[1] The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the
LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
[2] When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon
me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
[3] Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall
not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
[4] One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after;
that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold
the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.
[5] For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion:
in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon
a rock.
[6] And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies
round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of
joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
[7] Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also
upon me, and answer me.
[8] When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee,
Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
[9] Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away
in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God
of my salvation.
[10] When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD
will take me up.
[11] Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path,
because of mine enemies.
[12] Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for
false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
[13] I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness
of the LORD in the land of the living.
[14] Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen
thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
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[1] Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest,
if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
[2] Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee,
when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
[3] Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of
iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their
hearts.
[4] Give them according to their deeds, and according to the
wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands;
render to them their desert.
[5] Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation
of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
[6] Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of
my supplications.
[7] The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted
in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with
my song will I praise him.
[8] The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength
of his anointed.
[9] Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them
also, and lift them up for ever.
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[1] Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and
strength.
[2] Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship
the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
[3] The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory
thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.
[4] The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD
is full of majesty.
[5] The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD
breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
[6] He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion
like a young unicorn.
[7] The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.
[8] The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh
the wilderness of Kadesh.
[9] The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth
the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.
[10] The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth
King for ever.
[11] The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will
bless his people with peace.
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[1] I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast
not made my foes to rejoice over me.
[2] O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
[3] O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou
hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
[4] Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks
at the remembrance of his holiness.
[5] For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life:
weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
[6] And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
[7] LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand
strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.
[8] I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.
[9] What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the
pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
[10] Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my
helper.
[11] Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou
hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
[12] To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not
be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
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[1] In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed:
deliver me in thy righteousness.
[2] Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my
strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
[3] For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy
name's sake lead me, and guide me.
[4] Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me:
for thou art my strength.
[5] Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me,
O LORD God of truth.
[6] I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust
in the LORD.
[7] I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered
my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
[8] And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou
hast set my feet 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.
[11] I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially
among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see
me without fled from me.
[12] I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken
vessel.
[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.
[14] But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.
[15] My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine
enemies, and from them that persecute me.
[16] Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy
mercies' sake.
[17] Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee:
let the wicked be 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.
[21] Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous
kindness in a strong city.
[22] For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine
eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried
unto thee.
[23] O 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.
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[1] Blessed is he whose transgression is 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.
[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.
[7] Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble;
thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
[8] I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou
shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
[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, lest they come near unto
thee.
[10] Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth
in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
[11] Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout
for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
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[1] Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for
the upright.
[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 skilfully 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 judgment: the earth is full
of the goodness of the LORD.
[6] By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the
host of them by the breath of his mouth.
[7] He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap:
he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
[8] Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants
of the world stand in awe of him.
[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 generations.
[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.
[16] There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty
man is not delivered by much strength.
[17] An 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.
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[1] I 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.
[3] O 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.
[5] They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces
were not ashamed.
[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.
[8] O 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.
[15] The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears
are open unto their cry.
[16] The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut
off the remembrance 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.
[19] Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD
delivereth him out of them all.
[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.
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[1] 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 me their net in a pit,
which without cause they have digged for my soul.
[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 mother.
[15] But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves
together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and
I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
[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.
[18] I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will
praise thee among much people.
[19] Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over
me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
[20] For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters
against them that are quiet in the land.
[21] Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said,
Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
[22] This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord,
be not far from me.
[23] Stir up thyself, and awake to my 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.
[26] Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that
rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that
magnify themselves against me.
[27] Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous
cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which
hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
[28] And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy
praise all the day long.
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[1] The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that
there is no fear of God before his eyes.
[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.
[5] Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness
reacheth unto the clouds.
[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 lovingkindness, O God! therefore the
children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
[8] They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy
house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
[9] For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall
we see light.
[10] O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee;
and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
[11] Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not
the hand of the wicked remove me.
[12] There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast
down, and shall not be able to rise.
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[1] Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious
against the workers of iniquity.
[2] For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither
as the green herb.
[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.
[6] And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light,
and thy judgment as the noonday.
[7] Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself
because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth
wicked devices to pass.
[8] Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in
any wise to do evil.
[9] For evildoers 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 shall not be: yea,
thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
[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 own heart, and their
bows shall be broken.
[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 righteous.
[18] The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance
shall be for ever.
[19] They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the
days of famine they shall be satisfied.
[20] But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD
shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they
consume away.
[21] The wicked borroweth, and payeth 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.
[30] The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue
talketh of judgment.
[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.
[34] Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt
thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
[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.
[37] Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end
of that man is peace.
[38] But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the
end of the wicked shall be cut off.
[39] But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is
their strength in the time of trouble.
[40] And the LORD shall help them and deliver them: he shall
deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.
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[1] O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy
hot displeasure.
[2] For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth
me sore.
[3] There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger;
neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
[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] I 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 speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all
the day long.
[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: thou wilt hear, O Lord
my God.
[16] For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice
over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
[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 they are strong: and they
that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
[20] They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries;
because I follow the thing that good is.
[21] Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
[22] Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
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[1] 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.
[2] I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good;
and my sorrow was stirred.
[3] My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire
burned: then spake I 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.
[5] 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.
[6] Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are
disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not 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.
[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: 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.
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[1] I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and
heard my cry.
[2] 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.
[3] 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.
[4] Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and
respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
[5] 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.
[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.
[9] I have preached righteousness in the great congregation:
lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
[10] 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.
[11] Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let
thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
[12] 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.
[13] Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O 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 magnified.
[17] 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.
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[1] Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver
him in time of trouble.
[2] 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.
[3] The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing:
thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
[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 itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
[7] All that hate me whisper together against me: against me
do they devise my hurt.
[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 over me.
[12] And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and
settest me before thy face for ever.
[13] Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and
to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
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[1] As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul
after thee, O God.
[2] My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall
I come and appear before God?
[3] My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually
say unto me, Where is thy God?
[4] 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.
[5] 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.
[6] 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.
[7] Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts:
all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
[8] 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.
[9] I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me?
why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
[10] As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me;
while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
[11] 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.
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[1] Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation:
O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
[2] 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?
[3] O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let
them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
[4] 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.
[5] 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.
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[1] 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.
[2] How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and
plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
[3] 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.
[4] Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
[5] Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy
name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
[6] For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save
me.
[7] But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them
to shame that hated us.
[8] In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for
ever. Selah.
[9] But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not
forth with our armies.
[10] Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which
hate us spoil for themselves.
[11] Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast
scattered us among the heathen.
[12] Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase
thy wealth by their price.
[13] Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and
a derision to them that are round about us.
[14] Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of
the head among the people.
[15] My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of
my face hath covered me,
[16] For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth;
by reason of the enemy and avenger.
[17] All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee,
neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
[18] Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined
from thy way;
[19] Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons,
and covered us with the shadow of death.
[20] If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched
out our hands to a strange god;
[21] Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets
of the heart.
[22] Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are
counted as sheep for the slaughter.
[23] Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off
for ever.
[24] Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction
and our oppression?
[25] For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth
unto the earth.
[26] Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
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[1] 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.
[2] Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured
into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
[3] Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory
and thy majesty.
[4] And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and
meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible
things.
[5] Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies;
whereby the people fall under thee.
[6] Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of
thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
[7] Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore
God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
[8] All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia,
out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
[9] Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy
right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
[10] Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear;
forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
[11] So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is
thy Lord; and worship thou him.
[12] And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even
the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
[13] The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing
is of wrought gold.
[14] She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework:
the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
[15] With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they
shall enter into the king's palace.
[16] Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou
mayest make princes in all the earth.
[17] I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations:
therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.
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[1] God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
[2] Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed,
and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
[3] Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the
mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
[4] There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the
city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
[5] God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God
shall help her, and that right early.
[6] The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his
voice, the earth melted.
[7] The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah.
[8] Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he
hath made in the earth.
[9] 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.
[10] Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among
the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
[11] The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah.
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[1] O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice
of triumph.
[2] For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over
all the earth.
[3] He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under
our feet.
[4] He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of
Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
[5] God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of
a trumpet.
[6] Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our
King, sing praises.
[7] For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with
understanding.
[8] God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne
of his holiness.
[9] The princes of the people are gathered together, even the
people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto
God: he is greatly exalted.
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[1] Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of
our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
[2] Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is
mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
[3] God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
[4] For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
[5] They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled,
and hasted away.
[6] Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman
in travail.
[7] Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
[8] As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD
of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
[9] We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst
of thy temple.
[10] According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the
ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
[11] Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad,
because of thy judgments.
[12] Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers
thereof.
[13] Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye
may tell it to the generation following.
[14] For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our
guide even unto death.
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[1] Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the
world:
[2] Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
[3] My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my
heart shall be of understanding.
[4] I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark
saying upon the harp.
[5] Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity
of my heels shall compass me about?
[6] They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in
the multitude of their riches;
[7] None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give
to God a ransom for him:
[8] (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth
for ever:)
[9] That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
[10] For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the
brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
[11] Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue
for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their
lands after their own names.
[12] Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like
the beasts that perish.
[13] This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve
their sayings. Selah.
[14] Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed
on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning;
and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
[15] But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave:
for he shall receive me. Selah.
[16] Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory
of his house is increased;
[17] For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory
shall not descend after him.
[18] Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will
praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
[19] He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall
never see light.
[20] Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the
beasts that perish.
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[1] The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth
from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
[2] Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
[3] Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall
devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
[4] He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth,
that he may judge his people.
[5] Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made
a covenant with me by sacrifice.
[6] And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God
is judge himself. Selah.
[7] Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will
testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
[8] I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt
offerings, to have been continually before me.
[9] I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out
of thy folds.
[10] For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon
a thousand hills.
[11] I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts
of the field are mine.
[12] If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world
is mine, and the fulness thereof.
[13] Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
[14] Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the
most High:
[15] And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver
thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
[16] But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to
declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
[17] Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind
thee.
[18] When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him,
and hast been partaker with adulterers.
[19] Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
[20] Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest
thine own mother's son.
[21] These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest
that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee,
and set them in order before thine eyes.
[22] Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you
in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
[23] Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth
his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
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[1] Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness:
according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
[2] Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from
my sin.
[3] For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever
before me.
[4] Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil
in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be
clear when thou judgest.
[5] Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother
conceive me.
[6] Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in
the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
[7] Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and
I shall be whiter than snow.
[8] Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou
hast broken may rejoice.
[9] Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
[10] Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit
within me.
[11] Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy
spirit from me.
[12] Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me
with thy free spirit.
[13] Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall
be converted unto thee.
[14] Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my
salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
[15] O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth
thy praise.
[16] For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it:
thou delightest not in burnt offering.
[17] The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and
a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
[18] Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the
walls of Jerusalem.
[19] Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness,
with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks
upon thine altar.
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[1] Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness
of God endureth continually.
[2] Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working
deceitfully.
[3] Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to
speak righteousness. Selah.
[4] Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
[5] God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take
thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out
of the land of the living. Selah.
[6] The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh
at him:
[7] Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but
trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his
wickedness.
[8] But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I
trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
[9] I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it:
and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.
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[1] The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are
they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
[2] God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to
see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
[3] Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become
filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
[4] Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my
people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
[5] There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God
hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast
put them to shame, because God hath despised them.
[6] Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When
God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and
Israel shall be glad.
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[1] Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.
[2] Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
[3] For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek
after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
[4] Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold
my soul.
[5] He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in
thy truth.
[6] I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name,
O LORD; for it is good.
[7] For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and mine eye
hath seen his desire upon mine enemies.
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