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Psalms
| In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be
put to confusion. |
| Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to
escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me. |
| Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may
continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art
my rock and my fortress. |
| Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked,
out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. |
| For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust
from my youth. |
| By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou
art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be
continually of thee. |
| I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong
refuge. |
| Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy
honour all the day. |
| Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me
not when my strength faileth. |
| For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay
wait for my soul take counsel together, |
| Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take
him; for there is none to deliver him. |
| O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for
my help. |
| Let them be confounded and consumed that are
adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour
that seek my hurt. |
| But I will hope continually, and will yet praise
thee more and more. |
| My mouth shall show forth thy righteousness and thy
salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof. |
| I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will
make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only. |
| O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and
hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. |
| Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God,
forsake me not; until I have showed thy strength unto this generation,
and thy power to every one that is to come. |
| Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who
hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee! |
| Thou, which hast showed me great and sore troubles,
shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of
the earth. |
| Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on
every side. |
| I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy
truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of
Israel. |
| My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee;
and my soul, which thou hast redeemed. |
| My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all
the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame,
that seek my hurt. |
| A Psalm for Solomon. Give the king thy judgments, O
God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son. |
| He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and
thy poor with judgment. |
| The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and
the little hills, by righteousness. |
| He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save
the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor. |
| They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon
endure, throughout all generations. |
| He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as
showers that water the earth. |
| In his days shall the righteous flourish; and
abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth. |
| He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and
from the river unto the ends of the earth. |
| They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before
him; and his enemies shall lick the dust. |
| The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring
presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. |
| Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all
nations shall serve him. |
| For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the
poor also, and him that hath no helper. |
| He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save
the souls of the needy. |
| He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence:
and precious shall their blood be in his sight. |
| And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the
gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily
shall he be praised. |
| There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon
the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon:
and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth. |
| His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be
continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all
nations shall call him blessed. |
| Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only
doeth wondrous things. |
| And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let
the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen. |
| The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended. |
| A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, even
to such as are of a clean heart. |
| But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps
had well nigh slipped. |
| For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the
prosperity of the wicked. |
| For there are no bands in their death: but their
strength is firm. |
| They are not in trouble as other men; neither are
they plagued like other men. |
| Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain;
violence covereth them as a garment. |
| Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more
than heart could wish. |
| They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning
oppression: they speak loftily. |
| They set their mouth against the heavens, and their
tongue walketh through the earth. |
| Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a
full cup are wrung out to them. |
| And they say, How doth God know? and is there
knowledge in the most High? |
| Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the
world; they increase in riches. |
| Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed
my hands in innocency. |
| For all the day long have I been plagued, and
chastened every morning. |
| If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend
against the generation of thy children. |
| When I thought to know this, it was too painful for
me; |
| Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then
understood I their end. |
| Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou
castedst them down into destruction. |
| How are they brought into desolation, as in a
moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. |
| As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou
awakest, thou shalt despise their image. |
| Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my
reins. |
| So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast
before thee. |
| Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast
holden me by my right hand. |
| Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward
receive me to glory. |
| Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none
upon earth that I desire beside thee. |
| My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the
strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. |
| For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish:
thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee. |
| But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have
put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works. |
| Maschil of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off
for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? |
| Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased
of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this
mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. |
| Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations;
even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. |
| Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy
congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs. |
| A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes
upon the thick trees. |
| But now they break down the carved work thereof at
once with axes and hammers. |
| They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have
defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground. |
| They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them
together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. |
| We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet:
neither is there among us any that knoweth how long. |
| O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall
the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? |
| Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand?
pluck it out of thy bosom. |
| For God is my King of old, working salvation in the
midst of the earth. |
| Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou
brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. |
| Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and
gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. |
| Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou
driedst up mighty rivers. |
| The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast
prepared the light and the sun. |
| Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou
hast made summer and winter. |
| Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O
LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. |
| O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the
multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for
ever. |
| Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places
of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. |
| O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor
and needy praise thy name. |
| Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how
the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. |
| Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of
those that rise up against thee increaseth continually. |
| To the chief Musician, Altaschith, A Psalm or Song
of Asaph. Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give
thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare. |
| When I shall receive the congregation I will judge
uprightly. |
| The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are
dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah. |
| I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to
the wicked, Lift not up the horn: |
| Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a
stiff neck. |
| For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from
the west, nor from the south. |
| But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and
setteth up another. |
| For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the
wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but
the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and
drink them. |
| But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to
the God of Jacob. |
| All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but
the horns of the righteous shall be exalted. |
| To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song
of Asaph. In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel. |
| In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling
place in Zion. |
| There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield,
and the sword, and the battle. Selah. |
| Thou art more glorious and excellent than the
mountains of prey. |
| The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their
sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands. |
| At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and
horse are cast into a dead sleep. |
| Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand
in thy sight when once thou art angry? |
| Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven;
the earth feared, and was still, |
| When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of
the earth. Selah. |
| Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the
remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain. |
| Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be
round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared. |
| He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is
terrible to the kings of the earth. |
| To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph.
I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave
ear unto me. |
| In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore
ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. |
| I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained,
and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. |
| Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that
I cannot speak. |
| I have considered the days of old, the years of
ancient times. |
| I call to remembrance my song in the night: I
commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. |
| Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be
favourable no more? |
| Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise
fail for evermore? |
| Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger
shut up his tender mercies? Selah. |
| And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will
remember the years of the right hand of the most High. |
| I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will
remember thy wonders of old. |
| I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of
thy doings. |
| Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great
a God as our God? |
| Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast
declared thy strength among the people. |
| Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the
sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah. |
| The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee;
they were afraid: the depths also were troubled. |
| The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a
sound: thine arrows also went abroad. |
| The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the
lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. |
| Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great
waters, and thy footsteps are not known. |
| Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of
Moses and Aaron. |
| Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law:
incline your ears to the words of my mouth. |
| I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark
sayings of old: |
| Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have
told us. |
| We will not hide them from their children, showing
to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and
his wonderful works that he hath done. |
| For he established a testimony in Jacob, and
appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they
should make them known to their children: |
| That the generation to come might know them, even
the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to
their children: |
| That they might set their hope in God, and not
forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: |
| And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and
rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and
whose spirit was not stedfast with God. |
| The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying
bows, turned back in the day of battle. |
| They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to
walk in his law; |
| And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had
showed them. |
| Marvellous things did he in the sight of their
fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. |
| He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through;
and he made the waters to stand as an heap. |
| In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and
all the night with a light of fire. |
| He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them
drink as out of the great depths. |
| He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused
waters to run down like rivers. |
| And they sinned yet more against him by provoking
the most High in the wilderness. |
| And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat
for their lust. |
| Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God
furnish a table in the wilderness? |
| Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed
out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide
flesh for his people? |
| Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a
fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel; |
| Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in
his salvation: |
| Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and
opened the doors of heaven, |
| And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had
given them of the corn of heaven. |
| Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the
full. |
| He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by
his power he brought in the south wind. |
| He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and
feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: |
| And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round
about their habitations. |
| So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave
them their own desire; |
| They were not estranged from their lust. But while
their meat was yet in their mouths, |
| The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the
fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel. |
| For all this they sinned still, and believed not for
his wondrous works. |
| Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and
their years in trouble. |
| When he slew them, then they sought him: and they
returned and inquired early after God. |
| And they remembered that God was their rock, and the
high God their redeemer. |
| Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth,
and they lied unto him with their tongues. |
| For their heart was not right with him, neither were
they stedfast in his covenant. |
| But he, being full of compassion, forgave their
iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger
away, and did not stir up all his wrath. |
| For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind
that passeth away, and cometh not again. |
| How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and
grieve him in the desert! |
| Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited
the Holy One of Israel. |
| They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he
delivered them from the enemy. |
| How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his
wonders in the field of Zoan: |
| And had turned their rivers into blood; and their
floods, that they could not drink. |
| He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which
devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. |
| He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar,
and their labour unto the locust. |
| He destroyed their vines with hail, and their
sycamore trees with frost. |
| He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their
flocks to hot thunderbolts. |
| He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger,
wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. |
| He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul
from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; |
| And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of
their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: |
| But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and
guided them in the wilderness like a flock. |
| And he led them on safely, so that they feared not:
but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. |
| And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary,
even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased. |
| He cast out the heathen also before them, and
divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to
dwell in their tents. |
| Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and
kept not his testimonies: |
| But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their
fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. |
| For they provoked him to anger with their high
places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. |
| When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly
abhorred Israel: |
| So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the
tent which he placed among men; |
| And delivered his strength into captivity, and his
glory into the enemy's hand. |
| He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was
wroth with his inheritance. |
| The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens
were not given to marriage. |
| Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows
made no lamentation. |
| Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a
mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. |
| And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put
them to a perpetual reproach. |
| Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and
chose not the tribe of Ephraim: |
| But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which
he loved. |
| And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like
the earth which he hath established for ever. |
| He chose David also his servant, and took him from
the sheepfolds: |
| From following the ewes great with young he brought
him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. |
| So he fed them according to the integrity of his
heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. |
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