David prayeth PSALM VI. PSALMS. against his enemies. [righteousness, and according to mine. To the chief Musician on Neginoth integrity that is in me. upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David. 9 Oh let the wickedness of the wick LORD, rebuke me not in thine ed come to an end: but establish the anger, neither chasten me in thy just: for the righteous God trieth the hot displeasure. heart and reins. 2 Have mercy upon me, O Lond; for I am weak: 0 LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. 3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O Lond, how long? 10 My defence is of God,which saveth the upright in heart. 11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day. 12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and 4 Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: 61am weary with my groaning: all 8 Depart from me all ye workers of iniquity; for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping. 13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; be ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors. 14 Behold, he travaileth_with quity, and bath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. ini 15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. 16 His mischief'shall return upon his own bead, and his violent dealings shall come down upon his own pate. 9 The Lono bath heard my supplica 17 1 will praise the LORD according tion; the LORD will receive my prayer. to his righteousness: and will sing 10 Let all mine enemies be ashamed praise to the name of the LORD most and sore vexed: let them return and high. be ashamed suddenly. PSALM VII. Shiggaion of David, which he sang LORD, unto the Lord, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite. LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me: 2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver. 3 O LORD my God, if I have done this: if there be iniquity in my hands: 4 If I have awarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy;) 5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selahi. 6 Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself,because of the rage of mine enemies; and awake for me to the Judgment that thou hast commanded. 7 So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high. PSALM VIII. ¶ To the chief Musician upon Gittith, hast set thy glory above the heavens. 3 When I consider thy heavens, the 5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels,and hast crowned him with glory and honour. 6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: 7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; 8The fowl of the air,and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. 8 The Lond shall judge the people: 9 O LORD our Lord,how excellent i judge me, O Lond, according to my thy name in all the earth! He praiseth I PSALM IX. PSALMS God's judgments. 18 For the needy shall not always bo To the chief Musician upon Muth-forgotten: the expectation of the poor Jabben, A Psalm of David. shall not perish for ever WILL praise thee, O LORD, with 19 Arise, O LORD; let not man pre my whole heart; I will show forth|vail: let the heathen be judged in thy all thy marvellous works. sight. 21 will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou Most High. 3 When mine enemies are turned 20 Put them in fear, O LORD: thet the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah. PSALM X. back, they shall fall and perish at thy WD why hidest thou thyself WHY standest thou afar off, 0 presence. 4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou sattest in the throne judging right. 5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever. Lond? in times of trouble? 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. 3 For the wicked boasteth of hig heart's desire, and blesseth the cov jetous, whom the Lond abhorreth. 4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. 5 His ways are always grievous; thy 7 But the LORD shall endure for ever: judgments are far above out of his he bath prepared his throne for judg-sight: as for all his enemies,he puffeth ment; 6 0 thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them. at them. 8 And he shall judge the world in 6 He hath said in his heart, I shall righteousness, he shall minister judg-not be moved: for I shall never be in ment to the people in uprightness. 9 The Lond also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. 10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD,hast not forsaken them that seek thee. 11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings. 12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, be remembereth them; he forgetteth not the cry of the humble. 13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death : 14 That I may show forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation. 15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. 16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. adversity. 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and frand: under his tongue is mischief and vanity. 8 He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. 9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. 10 He croucheth, and humbleth bimself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones. 11 He hath said in his heart, Goa hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it. 12 Arise, O Lond; O God, lift up thy hand: forget not the humble. 13 Wherefore doth the wicked con temn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. 14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless. 16 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out the wick Jedness till thou find none. PSALMS. The corruption 16 The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of this land, 17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear; of a natural man. 7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORE thou, balt preserve them from this generation for ever. 8 The wicked walk on every side when the vilest men are exalted. PSALM XIII. T To the chief Musician, A Psalm of 18 To judge the fatherless and the op- no more oppress. thou hide thy face from me? 2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over mè ? 3 Consider and hear me, O Loar my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; 4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble ine rejoice when I am moved. 5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. 6 I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me. PSALM XIV. 5 The Lond trieth the righteous: but T To the chief Musician, A Psalm of the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. David. damn his heart. 6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrupt, they have done abominable rible tempest: this shall be the portion works, there is none that doeth good. of their cup. 2 The Lond looked down from hea 7 For the righteous LORD loveth right-ven upon the children of men, to see if cousness; his countenance doth behold the upright. PSALM XII. To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David. HELP, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. 2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. 3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things: 4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own who is lord over us? 5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him un safety from him that puffeth at him. there were any that did understand, and seek God. 3 They are all gone aside,they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 40wledge? wh work up of iniquity as 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD. 5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the right 6 The words of the Lono are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace d'holy hill ? earth, purified seren times. 2 He that walketh uprightly, und of his enemies. worketh righteousness, and speaketh 3 Thou hast proved my heart; thou the truth in his heart. hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am pus posed that my mouth shall not transgress. 3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue,nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour. 4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the Lond. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not. 5 He that potteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against ne inuocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved. PSALM XVI. 4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I bave kept me from the paths of the destroyer. 5 Hold up my goings in thy pathe, that my footsteps slip not. 6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God; incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech. 7 Show thy marvellous loving-kindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them, T Michtam of David. RESERVE me, O God; for in thee do I put my trust. 20 my soul, thou hast said unto the 8 Keep me as the apple of the eye; LORD, Thou art my LouD: my good-hide me under the shadow of thy ness extendeth not to thee; wings, 3 But to the saints that are in the 9 From the wicked that oppress me, earth, and to the excellent, in whom is from ny deadly enemies, who comall my delight. pass me about. 4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god their drink-offerings of blood will I not of fer, nor take up their names into my lips. 5 The LORD is the portion of mine nheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. 6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. 7 will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also in struct me in the night seasons. 10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly. 11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth; 12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. 13 Arise, O Lonu, disappoint him, cast him down deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword: 14 From men which are thy hand, LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, 9 Therefore my heart is glad, and fand leave the rest of their substance my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also to their babes. shall rest in hope. 81 have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, 1 shall not be moved. 10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thy Holy One to see corruption. 11 Thou wilt show me the path of life; in thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. PSALM XVII. TA Prayer of David. H EAR the right,OLORD,attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. 2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the Jings that are equal. 15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. PSALM XVIIL T To the chief Musician, A Psalm of I. for 2 The Lono is my rock, and my tress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom 1 will trust; my David praiseth God PSALMS. for his manifold blessings. vuckler, and the horn of my salvation, to my righteousness; according to the and my high tower. cleanness of my hands hath he recom 3 I will call upon the LonD, who is pensed me. 4 The sorrows of death compassed[ed from my God. 5 The sorrows of bell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented] me. 6 In my distress 1 called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God be heard my voice cut of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. 7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. 8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. 9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down : and darkness was under his feet. 22 For all be judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me. 23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity. 24 Therefore hath the Load recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eye-sight. 25 With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful: with an upright man thou wilt show thyself upright; 26 With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt show thyself froward. 27 For thou wilt save the aflicted people; but wilt bring down high look 9. 28 For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my 10 And he rode upon a cherub, andļdarkness. did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. 11 He made darkness his secret place; bis pavilion round about him vere dark waters and thick clouds of the Bkies. 12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed,hail-stones and coals of fire. 13 The Lond also thundered in the beavens, and the Highest gave bis voice; hail-stones and coals of fire. 14 Yea, he sent out bis arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them. 29 For by thee 1 have run through a troop; and by my God have 1 leaped over a wall. 30 As for God, his way is perfect. the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him. 31 For who is God save the Lond? or who is a rock save our God? 32 It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh iny way perfect. 33 He maketh my feet like hinds' feer, and setteth me upon my high places. 34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. 15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world 35 Thou hast also given me the shield were discovered at thy rebuke, Olof thy salvation; and thy right hand LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy hath holden me up, and thy gentleness nostrils. hath made me great. 16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. 17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me for they were too strong for me. 18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity but the LORD was my stay. 19 He brought me forth also into a arge place; he delivered me, because De delighted in me. 36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under 39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle thou hast subdued under me those that rose up 20 The Lono rewarded me according against me. |