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