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Psalms
| To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of
David. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my
tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before
me. |
| I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from
good; and my sorrow was stirred. |
| My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the
fire burned: then spake I with my tongue, |
| LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of
my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. |
| Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth;
and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best
state is altogether vanity. Selah. |
| Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they
are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall
gather them. |
| And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. |
| Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not
the reproach of the foolish. |
| I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou
didst it. |
| Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the
blow of thine hand. |
| When thou with rebukes dost correct man for
iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely
every man is vanity. Selah. |
| Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry;
hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a
sojourner, as all my fathers were. |
| O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go
hence, and be no more. |
| To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. I waited
patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. |
| He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of
the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. |
| And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise
unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD. |
| Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust,
and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. |
| Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which
thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be
reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them,
they are more than can be numbered. |
| Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine
ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not
required. |
| Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book
it is written of me, |
| I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is
within my heart. |
| I have preached righteousness in the great
congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest. |
| I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I
have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed
thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation. |
| Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O
LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me. |
| For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine
iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up;
they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth
me. |
| Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make
haste to help me. |
| Let them be ashamed and confounded together that
seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to
shame that wish me evil. |
| Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame
that say unto me, Aha, aha. |
| Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in
thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be
magnified. |
| But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon
me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God. |
| To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Blessed is
he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of
trouble. |
| The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and
he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto
the will of his enemies. |
| The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of
languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. |
| I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for
I have sinned against thee. |
| Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die,
and his name perish? |
| And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his
heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it. |
| All that hate me whisper together against me:
against me do they devise my hurt. |
| An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him:
and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more. |
| Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted,
which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. |
| But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me
up, that I may requite them. |
| By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine
enemy doth not triumph over me. |
| And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity,
and settest me before thy face for ever. |
| Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting,
and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen. |
| To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of
Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul
after thee, O God. |
| My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when
shall I come and appear before God? |
| My tears have been my meat day and night, while they
continually say unto me, Where is thy God? |
| When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in
me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of
God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept
holyday. |
| Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou
disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the
help of his countenance. |
| O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore
will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites,
from the hill Mizar. |
| Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy
waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. |
| Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the
daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto
the God of my life. |
| I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten
me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? |
| As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach
me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God? |
| Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou
disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who
is the health of my countenance, and my God. |
| Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an
ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. |
| For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou
cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? |
| O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead
me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. |
| Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my
exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God. |
| Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou
disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is
the health of my countenance, and my God. |
| To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.
We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work
thou didst in their days, in the times of old. |
| How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand,
and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them
out. |
| For they got not the land in possession by their own
sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and
thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour
unto them. |
| Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for
Jacob. |
| Through thee will we push down our enemies: through
thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. |
| For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my
sword save me. |
| But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast
put them to shame that hated us. |
| In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy
name for ever. Selah. |
| But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and
goest not forth with our armies. |
| Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they
which hate us spoil for themselves. |
| Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat;
and hast scattered us among the heathen. |
| Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not
increase thy wealth by their price. |
| Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn
and a derision to them that are round about us. |
| Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking
of the head among the people. |
| My confusion is continually before me, and the shame
of my face hath covered me, |
| For the voice of him that reproacheth and
blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger. |
| All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten
thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. |
| Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps
declined from thy way; |
| Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of
dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. |
| If we have forgotten the name of our God, or
stretched out our hands to a strange god; |
| Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the
secrets of the heart. |
| Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we
are counted as sheep for the slaughter. |
| Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not
off for ever. |
| Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our
affliction and our oppression? |
| For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly
cleaveth unto the earth. |
| Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies'
sake. |
| To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons
of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves. My heart is inditing a good matter:
I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is
the pen of a ready writer. |
| Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is
poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. |
| Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with
thy glory and thy majesty. |
| And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of
truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach
thee terrible things. |
| Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's
enemies; whereby the people fall under thee. |
| Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre
of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. |
| Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness:
therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness
above thy fellows. |
| All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and
cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad. |
| Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women:
upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir. |
| Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine
ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house; |
| So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he
is thy Lord; and worship thou him. |
| And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift;
even the rich among the people shall entreat thy favour. |
| The king's daughter is all glorious within: her
clothing is of wrought gold. |
| She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of
needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought
unto thee. |
| With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought:
they shall enter into the king's palace. |
| Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom
thou mayest make princes in all the earth. |
| I will make thy name to be remembered in all
generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever. |
| To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song
upon Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in
trouble. |
| Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be
removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; |
| Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,
though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah. |
| There is a river, the streams whereof shall make
glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most
High. |
| God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved:
God shall help her, and that right early. |
| The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he
uttered his voice, the earth melted. |
| The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is
our refuge. Selah. |
| Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations
he hath made in the earth. |
| He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth;
he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the
chariot in the fire. |
| Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted
among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. |
| The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is
our refuge. Selah. |
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