Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the
ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in
the seat of the scornful.
But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth
he meditate day and night.
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water,
that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also
shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind
driveth away.
Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor
sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of
the ungodly shall perish.
Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for
unto thee will I pray.
My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the
morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness:
neither shall evil dwell with thee.
The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all
workers of iniquity.
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will
abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of
thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy
temple.
Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies;
make thy way straight before my face.
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part
is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they
flatter with their tongue.
Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels;
cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for
they have rebelled against thee.
But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let
them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them
also that love thy name be joyful in thee.
For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt
thou compass him as with a shield.
Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in
times of trouble?
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be
taken in the devices that they have imagined.
For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth
the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not
seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out
of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall
never be in adversity.
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his
tongue is mischief and vanity.
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the
secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are
privily set against the poor.
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in
wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he
draweth him into his net.
He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by
his strong ones.
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his
face; he will never see it.
Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the
humble.
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his
heart, Thou wilt not require it.
Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to
requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto
thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out
his wickedness till thou find none.
The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished
out of his land.
LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt
prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the
earth may no more oppress.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are
corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that
doeth good.
The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to
see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy:
there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my
people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of
the righteous.
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is
his refuge.
Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when
the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob
shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my
goodness extendeth not to thee;
But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent,
in whom is all my delight.
Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another
god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take
up their names into my lips.
The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup:
thou maintainest my lot.
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a
goodly heritage.
I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins
also instruct me in the night seasons.
I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my
right hand, I shall not be moved.
Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh
also shall rest in hope.
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou
suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness
of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my
prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes
behold the things that are equal.
Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the
night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am
purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have
kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline
thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.
Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy
right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that
rise up against them.
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of
thy wings,
From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who
compass me about.
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they
speak proudly.
They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their
eyes bowing down to the earth;
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a
young lion lurking in secret places.
Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul
from the wicked, which is thy sword:
From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world,
which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou
fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and
leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be
satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my
God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the
horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so
shall I be saved from mine enemies.
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly
men made me afraid.
The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death
prevented me.
In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God:
he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before
him, even into his ears.
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the
hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his
mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was
under his feet.
And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon
the wings of the wind.
He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about
him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed,
hail stones and coals of fire.
The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave
his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot
out lightnings, and discomfited them.
Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of
the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast
of the breath of thy nostrils.
He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which
hated me: for they were too strong for me.
They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was
my stay.
He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me,
because he delighted in me.
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according
to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly
departed from my God.
For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away
his statutes from me.
I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine
iniquity.
Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my
righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his
eyesight.
With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an
upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the
froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down
high looks.
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten
my darkness.
For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I
leaped over a wall.
As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried:
he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.
For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?
It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way
perfect.
He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my
high places.
He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken
by mine arms.
Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy
right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me
great.
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not
slip.
I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I
turn again till they were consumed.
I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are
fallen under my feet.
For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou
hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I
might destroy them that hate me.
They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the
LORD, but he answered them not.
Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did
cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and
thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I
have not known shall serve me.
As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers
shall submit themselves unto me.
The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their
close places.
The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my
salvation be exalted.
It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up
above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me
from the violent man.
Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the
heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.
Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to
his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament
sheweth his handywork.
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth
knowledge.
There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not
heard.
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words
to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for
the sun,
Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and
rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit
unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat
thereof.
The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the
testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the
commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the
judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine
gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them
there is great reward.
Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret
faults.
Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them
not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I
shall be innocent from the great transgression.
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be
acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the
LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me
to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not
fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be
confident.
One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after;
that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my
life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his
temple.
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion:
in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set
me up upon a rock.
And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round
about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices
of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon
me, and answer me.
When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee,
Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in
anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake
me, O God of my salvation.
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will
take me up.
Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because
of mine enemies.
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false
witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out
cruelty.
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of
the LORD in the land of the living.
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen
thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me:
lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down
into the pit.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when
I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of
iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief
is in their hearts.
Give them according to their deeds, and according to the
wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of
their hands; render to them their desert.
Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the
operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build
them up.
Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my
supplications.
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in
him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth;
and with my song will I praise him.
The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of
his anointed.
Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also,
and lift them up for ever.
In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed:
deliver me in thy righteousness.
Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my
strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's
sake lead me, and guide me.
Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for
thou art my strength.
Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O
LORD God of truth.
I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in
the LORD.
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast
considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast
set my feet in a large room.
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is
consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my
strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are
consumed.
I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among
my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did
see me without fled from me.
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken
vessel.
For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side:
while they took counsel together against me, they devised to
take away my life.
But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.
My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine
enemies, and from them that persecute me.
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy
mercies' sake.
Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee:
let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the
grave.
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous
things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them
that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in
thee before the sons of men!
Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the
pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from
the strife of tongues.
Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous
kindness in a strong city.
For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes:
nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when
I cried unto thee.
O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth
the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye
that hope in the LORD.
Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is
covered.
Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity,
and in whose spirit there is no guile.
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all
the day long.
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is
turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not
hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD;
and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a
time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great
waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble;
thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou
shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no
understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and
bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in
the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for
joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight
against them that fight against me.
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that
persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my
soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that
devise my hurt.
Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the
LORD chase them.
Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the
LORD persecute them.
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit,
which without cause they have digged for my soul.
Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net
that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let
him fall.
And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in
his salvation.
All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which
deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea,
the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things
that I knew not.
They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth:
I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into
mine own bosom.
I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I
bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves
together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together
against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased
not:
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with
their teeth.
Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their
destructions, my darling from the lions.
I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will
praise thee among much people.
Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me:
neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a
cause.
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters
against them that are quiet in the land.
Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha,
aha, our eye hath seen it.
This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not
far from me.
Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause,
my God and my Lord.
Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and
let them not rejoice over me.
Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let
them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that
rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and
dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous
cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be
magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his
servant.
And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy
praise all the day long.
Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious
against the workers of iniquity.
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as
the green herb.
Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the
land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the
desires of thine heart.
Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall
bring it to pass.
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and
thy judgment as the noonday.
Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself
because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man
who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any
wise to do evil.
For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the
LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou
shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight
themselves in the abundance of peace.
The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him
with his teeth.
The LORD shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is
coming.
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow,
to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of
upright conversation.
Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows
shall be broken.
A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches
of many wicked.
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD
upholdeth the righteous.
The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their
inheritance shall be for ever.
They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of
famine they shall be satisfied.
But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall
be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall
they consume away.
The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous
sheweth mercy, and giveth.
For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and
they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.
The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he
delighteth in his way.
Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the
LORD upholdeth him with his hand.
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the
righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.
Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints;
they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall
be cut off.
The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for
ever.
The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue
talketh of judgment.
The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall
slide.
The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when
he is judged.
Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to
inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see
it.
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself
like a green bay tree.
Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him,
but he could not be found.
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of
that man is peace.
But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of
the wicked shall be cut off.
But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their
strength in the time of trouble.
And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall
deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they
trust in him.
I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my
tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked
is before me.
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and
my sorrow was stirred.
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire
burned: then spake I with my tongue,
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days,
what it is: that I may know how frail I am.
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age
is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state
is altogether vanity. Selah.
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are
disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who
shall gather them.
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the
reproach of the foolish.
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of
thine hand.
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou
makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every
man is vanity. Selah.
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy
peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a
sojourner, as all my fathers were.
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence,
and be no more.
I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and
heard my cry.
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry
clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our
God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and
respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast
done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be
reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak
of them, they are more than can be numbered.
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast
thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not
required.
Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is
written of me,
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my
heart.
I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I
have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have
declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not
concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great
congregation.
Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy
lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities
have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up;
they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart
faileth me.
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help
me.
Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my
soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to
shame that wish me evil.
Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto
me, Aha, aha.
Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let
such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be
magnified.
But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou
art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul
after thee, O God.
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I
come and appear before God?
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they
continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I
had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of
God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that
kept holyday.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted
in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the
help of his countenance.
O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I
remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites,
from the hill Mizar.
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all
thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time,
and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto
the God of my life.
I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why
go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while
they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted
within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who
is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation:
O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me
off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them
bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding
joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted
within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the
health of my countenance, and my God.
We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us,
what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and
plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast
them out.
For they got not the land in possession by their own sword,
neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and
thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou
hadst a favour unto them.
Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name
will we tread them under that rise up against us.
For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save
me.
But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to
shame that hated us.
In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for
ever. Selah.
But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not
forth with our armies.
Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which
hate us spoil for themselves.
Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast
scattered us among the heathen.
Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy
wealth by their price.
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a
derision to them that are round about us.
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the
head among the people.
My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my
face hath covered me,
For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by
reason of the enemy and avenger.
All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee,
neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined
from thy way;
Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and
covered us with the shadow of death.
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our
hands to a strange god;
Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of
the heart.
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are
counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for
ever.
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction
and our oppression?
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth
unto the earth.
Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the
voice of triumph.
For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over
all the earth.
He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our
feet.
He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of
Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a
trumpet.
Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King,
sing praises.
For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with
understanding.
God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of
his holiness.
The princes of the people are gathered together, even the
people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth
belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.
Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the
world:
Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart
shall be of understanding.
I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark
saying upon the harp.
Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity
of my heels shall compass me about?
They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the
multitude of their riches;
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to
God a ransom for him:
(For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth
for ever:)
That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the
brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for
ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call
their lands after their own names.
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the
beasts that perish.
This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve
their sayings. Selah.
Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on
them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the
morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from
their dwelling.
But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for
he shall receive me. Selah.
Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of
his house is increased;
For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall
not descend after him.
Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise
thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never
see light.
Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the
beasts that perish.
The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the
earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall
devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round
about him.
He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth,
that he may judge his people.
Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a
covenant with me by sacrifice.
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is
judge himself. Selah.
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will
testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt
offerings, to have been continually before me.
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of
thy folds.
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a
thousand hills.
I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of
the field are mine.
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is
mine, and the fulness thereof.
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most
High:
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee,
and thou shalt glorify me.
But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare
my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy
mouth?
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my words behind
thee.
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and
hast been partaker with adulterers.
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest
thine own mother's son.
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou
thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I
will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in
pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth
his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness:
according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my
transgressions.
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my
sin.
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before
me.
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in
thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest,
and be clear when thou judgest.
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother
conceive me.
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the
hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I
shall be whiter than snow.
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou
hast broken may rejoice.
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit
within me.
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy
spirit from me.
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with
thy free spirit.
Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be
converted unto thee.
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my
salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy
righteousness.
O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy
praise.
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou
delightest not in burnt offering.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a
contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls
of Jerusalem.
Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of
righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering:
then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the
goodness of God endureth continually.
The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working
deceitfully.
Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to
speak righteousness. Selah.
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee
away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee
out of the land of the living. Selah.
The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at
him:
Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but
trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened
himself in his wickedness.
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust
in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I
will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are
they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that
doeth good.
God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see
if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become
filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my
people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath
scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou
hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.
Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When
God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall
rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my
supplication.
Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make
a noise;
Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression
of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath
they hate me.
My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death
are fallen upon me.
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath
overwhelmed me.
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I
fly away, and be at rest.
Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness.
Selah.
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen
violence and strife in the city.
Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof:
mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart
not from her streets.
For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have
borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify
himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine
acquaintance.
We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of
God in company.
Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into
hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud:
and he shall hear my voice.
He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was
against me: for there were many with me.
God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old.
Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not
God.
He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with
him: he hath broken his covenant.
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was
in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they
drawn swords.
Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he
shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of
destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half
their days; but I will trust in thee.
Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul
trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make
my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all
things for me.
He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of
him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his
mercy and his truth.
My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set
on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and
arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be
above all the earth.
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down:
they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they
are fallen themselves. Selah.
My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and
give praise.
Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will
awake early.
I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto
thee among the nations.
For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto
the clouds.
Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be
above all the earth.
Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall
the vow be performed.
O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou
shalt purge them away.
Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach
unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be
satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy
temple.
By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God
of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of
the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded
with power:
Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their
waves, and the tumult of the people.
They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy
tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening
to rejoice.
Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly
enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water:
thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the
furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou
blessest the springing thereof.
Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop
fatness.
They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little
hills rejoice on every side.
The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are
covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also
that hate him flee before him.
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth
before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of
God.
But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God:
yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth
upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God
in his holy habitation.
God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those
which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry
land.
O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou
didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of
God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the
God of Israel.
Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst
confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast
prepared of thy goodness for the poor.
The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that
published it.
Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home
divided the spoil.
Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the
wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with
yellow gold.
When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow
in Salmon.
The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the
hill of Bashan.
Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God
desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.
The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of
angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy
place.
Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive:
thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious
also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even
the God of our salvation. Selah.
He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the
Lord belong the issues from death.
But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy
scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my
people again from the depths of the sea:
That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and
the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God,
my King, in the sanctuary.
The singers went before, the players on instruments followed
after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
Bless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the
fountain of Israel.
There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of
Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the
princes of Naphtali.
Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that
which thou hast wrought for us.
Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents
unto thee.
Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls,
with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself
with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in
war.
Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch
out her hands unto God.
Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto
the Lord; Selah:
To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of
old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel,
and his strength is in the clouds.
O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of
Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people.
Blessed be God.
Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come
into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail
while I wait for my God.
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of
mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies
wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not
away.
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid
from thee.
Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be
ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be
confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered
my face.
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my
mother's children.
For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the
reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to
my reproach.
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to
them.
They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song
of the drunkards.
But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an
acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me,
in the truth of thy salvation.
Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be
delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep
swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me
according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble:
hear me speedily.
Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of
mine enemies.
Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour:
mine adversaries are all before thee.
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and
I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for
comforters, but I found none.
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave
me vinegar to drink.
Let their table become a snare before them: and that which
should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their
loins continually to shake.
Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful
anger take hold of them.
Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their
tents.
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk
to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into
thy righteousness.
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be
written with the righteous.
But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me
up on high.
I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify
him with thanksgiving.
This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock
that hath horns and hoofs.
The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall
live that seek God.
For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his
prisoners.
Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing
that moveth therein.
For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah:
that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that
love his name shall dwell therein.
In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to
confusion.
Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape:
incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually
resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art
my rock and my fortress.
Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of
the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my
youth.
By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that
took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be
continually of thee.
I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.
Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all
the day.
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my
strength faileth.
For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for
my soul take counsel together,
Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for
there is none to deliver him.
O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my
soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that
seek my hurt.
But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and
more.
My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation
all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention
of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I
declared thy wondrous works.
Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not;
until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy
power to every one that is to come.
Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done
great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt
quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths
of the earth.
Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every
side.
I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O
my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One
of Israel.
My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my
soul, which thou hast redeemed.
My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day
long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto
shame, that seek my hurt.
Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto
the king's son.
He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor
with judgment.
The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little
hills, by righteousness.
He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the
children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the
oppressor.
They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure,
throughout all generations.
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers
that water the earth.
In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of
peace so long as the moon endureth.
He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the
river unto the ends of the earth.
They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and
his enemies shall lick the dust.
The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents:
the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall
serve him.
For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also,
and him that hath no helper.
He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of
the needy.
He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and
precious shall their blood be in his sight.
And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of
Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and
daily shall he be praised.
There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of
the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and
they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as
long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations
shall call him blessed.
Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth
wondrous things.
And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole
earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine
anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old;
the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this
mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that
the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set
up their ensigns for signs.
A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the
thick trees.
But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with
axes and hammers.
They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by
casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they
have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is
there among us any that knoweth how long.
O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy
blaspheme thy name for ever?
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it
out of thy bosom.
For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of
the earth.
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the
heads of the dragons in the waters.
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him
to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up
mighty rivers.
The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared
the light and the sun.
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made
summer and winter.
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and
that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of
the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the
earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy
praise thy name.
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish
man reproacheth thee daily.
Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those
that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give
thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.
When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I
bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked,
Lift not up the horn:
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west,
nor from the south.
But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up
another.
For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is
red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same:
but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring
them out, and drink them.
But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of
Jacob.
All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns
of the righteous shall be exalted.
Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the
words of my mouth.
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings
of old:
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the
generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength,
and his wonderful works that he hath done.
For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law
in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should
make them known to their children:
That the generation to come might know them, even the children
which should be born; who should arise and declare them to
their children:
That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the
works of God, but keep his commandments:
And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious
generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and
whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows,
turned back in the day of battle.
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his
law;
And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the
land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he
made the waters to stand as an heap.
In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the
night with a light of fire.
He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as
out of the great depths.
He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to
run down like rivers.
And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most
High in the wilderness.
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their
lust.
Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a
table in the wilderness?
Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the
streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide
flesh for his people?
Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was
kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his
salvation:
Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the
doors of heaven,
And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them
of the corn of heaven.
Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power
he brought in the south wind.
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls
like as the sand of the sea:
And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about
their habitations.
So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their
own desire;
They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat
was yet in their mouths,
The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them,
and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his
wondrous works.
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years
in trouble.
When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and
enquired early after God.
And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God
their redeemer.
Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they
lied unto him with their tongues.
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they
stedfast in his covenant.
But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and
destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away,
and did not stir up all his wrath.
For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that
passeth away, and cometh not again.
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him
in the desert!
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy
One of Israel.
They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered
them from the enemy.
How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the
field of Zoan.
And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that
they could not drink.
He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them;
and frogs, which destroyed them.
He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their
labour unto the locust.
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees
with frost.
He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to
hot thunderbolts.
He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and
indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from
death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their
strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided
them in the wilderness like a flock.
And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the
sea overwhelmed their enemies.
And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to
this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an
inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in
their tents.
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not
his testimonies:
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers:
they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and
moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred
Israel:
So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he
placed among men;
And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into
the enemy's hand.
He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth
with his inheritance.
The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not
given to marriage.
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no
lamentation.
Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty
man that shouteth by reason of wine.
And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a
perpetual reproach.
Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not
the tribe of Ephraim:
But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth
which he hath established for ever.
He chose David also his servant, and took him from the
sheepfolds:
From following the ewes great with young he brought him to
feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and
guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
O god, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy
temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat
unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the
beasts of the earth.
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem;
and there was none to bury them.
We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and
derision to them that are round about us.
How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy
jealousy burn like fire?
Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee,
and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling
place.
O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender
mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name:
and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him
be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of
the blood of thy servants which is shed.
Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to
the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are
appointed to die;
And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom
their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee
thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all
generations.
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the
LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest
for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O
LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still
praising thee. Selah.
Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart
are the ways of them.
Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the
rain also filleth the pools.
They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion
appeareth before God.
O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob.
Selah.
Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine
anointed.
For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had
rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell
in the tents of wickedness.
For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace
and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk
uprightly.
O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst
formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to
everlasting, thou art God.
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye
children of men.
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it
is past, and as a watch in the night.
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep:
in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening
it is cut down, and withereth.
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we
troubled.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in
the light of thy countenance.
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our
years as a tale that is told.
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by
reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their
strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly
away.
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy
fear, so is thy wrath.
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts
unto wisdom.
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning
thy servants.
O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be
glad all our days.
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted
us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto
their children.
And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and
establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of
our hands establish thou it.
The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is
clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the
world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up
their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters,
yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house,
O LORD, for ever.
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble;
incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me
speedily.
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned
as an hearth.
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget
to eat my bread.
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my
skin.
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the
desert.
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad
against me are sworn against me.
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with
weeping.
Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast
lifted me up, and cast me down.
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered
like grass.
But thou, O LORD, shall endure for ever; and thy remembrance
unto all generations.
Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to
favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the
dust thereof.
So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the
kings of the earth thy glory.
When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his
glory.
He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise
their prayer.
This shall be written for the generation to come: and the
people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from
heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are
appointed to death;
To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in
Jerusalem;
When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to
serve the LORD.
He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days:
thy years are throughout all generations.
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the
heavens are the work of thy hands.
They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them
shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change
them, and they shall be changed:
But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed
shall be established before thee.
Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is
good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? who can shew forth
all his praise?
Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth
righteousness at all times.
Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto
thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;
That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in
the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine
inheritance.
We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity,
we have done wickedly.
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they
remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him
at the sea, even at the Red sea.
Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might
make his mighty power to be known.
He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led
them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and
redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of
them left.
Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.
They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in
the desert.
And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their
soul.
They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the
LORD.
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the
company of Abiram.
And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up
the wicked.
They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox
that eateth grass.
They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in
Egypt;
Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the
Red sea.
Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses
his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his
wrath, lest he should destroy them.
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his
word:
But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice
of the LORD.
Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow
them in the wilderness:
To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter
them in the lands.
They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the
sacrifices of the dead.
Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the
plague brake in upon them.
Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the
plague was stayed.
And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all
generations for evermore.
They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went
ill with Moses for their sakes:
Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly
with his lips.
They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD
commanded them:
But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto
devils,
And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of
their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of
Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a
whoring with their own inventions.
Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his
people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that
hated them ruled over them.
Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into
subjection under their hand.
Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with
their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their
cry:
And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented
according to the multitude of his mercies.
He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them
captives.
Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen,
to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy
praise.
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to
everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the
LORD.
Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the
heavens.
Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their
masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her
mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that
he have mercy upon us.
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are
exceedingly filled with contempt.
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that
are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept,
when we remembered Zion.
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
For there they that carried us away captive required of us a
song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying,
Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her
cunning.
If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of
my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of
Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation
thereof.
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he
be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones
against the stones.
I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I
sing praise unto thee.
I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for
thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified
thy word above all thy name.
In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst
me with strength in my soul.
All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, when
they hear the words of thy mouth.
Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the
glory of the LORD.
Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly:
but the proud he knoweth afar off.
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me:
thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine
enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O
LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own
hands.
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou
understandest my thought afar off.
Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted
with all my ways.
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou
knowest it altogether.
Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon
me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot
attain unto it.
Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee
from thy presence?
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed
in hell, behold, thou art there.
If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost
parts of the sea;
Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall
hold me.
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night
shall be light about me.
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth
as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my
mother's womb.
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:
marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret,
and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in
thy book all my members were written, which in continuance
were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great
is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand:
when I awake, I am still with thee.
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me
therefore, ye bloody men.
For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take
thy name in vain.
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I
grieved with those that rise up against thee?
I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my
thoughts:
And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the
way everlasting.
Lord, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my
voice, when I cry unto thee.
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the
lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my
lips.
Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked
works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their
dainties.
Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let
him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not
break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their
calamities.
When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall
hear my words; for they are sweet.
Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one
cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my
trust; leave not my soul destitute.
Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the
gins of the workers of iniquity.
Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal
escape.
Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy
faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight
shall no man living be justified.
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life
down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as
those that have been long dead.
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within
me is desolate.
I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I
muse on the work of thy hands.
I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after
thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face
from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in
thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should
walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.
Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to
hide me.
Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is
good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy
righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.
And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them
that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.