of the enemy: thou hast set my foot in a large room. 9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. 10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed. God's goodness to be praised. 5 I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. 6 For this shall every one that is godly, pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. 11 I was a reproach among all mine 7 Thou art my hiding-place; thou shalt enemies, but especially among my neigh-preserve me from trouble; thou shalt combours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: pass me about with songs of deliverance. they that did see me without fled from me. Selah. 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of 8 I will instruct thee, and teach thee in mind: I am like a broken vessel. the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. 13 For I have heard the slander of many fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life. 9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, 14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: Ilest they come near unto thee. said, Thou art my God. 10 Many sorrows shall be to the wick 15 My times are in thy hand: deliver ed: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy me from the hand of mine enemies, and shall compass him about. from them that persecute me. 16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant save me for thy mercies' sake. 11 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart. 17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for PSALM XXXIII. I have called upon thee : let the wicked befor praise is comely for the upright. DEJOICE in the LORD, O ye righteous: ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave. 18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous. 19 Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! 20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues. 2 Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. 3 Sing unto him a new song; play skil fully with a loud noise. 4 For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth. 5 He loveth righteousness and judg ment: the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. 6 By the word of the LORD were the 21 Blessed be the LORD: for he hath heavens made; and all the host of them by shewed me his marvellous kindness in a the breath of his mouth. strong city. 7 He gathereth the waters of the sea to22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off gether as a heap: he layeth up the depth from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou in store-houses. heardest the voice of my supplications 8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all when I cried unto thee. the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. 230 love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer. 24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD. B PSALM XXXII. 9 For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast. 10 The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. 11 The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all TA Psalm of David, Maschil. LESSED is he whose transgression is generations. forgiven, whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. 3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. 13 The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men. 14 From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth. 15 He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works., The privileges of the godly. PSALMS. David prays for God's assistance. 19 Many are the afflictions of the right 16 There is no king saved by the multitude of a host: a mighty man is not de-eous: but the LORD delivereth him out of livered by much strength. them all. 17 A horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength. 18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; 19 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. 20 Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield. 21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. 22 Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee. PSALM XXXIV. A Psalm of David when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed. WILL bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. 2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. 30 magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. 4 I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. 20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken. 21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. 22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate. PSALM XXXV. TA Psalm of David. PLEAD my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. 2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help. 3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. 4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul. let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt. 5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them. 6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them. 7 For without cause have they hid for 5 They looked unto him, and were light-me their net in a pit, which without cause ened and their faces were not ashamed. they have digged for my soul. 6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. 7 The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. 80 taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. 9 O fear the LORD, ye his saints; for there is no want to them that fear him. 10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing. 11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD." 12 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? 13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. 14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. 8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall. 9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.. 10 All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him? 11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. 12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul. 13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. 14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his 15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their mother. cry. 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, 16 The face of the LORD is against them and gathered themselves together: yea, that do evil, to cut off the remembrance the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not: of them from the earth. 17. The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. 18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. 16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. 17 LORD, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. The excellency of God's mercy. PSALMS. The happy state of the godly. 18 I will give thee thanks in the great 10 O continue thy loving-kindness unto congregation: I will praise thee among them that know thee; and thy righteousmuch people. ness to the upright in heart. 19 Let not them that are mine enemies 11 Let not the foot of pride come against wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let me, and let not the hand of the wicked them wink with the eye that hate me with- remove me. out a cause. 12 There are the workers of iniquity 20 For they speak not peace: but they fallen: they are cast down, and shall not devise deceitful matters against them that be able to rise. are quiet in the land. 21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha! our eye hath seen it. PSALM XXXVII. 22 This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep workers of iniquity. not silence: O LORD, be not far from me. 2 For they shall soon be cut down like 23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my the grass, and wither as the green herb. judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord. 24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me. 25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up. 3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. 4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. 5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust, also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. 26 Let them be ashamed and brought to 6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousconfusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: ness as the light, and thy judgment as the let them be clothed with shame and dis-noon-day. honour that magnify themselves against me. 7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently 27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, for him: fret not thyself because of him that favour my righteous cause: yea, let who prospereth in his way, because of the them say continually, Let the LORD be man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. magnified, which hath pleasure in the pros- 8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: perity of his servant. fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. 28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long. PSALM XXXVI. 9 For evil doers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth. 10 For yet a little while, and the wicked Da-shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. To the chief Musician, A Psalm of vid the servant of the LORD. HE transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes. TH 2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful. 3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good. 4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil." 11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. 12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. 13 The LORD shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming. 14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation. 15 Their sword shall enter into their 5 Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the hea-own heart, and their bows shall be broken. vens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds. 16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked. 17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the right eous. 6 Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast. 7 How excellent is thy loving-kindness. 18 The LORD knoweth the days of the O God! therefore the children of men put upright: and their inheritance shall be for their trust under the shadow of thy wings. ever. 8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with 19 They shall not be ashamed in the the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make evil time: and in the days of famine they them drink of the river of thy pleasures. shall be satisfied. 9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light. 20 But the wicked shall perish, and the Jenemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of David moves God to take PSALMS. compassion on his pitiful case. lambs they shall consume; into smoke 3 There is no soundness in my flesh beshall they consume away. cause of thine anger; neither is there any 21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth rest in my bones because of my sin. not again but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth. 22 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off. 23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. 24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand. 25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. 26 He is ever merciful, and lendeth and his seed is blessed. 27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore. ; 28 For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. 29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever. 4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. 5 My wounds stink, and are corrupt because of my foolishness. 6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. 8 1 am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. 9 LORD, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. 10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. 11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. 12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt 30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh speak mischievous things, and imagine wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judg-deceits all the day long. ment. 31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide. 32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. 33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged. 13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. 14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. 15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: 34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, thou wilt hear, O LORD my God. and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: 16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt they should rejoice over me: when my see it. foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me. 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay-tree. 36 Yet he passed away, and lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. 17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. 18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. 19 But mine enemies are lively, and 37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the they are strong: and they that hate me upright: for the end of that man is peace. wrongfully are multiplied. 38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off. 20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is. 39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD he is their strength in the God, be not far from me. time of trouble. 21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my 22 Make haste to help me, O LORD my 40 And the LORD shall help them, and salvation. deliver them: he shall deliver them from PSALM XXXIX. the wicked, and save them, because they ¶ To the chief Musician, even to Jedutrust in him. PSALM XXXVIII. A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: I thun, A Psalm of David. 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. neither chasten me in thy hot dis- 2 I was dumb with silence; I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow pleasure. 2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and was stirred. thy hand presseth me sore. 3 My heart was hot within me; while I The brevity and vanity of life. PSALMS. David complains of his enemies." was musing the fire burned: then spake with my tongue. 4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Ifulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy loving-kindness and thy truth from the great congregation. 1.1 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy loving5 Behold, thou hast made my days as kindness and thy truth continually prea handbreadth; and mine age is as no-serve me. thing before thee: verily every man at 12 For innumerable evils have compasshis best state is altogether vanity. Selah. ed me about: mine iniquities have taken 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain hold upon me, so that I am not able to look shew surely they are disquieted in vain: up; they are more than the hairs of mine he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not head: therefore my heart faileth me. who shall gather them. 7 And now LORD, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. 9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. 13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: Q LORD, make haste to help me. 14 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. 15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha! 16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be 10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. 11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: magnified. surely every man is vanity. Selah. 12 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. 13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. PSALM. XL. 1 17 But I am poor and needy; yet the LORD thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, my God. BLE PSALM XLI. T To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. LESSED is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. WAITED patiently for the LORD; and 2 The LORD will preserve him, and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. keep him alive; and he shall be blessed 2 He brought me up also out of a hor-upon the earth and thou wilt not deliver rible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my him unto the will of his enemies. feet upon a rock, and established my go- 3 The LORD will strengthen him upon ings. the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all 3 And he hath put a new song in my his bed in his sickness. mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord. 4 Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. 4 I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee. 5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish? 6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to 5 Many, O LORD my God, are thy won- itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it. derful works which thou hast done, and 7 Áll that hate me whisper together thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they against me: against me do they devise my cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: hurt. if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. 6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required. 7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, 8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. 8 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth, he shall rise up no more. 9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. 10 But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them. 11 By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph 9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrain- over me. ed my lips, O LORD, thou knowest. 12 And as for me, thou upholdest me 10 I have not hid thy righteousness in mine integrity, and settest me before within my heart; I have declared thy faith-lthy face for ever. |