⁹All 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.   ³⁰A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.   ³¹They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.  

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

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

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

CHAPTER 26
¹Judge me, O; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the; therefore I shall not slide.   ²Examine me, O, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.   ³For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.   ⁴I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.   ⁵I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.   ⁶I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O:   ⁷That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.   ⁸, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.   ⁹Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:   ¹⁰In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.   ¹¹But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.   ¹²My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the.  

CHAPTER 27
¹The is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear ? the is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid ?   ²When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.   ³Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.   ⁴One thing have I desired of the, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the, and to enquire in his temple.   ⁵For 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.   ⁶And 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.   ⁷Hear, O, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.   ⁸When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face,, will I seek.   ⁹Hide 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.   ¹⁰When my father and my mother forsake me, then the will take me up.   ¹¹Teach me thy way, O, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.   ¹²Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.   ¹³I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the in the land of the living.   ¹⁴Wait on the: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the.  

CHAPTER 28
¹Unto thee will I cry, O my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.   ²Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.   ³Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.   ⁴Give 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.   ⁵Because they regard not the works of the, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.   ⁶Blessed be the, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.   ⁷The 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.   ⁸The is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.   ⁹Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.  

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

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

CHAPTER 31
¹In thee, O, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.   ²Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.   ³For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.   ⁴Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.   ⁵Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O God of truth.   ⁶I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the.   ⁷I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;   ⁸And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.   ⁹Have mercy upon me, O, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.   ¹⁰For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.   ¹¹I 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.   ¹²I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.   ¹³For 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.   ¹⁴But I trusted in thee, O: I said, Thou art my God.   ¹⁵My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.   ¹⁶Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.   ¹⁷Let me not be ashamed, O; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.   ¹⁸Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.   ¹⁹Oh 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 !   ²⁰Thou 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.   ²¹Blessed be the: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.   ²²For 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.   ²³O love the, all ye his saints: for the preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.   ²⁴Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the.  

CHAPTER 32
¹Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.   ²Blessed is the man unto whom the imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.   ³When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.   ⁴For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.   ⁵I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.   ⁶For 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.   ⁷Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.   ⁸I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.   ⁹Be 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.   ¹⁰Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the, mercy shall compass him about.   ¹¹Be glad in the, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.  

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

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

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

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

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

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

CHAPTER 39
¹I 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.   ²I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.   ³My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: spake I with my tongue,   ⁴, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.   ⁵Behold, 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.   ⁶Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.   ⁷And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.   ⁸Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.   ⁹I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.   ¹⁰Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.   ¹¹When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.   ¹²Hear my prayer, O, 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.   ¹³O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.  

CHAPTER 40
¹I waited patiently for the; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.   ²He 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.   ³And 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.   ⁴Blessed is that man that maketh the his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.   ⁵Many, O 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.   ⁶Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.   ⁷Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,   ⁸I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.   ⁹I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O, thou knowest.   ¹⁰I 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.   ¹¹Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.   ¹²For 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.   ¹³Be pleased, O, to deliver me: O, make haste to help me.   ¹⁴Let 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.   ¹⁵Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.   ¹⁶Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The be magnified.   ¹⁷But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.  

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

CHAPTER 42
¹As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.   ²My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God ?   ³My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God ?   ⁴When 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.   ⁵Why 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.   ⁶O 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.   ⁷Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.   ⁸Yet the 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.   ⁹I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy ?   ¹⁰As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God ?   ¹¹Why art thou cast down, O my soul ? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.  

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

CHAPTER 44
¹We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.   ²How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.   ³For 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.   ⁴Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.   ⁵Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.   ⁶For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.   ⁷But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.   ⁸In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.   ⁹But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.   ¹⁰Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.   ¹¹Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.   ¹²Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.   ¹³Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.   ¹⁴Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.   ¹⁵My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,   ¹⁶For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.   ¹⁷All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.   ¹⁸Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;   ¹⁹Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.   ²⁰If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;   ²¹Shall not God search this out ? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.   ²²Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.   ²³Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord ? arise, cast us not off for ever.   ²⁴Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression ?   ²⁵For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.   ²⁶Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.  

CHAPTER 45
¹My 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.   ²Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.   ³Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.   ⁴And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.   ⁵Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.   ⁶Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.   ⁷Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.   ⁸All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.   ⁹Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.   ¹⁰Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;   ¹¹So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.   ¹²And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.   ¹³The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.   ¹⁴She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.   ¹⁵With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.   ¹⁶Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.   ¹⁷I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.  

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

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

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

CHAPTER 49
¹Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:   ²Both low and high, rich and poor, together.   ³My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.   ⁴I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.   ⁵Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?   ⁶They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;   ⁷None 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:)   ⁹That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.   ¹⁰For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.   ¹¹Their 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.   ¹²Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.   ¹³This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.   ¹⁴Like 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.   ¹⁵But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.   ¹⁶Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;   ¹⁷For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.   ¹⁸Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.   ¹⁹He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.   ²⁰Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.  

CHAPTER 50
¹The mighty God, even the, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.   ²Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.   ³Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.   ⁴He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.   ⁵Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.   ⁶And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.   ⁷Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.   ⁸I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.   ⁹I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.   ¹⁰For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.   ¹¹I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.   ¹²If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.   ¹³Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats ?   ¹⁴Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:   ¹⁵And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.   ¹⁶But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth ?   ¹⁷Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.   ¹⁸When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.   ¹⁹Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.   ²⁰Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.   ²¹These 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.   ²²Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.   ²³Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.  

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

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

CHAPTER 53
¹The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.   ²God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.   ³Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.   ⁴Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge ? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.   ⁵There 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.   ⁶Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion ! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.  

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

CHAPTER 55
¹Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.   ²Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;   ³Because 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.   ⁴My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.   ⁵Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.   ⁶And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove ! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.   ⁷Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.   ⁸I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.   ⁹Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.   ¹⁰Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.   ¹¹Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.   ¹²For 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:   ¹³But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.   ¹⁴We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.   ¹⁵Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.   ¹⁶As for me, I will call upon God; and the shall save me.   ¹⁷Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.   ¹⁸He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.   ¹⁹God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.   ²⁰He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.   ²¹The 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.   ²²Cast thy burden upon the, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.   ²³But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.  

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

CHAPTER 57
¹Be 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.   ²I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.   ³He 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.   ⁴My 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.   ⁵Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.   ⁶They 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.   ⁷My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.   ⁸Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.   ⁹I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.   ¹⁰For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.   ¹¹Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth.  

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

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

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

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

CHAPTER 62
¹Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.   ²He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.   ³How 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.   ⁴They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.   ⁵My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.   ⁶He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.   ⁷In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.   ⁸Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.   ⁹Surely 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.   ¹⁰Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.   ¹¹God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.   ¹²Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.  

CHAPTER 63
¹O 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;   ²To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.   ³Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.   ⁴Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.   ⁵My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:   ⁶When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.   ⁷Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.   ⁸My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.   ⁹But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.   ¹⁰They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.   ¹¹But 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.  

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

CHAPTER 65
¹Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed.   ²O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.   ³Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.   ⁴Blessed 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.   ⁵By 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:   ⁶Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:   ⁷Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.   ⁸They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.   ⁹Thou 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.   ¹⁰Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.   ¹¹Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.   ¹²They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.   ¹³The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.  

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

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

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

CHAPTER 69
¹Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.   ²I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.   ³I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.   ⁴They 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.   ⁵O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.   ⁶Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.   ⁷Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.   ⁸I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.   ⁹For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.   ¹⁰When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.   ¹¹I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.   ¹²They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.   ¹³But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.   ¹⁴Deliver 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.   ¹⁵Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.   ¹⁶Hear me, O; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.   ¹⁷And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.   ¹⁸Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.   ¹⁹Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.   ²⁰Reproach 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.   ²¹They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.   ²²Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.   ²³Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.   ²⁴Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.   ²⁵Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.   ²⁶For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.   ²⁷Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.   ²⁸Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.   ²⁹But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.   ³⁰I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.   ³¹This also shall please the better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.   ³²The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.   ³³For the heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.   ³⁴Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.   ³⁵For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.   ³⁶The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CHAPTER 79
¹O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.   ²The 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.   ³Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.   ⁴We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.   ⁵How long, ? wilt thou be angry for ever ? shall thy jealousy burn like fire ?   ⁶Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.   ⁷For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.   ⁸O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.   ⁹Help 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.   ¹⁰Wherefore 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.   ¹¹Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;   ¹²And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.   ¹³So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CHAPTER 93
¹The reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.   ²Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.   ³The floods have lifted up, O, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.   ⁴The on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.   ⁵Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O, for ever.  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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¹Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the.   ²Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.   ³They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.   ⁴Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.   ⁵O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes !   ⁶Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.   ⁷I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.   ⁸I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.   ⁹Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way ? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.   ¹⁰With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.   ¹¹Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.   ¹²Blessed art thou, O: teach me thy statutes.   ¹³With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.   ¹⁴I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.   ¹⁵I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.   ¹⁶I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.   ¹⁷Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.   ¹⁸Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.   ¹⁹I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.   ²⁰My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.   ²¹Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.   ²²Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.   ²³Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.   ²⁴Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.   ²⁵My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.   ²⁶I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.   ²⁷Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.   ²⁸My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.   ²⁹Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.   ³⁰I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.   ³¹I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O, put me not to shame.   ³²I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.   ³³Teach me, O, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.   ³⁴Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.   ³⁵Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.   ³⁶Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.   ³⁷Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.   ³⁸Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear.   ³⁹Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.   ⁴⁰Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.   ⁴¹Let thy mercies come also unto me, O, even thy salvation, according to thy word.   ⁴²So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.   ⁴³And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.   ⁴⁴So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.   ⁴⁵And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.   ⁴⁶I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.   ⁴⁷And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.   ⁴⁸My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.   ⁴⁹Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.   ⁵⁰This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.   ⁵¹The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.   ⁵²I remembered thy judgments of old, O; and have comforted myself.   ⁵³Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.   ⁵⁴Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.   ⁵⁵I have remembered thy name, O, in the night, and have kept thy law.   ⁵⁶This I had, because I kept thy precepts.   ⁵⁷Thou art my portion, O: I have said that I would keep thy words.   ⁵⁸I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.   ⁵⁹I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.   ⁶⁰I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.   ⁶¹The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.   ⁶²At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.   ⁶³I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.   ⁶⁴The earth, O, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.   ⁶⁵Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O, according unto thy word.   ⁶⁶Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.   ⁶⁷Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.   ⁶⁸Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.   ⁶⁹The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.   ⁷⁰Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.   ⁷¹It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.   ⁷²The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.   ⁷³Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.   ⁷⁴They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.   ⁷⁵I know, O, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.   ⁷⁶Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.   ⁷⁷Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.   ⁷⁸Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.   ⁷⁹Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies.   ⁸⁰Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.   ⁸¹My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.   ⁸²Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?   ⁸³For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.   ⁸⁴How many are the days of thy servant ? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?   ⁸⁵The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.   ⁸⁶All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.   ⁸⁷They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.   ⁸⁸Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.   ⁸⁹For ever, O, thy word is settled in heaven.   ⁹⁰Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.   ⁹¹They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.   ⁹²Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.   ⁹³I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.   ⁹⁴I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.   ⁹⁵The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.   ⁹⁶I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.   ⁹⁷O how love I thy law ! it is my meditation all the day.   ⁹⁸Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.   ⁹⁹I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.   ¹⁰⁰I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.   ¹⁰¹I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.   ¹⁰²I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.   ¹⁰³How sweet are thy words unto my taste ! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth !   ¹⁰⁴Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.   ¹⁰⁵Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.   ¹⁰⁶I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.   ¹⁰⁷I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O, according unto thy word.   ¹⁰⁸Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O, and teach me thy judgments.   ¹⁰⁹My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.   ¹¹⁰The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.   ¹¹¹Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.   ¹¹²I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.   ¹¹³I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.   ¹¹⁴Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.   ¹¹⁵Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.   ¹¹⁶Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.   ¹¹⁷Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.   ¹¹⁸Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.   ¹¹⁹Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.   ¹²⁰My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.   ¹²¹I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.   ¹²²Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.   ¹²³Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.   ¹²⁴Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.   ¹²⁵I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.   ¹²⁶It is time for thee,, to work: for they have made void thy law.   ¹²⁷Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.   ¹²⁸Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.   ¹²⁹Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.   ¹³⁰The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.   ¹³¹I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.   ¹³²Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.   ¹³³Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.   ¹³⁴Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.   ¹³⁵Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.   ¹³⁶Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.   ¹³⁷Righteous art thou, O, and upright are thy judgments.   ¹³⁸Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.   ¹³⁹My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.   ¹⁴⁰Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.   ¹⁴¹I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.   ¹⁴²Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.   ¹⁴³Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.   ¹⁴⁴The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.   ¹⁴⁵I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O: I will keep thy statutes.   ¹⁴⁶I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.   ¹⁴⁷I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.   ¹⁴⁸Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.   ¹⁴⁹Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O, quicken me according to thy judgment.   ¹⁵⁰They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.   ¹⁵¹Thou art near, O; and all thy commandments are truth.   ¹⁵²Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.   ¹⁵³Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.   ¹⁵⁴Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.   ¹⁵⁵Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.   ¹⁵⁶Great are thy tender mercies, O: quicken me according to thy judgments.   ¹⁵⁷Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.   ¹⁵⁸I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.   ¹⁵⁹Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O, according to thy lovingkindness.   ¹⁶⁰Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.   ¹⁶¹Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.   ¹⁶²I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.   ¹⁶³I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.   ¹⁶⁴Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.   ¹⁶⁵Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.   ¹⁶⁶, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.   ¹⁶⁷My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.   ¹⁶⁸I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.   ¹⁶⁹Let my cry come near before thee, O: give me understanding according to thy word.   ¹⁷⁰Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.   ¹⁷¹My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.   ¹⁷²My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.   ¹⁷³Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.   ¹⁷⁴I have longed for thy salvation, O; and thy law is my delight.   ¹⁷⁵Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.   ¹⁷⁶I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.  

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

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

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

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¹Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.   ²Behold, 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 our God, until that he have mercy upon us.   ³Have mercy upon us, O, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.   ⁴Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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¹I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee.   ²I 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.   ³In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.   ⁴All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O, when they hear the words of thy mouth.   ⁵Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the: for great is the glory of the.   ⁶Though the be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.   ⁷Though 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.   ⁸The will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.  

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¹O, thou hast searched me, and known me.   ²Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.   ³Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.   ⁴For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O, thou knowest it altogether.   ⁵Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.   ⁶Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.   ⁷Whither shall I go from thy spirit ? or whither shall I flee from thy presence ?   ⁸If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.   ⁹If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;   ¹⁰Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.   ¹¹If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.   ¹²Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.   ¹³For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.   ¹⁴I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.   ¹⁵My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.   ¹⁶Thine 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.   ¹⁷How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! how great is the sum of them!   ¹⁸If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.   ¹⁹Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.   ²⁰For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.   ²¹Do not I hate them, O, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?   ²²I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.   ²³Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:   ²⁴And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.  

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

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

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

CHAPTER 143
¹Hear my prayer, O, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.   ²And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.   ³For 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.   ⁴Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.   ⁵I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.   ⁶I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.   ⁷Hear me speedily, O: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.   ⁸Cause 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.   ⁹Deliver me, O, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.   ¹⁰Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.   ¹¹Quicken me, O, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.   ¹²And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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