Psa 1:1 Happy are those who do not follow the counsel of the wicked, not halting in ways frequented by sinners, nor taking a seat in a gathering of scoffers. Psa 1:2 But the law of the LORD is their joy, they study it day and night. Psa 1:3 They are like trees planted by runlets of water, yielding fruit in due season, leaves never fading. In all that they do, they prosper. " Psa 1:4 Not so fare the wicked, not so; like chaff are they, blown by the wind. Psa 1:5 So the wicked will not stand firm in the judgment, nor sinners appear, when the righteous are gathered. Psa 1:6 For the way of the righteous is dear to the LORD, but the way of the wicked will end in ruin. Psa 2:1 Why this turmoil of nations, this futile plotting of peoples, Psa 2:2 with kings of the earth conspiring, and rulers consulting together, against the LORD and against his anointed, Psa 2:3 to snap their bonds and fling their cords away? " Psa 2:4 He whose throne is in heaven laughs, the LORD mocks them. Psa 2:5 Then he speaks to them in his wrath, and in his hot anger confounds them. Psa 2:6 'This my king is installed by me, on Zion my holy mountain.' " Psa 2:7 I will tell of the LORD's decree. He said to me: 'You are my son, this day I became your father. Psa 2:8 Only ask, and I make you the heir of the nations, and lord of the world to its utmost bounds. Psa 2:9 You will break them with sceptre of iron, shatter them like pottery.' " Psa 2:10 So now, you kings, be wise: be warned, you rulers of earth. Psa 2:11 Serve the LORD in awe, kiss his feet with trembling, Psa 2:12 lest, angry, he hurl you to ruin; for soon will his fury blaze. Happy all who take refuge in him." Psa 3:0 ¦ <i>A psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom. </i>" Psa 3:1 How many, LORD, are my foes! Those who rise up against me are many. Psa 3:2 Many are those who say of me, 'There is no help for him in his God.' <i>Selah </i>" Psa 3:3 But you, LORD, are shield about me, my glory, who lifts up my head. Psa 3:4 When loudly I call to the LORD, from his holy hill he gives answer. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 3:5 I laid down and slept: now I wake, for the LORD sustains me. Psa 3:6 I fear not the myriads of people who beset me on every side. " Psa 3:7 Arise, LORD: save me, my God, who strikes all my foes on the cheek, and shatters the teeth of the wicked. Psa 3:8 Victory belongs to the LORD: let your blessing descend on your people. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 4:0 ¦ <i>For the leader, with stringed instruments. A psalm of David. </i>" Psa 4:1 Answer my cry, God, my defender. Often from straits you have brought me to spacious places. So now show me your favor and hear my prayer. " Psa 4:2 How long, you proud people, will my honor be stained by the slanders you love, and the lies that you follow? <i>Selah </i>" Psa 4:3 See! The LORD has shown me his wonderful kindness: the LORD hears, when I call to him. " Psa 4:4 Sin not in your anger: but speak in your heart on your bed, and be still. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 4:5 Offer true sacrifice, trust in the LORD. " Psa 4:6 Many are longing for fortune to smile. Lift upon us the light of your face. Psa 4:7 You have put in my heart, LORD, a deeper joy than was theirs who had corn and wine in abundance. " Psa 4:8 So in peace I will lie down and sleep; for you, LORD, keep me safe." Psa 5:0 ¦ <i>For the leader: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by the flute. </i>" Psa 5:1 Hear my words, LORD: give heed to my whisper. Psa 5:2 Attend to my loud cry for help, my king and my God. Psa 5:3 When I pray to you, LORD, in the morning, hear my voice. I make ready for you in the morning, and look for a sign. " Psa 5:4 For you are no God who takes pleasure in wickedness: no one of evil can be your guest. Psa 5:5 No braggarts can stand in your presence, you hate all workers of wrong. Psa 5:6 You destroy all speakers of lies, people of blood and deceit you abhor. Psa 5:7 But I, through your kindness abundant, may enter your house, and towards the shrine of your temple may reverently bow. " Psa 5:8 Lead me, LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way level before me. Psa 5:9 For their mouth is a stranger to truth, their heart is a pit of destruction. Their throat is a wide open grave, their tongue the smooth tongue of the hypocri" Psa 5:10 Condemn them, God; let their schemes bring them down to the ground. For their numberless crimes thrust them down for playing the rebel against you. Psa 5:11 But let all who take refuge in you ring out their gladness forever. Protect those who love your name, so they may exult in you. Psa 5:12 For you give your blessing, LORD, to the godly, and the shield of your favor protects them." Psa 6:0 ¦ <i>For the leader; with instrumental music on the sheminith. A psalm of David. </i>" Psa 6:1 Rebuke me not, LORD, in your anger, punish me not in your wrath. Psa 6:2 LORD, be gracious to me in my weakness. Heal me LORD, for racked is my body; Psa 6:3 all of me utterly racked. Why do you wait so long, LORD? " Psa 6:4 Turn, LORD, rescue me; save me, because of your love. Psa 6:5 For in death none can call you to mind; in Sheol who can praise you? " Psa 6:6 I am so weary of sighing. All the night I make my bed swim, and wet my couch with my tears. Psa 6:7 My eyes swollen with grief; from weeping caused by my foes. " Psa 6:8 Begone, workers of wrong, for the LORD has heard my loud weeping, Psa 6:9 the LORD has heard my entreaty, the LORD accepts my prayer. Psa 6:10 My foes will be stricken with terror, brought to shame and dismay in a moment." Psa 7:0 ¦ <i>A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the </i>LORD about Cush, the Benjamite. Psa 7:1 LORD my God, I take refuge in you. Deliver me, save me from all who pursue me; " Psa 7:2 or like lions they will tear me to pieces, and rend me, past hope of rescue. " Psa 7:3 LORD, my God, if my life has been such if my hands have been stained with guilt, " Psa 7:4 if friends I paid back with evil, if I plundered my foes without cause, Psa 7:5 may the enemy chase and find me, trample my life to the ground, my honor leave in the dirt! <i>Selah </i>" Psa 7:6 Arise, LORD, in anger, against my foes rise in fury. Awake for my help: let justice be done. Psa 7:7 Gather the nations about you, and sit on your lofty throne, " Psa 7:8 as the LORD, the judge of the peoples. Judge me, LORD, in my innocence and according to my integrity. " Psa 7:9 Put an end to the wrong of the wicked, protect the righteous. Searcher of hearts and minds, righteous God. Psa 7:10 God is my shield: he saves the upright in heart. " Psa 7:11 God is a just judge, constant in righteous anger. Psa 7:12 He will sharpen his sword without fail, his bow is bent and ready, Psa 7:13 his deadly weapons are ready, his arrows he makes of flame. " Psa 7:14 The enemy who conceives evil; pregnant with mischief, giving birth to lies, Psa 7:15 a pit they have made and dug; but into the hole that they made they will fall. Psa 7:16 On their own heads their mischief comes back; on their own skulls their violence comes down. Psa 7:17 I will give thanks to the LORD for his justice, and sing to the name of the LORD Most High." Psa 8:0 ¦ <i>For the leader: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by a stringed instrument. </i>" Psa 8:1 LORD our God! How glorious in all the earth is your name! Your praise reaches as high as the heavens, " Psa 8:2 from the mouths of children and infants. You have built a fortress against your enemies, to silence the foe and the rebel. " Psa 8:3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set there, Psa 8:4 what are mortals, that you think of them, humans, that you visit them? " Psa 8:5 Yet you made them little less than divine, crowned them with glory and majesty, Psa 8:6 made them lord of the works of your hands, put all things under their feet Ð Psa 8:7 sheep and oxen, all of them; and the wild beasts also: " Psa 8:8 birds of the air, and fish of the sea, and all that crosses the paths of the ocean. " Psa 8:9 LORD our God! How glorious in all the earth is your name!" Psa 9:0 ¦ <i>For the leader; 'almuth labben. A psalm of David. </i>" Psa 9:1 With all my heart I will praise the LORD, all your wonders I will rehearse. Psa 9:2 I will rejoice and exult in you, singing praise to your name, Most High; Psa 9:3 because backward my foes were turned, they stumbled and perished before you. " Psa 9:4 My right and my claim you have upheld, you did sit on the throne as a fair judge, Psa 9:5 rebuking the nations, destroying the wicked, and blotting their name out forever and ever. Psa 9:6 The foe is vanished, ruined forever, their cities destroyed, their memory perished. " Psa 9:7 See! The LORD is seated forever on the throne he established for judgment, Psa 9:8 ruling the world with justice, and judging the nations with equity. " Psa 9:9 So the LORD proves a haven to the oppressed, a haven in times of trouble. Psa 9:10 Well may they trust you who know your name, for those who seek you, you never abandon. " Psa 9:11 Sing praise to the LORD, whose home is in Zion, declare his deeds among the nations. Psa 9:12 As avenger of blood, he keeps them in mind, he does not forget the cry of the wretched. " Psa 9:13 Show me favor, LORD, see how my foes afflict me, lift me up from the gates of death; Psa 9:14 so I may, in your help exulting, tell forth your praise at the gates of Zion. " Psa 9:15 The nations are sunk in the pit which they made, in the net that they hid, their own foot is entangled. Psa 9:16 The LORD is revealed in the judgment he wrought, the wicked are snared in their own handiwork. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 9:17 Let the wicked depart to Sheol, all the nations that live forgetful of God. Psa 9:18 For the needy will not be always forgotten, nor the hope of the helpless be lost forever. " Psa 9:19 Arise, LORD; don't let them triumph: before your face let the nations be judged. Psa 9:20 Strike them with fear, LORD: show the nations how frail they are. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 10:1 Why do you stand, LORD, so far away, hiding yourself in times of trouble? Psa 10:2 The wicked, in their pride, are pursuing the helpless: let them be caught in the schemes they have plotted. " Psa 10:3 For the wicked boasts of their wanton greed; the robber despises the LORD, and curses him, Psa 10:4 in wicked pride, thinks: God doesn't care, God doesn't call to account. " Psa 10:5 Never a season that they do not prosper; your judgments are far above out of their sight: they scoff at their foes. " Psa 10:6 Each says in their heart, 'I will never be shaken; I will live for all time untouched by misfortune.' Psa 10:7 Their mouths are full of deceit and oppression: under their tongues lurks mischief and wrong. " Psa 10:8 Lying in secret in some village ambush, and stealthily watching, they murder the innocent. Psa 10:9 Like a lion that lurks in a secret lair they lurk intending to catch the defenceless; to seize them, to drag them away in their net. " Psa 10:10 Their victims are crushed, sink down to the ground. Under their claws the hapless fall. Psa 10:11 The wicked say in their hearts that God has forgotten, has hidden his face, will see nothing. " Psa 10:12 Arise, LORD, lift up your hand, do not forget the cry of the wretched. Psa 10:13 Why do the wicked treat God with contempt, and say in their hearts, 'God doesn't care'? " Psa 10:14 You have seen the trouble and sorrow; you mark it all, and will take it in hand. The hapless can count on you, helper of orphans. " Psa 10:15 Break the arm of the wicked and evil: search out their sin, till no more be found. Psa 10:16 The LORD is king forever and ever: the nations will vanish from his land. " Psa 10:17 LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble, inclining your ear, strengthening their hearts, Psa 10:18 rights you have won for the crushed and the orphan, so no one on earth may strike terror again." Psa 11:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. Of David. </i>" Psa 11:1 In the LORD I take refuge. How can you tell me to flee like a bird to the mountains? " Psa 11:2 'See! The wicked are bending the bow, their arrow is set on the string, to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart. Psa 11:3 In this tearing down of foundations what good can a good person do?' " Psa 11:4 The LORD in his holy temple, the LORD in heaven, enthroned. His eyes watch the world, they see everyone. Psa 11:5 The LORD examines the righteous and wicked, and the lover of violence he hates. Psa 11:6 On the wicked he rains coals of fire and brimstone, and their drink will be scorching wind. Psa 11:7 For the LORD is just, and justice he loves; so the upright will see his face." Psa 12:0 ¦ <i>For the leader; on the sheminith. A psalm of David. </i>" Psa 12:1 Help, LORD, for the good are all gone, faithful people have vanished. Psa 12:2 One lies to another, speaking empty lies, with flattering lips and false hearts they speak. " Psa 12:3 May the LORD cut off all the flattering lips, and the tongue that utters arrogance, Psa 12:4 they declare, 'Our tongue is our strength, our allies our lips: who is lord over us?' " Psa 12:5 'The poor are despoiled, and the needy are sighing; so now I will act,' the LORD declares 'And place them in the safety they long for.' " Psa 12:6 The words of the LORD are words that are pure, silver smelted, seven times refined. Psa 12:7 You will keep us, LORD, and guard us from this generation forever, Psa 12:8 in a world where the wicked prowl, and worthless people exalted." Psa 13:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. A psalm of David. </i>" Psa 13:1 How long, LORD, will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? Psa 13:2 How long must I nurse grief inside me, and in my heart a daily sorrow? How long are my foes to exult over me? " Psa 13:3 Look at me, answer me, LORD my God. Fill my eyes with your light, lest I sleep in death, " Psa 13:4 lest my enemies claim to have triumphed, lest my foes rejoice at my downfall. " Psa 13:5 But I trust in your kindness: my heart will rejoice in your help. " Psa 13:6 I will sing to the LORD who was good to me. Psa 14:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. Of David. </i>" Psa 14:1 Fools say in their heart, 'There is no God.' Vile, hateful their life is; not one does good. " Psa 14:2 From heaven the LORD looks out on humans, to see if any are wise, and care for God. " Psa 14:3 But all have turned bad, the taint is on all; not one does good, no, not one. " Psa 14:4 Have they learned their lesson, those workers of evil? Who ate up my people, eating, devouring, never calling to the LORD. " Psa 14:5 Sore afraid will they be; for God is among those who are righteous, Psa 14:6 you may mock the plans of the poor, but the LORD is their refuge. " Psa 14:7 If only help from Zion would come for Israel! When the LORD brings his people a change of fortune, how glad will be Jacob, and Israel how" Psa 15:0 ¦ <i>A psalm of David. </i>" Psa 15:1 LORD, who can be guest in your tent? Who may live on your holy mountain? " Psa 15:2 The person whose walk is blameless, whose conduct is right, whose words are true and sincere; " Psa 15:3 on whose tongue there sits no slander, who will not harm a friend, " Psa 15:4 nor cruelly insult a neighbor, who regards with contempt those rejected by God; but honors those who obey the LORD, who keeps an oath, whatever the c" Psa 15:5 whose money is lent without interest, and never takes a bribe to hurt the innocent. The person who does these things will always stand firm." Psa 16:0 ¦ <i>A michtam of David. </i>" Psa 16:1 Keep me, O God, for in you I take refuge. " Psa 16:2 I said to the LORD, 'You are my LORD, my happiness rests in you alone. Psa 16:3 Those who are holy in the land, they, they alone, are the noble ones; all my delight is in them.' " Psa 16:4 Those who choose other gods find endless sorrow. In their offerings of blood I will have no part nor take their name on my lips. Psa 16:5 The LORD is my share and my portion, my fate is in your strong hands. " Psa 16:6 The boundary lines of my life mark out delightful country, my heritage pleases me well. Psa 16:7 I praise the LORD for his counsel, which so stirs my heart in the night. Psa 16:8 I keep the LORD always in mind: with him at my hand, I can never be moved. " Psa 16:9 So my heart is glad, there is joy inside me; and in safety of body I live. Psa 16:10 For you will not give me up to Sheol nor let any who love you see the pit. Psa 16:11 You will show me the path that leads to life, to that fulness of joy which is in your presence, and the pleasures dispensed by your hand evermore." Psa 17:0 ¦ <i>A prayer of David. </i>" Psa 17:1 Listen, O LORD, to my innocence; attend to my piercing cry. Give heed to my prayer out of lips unfeigned. Psa 17:2 Let my vindication come from you, your eyes see the truth. " Psa 17:3 When you test my heart when you visit at night, and assay me like silver Ð you can find no evil. I am determined that my mouth should not lie. " Psa 17:4 I gave earnest heed to the words of your lips. Psa 17:5 My steps have held fast to the paths of your precepts and in your tracks have my feet never stumbled. " Psa 17:6 So I call you, O God, with assurance of answer; bend down your ear to me, hear what I say. Psa 17:7 Show your marvelous love, you who save from enemies those who take refuge at your right hand. " Psa 17:8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me in the shelter of your wings. Psa 17:9 From wicked people who do me violence, from deadly foes who crowd around me. " Psa 17:10 They have closed their hearts to pity, the words of their mouths are haughty. Psa 17:11 Now they dog us at every step, keenly watching, to hurl us to the ground, Psa 17:12 like a lion, longing to tear, like a young lion, lurking in secret. " Psa 17:13 Arise, LORD, face them and fell them. By your sword set me free from the wicked, Psa 17:14 by your hand, O LORD, from those Ð whose portion of life is but of this world. But let your treasured ones have food in plenty may their children be" Psa 17:15 In my innocence I will see your face, awake I am filled with a vision of you." Psa 18:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. Of David, the servant of the </i>LORD, who recited the words of this song to the LORD after the LORD had saved him from the powe Psa 18:1 I love you, O LORD, my strength. Psa 18:2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress, deliverer, my God, my rock, where I take refuge, my shield, my defender, my tower. Psa 18:3 Worthy of praise is the LORD whom I call on, he rescues me from all my foes. " Psa 18:4 The waves of death broke about me, fearful floods of chaos. Psa 18:5 Sheol threw cords around me, snares of death came to meet me. Psa 18:6 In distress I cried to the LORD, and shouted for help to my God; in his temple he heard my voice, into his ears came my cry. " Psa 18:7 Then the earth shook and quaked, mountains trembled to their foundations, and quaked because of his wrath. Psa 18:8 Smoke went up from his nostrils, devouring fire from his mouth, coals were kindled by it. " Psa 18:9 Then he bent the sky and came down, thick darkness was under his feet. Psa 18:10 He rode on a cherub and flew, darting on wings of wind, Psa 18:11 with his screen of darkness about him, in thick dark clouds of water. " Psa 18:12 At the radiance before him there passed hailstones and coals of fire. Psa 18:13 The LORD thundered from heaven, the Most High uttered his voice. Psa 18:14 He shot his arrows and scattered them, flashed lightnings, and routed them. Psa 18:15 The channels of the sea were revealed, the world was laid bare to its base, at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils. <b" Psa 18:16 He stretched from on high, he seized me, drew me up from the mighty waters, Psa 18:17 and saved me from those who hated me Ð fierce foes, too mighty for me. Psa 18:18 In my day of distress they assailed me, but the LORD proved my support. Psa 18:19 To a spacious place he brought me, and, for love of me, he saved me. " Psa 18:20 The LORD repays my innocence, he rewards my cleanness of hands. Psa 18:21 For I kept the ways of the LORD, nor have wickedly strayed from my God. Psa 18:22 His commandments were all before me, his statutes I put not away. Psa 18:23 And I was blameless before him, guarding myself from sin. Psa 18:24 So the LORD repaid my innocence, my cleanness of hands in his sight. " Psa 18:25 With the loyal you are loyal, and with the blameless blameless. Psa 18:26 With the pure you show yourself pure, but shrewd with the devious. Psa 18:27 For the lowly people you save, but haughty eyes you abase. Psa 18:28 You are my lamp, LORD, my God who enlightens my darkness. Psa 18:29 With you I can storm a rampart, with my God I can leap a wall. Psa 18:30 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is pure. He is shield to all who take refuge in him. " Psa 18:31 For who is God but the LORD? And who is a rock but our God? Psa 18:32 The God who arms me with strength, who cleared and smoothed my way. Psa 18:33 He made my feet like hinds' feet, and set me up on the heights. Psa 18:34 He taught my hands how to fight, and my arms how to bend a bronze bow. " Psa 18:35 The shield of your help you gave me, your right hand supports me, you stoop down to make me great. Psa 18:36 In your strength I took giant strides, and my feet never slipped. Psa 18:37 So I chased the foe till I caught them, and turned not, till I made an end of them. Psa 18:38 I smashed them, they could not rise, they fell beneath my feet. " Psa 18:39 You did arm me with strength for war, you did bow my assailants beneath me. Psa 18:40 You made my foes turn their back to me, and those who did hate me I finished. Psa 18:41 They cried for help, but none saved them; to the LORD, but he answered them not. Psa 18:42 I beat them like dust of the market-place, stamped them like mud of the streets. " Psa 18:43 From the strife of the peoples you saved me, you made me head of the nations, peoples I knew not did serve me. Psa 18:44 On the instant they hear, they obey me, foreigners come to me cringing. Psa 18:45 Foreigners lose courage, and come out of their strongholds trembling. " Psa 18:46 The LORD is alive! Blest be my rock! Exalted be God, my protector! Psa 18:47 The God who gave me revenge, and brought down nations beneath me, Psa 18:48 who saved me from angry foes, and set me above my assailants, safe from the violent. " Psa 18:49 For this I will praise you among the nations, making music, O LORD, to your name: Psa 18:50 for great triumphs he grants to his king, and faithful love he shows his anointed, to David and his seed evermore." Psa 19:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. A psalm of David. </i>" Psa 19:1 The heavens declare God's glory, the sky tells what his hands have done. Psa 19:2 Day tells it to day, night reveals it to night, Psa 19:3 without speaking, without words; without the sound of voices. Psa 19:4 But through all the world their voice carries their words to the ends of the earth. He has pitched a tent for the sun in the sky, " Psa 19:5 it comes out like a bridegroom from his bridal chamber, it joyfully runs its course like a hero. " Psa 19:6 From one end of the heavens it rises, and around it runs to the other, and nothing hides from its heat. Psa 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, renewing life. The decrees of the LORD are trusty, making the simple wise. " Psa 19:8 The behests of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart. The command of the LORD is pure, giving light to the eyes. " Psa 19:9 The fear of the LORD is clean, it endures forever. The LORD's judgments are true and right altogether. " Psa 19:10 More precious are they than gold Ð than fine gold in plenty, and sweeter they are than honey, that drops from the comb. " Psa 19:11 By them is your servant warned; who keeps them has rich reward. Psa 19:12 Who can know their flaws? Absolve me from those I know not. " Psa 19:13 Keep your servant from wilful sins Ð from falling under their sway: then blameless and clear will I be from great offense. " Psa 19:14 May the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be pleasing to you, LORD, my rock and redeemer." Psa 20:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. A psalm of David. </i>" Psa 20:1 The LORD answer you in the day of distress, the name of the Jacob's God protect you, Psa 20:2 sending you help from the temple, out of Zion supporting you. " Psa 20:3 All your meal-offerings may he remember, your burnt-offerings look on with favor. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 20:4 May he grant you your heart's desire, and bring all your plans to pass. Psa 20:5 We will shout then for joy at your victory, and rejoice in the name of our God. May the LORD grant your every request. " Psa 20:6 Now I am sure that the LORD will help his anointed. From his temple in heaven he will answer by his mighty triumphant right hand. Psa 20:7 Some in chariots are strong, some in horses; but our strength is the LORD our God. Psa 20:8 They will totter and fall, while we rise and stand firm. " Psa 20:9 Give victory, LORD, to the king, and answer us when we call." Psa 21:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. A psalm of David. </i>" Psa 21:1 The king rejoices, LORD, in your might, how he exults because of your help! Psa 21:2 You have granted to him his heart's desire, you have not withheld his lips' request. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 21:3 You came to meet him with rich blessings, you set on his head a golden crown. Psa 21:4 He asked you for life, you gave it Ð many long days, forever and ever. " Psa 21:5 Great is his glory because of your help, honor and majesty you lay upon him. Psa 21:6 For you make him most blessed forever, you make him glad with the joy of your presence. " Psa 21:7 For the king puts always his trust in the LORD; the Most High, in his love, will preserve him unshaken. Psa 21:8 Your hand will reach all your foes, your right hand, all who hate you. Psa 21:9 You will make them like a furnace of fire, when you appear, LORD. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire will devour them. <br" Psa 21:10 You will sweep their offspring from the earth, their children from humanity. Psa 21:11 When they scheme against you and hatch evil plots Ð they will fail. Psa 21:12 For you aim your bow at their faces, make them turn in flight. " Psa 21:13 Be exalted, LORD, in your strength, to your might we shall sing and make music." Psa 22:0 ¦ <i>For the leader; set to'Deer of the Dawn'. A psalm of David. </i>" Psa 22:1 My God, my God, why have you left me, my rescue so far from the words of my roaring? Psa 22:2 I cry in the day, you do not answer, I cry in the night but find no rest. " Psa 22:3 You are the Holy One, throned on the praises of Israel. Psa 22:4 In you our ancestors trusted, they trusted and you delivered them. Psa 22:5 They cried to you, and found safety, in you did they trust and were not put to shame. " Psa 22:6 But I am a worm, not a person; insulted by others, despised by the people. Psa 22:7 All who see me mock me, with mouths wide open and wagging heads: Psa 22:8 'He relies on the LORD; let him save him. Let him rescue the one he holds dear!' " Psa 22:9 But you drew me from the womb, laid me safely on my mother's breasts. Psa 22:10 On your care was I cast from my very birth, you are my God from my mother's womb. Psa 22:11 Be not far from me, for trouble is nigh, and there is none to help. " Psa 22:12 I am circled by many bulls, beset by the mighty of Bashan, Psa 22:13 who face me with gaping jaws, like ravening roaring lions. Psa 22:14 Poured out am I like water, and all my bones are loosened. My heart is become like wax, melted within me. " Psa 22:15 My palate is dry as a sherd, my tongue sticks to my jaws; in the dust of death you lay me. Psa 22:16 For dogs are round about me, a band of knaves encircles me, gnawing my hands and my feet. Psa 22:17 I can count my bones, every one. As for them, they feast their eyes on me. Psa 22:18 They divide my garments among them, and over my raiment cast lots. " Psa 22:19 But you, O LORD, be not far, O my strength, hasten to help me. Psa 22:20 Deliver my life from the sword my life from the power of the dogs. Psa 22:21 Save me from the jaws of the lion, from the horns of the wild oxen help me. " Psa 22:22 I will tell of your fame to my kindred, and in the assembly will praise you. Psa 22:23 Praise the LORD, you who fear him. All Jacob's seed, give him glory. All Israel's seed, stand in awe of him. " Psa 22:24 For he has not despised nor abhorred the sorrow of the sorrowful. He hid not his face from me, but he listened to my cry for help. " Psa 22:25 Of you is my praise in the great congregation; my vows I will pay before those who fear him. Psa 22:26 The afflicted will eat to their heart's desire, and those who seek after the LORD will praise him. Lift up your hearts forever. Psa 22:27 All will call it to mind, to the ends of the earth, and turn to the LORD; and all tribes of the nations will bow down before you. Psa 22:28 For the kingdom belongs to the LORD: he is the LORD of the nations. Psa 22:29 To him will bow down all who sleep in the earth, and before him bend all who go down to the dust, and those who could not preserve their lives. Psa 22:30 My descendants will tell of the LORD to the next generation; Psa 22:31 they will declare his righteousness to people yet to be born: He has done it." Psa 23:0 ¦ <i>A psalm of David. </i>" Psa 23:1 The LORD is my shepherd: I am never in need. " Psa 23:2 He lays me down in green pastures. He gently leads me to waters of rest, " Psa 23:3 he refreshes my life. He guides me along paths that are straight, true to his name. " Psa 23:4 And when my way lies through a valley of gloom, I fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff comfort me. " Psa 23:5 You spread a table for me in face of my foes; with oil you anoint my head, and my cup runs over. Psa 23:6 Surely goodness and love will pursue me Ð all the days of my life. In the house of the LORD I will live through the length of the days." Psa 24:0 ¦ <i>Of David. A psalm. </i>" Psa 24:1 The earth is the LORD's and all that it holds, the world and those who live in it. Psa 24:2 For he founded it on the seas, and on the floods he sustains it. " Psa 24:3 Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in his holy place? Psa 24:4 The clean of hands, the pure of heart, who sets not their heart upon sinful things, nor swears with intent to deceive: Psa 24:5 they win from the LORD a blessing: God is their champion and savior. Psa 24:6 Such must be those who resort to him, and seek the face of the God of Jacob. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 24:7 Lift high your heads, you gates Ð Higher, you ancient doors; welcome the glorious king. Psa 24:8 'Who is the glorious king?' 'The LORD strong and heroic, the LORD heroic in battle.' " Psa 24:9 Lift high your heads, you gates Ð Higher, you ancient doors; welcome the glorious king. Psa 24:10 'Who is the glorious king?' 'The LORD, the God of hosts, he is the glorious king.' <i>Selah </i>" Psa 25:0 ¦ <i>A psalm of David. </i>" Psa 25:1 To you, O LORD, I lift up my heart: all the day I wait for you. Psa 25:2 In you I trust, put me not to shame; let not my foes exult over me. Psa 25:3 None will be shamed who wait for you, but shame will fall upon wanton traitors. Psa 25:4 Make me, O LORD, to know your ways: teach me your paths. Psa 25:5 In your faithfulness guide me and teach me, for you are my God and my savior. Psa 25:6 Remember your pity, O LORD, and your kindness, for they have been ever of old. Psa 25:7 Do not remember the sins of my youth; remember me in kindness, because of your goodness, LORD. Psa 25:8 Good is the LORD and upright, so he teaches sinners the way. Psa 25:9 The humble he guides in the right, he teaches the humble his way. Psa 25:10 All his ways are loving and loyal to those who observe his charges and covenant. Psa 25:11 Be true to your name LORD, forgive my many sins. Psa 25:12 Who then is the person who fears the LORD? He will teach them the way to choose. Psa 25:13 They will live in prosperity, their children will inherit the land. Psa 25:14 The LORD gives guidance to those who fear him, and with his covenant he makes them acquainted. Psa 25:15 My eyes are ever toward the LORD, for out of the net he brings my foot. Psa 25:16 Turn to me with your favor, for I am lonely and crushed Psa 25:17 In my heart are strain and storm; bring me out of my distresses. Psa 25:18 Look on my misery and trouble, and pardon all my sins, Psa 25:19 look on my foes oh, so many! And their cruel hatred towards me. Psa 25:20 Deliver me, keep me, and shame not one who takes refuge in you. Psa 25:21 May integrity and innocence preserve me, for I wait for you, O LORD. " Psa 25:22 Redeem Israel, O God, from all its distresses." Psa 26:0 ¦ <i>A psalm of David. </i>" Psa 26:1 Defend me, O LORD, for my walk has been blameless; in the LORD have I trusted unswervingly: Psa 26:2 Examine me, LORD, and test me; test my heart and my mind. Psa 26:3 For your love is before my eyes, and your faithfulness governs my way. " Psa 26:4 I never sat down with the worthless, nor companied with dissemblers. Psa 26:5 I hate the assembly of knaves, I would never sit down with the wicked; Psa 26:6 but, with hands washed in innocence, I would march round your altar, O LORD, Psa 26:7 singing loud songs of thanks, and telling of all your wonders. Psa 26:8 O LORD, I love your house, the place where your glory lives. " Psa 26:9 Do not gather me up with sinners; slay me not with people of blood, Psa 26:10 whose hands are stained with villainy, and whose right hand is filled with bribes. Psa 26:11 But my walk is blameless! O redeem me, be gracious to me. Psa 26:12 My foot stands on even ground, in the choirs I will bless the LORD." Psa 27:0 ¦ <i>A psalm of David. </i>" Psa 27:1 The LORD is my light and my savior; whom then should I fear? The LORD protects my life; whom then should I dread? " Psa 27:2 When the wicked drew near to assail me and eat up my flesh, it was those who distressed and opposed me who stumbled and fell. " Psa 27:3 Though against me a host should encamp, yet my heart would be fearless: though battle should rise up against me, still would I be trustful. " Psa 27:4 One thing have I asked of the LORD, and that do I long for Ð To live in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the g" Psa 27:5 For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of misfortune. In his sheltering tent he hides me: he lifts me up on a rock. " Psa 27:6 And now that my head he has lifted above my encircling foes, I will march round the altar and sacrifice, shouting with joy, in his tent, making music a" Psa 27:7 Hear, O LORD, my loud cry, and graciously answer me. Psa 27:8 My heart has said to you, 'Your face, O LORD, I seek.' " Psa 27:9 Hide not your face from me, reject not your servant in anger: for you have been my help. Abandon me not, nor forsake me, O God of my help: Psa 27:10 for father and mother have left me; but the LORD will take me up. " Psa 27:11 Teach me your way, O LORD: lead me in an even path, because of my enemies. Psa 27:12 Give me not up, O LORD, unto the rage of my foes; for against me have risen false witnesses, breathing out cruelty. " Psa 27:13 Firm is the faith I cherish, that I, in the land of the living, will yet see the goodness of God. Psa 27:14 Let your heart be courageous and strong, and wait on the LORD." Psa 28:0 ¦ <i>Of David. </i>" Psa 28:1 Unto you, O LORD, do I cry; my rock, be not deaf to me: lest, through holding your peace, I become like those who go down to the pit. Psa 28:2 Hear my loud entreaty, as I cry for help to you, lifting my hands, O LORD, towards your holy chancel. " Psa 28:3 Take me not off with the wicked, nor with the workers of wrong, whose speech to their neighbors is friendly, while evil is in their heart. Psa 28:4 Give them as they have done, as their wicked deeds deserve. As their hands have wrought, so give to them: requite to them their deserts. Psa 28:5 They are blind to all that the LORD does, to all that his hands have wrought; and so he will tear them down, to build them up no more. " Psa 28:6 Blest be the LORD, who has heard my voice as I plead for mercy. Psa 28:7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him. I was helped: so my heart is exultant, and in my song I will praise him. " Psa 28:8 The LORD is the strength of his people, the fortress who saves his anointed. Psa 28:9 O save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd and carry them forever." Psa 29:0 ¦ <i>A psalm of David. </i>" Psa 29:1 Ascribe to the LORD, you heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and power Psa 29:2 Ascribe to the LORD the glory he manifests: bow to the LORD in holy array. " Psa 29:3 The LORD's voice peals on the waters. The God of glory has thundered. He peals o'er the mighty waters. Psa 29:4 The LORD's voice sounds with strength, the LORD's voice sounds with majesty. " Psa 29:5 The LORD's voice breaks the cedars, he breaks the cedars of Lebanon, Psa 29:6 making Lebanon dance like a calf, Sirion like a young wild ox. " Psa 29:7 The LORD's voice hews out flames of fire. Psa 29:8 The LORD's voice rends the desert, he rends the desert of Kadesh. " Psa 29:9 The LORD's voice whirls the oaks, and strips the forests bare; and all in his temple say 'Glory.' " Psa 29:10 The LORD was king at the flood, the LORD sits throned forever. Psa 29:11 The LORD gives strength to his people, he blesses his people with peace." Psa 30:0 ¦ <i>A psalm of David. A song for the dedication of the Temple. </i>" Psa 30:1 I will extol you, O LORD, because you have lifted me up, and not suffered my foes to rejoice over me. " Psa 30:2 I cried to you for help, O LORD my God, and you healed me. Psa 30:3 You have brought me up, LORD, from Sheol, from my way to the pit back to life you have called me. " Psa 30:4 Sing praise to the LORD, faithful people; give thanks to his holy name. Psa 30:5 For his anger lasts only a moment, his favor endures for a lifetime. Weeping may lodge for the night, but the morning brings shouts of joy. " Psa 30:6 When all went well, I imagined that never should I be shaken. Psa 30:7 For by your favor, O LORD, you had set me on mountains strong: but you hide your face, and I was confounded. " Psa 30:8 Then to you, LORD, I cried, to the LORD I begged for mercy, Psa 30:9 'What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit? Can you be praised by dust? Can it tell of your faithfulness? Psa 30:10 Hear, LORD, and show me your favor, LORD be a helper to me.' " Psa 30:11 You have turned my mourning to dancing; my sackcloth you have unloosed, and clothed me with joy: Psa 30:12 that unceasingly I should sing your praise, and give thanks to you, LORD my God, forever." Psa 31:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. A psalm of David. </i>" Psa 31:1 In you, O LORD, I take refuge; let me never be put to shame. Rescue me in your faithfulness; " Psa 31:2 incline to me your ear. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a rock of defence, a fortified house, to save me. " Psa 31:3 For my rock and my fortress are you; lead me and guide me so your name will be honored. " Psa 31:4 Draw me out of the net they have hid for me, for you yourself are my refuge. " Psa 31:5 Into your hand I commend my spirit: you ransom me, LORD, faithful God. Psa 31:6 I hate those devoted to worthless idols; I trust in the LORD. Psa 31:7 I will rejoice and be glad in your love, because you have looked on my misery, and cared for me in my distress. Psa 31:8 You have not given me into the enemy's hand, you have set my feet in a spacious place. " Psa 31:9 Be gracious to me, LORD, for I am distressed; my eye is wasted away with sorrow. Psa 31:10 For my life is consumed with grief, and my years with sighing. My strength is broken with misery, my bones waste away. Psa 31:11 The scorn of all my foes, the butt of my neighbors am I, a terror to my acquaintance. At the sight of me in the street people turn quickly away. " Psa 31:12 I am clean forgotten like the dead, am become like a ruined vessel. Psa 31:13 I hear the whispers of many Ð terror on every side Ð scheming together against me, plotting to take my life. " Psa 31:14 But my trust is in you, LORD. 'You are my God,' I say; Psa 31:15 my times are in your hand, save me from the hand of the foes who pursue me. Psa 31:16 Make your face to shine on your servant, save me in your love. Psa 31:17 Put me not, O LORD, to shame, for I have called upon you. Let the wicked be put to shame silent in Sheol. Psa 31:18 Strike the false lips dumb, that speak proudly against the righteous with haughtiness and contempt. " Psa 31:19 How great is the goodness you have treasured for those who fear you, and wrought for those who take refuge in you, in plain sight of all! Psa 31:20 In your sheltering wings you hide them from plottings of people, you keep them safe in a bower from the chiding of tongues. " Psa 31:21 Blest be the LORD for the wonderful love he has shown me in time of distress. Psa 31:22 For I had said in panic, 'I am driven clean out of your sight.' But you heard my plea, when I cried to you for help. " Psa 31:23 Love the LORD, all you faithful; the LORD protects the loyal, but repays the haughty in full. Psa 31:24 Let your hearts be courageous and strong, all you who wait on the LORD." Psa 32:0 ¦ <i>Of David. A maskil. </i>" Psa 32:1 Happy those whose transgression is pardoned, whose sin is covered. Psa 32:2 Happy are those, free from falseness of spirit, to whom the LORD reckons no debt of guilt. " Psa 32:3 When I held my peace, my bones wore away with my endless groaning; Psa 32:4 for day and night did your hand lie heavy upon me. The sap of my life was dried up as with fierce summer-heat. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 32:5 I began to acknowledge my sin, not concealing my guilt; and the moment I vowed to confess to the LORD my transgression, then you yourself did p" Psa 32:6 For this cause let all who are faithful pray to you in the time of distress; then, when the great waters rush, they will not reach to him. Psa 32:7 For you are my shelter, you protect me from trouble, and surround me with deliverance. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 32:8 'With my eye steadfastly upon you, I will instruct and teach you The way you should go. Psa 32:9 Do not be like the horse or the mule, that have no understanding, but need bridle and halter to curb them, else they will not come near to you.' " Psa 32:10 The godless have many sorrows, but those who trust in the LORD will be compassed about by his kindness. Psa 32:11 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous; and ring out your joy, all you upright in heart. Psa 33:1 Shout for joy in the LORD, you righteous: praise for the upright is seemly. Psa 33:2 Give thanks to the LORD on the lyre, play to him on a ten-stringed harp. Psa 33:3 Sing to him a new song, play skilfully and shout merrily. Psa 33:4 For the LORD is straight in his promise; and all that he does is in faithfulness. Psa 33:5 Justice and right he loves; the earth is full of his kindness. " Psa 33:6 By his word the heavens were made, all their host by the breath of his mouth. Psa 33:7 He gathers the sea in a bottle, the ocean he puts into store-houses. Psa 33:8 Let the whole world honor the LORD, let all who live on earth be in awe. Psa 33:9 For at his word it came into being, at his command it stood forth. " Psa 33:10 The LORD frustrates the designs of the nations, what the peoples have purposed, he brings to nought, Psa 33:11 but the LORD's own design will stand forever, and what his heart has purposed, through all generations. Psa 33:12 Happy the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he chose for himself as his own. " Psa 33:13 The LORD looks down from heaven, he sees all of humanity; Psa 33:14 from where he rules he gazes on all who inhabit the earth. Psa 33:15 He fashions the hearts of them all, and gives heed to all that they do. " Psa 33:16 It is not by great armies that kings are victorious, it is not by great strength that a warrior saves himself; Psa 33:17 false hope is the war-horse to usher in victory, for all its great might it can provide no escape. " Psa 33:18 See! The eye of the LORD is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his kindness; Psa 33:19 to deliver their life from death, and to keep them alive in famine. " Psa 33:20 We wait for the LORD: he is our help and our shield. Psa 33:21 For in him our heart is glad, we trust in his holy name. " Psa 33:22 Let your kindness, O LORD, be upon us, as is our hope in you." Psa 34:0 ¦ <i>Of David, when he feigned madness in the presence of Abimelech, who drove him away, and he left. </i>" Psa 34:1 I will bless the LORD at all times, in my mouth will his praise be forever. Psa 34:2 In the LORD will my heart make her boast, the humble will hear and be glad. Psa 34:3 O magnify the LORD with me and let us extol his name together. Psa 34:4 I sought the LORD, and, in answer, he saved me from all my terrors. Psa 34:5 Look to him and you will be radiant, with faces unashamed. Psa 34:6 Here is one who was crushed, but cried and was heard by the LORD, and brought safe out of every trouble. Psa 34:7 The LORD's angel encamps about those who fear him, and rescues them. Psa 34:8 O taste and see that the LORD is good, happy those who take refuge in him. Psa 34:9 Fear the LORD, all his people, for they who fear him lack nothing. Psa 34:10 Even young lions may be poor and hungry, but those who seek the LORD will not lack any good thing. " Psa 34:11 Come, children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of the LORD. Psa 34:12 Which of you is desirous of life, loves many and happy days? Psa 34:13 Then guard your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit. Psa 34:14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. Psa 34:15 The eyes of the LORD are towards the righteous, his ears are towards their cry for help. Psa 34:16 The LORD sets his face against those who do evil, to root their memory out of the earth. Psa 34:17 When righteous cry, they are heard by the LORD, and he saves them from all their distresses. Psa 34:18 The LORD is near to the broken-hearted, he helps those whose spirit is crushed. Psa 34:19 Many misfortunes befall the righteous, but the LORD delivers them out of them all. Psa 34:20 He guards all their bones, none are broken. Psa 34:21 Misfortune will slay the ungodly; those who hate the righteous are doomed. Psa 34:22 The LORD ransoms the life of his servants, and none will be doomed who takes refuge in him." Psa 35:0 ¦ <i>Of David. </i>" Psa 35:1 Contend, LORD, with those who contend with me, do battle with those who do battle with me. Psa 35:2 Grasp shield and buckler, and rise up as my help. Psa 35:3 Draw spear and battle-axe, confront those who pursue me. Assure me that you will help me. Psa 35:4 Dishonor and shame be on those who are seeking my life! Defeat and confusion on those who are planning my hurt! Psa 35:5 As chaff before wind may they be, with the LORD's angel pursuing them. Psa 35:6 Slippery and dark be their way, with his angel thrusting them on. Psa 35:7 For they wantonly hid their net for me, and dug a pit to destroy me. " Psa 35:8 Upon them may ruin come unawares; may the net which they hid catch themselves, and into the pit may they fall. Psa 35:9 Then I will exult in the LORD, and be joyful because of his help; Psa 35:10 and all my being will say, 'Who, O LORD, is like you, who save the helpless from those too strong for them, the poor and the helpless from those wh" Psa 35:11 Violent witnesses rise, and ask of me things that I know not. Psa 35:12 Evil for good they requite me, leaving me inwardly comfortless. " Psa 35:13 But when <i>they </i> were sick, <i>I </i> put on sackcloth, and chastened myself with fasting. I prayed with head bowed low, " Psa 35:14 as if for my friend or my brother. I went about bowed and in mourning, as one who laments his mother. " Psa 35:15 When I stumbled, they gleefully gathered, strangers gathered around me, and tore at me without ceasing, Psa 35:16 impiously mocking and mocking, bearing their teeth at me. " Psa 35:17 How long, LORD, will you look on? Rescue me from their roaring, my precious life from the lions. Psa 35:18 I will then give you thanks in the great congregation, and praise you before many people. Psa 35:19 Suffer not those to rejoice over me who are falsely my foes, suffer not those who without cause abhor me to wink with the eye. " Psa 35:20 For it is not peace that they speak of those who are quiet in the land; but treacherous charges they plot. " Psa 35:21 With wide open mouths they shout, 'Hurrah! Hurrah! With our own eyes we saw it.' " Psa 35:22 But you have seen, too, O LORD, keep not silence, O LORD, be not far from me. Psa 35:23 Bestir you, awake, for my right my God, my LORD, for my cause. " Psa 35:24 You are just, LORD: win for me justice, let them not rejoice over me, Psa 35:25 inwardly saying, 'Hurrah! The desire of our hearts at last! Now we have swallowed him up.' Psa 35:26 Shame and confusion together on those who rejoice at my hurt! Clothed with shame and dishonor be those who are haughty to me! " Psa 35:27 Let such as delight in my cause ring out their gladness, and say evermore, 'Great is the LORD whose delight is the well-being of his servant.'" Psa 35:28 Then my tongue will tell of your justice, and all the day long of your praise." Psa 36:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. Of the servant of the </i>LORD, of David. Psa 36:1 Sin whispers within the heart of the wicked, who have no dread of God before their eyes. Psa 36:2 It flatters them in their eyes that their sin will not be found out. " Psa 36:3 First, their speech becomes wicked and false, they give up acting wisely and well. Psa 36:4 Then they plot deliberate wrong, take their stand on the wicked way, without the least shrinking from evil. " Psa 36:5 Your love, O LORD, touches the heavens, your faithfulness reaches the clouds. Psa 36:6 Your justice is like the great mountains, your judgments are like the broad sea. LORD, you save people and animals. Psa 36:7 How precious your love, O God! All may seek shelter in the shadow of your wings. Psa 36:8 They feast on the fat of your house, they drink of your brook of delights. Psa 36:9 For with you is the fountain of life, in the light that is yours we see light. " Psa 36:10 O continue your grace to the faithful, your love to the upright in heart. Psa 36:11 Let no arrogant foot tread upon me, no wicked hand drive me to exile. " Psa 36:12 There the workers of wrong lie prostrate, thrust down to rise up no more." Psa 37:0 ¦ <i>Of David. </i>" Psa 37:1 Be not kindled to wrath at the wicked, nor envious of those who work wrong; Psa 37:2 for, like grass, they will speedily wither, and fade like the green of young grass. " Psa 37:3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; remain in the land, and deal faithfully: Psa 37:4 then the LORD will be your delight, he will grant you your heart's petitions. " Psa 37:5 Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act, Psa 37:6 making clear as the light your right, and your just cause clear as the noon-day. " Psa 37:7 In silence and patience wait on the LORD. Be not kindled to anger at those who prosper. At those who execute evil devices. " Psa 37:8 Desist from anger, abandon wrath: be not kindled to anger it leads but to evil: Psa 37:9 for evildoers will be cut off, but the land will be theirs, who wait on the LORD. " Psa 37:10 Yet but a little, and the wicked vanish: look at their place: they are there no more. Psa 37:11 But the humble will have the land, and the rapture of peace in abundance. " Psa 37:12 The wicked plots against the righteous, snarls like a wild animal; Psa 37:13 the LORD laughs, for he sees that his day is coming. " Psa 37:14 The wicked have drawn the sword, and bent the bow, to fell the poor, to slay those who walk uprightly; Psa 37:15 but their sword will pierce their own heart, and their bows will be broken in pieces. " Psa 37:16 Better is the righteous person's little than the wealth of many wicked. Psa 37:17 For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous. " Psa 37:18 The LORD watches over the days of the blameless, their heritage will continue forever. Psa 37:19 They will not be shamed in the evil time, in the days of famine they will be satisfied. " Psa 37:20 Because the wicked will perish: but the foes of the LORD, like a brand in the oven, will vanish, like smoke they will vanish. " Psa 37:21 The wicked must borrow and cannot pay back, but the righteous is lavish and gives. Psa 37:22 For those blest by the LORD inherit the land, while those whom he curses will be cut off. " Psa 37:23 The LORD supports the steps of those with whom he is pleased. Psa 37:24 Though they fall, they will not be cast headlong, for the LORD holds their hands. " Psa 37:25 Never, from youth to age, have I seen the righteous forsaken, or their children begging bread. Psa 37:26 They are ever lavishly lending, and their children are fountains of blessing. " Psa 37:27 Turn away from evil and do good and you will live in the land forever. Psa 37:28 For the LORD loves justice, he does not forsake his friends. The unrighteous will be destroyed forever, and the seed of the wicked will be cut" Psa 37:29 But the land will belong to the righteous, they will live upon it forever, " Psa 37:30 The mouth of the righteous murmurs wisdom, and words of justice are on their tongues. Psa 37:31 The law of their God is in their heart, their steps are never unsteady. " Psa 37:32 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to put them to death. Psa 37:33 But the LORD leaves them not in their hand: at their trial they will not be held guilty. " Psa 37:34 Wait on the LORD, and observe his way: he will lift you to honor the land will be yours, you will feast your eyes on the doom of the wicked. " Psa 37:35 I have seen the wicked exultant, lifting themselves like a cedar of Lebanon. Psa 37:36 But the moment I passed, they vanished! I sought for them, but they could not be found. " Psa 37:37 Preserve your honor and practise uprightness, for such a person fares well in the end. Psa 37:38 But transgressors will perish together. Cut off are the wicked forever. " Psa 37:39 The righteous are saved by the LORD, who in time of distress is their refuge: Psa 37:40 the LORD helps and rescue them, from the wicked he rescues and saves them, because they take refuge in him." Psa 38:0 ¦ <i>A Psalm of David. A lament. </i>" Psa 38:1 Reprove me not, LORD, in your anger, and chasten me not in your wrath; Psa 38:2 for your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand lies heavy upon me. " Psa 38:3 In my flesh is no soundness because of your anger, no health in my bones, because of my sin. Psa 38:4 For that my guilt is gone over my head: it weighs like a burden too heavy for me. " Psa 38:5 My wounds stink and fester, for my foolishness I am tormented. Psa 38:6 Bent and bowed am I utterly, all the day going in mourning. " Psa 38:7 My loins are filled with burning, and in my flesh is no soundness. Psa 38:8 I am utterly crushed and numb; I cry louder than lion roars. " Psa 38:9 LORD, you know all that I long for, my groans are not hidden from you. Psa 38:10 My heart is throbbing, my strength has failed me. The light of my eyes Ð even it is gone from me. " Psa 38:11 My dear ones and friends keep aloof, and my neighbors stand afar off. Psa 38:12 They who aim at my life lay their snares, they who seek my hurt speak of ruin, nursing treachery all the day long. " Psa 38:13 But I turn a deaf ear and hear not; like the dumb I open not my mouth. Psa 38:14 I am like one without hearing, with no arguments in my mouth. " Psa 38:15 For my hope, O LORD, is in you. You will answer, O LORD my God, Psa 38:16 when I utter the hope that those who made scorn of my tottering feet may not rejoice over me. " Psa 38:17 For I am ready to fall, my pain forsakes me never. Psa 38:18 I acknowledge my guilt, I am anxious because of my sin: " Psa 38:19 My wanton assailants are strong, those who wrongfully hate me are many, Psa 38:20 who render me evil for good, and oppose me, because I make good my goal. " Psa 38:21 Do not forsake me, O LORD; my God, be not far from me. Psa 38:22 Hasten to help me, O LORD my savior." Psa 39:0 ¦ <i>For the leader; for Jeduthun. A psalm of David. </i>" Psa 39:1 I vowed to watch my words, and sin not with my tongue, but to put on my mouth a muzzle, while the wicked were in my presence. Psa 39:2 I was silent and dumb, speechless: but my pain was stirred up. Psa 39:3 My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire was kindled, till at last the words came to my tongue. " Psa 39:4 'Teach me, O LORD, my end, and the sum of my days what it is. Let me know how transient I am. Psa 39:5 See! My days you have made but a span, and my life is as nothing before you. It is but as a breath that everyone stands: <i>Selah </i> " Psa 39:6 it is but in mere semblance we walk to and fro, and all our noise is for nothing. We heap up, and know not who will gather.' " Psa 39:7 And now, what wait I for, LORD? My hope is in you. Psa 39:8 From all my transgressions deliver me; make me not the scorn of the fool. Psa 39:9 I am dumb, never opening my mouth, for this is your own doing. Psa 39:10 Remove your stroke from off me: by the might of your hand I am spent. Psa 39:11 When you rebuke someone to punish their sins, you consume, like a moth, what they treasures. Everyone is only a breath. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD; attend to my cry for help. Hold not your peace at my tears. For I am but a guest of yours, a stranger visiting, like" Psa 39:13 Look away from me, let me smile again, before I die and am gone." Psa 40:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. A psalm of David. </i>" Psa 40:1 For the LORD I waited and waited, till, inclining to me, he heard my cry. Psa 40:2 From the horrible pit he drew me, up out of the miry clay; he set my feet on a rock, and my steps he made firm. Psa 40:3 He put a new song in my mouth, of praise to our God. Many see it, and, filled with awe, put their trust in the LORD. " Psa 40:4 Happy the person who has put in the LORD their trust, not looking to false gods or turning to idols. Psa 40:5 With us you have wrought in rich measure, O LORD our God, your marvels and purposes for us Ð none may compare with you Ð were I to declare or t" Psa 40:6 In offerings bloody or bloodless you have no delight, but with open ears you have made me. Burnt-offering and offering for sin are not what you ask. <b" Psa 40:7 Then said I, 'Here I am, as the roll of the book has enjoined. Psa 40:8 My delight, O God, is to do your will, and your law is within my heart.' Psa 40:9 Well, O LORD, you know that, with lips unrestrained, your righteousness I told in the great congregation, Psa 40:10 not hiding it in my heart. I have told of your steadfast help, from the great congregation I hid not your love and your faithfulness. Psa 40:11 So do not restrain, LORD, your pity from us. Your love and your faithfulness Ð ever may they be our shield. " Psa 40:12 For evils that cannot be numbered have compassed me round. My transgressions have followed me up Ð I can bear it no more. They are more than the hairs" Psa 40:13 O LORD, be pleased to deliver me, haste to my help, O LORD. Psa 40:14 May those who are seeking my life be ashamed and confounded together; may those who delight in my hurt be defeated and brought to dishonor. Psa 40:15 May those who hurrah over me be dumbfounded because of their shame. Psa 40:16 But may all who seek after you rejoice and be glad in you. May all those eager for your aid, say, 'Great is the LORD' evermore. Psa 40:17 I am weak and needy, yet the LORD cares for me. You are my help and deliverer; don't delay, my God." Psa 41:0 ¦ <i>For the leader; for Jeduthun. A psalm of David. </i>" Psa 41:1 Happy are those who consider the weak; in the day of misfortune the LORD will deliver them. Psa 41:2 He will keep them safe, happy, and long in the land, and not give them up to the rage of their foes. Psa 41:3 The LORD will sustain them on bed of languishing; tending their sickness, as long as they lie. " Psa 41:4 For this cause I say, ' LORD, show me your favor; heal me, because I have sinned against you.' Psa 41:5 My enemies speak of me nothing but evil, 'When will he die, and his name pass away?' Psa 41:6 When one comes to see me, their words ring hollow; their heart keeps gathering mischief the while; and when they go out, they give it speech. Psa 41:7 In secret they whisper together against me, all those who hate me plot evil against me. Psa 41:8 'Some fatal disease has fastened upon him; and now that he lies, he will rise up no more.' Psa 41:9 My most trusted friend, on whom I relied, who ate of my bread, has turned against me. " Psa 41:10 But do you, LORD, graciously raise me up, that I may pay them their due reward. Psa 41:11 By this will I know you delight in me: if my foes may not shout over me in triumph. Psa 41:12 For my innocence you uphold me, and set me forever before your face. " Psa 41:13 <i>Blessed be the </i><c><i>Lord</i></c><i>, the God of Israel, </i> <i>from everlasting to everlasting, </i> <i>Amen and Amen. </i>" Psa 42:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. A maskil of the Korahites. </i>" Psa 42:1 Like the hart which longs for brooks of water, I long for you, God. " Psa 42:2 I thirst for God, for my living God. When shall I enter in, and see the face of God? Psa 42:3 My tears have been my food by day and by night; for they say to me all the day long, 'Where is your God?' " Psa 42:4 My heart floods with sorrow, as I call to mind: how I used to pass on with the throng, at their head, to the house of God, with glad shouts and giving" Psa 42:5 Why am I downcast? Why this moaning within me? Hope in God; for yet will I praise him, my help, my God. " Psa 42:6 I am sunk in my misery; I will therefore call you to mind from the land of Jordan and Hermon, the mountain Mizar. Psa 42:7 Flood is calling to flood at the noise of your cataracts; all your waves and your breakers have passed over me. " Psa 42:8 In the day I cry to the LORD to summon his kindness; and the song that I sing in the night is a prayer to the living God. Psa 42:9 I say to God my rock, 'Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk so sadly, so hard pressed by the foe?' Psa 42:10 It pierces me to the heart to hear the enemy's taunts, as all the day long they say to me, 'Where is your God?' " Psa 42:11 Why am I downcast? Why this moaning within me? Hope in God; for yet will I praise him, my help, my God. Psa 43:1 Right me, defend my cause against a pitiless people. From the crafty and crooked, O God, deliver me. Psa 43:2 For you are God my protector: why have you cast me off? Why must I walk so sadly, so hard pressed by the foe? Psa 43:3 Send forth your light and your truth, let them be my guides: to your holy hill let them bring me, to the place where you live. Psa 43:4 Then will I go to God's altar, to God my rejoicing; and with joy on the lyre I will praise you, O God, my God. " Psa 43:5 Why am I downcast? Why this moaning within me? Hope in God; for yet will I praise him, my help, my God." Psa 44:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. Of the Korahites. A maskil. </i>" Psa 44:1 O God, we have heard with our ears, all our ancestors have told us of the work that you wrought in their day, your wonders in days of old, Psa 44:2 uprooting and crushing the nations, then planting and settling them. For it wasn't their own sword that won them the land, " Psa 44:3 it was not their own arm that brought them the victory. Yours was the hand and the arm, yours was the face that shone on them with favor. Psa 44:4 It was you, my king and my God, that ordained the victories of Jacob. " Psa 44:5 Through you we can thrust back our foes, and by your name tread down our assailants: Psa 44:6 for not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword win me the victory. Psa 44:7 Our victory comes from you, and confusion to those who hate us. Psa 44:8 In God we boast all the day long, and your name will we praise forever. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 44:9 Yet you have spurned and disgraced us, in not going forth with our armies, Psa 44:10 and in making us flee from the foe, so that those who hated us plundered us. Psa 44:11 You have let us be eaten like sheep, you have scattered us over the world, Psa 44:12 sold your people for a pittance, and getting no gain from their price. Psa 44:13 You have made us the butt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of all round us. Psa 44:14 O'er the world you have made us a byword, the nations at us shake their heads. Psa 44:15 My disgrace is forever before me, my face is covered with shame, Psa 44:16 at the words of blasphemer and scoffer, at the sight of the foe and the vengeful. " Psa 44:17 All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten you nor falsely dealt with your covenant. Psa 44:18 Our heart has not turned back, nor our steps declined from your way, Psa 44:19 that you thus should have crushed us down, and covered us over with gloom, in the place where the jackals roam. Psa 44:20 Had we forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a god that was strange, Psa 44:21 would God not have searched this out? For he knows the heart and its secrets. Psa 44:22 But in your cause it is we are killed all the day, and counted as sheep for the slaughter. " Psa 44:23 Rouse yourself, why do you sleep Lord? Awake, cast us not off forever. Psa 44:24 Why do you hide your face, forgetting our stress and our misery? Psa 44:25 For we have sunk down to the dust, our bodies cling to the ground. Psa 44:26 Arise, come to our help: for your love's sake, ransom us." Psa 45:0 ¦ <i>For the leader; on shoshannim. Of the Korahites. A maskil. A love song. </i>" Psa 45:1 My heart is astir with beautiful words: I will sing a song, concerning the king, with tongue like the pen of a ready writer. " Psa 45:2 Your beauty is more than mortal, grace is shed over your lips: therefore God has blessed you forever. " Psa 45:3 Warrior, strap your sword on your thigh. What glory and splendor! " Psa 45:4 Good fortune attend you, as forth you ride in the cause of good faith, and as champion of justice. May your arm instruct you in deeds of dread. Psa 45:5 Sharp are your arrows; nations fall under you: pierced to the heart are the foes of the king. " Psa 45:6 Your throne shall endure for ever and ever your royal sceptre a sceptre of equity. Psa 45:7 Right you love and wrong you hate: therefore the LORD your God anoints you With oil of gladness above your fellows. " Psa 45:8 With myrrh, aloes, and cassia your robes are all fragrant, you are gladdened by music of ivory harps. Psa 45:9 King's daughters stand ready with jewels for you, at your right hand the queen in gold of Ophir. " Psa 45:10 Listen, daughter, and see; and incline your ear: forget your folk and your father's house. Psa 45:11 And when the king desires your beauty, bow to him, for he is your lord. Psa 45:12 So shall the Tyrians come with gifts, and the richest of people will do you homage. " Psa 45:13 The king's daughter is glorious altogether, with dress of pearls inwrought with gold. Psa 45:14 In many-coloured robes she is led to the king, with the virgin companions she brought in her train. " Psa 45:15 The king's palace they enter with joy and rejoicing. " Psa 45:16 May sons of yours take the place of your fathers, whom you will make princes in all the land. Psa 45:17 Your name will I celebrate world without end, so that nations shall praise you for ever and ever." Psa 46:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. Of the Korahites, on alamoth. A song. </i>" Psa 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Psa 46:2 So we have no fear, though earth should change, and the hills totter into the heart of the ocean. Psa 46:3 Let its waters roar and foam, let the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. On our side is the LORD of hosts, our sure defence is the God of Ja" Psa 46:4 A river there is, whose streams make glad God's city, the home the Most High has hallowed. Psa 46:5 God is within her: she cannot be shaken. God helps her at the turn of the morning. Psa 46:6 Nations roared, kingdoms tottered: he uttered his voice, earth melted away. Psa 46:7 On our side is the LORD of hosts, our sure defence is the God of Jacob. " Psa 46:8 Come and see what the LORD has done, working appallingly in the earth. Psa 46:9 He stills wars to the ends of the earth Ð breaking the bow, snapping the spear, burning the chariots in the fire. Psa 46:10 'Refrain; and know surely that I am God, high over the nations, high over the world.' Psa 46:11 On our side is the LORD of Hosts, our sure defence is the God of Jacob. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 47:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. Of the Korahites. A psalm. </i>" Psa 47:1 Clap your hands, all you peoples: shout to God in ringing cries. Psa 47:2 For the LORD is most high and dread, a great king over all the earth. " Psa 47:3 He subdues the peoples under us, the nations under our feet; Psa 47:4 he chooses our heritage for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loves. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 47:5 God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet. Psa 47:6 Sing praise to our God, sing praises: sing praise to our king, sing praises. " Psa 47:7 For king of all earth is he: praise God in a skilful song. Psa 47:8 God is king over all the nations, God sits on his holy throne. " Psa 47:9 Princes of nations gather with the people of Abraham's God: for the shields of the earth are God's; greatly exalted is he." Psa 48:0 ¦ <i>A song. A psalm of the Korahites. </i>" Psa 48:1 Great is the LORD and worthy all praise in the city of our God. His holy mountain," Psa 48:2 that rises so fair, is the joy of all the world. Like the mount of the gods is Mount Zion, the city of the great king. " Psa 48:3 Once God made himself known as the defence of her palaces. Psa 48:4 For see! A concert of kings passed over the frontier together. Psa 48:5 But one glance, and they were astounded; they hastened away in dismay. Psa 48:6 Trembling took hold of them there, like the pains of a woman in labor. Psa 48:7 They were shattered, as east wind shatters the giant ships in pieces. Psa 48:8 What we heard, we now have seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, the city of our God. God will uphold her forever. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 48:9 We think, O God, of your love, in the midst of your temple. Psa 48:10 Your fame, O God, like your name, shall extend to the ends of the earth. Victory fills your hand. " Psa 48:11 Let mount Zion be glad; let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments. Psa 48:12 Walk about Zion, go round her; count her towers. Psa 48:13 Set your mind on her ramparts, consider her palaces; that you tell to the next generation " Psa 48:14 That such is God, our God he it is who shall guide us for ever and ever." Psa 49:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. Of the Korahites. A psalm. </i>" Psa 49:1 Hear this, you peoples all; give ear, all you who live in the world Psa 49:2 people of low degree and high, the rich and the poor together. Psa 49:3 My mouth shall utter wisdom, the thoughts of a seeing heart. Psa 49:4 I incline my ear to a proverb, on the lyre I will open my riddle. " Psa 49:5 Why should I be afraid in the days of misfortune, when circled by wicked and cunning foes, Psa 49:6 who put their trust in their wealth, and boast of their boundless riches? " Psa 49:7 For assuredly no one can ransom themselves, or give to God the price of their life, Psa 49:8 for the ransom of a life is costly, no payment is ever enough, Psa 49:9 to keep them alive for ever and ever, so as never to see the pit at all. " Psa 49:10 But see it they will. Even wise people die, the fool and the brutish perish alike, and abandon their wealth to others. Psa 49:11 The grave is their everlasting home, the place they shall live in for ever and ever, though after their own names they called whole lands. Psa 49:12 Despite their wealth, they perish like dumb animals. " Psa 49:13 This is the fate of the confident fool, and the end of those who are pleased with their portion. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 49:14 Like sheep they descend to Sheol with Death for their shepherd; down they go straight to the grave, and their form wastes away in their home below. <br" Psa 49:15 But God will assuredly ransom my life from the hand of Sheol; for he will receive me. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 49:16 So be not afraid when someone grows rich, when the wealth of their house increases. Psa 49:17 Not a shred of it all can they take when they die, wealth cannot follow them down. Psa 49:18 Though they count themselves happy, when they are alive, and win praise from many for faring so well, Psa 49:19 they must join their ancestors, who see the light nevermore. Psa 49:20 The wealthy are without understanding, they perish like dumb animals." Psa 50:0 ¦ <i>A psalm of Asaph. </i>" Psa 50:1 The LORD God has spoken: He summons the earth from sunrise to sunset. Psa 50:2 From Zion, perfection of beauty, God's glory shines forth. Psa 50:3 Our God comes, he cannot keep silence, devouring fire is before him, and furious tempest around him. Psa 50:4 He summons the heavens above and the earth to judge his people. Psa 50:5 Gather to him his saints by covenant-sacrifice bound to him; Psa 50:6 that the heavens may declare his justice, for a God of justice is he. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 50:7 'Hear, O my people, and I will speak, and protest to you, O Israel: I am the LORD, your God. Psa 50:8 Not for your sacrifices will I reprove you your burnt-offerings are ever before me Psa 50:9 Not a bullock will I take from your house, nor he-goats out of your folds; Psa 50:10 for all beasts of the forest are mine, and the kine on a thousand hills. Psa 50:11 I know all the birds of the air, all that moves on the fields is mine. Psa 50:12 Were I hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fulness are mine. Psa 50:13 Am I such as to eat bulls' flesh, or drink the blood of goats? Psa 50:14 Offer to God a thank-offering, pay the Most High your vows. Psa 50:15 Summon me in the day of distress, I will rescue you, so will you honor me.' " Psa 50:16 But to the wicked God says: 'What right have you to talk of my statutes, or take my covenant into your mouth Psa 50:17 while you yourself hate correction, and cast my words behind you? Psa 50:18 When you see a thief, you run with them; with adulterers you keep company. Psa 50:19 You let your mouth loose for evil, your tongue contrives deceit. Psa 50:20 You shamefully speak of your kin, and slander your own mother's son. Psa 50:21 And because I kept silence at this, you did take me for one like yourself. But I will convict you and show you plainly. " Psa 50:22 'Now you who forget God, mark this, lest I rend you, past hope of deliverance. Psa 50:23 Those who bring a thank-offering honor me; but to those: who follows my way, I will show the salvation of God.'" Psa 51:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. A psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet come to him after he had been with Bathsheba. </i>" Psa 51:1 In your kindness, O God, be gracious to me, in your own great pity blot out my transgressions. Psa 51:2 Wash me clean of my guilt, make me pure of my sin. " Psa 51:3 For well I know my transgressions, my sin is ever before me. Psa 51:4 Against you, only you, have I sinned, and done that which is wrong in your sight: you therefore are just when you speak, and clear when you utter judgment." Psa 51:5 See! In guilt was I brought to the birth, and in sin did my mother conceive me. Psa 51:6 It's the innermost truth you desire, give me therefore true wisdom of heart. " Psa 51:7 Purge me clean with hyssop, wash me whiter than snow. Psa 51:8 Fill me with joy and gladness, let the bones you have broken rejoice. Psa 51:9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out my guilt altogether. " Psa 51:10 Create me a clean heart, O God, put a new steadfast spirit within me. Psa 51:11 Cast me not forth from your presence, withdraw not your holy spirit. Psa 51:12 Give me back the joy of your help, with a willing spirit sustain me. " Psa 51:13 I will teach your ways to transgressors, and sinners shall turn to you. Psa 51:14 Save me from blood, O God, and my tongue shall ring out your faithfulness. Psa 51:15 Open my lips, O LORD, and my mouth shall declare your praise. " Psa 51:16 For in sacrifice you have no pleasure, in gifts of burnt-offering no delight. Psa 51:17 The sacrifice pleasing to God is a spirit that is broken; a heart that is crushed, O God, you will not despise. " Psa 51:18 Do good in your pleasure to Zion, build the walls of Jerusalem. Psa 51:19 Then will you welcome the due forms of sacrifice, then on your altars shall bullocks be offered." Psa 52:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. A maskil of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul that David had gone to Abimelech's house. </i>" Psa 52:1 Why glory in mischief, you hero? God's kindness is all the day. Psa 52:2 Engulfing ruin you plot, your tongue like a razor sharpened, you practiser of deceit. Psa 52:3 Evil, not good, you love, and falsehood, not words of truth. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 52:4 But you love all words that devour, and a tongue that is given to deceit. " Psa 52:5 But God, on his part, shall destroy you forever, grasp you and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 52:6 Smitten with awe at the sight, the righteous shall laugh at you. Psa 52:7 'Look' (they will say) 'at the hero who did not make God his stronghold, but trusted in his great wealth and in the strength of his riches.' " Psa 52:8 But I am like a fresh olive-tree in the house of God. I trust in the kindness of God for ever and evermore. Psa 52:9 I will render you thanks for ever for what you have done. I will tell how good you are in the presence of those who love you." Psa 53:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. On mahalath. A maskil of David. </i>" Psa 53:1 Fools say in their heart, 'There is no God.' Vile, hateful their life is; not one does good. " Psa 53:2 From heaven God looks out on humans, to see if any are wise, and care for God. " Psa 53:3 But all have turned bad, the taint is on all; not one does good, no, not one. " Psa 53:4 Have they learned their lesson, those workers of evil? Who ate up my people, eating, devouring, never calling to the LORD. " Psa 53:5 Sore afraid will they be, where no fear was; when God scatters the bones of the godless people. They will be put to shame, when God rejects them." Psa 53:6 If only help from Zion would come for Israel! When God brings his people a change of fortune, how glad will be Jacob, and Israel how joyful!" Psa 54:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. With stringed instruments. A maskil of David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul,'David is in hiding among us'. </i>" Psa 54:1 Save me, O God, by your name, by your power secure for me justice. Psa 54:2 Listen, O God, to my prayer, give ear to the words of my mouth. Psa 54:3 For proud men have risen against me, and terrible men seek my life, men who do not set God before them. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 54:4 But see! God is my helper, the LORD is sustaining my life. Psa 54:5 Let their evil fall back on my foes: cut them off in your faithfulness, LORD. " Psa 54:6 Then will I bring you glad sacrifice, praising your gracious name; Psa 54:7 for from all distress you have saved me, and feasted my eyes on my foes." Psa 55:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. With stringed instruments. A maskil of David. </i>" Psa 55:1 Listen, God, to my prayer. Don't hide yourself from my pleading. Psa 55:2 Hear me, and answer; for bitter is my lament. Psa 55:3 I am wild with the noise of the foe, with the clamor of the ungodly; for they hurl disaster upon me, and attack me with fury. Psa 55:4 My heart shudders within me, terrors of deaths press on me, Psa 55:5 fear and trembling attack me, and horror wraps me round. Psa 55:6 O for the wings of a dove: I would fly away and rest. Psa 55:7 I would wander far away, find refuge in the wilderness. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 55:8 I would find myself a shelter from raging wind and tempest. " Psa 55:9 Confuse them, LORD, upset their plans; for I see violence and strife in the city. Psa 55:10 By day and by night they make their rounds on the city walls, while within is crime and trouble, " Psa 55:11 within is ruin. Her market-place is never free of deceit and tyranny. Psa 55:12 The taunts were not those of a foe that I could have borne; the disdain was not that of an enemy I could have shunned them: Psa 55:13 but it was you, my equal, my dear and familiar friend. Psa 55:14 We used to be so close, together we walked in God's house with the crowd. Psa 55:15 May death suddenly take them, may they go down to Sheol alive, for evil lives in their homes and their hearts. " Psa 55:16 But I will call on God, the LORD will save me. Psa 55:17 Evening and morning and noon I lament and moan. He will hear my voice; " Psa 55:18 though I am attacked by many he will rescue me, unharmed from the war. Psa 55:19 God, who sits on his ancient throne will hear and will humble them, for they never change, they never fear God. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 55:20 My friend turned against me, betrayed his word. Psa 55:21 His mouth was smoother than butter, but war filled his heart. His words were softer than oil, but sharper than swords. Psa 55:22 Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you. He will never let the righteous be shaken. Psa 55:23 But you, God, will hurl them down to the deepest pit. Bloody and treacherous people will not live out half their days; but I will trust you." Psa 56:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. On jonath elem rehokim. Of David. A michtam, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. </i>" Psa 56:1 O God, be gracious to me, for people trample upon me, all the day righting and pressing me. Psa 56:2 All the day enemies trample me; many there be who contend with me bitterly. Psa 56:3 In the day of my terror I trust in you. Psa 56:4 In God I maintain my cause, in God I fearlessly trust. What can flesh do to me? " Psa 56:5 They torture me all the day, they ceaselessly plan to hurt me, Psa 56:6 banded together in secret, watching my every step, as those who hope for my death. Psa 56:7 Pay them out for their sin, O God, hurl down the strong in your anger. Psa 56:8 You yourself count my wanderings. Put in your bottle my tears are they not in your book? Psa 56:9 Then shall my foes be turned back in the day that I call. Of this I am sure, because God is for me. Psa 56:10 In God I maintain my cause, in the LORD I maintain my cause. Psa 56:11 In God I fearlessly trust, what can people do to me? " Psa 56:12 Your vows are upon me, O God, I will render thank-offerings to you; Psa 56:13 because you have saved me from death, my feet from stumbling, to the end that I walk before God in the light of the living." Psa 57:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. Al tashheth. A michtam of David, when he fled from Saul into a cave. </i>" Psa 57:1 Be gracious, O God, be gracious to me, for in you I take shelter. In your sheltering wings I take refuge, till ruin be over past. Psa 57:2 I cry to the Most High God, to the God who accomplishes for me. Psa 57:3 He will send me his succour from heaven, he will thrust away those who would trample me. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 57:4 In the midst of lions I lie, who devour human prey. Their teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue is a sharpened sword. Psa 57:5 Be exalted, God, o'er the heavens, and your glory o'er all the earth. " Psa 57:6 They set a net for my feet, but in it was their own foot caught. Before me they dug a pit, but they fell into it themselves. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 57:7 My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast. I would sing, I would make music; " Psa 57:8 awake, my soul. Awake, harp and lyre; I would wake the dawn. Psa 57:9 I would praise you among the peoples, O LORD, and make music among the nations to you; Psa 57:10 for great to heaven is your love, and your faithfulness to the clouds. Psa 57:11 Be exalted, God, o'er the heavens, and your glory o'er all the earth." Psa 58:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. Al tashheth. Of David. A michtam. </i>" Psa 58:1 Do you speak what is right, you gods? With equity judge you your people? Psa 58:2 In the land you practise iniquity Ð all of you; violence do you dispense with your hands. Psa 58:3 The wicked go astray from the womb liars take the wrong path from their birth. Psa 58:4 Venom have they like the venom of snakes, they are like the deaf adder that stops her ears, Psa 58:5 and refuses to listen to the voice of the charmer, or binder of spells, no matter how cunning. " Psa 58:6 O God, break to pieces the teeth in their mouth, tear out the great teeth of the young lions, LORD. Psa 58:7 May they melt away like running water! Like tender grass, cut down may they be! Psa 58:8 Like the snail that dissolves on its crawling path, like the birth untimely which sees not the sunlight. Psa 58:9 Faster than a thorn-fire heats your pots, he will come with his tempest and sweep them away. Psa 58:10 The sight of such vengeance will gladden the righteous; their feet they will wash in the blood of the wicked. Psa 58:11 People will say, 'Yes, the just are rewarded: yes, on the earth is a God who is Judge.'" Psa 59:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. Al tashheth. Of David. A michtam, when Saul sent men to watch his house in order to kill him. </i>" Psa 59:1 Save me, O God, from my enemies; secure me from my assailants. Psa 59:2 Save me from those who do wrong, save me from the bloodthirsty. Psa 59:3 For see! They lay ambush for me, strong men are banded against me not for sin or transgression of mine, for no guilt of mine, O LORD, Psa 59:4 they run and make ready. Awake! Come forth to meet me, and see! Psa 59:5 You, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, awake! And punish the proud, every one; spare none of the traitors vile. <i>Selah </i> " Psa 59:6 At evening they come, and, howling like dogs, make their round in the city. Psa 59:7 Look at their venomous mouths, tongues like swords, they think no one hears them. Psa 59:8 But you, LORD, laugh at them, you mock all the insolent. Psa 59:9 My strength, I will sing to you, for God is my sure retreat. Psa 59:10 My God with his love will meet me, and feast my eyes on my foes. " Psa 59:11 Slay them not, lest my people forget, let your hosts keep them roaming and wandering. Psa 59:12 In their sinful speech snare them, O LORD; and may they be trapped in their pride, for the curses and lies that they utter. " Psa 59:13 In your wrath make a clean end of them, that people, to the ends of the earth, may know that God rules in Jacob. <i>Selah </i> " Psa 59:14 At evening they come, and, howling like dogs, make their round in the city. Psa 59:15 They roam about for a feast, and snarl, if they get not their fill. Psa 59:16 But I will sing of your might; I will ring out your love in the morning. For to me you have been a sure refuge, a retreat in the day of my trouble. Psa 59:17 My strength, I will sing praise to you, for God is my sure retreat, my faithful God." Psa 60:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. On shushan eduth. A michtam of David (for teaching), when he fought with Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and defeated twelve thousand Ed Psa 60:1 O God, you have spurned and broken us, routing us in your wrath Ð restore us! Psa 60:2 You have shaken the land and cleft it; heal its tottering breaches. Psa 60:3 You have made your people drink hardship, and given us wine of reeling. " Psa 60:4 You have given those who fear you a banner, a rallying-place from the bow, <i>Selah </i>" Psa 60:5 for the rescue of your beloved. Save by your right hand and answer us. " Psa 60:6 God did solemnly swear: 'As victor will I divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth. Psa 60:7 Mine is Gilead, mine is Manasseh, Ephraim is the defence of my head, Judah my sceptre of rule, Psa 60:8 Moab the pot that I wash in, Edom Ð I cast my shoe over it, I shout o'er Philistia in triumph.' " Psa 60:9 O to be brought to the fortified city! O to be led into Edom! Psa 60:10 Have you not spurned us, O God? You do not march forth with our armies. Psa 60:11 Grant us help from the foe, for human help is worthless. Psa 60:12 With God we shall yet do bravely: he himself will tread down our foes." Psa 61:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. On stringed instruments. Of David. </i>" Psa 61:1 Hear my cry, O God, be attentive to my prayer. Psa 61:2 From the ends of the earth I call unto you, when my heart is faint: lead me to the rock that is high above me. Psa 61:3 For you are a refuge to me, a strong tower in face of the foe. " Psa 61:4 O to be guest in your tent forever, hiding beneath your sheltering wings! <i>Selah </i>" Psa 61:5 For you, O God, do hear my vows, and grant the desires of those who fear you. Psa 61:6 Add many days to the life of the king; may his years endure throughout all generations. Psa 61:7 In the presence of God be he throned forever; may kindness and faithfulness watch over him. Psa 61:8 And I will sing praise to your name forever, paying my vows day after day." Psa 62:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. On jeduthun. A psalm of David. </i>" Psa 62:1 I wait alone in silence for God; From him comes my help. Psa 62:2 Yes, he is my rock, my help, my retreat, I shall not be shaken too sorely. Psa 62:3 How long will you, all of you, batter a man, as one might a leaning wall? Psa 62:4 From his height they are planning to topple him. They take pleasure in falsehood; they bless with their mouth, but inwardly they curse. <i>Selah </i><b" Psa 62:5 I wait alone in silence for God; for from him comes my hope. Psa 62:6 Yes, he is my rock, my help, my retreat, I shall not be shaken too sorely. Psa 62:7 On God rests my honor and safety, in God is my strong rock, my refuge. Psa 62:8 Trust in him, all you people assembled, pour out your heart in his presence; God is a refuge for us. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 62:9 The lowly are nought but a breath, the lofty are but an illusion: in the balances up they go, they are lighter than breath altogether. Psa 62:10 Trust not in gain of extortion, set no vain hopes in robbery. As for wealth, if it bears fruit, set not your heart upon it. " Psa 62:11 One thing God has uttered, two things there are which I heard that power belongs to God, " Psa 62:12 and to you, too, O LORD, belongs kindness; for you requite each person according to what they have done." Psa 63:0 ¦ <i>A psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. </i>" Psa 63:1 O God, my God, you, you do I seek: my heart thirsts for you, my body faints for you in a parched and waterless land. " Psa 63:2 As I in the temple have seen you, beholding your power and your glory, Psa 63:3 for better than life is your kindness: my lips shall utter your praise. " Psa 63:4 So, while I live, I will bless you, and lift up my hands in your name. Psa 63:5 As with marrow and fat am I feasted; with joyful lips I will praise you. " Psa 63:6 I call you to mind on my bed, and muse on you in the night watches; Psa 63:7 for you have been my help, I joyfully sing in the shadow of your wings. Psa 63:8 I cling close after you, your right hand holds me up. " Psa 63:9 But those who seek after my life shall go down to the depths of the earth, Psa 63:10 given o'er to the power of the sword, or as prey for jackals to devour. " Psa 63:11 But the king shall rejoice in God: all who own his allegiance will glory. For the mouth of the false shall be stopped." Psa 64:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. A psalm of David. </i>" Psa 64:1 Hear, O my God, the voice of my lament: guard my life from the foe who affrights me. Psa 64:2 Hide me from villains who secretly plot, from the blustering throng of the workers of evil, Psa 64:3 who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, and aimed bitter words like arrows, Psa 64:4 which from ambush they launch at the blameless, shooting swiftly and unafraid. " Psa 64:5 They strengthen their wicked purpose, they tell of the snares they have hidden, they say to themselves, 'Who can see?' Psa 64:6 They think out their crimes full cunningly hidden deep in their crafty hearts. " Psa 64:7 But God with his arrow will shoot them, swiftly shall they be smitten. Psa 64:8 For their tongue he will bring them to ruin, all will shudder with horror at the sight of them. " Psa 64:9 Then every person, touched to awe, as they ponder what God has wrought, will tell the tale of his deeds. Psa 64:10 In the LORD shall the righteous rejoice, in him shall they take refuge; and all the true-hearted shall glory." Psa 65:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. A psalm of David. A song. </i>" Psa 65:1 It is seemly to praise you, O God, in Zion, and to you shall the vow be performed in Jerusalem. Psa 65:2 O you who hear prayer, unto you shall all flesh come. Psa 65:3 Our sins are too mighty for us, our transgressions you only can cover them. Psa 65:4 Happy the person who you choose to live beside you in your courts. O may we be filled with the joys of your house, of your holy temple. " Psa 65:5 In dread deeds you loyally answer us, O God of our salvation, whom all ends of the earth put their trust in, and islands far away. Psa 65:6 By your strength you establish the hills, you are armed with might; Psa 65:7 you still the roaring of seas, and the turmoil of nations, Psa 65:8 so that those who live at earth's bounds are awed at your signs: the lands of the sunrise and sunset you make to ring with joy. " Psa 65:9 You visit and water the earth; you greatly enrich her with the river of God, which is full of water. You prepare the corn thereof, Psa 65:10 watering her furrows, settling her ridges; you make her soft with showers, and bless what grows thereon. Psa 65:11 You crown the year with your goodness, your chariot-tracks drip with fatness. Psa 65:12 The desert pastures are lush, the hills greened with joy. Psa 65:13 The meadows are clothed with flocks, the valleys are covered with corn; they shout to each other and sing." Psa 66:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. A song. A psalm. </i>" Psa 66:1 Shout to God, all the earth, " Psa 66:2 sing praise to his glorious name, sing his glorious praise. Psa 66:3 Say to God, 'How dread are your works, so great is your might that your enemies cringe to you. Psa 66:4 All the earth does homage to you, singing praises to you, singing praise to your name.' <i>Selah </i>" Psa 66:5 Come and see what God has done, awe-inspiring is he in his works among people. Psa 66:6 He turns the sea into dry land, and people cross the river on foot. Let us therefore rejoice in him, " Psa 66:7 the mighty Ruler eternal, whose eyes keep watch on the nations, that no rebel lift up his head. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 66:8 O bless our God, you peoples; sound aloud his praise, Psa 66:9 who keeps us in life, and keeps our feet from slipping. Psa 66:10 For you, God, have tested us, have tried us, as silver is tried. Psa 66:11 You did bring us into prison, and put chains upon us, Psa 66:12 you did let people ride over our head. We went through fire and through water, but you led us out to a spacious place. " Psa 66:13 I will enter your house with burnt-offerings, I will pay to you my vows, Psa 66:14 which my open lips have uttered, arid my mouth has declared in my straits. Psa 66:15 I will offer you offerings of fatlings, with the odour of burning rams, I will sacrifice bullocks with goats. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 66:16 Come and hear my story all who fear God Ð of what he has done for me. Psa 66:17 For my mouth had no sooner invoked him than his praise was under my tongue. Psa 66:18 Had I cherished sin in my heart, the LORD would never have listened. Psa 66:19 But assuredly God has listened, and attended to my loud prayer. " Psa 66:20 Blessed be God, who turned not aside my prayer, nor withdrew his kindness from me." Psa 67:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. On stringed instruments. A psalm. A song. </i>" Psa 67:1 Bless us, O God, with your favor, let the light of your face fall upon us; <i>Selah </i>" Psa 67:2 that the world may know your way, and all nations your power to save. " Psa 67:3 Let the peoples praise you, O God; let the peoples all of them praise you. Psa 67:4 Let the nations ring out their joy; for you govern the peoples with equity, and guide the nations on earth. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 67:5 Let the peoples praise you, O God, let the peoples, all of them, praise you. " Psa 67:6 The earth has yielded her increase by the blessing of God, our God. Psa 67:7 May this blessing of ours win people to him to all the ends of the earth." Psa 68:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. Of David. A psalm. A song. </i>" Psa 68:1 God arises, his enemies scatter: they who hate him flee before him. Psa 68:2 As smoke before wind is driven, as wax melts before fire, so before God vanish the wicked. Psa 68:3 But the righteous rejoice in God's presence, they exult with exceeding joy. " Psa 68:4 Sing to God, make music to his name, his name is the LORD, praise him who rides on the clouds, and exult in his presence. Psa 68:5 Father of orphans, defender of widows, is God in his holy abode. Psa 68:6 God brings home the lonely, he leads forth the prisoner to comfort, so that none but the rebel lives cheerless. " Psa 68:7 God, when you went in front of your people in your march through the desert, <i>Selah </i>" Psa 68:8 earth shook, the heavens poured rain at the presence of God, Sinai's God at the presence of God, Israel's God. Psa 68:9 Rain in abundance, God, you did sprinkle, restoring the languishing land of your heritage. Psa 68:10 A dwelling therein your people found: in your goodness, O God, you did care for the poor. " Psa 68:11 The LORD spoke the glad tidings of victory, a great army of women proclaim it: Psa 68:12 'Kings of armies they flee, they flee, and the housewife divides the spoil: Psa 68:13 dove's wings covered with silver and pinions with shimmer of gold, " Psa 68:14 set with stones, like snow upon Zalmon.' " Psa 68:15 A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan, a mountain of peaks is the mountain of Bashan. Psa 68:16 You high-peaked mountains, why look you askance at the mountain which God has desired for his home whereon the LORD will live forever? Psa 68:17 The chariots of God are twice ten thousand: the LORD came from Sinai, his holy place. Psa 68:18 You did mount the height with trains of your captives, and gifts that you had received from the people. The rebels shall live with the LORD God. <br" Psa 68:19 Blest be the LORD who sustains us daily, the God who is also our savior. <i>Selah </i> " Psa 68:20 Our God is a God who is savior. The ways of escape from death are known to the LORD God. Psa 68:21 Yes, God will shatter the head of his foes the rough scalp of those who strut on in their sins. Psa 68:22 The LORD said: 'I will bring you home from Bashan, home from the depths of the sea, Psa 68:23 that your feet you may bathe in blood, and your dogs lick their share of the foe.' " Psa 68:24 In the temple appear God's triumphal processions, processions in praise of my king and my God, Psa 68:25 with singers in front, and minstrels behind, and maidens with timbrels between them, singing, Psa 68:26 'You of the well-spring of Israel, bless the LORD God in the dance.' Psa 68:27 There, in front, is Benjamin the little, the princes of Judah beside them, the princes of Zebulon, princes of Naphtali. " Psa 68:28 God, show your strength, your godlike might, as you did in the past, " Psa 68:29 from your temple that crowns Jerusalem. Kings shall bring tribute to you. " Psa 68:30 Rebuke the beast of the reed, the herd of bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Trample down the lovers of lies. Scatter the nations whose joy is in war." Psa 68:31 May they come from Egypt with gifts of oil, Ethiopia haste with full hands to God. " Psa 68:32 Sing to God, O you kingdoms of earth, make melody to the LORD. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 68:33 Praise him who rides on the ancient heavens. See! He utters his voice, his mighty voice. Psa 68:34 Ascribe strength to the God over Israel, whose strength and majesty live in the skies. Psa 68:35 Awe-inspiring is God in his holy place, it is Israel's God who gives strength and might to his people. Blessed be God." Psa 69:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. On shoshannim. Of David. </i>" Psa 69:1 Save me, O God; for the waters are threatening my life. Psa 69:2 I am sunk in depths of mire, where ground there is none. I am come into deep deep waters, the flood overwhelms me. Psa 69:3 I am weary of crying, my throat is parched, my eyes are wasted with waiting for God. " Psa 69:4 More than the hairs of my head are those who wantonly hate me. More than my bones in number are those who are falsely my foes. That which I never robbe" Psa 69:5 O God, you know my folly, my guilt is not hidden from you. Psa 69:6 Through me let not any be shamed, who wait for you, LORD God of hosts. Through me let not those be confounded who seek you, O God of Israel. Psa 69:7 It's in your cause that I have borne taunts, and my face has been covered with shame; Psa 69:8 I became to my kindred a foreigner, to my mother's sons a stranger. " Psa 69:9 It was zeal for your house that consumed me, and the insults they hurled at you fell upon me. Psa 69:10 When I chastened myself with fasting, they took occasion to taunt me. Psa 69:11 When I put on a garment of sackcloth, they made me the theme of a taunt-song. Psa 69:12 Those who sit in the gate make sport of me in the music of drunken songs. " Psa 69:13 But I pray to you, LORD, for a time of favor. In your great love answer me; with your loyal help, save me Psa 69:14 from sinking down in the mire. Lift me out of the deep deep waters, Psa 69:15 that the rushing flood may not drown me, that the deep may not swallow me up, nor the pit close her mouth upon me. Psa 69:16 Answer me, LORD, in your gracious kindness, turn to me in your great compassion. Psa 69:17 Hide not your face from your servant, for I am in trouble; O answer me speedily. Psa 69:18 Draw near to me, redeem me; because of my enemies, ransom me. " Psa 69:19 You know how I am insulted; in your sight are all my foes. Psa 69:20 Insult has broken my heart, past cure are my shame and confusion. For pity I looked Ð there was none! And for comforters, but I found none. Psa 69:21 Poison they gave me for food, and to slake my thirst they gave vinegar. " Psa 69:22 May their table, outspread, be a trap to them, and their peace-offerings be a snare. Psa 69:23 May their eyes be darkened and blind, make them shake without ceasing. Psa 69:24 Pour your indignation upon them, let your burning wrath overtake them. Psa 69:25 May their camp be a desolation, in their tents be there none to live. Psa 69:26 For those whom you struck, they persecute, and those whom you wounded, they pain yet more. Psa 69:27 Charge them with sin upon sin, may they not be acquitted by you. Psa 69:28 From the book of life be they blotted, may their names not be written with the righteous. " Psa 69:29 Lift me, O God, by your help above my pain and misery. Psa 69:30 Then will I praise God in song and magnify him with thanksgiving, Psa 69:31 which shall please the LORD better than ox, or than bullock with horns and hoofs. Psa 69:32 The oppressed shall rejoice at the sight. You who seek after God, let your heart revive. Psa 69:33 For the LORD listens to the poor, he does not despise his prisoners. " Psa 69:34 Let the heavens and the earth sing his praises, the seas, and all creatures that move in them. Psa 69:35 For God will bring help to Zion, and build up the cities of Judah, his people shall live there in possession. Psa 69:36 His servants' children shall have it for heritage, and those who love him shall live therein." Psa 70:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. Of David. For commemoration. </i>" Psa 70:1 Quickly, God, deliver me, hasten to help me, LORD. Psa 70:2 May those who are seeking my life, be ashamed and confounded. Psa 70:3 May those who delight in my hurt be defeated and brought to dishonor. Psa 70:4 But may all who seek after you rejoice and be glad in you. May all who love your salvation say, 'Glory to God,' evermore. Psa 70:5 I am weak and needy: make haste, God, to me. You are my help and deliverer; LORD, don't delay. Psa 71:1 In you, O LORD, I take refuge, let me never be put to shame. Psa 71:2 In your faithfulness save me and rescue me, bend your ear to me and save me. Psa 71:3 Be to me a rock of defence, a fortified house, to save me; for my rock and my fortress are you. " Psa 71:4 Save me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel. Psa 71:5 For you, LORD, are my hope, in whom from my youth I have trusted. Psa 71:6 On you have I leaned from my birth; from my mother's womb it was you who did draw me. In you is my hope evermore. " Psa 71:7 I have been as a wonder to many, for you are my refuge and strength. Psa 71:8 All the day long my mouth is filled with your praise and your glory. Psa 71:9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; when my strength is spent, forsake me not. Psa 71:10 For my foes whisper against me, they who watch me take counsel together; Psa 71:11 'God has left him,' they say: 'pursue and seize him, for he is helpless.' " Psa 71:12 O God, be not far from me, haste, O my God, to my help. Psa 71:13 Put my foes to shame and dishonor, with insult and shame be they covered. Psa 71:14 But I will never stop hoping, and more and yet more will I praise you. Psa 71:15 All the day long shall my mouth tell your faithfulness and your salvation, though I know not how they may be counted. " Psa 71:16 I will tell of the might of the LORD, and your faithfulness praise, you alone. Psa 71:17 You have taught me, O God, from my youth, and till now have I told of your wonders. Psa 71:18 Even in old age and grey hair, O God, do not forsake me. Still would I tell of your might unto all generations to come. " Psa 71:19 Your power and your justice, O God, extend as far as the heavens: for great are the things you have done. Who is like you, O God? Psa 71:20 You have caused us to see troubles many, but you will revive us again. From the depths of the earth you will bring me up again. Psa 71:21 You will multiply my greatness, and comfort me again. " Psa 71:22 So with harp I will praise you, and your faithfulness, O my God; and make music to you on the lyre, O you Holy One of Israel. Psa 71:23 My lips shall ring out their joy, my mouth shall sing praises to you; all of me, which you have redeemed. Psa 71:24 Yes, all the day long shall my tongue utter your righteousness; for ashamed and confounded are they who were seeking my hurt." Psa 72:0 ¦ <i>Of Solomon. </i>" Psa 72:1 Give the king, O God, your own spirit of justice your spirit of right to the son of the king, Psa 72:2 that with right he may judge your people, and your downtrodden ones with justice. " Psa 72:3 May the mountains bear weal for the people, and the hills yield fruits of justice. Psa 72:4 The weak may he help to their rights, may he save the sons of the needy and crush the oppressor in pieces. " Psa 72:5 May he live as long as the sun, while the moon shines Ð for ages and ages. Psa 72:6 May he be like the rain on the meadow, like showers that water the earth. " Psa 72:7 In his days may justice flourish, and welfare abound, till the moon be no more. Psa 72:8 May he reign from ocean to ocean, from the river to the ends of the earth. " Psa 72:9 May his foes bow down before him, his enemies lick the dust. Psa 72:10 May tribute be rendered by kings of the isles and of Tarshish; may gifts be brought by the kings of Sheba and Seba. " Psa 72:11 May all kings fall prostrate before him, and all nations yield him their service. Psa 72:12 For he saves the poor when he cries, the helpless and the downtrodden. " Psa 72:13 He pities the weak and the poor, he saves the lives of the poor. Psa 72:14 He redeems them from wrong and from violence, for dear is their blood in his sight. " Psa 72:15 Long may he live; and may gold of Sheba be given him; prayer, too, be made for him ceaselessly, all the day long may men bless him. " Psa 72:16 May the land have abundance of corn, to the tops of the hills may it wave. May the fruit thereof flourish like Lebanon, may men spring from the city like g" Psa 72:17 May his name be blessed forever, may his fame endure as the sun. May all nations envy his blessedness, all tribes of the earth call him happy. " Psa 72:18 <i>Blest be the </i><c><i>Lord</i></c><i> God, Israel's God, </i> <i>who alone does wonders; </i> " Psa 72:19 <i>And blest be forever his glorious name. </i> <i>Let all the earth be filled with his glory. </i> <i>Amen and Amen. </i> " Psa 72:20 Here end the prayers of David, son of Jesse. Psa 73:0 ¦ <i>A psalm of Asaph. </i>" Psa 73:1 Yes, God is good to the upright, the LORD to the pure in heart. Psa 73:2 But my feet were almost gone, my steps had nearly slipped, Psa 73:3 through envy of godless braggarts, when I saw how well they fared. " Psa 73:4 For never a pang have they, their body is sound and sleek. Psa 73:5 They have no trouble like mortals, no share in human pain. Psa 73:6 So they wear their pride like a necklace, they put on the garment of wrong, Psa 73:7 their eyes stand out with fatness, their heart swells with riotous fancies. Psa 73:8 Their speech is mocking and evil, condescending and crooked their speech. Psa 73:9 They have set their mouth in the heavens, while their tongue struts about on the earth. Psa 73:10 Small wonder that people resort to them, and drink deep draughts of their lore. Psa 73:11 'How does God know?' they say, 'And has the Most High any knowledge?' Psa 73:12 See! These are the godless, with wealth and ease ever increasing. " Psa 73:13 Yes, in vain have I kept my heart pure, and washed my hands in innocence; Psa 73:14 for all the day long was I plagued not a morning but I was chastised. Psa 73:15 But to resolve to speak like they do would be treachery to your children. " Psa 73:16 So I sought to understand it, but a wearisome task it seemed: Psa 73:17 till I entered the holy world of God and saw clearly their destiny. " Psa 73:18 Yes, you set them on slippery places; down to destruction you hurl them. Psa 73:19 One moment and then what a horror of ruin! They are finished and ended in terrors. Psa 73:20 Like a dream, when one wakes, shall they be, whose phantoms the waker despises. " Psa 73:21 So my bitterness of mind and the pain that stabbed my heart Psa 73:22 show how dull I was and stupid just like a beast before you. " Psa 73:23 But I am always with you, you have hold of my right hand. Psa 73:24 By a plan of yours you guide me and will afterward take me to glory. " Psa 73:25 Whom have I in the heavens but you? And on earth there is none I desire beside you. Psa 73:26 Though flesh and heart waste away, yet God is the rock of my heart, yet God is my portion forever. " Psa 73:27 For see! Those who are far from you must perish, you destroy all who are false to you. Psa 73:28 But I am happy when close to God; the LORD my God I have made my refuge, that I may recount all the things you have done." Psa 74:0 ¦ <i>A maskil of Asaph. </i>" Psa 74:1 Why, O God, have you spurned us forever? Why smokes your wrath against the sheep of your pasture? Psa 74:2 Remember the community you purchased of old to become by redemption the tribe of your heritage, Zion, the mountain you made your home. Psa 74:3 Rouse yourself, visit its ruins complete. In the temple the foe has made havoc of all things. " Psa 74:4 Like lions your enemies roared through your house, replacing our symbols by signs of their own, Psa 74:5 hacking, like woodsmen who lift axes on thickets of trees, Psa 74:6 smashing with hatchets and hammers all of its carved work together. Psa 74:7 They have set your temple on fire, to the very ground they have outraged the place where lives your name. Psa 74:8 They have said in their heart, 'Let us utterly crush them.' They have burned all the houses of God in the land. " Psa 74:9 No symbol of ours do we see any more: no prophet is there any more, none is with us who knows how long. Psa 74:10 How long, O God, is the foe to insult? Shall the enemy spurn your name forever? Psa 74:11 Why, O LORD, do you hold back your hand, why keep your right hand in the folds of your robe? " Psa 74:12 Yet God is our king from the ancient days, in the midst of the earth working deeds of salvation. Psa 74:13 It was you who did cleave the sea by your might, and shatter the heads of the ocean monsters. Psa 74:14 It was you who did crush many-headed Leviathan, and give him as food to the beasts of the wilderness. Psa 74:15 It was you who did cleave the fountains and torrents; it was you who did dry the perennial streams. Psa 74:16 Yours is the day; yours, too, is the night, it was you who did establish the sun and the star. Psa 74:17 It was you who did fix all the borders of earth: summer and winter it's you who have made them. " Psa 74:18 Yet, for all this, the foe has insulted you, LORD, and a nation of fools has reviled your name. Psa 74:19 Do not give your dove to the beasts, do not forget your afflicted forever. Psa 74:20 Look to the sleek ones Ð how full they are: the dark places of earth are the dwellings of violence. Psa 74:21 O let not the downtrodden turn back ashamed: let the poor and the needy sing praise to your name. " Psa 74:22 Arise, God, and defend your cause: remember how fools all the day insult you. Psa 74:23 Do not forget the uproar of your enemies, the din of your foes that ascends evermore." Psa 75:0 ¦ <i>For the leader; al tashheth. A psalm of Asaph, a song. </i>" Psa 75:1 We praise you, God, we praise you: we would call on your name and declare your wonders. " Psa 75:2 'At the time I choose, I will judge fairly. Psa 75:3 Though earth melt and all her inhabitants, it is I who keep steady her pillars.' <i>Selah </i>" Psa 75:4 I say to the boasters, 'Boast not'; to the wicked, 'Lift not up your horn: Psa 75:5 lift not your horn on high, speak not boldly against the Rock.' " Psa 75:6 For not from east nor west, not from desert nor mountains; Psa 75:7 but God himself is the judge, humbling one and exalting another. " Psa 75:8 In the hand of the LORD is a cup foaming wine, richly spiced. Out of this he pours a draught, and all the wicked of earth must drain it down t" Psa 75:9 But I will rejoice forever, singing praise to the God of Jacob. Psa 75:10 I will hew all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the just shall be lifted." Psa 76:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. With instrumental music. A psalm of Asaph, a song. </i>" Psa 76:1 God has made himself known in Judah, his name is great in Israel. Psa 76:2 His tent is in Salem, his dwelling in Zion. " Psa 76:3 There he broke the lightning arrows, shield, sword, and weapons of war. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 76:4 Terrible is your splendor on the everlasting mountains. " Psa 76:5 Despoiled were the stout of heart; in the sleep into which they had fallen, none of the warriors could lift a hand. " Psa 76:6 At your rebuke, God of Jacob, sank chariot and horse to sleep. Psa 76:7 Awful are you: who can stand before you, when once you are angry? " Psa 76:8 The judgment you gave from heaven frightened the earth into silence, Psa 76:9 when God arose to judgment to save the oppressed of the earth. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 76:10 The fiercest will praise you, to you will the remnant hold festival. Psa 76:11 Vow and pay to LORD your God, and let all who are round him bring presents. " Psa 76:12 He lops off the courage of princes, and with terror fills kings of the earth." Psa 77:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. On Jeduthun. Of Asaph, a psalm. </i>" Psa 77:1 Loudly will I lift my cry to God, loudly to God, so he hears to me. Psa 77:2 In the day of my trouble I seek the LORD; in the night I lift my hands in prayer, refusing all comfort. " Psa 77:3 When I think of God, I moan; when I muse, my spirit is faint. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 77:4 When you hold my eyes awake, and I am restless and speechless, Psa 77:5 I think of the days of old, call to mind distant years. Psa 77:6 I commune with my heart in the night, I muse with inquiring spirit. Psa 77:7 'Will the LORD cast us off forever, will he be gracious no more? Psa 77:8 Has his love vanished forever? Is his faithfulness utterly gone? Psa 77:9 Has God forgotten to be gracious, or in anger withheld his compassion?' <i>Selah </i>" Psa 77:10 Then I said, 'This it is that grieves me, that the hand of the Most High has changed.' Psa 77:11 I will think of the deeds of the LORD, and remember your wonders of old. Psa 77:12 I will muse on all you have wrought, and meditate on your deeds. Psa 77:13 Then your way, O God, was majestic: what God was great as our God? Psa 77:14 You were a God who did marvels, you did show your power to the world Psa 77:15 by your arm you rescued your people, the children of Jacob and Joseph. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 77:16 The waters saw you, O God. The waters saw you and shivered; to their depths they trembled. Psa 77:17 Clouds poured torrents of water, thunder rolled in the sky, your arrows sped to and fro. Psa 77:18 Loud was the roll of your thunder, lightnings lit up the world. Earth quaked and trembled. Psa 77:19 In your way, LORD, through the sea, in your path through the mighty waters, your footsteps were all unseen. Psa 77:20 You did guide your folk like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron." Psa 78:0 ¦ <i>A maskil of Asaph. </i>" Psa 78:1 My people, give ear to my teaching: bend your ears to the words of my mouth, Psa 78:2 as I open my mouth in a poem on the riddling story of the past. " Psa 78:3 What we have heard and known, and what our ancestors have told us, Psa 78:4 we will not hide from their children. We will tell to the next generation the praises and might of the LORD, and the wonders that he has done. <" Psa 78:5 He set up a testimony in Jacob, a law he appointed in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to make known to their children, Psa 78:6 that the next generation should know it, that the children yet to be born should arise and tell their children; " Psa 78:7 that in God they might put their confidence, and not forget God's works; but that they might keep his commandments, Psa 78:8 and not be like their ancestors, a generation defiant and stubborn, a generation with heart unsteady, and spirit unfaithful towards God. " Psa 78:9 Ephraimites, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle. Psa 78:10 They did not keep God's covenant, they refused to walk in his law. Psa 78:11 They forgot what he had done, and the wonders he had shown them. " Psa 78:12 He did wonders before their ancestors in the country of Zoan in Egypt. Psa 78:13 Through the sea which he split he brought them, making waters stand up like a heap; Psa 78:14 he led them by day with a cloud, all the night with a light of fire. " Psa 78:15 From the rocks which he split in the wilderness, he gave them to drink as of ocean's abundance. Psa 78:16 He brought streams out of the rock, and made water run down like rivers. " Psa 78:17 Yet they still went on sinning against him, they defied the Most High in the desert. Psa 78:18 They willfully challenged God, demanding the food that they longed for. Psa 78:19 'Is God able,' such was their challenge, 'to spread in the desert a table? Psa 78:20 From the rock that he struck there gushed water, and torrents that overflowed; but can he also give bread, or provide his people with meat?' " Psa 78:21 When the LORD heard this, he was furious, and fire was kindled on Jacob, anger flared up against Israel. " Psa 78:22 For they put no trust in God, no confidence in his help. Psa 78:23 So he summoned the clouds above; and, opening the doors of heaven, Psa 78:24 he rained manna upon them for food, and grain of heaven he gave them. Psa 78:25 Everyone ate the bread of angels; he sent them food to the full. " Psa 78:26 He launched the east wind in the heavens, and guided the south by his power. Psa 78:27 He rained meat upon them like dust, winged bird like the sand of the sea. Psa 78:28 In the midst of their camp he dropped it, all around their tents. " Psa 78:29 They ate and were more than filled; he had brought them the thing they desired. Psa 78:30 But the thing they desired became loathsome: while their food was still in their mouths, Psa 78:31 the wrath of God rose against them. He slew the stoutest among them, and laid low the young men of Israel. " Psa 78:32 Yet for all this they sinned yet more, and refused to believe in his wonders. Psa 78:33 So he ended their days in a breath, and their years in sudden dismay. Psa 78:34 When he slew them, then they sought after him, they turned and sought God with diligence. " Psa 78:35 They remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God their redeemer. Psa 78:36 But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue. Psa 78:37 Their heart was not steady with him, they were faithless to his covenant. " Psa 78:38 But he is full of pity: he pardons sin and destroys not. Often he turns his anger away, without stirring his wrath at all. Psa 78:39 So he remembered that they were but flesh, breath that passes and does not return. " Psa 78:40 But how often they rebelled in the desert, and caused him grief in the wilderness, Psa 78:41 tempting God again and again, provoking the Holy One of Israel. Psa 78:42 They did not remember his strength, nor the day he redeemed from the foe, Psa 78:43 how he set his signs in Egypt, in the country of Zoan his wonders. " Psa 78:44 He turned their canals into blood, their streams undrinkable. Psa 78:45 He sent forth flies, which devoured them; frogs, too, which destroyed them. Psa 78:46 Their crops he gave to the caterpillar, and the fruits of their toil to the locust. Psa 78:47 He slew their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost. Psa 78:48 He delivered their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to bolts of fire. " Psa 78:49 He let loose his hot anger among them, fury and wrath and distress, a band of destroying angels. Psa 78:50 He cleared a path for his anger, did not spare them from death, but gave them over to pestilence. " Psa 78:51 He struck down all the first-born in Egypt, the first fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham. Psa 78:52 He led forth his people like sheep, he was guide to his flock in the desert. Psa 78:53 Securely he led them, and free from fear, while their foes were drowned in the sea. " Psa 78:54 To his holy realm he brought them, to the mountain his right hand had purchased. Psa 78:55 He drove out the nations before them, and allotted their land for possession, and their tents for Israel to live in. " Psa 78:56 Yet they tempted and angered the Most High God, they did not observe his decrees. Psa 78:57 They drew back, false like their ancestors; they failed like a treacherous bow. Psa 78:58 Their shrines stirred him to anger, their idols moved him to jealousy. " Psa 78:59 When God heard of this, he was furious, and he spurned Israel utterly. Psa 78:60 He abandoned his home in Shiloh, the tent he had pitched among people. Psa 78:61 He gave his strength up to captivity, his glory to the hands of the foe. " Psa 78:62 He gave his people to the sword, he was furious with his own. Psa 78:63 Fire devoured their young men, and their maidens had no marriage-song. Psa 78:64 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows could not weep. " Psa 78:65 Then the LORD awoke as from sleep, like a warrior flushed with wine; Psa 78:66 and he beat back his foes, putting them to perpetual scorn. Psa 78:67 He disowned the tent of Joseph, he rejected the tribe of Ephraim; Psa 78:68 but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves. Psa 78:69 And he built like the heights his sanctuary, like the earth which he founded forever. " Psa 78:70 And he chose David his servant, taking him from the sheepfolds. Psa 78:71 From the mother-ewes he brought him, to be shepherd to Jacob his people, and to Israel his inheritance. Psa 78:72 With upright heart did he shepherd them, and with skilful hands did he guide them." Psa 79:0 ¦ <i>A psalm of Asaph. </i>" Psa 79:1 Heathen, O God, have come into your land, defiling your holy temple, and laying Jerusalem in ruins. Psa 79:2 They have given the bodies of your dead servants to the birds of the air to devour, and the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the field. Psa 79:3 Round about Jerusalem they have poured out their blood like water; and there was no one to bury them. Psa 79:4 On every side our neighbors revile us and mock us and jeer at us. " Psa 79:5 How long will you be angry, O LORD? Will your jealousy burn like fire forever? Psa 79:6 Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you, on the kingdoms that do not call on your name. Psa 79:7 For Jacob they devoured, they have desolated his home. Psa 79:8 Do not remember against us our ancestors' sins; O meet us soon with your pity, for utterly weak are we. " Psa 79:9 Help us, O God our savior, for the renown of your name: for your reputation deliver us and cover over our sins. Psa 79:10 Why should the nations say, 'Where is their God?' Let revenge for the outpoured blood of your servants be shown on the heathen before our eyes. Psa 79:11 May the groans of the prisoner come before you; free the children of death by your mighty arm. Psa 79:12 Pay our neighbors back sevenfold for the scorn they have heaped upon you, O LORD. " Psa 79:13 Then we, your people, the flock of your pasture, will give thanks to you for evermore, and tell your praise to all generations." Psa 80:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. On shoshannim, eduth. Of Asaph, a psalm. </i>" Psa 80:1 Listen, Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock of sheep; from your throne on the cherubs shine forth " Psa 80:2 before Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin. Stir up your mighty power, come to our help. Psa 80:3 God, restore us: show us the light of your face, so we may be saved. " Psa 80:4 O LORD of hosts, how long is your anger to smoke, despite the prayer of your people? Psa 80:5 You have fed them with bread of tears, you have made them drink tears by the measure. Psa 80:6 The scorn of our neighbors you make us, the laughing-stock of our foes. Psa 80:7 God of hosts, restore us: show us the light of your face, so we may be saved. " Psa 80:8 A vine out of Egypt you brought; you did drive out the nations, and plant her; Psa 80:9 in the ground you did clear she struck root, and she filled all the land. Psa 80:10 The shade of her covered the mountains, her branches the cedars of God. Psa 80:11 She sent forth her shoots to the sea, and her branches as far as the River. Psa 80:12 Why have you torn down her fences, and left her to be plucked at by all who pass by, Psa 80:13 to be gnawed by the boar from the forest, and devoured by the beasts of the field? " Psa 80:14 O God of hosts, return: look down from heaven and see and visit this vine, and restore her " Psa 80:15 the vine which your right hand has planted. Psa 80:16 She is burned with fire and cut down before your stern face they are perishing. Psa 80:17 Support the one you have chosen, the one you have raised for yourself; Psa 80:18 then from you we will never draw back. Preserve us, and we will call on your name. Psa 80:19 LORD, God of hosts, restore us: Show us the light of your face, so we may be saved." Psa 81:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. On the gittith. Of Asaph. </i>" Psa 81:1 Sing aloud to God our strength, shout for joy to the God of Jacob. Psa 81:2 Raise a song, sound the timbrel, sweet lyre and harp. Psa 81:3 On the new moon blow the horn, at the full moon, the day of our festival. Psa 81:4 For this is a statute for Israel, a ruling of the God of Jacob, Psa 81:5 a witness he set up in Joseph, when he marched against Egypt's land, where he heard an unknown voice say: " Psa 81:6 'I removed from your shoulder the burden, and freed your hands from the basket. Psa 81:7 At your call of distress I delivered you, from the thundercloud I answered you. At Meribah's waters I tested you. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 81:8 'Listen, my people, to my warning, O Israel, if you would but listen! Psa 81:9 There must not be a strange god among you, you must bow to no foreign god. Psa 81:10 I am the LORD your God who brought you up out of Egypt. Open your mouth, that I fill it. " Psa 81:11 'But my people did not listen to my voice, Israel would have none of me. Psa 81:12 So to their own hard hearts I left them, to follow their own devices. Psa 81:13 O that my people would listen, that Israel would walk in my ways. Psa 81:14 Soon would I humble their enemies, and turn my hand on their foes. Psa 81:15 Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him in everlasting terror. Psa 81:16 But you would I feed with the richest wheat, and with honey from the rock to your heart's desire.'" Psa 82:0 ¦ <i>A psalm of Asaph. </i>" Psa 82:1 God has taken his stand in the divine assembly: in the midst of the gods he holds judgment. Psa 82:2 'How long will you crookedly judge, and favor the wicked? <i>Selah </i>" Psa 82:3 Do right by the weak and the orphan, acquit the innocent poor. Psa 82:4 Rescue the weak and the needy, save them from the hand of the wicked. " Psa 82:5 'They have neither knowledge nor insight, in darkness they walk to and fro, while the earth's foundations totter. Psa 82:6 It was I who appointed you gods, children of the Most High all of you. Psa 82:7 Yet like mortals you will surely die, you will fall like any prince.' " Psa 82:8 Arise, O God, judge the earth, for all nations are yours by inheritance." Psa 83:0 ¦ <i>A song, a psalm of Asaph. </i>" Psa 83:1 Do not keep silent, O God: hold not your peace, be not still, God. Psa 83:2 For see! Your enemies roar, those who hate you lift up their heads, Psa 83:3 laying crafty plans for your people, and plotting against those you treasure. Psa 83:4 'Come, let us wipe them out as a nation, so Israel's name will be mentioned no more.' " Psa 83:5 For, conspiring with one accord, they have made a league against you Psa 83:6 Tents of Edom, and Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagrites. Psa 83:7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre; Psa 83:8 Syria, too, is confederate, they have strengthened the children of Lot. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 83:9 Deal with them as you dealt with Midian, with Sisera, with Jabin, at the torrent of Kishon, Psa 83:10 who at Endor were destroyed, and became dung for the field. Psa 83:11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, Psa 83:12 who said, 'Let us take for ourselves the meadows of God.' " Psa 83:13 Whirl them, my God, like dust, like stubble before the wind. Psa 83:14 As the fire that kindles the forest, as flame that sets mountains ablaze, Psa 83:15 so with your tempest pursue them, terrify them with your hurricane. Psa 83:16 Make them blush with shame; until they seek your name, O LORD. Psa 83:17 Everlasting shame and confusion, disgrace and destruction be theirs. Psa 83:18 Teach those who you alone are most high over all the earth." Psa 84:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. On the gittith. Of the Korahites, a psalm. </i>" Psa 84:1 How dearly loved is the place where you live, LORD of hosts! Psa 84:2 How I long and yearn for the courts of the LORD. Now heart and flesh cry for joy to the living God. " Psa 84:3 Even the sparrow has found her a home and the swallow a nest, to lay her young, near your altar, LORD of hosts, my king and my God. Psa 84:4 Happy those who live in your house, praising you evermore. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 84:5 Happy those whose strength is in you, people with pilgrim hearts. Psa 84:6 As they pass through the valley of tears, they make it a place of fountains, clothed with the blessings of early rain. Psa 84:7 From rampart to rampart on they march, till at last God reveals himself in Zion. " Psa 84:8 LORD, God of hosts, hear my prayer, give ear, O God of Jacob. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 84:9 Behold, O God, our defender, and look upon your anointed, Psa 84:10 for better a single day in your courts than a thousand in my own chambers: better stand at the door of the house of my God than live in the tents of ungodl" Psa 84:11 for the LORD is sun and shield, the LORD gives grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from the life that is blameless. Psa 84:12 LORD of hosts, happy those whose trust is in you." Psa 85:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. Of the Korahites, a psalm. </i>" Psa 85:1 Once, LORD, you did favor your land, granting change of fortune to Jacob, Psa 85:2 forgiving the guilt of your people, pardoning all their sin, <i>Selah </i>" Psa 85:3 withdrawing all your fury, turning from your hot anger. " Psa 85:4 Restore us, O God our savior, put away your displeasure against us. Psa 85:5 Will you cherish your anger against us forever, prolonging your wrath to all generations? Psa 85:6 Will you not revive us again, that your people may be glad in you? Psa 85:7 Show us your kindness, O LORD, grant us your salvation. " Psa 85:8 Let me hear what God the LORD will speak; for he will speak of peace to his people, to those who love him, and turn their hearts to him. Psa 85:9 Soon those who fear him shall see how he saves, and glory shall live in our land. " Psa 85:10 Kindness and loyalty meet; peace and righteousness kiss. Psa 85:11 Loyalty springs from the earth; righteousness looks from the sky. Psa 85:12 The LORD shall give all that is good, our land yielding its increase, Psa 85:13 righteousness marching before him, and peace on the path he treads." Psa 86:0 ¦ <i>A prayer of David. </i>" Psa 86:1 Incline your ear, LORD, and answer me, for I am afflicted and needy. Psa 86:2 Guard me, for I am loyal: save your servant, who trusts in you. Psa 86:3 LORD, be gracious to me, for you are my God; I cry to you all the day. Psa 86:4 Gladden the heart of your servant; for to you, LORD, I set my hope. Psa 86:5 For you, LORD, are good and forgiving, rich in love towards all who call on you. " Psa 86:6 Listen, O LORD, to my prayer; attend to my plea for mercy. Psa 86:7 In the day of my trouble I call on you, with assurance that you will answer me. Psa 86:8 None of the gods is like you, LORD, nor are any works like yours. Psa 86:9 All the nations you have made will come and bow down before you, giving glory, O LORD, to your name. Psa 86:10 For great are you, and a doer of wonders; you alone are God. " Psa 86:11 Teach me, O LORD, your way, that I may walk in your truth: so my heart shall rejoice in your name. Psa 86:12 I will give you thanks, O LORD, with all my heart, my God, I will honor your name forever. Psa 86:13 For great is your love towards me, from the depths of Sheol you have saved me. " Psa 86:14 Haughty men have risen up against me, O God, a band of the violent seeking my life, who think nothing of you. Psa 86:15 But you are a God of pity and grace, patient and rich in kindness and faithfulness; turn to me with your grace, O LORD. Psa 86:16 Grant your strength to your servant, and save the child of your handmaid. Psa 86:17 Show me a sign of your favor, which those who hate me may see with confusion, since you, LORD, are my helper and comforter." Psa 87:0 ¦ <i>Of the Korahites, a psalm. A song. </i>" Psa 87:1 On the holy mountain stands the city he founded. Psa 87:2 The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Psa 87:3 Glorious things he is speaking of you, you city of God. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 87:4 'Among those who are mine I name Rahab and Babylon, Philistia, Tyre, Ethiopia, their people will say I was born in Zion. Psa 87:5 As for Zion it will be said each and all were born in her.' The LORD will preserve her. " Psa 87:6 The LORD will count, when enrolling the peoples, 'This one was born there, and that one was born there.' <i>Selah </i>" Psa 87:7 Singers and dancers alike will say 'All my springs are in you.' Psa 88:1 O LORD my God, I cry for help in the day-time, in the night my cry is before you; Psa 88:2 let my prayer come into your presence, incline your ear to my cry. " Psa 88:3 For I am sated with sorrow, my life draws near to Sheol. Psa 88:4 I am counted with those who go down to the pit; without strength am I. " Psa 88:5 My home is among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more cut off as they are from your hand. " Psa 88:6 In the deepest pit you have put me, in shadows deep and dark. Psa 88:7 Your wrath lies heavy upon me, waves of your anger roll over me. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 88:8 You have put my friends far from me, you have made them shun me. I am shut in, and cannot escape, " Psa 88:9 my eyes are wasted with sorrow. I call on you, LORD, every day, spreading my hands out to you. " Psa 88:10 For the dead can you work wonders? Can the shades rise again to praise you? <i>Selah </i>" Psa 88:11 Can your kindness be told in the grave, your faithfulness in the tomb? Psa 88:12 Can your wonders be known in the darkness, or your help in the land of forgetfulness? " Psa 88:13 I cry for help to you, in the morning my prayer comes before you. Psa 88:14 Why, O LORD, do you spurn me, and hide your face from me? Psa 88:15 From my youth I am wretched and dying, I am numbed by the terrors I bear. " Psa 88:16 The fires of your wrath have passed over me, your terrors destroy me, Psa 88:17 surging around me forever, hemming me in altogether. Psa 88:18 Those who love me you put far from me; the dark is my only friend." Psa 89:0 ¦ <i>A song. A psalm of the Korahites. </i>" Psa 89:1 I will sing evermore of the love of the LORD, proclaiming to all generations his faithfulness. Psa 89:2 For your love you did promise to build up forever, your faithfulness firm as the heavens themselves. " Psa 89:3 'I have made with my chosen a covenant, and sworn to David my servant, Psa 89:4 to establish his seed forever, and to build up his throne to all ages.' <i>Selah </i>" Psa 89:5 Then the holy assembly in heaven praised your marvelous faithfulness, LORD. Psa 89:6 For who in the skies may compare with the LORD? Who is like the LORD among the gods? " Psa 89:7 A God to be feared in the holy assembly, awful and great above all who are round him. Psa 89:8 O LORD God of hosts, who is mighty as you? Your strength and faithfulness, LORD, surround you. " Psa 89:9 You are the LORD of the raging sea: when its waves surge, it is you who still them. Psa 89:10 It was you who did pierce and crush Rahab in pieces, and scatter your foes by your mighty arm. " Psa 89:11 Yours are the heavens, yours also the earth, the world and its fulness, it's you who did found them. Psa 89:12 The north and the south, it's you have created them; Tabor and Hermon shout praise to your name. " Psa 89:13 You have an arm with the might of a hero; strong is your hand, high uplifted your right hand. Psa 89:14 Justice and right are the base of your throne, kindness and faithfulness ever attend you. " Psa 89:15 Happy the people who know the glad shout, who walk, O LORD, in the light of your face. Psa 89:16 They exult in your name all the day, and your righteousness they extol. " Psa 89:17 For you are our strength and our pride. Your favor will lift us to honor. Psa 89:18 For the holy LORD of Israel keeps our defender and king. " Psa 89:19 In a vision of old you did speak in this way to the one whom you loved: 'A crown I have set on the hero I chose to be over the people " Psa 89:20 'I found my servant David, and anointed with holy oil. Psa 89:21 My hand will be with him forever, my arm will give him strength. " Psa 89:22 'No enemy will dare to assail him, nor the wicked to oppress him; Psa 89:23 but his foes I will shatter before him, I will strike down those who hate him. " Psa 89:24 'My loyal love shall attend him, and I will lift him to honor. Psa 89:25 I will set his hand on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers. " Psa 89:26 'As for him, he will call me'My father, my God, and my rock of salvation.' Psa 89:27 And I will make him my first-born, highest of kings on the earth. " Psa 89:28 'My love will I keep for him ever, my covenant with him shall stand fast. Psa 89:29 His line will I make everlasting, and his throne as the days of the heavens. " Psa 89:30 'If his children forsake my law, and walk not as I have ordained; Psa 89:31 if they profane my statutes, and do not keep my commandments; " Psa 89:32 'I will punish their sin with the rod, their iniquity with scourges. Psa 89:33 But my love will I not take from him, nor will I belie my faithfulness. " Psa 89:34 'I will not profane my covenant by changing the word that has passed my lips. Psa 89:35 Once have I solemnly sworn and I would not lie to David, " Psa 89:36 'that his line should endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me, Psa 89:37 firm as the moon which for ever and ever is fixed in the sky.' <i>Selah </i>" Psa 89:38 But you have cast off in contempt, and been furious with your anointed. Psa 89:39 You have spurned the covenant with your servant, and his sacred crown dashed to the ground. " Psa 89:40 You have broken down all his walls, and laid his bulwarks in ruins. Psa 89:41 All who pass on their way despoil him, the scorn of his neighbors is he now. " Psa 89:42 You have given his foes the victory, and made all his enemies glad. Psa 89:43 You have turned back his sword from the foe, you did not lift him up in the battle. " Psa 89:44 The sceptre you took from his hand, and his throne you did hurl to the ground. Psa 89:45 You have shortened the days of his youth, and covered him with shame. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 89:46 How long, LORD will you hide you forever? How long are the fires of your wrath to burn? Psa 89:47 Remember, LORD, the shortness of life how fleeting you made all people. " Psa 89:48 Who can live without seeing death? Who can rescue their life from the clutch of Sheol? <i>Selah </i>" Psa 89:49 Where, LORD, is your kindness of old, which you in your faithfulness swore to David? " Psa 89:50 Remember, O LORD, how your servants are mocked, how I bear in my heart the scorn of all nations Psa 89:51 The scorn which your enemies hurl, O LORD, which they hurl at the footsteps of your anointed. " Psa 89:52 <i>Blest be the </i><c><i>Lord</i></c><i>, for ever and ever. </i> <i>Amen and Amen. </i>" Psa 90:0 ¦ <i>A prayer of Moses, the man of God. </i>" Psa 90:1 LORD, you have been a home to us one generation after another. Psa 90:2 Before the mountains were born, or the earth and the world were brought forth, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. " Psa 90:3 You bring us back to the dust, you summon mortals to return. Psa 90:4 For you see a thousand years as the passing of yesterday, as a watch in the night. " Psa 90:5 Your floods sweep them away; they are like a dream, or like grass which sprouts in the morning, Psa 90:6 which blossoms and sprouts in the morning, but by evening is cut and withered. " Psa 90:7 For your anger consumes us, the heat of your wrath confounds us. Psa 90:8 Our sins you have set before you, our secrets in the light of your face. Psa 90:9 For through your wrath our days are declining, we bring our years to an end as a sigh. " Psa 90:10 The span of our life is seventy years, or, if we are strong, maybe eighty; yet is their breadth but empty toil, for swiftly they go, and we fly away. <" Psa 90:11 Who lays to heart the power of your anger? Or who stands in reverent awe of your wrath? Psa 90:12 O teach us to count our days so our minds may learn wisdom. " Psa 90:13 Return, O LORD; why so long? Relent on your servants. Psa 90:14 Grant us your love to the full in the morning, that all our days we may shout for joy. " Psa 90:15 Make us glad for the days you have humbled us, for the evil years we have seen. Psa 90:16 Let your servants see you in action, show your majesty to their children. Psa 90:17 Let the grace of the LORD our God be upon us, uphold what our hands are striving to do. Psa 91:1 You whose home is the shelter of God Most High, whose abode is the shadow of God Almighty, Psa 91:2 can say to the LORD, 'My refuge, my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.' " Psa 91:3 For he saves you from fowler's snare, from deadly plague, Psa 91:4 he shelters you with his pinions, and under his wings you can hide. His truth will be a shield and buckler. " Psa 91:5 You need not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, Psa 91:6 nor the plague that stalks in darkness, nor the pestilence raging at noon. " Psa 91:7 A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand: but it will not draw near to you. " Psa 91:8 You will only look on with your eyes, and see how the wicked are punished. Psa 91:9 You have made the LORD your refuge, you have made the Most High your defence. " Psa 91:10 You will never be met by misfortune, no plague will come near your tent, Psa 91:11 for he orders his angels to guard you, wherever you go. " Psa 91:12 They will carry you with their hands, so you don't hurt your foot on a stone. Psa 91:13 You will trample down lions and snakes, tread on young lions and cobras. " Psa 91:14 'Because of their love for me, I will deliver them, I will protect those who trust my name. Psa 91:15 I will answer their cry and be with them in trouble, bringing them forth into safety and honor. Psa 91:16 I will give them a life of many days, I will show them my salvation.'" Psa 92:0 ¦ <i>A psalm. A song; for the sabbath day. </i>" Psa 92:1 It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praise to your name, O Most High, Psa 92:2 to declare your love in the morning, and your faithfulness in the night, Psa 92:3 with voice and a ten-stringed harp, with music that throbs on the lyre. Psa 92:4 For you make me glad by your deeds, LORD, at the work of your hands I will ring out my joy. " Psa 92:5 How great are your works, O LORD; how deep are your thoughts! Psa 92:6 The insensitive cannot know, nor can a fool understand, Psa 92:7 that, though the wicked flourish like grass, and evil-doers all blossom, they will perish forever. " Psa 92:8 But you are exalted forever. Psa 92:9 For see! Your enemies, LORD For see! Your enemies perish, all evil-doers are scattered. Psa 92:10 But you lift me to honor, and anoint me afresh with oil. Psa 92:11 My eyes will feast on my foes, and my ears will hear of the doom of the wicked. " Psa 92:12 The righteous will sprout like the palm, will grow like a cedar of Lebanon. Psa 92:13 In the house of the LORD are they planted, in the courts of our God they will sprout. Psa 92:14 They will still bear fruit in old age, all sappy and fresh will they be Psa 92:15 So they proclaim the LORD to be just, my rock, in whom is no wrong. Psa 93:1 The LORD has taken his seat on the throne, clothed with majesty, armed with might. Now the world stands firm, to be shaken no more, " Psa 93:2 firm stands your throne from all eternity. You are from everlasting. " Psa 93:3 The floods, O LORD, have lifted, the floods have lifted their voice, the floods lift up their roar. Psa 93:4 But more grand than the great roaring waters, more grand than the ocean waves, grand on the height stands the LORD. " Psa 93:5 What you have ordained is most sure; most sure shall your house stand inviolate, O LORD, for ever and ever. Psa 94:1 LORD, God of vengeance, God of vengeance, shine forth. Psa 94:2 Rise up, judge of the earth, pay back the proud what they deserve. " Psa 94:3 LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult, Psa 94:4 with their blustering arrogant words, their braggart and wicked speech, Psa 94:5 crushing your people, LORD, and afflicting your heritage, Psa 94:6 murdering widows and strangers, slaying the fatherless? Psa 94:7 They think that the LORD does not see, nor the God of Jacob regard it. " Psa 94:8 Take heed, you dullest of people; when will you be wise, you fools? Psa 94:9 Is he deaf, who shaped the ear? Is he blind, who fashioned the eye? Psa 94:10 Can he who trains nations not punish them he who teaches knowledge to people? Psa 94:11 The LORD knows the thoughts of people, that only a breath are they. " Psa 94:12 Happy are those whom you chasten, and teach out of your law, Psa 94:13 keeping them calm in the day of misfortune, till a pit be dug for the wicked. " Psa 94:14 For the LORD will not leave his people, he will not forsake his inheritance. Psa 94:15 For the righteous shall come to their rights, and all true-hearted people shall follow them. " Psa 94:16 Who will rise up for me against those who do evil? Who will stand up for me against workers of wrong? Psa 94:17 Were it not for the help of the LORD, I would soon have gone to the silent grave. Psa 94:18 When I thought that my foot was slipping, your kindness, LORD, held me up. Psa 94:19 When with cares my heart was crowded, your comforts make me glad. " Psa 94:20 Can corrupt justice be your ally, framing mischief by statute? Psa 94:21 They assail the life of the righteous, and innocent blood condemn. Psa 94:22 But the LORD is my sure retreat, my God is the rock of my refuge. Psa 94:23 He will bring back their sin upon them, for their wickedness he will destroy them; the LORD our God will destroy them. Psa 95:1 Come! Let us ring out our joy to the LORD, let us merrily shout to our rock of salvation. Psa 95:2 Before his face let us come with thanks, with songs of praise let us shout to him. " Psa 95:3 For the LORD is a great God, king above all gods. Psa 95:4 In his hand are the depths of the earth, the heights of the mountains are his. Psa 95:5 The sea is his, for he made it: the dry land was formed by his hands. " Psa 95:6 Come! Let us worship and bow on our knees to the LORD our creator. Psa 95:7 For he is our God; and we are the people he tends, the sheep in his care. If only you would heed his voice today: Psa 95:8 'Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, or at Massah, that day in the desert, Psa 95:9 when your ancestors tempted and tried me, though they had seen my deeds. " Psa 95:10 'For forty years I was filled with loathing for that generation, so I said: 'A people with wandering hearts are they, and ignorant of my ways.' Psa 95:11 So I solemnly swore to them in my anger, that never would they enter my place of rest.' Psa 96:1 Sing to the LORD a new song, sing to the LORD, all the earth. Psa 96:2 Sing to the LORD, bless his name, from day to day herald his victory. Psa 96:3 Tell his glory among the nations, his wonders among all peoples. " Psa 96:4 For great is the LORD and worthy all praise; held in awe, above all gods: Psa 96:5 for all the gods of the nations are idols, but the LORD created the heavens. Psa 96:6 Before him are splendor and majesty, beauty and strength in his holy place. " Psa 96:7 Ascribe to the LORD, you tribes of the nations, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength. Psa 96:8 Ascribe to the LORD the glory he manifests: bring you an offering, enter his courts. Psa 96:9 Bow to the LORD in holy array: tremble before him, all the earth. " Psa 96:10 Say to the nations, 'The LORD is king.' The world stands firm to be shaken no more. He will judge the peoples with equity. Psa 96:11 Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice, let the sea and its fulness thunder. " Psa 96:12 Let the field, and all that is in it, exult; let the trees of the forest ring out their joy Psa 96:13 before the LORD: for he comes, he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with justice and the nations with faithfulness. Psa 97:1 The LORD is king, let the earth rejoice: let her many isles be glad. Psa 97:2 Clouds and darkness are round about him, justice and right are the base of his throne. Psa 97:3 Fire goes before him, and blazes around his steps, Psa 97:4 his lightnings illumine the world: the earth quakes at the sight. Psa 97:5 Mountains melt like wax before the LORD of all the earth. Psa 97:6 The heavens proclaim his justice, all nations behold his glory. " Psa 97:7 Shamed are all image-worshippers, who make a boast of their idols. All the gods bow before him. Psa 97:8 Zion is glad at the tidings, the towns of Judah rejoice because of your judgments, LORD. Psa 97:9 For you are most high over all the earth, greatly exalted above all gods. " Psa 97:10 The LORD loves those who hate evil, he guards the lives of the faithful: from the hand of the wicked he saves them. Psa 97:11 Light arises for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart. Psa 97:12 Rejoice in the LORD, you righteous: give thanks to his holy name." Psa 98:0 ¦ <i>A psalm. </i>" Psa 98:1 Sing a new song to the LORD, for he has done wonders; his right hand and holy arm have won him the victory. Psa 98:2 The LORD has made his victory known, and revealed to the eyes of the nations his righteousness. Psa 98:3 Mindful he was of his kindness to Jacob, faithful he was to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God. " Psa 98:4 Shout, all the earth, to the LORD: break into cries and music. Psa 98:5 Play on the lyre to the LORD, on the lyre and with loud melody. Psa 98:6 With trumpet and sound of horn, shout before the king. " Psa 98:7 Let the sea and its fulness roar, the world and the dwellers upon it. Psa 98:8 Let the streams clap their hands, let the hills shout for gladness together Psa 98:9 before the LORD for he comes, he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with justice and the nations with equity. Psa 99:1 The LORD is king; let the nations tremble: he is throned upon cherubs; let earth quake. Psa 99:2 The LORD is great in Zion, he is high over all the nations. Psa 99:3 Let them praise your great and terrible name. Holy is he. " Psa 99:4 You are a king who loves justice, equity you have established: justice and right you have wrought for Jacob. Psa 99:5 Exalt the LORD our God, bow down at his footstool. Holy is he. " Psa 99:6 Among his priests were Moses and Aaron, Samuel among those who called on his name. They called to the LORD, and he gave them answer. Psa 99:7 He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud, they kept his commands and the statute he gave them. " Psa 99:8 LORD our God, you gave them answer. A God of forgiveness were you to them, who suffered their deeds to go unpunished. Psa 99:9 Exalt the LORD our God; bow down at his holy mountain. For holy is the LORD our God." Psa 100:0 ¦ <i>A psalm of praise. </i>" Psa 100:1 Shout, all the earth, to the LORD. " Psa 100:2 Serve the LORD with gladness, approach him with ringing cries. Psa 100:3 Be sure that the LORD alone is God. It is he who has made us, and his we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. " Psa 100:4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving, his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, bless his name. Psa 100:5 For the LORD is good, his love is forever, and to all ages endures his faithfulness." Psa 101:0 ¦ <i>Of David, a psalm. </i>" Psa 101:1 If kindness and justice I sing, making melody to you, LORD. Psa 101:2 I would look to the way that is blameless, and make it my own. Within my own house I would walk with an innocent heart. Psa 101:3 I would never direct my eyes to a thing that is base. The impulse to stray I abhor it shall not cling to me. Psa 101:4 Far from me be perverseness of heart, or kinship with evil. " Psa 101:5 Who slanders their neighbor in secret, I bring them to silence: haughty looks and proud hearts I will not abide. " Psa 101:6 I will favor the true in the land, they shall live in my court. Those who walk in a way that is blameless will be my attendant. " Psa 101:7 No one will live in my house who practises guile. No one that speaks a lie will abide in my presence. " Psa 101:8 Morn by morn I will wholly wipe out all the bad in the land, and cut off from the LORD's own city all workers of evil. Psa 102:1 Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come to you. Psa 102:2 Hide not your face from me in the day of my distress. Incline your ear to me: when I call, answer me speedily. " Psa 102:3 For my days pass away like smoke: my bones are burned through as with fire. Psa 102:4 My heart is scorched, withered like grass; I forget to eat my bread. Psa 102:5 By reason of my loud groaning, my flesh clings to my bones. " Psa 102:6 Like a desert-owl of the wilderness, like an owl among ruins am I. Psa 102:7 I make my sleepless lament like a bird on the house-top alone. Psa 102:8 All the day wild foes revile me, using my name for a curse. " Psa 102:9 For ashes have been my bread, and tears have been mixed with my cup. Psa 102:10 Because of your passionate anger, you did raise me, then hurl me to the ground. Psa 102:11 My days come to an end, shadows lengthen, I wither like grass. " Psa 102:12 But you, O LORD, are enthroned forever, your fame endures to all generations. Psa 102:13 You will arise and have pity on Zion; it's time to be gracious; her hour has come. Psa 102:14 For even her stones are dear to your servants, even the dust of her ruins they look on with love. " Psa 102:15 Then the nations will revere the name of the LORD and all the kings of the earth his glory, Psa 102:16 when the LORD shall have built up Zion, and revealed himself in his glory, Psa 102:17 in response to the prayer of the destitute, whose prayer he will not despise. " Psa 102:18 Let this be recorded for ages to come, that the LORD may be praised by a people yet unborn. Psa 102:19 For he shall look down from his holy height, from the heavens the LORD will gaze on the earth, Psa 102:20 to hear the groans of the prisoner, to free those who are doomed to die; Psa 102:21 that people may recount the LORD's fame in Zion, and the praise of him in Jerusalem, Psa 102:22 when the nations are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to worship the LORD. " Psa 102:23 He has broken my strength on the way, he has shortened my days. Psa 102:24 I will say, 'My God, take me not hence in the midst of my days. 'Your years endure age after age. " Psa 102:25 Of old you have founded the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. Psa 102:26 They shall perish; but you do stand. They shall all wax old like a garment, and change as a robe you will change them. Psa 102:27 But you are the same, your years are endless. " Psa 102:28 The children of your servants abide, evermore shall their seed be before you.'" Psa 103:0 ¦ <i>Of David. </i>" Psa 103:1 O my soul, bless the LORD; and all that is in me, his holy name. Psa 103:2 O my soul, bless the LORD; and forget not one of his benefits. Psa 103:3 He pardons all your sins, he heals all your diseases. Psa 103:4 He ransoms your life from the pit, he crowns you with kindness and pity. Psa 103:5 He gives you your heart's desire, renewing your youth like the eagle's. " Psa 103:6 The LORD executes justice Ð and right for all who are wronged. Psa 103:7 He revealed his ways to Moses, his acts to the children of Israel. Psa 103:8 Full of pity and grace is the LORD, patient, and rich in kindness: Psa 103:9 he will not always chide, nor cherish his anger forever. Psa 103:10 Not after our sins has he dealt with us, nor requited us after our wickedness. " Psa 103:11 For high as the heavens o'er the earth is his love over those who fear him. Psa 103:12 Far as is east from the west has he put our transgressions from us. Psa 103:13 As a father pities his children, so the LORD pities those who fear him; Psa 103:14 for well he knows our frame, he remembers that we are dust. " Psa 103:15 A person's days are as grass; blossoms like a flower of the meadow. Psa 103:16 At the breath of the wind it is gone, and the place thereof knows it no more. Psa 103:17 But the love of the LORD is eternal, and his kindness to children's children, Psa 103:18 to those who keep his covenant and mindfully do his behests. " Psa 103:19 The LORD has set his throne in the heavens; the whole world is under his sway. Psa 103:20 Bless the LORD, you angels of his, mighty heroes performing his word. Psa 103:21 Bless the LORD, all you his hosts, you servants who do his will. Psa 103:22 Bless the LORD, all you his works, far as his sway extends. O my soul, bless the LORD. Psa 104:1 Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, you are very great, clad in awful splendor, " Psa 104:2 covered with robe of light. You stretch out the heavens like the cloth of a tent. " Psa 104:3 He lays the beams of his chambers on water. He takes dark clouds for his chariot, and rides on the wings of the wind. Psa 104:4 He takes the winds for his messengers, the fire and the flame for his servants. " Psa 104:5 He founded the earth upon pillars, to sustain it unshaken forever. Psa 104:6 With the garment of ocean he covered it, waters towered over the mountains. Psa 104:7 But at your rebuke they fled, scared by the roar of your thunder, Psa 104:8 mountains rose, valleys sank down to the place appointed for them. Psa 104:9 They dared not pass the bounds set for them, or cover the earth any more. " Psa 104:10 He sent brooks into the valleys, they meander between the mountains. Psa 104:11 The wild beasts all drink from them, and the wild asses quench their thirst. Psa 104:12 The birds have their home by the banks, and sing in the branches. Psa 104:13 From his chambers above he gives drink to the mountains, and satisfies earth with the vials of heaven. " Psa 104:14 He makes grass grow for the cattle, and herbs for people. He brings bread out of the earth; " Psa 104:15 wine, to gladden hearts; oil, to make faces shine; bread, to strengthen hearts. Psa 104:16 The trees of the LORD drink their fill the cedars he planted on Lebanon, Psa 104:17 where the little birds build their nest, and the stork whose home is the cypress. Psa 104:18 The high hills are for the wild goats, and the rocks are for coneys to hide in. " Psa 104:19 He created the moon to mark seasons, and told the sun when to set. Psa 104:20 You make it dark: night comes, when all the wild beasts creep out. Psa 104:21 Young lions that roar for their prey, seeking their meat from God. Psa 104:22 At sunrise they slink away, and lie down in their dens. Psa 104:23 Then people go forth to their work, and toil till evening. " Psa 104:24 How many, O LORD, are your works, all of them made in wisdom! The earth is filled with your creatures. Psa 104:25 And there is the great broad sea, where are countless things in motion, living creatures, both great and small. Psa 104:26 There go the ships, and the Leviathan you made to play there. " Psa 104:27 They all look in hope to you, to give them their food in due season. Psa 104:28 And you give with open hand; they gather and eat to their heart's desire. Psa 104:29 When you hide your face, they are terrified; when you take their breath away, they die and go back to their dust. Psa 104:30 But a breath from your lips creates them, and renews the face of the earth. " Psa 104:31 May the glory of the LORD be forever, may the LORD rejoice in his works. Psa 104:32 A glance of his makes the earth tremble, a touch of his makes the hills smoke. Psa 104:33 I will sing to the LORD while I live, I will play to my God while I am. Psa 104:34 May my musing be sweet to him, for I rejoice in the LORD. Psa 104:35 But may sinners be swept from the earth, and the wicked vanish forever. O my soul, bless the LORD. Hallelujah. Psa 105:1 Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name: make known his deeds among the nations. Psa 105:2 Sing to him, make music to him, tell of all his wondrous works. Psa 105:3 Make your boast in his holy name, be glad at heart, you who seek the LORD. Psa 105:4 Seek after the LORD and his strength, seek his face evermore. Psa 105:5 Remember the wonders he did, his portents, the judgments he uttered, Psa 105:6 you who are offspring of Abraham, his servant, the children of Jacob, his chosen ones. " Psa 105:7 He is the LORD our God: in all the earth are his judgments. Psa 105:8 He remembers forever his covenant, his promise for a thousand generations Psa 105:9 The covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac, Psa 105:10 and confirmed as a statute to Jacob, a pact everlasting to Israel Psa 105:11 to give them the land of Canaan as the lot which they should inherit. " Psa 105:12 And when they were very few, few and but pilgrims therein, Psa 105:13 wandering from nation to nation, journeying from people to people, Psa 105:14 he allowed no one to oppress them, even punishing kings for their sakes. Psa 105:15 He forbade them to touch his anointed, or do any hurt to his prophets. " Psa 105:16 When he called down famine on the land, and cut off the bread which sustained them, Psa 105:17 he sent before them a man, Joseph, who was sold as a slave. Psa 105:18 His feet were galled with fetters, he was laid in chains of iron, Psa 105:19 till the time that his word came to pass, the word of the LORD that had tried him. " Psa 105:20 The king sent and freed him, the ruler of nations released him. Psa 105:21 He made him lord of his household, and ruler of all his possessions, Psa 105:22 to admonish his princes at will and instruct his elders in wisdom. " Psa 105:23 Thus Israel came into Egypt, Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. Psa 105:24 His people he made very fruitful, and mightier than their foes. Psa 105:25 He inspired them to hate his people, and to deal with his servants craftily. " Psa 105:26 He sent his servant Moses, and Aaron whom he had chosen, Psa 105:27 portents he wrought in Egypt, and signs in the land of Ham. Psa 105:28 Darkness he sent, and it fell: yet they gave no heed to his word. " Psa 105:29 He turned their waters into blood, thus causing their fish to die. Psa 105:30 Their land was alive with frogs, swarming even in the royal chambers. Psa 105:31 At his command came flies, and lice in all their borders. Psa 105:32 He gave them hail for rain and fire that flashed through the land, Psa 105:33 smiting their vines and figs, breaking the trees of their border. " Psa 105:34 At his command came locusts, young locusts beyond all counting, Psa 105:35 which ate every herb in the land, ate up, too, the fruit of their ground. Psa 105:36 He struck down in their land all the first-born, the firstlings of all their strength Psa 105:37 Then forth he led Israel with silver and gold, and among his tribes no one was weary. " Psa 105:38 Egypt was glad when they left, for terror had fallen upon them. Psa 105:39 He spread out a cloud to screen them, and fire to give light in the night. Psa 105:40 He sent quails at their entreaty, and heavenly bread in abundance. Psa 105:41 He opened the rock; waters gushed: in the desert they ran like a river. Psa 105:42 For he remembered his holy promise to Abraham his servant. " Psa 105:43 So he led out his people with joy, his elect with a ringing cry. Psa 105:44 And he gave them the lands of the nations, the fruit of their toil for possession, Psa 105:45 that so they might keep his statutes, and be of his laws observant. Hallelujah. " Psa 106:1 Hallelujah! Give thanks to the LORD for his goodness, for his kindness endures forever. Psa 106:2 Who can describe his heroic deeds, or publish all his praise? Psa 106:3 Happy they who act justly, and do righteousness evermore. " Psa 106:4 Remember me, LORD, as you remember your people, and visit me with your gracious help. Psa 106:5 May I see the good fortune of your elect, may I share in the joy of your nation, and in the pride of your heritage. " Psa 106:6 We, like our fathers, have sinned, we have done perversely and wickedly Psa 106:7 In the land of Egypt our fathers, all heedless of your wonders, and unmindful of your great kindness, at the Red Sea defied the Most High. Psa 106:8 But true to his name he saved them, in order to show his might. Psa 106:9 He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried; they marched through the depths as through desert, Psa 106:10 saved from the hand of the hostile, redeemed from the hand of the foe. Psa 106:11 The waters covered their enemies: not one of them was left. Psa 106:12 So then they believed in his words, and began to sing his praise. " Psa 106:13 But soon they forgot his deeds: they did not wait for his counsel. Psa 106:14 Their greed was ravenous in the desert; they put God to the test in the wilderness. Psa 106:15 He gave them the thing they had asked for, but sent wasting disease among them. " Psa 106:16 The camp grew jealous of Moses and of Aaron, holy one of the LORD. Psa 106:17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered Abiram's company. Psa 106:18 Fire broke out on their company, flame kindled upon the wicked. " Psa 106:19 They made a calf in Horeb, and bowed to the molten image. Psa 106:20 They exchanged their glorious God for the image of ox that eats grass. Psa 106:21 They forgot the God who had saved them by mighty deeds in Egypt Psa 106:22 Wonders in the land of Ham, terrors by the Red Sea. Psa 106:23 So he vowed, and would have destroyed them, but for Moses his elect, who stepped into the breach before him, to divert his deadly wrath. " Psa 106:24 They spurned the delightsome land, they refused to believe in his word. Psa 106:25 They grumbled in their tents, would not listen to the voice of the LORD. Psa 106:26 So he swore with uplifted hand to lay them low in the wilderness; Psa 106:27 to disperse their seed among heathen, to scatter them over the world. " Psa 106:28 Then they joined them to Baal of Peor, and ate what was offered the dead. Psa 106:29 They provoked him to wrath by their deeds, and plague broke out among them. Psa 106:30 Then Phinehas stood between, and so the plague was stayed; Psa 106:31 and it was counted to him for righteousness unto all generations forever. " Psa 106:32 They angered him at the waters of Meribah, through them it went ill with Moses. Psa 106:33 They rebelled against his spirit, and he uttered speech that was rash. " Psa 106:34 They did not destroy the nations, as the LORD had commanded them; " Psa 106:35 but they mingled with the heathen, and learned to do as they did. " Psa 106:36 Their idol gods they worshipped, and they were ensnared by them. " Psa 106:37 They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons. " Psa 106:38 They poured out innocent blood the blood of their sons and daughters whom they offered to Canaan's idols, and the land was polluted with blood. " Psa 106:39 They became unclean by their works, and adulterous in their deeds. " Psa 106:40 Then the LORD's fury was on his people, filled with horror at his inheritance. " Psa 106:41 He delivered them to the heathen, to the sway of those who hated them. " Psa 106:42 Their enemies oppressed them, and subdued them under their hand. " Psa 106:43 Many a time he saved them, but they rebelled at his counsel, and were brought low by their wrongdoing. Psa 106:44 Yet he looked upon their distress, when he heard their cry. Psa 106:45 He remembered his covenant, and, in his great kindness, relented. Psa 106:46 He caused them to be pitied by all who carried them captive. " Psa 106:47 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us out of the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, and to make our boast of your praise. <br" Psa 106:48 <i>Blessed be the </i><c><i>Lord</i></c><i>, the God of Israel, </i> <i>from everlasting to everlasting. </i> <i>And let all the people say 'Amen.' </i> " Psa 107:1 Give thanks to the LORD for his goodness for his kindness endures forever. Psa 107:2 Let this be the song of the ransomed, whom the LORD has redeemed from distress, Psa 107:3 gathering them from all lands, east, west, north, and south. " Psa 107:4 In the wastes of the desert some wandered, finding no way to a city inhabited. Psa 107:5 Full of hunger and thirst, their spirit failed. Psa 107:6 Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them from their distresses, Psa 107:7 guiding them straight on the way, till they reached an inhabited city. Psa 107:8 Let them thank the LORD for his kindness, for his wonderful deeds for people; Psa 107:9 for the thirsty he satisfies, and the hungry he fills with good things. " Psa 107:10 Some sat in darkness and gloom prisoners in irons and misery, Psa 107:11 for rebelling against God's word, and spurning the Most High's counsel. Psa 107:12 Their heart was bowed with toil; there was no one to help when they stumbled. Psa 107:13 Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them from their distresses. Psa 107:14 Out of darkness and gloom he brought them, and burst their chains. Psa 107:15 Let them praise the LORD for his kindness, for his wonderful deeds for people. Psa 107:16 For he shattered the gates of bronze, and broke bars of iron. " Psa 107:17 Some were sick from their wicked ways, and suffering because of their sins. Psa 107:18 All manner of food they hated; they had come to the gates of death. Psa 107:19 Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them from their distresses. Psa 107:20 He sent his word and healed them, and delivered their life from the pit. Psa 107:21 Let them praise the LORD for his kindness, for his wonderful deeds for people. Psa 107:22 Let them offer to him thankofferings, and with joy tell what things he has done. " Psa 107:23 Some crossed the sea in ships, doing business in great waters. Psa 107:24 They have seen what the LORD can do, and his wonderful deeds on the deep. Psa 107:25 At his command rose a tempest, which lifted the waves on high. Psa 107:26 Up to heaven they went, down to the depths; their courage failed them. Psa 107:27 They staggered and reeled like drunkards; all their skills useless. Psa 107:28 Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them from their distresses. Psa 107:29 He stilled the storm to a whisper, and the waves of the sea were hushed. Psa 107:30 They were glad, because it was quiet; they were led to the haven they longed for. Psa 107:31 Let them praise the LORD, for his kindness, for his wonderful deeds for people. Psa 107:32 Where the people assemble, extol him, and praise him in council of elders. " Psa 107:33 He turns streams into a wilderness, springs of water into thirsty land, Psa 107:34 fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the sin of the people. Psa 107:35 A desert he makes pools of water, a land of drought into springs of water. Psa 107:36 He settles the hungry therein, they establish a city to live in. Psa 107:37 They sow fields and plant vineyards, which furnish a fruitful yield. Psa 107:38 By his blessing they multiply greatly, and he lets not their cattle decrease. " Psa 107:39 Yet when they are bowed and diminished by oppression, misfortune, or sorrow, Psa 107:40 he pours contempt upon princes, and on trackless wastes leads them astray Psa 107:41 He lifts the poor out of misery, and makes families fruitful as flocks. Psa 107:42 At this sight shall the upright be glad, and all wicked mouths shall be stopped. Psa 107:43 Let those who are wise observe this, and consider the love of the LORD" Psa 108:0 ¦ <i>A song. A psalm of David. </i>" Psa 108:1 My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast. I would sing, I would make music; awake, my soul. Psa 108:2 Awake, harp and lyre; I would wake the dawn. Psa 108:3 I would praise you among the peoples, O LORD; make music among the nations to you. Psa 108:4 For great to heaven is your love, and your faithfulness to the clouds. Psa 108:5 Be exalted, O God, o'er the heavens, and your glory o'er all the earth. " Psa 108:6 So those you love may be rescued, save by your right hand and answer us. Psa 108:7 God did solemnly swear: 'As victor will I divide Shechem, portion out the valley of Succoth. " Psa 108:8 Mine is Gilead, mine is Manasseh, Ephraim is my helmet, Judah my sceptre of rule, Psa 108:9 Moab the pot that I wash in, on Edom I hurl my sandal, I shout o'er Philistia in triumph.' " Psa 108:10 O to be brought to the fortified city! O to be led into Edom! Psa 108:11 Have you not spurned us, O God? You do not march forth with our armies. " Psa 108:12 Grant us help from the foe, for human help is worthless. Psa 108:13 With God we shall yet do bravely, he himself will tread down our foes." Psa 109:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. Of David, a psalm. </i>" Psa 109:1 O God whom I praise, keep not silence; " Psa 109:2 for their wicked mouths they have opened against me, they speak to me with tongues that are false, Psa 109:3 they beset me with words of hatred, and fight without cause against me. Psa 109:4 My love they requite with hostility, while for them I lift up my prayer. Psa 109:5 Evil for good they reward me, and hatred for my love. " Psa 109:6 'Set over him one who is godless,' they say, 'an opponent at his right hand. Psa 109:7 From his trial let him come forth guilty, may his prayer be counted as sin. Psa 109:8 Grant that his days may be few, that his office be seized by another. Psa 109:9 Grant that his children be fatherless, and that his wife be a widow. Psa 109:10 Up and down may his children go begging, expelled from their desolate home. Psa 109:11 May all that he owns be seized by the creditor may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil. " Psa 109:12 'May none extend to him kindness, or pity his fatherless children. Psa 109:13 His descendants be doomed to destruction! Blotted out be his name in one generation! Psa 109:14 May his father's guilt be remembered, and his mother's sin not blotted out: Psa 109:15 on record always before the LORD, and his memory root from the earth; Psa 109:16 for he gave no thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and the needy, drove the downhearted to death. " Psa 109:17 'May the curses he loved light upon him, may the blessings he loathed be afar. Psa 109:18 Like a garment he clothed him with curses; may they pierce to his inwards like water, and cling to his bones like oil. Psa 109:19 Let them be like the robe he wraps round him, like the belt he wears every day.' Psa 109:20 Be this the reward of my adversaries, of those who speak evil against me. " Psa 109:21 But you, LORD my <c>God</c>, be true to your name, deal kindly with me; in your gracious kindness save me. Psa 109:22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. Psa 109:23 I am gone like a lengthening shadow, I am shaken off like a locust. Psa 109:24 My knees totter from fasting, my flesh is shrivelled and spare. Psa 109:25 They heap insults upon me: when they see me, they shake their head. " Psa 109:26 Help me, O LORD my God, and save me in your kindness. Psa 109:27 Teach them that this is your hand, and your own doing, O LORD. Psa 109:28 Let them curse, if only you bless. Put my assailants to shame, and make your servant glad. Psa 109:29 My opponents be clothed with dishonor, and wrapped in a robe of shame. " Psa 109:30 I give thanks to you, LORD, with loud voice, I give praise in the midst of the throng; Psa 109:31 for he stands by the poor, at his right hand, to save them from those who condemn them." Psa 110:0 ¦ <i>Of David, a psalm. </i>" Psa 110:1 This said the LORD concerning my lord, 'Sit at my right hand, till I set your foot on the neck of your foes.' " Psa 110:2 On Zion the LORD is wielding your sceptre of might, and charges you to rule over the foes that surround you. " Psa 110:3 The day that you march to battle your people will follow you gladly young warriors in holy array, like dew-drops, born of the morning. " Psa 110:4 The LORD has sworn and will not repent, 'As for you, you are priest for ever as Melchizedek was.' " Psa 110:5 By your side will the LORD shatter kings on the day of his wrath. Psa 110:6 He will execute judgment filling the valleys with dead, the broad fields with shattered heads. Psa 110:7 He will drink of the brook by the way, and march onward with uplifted head. " Psa 111:1 Hallelujah. I will thank the LORD with all my heart, in the assembled congregation of his people. Psa 111:2 Great are the things that the LORD has done, worthy of study by those who love them. Psa 111:3 Majestic and glorious is his work, and his righteousness abides forever. Psa 111:4 For his marvelous deeds he has won renown; the LORD is gracious and full of compassion. Psa 111:5 Food he gives to those who fear him, always he remembers his covenant. Psa 111:6 His mighty works he has shown to his people, in giving to them the nations for heritage. Psa 111:7 All that he does is faithful and right, all his behests are firm and sure. Psa 111:8 They are established for ever and ever, executed with truth and uprightness. Psa 111:9 To his people he sent redemption, he has appointed his covenant forever. His name is holy and awe-inspiring. " Psa 111:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom those who keep it are wise indeed. His praise abides for ever and ever. " Psa 112:1 Hallelujah. Happy are those who fear the LORD, and greatly delight in his commandments. Psa 112:2 Mighty on earth shall be their seed; a blessing shall rest on the race of the upright. Psa 112:3 Wealth and riches are in their houses, their prosperity stands forever. Psa 112:4 To the upright arises light in the darkness; full of favor and pity and kindness are they. Psa 112:5 It is well with those who show pity and lend, who support all their affairs upon justice. Psa 112:6 For they will never be shaken; the just will be forever remembered. Psa 112:7 They will not be afraid of evil tidings, with steady heart they trust the LORD. Psa 112:8 Their heart is firm and unafraid: they know they will feast their eyes on their enemies. " Psa 112:9 With lavish hands they give to the poor, and their prosperity stands forever. They are lifted to heights of triumph and honor. Psa 112:10 The sight of them fills the wicked with anger: grinding their teeth with despair. The hopes of the wicked will come to nothing. " Psa 113:1 Hallelujah. Praise the LORD, you his servants, praise the name of the LORD. Psa 113:2 The name of the LORD be blessed from now and for evermore. Psa 113:3 From sunrise to sunset is the name of the LORD to be praised. " Psa 113:4 High is the LORD above all nations, above the heavens is his glory. Psa 113:5 Who is like the LORD our God, seated on high? Psa 113:6 He bends down to look at the heavens and earth. " Psa 113:7 He raises the weak from the dust, he lifts the poor from the dunghill, Psa 113:8 and sets them beside the princes, even the princes of his people. Psa 113:9 He gives the childless woman a home, and makes her the happy mother of children. Hallelujah. Psa 114:1 When Israel went out of Egypt, Jacob's house from a barbarous people, Psa 114:2 God chose Judah for himself, Israel became his kingdom. " Psa 114:3 The sea saw it, and fled, Jordan river ran backwards. Psa 114:4 Mountains skipped like rams, hills like the young of the flock. " Psa 114:5 Why, sea, do you flee? Jordan, why run backwards? Psa 114:6 Mountains, why skip ram-like? Why, hills, like the young of the flock? " Psa 114:7 Earth, tremble before the LORD, at the presence of Jacob's God, Psa 114:8 who turns rocks into pools of water, and flint into fountains of water. Psa 115:1 Not to us, LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your kindness' and faithfulness' sake. Psa 115:2 Why should the heathen say, 'Where is now their God?' Psa 115:3 Our God he is in heaven; whatever he wishes, he does. Psa 115:4 Their idols are silver and gold, made by human hands. Psa 115:5 They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see. Psa 115:6 They have ears, but cannot hear; they have noses, but cannot smell. Psa 115:7 They have hands, but cannot feel; they have feet, but cannot walk: no sound comes from their throats. Psa 115:8 Their makers become like them, so do all who trust in them. " Psa 115:9 O Israel, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. Psa 115:10 House of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. Psa 115:11 You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD he is their help and their shield. " Psa 115:12 The LORD, mindful of us, will bless us: he will bless the house of Israel, he will bless the house of Aaron. Psa 115:13 He will bless those who fear the LORD, the small and the great together. " Psa 115:14 May the LORD add to your numbers to you and to your children. Psa 115:15 Blessed be you of the LORD, creator of heaven and earth. " Psa 115:16 The heavens are the heavens of the LORD, but the earth has he given to people. Psa 115:17 The dead cannot praise the LORD, nor those who go down into silence. Psa 115:18 But we will bless the LORD from now and for evermore. Hallelujah. Psa 116:1 I love the LORD, for he hears my voice, my pleas for mercy. Psa 116:2 For he has inclined his ear to me: I will call upon him as long as I live. " Psa 116:3 About me were snares of death, the anguish of Sheol was upon me: distress and sorrow were mine. Psa 116:4 Then I called on the name of the LORD: 'I beseech you, O LORD, deliver me.' " Psa 116:5 Gracious and just is the LORD, compassionate is our God. Psa 116:6 The LORD preserves the simple; when I was drooping, he saved me. Psa 116:7 Be at peace, my heart, once more, for the LORD has been good to you. " Psa 116:8 You have rescued me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling. Psa 116:9 Before the LORD I will walk in the land of the living. " Psa 116:10 I held fast my faith, though I said, 'Ah me! I am sore afflicted,' Psa 116:11 though in my alarm I said, 'Everyone is a liar.' " Psa 116:12 What shall I render the LORD for all his bounty to me? Psa 116:13 I will lift up the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the LORD. Psa 116:14 I will pay my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people. " Psa 116:15 Grave in the eyes of the LORD is the death of his loyal and loved ones. Psa 116:16 Ah, LORD! I am your servant, your servant, child of your handmaid. You have loosened my bonds. " Psa 116:17 I will offer to you a thank-offering, and call on the name of the LORD. Psa 116:18 I will pay my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people, Psa 116:19 in the courts of the house of the LORD, in the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Hallelujah. Psa 117:1 Praise the LORD, all you nations: laud him, all you peoples. Psa 117:2 For his mighty love is over us: the LORD is faithful forever. Hallelujah. Psa 118:1 Give thanks to the LORD for his goodness, his kindness endures forever. Psa 118:2 Let the house of Israel now say: his kindness endures forever. Psa 118:3 Let the house of Aaron now say: his kindness endures forever. Psa 118:4 Let those who fear the LORD now say: his kindness endures forever. " Psa 118:5 Out of straits I called on the LORD, the LORD answered and gave me room. Psa 118:6 The LORD is mine; I am fearless. What can mere people do to me? Psa 118:7 The LORD is mine, as my help: I shall feast my eyes on my foes. Psa 118:8 It is better to hide in the LORD than to trust in mortals. Psa 118:9 It is better to hide in the LORD than to put any trust in princes. Psa 118:10 Everywhere heathen swarmed round me; in the name of the LORD I cut them down. Psa 118:11 They swarmed, swarmed around me; in the name of the LORD I cut them down, Psa 118:12 they swarmed around me like bees, they blazed like a fire of thorns: in the name of the LORD I cut them down. " Psa 118:13 Sore they pushed me, to make me fall; but the LORD gave me his help. Psa 118:14 The LORD is my strength and my song, and he is become my salvation. Psa 118:15 Hark! In the tents of the righteous glad cries of victory are ringing. The hand of the LORD has wrought bravely, " Psa 118:16 the hand of the LORD is exalted, the hand of the LORD has wrought bravely. " Psa 118:17 I shall not die: nay, I shall live, to declare the works of the LORD. Psa 118:18 Though the LORD has chastened me sore, he has not given me over to death. <i>(The Procession arrives at the Temple) </i>" Psa 118:19 'Open to me the gates of victory. I would enter therein and give thanks to the LORD.' <i>(The Welcome) </i>" Psa 118:20 'This is the gate of the LORD: the righteous may enter therein;' " Psa 118:21 I thank you because you have heard me, and are become my salvation. " Psa 118:22 The stone which the builders despised is become the head-stone of the corner. Psa 118:23 This has been wrought by the LORD; it is marvelous in our eyes. " Psa 118:24 This day is the LORD's own creation: in it let us joy and be glad. Psa 118:25 O LORD, save us, we pray, O LORD, prosper, we pray. " Psa 118:26 Blessed the one who enters in the name of the LORD. From the house of the LORD we bless you. Psa 118:27 The LORD is God, he has given us light. Wreathe the dance with boughs, till they touch the horns of the altar. Psa 118:28 You are my God, I will thank you; O my God, I will exalt you. Psa 118:29 Give thanks to the LORD for his goodness: his kindness endures forever. Psa 119:1 Happy they whose life is blameless, who walk by the law of the LORD. Psa 119:2 Happy they who keep his charges, and seek him with all their hearts; Psa 119:3 who have done no wrong, but walk in his ways. Psa 119:4 You yourself have appointed your precepts to be kept with diligence. " Psa 119:5 O to be steadily guided in the keeping of your statutes! Psa 119:6 Then unashamed shall I be, when I look towards all your commandments. Psa 119:7 I will thank you with heart unfeigned, when I learn your righteous judgments. Psa 119:8 I will observe your statutes: O forsake me not utterly. " Psa 119:9 How can a young person keep their life pure? By giving heed to your word. Psa 119:10 With all my heart have I sought you, let me not stray from your commandments. Psa 119:11 In my heart have I treasured your word, to keep from sinning against you. Psa 119:12 Blessed are you, O LORD; teach me your statutes. Psa 119:13 With my lips have I rehearsed all the judgments of your mouth. Psa 119:14 I delight in the way of your charges, more than in riches of all sorts. Psa 119:15 I will muse upon your precepts, and look to your paths. Psa 119:16 In your statutes I delight, I will not forget your word. " Psa 119:17 Grant that your servant may live, and I will observe your word. Psa 119:18 Open my eyes, that I see wondrous things out of your law. Psa 119:19 But a guest am I on the earth: hide not your commandments from me. Psa 119:20 My heart is crushed with longing for your ordinances, at all times. Psa 119:21 You rebuke the proud, the accursed, who wander from your commandments. Psa 119:22 Roll away from me scorn and contempt, for I have observed your charges. Psa 119:23 Though princes sit plotting against me, your servant will muse on your statutes. Psa 119:24 Your charges are my delight, they are my counsellors. " Psa 119:25 I lie grovelling in the dust; revive me, as you have promised. Psa 119:26 I told of my ways, you made answer; teach me your statutes. Psa 119:27 Grant me insight into your precepts, and I will muse on your wonders. Psa 119:28 I am overcome with sorrow; raise me up, as you have promised. Psa 119:29 Put the way of falsehood from me, and graciously grant me your law. Psa 119:30 I have chosen the way of fidelity, your ordinances I long for. Psa 119:31 I hold fast to your charges: O put me not, LORD, to shame. Psa 119:32 I will run in the way of your commandments, for you give me room of heart. " Psa 119:33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of your statutes, and I will keep it to the end, Psa 119:34 instruct me to keep your law, and I will observe it with all my heart. Psa 119:35 Guide me in the path of your commandments, for therein do I delight. Psa 119:36 Incline my heart to your charges, and not to greed of gain. Psa 119:37 Turn away my eyes from vain sights, revive me by your word. Psa 119:38 Confirm to your servant the promise which is given to those who fear you. Psa 119:39 Remove the reproach which I dread, because your judgments are good. Psa 119:40 Behold, I long for your precepts. Quicken me in your righteousness. " Psa 119:41 Visit me, LORD, with your love and salvation, as you have promised. Psa 119:42 So shall I answer my slanderers, for my trust is in your word. Psa 119:43 Snatch not from my mouth the word of truth, for in your judgments I hope. Psa 119:44 I will keep your law continually, for ever and evermore. Psa 119:45 So shall I walk in wide spaces, for I give my mind to your precepts. Psa 119:46 I will speak of your charge before kings, and will not be ashamed thereof. Psa 119:47 Your commandments are my delight, I love them exceedingly. Psa 119:48 I will lift up my hands to your commandments, and muse upon your statutes. " Psa 119:49 Remember your word to your servant, on which you have made me to hope. Psa 119:50 This is my comfort in trouble, that your word gives life to me. Psa 119:51 The arrogant utterly scorn me, but I have not declined from your law. Psa 119:52 When I think of your judgments of old, O LORD, I take to me comfort. Psa 119:53 I am seized with glowing anger at the wicked who forsake your law. Psa 119:54 Your statutes have been to me songs in the house of my pilgrimage. Psa 119:55 I remember your name in the night, O LORD and observe your law. Psa 119:56 My lot has been this, that I have kept your precepts. " Psa 119:57 My portion are you, O LORD: I have promised to keep your words. Psa 119:58 I entreat you with all my heart; grant me your promised favor. Psa 119:59 I have thought upon my ways, and turned my feet to your charges. Psa 119:60 I hasted and tarried not to give heed to your commandments. Psa 119:61 Though the godless have wound their cords round me, I have not forgotten your law. Psa 119:62 At midnight I rise to praise you because of your righteous judgments. Psa 119:63 With all those who fear you I company, aid with those who observe your precepts. Psa 119:64 The earth, LORD, is full of your kindness; teach me your Statutes. " Psa 119:65 Well have you dealt with your servant, as you have promised, O LORD. Psa 119:66 Teach me discretion and knowledge, for I have believed your commandments. Psa 119:67 Till trouble came I was a wanderer, but now I observe your word. Psa 119:68 You are good and do good; teach me your statutes. Psa 119:69 The proud have forged lies against me, but I keep your precepts with all my heart. Psa 119:70 Their heart is gross like fat, but I delight in your law. Psa 119:71 It was good for me to be humbled, that I should learn your statutes. Psa 119:72 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of silver and gold. " Psa 119:73 Your hands have made me and fashioned me; make me wise to learn your commandments. Psa 119:74 Those who fear you shall see me with joy, for in your word have I hoped. Psa 119:75 I know, O LORD, that your judgments are right, and in faithfulness you have afflicted me. Psa 119:76 Let your love be a comfort to me, for so have you promised your servant. Psa 119:77 Visit me with your quickening pity, for your law is my delight. Psa 119:78 Put the proud to shame, who have wronged me falsely: I will muse on your precepts. Psa 119:79 Let those turn to me who fear you, that they may learn your charges. Psa 119:80 Let my heart be sound in your statutes, that I may not be put to shame. " Psa 119:81 My long for you to rescue me, I put my hope in your word. Psa 119:82 My eyes pine away for your promise: saying, 'When will you comfort me?' Psa 119:83 Though shrivelled like wine-skin in smoke, your statutes I have not forgotten. Psa 119:84 How few are the days of your servant! When will you judge those who harass me? Psa 119:85 Proud people have dug for me pits people who do not conform to your law. Psa 119:86 All your commandments are trusty. With falsehood they harass me: help me. Psa 119:87 They had nearly made an end of me, yet I did not forget your precepts. Psa 119:88 Spare me in your kindness, and I will observe the charge of your mouth. " Psa 119:89 Forever, O LORD, is your word fixed firmly in the heavens. Psa 119:90 Your truth endures age after age; it is established on earth, and it stands. Psa 119:91 By your appointment they stand this day, for all are your servants. Psa 119:92 Had not your law been my joy, in my misery then had I perished. Psa 119:93 I will never forget your precepts, for through them you have put life in me. Psa 119:94 I am yours, O save me, for I give my mind to your precepts. Psa 119:95 The wicked lay wait to destroy me, but I give heed to your charge. Psa 119:96 I have seen a limit to all things: but your commandment is spacious exceedingly. " Psa 119:97 O how I love your law! All the day long I muse on it. Psa 119:98 Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies: for it is mine forever. Psa 119:99 I am prudent above all my teachers, for your charges are my meditation. Psa 119:100 I have insight more than the aged, because I observe your precepts. Psa 119:101 I refrain my foot from all wicked ways, that I may keep your word. Psa 119:102 I turn not aside from your judgments, for you yourself are my teacher. Psa 119:103 How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Psa 119:104 Insight I win through your precepts, therefore every false way I hate. " Psa 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path. Psa 119:106 I have sworn an oath, and will keep it, to observe your righteous judgments. Psa 119:107 I am afflicted sorely: revive me, O LORD, as you said. Psa 119:108 Accept, LORD, my willing praise, and teach me your judgments. Psa 119:109 My life is in ceaseless peril; but I do not forget your law. Psa 119:110 The wicked set traps for me, yet I do not stray from your precepts. Psa 119:111 In your charges are my everlasting inheritance, they are the joy of my heart. Psa 119:112 I am resolved to perform your statutes forever, to the utmost. " Psa 119:113 I hate people of divided heart, but your law do I love. Psa 119:114 You are my shelter and shield: in your word do I hope. Psa 119:115 Begone, you wicked people, I will keep the commands of my God. Psa 119:116 Uphold me and spare me, as you have promised: O disappoint me not. Psa 119:117 Hold me up, and I shall be saved: and your statutes shall be my unceasing delight. Psa 119:118 All who swerve from your statutes you spurn: their cunning is in vain. Psa 119:119 All the wicked of earth you count as dross, therefore I love your charges. Psa 119:120 My flesh, for fear of you, shudders, and I stand in awe of your judgments. " Psa 119:121 Justice and right have I practised, do not leave me to my oppressors. Psa 119:122 Be your servant's surety for good, let not the proud oppress me. Psa 119:123 My eyes pine for your salvation, and for your righteous promise. Psa 119:124 Deal in your love with your servant, and teach me your statutes. Psa 119:125 Your servant am I; instruct me, that I may know your charges. Psa 119:126 It is time for the LORD to act: they have violated your law. Psa 119:127 Therefore I love your commandments above gold, above fine gold. Psa 119:128 So by all your precepts I guide me, and every false way I hate. " Psa 119:129 Your decrees are wonderful, gladly I keep them. Psa 119:130 When your word is unfolded, light breaks; it imparts to the simple wisdom. Psa 119:131 With open mouth I pant with longing for your commandments. Psa 119:132 Turn to me with your favor, as is just to those who love you. Psa 119:133 Steady my steps by your word, so that sin have no power over me. Psa 119:134 Set me free from those who oppress me, and I shall observe your precepts. Psa 119:135 Shine with your face on your servant, and teach me your statutes. Psa 119:136 My eyes run down with rills of water, because your law is not kept. " Psa 119:137 Righteous are you, O LORD, and right are your ordinances. Psa 119:138 The laws you has ordered are just, and trusty exceedingly. Psa 119:139 My jealousy has undone me, that my foes have forgotten your words. Psa 119:140 Your word has been tested well; and your servant loves it. Psa 119:141 I am little and held in contempt, but your precepts I have not forgotten. Psa 119:142 Just is your justice forever, and trusty is your law. Psa 119:143 Stress and strain are upon me, but your commandments are my delight. Psa 119:144 Right are your charges forever, instruct me that I may live. " Psa 119:145 With my whole heart I cry; O answer me. I would keep your statutes, O LORD. Psa 119:146 I cry to you: O save me, and I will observe your charges. Psa 119:147 Ere the dawn I cry for your help: in your word do I hope. Psa 119:148 Awake I meet the night-watches, to muse upon your sayings. Psa 119:149 Hear my voice in your kindness: O LORD, by your judgments revive me. Psa 119:150 Near me are wicked tormentors, who are far from thoughts of your law; Psa 119:151 but near, too, are you, O LORD, and all your commandments are trusty. Psa 119:152 Long have I known from your charges that you have founded them for all time. " Psa 119:153 Look on my misery, and rescue me; for I do not forget your law. Psa 119:154 Defend my cause and redeem me: revive me, as you have promised. Psa 119:155 Salvation is far from the wicked, for their mind is not in your statutes. Psa 119:156 Great is your pity, O LORD: Revive me, as you have ordained. Psa 119:157 My foes and tormentors are many, but I have not declined from your charges. Psa 119:158 I behold the traitors with loathing, for they do not observe your word. Psa 119:159 Behold how I love your precepts: revive me, O LORD!, in your kindness. Psa 119:160 The sum of your word is truth, all your laws are just and eternal. " Psa 119:161 Princes have harassed me wantonly: but my heart stands in awe of your word. Psa 119:162 Over your word I rejoice as one who finds great spoil. Psa 119:163 Falsehood I hate and abhor, but your law do I love. Psa 119:164 Seven times a day do I praise you because of your righteous judgments. Psa 119:165 Right well do they fare who love your law: they go on their way without stumbling. Psa 119:166 I hope for your salvation; O LORD I do your commandments. Psa 119:167 I observe your charges: I love them greatly. Psa 119:168 I observe your precepts and charges: all my ways are before you. " Psa 119:169 Let my cry come before you, O LORD: give me insight, as you have promised. Psa 119:170 Let my prayer enter into your presence: deliver me, as you have said. Psa 119:171 My lips shall be fountains of praise, that you teach me your statutes. Psa 119:172 My tongue shall sing of your word, for all your commandments are right. Psa 119:173 Let your hand be ready to help me, for your precepts have been my choice. Psa 119:174 I long, LORD, for your salvation, and your law is my delight. Psa 119:175 Revive me that I may praise you, and let your precepts help me. Psa 119:176 I have strayed like a wandering sheep seek your servant, because I do not forget your commandments." Psa 120:0 ¦ <i>A song of ascents. </i>" Psa 120:1 In distress I cried to the LORD, and he answered me. Psa 120:2 'Deliver me, LORD, from the lip that is false and the tongue that is crafty.' " Psa 120:3 What shall he give to you, you tongue that is crafty? What yet shall he give to you? Psa 120:4 Arrows of warrior, sharpened, with glowing broom coals together. " Psa 120:5 Woe is me that I sojourn in Meshech, that I live by the tents of Kedar. Psa 120:6 Already too long have I dwelt among those who hate peace. Psa 120:7 I am for peace: but when I speak of it, they are for war. Psa 121:1 I will lift up my eyes to the mountains. O whence shall help for me come? Psa 121:2 From the LORD comes help to me the creator of heaven and earth. " Psa 121:3 Your foot he will not let totter: he who guards you will not sleep. Psa 121:4 The guardian of Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. " Psa 121:5 The LORD is he who guards you your shelter upon your right hand. Psa 121:6 The sun by day shall not strike you, nor the moon by night. " Psa 121:7 From all evil the LORD will guard you, he will guard your life. Psa 121:8 The LORD will guard your going and coming from now and for evermore." Psa 122:0 ¦ <i>A song of ascents. Of David. </i>" Psa 122:1 I was glad when they said to me, 'We will go to the house of the LORD.' Psa 122:2 Now we are standing, within your gates, O Jerusalem. " Psa 122:3 O Jerusalem, built close-packed, like a city without breach or gap, Psa 122:4 to you do the tribes come, the tribes of the LORD, as the law has ordained for Israel, there to give thanks to the LORD. Psa 122:5 There once stood thrones of justice even thrones of the household of David. " Psa 122:6 Pray that all may be well with Jerusalem, and well with those who love you, Psa 122:7 well within your ramparts, and well within your palaces. " Psa 122:8 For the sake of my brethren and friends, I will wish you now prosperity: Psa 122:9 for the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good." Psa 123:0 ¦ <i>A song of ascents. </i>" Psa 123:1 I Lift up my eyes to you, who are throned in the heavens. Psa 123:2 As the eyes of a servant turn to the hand of his master, or the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so do our eyes turn to the <c>Lord<" Psa 123:3 Be gracious, be gracious to us, LORD. Scorn enough, and more, have we borne Psa 123:4 More than enough have we borne of derision from those at their ease, of scorn from those who are haughty." Psa 124:0 ¦ <i>A song of ascents. Of David. </i>" Psa 124:1 'Had it not been the LORD who was for us' let Israel say Psa 124:2 'Had it not been the LORD who was for us when enemies rose against us, Psa 124:3 then alive they'd have swallowed us up, when their anger was kindled against us. Psa 124:4 Then the waters would've swept us away, and the torrent passed over us clean: Psa 124:5 then most sure would've passed over us clean the wild seething waters.' " Psa 124:6 Blest be the LORD who has given us not to be torn by their teeth. Psa 124:7 We are like a bird just escaped from the snare of the fowler. The snare is broken, and we are escaped. Psa 124:8 Our help is the name of the LORD, the Creator of heaven and earth." Psa 125:0 ¦ <i>A song of ascents. </i>" Psa 125:1 Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, that cannot be moved, but abides forever. Psa 125:2 Round Jerusalem are the mountains, and the LORD is round his people from now and for evermore. " Psa 125:3 For he will not suffer the sceptre of wrong to rest on the land allotted to the righteous; else the righteous might put forth their own hand to" Psa 125:4 Do good, O LORD, to the good, and to the true-hearted. " Psa 125:5 But those who swerve into crooked ways will the LORD lead away with the workers of evil. Peace be upon Israel." Psa 126:0 ¦ <i>A song of ascents. </i>" Psa 126:1 When the LORD turned the fortunes of Zion, we were like dreamers. Psa 126:2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, our tongue with glad shouts; then among the nations they said, 'The LORD has dealt greatly with them.' <br" Psa 126:3 The LORD had dealt greatly with us, and we were rejoicing. " Psa 126:4 Turn our fortunes, O LORD, as the streams in the Negreb. Psa 126:5 They who sow in tears shall reap with glad shouts. Psa 126:6 Forth they fare, with their burden of seed, and they weep as they go. But home, home, with glad shouts they shall come with their arms full of sheaves." Psa 127:0 ¦ <i>A song of ascents. Of Solomon. </i>" Psa 127:1 Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD guards the city, the watchman wakes in vain. " Psa 127:2 In vain you rise early, and finish so late, and so eat sorrow's bread; for he cares for his loved ones in their sleep. " Psa 127:3 Children are a gift of the LORD, the fruit of the womb, a reward. Psa 127:4 Like arrows wielded by warriors, are the children of youth. " Psa 127:5 Happy the man who has filled his quiver full of them. He will not be ashamed when he speaks with enemies in the gate." Psa 128:0 ¦ <i>A song of ascents. </i>" Psa 128:1 Happy all who fear the LORD, who walk in his ways. Psa 128:2 You will eat what your hands have toiled for, and be happy and prosperous! " Psa 128:3 Like a fruitful vine shall your wife be in the innermost room of your house: your children, like olive shoots, round about your table. " Psa 128:4 See! This is the blessing of the man who fears the LORD. Psa 128:5 The LORD shall bless you from Zion. You will see Jerusalem nourish all the days of your life. " Psa 128:6 You will see your children's children. Peace upon Israel." Psa 129:0 ¦ <i>A song of ascents. </i>" Psa 129:1 'Sore have they vexed me from youth' thus let Israel say Psa 129:2 'Sore have they vexed me from youth, but they have not prevailed against me. " Psa 129:3 'The ploughers ploughed on my back, they made their furrows long. Psa 129:4 But the LORD, who is righteous, has cut the cords of the wicked.' " Psa 129:5 Let all who are haters of Zion be put to shame and defeated. Psa 129:6 May they be as the grass on the house-top, which withers before it shoots up; " Psa 129:7 which fills not the arms of the reaper, nor the lap of the binder of sheaves Psa 129:8 whereof no one says as they pass, 'The blessing of God be upon you.' In the name of the LORD we bless you." Psa 130:0 ¦ <i>A song of ascents. </i>" Psa 130:1 Out of the depths I call to you, LORD. Psa 130:2 LORD, hear my voice: give heed with your ears to my loud plea. " Psa 130:3 If you should mark sin, LORD, O LORD, who could stand? Psa 130:4 But with you is forgiveness, that you may be feared. " Psa 130:5 I wait for the LORD, I wait for his word, Psa 130:6 I look for the LORD more than watchman for morning, than watchman for morning. " Psa 130:7 Israel, hope in the LORD: with the LORD there is love with him plenteous redemption. Psa 130:8 And he redeems Israel from all his iniquities." Psa 131:0 ¦ <i>A song of ascents. Of David. </i>" Psa 131:1 O LORD, my heart is not haughty, my eyes are not lofty, I walk not among great things, things too wonderful for me. " Psa 131:2 Yes, I have soothed and stilled myself, like a young child on his mother's lap; like a young child am I. " Psa 131:3 O Israel, hope in the LORD from now and for evermore. Psa 132:1 Remember, O LORD, David all his sufferings, Psa 132:2 the oath that he swore to the LORD, and his vow to the Strong One of Jacob, Psa 132:3 never to enter his tent, never to lie on his bed, Psa 132:4 never to give his eyes sleep or his eyelids slumber, Psa 132:5 till he had found a place for the LORD, for the Strong One of Jacob to live in. " Psa 132:6 We heard of it in Ephrathah, in the fields of Jaar we found it. Psa 132:7 We went to the place where he dwelt, we bowed ourselves low at his footstool. Psa 132:8 'Arise, LORD, and enter your resting-place, you and your mighty ark. Psa 132:9 Let your priests wear a garment of righteousness, your faithful shout aloud for joy. Psa 132:10 For the sake of David your servant, do not reject your Anointed.' " Psa 132:11 The LORD swore an oath to David an oath that he will not break; 'I will set on your throne a prince of your line. Psa 132:12 If your sons keep my covenant and the statutes I teach them, then their sons, too, forever, will sit on your throne.' Psa 132:13 For the choice of the LORD is Zion; she is the home of his heart. " Psa 132:14 'This is forever my resting-place, this is the home of my heart. Psa 132:15 I will royally bless her provision, and give bread to her poor in abundance. Psa 132:16 Her priests I will clothe with salvation; her faithful will shout for joy. Psa 132:17 There will I raise up for David a dynasty of power. I have set my anointed a lamp that shall never go out. Psa 132:18 Robes of shame I will put on his foes, but on his head a glittering crown.'" Psa 133:0 ¦ <i>A song of ascents. Of David. </i>" Psa 133:1 Behold! How good and how pleasant is the dwelling of kindred together! Psa 133:2 Like precious oil on the head that ran down on the beard, the beard of Aaron, running over the collar of his robe: Psa 133:3 like the dew upon Hermon which falls on the mountains of Zion. For there has the LORD ordained blessing Ð life that is endless." Psa 134:0 ¦ <i>A song of ascents. </i>" Psa 134:1 Come, praise the LORD, all you the LORD's servants, who stand by night in the house of the LORD. Psa 134:2 Lift your hands to the holy place, praise the LORD. " Psa 134:3 The LORD who made heaven and earth, bless you from Zion. " Psa 135:1 Hallelujah. Praise the name of the LORD. Praise the LORD, you his servants, Psa 135:2 who stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God. Psa 135:3 Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good: Sing praise to his name it is pleasant. Psa 135:4 The LORD for himself chose Jacob, Israel as his own special treasure. " Psa 135:5 For I know that the LORD is great, that our LORD is above all gods. Psa 135:6 All that he wills he does in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and in all the abysses. Psa 135:7 Clouds he brings up from the ends of the earth, lightnings he makes for the rain, wind he brings out of his storehouses. " Psa 135:8 The first-born of Egypt he struck, both humans and animals. Psa 135:9 Signs and wonders he sent into your midst, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh and all his servants. Psa 135:10 Many nations he struck, mighty kings he slew Psa 135:11 Sihon, king of the Amorites, Og, king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan. Psa 135:12 He gave their land for possession, possession to Israel his people. " Psa 135:13 Your name, O LORD, is forever; your memorial world without end. Psa 135:14 For the LORD secures right for his people, and takes pity upon his servants. " Psa 135:15 The idols of heathen are silver made by human hands. Psa 135:16 They have mouths, but cannot speak: they have eyes, but cannot see. Psa 135:17 They have ears, but cannot hear: there is no breath in their mouths. Psa 135:18 Their makers become like them, so do all who trust in them. " Psa 135:19 House of Israel, praise the LORD: house of Araon, praise the LORD. Psa 135:20 House of Levi, praise the LORD: you who fear the LORD, praise the LORD. Psa 135:21 Blest be the LORD out of Zion, who lives in Jerusalem. Hallelujah. Psa 136:1 Give thanks to the LORD for his goodness: for his kindness endures forever. Psa 136:2 Give thanks to the God of gods: for his kindness endures forever. Psa 136:3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his kindness endures forever. " Psa 136:4 To him who alone does great wonders: for his kindness endures forever. Psa 136:5 Whose wisdom created the heavens: for his kindness endures forever. Psa 136:6 Who spread forth the earth on the waters: for his kindness endures forever. Psa 136:7 Who made great lights: for his kindness endures forever. Psa 136:8 The sun to rule over the day: for his kindness endures forever. Psa 136:9 Moon and stars to rule over the night: for his kindness endures forever. " Psa 136:10 Who struck the first-born of Egypt: for his kindness endures forever. Psa 136:11 And brought Israel out from their midst: for his kindness endures forever. Psa 136:12 With strong hand and outstretched arm: for his kindness endures forever. Psa 136:13 Who cut the Red Sea in pieces: for his kindness endures forever. Psa 136:14 And brought Israel right through the midst: for his kindness endures forever. Psa 136:15 And shook Pharaoh with all his host into the sea for his kindness endures forever. " Psa 136:16 Who led his people through the desert: for his kindness endures forever. Psa 136:17 Who struck down great kings: for his kindness endures forever. Psa 136:18 And slew noble kings: for his kindness endures forever. Psa 136:19 Sihon, king of the Amorites: for his kindness endures forever. Psa 136:20 And Og, king of Bashan: for his kindness endures forever. Psa 136:21 Who gave their land for possession: for his kindness endures forever. Psa 136:22 Possession to Israel his servant: for his kindness endures forever. " Psa 136:23 Who remembered our low estate: for his kindness endures forever. Psa 136:24 And rescued us from our foes: for his kindness endures forever. Psa 136:25 Who gives to all flesh food: for his kindness endures forever. Psa 136:26 Give thanks to the God of heaven: for his kindness endures forever. Psa 137:1 By the waters of Babylon there we sat, and we wept at the thought of Zion. Psa 137:2 There on the poplars we hung our harps. " Psa 137:3 For there our captors called for a song: our tormentors, rejoicing, saying: 'Sing us one of the songs of Zion.' " Psa 137:4 How can we sing the LORD's song in the foreigner's land? Psa 137:5 If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand wither. " Psa 137:6 May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I am unmindful of you, or don't set Jerusalem above my chief joy. " Psa 137:7 Remember the Edomites, LORD, the day of Jerusalem's fall, when they said, 'Lay her bare, lay her bare, right down to her very foundation.' " Psa 137:8 Babylon, despoiler, happy are those who pay you back for all you have done to us. Psa 137:9 Happy are they who seize and dash your children against the rocks." Psa 138:0 ¦ <i>Of David. </i>" Psa 138:1 I will thank you, O LORD, with all my heart: in the sight of the gods I will sing your praise, Psa 138:2 and prostrate before your holy temple, will praise your name for your constant love, for you have exulted your promise above all. " Psa 138:3 When I called you, you answered; you gave me strength, you inspired me. Psa 138:4 All the kings of the earth shall praise you, O LORD, when they shall have heard the words you have uttered; Psa 138:5 and they shall sing of the ways of the LORD, and tell of the LORD's transcendent glory. Psa 138:6 For, high though the LORD is, he looks on the lowly, and strikes down the haughty from far away. " Psa 138:7 Though my way be distressful, yet you preserve me: you lay your hand on my angry foes, and your right hand gives me victory. Psa 138:8 The LORD will accomplish all that which concerns me. Your kindness, O LORD, endures forever. O do not abandon the work of your hands." Psa 139:0 ¦ <i>For the leader. Of David, a psalm. </i>" Psa 139:1 O LORD, you search and know me; " Psa 139:2 when I sit, when I rise you know it, you perceive my thoughts from afar. " Psa 139:3 When I walk, when I lie you sift it, familiar with all my ways. Psa 139:4 There is not a word on my tongue, but see! LORD, you know it all. " Psa 139:5 Behind and before you beset me, upon me you lay your hand. Psa 139:6 It's too wonderful for me to know too lofty I cannot attain it. " Psa 139:7 Whither shall I go from your spirit? Or whither shall I flee from your face? Psa 139:8 If I climb up to heaven, you are there: or make Sheol my bed, you are there. " Psa 139:9 If I lift up the wings of the morning and fly to the end of the sea, Psa 139:10 there also your hand would grasp me, and your right hand take hold of me. " Psa 139:11 If I say, 'Let the darkness cover me, and night be the light about me,' Psa 139:12 The dark is not dark for you, but night is as light as the day. " Psa 139:13 For you did put me together; in my mother's womb you did weave me. Psa 139:14 I give you praise for my fashioning so full of awe, so wonderful. Your works are wonderful. You knew me right well; " Psa 139:15 my bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret, and woven in the depths of the earth. " Psa 139:16 Your eyes saw all my days: they stood on your book every one written down, before they were fashioned, while none of them yet was mine. " Psa 139:17 But how far, O God, beyond measure are your thoughts! How mighty their sum! Psa 139:18 Should I count, they are more than the sand. When I wake, I am still with you. " Psa 139:19 Will you slay the wicked, O God? And remove from me the bloodthirsty, Psa 139:20 who maliciously defy you and take your name in vain. " Psa 139:21 Do I not hate those who hate you, LORD? Do I not loathe those who resist you? Psa 139:22 With perfect hatred I hate them, I count them my enemies. " Psa 139:23 Search me, O God, know my heart: test me, and know my thoughts, Psa 139:24 and see if guile be in me; and lead me in the way everlasting. Psa 140:1 Rescue me, LORD, from evil people; from the violent guard me Psa 140:2 from those who plot evil in their heart, and stir up war continually: Psa 140:3 who make their tongue as sharp as a serpent's, and under whose lips is the poison of adders. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 140:4 Preserve me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked, from the violent guard me from those who are plotting to trip up my feet. Psa 140:5 The proud have hidden a trap for me, cords they have spread as a net for my feet: snares they have set at the side of my track. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 140:6 I have said to the LORD, 'My God are you; give ear, LORD, to my loud plea. Psa 140:7 O LORD my LORD, my savior mighty, you did cover my head in the day of battle. Psa 140:8 Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked; and what they have purposed, promote you not.' <i>Selah </i>" Psa 140:9 Let them not lift up their heads against me. May the mischief they prate bring themselves to destruction, Psa 140:10 may he rain upon them coals of fire, may he strike them down swiftly, to rise no more, Psa 140:11 no place in the land may there be for the slanderer: may the violent be hunted from sorrow to sorrow. " Psa 140:12 I know that the LORD will do right by the weak, and will execute justice for those who are needy. Psa 140:13 Surely the righteous shall praise your name, and they who are upright shall live in your presence." Psa 141:0 ¦ <i>A psalm of David. </i>" Psa 141:1 LORD, I call to you: hasten, to me, give ear to my voice, when I call to you. Psa 141:2 Let my prayer be presented as incense before you, and my uplifted hands as the evening meal-offering. " Psa 141:3 Set, O LORD, a watch on my mouth, put a guard on the door of my lips. Psa 141:4 Incline not my heart to an evil matter, to busy myself in deeds of wickedness, in company with workers of evil: never may I partake of their dainties. " Psa 141:5 A wound or reproof from a good person in kindness is oil which my head shall never refuse. In their misfortune my prayer is still with them. " Psa 141:6 Abandoned they are to the hands of their judges: they shall learn that my words are true. " Psa 141:7 Like stones on a country road cleft and broken so lie our bones scattered for Death to devour. Psa 141:8 But my eyes are turned towards you, O LORD. Do not pour out my life, for in you I take refuge. Psa 141:9 Keep me safe from the trap they have laid for me, from the snares of the workers of trouble. Psa 141:10 Into their own nets let wicked people fall; while I pass by in safety." Psa 142:0 ¦ <i>A maskil of David, while he was in the cave, a prayer. </i>" Psa 142:1 Loudly I cry to the LORD: to the LORD plead loudly for mercy, Psa 142:2 I pour my complaint before him, I tell my troubles to him. " Psa 142:3 When my spirit is faint within me, my path is known to you. In the way I am wont to walk in, they have hidden a trap for me. " Psa 142:4 I look to the right and the left; but not a friend have I. No place of refuge is left me, not a man to care for me. " Psa 142:5 So I cry to you, O LORD: I say, 'My refuge are you, all I have in the land of the living.' " Psa 142:6 Attend to my piercing cry, for very weak am I. Save me from those who pursue me, for they are too strong for me. " Psa 142:7 Free me from prison, that I may give thanks to your name, for the righteous are patiently waiting till you show your bounty to me." Psa 143:0 ¦ <i>A psalm of David. </i>" Psa 143:1 Listen, O LORD, to my prayer; give ear to my plea. In your faithfulness give me answer, and in your righteousness. Psa 143:2 With your servant O enter you not into judgment, for in your sight can no one alive be justified. " Psa 143:3 For the enemy persecutes me, crushing my life to the ground, making me live in the darkness, as those who have long been dead. Psa 143:4 My spirit is faint within me, my heart is bewildered within me. " Psa 143:5 I remember the days of old, and brood over all you have done, musing on all that your hands have wrought. " Psa 143:6 I spread out my hands to you: I thirst for you, like parched earth. <i>Selah </i>" Psa 143:7 Answer me soon, LORD, because my spirit is spent. Hide not your face from me, else become I like those who go down to the pit. Psa 143:8 Let me learn of your love in the morning, for my trust is in you. Teach me the way I should go: for my heart longs for you. " Psa 143:9 Save me, O LORD, from my foes: for to you I have fled for refuge. Psa 143:10 Teach me to do your will, for you yourself are my God. Guide me by your good spirit, O LORD, on a way that is smooth. " Psa 143:11 Be true to your name LORD, spare me, bring me out of distress in your faithfulness. Psa 143:12 In your kindness extinguish my enemies, and all those who vex me destroy; for I am your servant." Psa 144:0 ¦ <i>Of David. </i>" Psa 144:1 Blest be the LORD my rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for fighting. Psa 144:2 My rock and my fortress, my tower, my deliverer, my shield, behind whom I take refuge, who lays nations low at my feet. " Psa 144:3 LORD, what are mortals that you care for them, humans, that you think of them? Psa 144:4 They are like a breath, their days as a shadow that passes. " Psa 144:5 LORD, bow your heavens and come down: touch the hills, so that they smoke. Psa 144:6 Flash forth lightning and scatter them, your arrows send forth and confound them. " Psa 144:7 Stretch out your hand from on high; pluck me out of the mighty waters, out of the hands of foreigners, Psa 144:8 who speak with the mouth of falsehood, and lift their right hand to swear lies. " Psa 144:9 O God, a new song I would sing you, on a ten-stringed harp make you music. Psa 144:10 For to kings you give the victory, and David your servant you save. Psa 144:11 Snatch me from the cruel sword, rescue me from the hand of foreigners, who speak with the mouth of falsehood, and lift their right hand to swear lies. <br" Psa 144:12 May our sons in their youth be as plants well tended: our daughters like cornices carved as in palaces. " Psa 144:13 May our barns be bursting with produce of all kinds. In the fields may our sheep bear by thousands and ten thousands. " Psa 144:14 May our cattle be fat, our walls unbreached, may no cry of distress ring in our streets. " Psa 144:15 Happy the people who fares so well: and so fares the people whose God is the LORD." Psa 145:0 ¦ <i>A song of praise. Of David. </i>" Psa 145:1 I will exalt you, my God, O king: I will praise your name for ever and ever. Psa 145:2 I will bless you every day: I will praise your name for ever and ever. " Psa 145:3 Great is the LORD and worthy all praise, his greatness is unsearchable. Psa 145:4 One age to another shall praise your deeds, declaring the mighty things you have done. " Psa 145:5 Of your glorious majesty they shall tell, and I will muse of your many wonders. Psa 145:6 Of the might of your terrible acts they shall speak, and the tale of your great deeds I will tell. " Psa 145:7 The fame of your abundant goodness and righteousness they shall pour forth in song. Psa 145:8 The LORD is full of grace and pity, patient and rich in loving-kindness. " Psa 145:9 The LORD is good to all the world, and his pity is over all things that he made. Psa 145:10 All your works give you thanks, O LORD, and you are blessed of those who love you. " Psa 145:11 They shall speak of your glorious kingdom, and of your might shall they discourse, Psa 145:12 making known to all his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom. " Psa 145:13 Yours is a kingdom that lives through all ages: through all generations extends your dominion. " Psa 145:14 The LORD upholds all who fall; he lifts up all who are bowed down. Psa 145:15 The eyes of all look in hope to you, and you give them their food in due season. " Psa 145:16 You yourself open your hand, and fill with your favor all things that live. Psa 145:17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways, gracious is he in all that he does. " Psa 145:18 The LORD is near to all who call him, to all who call upon him in truth. Psa 145:19 He will fulfil the desires of those who fear him; he will hear their cry for help and save them. " Psa 145:20 The LORD is the keeper of all who love him, but all the wicked will he destroy. Psa 145:21 My mouth will utter the praise of the LORD, and all life will bless his holy name for ever and ever. Psa 146:1 My soul, praise the LORD. " Psa 146:2 I will praise the LORD, while I live; I will sing to my God, while I am. " Psa 146:3 Put not your trust in princes mortals, in whom is no help. Psa 146:4 When their breath goes out, they go back to the dust: on that very day their purposes perish. " Psa 146:5 Happy those whose help is the God of Jacob: whose hope is set on the LORD their God, Psa 146:6 the Creator of heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them. He remains eternally loyal. " Psa 146:7 For the wronged he executes justice; he gives bread to the hungry; the LORD releases the prisoners. Psa 146:8 The LORD gives sight to the blind: the LORD raises those who are bowed. The LORD loves the righteous. " Psa 146:9 The LORD preserves the stranger, upholds the widow and orphan, but the wicked he leads to disaster. " Psa 146:10 The LORD shall reign forever, your God, O Zion, to all generations. Hallelujah. " Psa 147:1 Hallelujah. It is good to sing praise to our God, for praise is sweet and seemly. Psa 147:2 The LORD builds up Jerusalem, the outcasts of Israel he gathers. Psa 147:3 He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds. Psa 147:4 He counts the numberless stars, he gives names to them all. Psa 147:5 Great is our LORD, rich in power, and measureless is his wisdom. Psa 147:6 The LORD lifts up the down-trodden, the wicked he brings to the ground. " Psa 147:7 Sing songs of thanks to the LORD, and play on the lyre to our God. Psa 147:8 For he covers the sky with clouds, he prepares rain for the earth, makes grass to grow on the mountains. Psa 147:9 He gives the cattle their food the young ravens when they cry. Psa 147:10 His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse, his joy is not in the speed of a runner; Psa 147:11 but the LORD has his pleasure in those who fear him, in those who wait for his kindness. " Psa 147:12 Praise the LORD, then, O Jerusalem: sing praise to your God, O Zion. Psa 147:13 For he strengthens the bars of your gates, and blesses your children within you. Psa 147:14 He brings peace to your borders, and choicest of wheat in abundance. Psa 147:15 He sends his command to the earth: his word runs very swiftly. Psa 147:16 Snow he gives like wool, frost he scatters like ashes. Psa 147:17 He casts forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold? Psa 147:18 He sends forth his word, and melts them: his wind blows the waters flow. " Psa 147:19 He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and judgments to Israel. Psa 147:20 No other nation did he do this for, they know nothing of his judgments. Hallelujah. Psa 148:1 Praise the LORD from the heavens, praise him in the heights. Psa 148:2 Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his hosts. " Psa 148:3 Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all stars of light. Psa 148:4 Praise him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens. " Psa 148:5 Let them praise the name of the LORD, for at his command they were made. Psa 148:6 And he fixed them for ever and ever by a law which they dare not transgress. " Psa 148:7 Praise the LORD from the earth: you depths, with your monsters, all. Psa 148:8 Fire, hail, snow and ice, and stormy wind doing his word. " Psa 148:9 All you mountains and hills, all you fruit trees and cedars, Psa 148:10 all you wild beasts and tame, creeping things, birds on the wing. " Psa 148:11 All you kings and nations of earth; all you princes and judges of earth: Psa 148:12 young men and maidens together, old men and children together. " Psa 148:13 Let them praise the name of the LORD, for his name alone is exalted. Over heaven and earth is his glory. " Psa 148:14 He has lifted his people to honor. Wherefore this chorus of praise from his saints, from Israel, the people who stand in his fellowship. Hallelujah. " Psa 149:1 Hallelujah. Sing to the LORD a new song, sound his praise where the faithful are gathered. Psa 149:2 Let Israel rejoice in its maker, sons of Zion exult in their king. Psa 149:3 Let them praise his name in the dance, making music with lyre and with timbrel. Psa 149:4 For the LORD delights in his people, adorning the humble with victory. " Psa 149:5 Let the faithful exult and extol him with glad ringing cries all night long. Psa 149:6 High praises of God in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand: Psa 149:7 on the heathen to execute vengeance, and chastisement sore on the nations, Psa 149:8 binding their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron, Psa 149:9 to execute on them the doom that is written. This is the glory of all his faithful. Hallelujah. Psa 150:1 Hallelujah. Praise God in his holy place. Praise him in the sky, his stronghold. Psa 150:2 Praise him for his deeds of power. Praise him for his boundless greatness. " Psa 150:3 Praise him with blast of horn; praise him with harp and lyre. Psa 150:4 Praise him with timbrel and dance; praise him with strings and pipe. Psa 150:5 Praise him with resounding cymbals, praise him with clashing cymbals. Psa 150:6 Let all that has breath praise the LORD. Hallelujah."