The Book of Psalms

Book I

Psalm 1

¹Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the
      wicked,
Nor standeth in the way of sinners,
Nor sitteth in the seat of scoffers:
²But his delight is in the law of Jehovah;
And on his law doth he meditate day and night.
³And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of
      water,
That bringeth forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also doth not wither;
And whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
⁴The wicked are not so,
But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
⁵Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
⁶For Jehovah knoweth the way of the righteous;
But the way of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 2

¹Why do the nations rage,
And the peoples meditate a vain thing?
²The kings of the earth set themselves,
And the rulers take counsel together,
Against Jehovah, and against his anointed, [saying],
³Let us break their bonds asunder,
And cast away their cords from us.
⁴He that sitteth in the heavens will laugh:
The Lord will have them in derision.
⁵Then will he speak unto them in his wrath,
And vex them in his sore displeasure:
⁶Yet I have set my king
Upon my holy hill of Zion.
⁷I will tell of the decree:
Jehovah said unto me, Thou art my son;
This day have I begotten thee.
⁸Ask of me, and I will give [thee] the nations for thine
      inheritance,
And the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
⁹Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron;
Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

¹⁰Now therefore be wise, O ye kings:
Be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
¹¹Serve Jehovah with fear,
And rejoice with trembling.
¹²Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way,
For his wrath will soon be kindled.
Blessed are all they that take refuge in him.

Psalm 3

A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.

¹Jehovah, how are mine adversaries increased!
Many are they that rise up against me.
²Many there are that say of my soul,
There is no help for him in God.

Selah

Selah

Selah

Psalm 4

For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm of
David.

¹Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness;
Thou hast set me at large [when I was] in distress:
Have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
²O ye sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into
      dishonor?
[How long] will ye love vanity, and seek after falsehood?

Selah

Selah

Psalm 5

For the Chief Musician; with the Nehiloth. A Psalm of David.

¹Give ear to my words, O Jehovah,
Consider my meditation.
²Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God;
For unto thee do I pray.
³O Jehovah, in the morning shalt thou hear my voice;
In the morning will I order [my prayer] unto thee, and will keep
      watch.
⁴For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness:
Evil shall not sojourn with thee.
⁵The arrogant shall not stand in thy sight:
Thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
⁶Thou wilt destroy them that speak lies:
Jehovah abhorreth the blood-thirsty and deceitful man.
⁷But as for me, in the abundance of thy lovingkindness will
      I come into thy house:
In thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
⁸Lead me, O Jehovah, in thy righteousness because of mine
      enemies;
Make thy way straight before my face.
⁹For there is no faithfulness in their mouth;
Their inward part is very wickedness;
Their throat is an open sepulchre;
They flatter with their tongue.
¹⁰Hold them guilty, O God;
Let them fall by their own counsels;
Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions;
For they have rebelled against thee.
¹¹But let all those that take refuge in thee rejoice,
Let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them:
Let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.
¹²For thou wilt bless the righteous;
O Jehovah, thou wilt compass him with favor as with a shield.

Psalm 6

For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, set to the
Sheminith. A Psalm of David.

¹O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thine anger,
Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
²Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; for I am withered away:
O Jehovah, heal me; for my bones are troubled.
³My soul also is sore troubled:
And thou, O Jehovah, how long?
⁴Return, O Jehovah, deliver my soul:
Save me for thy lovingkindness' sake.
⁵For in death there is no remembrance of thee:
In Sheol who shall give thee thanks?
⁶I am weary with my groaning;
Every night make I my bed to swim;
I water my couch with my tears.
⁷Mine eye wasteth away because of grief;
It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.
⁸Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity;
For Jehovah hath heard the voice of my weeping.
⁹Jehovah hath heard my supplication;
Jehovah will receive my prayer.
¹⁰All mine enemies shall be put to shame and sore troubled:
They shall turn back, they shall be put to shame suddenly.

Psalm 7

Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto Jehova, concerning the
words of Cush a Benjamite.

¹O Jehovah my God, in thee do I take refuge:
Save me from all them that pursue me, and deliver me,
²Lest they tear my soul like a lion,
Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
³O Jehovah my God, if I have done this;
If there be iniquity in my hands;
⁴If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me;
(Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine
      adversary;)
⁵Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it;
Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth,
And lay my glory in the dust.

Selah

Psalm 8

For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of David.

¹O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the
      earth,
Who hast set thy glory upon the heavens!
²Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou
      established strength,
Because of thine adversaries,
That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
³When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,
The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
⁴What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
And the son of man, that thou visitest him?
⁵For thou hast made him but little lower than God,
And crownest him with glory and honor.
⁶Thou makest him to have dominion over the works of thy
      hands;
Thou hast put all things under his feet:
⁷All sheep and oxen,
Yea, and the beasts of the field,
⁸The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
Whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
⁹O Jehovah, our Lord,
How excellent is thy name in all the earth!

Psalm 9

For the Chief Musician; set to Muthlabben. A Psalm of David.

¹I will give thanks unto Jehovah with my whole heart;
I will show forth all thy marvellous works.
²I will be glad and exult in thee;
I will sing praise to thy name, O thou Most High.
³When mine enemies turn back,
They stumble and perish at thy presence.
⁴For thou hast maintained my right and my cause;
Thou sittest in the throne judging righteously.
⁵Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the
      wicked;
Thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.
⁶The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for ever;
And the cities which thou hast overthrown,
The very remembrance of them is perished.
⁷But Jehovah sitteth [as king] for ever:
He hath prepared his throne for judgment;
⁸And he will judge the world in righteousness,
He will minister judgment to the peoples in uprightness.
⁹Jehovah also will be a high tower for the oppressed,
A high tower in times of trouble;
¹⁰And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee;
For thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
¹¹Sing praises to Jehovah, who dwelleth in Zion:
Declare among the people his doings.
¹²For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them;
He forgetteth not the cry of the poor.
¹³Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah;
Behold my affliction [which I suffer] of them that hate me,
Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death;
¹⁴That I may show forth all thy praise.
In the gates of the daughter of Zion
I will rejoice in thy salvation.
¹⁵The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made:
In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
¹⁶Jehovah hath made himself known, he hath executed
      judgment:
The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.

Selah

Selah

Psalm 10

¹Why standest thou afar off, O Jehovah?
Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
²In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued;
Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.
³For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire,
And the covetous renounceth, [yea], contemneth Jehovah.
⁴The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, [saith], He
      will not require [it].
All his thoughts are, There is no God.
⁵His ways are firm at all times;
Thy judgments are far above out of his sight:
As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.
⁶He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved;
To all generations I shall not be in adversity.
⁷His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression:
Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
⁸He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages;
In the secret places doth he murder the innocent;
His eyes are privily set against the helpless.
⁹He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert;
He lieth in wait to catch the poor:
He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.
¹⁰He croucheth, he boweth down,
And the helpless fall by his strong ones.
¹¹He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten;
He hideth his face; he will never see it.
¹²Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand:
Forget not the poor.
¹³Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God,
And say in his heart, Thou wilt not require [it]?
¹⁴Thou hast seen [it]; for thou beholdest mischief and
      spite, to requite it with thy hand:
The helpless committeth [himself] unto thee;
Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.
¹⁵Break thou the arm of the wicked;
And as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find
      none.
¹⁶Jehovah is King for ever and ever:
The nations are perished out of his land.
¹⁷Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek:
Thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear;
¹⁸To judge the fatherless and the oppressed,
That man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.

Psalm 11

For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David.

¹In Jehovah do I take refuge:
How say ye to my soul,
Flee [as] a bird to your mountain;
²For, lo, the wicked bend the bow,
They make ready their arrow upon the string,
That they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart;
³If the foundations be destroyed,
What can the righteous do?
⁴Jehovah is in his holy temple;
Jehovah, his throne is in heaven;
His eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
⁵Jehovah trieth the righteous;
But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
⁶Upon the wicked he will rain snares;
Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of
      their cup.
⁷For Jehovah is righteous; he loveth righteousness:
The upright shall behold his face.

Psalm 12

For the Chief Musician; set to the Sheminith. A Psalm of David.

¹Help, Jehovah; for the godly man ceaseth;
For the faithful fail from among the children of men.
²They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor:
With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.
³Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips,
The tongue that speaketh great things;
⁴Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail;
Our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
⁵Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the
      sighing of the needy,
Now will I arise, saith Jehovah;
I will set him in the safety he panteth for.
⁶The words of Jehovah are pure words;
As silver tried in a furnace on the earth,
Purified seven times.
⁷Thou wilt keep them, O Jehovah,
Thou wilt preserve them from this generation for ever.
⁸The wicked walk on every side,
When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

Psalm 13

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

¹How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever?
How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
²How long shall I take counsel in my soul,
Having sorrow in my heart all the day?
How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
³Consider [and] answer me, O Jehovah my God:
Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the [sleep of] death;
⁴Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him;
[Lest] mine adversaries rejoice when I am moved.
⁵But I have trusted in thy lovingkindness;
My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
⁶I will sing unto Jehovah,
Because he hath dealt bountifully with me.

Psalm 14

For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David.

¹The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
They are corrupt, they have done abominable works;
There is none that doeth good.
²Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the children of men,
To see if there were any that did understand,
That did seek after God.
³They are all gone aside; they are together become filthy;
There is none that doeth good, no, not one.
⁴Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread,
And call not upon Jehovah?
⁵There were they in great fear;
For God is in the generation of the righteous.
⁶Ye put to shame the counsel of the poor,
Because Jehovah is his refuge.
⁷Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion!
When Jehovah bringeth back the captivity of his people,
Then shall Jacob rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad.

Psalm 15

A Psalm of David.

¹Jehovah, who shall sojourn in thy tabernacle?
Who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
²He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness,
And speaketh truth in his heart;
³He that slandereth not with his tongue,
Nor doeth evil to his friend,
Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor;
⁴In whose eyes a reprobate is despised,
But who honoreth them that fear Jehovah;
He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not;
⁵He that putteth not out his money to interest,
Nor taketh reward against the innocent.
He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

Psalm 16

Michtam of David.

¹Preserve me, O God; for in thee do I take refuge.
²[O my soul], thou hast said unto Jehovah, Thou art my
      Lord:
I have no good beyond thee.
³As for the saints that are in the earth,
They are the excellent in whom is all my delight.
⁴Their sorrows shall be multiplied that give gifts for
      another [god]:
Their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer,
Nor take their names upon my lips.
⁵Jehovah is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup:
Thou maintainest my lot.
⁶The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places;
Yea, I have a goodly heritage.
⁷I will bless Jehovah, who hath given me counsel;
Yea, my heart instructeth me in the night seasons.
⁸I have set Jehovah always before me:
Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
⁹Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth;
My flesh also shall dwell in safety.
¹⁰For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol;
Neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.
¹¹Thou wilt show me the path of life:
In thy presence is fulness of joy;
In thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

Psalm 17

A Prayer of David.

¹Hear the right, O Jehovah, attend unto my cry;
Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
²Let my sentence come forth from thy presence;
Let thine eyes look upon equity.
³Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me in the
      night;
Thou hast tried me, and findest nothing;
I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
⁴As for the works of men, by the word of thy lips
I have kept me from the ways of the violent.
⁵My steps have held fast to thy paths,
My feet have not slipped.
⁶I have called upon thee, for thou wilt answer me, O God:
Incline thine ear unto me, [and] hear my speech.
⁷Show thy marvellous lovingkindness,
O thou that savest by thy right hand them that take refuge [in
      thee
]From those that rise up [against them].
⁸Keep me as the apple of the eye;
Hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
⁹From the wicked that oppress me,
My deadly enemies, that compass me about.
¹⁰They are inclosed in their own fat:
With their mouth they speak proudly.
¹¹They have now compassed us in our steps;
They set their eyes to cast [us] down to the earth.
¹²He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey,
And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
¹³Arise, O Jehovah,
Confront him, cast him down:
Deliver my soul from the wicked by thy sword;
¹⁴From men by thy hand, O Jehovah,
From men of the world, whose portion is in [this] life,
And whose belly thou fillest with thy treasure:
They are satisfied with children,
And leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
¹⁵As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness;
I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with [beholding] thy form.

Psalm 18

For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David the servant of
Jehovah, who spake unto Jehovah the words of this song in the
day that Jehovah delivered him from the hand of all his enemies,
and from the hand of Saul: and he said,

¹I love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.
²Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge;
My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
³I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised:
So shall I be saved from mine enemies.
⁴The cords of death compassed me,
And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
⁵The cords of Sheol were round about me;
The snares of death came upon me.
⁶In my distress I called upon Jehovah,
And cried unto my God:
He heard my voice out of his temple,
And my cry before him came into his ears.
⁷Then the earth shook and trembled;
The foundations also of the mountains quaked
And were shaken, because he was wroth.
⁸There went up a smoke out of his nostrils,
And fire out of his mouth devoured:
Coals were kindled by it.
⁹He bowed the heavens also, and came down;
And thick darkness was under his feet.
¹⁰And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly;
Yea, he soared upon the wings of the wind.
¹¹He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round
      about him,
Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
¹²At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed,
Hailstones and coals of fire.
¹³Jehovah also thundered in the heavens,
And the Most High uttered his voice,
Hailstones and coals of fire.
¹⁴And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them;
Yea, lightnings manifold, and discomfited them.
¹⁵Then the channels of waters appeared,
And the foundations of the world were laid bare,
At thy rebuke, O Jehovah,
At the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
¹⁶He sent from on high, he took me;
He drew me out of many waters.
¹⁷He delivered me from my strong enemy,
And from them that hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
¹⁸They came upon me in the day of my calamity;
But Jehovah was my stay.
¹⁹He brought me forth also into a large place;
He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
²⁰Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness;
According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
²¹For I have kept the ways of Jehovah,
And have not wickedly departed from my God.
²²For all his ordinances were before me,
And I put not away his statutes from me.
²³I was also perfect with him,
And I kept myself from mine iniquity.
²⁴Therefore hath Jehovah recompensed me according to my
      righteousness,
According to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
²⁵With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful;
With the perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect;
²⁶With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure;
And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.
²⁷For thou wilt save the afflicted people;
But the haughty eyes thou wilt bring down.
²⁸For thou wilt light my lamp:
Jehovah my God will lighten my darkness.
²⁹For by thee I run upon a troop;
And by my God do I leap over a wall.
³⁰As for God, his way is perfect:
The word of Jehovah is tried;
He is a shield unto all them that take refuge in him.
³¹For who is God, save Jehovah?
And who is a rock, besides our God,
³²The God that girdeth me with strength,
And maketh my way perfect?
³³He maketh my feet like hinds' [feet]:
And setteth me upon my high places.
³⁴He teacheth my hands to war;
So that mine arms do bend a bow of brass.
³⁵Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation;
And thy right hand hath holden me up,
And thy gentleness hath made me great.
³⁶Thou hast enlarged my steps under me,
And my feet have not slipped.
³⁷I will pursue mine enemies, and overtake them;
Neither will I turn again till they are consumed.
³⁸I will smite them through, so that they shall not be
      able to rise:
They shall fall under my feet.
³⁹For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle:
Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
⁴⁰Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto
      me,
That I might cut off them that hate me.
⁴¹They cried, but there was none to save;
Even unto Jehovah, but he answered them not.
⁴²Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind;
I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.
⁴³Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people;
Thou hast made me the head of the nations:
A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
⁴⁴As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me;
The foreigners shall submit themselves unto me.
⁴⁵The foreigners shall fade away,
And shall come trembling out of their close places.
⁴⁶Jehovah liveth; and blessed be my rock;
And exalted be the God of my salvation,
⁴⁷Even the God that executeth vengeance for me,
And subdueth peoples under me.
⁴⁸He rescueth me from mine enemies;
Yea, thou liftest me up above them that rise up against me;
Thou deliverest me from the violent man.
⁴⁹Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah, among
      the nations,
And will sing praises unto thy name.
⁵⁰Great deliverance giveth he to his king,
And showeth lovingkindness to his anointed,
To David and to his seed, for evermore.

Psalm 19

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

¹The heavens declare the glory of God;
And the firmament showeth his handiwork.
²Day unto day uttereth speech,
And night unto night showeth knowledge.
³There is no speech nor language;
Their voice is not heard.
⁴Their line is gone out through all the earth,
And their words to the end of the world.
In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
⁵Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,
And rejoiceth as a strong man to run his course.
⁶His going forth is from the end of the heavens,
And his circuit unto the ends of it;
And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

⁷The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul:
The testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple.
⁸The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart:
The commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes.
⁹The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring for ever:
The ordinances of Jehovah are true, [and] righteous altogether.
¹⁰More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much
      fine gold;
Sweeter also than honey and the droppings of the honeycomb.
¹¹Moreover by them is thy servant warned:
In keeping them there is great reward.
¹²Who can discern [his] errors?
Clear thou me from hidden [faults].
¹³Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous [sins];
Let them not have dominion over me:
Then shall I be upright,
And I shall be clear from great transgression.
¹⁴Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable in thy sight,
O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer.

Psalm 20

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

¹Jehovah answer thee in the day of trouble;
The name of the God of Jacob set thee up on high;
²Send thee help from the sanctuary,
And strengthen thee out of Zion;
³Remember all thy offerings,
And accept thy burnt-sacrifice;

Selah

Psalm 21

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

¹The king shall joy in thy strength, O Jehovah;
And in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
²Thou hast given him his heart's desire,
And hast not withholden the request of his lips.

Selah

Psalm 22

For the Chief Musician; set to Aijaleth hash-Shahar. A Psalm of
David.

¹My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
[Why art thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of
      my groaning?
²O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answerest not;
And in the night season, and am not silent.
³But thou art holy,
O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
⁴Our fathers trusted in thee:
They trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
⁵They cried unto thee, and were delivered:
They trusted in thee, and were not put to shame.
⁶But I am a worm, and no man;
A reproach of men, and despised of the people.
⁷All they that see me laugh me to scorn:
They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying],
⁸Commit [thyself] unto Jehovah;
Let him deliver him:
Let him rescue him, seeing he delighteth in him.
⁹But thou art he that took me out of the womb;
Thou didst make me trust [when I was] upon my mother's breasts.
¹⁰I was cast upon thee from the womb;
Thou art my God since my mother bare me.
¹¹Be not far from me; for trouble is near;
For there is none to help.
¹²Many bulls have compassed me;
Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
¹³They gape upon me with their mouth,
[As] a ravening and a roaring lion.
¹⁴I am poured out like water,
And all my bones are out of joint:
My heart is like wax;
It is melted within me.
¹⁵My strength is dried up like a potsherd;
And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws;
And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
¹⁶For dogs have compassed me:
A company of evil-doers have inclosed me;
They pierced my hands and my feet.
¹⁷I may count all my bones;
They look and stare upon me.
¹⁸They part my garments among them,
And upon my vesture do they cast lots.
¹⁹But be not thou far off, O Jehovah:
O thou my succor, haste thee to help me.
²⁰Deliver my soul from the sword,
My darling from the power of the dog.
²¹Save me from the lion's mouth;
Yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen thou hast answered me.

²²I will declare thy name unto my brethren:
In the midst of the assembly will I praise thee.
²³Ye that fear Jehovah, praise him;
All ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him;
And stand in awe of him, all ye the seed of Israel.
²⁴For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of
      the afflicted;
Neither hath he hid his face from him;
But when he cried unto him, he heard.
²⁵Of thee cometh my praise in the great assembly:
I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
²⁶The meek shall eat and be satisfied;
They shall praise Jehovah that seek after him:
Let your heart live for ever.
²⁷All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto
      Jehovah;
And all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
²⁸For the kingdom is Jehovah's;
And he is the ruler over the nations.
²⁹All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship:
All they that go down to the dust shall bow before him,
Even he that cannot keep his soul alive.
³⁰A seed shall serve him;
It shall be told of the Lord unto the [next] generation.
³¹They shall come and shall declare his righteousness
Unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done it.

Psalm 23

A Psalm of David.

¹Jehovah is my shepherd; I shall not want.
²He maketh me to lie down in green pastures;
He leadeth me beside still waters.
³He restoreth my soul:
He guideth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
⁴Yea, thou I walk through the valley of the shadow of
      death,
I will fear no evil; for thou art with me;
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
⁵Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine
      enemies:
Thou hast anointed my head with oil;
My cup runneth over.
⁶Surely goodness and lovingkindness shall follow me all
      the days of my life;
And I shall dwell in the house of Jehovah for ever.

Psalm 24

A Psalm of David.

¹The earth is Jehovah's, and the fulness thereof;
The world, and they that dwell therein.
²For he hath founded it upon the seas,
And established it upon the floods.
³Who shall ascend into the hill of Jehovah?
And who shall stand in his holy place?
⁴He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart;
Who hath not lifted up his soul unto falsehood,
And hath not sworn deceitfully.
⁵He shall receive a blessing from Jehovah,
And righteousness from the God of his salvation.
⁶This is the generation of them that seek after him,
That seek thy face, [even] Jacob.

Selah

⁷Lift up your heads, O ye gates;
And be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors:
And the King of glory will come in.
⁸Who is the King of glory?
Jehovah strong and mighty,
Jehovah mighty in battle.
⁹Lift up your heads, O ye gates;
Yea, lift them up, ye everlasting doors:
And the King of glory will come in.
¹⁰Who is this King of glory?
Jehovah of hosts,
He is the King of glory.

Selah

Psalm 25

[A Psalm] of David.

¹Unto thee, O Jehovah, do I lift up my soul.
²O my God, in thee have I trusted,
Let me not be put to shame;
Let not mine enemies triumph over me.
³Yea, none that wait for thee shall be put to shame:
They shall be put to shame that deal treacherously without cause.
⁴Show me thy ways, O Jehovah;
Teach me thy paths.
⁵Guide me in thy truth, and teach me;
For thou art the God of my salvation;
For thee do I wait all the day.
⁶Remember, O Jehovah, thy tender mercies and thy
      lovingkindness;
For they have been ever of old.
⁷Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions:
According to thy lovingkindness remember thou me,
For thy goodness' sake, O Jehovah.
⁸Good and upright is Jehovah:
Therefore will he instruct sinners in the way.
⁹The meek will he guide in justice;
And the meek will he teach his way.
¹⁰All the paths of Jehovah are lovingkindness and truth
Unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
¹¹For thy name's sake, O Jehovah,
Pardon mine iniquity, for it is great.
¹²What man is he that feareth Jehovah?
Him shall he instruct in the way that he shall choose.
¹³His soul shall dwell at ease;
And his seed shall inherit the land.
¹⁴The friendship of Jehovah is with them that fear him;
And he will show them his covenant.
¹⁵Mine eyes are ever toward Jehovah;
For he will pluck my feet out of the net.
¹⁶Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me;
For I am desolate and afflicted.
¹⁷The troubles of my heart are enlarged:
Oh bring thou me out of my distresses.
¹⁸Consider mine affliction and my travail;
And forgive all my sins.
¹⁹Consider mine enemies, for they are many;
And they hate me with cruel hatred.
²⁰Oh keep my soul, and deliver me:
Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in thee.
²¹Let integrity and uprightness preserve me,
For I wait for thee.
²²Redeem Israel, O God,
Out all of his troubles.

Psalm 26

[A Psalm] of David.

¹Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have walked in mine integrity:
I have trusted also in Jehovah without wavering.
²Examine me, O Jehovah, and prove me;
Try my heart and my mind.
³For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes;
And I have walked in thy truth.
⁴I have not sat with men of falsehood;
Neither will I go in with dissemblers.
⁵I hate the assembly of evil-doers,
And will not sit with the wicked.
⁶I will wash my hands in innocency:
So will I compass thine altar, O Jehovah;
⁷That I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard,
And tell of all thy wondrous works.
⁸Jehovah, I love the habitation of thy house,
And the place where thy glory dwelleth.
⁹Gather not my soul with sinners,
Nor my life with men of blood;
¹⁰In whose hands is wickedness,
And their right hand is full of bribes.
¹¹But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity:
Redeem me, and be merciful unto me.
¹²My foot standeth in an even place:
In the congregations will I bless Jehovah.

Psalm 27

[A Psalm] of David.

¹Jehovah is my light and my salvation;
Whom shall I fear?
Jehovah is the strength of my life;
Of whom shall I be afraid?
²When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh,
[Even] mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
³Though a host should encamp against me,
My heart shall not fear:
Though war should rise against me,
Even then will I be confident.
⁴One thing have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after;
That I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life,
To behold the beauty of Jehovah,
And to inquire in his temple.
⁵For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his
      pavilion:
In the covert of his tabernacle will he hide me;
He will lift me up upon a rock.
⁶And now shall my head be lifted up above mine enemies
      round about me.
And I will offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy;
I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto Jehovah.

⁷Hear, O Jehovah, when I cry with my voice:
Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
⁸[When thou saidst], Seek ye my face;
My heart said unto thee,
Thy face, Jehovah, will I seek.
⁹Hide not thy face from me;
Put not thy servant away in anger:
Thou hast been my help;
Cast me not off, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
¹⁰When my father and my mother forsake me,
Then Jehovah will take me up.
¹¹Teach me thy way, O Jehovah;
And lead me in a plain path,
Because of mine enemies.
¹²Deliver me not over unto the will of mine adversaries:
For false witnesses are risen up against me,
And such as breathe out cruelty.
¹³[I had fainted], unless I had believed to see the
      goodness of Jehovah
In the land of the living.
¹⁴Wait for Jehovah:
Be strong, and let thy heart take courage;
Yea, wait thou for Jehovah.

Psalm 28

[A Psalm] of David.

¹Unto thee, O Jehovah, will I call:
My rock, be not thou deaf unto me;
Lest, if thou be silent unto me,
I become like them that go down into the pit.
²Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee,
When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
³Draw me not away with the wicked,
And with the workers of iniquity;
That speak peace with their neighbors,
But mischief is in their hearts.
⁴Give them according to their work, and according to the
      wickedness of their doings:
Give them after the operation of their hands;
Render to them their desert.
⁵Because they regard not the works of Jehovah,
Nor the operation of his hands,
He will break them down and not build them up.

⁶Blessed be Jehovah,
Because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
⁷Jehovah is my strength and my shield;
My heart hath trusted in him, and I am helped:
Therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth;
And with my song will I praise him.
⁸Jehovah is their strength,
And he is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.
⁹Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance:
Be their shepherd also, and bear them up for ever.

Psalm 29

A Psalm of David.

¹Ascribe unto Jehovah, O ye sons of the mighty,
Ascribe unto Jehovah glory and strength.
²Ascribe unto Jehovah the glory due unto his name;
Worship Jehovah in holy array.

³The voice of Jehovah is upon the waters:
The God of glory thundereth,
Even Jehovah upon many waters.
⁴The voice of Jehovah is powerful;
The voice of Jehovah is full of majesty.
⁵The voice of Jehovah breaketh the cedars;
Yea, Jehovah breaketh in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
⁶He maketh them also to skip like a calf;
Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox.
⁷The voice of Jehovah cleaveth the flames of fire.
⁸The voice of Jehovah shaketh the wilderness;
Jehovah shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.
⁹The voice of Jehovah maketh the hinds to calve,
And strippeth the forests bare:
And in his temple everything saith, Glory.

¹⁰Jehovah sat [as King] at the Flood;
Yea, Jehovah sitteth as King for ever.
¹¹Jehovah will give strength unto his people;
Jehovah will bless his people with peace.

Psalm 30

A Psalm; a Song at the Dedication of the House. [A Psalm] of
David.

¹I will extol thee, O Jehovah; for thou hast raised me up,
And hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.
²O Jehovah my God,
I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
³O Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol;
Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
⁴Sing praise unto Jehovah, O ye saints of his,
And give thanks to his holy memorial [name].
⁵For his anger is but for a moment;
His favor is for a life-time:
Weeping may tarry for the night,
But joy [cometh] in the morning.
⁶As for me, I said in my prosperity,
I shall never be moved.
⁷Thou, Jehovah, of thy favor hadst made my mountain to
      stand strong:
Thou didst hide thy face; I was troubled.
⁸I cried to thee, O Jehovah;
And unto Jehovah I made supplication:
⁹What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the
      pit?
Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
¹⁰Hear, O Jehovah, and have mercy upon me:
Jehovah, be thou my helper.
¹¹Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing;
Thou hast loosed my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
¹²To the end that [my] glory may sing praise to thee, and
      not be silent.
O Jehovah my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.

Psalm 31

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

¹In thee, O Jehovah, do I take refuge;
Let me never be put to shame:
Deliver me in thy righteousness.
²Bow down thine ear unto me; deliver me speedily:
Be thou to me a strong rock,
A house of defence to save me.
³For thou art my rock and my fortress;
Therefore for thy name's sake lead me and guide me.
⁴Pluck me out of the net that they have laid privily for
      me;
For thou art my stronghold.
⁵Into thy hand I commend my spirit:
Thou hast redeemed me, O Jehovah, thou God of truth.
⁶I hate them that regard lying vanities;
But I trust in Jehovah.
⁷I will be glad and rejoice in thy lovingkindness;
For thou hast seen my affliction:
Thou hast known my soul in adversities;
⁸And thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy;
Thou hast set my feet in a large place.
⁹Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress:
Mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.
¹⁰For my life is spent with sorrow,
And my years with sighing:
My strength faileth because of mine iniquity,
And my bones are wasted away.
¹¹Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach,
Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly,
And a fear to mine acquaintance:
They that did see me without fled from me.
¹²I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind:
I am like a broken vessel.
¹³For I have heard the defaming of many,
Terror on every side:
While they took counsel together against me,
They devised to take away my life.
¹⁴But I trusted in thee, O Jehovah:
I said, Thou art my God.
¹⁵My times are in thy hand:
Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that
      persecute me.
¹⁶Make thy face to shine upon thy servant:
Save me in thy lovingkindness.
¹⁷Let me not be put to shame, O Jehovah; for I have called
      upon thee:
Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol.
¹⁸Let the lying lips be dumb,
Which speak against the righteous insolently,
With pride and contempt.
¹⁹Oh how great is thy goodness,
Which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee,
Which thou hast wrought for them that take refuge in thee,
Before the sons of men!
²⁰In the covert of thy presence wilt thou hide them from
      the plottings of man:
Thou wilt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of
      tongues.
²¹Blessed be Jehovah;
For he hath showed me his marvellous lovingkindness in a strong
      city.
²²As for me, I said in my haste,
I am cut off from before thine eyes:
Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications
When I cried unto thee.
²³Oh love Jehovah, all ye his saints:
Jehovah preserveth the faithful,
And plentifully rewardeth him that dealeth proudly.
²⁴Be strong, and let your heart take courage,
All ye that hope in Jehovah.

Psalm 32

[A Psalm] of David. Maschil.

¹Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven,
Whose sin is covered.
²Blessed is the man unto whom Jehovah imputeth not
      iniquity,
And in whose spirit there is no guile.
³When I kept silence, my bones wasted away
Through my groaning all the day long.
⁴For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me:
My moisture was changed [as] with the drought of summer.

Selah

Selah

Selah

Psalm 33

¹Rejoice in Jehovah, O ye righteous:
Praise is comely for the upright.
²Give thanks unto Jehovah with the harp:
Sing praises unto him with the psaltery of ten strings.
³Sing unto him a new song;
Play skilfully with a loud noise.
⁴For the word of Jehovah is right;
And all his work is [done] in faithfulness.
⁵He loveth righteousness and justice:
The earth is full of the lovingkindness of Jehovah.
⁶By the word of Jehovah were the heavens made,
And all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
⁷He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap:
He layeth up the deeps in store-houses.
⁸Let all the earth fear Jehovah:
Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
⁹For he spake, and it was done;
He commanded, and it stood fast.
¹⁰Jehovah bringeth the counsel of the nations to nought;
He maketh the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
¹¹The counsel of Jehovah standeth fast for ever,
The thoughts of his heart to all generations.
¹²Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah,
The people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
¹³Jehovah looketh from heaven;
He beholdeth all the sons of men;
¹⁴From the place of his habitation he looketh forth
Upon all the inhabitants of the earth,
¹⁵He that fashioneth the hearts of them all,
That considereth all their works.
¹⁶There is no king saved by the multitude of a host:
A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
¹⁷A horse is a vain thing for safety;
Neither doth he deliver any by his great power.
¹⁸Behold, the eye of Jehovah is upon them that fear him,
Upon them that hope in his lovingkindness;
¹⁹To deliver their soul from death,
And to keep them alive in famine.
²⁰Our soul hath waited for Jehovah:
He is our help and our shield.
²¹For our heart shall rejoice in him,
Because we have trusted in his holy name.
²²Let thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, be upon us,
According as we have hoped in thee.

Psalm 34

A Psalm of David; when he changed his behavior before Abimelech,
who drove him away, and he departed.

¹I will bless Jehovah at all times:
His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
²My soul shall make her boast in Jehovah:
The meek shall hear thereof, and be glad.
³Oh magnify Jehovah with me,
And let us exalt his name together.
⁴I sought Jehovah, and he answered me,
And delivered me from all my fears.
⁵They looked unto him, and were radiant;
And their faces shall never be confounded.
⁶This poor man cried, and Jehovah heard him,
And saved him out of all his troubles.
⁷The angel of Jehovah encampeth round about them that fear
      him,
And delivereth them. ⁸Oh taste and see that Jehovah is
      good:
Blessed is the man that taketh refuge in him.
⁹Oh fear Jehovah, ye his saints;
For there is no want to them that fear him.
¹⁰The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger;
But they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good thing.
¹¹Come, ye children, hearken unto me:
I will teach you the fear of Jehovah.
¹²What man is he that desireth life,
And loveth [many] days, that he may see good?
¹³Keep thy tongue from evil,
And thy lips from speaking guile.
¹⁴Depart from evil, and do good;
Seek peace, and pursue it.
¹⁵The eyes of Jehovah are toward the righteous,
And his ears are [open] unto their cry.
¹⁶The face of Jehovah is against them that do evil,
To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
¹⁷[The righteous] cried, and Jehovah heard,
And delivered them out of all their troubles.
¹⁸Jehovah is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart,
And saveth such as are of a contrite spirit.
¹⁹Many are the afflictions of the righteous;
But Jehovah delivereth him out of them all.
²⁰He keepeth all his bones:
Not one of them is broken.
²¹Evil shall slay the wicked;
And they that hate the righteous shall be condemned.
²²Jehovah redeemeth the soul of his servants;
And none of them that take refuge in him shall be condemned.

Psalm 35

[A Psalm] of David.

¹Strive thou, O Jehovah, with them that strive with me:
Fight thou against them that fight against me.
²Take hold of shield and buckler,
And stand up for my help.
³Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them
      that pursue me:
Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
⁴Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor that
      seek after my soul:
Let them be turned back and confounded that devise my hurt.
⁵Let them be as chaff before the wind,
And the angel of Jehovah driving [them] on.
⁶Let their way be dark and slippery,
And the angel of Jehovah pursuing them.
⁷For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a
      pit;
Without cause have they digged [a pit] for my soul.
⁸Let destruction come upon him unawares;
And let his net that he hath hid catch himself:
With destruction let him fall therein.
⁹And my soul shall be joyful in Jehovah:
It shall rejoice in his salvation.
¹⁰All my bones shall say, Jehovah, who is like unto thee,
Who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him,
Yea, the poor and the needy from him that robbeth him?
¹¹Unrighteous witnesses rise up;
They ask me of things that I know not.
¹²They reward me evil for good,
[To] the bereaving of my soul.
¹³But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was
      sackcloth:
I afflicted my soul with fasting;
And my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
¹⁴I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my
      brother:
I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.
¹⁵But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered
      themselves together:
The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew
      [it] not;
They did tear me, and ceased not:
¹⁶Like the profane mockers in feasts,
They gnashed upon me with their teeth.
¹⁷Lord, how long wilt thou look on?
Rescue my soul from their destructions,
My darling from the lions.
¹⁸I will give thee thanks in the great assembly:
I will praise thee among much people.
¹⁹Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice
      over me;
Neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
²⁰For they speak not peace;
But they devise deceitful words against them that are quiet in
      the land.
²¹Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me;
They said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
²²Thou hast seen it, O Jehovah; keep not silence:
O Lord, be not far from me.
²³Stir up thyself, and awake to the justice [due] unto me,
[Even] unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
²⁴Judge me, O Jehovah my God, according to thy
      righteousness;
And let them not rejoice over me.
²⁵Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have
      it:
Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
²⁶Let them be put to shame and confounded together that
      rejoice at my hurt:
Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify
      themselves against me.
²⁷Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my
      righteous cause:
Yea, let them say continually, Jehovah be magnified,
Who hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
²⁸And my tongue shall talk of thy righteousness
[And] of thy praise all the day long.

Psalm 36

For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David the servant of
Jehovah.

¹The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart,
There is no fear of God before his eyes.
²For he flattereth himself in his own eyes,
That his iniquity will not be found out and be hated.
³The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit:
He hath ceased to be wise [and] to do good.
⁴He deviseth iniquity upon his bed;
He setteth himself in a way that is not good;
He abhorreth not evil.

⁵Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, is in the heavens;
Thy faithfulness [reacheth] unto the skies.
⁶Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God;
Thy judgments are a great deep:
O Jehovah, thou preservest man and beast.
⁷How precious is thy lovingkindness, O God!
And the children of men take refuge under the shadow of thy
      wings.
⁸They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of
      thy house;
And thou wilt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
⁹For with thee is the fountain of life:
In thy light shall we see light.
¹⁰Oh continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee,
And thy 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 are the workers of iniquity fallen:
They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise.

Psalm 37

[A Psalm] of David.

¹Fret not thyself because of evil-doers,
Neither be thou envious against them that work unrighteousness.
²For they shall soon be cut down like the grass,
And wither as the green herb.
³Trust in Jehovah, and do good;
Dwell in the land, and feed on [his] faithfulness.
⁴Delight thyself also in Jehovah;
And he will give thee the desires of thy heart.
⁵Commit thy way unto Jehovah;
Trust also in him, and he will bring it to pass.
⁶And he will make thy righteousness to go forth as the
      light,
And thy justice as the noon-day.
⁷Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for him:
Fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way,
Because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
⁸Cease from anger, and forsake wrath:
Fret not thyself, [it tendeth] only to evil-doing.
⁹For evil-doers shall be cut off;
But those that wait for Jehovah, they shall inherit the land.
¹⁰For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be:
Yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and he shall not
      be.
¹¹But the meek shall inherit the land,
And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
¹²The wicked plotteth against the just,
And gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
¹³The Lord will laugh at him;
For he seeth that his day is coming.
¹⁴The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their
      bow,
To cast down the poor and needy,
To slay such as are upright in the way.
¹⁵Their sword shall enter into their own heart,
And their bows shall be broken.
¹⁶Better is a little that the righteous hath
Than the abundance of many wicked.
¹⁷For the arms of the wicked shall be broken;
But Jehovah upholdeth the righteous.
¹⁸Jehovah knoweth the days of the perfect;
And their inheritance shall be for ever.
¹⁹They shall not be put to shame in the time of evil;
And in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
²⁰But the wicked shall perish,
And the enemies of Jehovah shall be as the fat of lambs:
They shall consume;
In smoke shall they consume away.
²¹The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again;
But the righteous dealeth graciously, and giveth.
²²For such as are blessed of him shall inherit the land;
And they that are cursed of him shall be cut off.
²³A man's goings are established of Jehovah;
And he delighteth in his way.
²⁴Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down;
For Jehovah upholdeth him with his hand.
²⁵I have been young, and now am old;
Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken,
Nor his seed begging bread.
²⁶All the day long he dealeth graciously, and lendeth;
And his seed is blessed.
²⁷Depart from evil, and do good;
And dwell for evermore.
²⁸For Jehovah loveth justice,
And forsaketh not his saints;
They are preserved for ever:
But the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
²⁹The righteous shall inherit the land,
And dwell therein for ever.
³⁰The mouth of the righteous talketh of wisdom,
And his tongue speaketh justice.
³¹The law of his God is in his heart;
None of his steps shall slide.
³²The wicked watcheth the righteous,
And seeketh to slay him.
³³Jehovah will not leave him in his hand,
Nor condemn him when he is judged.
³⁴Wait for Jehovah, and keep his way,
And he will exalt thee to inherit the land:
When the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
³⁵I have seen the wicked in great power,
And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
³⁶But one passed by, and, lo, he was not:
Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
³⁷Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright;
For there is a [happy] end to the man of peace.
³⁸As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together;
The end of the wicked shall be cut off.
³⁹But the salvation of the righteous is of Jehovah;
He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
⁴⁰And Jehovah helpeth them, and rescueth them;
He rescueth them from the wicked, and saveth them,
Because they have taken refuge in him.

Psalm 38

A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.

¹O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath;
Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
²For thine arrows stick fast in me,
And thy hand presseth me sore.
³There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine
      indignation;
Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
⁴For mine iniquities are gone over my head:
As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
⁵My wounds are loathsome and corrupt,
Because of my foolishness.
⁶I am pained and bowed down greatly;
I go mourning all the day long.
⁷For my loins are filled with burning;
And there is no soundness in my flesh.
⁸I am faint and sore bruised:
I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
⁹Lord, all my desire is before thee;
And my groaning is not hid from thee.
¹⁰My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me:
As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
¹¹My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague;
And my kinsmen stand afar off.
¹²They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me];
And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things,
And meditate deceits all the day long.
¹³But I, as a deaf man, hear not;
And I am as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
¹⁴Yea, I am as a man that heareth not,
And in whose mouth are no reproofs.
¹⁵For in thee, O Jehovah, do I hope:
Thou wilt answer, O Lord my God.
¹⁶For I said, Lest they rejoice over me:
When my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
¹⁷For I am ready to fall,
And my sorrow is continually before me.
¹⁸For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my
      sin.
¹⁹But mine enemies are lively, [and] are strong;
And they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
²⁰They also that render evil for good
Are adversaries unto me, because I follow the thing that is good.
²¹Forsake me not, O Jehovah:
O my God, be not far from me.
²²Make haste to help me,
O Lord, my salvation.

Psalm 39

For the Chief Musician, Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.

¹I said, I will take heed to my ways,
That I sin not with my tongue:
I will keep my mouth with a bridle,
While the wicked is before me.
²I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good;
And my sorrow was stirred.
³My heart was hot within me;
While I was musing the fire burned:
[Then] spake I with my tongue:
⁴Jehovah, make me to know mine end,
And the measure of my days, what it is;
Let me know how frail I am.
⁵Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths;
And my life-time is as nothing before thee:
Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity.

Selah

Selah

Psalm 40

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

¹I waited patiently for Jehovah;
And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
²He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the
      miry clay;
And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
³And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto
      our God:
Many shall see it, and fear,
And shall trust in Jehovah.
⁴Blessed is the man that maketh Jehovah his trust,
And respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
⁵Many, O Jehovah my God, are the wonderful works which
      thou hast done,
And thy thoughts which are to us-ward;
They cannot be set in order unto thee;
If I would declare and speak of them,
They are more than can be numbered.
⁶Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in;
Mine ears hast thou opened:
Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required.
⁷Then said I, Lo, I am come;
In the roll of the book it is written of me:
⁸I delight to do thy will, O my God;
Yea, thy law is within my heart.
⁹I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the
      great assembly;
Lo, I will not refrain my lips,
O Jehovah, thou knowest.
¹⁰I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart;
I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation;
I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the
      great assembly.
¹¹Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Jehovah;
Let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
¹²For innumerable evils have compassed me about;
Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look
      up;
They are more than the hairs of my head;
And my heart hath failed me.
¹³Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me:
Make haste to help me, O Jehovah.
¹⁴Let them be put to shame and confounded together
That seek after my soul to destroy it:
Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor
That delight in my hurt.
¹⁵Let them be desolate by reason of their shame
That say unto me, Aha, aha.
¹⁶Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee:
Let such as love thy salvation say continually,
Jehovah be magnified.
¹⁷But I am poor and needy;
[Yet] the Lord thinketh upon me:
Thou art my help and my deliverer;
Make no tarrying, O my God.

Psalm 41

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

¹Blessed is he that considereth the poor:
Jehovah will deliver him in the day of evil.
²Jehovah will preserve him, and keep him alive,
And he shall be blessed upon the earth;
And deliver not thou him unto the will of his enemies.
³Jehovah will support him upon the couch of languishing:
Thou makest all his bed in his sickness.
⁴I said, O Jehovah, have mercy upon me:
Heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.
⁵Mine enemies speak evil against me, [saying],
When will he die, and his name perish?
⁶And if he come to see [me], he speaketh falsehood;
His heart gathereth iniquity to itself:
When he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
⁷All that hate me whisper together against me;
Against me do they devise my hurt.
⁸An evil disease, [say they], cleaveth fast unto him;
And now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
⁹Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted,
Who did eat of my bread,
Hath lifted up his heel against me.
¹⁰But thou, O Jehovah, have mercy upon me, and raise me up,
That I may requite them.
¹¹By this I know that thou delightest in me,
Because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
¹²And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity,
And settest me before thy face for ever.

¹³Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel,
From everlasting and to everlasting.
Amen, and Amen.

Book II

Psalm 42

For the Chief Musician. Maschil of the sons of Korah.

¹As the hart panteth after the water brooks,
So panteth my soul after thee, O God.
²My soul thirsteth 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 unto me, Where is thy God?
⁴These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me,
How I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday.
⁵Why art thou cast down, O my soul?
And [why] art thou disquieted within me?
Hope thou 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 do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan,
And the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.
⁷Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls:
All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
⁸[Yet] Jehovah will command his lovingkindness in the
      day-time;
And in the night his song shall be with me,
[Even] a prayer unto the God of my life.
⁹I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me?
Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
¹⁰As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach
      me,
While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
¹¹Why art thou cast down, O my soul?
And why art thou disquieted within me?
Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him,
[Who is] the help of my countenance, and my God.

Psalm 43

¹Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly
      nation:
Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
²For thou art the God of my strength; why hast thou cast
      me off?
Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
³Oh send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me:
Let them bring me unto thy holy hill,
And to thy tabernacles.
⁴Then will I go unto the altar of God,
Unto God my exceeding joy;
And upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God.
⁵Why art thou cast down, O my soul?
And why art thou disquieted within me?
Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him,
[Who is] the help of my countenance, and my God.

Psalm 44

For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of the sons of Korah. Maschil.

¹We have heard with our ears, O God,
Our fathers have told us,
What work thou didst in their days,
In the days of old.
²Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand;
But them thou didst plant:
Thou didst afflict the peoples;
But them thou didst spread abroad.
³For they gat not the land in possession by their own
      sword,
Neither did their own arm save them;
But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy
      countenance,
Because thou wast favorable unto them.
⁴Thou art my King, O God:
Command deliverance for Jacob.
⁵Through thee will we push down our adversaries:
Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against
      us.
⁶For I will not trust in my bow,
Neither shall my sword save me.
⁷But thou hast saved us from our adversaries,
And hast put them to shame that hate us.
⁸In God have we made our boast all the day long,
And we will give thanks unto thy name for ever.

Selah

⁹But now thou hast cast [us] off, and brought us to
      dishonor,
And goest not forth with our hosts.
¹⁰Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary;
And they that hate us take spoil for themselves.
¹¹Thou hast made us like sheep [appointed] for food,
And hast scattered us among the nations.
¹²Thou sellest thy people for nought,
And hast not increased [thy wealth] by their price.
¹³Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us.
¹⁴Thou makest us a byword among the nations,
A shaking of the head among the peoples.
¹⁵All the day long is my dishonor before me,
And the shame of my face hath covered me,
¹⁶For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth,
By reason of the enemy and the avenger.
¹⁷All this is come upon us;
Yet have we not forgotten thee,
Neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
¹⁸Our heart is not turned back,
Neither have our steps declined from thy way,
¹⁹That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals,
And covered us with the shadow of death.
²⁰If we have forgotten the name of our God,
Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
²¹Will not God search this out?
For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
²²Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
²³Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord?
Arise, cast [us] not off for ever.
²⁴Wherefore hidest thou thy face,
And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
²⁵For our soul is bowed down to the dust:
Our body cleaveth unto the earth.
²⁶Rise up for our help,
And redeem us for thy lovingkindness' sake.

Psalm 45

For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim. [A Psalm] of the sons
of Korah. Maschil. A Song of loves.

¹My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter;
I speak the things which I have made touching the king:
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
²Thou art fairer than the children of men;
Grace is poured into thy lips:
Therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
³Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O mighty one,
Thy glory and thy majesty.
⁴And in thy majesty ride on prosperously,
Because of truth and meekness [and] righteousness:
And thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
⁵Thine arrows are sharp;
The peoples fall under thee;
[They are] in the heart of the king's enemies.
⁶Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever:
A sceptre of equity is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
⁷Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness:
Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee
With the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
⁸All thy garments [smell of] myrrh, and aloes, [and]
      cassia;
Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.
⁹Kings' daughters are among thy honorable women:
At thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
¹⁰Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear;
Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house:
¹¹So will the king desire thy beauty;
For he is thy lord; and reverence thou him.
¹²And the daughter of Tyre [shall be there] with a gift;
The rich among the people shall entreat thy favor.
¹³The king's daughter within [the palace] is all glorious:
Her clothing is inwrought with gold.
¹⁴She shall be led unto the king in broidered work:
The virgins her companions that follow her
Shall be brought unto thee.
¹⁵With gladness and rejoicing shall they be led:
They shall enter into the king's palace.
¹⁶Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children,
Whom thou shalt make princes in all the earth.
¹⁷I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations:
Therefore shall the peoples give thee thanks for ever and ever.

Psalm 46

For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of the sons of Korah; set to
Alamoth. A Song.

¹God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.
²Therefore will we not fear, though the earth do change,
And though the mountains be shaken into the heart of the seas;
³Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,
Though the mountains tremble with the swelling thereof.

Selah

⁴There is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city
      of God,
The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
⁵God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved:
God will help her, and that right early.

⁶The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved:
He uttered his voice, the earth melted.
⁷Jehovah of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our refuge.

Selah

⁸Come, behold the works of Jehovah,
What desolations he hath made in the earth.
⁹He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth;
He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder;
He burneth the chariots 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.
¹¹Jehovah of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our refuge.

Selah

Psalm 47

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

¹Oh clap your hands, all ye peoples;
Shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
²For Jehovah Most High is terrible;
He is a great King over all the earth.
³He subdueth peoples under us,
And nations under our feet.
⁴He chooseth our inheritance for us,
The glory of Jacob whom he loved.

Selah

Psalm 48

A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah.

¹Great is Jehovah, 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 hath made himself known in her palaces for a refuge.
⁴For, lo, the kings assembled themselves,
They passed by together.
⁵They saw it, then were they amazed;
They were dismayed, they hasted away.
⁶Trembling took hold of them there,
Pain, as of a woman in travail.
⁷With the east wind
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.
⁸As we have heard, so have we seen
In the city of Jehovah of hosts, in the city of our God:
God will establish it for ever.

Selah

Psalm 49

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

¹Hear this, all ye peoples;
Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world,
²Both low and high,
Rich and poor together.
³My mouth shall speak wisdom;
And the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
⁴I will incline mine ear to a parable:
I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
⁵Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil,
When iniquity at my heels compasseth me about?
⁶They that trust in their wealth,
And boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
⁷None [of them] can by any means redeem his brother,
Nor give to God a ransom for him;
⁸(For the redemption of their life is costly,
And it faileth for ever;)
⁹That he should still live alway,
That he should not see corruption.
¹⁰For he shall see it. Wise men die;
The fool and the brutish alike perish,
And leave their wealth to others.
¹¹Their inward thought is, [that] their houses [shall
      continue] for ever,
[And] their dwelling-places to all generations;
They call their lands after their own names.
¹²But man [being] in honor abideth not:
He is like the beasts that perish.

¹³This their way is their folly:
Yet after them men approve their sayings.

Selah

Selah

Psalm 50

A Psalm of Asaph.

¹The Mighty One, God, Jehovah, hath spoken,
And called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going
      down thereof.
²Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God hath shined forth.
³Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence:
A fire devoureth before him,
And it is very tempestuous round about him.
⁴He calleth to the heavens above,
And to the earth, that he may judge his people:
⁵Gather my saints together unto me,
Those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
⁶And the heavens shall declare his righteousness;
For God is judge himself.

Selah

¹⁶But unto the wicked God saith,
What hast thou to do to declare my statutes,
And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth,
¹⁷Seeing thou hatest instruction,
And castest my words behind thee?
¹⁸When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him,
And hast been partaker with adulterers.
¹⁹Thou givest thy mouth to evil,
And thy tongue frameth deceit.
²⁰Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother;
Thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
²¹These things hast thou done, and I kept silence;
Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself:
[But] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine
      eyes.

²²Now consider this, ye that forget God,
Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:
²³Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifieth
      me;
And to him that ordereth his way [aright]
Will I show the salvation of God.

Psalm 51

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the
prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

¹Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy
      lovingkindness:
According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my
      transgressions.
²Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity,
And cleanse me from my sin.
³For I know my transgressions;
And my sin is ever before me.
⁴Against thee, thee only, have I sinned,
And done that which is evil in thy sight;
That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest,
And be clear when thou judgest.
⁵Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity;
And in sin did my mother conceive me. ^{6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts;
And in the hidden part thou wilt make me to know wisdom.
7Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean:
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8Make me to hear joy and gladness,
That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
9Hide thy face from my sins,
And blot out all mine iniquities.
10Create in me a clean heart, O God;
And renew a right spirit within me.
11Cast me not away from thy presence;
And take not thy holy Spirit from me.
12Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;
And uphold me with a willing spirit.
13Then will I teach transgressors thy ways;
And sinners shall be converted unto thee.
14Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my
      salvation;
[And] my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
15O Lord, open thou my lips;
And my mouth shall show forth thy praise.
16For thou delightest not in sacrifice; else would I give
      it:
Thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.
17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit:
A broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.}

¹⁸Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion:
Build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
¹⁹Then will thou delight in the sacrifices of
      righteousness,
In burnt-offering and in whole burnt-offering:
Then will they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

Psalm 52

For the Chief Musician. Maschil of David; when Doeg the Edomite
came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the
house of Abimelech.

¹Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man?
The lovingkindness of God [endureth] continually.
²Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness,
Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
³Thou lovest evil more than good,
And lying rather than to speak righteousness.

Selah

Selah

Psalm 53

For the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath. Maschil of David.

¹The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity;
There is none that doeth good.
²God looked down from heaven upon the children of men,
To see if there were any that did understand,
That did seek after God.
³Every one of them is gone back; they are together become
      filthy;
There is none that doeth good, no, not one.
⁴Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread,
And call not upon God?
⁵There were they in great fear, where no fear was;
For God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against
      thee:
Thou hast put them to shame, because of God hath rejected them.
⁶Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion!
When God bringeth back the captivity of his people,
Then shall Jacob rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad.

Psalm 54

For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. Maschil of
David; when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Doth not David
hide himself with us?

¹Save me, O God, by thy name,
And judge me in thy might.
²Hear my prayer, O God;
Give ear to the words of my mouth.
³For strangers are risen up against me,
And violent men have sought after my soul:
They have not set God before them.

Selah

Psalm 55

For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. Maschil of
David.

¹Give ear to my prayer, O God;
And hide not thyself from my supplication.
²Attend unto me, and answer me:
I am restless in my complaint, and moan,
³Because of the voice of the enemy,
Because of the oppression of the wicked;
For they cast iniquity upon me,
And in anger they persecute me.
⁴My heart is sore pained within me:
And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
⁵Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me,
And horror hath overwhelmed me.
⁶And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove!
Then would I fly away, and be at rest.
⁷Lo, then would I wander far off,
I would lodge in the wilderness.

Selah

Selah

Psalm 56

For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. [A Psalm] of
David. Michtam: when the Philistines took him in Gath.

¹Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up:
All the day long he fighting oppresseth me.
²Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long;
For they are many that fight proudly against me.
³What time I am afraid,
I will put my trust in thee.
⁴In God (I will praise his word),
In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid;
What can flesh do unto me?
⁵All the day long they wrest my words:
All their thoughts are against me for evil.
⁶They gather themselves together, they hide themselves,
They mark my steps,
Even as they have waited for my soul.
⁷Shall they escape by iniquity?
In anger cast down the peoples, O God.
⁸Thou numberest my wanderings:
Put thou my tears into thy bottle;
Are they not in thy book?
⁹Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call:
This I know, that God is for me.
¹⁰In God (I will praise [his] word),
In Jehovah (I will praise [his] word),
¹¹In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid;
What can man do unto me?
¹²Thy vows are upon me, O God:
I will render thank-offerings unto thee.
¹³For thou hast delivered my soul from death:
[Hast thou] not [delivered] my feet from falling,
That I may walk before God
In the light of the living?

Psalm 57

For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tash-heth. [A Psalm] of
David. Michtam; when he fled from Saul, in the cave.

¹Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me;
For my soul taketh refuge in thee:
Yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I take refuge,
Until [these] calamities be overpast.
²I will cry unto God Most High,
Unto God that performeth [all things] for me.
³He will send from heaven, and save me,
[When] he that would swallow me up reproacheth;

Selah

⁶They have prepared a net for my steps;
My soul is bowed down:
They have digged a pit before me;
They are fallen into the midst thereof themselves.

Selah

Psalm 58

For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of
David. Michtam.

¹Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness?
Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
²Nay, in heart ye work wickedness;
Ye 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 adder that stoppeth her ear,
⁵Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers,
Charming never so wisely.
⁶Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth:
Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
⁷Let them melt away as water that runneth apace:
When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut
      off.
⁸[Let them be] as a snail which melteth and passeth away,
[Like] the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.
⁹Before your pots can feel the thorns,
He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the
      burning alike.
¹⁰The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance:
He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;
¹¹So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the
      righteous:
Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.

Psalm 59

For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of
David. Michtam; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to
kill him.

¹Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God:
Set me on high from them that rise up against me.
²Deliver me from the workers of iniquity,
And save me from the bloodthirsty men.
³For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul;
The mighty gather themselves together against me:
Not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah.
⁴They run and prepare themselves without [my] fault:
Awake thou to help me, and behold.
⁵Even thou, O Jehovah God of hosts, the God of Israel,
Arise to visit all the nations:
Be not merciful to any wicked transgressors.

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Psalm 60

For the Chief Musician; [set to] Shushan Eduth. Michtam of
David, to teach; and when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with
Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the Valley
of Salt twelve thousand.

¹O God thou hast cast us off, thou hast broken us down;
Thou hast been angry; oh restore us again.
²Thou hast made the land to tremble; thou hast rent it:
Heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
³Thou hast showed thy people hard things:
Thou hast made us to drink the wine of staggering.
⁴Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee,
That it may be displayed because of the truth.

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⁶God hath spoken in his holiness: I will exult;
I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
⁷Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine;
Ephraim also is the defence of my head;
Judah is my sceptre.
⁸Moab is my washpot;
Upon Edom will I cast my shoe:
Philistia, shout thou because of me.
⁹Who will bring me into the strong city?
Who hath led me unto Edom?
¹⁰Hast not thou, O God, cast us off?
And thou goest not forth, O God, with our hosts.
¹¹Give us help against the adversary;
For vain is the help of man.
¹²Through God we shall do valiantly;
For he it is that will tread down our adversaries.

Psalm 61

For the Chief Musician; on a stringed instrument. [A Psalm] of
David.

¹Hear my cry, O God;
Attend unto my prayer.
²From the end of the earth will I call unto thee, when my
      heart is overwhelmed:
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
³For thou hast been a refuge for me,
A strong tower from the enemy.
⁴I will dwell in thy tabernacle for ever:
I will take refuge in the covert of thy wings.

Selah

Psalm 62

For the Chief Musician; after the manner of Jeduthan. A Psalm of
David.

¹My soul waiteth in silence for God only:
From him [cometh] my salvation.
²He only is my rock and my salvation:
[He is] my high tower; I shall not be greatly moved.
³How long will ye set upon a man,
That ye may slay [him], all of you,
Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
⁴They only consult to thrust him down from his dignity;
They delight in lies;
They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

Selah

Selah

Psalm 63

A Psalm of David when he was in the wilderness of Judah.

¹O God, thou art my God; earnestly will I seek thee:
My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee,
In a dry and weary land, where no water is.
²So have I looked upon thee in the sanctuary,
To see thy power and thy glory.
³Because thy lovingkindness is better than life,
My lips shall praise thee.
⁴So will I bless thee while I live:
I will lift up my hands in thy name.
⁵My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness;
And my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips;
⁶When I remember thee upon my bed,
[And] meditate on thee in the night-watches.
⁷For thou hast been my help,
And in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
⁸My soul followeth hard after thee:
Thy right hand upholdeth me.
⁹But those that seek my soul, to destroy it,
Shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
¹⁰They shall be given over to the power of the sword:
They shall be a portion for foxes.
¹¹But the king shall rejoice in God:
Every one that sweareth by him shall glory;
For the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

Psalm 64

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

¹Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint:
Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
²Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers,
From the tumult of the workers of iniquity;
³Who have whet their tongue like a sword,
And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
⁴That they may shoot in secret places at the perfect:
Suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
⁵They encourage themselves in an evil purpose;
They commune of laying snares privily;
They say, Who will see them?
⁶They search out iniquities;
We have accomplished, [say they], a diligent search:
And the inward thought and the heart of every one is deep.
⁷But God will shoot at them;
With an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded.
⁸So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being
      against them:
All that see them shall wag the head.
⁹And all men shall fear;
And they shall declare the work of God,
And shall wisely consider of his doing.
¹⁰The righteous shall be glad in Jehovah, and shall take
      refuge in him;
And all the upright in heart shall glory.

Psalm 65

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm. A song of David.

¹Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Zion;
And unto thee shall the vow be performed.
²O thou that hearest prayer,
Unto thee shall all flesh come.
³Iniquities prevail against me:
As for our transgressions, thou wilt forgive them.
⁴Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to
      approach [unto thee],
That he may dwell in thy courts:
We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house,
Thy holy temple.
⁵By terrible things thou wilt answer us in righteousness,
Oh God of our salvation,
Thou that art the confidence of all the ends of the earth,
And of them that are afar off upon the sea:
⁶Who by his strength setteth fast the mountains,
Being girded about with might;
⁷Who stilleth the roaring of the seas,
The roaring of their waves,
And the tumult of the peoples.
⁸They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at
      thy tokens:
Thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
⁹Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it,
Thou greatly enrichest it;
The river of God is full of water:
Thou providest them grain, when thou hast so prepared the earth.
¹⁰Thou waterest its furrows abundantly;
Thou settlest the ridges thereof:
Thou makest it soft with showers;
Thou blessest the springing thereof.
¹¹Thou crownest the year with thy goodness;
And thy paths drop fatness.
¹²They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness;
And the hills are girded with joy.
¹³The pastures are clothed with flocks;
The valleys also are covered over with grain;
They shout for joy, they also sing.

Psalm 66

For the Chief Musician. A song, a Psalm.

¹Make a joyful noise unto God, all the earth:
²Sing forth the glory of his name:
Make his praise glorious.
³Say unto God, How terrible are thy works!
Through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit
      themselves unto thee.
⁴All the earth shall worship thee,
And shall sing unto thee;
They shall sing to thy name.

Selah

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Psalm 67

For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm, a song.

¹God be merciful unto us, and bless us,
[And] cause his face to shine upon us;

Selah

Selah

Psalm 68

For the Chief Musician; A Psalm of David, a song.

¹Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered;
Let them also that hate him flee before him.
²As smoke is driven away, so drive them away:
As wax melteth before the fire,
So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
³But let the righteous be glad; let them exult before God:
Yea, let them rejoice with gladness.
⁴Sing unto God, sing praises to his name:
Cast up a highway for him that rideth through the deserts;
His name is Jehovah; and exult ye before him.
⁵A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows,
Is God in his holy habitation.
⁶God setteth the solitary in families:
He bringeth out the prisoners into prosperity;
But the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

⁷O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people,
When thou didst march through the wilderness;

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¹⁹Blessed be the Lord, who daily beareth our burden,
Even the God who is our salvation.

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²⁸Thy God hath commanded thy strength:
Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.
²⁹Because of thy temple at Jerusalem
Kings shall bring presents unto thee.
³⁰Rebuke the wild beast of the reeds,
The multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples,
Trampling under foot the pieces of silver:
He hath scattered the peoples that delight in war.
³¹Princes shall come out of Egypt;
Ethiopia shall haste to stretch out her hands unto God.
³²Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth;
Oh sing praises unto the Lord;

Selah

Psalm 69

For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshanim. [A Psalm] of David.

¹Save me, O God;
For the waters are come in unto my soul.
²I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing:
I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
³I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried:
Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
⁴They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs
      of my head:
They that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are
      mighty:
That which I took not away I have to restore.
⁵O God, thou knowest my foolishness;
And my sins are not hid from thee.
⁶Let not them that wait for thee be put to shame through
      me, O Lord Jehovah of hosts:
Let not those that seek thee be brought to dishonor through me,
      O God of Israel.
⁷Because for thy sake I have borne reproach;
Shame hath covered my face.
⁸I am become a stranger unto my brethren,
And an alien unto my mother's children.
⁹For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up;
And the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me.
¹⁰When I wept, [and chastened] my soul with fasting,
That was to my reproach.
¹¹When I made sackcloth my clothing,
I became a byword unto them.
¹²They that sit in the gate talk of me;
And [I am] the song of the drunkards.
¹³But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Jehovah, in an
      acceptable time:
O God, in the abundance of thy lovingkindness,
Answer me in the truth of thy salvation.
¹⁴Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink:
Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep
      waters.
¹⁵Let not the waterflood overwhelm me,
Neither let the deep shallow me up;
And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.
¹⁶Answer me, O Jehovah; for thy lovingkindness is good:
According to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou unto
      me.
¹⁷And hide not thy face from thy servant;
For I am in distress; answer me speedily.
¹⁸Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it:
Ransom me because of mine enemies.
¹⁹Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor:
Mine adversaries are all before thee.
²⁰Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of
      heaviness:
And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none;
And for comforters, but I found none.
²¹They gave me also gall for my food;
And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
²²Let their table before them become a snare;
And when they are in peace, [let it become] a trap.
²³Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see;
And make their loins continually to shake.
²⁴Pour out thine indignation upon them,
And let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them.
²⁵Let their habitation be desolate;
Let none dwell in their tents.
²⁶For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten;
And they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.
²⁷Add iniquity unto their iniquity;
And let them not come into thy righteousness.
²⁸Let them be blotted out of the book of life,
And not be written with the righteous.
²⁹But I am poor and sorrowful:
Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
³⁰I will praise the name of God with a song,
And will magnify him with thanksgiving.
³¹And it will please Jehovah better than an ox,
[Or] a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
³²The meek have seen it, and are glad:
Ye that seek after God, let your heart live.
³³For Jehovah heareth the needy,
And despiseth not his prisoners.
³⁴Let heaven and earth praise him,
The seas, and everything that moveth therein.
³⁵For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah;
And they shall abide there, and have it in possession.
³⁶The seed also of his servants shall inherit it;
And they that love his name shall dwell therein.

Psalm 70

For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David; to bring to
remembrance.

¹[Make haste], O God, to deliver me;
Make haste to help me, O Jehovah.
²Let them be put to shame and confounded
That seek after my soul:
Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor
That delight in my hurt.
³Let them be turned back by reason of their shame
That say, Aha, aha.
⁴Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee;
And let such as love thy salvation say continually,
Let God be magnified.
⁵But I am poor and needy;
Make haste unto me, O God:
Thou art my help and my deliverer;
O Jehovah, make no tarrying.

Psalm 71

¹In thee, O Jehovah, do I take refuge:
Let me never be put to shame.
²Deliver me in thy righteousness, and rescue me:
Bow down thine ear unto me, and save me.
³Be thou to me a rock of habitation, whereunto I may
      continually resort:
Thou hast given commandment to save me;
For thou art my rock and my fortress.
⁴Rescue me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked,
Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
⁵For thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah:
[Thou art] my trust from my youth.
⁶By thee have I been holden up from the womb;
Thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels:
My praise shall be continually of thee.
⁷I am as a wonder unto many;
But thou art my strong refuge.
⁸My mouth shall be filled with thy praise,
And with thy honor all the day.
⁹Cast me not off in the time of old age;
Forsake me not when my strength faileth.
¹⁰For mine enemies speak concerning me;
And they that watch for my soul take counsel together,
¹¹Saying, God hath forsaken him:
Pursue and take him; for there is none to deliver.
¹²O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me.
¹³Let them be put to shame [and] consumed that are
      adversaries to my soul;
Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt.
¹⁴But I will hope continually,
And will praise thee yet more and more.
¹⁵My mouth shall tell of thy righteousness,
[And] of thy salvation all the day;
For I know not the numbers [thereof].
¹⁶I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Jehovah:
I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
¹⁷O God, thou hast taught me from my youth;
And hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
¹⁸Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake
      me not,
Until I have declared thy strength unto [the next] generation,
Thy might to every one that is to come.
¹⁹Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high;
Thou who hast done great things, O God, who is like unto thee?
²⁰Thou, who hast showed us many and sore troubles,
Wilt quicken us again,
And wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
²¹Increase thou my greatness,
And turn again and comfort me.
²²I will also praise thee with the psaltery,
[Even] thy truth, O my God:
Unto thee will I sing praises with the harp,
O thou Holy One of Israel.
²³My lips shall shout for joy when I sing praises unto
      thee;
And my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
²⁴My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the
      day long;
For they are put to shame, for they are confounded, that seek my
      hurt.

Psalm 72

[A Psalm] of Solomon.

¹Give the king thy judgments, O God,
And thy righteousness unto the king's son.
²He will judge thy people with righteousness,
And thy poor with justice.
³The mountains shall bring peace to the people,
And the hills, in righteousness.
⁴He will judge the poor of the people,
He will save the children of the needy,
And will break in pieces the oppressor.
⁵They shall fear thee while the sun endureth,
And so long as the moon, throughout all generations.
⁶He will come down like rain upon the mown grass,
As showers that water the earth.
⁷In his days shall the righteous flourish,
And abundance of peace, till the moon be no more.
⁸He shall have dominion also from sea to sea,
And from the River unto the ends of the earth.
⁹They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him;
And his enemies shall lick the dust.
¹⁰The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall render
      tribute:
The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
¹¹Yea, all kings shall fall down before him;
All nations shall serve him.
¹²For he will deliver the needy when he crieth,
And the poor, that hath no helper.
¹³He will have pity on the poor and needy,
And the souls of the needy he will save.
¹⁴He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence;
And precious will their blood be in his sight:
¹⁵And they shall live; and to him shall be given of the
      gold of Sheba:
And men shall pray for him continually;
They shall bless him all the day long.
¹⁶There shall be abundance of grain in the earth upon the
      top of the mountains;
The fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon:
And they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
¹⁷His name shall endure for ever;
His name shall be continued as long as the sun:
And men shall be blessed in him;
All nations shall call him happy.

¹⁸Blessed be Jehovah God, the God of Israel,
Who only doeth wondrous things:
¹⁹And blessed be his glorious name for ever;
And let the whole earth be filled with his glory.
Amen, and Amen.

²⁰The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

BOOK III

Psalm 73

A Psalm of Asaph.

¹Surely God is good to Israel,
[Even] to such as are pure in heart.
²But as for me, my feet were almost gone;
My steps had well nigh slipped.
³For I was envious at the arrogant,
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;
Neither are they plagued like [other] men.
⁶Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck;
Violence covereth them as a garment.
⁷Their eyes stand out with fatness:
They have more than heart could wish.
⁸They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression:
They speak loftily.
⁹They have set their mouth in the heavens,
And their tongue walketh through the earth.
¹⁰Therefore his people return hither:
And waters of a full [cup] are drained by them.
¹¹And they say, How doth God know?
And is there knowledge in the Most High?
¹²Behold, these are the wicked;
And, being alway at ease, they increase in riches.
¹³Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart,
And washed my hands in innocency;
¹⁴For all the day long have I been plagued,
And chastened every morning.
¹⁵If I had said, I will speak thus;
Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy
      children.
¹⁶When I thought how I might know this,
It was too painful for me;
¹⁷Until I went into the sanctuary of God,
And considered their latter end.
¹⁸Surely thou settest them in slippery places:
Thou castest them down to destruction.
¹⁹How are they become a desolation in a moment!
They are utterly consumed with terrors.
²⁰As a dream when one awaketh,
So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.
²¹For my soul was grieved,
And I was pricked in my heart:
²²So brutish was I, and ignorant;
I was [as] a beast before thee.
²³Nevertheless I am continually with thee:
Thou hast holden my right hand.
²⁴Thou wilt guide me with thy counsel,
And afterward receive me to glory.
²⁵Whom have I in heaven [but thee]?
And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee.
²⁶My flesh and my heart faileth;
[But] God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.
²⁷For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish:
Thou hast destroyed all them that play the harlot, [departing]
      from thee.
²⁸But it is good for me to draw near unto God:
I have made the Lord Jehovah my refuge,
That I may tell of all thy works.

Psalm 74

Maschil of Asaph.

¹O God, why hast thou cast [us] off for ever?
Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
²Remember thy congregation, which thou hast gotten of old,
Which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance;
[And] mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
³Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins,
All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.
⁴Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine
      assembly;
They have set up their ensigns for signs.
⁵They seemed as men that lifted up
Axes upon a thicket of trees.
⁶And now all the carved work thereof
They break down with hatchet and hammers.
⁷They have set thy sanctuary on fire;
They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name [by casting
      it] to the ground.
⁸They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them
      altogether:
They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
⁹We see not our signs:
There is no more any prophet;
Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
¹⁰How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach?
Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
¹¹Why drawest thou back thy hand, even thy right hand?
[Pluck it] out of thy bosom [and] consume [them].

¹²Yet God is my King of old,
Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
¹³Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength:
Thou brakest the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.
¹⁴Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces;
Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the
      wilderness.
¹⁵Thou didst cleave fountain and flood:
Thou driedst up mighty rivers.
¹⁶The day is thine, the night also is thine:
Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
¹⁷Thou hast set all the borders of the earth:
Thou hast made summer and winter.
¹⁸Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah,
And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.
¹⁹Oh deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild
      beast:
Forget not the life of thy poor for ever.
²⁰Have respect unto the covenant;
For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of
      violence.
²¹Oh let not the oppressed return ashamed:
Let the poor and needy praise thy name.
²²Arise, O God, plead thine own cause:
Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day.
²³Forget not the voice of thine adversaries:
The tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth
      continually.

Psalm 75

For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tash-heth. A Psalm of Asaph;
a song.

¹We give thanks unto thee, O God;
We give thanks, for thy name is near:
Men tell of thy wondrous works.
²When I shall find the set time, I will judge uprightly.
³The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved:
I have set up the pillars of it.

Selah

Psalm 76

For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm of
Asaph, a song.

¹In Judah is God known:
His name is great in Israel.
²In Salem also is his tabernacle,
And his dwelling-place in Zion.
³There he brake the arrows of the bow;
The shield, and the sword, and the battle.

Selah

Selah

Psalm 77

For the Chief Musician; after the manner of Jeduthan. A Psalm of
Asaph.

¹I will cry unto God with my voice,
Even unto God with my voice; and he will give ear unto me.
²In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord:
My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not;
My soul refused to be comforted.
³I remember God, and am disquieted:
I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed.

Selah

⁴Thou holdest mine eyes watching:
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 commune with mine own heart;
And my spirit maketh diligent search.
⁷Will the Lord cast off for ever?
And will he be favorable no more?
⁸Is his lovingkindness clean gone for ever?
Doth his promise fail for evermore?
⁹Hath God forgotten to be gracious?
Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?

Selah

Selah

Psalm 78

Maschil of Asaph.

¹Give 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 Jehovah,
And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath 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], even the
      children that should be born;
Who should arise and tell [them] to their children,
⁷That they might set their hope in God,
And not forget the works of God,
But keep his commandments,
⁸And might not be as their fathers,
A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that set not their heart aright,
And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
⁹The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows,
Turned back in the day of battle.
¹⁰They kept not the covenant of God,
And refused to walk in his law;
¹¹And they forgat his doings,
And his wondrous works that he had showed them.
¹²Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers,
In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
¹³He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through;
And he made the waters to stand as a heap.
¹⁴In the day-time also he led them with a cloud,
And all the night with a light of fire.
¹⁵He clave rocks in the wilderness,
And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
¹⁶He brought streams also out of the rock,
And caused waters to run down like rivers.
¹⁷Yet went they on still to sin against him,
To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
¹⁸And they tempted God in their heart
By asking food according to their desire.
¹⁹Yea, they spake against God;
They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
²⁰Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out,
And streams overflowed;
Can he give bread also?
Will he provide flesh for his people?
²¹Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth;
And a fire was kindled against Jacob,
And anger also went up against Israel;
²²Because they believed not in God,
And trusted not in his salvation.
²³Yet he commanded the skies above,
And opened the doors of heaven;
²⁴And he rained down manna upon them to eat,
And gave them food from heaven.
²⁵Man did eat the bread of the mighty:
He sent them food to the full.
²⁶He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens;
And by his power he guided the south wind.
²⁷He rained flesh also upon them as the dust,
And winged birds as the sand of the seas:
²⁸And he let it fall in the midst of their camp,
Round about their habitations.
²⁹So they did eat, and were well filled;
And he gave them their own desire.
³⁰They were not estranged from that which they desired,
Their food was yet in their mouths,
³¹When the anger of God went up against them,
And slew of the fattest of them,
And smote down the young men of Israel.
³²For all this they sinned still,
And believed not in his wondrous works.
³³Therefore their days did he consume in vanity,
And their years in terror.
³⁴When he slew them, then they inquired after him;
And they returned and sought God earnestly.
³⁵And they remembered that God was their rock,
And the Most High God their redeemer.
³⁶But they flattered him with their mouth,
And lied unto him with their tongue.
³⁷For their heart was not right with him,
Neither were they faithful in his covenant.
³⁸But he, being merciful, forgave [their] iniquity, and
      destroyed [them] not:
Yea, many a time turned he his anger away,
And did not stir up all his wrath.
³⁹And he remembered that they were but flesh,
A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
⁴⁰How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness,
And grieve him in the desert!
⁴¹And they turned again and tempted God,
And provoked the Holy One of Israel.
⁴²They remember not his hand,
Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
⁴³How he set his signs in Egypt,
And his wonders in the field of Zoan,
⁴⁴And turned their rivers into blood,
And their streams, so that they could not drink.
⁴⁵He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them;
And frogs, which destroyed them.
⁴⁶He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar,
And their labor unto the locust.
⁴⁷He destroyed their vines with hail,
And their sycomore-trees with frost.
⁴⁸He gave over their cattle also to the hail,
And their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
⁴⁹He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger,
Wrath, and indignation, and trouble,
A band of angels of evil.
⁵⁰He made a path for his anger;
He spared not their soul from death,
But gave their life over to the pestilence,
⁵¹And smote all the first-born in Egypt,
The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
⁵²But he led forth his own people like sheep,
And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
⁵³And he led them safely, so that they feared not;
But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
⁵⁴And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary,
To this mountain, which his right hand had gotten.
⁵⁵He drove out the nations also before them,
And allotted them for an inheritance by line,
And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
⁵⁶Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God,
And kept not his testimonies;
⁵⁷But turned back, and dealt treacherously 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 graven images.
⁵⁹When God heard [this], he was wroth,
And greatly abhorred Israel;
⁶⁰So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh,
The tent which he placed among men;
⁶¹And delivered his strength into captivity,
And his glory into the adversary's hand.
⁶²He gave his people over also unto the sword,
And was wroth with his inheritance.
⁶³Fire devoured their young men;
And their virgins had no marriage-song.
⁶⁴Their priests fell by the sword;
And their widows made no lamentation.
⁶⁵Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep,
Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
⁶⁶And he smote his adversaries backward:
He put them to a perpetual reproach.
⁶⁷Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph,
And chose not the tribe of Ephraim,
⁶⁸But chose the tribe of Judah,
The mount Zion which he loved.
⁶⁹And he built his sanctuary like the heights,
Like the earth which he hath established for ever.
⁷⁰He chose David also his servant,
And took him from the sheepfolds:
⁷¹From following the ewes that have their young he brought
      him,
To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his
      inheritance.
⁷²So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of
      his heart,
And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

Psalm 79

A Psalm of Asaph.

¹O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance;
Thy holy temple have they defiled;
They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
²The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be
      food unto the birds of the heavens,
The flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
³Their blood have they shed like water round about
      Jerusalem;
And there was none to bury them.
⁴We are become a reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and derision to them that are round about us.
⁵How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever?
Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
⁶Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not,
And upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name.
⁷For they have devoured Jacob,
And laid waste his habitation.
⁸Remember not against us the iniquities of our forefathers:
Let thy tender mercies speedily meet us;
For we are brought very low.
⁹Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy
      name;
And deliver us, and forgive our sins, for thy name's sake.
¹⁰Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God?
Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed
Be known among the nations in our sight.
¹¹Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee:
According to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that
      are appointed to death;
¹²And render unto our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom
Their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
¹³So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture
Will give thee thanks for ever:
We will show forth thy praise to all generations.

Psalm 80

For the Chief Musician, set to Shoshanim Eduth.. A Psalm of
Asaph.

¹Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock;
Thou that sittest [above] the cherubim, shine forth.
²Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy
      might,
And come to save us.
³Turn us again, O God;
And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

⁴O Jehovah God of hosts,
How long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
⁵Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears,
And given them tears to drink in large measure.
⁶Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors;
And our enemies laugh among themselves.
⁷Turn us again, O God of hosts;
And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

⁸Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt:
Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.
⁹Thou preparedst [room] before it,
And it took deep root, and filled the land.
¹⁰The mountains were covered with the shadow of it,
And the boughs thereof were [like] cedars of God.
¹¹It sent out its branches unto the sea,
And its shoots unto the River.
¹²Why hast thou broken down its walls,
So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it?
¹³The boar out of the wood doth ravage it,
And the wild beasts of the field feed on it.
¹⁴Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts:
Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,
¹⁵And the stock which thy right hand planted,
And the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
¹⁶It is burned with fire, it is cut down:
They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
¹⁷Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand,
Upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
¹⁸So shall we not go back from thee:
Quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name.
¹⁹Turn us again, O Jehovah God of hosts;
Cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

Psalm 81

For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. [A Psalm] of Asaph.

¹Sing aloud unto God our strength:
Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
²Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel,
The pleasant harp with the psaltery.
³Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
At the full moon, on our feast-day.
⁴For it is a statute for Israel,
An ordinance of the God of Jacob.
⁵He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony,
When he went out over the land of Egypt,
[Where] I heard a language that I knew not.
⁶I removed his shoulder from the burden:
His hands were freed from the basket.
⁷Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee;
I answered thee in the secret place of thunder;
I proved thee at the waters of Meribah.

Selah

⁸Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee:
O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!
⁹There shall no strange god be in thee;
Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.
¹⁰I am Jehovah thy God,
Who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt:
Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
¹¹But my people hearkened not to my voice;
And Israel would none of me.
¹²So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart,
That they might walk in their own counsels.
¹³Oh that my people would hearken unto me,
That Israel would walk in my ways!
¹⁴I would soon subdue their enemies,
And turn my hand against their adversaries.
¹⁵The haters of Jehovah should submit themselves unto him:
But their time should endure for ever.
¹⁶He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat;
And with honey out of the rock would I satisfy thee.

Psalm 82

A Psalm of Asaph.

¹God standeth in the congregation of God;
He judgeth among the gods.
²How long will ye judge unjustly,
And respect the persons of the wicked?

Selah

³Judge the poor and fatherless:
Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
⁴Rescue the poor and needy:
Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.
⁵They know not, neither do they understand;
They walk to and fro in darkness:
All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
⁶I said, Ye are gods,
And all of you sons of the Most High.
⁷Nevertheless ye shall die like men,
And fall like one of the princes.
⁸Arise, O God, judge the earth;
For thou shalt inherit all the nations.

Psalm 83

A song. A Psalm of Asaph.

¹O God, keep not thou silence:
Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
²For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult;
And they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
³Thy take crafty counsel against thy people,
And consult together against thy hidden ones.
⁴They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being
      a nation;
That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
⁵For they have consulted together with one consent;
Against thee do they make a covenant:
⁶The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;
Moab, and the Hagarenes;
⁷Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek;
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre:
⁸Assyria also is joined with them;
They have helped the children of Lot.

Selah

Psalm 84

For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of the sons
of Korah.

¹How amiable are thy tabernacles,
O Jehovah of hosts!
²My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of
      Jehovah;
My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.
³Yea, the sparrow hath found her a house,
And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young,
Even thine altars, O Jehovah of hosts,
My King, and my God.
⁴Blessed are they that dwell in thy house:
They will be still praising thee.

Selah

Selah

Psalm 85

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

¹Jehovah, thou hast been favorable unto thy land;
Thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
²Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people;
Thou hast covered all their sin.

Selah

Psalm 86

A Prayer of David

¹Bow down thine ear, O Jehovah, and answer me;
For I am poor and needy.
²Preserve my soul; for I am godly:
O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.
³Be merciful unto me, O Lord;
For unto thee do I cry all the day long.
⁴Rejoice the soul of thy servant;
For unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
⁵For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive,
And abundant in lovingkindness unto all them that call upon thee.
⁶Give ear, O Jehovah, unto my prayer;
And hearken unto the voice of my supplications.
⁷In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee;
For thou wilt answer me.
⁸There is none like unto thee among the gods, O Lord;
Neither [are there any works] like unto thy works.
⁹All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship
      before thee, O Lord;
And they shall glorify thy name.
¹⁰For thou art great, and doest wondrous things:
Thou art God alone.
¹¹Teach me thy way, O Jehovah; I will walk in thy truth:
Unite my heart to fear thy name.
¹²I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart;
And I will glorify thy name for evermore.
¹³For great is thy lovingkindness toward me;
And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
¹⁴O God, the proud are risen up against me,
And a company of violent men have sought after my soul,
And have not set thee before them.
¹⁵But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious,
Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.
¹⁶Oh turn unto me, and have mercy upon me;
Give thy strength unto thy servant,
And save the son of thy handmaid.
¹⁷Show me a token for good,
That they who hate me may see it, and be put to shame,
Because thou, Jehovah, hast helped me, and comforted me.

Psalm 87

A Psalm of the sons of Korah; a Song.

¹His foundation is in the holy mountains.
²Jehovah loveth the gates of Zion
More than all the dwellings of Jacob.
³Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God.

Selah

Selah

Psalm 88

A Song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah; for the Chief Musician;
set to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.

¹O Jehovah, the God of my salvation,
I have cried day and night before thee.
²Let my prayer enter into thy presence;
Incline thine ear unto my cry.
³For my soul is full of troubles,
And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.
⁴I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit;
I am as a man that hath no help,
⁵Cast off among the dead,
Like the slain that lie in the grave,
Whom thou rememberest no more,
And they are cut off from thy hand.
⁶Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit,
In dark places, in the deeps.
⁷Thy wrath lieth hard upon me,
And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves.

Selah

Selah

Psalm 89

Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.

¹I will sing of the lovingkindness of Jehovah for ever:
With my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all
      generations.
²For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever;
Thy faithfulness wilt thou establish in the very heavens.

³I have made a covenant with my chosen,
I have sworn unto David my servant:
⁴Thy seed will I establish for ever,
And build up thy throne to all generations.

Selah

¹⁹Then thou spakest in vision to thy saints,
And saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty;
I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
²⁰I have found David my servant;
With my holy oil have I anointed him:
²¹With whom my hand shall be established;
Mine arm also shall strengthen him.
²²The enemy shall not exact from him,
Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
²³And I will beat down his adversaries before him,
And smite them that hate him.
²⁴But my faithfulness and my lovingkindness shall be with
      him;
And in my name shall his horn be exalted.
²⁵I will set his hand also on the sea,
And his right hand on the rivers.
²⁶He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father,
My God, and the rock of my salvation.
²⁷I also will make him [my] first-born,
The highest of the kings of the earth.
²⁸My lovingkindness will I keep for him for evermore;
And my covenant shall stand fast with him.
²⁹His seed also will I make to endure for ever,
And his throne as the days of heaven.
³⁰If his children forsake my law,
And walk not in mine ordinances;
³¹If they break my statutes,
And keep not my commandments;
³²Then will I visit their transgression with the rod,
And their iniquity with stripes.
³³But my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him,
Nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
³⁴My covenant will I not break,
Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
³⁵Once have I sworn by my holiness:
I will not lie unto David:
³⁶His seed shall endure for ever,
And his throne as the sun before me.
³⁷It shall be established for ever as the moon,
And [as] the faithful witness in the sky.

Selah

³⁸But thou hast cast off and rejected,
Thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
³⁹Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant:
Thou hast profaned his crown [by casting it] to the ground.
⁴⁰Thou hast broken down all his hedges;
Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.
⁴¹All that pass by the way rob him:
He is become a reproach to his neighbors.
⁴²Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries;
Thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
⁴³Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword,
And hast not made him to stand in the battle.
⁴⁴Thou hast made his brightness to cease,
And cast his throne down to the ground.
⁴⁵The days of his youth hast thou shortened:
Thou hast covered him with shame.

Selah

Selah

⁵²Blessed be Jehovah for evermore.
Amen, and Amen.

BOOK IV

Psalm 90

A Prayer of Moses the man of God.

¹Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place
In all generations.
²Before the mountains were brought forth,
Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
³Thou turnest man to destruction,
And sayest, Return, ye children of men.
⁴For a thousand years in thy sight
Are but as yesterday when it is past,
And as a watch in the night.
⁵Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a
      sleep:
In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
⁶In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up;
In the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
⁷For we are consumed in thine anger,
And in thy wrath are we troubled.
⁸Thou hast set our iniquities before thee,
Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
⁹For all our days are passed away in thy wrath:
We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
¹⁰The days of our years are threescore years and ten,
Or even by reason of strength fourscore years;
Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow;
For it is soon gone, and we fly away.
¹¹Who knoweth the power of thine anger,
And thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee?
¹²So teach us to number our days,
That we may get us a heart of wisdom.
¹³Return, O Jehovah; how long?
And let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
¹⁴Oh satisfy us in the morning with thy lovingkindness,
That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
¹⁵Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast
      afflicted us,
And the years wherein we have seen evil.
¹⁶Let thy work appear unto thy servants,
And thy glory upon their children.
¹⁷And let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us;
And establish thou the work of our hands upon us;
Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

Psalm 91

¹He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High
Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
²I will say of Jehovah, He is my refuge and my fortress;
My God, in whom I trust.
³For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler,
And from the deadly pestilence.
⁴He will cover thee with his pinions,
And under his wings shalt thou take refuge:
His truth is a shield and a buckler.
⁵Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night,
Nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
⁶For the pestilence that walketh in darkness,
Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
⁷A thousand shall fall at thy side,
And ten thousand at thy right hand;
[But] it shall not come nigh thee.
⁸Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold,
And see the reward of the wicked.
⁹For thou, O Jehovah, art my refuge!
Thou hast made the Most High thy habitation;
¹⁰There shall no evil befall thee,
Neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent.
¹¹For he will give his angels charge over thee,
To keep thee in all thy ways.
¹²They shall bear thee up in their hands,
Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
¹³Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder:
The young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under foot.
¹⁴Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I
      deliver him:
I will set him on high, because he hath 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 will I satisfy him,
And show him my salvation.

Psalm 92

A Psalm, a Song for the sabbath day.

¹It is a good thing to give thanks unto Jehovah,
And to sing praises unto thy name, O Most High;
²To show forth thy lovingkindness in the morning,
And thy faithfulness every night,
³With an instrument of ten strings, and with the psaltery;
With a solemn sound upon the harp.
⁴For thou, Jehovah, hast made me glad through thy work:
I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
⁵How great are thy works, O Jehovah!
Thy thoughts are very deep.
⁶A brutish man knoweth not;
Neither doth a fool understand this:
⁷When the wicked spring as the grass,
And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish;
It is that they shall be destroyed for ever.
⁸But thou, O Jehovah, art on high for evermore.
⁹For, lo, thine enemies, O Jehovah,
For, lo, thine enemies shall perish;
All the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
¹⁰But my horn hast thou exalted like [the horn of] the
      wild-ox:
I am anointed with fresh oil.
¹¹Mine eye also hath seen [my desire] on mine enemies,
Mine ears have heard [my desire] of the evil-doers that rise up
      against me.
¹²The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree:
He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
¹³They are planted in the house of Jehovah;
They shall flourish in the courts of our God.
¹⁴They shall still bring forth fruit in old age;
They shall be full of sap and green:
¹⁵To show that Jehovah is upright;
He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Psalm 93

¹Jehovah reigneth; he is clothed with majesty;
Jehovah is clothed with strength; he hath girded himself
      therewith:
The world also is established, that it cannot be moved.
²Thy throne is established of old:
Thou art from everlasting.
³The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah,
The floods have lifted up their voice;
The floods lift up their waves.
⁴Above the voices of many waters,
The mighty breakers of the sea,
Jehovah on high is mighty.
⁵Thy testimonies are very sure:
Holiness becometh thy house,
O Jehovah, for evermore.

Psalm 94

¹O Jehovah, thou God to whom vengeance belongeth,
Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, shine forth.
²Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth:
Render to the proud [their] desert.
³Jehovah, how long shall the wicked,
How long shall the wicked triumph?
⁴They prate, they speak arrogantly:
All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.
⁵They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah,
And afflict thy heritage.
⁶They slay the widow and the sojourner,
And murder the fatherless.
⁷And they say, Jehovah will not see,
Neither will the God of Jacob consider.
⁸Consider, ye brutish among the people;
And ye fools, when will ye be wise?
⁹He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?
He that formed the eye, shall he not see?
¹⁰He that chastiseth the nations, shall not he correct,
[Even] he that teacheth man knowledge?
¹¹Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man,
That they are vanity.
¹²Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jehovah,
And teachest out of thy law;
¹³That thou mayest give him rest from the days of
      adversity,
Until the pit be digged for the wicked.
¹⁴For Jehovah will not cast off his people,
Neither will he forsake his inheritance.
¹⁵For judgment shall return unto righteousness;
And all the upright in heart shall follow it.
¹⁶Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers?
Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
¹⁷Unless Jehovah had been my help,
My soul had soon dwelt in silence.
¹⁸When I said, My foot slippeth;
Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, held me up.
¹⁹In the multitude of my thoughts within me Thy comforts
      delight my soul.
²⁰Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee,
Which frameth mischief by statute?
²¹They gather themselves together against the soul of the
      righteous,
And condemn the innocent blood.
²²But Jehovah hath been my high tower,
And my God the rock of my refuge.
²³And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity,
And will cut them off in their own wickedness;
Jehovah our God will cut them off.

Psalm 95

¹Oh come, let us sing unto Jehovah;
Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
²Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving;
Let us make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
³For Jehovah is a great God,
And a great King above all gods.
⁴In his hand are the deep places of the earth;
The heights of the mountains are his also.
⁵The sea is his, and he made it;
And his hands formed the dry land.
⁶Oh come, let us worship and bow down;
Let us kneel before Jehovah our Maker:
⁷For he is our God,
And we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
To-day, oh that ye would hear his voice!
⁸Harden not your heart, as at Meribah,
As in the day of Massah in the wilderness;
⁹When your fathers tempted me,
Proved me, and saw my work.
¹⁰Forty years long was I grieved with [that] generation,
And said, It is a people that do err in their heart,
And they have not known my ways:
¹¹Wherefore I sware in my wrath,
That they should not enter into my rest.

Psalm 96

¹Oh sing unto Jehovah a new song:
Sing unto Jehovah, all the earth.
²Sing unto Jehovah, bless his name;
Show forth his salvation from day to day.
³Declare his glory among the nations,
His marvellous works among all the peoples.
⁴For great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised:
He is to be feared above all gods.
⁵For all the gods of the peoples are idols;
But Jehovah made the heavens.
⁶Honor and majesty are before him:
Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
⁷Ascribe unto Jehovah, ye kindreds of the peoples,
Ascribe unto Jehovah glory and strength.
⁸Ascribe unto Jehovah the glory due unto his name:
Bring an offering, and come into his courts.
⁹Oh worship Jehovah in holy array:
Tremble before him, all the earth.
¹⁰Say among the nations, Jehovah reigneth:
The world also is established that it cannot be moved:
He will judge the peoples with equity.
¹¹Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;
Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof;
¹²Let the field exult, and all that is therein;
Then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy
¹³Before Jehovah; for he cometh,
For he cometh to judge the earth:
He will judge the world with righteousness,
And the peoples with his truth.

Psalm 97

¹Jehovah reigneth; let the earth rejoice;
Let the multitude of isles be glad.
²Clouds and darkness are round about him:
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
³A fire goeth before him,
And burneth up his adversaries round about.
⁴His lightnings lightened the world:
The earth saw, and trembled.
⁵The mountains melted like wax at the presence of Jehovah,
At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
⁶The heavens declare his righteousness,
And all the peoples have seen his glory.
⁷Let all them be put to shame that serve graven images,
That boast themselves of idols:
Worship him, all ye gods.
⁸Zion heard and was glad,
And the daughters of Judah rejoiced,
Because of thy judgments, O Jehovah.
⁹For thou, Jehovah, art most high above all the earth:
Thou art exalted far above all gods.
¹⁰O ye that love Jehovah, hate evil:
He preserveth the souls of his saints;
He delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
¹¹Light is sown for the righteous,
And gladness for the upright in heart.
¹²Be glad in Jehovah, ye righteous;
And give thanks to his holy memorial [name].

Psalm 98

A Psalm.

¹Oh sing unto Jehovah a new song;
For he hath done marvellous things:
His right hand, and his holy arm, hath wrought salvation for him.
²Jehovah hath made known his salvation:
His righteousness hath he openly showed in the sight of the
      nations.
³He hath remembered his lovingkindness and his
      faithfulness toward the house of Israel:
All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
⁴Make a joyful noise unto Jehovah, all the earth:
Break forth and sing for joy, yea, sing praises.
⁵Sing praises unto Jehovah with the harp;
With the harp and the voice of melody.
⁶With trumpets and sound of cornet
Make a joyful noise before the King, Jehovah.
⁷Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof;
The world, and they that dwell therein;
⁸Let the floods clap their hands;
Let the hills sing for joy together
⁹Before Jehovah; for he cometh to judge the earth:
He will judge the world with righteousness,
And the peoples with equity.

Psalm 99

¹Jehovah reigneth; let the peoples tremble:
He sitteth [above] the cherubim; let the earth be moved.
²Jehovah is great in Zion;
And he is high above all the peoples.
³Let them praise thy great and terrible name:
Holy is he.

⁴The king's strength also loveth justice;
Thou dost establish equity;
Thou executest justice and righteousness in Jacob.
⁵Exalt ye Jehovah our God,
And worship at his footstool:
Holy is he.

⁶Moses and Aaron among his priests,
And Samuel among them that call upon his name;
They called upon Jehovah, and he answered them.
⁷He spake unto them in the pillar of cloud:
They kept his testimonies,
And the statute that he gave them.
⁸Thou answeredst them, O Jehovah our God:
Thou wast a God that forgavest them,
Though thou tookest vengeance of their doings.
⁹Exalt ye Jehovah our God,
And worship at his holy hill;
For Jehovah our God is holy.

Psalm 100

A Psalm of thanksgiving.

¹Make a joyful noise unto Jehovah, all ye lands.
²Serve Jehovah with gladness:
Come before his presence with singing.
³Know ye that Jehovah, he is God:
It is he that hath made us, and we are his;
We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
⁴Enter into his gates with thanksgiving,
And into his courts with praise:
Give thanks unto him, and bless his name.
⁵For Jehovah is good; his lovingkindness [endureth] for
      ever,
And his faithfulness unto all generations.

Psalm 101

A Psalm of David.

¹I will sing of lovingkindness and justice:
Unto thee, O Jehovah, will I sing praises.
²I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way:
Oh when wilt thou come unto me?
I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
³I will set no base thing before mine eyes:
I hate the work of them that turn aside;
It shall not cleave unto me.
⁴A perverse heart shall depart from me:
I will know no evil thing.
⁵Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I
      destroy:
Him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.
⁶Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that
      they may dwell with me:
He that walketh in a perfect way, he shall minister unto me.
⁷He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house:
He that speaketh falsehood shall not be established before mine
      eyes.
⁸Morning by morning will I destroy all the wicked of the
      land;
To cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of Jehovah.

Psalm 102

A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and
poureth out his complaint before Jehovah.

¹Hear my prayer, O Jehovah,
And let my cry come unto thee.
²Hide not thy face from me in the day of my distress:
Incline thine ear unto me;
In the day when I call answer me speedily.
³For my days consume away like smoke,
And my bones are burned as a firebrand.
⁴My heart is smitten like grass, and withered;
For I forget to eat my bread.
⁵By reason of the voice of my groaning
My bones cleave to my flesh.
⁶I am like a pelican of the wilderness;
I am become as an owl of the waste places.
⁷I watch, and am become like a sparrow
That is alone upon the house-top.
⁸Mine enemies reproach me all the day;
They that are mad against me do curse by me.
⁹For I have eaten ashes like bread,
And mingled my drink with weeping,
¹⁰Because of thine indignation and thy wrath:
For thou hast taken me up, and cast me away.
¹¹My days are like a shadow that declineth;
And I am withered like grass.

¹²But thou, O Jehovah, wilt abide for ever;
And thy memorial [name] unto all generations.
¹³Thou wilt arise, and have mercy upon Zion;
For it is time to have pity upon her,
Yea, the set time is come.
¹⁴For thy servants take pleasure in her stones,
And have pity upon her dust.
¹⁵So the nations shall fear the name of Jehovah,
And all the kings of the earth thy glory.
¹⁶For Jehovah hath built up Zion;
He hath appeared in his glory.
¹⁷He hath regarded the prayer of the destitute,
And hath not despised their prayer.
¹⁸This shall be written for the generation to come;
And a people which shall be created shall praise Jehovah.
¹⁹For he hath looked down from the height of his
      sanctuary;
From heaven did Jehovah behold the earth;
²⁰To hear the sighing of the prisoner;
To loose those that are appointed to death;
²¹That men may declare the name of Jehovah in Zion,
And his praise in Jerusalem;
²²When the peoples are gathered together,
And the kingdoms, to serve Jehovah.

²³He weakened my strength in the way;
He shortened my days.
²⁴I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my
      days:
Thy years are throughout all generations.
²⁵Of old didst thou lay the foundation of the earth;
And the heavens are the work of thy hands.
²⁶They 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:
²⁷But thou art the same,
And thy years shall have no end.
²⁸The children of thy servants shall continue,
And their seed shall be established before thee.

Psalm 103

[A Psalm] of David.

¹Bless Jehovah, O my soul;
And all that is within me, [bless] his holy name.
²Bless Jehovah, O my soul,
And forget not all his benefits:
³Who forgiveth all thine iniquities;
Who healeth all thy diseases;
⁴Who redeemeth thy life from destruction;
Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
⁵Who satisfieth thy desire with good things,
[So that] thy youth is renewed like the eagle.
⁶Jehovah executeth righteous acts,
And judgments for all that are oppressed.
⁷He made known his ways unto Moses,
His doings unto the children of Israel.
⁸Jehovah is merciful and gracious,
Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness.
⁹He will not always chide;
Neither will he keep [his anger] for ever.
¹⁰He hath not dealt with us after our sins,
Nor rewarded us after our iniquities.
¹¹For as the heavens are high above the earth,
So great is his lovingkindness toward them that fear him.
¹²As far as the east is from the west,
So far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
¹³Like as a father pitieth his children,
So Jehovah pitieth them that fear him.
¹⁴For he knoweth our frame;
He remembereth that we are dust.
¹⁵As for man, his days are as grass;
As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
¹⁶For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone;
And the place thereof shall know it no more.
¹⁷But the lovingkindness of Jehovah is from everlasting
      to everlasting upon them that fear him,
And his righteousness unto children's children;
¹⁸To such as keep his covenant,
And to those that remember his precepts to do them.
¹⁹Jehovah hath established his throne in the heavens;
And his kingdom ruleth over all.
²⁰Bless Jehovah, ye his angels,
That are mighty in strength, that fulfil his word,
Hearkening unto the voice of his word.
²¹Bless Jehovah, all ye his hosts,
Ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.
²²Bless Jehovah, all ye his works,
In all places of his dominion:
Bless Jehovah, O my soul.