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THE

BOOK OF PSALMS
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
PSALM 11
LESSED 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.

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PSALM 3
A Psalm of David, when he fled from
Absalom his son.

PSALM 2
HY 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 L ORD , 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.

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ORD, 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

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PSALMS 4–6
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.

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

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EAR 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 6

PSALM 5

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

To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth,
A Psalm of David.
IVE ear to my words, O LORD,

O

LORD, rebuke me not in thine
anger, neither chasten me in thy
hot displeasure.
2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for

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consider my meditation.
2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry,
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PSALMS 7, 8
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.

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 7
Shiggaion of David, which he sang
unto the LORD, concerning the words
of Cush the Benjamite.

O

LORD my God, in thee do I put
my trust: save me from all them
that persecute me, and deliver me:
2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to
deliver.
3 O LORD my God, If I have done this;
if there be iniquity in my hands;
4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that
was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine
enemy:)
5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and
take it; yea, let him tread down my life
upon the earth, and lay mine honour in
the dust. Selah.
6 Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift

PSALM 8
To the chief Musician upon Gittith,
A Psalm of David.

O

LORD, our Lord, how excellent
is thy name in all the earth! who
hast set thy glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength

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PSALM 9
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!

7 But the LORD shall endure for ever:
he hath prepared his throne for judgment.
8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to
the people in uprightness.
9 The LORD also will be a refuge for
the oppressed, a refuge in times of
trouble.
10 And they that know thy name will
put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD,
hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
11 Sing praises to the LORD, which
dwelleth in Zion: declare among the
people his doings.
12 When he maketh inquisition for
blood, he remembereth them: he
forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD;
consider my trouble which I suffer of
them that hate me, thou that liftest me
up from the gates of death:
14 That I may shew forth all thy praise
in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I
will rejoice in thy salvation.
15 The heathen are sunk down in the
pit that they made: in the net which they
hid is their own foot taken.
16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is
snared in the work of his own hands.
Higgaion. Selah.
17 The wicked shall be turned into hell,
and all the nations that forget God.
18 For the needy shall not alway be
forgotten: the expectation of the poor
shall not perish for ever.
19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy
sight.
20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the
nations may know themselves to be but
men. Selah.

PSALM 9
To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben,
A Psalm of David.
WILL praise thee, O LORD, with my

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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.

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PSALMS 10, 11
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 10
PSALM 10
HY 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

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PSALM 11

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To the chief Musician,
A Psalm of David.
N 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.

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PSALMS 12–15
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 12
PSALM 12
To the chief Musician upon Sheminith,
A Psalm of David.
ELP, LORD; for the godly man

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PSALM 14

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.

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HE 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 L ORD
bringeth back the captivity of his people,
Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be
glad.

PSALM 13

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To the chief Musician,
A Psalm of David.

To the chief Musician,
A Psalm of David.

OW 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.

PSALM 15

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A Psalm of David.

ORD, 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.

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PSALMS 16, 17
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 17
PSALM 17

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unto my cry, give ear unto my
prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
2 Let my sentence come forth from thy
presence; let thine eyes behold the things
that are equal.
3 Thou hast proved mine heart; thou
hast visited me in the night; thou hast
tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am
purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
4 Concerning the 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

PSALM 16

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A Prayer of David.
EAR the right, O LORD, attend

Michtam of David.

RESERVE me, O God: for in thee
do I put my trust.
2 O my soul, thou hast said unto the
LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness
extendeth not to thee;
3 But to the saints that are in the earth,
and to the excellent, in whom is all my
delight.
4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that
hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take
up their names into my lips.
5 The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou
maintainest my lot.
6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
7 I will bless the LORD, who hath given
me counsel: my reins also instruct me
in the night seasons.
8 I have set the LORD always before
me: because he is at my right hand, I
shall not be moved.
9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my
glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest
in hope.
10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in
hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy
One to see corruption.
11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life:
in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy
right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
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PSALM 18
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.

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.

PSALM 18
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of
David, the servant of the LORD, who
spake unto the LORD the words of this
song in the day that the LORD delivered
him from the hand of all his enemies,
and from the hand of Saul:
And he said,
WILL love thee, O L ORD , my

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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.
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PSALM 19
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

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To the chief Musician,
A Psalm of David.

HE 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

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PSALMS 20, 21
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.

3 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
4 Grant thee according to thine own
heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.
5 We will rejoice in thy salvation, and
in the name of our God we will set up
our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.
6 Now know I that the LORD saveth
his anointed; he will hear him from his
holy heaven with the saving strength of
his right hand.
7 Some trust in chariots, and some in
horses: but we will remember the name
of the LORD our God.
8 They are brought down and fallen:
but we are risen, and stand upright.
9 Save, LORD: let the king hear us
when we call.
PSALM 21

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To the chief Musician,
A Psalm of David.

HE 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

PSALM 20
To the chief Musician,
A Psalm of David.
HE LORD hear thee in the day of

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trouble; the name of the God of
Jacob defend thee;
2 Send thee help from the sanctuary,
and strengthen thee out of Zion;
10

PSALM 22
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.

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.

PSALM 22
To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth
Shahar, A Psalm of David.

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Y 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
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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.

6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I
will dwell in the house of the LORD for
ever.
PSALM 24
A Psalm of David.
HE earth is the LORD’S, and the

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

PSALM 23

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A Psalm of David.

HE 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.

PSALM 25

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A Psalm of David.
NTO 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.
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PSALM 26
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

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A Psalm of David.
UDGE me, O L ORD ; 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.

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PSALMS 27, 28
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 27
PSALM 27

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A Psalm of David.
HE L ORD is my light and my

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

PSALM 28

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A Psalm of David.

NTO 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.
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PSALMS 29–31
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 29
PSALM 29
A Psalm of David.
IVE unto the LORD, O ye mighty,
give unto the LORD glory and

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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 31

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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.

PSALM 30

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To the chief Musician,
A Psalm of David.
N thee, O LORD, do I put my trust;

A Psalm and Song at the dedication
of the house of David.
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
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PSALM 32
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

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A Psalm of David, Maschil.

LESSED 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 acknowledge my sin unto thee, and
mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I
will confess my transgressions unto the
LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity
of my sin. Selah.
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.
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PSALMS 33, 34
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.

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 33
EJOICE in the L ORD , O ye
righteous: for praise is comely for
the upright.
2 Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto
him with the psaltery and an instrument
of ten strings.
3 Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
4 For the word of the LORD is right;
and all his works are done in truth.
5 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness
of the LORD.
6 By the word of the LORD were the
heavens made; and all the host of them
by the breath of his mouth.
7 He gathereth the waters of the sea
together as an heap: he layeth up the
depth in storehouses.
8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let
all the inhabitants of the world stand in
awe of him.
9 For he spake, and it was done; he
commanded, and it stood fast.
10 The LORD bringeth the counsel of

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PSALM 34

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A Psalm of David, when he changed
his behaviour before Abimelech; who
drove him away, and he departed.
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.
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PSALM 35
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

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A Psalm of David.
LEAD 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?
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PSALM 36
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
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David
the servant of the LORD.

T

HE 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
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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.

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;

PSALM 37

F

A Psalm of David.

RET 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
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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
PSALM 38

O

A Psalm of David, to bring
to remembrance.

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
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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.

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 39

PSALM 40

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

I

SAID, I will take heed to my ways,
that I sin not with my tongue: I will
keep my mouth with a bridle, while the
wicked is before me.
2 I was dumb with silence, I held my
peace, even from good; and my sorrow
was stirred.
3 My heart was hot within me, while I
was musing the fire burned: then spake
I with my tongue,
4 LORD, make me to know mine end,
and the measure of my days, what it is:
that I may know how frail I am.
5 Behold, thou hast made my days as
an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his
best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
6 Surely every man walketh in a vain
shew: surely they are disquieted in vain:
he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not
who shall gather them.
7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my
hope is in thee.
8 Deliver me from all my

I

To the chief Musician,
A Psalm of David.

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
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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 L ORD : 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
PSALM 41

B

To the chief Musician,
A Psalm of David.

LESSED 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.

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13 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel
from everlasting, and to everlasting.
Amen, and Amen.

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 42

A

PSALM 43
UDGE 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.

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

J

S 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 day time, 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?

PSALM 44
To the chief Musician for the sons of
Korah, Maschil.

W

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

M

Y 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,
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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.

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

O

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

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.

PSALM 46
To the chief Musician, for the sons of
Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.

G

OD 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.
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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.

and ever: he will be our guide even unto
death.
PSALM 49

H

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

EAR 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.

PSALM 48
A Song and Psalm
for the sons of Korah.
REAT is the LORD, and greatly to

G

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
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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.

fices or thy burnt offerings, to have been
continually before me.
9 I will take no bullock out of thy
house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
10 For every beast of the forest is mine,
and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field
are mine.
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell
thee: for the world is mine, and the
fulness thereof.
13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink
the blood of goats?
14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and
pay thy vows unto the most High:
15 And call upon me in the day of
trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt
glorify me.
16 But unto the wicked God saith,
What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my
covenant in thy mouth?
17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and
casteth 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:
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PSALM 50

T

A Psalm of Asaph.

HE 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 sacri-

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tion aright will I shew the salvation of
God.

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 51
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of
David, when Nathan the prophet
came unto him, after he had gone in
to Bath–sheba.

H

AVE 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.

PSALM 52
To the chief Musician, Maschil, A
Psalm of David, when Doeg the
Edomite came and told Saul, and said
unto him, David is come to the house
of Ahimelech.

W

HY boastest thou thyself in
mischief, O mighty man? the
goodness of God endureth continually.
2 The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like
a sharp razor, 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
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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.

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 53
To the chief Musician upon Mahalath,
Maschil, A Psalm of David.

T

HE 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 55
To the chief Musician on Neginoth,
Maschil, A Psalm of David.

G

IVE 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.

PSALM 54
To the chief Musician on Neginoth,
Maschil, A Psalm of David, when the
Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth
not David hide himself with us?

S

AVE me, O God, by thy name, and
judge me by thy strength.
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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
To the chief Musician upon Jonath–
elem–rechokim, Michtam of David,
when the Philistines took him in Gath.

B

E 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?

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PSALM 57
PSALM 57

PSALM 58
PSALM 58

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

To the chief Musician, Al–taschith,
Michtam of David.

D

O 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.

B

E 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
me 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.

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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 59
PSALM 59
To the chief Musician, Al–taschith,
Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and
they watched the house to kill him.

D

ELIVER 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

PSALM 60
To the chief Musician upon Shushan–
eduth, Michtam of David, to teach;
when he strove with Aram–naharaim
and with Aram–zobah, when Joab
returned, and smote of Edom in the
valley of salt twelve thousand.

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

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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.

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 61
To the chief Musician upon Neginath,
A Psalm of David.

H

EAR 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 63

O

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

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.

PSALM 62
To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun,
A Psalm of David.

T

RULY my soul waiteth upon God:
from him cometh my salvation.
2 He only is my rock and my salvation;
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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.

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

P

RAISE 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

PSALM 64

H

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

To the chief Musician,
A Psalm of David.

EAR 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
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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.

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 66

M

To the chief Musician,
A Song or Psalm.

AKE 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.

PSALM 67
To the chief Musician on Neginoth,
A Psalm or Song.

G

OD 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.
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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.

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 L ORD 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 play-

PSALM 68

L

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

ET 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.
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ers 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.

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 L ORD ; for thy
lovingkindness is good: turn unto me

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

S

AVE me, O God; for the waters are
come in unto my soul.
2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no
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according to the multitude of thy tender
mercies.
17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me
speedily.
18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine
enemies.
19 Thou hast known my reproach, and
my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and
I am full of heaviness: and I looked for
some to take pity, but there was none;
and for comforters, but I found none.
21 They gave me also gall for my meat;
and in my thirst they gave me vinegar
to drink.
22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have
been for their welfare, let it become a
trap.
23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they
see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
24 Pour out thine indignation upon
them, and let thy wrathful anger take
hold of them.
25 Let their habitation be desolate; and
let none dwell in their tents.
26 For they persecute him whom thou
hast smitten; and they talk to the grief
of those whom thou hast wounded.
27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and
let them not come into thy righteousness.
28 Let them be blotted out of the book
of the living, and not be written with the
righteous.
29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let
thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
30 I will praise the name of God with
a song, and will magnify him with
thanksgiving.
31 This also shall please the LORD

better than an ox or bullock that hath
horns and hoofs.
32 The humble shall see this, and be
glad: and your heart shall live that seek
God.
33 For the LORD heareth the poor, and
despiseth not his prisoners.
34 Let the heaven and earth praise him,
the seas, and every thing that moveth
therein.
35 For God will save Zion, and will
build the cities of Judah: that they may
dwell there, and have it in possession.
36 The seed also of his servants shall
inherit it: and they that love his name
shall dwell therein.
PSALM 70
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David,
to bring to remembrance.

M

AKE 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
N 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.
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given commandment to save me; for
thou art my rock and my fortress.
4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the
hand of the wicked, out of the hand of
the unrighteous and cruel man.
5 For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD:
thou art my trust from my youth.
6 By thee have I been holden up from
the womb: thou art he that took me out
of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall
be continually of thee.
7 I am as a wonder unto many; but thou
art my strong refuge.
8 Let my mouth be filled with thy
praise and with thy honour all the day.
9 Cast me not off in the time of old
age; forsake me not when my strength
faileth.
10 For mine enemies speak against me;
and they that lay wait for my soul take
counsel together,
11 Saying, God hath forsaken him:
persecute and take him; for there is none
to deliver him.
12 O God, be not far from me: O my
God, make haste for my help.
13 Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul;
let them be covered with reproach and
dishonour that seek my hurt.
14 But I will hope continually, and will
yet praise thee more and more.
15 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day;
for I know not the numbers thereof.
16 I will go in the strength of the Lord
GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
17 O God, thou hast taught me from
my youth: and hitherto have I declared
thy wondrous works.
18 Now also when I am old and
greyheaded, O God, forsake me not;
until I have shewed thy strength unto

this generation, and thy power to every
one that is to come.
19 Thy righteousness also, O God, is
very high, who hast done great things:
O God, who is like unto thee!
20 Thou, which hast shewed me great
and sore troubles, shalt quicken me
again, and shalt bring me up again from
the depths of the earth.
21 Thou shalt increase my greatness,
and comfort me on every side.
22 I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee
will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy
One of Israel.
23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I
sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou
hast redeemed.
24 My tongue also shall talk of thy
righteousness all the day long: for they
are confounded, for they are brought
unto shame, that seek my hurt.
PSALM 72

G

A Psalm for Solomon.

IVE the king thy judgments, O
God, and thy righteousness unto
the king’s son.
2 He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
3 The mountains shall bring peace to
the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
4 He shall judge the poor of the people,
he shall save the children of the needy,
and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
5 They shall fear thee as long as the
sun and moon endure, throughout all
generations.
6 He shall come down like rain upon
the mown grass: as showers that water
the earth.
7 In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as
the moon endureth.

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8 He shall have dominion also from
sea to sea, and from the river unto the
ends of the earth.
9 They that dwell in the wilderness
shall bow before him; and his enemies
shall lick the dust.
10 The kings of Tarshish and of the
isles shall bring presents: the kings of
Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
11 Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.
12 For he shall deliver the needy when
he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath
no helper.
13 He shall spare the poor and needy,
and shall save the souls of the needy.
14 He shall redeem their soul from
deceit and violence: and precious shall
their blood be in his sight.
15 And he shall live, and to him shall
be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer
also shall be made for him continually;
and daily shall he be praised.
16 There shall be an handful of corn
in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like
Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
17 His name shall endure for ever: his
name shall be continued as long as the
sun: and men shall be blessed in him:
all nations shall call him blessed.
18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God
of Israel, who only doeth wondrous
things.
19 And blessed be his glorious name
for ever: and let the whole earth be filled
with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
20 The prayers of David the son of
Jesse are ended.

2 But as for me, my feet were almost
gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
3 For I was envious at the foolish, when
I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4 For there are no bands in their death:
but their strength is firm.
5 They are not in trouble as other men;
neither are they plagued like other men.
6 Therefore pride compasseth them
about as a chain; violence covereth them
as a garment.
7 Their eyes stand out with fatness:
they have more than heart could wish.
8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak
loftily.
9 They set their mouth against the
heavens, and their tongue walketh
through the earth.
10 Therefore his people return hither:
and waters of a full cup are wrung out
to them.
11 And they say, How doth God know?
and is there knowledge in the most
High?
12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who
prosper in the world; they increase in
riches.
13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in
vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
14 For all the day long have I been
plagued, and chastened every morning.
15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I
should offend against the generation of
thy children.
16 When I thought to know this, it was
too painful for me;
17 Until I went into the sanctuary of
God; then understood I their end.
18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down
into destruction.
19 How are they brought into desola-

PSALM 73

T

A Psalm of Asaph.

RULY God is good to Israel, even
to such as are of a clean heart.
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tion, as in a moment! they are utterly
consumed with terrors.
20 As a dream when one awaketh; so,
O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt
despise their image.
21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I
was pricked in my reins.
22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was
as a beast before thee.
23 Nevertheless I am continually with
thee: thou hast holden me by my right
hand.
24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
25 Whom have I in heaven but thee?
and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but
God is the strength of my heart, and my
portion for ever.
27 For, lo, they that are far from thee
shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them
that go a whoring from thee.
28 But it is good for me to draw near
to God: I have put my trust in the Lord
GOD, that I may declare all thy works.

6 But now they break down the carved
work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down
the dwelling place of thy name to the
ground.
8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned
up all the synagogues of God in the land.
9 We see not our signs: there is no more
any prophet: neither is there among us
any that knoweth how long.
10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy
blaspheme thy name for ever?
11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand,
even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy
bosom.
12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy
strength: thou brakest the heads of the
dragons in the waters.
14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan
in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to
the people inhabiting the wilderness.
15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and
the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
16 The day is thine, the night also is
thine: thou hast prepared the light and
the sun.
17 Thou hast set all the borders of the
earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
18 Remember this, that the enemy hath
reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked:
forget not the congregation of thy poor
for ever.
20 Have respect unto the covenant: for

PSALM 74

O

Maschil of Asaph.

GOD, why hast thou cast us off
for ever? why doth thine anger
smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
2 Remember thy congregation, which
thou hast purchased of old; the rod of
thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou
hast dwelt.
3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual
desolations; even all that the enemy hath
done wickedly in the sanctuary.
4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of
thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
5 A man was famous according as he
had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
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the dark places of the earth are full of
the habitations of cruelty.
21 O let not the oppressed return
ashamed: let the poor and needy praise
thy name.
22 Arise, O God, plead thine own
cause: remember how the foolish man
reproacheth thee daily.
23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up
against thee increaseth continually.

PSALM 76
PSALM 76

I

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

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

PSALM 75
To the chief Musician, Al–taschith,
A Psalm or Song of Asaph.

U

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

PSALM 77

I

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

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

in the great waters, and thy footsteps are
not known.
20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock
by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
PSALM 78

G

Maschil of Asaph.

IVE ear, O my people, to my law:
incline your ears to the words of
my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I
will utter dark sayings of old:
3 Which we have heard and known,
and our fathers have told us.
4 We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come
the praises of the L ORD , and his
strength, and his wonderful works that
he hath done.
5 For he established a testimony in
Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel,
which he commanded our fathers, that
they should make them known to their
children:
6 That the generation to come might
know them, even the children which
should be born; who should arise and
declare them to their children:
7 That they might set their hope in God,
and not forget the works of God, but
keep his commandments:
8 And might not be as their fathers, a
stubborn and rebellious generation; a
generation that set not their heart aright,
and whose spirit was not stedfast with
God.
9 The children of Ephraim, being
armed, and carrying bows, turned back
in the day of battle.
10 They kept not the covenant of God,
and refused to walk in his law;
11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
12 Marvellous things did he in the sight
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of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in
the field of Zoan.
13 He divided the sea, and caused them
to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
14 In the daytime also he led them with
a cloud, and all the night with a light of
fire.
15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the
great depths.
16 He brought streams also out of the
rock, and caused waters to run down like
rivers.
17 And they sinned yet more against
him by provoking the most High in the
wilderness.
18 And they tempted God in their heart
by asking meat for their lust.
19 Yea, they spake against God; they
said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the
waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he
provide flesh for his people?
21 Therefore the LORD heard this, and
was wroth: so a fire was kindled against
Jacob, and anger also came up against
Israel;
22 Because they believed not in God,
and trusted not in his salvation:
23 Though he had commanded the
clouds from above, and opened the
doors of heaven,
24 And had rained down manna upon
them to eat, and had given them of the
corn of heaven.
25 Man did eat angels’ food: he sent
them meat to the full.
26 He caused an east wind to blow in
the heaven: and by his power he brought
in the south wind.
27 He rained flesh also upon them as

dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand
of the sea:
28 And he let it fall in the midst of their
camp, round about their habitations.
29 So they did eat, and were well filled:
for he gave them their own desire;
30 They were not estranged from their
lust. But while their meat was yet in their
mouths,
31 The wrath of God came upon them,
and slew the fattest of them, and smote
down the chosen men of Israel.
32 For all this they sinned still, and
believed not for his wondrous works.
33 Therefore their days did he consume
in vanity, and their years in trouble.
34 When he slew them, then they
sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
35 And they remembered that God was
their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
36 Nevertheless they did flatter him
with their mouth, and they lied unto him
with their tongues.
37 For their heart was not right with
him, neither were they stedfast in his
covenant.
38 But he, being full of compassion,
forgave their iniquity, and destroyed
them not: yea, many a time turned he
his anger away, and did not stir up all
his wrath.
39 For he remembered that they were
but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and
cometh not again.
40 How oft did they provoke him in
the wilderness, and grieve him in the
desert!
41 Yea, they turned back and tempted
God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
42 They remembered not his hand, nor
the day when he delivered them from
the enemy.
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43 How he had wrought his signs in
Egypt, and his wonders in the field of
Zoan.
44 And had turned their rivers into
blood; and their floods, that they could
not drink.
45 He sent divers sorts of flies among
them, which devoured them; and frogs,
which destroyed them.
46 He gave also their increase unto the
caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail,
and their sycomore trees with frost.
48 He gave up their cattle also to the
hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
49 He cast upon them the fierceness
of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and
trouble, by sending evil angels among
them.
50 He made a way to his anger; he
spared not their soul from death, but
gave their life over to the pestilence;
51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt;
the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
52 But made his own people to go forth
like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53 And he led them on safely, so that
they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54 And he brought them to the border
of his sanctuary, even to this mountain,
which his right hand had purchased.
55 He cast out the heathen also before
them, and divided them an inheritance
by line, and made the tribes of Israel to
dwell in their tents.
56 Yet they tempted and provoked the
most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
57 But turned back, and dealt unfaith-

fully like their fathers: they were turned
aside like a deceitful bow.
58 For they provoked him to anger
with their high places, and moved him
to jealousy with their graven images.
59 When God heard this, he was wroth,
and greatly abhorred Israel:
60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of
Shiloh, the tent which he placed among
men;
61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s
hand.
62 He gave his people over also unto
the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
63 The fire consumed their young men;
and their maidens were not given to
marriage.
64 Their priests fell by the sword; and
their widows made no lamentation.
65 Then the Lord awaked as one out
of sleep, and like a mighty man that
shouteth by reason of wine.
66 And he smote his enemies in the
hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual
reproach.
67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle
of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of
Ephraim:
68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the
mount Zion which he loved.
69 And he built his sanctuary like high
palaces, like the earth which he hath
established for ever.
70 He chose David also his servant,
and took him from the sheepfolds:
71 From following the ewes great with
young he brought him to feed Jacob his
people, and Israel his inheritance.
72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by
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proach, wherewith they have reproached
thee, O Lord.
13 So we thy people and sheep of thy
pasture will give thee thanks for ever:
we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.

PSALM 79
PSALM 79

O

A Psalm of Asaph.

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

PSALM 80
To the chief Musician upon
Shoshannim–Eduth, A Psalm of Asaph.

G

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

place of thunder: I proved thee at the
waters of Meribah. Selah.
8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify
unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken
unto me;
9 There shall no strange god be in thee;
neither shalt thou worship any strange
god.
10 I am the LORD thy God, which
brought thee out of the land of Egypt:
open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 But my people would not hearken
to my voice; and Israel would none of
me.
12 So I gave them up unto their own
hearts’ lust: and they walked in their
own counsels.
13 Oh that my people had hearkened
unto me, and Israel had walked in my
ways!
14 I should soon have subdued their
enemies, and turned my hand against
their adversaries.
15 The haters of the LORD should have
submitted themselves unto him: but their
time should have endured for ever.
16 He should have fed them also with
the finest of the wheat: and with honey
out of the rock should I have satisfied
thee.

PSALM 81
To the chief Musician upon Gittith,
A Psalm of Asaph.

S

ING aloud unto God our strength:
make a joyful noise unto the God
of Jacob.
2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the
timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3 Blow up the trumpet in the new
moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4 For this was a statute for Israel, and
a law of the God of Jacob.
5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the
land of Egypt: where I heard a language
that I understood not.
6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the
pots.
7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret

PSALM 82

G

A Psalm of Asaph.

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

13 O my God, make them like a wheel;
as the stubble before the wind.
14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as
the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
15 So persecute them with thy tempest,
and make them afraid with thy storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame; that they
may seek thy name, O LORD.
17 Let them be confounded and
troubled for ever; yea, let them be put
to shame, and perish:
18 That men may know that thou,
whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the
most high over all the earth.

PSALM 83

K

A Song or Psalm of Asaph.

EEP not thou silence, O God: hold
not thy peace, and be not still, O
God.
2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult:
and they that hate thee have lifted up
the head.
3 They have taken crafty counsel
against thy people, and consulted against
thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut
them off from being a nation; that the
name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with
one consent: they are confederate
against thee:
6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the
Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the
Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the
Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assur also is joined with them: they
have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites;
as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of
Kison:
10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and
like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah,
and as Zalmunna:
12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves
the houses of God in possession.

PSALM 84
To the chief Musician upon Gittith,
A Psalm for the sons of Korah.

H

OW amiable are thy tabernacles,
O LORD of hosts!
2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth
for the courts of the LORD: my heart
and my flesh crieth out for the living
God.
3 Yea, the sparrow hath found an
house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even
thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King,
and my God.
4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy
house: they will be still praising thee.
Selah.
5 Blessed is the man whose strength is
in thee; in whose heart are the ways of
them.
6 Who passing through the valley of
Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth
the pools.
7 They go from strength to strength,
every one of them in Zion appeareth
before God.
8 O L ORD God of hosts, hear my
prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.

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9 Behold, O God our shield, and look
upon the face of thine anointed.
10 For a day in thy courts is better than
a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper
in the house of my God, than to dwell
in the tents of wickedness.
11 For the LORD God is a sun and
shield: the LORD will give grace and
glory: no good thing will he withhold
from them that walk uprightly.
12 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man
that trusteth in thee.

and righteousness shall look down from
heaven.
12 Yea, the LORD shall give that which
is good; and our land shall yield her increase.
13 Righteousness shall go before him;
and shall set us in the way of his steps.
PSALM 86

B

PSALM 85

L

A Prayer of David.

OW down thine ear, O LORD, hear
me: for I am poor and needy.
2 Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O
thou my God, save thy servant that
trusteth in thee.
3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I
cry unto thee daily.
4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for
unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
5 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready
to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto
all them that call upon thee.
6 Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer;
and attend to the voice of my supplications.
7 In the day of my trouble I will call
upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.
8 Among the gods there is none like
unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any
works like unto thy works.
9 All nations whom thou hast made
shall come and worship before thee, O
Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.
11 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will
walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear
thy name.
12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God,
with all my heart: and I will glorify thy
name for evermore.
13 For great is thy mercy toward me:
and thou hast delivered my soul from
the lowest hell.
14 O God, the proud are risen against

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

ORD, thou hast been favourable
unto thy land: thou hast brought
back the captivity of Jacob.
2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy
people, thou hast covered all their sin.
Selah.
3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath:
thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and
cause thine anger toward us to cease.
5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever?
wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that
thy people may rejoice in thee?
7 Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and
grant us thy salvation.
8 I will hear what God the LORD will
speak: for he will speak peace unto his
people, and to his saints: but let them
not turn again to folly.
9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that
fear him; that glory may dwell in our
land.
10 Mercy and truth are met together;
righteousness and peace have kissed
each other.
11 Truth shall spring out of the earth;
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me, and the assemblies of violent men
have sought after my soul; and have not
set thee before them.
15 But thou, O Lord, art a God full of
compassion, and gracious, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
16 O turn unto me, and have mercy
upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine
handmaid.
17 Shew me a token for good; that they
which hate me may see it, and be
ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast
holpen me, and comforted me.

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

PSALM 87
A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah.

H

IS foundation is in the holy
mountains.
2 The LORD loveth the gates of Zion
more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3 Glorious things are spoken of thee,
O city of God. Selah.
4 I will make mention of Rahab and
Babylon to them that know me: behold
Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this
man was born there.
5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and
that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
6 The LORD shall count, when he
writeth up the people, that this man was
born there. Selah.
7 As well the singers as the players on
instruments shall be there: all my
springs are in thee.
PSALM 88
A Song or Psalm for the sons of
Korah, to the chief Musician upon
Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of
Heman the Ezrahite.

O

LORD God of my salvation, I have
cried day and night before thee:
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like water; they compassed me about
together.
18 Lover and friend hast thou put far
from me, and mine acquaintance into
darkness.

created them: Tabor and Hermon shall
rejoice in thy name.
13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is
thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth
shall go before thy face.
15 Blessed is the people that know the
joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD,
in the light of thy countenance.
16 In thy name shall they rejoice all
the day: and in thy righteousness shall
they be exalted.
17 For thou art the glory of their
strength: and in thy favour our horn shall
be exalted.
18 For the LORD is our defence; and
the Holy One of Israel is our king.
19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy
holy one, and saidst, I have laid help
upon one that is mighty; I have exalted
one chosen out of the people.
20 I have found David my servant;
with my holy oil have I anointed him:
21 With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen
him.
22 The enemy shall not exact upon
him; nor the son of wickedness afflict
him.
23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate
him.
24 But my faithfulness and my mercy
shall be with him: and in my name shall
his horn be exalted.
25 I will set his hand also in the sea,
and his right hand in the rivers.
26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my
father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
27 Also I will make him my firstborn,
higher than the kings of the earth.
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PSALM 89

I

Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.

WILL sing of the mercies of the
LORD for ever: with my mouth will
I make known thy faithfulness to all
generations.
2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built
up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou
establish in the very heavens.
3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my
servant,
4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and
build up thy throne to all generations.
Selah.
5 And the heavens shall praise thy
wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also
in the congregation of the saints.
6 For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the
sons of the mighty can be likened unto
the LORD?
7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in
reverence of all them that are about him.
8 O LORD God of hosts, who is a
strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy
faithfulness round about thee?
9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea:
when the waves thereof arise, thou
stillest them.
10 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces,
as one that is slain; thou hast scattered
thine enemies with thy strong arm.
11 The heavens are thine, the earth also
is thine: as for the world and the fulness
thereof, thou hast founded them.
12 The north and the south thou hast
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evermore, and my covenant shall stand
fast with him.
29 His seed also will I make to endure
for ever, and his throne as the days of
heaven.
30 If his children forsake my law, and
walk not in my judgments;
31 If they break my statutes, and keep
not my commandments;
32 Then will I visit their transgression
with the rod, and their iniquity with
stripes.
33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness
will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
34 My covenant will I not break, nor
alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
35 Once have I sworn by my holiness
that I will not lie unto David.
36 His seed shall endure for ever, and
his throne as the sun before me.
37 It shall be established for ever as
the moon, and as a faithful witness in
heaven. Selah.
38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred,
thou hast been wroth with thine
anointed.
39 Thou hast made void the covenant
of thy servant: thou hast profaned his
crown by casting it to the ground.
40 Thou hast broken down all his
hedges; thou hast brought his strong
holds to ruin.
41 All that pass by the way spoil him:
he is a reproach to his neighbours.
42 Thou hast set up the right hand of
his adversaries; thou hast made all his
enemies to rejoice.
43 Thou hast also turned the edge of
his sword, and hast not made him to
stand in the battle.
44 Thou hast made his glory to cease,
and cast his throne down to the ground.
45 The days of his youth hast thou

shortened: thou hast covered him with
shame. Selah.
46 How long, LORD? wilt thou hide
thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn
like fire?
47 Remember how short my time is:
wherefore hast thou made all men in
vain?
48 What man is he that liveth, and shall
not see death? shall he deliver his soul
from the hand of the grave? Selah.
49 Lord, where are thy former
lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest
unto David in thy truth?
50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of
thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty
people;
51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O L ORD ; wherewith they
have reproached the footsteps of thine
anointed.
52 Blessed be the LORD for evermore.
Amen, and Amen.
PSALM 90
A prayer of Moses the man of God.

L

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

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

PSALM 91
E that dwelleth in the secret place
of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him
will I trust.
3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the
snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

H

PSALM 92

I

A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day.

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

himself: the world also is stablished, that
it cannot be moved.
2 Thy throne is established of old: thou
art from everlasting.
3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD,
the floods have lifted up their voice; the
floods lift up their waves.
4 The LORD on high is mightier than
the noise of many waters, yea, than the
mighty waves of the sea.
5 Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for
ever.
PSALM 94
LORD God, to whom vengeance
belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the
earth: render a reward to the proud.
3 LORD, how long shall the wicked,
how long shall the wicked triumph?
4 How long shall they utter and speak
hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
5 They break in pieces thy people, O
LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
6 They slay the widow and the stranger,
and murder the fatherless.
7 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see,
neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
8 Understand, ye brutish among the
people: and ye fools, when will ye be
wise?
9 He that planted the ear, shall he not
hear? he that formed the eye, shall he
not see?
10 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall
not he correct? he that teacheth man
knowledge, shall not he know?
11 The LORD knoweth the thoughts of
man, that they are vanity.
12 Blessed is the man whom thou
chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him
out of thy law;

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PSALM 93
HE LORD reigneth, he is clothed
with majesty; the LORD is clothed
with strength, wherewith he hath girded

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13 That thou mayest give him rest from
the days of adversity, until the pit be
digged for the wicked.
14 For the LORD will not cast off his
people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart
shall follow it.
16 Who will rise up for me against the
evildoers? or who will stand up for me
against the workers of iniquity?
17 Unless the LORD had been my help,
my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
18 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy
mercy, O LORD, held me up.
19 In the multitude of my thoughts
within me thy comforts delight my soul.
20 Shall the throne of iniquity have
fellowship with thee, which frameth
mischief by a law?
21 They gather themselves together
against the soul of the righteous, and
condemn the innocent blood.
22 But the LORD is my defence; and
my God is the rock of my refuge.
23 And he shall bring upon them their
own iniquity, and shall cut them off in
their own wickedness; yea, the LORD
our God shall cut them off.

6 O come, let us worship and bow
down: let us kneel before the LORD our
maker.
7 For he is our God; and we are the
people of his pasture, and the sheep of
his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
8 Harden not your heart, as in the
provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me,
proved me, and saw my work.
10 Forty years long was I grieved with
this generation, and said, It is a people
that do err in their heart, and they have
not known my ways:
11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath
that they should not enter into my rest.
PSALM 96
SING unto the LORD a new song:
sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
2 Sing unto the LORD, bless his name;
shew forth his salvation from day to day.
3 Declare his glory among the heathen,
his wonders among all people.
4 For the LORD is great, and greatly to
be praised: he is to be feared above all
gods.
5 For all the gods of the nations are
idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
6 Honour and majesty are before him:
strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
7 Give unto the LORD, O ye kindreds
of the people, give unto the LORD glory
and strength.
8 Give unto the LORD the glory due
unto his name: bring an offering, and
come into his courts.
9 O worship the LORD in the beauty
of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
10 Say among the heathen that the
LORD reigneth: the world also shall be
established that it shall not be moved:
he shall judge the people righteously.

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COME, let us sing unto the LORD:
let us make a joyful noise to the
rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before his presence with
thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise
unto him with psalms.
3 For the LORD is a great God, and a
great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the deep places of
the earth: the strength of the hills is his
also.
5 The sea is his, and he made it: and
his hands formed the dry land.

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11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the
earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the
fulness thereof.
12 Let the field be joyful, and all that
is therein: then shall all the trees of the
wood rejoice
13 Before the LORD: for he cometh,
for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall
judge the world with righteousness, and
the people with his truth.

PSALM 98
PSALM 98

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A Psalm.
SING unto the LORD a new song;

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

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

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

4 A froward heart shall depart from me:
I will not know a wicked person.
5 Whoso privily slandereth his
neighbour, him will I cut off: him that
hath an high look and a proud heart will
not I suffer.
6 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful
of the land, that they may dwell with
me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he
shall serve me.
7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell
within my house: he that telleth lies shall
not tarry in my sight.
8 I will early destroy all the wicked of
the land; that I may cut off all wicked
doers from the city of the LORD.

PSALM 100

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PSALM 102

A Psalm of praise.

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

A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is
overwhelmed, and poureth out his
complaint before the LORD.
EAR my prayer, O LORD, and let

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my cry come unto thee.
2 Hide not thy face from me in the day
when I am in trouble; incline thine ear
unto me: in the day when I call answer
me speedily.
3 For my days are consumed like
smoke, and my bones are burned as an
hearth.
4 My heart is smitten, and withered like
grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness:
I am like an owl of the desert.
7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone
upon the house top.
8 Mine enemies reproach me all the
day; and they that are mad against me
are sworn against me.
9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and
mingled my drink with weeping.
10 Because of thine indignation and

PSALM 101

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A Psalm of David.

WILL sing of mercy and judgment:
unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.
2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto
me? I will walk within my house with a
perfect heart.
3 I will set no wicked thing before mine
eyes: I hate the work of them that turn
aside; it shall not cleave to me.
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thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up,
and cast me down.
11 My days are like a shadow that
declineth; and I am withered like grass.
12 But thou, O LORD, shall endure for
ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
13 Thou shalt arise, and have mercy
upon Zion: for the time to favour her,
yea, the set time, is come.
14 For thy servants take pleasure in her
stones, and favour the dust thereof.
15 So the heathen shall fear the name
of the LORD, and all the kings of the
earth thy glory.
16 When the L ORD shall build up
Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
17 He will regard the prayer of the
destitute, and not despise their prayer.
18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which
shall be created shall praise the LORD.
19 For he hath looked down from the
height of his sanctuary; from heaven did
the LORD behold the earth;
20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed
to death;
21 To declare the name of the LORD
in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
22 When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the
LORD.
23 He weakened my strength in the
way; he shortened my days.
24 I said, O my God, take me not away
in the midst of my days: thy years are
throughout all generations.
25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are
the work of thy hands.
26 They shall perish, but thou shalt
endure: yea, all of them shall wax old
like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou
change them, and they shall be changed:

27 But thou art the same, and thy years
shall have no end.
28 The children of thy servants shall
continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.
PSALM 103

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A Psalm of David.

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

go down by the valleys unto the place
which thou hast founded for them.
9 Thou hast set a bound that they may
not pass over; that they turn not again
to cover the earth.
10 He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills.
11 They give drink to every beast of
the field: the wild asses quench their
thirst.
12 By them shall the fowls of the
heaven have their habitation, which sing
among the branches.
13 He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit
of thy works.
14 He causeth the grass to grow for
the cattle, and herb for the service of
man: that he may bring forth food out
of the earth;
15 And wine that maketh glad the heart
of man, and oil to make his face to shine,
and bread which strengtheneth man’s
heart.
16 The trees of the LORD are full of
sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he
hath planted;
17 Where the birds make their nests:
as for the stork, the fir trees are her
house.
18 The high hills are a refuge for the
wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
19 He appointed the moon for seasons:
the sun knoweth his going down.
20 Thou makest darkness, and it is
night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
21 The young lions roar after their prey,
and seek their meat from God.
22 The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in
their dens.
23 Man goeth forth unto his work and
to his labour until the evening.
24 O LORD, how manifold are thy

PSALM 104
LESS the L ORD, O my soul. O
L ORD my God, thou art very
great; thou art clothed with honour and
majesty.
2 Who coverest thyself with light as
with a garment: who stretchest out the
heavens like a curtain:
3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the
clouds his chariot: who walketh upon
the wings of the wind:
4 Who maketh his angels spirits; his
ministers a flaming fire:
5 Who laid the foundations of the earth,
that it should not be removed for ever.
6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as
with a garment: the waters stood above
the mountains.
7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice
of thy thunder they hasted away.
8 They go up by the mountains; they

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works! in wisdom hast thou made them
all: the earth is full of thy riches.
25 So is this great and wide sea,
wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
26 There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play
therein.
27 These wait all upon thee; that thou
mayest give them their meat in due season.
28 That thou givest them they gather:
thou openest thine hand, they are filled
with good.
29 Thou hidest thy face, they are
troubled: thou takest away their breath,
they die, and return to their dust.
30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they
are created: and thou renewest the face
of the earth.
31 The glory of the LORD shall endure
for ever: the LORD shall rejoice in his
works.
32 He looketh on the earth, and it
trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they
smoke.
33 I will sing unto the LORD as long
as I live: I will sing praise to my God
while I have my being.
34 My meditation of him shall be
sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.
35 Let the sinners be consumed out of
the earth, and let the wicked be no more.
Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise
ye the LORD.

4 Seek the LORD, and his strength:
seek his face evermore.
5 Remember his marvellous works that
he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;
6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant,
ye children of Jacob his chosen.
7 He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
8 He hath remembered his covenant for
ever, the word which he commanded to
a thousand generations.
9 Which covenant he made with
Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob
for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:
11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the
land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:
12 When they were but a few men in
number; yea, very few, and strangers in
it.
13 When they went from one nation to
another, from one kingdom to another
people;
14 He suffered no man to do them
wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their
sakes;
15 Saying, Touch not mine anointed,
and do my prophets no harm.
16 Moreover he called for a famine
upon the land: he brake the whole staff
of bread.
17 He sent a man before them, even
Joseph, who was sold for a servant:
18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters:
he was laid in iron:
19 Until the time that his word came:
the word of the LORD tried him.
20 The king sent and loosed him; even
the ruler of the people, and let him go
free.
21 He made him lord of his house, and
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PSALM 105
GIVE thanks unto the LORD; call
upon his name: make known his
deeds among the people.
2 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him:
talk ye of all his wondrous works.
3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the
heart of them rejoice that seek the
LORD.

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22 To bind his princes at his pleasure;
and teach his senators wisdom.
23 Israel also came into Egypt; and
Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
24 And he increased his people greatly;
and made them stronger than their enemies.
25 He turned their heart to hate his
people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
26 He sent Moses his servant; and
Aaron whom he had chosen.
27 They shewed his signs among them,
and wonders in the land of Ham.
28 He sent darkness, and made it dark;
and they rebelled not against his word.
29 He turned their waters into blood,
and slew their fish.
30 Their land brought forth frogs in
abundance, in the chambers of their
kings.
31 He spake, and there came divers
sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.
32 He gave them hail for rain, and
flaming fire in their land.
33 He smote their vines also and their
fig trees; and brake the trees of their
coasts.
34 He spake, and the locusts came, and
caterpillers, and that without number,
35 And did eat up all the herbs in their
land, and devoured the fruit of their
ground.
36 He smote also all the firstborn in
their land, the chief of all their strength.
37 He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one
feeble person among their tribes.
38 Egypt was glad when they departed:
for the fear of them fell upon them.
39 He spread a cloud for a covering;
and fire to give light in the night.
40 The people asked, and he brought
quails, and satisfied them with the bread
of heaven.
41 He opened the rock, and the waters

gushed out; they ran in the dry places
like a river.
42 For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
43 And he brought forth his people
with joy, and his chosen with gladness:
44 And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of
the people;
45 That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the
LORD.
PSALM 106
RAISE ye the LORD. O give thanks
unto the LORD; for he is good: for
his mercy endureth for ever.
2 Who can utter the mighty acts of the
L ORD ? who can shew forth all his
praise?
3 Blessed are they that keep judgment,
and he that doeth righteousness at all
times.
4 Remember me, O LORD, with the
favour that thou bearest unto thy people:
O visit me with thy salvation;
5 That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness
of thy nation, that I may glory with thine
inheritance.
6 We have sinned with our fathers, we
have committed iniquity, we have done
wickedly.
7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the
multitude of thy mercies; but provoked
him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
8 Nevertheless he saved them for his
name’s sake, that he might make his
mighty power to be known.
9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it
was dried up: so he led them through
the depths, as through the wilderness.
10 And he saved them from the hand

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of him that hated them, and redeemed
them from the hand of the enemy.
11 And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.
12 Then believed they his words; they
sang his praise.
13 They soon forgat his works; they
waited not for his counsel:
14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
15 And he gave them their request; but
sent leanness into their soul.
16 They envied Moses also in the
camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.
17 The earth opened and swallowed
up Dathan and covered the company of
Abiram.
18 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
19 They made a calf in Horeb, and
worshipped the molten image.
20 Thus they changed their glory into
the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
21 They forgat God their saviour,
which had done great things in Egypt;
22 Wondrous works in the land of
Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.
23 Therefore he said that he would
destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to
turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
24 Yea, they despised the pleasant land,
they believed not his word:
25 But murmured in their tents, and
hearkened not unto the voice of the
LORD.
26 Therefore he lifted up his hand
against them, to overthrow them in the
wilderness:
27 To overthrow their seed also among
the nations, and to scatter them in the
lands.
28 They joined themselves also unto

Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the
dead.
29 Thus they provoked him to anger
with their inventions: and the plague
brake in upon them.
30 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was
stayed.
31 And that was counted unto him for
righteousness unto all generations for
evermore.
32 They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with
Moses for their sakes:
33 Because they provoked his spirit,
so that he spake unadvisedly with his
lips.
34 They did not destroy the nations,
concerning whom the L ORD commanded them:
35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
36 And they served their idols: which
were a snare unto them.
37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and
their daughters unto devils,
38 And shed innocent blood, even the
blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols
of Canaan: and the land was polluted
with blood.
39 Thus were they defiled with their
own works, and went a whoring with
their own inventions.
40 Therefore was the wrath of the
L ORD kindled against his people,
insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
41 And he gave them into the hand of
the heathen; and they that hated them
ruled over them.
42 Their enemies also oppressed them,
and they were brought into subjection
under their hand.
43 Many times did he deliver them; but
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they provoked him with their counsel,
and were brought low for their iniquity.
44 Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:
45 And he remembered for them his
covenant, and repented according to the
multitude of his mercies.
46 He made them also to be pitied of
all those that carried them captives.
47 Save us, O LORD our God, and
gather us from among the heathen, to
give thanks unto thy holy name, and to
triumph in thy praise.
48 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel
from everlasting to everlasting: and let
all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the
LORD.

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

42 The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her
mouth.
43 Whoso is wise, and will observe
these things, even they shall understand
the lovingkindness of the LORD.
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A Song or Psalm of David.

GOD, my heart is fixed; I will sing
and give praise, even with my
glory.
2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself
will awake early.
3 I will praise thee, O LORD, among
the people: and I will sing praises unto
thee among the nations.
4 For thy mercy is great above the
heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the
clouds.
5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the
heavens: and thy glory above all the
earth;
6 That thy beloved may be delivered:
save with thy right hand, and answer me.
7 God hath spoken in his holiness; I
will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and
mete out the valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine;
Ephraim also is the strength of mine
head; Judah is my lawgiver;
9 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will
I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I
triumph.
10 Who will bring me into the strong
city? who will lead me into Edom?
11 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast
us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go
forth with our hosts?
12 Give us help from trouble: for vain
is the help of man.
13 Through God we shall do valiantly:
for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
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shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and
needy man, that he might even slay the
broken in heart.
17 As he loved cursing, so let it come
unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18 As he clothed himself with cursing
like as with his garment, so let it come
into his bowels like water, and like oil
into his bones.
19 Let it be unto him as the garment
which covereth him, and for a girdle
wherewith he is girded continually.
20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them
that speak evil against my soul.
21 But do thou for me, O GOD the
Lord, for thy name’s sake: because thy
mercy is good, deliver thou me.
22 For I am poor and needy, and my
heart is wounded within me.
23 I am gone like the shadow when it
declineth: I am tossed up and down as
the locust.
24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
25 I became also a reproach unto them:
when they looked upon me they shaked
their heads.
26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save
me according to thy mercy:
27 That they may know that this is thy
hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.
28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when
they arise, let them be ashamed; but let
thy servant rejoice.
29 Let mine adversaries be clothed
with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with
a mantle.
30 I will greatly praise the LORD with
my mouth; yea, I will praise him among
the multitude.
31 For he shall stand at the right hand

PSALM 109
PSALM 109

H

To the chief Musician,
A Psalm of David.

OLD not thy peace, O God of my
praise;
2 For the mouth of the wicked and the
mouth of the deceitful are opened
against me: they have spoken against me
with a lying tongue.
3 They compassed me about also with
words of hatred; and fought against me
without a cause.
4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
5 And they have rewarded me evil for
good, and hatred for my love.
6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and
let Satan stand at his right hand.
7 When he shall be judged, let him be
condemned: and let his prayer become
sin.
8 Let his days be few; and let another
take his office.
9 Let his children be fatherless, and his
wife a widow.
10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread
also out of their desolate places.
11 Let the extortioner catch all that he
hath; and let the strangers spoil his
labour.
12 Let there be none to extend mercy
unto him: neither let there be any to
favour his fatherless children.
13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in
the generation following let their name
be blotted out.
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be
remembered with the LORD; and let not
the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory
of them from the earth.
16 Because that he remembered not to
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of the poor, to save him from those that
condemn his soul.

of his works, that he may give them the
heritage of the heathen.
7 The works of his hands are verity
and judgment; all his commandments
are sure.
8 They stand fast for ever and ever, and
are done in truth and uprightness.
9 He sent redemption unto his people:
he hath commanded his covenant for
ever: holy and reverend is his name.
10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding
have all they that do his commandments:
his praise endureth for ever.

PSALM 110

T

A Psalm of David.

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

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

P

PSALM 111
RAISE ye the LORD. I will praise
the LORD with my whole heart, in
the assembly of the upright, and in the
congregation.
2 The works of the LORD are great,
sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
3 His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for
ever.
4 He hath made his wonderful works
to be remembered: the LORD is gracious
and full of compassion.
5 He hath given meat unto them that
fear him: he will ever be mindful of his
covenant.
6 He hath shewed his people the power

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and melt away: the desire of the wicked
shall perish.

of the Lord, at the presence of the God
of Jacob;
8 Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of
waters.

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

P

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

PSALM 114
HEN Israel went out of Egypt, the
house of Jacob from a people of
strange language;
2 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel
his dominion.
3 The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was
driven back.
4 The mountains skipped like rams,
and the little hills like lambs.
5 What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou
fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast
driven back?
6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like
rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence

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the LORD’S: but the earth hath he given
to the children of men.
17 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
18 But we will bless the LORD from
this time forth and for evermore. Praise
the LORD.

16 O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I
am thy servant, and the son of thine
handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of
thanksgiving, and will call upon the
name of the LORD.
18 I will pay my vows unto the LORD
now in the presence of all his people.
19 In the courts of the LORD’S house,
in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise
ye the LORD.

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

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

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PSALM 118
GIVE thanks unto the LORD; for
he is good: because his mercy
endureth for ever.
2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy
endureth for ever.
3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that
his mercy endureth for ever.
4 Let them now that fear the LORD say,
that his mercy endureth for ever.
5 I called upon the LORD in distress:
the LORD answered me, and set me in a
large place.
6 The LORD is on my side; I will not
fear: what can man do unto me?
7 The LORD taketh my part with them
that help me: therefore shall I see my
desire upon them that hate me.
8 It is better to trust in the LORD than
to put confidence in man.
9 It is better to trust in the LORD than
to put confidence in princes.
10 All nations compassed me about:
but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.
11 They compassed me about; yea,

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they compassed me about: but in the
name of the LORD I will destroy them.
12 They compassed me about like
bees: they are quenched as the fire of
thorns: for in the name of the LORD I
will destroy them.
13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I
might fall: but the LORD helped me.
14 The LORD is my strength and song,
and is become my salvation.
15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous:
the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
16 The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD doeth
valiantly.
17 I shall not die, but live, and declare
the works of the LORD.
18 The LORD hath chastened me sore:
but he hath not given me over unto
death.
19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will
praise the LORD:
20 This gate of the LORD, into which
the righteous shall enter.
21 I will praise thee: for thou hast heard
me, and art become my salvation.
22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the
corner.
23 This is the LORD’S doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.
24 This is the day which the LORD hath
made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
25 Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD:
O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.
26 Blessed be he that cometh in the
name of the LORD: we have blessed you
out of the house of the LORD.
27 God is the L ORD , which hath
shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with
cords, even unto the horns of the altar.

28 Thou art my God, and I will praise
thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee.
29 O give thanks unto the LORD; for
he is good: for his mercy endureth for
ever.
PSALM 119

B

A ALEPH.

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

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

E HE.

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

C GIMEL.

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

F VAU.

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

D DALETH.

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

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G ZAIN.

I TETH.

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

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

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

H CHETH.

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

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K CAPH.

M MEM.

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

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

L LAMED.

N NUN.

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

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

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O SAMECH.

Q PE.

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

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

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

P AIN.

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

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S KOPH.

U SCHIN.

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

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

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

T RESH.

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

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

PSALM 120
PSALM 120

I

A Song of degrees.

N my distress I cried unto the LORD,
and he heard me.
2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
3 What shall be given unto thee? or
what shall be done unto thee, thou false
tongue?
4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with
coals of juniper.
5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech,
that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
6 My soul hath long dwelt with him
that hateth peace.
7 I am for peace: but when I speak,
they are for war.
PSALM 121

I

PSALM 123

A Song of degrees.

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

U

PSALM 124

I

PSALM 122

I

A Song of degrees.

NTO thee lift I up mine eyes, O
thou that dwellest in the heavens.
2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look
unto the hand of their masters, and as
the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of
her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the
LORD our God, until that he have mercy
upon us.
3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have
mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly
filled with contempt.
4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with
the scorning of those that are at ease,
and with the contempt of the proud.
A Song of degrees of David.
F it had not been the LORD who was

on our side, now may Israel say;
2 If it had not been the LORD who was
on our side, when men rose up against
us:
3 Then they had swallowed us up

A Song of degrees of David.

WAS glad when they said unto me,
Let us go into the house of the LORD.
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quick, when their wrath was kindled
against us:
4 Then the waters had overwhelmed
us, the stream had gone over our soul:
5 Then the proud waters had gone over
our soul.
6 Blessed be the LORD, who hath not
given us as a prey to their teeth.
7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of
the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
8 Our help is in the name of the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.

3 The LORD hath done great things for
us; whereof we are glad.
4 Turn again our captivity, O LORD,
as the streams in the south.
5 They that sow in tears shall reap in
joy.
6 He that goeth forth and weepeth,
bearing precious seed, shall doubtless
come again with rejoicing, bringing his
sheaves with him.
PSALM 127

E

PSALM 125

T

A Song of degrees.

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

PSALM 128

B

A Song of degrees.

LESSED is every one that feareth
the LORD; that walketh in his
ways.
2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine
hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall
be well with thee.
3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine
by the sides of thine house: thy children
like olive plants round about thy table.
4 Behold, that thus shall the man be
blessed that feareth the LORD.
5 The LORD shall bless thee out of

PSALM 126

W

A Song of degrees for Solomon.

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

A Song of degrees.

HEN the LORD turned again the
captivity of Zion, we were like
them that dream.
2 Then was our mouth filled with
laughter, and our tongue with singing:
then said they among the heathen, The
LORD hath done great things for them.
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PSALMS 129–132
Zion: and thou shalt see the good of
Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
6 Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s
children, and peace upon Israel.

say, more than they that watch for the
morning.
7 Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with
the LORD there is mercy, and with him
is plenteous redemption.
8 And he shall redeem Israel from all
his iniquities.

PSALM 129

M

A Song of degrees.

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

PSALM 131

L

PSALM 132

L

A Song of degrees.

ORD, remember David, and all his
afflictions:
2 How he sware unto the LORD, and
vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;
3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my
bed;
4 I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or
slumber to mine eyelids,
5 Until I find out a place for the LORD,
an habitation for the mighty God of
Jacob.
6 Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we
found it in the fields of the wood.
7 We will go into his tabernacles: we
will worship at his footstool.
8 Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou,
and the ark of thy strength.
9 Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for
joy.

PSALM 130

O

A Song of degrees of David.

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

A Song of degrees.

UT of the depths have I cried unto
thee, O LORD.
2 Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears
be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
3 If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
4 But there is forgiveness with thee,
that thou mayest be feared.
5 I wait for the LORD, my soul doth
wait, and in his word do I hope.
6 My soul waiteth for the Lord more
than they that watch for the morning: I
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10 For thy servant David’s sake turn
not away the face of thine anointed.
11 The LORD hath sworn in truth unto
David; he will not turn from it; Of the
fruit of thy body will I set upon thy
throne.
12 If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach
them, their children shall also sit upon
thy throne for evermore.
13 For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he
hath desired it for his habitation.
14 This is my rest for ever: here will I
dwell; for I have desired it.
15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.
16 I will also clothe her priests with
salvation: and her saints shall shout
aloud for joy.
17 There will I make the horn of David
to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine
anointed.
18 His enemies will I clothe with
shame: but upon himself shall his crown
flourish.

2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary,
and bless the LORD.
3 The LORD that made heaven and
earth bless thee out of Zion.
PSALM 135
RAISE ye the LORD. Praise ye the
name of the LORD; praise him, O
ye servants of the LORD.
2 Ye that stand in the house of the
LORD, in the courts of the house of our
God.
3 Praise the LORD; for the LORD is
good: sing praises unto his name; for it
is pleasant.
4 For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto
himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.
5 For I know that the LORD is great,
and that our Lord is above all gods.
6 Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that
did he in heaven, and in earth, in the
seas, and all deep places.
7 He causeth the vapours to ascend
from the ends of the earth; he maketh
lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the
wind out of his treasuries.
8 Who smote the firstborn of Egypt,
both of man and beast.
9 Who sent tokens and wonders into
the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants.
10 Who smote great nations, and slew
mighty kings;
11 Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og
king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms
of Canaan:
12 And gave their land for an heritage,
an heritage unto Israel his people.
13 Thy name, O LORD, endureth for
ever; and thy memorial, O L ORD ,
throughout all generations.
14 For the LORD will judge his people,
and he will repent himself concerning
his servants.

P

PSALM 133

B

A Song of degrees of David.

EHOLD, how good and how
pleasant it is for brethren to dwell
together in unity!
2 It is like the precious ointment upon
the head, that ran down upon the beard,
even Aaron’s beard: that went down to
the skirts of his garments;
3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the
dew that descended upon the mountains
of Zion: for there the LORD commanded
the blessing, even life for evermore.
PSALM 134

B

A Song of degrees.

EHOLD, bless ye the LORD, all ye
servants of the LORD, which by
night stand in the house of the LORD.
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PSALMS 136, 137
15 The idols of the heathen are silver
and gold, the work of men’s hands.
16 They have mouths, but they speak
not; eyes have they, but they see not;
17 They have ears, but they hear not;
neither is there any breath in their
mouths.
18 They that make them are like unto
them: so is every one that trusteth in
them.
19 Bless the LORD, O house of Israel:
bless the LORD, O house of Aaron:
20 Bless the LORD, O house of Levi:
ye that fear the LORD, bless the LORD.
21 Blessed be the LORD out of Zion,
which dwelleth at Jerusalem. Praise ye
the LORD.

12 With a strong hand, and with a
stretched out arm: for his mercy
endureth for ever.
13 To him which divided the Red sea
into parts: for his mercy endureth for
ever:
14 And made Israel to pass through the
midst of it: for his mercy endureth for
ever:
15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host
in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth
for ever.
16 To him which led his people
through the wilderness: for his mercy
endureth for ever.
17 To him which smote great kings:
for his mercy endureth for ever:
18 And slew famous kings: for his
mercy endureth for ever:
19 Sihon king of the Amorites: for his
mercy endureth for ever:
20 And Og the king of Bashan: for his
mercy endureth for ever:
21 And gave their land for an heritage:
for his mercy endureth for ever:
22 Even an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy endureth for ever.
23 Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:
24 And hath redeemed us from our
enemies: for his mercy endureth for
ever.
25 Who giveth food to all flesh: for
his mercy endureth for ever.
26 O give thanks unto the God of
heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.

PSALM 136
GIVE thanks unto the LORD; for
he is good: for his mercy
endureth for ever.
2 O give thanks unto the God of gods:
for his mercy endureth for ever.
3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords:
for his mercy endureth for ever.
4 To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever.
5 To him that by wisdom made the
heavens: for his mercy endureth for
ever.
6 To him that stretched out the earth
above the waters: for his mercy endureth
for ever.
7 To him that made great lights: for his
mercy endureth for ever:
8 The sun to rule by day: for his mercy
endureth for ever:
9 The moon and stars to rule by night:
for his mercy endureth for ever.
10 To him that smote Egypt in their
firstborn: for his mercy endureth for
ever:
11 And brought out Israel from among
them: for his mercy endureth for ever:

O

PSALM 137
Y the rivers of Babylon, there we
sat down, yea, we wept, when we
remembered Zion.
2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
3 For there they that carried us away
captive required of us a song; and they

B
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that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
4 How shall we sing the LORD’S song
in a strange land?
5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my
right hand forget her cunning.
6 If I do not remember thee, let my
tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth;
if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief
joy.
7 Remember, O LORD, the children of
Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said,
Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation
thereof.
8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to
be destroyed; happy shall he be, that
rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and
dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

mine enemies, and thy right hand shall
save me.
8 The LORD will perfect that which
concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD,
endureth for ever: forsake not the works
of thine own hands.
PSALM 139

O

LORD, thou hast searched me, and
known me.
2 Thou knowest my downsitting and
mine uprising, thou understandest my
thought afar off.
3 Thou compassest my path and my
lying down, and art acquainted with all
my ways.
4 For there is not a word in my tongue,
but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for
me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or
whither shall I flee from thy presence?
8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art
there: if I make my bed in hell, behold,
thou art there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning,
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the
sea;
10 Even there shall thy hand lead me,
and thy right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall
cover me; even the night shall be light
about me.
12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from
thee; but the night shineth as the day:
the darkness and the light are both alike
to thee.
13 For thou hast possessed my reins:
thou hast covered me in my mother’s
womb.

PSALM 138

I

To the chief Musician,
A Psalm of David.

A Psalm of David.

WILL praise thee with my whole
heart: before the gods will I sing
praise unto thee.
2 I will worship toward thy holy
temple, and praise thy name for thy
lovingkindness and for thy truth: for
thou hast magnified thy word above all
thy name.
3 In the day when I cried thou
answeredst me, and strengthenedst me
with strength in my soul.
4 All the kings of the earth shall praise
thee, O LORD, when they hear the words
of thy mouth.
5 Yea, they shall sing in the ways of
the LORD: for great is the glory of the
LORD.
6 Though the LORD be high, yet hath
he respect unto the lowly: but the proud
he knoweth afar off.
7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble,
thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch
forth thine hand against the wrath of
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PSALMS 140, 141
14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully
and wonderfully made: marvellous are
thy works; and that my soul knoweth
right well.
15 My substance was not hid from
thee, when I was made in secret, and
curiously wrought in the lowest parts of
the earth.
16 Thine eyes did see my substance,
yet being unperfect; and in thy book all
my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet
there was none of them.
17 How precious also are thy thoughts
unto me, O God! how great is the sum
of them!
18 If I should count them, they are
more in number than the sand: when I
awake, I am still with thee.
19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O
God: depart from me therefore, ye
bloody men.
20 For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name
in vain.
21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that
hate thee? and am not I grieved with
those that rise up against thee?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I
count them mine enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my
heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24 And see if there be any wicked way
in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

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

PSALM 140

PSALM 141

To the chief Musician,
A Psalm of David.
ELIVER me, O LORD, from the

L

A Psalm of David.

ORD, I cry unto thee: make haste
unto me; give ear unto my voice,
when I cry unto thee.
2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee
as incense; and the lifting up of my
hands as the evening sacrifice.

D

evil man: preserve me from the
violent man;
2 Which imagine mischiefs in their
heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
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PSALMS 142, 143
3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my
mouth; keep the door of my lips.
4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing,
to practise wicked works with men that
work iniquity: and let me not eat of their
dainties.
5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall
be a kindness: and let him reprove me;
it shall be an excellent oil, which shall
not break my head: for yet my prayer
also shall be in their calamities.
6 When their judges are overthrown
in stony places, they shall hear my
words; for they are sweet.
7 Our bones are scattered at the grave’s
mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth
wood upon the earth.
8 But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD
the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not
my soul destitute.
9 Keep me from the snares which they
have laid for me, and the gins of the
workers of iniquity.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own
nets, whilst that I withal escape.

6 Attend unto my cry; for I am brought
very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I
may praise thy name: the righteous shall
compass me about; for thou shalt deal
bountifully with me.
PSALM 143

H

PSALM 142

I

A Psalm of David.

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

Maschil of David; A Prayer
when he was in the cave.
CRIED unto the L ORD with my
voice; with my voice unto the LORD

did I make my supplication.
2 I poured out my complaint before
him; I shewed before him my trouble.
3 When my spirit was overwhelmed
within me, then thou knewest my path.
In the way wherein I walked have they
privily laid a snare for me.
4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would
know me: refuge failed me; no man
cared for my soul.
5 I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said,
Thou art my refuge and my portion in
the land of the living.
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PSALMS 144, 145
11 Quicken me, O L ORD , for thy
name’s sake: for thy righteousness’ sake
bring my soul out of trouble.
12 And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict
my soul: for I am thy servant.

grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished
after the similitude of a palace:
13 That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our
sheep may bring forth thousands and ten
thousands in our streets:
14 That our oxen may be strong to
labour; that there be no breaking in, nor
going out; that there be no complaining
in our streets.
15 Happy is that people, that is in such
a case: yea, happy is that people, whose
God is the LORD.

PSALM 144

B

A Psalm of David.

LESSED be the LORD my strength
which teacheth my hands to war,
and my fingers to fight:
2 My goodness, and my fortress; my
high tower, and my deliverer; my shield,
and he in whom I trust; who subdueth
my people under me.
3 LORD, what is man, that thou takest
knowledge of him! or the son of man,
that thou makest account of him!
4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as
a shadow that passeth away.
5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD , and
come down: touch the mountains, and
they shall smoke.
6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them:
shoot out thine arrows, and destroy
them.
7 Send thine hand from above; rid me,
and deliver me out of great waters, from
the hand of strange children;
8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and
their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O
God: upon a psaltery and an instrument
of ten strings will I sing praises unto
thee.
10 It is he that giveth salvation unto
kings: who delivereth David his servant
from the hurtful sword.
11 Rid me, and deliver me from the
hand of strange children, whose mouth
speaketh vanity, and their right hand is
a right hand of falsehood:
12 That our sons may be as plants

PSALM 145

I

David’s Psalm of praise.

WILL extol thee, my God, O king;
and I will bless thy name for ever
and ever.
2 Every day will I bless thee; and I will
praise thy name for ever and ever.
3 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be
praised; and his greatness is
unsearchable.
4 One generation shall praise thy works
to another, and shall declare thy mighty
acts.
5 I will speak of the glorious honour
of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous
works.
6 And men shall speak of the might of
thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy
greatness.
7 They shall abundantly utter the
memory of thy great goodness, and shall
sing of thy righteousness.
8 The LORD is gracious, and full of
compassion; slow to anger, and of great
mercy.
9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
10 All thy works shall praise thee, O
LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee.
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PSALMS 146, 147
11 They shall speak of the glory of thy
kingdom, and talk of thy power;
12 To make known to the sons of men
his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.
13 Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth
throughout all generations.
14 The LORD upholdeth all that fall,
and raiseth up all those that be bowed
down.
15 The eyes of all wait upon thee; and
thou givest them their meat in due season.
16 Thou openest thine hand, and
satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
17 The LORD is righteous in all his
ways, and holy in all his works.
18 The LORD is nigh unto all them that
call upon him, to all that call upon him
in truth.
19 He will fulfil the desire of them that
fear him: he also will hear their cry, and
will save them.
20 The LORD preserveth all them that
love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.
21 My mouth shall speak the praise of
the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy
name for ever and ever.

6 Which made heaven, and earth, the
sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth
truth for ever:
7 Which executeth judgment for the
oppressed: which giveth food to the
hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
8 The LORD openeth the eyes of the
blind: the LORD raiseth them that are
bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
9 The LORD preserveth the strangers;
he relieveth the fatherless and widow:
but the way of the wicked he turneth
upside down.
10 The LORD shall reign for ever, even
thy God, O Zion, unto all generations.
Praise ye the LORD.
PSALM 147
RAISE ye the LORD: for it is good
to sing praises unto our God; for it
is pleasant; and praise is comely.
2 The LORD doth build up Jerusalem:
he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
3 He healeth the broken in heart, and
bindeth up their wounds.
4 He telleth the number of the stars; he
calleth them all by their names.
5 Great is our Lord, and of great power:
his understanding is infinite.
6 The LORD lifteth up the meek: he
casteth the wicked down to the ground.
7 Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our
God:
8 Who covereth the heaven with
clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth,
who maketh grass to grow upon the
mountains.
9 He giveth to the beast his food, and
to the young ravens which cry.
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RAISE ye the LORD. Praise the
LORD, O my soul.
2 While I live will I praise the LORD: I
will sing praises unto my God while I
have any being.
3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in
the son of man, in whom there is no help.
4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth
to his earth; in that very day his thoughts
perish.
5 Happy is he that hath the God of
Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the
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the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the
legs of a man.
11 The LORD taketh pleasure in them
that fear him, in those that hope in his
mercy.
12 Praise the L ORD, O Jerusalem;
praise thy God, O Zion.
13 For he hath strengthened the bars
of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.
14 He maketh peace in thy borders, and
filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.
15 He sendeth forth his commandment
upon earth: his word runneth very
swiftly.
16 He giveth snow like wool: he
scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
18 He sendeth out his word, and
melteth them: he causeth his wind to
blow, and the waters flow.
19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob,
his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
20 He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have
not known them. Praise ye the LORD.

and ever: he hath made a decree which
shall not pass.
7 Praise the LORD from the earth, ye
dragons, and all deeps:
8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours;
stormy wind fulfilling his word:
9 Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees,
and all cedars:
10 Beasts, and all cattle; creeping
things, and flying fowl:
11 Kings of the earth, and all people;
princes, and all judges of the earth:
12 Both young men, and maidens; old
men, and children:
13 Let them praise the name of the
LORD: for his name alone is excellent;
his glory is above the earth and heaven.
14 He also exalteth the horn of his
people, the praise of all his saints; even
of the children of Israel, a people near
unto him. Praise ye the LORD.
PSALM 149
RAISE ye the LORD. Sing unto the
LORD a new song, and his praise
in the congregation of saints.
2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made
him: let the children of Zion be joyful
in their King.
3 Let them praise his name in the
dance: let them sing praises unto him
with the timbrel and harp.
4 For the LORD taketh pleasure in his
people: he will beautify the meek with
salvation.
5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let
them sing aloud upon their beds.
6 Let the high praises of God be in their
mouth, and a two–edged sword in their
hand;
7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
8 To bind their kings with chains, and
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PSALM 148
RAISE ye the LORD. Praise ye the
LORD from the heavens: praise him
in the heights.
2 Praise ye him, all his angels: praise
ye him, all his hosts.
3 Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise
him, all ye stars of light.
4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens,
and ye waters that be above the heavens.
5 Let them praise the name of the
LORD: for he commanded, and they
were created.
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9 To execute upon them the judgment
written: this honour have all his saints.
Praise ye the LORD.

trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and
harp.
4 Praise him with the timbrel and
dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals:
praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
6 Let every thing that hath breath praise
the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.

PSALM 150
RAISE ye the LORD. Praise God
in his sanctuary: praise him in the
firmament of his power.
2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise
him according to his excellent greatness.
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