Psalms

1:1: Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

1:2: But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

1:3: And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

1:4: The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

1:5: Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

1:6: For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

2:1: Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

2:2: The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

2:3: Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

2:4: He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

2:5: Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

2:6: Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

2:7: I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

2:8: Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

2:9: Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

2:10: Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.

2:11: Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

2:12: Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

3:1: LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.

3:2: Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.

3:3: But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.

3:4: I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.

3:5: I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.

3:6: I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.

3:7: Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

3:8: Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.

4:1: Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

4:2: O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.

4:3: But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.

4:4: Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

4:5: Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.

4:6: There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

4:7: Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.

4:8: I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.

5:1: Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.

5:2: Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.

5:3: My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.

5:4: For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.

5:5: The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

5:6: Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

5:7: But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

5:8: Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.

5:9: For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

5:10: Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

5:11: But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.

5:12: For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

6:1: O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

6:2: Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

6:3: My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?

6:4: Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.

6:5: For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

6:6: I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

6:7: Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

6:8: Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.

6:9: The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.

6:10: Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.

7:1: O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:

7:2: Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

7:3: O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

7:4: If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)

7:5: Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

7:6: Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.

7:7: So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.

7:8: The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.

7:9: Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

7:10: My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.

7:11: God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

7:12: If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

7:13: He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

7:14: Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

7:15: He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

7:16: His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

7:17: I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.

8:1: O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

8:2: Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

8:3: When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

8:4: What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

8:5: For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

8:6: Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

8:7: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

8:8: The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

8:9: O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

9:1: I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.

9:2: I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.

9:3: When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

9:4: For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.

9:5: Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.

9:6: O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.

9:7: But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.

9:8: And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.

9:9: The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

9:10: And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

9:11: Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.

9:12: When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

9:13: Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

9:14: That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.

9:15: The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

9:16: The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

9:17: The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

9:18: For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

9:19: Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.

9:20: Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

10:1: Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

10:2: The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

10:3: For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

10:4: The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

10:5: His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

10:6: He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.

10:7: His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

10:8: He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

10:9: He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

10:10: He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

10:11: He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.

10:12: Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.

10:13: Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

10:14: Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

10:15: Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

10:16: The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.

10:17: LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

10:18: To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

11:1: In the LORD put I my trust: How say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

11:2: For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

11:3: If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

11:4: The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

11:5: The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

11:6: Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

11:7: For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.

12:1: Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

12:2: They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

12:3: The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

12:4: Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

12:5: For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

12:6: The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

12:7: Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

12:8: The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

13:1: How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

13:2: How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

13:3: Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

13:4: Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

13:5: But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

13:6: I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.

14:1: The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

14:2: The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

14:3: They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

14:4: Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

14:5: There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

14:6: Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

14:7: Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

15:1: LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?

15:2: He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

15:3: He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

15:4: In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

15:5: He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

16:1: Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.

16:2: O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;

16:3: But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

16:4: Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.

16:5: The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.

16:6: The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

16:7: I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.

16:8: I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

16:9: Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.

16:10: For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

16:11: Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

17:1: Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

17:2: Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.

17:3: Thou has proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou has tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

17:4: Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

17:5: Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

17:6: I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.

17:7: Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.

17:8: Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

17:9: From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

17:10: They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

17:11: They have now compassed us in our ste they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

17:12: Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

17:13: Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:

17:14: From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

17:15: As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

18:1: I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

18:2: The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

18:3: I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

18:4: The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

18:5: The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

18:6: In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

18:7: Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

18:8: There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

18:9: He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

18:10: And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

18:11: He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

18:12: At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

18:13: The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.

18:14: Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

18:15: Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

18:16: He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

18:17: He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

18:18: They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

18:19: He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

18:20: The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

18:21: For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

18:22: For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.

18:23: I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

18:24: Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

18:25: With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;

18:26: With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.

18:27: For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.

18:28: For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

18:29: For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

18:30: As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.

18:31: For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?

18:32: It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

18:33: He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.

18:34: He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

18:35: Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.

18:36: Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.

18:37: I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

18:38: I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

18:39: For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

18:40: Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.

18:41: They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

18:42: Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

18:43: Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

18:44: As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.

18:45: The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.

18:46: The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

18:47: It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.

18:48: He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.

18:49: Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.

18:50: Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.

19:1: The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

19:2: Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.

19:3: There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

19:4: Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,

19:5: Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.

19:6: His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

19:7: The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

19:8: The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

19:9: The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

19:10: More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

19:11: Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.

19:12: Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.

19:13: Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

19:14: Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

20:1: The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;

20:2: Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;

20:3: Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.

20:4: Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.

20:5: We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.

20:6: Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.

20:7: Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.

20:8: They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.

20:9: Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.

21:1: The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!

21:2: Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.

21:3: For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.

21:4: He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.

21:5: His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.

21:6: For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.

21:7: For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

21:8: Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.

21:9: Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

21:10: Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

21:11: For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

21:12: Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

21:13: Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.

22:1: My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

22:2: O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

22:3: But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

22:4: Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

22:5: They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

22:6: But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

22:7: All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head saying,

22:8: He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

22:9: But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

22:10: I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.

22:11: Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

22:12: Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

22:13: They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

22:14: I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

22:15: My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

22:16: For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

22:17: I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

22:18: They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

22:19: But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

22:20: Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.

22:21: Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

22:22: I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

22:23: Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.

22:24: For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

22:25: My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

22:26: The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

22:27: All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

22:28: For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among the nations.

22:29: All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

22:30: A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

22:31: They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.

23:1: The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

23:2: He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

23:3: He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

23:4: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

23:5: Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

23:6: Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

24:1: The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

24:2: For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

24:3: Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?

24:4: He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

24:5: He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

24:6: This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.

24:7: Lift up your head, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

24:8: Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.

24:9: Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

24:10: Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.

25:1: Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.

25:2: O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.

25:3: Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.

25:4: Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.

25:5: Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

25:6: Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.

25:7: Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

25:8: Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.

25:9: The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.

25:10: All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

25:11: For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.

25:12: What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.

25:13: His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.

25:14: The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.

25:15: Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.

25:16: Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.

25:17: The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.

25:18: Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.

25:19: Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

25:20: O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.

25:21: Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.

25:22: Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

26:1: Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.

26:2: Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

26:3: For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.

26:4: I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.

26:5: I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

26:6: I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:

26:7: That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.

26:8: LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.

26:9: Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:

26:10: In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

26:11: But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.

26:12: My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.

27:1: The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

27:2: When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

27:3: Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

27:4: One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.

27:5: For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

27:6: And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.

27:7: Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

27:8: When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

27:9: Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

27:10: When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

27:11: Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.

27:12: Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

27:13: I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

27:14: Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

28:1: Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

28:2: Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

28:3: Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

28:4: Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.

28:5: Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

28:6: Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

28:7: The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

28:8: The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

28:9: Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.

29:1: Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.

29:2: Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.

29:3: The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.

29:4: The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

29:5: The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

29:6: He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

29:7: The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.

29:8: The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.

29:9: The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.

29:10: The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.

29:11: The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.

30:1: I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.

30:2: O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.

30:3: O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

30:4: Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

30:5: For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

30:6: And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.

30:7: LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.

30:8: I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.

30:9: What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

30:10: Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.

30:11: Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

30:12: To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.

31:1: In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.

31:2: Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.

31:3: For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.

31:4: Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.

31:5: Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

31:6: I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

31:7: I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

31:8: And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.

31:9: Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

31:10: For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

31:11: I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

31:12: I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

31:13: For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

31:14: But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.

31:15: My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

31:16: Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.

31:17: Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

31:18: Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

31:19: Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

31:20: Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

31:21: Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.

31:22: For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

31:23: O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

31:24: Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.

32:1: Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

32:2: Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

32:3: When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

32:4: For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

32:5: I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

32:6: For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

32:7: Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

32:8: I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

32:9: Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

32:10: Many sorrow