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Psalm 1
The Way of the Righteous and
the End of the Ungodly
1 Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel of
the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in
the seat of the scornful;
2But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His
law he meditates day and night.
3He shall be like a
tree
Planted
by the rivers of water,
That brings
forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf
also shall not wither;
And
whatever he does shall prosper.
4The ungodly
are not so,
But are like the
chaff which the wind drives away.
5Therefore the
ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the congregation
of the righteous.
6For the LORD knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the ungodly
shall perish.
Psalm 2
The Messiah's Triumph and
Kingdom
1 Why do the nations rage,
And the people plot a vain
thing?
2The kings of
the earth set themselves,
And
the rulers take counsel together,
Against the LORD and against
His Anointed, saying,
3"Let us break Their bonds in pieces
And cast away Their cords from
us."
4He who
sits in the heavens shall laugh;
The LORD shall hold them in
derision.
5Then He
shall speak to them in His wrath,
And distress them in His deep
displeasure:
6"Yet I
have set My King
On My holy
hill of Zion."
7"I will declare the decree:
The LORD has said to Me,
"You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.
8Ask of Me, and I
will give You
The nations for
Your inheritance,
And the ends
of the earth for Your possession.
9You shall break
them with a rod of iron;
You
shall dash them to pieces like a potter's vessel."'
10Now
therefore, be wise, O kings;
Be
instructed, you judges of the earth.
11Serve the LORD
with fear,
And rejoice with
trembling.
12Kiss
the Son, lest He be angry,
And
you perish in the way,
When His
wrath is kindled but a little.
Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.
Psalm
3
The LORD Helps His Troubled People
1
LORD, how they have increased who trouble me!
Many are they who rise up
against me.
2Many
are they who say of me,
"There
is no help for him in God."Selah
3But You, O
LORD, are a shield for me,
My
glory and the One who lifts up my head.
4I cried to the LORD
with my voice,
And He heard me
from His holy hill.Selah
5I lay down
and slept;
I awoke, for the
LORD sustained me.
6I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people
Who have set themselves against
me all around.
7Arise, O LORD;
Save me,
O my God!
For You have struck
all my enemies on the cheekbone;
You have broken the teeth of
the ungodly.
8Salvation belongs to the LORD.
Your blessing is upon Your
people.Selah Psalm of David.
Psalm 4
The Safety of
the Faithful
1 Hear me when I call, O God of my
righteousness!
You have
relieved me in my distress;
Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
2How long, O
you sons of men,
Will you turn
my glory to shame?
How long
will you love worthlessness
And
seek falsehood?Selah
3But know that the LORD has set apart for Himself him who is godly;
The LORD will hear when I call
to Him.
4Be
angry, and do not sin.
Meditate
within your heart on your bed, and be still.Selah
5Offer the
sacrifices of righteousness,
And put your trust in the LORD.
6There are
many who say,
"Who will show us
any good?"
LORD, lift up the
light of Your countenance upon us.
7You have put
gladness in my heart,
More than
in the season that their grain and wine increased.
8I will both lie
down in peace, and sleep;
For
You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety. David.
Psalm
5
A Prayer for Guidance
1 Give ear to my
words, O LORD,
Consider my
meditation.
2Give
heed to the voice of my cry,
My
King and my God,
For to You I
will pray.
3My voice
You shall hear in the morning, O LORD;
In the morning I will direct it
to You,
And I will look up.
4For You are
not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness,
Nor shall evil dwell with You.
5The boastful shall
not stand in Your sight;
You
hate all workers of iniquity.
6You shall destroy
those who speak falsehood;
The
LORD abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
7But as for
me, I will come into Your house in the multitude of Your mercy;
In fear of You I will worship
toward Your holy temple.
8Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness because of my enemies;
Make Your way straight before
my face.
9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth;
Their inward part is
destruction;
Their throat is an
open tomb;
They flatter with
their tongue.
10Pronounce them guilty, O God!
Let them fall by their own
counsels;
Cast them out in the
multitude of their transgressions,
For they have rebelled against
You.
11But
let all those rejoice who put their trust in You;
Let them ever shout for joy,
because You defend them;
Let
those also who love Your name
Be joyful in You.
12For You, O LORD, will bless the righteous;
With favor You will surround
him as with a shield. eight-stringed harp. A Psalm of David.
Psalm
6
A Prayer of Faith in Time of Distress
1
O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger,
Nor chasten me in Your hot
displeasure.
2Have
mercy on me, O LORD, for I am weak;
O LORD, heal me, for my bones
are troubled.
3My
soul also is greatly troubled;
But You, O LORD--how long?
4Return, O
LORD, deliver me!
Oh, save me
for Your mercies' sake!
5For in death there is no remembrance of You;
In the grave who will give You
thanks?
6I
am weary with my groaning;
All
night I make my bed swim;
I
drench my couch with my tears.
7My eye wastes away
because of grief;
It grows old
because of all my enemies.
8Depart from
me, all you workers of iniquity;
For the LORD has heard the
voice of my weeping.
9The LORD has heard my supplication;
The LORD will receive my
prayer.
10Let all my
enemies be ashamed and greatly troubled;
Let them turn back and be
ashamed suddenly. LORD concerning the words of Cush, a
Benjamite.
Psalm 7
Prayer and Praise for
Deliverance from Enemies
1 O LORD my God, in You I put my
trust;
Save me from all those
who persecute me;
And deliver
me,
2Lest they tear
me like a lion,
Rending me in
pieces, while there is none to deliver.
3O LORD my
God, if I have done this:
If
there is iniquity in my hands,
4If I have repaid
evil to him who was at peace with me,
Or have plundered my enemy
without cause,
5Let
the enemy pursue me and overtake me;
Yes, let him trample my life to
the earth,
And lay my honor in
the dust.Selah
6Arise, O LORD, in Your anger;
Lift Yourself up because of the
rage of my enemies;
Rise up for
me to the judgment You have commanded!
7So the congregation
of the peoples shall surround You;
For their sakes, therefore,
return on high.
8The
LORD shall judge the peoples;
Judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness,
And according to my integrity
within me.
9Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end,
But establish the just;
For the righteous God tests the
hearts and minds.
10My defense is of God,
Who saves the upright in heart.
11God is a
just judge,
And God is angry
with the wicked every day.
12If he does not turn back,
He will sharpen His sword;
He bends His bow and makes it
ready.
13He also
prepares for Himself instruments of death;
He makes His arrows into fiery
shafts.
14Behold, the wicked brings forth iniquity;
Yes, he conceives trouble and
brings forth falsehood.
15He made a pit and dug it out,
And has fallen into the ditch
which he made.
16His
trouble shall return upon his own head,
And his violent dealing shall
come down on his own crown.
17I will
praise the LORD according to His righteousness,
And will sing praise to the
name of the LORD Most High. A Psalm of David.
Psalm
8
The Glory of the LORD in Creation
1 O
LORD, our Lord,
How excellent
is Your name in all the earth,
Who have set Your glory above the heavens!
2Out of the
mouth of babes and nursing infants
You have ordained strength,
Because of Your enemies,
That You may silence the enemy
and the avenger.
3When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which
You have ordained,
4What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You
visit him?
5For You
have made him a little lower than the angels,
And You have crowned him with
glory and honor.
6You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under
his feet,
7All sheep
and oxen--
Even the beasts of
the field,
8The
birds of the air,
And the fish
of the sea
That pass through
the paths of the seas.
9O LORD, our
Lord,
How excellent is Your
name in all the earth! Judgments Son." A Psalm of David.
Psalm
9
Prayer and Thanksgiving for the LORD's
Righteous
1 I will praise You, O LORD, with my whole heart;
I will tell of all Your
marvelous works.
2I
will be glad and rejoice in You;
I will sing praise to Your
name, O Most High.
3When my enemies turn back,
They shall fall and perish at
Your presence.
4For
You have maintained my right and my cause;
You sat on the throne judging
in righteousness.
5You have rebuked the nations,
You have destroyed the wicked;
You have blotted out their name
forever and ever.
6O enemy, destructions are finished forever!
And you have destroyed cities;
Even their memory has perished.
7But the LORD shall
endure forever;
He has prepared
His throne for judgment.
8He shall judge the world in righteousness,
And He shall administer
judgment for the peoples in uprightness.
9The LORD
also will be a refuge for the oppressed,
A refuge in times of trouble.
10And those who know
Your name will put their trust in You;
For You, LORD, have not
forsaken those who seek You.
11Sing
praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion!
Declare His deeds among the
people.
12When He
avenges blood, He remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of
the humble.
13Have mercy on me, O LORD!
Consider my trouble from those
who hate me,
You who lift me up
from the gates of death,
14That I may tell of all Your praise
In the gates of the daughter of
Zion.
I will rejoice in Your
salvation.
15The nations have sunk down in the pit which they made;
In the net which they hid,
their own foot is caught.
16The LORD is known by the judgment He executes;
The wicked is snared in the
work of his own hands.
17The wicked
shall be turned into hell,
And
all the nations that forget God.
18For the needy
shall not always be forgotten;
The expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.
19Arise, O
LORD,
Do not let man prevail;
Let the nations be judged in
Your sight.
20Put
them in fear, O LORD,
That the
nations may know themselves to be but men.Selah
Psalm
10
A Song of Confidence in God's Triumph over
Evil
1 Why do You stand afar off, O LORD?
Why do You hide in times of
trouble?
2The wicked
in his pride persecutes the poor;
Let them be caught in the plots
which they have devised.
3For the
wicked boasts of his heart's desire;
He blesses the greedy and
renounces the LORD.
4The wicked in his proud countenance does not seek God;
God is in none of his thoughts.
5His ways
are always prospering;
Your
judgments are far above, out of his sight;
As for all his enemies, he
sneers at them.
6He
has said in his heart, "I shall not be moved;
I shall never be in adversity."
7His mouth is full
of cursing and deceit and oppression;
Under his tongue is trouble and
iniquity.
8He sits in the lurking places of the villages;
In the secret places he murders
the innocent;
His eyes are
secretly fixed on the helpless.
9He lies in wait
secretly, as a lion in his den;
He lies in wait to catch the poor;
He catches the poor when he
draws him into his net.
10So he crouches, he lies low,
That the helpless may fall by
his strength.
11He
has said in his heart,
"God has
forgotten;
He hides His face;
He will never see."
12Arise, O
LORD!
O God, lift up Your hand!
Do not forget the humble.
13Why do the wicked
renounce God?
He has said in
his heart,
"You will not
require an account."
14But You
have seen, for You observe trouble and grief,
To repay it by Your hand.
The helpless commits himself to
You;
You are the helper of the
fatherless.
15Break
the arm of the wicked and the evil man;
Seek out his wickedness until
You find none.
16The LORD is King forever and ever;
The nations have perished out
of His land.
17LORD,
You have heard the desire of the humble;
You will prepare their heart;
You will cause Your ear to
hear,
18To do
justice to the fatherless and the oppressed,
That the man of the earth may
oppress no more.
Psalm 11
Faith in the LORD's
Righteousness
1 In the LORD I put my trust;
How can you say to my soul,
"Flee as a bird to your
mountain"?
2For
look! The wicked bend their bow,
They make ready their arrow on
the string,
That they may shoot
secretly at the upright in heart.
3If the foundations
are destroyed,
What can the
righteous do?
4The LORD is in His holy temple,
The LORD's throne is in heaven;
His eyes behold,
His eyelids test the sons of
men.
5The LORD tests
the righteous,
But the wicked
and the one who loves violence His soul hates.
6Upon the wicked He
will rain coals;
Fire and
brimstone and a burning wind
Shall be the portion of their cup.
7For the
LORD is righteous,
He loves
righteousness;
His countenance
beholds the upright. Psalm of David.
Psalm
12
Man's Treachery and God's Constancy
1
Help, LORD, for the godly man ceases!
For the faithful disappear from
among the sons of men.
2They speak idly everyone with his neighbor;
With flattering lips and a
double heart they speak.
3May the
LORD cut off all flattering lips,
And the tongue that speaks
proud things,
4Who
have said,
"With our tongue we
will prevail;
Our lips are our
own;
Who is lord over us?"
5"For the
oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy,
Now I will arise," says the
LORD;
"I will set him in the
safety for which he yearns."
6The words
of the LORD are pure words,
Like silver tried in a furnace of earth,
Purified seven times.
7You shall keep
them, O LORD,
You shall
preserve them from this generation forever.
8The wicked
prowl on every side,
When
vileness is exalted among the sons of men.
Psalm
13
Trust in the Salvation of the LORD
1
How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever?
How long will You hide Your
face from me?
2How
long shall I take counsel in my soul,
Having sorrow in my heart
daily?
How long will my enemy
be exalted over me?
3Consider
and hear me, O LORD my God;
Enlighten my eyes,
Lest I sleep
the sleep of death;
4Lest my enemy say,
"I
have prevailed against him";
Lest those who trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
5But I have
trusted in Your mercy;
My heart
shall rejoice in Your salvation.
6I will sing to the
LORD,
Because He has dealt
bountifully with me.
Psalm 14
Folly of the
Godless, and God's Final Triumph
1 The fool has said in his heart,
"There is no God."
They are corrupt,
They have done abominable
works,
There is none who does
good.
2The
LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men,
To see if there are any who
understand, who seek God.
3They have all turned aside,
They have together become
corrupt;
There is none who does
good,
No, not one.
4Have all
the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
Who eat up my people as they
eat bread,
And do not call on
the LORD?
5There
they are in great fear,
For God
is with the generation of the righteous.
6You shame the
counsel of the poor,
But the
LORD is his refuge.
7Oh, that
the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
When the LORD brings back the
captivity of His people,
Let
Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad.
Psalm 15
The
Character of Those Who May Dwell with the LORD
1 LORD, who
may abide in Your tabernacle?
Who may dwell in Your holy hill?
2He who
walks uprightly,
And works
righteousness,
And speaks
the truth in his heart;
3He who does not backbite with his tongue,
Nor does evil
to his neighbor,
Nor does he
take up a reproach against his friend;
4In whose eyes a
vile person is despised,
But he honors
those who fear the LORD;
He who
swears to his own hurt and does not change;
5He who does not put
out his money at usury,
Nor does he
take a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these
things shall never be moved.
Psalm 16
The Hope of
the Faithful, and the Messiah's Victory
1 Preserve me, O
God, for in You I put my trust.
2O my soul,
you have said to the LORD,
"You
are my Lord,
My goodness is
nothing apart from You."
3As for the saints who are on the earth,
"They are the excellent ones,
in whom is all my delight."
4Their
sorrows shall be multiplied who hasten after another god;
Their drink offerings of blood
I will not offer,
Nor take up
their names on my lips.
5O LORD, You
are the portion of my inheritance and my cup;
You maintain my lot.
6The lines have
fallen to me in pleasant places;
Yes, I have a good inheritance.
7I will
bless the LORD who has given me counsel;
My heart also instructs me in
the night seasons.
8I have set the LORD always before me;
Because He is at my right hand
I shall not be moved.
9Therefore
my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices;
My flesh also will rest in
hope.
10For You will
not leave my soul in Sheol,
Nor
will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.
11You will show me
the path of life;
In Your
presence is fullness of joy;
At
Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
Psalm
17
Prayer with Confidence in Final
Salvation
1 Hear a just cause, O LORD,
Attend to my cry;
Give ear to my prayer which is
not from deceitful lips.
2Let my vindication come from Your presence;
Let Your eyes look on the
things that are upright.
3You have
tested my heart;
You have
visited me in the night;
You
have tried me and have found nothing;
I have purposed that my mouth
shall not transgress.
4Concerning the works of men,
By the word of Your lips,
I have kept away from the paths
of the destroyer.
5Uphold my steps in Your paths,
That my footsteps may not slip.
6I have
called upon You, for You will hear me, O God;
Incline Your ear to me, and
hear my speech.
7Show Your marvelous lovingkindness by Your right hand,
O You who save those who trust
in You
From those who rise up
against them.
8Keep
me as the apple of Your eye;
Hide me under the shadow of Your wings,
9From the wicked who
oppress me,
From my deadly
enemies who surround me.
10They have
closed up their fat hearts;
With their mouths they speak proudly.
11They have now
surrounded us in our steps;
They have set their eyes, crouching down to the earth,
12As a lion is eager
to tear his prey,
And like a
young lion lurking in secret places.
13Arise, O
LORD,
Confront him, cast him
down;
Deliver my life from the
wicked with Your sword,
14With Your hand from men, O LORD,
From men of the world who have
their portion in this life,
And
whose belly You fill with Your hidden treasure.
They are satisfied with
children,
And leave the rest of
their possession for their babes.
15As for me,
I will see Your face in righteousness;
I shall be satisfied when I
awake in Your likeness. servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words
of this song on the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his
enemies and from the hand of Saul. And he said:
Psalm
18
God the Sovereign Savior
1 I will love You, O LORD, my strength.
2The LORD is my rock
and my fortress and my deliverer;
My God, my strength, in whom I
will trust;
My shield and the
horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
3I will call upon
the LORD, who is worthy to be praised;
So shall I be saved from my
enemies.
4The pangs of death surrounded me,
And the floods of ungodliness
made me afraid.
5The
sorrows of Sheol surrounded me;
The snares of death confronted me.
6In my distress I
called upon the LORD,
And cried
out to my God;
He heard my
voice from His temple,
And my
cry came before Him, even to His ears.
7Then the
earth shook and trembled;
The
foundations of the hills also quaked and were shaken,
Because He was angry.
8Smoke went up from
His nostrils,
And devouring
fire from His mouth;
Coals were
kindled by it.
9He
bowed the heavens also, and came down
With darkness under His feet.
10And He rode upon a
cherub, and flew;
He flew upon
the wings of the wind.
11He made darkness His secret place;
His canopy around Him was dark
waters
And thick clouds of the
skies.
12From the
brightness before Him,
His
thick clouds passed with hailstones and coals of fire.
13The LORD
thundered from heaven,
And the
Most High uttered His voice,
Hailstones and coals of fire.
14He sent out His
arrows and scattered the foe,
Lightnings in abundance, and He vanquished them.
15Then the channels
of the sea were seen,
The
foundations of the world were uncovered
At Your rebuke, O LORD,
At the blast of the breath of
Your nostrils.
16He sent from above, He took me;
He drew me out of many waters.
17He delivered me
from my strong enemy,
From
those who hated me,
For they
were too strong for me.
18They confronted me in the day of my calamity,
But the LORD was my support.
19He also brought me
out into a broad place;
He
delivered me because He delighted in me.
20The LORD
rewarded me according to my righteousness;
According to the cleanness of
my hands
He has recompensed me.
21For I have kept
the ways of the LORD,
And have
not wickedly departed from my God.
22For all His
judgments were before me,
And I
did not put away His statutes from me.
23I was also
blameless before Him,
And I
kept myself from my iniquity.
24Therefore the LORD
has recompensed me according to my righteousness,
According to the cleanness of
my hands in His sight.
25With the
merciful You will show Yourself merciful;
With a blameless man You will
show Yourself blameless;
26With the pure You will show Yourself pure;
And with the devious You will
show Yourself shrewd.
27For You will save the humble people,
But will bring down haughty
looks.
28For
You will light my lamp;
The
LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
29For by You I can
run against a troop,
By my God
I can leap over a wall.
30As for God, His way is perfect;
The word of the LORD is proven;
He is a shield to all who trust
in Him.
31For who is God, except the LORD?
And who is a rock, except our
God?
32It is God who
arms me with strength,
And
makes my way perfect.
33He makes my feet like the feet of deer,
And sets me on my high places.
34He teaches my
hands to make war,
So that my
arms can bend a bow of bronze.
35You have
also given me the shield of Your salvation;
Your right hand has held me up,
Your gentleness has made me
great.
36You
enlarged my path under me,
So
my feet did not slip.
37I have
pursued my enemies and overtaken them;
Neither did I turn back again
till they were destroyed.
38I have wounded them,
So
that they could not rise;
They
have fallen under my feet.
39For You have armed me with strength for the battle;
You have subdued under me those
who rose up against me.
40You have also given me the necks of my enemies,
So that I destroyed those who
hated me.
41They
cried out, but there was none to save;
Even to the LORD, but He did
not answer them.
42Then I beat them as fine as the dust before the wind;
I cast them out like dirt in
the streets.
43You have delivered me from the strivings of the people;
You have made me the head of
the nations;
A people I have
not known shall serve me.
44As soon as they hear of me they obey me;
The foreigners submit to me.
45The foreigners
fade away,
And come frightened
from their hideouts.
46The LORD
lives!
Blessed be my Rock!
Let the God of my salvation be
exalted.
47It is God
who avenges me,
And subdues the
peoples under me;
48He delivers me from my enemies.
You also lift me up above those
who rise against me;
You have
delivered me from the violent man.
49Therefore I will
give thanks to You, O LORD, among the Gentiles,
And sing praises to Your name.
50Great
deliverance He gives to His king,
And shows mercy to His
anointed,
To David and his
descendants forevermore.
Psalm 19
The Perfect
Revelation of the LORD
1 The heavens declare the glory of
God;
And the firmament shows
His handiwork.
2Day
unto day utters speech,
And
night unto night reveals knowledge.
3There is no speech
nor language
Where their voice
is not heard.
4Their
line has gone out through all the earth,
And their words to the end of
the world.
In them He
has set a tabernacle for the sun,
5Which is like a
bridegroom coming out of his chamber,
And rejoices like a strong man
to run its race.
6Its rising is from one end of heaven,
And its circuit to the other
end;
And there is nothing
hidden from its heat.
7The law of
the LORD is perfect, converting the soul;
The testimony of the LORD is
sure, making wise the simple;
8The statutes of the
LORD are right, rejoicing the heart;
The commandment of the LORD is
pure, enlightening the eyes;
9The fear of the
LORD is clean, enduring forever;
The judgments of the LORD are
true and righteous altogether.
10More to be desired
are they than gold,
Yea, than
much fine gold;
Sweeter also
than honey and the honeycomb.
11Moreover by them
Your servant is warned,
And in
keeping them there is great reward.
12Who can
understand his errors?
Cleanse
me from secret faults.
13Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins;
Let them not have dominion over
me.
Then I shall be blameless,
And I shall be innocent of
great transgression.
14Let the
words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable in Your sight,
O LORD, my strength and my
Redeemer.
Psalm 20
The Assurance of God's Saving
Work
1 May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble;
May the name of the God of
Jacob defend you;
2May He send you help from the sanctuary,
And strengthen you out of Zion;
3May He remember all
your offerings,
And accept your
burnt sacrifice.Selah
4May He
grant you according to your heart's desire,
And fulfill all your purpose.
5We will rejoice in
your salvation,
And in the name
of our God we will set up our banners!
May the LORD fulfill all your
petitions.
6Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed;
He will answer him from His
holy heaven
With the saving
strength of His right hand.
7Some trust
in chariots, and some in horses;
But we will remember the name
of the LORD our God.
8They have bowed down and fallen;
But we have risen and stand
upright.
9Save, LORD!
May the King
answer us when we call.
Psalm 21
Joy in the
Salvation of the LORD
1 The king shall have joy in Your
strength, O LORD;
And in Your
salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
2You have given him
his heart's desire,
And have
not withheld the request of his lips.Selah
3For You
meet him with the blessings of goodness;
You set a crown of pure gold
upon his head.
4He
asked life from You, and You gave it to him--
Length of days forever and
ever.
5His glory is
great in Your salvation;
Honor
and majesty You have placed upon him.
6For You have made
him most blessed forever;
You
have made him exceedingly glad with Your presence.
7For the king trusts
in the LORD,
And through the
mercy of the Most High he shall not be moved.
8Your hand
will find all Your enemies;
Your right hand will find those who hate You.
9You shall make them
as a fiery oven in the time of Your anger;
The LORD shall swallow them up
in His wrath,
And the fire
shall devour them.
10Their offspring You shall destroy from the earth,
And their descendants from
among the sons of men.
11For they intended evil against You;
They devised a plot which they
are not able to perform.
12Therefore You will make them turn their back;
You will make ready Your arrows
on Your string toward their faces.
13Be
exalted, O LORD, in Your own strength!
We will sing and praise Your
power. A Psalm of David.
Psalm 22
The Suffering,
Praise, and Posterity of the Messiah
1 My God, My God, why
have You forsaken Me?
Why are
You so far from helping Me,
And
from the words of My groaning?
2O My God, I cry in
the daytime, but You do not hear;
And in the night season, and am
not silent.
3But You are holy,
Enthroned in the praises of Israel.
4Our fathers trusted
in You;
They trusted, and You
delivered them.
5They cried to You, and were delivered;
They trusted in You, and were
not ashamed.
6But I am a worm, and no man;
A reproach of men, and despised
by the people.
7All
those who see Me ridicule Me;
They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
8"He trusted in the
LORD, let Him rescue Him;
Let
Him deliver Him, since He delights in Him!"
9But You are
He who took Me out of the womb;
You made Me trust while on My mother's breasts.
10I was cast upon
You from birth.
From My
mother's womb
You have been My
God.
11Be not far
from Me,
For trouble is near;
For there is none to help.
12Many bulls
have surrounded Me;
Strong
bulls of Bashan have encircled Me.
13They gape at Me
with their mouths,
Like a
raging and roaring lion.
14I am
poured out like water,
And all
My bones are out of joint;
My
heart is like wax;
It has
melted within Me.
15My strength is dried up like a potsherd,
And My tongue clings to My
jaws;
You have brought Me to
the dust of death.
16For dogs have surrounded Me;
The congregation of the wicked
has enclosed Me.
They pierced
My hands and My feet;
17I can count all My bones.
They look and stare at Me.
18They divide My
garments among them,
And for My
clothing they cast lots.
19But You, O
LORD, do not be far from Me;
O
My Strength, hasten to help Me!
20Deliver Me from
the sword,
My precious life
from the power of the dog.
21Save Me from the lion's mouth
And from the horns of the wild
oxen!
You have answered
Me.
22I will
declare Your name to My brethren;
In the midst of the assembly I
will praise You.
23You who fear the LORD, praise Him!
All you descendants of Jacob,
glorify Him,
And fear Him, all
you offspring of Israel!
24For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;
Nor has He hidden His face from
Him;
But when He cried to Him,
He heard.
25My praise shall be of You in the great assembly;
I will pay My vows before those
who fear Him.
26The
poor shall eat and be satisfied;
Those who seek Him will praise
the LORD.
Let your heart live
forever!
27All the ends of the world
Shall remember and turn to the
LORD,
And all the families of
the nations
Shall worship
before You.
28For
the kingdom is the LORD's,
And
He rules over the nations.
29All the
prosperous of the earth
Shall
eat and worship;
All those who
go down to the dust
Shall bow
before Him,
Even he who cannot
keep himself alive.
30A
posterity shall serve Him.
It
will be recounted of the Lord to the next generation,
31They will come and
declare His righteousness to a people who will be born,
That He has done
this.
Psalm 23
The LORD the Shepherd of His
People
1 The LORD is my shepherd;
I shall not want.
2He makes me to lie
down in green pastures;
He
leads me beside the still waters.
3He restores my
soul;
He leads me in the paths
of righteousness
For His name's
sake.
4Yea,
though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil;
For You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, they
comfort me.
5You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
You anoint my head with oil;
My cup runs over.
6Surely goodness and
mercy shall follow me
All the
days of my life;
And I will
dwell in the house of the LORD
Forever.
Psalm 24
The King of Glory and His
Kingdom
1 The earth is the LORD's, and all its fullness,
The world and those who dwell
therein.
2For He has
founded it upon the seas,
And
established it upon the waters.
3Who may
ascend into the hill of the LORD?
Or who may stand in His holy
place?
4He who has
clean hands and a pure heart,
Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol,
Nor sworn deceitfully.
5He shall receive
blessing from the LORD,
And
righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6This is Jacob, the
generation of those who seek Him,
Who seek Your face.Selah
7Lift up
your heads, O you gates!
And be
lifted up, you everlasting doors!
And the King of glory shall
come in.
8Who is
this King of glory?
The LORD
strong and mighty,
The LORD
mighty in battle.
9Lift up your heads, O you gates!
Lift up, you everlasting doors!
And the King of glory shall
come in.
10Who is
this King of glory?
The LORD of
hosts,
He is the King of
glory.Selah
Psalm 25
A Plea for Deliverance and
Forgiveness
1 To You, O LORD, I lift up my soul.
2O my God, I trust
in You;
Let me not be ashamed;
Let not my enemies triumph over
me.
3Indeed, let no
one who waits on You be ashamed;
Let those be ashamed who deal
treacherously without cause.
4Show me
Your ways, O LORD;
Teach me
Your paths.
5Lead me
in Your truth and teach me,
For
You are the God of my salvation;
On You I wait all the day.
6Remember, O
LORD, Your tender mercies and Your lovingkindnesses,
For they are from of old.
7Do not remember the
sins of my youth, nor my transgressions;
According to Your mercy
remember me,
For Your goodness'
sake, O LORD.
8Good and upright is the LORD;
Therefore He teaches sinners in
the way.
9The humble
He guides in justice,
And the
humble He teaches His way.
10All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth,
To such as keep His covenant
and His testimonies.
11For Your name's sake, O LORD,
Pardon my iniquity, for it is
great.
12Who
is the man that fears the LORD?
Him shall He teach in the way He chooses.
13He himself shall
dwell in prosperity,
And his
descendants shall inherit the earth.
14The secret of the
LORD is with those who fear Him,
And He will show them His
covenant.
15My eyes
are ever toward the LORD,
For
He shall pluck my feet out of the net.
16Turn
Yourself to me, and have mercy on me,
For I am desolate and
afflicted.
17The
troubles of my heart have enlarged;
Bring me out of my distresses!
18Look on my
affliction and my pain,
And
forgive all my sins.
19Consider my enemies, for they are many;
And they hate me with cruel
hatred.
20Keep my
soul, and deliver me;
Let me
not be ashamed, for I put my trust in You.
21Let integrity and
uprightness preserve me,
For I
wait for You.
22Redeem Israel, O God,
Out of all their troubles!
Psalm 26
A Prayer for
Divine Scrutiny and Redemption
1 Vindicate me, O LORD,
For I have walked in my
integrity.
I have also trusted
in the LORD;
I shall not slip.
2Examine me, O LORD,
and prove me;
Try my mind and
my heart.
3For Your
lovingkindness is before my eyes,
And I have walked in Your
truth.
4I have not
sat with idolatrous mortals,
Nor will I go in with hypocrites.
5I have hated the
assembly of evildoers,
And will
not sit with the wicked.
6I will wash
my hands in innocence;
So I
will go about Your altar, O LORD,
7That I may proclaim
with the voice of thanksgiving,
And tell of all Your wondrous works.
8LORD, I have loved
the habitation of Your house,
And the place where Your glory dwells.
9Do not
gather my soul with sinners,
Nor my life with bloodthirsty men,
10In whose hands is
a sinister scheme,
And whose
right hand is full of bribes.
11But as for
me, I will walk in my integrity;
Redeem me and be merciful to
me.
12My foot stands
in an even place;
In the
congregations I will bless the LORD.
Psalm 27
An
Exuberant Declaration of Faith
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?
2When the
wicked came against me
To eat
up my flesh,
My enemies and
foes,
They stumbled and fell.
3Though an army may
encamp against me,
My heart
shall not fear;
Though war may
rise against me,
In this I will
be confident.
4One thing I have desired of the LORD,
That will I seek:
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 inquire in His
temple.
5For in the
time of trouble
He shall hide
me in His pavilion;
In the
secret place of His tabernacle
He shall hide me;
He shall set
me high upon a rock.
6And now my
head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me;
Therefore I will offer
sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle;
I will sing, yes, I will sing
praises to the LORD.
7Hear, O
LORD, when I cry with my voice!
Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
8When You said,
"Seek My face,"
My heart said
to You, "Your face, LORD, I will seek."
9Do not hide Your
face from me;
Do not turn Your
servant away in anger;
You have
been my help;
Do not leave me
nor forsake me,
O God of my
salvation.
10When my
father and my mother forsake me,
Then the LORD will take care of
me.
11Teach
me Your way, O LORD,
And lead
me in a smooth path, because of my enemies.
12Do not deliver me
to the will of my adversaries;
For false witnesses have risen against me,
And such as breathe out
violence.
13I would
have lost heart, unless I had believed
That I would see the goodness
of the LORD
In the land of the
living.
14Wait on the LORD;
Be of
good courage,
And He shall
strengthen your heart;
Wait, I
say, on the LORD!
Psalm 28
Rejoicing in Answered
Prayer
1 To You I will cry, O LORD my Rock:
Do not be silent to me,
Lest, if You are silent to me,
I become like those who go down
to the pit.
2Hear
the voice of my supplications
When I cry to You,
When I lift
up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
3Do not take
me away with the wicked
And
with the workers of iniquity,
Who speak peace to their neighbors,
But evil is in their hearts.
4Give them according
to their deeds,
And according
to the wickedness of their endeavors;
Give them according to the work
of their hands;
Render to them
what they deserve.
5Because they do not regard the works of the LORD,
Nor the operation of His hands,
He shall destroy them
And not build them up.
6Blessed be
the LORD,
Because He has heard
the voice of my supplications!
7The LORD is my
strength and my shield;
My
heart trusted in Him, and I am helped;
Therefore my heart greatly
rejoices,
And with my song I
will praise Him.
8The LORD is their strength,
And He is the saving refuge of
His anointed.
9Save
Your people,
And bless Your
inheritance;
Shepherd them
also,
And bear them up
forever.
Psalm 29
Praise to God in His Holiness
and Majesty
1 Give unto the LORD, O you mighty ones,
Give unto the LORD glory and
strength.
2Give unto
the LORD the glory due to His name;
Worship the LORD in the beauty
of holiness.
3The voice of the LORD is over the waters;
The God of glory thunders;
The LORD is over many waters.
4The voice of the
LORD is powerful;
The voice of
the LORD is full of majesty.
5The voice
of the LORD breaks the cedars,
Yes, the LORD splinters the cedars of Lebanon.
6He makes them also
skip like a calf,
Lebanon and
Sirion like a young wild ox.
7The voice of the
LORD divides the flames of fire.
8The voice
of the LORD shakes the wilderness;
The LORD shakes the Wilderness
of Kadesh.
9The
voice of the LORD makes the deer give birth,
And strips the forests bare;
And in His temple everyone
says, "Glory!"
10The LORD sat enthroned at the Flood,
And the LORD sits as King
forever.
11The LORD
will give strength to His people;
The LORD will bless His people
with peace. of David.
Psalm 30
The Blessedness of
Answered Prayer
1 I will extol You, O LORD, for You have
lifted me up,
And have not let
my foes rejoice over me.
2O LORD my God, I cried out to You,
And You healed me.
3O LORD, You brought
my soul up from the grave;
You
have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
4Sing praise
to the LORD, you saints of His,
And give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name.
5For His anger is
but for a moment,
His favor is
for life;
Weeping may endure
for a night,
But joy comes in
the morning.
6Now in my prosperity I said,
"I shall never be moved."
7LORD, by Your favor
You have made my mountain stand strong;
You hid Your face, and I was
troubled.
8I
cried out to You, O LORD;
And
to the LORD I made supplication:
9"What profit is
there in my blood,
When I go
down to the pit?
Will the dust
praise You?
Will it declare
Your truth?
10Hear,
O LORD, and have mercy on me;
LORD, be my helper!"
11You have
turned for me my mourning into dancing;
You have put off my sackcloth
and clothed me with gladness,
12To the end that my
glory may sing praise to You and not be silent.
O LORD my God, I will give
thanks to You forever.
Psalm 31
The LORD a
Fortress in Adversity
1 In You, O LORD, I put my trust;
Let me never be ashamed;
Deliver me in Your
righteousness.
2Bow
down Your ear to me,
Deliver me
speedily;
Be my rock of refuge,
A fortress of defense to save
me.
3For You
are my rock and my fortress;
Therefore, for Your name's sake,
Lead me and guide me.
4Pull me out of the
net which they have secretly laid for me,
For You are my strength.
5Into Your hand I
commit my spirit;
You have
redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
6I have
hated those who regard useless idols;
But I trust in the LORD.
7I will be glad and
rejoice in Your mercy,
For You
have considered my trouble;
You
have known my soul in adversities,
8And have not shut
me up into the hand of the enemy;
You have set my feet in a wide
place.
9Have
mercy on me, O LORD, for I am in trouble;
My eye wastes away with grief,
Yes, my soul and my body!
10For my life is
spent with grief,
And my years
with sighing;
My strength fails
because of my iniquity,
And my
bones waste away.
11I am a reproach among all my enemies,
But especially among my
neighbors,
And am repulsive to
my acquaintances;
Those who see
me outside flee from me.
12I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind;
I am like a broken vessel.
13For I hear the
slander of many;
Fear is on
every side;
While they take
counsel together against me,
They scheme to take away my life.
14But as for
me, I trust in You, O LORD;
I
say, "You are my God."
15My times are in Your hand;
Deliver me from the hand of my
enemies,
And from those who
persecute me.
16Make
Your face shine upon Your servant;
Save me for Your mercies' sake.
17Do not let me be
ashamed, O LORD, for I have called upon You;
Let the wicked be ashamed;
Let them be silent in the
grave.
18Let the
lying lips be put to silence,
Which speak insolent things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
19Oh, how
great is Your goodness,
Which
You have laid up for those who fear You,
Which You have prepared for
those who trust in You
In the
presence of the sons of men!
20You shall hide
them in the secret place of Your presence
From the plots of man;
You shall keep them secretly in
a pavilion
From the strife of
tongues.
21Blessed be the LORD,
For He has shown me His marvelous kindness in a strong city!
22For I said in my
haste,
"I am cut off from
before Your eyes";
Nevertheless
You heard the voice of my supplications
When I cried out to You.
23Oh, love
the LORD, all you His saints!
For the LORD preserves the faithful,
And fully repays the proud
person.
24Be of good
courage,
And He shall
strengthen your heart,
All you
who hope in the LORD.
Psalm 32
The Joy of
Forgiveness
1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven,
Whose sin is covered.
2Blessed is the man
to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity,
And in whose spirit there is no
deceit.
3When I kept silent, my bones grew old
Through my groaning all the day
long.
4For day and
night Your hand was heavy upon me;
My vitality was turned into the
drought of summer.Selah
5I acknowledged my sin to You,
And my iniquity I have not
hidden.
I said, "I will confess
my transgressions to the LORD,"
And You forgave the iniquity of my sin.Selah
6For this
cause everyone who is godly shall pray to You
In a time when You may be
found;
Surely in a flood of
great waters
They shall not
come near him.
7You
are my hiding place;
You shall
preserve me from trouble;
You
shall surround me with songs of deliverance.Selah
8I will
instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will guide you with My eye.
9Do not be like the
horse or like the mule,
Which
have no understanding,
Which
must be harnessed with bit and bridle,
Else they will not come near
you.
10Many
sorrows shall be to the wicked;
But he who trusts in the LORD, mercy shall surround him.
11Be glad in the
LORD and rejoice, you righteous;
And shout for joy, all you
upright in heart!
Psalm 33
The Sovereignty of the
LORD in Creation and History
1 Rejoice in the LORD, O you
righteous!
For praise from the
upright is beautiful.
2Praise the LORD with the harp;
Make melody to Him with an
instrument of ten strings.
3Sing to Him a new song;
Play skillfully with a shout of joy.
4For the
word of the LORD is right,
And
all His work is done in truth.
5He loves
righteousness and justice;
The
earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.
6By the word
of the LORD the heavens were made,
And all the host of them by the
breath of His mouth.
7He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap;
He lays up the deep in
storehouses.
8Let all the earth fear the LORD;
Let all the inhabitants of the
world stand in awe of Him.
9For He spoke, and it was done;
He commanded, and it stood
fast.
10The
LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
He makes the plans of the
peoples of no effect.
11The counsel of the LORD stands forever,
The plans of His heart to all
generations.
12Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD,
The people He has chosen as His
own inheritance.
13The LORD looks from heaven;
He sees all the sons of men.
14From the place of
His dwelling He looks
On all
the inhabitants of the earth;
15He fashions their
hearts individually;
He
considers all their works.
16No king is
saved by the multitude of an army;
A mighty man is not delivered
by great strength.
17A horse is a vain hope for safety;
Neither shall it deliver any by
its great strength.
18Behold,
the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him,
On those who hope in His mercy,
19To deliver their
soul from death,
And to keep
them alive in famine.
20Our soul
waits for the LORD;
He is our
help and our shield.
21For our heart shall rejoice in Him,
Because we have trusted in His
holy name.
22Let
Your mercy, O LORD, be upon us,
Just as we hope in You. before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he
departed.
Psalm 34
The Happiness of Those Who
Trust in God
1 I will bless the LORD at all times;
His praise shall continually be
in my mouth.
2My
soul shall make its boast in the LORD;
The humble shall hear of it and
be glad.
3Oh,
magnify the LORD with me,
And
let us exalt His name together.
4I sought
the LORD, and He heard me,
And
delivered me from all my fears.
5They looked to Him
and were radiant,
And their
faces were not ashamed.
6This poor man cried out, and the LORD heard him,
And saved him out of all his
troubles.
7The angel
of the LORD encamps all around those who fear Him,
And delivers them.
8Oh, taste
and see that the LORD is good;
Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!
9Oh, fear the LORD,
you His saints!
There is no
want to those who fear Him.
10The young lions
lack and suffer hunger;
But
those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.
11Come, you
children, listen to me;
I will
teach you the fear of the LORD.
12Who is the man who
desires life,
And loves many
days, that he may see good?
13Keep your tongue
from evil,
And your lips from
speaking deceit.
14Depart from evil and do good;
Seek peace and pursue it.
15The eyes
of the LORD are on the righteous,
And His ears are open to their
cry.
16The face of
the LORD is against those who do evil,
To cut off the remembrance of
them from the earth.
17The
righteous cry out, and the LORD hears,
And delivers them out of all
their troubles.
18The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart,
And saves such as have a
contrite spirit.
19Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
But the LORD delivers him out
of them all.
20He
guards all his bones;
Not one
of them is broken.
21Evil shall slay the wicked,
And those who hate the
righteous shall be condemned.
22The LORD redeems
the soul of His servants,
And
none of those who trust in Him shall be condemned.
Psalm
35
The LORD the Avenger of His People
1
Plead my cause, O LORD, with those who strive with me;
Fight against those who fight
against me.
2Take
hold of shield and buckler,
And
stand up for my help.
3Also draw out the spear,
And stop those who pursue me.
Say to my soul,
"I am your
salvation."
4Let those be put to shame and brought to dishonor
Who seek after my life;
Let those be turned back and
brought to confusion
Who plot
my hurt.
5Let them
be like chaff before the wind,
And let the angel of the LORD chase them.
6Let their way be
dark and slippery,
And let the
angel of the LORD pursue them.
7For without cause
they have hidden their net for me in a pit,
Which they have dug without
cause for my life.
8Let destruction come upon him unexpectedly,
And let his net that he has
hidden catch himself;
Into that
very destruction let him fall.
9And my soul
shall be joyful in the LORD;
It
shall rejoice in His salvation.
10All my bones shall
say,
"LORD, who is like You,
Delivering the poor from him
who is too strong for him,
Yes,
the poor and the needy from him who plunders him?"
11Fierce
witnesses rise up;
They ask me
things that I do not know.
12They reward me evil for good,
To the sorrow of my soul.
13But as for me,
when they were sick,
My
clothing was sackcloth;
I
humbled myself with fasting;
And my prayer would return to my own heart.
14I paced about as
though he were my friend or brother;
I bowed down heavily, as one
who mourns for his mother.
15But in my
adversity they rejoiced
And
gathered together;
Attackers
gathered against me,
And I did
not know it;
They tore at me
and did not cease;
16With ungodly mockers at feasts
They gnashed at me with their
teeth.
17Lord, how long will You look on?
Rescue me from their
destructions,
My precious life
from the lions.
18I
will give You thanks in the great assembly;
I will praise You among many
people.
19Let them not rejoice over me who are wrongfully my enemies;
Nor let them wink with the eye
who hate me without a cause.
20For they do not
speak peace,
But they devise
deceitful matters
Against the
quiet ones in the land.
21They also opened their mouth wide against me,
And said, "Aha, aha!
Our eyes have seen it."
22This You
have seen, O LORD;
Do not keep
silence.
O Lord, do not be far
from me.
23Stir up
Yourself, and awake to my vindication,
To my cause, my God and my
Lord.
24Vindicate
me, O LORD my God, according to Your righteousness;
And let them not rejoice over
me.
25Let them not
say in their hearts, "Ah, so we would have it!"
Let them not say, "We have
swallowed him up."
26Let them be ashamed and brought to mutual confusion
Who rejoice at my hurt;
Let them be clothed with shame
and dishonor
Who exalt
themselves against me.
27Let them
shout for joy and be glad,
Who
favor my righteous cause;
And
let them say continually,
"Let
the LORD be magnified,
Who has
pleasure in the prosperity of His servant."
28And my tongue
shall speak of Your righteousness
And of Your praise all the day
long. servant of the LORD.
Psalm 36
Man's
Wickedness and God's Perfections
1 An oracle within my heart
concerning the transgression of the wicked:
There is no fear of God before
his eyes.
2For he
flatters himself in his own eyes,
When he finds out his iniquity
and when he hates.
3The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit;
He has ceased to be wise and to
do good.
4He devises
wickedness on his bed;
He sets
himself in a way that is not good;
He does not abhor evil.
5Your mercy,
O LORD, is in the heavens;
Your
faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
6Your righteousness
is like the great mountains;
Your judgments are a great deep;
O LORD, You preserve man and
beast.
7How
precious is Your lovingkindness, O God!
Therefore the children of men
put their trust under the shadow of Your wings.
8They are abundantly
satisfied with the fullness of Your house,
And You give them drink from
the river of Your pleasures.
9For with You is the
fountain of life;
In Your light
we see light.
10Oh, continue Your lovingkindness to those who know You,
And Your righteousness to the
upright in heart.
11Let not the foot of pride come against me,
And let not the hand of the
wicked drive me away.
12There the workers of iniquity have fallen;
They have been cast down and
are not able to rise.
Psalm 37
The Heritage of the
Righteous and the Calamity of the Wicked
1 Do not fret
because of evildoers,
Nor be
envious of the workers of iniquity.
2For they shall soon
be cut down like the grass,
And
wither as the green herb.
3Trust in
the LORD, and do good;
Dwell in
the land, and feed on His faithfulness.
4Delight yourself
also in the LORD,
And He shall
give you the desires of your heart.
5Commit your
way to the LORD,
Trust also in
Him,
And He shall bring it to
pass.
6He shall
bring forth your righteousness as the light,
And your justice as the
noonday.
7Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him;
Do not fret because of him who
prospers in his way,
Because of
the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.
8Cease from anger,
and forsake wrath;
Do not
fret--it only causes harm.
9For
evildoers shall be cut off;
But
those who wait on the LORD,
They shall inherit the earth.
10For yet a little
while and the wicked shall be no more;
Indeed, you will look carefully
for his place,
But it shall be
no more.
11But the
meek shall inherit the earth,
And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
12The wicked
plots against the just,
And
gnashes at him with his teeth.
13The Lord laughs at
him,
For He sees that his day
is coming.
14The
wicked have drawn the sword
And
have bent their bow,
To cast
down the poor and needy,
To
slay those who are of upright conduct.
15Their sword shall
enter their own heart,
And
their bows shall be broken.
16A little
that a righteous man has
Is
better than the riches of many wicked.
17For the arms of
the wicked shall be broken,
But
the LORD upholds the righteous.
18The LORD
knows the days of the upright,
And their inheritance shall be forever.
19They shall not be
ashamed in the evil time,
And
in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
20But the wicked
shall perish;
And the enemies
of the LORD,
Like the splendor
of the meadows, shall vanish.
Into smoke they shall vanish away.
21The wicked
borrows and does not repay,
But
the righteous shows mercy and gives.
22For those blessed
by Him shall inherit the earth,
But those cursed by Him shall be cut off.
23The steps
of a good man are ordered by the LORD,
And He delights in his way.
24Though he fall, he
shall not be utterly cast down;
For the LORD upholds him with His hand.
25I have
been young, and now am old;
Yet
I have not seen the righteous forsaken,
Nor his descendants begging
bread.
26He is ever
merciful, and lends;
And his
descendants are blessed.
27Depart
from evil, and do good;
And
dwell forevermore.
28For the LORD loves justice,
And does not forsake His
saints;
They are preserved
forever,
But the descendants of
the wicked shall be cut off.
29The righteous
shall inherit the land,
And
dwell in it forever.
30The mouth
of the righteous speaks wisdom,
And his tongue talks of justice.
31The law of his God
is in his heart;
None of his
steps shall slide.
32The wicked watches the righteous,
And seeks to slay him.
33The LORD will not
leave him in his hand,
Nor
condemn him when he is judged.
34Wait on
the LORD,
And keep His way,
And He shall exalt you to
inherit the land;
When the
wicked are cut off, you shall see it.
35I have seen the
wicked in great power,
And
spreading himself like a native green tree.
36Yet he passed
away, and behold, he was no more;
Indeed I sought him, but he
could not be found.
37Mark the
blameless man, and observe the upright;
For the future of that man is
peace.
38But the
transgressors shall be destroyed together;
The future of the wicked shall
be cut off.
39But the salvation of the righteous is from the LORD;
He is their strength in the
time of trouble.
40And the LORD shall help them and deliver them;
He shall deliver them from the
wicked,
And save them,
Because they trust in
Him.
Psalm 38
Prayer in Time of
Chastening
1 O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your wrath,
Nor chasten me in Your hot
displeasure!
2For
Your arrows pierce me deeply,
And Your hand presses me down.
3There is no
soundness in my flesh
Because
of Your anger,
Nor any health
in my bones
Because of my sin.
4For my iniquities
have gone over my head;
Like a
heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
5My wounds are foul
and festering
Because of my
foolishness.
6I am troubled, I am bowed down greatly;
I go mourning all the day long.
7For my loins are
full of inflammation,
And there
is no soundness in my flesh.
8I am feeble and
severely broken;
I groan
because of the turmoil of my heart.
9Lord, all
my desire is before You;
And my
sighing is not hidden from You.
10My heart pants, my
strength fails me;
As for the
light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.
11My loved
ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague,
And my relatives stand afar
off.
12Those also
who seek my life lay snares for me;
Those who seek my hurt speak of
destruction,
And plan deception
all the day long.
13But I, like a deaf man, do not hear;
And I am like a mute who does
not open his mouth.
14Thus I am like a man who does not hear,
And in whose mouth is no
response.
15For in You, O LORD, I hope;
You will hear, O Lord my God.
16For I said, "Hear
me, lest they rejoice over me,
Lest, when my foot slips, they exalt themselves against me."
17For I am
ready to fall,
And my sorrow is
continually before me.
18For I will declare my iniquity;
I will be in anguish over my
sin.
19But my
enemies are vigorous, and they are strong;
And those who hate me
wrongfully have multiplied.
20Those also who
render evil for good,
They are
my adversaries, because I follow what is good.
21Do not
forsake me, O LORD;
O my God,
be not far from me!
22Make haste to help me,
O Lord, my salvation! Psalm of David.
Psalm
39
Prayer for Wisdom and Forgiveness
1 I
said, "I will guard my ways,
Lest I sin with my tongue;
I
will restrain my mouth with a muzzle,
While the wicked are before
me."
2I was mute
with silence,
I held my peace
even from good;
And my sorrow
was stirred up.
3My
heart was hot within me;
While
I was musing, the fire burned.
Then I spoke with my tongue:
4"LORD, make
me to know my end,
And what is
the measure of my days,
That I
may know how frail I am.
5Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my age is as nothing before
You;
Certainly every man at his
best state is but vapor.Selah
6Surely every man
walks about like a shadow;
Surely they busy themselves in vain;
He heaps up riches,
And does not know who will
gather them.
7"And now, Lord, what do I wait for?
My hope is in You.
8Deliver me from all
my transgressions;
Do not make
me the reproach of the foolish.
9I was mute, I did
not open my mouth,
Because it
was You who did it.
10Remove Your plague from me;
I am consumed by the blow of
Your hand.
11When
with rebukes You correct man for iniquity,
You make his beauty melt away
like a moth;
Surely every man
is vapor.Selah
12"Hear my prayer, O LORD,
And give ear to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am a stranger with You,
A sojourner, as all my fathers
were.
13Remove Your
gaze from me, that I may regain strength,
Before I go away and am no
more."
Psalm 40
Faith Persevering in
Trial
1 I waited patiently for the LORD;
And He inclined to me,
And heard my cry.
2He also brought me
up out of a horrible pit,
Out
of the miry clay,
And set my
feet upon a rock,
And
established my steps.
3He has put a new song in my mouth--
Praise to our God;
Many will see it and fear,
And will trust in the LORD.
4Blessed is
that man who makes the LORD his trust,
And does not respect the proud,
nor such as turn aside to lies.
5Many, O LORD my
God, are Your wonderful works
Which You have done;
And Your
thoughts toward us
Cannot be
recounted to You in order;
If I
would declare and speak of them,
They are more than can be
numbered.
6Sacrifice and offering You did not desire;
My ears You have opened.
Burnt offering and sin offering
You did not require.
7Then I said, "Behold, I come;
In the scroll of the book it is
written of me.
8I
delight to do Your will, O my God,
And Your law is within my
heart."
9I
have proclaimed the good news of righteousness
In the great assembly;
Indeed, I do not restrain my
lips,
O LORD, You Yourself
know.
10I have not
hidden Your righteousness within my heart;
I have declared Your
faithfulness and Your salvation;
I have not concealed Your
lovingkindness and Your truth
From the great assembly.
11Do not
withhold Your tender mercies from me, O LORD;
Let Your lovingkindness and
Your truth continually preserve me.
12For innumerable
evils have surrounded me;
My
iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up;
They are more than the hairs of
my head;
Therefore my heart
fails me.
13Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me;
O LORD, make haste to help me!
14Let them be
ashamed and brought to mutual confusion
Who seek to destroy my life;
Let them be driven backward and
brought to dishonor
Who wish me
evil.
15Let them be
confounded because of their shame,
Who say to me, "Aha, aha!"
16Let all
those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;
Let such as love Your salvation
say continually,
"The LORD be
magnified!"
17But I
am poor and needy;
Yet the LORD
thinks upon me.
You are my help
and my deliverer;
Do not delay,
O my God.
Psalm 41
The Blessing and Suffering of
the Godly
1 Blessed is he who considers the poor;
The LORD will deliver him in
time of trouble.
2The LORD will preserve him and keep him alive,
And he will be blessed on the
earth;
You will not deliver him
to the will of his enemies.
3The LORD will
strengthen him on his bed of illness;
You will sustain him on his
sickbed.
4I
said, "LORD, be merciful to me;
Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You."
5My enemies speak
evil of me:
"When will he die,
and his name perish?"
6And if he comes to see me, he speaks lies;
His heart gathers iniquity to
itself;
When he goes out, he
tells it.
7All who hate me whisper together against me;
Against me they devise my hurt.
8"An evil disease,"
they say, "clings to him.
And
now that he lies down, he will rise up no more."
9Even my own
familiar friend in whom I trusted,
Who ate my bread,
Has lifted up his heel against
me.
10But
You, O LORD, be merciful to me, and raise me up,
That I may repay them.
11By this I know
that You are well pleased with me,
Because my enemy does not
triumph over me.
12As for me, You uphold me in my integrity,
And set me before Your face
forever.
13Blessed be the LORD God of Israel
From everlasting to
everlasting!
Amen and Amen.
Korah.
Psalm 42
Yearning for God in the Midst of
Distresses
1 As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So pants my soul for You, O
God.
2My soul
thirsts for God, for the living God.
When shall I come and appear
before God?
3My
tears have been my food day and night,
While they continually say to
me,
"Where is your God?"
4When I
remember these things,
I pour
out my soul within me.
For I
used to go with the multitude;
I went with them to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and
praise,
With a multitude that
kept a pilgrim feast.
5Why are you
cast down, O my soul?
And why
are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him
For the help of His
countenance.
6O my God, my soul is cast down within me;
Therefore I will remember You
from the land of the Jordan,
And from the heights of Hermon,
From the Hill Mizar.
7Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls;
All Your waves and billows have
gone over me.
8The
LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime,
And in the night His song shall
be with me--
A prayer to the
God of my life.
9I will say to God my Rock,
"Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of
the oppression of the enemy?"
10As with a breaking
of my bones,
My enemies
reproach me,
While they say to
me all day long,
"Where is your
God?"
11Why
are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and
my God.
Psalm 43
Prayer to God in Time of
Trouble
1 Vindicate me, O God,
And plead my cause against an
ungodly nation;
Oh, deliver me
from the deceitful and unjust man!
2For You are the God
of my strength;
Why do You cast
me off?
Why do I go mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?
3Oh, send
out Your light and Your truth!
Let them lead me;
Let them
bring me to Your holy hill
And
to Your tabernacle.
4Then I will go to the altar of God,
To God my exceeding joy;
And on the harp I will praise
You,
O God, my God.
5Why are you
cast down, O my soul?
And why
are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet
praise Him,
The help of my
countenance and my God. of Korah.
Psalm
44
Redemption Remembered in Present
Dishonor
1 We have heard with our ears, O God,
Our fathers have told us,
The deeds You did in their
days,
In days of old:
2You drove out the
nations with Your hand,
But
them You planted;
You afflicted
the peoples, and cast them out.
3For they did not
gain possession of the land by their own sword,
Nor did their own arm save
them;
But it was Your right
hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance,
Because You favored them.
4You are my
King, O God;
Command victories
for Jacob.
5Through
You we will push down our enemies;
Through Your name we will
trample those who rise up against us.
6For I will not
trust in my bow,
Nor shall my
sword save me.
7But
You have saved us from our enemies,
And have put to shame those who
hated us.
8In God we
boast all day long,
And praise
Your name forever.Selah
9But You
have cast us off and put us to shame,
And You do not go out with our
armies.
10You make
us turn back from the enemy,
And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.
11You have given us
up like sheep intended for food,
And have scattered us among the
nations.
12You sell
Your people for next to nothing,
And are not enriched by selling
them.
13You
make us a reproach to our neighbors,
A scorn and a derision to those
all around us.
14You
make us a byword among the nations,
A shaking of the head among the
peoples.
15My
dishonor is continually before me,
And the shame of my face has
covered me,
16Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles,
Because of the enemy and the
avenger.
17All this has come upon us;
But we have not forgotten You,
Nor have we dealt falsely with
Your covenant.
18Our
heart has not turned back,
Nor
have our steps departed from Your way;
19But You have
severely broken us in the place of jackals,
And covered us with the shadow
of death.
20If we had forgotten the name of our God,
Or stretched out our hands to a
foreign god,
21Would
not God search this out?
For He
knows the secrets of the heart.
22Yet for Your sake
we are killed all day long;
We
are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
23Awake! Why
do You sleep, O Lord?
Arise! Do
not cast us off forever.
24Why do You hide Your face,
And forget our affliction and
our oppression?
25For our soul is bowed down to the dust;
Our body clings to the ground.
26Arise for our
help,
And redeem us for Your
mercies' sake. Contemplation of the sons of Korah. A Song of
Love.
Psalm 45
The Glories of the Messiah and His
Bride
1 My heart is overflowing with a good theme;
I recite my composition
concerning the King;
My tongue
is the pen of a ready writer.
2You are
fairer than the sons of men;
Grace is poured upon Your lips;
Therefore God has blessed You forever.
3Gird Your sword
upon Your thigh, O Mighty One,
With Your glory and Your majesty.
4And in Your majesty
ride prosperously because of truth, humility, and righteousness;
And Your right hand shall teach
You awesome things.
5Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the King's enemies;
The peoples fall under You.
6Your
throne, O God, is forever and ever;
A scepter of righteousness is
the scepter of Your kingdom.
7You love
righteousness and hate wickedness;
Therefore God, Your God, has
anointed You
With the oil of
gladness more than Your companions.
8All Your garments
are scented with myrrh and aloes and cassia,
Out of the ivory palaces, by
which they have made You glad.
9Kings' daughters
are among Your honorable women;
At Your right hand stands the queen in gold from Ophir.
10Listen, O
daughter,
Consider and incline
your ear;
Forget your own
people also, and your father's house;
11So the King will
greatly desire your beauty;
Because He is your Lord, worship Him.
12And the daughter
of Tyre will come with a gift;
The rich among the people will seek your favor.
13The royal
daughter is all glorious within the palace;
Her clothing is woven with
gold.
14She shall be
brought to the King in robes of many colors;
The virgins, her companions who
follow her, shall be brought to You.
15With gladness and
rejoicing they shall be brought;
They shall enter the King's
palace.
16Instead of Your fathers shall be Your sons,
Whom You shall make princes in
all the earth.
17I
will make Your name to be remembered in all generations;
Therefore the people shall
praise You forever and ever. Korah. A Song for Alamoth.
Psalm
46
God the Refuge of His People and Conqueror of the
Nations
1 God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.
2Therefore we will
not fear,
Even though the earth
be removed,
And though the
mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
3Though its waters
roar and be troubled,
Though
the mountains shake with its swelling.Selah
4There is a
river whose streams shall make glad the city of God,
The holy place of the
tabernacle of the Most High.
5God is in the midst
of her, she shall not be moved;
God shall help her, just at the break of dawn.
6The nations raged,
the kingdoms were moved;
He
uttered His voice, the earth melted.
7The LORD of
hosts is with us;
The God of
Jacob is our refuge.Selah
8Come,
behold the works of the LORD,
Who has made desolations in the earth.
9He makes wars cease
to the end of the earth;
He
breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two;
He burns the chariot in the
fire.
10Be
still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!
11The LORD
of hosts is with us;
The God of
Jacob is our refuge.Selah Korah.
Psalm 47
Praise
to God, the Ruler of the Earth
1 Oh, clap your hands, all
you peoples!
Shout to God with
the voice of triumph!
2For the LORD Most High is awesome;
He is a great King over all the
earth.
3He will
subdue the peoples under us,
And the nations under our feet.
4He will choose our
inheritance for us,
The
excellence of Jacob whom He loves.Selah
5God has
gone up with a shout,
The LORD
with the sound of a trumpet.
6Sing praises to
God, sing praises!
Sing praises
to our King, sing praises!
7For God is the King of all the earth;
Sing praises with
understanding.
8God reigns over the nations;
God sits on His holy throne.
9The princes of the
people have gathered together,
The people of the God of Abraham.
For the shields of the earth
belong to God;
He is greatly
exalted.
Psalm 48
The Glory of God in
Zion
1 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised
In the city of our God,
In His holy mountain.
2Beautiful in
elevation,
The joy of the whole
earth,
Is Mount Zion on the
sides of the north,
The city of
the great King.
3God
is in her palaces;
He is known
as her refuge.
4For behold, the kings assembled,
They passed by together.
5They saw it, and so
they marveled;
They were
troubled, they hastened away.
6Fear took hold of
them there,
And pain, as of a
woman in birth pangs,
7As when You break the ships of Tarshish
With an east wind.
8As we have
heard,
So we have seen
In the city of the LORD of
hosts,
In the city of our God:
God will establish it
forever.Selah
9We have thought, O God, on Your lovingkindness,
In the midst of Your temple.
10According to Your
name, O God,
So is Your praise
to the ends of the earth;
Your
right hand is full of righteousness.
11Let Mount Zion
rejoice,
Let the daughters of
Judah be glad,
Because of Your
judgments.
12Walk about Zion,
And go
all around her.
Count her
towers;
13Mark well
her bulwarks;
Consider her
palaces;
That you may tell it
to the generation following.
14For this is God,
Our God forever and ever;
He will be our guide
Even to death.
Korah.
Psalm 49
The Confidence of the
Foolish
1 Hear this, all peoples;
Give ear, all inhabitants of
the world,
2Both low
and high,
Rich and poor
together.
3My mouth
shall speak wisdom,
And the
meditation of my heart shall give understanding.
4I will incline my
ear to a proverb;
I will
disclose my dark saying on the harp.
5Why should
I fear in the days of evil,
When the iniquity at my heels surrounds me?
6Those who trust in
their wealth
And boast in the
multitude of their riches,
7None of them can by any means redeem his brother,
Nor give to God a ransom for
him--
8For the
redemption of their souls is costly,
And it shall cease forever--
9That he should
continue to live eternally,
And
not see the Pit.
10For he sees wise men die;
Likewise the fool and the
senseless person perish,
And
leave their wealth to others.
11Their inner
thought is that their houses will last forever,
Their dwelling places to all
generations;
They call their
lands after their own names.
12Nevertheless man,
though in honor, does not remain;
He is like the beasts that
perish.
13This is the way of those who are foolish,
And of their posterity who
approve their sayings.Selah
14Like sheep they
are laid in the grave;
Death
shall feed on them;
The upright
shall have dominion over them in the morning;
And their beauty shall be
consumed in the grave, far from their dwelling.
15But God will
redeem my soul from the power of the grave,
For He shall receive me.Selah
16Do not be
afraid when one becomes rich,
When the glory of his house is increased;
17For when he dies
he shall carry nothing away;
His glory shall not descend after him.
18Though while he
lives he blesses himself
(For
men will praise you when you do well for yourself),
19He shall go to the
generation of his fathers;
They
shall never see light.
20A man who is in honor, yet does not understand,
Is like the beasts that
perish.
Psalm 50
God the Righteous
Judge
1 The Mighty One, God the LORD,
Has spoken and called the earth
From the rising of the sun to
its going down.
2Out
of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God will shine forth.
3Our God shall come,
and shall not keep silent;
A
fire shall devour before Him,
And it shall be very tempestuous all around Him.
4He shall
call to the heavens from above,
And to the earth, that He may judge His people:
5"Gather My saints
together to Me,
Those who have
made a covenant with Me by sacrifice."
6Let the heavens
declare His righteousness,
For
God Himself is Judge.Selah
7"Hear, O My
people, and I will speak,
O
Israel, and I will testify against you;
I am God, your God!
8I will not rebuke
you for your sacrifices
Or your
burnt offerings,
Which are
continually before Me.
9I will not take a bull from your house,
Nor goats out of your folds.
10For every beast of
the forest is Mine,
And the
cattle on a thousand hills.
11I know all the
birds of the mountains,
And the
wild beasts of the field are Mine.
12"If I were
hungry, I would not tell you;
For the world is Mine, and all its fullness.
13Will I eat the
flesh of bulls,
Or drink the
blood of goats?
14Offer to God thanksgiving,
And pay your vows to the Most
High.
15Call upon Me
in the day of trouble;
I will
deliver you, and you shall glorify Me."
16But to the
wicked God says:
"What right
have you to declare My statutes,
Or take My covenant in your
mouth,
17Seeing you
hate instruction
And cast My
words behind you?
18When you saw a thief, you consented with him,
And have been a partaker with
adulterers.
19You
give your mouth to evil,
And
your tongue frames deceit.
20You sit and speak against your brother;
You slander your own mother's
son.
21These things
you have done, and I kept silent;
You thought that I was
altogether like you;
But I will
rebuke you,
And set them in
order before your eyes.
22"Now
consider this, you who forget God,
Lest I tear you in pieces,
And there be none to deliver:
23Whoever offers
praise glorifies Me;
And to him
who orders his conduct aright
I
will show the salvation of God."
Psalm 51
A Prayer
of Repentance
1 Have mercy upon me, O God,
According to Your
lovingkindness;
According to
the multitude of Your tender mercies,
Blot out my transgressions.
2Wash me thoroughly
from my iniquity,
And cleanse
me from my sin.
3For I acknowledge my transgressions,
And my sin is always before me.
4Against You, You
only, have I sinned,
And done
this evil in Your sight--
That
You may be found just when You speak,
And blameless when You judge.
5Behold, I
was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me.
6Behold, You desire
truth in the inward parts,
And
in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom.
7Purge me
with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
Wash me, and I shall be whiter
than snow.
8Make me
hear joy and gladness,
That the
bones You have broken may rejoice.
9Hide Your face from
my sins,
And blot out all my
iniquities.
10Create in me a clean heart, O God,
And renew a steadfast spirit
within me.
11Do not
cast me away from Your presence,
And do not take Your Holy
Spirit from me.
12Restore to me the joy of Your salvation,
And uphold me by Your generous
Spirit.
13Then I
will teach transgressors Your ways,
And sinners shall be converted
to You.
14Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God,
The God of my salvation,
And my tongue shall sing aloud
of Your righteousness.
15O Lord, open my lips,
And my mouth shall show forth Your praise.
16For You do not
desire sacrifice, or else I would give it;
You do not delight in burnt
offering.
17The
sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,
A broken and a contrite heart--
These, O God, You will not
despise.
18Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion;
Build the walls of Jerusalem.
19Then You shall be
pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness,
With burnt offering and whole
burnt offering;
Then they shall
offer bulls on Your altar. when Doeg the Edomite went and told Saul, and said
to him, "David has gone to the house of Ahimelech."
Psalm
52
The End of the Wicked and the Peace of the
Godly
1 Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man?
The goodness of God endures
continually.
2Your
tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
3You love evil more
than good,
Lying rather than
speaking righteousness.Selah
4You love all
devouring words,
You deceitful
tongue.
5God
shall likewise destroy you forever;
He shall take you away, and
pluck you out of your dwelling place,
And uproot you from the land of
the living.Selah
6The righteous also shall see and fear,
And shall laugh at him, saying,
7"Here is the man
who did not make God his strength,
But trusted in the abundance of
his riches,
And strengthened
himself in his wickedness."
8But I am
like a green olive tree in the house of God;
I trust in the mercy of God
forever and ever.
9I
will praise You forever,
Because You have done it;
And
in the presence of Your saints
I will wait on Your name, for it is good. Contemplation of
David.
Psalm 53
Folly of the Godless, and the
Restoration of Israel
1 The fool has said in his heart,
"There is no God."
They are corrupt, and have done
abominable iniquity;
There is
none who does good.
2God looks
down from heaven upon the children of men,
To see if there are any who
understand, who seek God.
3Every one of them has turned aside;
They have together become
corrupt;
There is none who does
good,
No, not one.
4Have the
workers of iniquity no knowledge,
Who eat up my people as they
eat bread,
And do not call upon
God?
5There they are
in great fear
Where no fear
was,
For God has scattered the
bones of him who encamps against you;
You have put them to shame,
Because God has despised them.
6Oh, that
the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
When God brings back the
captivity of His people,
Let
Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad. Contemplation of David when the Ziphites
went and said to Saul, "Is David not hiding with us?"
Psalm
54
Answered Prayer for Deliverance from
Adversaries
1 Save me, O God, by Your name,
And vindicate me by Your
strength.
2Hear my
prayer, O God;
Give ear to the
words of my mouth.
3For strangers have risen up against me,
And oppressors have sought
after my life;
They have not
set God before them.Selah
4Behold, God
is my helper;
The Lord is with
those who uphold my life.
5He will repay my enemies for their evil.
Cut them off in Your truth.
6I will
freely sacrifice to You;
I will
praise Your name, O LORD, for it is good.
7For He has
delivered me out of all trouble;
And my eye has seen its desire
upon my enemies. Contemplation of David.
Psalm
55
Trust in God Concerning the Treachery of
Friends
1 Give ear to my prayer, O God,
And do not hide Yourself from
my supplication.
2Attend to me, and hear me;
I am restless in my complaint,
and moan noisily,
3Because of the voice of the enemy,
Because of the oppression of
the wicked;
For they bring down
trouble upon me,
And in wrath
they hate me.
4My heart is severely pained within me,
And the terrors of death have
fallen upon me.
5Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me,
And horror has overwhelmed me.
6So I said, "Oh,
that I had wings like a dove!
I
would fly away and be at rest.
7Indeed, I would
wander far off,
And remain in
the wilderness.Selah
8I would hasten my escape
From the windy storm and tempest."
9Destroy, O
Lord, and divide their tongues,
For I have seen violence and strife in the city.
10Day and night they
go around it on its walls;
Iniquity and trouble are also in the midst of it.
11Destruction is in
its midst;
Oppression and
deceit do not depart from its streets.
12For it is
not an enemy who reproaches me;
Then I could bear it.
Nor is it
one who hates me who has exalted himself against me;
Then I could hide from him.
13But it was you, a
man my equal,
My companion and
my acquaintance.
14We took sweet counsel together,
And walked to the house of God
in the throng.
15Let death seize them;
Let them go down alive into hell,
For wickedness is in their
dwellings and among them.
16As for me,
I will call upon God,
And the
LORD shall save me.
17Evening and morning and at noon
I will pray, and cry aloud,
And He shall hear my voice.
18He has redeemed my
soul in peace from the battle that was against me,
For there were many against me.
19God will hear, and
afflict them,
Even He who
abides from of old.Selah
Because they do not change,
Therefore they do not fear God.
20He has put
forth his hands against those who were at peace with him;
He has broken his covenant.
21The words of his
mouth were smoother than butter,
But war was in his heart;
His words were softer than oil,
Yet they were drawn swords.
22Cast your
burden on the LORD,
And He
shall sustain you;
He shall
never permit the righteous to be moved.
23But You, O
God, shall bring them down to the pit of destruction;
Bloodthirsty and deceitful men
shall not live out half their days;
But I will trust in You.
Lands." A Michtam of David when the Philistines captured him in
Gath.
Psalm 56
Prayer for Relief from
Tormentors
1 Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow
me up;
Fighting all day he
oppresses me.
2My
enemies would hound me all day,
For there are many who fight against me, O Most High.
3Whenever I
am afraid,
I will trust in You.
4In God (I will
praise His word),
In God I have
put my trust;
I will not fear.
What can flesh do to me?
5All day
they twist my words;
All their
thoughts are against me for evil.
6They gather
together,
They hide, they mark
my steps,
When they lie in wait
for my life.
7Shall
they escape by iniquity?
In
anger cast down the peoples, O God!
8You number
my wanderings;
Put my tears
into Your bottle;
Are they not
in Your book?
9When
I cry out to You,
Then my
enemies will turn back;
This I
know, because God is for me.
10In God (I will
praise His word),
In the LORD
(I will praise His word),
11In God I have put my trust;
I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?
12Vows made
to You are binding upon me, O God;
I will render praises to You,
13For You have
delivered my soul from death.
Have You not kept my feet from falling,
That I may walk before God
In the light of the living?
Michtam of David when he fled from Saul into the cave.
Psalm
57
Prayer for Safety from Enemies
1 Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me!
For my soul trusts in You;
And in the shadow of Your wings
I will make my refuge,
Until
these calamities have passed by.
2I will cry
out to God Most High,
To God
who performs all things for me.
3He shall send from
heaven and save me;
He
reproaches the one who would swallow me up.Selah
God shall send forth His mercy
and His truth.
4My soul is among lions;
I lie among the sons of men
Who
are set on fire,
Whose teeth
are spears and arrows,
And
their tongue a sharp sword.
5Be exalted, O God,
above the heavens;
Let Your
glory be above all the earth.
6They have
prepared a net for my steps;
My
soul is bowed down;
They have
dug a pit before me;
Into the
midst of it they themselves have fallen.Selah
7My heart is
steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast;
I will sing and give praise.
8Awake, my glory!
Awake, lute and harp!
I will awaken the dawn.
9I will
praise You, O Lord, among the peoples;
I will sing to You among the
nations.
10For Your
mercy reaches unto the heavens,
And Your truth unto the clouds.
11Be
exalted, O God, above the heavens;
Let Your glory be above all the
earth. Michtam of David.
Psalm 58
The Just
Judgment of the Wicked
1 Do you indeed speak righteousness,
you silent ones?
Do you judge
uprightly, you sons of men?
2No, in heart you
work wickedness;
You weigh out
the violence of your hands in the earth.
3The wicked
are estranged from the womb;
They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
4Their poison is
like the poison of a serpent;
They are like the deaf cobra that stops its ear,
5Which will not heed
the voice of charmers,
Charming
ever so skillfully.
6Break their
teeth in their mouth, O God!
Break out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD!
7Let them flow away
as waters which run continually;
When he bends his bow,
Let his arrows be as if cut in
pieces.
8Let them be
like a snail which melts away as it goes,
Like a stillborn child of a
woman, that they may not see the sun.
9Before your
pots can feel the burning thorns,
He shall take them away as with
a whirlwind,
As in His living
and burning wrath.
10The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
He shall wash his feet in the
blood of the wicked,
11So that men will say,
"Surely there is a reward for the righteous;
Surely He is God who judges in
the earth." Michtam of David when Saul sent men, and they watched the house in
order to kill him.
Psalm 59
The Assured Judgment
of the Wicked
1 Deliver me from my enemies, O my God;
Defend me from those who rise
up against me.
2Deliver me from the workers of iniquity,
And save me from bloodthirsty
men.
3For
look, they lie in wait for my life;
The mighty gather against me,
Not for my transgression nor
for my sin, O LORD.
4They run and prepare themselves through no fault of mine.
Awake to help me, and
behold!
5You
therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel,
Awake to punish all the
nations;
Do not be merciful to
any wicked transgressors.Selah
6At evening
they return,
They growl like a
dog,
And go all around the
city.
7Indeed, they
belch with their mouth;
Swords
are in their lips;
For they
say, "Who hears?"
8But You, O LORD, shall laugh at them;
You shall have all the nations
in derision.
9I will
wait for You, O You his Strength;
For God is my defense.
10My God of mercy
shall come to meet me;
God
shall let me see my desire on my enemies.
11Do not
slay them, lest my people forget;
Scatter them by Your power,
And bring them down,
O Lord our shield.
12For the sin of
their mouth and the words of their lips,
Let them even be taken in their
pride,
And for the cursing and
lying which they speak.
13Consume them in wrath, consume them,
That they may not be;
And let them know that God
rules in Jacob
To the ends of
the earth.Selah
14And at evening they return,
They growl like a dog,
And go all around the city.
15They wander up and
down for food,
And howl if they
are not satisfied.
16But I will sing of Your power;
Yes, I will sing aloud of Your
mercy in the morning;
For You
have been my defense
And refuge
in the day of my trouble.
17To You, O my Strength, I will sing praises;
For God is my defense,
My God of mercy. Testimony." A
Michtam of David. For teaching. When he fought against Mesopotamia and Syria
of Zobah, and Joab returned and killed twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley
of Salt.
Psalm 60
Urgent Prayer for the Restored
Favor of God
1 O God, You have cast us off;
You have broken us down;
You have been displeased;
Oh, restore us again!
2You have made the
earth tremble;
You have broken
it;
Heal its breaches, for it
is shaking.
3You
have shown Your people hard things;
You have made us drink the wine
of confusion.
4You have given a banner to those who fear You,
That it may be displayed
because of the truth.Selah
5That Your beloved may be delivered,
Save with Your right hand, and
hear me.
6God has spoken in His holiness:
"I will rejoice;
I will divide Shechem
And measure out the Valley of
Succoth.
7Gilead is
Mine, and Manasseh is Mine;
Ephraim also is the helmet for My head;
Judah is My lawgiver.
8Moab is My washpot;
Over Edom I will cast My shoe;
Philistia, shout in triumph
because of Me."
9Who will bring me to the strong city?
Who will lead me to Edom?
10Is it not You, O
God, who cast us off?
And You,
O God, who did not go out with our armies?
11Give us help from
trouble,
For the help of man is
useless.
12Through
God we will do valiantly,
For
it is He who shall tread down our enemies. Psalm of David.
Psalm
61
Assurance of God's Eternal Protection
1
Hear my cry, O God;
Attend to
my prayer.
2From the
end of the earth I will cry to You,
When my heart is overwhelmed;
Lead me to the rock that is
higher than I.
3For You have been a shelter for me,
A strong tower from the enemy.
4I will abide in
Your tabernacle forever;
I will
trust in the shelter of Your wings.Selah
5For You, O
God, have heard my vows;
You
have given me the heritage of those who fear Your name.
6You will prolong
the king's life,
His years as
many generations.
7He shall abide before God forever.
Oh, prepare mercy and truth,
which may preserve him!
8So I will
sing praise to Your name forever,
That I may daily perform my
vows. Psalm of David.
Psalm 62
A Calm Resolve to
Wait for the Salvation of God
1 Truly my soul silently waits
for God;
From Him comes my
salvation.
2He only
is my rock and my salvation;
He
is my defense;
I shall not be
greatly moved.
3How long will you attack a man?
You shall be slain, all of you,
Like a leaning wall and a
tottering fence.
4They only consult to cast him down from his high position;
They delight in lies;
They bless with their mouth,
But they curse inwardly.Selah
5My soul,
wait silently for God alone,
For my expectation is from Him.
6He only is my rock
and my salvation;
He is my
defense;
I shall not be moved.
7In God is my
salvation and my glory;
The
rock of my strength,
And my
refuge, is in God.
8Trust in Him at all times, you people;
Pour out your heart before Him;
God is a refuge for us.Selah
9Surely men
of low degree are a vapor,
Men
of high degree are a lie;
If
they are weighed on the scales,
They are altogether lighter than vapor.
10Do not trust in
oppression,
Nor vainly hope in
robbery;
If riches increase,
Do not set your heart on them.
11God has
spoken once,
Twice I have heard
this:
That power belongs to
God.
12Also to You,
O Lord, belongs mercy;
For You
render to each one according to his work. of Judah.
Psalm
63
Joy in the Fellowship of God
1 O God,
You are my God;
Early will I
seek You;
My soul thirsts for
You;
My flesh longs for You
In a dry and thirsty land
Where there is no water.
2So I have looked
for You in the sanctuary,
To
see Your power and Your glory.
3Because
Your lovingkindness is better than life,
My lips shall praise You.
4Thus I will bless
You while I live;
I will lift
up my hands in Your name.
5My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness,
And my mouth shall praise You
with joyful lips.
6When I remember You on my bed,
I meditate on You in the night
watches.
7Because
You have been my help,
Therefore in the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice.
8My soul follows
close behind You;
Your right
hand upholds me.
9But those who seek my life, to destroy it,
Shall go into the lower parts
of the earth.
10They
shall fall by the sword;
They
shall be a portion for jackals.
11But the
king shall rejoice in God;
Everyone who swears by Him shall glory;
But the mouth of those who
speak lies shall be stopped.
Psalm 64
Oppressed by
the Wicked but Rejoicing in the LORD
1 Hear my voice, O God,
in my meditation;
Preserve my
life from fear of the enemy.
2Hide me from the
secret plots of the wicked,
From the rebellion of the workers of iniquity,
3Who sharpen their
tongue like a sword,
And bend
their bows to shoot their arrows--bitter words,
4That they may shoot
in secret at the blameless;
Suddenly they shoot at him and do not fear.
5They
encourage themselves in an evil matter;
They talk of laying snares
secretly;
They say, "Who will
see them?"
6They
devise iniquities:
"We have
perfected a shrewd scheme."
Both the inward thought and the heart of man are deep.
7But God
shall shoot at them with an arrow;
Suddenly they shall be wounded.
8So He will make
them stumble over their own tongue;
All who see them shall flee
away.
9All men shall
fear,
And shall declare the
work of God;
For they shall
wisely consider His doing.
10The
righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and trust in Him.
And all the upright in heart
shall glory. Song.
Psalm 65
Praise to God for His
Salvation and Providence
1 Praise is awaiting You, O God, in
Zion;
And to You the vow shall
be performed.
2O You
who hear prayer,
To You all
flesh will come.
3Iniquities prevail against me;
As for our transgressions,
You will provide atonement for
them.
4Blessed is the man You choose,
And cause to approach You,
That he may dwell in Your
courts.
We shall be satisfied
with the goodness of Your house,
Of Your holy temple.
5By awesome
deeds in righteousness You will answer us,
O God of our salvation,
You who are the confidence of
all the ends of the earth,
And
of the far-off seas;
6Who established the mountains by His strength,
Being clothed with power;
7You who still the
noise of the seas,
The noise of
their waves,
And the tumult of
the peoples.
8They
also who dwell in the farthest parts are afraid of Your signs;
You make the outgoings of the
morning and evening rejoice.
9You visit
the earth and water it,
You
greatly enrich it;
The river of
God is full of water;
You
provide their grain,
For so You
have prepared it.
10You water its ridges abundantly,
You settle its furrows;
You make it soft with showers,
You bless its growth.
11You crown
the year with Your goodness,
And Your paths drip with abundance.
12They drop on the
pastures of the wilderness,
And
the little hills rejoice on every side.
13The pastures are
clothed with flocks;
The
valleys also are covered with grain;
They shout for joy, they also
sing.
Psalm 66
Praise to God for His Awesome
Works
1 Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth!
2Sing out the honor
of His name;
Make His praise
glorious.
3Say to
God,
"How awesome are Your
works!
Through the greatness of
Your power
Your enemies shall
submit themselves to You.
4All the earth shall worship You
And sing praises to You;
They shall sing praises to Your
name."Selah
5Come and see the works of God;
He is awesome in His doing
toward the sons of men.
6He turned the sea into dry land;
They went through the river on
foot.
There we will rejoice in
Him.
7He rules by
His power forever;
His eyes
observe the nations;
Do not let
the rebellious exalt themselves.Selah
8Oh, bless
our God, you peoples!
And make
the voice of His praise to be heard,
9Who keeps our soul
among the living,
And does not
allow our feet to be moved.
10For You, O God,
have tested us;
You have
refined us as silver is refined.
11You brought us
into the net;
You laid
affliction on our backs.
12You have caused men to ride over our heads;
We went through fire and
through water;
But You brought
us out to rich fulfillment.
13I will go
into Your house with burnt offerings;
I will pay You my vows,
14Which my lips have
uttered
And my mouth has spoken
when I was in trouble.
15I will offer You burnt sacrifices of fat animals,
With the sweet aroma of rams;
I will offer bulls with
goats.Selah
16Come and hear, all you who fear God,
And I will declare what He has
done for my soul.
17I cried to Him with my mouth,
And He was extolled with my
tongue.
18If I
regard iniquity in my heart,
The Lord will not hear.
19But certainly God has heard me;
He has attended to the voice of
my prayer.
20Blessed be God,
Who has
not turned away my prayer,
Nor
His mercy from me! Psalm. A Song.
Psalm 67
An
Invocation and a Doxology
1 God be merciful to us and bless
us,
And cause His face to shine
upon us,Selah
2That
Your way may be known on earth,
Your salvation among all nations.
3Let the
peoples praise You, O God;
Let
all the peoples praise You.
4Oh, let the nations
be glad and sing for joy!
For
You shall judge the people righteously,
And govern the nations on
earth.Selah
5Let the peoples praise You, O God;
Let all the peoples praise You.
6Then the earth
shall yield her increase;
God,
our own God, shall bless us.
7God shall bless us,
And all the ends of the earth
shall fear Him. Song.
Psalm 68
The Glory of God in
His Goodness to Israel
1 Let God arise,
Let His enemies be scattered;
Let those also who hate Him
flee before Him.
2As
smoke is driven away,
So drive
them away;
As wax melts before
the fire,
So let the wicked
perish at the presence of God.
3But let the
righteous be glad;
Let them
rejoice before God;
Yes, let
them rejoice exceedingly.
4Sing to
God, sing praises to His name;
Extol Him who rides on the clouds,
By His name YAH,
And rejoice before Him.
5A father of
the fatherless, a defender of widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.
6God sets the
solitary in families;
He brings
out those who are bound into prosperity;
But the rebellious dwell in a
dry land.
7O
God, when You went out before Your people,
When You marched through the
wilderness,Selah
8The earth shook;
The
heavens also dropped rain at the presence of God;
Sinai itself was moved at the
presence of God, the God of Israel.
9You, O God, sent a
plentiful rain,
Whereby You
confirmed Your inheritance,
When it was weary.
10Your congregation dwelt in it;
You, O God, provided from Your
goodness for the poor.
11The Lord
gave the word;
Great was the
company of those who proclaimed it:
12"Kings of armies
flee, they flee,
And she who
remains at home divides the spoil.
13Though you lie
down among the sheepfolds,
You
will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver,
And her feathers with yellow
gold."
14When the
Almighty scattered kings in it,
It was white as snow in Zalmon.
15A mountain
of God is the mountain of Bashan;
A mountain of many peaks is the
mountain of Bashan.
16Why do you fume with envy, you mountains of many peaks?
This is the mountain which God
desires to dwell in;
Yes, the
LORD will dwell in it forever.
17The
chariots of God are twenty thousand,
Even thousands of thousands;
The Lord is among them as in
Sinai, in the Holy Place.
18You have ascended on high,
You have led captivity captive;
You have received gifts among
men,
Even from the rebellious,
That the LORD God might dwell
there.
19Blessed be the Lord,
Who daily loads us with benefits,
The God of our salvation!Selah
20Our God is the God
of salvation;
And to GOD the
Lord belong escapes from death.
21But God
will wound the head of His enemies,
The hairy scalp of the one who
still goes on in his trespasses.
22The Lord said, "I
will bring back from Bashan,
I
will bring them back from the depths of the sea,
23That your foot may
crush them in blood,
And the
tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies."
24They have
seen Your procession, O God,
The procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.
25The singers went
before, the players on instruments followed after;
Among them were the maidens
playing timbrels.
26Bless God in the congregations,
The Lord, from the fountain of
Israel.
27There is
little Benjamin, their leader,
The princes of Judah and their company,
The princes of Zebulun and the
princes of Naphtali.
28Your God
has commanded your strength;
Strengthen, O God, what You have done for us.
29Because of Your
temple at Jerusalem,
Kings will
bring presents to You.
30Rebuke the beasts of the reeds,
The herd of bulls with the
calves of the peoples,
Till
everyone submits himself with pieces of silver.
Scatter the peoples who delight
in war.
31Envoys
will come out of Egypt;
Ethiopia will quickly stretch out her hands to God.
32Sing to
God, you kingdoms of the earth;
Oh, sing praises to the Lord,Selah
33To Him who rides
on the heaven of heavens, which were of old!
Indeed, He sends out His voice,
a mighty voice.
34Ascribe strength to God;
His excellence is over Israel,
And His strength is in the
clouds.
35O God, You
are more awesome than Your holy places.
The God of Israel is He who
gives strength and power to His people.
Blessed be God! Psalm
of David.
Psalm 69
An Urgent Plea for Help in
Trouble
1 Save me, O God!
For the waters have come up to
my neck.
2I sink in
deep mire,
Where there is no
standing;
I have come into deep
waters,
Where the floods
overflow me.
3I am
weary with my crying;
My throat
is dry;
My eyes fail while I
wait for my God.
4Those who hate me without a cause
Are more than the hairs of my
head;
They are mighty who would
destroy me,
Being my enemies
wrongfully;
Though I have
stolen nothing,
I still must
restore it.
5O God, You know my foolishness;
And my sins are not hidden from
You.
6Let not those
who wait for You, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed because of me;
Let not those who seek You be
confounded because of me, O God of Israel.
7Because for Your
sake I have borne reproach;
Shame has covered my face.
8I have become a stranger to my brothers,
And an alien to my mother's
children;
9Because
zeal for Your house has eaten me up,
And the reproaches of those who
reproach You have fallen on me.
10When I wept and
chastened my soul with fasting,
That became my reproach.
11I also made sackcloth my garment;
I became a byword to them.
12Those who sit in
the gate speak against me,
And
I am the song of the drunkards.
13But as for
me, my prayer is to You,
O
LORD, in the acceptable time;
O
God, in the multitude of Your mercy,
Hear me in the truth of Your
salvation.
14Deliver
me out of the mire,
And let me
not sink;
Let me be delivered
from those who hate me,
And out
of the deep waters.
15Let not the floodwater overflow me,
Nor let the deep swallow me up;
And let not the pit shut its
mouth on me.
16Hear me, O LORD, for Your lovingkindness is good;
Turn to me according to the
multitude of Your tender mercies.
17And do not hide
Your face from Your servant,
For I am in trouble;
Hear me
speedily.
18Draw
near to my soul, and redeem it;
Deliver me because of my enemies.
19You know
my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor;
My adversaries are all before
You.
20Reproach has
broken my heart,
And I am full
of heaviness;
I looked for
someone to take pity, but there was none;
And for comforters, but I found
none.
21They also
gave me gall for my food,
And
for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22Let their
table become a snare before them,
And their well-being a trap.
23Let their eyes be
darkened, so that they do not see;
And make their loins shake
continually.
24Pour
out Your indignation upon them,
And let Your wrathful anger take hold of them.
25Let their dwelling
place be desolate;
Let no one
live in their tents.
26For they persecute the ones You have struck,
And talk of the grief of those
You have wounded.
27Add iniquity to their iniquity,
And let them not come into Your
righteousness.
28Let
them be blotted out of the book of the living,
And not be written with the
righteous.
29But I am poor and sorrowful;
Let Your salvation, O God, set
me up on high.
30I
will praise the name of God with a song,
And will magnify Him with
thanksgiving.
31This
also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bull,
Which has horns and hooves.
32The humble shall
see this and be glad;
And you
who seek God, your hearts shall live.
33For the LORD hears
the poor,
And does not despise
His prisoners.
34Let heaven and earth praise Him,
The seas and everything that
moves in them.
35For
God will save Zion
And build
the cities of Judah,
That they
may dwell there and possess it.
36Also, the
descendants of His servants shall inherit it,
And those who love His name
shall dwell in it. To bring to remembrance.
Psalm
70
Prayer for Relief from Adversaries
1 Make haste, O God, to deliver me!
Make haste to help me, O LORD!
2Let them be
ashamed and confounded
Who seek
my life;
Let them be turned
back and confused
Who desire my
hurt.
3Let them be
turned back because of their shame,
Who say, "Aha, aha!"
4Let all
those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;
And let those who love Your
salvation say continually,
"Let
God be magnified!"
5But I am poor and needy;
Make haste to me, O God!
You
are my help and my deliverer;
O
LORD, do not delay.
Psalm 71
God the Rock of
Salvation
1 In You, O LORD, I put my trust;
Let me never be put to shame.
2Deliver me in Your
righteousness, and cause me to escape;
Incline Your ear to me, and
save me.
3Be my
strong refuge,
To which I may
resort continually;
You have
given the commandment to save me,
For You are my rock and my
fortress.
4Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked,
Out of the hand of the
unrighteous and cruel man.
5For You are my hope, O Lord GOD;
You are my trust from my youth.
6By You I have been
upheld from birth;
You are He
who took me out of my mother's womb.
My praise shall be continually
of You.
7I
have become as a wonder to many,
But You are my strong refuge.
8Let my mouth be
filled with Your praise
And
with Your glory all the day.
9Do not cast
me off in the time of old age;
Do not forsake me when my strength fails.
10For my enemies
speak against me;
And those who
lie in wait for my life take counsel together,
11Saying, "God has
forsaken him;
Pursue and take
him, for there is none to deliver him."
12O God, do
not be far from me;
O my God,
make haste to help me!
13Let them be confounded and consumed
Who are adversaries of my life;
Let them be covered with
reproach and dishonor
Who seek
my hurt.
14But I will hope continually,
And will praise You yet more
and more.
15My mouth
shall tell of Your righteousness
And Your salvation all the day,
For I do not know their limits.
16I will go in the
strength of the Lord GOD;
I
will make mention of Your righteousness, of Yours only.
17O God, You
have taught me from my youth;
And to this day I declare Your wondrous works.
18Now also when I am
old and grayheaded,
O God, do
not forsake me,
Until I declare
Your strength to this generation,
Your power to everyone who is
to come.
19Also Your righteousness, O God, is very high,
You who have done great things;
O God, who is like You?
20You, who have
shown me great and severe troubles,
Shall revive me again,
And bring me up again from the
depths of the earth.
21You shall increase my greatness,
And comfort me on every side.
22Also with
the lute I will praise You--
And Your faithfulness, O my God!
To You I will sing with the
harp,
O Holy One of Israel.
23My lips shall
greatly rejoice when I sing to You,
And my soul, which You have
redeemed.
24My
tongue also shall talk of Your righteousness all the day long;
For they are confounded,
For they are brought to shame
Who seek my
hurt.
Psalm 72
Glory and Universality of the
Messiah's Reign
1 Give the king Your judgments, O God,
And Your righteousness to the
king's Son.
2He will
judge Your people with righteousness,
And Your poor with justice.
3The mountains will
bring peace to the people,
And
the little hills, by righteousness.
4He will bring
justice to the poor of the people;
He will save the children of
the needy,
And will break in
pieces the oppressor.
5They shall
fear You
As long as the sun and
moon endure,
Throughout all
generations.
6He
shall come down like rain upon the grass before mowing,
Like showers that water the
earth.
7In His days
the righteous shall flourish,
And abundance of peace,
Until
the moon is no more.
8He shall
have dominion also from sea to sea,
And from the River to the ends
of the earth.
9Those
who dwell in the wilderness will bow before Him,
And His enemies will lick the
dust.
10The kings of
Tarshish and of the isles
Will
bring presents;
The kings of
Sheba and Seba
Will offer
gifts.
11Yes, all
kings shall fall down before Him;
All nations shall serve Him.
12For He
will deliver the needy when he cries,
The poor also, and him who has
no helper.
13He will
spare the poor and needy,
And
will save the souls of the needy.
14He will redeem
their life from oppression and violence;
And precious shall be their
blood in His sight.
15And He
shall live;
And the gold of
Sheba will be given to Him;
Prayer also will be made for Him continually,
And daily He shall be praised.
16There will
be an abundance of grain in the earth,
On the top of the mountains;
Its fruit shall wave like
Lebanon;
And those of the city
shall flourish like grass of the earth.
17His name
shall endure forever;
His name
shall continue as long as the sun.
And men shall be blessed in
Him;
All nations shall call Him
blessed.
18Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel,
Who only does wondrous things!
19And blessed be His
glorious name forever!
And let
the whole earth be filled with His glory.
Amen and Amen.
20The
prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended. God
Psalm
73
The Tragedy of the Wicked, and the Blessedness of Trust
in
1 Truly God is good to Israel,
To such as are pure in heart.
2But as for me, my
feet had almost stumbled;
My
steps had nearly slipped.
3For I was envious of the boastful,
When I saw the prosperity of
the wicked.
4For there are no pangs in their death,
But their strength is firm.
5They are not in
trouble as other men,
Nor are
they plagued like other men.
6Therefore pride
serves as their necklace;
Violence covers them like a garment.
7Their eyes bulge
with abundance;
They have more
than heart could wish.
8They scoff and speak wickedly concerning oppression;
They speak loftily.
9They set their
mouth against the heavens,
And
their tongue walks through the earth.
10Therefore
his people return here,
And
waters of a full cup are drained by them.
11And they say, "How
does God know?
And is there
knowledge in the Most High?"
12Behold, these are
the ungodly,
Who are always at
ease;
They increase in riches.
13Surely I have
cleansed my heart in vain,
And
washed my hands in innocence.
14For all day long I
have been plagued,
And
chastened every morning.
15If I had
said, "I will speak thus,"
Behold, I would have been untrue to the generation of Your children.
16When I thought how
to understand this,
It was too
painful for me--
17Until I went into the sanctuary of God;
Then I understood their end.
18Surely You
set them in slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.
19Oh, how they are
brought to desolation, as in a moment!
They are utterly consumed with
terrors.
20As a
dream when one awakes,
So,
Lord, when You awake,
You shall
despise their image.
21Thus my
heart was grieved,
And I was
vexed in my mind.
22I was so foolish and ignorant;
I was like a beast before You.
23Nevertheless I am
continually with You;
You hold
me by my right hand.
24You will guide me with Your counsel,
And afterward receive me to
glory.
25Whom have I in heaven but You?
And there is none upon earth
that I desire besides You.
26My flesh and my heart fail;
But God is the strength of my
heart and my portion forever.
27For
indeed, those who are far from You shall perish;
You have destroyed all those
who desert You for harlotry.
28But it is good for
me to draw near to God;
I have
put my trust in the Lord GOD,
That I may declare all Your works.
Psalm 74
A Plea
for Relief from Oppressors
1 O God, why have You cast us off
forever?
Why does Your anger
smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?
2Remember Your
congregation, which You have purchased of old,
The tribe of Your inheritance,
which You have redeemed--
This
Mount Zion where You have dwelt.
3Lift up Your feet
to the perpetual desolations.
The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary.
4Your enemies roar
in the midst of Your meeting place;
They set up their banners for
signs.
5They seem
like men who lift up
Axes among
the thick trees.
6And now they break down its carved work, all at once,
With axes and hammers.
7They have set fire
to Your sanctuary;
They have
defiled the dwelling place of Your name to the ground.
8They said in their
hearts,
"Let us destroy them
altogether."
They have burned
up all the meeting places of God in the land.
9We do not
see our signs;
There is no
longer any prophet;
Nor is
there any among us who knows how long.
10O God, how long
will the adversary reproach?
Will the enemy blaspheme Your name forever?
11Why do You
withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand?
Take it out of Your bosom and
destroy them.
12For
God is my King from of old,
Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13You divided the
sea by Your strength;
You broke
the heads of the sea serpents in the waters.
14You broke the
heads of Leviathan in pieces,
And gave him as food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
15You broke open the
fountain and the flood;
You
dried up mighty rivers.
16The day is Yours, the night also is Yours;
You have prepared the light and
the sun.
17You have
set all the borders of the earth;
You have made summer and
winter.
18Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD,
And that a foolish people has
blasphemed Your name.
19Oh, do not deliver the life of Your turtledove to the wild beast!
Do not forget the life of Your
poor forever.
20Have
respect to the covenant;
For
the dark places of the earth are full of the haunts of cruelty.
21Oh, do not let the
oppressed return ashamed!
Let
the poor and needy praise Your name.
22Arise, O
God, plead Your own cause;
Remember how the foolish man reproaches You daily.
23Do not forget the
voice of Your enemies;
The
tumult of those who rise up against You increases continually. Psalm of Asaph.
A Song.
Psalm 75
Thanksgiving for God's Righteous
Judgment
1 We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks!
For Your wondrous works declare
that Your name is near.
2"When I
choose the proper time,
I will
judge uprightly.
3The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved;
I set up its pillars
firmly.Selah
4"I said to the boastful, "Do not deal boastfully,'
And to the wicked, "Do not lift
up the horn.
5Do not
lift up your horn on high;
Do
not speak with a stiff neck."'
6For
exaltation comes neither from the east
Nor from the west nor from the
south.
7But God is
the Judge:
He puts down one,
And exalts another.
8For in the hand of
the LORD there is a cup,
And
the wine is red;
It is fully
mixed, and He pours it out;
Surely its dregs shall all the wicked of the earth
Drain and drink down.
9But I will
declare forever,
I will sing
praises to the God of Jacob.
10"All the
horns of the wicked I will also cut off,
But the horns of the righteous
shall be exalted." Psalm of Asaph. A Song.
Psalm
76
The Majesty of God in Judgment
1 In
Judah God is known;
His name is
great in Israel.
2In
Salem also is His tabernacle,
And His dwelling place in Zion.
3There He broke the
arrows of the bow,
The shield
and sword of battle.Selah
4You are
more glorious and excellent
Than the mountains of prey.
5The stouthearted
were plundered;
They have sunk
into their sleep;
And none of
the mighty men have found the use of their hands.
6At Your rebuke, O
God of Jacob,
Both the chariot
and horse were cast into a dead sleep.
7You,
Yourself, are to be feared;
And
who may stand in Your presence
When once You are angry?
8You caused judgment to be heard from heaven;
The earth feared and was still,
9When God arose to
judgment,
To deliver all the
oppressed of the earth.Selah
10Surely the
wrath of man shall praise You;
With the remainder of wrath You shall gird Yourself.
11Make vows
to the LORD your God, and pay them;
Let all who are around Him
bring presents to Him who ought to be feared.
12He shall cut off
the spirit of princes;
He is
awesome to the kings of the earth. Psalm of Asaph.
Psalm
77
The Consoling Memory of God's Redemptive
Works
1 I cried out to God with my voice--
To God with my voice;
And He gave ear to me.
2In the day of my
trouble I sought the Lord;
My
hand was stretched out in the night without ceasing;
My soul refused to be
comforted.
3I
remembered God, and was troubled;
I complained, and my spirit was
overwhelmed.Selah
4You hold my eyelids open;
I am so troubled that I cannot
speak.
5I have
considered the days of old,
The
years of ancient times.
6I call to remembrance my song in the night;
I meditate within my heart,
And my spirit makes diligent
search.
7Will the Lord cast off forever?
And will He be favorable no
more?
8Has His mercy
ceased forever?
Has His promise
failed forevermore?
9Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Has He in anger shut up His
tender mercies?Selah
10And I
said, "This is my anguish;
But
I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High."
11I will remember
the works of the LORD;
Surely I
will remember Your wonders of old.
12I will also
meditate on all Your work,
And
talk of Your deeds.
13Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary;
Who is so great a God as our
God?
14You are the
God who does wonders;
You have
declared Your strength among the peoples.
15You have with Your
arm redeemed Your people,
The
sons of Jacob and Joseph.Selah
16The waters
saw You, O God;
The waters saw
You, they were afraid;
The
depths also trembled.
17The clouds poured out water;
The skies sent out a sound;
Your arrows also flashed about.
18The voice of Your
thunder was in the whirlwind;
The lightnings lit up the world;
The earth trembled and shook.
19Your way was in
the sea,
Your path in the great
waters,
And Your footsteps were
not known.
20You led
Your people like a flock
By the
hand of Moses and Aaron.
Psalm 78
God's Kindness
to Rebellious Israel
1 Give ear, O my people, to my law;
Incline your ears to the words
of my mouth.
2I will
open my mouth in a parable;
I
will utter dark sayings of old,
3Which we have heard
and known,
And our fathers have
told us.
4We will
not hide them from their children,
Telling to the generation to
come the praises of the LORD,
And His strength and His wonderful works that He has done.
5For 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;
6That the generation to come might know them,
The children who would be born,
That they may arise and declare
them to their children,
7That they may set their hope in God,
And not forget the works of
God,
But keep His commandments;
8And may not be like
their fathers,
A stubborn and
rebellious generation,
A
generation that did not set its heart aright,
And whose spirit was not
faithful to God.
9The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows,
Turned back in the day of
battle.
10They did
not keep the covenant of God;
They refused to walk in His law,
11And forgot His
works
And His wonders that He
had shown them.
12Marvelous things He did in the sight of their fathers,
In the land of Egypt, in the
field of Zoan.
13He
divided the sea and caused them to pass through;
And He made the waters stand up
like a heap.
14In
the daytime also He led them with the cloud,
And all the night with a light
of fire.
15He split
the rocks in the wilderness,
And gave them drink in abundance like the depths.
16He also brought
streams out of the rock,
And
caused waters to run down like rivers.
17But they
sinned even more against Him
By
rebelling against the Most High in the wilderness.
18And they tested
God in their heart
By asking
for the food of their fancy.
19Yes, they spoke
against God:
They said, "Can
God prepare a table in the wilderness?
20Behold, He struck
the rock,
So that the waters
gushed out,
And the streams
overflowed.
Can He give bread
also?
Can He provide meat for
His people?|"
21Therefore the LORD heard this and was furious;
So a fire was kindled against
Jacob,
And anger also came up
against Israel,
22Because they did not believe in God,
And did not trust in His
salvation.
23Yet He
had commanded the clouds above,
And opened the doors of heaven,
24Had rained down
manna on them to eat,
And given
them of the bread of heaven.
25Men ate angels'
food;
He sent them food to the
full.
26He
caused an east wind to blow in the heavens;
And by His power He brought in
the south wind.
27He
also rained meat on them like the dust,
Feathered fowl like the sand of
the seas;
28And He
let them fall in the midst of their camp,
All around their dwellings.
29So they ate and
were well filled,
For He gave
them their own desire.
30They were not deprived of their craving;
But while their food was still
in their mouths,
31The wrath of God came against them,
And slew the stoutest of them,
And struck down the choice men
of Israel.
32In spite of this they still sinned,
And did not believe in His
wondrous works.
33Therefore their days He consumed in futility,
And their years in fear.
34When He
slew them, then they sought Him;
And they returned and sought
earnestly for God.
35Then they remembered that God was their rock,
And the Most High God their
Redeemer.
36Nevertheless they flattered Him with their mouth,
And they lied to Him with their
tongue;
37For their
heart was not steadfast with Him,
Nor were they faithful in His
covenant.
38But He,
being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity,
And did not destroy them.
Yes, many a time He turned His
anger away,
And did not stir up
all His wrath;
39For
He remembered that they were but flesh,
A breath that passes away and
does not come again.
40How often
they provoked Him in the wilderness,
And grieved Him in the desert!
41Yes, again and
again they tempted God,
And
limited the Holy One of Israel.
42They did not
remember His power:
The day
when He redeemed them from the enemy,
43When He worked His
signs in Egypt,
And His wonders
in the field of Zoan;
44Turned their rivers into blood,
And their streams, that they
could not drink.
45He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them,
And frogs, which destroyed
them.
46He also gave
their crops to the caterpillar,
And their labor to the locust.
47He destroyed their
vines with hail,
And their
sycamore trees with frost.
48He also gave up their cattle to the hail,
And their flocks to fiery
lightning.
49He cast
on them the fierceness of His anger,
Wrath, indignation, and
trouble,
By sending angels of
destruction among them.
50He made a path for His anger;
He did not spare their soul
from death,
But gave their life
over to the plague,
51And destroyed all the firstborn in Egypt,
The first of their strength in
the tents of Ham.
52But He made His own people go forth like sheep,
And guided them in the
wilderness like a flock;
53And He led them on safely, so that they did not fear;
But the sea overwhelmed their
enemies.
54And He
brought them to His holy border,
This mountain which His right
hand had acquired.
55He also drove out the nations before them,
Allotted them an inheritance by
survey,
And made the tribes of
Israel dwell in their tents.
56Yet they
tested and provoked the Most High God,
And did not keep His
testimonies,
57But
turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers;
They were turned aside like a
deceitful bow.
58For
they provoked Him to anger with their high places,
And moved Him to jealousy with
their carved images.
59When God heard this, He was furious,
And greatly abhorred Israel,
60So that He forsook
the tabernacle of Shiloh,
The
tent He had placed among men,
61And delivered His
strength into captivity,
And
His glory into the enemy's hand.
62He also gave His
people over to the sword,
And
was furious with His inheritance.
63The fire consumed
their young men,
And their
maidens were not given in marriage.
64Their priests fell
by the sword,
And their widows
made no lamentation.
65Then the
Lord awoke as from sleep,
Like
a mighty man who shouts because of wine.
66And He beat back
His enemies;
He put them to a
perpetual reproach.
67Moreover
He rejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
68But chose the
tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion
which He loved.
69And He built His sanctuary like the heights,
Like the earth which He has
established forever.
70He also chose David His servant,
And took him from the
sheepfolds;
71From
following the ewes that had young He brought him,
To shepherd Jacob His people,
And Israel His inheritance.
72So he shepherded
them according to the integrity of his heart,
And guided them by the
skillfulness of his hands.
Psalm 79
A Dirge and a
Prayer for Israel, Destroyed by Enemies
1 O God, the nations
have come into Your inheritance;
Your holy temple they have
defiled;
They have laid
Jerusalem in heaps.
2The dead bodies of Your servants
They have given as food for the
birds of the heavens,
The flesh
of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.
3Their blood they
have shed like water all around Jerusalem,
And there was no one to bury
them.
4We have
become a reproach to our neighbors,
A scorn and derision to those
who are around us.
5How long, LORD?
Will You
be angry forever?
Will Your
jealousy burn like fire?
6Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know You,
And on the kingdoms that do not
call on Your name.
7For they have devoured Jacob,
And laid waste his dwelling
place.
8Oh,
do not remember former iniquities against us!
Let Your tender mercies come
speedily to meet us,
For we
have been brought very low.
9Help us, O God of
our salvation,
For the glory of
Your name;
And deliver us, and
provide atonement for our sins,
For Your name's sake!
10Why should the nations say,
"Where is their God?"
Let there be known among the
nations in our sight
The
avenging of the blood of Your servants which has been shed.
11Let the
groaning of the prisoner come before You;
According to the greatness of
Your power
Preserve those who
are appointed to die;
12And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom
Their reproach with which they
have reproached You, O Lord.
13So we,
Your people and sheep of Your pasture,
Will give You thanks forever;
We will show forth Your praise
to all generations. Testimony of Asaph. A Psalm.
Psalm
80
Prayer for Israel's Restoration
1 Give
ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
You
who lead Joseph like a flock;
You who dwell between the cherubim, shine forth!
2Before Ephraim,
Benjamin, and Manasseh,
Stir up
Your strength,
And come and
save us!
3Restore us, O God;
Cause
Your face to shine,
And we
shall be saved!
4O LORD God of hosts,
How
long will You be angry
Against
the prayer of Your people?
5You have fed them with the bread of tears,
And given them tears to drink
in great measure.
6You have made us a strife to our neighbors,
And our enemies laugh among
themselves.
7Restore us, O God of hosts;
Cause Your face to shine,
And we shall be saved!
8You have
brought a vine out of Egypt;
You have cast out the nations, and planted it.
9You prepared room
for it,
And caused it to take
deep root,
And it filled the
land.
10The hills
were covered with its shadow,
And the mighty cedars with its boughs.
11She sent out her
boughs to the Sea,
And her
branches to the River.
12Why have
You broken down her hedges,
So
that all who pass by the way pluck her fruit?
13The boar out of
the woods uproots it,
And the
wild beast of the field devours it.
14Return, we
beseech You, O God of hosts;
Look down from heaven and see,
And visit this vine
15And the vineyard which Your right hand has planted,
And the branch that You made
strong for Yourself.
16It is burned with fire, it is cut down;
They perish at the rebuke of
Your countenance.
17Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand,
Upon the son of man whom You
made strong for Yourself.
18Then we will not turn back from You;
Revive us, and we will call
upon Your name.
19Restore us, O LORD God of hosts;
Cause Your face to shine,
And we shall be saved! Gath. A
Psalm of Asaph.
Psalm 81
An Appeal for Israel's
Repentance
1 Sing aloud to God our strength;
Make a joyful shout to the God
of Jacob.
2Raise a
song and strike the timbrel,
The pleasant harp with the lute.
3Blow the
trumpet at the time of the New Moon,
At the full moon, on our solemn
feast day.
4For this
is a statute for Israel,
A law
of the God of Jacob.
5This He established in Joseph as a testimony,
When He went throughout the
land of Egypt,
Where I heard a
language I did not understand.
6"I removed
his shoulder from the burden;
His hands were freed from the baskets.
7You called in
trouble, and I delivered you;
I
answered you in the secret place of thunder;
I tested you at the waters of
Meribah.Selah
8"Hear, O My people, and I will admonish you!
O Israel, if you will listen to
Me!
9There shall be
no foreign god among you;
Nor
shall you worship any foreign god.
10I am the LORD your
God,
Who brought you out of the
land of Egypt;
Open your mouth
wide, and I will fill it.
11"But My
people would not heed My voice,
And Israel would have none of Me.
12So I gave them
over to their own stubborn heart,
To walk in their own counsels.
13"Oh, that
My people would listen to Me,
That Israel would walk in My ways!
14I would soon
subdue their enemies,
And turn
My hand against their adversaries.
15The haters of the
LORD would pretend submission to Him,
But their fate would endure
forever.
16He would
have fed them also with the finest of wheat;
And with honey from the rock I
would have satisfied you."
Psalm 82
A Plea for
Justice
1 God stands in the congregation of the mighty;
He judges among the gods.
2How long will you
judge unjustly,
And show
partiality to the wicked?Selah
3Defend the poor and
fatherless;
Do justice to the
afflicted and needy.
4Deliver the poor and needy;
Free them from the hand of the
wicked.
5They do not know, nor do they understand;
They walk about in darkness;
All the foundations of the
earth are unstable.
6I said,
"You are gods,
And all of you
are children of the Most High.
7But you shall die
like men,
And fall like one of
the princes."
8Arise, O God, judge the earth;
For You shall inherit all
nations.
Psalm 83
Prayer to Frustrate Conspiracy
Against Israel
1 Do not keep silent, O God!
Do not hold Your peace,
And do not be still, O God!
2For behold, Your
enemies make a tumult;
And
those who hate You have lifted up their head.
3They have taken
crafty counsel against Your people,
And consulted together against
Your sheltered ones.
4They have said, "Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation,
That the name of Israel may be
remembered no more."
5For they
have consulted together with one consent;
They form a confederacy against
You:
6The tents of
Edom and the Ishmaelites;
Moab
and the Hagrites;
7Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek;
Philistia with the inhabitants
of Tyre;
8Assyria
also has joined with them;
They
have helped the children of Lot.Selah
9Deal with
them as with Midian,
As with
Sisera,
As with Jabin at the
Brook Kishon,
10Who
perished at En Dor,
Who became
as refuse on the earth.
11Make their nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb,
Yes, all their princes like
Zebah and Zalmunna,
12Who said, "Let us take for ourselves
The pastures of God for a
possession."
13O my God, make them like the whirling dust,
Like the chaff before the wind!
14As the fire burns
the woods,
And as the flame
sets the mountains on fire,
15So pursue them
with Your tempest,
And frighten
them with Your storm.
16Fill their faces with shame,
That they may seek Your name, O
LORD.
17Let them be
confounded and dismayed forever;
Yes, let them be put to shame
and perish,
18That
they may know that You, whose name alone is the LORD,
Are the Most High over all the
earth. Gath. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
Psalm
84
The Blessedness of Dwelling in the House of
God
1 How lovely is Your tabernacle,
O LORD of hosts!
2My soul longs, yes,
even faints
For the courts of
the LORD;
My heart and my flesh
cry out for the living God.
3Even the
sparrow has found a home,
And
the swallow a nest for herself,
Where she may lay her young--
Even Your altars, O LORD of hosts,
My King and my God.
4Blessed are those
who dwell in Your house;
They
will still be praising You.Selah
5Blessed is
the man whose strength is in You,
Whose heart is set on
pilgrimage.
6As they
pass through the Valley of Baca,
They make it a spring;
The rain also covers it with
pools.
7They go from
strength to strength;
Each one
appears before God in Zion.
8O LORD God
of hosts, hear my prayer;
Give
ear, O God of Jacob!Selah
9O God, behold our shield,
And look upon the face of Your
anointed.
10For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand.
I would rather be a doorkeeper
in the house of my God
Than
dwell in the tents of wickedness.
11For the LORD God
is a sun and shield;
The LORD
will give grace and glory;
No
good thing will He withhold
From those who walk uprightly.
12O LORD of
hosts,
Blessed is the man who
trusts in You! Korah.
Psalm 85
Prayer that the
LORD Will Restore Favor to the Land
1 LORD, You have been
favorable to Your land;
You
have brought back the captivity of Jacob.
2You have forgiven
the iniquity of Your people;
You have covered all their sin.Selah
3You have taken away
all Your wrath;
You have turned
from the fierceness of Your anger.
4Restore us,
O God of our salvation,
And
cause Your anger toward us to cease.
5Will You be angry
with us forever?
Will You
prolong Your anger to all generations?
6Will You not revive
us again,
That Your people may
rejoice in You?
7Show us Your mercy, LORD,
And grant us Your salvation.
8I will hear
what God the LORD will speak,
For He will speak peace
To His
people and to His saints;
But
let them not turn back to folly.
9Surely His
salvation is near to those who fear Him,
That glory may dwell in our
land.
10Mercy and truth have met together;
Righteousness and peace have
kissed.
11Truth
shall spring out of the earth,
And righteousness shall look down from heaven.
12Yes, the LORD will
give what is good;
And our land
will yield its increase.
13Righteousness will go before Him,
And shall make His footsteps
our pathway. LORD
Psalm 86
Prayer for Mercy, with
Meditation on the Excellencies of the
1 Bow down Your ear, O
LORD, hear me;
For I am poor
and needy.
2Preserve
my life, for I am holy;
You are
my God;
Save Your servant who
trusts in You!
3Be
merciful to me, O Lord,
For I
cry to You all day long.
4Rejoice the soul of Your servant,
For to You, O Lord, I lift up
my soul.
5For You,
Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
And abundant in mercy to all
those who call upon You.
6Give ear, O
LORD, to my prayer;
And attend
to the voice of my supplications.
7In the day of my
trouble I will call upon You,
For You will answer me.
8Among the
gods there is none like You, O Lord;
Nor are there any works like
Your works.
9All
nations whom You have made
Shall come and worship before You, O Lord,
And shall glorify Your name.
10For You are great,
and do wondrous things;
You
alone are God.
11Teach me Your way, O LORD;
I will walk in Your truth;
Unite my heart to fear Your
name.
12I will
praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart,
And I will glorify Your name
forevermore.
13For
great is Your mercy toward me,
And You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.
14O God, the
proud have risen against me,
And a mob of violent men have sought my life,
And have not set You before
them.
15But You, O
Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious,
Longsuffering and abundant in
mercy and truth.
16Oh, turn to me, and have mercy on me!
Give Your strength to Your
servant,
And save the son of
Your maidservant.
17Show me a sign for good,
That those who hate me may see
it and be ashamed,
Because You,
LORD, have helped me and comforted me.
Psalm
87
The Glories of the City of God
1 His
foundation is in the holy mountains.
2The LORD loves the
gates of Zion
More than all the
dwellings of Jacob.
3Glorious things are spoken of you,
O city of God!Selah
4"I will
make mention of Rahab and Babylon to those who know Me;
Behold, O Philistia and Tyre,
with Ethiopia:
"This one was
born there.'|"
5And of Zion it will be said,
"This one and that one were
born in her;
And the Most High
Himself shall establish her."
6The LORD will
record,
When He registers the
peoples:
"This one was born
there."Selah
7Both the singers and the players on instruments say,
"All my springs are in you." To
the Chief Musician. Set to "Mahalath Leannoth." A Contemplation of Heman the
Ezrahite.
Psalm 88
A Prayer for Help in
Despondency
1 O LORD, God of my salvation,
I have cried out day and night
before You.
2Let my
prayer come before You;
Incline
Your ear to my cry.
3For my soul
is full of troubles,
And my
life draws near to the grave.
4I am counted with
those who go down to the pit;
I
am like a man who has no strength,
5Adrift among the
dead,
Like the slain who lie in
the grave,
Whom You remember no
more,
And who are cut off from
Your hand.
6You have laid me in the lowest pit,
In darkness, in the depths.
7Your wrath lies
heavy upon me,
And You have
afflicted me with all Your waves.Selah
8You have put away
my acquaintances far from me;
You have made me an abomination to them;
I am shut up, and I cannot get
out;
9My eye wastes
away because of affliction.
LORD, I have called
daily upon You;
I have
stretched out my hands to You.
10Will You work
wonders for the dead?
Shall the
dead arise and praise You?Selah
11Shall Your
lovingkindness be declared in the grave?
Or Your faithfulness in the
place of destruction?
12Shall Your wonders be known in the dark?
And Your righteousness in the
land of forgetfulness?
13But to You
I have cried out, O LORD,
And
in the morning my prayer comes before You.
14LORD, why do You
cast off my soul?
Why do You
hide Your face from me?
15I have been afflicted and ready to die from my youth;
I suffer Your terrors;
I am distraught.
16Your fierce wrath
has gone over me;
Your terrors
have cut me off.
17They came around me all day long like water;
They engulfed me altogether.
18Loved one and
friend You have put far from me,
And my acquaintances into
darkness. Blessings Ezrahite.
Psalm 89
Remembering
the Covenant with David, and Sorrow for Lost
1 I will sing
of the mercies of the LORD forever;
With my mouth will I make known
Your faithfulness to all generations.
2For I have said,
"Mercy shall be built up forever;
Your faithfulness You shall
establish in the very heavens."
3"I have
made a covenant with My chosen,
I have sworn to My servant David:
4"Your seed I will
establish forever,
And build up
your throne to all generations."'Selah
5And the
heavens will praise Your wonders, O LORD;
Your faithfulness also in the
assembly of the saints.
6For who in the heavens can be compared to the LORD?
Who among the sons of the
mighty can be likened to the LORD?
7God is greatly to
be feared in the assembly of the saints,
And to be held in reverence by
all those around Him.
8O LORD God of hosts,
Who
is mighty like You, O LORD?
Your faithfulness also surrounds You.
9You rule the raging
of the sea;
When its waves
rise, You still them.
10You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one who is slain;
You have scattered Your enemies
with Your mighty arm.
11The
heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours;
The world and all its fullness,
You have founded them.
12The north and the south, You have created them;
Tabor and Hermon rejoice in
Your name.
13You
have a mighty arm;
Strong is
Your hand, and high is Your right hand.
14Righteousness and
justice are the foundation of Your throne;
Mercy and truth go before Your
face.
15Blessed are
the people who know the joyful sound!
They walk, O LORD, in the light
of Your countenance.
16In Your name they rejoice all day long,
And in Your righteousness they
are exalted.
17For
You are the glory of their strength,
And in Your favor our horn is
exalted.
18For our
shield belongs to the LORD,
And
our king to the Holy One of Israel.
19Then You
spoke in a vision to Your holy one,
And said: "I have given help to
one who is mighty;
I have
exalted one chosen from the people.
20I have found My
servant David;
With My holy oil
I have anointed him,
21With whom My hand shall be established;
Also My arm shall strengthen
him.
22The enemy
shall not outwit him,
Nor the
son of wickedness afflict him.
23I will beat down
his foes before his face,
And
plague those who hate him.
24"But My
faithfulness and My mercy shall be with him,
And in My name his horn shall
be exalted.
25Also I
will set his hand over the sea,
And his right hand over the rivers.
26He shall cry to
Me, "You are my Father,
My God,
and the rock of my salvation.'
27Also I will make
him My firstborn,
The highest
of the kings of the earth.
28My mercy I will keep for him forever,
And My covenant shall stand
firm with him.
29His
seed also I will make to endure forever,
And his throne as the days of
heaven.
30"If his sons forsake My law
And do not walk in My
judgments,
31If they
break My statutes
And do not
keep My commandments,
32Then I will punish their transgression with the rod,
And their iniquity with
stripes.
33Nevertheless My lovingkindness I will not utterly take from him,
Nor allow My faithfulness to
fail.
34My covenant
I will not break,
Nor alter the
word that has gone out of My lips.
35Once I have sworn
by My holiness;
I will not lie
to David:
36His seed
shall endure forever,
And his
throne as the sun before Me;
37It shall be
established forever like the moon,
Even like the faithful witness
in the sky."Selah
38But You have cast off and abhorred,
You have been furious with Your
anointed.
39You have
renounced the covenant of Your servant;
You have profaned his crown by
casting it to the ground.
40You have broken down all his hedges;
You have brought his
strongholds to ruin.
41All who pass by the way plunder him;
He is a reproach to his
neighbors.
42You
have exalted the right hand of his adversaries;
You have made all his enemies
rejoice.
43You have
also turned back the edge of his sword,
And have not sustained him in
the battle.
44You
have made his glory cease,
And
cast his throne down to the ground.
45The days of his
youth You have shortened;
You
have covered him with shame.Selah
46How long,
LORD?
Will You hide Yourself
forever?
Will Your wrath burn
like fire?
47Remember how short my time is;
For what futility have You
created all the children of men?
48What man can live
and not see death?
Can he
deliver his life from the power of the grave?Selah
49Lord,
where are Your former lovingkindnesses,
Which You swore to David in
Your truth?
50Remember, Lord, the reproach of Your servants--
How I bear in my bosom the
reproach of all the many peoples,
51With which Your
enemies have reproached, O LORD,
With which they have reproached
the footsteps of Your anointed.
52Blessed be
the LORD forevermore!
Amen and
Amen.
Psalm 90
The Eternity of God, and Man's
Frailty
1 Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all
generations.
2Before
the mountains were brought forth,
Or ever You had formed the
earth and the world,
Even from
everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
3You turn
man to destruction,
And say,
"Return, O children of men."
4For a thousand
years in Your sight
Are like
yesterday when it is past,
And
like a watch in the night.
5You carry them away like a flood;
They are like a sleep.
In the morning they are like
grass which grows up:
6In the morning it flourishes and grows up;
In the evening it is cut down
and withers.
7For we have been consumed by Your anger,
And by Your wrath we are
terrified.
8You have
set our iniquities before You,
Our secret sins in the light of Your countenance.
9For all our days
have passed away in Your wrath;
We finish our years like a sigh.
10The days of our
lives are seventy years;
And if
by reason of strength they are eighty years,
Yet their boast is only labor
and sorrow;
For it is soon cut
off, and we fly away.
11Who knows the power of Your anger?
For as the fear of You, so is
Your wrath.
12So
teach us to number our days,
That we may gain a heart of wisdom.
13Return, O
LORD!
How long?
And have compassion on Your
servants.
14Oh,
satisfy us early with Your mercy,
That we may rejoice and be glad
all our days!
15Make
us glad according to the days in which You have afflicted us,
The years in which we have seen
evil.
16Let Your
work appear to Your servants,
And Your glory to their children.
17And let the beauty
of the LORD our God be upon us,
And establish the work of our hands for us;
Yes, establish the work of our
hands.
Psalm 91
Safety of Abiding in the Presence
of God
1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
Shall abide under the shadow of
the Almighty.
2I
will say of the LORD, "He is my refuge and my fortress;
My God, in Him I will trust."
3Surely He
shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler
And from the perilous
pestilence.
4He
shall cover you with His feathers,
And under His wings you shall
take refuge;
His truth shall be
your shield and buckler.
5You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
Nor of the arrow that flies by
day,
6Nor of the
pestilence that walks in darkness,
Nor of the destruction that
lays waste at noonday.
7A thousand
may fall at your side,
And ten
thousand at your right hand;
But it shall not come near you.
8Only with your eyes
shall you look,
And see the
reward of the wicked.
9Because you
have made the LORD, who is my refuge,
Even the Most High, your
dwelling place,
10No
evil shall befall you,
Nor
shall any plague come near your dwelling;
11For He shall give
His angels charge over you,
To
keep you in all your ways.
12In their hands they shall bear you up,
Lest you dash your foot against
a stone.
13You shall
tread upon the lion and the cobra,
The young lion and the serpent
you shall trample underfoot.
14"Because
he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will set him on high, because
he has known My name.
15He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will deliver him and honor
him.
16With long
life I will satisfy him,
And
show him My salvation."
Psalm 92
Praise to the
LORD for His Love and Faithfulness
1 It is good to give
thanks to the LORD,
And to sing
praises to Your name, O Most High;
2To declare Your
lovingkindness in the morning,
And Your faithfulness every night,
3On an instrument of
ten strings,
On the lute,
And on the harp,
With harmonious sound.
4For You, LORD, have
made me glad through Your work;
I will triumph in the works of Your hands.
5O LORD, how
great are Your works!
Your
thoughts are very deep.
6A senseless man does not know,
Nor does a fool understand
this.
7When the
wicked spring up like grass,
And when all the workers of iniquity flourish,
It is that they may be
destroyed forever.
8But You, LORD, are on high forevermore.
9For behold, Your
enemies, O LORD,
For behold,
Your enemies shall perish;
All
the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
10But my
horn You have exalted like a wild ox;
I have been anointed with fresh
oil.
11My eye also
has seen my desire on my enemies;
My ears hear my desire on the
wicked
Who rise up against me.
12The
righteous shall flourish like a palm tree,
He shall grow like a cedar in
Lebanon.
13Those who
are planted in the house of the LORD
Shall flourish in the courts of
our God.
14They
shall still bear fruit in old age;
They shall be fresh and
flourishing,
15To
declare that the LORD is upright;
He is my rock, and there is no
unrighteousness in Him.
Psalm 93
The Eternal Reign
of the LORD
1 The LORD reigns, He is clothed with majesty;
The LORD is clothed,
He has girded Himself with
strength.
Surely the world is
established, so that it cannot be moved.
2Your throne is
established from of old;
You
are from everlasting.
3The floods
have lifted up, O LORD,
The
floods have lifted up their voice;
The floods lift up their waves.
4The LORD on high is
mightier
Than the noise of many
waters,
Than the mighty waves
of the sea.
5Your testimonies are very sure;
Holiness adorns Your house,
O LORD,
forever.
Psalm 94
God the Refuge of the
Righteous
1 O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs--
O God, to whom vengeance
belongs, shine forth!
2Rise up, O Judge of the earth;
Render punishment to the proud.
3LORD, how long will
the wicked,
How long will the
wicked triumph?
4They utter speech, and speak insolent things;
All the workers of iniquity
boast in themselves.
5They break in pieces Your people, O LORD,
And afflict Your heritage.
6They slay the widow
and the stranger,
And murder
the fatherless.
7Yet
they say, "The LORD does not see,
Nor does the God of Jacob
understand."
8Understand, you senseless among the people;
And you fools, when will you be
wise?
9He who
planted the ear, shall He not hear?
He who formed the eye, shall He
not see?
10He who
instructs the nations, shall He not correct,
He who teaches man knowledge?
11The LORD knows the
thoughts of man,
That they are
futile.
12Blessed is the man whom You instruct, O LORD,
And teach out of Your law,
13That You may give
him rest from the days of adversity,
Until the pit is dug for the
wicked.
14For the
LORD will not cast off His people,
Nor will He forsake His
inheritance.
15But
judgment will return to righteousness,
And all the upright in heart
will follow it.
16Who will rise up for me against the evildoers?
Who will stand up for me
against the workers of iniquity?
17Unless the LORD
had been my help,
My soul would
soon have settled in silence.
18If I say, "My foot
slips,"
Your mercy, O LORD,
will hold me up.
19In the multitude of my anxieties within me,
Your comforts delight my soul.
20Shall the
throne of iniquity, which devises evil by law,
Have fellowship with You?
21They gather
together against the life of the righteous,
And condemn innocent blood.
22But the LORD has
been my defense,
And my God the
rock of my refuge.
23He has brought on them their own iniquity,
And shall cut them off in their
own wickedness;
The LORD our
God shall cut them off.
Psalm 95
A Call to Worship
and Obedience
1 Oh come, let us sing to the LORD!
Let us shout joyfully to the
Rock of our salvation.
2Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving;
Let us shout joyfully to Him
with psalms.
3For
the LORD is the great God,
And
the great King above all gods.
4In His hand are the
deep places of the earth;
The
heights of the hills are His also.
5The sea is His, for
He made it;
And His hands
formed the dry land.
6Oh come,
let us worship and bow down;
Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
7For He is our God,
And we are the people of His
pasture,
And the sheep of His
hand.
Today, if you
will hear His voice:
8"Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion,
As in the day of trial in the
wilderness,
9When
your fathers tested Me;
They
tried Me, though they saw My work.
10For forty years I
was grieved with that generation,
And said, "It is a people who
go astray in their hearts,
And
they do not know My ways.'
11So I swore in My wrath,
"They shall not enter My rest.'|"
Psalm 96
A Song
of Praise to God Coming in Judgment
1 Oh, sing to the LORD a new song!
Sing to the LORD, all the
earth.
2Sing to the
LORD, bless His name;
Proclaim
the good news of His salvation from day to day.
3Declare His glory
among the nations,
His wonders
among all peoples.
4For the LORD is great and greatly to be praised;
He is to be feared above all
gods.
5For all the
gods of the peoples are idols,
But the LORD made the heavens.
6Honor and majesty
are before Him;
Strength and
beauty are in His sanctuary.
7Give to the
LORD, O families of the peoples,
Give to the LORD glory and
strength.
8Give to
the LORD the glory due His name;
Bring an offering, and come
into His courts.
9Oh, worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness!
Tremble before Him, all the
earth.
10Say
among the nations, "The LORD reigns;
The world also is firmly
established,
It shall not be
moved;
He shall judge the
peoples righteously."
11Let the
heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad;
Let the sea roar, and all its
fullness;
12Let the
field be joyful, and all that is in it.
Then all the trees of the woods
will rejoice before the LORD.
13For He is coming,
for He is coming to judge the earth.
He shall judge the world with
righteousness,
And the peoples
with His truth.
Psalm 97
A Song of Praise to the
Sovereign LORD
1 The LORD reigns;
Let the earth rejoice;
Let the multitude of isles be
glad!
2Clouds and darkness surround Him;
Righteousness and justice are
the foundation of His throne.
3A fire goes before
Him,
And burns up His enemies
round about.
4His
lightnings light the world;
The
earth sees and trembles.
5The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD,
At the presence of the Lord of
the whole earth.
6The heavens declare His righteousness,
And all the peoples see His
glory.
7Let
all be put to shame who serve carved images,
Who boast of idols.
Worship Him, all you gods.
8Zion hears and is
glad,
And the daughters of
Judah rejoice
Because of Your
judgments, O LORD.
9For You, LORD, are most high above all the earth;
You are exalted far above all
gods.
10You
who love the LORD, hate evil!
He preserves the souls of His saints;
He delivers them out of the
hand of the wicked.
11Light is sown for the righteous,
And gladness for the upright in
heart.
12Rejoice in
the LORD, you righteous,
And
give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name. Judgment
Psalm
98
A Song of Praise to the LORD for His Salvation
and
1 Oh, sing to the LORD a new song!
For He has done marvelous
things;
His right hand and His
holy arm have gained Him the victory.
2The LORD has made
known His salvation;
His
righteousness He has revealed in the sight of the nations.
3He has remembered
His mercy and His faithfulness to the house of Israel;
All the ends of the earth have
seen the salvation of our God.
4Shout
joyfully to the LORD, all the earth;
Break forth in song, rejoice,
and sing praises.
5Sing to the LORD with the harp,
With the harp and the sound of
a psalm,
6With
trumpets and the sound of a horn;
Shout joyfully before the LORD,
the King.
7Let the sea roar, and all its fullness,
The world and those who dwell
in it;
8Let the
rivers clap their hands;
Let
the hills be joyful together before the LORD,
9For He is coming to
judge the earth.
With
righteousness He shall judge the world,
And the peoples with
equity.
Psalm 99
Praise to the LORD for His
Holiness
1 The LORD reigns;
Let the peoples tremble!
He dwells between the cherubim;
Let the earth be moved!
2The LORD is great
in Zion,
And He is high above
all the peoples.
3Let them praise Your great and awesome name--
He is holy.
4The King's
strength also loves justice;
You have established equity;
You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
5Exalt the LORD our
God,
And worship at His
footstool--
He is holy.
6Moses and
Aaron were among His priests,
And Samuel was among those who called upon His name;
They called upon the LORD, and
He answered them.
7He spoke to them in the cloudy pillar;
They kept His testimonies and
the ordinance He gave them.
8You
answered them, O LORD our God;
You were to them God-Who-Forgives,
Though You took vengeance on
their deeds.
9Exalt
the LORD our God,
And worship
at His holy hill;
For the LORD
our God is holy.
Psalm 100
A Song of Praise for
the Faithfulness to His People
1 Make a joyful shout to the
LORD, all you lands!
2Serve the LORD with gladness;
Come before His presence with
singing.
3Know that
the LORD, He is God;
It is He
who has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people and the sheep
of His pasture.
4Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,
And into His courts with
praise.
Be thankful to Him, and
bless His name.
5For
the LORD is good;
His mercy is
everlasting,
And His truth
endures to all generations.
Psalm 101
Promised
Faithfulness to the LORD
1 I will sing of mercy and justice;
To You, O LORD, I will sing
praises.
2I
will behave wisely in a perfect way.
Oh, when will You come to me?
I will walk within my house
with a perfect heart.
3I will set
nothing wicked before my eyes;
I hate the work of those who fall away;
It shall not cling to me.
4A perverse heart
shall depart from me;
I will
not know wickedness.
5Whoever
secretly slanders his neighbor,
Him I will destroy;
The one who
has a haughty look and a proud heart,
Him I will not endure.
6My eyes
shall be on the faithful of the land,
That they may dwell with me;
He who walks in a perfect way,
He shall serve me.
7He who works deceit
shall not dwell within my house;
He who tells lies shall not
continue in my presence.
8Early I will destroy all the wicked of the land,
That I may cut off all the
evildoers from the city of the LORD. pours out his complaint before the
LORD.
Psalm 102
The LORD's Eternal
Love
1 Hear my prayer, O LORD,
And let my cry come to You.
2Do not hide Your
face from me in the day of my trouble;
Incline Your ear to me;
In the day that I call, answer
me speedily.
3For my days are consumed like smoke,
And my bones are burned like a
hearth.
4My heart is
stricken and withered like grass,
So that I forget to eat my
bread.
5Because of
the sound of my groaning
My
bones cling to my skin.
6I am like a pelican of the wilderness;
I am like an owl of the desert.
7I lie awake,
And am like a sparrow alone on
the housetop.
8My enemies reproach me all day long;
Those who deride me swear an
oath against me.
9For I have eaten ashes like bread,
And mingled my drink with
weeping,
10Because
of Your indignation and Your wrath;
For You have lifted me up and
cast me away.
11My
days are like a shadow that lengthens,
And I wither away like grass.
12But You, O
LORD, shall endure forever,
And
the remembrance of Your name to all generations.
13You will arise and
have mercy on Zion;
For the
time to favor her,
Yes, the set
time, has come.
14For Your servants take pleasure in her stones,
And show favor to her dust.
15So the nations
shall fear the name of the LORD,
And all the kings of the earth
Your glory.
16For
the LORD shall build up Zion;
He shall appear in His glory.
17He shall regard
the prayer of the destitute,
And shall not despise their prayer.
18This will
be written for the generation to come,
That a people yet to be created
may praise the LORD.
19For He looked down from the height of His sanctuary;
From heaven the LORD viewed the
earth,
20To hear the
groaning of the prisoner,
To
release those appointed to death,
21To declare the
name of the LORD in Zion,
And
His praise in Jerusalem,
22When the peoples are gathered together,
And the kingdoms, to serve the
LORD.
23He
weakened my strength in the way;
He shortened my days.
24I said, "O my God,
Do not take me away in the
midst of my days;
Your years
are throughout all generations.
25Of old You laid
the foundation of the earth,
And the heavens are the work of Your hands.
26They will perish,
but You will endure;
Yes, they
will all grow old like a garment;
Like a cloak You will change
them,
And they will be changed.
27But You are the
same,
And Your years will have
no end.
28The
children of Your servants will continue,
And their descendants will be
established before You."
Psalm 103
Praise for the
LORD's Mercies
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul;
And all that is within me,
bless His holy name!
2Bless the LORD, O my soul,
And forget not all His
benefits:
3Who
forgives all your iniquities,
Who heals all your diseases,
4Who redeems your
life from destruction,
Who
crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies,
5Who satisfies your
mouth with good things,
So that
your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
6The LORD
executes righteousness
And
justice for all who are oppressed.
7He made known His
ways to Moses,
His acts to the
children of Israel.
8The LORD is merciful and gracious,
Slow to anger, and abounding in
mercy.
9He will not
always strive with us,
Nor will
He keep His anger forever.
10He has not dealt with us according to our sins,
Nor punished us according to
our iniquities.
11For as the heavens are high above the earth,
So great is His mercy toward
those who fear Him;
12As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He removed our
transgressions from us.
13As a father pities his children,
So the LORD pities those who
fear Him.
14For He
knows our frame;
He remembers
that we are dust.
15As for man, his days are like grass;
As a flower of the field, so he
flourishes.
16For
the wind passes over it, and it is gone,
And its place remembers it no
more.
17But the
mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting
On those who fear Him,
And His righteousness to
children's children,
18To such as keep His covenant,
And to those who remember His
commandments to do them.
19The LORD
has established His throne in heaven,
And His kingdom rules over all.
20Bless the
LORD, you His angels,
Who excel
in strength, who do His word,
Heeding the voice of His word.
21Bless the LORD,
all you His hosts,
You
ministers of His, who do His pleasure.
22Bless the LORD,
all His works,
In all places of
His dominion.
Bless the
LORD, O my soul!
Psalm 104
Praise to the Sovereign
LORD for His Creation and Providence
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul!
O LORD my God, You are
very great:
You are clothed
with honor and majesty,
2Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment,
Who stretch out the heavens
like a curtain.
3He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters,
Who makes the clouds His
chariot,
Who walks on the wings
of the wind,
4Who
makes His angels spirits,
His
ministers a flame of fire.
5You who
laid the foundations of the earth,
So that it should not be moved
forever,
6You
covered it with the deep as with a garment;
The waters stood above the
mountains.
7At Your
rebuke they fled;
At the voice
of Your thunder they hastened away.
8They went up over
the mountains;
They went down
into the valleys,
To the place
which You founded for them.
9You have set a
boundary that they may not pass over,
That they may not return to
cover the earth.
10He sends the springs into the valleys;
They flow among the hills.
11They give drink to
every beast of the field;
The
wild donkeys quench their thirst.
12By them the birds
of the heavens have their home;
They sing among the branches.
13He waters the
hills from His upper chambers;
The earth is satisfied with the fruit of Your works.
14He causes
the grass to grow for the cattle,
And vegetation for the service
of man,
That he may bring forth
food from the earth,
15And wine that makes glad the heart of man,
Oil to make his face shine,
And bread which strengthens
man's heart.
16The
trees of the LORD are full of sap,
The cedars of Lebanon which He
planted,
17Where the
birds make their nests;
The
stork has her home in the fir trees.
18The high hills are
for the wild goats;
The cliffs
are a refuge for the rock badgers.
19He
appointed the moon for seasons;
The sun knows its going down.
20You make darkness,
and it is night,
In which all
the beasts of the forest creep about.
21The young lions
roar after their prey,
And seek
their food from God.
22When the sun rises, they gather together
And lie down in their dens.
23Man goes out to
his work
And to his labor until
the evening.
24O LORD, how manifold are Your works!
In wisdom You have made them
all.
The earth is full of Your
possessions--
25This
great and wide sea,
In which
are innumerable teeming things,
Living things both small and great.
26There the ships
sail about;
There is that
Leviathan
Which You have made
to play there.
27These all wait for You,
That You may give them their food in due season.
28What You give them
they gather in;
You open Your
hand, they are filled with good.
29You hide Your
face, they are troubled;
You
take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
30You send forth
Your Spirit, they are created;
And You renew the face of the earth.
31May the
glory of the LORD endure forever;
May the LORD rejoice in His
works.
32He looks on
the earth, and it trembles;
He
touches the hills, and they smoke.
33I will
sing to the LORD as long as I live;
I will sing praise to my God
while I have my being.
34May my meditation be sweet to Him;
I will be glad in the LORD.
35May sinners be
consumed from the earth,
And
the wicked be no more.
Bless the LORD, O my soul!
Praise the LORD!
Psalm 105
The Eternal
Faithfulness of the LORD
1 Oh, give thanks to the LORD!
Call upon His name;
Make known His deeds among the
peoples!
2Sing to
Him, sing psalms to Him;
Talk
of all His wondrous works!
3Glory in His holy name;
Let the hearts of those rejoice who seek the LORD!
4Seek the LORD and
His strength;
Seek His face
evermore!
5Remember
His marvelous works which He has done,
His wonders, and the judgments
of His mouth,
6O
seed of Abraham His servant,
You children of Jacob, His chosen ones!
7He is the
LORD our God;
His judgments are
in all the earth.
8He remembers His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded,
for a thousand generations,
9The covenant which
He made with Abraham,
And His
oath to Isaac,
10And
confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting
covenant,
11Saying,
"To you I will give the land of Canaan
As the allotment of your
inheritance,"
12When
they were few in number,
Indeed
very few, and strangers in it.
13When they
went from one nation to another,
From one kingdom to another
people,
14He
permitted no one to do them wrong;
Yes, He rebuked kings for their
sakes,
15Saying, "Do
not touch My anointed ones,
And
do My prophets no harm."
16Moreover
He called for a famine in the land;
He destroyed all the provision
of bread.
17He sent
a man before them--
Joseph--who
was sold as a slave.
18They hurt his feet with fetters,
He was laid in irons.
19Until the time
that his word came to pass,
The
word of the LORD tested him.
20The king sent and
released him,
The ruler of the
people let him go free.
21He made him lord of his house,
And ruler of all his
possessions,
22To
bind his princes at his pleasure,
And teach his elders wisdom.
23Israel
also came into Egypt,
And Jacob
dwelt in the land of Ham.
24He increased His people greatly,
And made them stronger than
their enemies.
25He
turned their heart to hate His people,
To deal craftily with His
servants.
26He sent Moses His servant,
And Aaron whom He had chosen.
27They performed His
signs among them,
And wonders
in the land of Ham.
28He sent darkness, and made it dark;
And they did not rebel against
His word.
29He
turned their waters into blood,
And killed their fish.
30Their land abounded with frogs,
Even in the chambers of their
kings.
31He spoke,
and there came swarms of flies,
And lice in all their territory.
32He gave them hail
for rain,
And flaming fire in
their land.
33He
struck their vines also, and their fig trees,
And splintered the trees of
their territory.
34He spoke, and locusts came,
Young locusts without number,
35And ate up all the
vegetation in their land,
And
devoured the fruit of their ground.
36He also destroyed
all the firstborn in their land,
The first of all their
strength.
37He also brought them out with silver and gold,
And there was none feeble among
His tribes.
38Egypt
was glad when they departed,
For the fear of them had fallen upon them.
39He spread a cloud
for a covering,
And fire to
give light in the night.
40The people asked, and He brought quail,
And satisfied them with the
bread of heaven.
41He opened the rock, and water gushed out;
It ran in the dry places like a
river.
42For
He remembered His holy promise,
And Abraham His servant.
43He brought out His people with joy,
His chosen ones with gladness.
44He gave them the
lands of the Gentiles,
And they
inherited the labor of the nations,
45That they might
observe His statutes
And keep
His laws.
Praise the
LORD!
Psalm 106
Joy in Forgiveness of Israel's
Sins
1 Praise the LORD!
Oh, give thanks to the
LORD, for He is good!
For His
mercy endures forever.
2Who can
utter the mighty acts of the LORD?
Who can declare all His praise?
3Blessed are those
who keep justice,
And he who
does righteousness at all times!
4Remember
me, O LORD, with the favor You have toward Your people.
Oh, visit me with Your
salvation,
5That I
may see the benefit of Your chosen ones,
That I may rejoice in the
gladness of Your nation,
That I
may glory with Your inheritance.
6We have
sinned with our fathers,
We
have committed iniquity,
We
have done wickedly.
7Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders;
They did not remember the
multitude of Your mercies,
But
rebelled by the sea--the Red Sea.
8Nevertheless He saved them for His name's sake,
That He might make His mighty
power known.
9He
rebuked the Red Sea also, and it dried up;
So He led them through the
depths,
As through the
wilderness.
10He
saved them from the hand of him who hated them,
And redeemed them from the hand
of the enemy.
11The
waters covered their enemies;
There was not one of them left.
12Then they believed
His words;
They sang His
praise.
13They soon forgot His works;
They did not wait for His
counsel,
14But
lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,
And tested God in the desert.
15And He gave them
their request,
But sent
leanness into their soul.
16When they
envied Moses in the camp,
And
Aaron the saint of the LORD,
17The earth opened
up and swallowed Dathan,
And
covered the faction of Abiram.
18A fire was kindled
in their company;
The flame
burned up the wicked.
19They made
a calf in Horeb,
And worshiped
the molded image.
20Thus they changed their glory
Into the image of an ox that
eats grass.
21They
forgot God their Savior,
Who
had done great things in Egypt,
22Wondrous works in
the land of Ham,
Awesome things
by the Red Sea.
23Therefore He said that He would destroy them,
Had not Moses His chosen one
stood before Him in the breach,
To turn away His wrath, lest He destroy them.
24Then they
despised the pleasant land;
They did not believe His word,
25But complained in
their tents,
And did not heed
the voice of the LORD.
26Therefore He raised His hand in an oath against them,
To overthrow them in the
wilderness,
27To
overthrow their descendants among the nations,
And to scatter them in the
lands.
28They joined themselves also to Baal of Peor,
And ate sacrifices made to the
dead.
29Thus they
provoked Him to anger with their deeds,
And the plague broke out among
them.
30Then
Phinehas stood up and intervened,
And the plague was stopped.
31And that was
accounted to him for righteousness
To all generations forevermore.
32They
angered Him also at the waters of strife,
So that it went ill with Moses
on account of them;
33Because they rebelled against His Spirit,
So that he spoke rashly with
his lips.
34They did not destroy the peoples,
Concerning whom the LORD had
commanded them,
35But they mingled with the Gentiles
And learned their works;
36They served their
idols,
Which became a snare to
them.
37They even
sacrificed their sons
And their
daughters to demons,
38And shed innocent blood,
The blood of their sons and
daughters,
Whom they sacrificed
to the idols of Canaan;
And the
land was polluted with blood.
39Thus they were
defiled by their own works,
And
played the harlot by their own deeds.
40Therefore
the wrath of the LORD was kindled against His people,
So that He abhorred His own
inheritance.
41And
He gave them into the hand of the Gentiles,
And those who hated them ruled
over them.
42Their
enemies also oppressed them,
And they were brought into subjection under their hand.
43Many times He
delivered them;
But they
rebelled in their counsel,
And
were brought low for their iniquity.
44Nevertheless He regarded their affliction,
When He heard their cry;
45And for their sake
He remembered His covenant,
And
relented according to the multitude of His mercies.
46He also made them
to be pitied
By all those who
carried them away captive.
47Save us, O
LORD our God,
And gather us
from among the Gentiles,
To
give thanks to Your holy name,
To triumph in Your praise.
48Blessed be
the LORD God of Israel
From
everlasting to everlasting!
And
let all the people say, "Amen!"
Praise the LORD!
Deliverance
Psalm 107
Thanksgiving to the LORD for
His Great Works of
1 Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is
good!
For His mercy endures
forever.
2Let the
redeemed of the LORD say so,
Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy,
3And gathered out of
the lands,
From the east and
from the west,
From the north
and from the south.
4They
wandered in the wilderness in a desolate way;
They found no city to dwell in.
5Hungry and thirsty,
Their soul fainted in them.
6Then they cried out
to the LORD in their trouble,
And He delivered them out of their distresses.
7And He led them
forth by the right way,
That
they might go to a city for a dwelling place.
8Oh, that men would
give thanks to the LORD for His goodness,
And for His wonderful works to
the children of men!
9For He satisfies the longing soul,
And fills the hungry soul with
goodness.
10Those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,
Bound in affliction and irons--
11Because they
rebelled against the words of God,
And despised the counsel of the
Most High,
12Therefore He brought down their heart with labor;
They fell down, and there was
none to help.
13Then
they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,
And He saved them out of their
distresses.
14He
brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,
And broke their chains in
pieces.
15Oh, that
men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness,
And for His wonderful works to
the children of men!
16For He has broken the gates of bronze,
And cut the bars of iron in
two.
17Fools, because of their transgression,
And because of their
iniquities, were afflicted.
18Their soul
abhorred all manner of food,
And they drew near to the gates of death.
19Then they cried
out to the LORD in their trouble,
And He saved them out of their
distresses.
20He
sent His word and healed them,
And delivered them from their destructions.
21Oh, that men would
give thanks to the LORD for His goodness,
And for His wonderful works to
the children of men!
22Let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving,
And declare His works with
rejoicing.
23Those who go down to the sea in ships,
Who do business on great
waters,
24They see
the works of the LORD,
And His
wonders in the deep.
25For He commands and raises the stormy wind,
Which lifts up the waves of the
sea.
26They mount up
to the heavens,
They go down
again to the depths;
Their soul
melts because of trouble.
27They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man,
And are at their wits' end.
28Then they cry out
to the LORD in their trouble,
And He brings them out of their distresses.
29He calms the
storm,
So that its waves are
still.
30Then they
are glad because they are quiet;
So He guides them to their
desired haven.
31Oh,
that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness,
And for His wonderful works to
the children of men!
32Let them exalt Him also in the assembly of the people,
And praise Him in the company
of the elders.
33He turns rivers into a wilderness,
And the watersprings into dry
ground;
34A fruitful
land into barrenness,
For the
wickedness of those who dwell in it.
35He turns a
wilderness into pools of water,
And dry land into watersprings.
36There He makes the
hungry dwell,
That they may
establish a city for a dwelling place,
37And sow fields and
plant vineyards,
That they may
yield a fruitful harvest.
38He also blesses them, and they multiply greatly;
And He does not let their
cattle decrease.
39When they are diminished and brought low
Through oppression, affliction
and sorrow,
40He
pours contempt on princes,
And
causes them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way;
41Yet He sets the
poor on high, far from affliction,
And makes their families like a
flock.
42The
righteous see it and rejoice,
And all iniquity stops its mouth.
43Whoever is
wise will observe these things,
And they will understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
Psalm
108
Assurance of God's Victory over Enemies
1 O God, my heart is steadfast;
I will sing and give praise,
even with my glory.
2Awake, lute and harp!
I
will awaken the dawn.
3I will praise You, O LORD, among the peoples,
And I will sing praises to You
among the nations.
4For Your mercy is great above the heavens,
And Your truth reaches to the
clouds.
5Be
exalted, O God, above the heavens,
And Your glory above all the
earth;
6That Your
beloved may be delivered,
Save
with Your right hand, and hear me.
7God has
spoken in His holiness:
"I will
rejoice;
I will divide Shechem
And measure out the Valley of
Succoth.
8Gilead is
Mine; Manasseh is Mine;
Ephraim
also is the helmet for My head;
Judah is My lawgiver.
9Moab is My washpot;
Over
Edom I will cast My shoe;
Over
Philistia I will triumph."
10Who will
bring me into the strong city?
Who will lead me to Edom?
11Is it not You, O God, who cast us off?
And You, O God, who did not go
out with our armies?
12Give us help from trouble,
For the help of man is useless.
13Through God we
will do valiantly,
For it is He
who shall tread down our enemies.
Psalm 109
Plea
for Judgment of False Accusers
1 Do not keep silent,
O God of my praise!
2For the mouth of
the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful
Have opened against me;
They have spoken against me
with a lying tongue.
3They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,
And fought against me without a
cause.
4In return
for my love they are my accusers,
But I give myself to prayer.
5Thus they have
rewarded me evil for good,
And
hatred for my love.
6Set a
wicked man over him,
And let an
accuser stand at his right hand.
7When he is judged,
let him be found guilty,
And
let his prayer become sin.
8Let his days be few,
And
let another take his office.
9Let his children be
fatherless,
And his wife a
widow.
10Let his
children continually be vagabonds, and beg;
Let them seek their bread also
from their desolate places.
11Let the creditor
seize all that he has,
And let
strangers plunder his labor.
12Let there be none
to extend mercy to him,
Nor let
there be any to favor his fatherless children.
13Let his posterity
be cut off,
And in the
generation following let their name be blotted out.
14Let the
iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD,
And let not the sin of his
mother be blotted out.
15Let them be continually before the LORD,
That He may cut off the memory
of them from the earth;
16Because he did not remember to show mercy,
But persecuted the poor and
needy man,
That he might even
slay the broken in heart.
17As he loved cursing, so let it come to him;
As he did not delight in
blessing, so let it be far from him.
18As he clothed
himself with cursing as with his garment,
So let it enter his body like
water,
And like oil into his
bones.
19Let it be
to him like the garment which covers him,
And for a belt with which he
girds himself continually.
20Let this be the LORD's reward to my accusers,
And to those who speak evil
against my person.
21But You, O GOD the Lord,
Deal with me for Your name's
sake;
Because Your mercy is
good, deliver me.
22For I am poor and needy,
And my heart is wounded within
me.
23I am gone like
a shadow when it lengthens;
I
am shaken off like a locust.
24My knees are weak
through fasting,
And my flesh
is feeble from lack of fatness.
25I also have become
a reproach to them;
When they
look at me, they shake their heads.
26Help me, O
LORD my God!
Oh, save me
according to Your mercy,
27That they may know that this is Your hand--
That You, LORD, have done it!
28Let them curse,
but You bless;
When they arise,
let them be ashamed,
But let
Your servant rejoice.
29Let my accusers be clothed with shame,
And let them cover themselves
with their own disgrace as with a mantle.
30I will
greatly praise the LORD with my mouth;
Yes, I will praise Him among
the multitude.
31For
He shall stand at the right hand of the poor,
To save him from those who
condemn him.
Psalm 110
Announcement of the
Messiah's Reign
1 The LORD said to my Lord,
"Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your
footstool."
2The
LORD shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion.
Rule in the midst of Your
enemies!
3Your people shall be volunteers
In the day of Your power;
In the beauties of holiness,
from the womb of the morning,
You have the dew of Your youth.
4The LORD has sworn
And will not relent,
"You are a priest forever
According to the order of
Melchizedek."
5The Lord is at Your right hand;
He shall execute kings in the
day of His wrath.
6He shall judge among the nations,
He shall fill the places with
dead bodies,
He shall execute
the heads of many countries.
7He shall drink of
the brook by the wayside;
Therefore He shall lift up the head.
Psalm
111
Praise to God for His Faithfulness and
Justice
1 Praise the LORD!
I will praise the LORD
with my whole heart,
In the
assembly of the upright and in the congregation.
2The works
of the LORD are great,
Studied
by all who have pleasure in them.
3His work is
honorable and glorious,
And His
righteousness endures forever.
4He has made His
wonderful works to be remembered;
The LORD is gracious and full
of compassion.
5He
has given food to those who fear Him;
He will ever be mindful of His
covenant.
6He has
declared to His people the power of His works,
In giving them the heritage of
the nations.
7The works of His hands are verity and justice;
All His precepts are sure.
8They stand fast
forever and ever,
And are done
in truth and uprightness.
9He has sent redemption to His people;
He has commanded His covenant
forever:
Holy and awesome is
His name.
10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom;
A good understanding have all
those who do His commandments.
His praise endures forever.
Psalm 112
The Blessed
State of the Righteous
1 Praise the LORD!
Blessed is the man who
fears the LORD,
Who delights
greatly in His commandments.
2His
descendants will be mighty on earth;
The generation of the upright
will be blessed.
3Wealth and riches will be in his house,
And his righteousness endures
forever.
4Unto the
upright there arises light in the darkness;
He is gracious, and full of
compassion, and righteous.
5A good man deals graciously and lends;
He will guide his affairs with
discretion.
6Surely
he will never be shaken;
The
righteous will be in everlasting remembrance.
7He will not be
afraid of evil tidings;
His
heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD.
8His heart is
established;
He will not be
afraid,
Until he sees his
desire upon his enemies.
9He has
dispersed abroad,
He has given
to the poor;
His righteousness
endures forever;
His horn will
be exalted with honor.
10The wicked will see it and be grieved;
He will gnash his teeth and
melt away;
The desire of the
wicked shall perish.
Psalm 113
The Majesty and
Condescension of God
1 Praise the LORD!
Praise, O servants of
the LORD,
Praise the name of
the LORD!
2Blessed
be the name of the LORD
From
this time forth and forevermore!
3From the rising of
the sun to its going down
The
LORD's name is to be praised.
4The LORD is
high above all nations,
His
glory above the heavens.
5Who is like the LORD our God,
Who dwells on high,
6Who humbles Himself
to behold
The things that are
in the heavens and in the earth?
7He raises
the poor out of the dust,
And
lifts the needy out of the ash heap,
8That He may seat
him with princes--
With the
princes of His people.
9He grants the barren woman a home,
Like a joyful mother of
children.
Praise the
LORD!
Psalm 114
The Power of God in His
Deliverance of Israel
1 When Israel went out of Egypt,
The house of Jacob from a
people of strange language,
2Judah became His
sanctuary,
And Israel His
dominion.
3The sea saw it and fled;
Jordan turned back.
4The mountains skipped like rams,
The little hills like lambs.
5What ails you, O
sea, that you fled?
O Jordan,
that you turned back?
6O mountains, that you skipped like rams?
O little hills, like lambs?
7Tremble, O
earth, at the presence of the Lord,
At the presence of the God of
Jacob,
8Who turned
the rock into a pool of water,
The flint into a fountain of waters.
Psalm 115
The
Futility of Idols and the Trustworthiness of God
1 Not unto
us, O LORD, not unto us,
But to
Your name give glory,
Because
of Your mercy,
Because of Your
truth.
2Why should
the Gentiles say,
"So where is
their God?"
3But our God is in heaven;
He does whatever He pleases.
4Their idols are
silver and gold,
The work of
men's hands.
5They
have mouths, but they do not speak;
Eyes they have, but they do not
see;
6They have
ears, but they do not hear;
Noses they have, but they do not smell;
7They have hands,
but they do not handle;
Feet
they have, but they do not walk;
Nor do they mutter through
their throat.
8Those
who make them are like them;
So
is everyone who trusts in them.
9O Israel,
trust in the LORD;
He is their
help and their shield.
10O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD;
He is their help and their
shield.
11You who
fear the LORD, trust in the LORD;
He is their help and their
shield.
12The LORD has been mindful of us;
He will bless us;
He will bless the house of
Israel;
He will bless the house
of Aaron.
13He will
bless those who fear the LORD,
Both small and great.
14May the
LORD give you increase more and more,
You and your children.
15May you be blessed
by the LORD,
Who made heaven
and earth.
16The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's;
But the earth He has given to
the children of men.
17The dead do not praise the LORD,
Nor any who go down into
silence.
18But we
will bless the LORD
From this
time forth and forevermore.
Praise the
LORD!
Psalm 116
Thanksgiving for Deliverance from
Death
1 I love the LORD, because He has heard
My voice and my supplications.
2Because He has
inclined His ear to me,
Therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live.
3The pains
of death surrounded me,
And the
pangs of Sheol laid hold of me;
I found trouble and sorrow.
4Then I called upon
the name of the LORD:
"O LORD,
I implore You, deliver my soul!"
5Gracious is
the LORD, and righteous;
Yes,
our God is merciful.
6The LORD preserves the simple;
I was brought low, and He saved
me.
7Return to your
rest, O my soul,
For the LORD
has dealt bountifully with you.
8For You
have delivered my soul from death,
My eyes from tears,
And my feet from falling.
9I will walk before
the LORD
In the land of the
living.
10I
believed, therefore I spoke,
"I
am greatly afflicted."
11I said in my haste,
"All men are liars."
12What shall
I render to the LORD
For all
His benefits toward me?
13I will take up the cup of salvation,
And call upon the name of the
LORD.
14I will pay
my vows to the LORD
Now in the
presence of all His people.
15Precious
in the sight of the LORD
Is the
death of His saints.
16O LORD,
truly I am Your servant;
I am
Your servant, the son of Your maidservant;
You have loosed my bonds.
17I will offer to
You the sacrifice of thanksgiving,
And will call upon the name of
the LORD.
18I will pay my vows to the LORD
Now in the presence of all His
people,
19In the
courts of the LORD's house,
In
the midst of you, O Jerusalem.
Praise the
LORD!
Psalm 117
Let All Peoples Praise the
LORD
1 Praise the LORD, all you Gentiles!
Laud Him, all you peoples!
2For His merciful
kindness is great toward us,
And the truth of the LORD endures forever.
Praise the
LORD!
Psalm 118
Praise to God for His Everlasting
Mercy
1 Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good!
For His mercy endures forever.
2Let Israel
now say,
"His mercy endures
forever."
3Let the
house of Aaron now say,
"His
mercy endures forever."
4Let those who fear the LORD now say,
"His mercy endures forever."
5I called on
the LORD in distress;
The LORD
answered me and set me in a broad place.
6The LORD is on my
side;
I will not fear.
What can man do to me?
7The LORD is for me
among those who help me;
Therefore I shall see my desire on those who hate me.
8It is better to
trust in the LORD
Than to put
confidence in man.
9It is better to trust in the LORD
Than to put confidence in
princes.
10All nations surrounded me,
But in the name of the LORD I
will destroy them.
11They surrounded me,
Yes, they surrounded me;
But in
the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
12They surrounded me
like bees;
They were quenched
like a fire of thorns;
For in
the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
13You pushed me
violently, that I might fall,
But the LORD helped me.
14The LORD is my strength and song,
And He has become my salvation.
15The voice
of rejoicing and salvation
Is
in the tents of the righteous;
The right hand of the LORD does valiantly.
16The right hand of
the LORD is exalted;
The right
hand of the LORD does valiantly.
17I shall not die,
but live,
And declare the works
of the LORD.
18The
LORD has chastened me severely,
But He has not given me over to death.
19Open to me
the gates of righteousness;
I
will go through them,
And I
will praise the LORD.
20This is the gate of the LORD,
Through which the righteous
shall enter.
21I will praise You,
For
You have answered me,
And have
become my salvation.
22The stone
which the builders rejected
Has
become the chief cornerstone.
23This was the
LORD's doing;
It is marvelous
in our eyes.
24This
is the day the LORD has made;
We will rejoice and be glad in it.
25Save now,
I pray, O LORD;
O LORD, I pray,
send now prosperity.
26Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD!
We have blessed you from the
house of the LORD.
27God is the LORD,
And He
has given us light;
Bind the
sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar.
28You are my God,
and I will praise You;
You are
my God, I will exalt You.
29Oh, give
thanks to the LORD, for He is good!
For His mercy endures
forever.
Psalm 119
Meditations on the Excellencies
of the Word of God
1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way,
Who walk in the law of the
LORD!
2Blessed are
those who keep His testimonies,
Who seek Him with the whole heart!
3They also do no
iniquity;
They walk in His
ways.
4You have
commanded us
To keep Your
precepts diligently.
5Oh, that my ways were directed
To keep Your statutes!
6Then I would not be
ashamed,
When I look into all
Your commandments.
7I will praise You with uprightness of heart,
When I learn Your righteous
judgments.
8I will
keep Your statutes;
Oh, do not
forsake me utterly!
9How can a
young man cleanse his way?
By
taking heed according to Your word.
10With my whole
heart I have sought You;
Oh,
let me not wander from Your commandments!
11Your word I have
hidden in my heart,
That I
might not sin against You.
12Blessed are You, O LORD!
Teach me Your statutes.
13With my lips I
have declared
All the judgments
of Your mouth.
14I
have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies,
As much as in all riches.
15I will meditate on
Your precepts,
And contemplate
Your ways.
16I will
delight myself in Your statutes;
I will not forget Your word.
17Deal
bountifully with Your servant,
That I may live and keep Your word.
18Open my eyes, that
I may see
Wondrous things from
Your law.
19I am a
stranger in the earth;
Do not
hide Your commandments from me.
20My soul breaks
with longing
For Your judgments
at all times.
21You
rebuke the proud--the cursed,
Who stray from Your commandments.
22Remove from me
reproach and contempt,
For I
have kept Your testimonies.
23Princes also sit
and speak against me,
But Your
servant meditates on Your statutes.
24Your testimonies
also are my delight
And my
counselors.
25My soul clings to the dust;
Revive me according to Your
word.
26I have
declared my ways, and You answered me;
Teach me Your statutes.
27Make me understand
the way of Your precepts;
So
shall I meditate on Your wonderful works.
28My soul melts from
heaviness;
Strengthen me
according to Your word.
29Remove from me the way of lying,
And grant me Your law
graciously.
30I have
chosen the way of truth;
Your
judgments I have laid before me.
31I cling to Your
testimonies;
O LORD, do not put
me to shame!
32I
will run the course of Your commandments,
For You shall enlarge my heart.
33Teach me,
O LORD, the way of Your statutes,
And I shall keep it to the end.
34Give me
understanding, and I shall keep Your law;
Indeed, I shall observe it with
my whole heart.
35Make me walk in the path of Your commandments,
For I delight in it.
36Incline my heart
to Your testimonies,
And not to
covetousness.
37Turn
away my eyes from looking at worthless things,
And revive me in Your way.
38Establish Your
word to Your servant,
Who is
devoted to fearing You.
39Turn away my reproach which I dread,
For Your judgments are good.
40Behold, I long for
Your precepts;
Revive me in
Your righteousness.
41Let Your
mercies come also to me, O LORD--
Your salvation according to
Your word.
42So
shall I have an answer for him who reproaches me,
For I trust in Your word.
43And take not the
word of truth utterly out of my mouth,
For I have hoped in Your
ordinances.
44So
shall I keep Your law continually,
Forever and ever.
45And I will walk at
liberty,
For I seek Your
precepts.
46I will
speak of Your testimonies also before kings,
And will not be ashamed.
47And I will delight
myself in Your commandments,
Which I love.
48My
hands also I will lift up to Your commandments,
Which I love,
And I will meditate on Your
statutes.
49Remember the word to Your servant,
Upon which You have caused me
to hope.
50This is
my comfort in my affliction,
For Your word has given me life.
51The proud have me
in great derision,
Yet I do not
turn aside from Your law.
52I remembered Your judgments of old, O LORD,
And have comforted myself.
53Indignation has
taken hold of me
Because of the
wicked, who forsake Your law.
54Your statutes have
been my songs
In the house of
my pilgrimage.
55I
remember Your name in the night, O LORD,
And I keep Your law.
56This has become
mine,
Because I kept Your
precepts.
57You are my portion, O LORD;
I have said that I would keep
Your words.
58I
entreated Your favor with my whole heart;
Be merciful to me according to
Your word.
59I
thought about my ways,
And
turned my feet to Your testimonies.
60I made haste, and
did not delay
To keep Your
commandments.
61The
cords of the wicked have bound me,
But I have not forgotten Your
law.
62At midnight I
will rise to give thanks to You,
Because of Your righteous
judgments.
63I am a
companion of all who fear You,
And of those who keep Your precepts.
64The earth, O LORD,
is full of Your mercy;
Teach me
Your statutes.
65You have dealt well with Your servant,
O LORD, according to Your word.
66Teach me good
judgment and knowledge,
For I
believe Your commandments.
67Before I was afflicted I went astray,
But now I keep Your word.
68You are good, and
do good;
Teach me Your
statutes.
69The
proud have forged a lie against me,
But I will keep Your precepts
with my whole heart.
70Their heart is as fat as grease,
But I delight in Your law.
71It is good for me
that I have been afflicted,
That I may learn Your statutes.
72The law of Your
mouth is better to me
Than
thousands of coins of gold and silver.
73Your hands
have made me and fashioned me;
Give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments.
74Those who fear You
will be glad when they see me,
Because I have hoped in Your word.
75I know, O LORD,
that Your judgments are right,
And that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
76Let, I pray, Your
merciful kindness be for my comfort,
According to Your word to Your
servant.
77Let Your
tender mercies come to me, that I may live;
For Your law is my delight.
78Let the proud be
ashamed,
For they treated me
wrongfully with falsehood;
But
I will meditate on Your precepts.
79Let those who fear
You turn to me,
Those who know
Your testimonies.
80Let my heart be blameless regarding Your statutes,
That I may not be ashamed.
81My soul
faints for Your salvation,
But
I hope in Your word.
82My eyes fail from searching Your word,
Saying, "When will You comfort
me?"
83For I have
become like a wineskin in smoke,
Yet I do not forget Your
statutes.
84How many
are the days of Your servant?
When will You execute judgment on those who persecute me?
85The proud have dug
pits for me,
Which is not
according to Your law.
86All Your commandments are faithful;
They persecute me wrongfully;
Help me!
87They almost made
an end of me on earth,
But I
did not forsake Your precepts.
88Revive me
according to Your lovingkindness,
So that I may keep the
testimony of Your mouth.
89Forever, O
LORD,
Your word is settled in
heaven.
90Your
faithfulness endures to all generations;
You established the earth, and
it abides.
91They
continue this day according to Your ordinances,
For all are Your servants.
92Unless Your law
had been my delight,
I would
then have perished in my affliction.
93I will never
forget Your precepts,
For by
them You have given me life.
94I am Yours, save
me;
For I have sought Your
precepts.
95The
wicked wait for me to destroy me,
But I will consider Your
testimonies.
96I
have seen the consummation of all perfection,
But Your commandment is
exceedingly broad.
97Oh, how I love Your law!
It is my meditation all the
day.
98You, through
Your commandments, make me wiser than my enemies;
For they are ever with me.
99I have more
understanding than all my teachers,
For Your testimonies are my
meditation.
100I
understand more than the ancients,
Because I keep Your precepts.
101I have restrained
my feet from every evil way,
That I may keep Your word.
102I have not departed from Your judgments,
For You Yourself have taught
me.
103How sweet are
Your words to my taste,
Sweeter
than honey to my mouth!
104Through Your precepts I get understanding;
Therefore I hate every false
way.
105Your
word is a lamp to my feet
And a
light to my path.
106I have sworn and confirmed
That I will keep Your righteous
judgments.
107I am
afflicted very much;
Revive me,
O LORD, according to Your word.
108Accept, I pray,
the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD,
And teach me Your judgments.
109My life is
continually in my hand,
Yet I
do not forget Your law.
110The wicked have laid a snare for me,
Yet I have not strayed from
Your precepts.
111Your testimonies I have taken as a heritage forever,
For they are the rejoicing of
my heart.
112I have
inclined my heart to perform Your statutes
Forever, to the very end.
113I hate
the double-minded,
But I love
Your law.
114You are
my hiding place and my shield;
I hope in Your word.
115Depart from me, you evildoers,
For I will keep the
commandments of my God!
116Uphold me according to Your word, that I may live;
And do not let me be ashamed of
my hope.
117Hold me
up, and I shall be safe,
And I
shall observe Your statutes continually.
118You reject all
those who stray from Your statutes,
For their deceit is falsehood.
119You put away all
the wicked of the earth like dross;
Therefore I love Your
testimonies.
120My
flesh trembles for fear of You,
And I am afraid of Your judgments.
121I have
done justice and righteousness;
Do not leave me to my oppressors.
122Be surety for
Your servant for good;
Do not
let the proud oppress me.
123My eyes fail from seeking Your salvation
And Your righteous word.
124Deal with Your
servant according to Your mercy,
And teach me Your statutes.
125I am Your
servant;
Give me understanding,
That I may know Your
testimonies.
126It
is time for You to act, O LORD,
For they have regarded Your law as void.
127Therefore I love
Your commandments
More than
gold, yes, than fine gold!
128Therefore all Your precepts concerning all things
I consider to be right;
I hate every false way.
129Your
testimonies are wonderful;
Therefore my soul keeps them.
130The entrance of
Your words gives light;
It
gives understanding to the simple.
131I opened my mouth
and panted,
For I longed for
Your commandments.
132Look upon me and be merciful to me,
As Your custom is toward those
who love Your name.
133Direct my steps by Your word,
And let no iniquity have
dominion over me.
134Redeem me from the oppression of man,
That I may keep Your precepts.
135Make Your face
shine upon Your servant,
And
teach me Your statutes.
136Rivers of water run down from my eyes,
Because men do not keep Your
law.
137Righteous are You, O LORD,
And upright are Your judgments.
138Your testimonies,
which You have commanded,
Are
righteous and very faithful.
139My zeal has
consumed me,
Because my enemies
have forgotten Your words.
140Your word is very pure;
Therefore Your servant loves
it.
141I am small
and despised,
Yet I do not
forget Your precepts.
142Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,
And Your law is truth.
143Trouble and
anguish have overtaken me,
Yet
Your commandments are my delights.
144The righteousness
of Your testimonies is everlasting;
Give me understanding, and I
shall live.
145I cry out with my whole heart;
Hear me, O LORD!
I will keep Your statutes.
146I cry out to You;
Save me, and I will keep Your
testimonies.
147I
rise before the dawning of the morning,
And cry for help;
I hope in Your word.
148My eyes are awake
through the night watches,
That
I may meditate on Your word.
149Hear my voice
according to Your lovingkindness;
O LORD, revive me according to
Your justice.
150They draw near who follow after wickedness;
They are far from Your law.
151You are near, O
LORD,
And all Your commandments
are truth.
152Concerning Your testimonies,
I have known of old that You
have founded them forever.
153Consider
my affliction and deliver me,
For I do not forget Your law.
154Plead my cause
and redeem me;
Revive me
according to Your word.
155Salvation is far from the wicked,
For they do not seek Your
statutes.
156Great
are Your tender mercies, O LORD;
Revive me according to Your
judgments.
157Many
are my persecutors and my enemies,
Yet I do not turn from Your
testimonies.
158I
see the treacherous, and am disgusted,
Because they do not keep Your
word.
159Consider
how I love Your precepts;
Revive me, O LORD, according to Your lovingkindness.
160The entirety of
Your word is truth,
And every
one of Your righteous judgments endures forever.
161Princes
persecute me without a cause,
But my heart stands in awe of Your word.
162I rejoice at Your
word
As one who finds great
treasure.
163I hate
and abhor lying,
But I love
Your law.
164Seven
times a day I praise You,
Because of Your righteous judgments.
165Great peace have
those who love Your law,
And
nothing causes them to stumble.
166LORD, I hope for
Your salvation,
And I do Your
commandments.
167My
soul keeps Your testimonies,
And I love them exceedingly.
168I keep Your
precepts and Your testimonies,
For all my ways are before You.
169Let my
cry come before You, O LORD;
Give me understanding according to Your word.
170Let my
supplication come before You;
Deliver me according to Your word.
171My lips shall
utter praise,
For You teach me
Your statutes.
172My
tongue shall speak of Your word,
For all Your commandments are
righteousness.
173Let Your hand become my help,
For I have chosen Your
precepts.
174I long
for Your salvation, O LORD,
And
Your law is my delight.
175Let my soul live, and it shall praise You;
And let Your judgments help me.
176I have gone
astray like a lost sheep;
Seek
Your servant,
For I do not
forget Your commandments.
Psalm 120
Plea for
Relief from Bitter Foes
1 In my distress I cried to the
LORD,
And He heard me.
2Deliver my soul, O
LORD, from lying lips
And from
a deceitful tongue.
3What shall
be given to you,
Or what shall
be done to you,
You false
tongue?
4Sharp
arrows of the warrior,
With
coals of the broom tree!
5Woe is me,
that I dwell in Meshech,
That I
dwell among the tents of Kedar!
6My soul has dwelt
too long
With one who hates
peace.
7I am for
peace;
But when I speak, they
are for war.
Psalm 121
God the Help of
Those Who Seek Him
1 I will lift up my eyes to the hills--
From whence comes my help?
2My help comes from
the LORD,
Who made heaven and
earth.
3He
will not allow your foot to be moved;
He who keeps you will not
slumber.
4Behold, He
who keeps Israel
Shall neither
slumber nor sleep.
5The LORD is your keeper;
The LORD is your shade at your right hand.
6The sun shall not
strike you by day,
Nor the moon
by night.
7The LORD shall preserve you from all evil;
He shall preserve your soul.
8The LORD shall
preserve your going out and your coming in
From this time forth, and even
forevermore.
Psalm 122
The Joy of Going to the
House of the LORD
1 I was glad when they said to me,
"Let us go into the house of
the LORD."
2Our feet
have been standing
Within your
gates, O Jerusalem!
3Jerusalem
is built
As a city that is
compact together,
4Where the tribes go up,
The tribes of the LORD,
To the
Testimony of Israel,
To give
thanks to the name of the LORD.
5For thrones are set
there for judgment,
The thrones
of the house of David.
6Pray for
the peace of Jerusalem:
"May
they prosper who love you.
7Peace be within your walls,
Prosperity within your
palaces."
8For the
sake of my brethren and companions,
I will now say, "Peace be
within you."
9Because of the house of the LORD our God
I will seek your
good.
Psalm 123
Prayer for Relief from
Contempt
1 Unto You I lift up my eyes,
O You who dwell in the heavens.
2Behold, as the eyes
of servants look to the hand of their masters,
As the eyes of a maid to the
hand of her mistress,
So our
eyes look to the LORD our God,
Until He has mercy on us.
3Have mercy
on us, O LORD, have mercy on us!
For we are exceedingly filled
with contempt.
4Our
soul is exceedingly filled
With
the scorn of those who are at ease,
With the contempt of the
proud.
Psalm 124
The LORD the Defense of His
People
1 "If it had not been the LORD who was on our side,"
Let Israel now say--
2"If it had not been
the LORD who was on our side,
When men rose up against us,
3Then they would
have swallowed us alive,
When
their wrath was kindled against us;
4Then the waters
would have overwhelmed us,
The
stream would have gone over our soul;
5Then the swollen
waters
Would have gone over our
soul."
6Blessed be the LORD,
Who
has not given us as prey to their teeth.
7Our soul has
escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers;
The snare is broken, and we
have escaped.
8Our
help is in the name of the LORD,
Who made heaven and
earth.
Psalm 125
The LORD the Strength of His
People
1 Those who trust in the LORD
Are like Mount Zion,
Which cannot be moved, but
abides forever.
2As
the mountains surround Jerusalem,
So the LORD surrounds His
people
From this time forth and
forever.
3For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest
On the land allotted to the
righteous,
Lest the righteous
reach out their hands to iniquity.
4Do good, O
LORD, to those who are good,
And to those who are upright in their hearts.
5As for such
as turn aside to their crooked ways,
The LORD shall lead them away
With the workers of iniquity.
Peace be upon
Israel!
Psalm 126
A Joyful Return to
Zion
1 When the LORD brought back the captivity of Zion,
We were like those who dream.
2Then our mouth was
filled with laughter,
And our
tongue with singing.
Then they
said among the nations,
"The
LORD has done great things for them."
3The LORD has done
great things for us,
And we are
glad.
4Bring
back our captivity, O LORD,
As
the streams in the South.
5Those who
sow in tears
Shall reap in joy.
6He who continually
goes forth weeping,
Bearing
seed for sowing,
Shall
doubtless come again with rejoicing,
Bringing his sheaves with
him.
Psalm 127
Laboring and Prospering with the
LORD
1 Unless the LORD builds the house,
They labor in vain who build
it;
Unless the LORD guards the
city,
The watchman stays awake
in vain.
2It is vain
for you to rise up early,
To
sit up late,
To eat the bread
of sorrows;
For so He gives His
beloved sleep.
3Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD,
The fruit of the womb is a
reward.
4Like arrows
in the hand of a warrior,
So
are the children of one's youth.
5Happy is the man
who has his quiver full of them;
They shall not be ashamed,
But shall speak with their
enemies in the gate.
Psalm 128
Blessings of Those
Who Fear the LORD
1 Blessed is every one who fears the LORD,
Who walks in His ways.
2When you
eat the labor of your hands,
You shall be happy, and it shall be well with you.
3Your wife shall be
like a fruitful vine
In the
very heart of your house,
Your
children like olive plants
All
around your table.
4Behold, thus shall the man be blessed
Who fears the LORD.
5The LORD
bless you out of Zion,
And may
you see the good of Jerusalem
All the days of your life.
6Yes, may you see your children's children.
Peace be upon
Israel!
Psalm 129
Song of Victory over Zion's
Enemies
1 "Many a time they have afflicted me from my
youth,"
Let Israel now say--
2"Many a time they
have afflicted me from my youth;
Yet they have not prevailed
against me.
3The
plowers plowed on my back;
They
made their furrows long."
4The LORD is righteous;
He has cut in pieces the cords of the wicked.
5Let all
those who hate Zion
Be put to
shame and turned back.
6Let them be as the grass on the housetops,
Which withers before it grows
up,
7With which the
reaper does not fill his hand,
Nor he who binds sheaves, his arms.
8Neither let those
who pass by them say,
"The
blessing of the LORD be upon you;
We bless you in the name of the
LORD!"
Psalm 130
Waiting for the Redemption of the
LORD
1 Out of the depths I have cried to You, O LORD;
2Lord, hear my
voice!
Let Your ears be
attentive
To the voice of my
supplications.
3If You, LORD, should mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could stand?
4But there is
forgiveness with You,
That You
may be feared.
5I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,
And in His word I do hope.
6My soul waits for
the Lord
More than those who
watch for the morning--
Yes,
more than those who watch for the morning.
7O Israel,
hope in the LORD;
For with the
LORD there is mercy,
And with
Him is abundant redemption.
8And He shall redeem
Israel
From all his
iniquities.
Psalm 131
Simple Trust in the
LORD
1 LORD, my heart is not haughty,
Nor my eyes lofty.
Neither do I concern myself
with great matters,
Nor with
things too profound for me.
2Surely I
have calmed and quieted my soul,
Like a weaned child with his
mother;
Like a weaned child is
my soul within me.
3O Israel, hope in the LORD
From this time forth and
forever.
Psalm 132
The Eternal Dwelling of God in
Zion
1 LORD, remember David
And all his afflictions;
2How he swore to the
LORD,
And vowed to the Mighty
One of Jacob:
3"Surely I will not go into the chamber of my house,
Or go up to the comfort of my
bed;
4I will not
give sleep to my eyes
Or
slumber to my eyelids,
5Until I find a place for the LORD,
A dwelling place for the Mighty
One of Jacob."
6Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah;
We found it in the fields of
the woods.
7Let us
go into His tabernacle;
Let us
worship at His footstool.
8Arise, O LORD, to Your resting place,
You and the ark of Your
strength.
9Let Your
priests be clothed with righteousness,
And let Your saints shout for
joy.
10For
Your servant David's sake,
Do
not turn away the face of Your Anointed.
11The LORD
has sworn in truth to David;
He
will not turn from it:
"I will
set upon your throne the fruit of your body.
12If your sons will
keep My covenant
And My
testimony which I shall teach them,
Their sons also shall sit upon
your throne forevermore."
13For the
LORD has chosen Zion;
He has
desired it for His dwelling place:
14"This is My
resting place forever;
Here I
will dwell, for I have desired it.
15I will abundantly
bless her provision;
I will
satisfy her poor with bread.
16I will also clothe
her priests with salvation,
And
her saints shall shout aloud for joy.
17There I will make
the horn of David grow;
I will
prepare a lamp for My Anointed.
18His enemies I will
clothe with shame,
But upon
Himself His crown shall flourish."
Psalm
133
Blessed Unity of the People of God
1
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brethren to dwell together
in unity!
2It is like the precious oil upon the head,
Running down on the beard,
The beard of Aaron,
Running down on the edge of his
garments.
3It is
like the dew of Hermon,
Descending upon the mountains of Zion;
For there the LORD commanded
the blessing--
Life
forevermore.
Psalm 134
Praising the LORD in His
House at Night
1 Behold, bless the LORD,
All you servants of the LORD,
Who by night stand in the house
of the LORD!
2Lift
up your hands in the sanctuary,
And bless the LORD.
3The LORD
who made heaven and earth
Bless
you from Zion!
Psalm 135
Praise to God in Creation
and Redemption
1 Praise the LORD!
Praise the name of the
LORD;
Praise Him, O you
servants of the LORD!
2You who stand in the house of the LORD,
In the courts of the house of
our God,
3Praise the
LORD, for the LORD is good;
Sing praises to His name, for it is pleasant.
4For the LORD has
chosen Jacob for Himself,
Israel for His special treasure.
5For I know
that the LORD is great,
And our
Lord is above all gods.
6Whatever the LORD pleases He does,
In heaven and in earth,
In the seas and in all deep
places.
7He causes
the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth;
He makes lightning for the
rain;
He brings the wind out of
His treasuries.
8He destroyed the firstborn of Egypt,
Both of man and beast.
9He sent signs and
wonders into the midst of you, O Egypt,
Upon Pharaoh and all his
servants.
10He
defeated many nations
And slew
mighty kings--
11Sihon king of the Amorites,
Og king of Bashan,
And all the kingdoms of
Canaan--
12And gave
their land as a heritage,
A
heritage to Israel His people.
13Your name,
O LORD, endures forever,
Your
fame, O LORD, throughout all generations.
14For the LORD will
judge His people,
And He will
have compassion on His servants.
15The idols
of the nations are silver and gold,
The work of men's hands.
16They have mouths,
but they do not speak;
Eyes
they have, but they do not see;
17They have ears,
but they do not hear;
Nor is
there any breath in their mouths.
18Those who make
them are like them;
So is
everyone who trusts in them.
19Bless the
LORD, O house of Israel!
Bless
the LORD, O house of Aaron!
20Bless the LORD, O
house of Levi!
You who fear the
LORD, bless the LORD!
21Blessed be the LORD out of Zion,
Who dwells in Jerusalem!
Praise the
LORD!
Psalm 136
Thanksgiving to God for His
Enduring Mercy
1 Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is
good!
For His
mercy endures forever.
2Oh, give thanks to the God of gods!
For His mercy
endures forever.
3Oh, give thanks to the Lord of lords!
For His mercy
endures forever:
4To Him who alone does great wonders,
For His mercy
endures forever;
5To
Him who by wisdom made the heavens,
For His mercy
endures forever;
6To
Him who laid out the earth above the waters,
For His mercy
endures forever;
7To
Him who made great lights,
For His mercy
endures forever--
8The sun to rule by day,
For His mercy
endures forever;
9The moon and stars to rule by night,
For His mercy
endures forever.
10To Him who struck Egypt in their firstborn,
For His mercy
endures forever;
11And brought out Israel from among them,
For His mercy
endures forever;
12With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm,
For His mercy
endures forever;
13To Him who divided the Red Sea in two,
For His mercy
endures forever;
14And made Israel pass through the midst of it,
For His mercy
endures forever;
15But overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea,
For His mercy
endures forever;
16To Him who led His people through the wilderness,
For His mercy
endures forever;
17To Him who struck down great kings,
For His mercy
endures forever;
18And slew famous kings,
For His mercy
endures forever--
19Sihon king of the Amorites,
For His mercy
endures forever;
20And Og king of Bashan,
For His mercy
endures forever--
21And gave their land as a heritage,
For His mercy
endures forever;
22A
heritage to Israel His servant,
For His mercy
endures forever.
23Who remembered us in our lowly state,
For His mercy
endures forever;
24And rescued us from our enemies,
For His mercy
endures forever;
25Who gives food to all flesh,
For His mercy
endures forever.
26Oh, give thanks to the God of heaven!
For His mercy
endures forever.
Psalm 137
Longing for Zion in a
Foreign Land
1 By the rivers of Babylon,
There we sat down, yea, we wept
When we remembered Zion.
2We hung our harps
Upon the willows in the midst
of it.
3For there
those who carried us away captive asked of us a song,
And those who plundered us
requested mirth,
Saying, "Sing
us one of the songs of Zion!"
4How shall
we sing the LORD's song
In a
foreign land?
5If I
forget you, O Jerusalem,
Let my
right hand forget its skill!
6If I do not
remember you,
Let my tongue
cling to the roof of my mouth--
If I do not exalt Jerusalem
Above my chief joy.
7Remember, O
LORD, against the sons of Edom
The day of Jerusalem,
Who said,
"Raze it, raze it,
To its very
foundation!"
8O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed,
Happy the one who repays you as
you have served us!
9Happy the one who takes and dashes
Your little ones against the
rock!
Psalm 138
The LORD's Goodness to the
Faithful
1 I will praise You with my whole heart;
Before the gods I will sing
praises to You.
2I
will worship toward Your holy temple,
And praise Your name
For Your lovingkindness and
Your truth;
For You have
magnified Your word above all Your name.
3In the day when I
cried out, You answered me,
And
made me bold with strength in my soul.
4All the
kings of the earth shall praise You, O LORD,
When they hear the words of
Your mouth.
5Yes,
they shall sing of the ways of the LORD,
For great is the glory of the
LORD.
6Though the
LORD is on high,
Yet He regards
the lowly;
But the proud He
knows from afar.
7Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me;
You will stretch out Your hand
Against the wrath of my
enemies,
And Your right hand
will save me.
8The
LORD will perfect that which concerns me;
Your mercy, O LORD, endures
forever;
Do not forsake the
works of Your hands.
Psalm 139
God's Perfect
Knowledge of Man
1 O LORD, You have searched me and known
me.
2You know my
sitting down and my rising up;
You understand my thought afar off.
3You comprehend my
path and my lying down,
And are
acquainted with all my ways.
4For there is not a
word on my tongue,
But behold,
O LORD, You know it altogether.
5You have hedged me
behind and before,
And laid
Your hand upon me.
6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is high, I cannot attain it.
7Where can I
go from Your Spirit?
Or where
can I flee from Your presence?
8If I ascend into
heaven, You are there;
If I
make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
9If I take the wings
of the morning,
And dwell in
the uttermost parts of the sea,
10Even there Your
hand shall lead me,
And Your
right hand shall hold me.
11If I say, "Surely the darkness shall fall on me,"
Even the night shall be light
about me;
12Indeed,
the darkness shall not hide from You,
But the night shines as the
day;
The darkness and the light
are both alike to You.
13For You
formed my inward parts;
You
covered me in my mother's womb.
14I will praise You,
for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very
well.
15My frame was
not hidden from You,
When I was
made in secret,
And skillfully
wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16Your eyes saw my
substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of
them.
17How
precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!
18If I should count
them, they would be more in number than the sand;
When I awake, I am still with
You.
19Oh,
that You would slay the wicked, O God!
Depart from me, therefore, you
bloodthirsty men.
20For they speak against You wickedly;
Your enemies take Your name in
vain.
21Do I not
hate them, O LORD, who hate You?
And do I not loathe those who
rise up against You?
22I hate them with perfect hatred;
I count them my enemies.
23Search me,
O God, and know my heart;
Try
me, and know my anxieties;
24And see if there is any wicked way in me,
And lead me in the way
everlasting.
Psalm 140
Prayer for Deliverance from
Evil Men
1 Deliver me, O LORD, from evil men;
Preserve me from violent men,
2Who plan evil
things in their hearts;
They
continually gather together for war.
3They sharpen their
tongues like a serpent;
The
poison of asps is under their lips.Selah
4Keep me, O
LORD, from the hands of the wicked;
Preserve me from violent men,
Who have purposed to make my
steps stumble.
5The
proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords;
They have spread a net by the
wayside;
They have set traps
for me.Selah
6I said to the LORD: "You are my God;
Hear the voice of my
supplications, O LORD.
7O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation,
You have covered my head in the
day of battle.
8Do
not grant, O LORD, the desires of the wicked;
Do not further his wicked
scheme,
Lest they be
exalted.Selah
9"As for the head of those who surround me,
Let the evil of their lips
cover them;
10Let
burning coals fall upon them;
Let them be cast into the fire,
Into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
11Let not a
slanderer be established in the earth;
Let evil hunt the violent man
to overthrow him."
12I know that the LORD will maintain
The cause of the afflicted,
And justice for the poor.
13Surely the
righteous shall give thanks to Your name;
The upright shall dwell in Your
presence.
Psalm 141
Prayer for Safekeeping from
Wickedness
1 LORD, I cry out to You;
Make haste to me!
Give ear to my voice when I cry
out to You.
2Let my
prayer be set before You as incense,
The lifting up of my hands as
the evening sacrifice.
3Set a
guard, O LORD, over my mouth;
Keep watch over the door of my lips.
4Do not incline my
heart to any evil thing,
To
practice wicked works
With men
who work iniquity;
And do not
let me eat of their delicacies.
5Let the
righteous strike me;
It shall
be a kindness.
And let him
rebuke me;
It shall be as
excellent oil;
Let my head not
refuse it.
For still my
prayer is against the deeds of the wicked.
6Their judges are
overthrown by the sides of the cliff,
And they hear my words, for
they are sweet.
7Our
bones are scattered at the mouth of the grave,
As when one plows and breaks up
the earth.
8But my eyes are upon You, O GOD the Lord;
In You I take refuge;
Do not leave my soul destitute.
9Keep me from the
snares they have laid for me,
And from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
10Let the wicked
fall into their own nets,
While
I escape safely. was in the cave.
Psalm 142
A Plea
for Relief from Persecutors
1 I cry out to the LORD with my
voice;
With my voice to the
LORD I make my supplication.
2I pour out my
complaint before Him;
I declare
before Him my trouble.
3When my
spirit was overwhelmed within me,
Then You knew my path.
In the way in which I walk
They have secretly set a snare
for me.
4Look on my
right hand and see,
For there
is no one who acknowledges me;
Refuge has failed me;
No one
cares for my soul.
5I cried out to You, O LORD:
I said, "You are my refuge,
My portion in the land of the
living.
6Attend to
my cry,
For I am brought very
low;
Deliver me from my
persecutors,
For they are
stronger than I.
7Bring my soul out of prison,
That I may praise Your name;
The righteous shall surround
me,
For You shall deal
bountifully with me."
Psalm 143
An Earnest Appeal
for Guidance and Deliverance
1 Hear my prayer, O LORD,
Give ear to my supplications!
In Your faithfulness answer me,
And in Your righteousness.
2Do not enter into
judgment with Your servant,
For
in Your sight no one living is righteous.
3For the
enemy has persecuted my soul;
He has crushed my life to the ground;
He has made me dwell in
darkness,
Like those who have
long been dead.
4Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me;
My heart within me is
distressed.
5I remember the days of old;
I meditate on all Your works;
I muse on the work of Your
hands.
6I spread out
my hands to You;
My soul longs
for You like a thirsty land.Selah
7Answer me
speedily, O LORD;
My spirit
fails!
Do not hide Your face
from me,
Lest I be like those
who go down into the pit.
8Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning,
For in You do I trust;
Cause me to know the way in
which I should walk,
For I lift
up my soul to You.
9Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies;
In You I take shelter.
10Teach me to do
Your will,
For You are my God;
Your Spirit is good.
Lead me in the land of
uprightness.
11Revive me, O LORD, for Your name's sake!
For Your righteousness' sake
bring my soul out of trouble.
12In Your mercy cut
off my enemies,
And destroy all
those who afflict my soul;
For
I am Your servant. People
Psalm 144
A Song to the
LORD Who Preserves and Prospers His
1 Blessed be the LORD my
Rock,
Who trains my hands for
war,
And my fingers for
battle--
2My
lovingkindness and my fortress,
My high tower and my deliverer,
My shield and the One in whom I take refuge,
Who subdues my people under me.
3LORD, what
is man, that You take knowledge of him?
Or the son of man, that You are
mindful of him?
4Man
is like a breath;
His days are
like a passing shadow.
5Bow down
Your heavens, O LORD, and come down;
Touch the mountains, and they
shall smoke.
6Flash
forth lightning and scatter them;
Shoot out Your arrows and
destroy them.
7Stretch out Your hand from above;
Rescue me and deliver me out of
great waters,
From the hand of
foreigners,
8Whose
mouth speaks lying words,
And
whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
9I will sing
a new song to You, O God;
On a
harp of ten strings I will sing praises to You,
10The One who gives
salvation to kings,
Who
delivers David His servant
From
the deadly sword.
11Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners,
Whose mouth speaks lying words,
And whose right hand is a right
hand of falsehood--
12That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth;
That our daughters may be as
pillars,
Sculptured in palace
style;
13That our
barns may be full,
Supplying
all kinds of produce;
That our
sheep may bring forth thousands
And ten thousands in our fields;
14That our oxen may
be well laden;
That there be no
breaking in or going out;
That
there be no outcry in our streets.
15Happy are the
people who are in such a state;
Happy are the people whose God is the LORD!
Psalm
145
A Song of God's Majesty and Love
1 I
will extol You, my God, O King;
And I will bless Your name forever and ever.
2Every day I will
bless You,
And I will praise
Your name forever and ever.
3Great is the LORD,
and greatly to be praised;
And
His greatness is unsearchable.
4One
generation shall praise Your works to another,
And shall declare Your mighty
acts.
5I will
meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty,
And on Your wondrous works.
6Men shall speak of
the might of Your awesome acts,
And I will declare Your greatness.
7They shall utter
the memory of Your great goodness,
And shall sing of Your
righteousness.
8The LORD is gracious and full of compassion,
Slow to anger and great in
mercy.
9The LORD is
good to all,
And His tender
mercies are over all His works.
10All Your
works shall praise You, O LORD,
And Your saints shall bless You.
11They shall speak
of the glory of Your kingdom,
And talk of Your power,
12To make known to the sons of men His mighty acts,
And the glorious majesty of His
kingdom.
13Your
kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
And Your dominion endures
throughout all generations.
14The LORD
upholds all who fall,
And
raises up all who are bowed down.
15The eyes of all
look expectantly to You,
And
You give them their food in due season.
16You open Your hand
And satisfy the desire of every
living thing.
17The LORD is righteous in all His ways,
Gracious in all His works.
18The LORD is near
to all who call upon Him,
To
all who call upon Him in truth.
19He will fulfill
the desire of those who fear Him;
He also will hear their cry and
save them.
20The
LORD preserves all who love Him,
But all the wicked He will
destroy.
21My mouth
shall speak the praise of the LORD,
And all flesh shall bless His
holy name
Forever and
ever.
Psalm 146
The Happiness of Those Whose Help
Is the LORD
1 Praise the LORD!
Praise the LORD, O my
soul!
2While I live
I will praise the LORD;
I will
sing praises to my God while I have my being.
3Do not put
your trust in princes,
Nor in a
son of man, in whom there is no help.
4His spirit departs,
he returns to his earth;
In
that very day his plans perish.
5Happy is he
who has the God of Jacob for his help,
Whose hope is in the LORD his
God,
6Who made
heaven and earth,
The sea, and
all that is in them;
Who keeps
truth forever,
7Who
executes justice for the oppressed,
Who gives food to the hungry.
The LORD gives freedom to the
prisoners.
8The LORD opens the eyes of the blind;
The LORD raises those who are
bowed down;
The LORD loves the
righteous.
9The LORD
watches over the strangers;
He
relieves the fatherless and widow;
But the way of the wicked He
turns upside down.
10The LORD shall reign forever--
Your God, O Zion, to all
generations.
Praise the
LORD!
Psalm 147
Praise to God for His Word and
Providence
1 Praise the LORD!
For it is good to sing praises
to our God;
For it is pleasant,
and praise is beautiful.
2The LORD
builds up Jerusalem;
He gathers
together the outcasts of Israel.
3He heals the
brokenhearted
And binds up
their wounds.
4He
counts the number of the stars;
He calls them all by name.
5Great is our Lord, and mighty in power;
His understanding is infinite.
6The LORD lifts up
the humble;
He casts the wicked
down to the ground.
7Sing to the
LORD with thanksgiving;
Sing
praises on the harp to our God,
8Who covers the
heavens with clouds,
Who
prepares rain for the earth,
Who makes grass to grow on the mountains.
9He gives to the
beast its food,
And to the
young ravens that cry.
10He does
not delight in the strength of the horse;
He takes no pleasure in the
legs of a man.
11The
LORD takes pleasure in those who fear Him,
In those who hope in His mercy.
12Praise the
LORD, O Jerusalem!
Praise your
God, O Zion!
13For
He has strengthened the bars of your gates;
He has blessed your children
within you.
14He
makes peace in your borders,
And fills you with the finest wheat.
15He sends
out His command to the earth;
His word runs very swiftly.
16He gives snow like
wool;
He scatters the frost
like ashes;
17He
casts out His hail like morsels;
Who can stand before His cold?
18He sends out His
word and melts them;
He causes
His wind to blow, and the waters flow.
19He
declares His word to Jacob,
His
statutes and His judgments to Israel.
20He has not dealt
thus with any nation;
And as
for His judgments, they have not known them.
Praise the
LORD!
Psalm 148
Praise to the LORD from
Creation
1 Praise the LORD!
Praise the LORD from
the heavens;
Praise Him in the
heights!
2Praise
Him, all His angels;
Praise
Him, all His hosts!
3Praise Him, sun and moon;
Praise Him, all you stars of
light!
4Praise Him,
you heavens of heavens,
And you
waters above the heavens!
5Let them
praise the name of the LORD,
For He commanded and they were created.
6He also established
them forever and ever;
He made
a decree which shall not pass away.
7Praise the
LORD from the earth,
You great
sea creatures and all the depths;
8Fire and hail, snow
and clouds;
Stormy wind,
fulfilling His word;
9Mountains and all hills;
Fruitful trees and all cedars;
10Beasts and all
cattle;
Creeping things and
flying fowl;
11Kings
of the earth and all peoples;
Princes and all judges of the earth;
12Both young men and
maidens;
Old men and children.
13Let them
praise the name of the LORD,
For His name alone is exalted;
His glory is above the earth and heaven.
14And He has exalted
the horn of His people,
The
praise of all His saints--
Of
the children of Israel,
A
people near to Him.
Praise the LORD!
Psalm 149
Praise to God for His
Salvation and Judgment
1 Praise the LORD!
Sing to the LORD a new
song,
And His praise in the
assembly of saints.
2Let Israel
rejoice in their Maker;
Let the
children of Zion be joyful in their King.
3Let them praise His
name with the dance;
Let them
sing praises to Him with the timbrel and harp.
4For the LORD takes
pleasure in His people;
He will
beautify the humble with salvation.
5Let the
saints be joyful in glory;
Let
them sing aloud on their beds.
6Let the high
praises of God be in their mouth,
And a two-edged sword in their
hand,
7To execute
vengeance on the nations,
And
punishments on the peoples;
8To bind their kings
with chains,
And their nobles
with fetters of iron;
9To execute on them the written judgment--
This honor have all His saints.
Praise the
LORD!
Psalm 150
Let All Things Praise the
LORD
1 Praise the LORD!
Praise God in His
sanctuary;
Praise Him in His
mighty firmament!
2Praise Him for His mighty acts;
Praise Him according to His
excellent greatness!
3Praise Him
with the sound of the trumpet;
Praise Him with the lute and harp!
4Praise Him with the
timbrel and dance;
Praise Him
with stringed instruments and flutes!
5Praise Him with
loud cymbals;
Praise Him with
clashing cymbals!
6Let everything that has breath praise the LORD.
Praise the LORD!
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