Psalms

Book 19	Psalms

001:001	Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
001:002	But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
001:003	And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
001:004	The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
001:005	Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
001:006	For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

002:001	Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
002:002	The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
002:003	Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
002:004	He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.
002:005	Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
002:006	Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
002:007	I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
002:008	Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
002:009	Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
002:010	Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
002:011	Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
002:012	Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

003:001	Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
003:002	Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
003:003	But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
003:004	I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
003:005	I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
003:006	I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.
003:007	Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
003:008	Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.

004:001	Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
004:002	O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
004:003	But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.
004:004	Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
004:005	Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.
004:006	There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
004:007	Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
004:008	I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.

005:001	Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
005:002	Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.
005:003	My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
005:004	For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
005:005	The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
005:006	Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
005:007	But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
005:008	Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
005:009	For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
005:010	Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.
005:011	But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.
005:012	For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

006:001	O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
006:002	Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
006:003	My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
006:004	Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.
006:005	For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
006:006	I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
006:007	Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
006:008	Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.
006:009	The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.
006:010	Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.

007:001	O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
007:002	Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
007:003	O LORD my God, If I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
007:004	If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
007:005	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. Selah.
007:006	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.
007:007	So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.
007:008	The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
007:009	Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
007:010	My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
007:011	God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.
007:012	If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
007:013	He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
007:014	Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
007:015	He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
007:016	His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
007:017	I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.

008:001	O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
008:002	Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
008:003	When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
008:004	What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
008:005	For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
008:006	Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
008:007	All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
008:008	The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
008:009	O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

009:001	I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.
009:002	I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.
009:003	When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
009:004	For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.
009:005	Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
009:006	O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
009:007	But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.
009:008	And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
009:009	The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
009:010	And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
009:011	Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.
009:012	When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
009:013	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:
009:014	That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
009:015	The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
009:016	The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
009:017	The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
009:018	For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
009:019	Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
009:020	Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

010:001	Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
010:002	The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
010:003	For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
010:004	The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
010:005	His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
010:006	He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
010:007	His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
010:008	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.
010:009	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.
010:010	He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
010:011	He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
010:012	Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
010:013	Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
010:014	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.
010:015	Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
010:016	The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
010:017	LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
010:018	To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

011:001	In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
011:002	For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
011:003	If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
011:004	The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
011:005	The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
011:006	Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
011:007	For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.

012:001	Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
012:002	They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
012:003	The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
012:004	Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
012:005	For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
012:006	The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
012:007	Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
012:008	The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

013:001	How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
013:002	How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
013:003	Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
013:004	Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
013:005	But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
013:006	I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.

014:001	The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
014:002	The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
014:003	They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
014:004	Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
014:005	There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
014:006	Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
014:007	Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

015:001	Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
015:002	He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
015:003	He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
015:004	In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
015:005	He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

016:001	Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
016:002	O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
016:003	But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
016:004	Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
016:005	The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
016:006	The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
016:007	I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
016:008	I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
016:009	Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
016:010	For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
016:011	Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

017:001	Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
017:002	Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.
017:003	Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
017:004	Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
017:005	Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
017:006	I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.
017:007	Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.
017:008	Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
017:009	From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
017:010	They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
017:011	They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
017:012	Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
017:013	Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:
017:014	From men which are thy hand, O 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, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
017:015	As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

018:001	I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
018:002	The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
018:003	I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
018:004	The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
018:005	The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
018:006	In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
018:007	Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
018:008	There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
018:009	He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
018:010	And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
018:011	He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
018:012	At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
018:013	The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
018:014	Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
018:015	Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
018:016	He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
018:017	He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
018:018	They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
018:019	He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
018:020	The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
018:021	For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
018:022	For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
018:023	I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
018:024	Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
018:025	With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
018:026	With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
018:027	For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
018:028	For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
018:029	For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
018:030	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.
018:031	For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?
018:032	It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
018:033	He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.
018:034	He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
018:035	Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.
018:036	Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
018:037	I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
018:038	I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
018:039	For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
018:040	Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
018:041	They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
018:042	Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
018:043	Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
018:044	As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
018:045	The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
018:046	The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
018:047	It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
018:048	He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
018:049	Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.
018:050	Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.

019:001	The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
019:002	Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
019:003	There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
019:004	Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
019:005	Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
019:006	His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
019:007	The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
019:008	The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
019:009	The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
019:010	More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
019:011	Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
019:012	Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
019:013	Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
019:014	Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

020:001	The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;
020:002	Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;
020:003	Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
020:004	Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.
020:005	We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.
020:006	Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
020:007	Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
020:008	They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
020:009	Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.

021:001	The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
021:002	Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
021:003	For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
021:004	He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
021:005	His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.
021:006	For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.
021:007	For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
021:008	Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
021:009	Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
021:010	Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
021:011	For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
021:012	Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
021:013	Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.

022:001	My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
022:002	O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
022:003	But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
022:004	Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
022:005	They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
022:006	But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
022:007	All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
022:008	He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
022:009	But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
022:010	I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.
022:011	Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
022:012	Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
022:013	They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
022:014	I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
022:015	My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
022:016	For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
022:017	I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
022:018	They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
022:019	But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
022:020	Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
022:021	Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
022:022	I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
022:023	Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
022:024	For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
022:025	My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
022:026	The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
022:027	All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
022:028	For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among the nations.
022:029	All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
022:030	A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
022:031	They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.

023:001	The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
023:002	He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
023:003	He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
023:004	Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
023:005	Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
023:006	Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

024:001	The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
024:002	For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
024:003	Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
024:004	He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
024:005	He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
024:006	This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
024:007	Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
024:008	Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
024:009	Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
024:010	Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.

025:001	Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
025:002	O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.
025:003	Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
025:004	Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.
025:005	Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
025:006	Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.
025:007	Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.
025:008	Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
025:009	The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
025:010	All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
025:011	For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.
025:012	What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
025:013	His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.
025:014	The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.
025:015	Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
025:016	Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
025:017	The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.
025:018	Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
025:019	Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
025:020	O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
025:021	Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
025:022	Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

026:001	Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.
026:002	Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
026:003	For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.
026:004	I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
026:005	I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
026:006	I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
026:007	That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.
026:008	LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
026:009	Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
026:010	In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
026:011	But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.
026:012	My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.

027:001	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?
027:002	When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
027:003	Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
027:004	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 enquire in his temple.
027:005	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.
027:006	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.
027:007	Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
027:008	When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
027:009	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.
027:010	When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
027:011	Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.
027:012	Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
027:013	I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
027:014	Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

028:001	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.
028:002	Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
028:003	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.
028:004	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.
028:005	Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
028:006	Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
028:007	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.
028:008	The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
028:009	Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.

029:001	Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.
029:002	Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
029:003	The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.
029:004	The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
029:005	The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
029:006	He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
029:007	The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.
029:008	The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.
029:009	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.
029:010	The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.
029:011	The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.

030:001	I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.
030:002	O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
030:003	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.
030:004	Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
030:005	For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
030:006	And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
030:007	LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.
030:008	I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.
030:009	What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
030:010	Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.
030:011	Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
030:012	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.

031:001	In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
031:002	Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
031:003	For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
031:004	Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.
031:005	Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
031:006	I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
031:007	I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
031:008	And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
031:009	Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
031:010	For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
031:011	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.
031:012	I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
031:013	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.
031:014	But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.
031:015	My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
031:016	Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
031:017	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.
031:018	Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
031:019	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!
031:020	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.
031:021	Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.
031:022	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.
031:023	O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
031:024	Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.

032:001	Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
032:002	Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
032:003	When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
032:004	For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
032:005	I acknowledge 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.
032:006	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.
032:007	Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
032:008	I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
032:009	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.
032:010	Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
032:011	Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.

033:001	Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.
033:002	Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
033:003	Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
033:004	For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.
033:005	He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.
033:006	By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
033:007	He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
033:008	Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
033:009	For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
033:010	The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
033:011	The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
033:012	Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
033:013	The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
033:014	From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
033:015	He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.
033:016	There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
033:017	An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.
033:018	Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
033:019	To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
033:020	Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
033:021	For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.
033:022	Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.

034:001	I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
034:002	My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
034:003	O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
034:004	I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
034:005	They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
034:006	This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
034:007	The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
034:008	O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
034:009	O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
034:010	The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
034:011	Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
034:012	What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
034:013	Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
034:014	Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
034:015	The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
034:016	The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
034:017	The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
034:018	The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
034:019	Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
034:020	He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
034:021	Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
034:022	The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

035:001	Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
035:002	Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
035:003	Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
035:004	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.
035:005	Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
035:006	Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.
035:007	For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
035:008	Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
035:009	And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.
035:010	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?
035:011	False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
035:012	They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
035:013	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.
035:014	I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
035:015	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:
035:016	With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
035:017	Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
035:018	I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.
035:019	Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
035:020	For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
035:021	Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
035:022	This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
035:023	Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
035:024	Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
035:025	Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
035:026	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.
035:027	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.
035:028	And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.

036:001	The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
036:002	For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
036:003	The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
036:004	He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
036:005	Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
036:006	Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
036:007	How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
036:008	They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
036:009	For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
036:010	O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
036:011	Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
036:012	There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

037:001	Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
037:002	For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
037:003	Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
037:004	Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
037:005	Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
037:006	And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
037:007	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.
037:008	Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
037:009	For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
037:010	For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
037:011	But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
037:012	The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
037:013	The LORD shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.
037:014	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.
037:015	Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
037:016	A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
037:017	For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.
037:018	The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.
037:019	They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
037:020	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.
037:021	The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
037:022	For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.
037:023	The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
037:024	Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.
037:025	I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
037:026	He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.
037:027	Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
037:028	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.
037:029	The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.
037:030	The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
037:031	The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
037:032	The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
037:033	The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
037:034	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.
037:035	I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
037:036	Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
037:037	Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
037:038	But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
037:039	But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.
037:040	And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

038:001	O lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
038:002	For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
038:003	There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
038:004	For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
038:005	My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
038:006	I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
038:007	For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
038:008	I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
038:009	Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
038:010	My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
038:011	My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
038:012	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.
038:013	But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
038:014	Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
038:015	For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
038:016	For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
038:017	For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
038:018	For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
038:019	But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
038:020	They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
038:021	Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
038:022	Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.

039:001	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.
039:002	I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
039:003	My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
039:004	LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.
039:005	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.
039:006	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.
039:007	And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
039:008	Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
039:009	I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
039:010	Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
039:011	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.
039:012	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.
039:013	O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

040:001	I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
040:002	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.
040:003	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.
040:004	Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
040:005	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.
040:006	Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
040:007	Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
040:008	I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
040:009	I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
040:010	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.
040:011	Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
040:012	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.
040:013	Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
040:014	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.
040:015	Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
040:016	Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
040:017	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.

041:001	Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
041:002	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.
041:003	The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
041:004	I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.
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