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1 <<A Psalm of David.>> I will sing of mercy and
judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.
2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou
come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work
of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked
person.
5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off:
him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
6 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they
may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall
serve me.
7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he
that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may
cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.
1 <<A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed,
and poureth out his complaint before the LORD.>> Hear my
prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble;
incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned
as an hearth.
4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget
to eat my bread.
5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my
skin.
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of
the desert.
7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad
against me are sworn against me.
9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with
weeping,
10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast
lifted me up, and cast me down.
11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered
like grass.
12 But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance
unto all generations.
13 Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to
favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the
dust thereof.
15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the
kings of the earth thy glory.
16 When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his
glory.
17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise
their prayer.
18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the
people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
19 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary;
from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that
are appointed to death;
21 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in
Jerusalem;
22 When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to
serve the LORD.
23 He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
24 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days:
thy years are throughout all generations.
25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the
heavens are the work of thy hands.
26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them
shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them,
and they shall be changed:
27 But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
28 The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed
shall be established before thee.
1 <<A Psalm of David.>> Bless the LORD, O my soul:
and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee
with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth
is renewed like the eagle's.
6 The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that
are oppressed.
7 He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children
of Israel.
8 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous
in mercy.
9 He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for
ever.
10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us
according to our iniquities.
11 For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his
mercy toward them that fear him.
12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed
our transgressions from us.
13 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth
them that fear him.
14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field,
so he flourisheth.
16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place
thereof shall know it no more.
17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting
upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's
children;
18 To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his
commandments to do them.
19 The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his
kingdom ruleth over all.
20 Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that
do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
21 Bless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his,
that do his pleasure.
22 Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion:
bless the LORD, O my soul.
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very
great; thou art clothed with honor and majesty.
2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest
out the heavens like a curtain:
3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh
the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
4 Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be
removed for ever.
6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters
stood above the mountains.
7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted
away.
8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto
the place which thou hast founded for them.
9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they
turn not again to cover the earth.
10 He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the
hills.
11 They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses
quench their thirst.
12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation,
which sing among the branches.
13 He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied
with the fruit of thy works.
14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for
the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make
his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.
16 The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon,
which he hath planted;
17 Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir
trees are her house.
18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks
for the conies.
19 He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going
down.
20 Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts
of the forest do creep forth.
21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat
from God.
22 The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay
them down in their dens.
23 Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the
evening.
24 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made
them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
25 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping
innumerable, both small and great beasts.
26 There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast
made to play therein.
27 These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their
meat in due season.
28 That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand,
they are filled with good.
29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away
their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou
renewest the face of the earth.
31 The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall
rejoice in his works.
32 He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the
hills, and they smoke.
33 I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise
to my God while I have my being.
34 My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the
LORD.
35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the
wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the
LORD.
1 O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known
his deeds among the people.
2 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous
works.
3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that
seek the LORD.
4 Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
5 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders,
and the judgments of his mouth;
6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his
chosen.
7 He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he
commanded to a thousand generations.
9 Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel
for an everlasting covenant:
11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot
of your inheritance:
12 When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and
strangers in it.
13 When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom
to another people;
14 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings
for their sakes;
15 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the
whole staff of bread.
17 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a
servant:
18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
19 Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried
him.
20 The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people,
and let him go free.
21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:
22 To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators
wisdom.
23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land
of Ham.
24 And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger
than their enemies.
25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtiley
with his servants.
26 He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.
27 They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land
of Ham.
28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not
against his word.
29 He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
30 Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers
of their kings.
31 He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in
all their coasts.
32 He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.
33 He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the
trees of their coasts.
34 He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillars, and that
without number,
35 And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the
fruit of their ground.
36 He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of
all their strength.
37 He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there
was not one feeble person among their tribes.
38 Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell
upon them.
39 He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in
the night.
40 The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them
with the bread of heaven.
41 He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in
the dry places like a river.
42 For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
43 And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with
gladness:
44 And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited
the labour of the people;
45 That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise
ye the LORD.
1 Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he
is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
2 Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? who can shew forth
all his praise?
3 Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness
at all times.
4 Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto
thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;
5 That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in
the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.
6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity,
we have done wickedly.
7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered
not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea,
even at the Red sea.
8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might
make his mighty power to be known.
9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led
them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
10 And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and
redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
11 And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of
them left.
12 Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.
13 They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God
in the desert.
15 And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their
soul.
16 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of
the LORD.
17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the
company of Abiram.
18 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned
up the wicked.
19 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
20 Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox
that eateth grass.
21 They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things
in Egypt;
22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by
the Red sea.
23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses
his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath,
lest he should destroy them.
24 Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his
word:
25 But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice
of the LORD.
26 Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow
them in the wilderness:
27 To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter
them in the lands.
28 They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices
of the dead.
29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and
the plague brake in upon them.
30 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the
plague was stayed.
31 And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations
for evermore.
32 They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it
went ill with Moses for their sakes:
33 Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly
with his lips.
34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD
commanded them:
35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and
of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan:
and the land was polluted with blood.
39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring
with their own inventions.
40 Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people,
insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
41 And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that
hated them ruled over them.
42 Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into
subjection under their hand.
43 Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with
their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
44 Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their
cry:
45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according
to the multitude of his mercies.
46 He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them
captives.
47 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen,
to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
48 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting:
and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.
1 O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy
endureth for ever.
2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed
from the hand of the enemy;
3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from
the west, from the north, and from the south.
4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found
no city to dwell in.
5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
6 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered
them out of their distresses.
7 And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go
to a city of habitation.
8 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for
his wonderful works to the children of men!
9 For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry
soul with goodness.
10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being
bound in affliction and iron;
11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned
the counsel of the most High:
12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell
down, and there was none to help.
13 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved
them out of their distresses.
14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and
brake their bands in sunder.
15 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for
his wonderful works to the children of men!
16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of
iron in sunder.
17 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their
iniquities, are afflicted.
18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near
unto the gates of death.
19 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth
them out of their distresses.
20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from
their destructions.
21 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for
his wonderful works to the children of men!
22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and
declare his works with rejoicing.
23 They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in
great waters;
24 These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
25 For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth
up the waves thereof.
26 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths:
their soul is melted because of trouble.
27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and
are at their wits' end.
28 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth
them out of their distresses.
29 He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are
still.
30 Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them
unto their desired haven.
31 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for
his wonderful works to the children of men!
32 Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people,
and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings
into dry ground;
34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them
that dwell therein.
35 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground
into watersprings.
36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare
a city for habitation;
37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits
of increase.
38 He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly;
and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
39 Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression,
affliction, and sorrow.
40 He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander
in the wilderness, where there is no way.
41 Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh
him families like a flock.
42 The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity
shall stop her mouth.
43 Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall
understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
1 <<A Song or Psalm of David.>> O God, my heart
is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.
2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
3 I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing
praises unto thee among the nations.
4 For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth
unto the clouds.
5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above
all the earth;
6 That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand,
and answer me.
7 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide
Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength
of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
9 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over
Philistia will I triumph.
10 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into
Edom?
11 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou,
O God, go forth with our hosts?
12 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
13 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall
tread down our enemies.
1 <<To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.>>
Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful
are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying
tongue.
3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought
against me without a cause.
4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto
prayer.
5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my
love.
6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his
right hand.
7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his
prayer become sin.
8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them
seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers
spoil his labour.
12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there
be any to favour his fatherless children.
13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following
let their name be blotted out.
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD;
and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off
the memory of them from the earth.
16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted
the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in
heart.
17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted
not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment,
so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his
bones.
19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and
for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD,
and of them that speak evil against my soul.
21 But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because
thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up
and down as the locust.
24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of
fatness.
25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon
me they shook their heads.
26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
27 That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD,
hast done it.
28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them
be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover
themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will
praise him among the multitude.
31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save
him from those that condemn his soul.
1 <<A Psalm of David.>> The LORD said unto my
Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy
footstool.
2 The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule
thou in the midst of thine enemies.
3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the
beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the
dew of thy youth.
4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest
for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the
day of his wrath.
6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places
with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
7 He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he
lift up the head.
1 Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole
heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.
2 The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that
have pleasure therein.
3 His work is honorable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth
for ever.
4 He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD
is gracious and full of compassion.
5 He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be
mindful of his covenant.
6 He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may
give them the heritage of the heathen.
7 The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments
are sure.
8 They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and
uprightness.
9 He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant
for ever: holy and reverend is his name.
10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding
have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for
ever.
1 Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the
LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the
upright shall be blessed.
3 Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness
endureth for ever.
4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is
gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
5 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs
with discretion.
6 Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall
be in everlasting remembrance.
7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed,
trusting in the LORD.
8 His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he
see his desire upon his enemies.
9 He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness
endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honor.
10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with
his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise
the name of the LORD.
2 Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for
evermore.
3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same
the LORD'S name is to be praised.
4 The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the
heavens.
5 Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,
6 Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven,
and in the earth!
7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy
out of the dunghill;
8 That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of
his people.
9 He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful
mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a
people of strange language;
2 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
3 The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like
lambs.
5 What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan,
that thou wast driven back?
6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills,
like lambs?
7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence
of the God of Jacob;
8 Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into
a fountain of waters.
1 Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give
glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.
2 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
3 But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath
pleased.
4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they
see not:
6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they
smell not:
7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they
walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
8 They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that
trusteth in them.
9 O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their
shield.
10 O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and
their shield.
11 Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help
and their shield.
12 The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will
bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.
13 He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great.
14 The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
15 Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth
hath he given to the children of men.
17 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into
silence.
18 But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore.
Praise the LORD.
1 I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.
2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I
call upon him as long as I live.
3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat
hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
4 Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech
thee, deliver my soul.
5 Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.
6 The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped
me.
7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully
with thee.
8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from
tears, and my feet from falling.
9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
12 What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward
me?
13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of
the LORD.
14 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all
his people.
15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
16 O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the
son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will
call upon the name of the LORD.
18 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all
his people,
19 In the courts of the LORD'S house, in the midst of thee, O
Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.
1 O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
2 For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth
of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.
1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his
mercy endureth for ever.
2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.
3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endureth for
ever.
4 Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endureth
for ever.
5 I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and
set me in a large place.
6 The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto
me?
7 The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall
I see my desire upon them that hate me.
8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in
man.
9 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in
princes.
10 All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD
will I destroy them.
11 They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but
in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
12 They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the
fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD
helped me.
14 The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.
15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles
of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
16 The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the
LORD doeth valiantly.
17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
18 The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me
over unto death.
19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them,
and I will praise the LORD:
20 This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.
21 I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become
my salvation.
22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone
of the corner.
23 This is the LORD'S doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.
24 This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice
and be glad in it.
25 Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee,
send now prosperity.
26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have
blessed you out of the house of the LORD.
27 God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice
with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
28 Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God,
I will exalt thee.
29 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy
endureth for ever.
ALEPH
1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of
the LORD.
2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him
with the whole heart.
3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
4 Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy
commandments.
7 I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall
have learned thy righteous judgments.
8 I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
BETH
9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed
thereto according to thy word.
10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander
from thy commandments.
11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against
thee.
12 Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as
in all riches.
15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy
ways.
16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy
word.
GIMEL
17 Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep
thy word.
18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out
of thy law.
19 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from
me.
20 My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments
at all times.
21 Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err
from thy commandments.
22 Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy
testimonies.
23 Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant
did meditate in thy statutes.
24 Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
DALETH
25 My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according
to thy word.
26 I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy
statutes.
27 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I
talk of thy wondrous works.
28 My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according
unto thy word.
29 Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
30 I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid
before me.
31 I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.
32 I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge
my heart.
33 HE. Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall
keep it unto the end.
34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall
observe it with my whole heart.
35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein
do I delight.
36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou
me in thy way.
38 Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy
fear.
39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are
good.
40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy
righteousness.
VAU
41 Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation,
according to thy word.
42 So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me:
for I trust in thy word.
43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for
I have hoped in thy judgments.
44 So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.
45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
46 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will
not be ashamed.
47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have
loved.
48 My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which
I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
ZAIN
49 Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused
me to hope.
50 This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened
me.
51 The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not
declined from thy law.
52 I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted
myself.
53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that
forsake thy law.
54 Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
55 I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have
kept thy law.
56 This I had, because I kept thy precepts.
CHETH
57 Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep
thy words.
58 I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto
me according to thy word.
59 I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
60 I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten
thy law.
62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of
thy righteous judgments.
63 I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that
keep thy precepts.
64 The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.
TETH
65 Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto
thy word.
66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed
thy commandments.
67 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept
thy word.
68 Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
69 The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy
precepts with my whole heart.
70 Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might
learn thy statutes.
72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold
and silver.
JOD
73 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding,
that I may learn thy commandments.
74 They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because
I have hoped in thy word.
75 I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou
in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
76 Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort,
according to thy word unto thy servant.
77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for
thy law is my delight.
78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me
without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
79 Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have
known thy testimonies.
80 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
CAPH.
81 My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
82 Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort
me?
83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget
thy statutes.
84 How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute
judgment on them that persecute me?
85 The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy
law.
86 All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully;
help thou me.
87 They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not
thy precepts.
88 Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony
of thy mouth.
LAMED
89 For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
90 Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established
the earth, and it abideth.
91 They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for
all are thy servants.
92 Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished
in mine affliction.
93 I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast
quickened me.
94 I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.
95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider
thy testimonies.
96 I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment
is exceeding broad.
MEM
97 O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine
enemies: for they are ever with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies
are my meditation.
100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might
keep thy word.
102 I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught
me.
103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than
honey to my mouth!
104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate
every false way.
NUN
105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
106 I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy
righteous judgments.
107 I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto
thy word.
108 Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth,
O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.
109 My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy
law.
110 The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from
thy precepts.
111 Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for
they are the rejoicing of my heart.
112 I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway,
even unto the end.
SAMECH
113 I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
114 Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.
115 Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments
of my God.
116 Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let
me not be ashamed of my hope.
117 Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect
unto thy statutes continually.
118 Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes:
for their deceit is falsehood.
119 Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross:
therefore I love thy testimonies.
120 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy
judgments.
AIN
121 I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
122 Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress
me.
123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy
righteousness.
124 Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach
me thy statutes.
125 I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know
thy testimonies.
126 It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void
thy law.
127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above
fine gold.
128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things
to be right; and I hate every false way.
PE
129 Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep
them.
130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding
unto the simple.
131 I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.
132 Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest
to do unto those that love thy name.
133 Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have
dominion over me.
134 Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy
precepts.
135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy
statutes.
136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not
thy law.
TZADDI
137 Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.
138 Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and
very faithful.
139 My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten
thy words.
140 Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.
141 I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy
law is the truth.
143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments
are my delights.
144 The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give
me understanding, and I shall live.
KOPH
145 I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep
thy statutes.
146 I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
147 I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped
in thy word.
148 Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate
in thy word.
149 Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD,
quicken me according to thy judgment.
150 They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from
thy law.
151 Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.
152 Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou
hast founded them for ever.
RESH
153 Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget
thy law.
154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy
word.
155 Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
156 Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according
to thy judgments.
157 Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline
from thy testimonies.
158 I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they
kept not thy word.
159 Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according
to thy lovingkindness.
160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy
righteous judgments endureth for ever.
SCHIN
161 Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart
standeth in awe of thy word.
162 I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
163 I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
164 Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous
judgments.
165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall
offend them.
166 LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.
167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
168 I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my
ways are before thee.
TAU
169 Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding
according to thy word.
170 Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according
to thy word.
171 My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy
statutes.
172 My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments
are righteousness.
173 Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
174 I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my
delight.
175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments
help me.
176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for
I do not forget thy commandments.
1 <<A Song of degrees.>> In my distress I cried
unto the LORD, and he heard me.
2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful
tongue.
3 What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee,
thou false tongue?
4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents
of Kedar!
6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
1 <<A Song of degrees.>> I will lift up mine eyes
unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee
will not slumber.
4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right
hand.
6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve
thy soul.
8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from
this time forth, and even for evermore.
1 <<A Song of degrees of David.>> I was glad when
they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
2 Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
3 Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:
4 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the
testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.
5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house
of David.
6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love
thee.
7 Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace
be within thee.
9 Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.
1 <<A Song of degrees.>> Unto thee lift I up mine
eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their
masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress;
so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy
upon us.
3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are
exceedingly filled with contempt.
4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that
are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
1 <<A Song of degrees of David.>> If it had not
been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;
2 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose
up against us:
3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled
against us:
4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over
our soul:
5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
6 Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their
teeth.
7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers:
the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
8 Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
1 <<A Song of degrees.>> They that trust in the
LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth
for ever.
2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is
round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the
righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
4 Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that
are upright in their hearts.
5 As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD
shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace
shall be upon Israel.
1 <<A Song of degrees.>> When the LORD turned
again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with
singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done
great things for them.
3 The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
4 Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall
doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with
him.
1 <<A Song of degrees for Solomon.>> Except the
LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except
the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat
the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
3 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of
the womb is his reward.
4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children
of the youth.
5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall
not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
1 <<A Song of degrees.>> Blessed is every one
that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.
2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou
be, and it shall be well with thee.
3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine
house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
4 Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the
LORD.
5 The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the
good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
6 Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon
Israel.
1 <<A Song of degrees.>> Many a time have they
afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they
have not prevailed against me.
3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
4 The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the
wicked.
5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth
afore it groweth up:
7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth
sheaves his bosom.
8 Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be
upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
1 <<A Song of degrees.>> Out of the depths have
I cried unto thee, O LORD.
2 Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice
of my supplications.
3 If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall
stand?
4 But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
5 I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do
I hope.
6 My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for
the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
7 Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy,
and with him is plenteous redemption.
8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
1 <<A Song of degrees of David.>> LORD, my heart
is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself
in great matters, or in things too high for me.
2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is
weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
3 Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.
1 A Song of degrees. LORD, remember David, and all his afflictions:
2 How he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of
Jacob;
3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor
go up into my bed;
4 I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,
5 Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the
mighty God of Jacob.
6 Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of
the wood.
7 We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.
8 Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.
9 Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy
saints shout for joy.
10 For thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine
anointed.
11 The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn
from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.
12 If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that
I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne
for evermore.
13 For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his
habitation.
14 This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired
it.
15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her
poor with bread.
16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints
shall shout aloud for joy.
17 There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained
a lamp for mine anointed.
18 His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall
his crown flourish.
1 <<A Song of degrees of David.>> Behold, how
good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in
unity!
2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down
upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts
of his garments;
3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the
mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing,
even life for evermore.
1 <<A Song of degrees.>> Behold, bless ye the
LORD, all ye servants of the LORD, which by night stand in the
house of the LORD.
2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
3 The LORD that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.
1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the name of the LORD; praise
him, O ye servants of the LORD.
2 Ye that stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the
house of our God,
3 Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good: sing praises unto his
name; for it is pleasant.
4 For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for
his peculiar treasure.
5 For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above
all gods.
6 Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in
earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
7 He causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth;
he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of
his treasuries.
8 Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.
9 Who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt,
upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants.
10 Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;
11 Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all
the kingdoms of Canaan:
12 And gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel
his people.
13 Thy name, O LORD, endureth for ever; and thy memorial, O LORD,
throughout all generations.
14 For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself
concerning his servants.
15 The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of
men's hands.
16 They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but
they see not;
17 They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath
in their mouths.
18 They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that
trusteth in them.
19 Bless the LORD, O house of Israel: bless the LORD, O house
of Aaron:
20 Bless the LORD, O house of Levi: ye that fear the LORD, bless
the LORD.
21 Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, which dwelleth at Jerusalem.
Praise ye the LORD.
1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy
endureth for ever.
2 O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth
for ever.
3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth
for ever.
4 To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth
for ever.
5 To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth
for ever.
6 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his
mercy endureth for ever.
7 To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:
8 The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:
9 The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth
for ever.
10 To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy
endureth for ever:
11 And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth
for ever:
12 With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his
mercy endureth for ever.
13 To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy
endureth for ever:
14 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy
endureth for ever:
15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his
mercy endureth for ever.
16 To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his
mercy endureth for ever.
17 To him which smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for
ever:
18 And slew famous kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:
19 Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth for ever:
20 And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endureth for ever:
21 And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy endureth
for ever:
22 Even an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy endureth
for ever.
23 Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth
for ever:
24 And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth
for ever.
25 Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.
26 O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth
for ever.
1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept,
when we remembered Zion.
2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us
a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying,
Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her
cunning.
6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof
of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem;
who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall
he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones
against the stones.
1 <<A Psalm of David.>> I will praise thee with
my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee.
2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name
for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified
thy word above all thy name.
3 In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst
me with strength in my soul.
4 All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, when
they hear the words of thy mouth.
5 Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is
the glory of the LORD.
6 Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly:
but the proud he knoweth afar off.
7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me:
thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine
enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
8 The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy,
O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own
hands.
1 <<To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.>>
O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest
my thought afar off.
3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted
with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou
knowest it altogether.
5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon
me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot
attain unto it.
7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee
from thy presence?
8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed
in hell, behold, thou art there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost
parts of the sea;
10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall
hold me.
11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night
shall be light about me.
12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth
as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in
my mother's womb.
14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:
marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret,
and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and
in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance
were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great
is the sum of them!
18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand:
when I awake, I am still with thee.
19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore,
ye bloody men.
20 For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take
thy name in vain.
21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved
with those that rise up against thee?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the
way everlasting.
1 <<To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.>>
Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent
man;
2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they
gathered together for war.
3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison
is under their lips. Selah.
4 Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me
from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread
a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
6 I said unto the LORD, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my
supplications, O LORD.
7 O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered
my head in the day of battle.
8 Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his
wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
9 As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief
of their own lips cover them.
10 Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the
fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
11 Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil
shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted,
and the right of the poor.
13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the
upright shall dwell in thy presence.
1 <<A Psalm of David.>> LORD, I cry unto thee:
make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.
2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the
lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked
works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their
dainties.
5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let
him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not
break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall
hear my words; for they are sweet.
7 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth
and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
8 But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my
trust; leave not my soul destitute.
9 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the
gins of the workers of iniquity.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal
escape.
1 <<Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave.>>
I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD
did I make my supplication.
2 I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my
trouble.
3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest
my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a
snare for me.
4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man
that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
5 I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my
portion in the land of the living.
6 Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from
my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the
righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully
with me.
1 <<A Psalm of David.>> Hear my prayer, O LORD,
give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and
in thy righteousness.
2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight
shall no man living be justified.
3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life
down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those
that have been long dead.
4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within
me is desolate.
5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I
muse on the work of thy hands.
6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after
thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
7 Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face
from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
8 Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in
thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk;
for I lift up my soul unto thee.
9 Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to
hide me.
10 Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is
good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
11 Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness'
sake bring my soul out of trouble.
12 And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them
that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.
1 <<A Psalm of David.>> Blessed be the LORD my
strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer;
my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under
me.
3 LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the
son of man, that thou makest account of him!
4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth
away.
5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains,
and they shall smoke.
6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows,
and destroy them.
7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great
waters, from the hand of strange children;
8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right
hand of falsehood.
9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and
an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth
David his servant from the hurtful sword.
11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children,
whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand
of falsehood:
12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that
our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude
of a palace:
13 That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store:
that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in
our streets:
14 That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking
in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.
15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is
that people, whose God is the LORD.
1 <<David's Psalm of praise.>> I will extol thee,
my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.
2 Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for
ever and ever.
3 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness
is unsearchable.
4 One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall
declare thy mighty acts.
5 I will speak of the glorious honor of thy majesty, and of thy
wondrous works.
6 And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and
I will declare thy greatness.
7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness,
and shall sing of thy righteousness.
8 The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger,
and of great mercy.
9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all
his works.
10 All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall
bless thee.
11 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of
thy power;
12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the
glorious majesty of his kingdom.
13 Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth
throughout all generations.
14 The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those
that be bowed down.
15 The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their
meat in due season.
16 Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every
living thing.
17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his
works.
18 The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all
that call upon him in truth.
19 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will
hear their cry, and will save them.
20 The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked
will he destroy.
21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh
bless his holy name for ever and ever.
1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
2 While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto
my God while I have any being.
3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom
there is no help.
4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that
very day his thoughts perish.
5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose
hope is in the LORD his God:
6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein
is: which keepeth truth for ever:
7 Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food
to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
8 The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them
that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
9 The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless
and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
10 The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto
all generations. Praise ye the LORD.
1 Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto
our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
2 The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the
outcasts of Israel.
3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
4 He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by
their names.
5 Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is
infinite.
6 The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to
the ground.
7 Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the
harp unto our God:
8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for
the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
9 He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which
cry.
10 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh
not pleasure in the legs of a man.
11 The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that
hope in his mercy.
12 Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.
13 For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed
thy children within thee.
14 He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the
finest of the wheat.
15 He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth
very swiftly.
16 He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like
ashes.
17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before
his cold?
18 He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his
wind to blow, and the waters flow.
19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments
unto Israel.
20 He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments,
they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens:
praise him in the heights.
2 Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.
3 Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above
the heavens.
5 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and
they were created.
6 He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made
a decree which shall not pass.
7 Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:
8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapor; stormy wind fulfilling his
word:
9 Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:
10 Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:
11 Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges
of the earth:
12 Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:
13 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is
excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
14 He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all
his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near unto
him. Praise ye the LORD.
1 Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his
praise in the congregation of saints.
2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of
Zion be joyful in their King.
3 Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises
unto him with the timbrel and harp.
4 For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify
the meek with salvation.
5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon
their beds.
6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged
sword in their hand;
7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon
the people;
8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters
of iron;
9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honor have
all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.
1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise
him in the firmament of his power.
2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his
excellent greatness.
3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the
psaltery and harp.
4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed
instruments and organs.
5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high
sounding cymbals.
6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye
the LORD.
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