Blessed is the man that walketh not in the
counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor
sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
But his delight is in the law of the LORD;
and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
And he shall be like a tree planted by the
rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his
leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall
prosper.
The ungodly are not so: but are like the
chaff which the wind driveth away.
Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the
judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
For the LORD knoweth the way of the
righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my
meditation.
Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King,
and my God: for unto thee will I pray.
My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O
LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will
look up.
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in
wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
The foolish shall not stand in thy sight:
thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing:
the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
But as for me, I will come into thy house in
the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward
thy holy temple.
Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because
of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth;
their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open
sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by
their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their
transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.
But let all those that put their trust in
thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest
them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.
For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous;
with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why
hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the
poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have
imagined.
For the wicked boasteth of his heart's
desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
The wicked, through the pride of his
countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his
thoughts.
His ways are always grievous; thy judgments
are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth
at them.
He hath said in his heart, I shall not be
moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and
fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
He sitteth in the lurking places of the
villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his
eyes are privily set against the poor.
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his
den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor,
when he draweth him into his net.
He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that
the poor may fall by his strong ones.
He hath said in his heart, God hath
forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand:
forget not the humble.
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he
hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest
mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor
committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the
fatherless.
Break thou the arm of the wicked and the
evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
The LORD is King for ever and ever: the
heathen are perished out of his land.
LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the
humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to
hear:
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed,
that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no
God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is
none that doeth good.
The LORD looked down from heaven upon the
children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and
seek God.
They are all gone aside, they are all
together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not
one.
Have all the workers of iniquity no
knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not
upon the LORD.
There were they in great fear: for God is in
the generation of the righteous.
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor,
because the LORD is his refuge.
Oh that the salvation of Israel were come
out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his
people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my
trust.
O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD,
Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
But to the saints that are in the earth, and
to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
Their sorrows shall be multiplied that
hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not
offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance
and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant
places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
I will bless the LORD, who hath given me
counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
I have set the LORD always before me:
because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory
rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell;
neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy
presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures
for evermore.
Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry,
give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
Let my sentence come forth from thy
presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.
Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast
visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find
nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
Concerning the works of men, by the word of
thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my
footsteps slip not.
I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear
me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.
Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou
that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee
from those that rise up against them.
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me
under the shadow of thy wings,
From the wicked that oppress me, from my
deadly enemies, who compass me about.
They are inclosed in their own fat: with
their mouth they speak proudly.
They have now compassed us in our steps:
they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey,
and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him
down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:
From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from
men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose
belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of
children, and leave the rest of their substance to their
babes.
As for me, I will behold thy face in
righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy
likeness.
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my
deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler,
and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to
be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the
floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the
snares of death prevented me.
In my distress I called upon the LORD, and
cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry
came before him, even into his ears.
Then the earth shook and trembled; the
foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was
wroth.
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils,
and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
He bowed the heavens also, and came down:
and darkness was under his feet.
And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly:
yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
He made darkness his secret place; his
pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the
skies.
At the brightness that was before him his
thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and
the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered
them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
Then the channels of waters were seen, and
the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD,
at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
He sent from above, he took me, he drew me
out of many waters.
He delivered me from my strong enemy, and
from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
They prevented me in the day of my
calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
He brought me forth also into a large
place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
The LORD rewarded me according to my
righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he
recompensed me.
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and
have not wickedly departed from my God.
For all his judgments were before me, and I
did not put away his statutes from me.
I was also upright before him, and I kept
myself from mine iniquity.
Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me
according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my
hands in his eyesight.
With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself
merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure;
and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
For thou wilt save the afflicted people;
but wilt bring down high looks.
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my
God will enlighten my darkness.
For by thee I have run through a troop; and
by my God have I leaped over a wall.
As for God, his way is perfect: the word of
the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in
him.
For who is God save the LORD? or who is a
rock save our God?
It is God that girdeth me with strength,
and maketh my way perfect.
He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and
setteth me upon my high places.
He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow
of steel is broken by mine arms.
Thou hast also given me the shield of thy
salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness
hath made me great.
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that
my feet did not slip.
I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken
them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
I have wounded them that they were not able
to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
For thou hast girded me with strength unto
the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against
me.
Thou hast also given me the necks of mine
enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
They cried, but there was none to save
them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
Then did I beat them small as the dust
before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the
streets.
Thou hast delivered me from the strivings
of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a
people whom I have not known shall serve me.
As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey
me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
The strangers shall fade away, and be
afraid out of their close places.
The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock;
and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth
the people under me.
He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea,
thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast
delivered me from the violent man.
Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O
LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.
Great deliverance giveth he to his king;
and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for
evermore.
The heavens declare the glory of God; and
the firmament sheweth his handywork.
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto
night sheweth knowledge.
There is no speech nor language, where their
voice is not heard.
Their line is gone out through all the
earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set
a tabernacle for the sun,
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his
chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
His going forth is from the end of the
heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing
hid from the heat thereof.
The law of the LORD is perfect, converting
the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the
simple.
The statutes of the LORD are right,
rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure,
enlightening the eyes.
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for
ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous
altogether.
More to be desired are they than gold, yea,
than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the
honeycomb.
Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and
in keeping of them there is great reward.
Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou
me from secret faults.
Keep back thy servant also from
presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I
be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great
transgression.
Let the words of my mouth, and the
meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my
strength, and my redeemer.
The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom
shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I
be afraid?
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my
foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
Though an host should encamp against me, my
heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this
will I be confident.
One thing have I desired of the LORD, that
will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all
the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to
enquire in his temple.
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me
in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me;
he shall set me up upon a rock.
And now shall mine head be lifted up above
mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his
tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises
unto the LORD.
Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have
mercy also upon me, and answer me.
When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart
said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy
servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not,
neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
When my father and my mother forsake me,
then the LORD will take me up.
Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a
plain path, because of mine enemies.
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine
enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as
breathe out cruelty.
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see
the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and
he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not
silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them
that go down into the pit.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I
cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with
the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but
mischief is in their hearts.
Give them according to their deeds, and
according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after
the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
Because they regard not the works of the
LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and
not build them up.
Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard
the voice of my supplications.
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my
heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly
rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
The LORD is their strength, and he is the
saving strength of his anointed.
Save thy people, and bless thine
inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me
never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me
speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save
me.
For thou art my rock and my fortress;
therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
Pull me out of the net that they have laid
privily for me: for thou art my strength.
Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou
hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
I have hated them that regard lying
vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for
thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in
adversities;
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the
enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in
trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my
belly.
For my life is spent with grief, and my
years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity,
and my bones are consumed.
I was a reproach among all mine enemies,
but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine
acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I
am like a broken vessel.
For I have heard the slander of many: fear
was on every side: while they took counsel together against me,
they devised to take away my life.
But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou
art my God.
My times are in thy hand: deliver me from
the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant:
save me for thy mercies' sake.
Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have
called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent
in the grave.
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which
speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the
righteous.
Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou
hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for
them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy
presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a
pavilion from the strife of tongues.
Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me
his marvellous kindness in a strong city.
For I said in my haste, I am cut off from
before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my
supplications when I cried unto thee.
O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the
LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud
doer.
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen
your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.
Blessed is he whose transgression is
forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD
imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old
through my roaring all the day long.
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon
me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine
iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions
unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.
Selah.
For this shall every one that is godly pray
unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods
of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt
preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of
deliverance. Selah.
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the
way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule,
which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit
and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he
that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye
righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in
heart.
Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that
strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand
up for mine help.
Draw out also the spear, and stop the way
against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy
salvation.
Let them be confounded and put to shame that
seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to
confusion that devise my hurt.
Let them be as chaff before the wind: and
let the angel of the LORD chase them.
Let their way be dark and slippery: and let
the angel of the LORD persecute them.
For without cause have they hid for me their
net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my
soul.
Let destruction come upon him at unawares;
and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very
destruction let him fall.
And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it
shall rejoice in his salvation.
All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like
unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong
for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth
him?
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to
my charge things that I knew not.
They rewarded me evil for good to the
spoiling of my soul.
But as for me, when they were sick, my
clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my
prayer returned into mine own bosom.
I behaved myself as though he had been my
friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for
his mother.
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and
gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves
together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and
ceased not:
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they
gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my
soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
I will give thee thanks in the great
congregation: I will praise thee among much people.
Let not them that are mine enemies
wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that
hate me without a cause.
For they speak not peace: but they devise
deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
Yea, they opened their mouth wide against
me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not
silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment,
even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy
righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so
would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Let them be ashamed and brought to
confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed
with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that
favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the
LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his
servant.
And my tongue shall speak of thy
righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
Fret not thyself because of evildoers,
neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
For they shall soon be cut down like the
grass, and wither as the green herb.
Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt
thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he
shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in
him; and he shall bring it to pass.
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness
as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for
him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way,
because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret
not thyself in any wise to do evil.
For evildoers shall be cut off: but those
that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
For yet a little while, and the wicked
shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it
shall not be.
But the meek shall inherit the earth; and
shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
The wicked plotteth against the just, and
gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
The LORD shall laugh at him: for he seeth
that his day is coming.
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and
have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay
such as be of upright conversation.
Their sword shall enter into their own
heart, and their bows shall be broken.
A little that a righteous man hath is
better than the riches of many wicked.
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken:
but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.
The LORD knoweth the days of the upright:
and their inheritance shall be for ever.
They shall not be ashamed in the evil time:
and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
But the wicked shall perish, and the
enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall
consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again:
but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
For such as be blessed of him shall inherit
the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.
The steps of a good man are ordered by the
LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
Though he fall, he shall not be utterly
cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.
I have been young, and now am old; yet have
I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his
seed is blessed.
Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell
for evermore.
For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh
not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the
wicked shall be cut off.
The righteous shall inherit the land, and
dwell therein for ever.
The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom,
and his tongue talketh of judgment.
The law of his God is in his heart; none of
his steps shall slide.
The wicked watcheth the righteous, and
seeketh to slay him.
The LORD will not leave him in his hand,
nor condemn him when he is judged.
Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he
shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off,
thou shalt see it.
I have seen the wicked in great power, and
spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not:
yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Mark the perfect man, and behold the
upright: for the end of that man is peace.
But the transgressors shall be destroyed
together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
But the salvation of the righteous is of
the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.
And the LORD shall help them, and deliver
them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because
they trust in him.
I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I
sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while
the wicked is before me.
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace,
even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
My heart was hot within me, while I was
musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the
measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I
am.
Behold, thou hast made my days as an
handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every
man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew:
surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and
knoweth not who shall gather them.
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is
in thee.
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make
me not the reproach of the foolish.
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because
thou didst it.
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am
consumed by the blow of thine hand.
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for
iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth:
surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto
my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with
thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
O spare me, that I may recover strength,
before I go hence, and be no more.
I waited patiently for the LORD; and he
inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
He brought me up also out of an horrible
pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and
established my goings.
And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even
praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust
in the LORD.
Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his
trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to
lies.
Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works
which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they
cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and
speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not
desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering
hast thou not required.
Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of
the book it is written of me,
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy
law is within my heart.
I have preached righteousness in the great
congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou
knowest.
I have not hid thy righteousness within my
heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have
not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great
congregation.
Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from
me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually
preserve me.
For innumerable evils have compassed me
about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not
able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head:
therefore my heart faileth me.
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD,
make haste to help me.
Let them be ashamed and confounded together
that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward
and put to shame that wish me evil.
Let them be desolate for a reward of their
shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be
glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The
LORD be magnified.
But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord
thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no
tarrying, O my God.
As the hart panteth after the water brooks,
so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living
God: when shall I come and appear before God?
My tears have been my meat day and night,
while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
When I remember these things, I pour out my
soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to
the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a
multitude that kept holyday.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why
art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise
him for the help of his countenance.
O my God, my soul is cast down within me:
therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the
Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy
waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness
in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my
prayer unto the God of my life.
I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou
forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the
enemy?
As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies
reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why
art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet
praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against
an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust
man.
For thou art the God of my strength: why
dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression
of the enemy?
O send out thy light and thy truth: let them
lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy
tabernacles.
Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto
God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God
my God.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why
art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise
him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
We have heard with our ears, O God, our
fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the
times of old.
How thou didst drive out the heathen with
thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people,
and cast them out.
For they got not the land in possession by
their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right
hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou
hadst a favour unto them.
Thou art my King, O God: command
deliverances for Jacob.
Through thee will we push down our enemies:
through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against
us.
For I will not trust in my bow, neither
shall my sword save me.
But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and
hast put them to shame that hated us.
In God we boast all the day long, and praise
thy name for ever. Selah.
But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame;
and goest not forth with our armies.
Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy:
and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for
meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
Thou sellest thy people for nought, and
dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
Thou makest us a reproach to our
neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about
us.
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen,
a shaking of the head among the people.
My confusion is continually before me, and
the shame of my face hath covered me,
For the voice of him that reproacheth and
blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
All this is come upon us; yet have we not
forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
Our heart is not turned back, neither have
our steps declined from thy way;
Though thou hast sore broken us in the
place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
If we have forgotten the name of our God,
or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
Shall not God search this out? for he
knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day
long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise,
cast us not off for ever.
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and
forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our
belly cleaveth unto the earth.
Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy
mercies' sake.
O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto
God with the voice of triumph.
For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a
great King over all the earth.
He shall subdue the people under us, and the
nations under our feet.
He shall choose our inheritance for us, the
excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with
the sound of a trumpet.
Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing
praises unto our King, sing praises.
For God is the King of all the earth: sing
ye praises with understanding.
God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth
upon the throne of his holiness.
The princes of the people are gathered
together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of
the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.
Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye
inhabitants of the world:
Both low and high, rich and poor,
together.
My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the
meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will
open my dark saying upon the harp.
Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil,
when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
They that trust in their wealth, and boast
themselves in the multitude of their riches;
None of them can by any means redeem his
brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
(For the redemption of their soul is
precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)
That he should still live for ever, and not
see corruption.
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise
the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to
others.
Their inward thought is, that their houses
shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all
generations; they call their lands after their own names.
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth
not: he is like the beasts that perish.
This their way is their folly: yet their
posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
Like sheep they are laid in the grave;
death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over
them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave
from their dwelling.
But God will redeem my soul from the power
of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
Be not thou afraid when one is made rich,
when the glory of his house is increased;
For when he dieth he shall carry nothing
away: his glory shall not descend after him.
Though while he lived he blessed his soul:
and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
He shall go to the generation of his
fathers; they shall never see light.
Man that is in honour, and understandeth
not, is like the beasts that perish.
The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken,
and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down
thereof.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God
hath shined.
Our God shall come, and shall not keep
silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very
tempestuous round about him.
He shall call to the heavens from above, and
to the earth, that he may judge his people.
Gather my saints together unto me; those
that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
And the heavens shall declare his
righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O
Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy
God.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices
or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor
he goats out of thy folds.
For every beast of the forest is mine, and
the cattle upon a thousand hills.
I know all the fowls of the mountains: and
the wild beasts of the field are mine.
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee:
for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the
blood of goats?
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy
vows unto the most High:
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I
will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
But unto the wicked God saith, What hast
thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my
covenant in thy mouth?
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth
my words behind thee.
When thou sawest a thief, then thou
consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy
tongue frameth deceit.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy
brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
These things hast thou done, and I kept
silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as
thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before
thine eyes.
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest
I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to
him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation
of God.
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy
lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies
blot out my transgressions.
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and
cleanse me from my sin.
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my
sin is ever before me.
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and
done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when
thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin
did my mother conceive me.
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward
parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know
wisdom.
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean:
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the
bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all
mine iniquities.
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and
renew a right spirit within me.
Cast me not away from thy presence; and
take not thy holy spirit from me.
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;
and uphold me with thy free spirit.
Then will I teach transgressors thy ways;
and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,
thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy
righteousness.
O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth
shall shew forth thy praise.
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would
I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit:
a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion:
build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
Then shalt thou be pleased with the
sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt
offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O
mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp
razor, working deceitfully.
Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying
rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou
deceitful tongue.
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he
shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and
root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
The righteous also shall see, and fear, and
shall laugh at him:
Lo, this is the man that made not God his
strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and
strengthened himself in his wickedness.
But I am like a green olive tree in the
house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
I will praise thee for ever, because thou
hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before
thy saints.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no
God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is
none that doeth good.
God looked down from heaven upon the
children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that
did seek God.
Every one of them is gone back: they are
altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not
one.
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge?
who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon
God.
There were they in great fear, where no fear
was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against
thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised
them.
Oh that the salvation of Israel were come
out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people,
Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not
thyself from my supplication.
Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my
complaint, and make a noise;
Because of the voice of the enemy, because
of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me,
and in wrath they hate me.
My heart is sore pained within me: and the
terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me,
and horror hath overwhelmed me.
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove!
for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain
in the wilderness. Selah.
I would hasten my escape from the windy
storm and tempest.
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues:
for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Day and night they go about it upon the
walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of
it.
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit
and guile depart not from her streets.
For it was not an enemy that reproached me;
then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that
did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from
him:
But it was thou, a man mine equal, my
guide, and mine acquaintance.
We took sweet counsel together, and walked
unto the house of God in company.
Let death seize upon them, and let them go
down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and
among them.
As for me, I will call upon God; and the
LORD shall save me.
Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I
pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
He hath delivered my soul in peace from the
battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
God shall hear, and afflict them, even he
that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore
they fear not God.
He hath put forth his hands against such as
be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.
The words of his mouth were smoother than
butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil,
yet were they drawn swords.
Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall
sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into
the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out
half their days; but I will trust in thee.
Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto
me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings
will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
I will cry unto God most high; unto God that
performeth all things for me.
He shall send from heaven, and save me from
the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send
forth his mercy and his truth.
My soul is among lions: and I lie even among
them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are
spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens;
let thy glory be above all the earth.
They have prepared a net for my steps; my
soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the
midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed:
I will sing and give praise.
Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and
harp: I myself will awake early.
I will praise thee, O Lord, among the
people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.
For thy mercy is great unto the heavens,
and thy truth unto the clouds.
Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens:
let thy glory be above all the earth.
Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and
unto thee shall the vow be performed.
O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall
all flesh come.
Iniquities prevail against me: as for our
transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.
Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and
causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we
shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy
temple.
By terrible things in righteousness wilt
thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of
all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the
sea:
Which by his strength setteth fast the
mountains; being girded with power:
Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the
noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
They also that dwell in the uttermost parts
are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning
and evening to rejoice.
Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it:
thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of
water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for
it.
Thou waterest the ridges thereof
abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft
with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
Thou crownest the year with thy goodness;
and thy paths drop fatness.
They drop upon the pastures of the
wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.
The pastures are clothed with flocks; the
valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they
also sing.
Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered:
let them also that hate him flee before him.
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away:
as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the
presence of God.
But let the righteous be glad; let them
rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
Sing unto God, sing praises to his name:
extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice
before him.
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of
the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
God setteth the solitary in families: he
bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious
dwell in a dry land.
O God, when thou wentest forth before thy
people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at
the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of
God, the God of Israel.
Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain,
whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was
weary.
Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou,
O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.
The Lord gave the word: great was the
company of those that published it.
Kings of armies did flee apace: and she
that tarried at home divided the spoil.
Though ye have lien among the pots, yet
shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her
feathers with yellow gold.
When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it
was white as snow in Salmon.
The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan;
an high hill as the hill of Bashan.
Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the
hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it
for ever.
The chariots of God are twenty thousand,
even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in
the holy place.
Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led
captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the
rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us
with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
He that is our God is the God of salvation;
and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
But God shall wound the head of his
enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in
his trespasses.
The Lord said, I will bring again from
Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the
sea:
That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of
thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
They have seen thy goings, O God; even the
goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.
The singers went before, the players on
instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing
with timbrels.
Bless ye God in the congregations, even the
Lord, from the fountain of Israel.
There is little Benjamin with their ruler,
the princes of Judah and their council, the
