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| A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah. His
foundation is in the holy mountains. |
| The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the
dwellings of Jacob. |
| Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God.
Selah. |
| I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them
that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was
born there. |
| And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was
born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her. |
| The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people,
that this man was born there. Selah. |
| As well the singers as the players on instruments
shall be there: all my springs are in thee. |
| A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief
Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD
God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: |
| Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear
unto my cry; |
| For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth
nigh unto the grave. |
| I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I
am as a man that hath no strength: |
| Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the
grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy
hand. |
| Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in
the deeps. |
| Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast
afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. |
| Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me;
thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot
come forth. |
| Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I
have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee. |
| Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? shall the dead
arise and praise thee? Selah. |
| Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave?
or thy faithfulness in destruction? |
| Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy
righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? |
| But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the
morning shall my prayer prevent thee. |
| LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou
thy face from me? |
| I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up:
while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. |
| Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut
me off. |
| They came round about me daily like water; they
compassed me about together. |
| Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine
acquaintance into darkness. |
| Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the
mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy
faithfulness to all generations. |
| For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever:
thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens. |
| I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn
unto David my servant, |
| Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy
throne to all generations. Selah. |
| And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD:
thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. |
| For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD?
who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD? |
| God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the
saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. |
| O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto
thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee? |
| Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves
thereof arise, thou stillest them. |
| Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is
slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm. |
| The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as
for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. |
| The north and the south thou hast created them:
Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. |
| Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high
is thy right hand. |
| Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy
throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face. |
| Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound:
they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance. |
| In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in
thy righteousness shall they be exalted. |
| For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy
favour our horn shall be exalted. |
| For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of
Israel is our king. |
| Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and
saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one
chosen out of the people. |
| I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have
I anointed him: |
| With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm
also shall strengthen him. |
| The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of
wickedness afflict him. |
| And I will beat down his foes before his face, and
plague them that hate him. |
| But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him:
and in my name shall his horn be exalted. |
| I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right
hand in the rivers. |
| He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God,
and the rock of my salvation. |
| Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the
kings of the earth. |
| My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my
covenant shall stand fast with him. |
| His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and
his throne as the days of heaven. |
| If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my
judgments; |
| If they break my statutes, and keep not my
commandments; |
| Then will I visit their transgression with the rod,
and their iniquity with stripes. |
| Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly
take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. |
| My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing
that is gone out of my lips. |
| Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie
unto David. |
| His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as
the sun before me. |
| It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as
a faithful witness in heaven. Selah. |
| But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been
wroth with thine anointed. |
| Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant:
thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. |
| Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast
brought his strong holds to ruin. |
| All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach
to his neighbours. |
| Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries;
thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. |
| Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and
hast not made him to stand in the battle. |
| Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his
throne down to the ground. |
| The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast
covered him with shame. Selah. |
| How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever?
shall thy wrath burn like fire? |
| Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou
made all men in vain? |
| What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death?
shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah. |
| Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which
thou swarest unto David in thy truth? |
| Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I
do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people; |
| Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD;
wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed. |
| Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen. |
| A Prayer of Moses the man of God. LORD, thou hast
been our dwelling place in all generations. |
| Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever
thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to
everlasting, thou art God. |
| Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return,
ye children of men. |
| For a thousand years in thy sight are but as
yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. |
| Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as
a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. |
| In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in
the evening it is cut down, and withereth. |
| For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath
are we troubled. |
| Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret
sins in the light of thy countenance. |
| For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we
spend our years as a tale that is told. |
| The days of our years are threescore years and ten;
and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their
strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. |
| Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according
to thy fear, so is thy wrath. |
| So teach us to number our days, that we may apply
our hearts unto wisdom. |
| Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee
concerning thy servants. |
| O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may
rejoice and be glad all our days. |
| Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast
afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. |
| Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory
unto their children. |
| And let the beauty 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. |
| He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most
High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. |
| I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my
fortress: my God; in him will I trust. |
| Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the
fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. |
| He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his
wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. |
| Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night;
nor for the arrow that flieth by day; |
| Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor
for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. |
| A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand
at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. |
| Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the
reward of the wicked. |
| Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge,
even the most High, thy habitation; |
| There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any
plague come nigh thy dwelling. |
| For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to
keep thee in all thy ways. |
| They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou
dash thy foot against a stone. |
| Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young
lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. |
| Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will
I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. |
| He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will
be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. |
| With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my
salvation. |
| A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day. It is a good
thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O
most High: |
| To show forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and
thy faithfulness every night, |
| Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the
psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound. |
| For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work:
I will triumph in the works of thy hands. |
| O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts
are very deep. |
| A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool
understand this. |
| When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all
the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed
for ever: |
| But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore. |
| For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine
enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. |
| But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an
unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil. |
| Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies,
and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against
me. |
| The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he
shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. |
| Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall
flourish in the courts of our God. |
| They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they
shall be fat and flourishing; |
| To show that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and
there is no unrighteousness in him. |
| The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the
LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the
world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved. |
| Thy throne is established of old: thou art from
everlasting. |
| The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have
lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. |
| The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many
waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. |
| Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh
thine house, O LORD, for ever. |
| O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to
whom vengeance belongeth, show thyself. |
| Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a
reward to the proud. |
| LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the
wicked triumph? |
| How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and
all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? |
| They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict
thine heritage. |
| They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the
fatherless. |
| Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall
the God of Jacob regard it. |
| Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye
fools, when will ye be wise? |
| He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that
formed the eye, shall he not see? |
| He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he
correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know? |
| The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are
vanity. |
| Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and
teachest him out of thy law; |
| That thou mayest give him rest from the days of
adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked. |
| For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither
will he forsake his inheritance. |
| But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and
all the upright in heart shall follow it. |
| Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or
who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? |
| Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost
dwelt in silence. |
| When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD,
held me up. |
| In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy
comforts delight my soul. |
| Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with
thee, which frameth mischief by a law? |
| They gather themselves together against the soul of
the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. |
| But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock
of my refuge. |
| And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and
shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall
cut them off. |
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