Psalms

1-Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, and has not stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of evil men.

2-But his pleasure is in the law of the Lord; and in his law will he meditate day and night.

3-And he shall be as a tree planted by the brooks of waters, which shall yield its fruit in its season, and its leaf shall not fall off; and whatever he shall do shall be prospered.

4-Not so the ungodly; —not so: but rather as the chaff which the wind scatters away from the face of the earth.

5-Therefore the ungodly shall not rise in judgment, nor sinners in the counsel of the just.

6-For the Lord knows the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Chapter 2

1- Therefore did the heathen rage, and the nations imagine vain things?

2-The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers gathered themselves together, against the Lord, and against his Christ;

3- saying, Let us break through their bonds, and cast away their yoke from us.

4-He that dwells in the heavens shall laugh them to scorn, and the Lord shall mock them.

5-Then shall he speak to them in his anger, and trouble them in his fury.

6-But I have been made king by him on Sion his holy mountain,

7-declaring the ordinance of the Lord: the Lord said to me, You are my Son, today have I begotten you.

8-Ask of me, and I will give you the heathen for your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for your possession.

9-You shall rule them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces as a potter's vessel.

10-Now therefore understand, you° kings: be instructed, all you° that judge the earth.

11-Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice in him with trembling.

12- Accept correction, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you° should perish from the righteous way: whenever his wrath shall be suddenly kindled, blessed are all they that trust in him.

Chapter 3

A Psalm of David, when he fled from the presence of his son Abessalom.

1-O Lord, why are they that afflict me multiplied? many rise up against me.

2-Many say concerning my soul, There is no deliverance for him in his God. Pause.

3-But you, O Lord, are my helper: my glory, and the one that lifts up my head.

4-I cried to the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy mountain. Pause.

5-I lay down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord will help me.

6-I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, who beset me round about.

7-Arise, Lord; deliver me, my God: for you have struck all who were without cause my enemies; you have broken the teeth of sinners.

8-Deliverance is the Lord's, and your blessing is upon your people.

Chapter 4

For the End, a Song of David among the Psalms.

1-When I called upon him, the God of my righteousness heard me: you have made room for me in tribulation; pity me, and listen to my prayer.

2-O you° sons of men, how long will you° be slow of heart? therefore do you° love vanity, and seek falsehood? Pause.

3-But know you° that the Lord has done wondrous things for his holy one: the Lord will hear me when I cry to him.

4- Be you° angry, and sin not; feel compunction upon your beds for what you° say in your hearts. Pause.

5-Offer the sacrifice of righteousness, and trust in the Lord.

6-Many say, Who will show us good things? the light of your countenance, O Lord, has been manifested towards us.

7-You have put gladness into my heart: they have been satisfied with the fruit of their corn and wine and oil.

8-I will both lie down in peace and sleep: for you, Lord, only have caused me to dwell securely.

Chapter 5

For the end, a Psalm of David, concerning her that inherits.

1-Listen to my words, O Lord, attend to my cry.

2-Attend to the voice of my supplication, my King, and my God: for to you, O Lord, will I pray.

3-In the morning you shall hear my voice: in the morning will I wait upon you, and will look up.

4-For you are not a god that desires iniquity; neither shall the worker of wickedness dwell with you.

5-Neither shall the transgressors continue in your sight: you hate, O Lord, all them that work iniquity.

6-You will destroy all that speak falsehood: the Lord abhors the bloody and deceitful man.

7-But I will enter into your house in the multitude of your mercy: I will worship in your fear toward your holy temple.

8-Lead me, O Lord, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make my way plain before your face.

9-For there is no truth in their mouth; their heart is vain; their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit.

10-Judge them, O God; let them fail of their counsels: cast them out according to the abundance of their ungodliness; for they have provoked you, O Lord.

11-But let all that trust on you be glad in you: they shall exult for ever, and you shall dwell among them; and all that love your name shall rejoice in you.

12-For you, Lord, shall bless the righteous: you have compassed us as with a shield of favor.

Chapter 6

For the End, a Psalm of David among the Hymns for the eighth.

1-O Lord, rebuke me not in your wrath, neither chasten me in your anger.

2-Pity me, O Lord; for I am weak: heal me, O Lord; for my bones are vexed.

3-My soul also is grievously vexed: but you, O Lord, how long?

4-Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: save me for your mercy's sake.

5-For in death no man remembers you: and who will give you thanks in Hades?

6- I am wearied with my groaning; I shall wash my bed every night; I shall water my couch with tears.

7-Mine eye is troubled because of my wrath; I am worn out because of all my enemies.

8-Depart from me, all you° that work iniquity; for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.

9-The Lord has listened to my petition; the Lord has accepted my prayer.

10-Let all my enemies be put to shame and sore troubled: let them be turned back and grievously put to shame speedily.

Chapter 7

A Psalm of David, which he sang to the Lord because of the words of Chusi the Benjamite.

1-O Lord my God, in you have I trusted: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.

2-Lest at any time the enemy seize my soul as a lion, while there is none to ransom, nor to save.

3-O Lord my God, if I have done this; (if there is unrighteousness in my hands;)

4-if I have requited with evil those who requited me with good; may I then perish empty by means of my enemies.

5-Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; and let him trample my life on the ground, and lay my glory in the dust. Pause.

6-Arise, O Lord, in your wrath; be exalted in the utmost boundaries of my enemies: awake, O Lord my God, according to the decree which you did command.

7-And the congregation of the nations shall compass you: and for this cause do you return on high.

8-The Lord shall judge the nations: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to my innocence that is in me.

9-Oh let the wickedness of sinners come to an end; and then you shall direct the righteous, O God that search the hearts and reins.

10-My help is righteous, coming from God who saves the upright in heart.

11-God is a righteous judge, and strong, and patient, not inflicting vengeance every day.

12-If you° will not repent, he will furbish his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.

13-And on it he has fitted the instruments of death; he has completed his arrows for the raging ones.

14-Behold, he has travailed with unrighteousness, he has conceived trouble, and brought forth iniquity.

15-He has opened a pit, and dug it up, and he shall fall into the ditch which he has made.

16-His trouble shall return on his own head, and his unrighteousness shall come down on his own crown.

17-I will give thanks to the Lord according to his righteousness; I will sing to the name of the Lord most high.

Chapter 8

For the end, concerning the wine presses, a Psalm of David.

1-O Lord, our Lord, how wonderful is your name in all the earth! for your magnificence is exalted above the heavens.

2- Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings have you perfected praise, because of your enemies; that you might put down the enemy and avenger.

3-For I will regard the heavens, the work of your fingers; the moon and stars, which you have established.

4- What is man, that you are mindful of him? or the son of man, that you visit him?

5-You made him a little less than angels, you have crowned him with glory and honor;

6-and you have set him over the works of your hands: you have put all things under his feet:

7-sheep and all oxen, yes and the cattle of the field;

8-the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea, the creatures passing through the paths of the sea.

9-O Lord our Lord, how wonderful is your name in all the earth!

Chapter 9

For the end, a Psalm of David, concerning the secrets of the Son.

1-I will give thanks to you, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will recount all your wonderful works.

2-I will be glad and exult in you: I will sing to your name, O you Most High.

3-When my enemies are turned back, they shall be feeble and perish at your presence.

4-For you have maintained my cause and my right; you sat on the throne, that judge righteousness.

5-You have rebuked the nations, and the ungodly one has perished; you have blotted out their name for ever, even for ever and ever.

6-The swords of the enemy have failed utterly; and you have destroyed cities: their memorial has been destroyed with a noise,

7-but the Lord endures for ever: he has prepared his throne for judgment.

8-And he will judge the world in righteousness, he will judge the nations in uprightness.

9-The Lord also is become a refuge for the poor, a seasonable help, in affliction.

10-And let them that know your name hope in you: for you, O Lord, have not failed them that diligently seek you.

11-Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Sion: declare his dealings among the nations.

12-For he remembered them, in making inquisition for blood: he has not forgotten the supplication of the poor.

13-Have mercy upon me, O Lord; look upon my affliction which I suffer of my enemies, you that lift me up from the gates of death:

14-that I may declare all your praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion: I will exult in your salvation.

15-The heathen are caught in the destruction which they planned: in the very snare which they hid is their foot taken.

16-The Lord is known as executing judgments: the sinner is taken in the works of his hands. A song of Pause.

17-Let sinners be driven away into Hades, even all the nations that forget God.

18-For the poor shall not be forgotten for ever: the patience of the needy ones shall not perish for ever.

19-Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged before you.

20-Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: let the heathen know that they are men. Pause.

(Psalm 9a)

21-Why stand you afar off, O Lord? why do you overlook us in times of need, in affliction?

22-While the ungodly one acts proudly, the poor is hotly pursued: the wicked are taken in the crafty counsels which they imagine.

23-Because the sinner praises himself for the desires of his heart; and the unjust one blesses himself.

24-The sinner has provoked the Lord: according to the abundance of his pride he will not seek after him: God is not before him.

25-His ways are profane at all times; your judgments are removed from before him: he will gain the mastery over all his enemies.

26-For he has said in his heart, I shall not be moved, continuing without evil from generation to generation.

27-Whose mouth is full of cursing, and bitterness, and fraud: under his tongue are trouble and pain.

28-He lies in wait with rich men in secret places, in order to kill the innocent: his eyes are set against the poor.

29-He lies in wait in secret as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to ravish the poor, to ravish the poor when he draws him after him: he will bring him down in his snare.

30-He will bow down and fall when he has mastered the poor.

31-For he has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he has turned away his face so as never to look.

32-Arise, O Lord God; let your hand be lifted up: forget not the poor.

33-Therefore, has the wicked provoked God? for he has said in his heart, He will not require it.

34-You see it; for you do observe trouble and wrath, to deliver them into your hands: the poor has been left to you; you were a helper to the orphan.

35-Break you the arm of the sinner and wicked man: his sin shall be sought for, and shall not be found.

36-The Lord shall reign for ever, even for ever and ever: you° Gentiles shall perish out his land.

37-The Lord has heard the desire of the poor: your ear has inclined to the preparation of their heart;

38-to plead for the orphan and afflicted, that man may no more boast upon the earth.

Chapter 10 (11 in KJV)

For the end, a Psalm of David.

1-In the Lord I have put my trust: how will you° say to my soul,

2-Flee to the mountains as a sparrow?

3-For behold the sinners have bent their bow, they have prepared their arrows for the quiver, to shoot For privily at the upright in heart.

4-For they have pulled down what you did frame, but what have the righteous done?

5-The Lord is in his holy temple, as for the Lord, his throne is in heaven: his eyes look upon the poor, his eyelids try the sons of men.

6-The Lord tries the righteous and the ungodly: and he that loves unrighteousness hates his own soul.

7-He shall rain upon sinners snares, fire, and brimstone, and a stormy blast shall be the portion of their cup.

8-For the Lord is righteous, and loves righteousness; his face beholds uprightness.

Chapter 11 (12)

For the end, A Psalm of David, upon the eighth.

1-Save me, O Lord; for the godly man has failed; for truth is diminished from among the children of men.

2-Every one has spoken vanity to his neighbor: their lips are deceitful, they have spoken with a double heart.

3-Let the Lord destroy all the deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaks great words:

4-who have said, We will magnify our tongue; our lips are our own: who is Lord of us?

5-Because of the misery of the poor, and because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the Lord, I will set them in safety; I will speak to them thereof openly.

6-The oracles of the Lord are pure oracles; as silver tried in the fire, proved in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

7-You, O Lord, shall keep us, and shall preserve us, from this generation, and for ever.

8-The ungodly walk around: according to your greatness you have greatly exalted the sons of men.

Chapter 12 (13)

For the end, a Psalm of David.

1-How long, O Lord, will you forget me? for ever? how long will you turn away your face from me?

2-How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrows in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

3-Look on me, listen to me, O Lord my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

4-lest at any time my enemy say, I have prevailed against him: my persecutors will exult if ever I should be moved.

5-But I have hoped in your mercy; my heart shall exult in your salvation.

6-I will sing to the Lord who has dealt bountifully with me, and I will sing psalms to the name of the Lord most high.

Chapter 13 (14)

For the end, Psalm of David.

1-The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, and become abominable in their devices; there is none that does goodness, there is not even so much as one.

2-The Lord looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after god.

3-They are all gone out of the way, they are together become good for nothing, there is none that does good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes.

4-Will not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they would eat bread? they have not called upon the Lord.

5-There were they alarmed with fear, where there was no fear; for God is in the righteous generation.

6-You° have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his hope.

7-Who will bring the salvation of Israel out of Sion? when the Lord brings back the captivity of his people, let Jacob exult, and Israel be glad.

Chapter 14 (15)

A Psalm of David.

1-O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tabernacle? and who shall dwell in your holy mountain?

2-He that walks blameless, and works righteousness, who speaks truth in his heart.

3-Who has not spoken craftily with is tongue, neither has done evil to his neighbor, nor taken up a reproach against them that lived nearest to him.

4-In his sight an evil-worker is set at nothing, but he honors them that fear the Lord. He swears to his neighbor, and disappoints him not.

5-He has not lent his money on usury, and has not received bribes against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.

Chapter 15 (16)

A writing of David.

1-Keep me, O Lord; for I have hoped in you.

2-I said to the Lord, You are my Lord; for you have no need of my goodness.

3-On behalf of the saints that are in his land, he has magnified all his pleasure in them.

4-Their weaknesses have been multiplied; afterward they hasted. I will by no means assemble their bloody meetings, neither will I make mention of their names with my lips.

5-The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: you are he that restores my inheritance to me.

6-The lines have fallen to me in the best places, yes, I have a most excellent heritage.

7-I will bless the Lord who has instructed me; my reins too have chastened me even till night.

8-I foresaw the Lord always before my face; for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.

9-Therefore my heart rejoiced an my tongue exulted; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:

10-because you will not leave my soul in hell, neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption.

11-You have made known to me the ways of life; you will fill me with joy with your countenance: at your right hand there are delights for ever.

Chapter 16 (17)

A prayer of David.

1-Listen, O Lord of my righteousness, attend to my petition; give ear to my prayer not uttered with deceitful lips.

2-Let my judgment come forth from your presence; let my eyes behold righteousness.

3-You have proved my heart; you have visited me by night; you have tried me as with fire, and unrighteousness has not been found in me: I am purposed that my mouth shall not speak amiss.

4-As for the works of men, by the words of your lips I have guarded myself from hard ways.

5-Direct my steps in your paths, that my steps slip not.

6-I have cried, for you heard me, O God: incline your ear to me, and listen to my words.

7-Show the marvels of your mercies, you that save them that hope in you.

8-Keep me as the apple of the eye from those that resist your right hand: you shall screen me by the covering of your wings,

9-from the face of the ungodly that have afflicted me: my enemies have compassed about my soul.

10-They have enclosed themselves with their own fat: their mouth has spoken pride.

11-They have now cast me out and compassed me round about: they have set their eyes so as to bow them down to the ground.

12-They laid wait for me as a lion ready for prey, and like a lion's whelp dwelling in secret places.

13-Arise, O Lord, prevent them, and cast them down: deliver my soul from the ungodly: draw your sword,

14-because of the enemies of your hand: O Lord, destroy them from the earth; scatter them in their life, though their belly has been filled with your hidden treasures: they have been satisfied with uncleanness, and have left the remnant of their possessions to their babes.

15-But I shall appear in righteousness before your face: I shall be satisfied when your glory appears.

Chapter 17 (18)

For the end,

a Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord; the words which he spoke to the Lord, even the words of this Song, in the day in which the Lord delivered him out the hand of all his enemies, and out the hand of Saul: and he said:

1-I will love you, O Lord, my strength.

2-The Lord is my firm support, and my refuge, and my deliverer; my God is my helper, I will hope in him; he is my defender, and the horn of my salvation, and my helper.

3-I will call upon the Lord with praises, and I shall be saved from my enemies.

4-The pangs of death compassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness troubled me exceedingly.

5-The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me.

6-And when I was afflicted I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of this holy temple, and my cry shall enter before him, even into his ears.

7-Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and were shaken, because God was angry with them.

8-There went up a smoke in his wrath, and fire burst into a flame at his presence: coals were kindled at it.

9-And he bowed the heaven, and came down: and thick darkness was under his feet.

10-And he mounted on cherubs and flew: he flew on the wings of winds.

11-And he made darkness his secret place: round about him was his tabernacle, even dark water in the clouds of the air.

12-At the brightness before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.

13-The Lord also thundered from heaven, and the Highest uttered his voice.

14-And he sent forth his weapons, and scattered them; and multiplied lightnings, and routed them.

15-And the springs of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at your rebuke, O Lord, at the blasting of the breath of your wrath.

16-He sent from on high and took me, he drew me to himself out of many waters.

17-He will deliver me from my mighty enemies, and from them that hate me; for they are stronger than I.

18-They prevented me in the day of my affliction: but the Lord was my stay against them.

19-And he brought me out into a wide place: he will deliver me, because he has pleasure in me.

20-And the Lord will recompense me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands will he recompense me.

21-For I have kept the way of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God.

22-For all his judgments were before me, and his ordinances departed not from me.

23-And I shall be blameless with Him, and shall keep myself from my iniquity.

24-And the Lord shall recompense me according to my righteousness, and according to the purity of my hands before his eyes.

25-With the holy you will be holy; and with the innocent man you will be innocent.

26-And with the excellent man you will be excellent; and with the perverse you will show frowardness.

27-For you will save the lowly people, and will humble the eyes of the proud.

28-For you, O Lord, will light my lamp: my God, you will lighten my darkness.

29-For by you shall I be delivered from a troop; and by my God I will pass over a wall.

30- As for my God, his way is perfect: the oracles of the Lord are tried in the fire; he is a protector of all them that hope in him.

31-For who is God but the Lord? and who is a God except our God?

32- It is God that girds me with strength, and has made my way blameless:

33-who strengthens my feet as hart's feet, and sets me upon high places.

34-He instructs my hands for war: and you have made my arms as a brazen bow.

35-And you have made me secure in my salvation: and your right hand has helped me, and your correction has upheld me to the end; yes, your correction itself shall instruct me.

36-You have made room for my goings under me, and by footsteps did not fail.

37-I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them; and I will not turn back until they are consumed.

38-I will dash them to pieces and they shall not be able to stand: they shall fall under my feet.

39-For you have girded me with strength for war: you have beaten down under me all that rose up against me.

40-And you have made my enemies turn their backs before me; and you have destroyed them that hated me.

41-They cried, but there was no deliverer: even to the Lord, but he listened not to them.

42-I will grind them as the mud of the streets: and I will beat them small as dust before the wind.

43-Deliver me from the gain sayings of the people: you shall make me head of the Gentiles: a people whom I knew not served me,

44-at the hearing of the ear they obeyed me: the strange children lied to me.

45-The strange children waxed old, and fell away from their paths through lameness.

46-The Lord lives; and blessed be my God; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

47- It is God that avenges me, and has subdued the nations under me;

48-my deliverer from angry enemies: you shall set me on high above them that rise up against me: you shall deliver me from the unrighteous man.

49-Therefore will I confess to you, O Lord, among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.

50- God magnifies the deliverances of his king; and deals mercifully with David his anointed, and his seed, for ever.

Chapter 18 (19)

For the end, a Psalm of David.

1-The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims the work of his hands.

2-Day to day utters speech, and night to night proclaims knowledge.

3-There are no speeches or words, in which their voices are not heard.

4- Their voice is gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

5-In the sun he has set his tabernacle; and he comes forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber: he will exult as a giant to run his course.

6-His going forth is from the extremity of heaven, and his circuit to the other end of heaven: and no one shall be hidden from his heat.

7-The law of the Lord is perfect, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, instructing babes.

8-The ordinances of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is bright, enlightening the eyes.

9-The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring for ever and ever: the judgments of the Lord are true, and justified altogether.

10-To be desired more than gold, and much precious stone: sweeter also than honey and the honey-comb.

11-For your servant keeps to them: in the keeping of them there is great reward.

12-Who will understand his transgressions? purge you me from my secret sins.

13-And spare your servant the attack of strangers: if they do not gain the dominion over me, then shall I be blameless, and I shall be clear from great sin.

14-So shall the sayings of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be pleasing continually before you, O Lord my helper, and my redeemer.

Chapter 19 (20)

For the end, a Psalm of David.

1-The Lord hear you in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend you.

2-Send you help from the sanctuary, and aid you out of Sion.

3-Remember all your sacrifice, and enrich your whole burnt offering. Pause.

4-Grant you according to your heart, and fulfill all your desire.

5-We will exult in your salvation, and in the name of our God shall we be magnified: the Lord fulfil all your petitions.

6-Now I know that the Lord has saved his Christ: he shall hear him from his holy heaven: the salvation of his right hand is mighty.

7-Some glory in chariots, and some in horses: but we will glory in the name of the Lord our God.

8-They are overthrown and fallen: but we are risen, and have been set upright.

9-O Lord, save the king: and hear us in whatever day we call upon you.

Chapter 20 (21)

For the end, a Psalm of David.

1-O Lord, the king shall rejoice in your strength; and in your salvation he shall greatly exult.

2-You have granted him the desire of his soul, and have not withheld from him the request of his lips. Pause.

3-For you have prevented him with blessings of goodness: you have set upon his head a crown of precious stone.

4-He asked life of you, and you gave him length of days for ever and ever.

5-His glory is great in your salvation: you will crown him with glory and majesty.

6-For you will give him a blessing for ever and ever: you will gladden him with joy with your countenance.

7-For the king trusts in the Lord, and through the mercy of the Highest he shall not be moved.

8-Let your hand be found by all your enemies: let your right hand find all that hate you.

9-You shall make them as a fiery oven at the time of your presence: the Lord shall trouble them in his anger, and fire shall devour them.

10-You shall destroy their fruit from the earth, and their seed from among the sons of men.

11-For they intended evils against you; they imagined a device which they shall by no means be able to perform.

12-For you shall make them turn their back in your latter end, you will prepare their face.

13-Be you exalted, O Lord, in your strength: we will sing and praise your mighty acts.

Chapter 21 (22)

For the end,

concerning the morning aid, a Psalm of David.

1- O God, my God, attend to me: why have you forsaken me? the account of my transgressions is far from my salvation.

2-O my God, I will cry to you by day, but you will not hear: and by night, and it shall not be accounted for folly to me.

3-But you, the praise of Israel, dwell in a sanctuary.

4-Our fathers hoped in you; they hoped, and you did deliver them.

5-They cried to you, and were saved: they hoped in you, and were not ashamed.

6-But I am a worm, and not a man; a reproach of men, and scorn of the people.

7-All that saw me mocked me: they spoke with their lips, they shook the head, saying,

8-He hoped in the Lord: let him deliver him, let him save him, because he takes pleasure in him.

9-For you are he that drew me out of the womb; my hope from my mother's breasts.

10-I was cast on you from the womb: you are my God from my mother's belly.

11-Stand not aloof from me; for affliction is near; for there is no helper.

12-Many bullocks have compassed me: fat bulls have beset me round.

13-They have opened their mouth against me, as a ravening and roaring lion.

14-I am poured out like water, and all my bones are loosened: my heart in the midst of my belly is become like melting wax.

15-My strength is dried up, like a potsherd; and my tongue is glued to my throat; and you have brought me down to the dust of death.

16-For many dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked doers has beset me round: they pierced my hands and my feet.

17-They counted all my bones; and they observed and looked upon me.

18- They parted my garments among themselves, and cast lots upon my raiment.

19-But you, O Lord, remove not my help afar off: be ready for my aid.

20-Deliver my soul from the sword; my only-begotten one from the power of the dog.

21-Save me from the lion's mouth; and regard my lowliness from the horns of the unicorns.

22-I will declare your name to my brethren: in the midst of the church will I sing praise to you.

23-You° that fear the Lord, praise him; all you° seed of Jacob, glorify him: let all the seed of Israel fear him.

24-For he has not despised nor been angry at the supplication of the poor; nor turned away his face from me; but when I cried to him, he heard me.

25-My praise is of you in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

26-The poor shall eat and be satisfied; and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their heart shall live for ever.

27-All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord: and all the kindred of the nations shall worship before him.

28-For the kingdom is the Lord's; and he is the governor of the nations.

29-All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and worshipped: all that go down to the earth shall fall down before him: my soul also lives to him.

30-And my seed shall serve him: the generation that is coming shall be reported to the Lord.

31-And they shall report his righteousness to the people that shall be born, whom the Lord has made.

Chapter 22 (23)

A Psalm of David.

1-The Lord tends me as a shepherd, and I shall lack nothing.

2-In a place of green grass, there he has made me dwell: he has nourished me by the water of rest.

3-He has restored my soul: he has guided me into the paths of righteousness, for his name's sake.

4-Yes, even if I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will not be afraid of evils: for you are with me; your rod and your staff, these have comforted me.

5-You have prepared a table before me in presence of them that afflict me: you have thoroughly anointed my head with oil; and your cup cheers me like the best wine.

6-Your mercy also shall follow me all the days of my life: and my dwelling shall be in the house of the Lord for a very long time.

Chapter 23 (24)

A Psalm for David on the first day of the week.

The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof; the world, and all that dwell in it.

2-He has founded it upon the seas, and prepared it upon the rivers.

3-Who shall go up to the mountain of the Lord, and who shall stand in his holy place?

4-He that is innocent in his hands and pure in his heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbor.

5-He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his Saviour.

6-This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek the face of the God of Jacob. Pause.

7-Lift up your gates, you° princes, and be you° lifted up, you° everlasting doors; and the king of glory shall come in.

8-Who is this king of Glory? the Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.

9-Lift up your gates, you° princes; and be you° lifted up, you° everlasting doors; and the king of glory shall come in.

10-Who is this king of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is this king of glory.

Chapter 24 (25)

A Psalm of David.

1-To you, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul.

2-O my God, I have trusted in you: let me not be confounded, neither let my enemies laugh me to scorn.

3-For none of them that wait on you shall in any wise be ashamed: let them be ashamed that transgress without cause.

4-Show me your ways, O Lord; and teach me your paths.

5-Lead me in your truth, and teach me: for you are God my Saviour: and I have waited on you all the day.

6-Remember your compassions, O Lord, and your mercies, for they are from everlasting.

7-Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my sins of ignorance: remember me according to your mercy, for your goodness' sake, O Lord.

8-Good and upright is the Lord: therefore will he instruct sinners in the way.

9-The meek will he guide in judgment: the meek will he teach his ways.

10-All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth to them that seek his covenant and his testimonies.

11-For your name's sake, O Lord, do you also be merciful to my sin; for it is great.

12-Who is the man that fears the Lord? he shall instruct him in the way which he has chosen.

13-His soul shall dwell in prosperity; and his seed shall inherit the earth.

14-The Lord is the strength of them that fear him; and his covenant is to manifest truth to them.

15-Mine eyes are continually to the Lord; for he shall draw my feet out of the snare.

16-Look upon me, and have mercy upon me; for I am an only child and poor.

17-The afflictions of my heart have been multiplied; deliver me from my distresses.

18-Look upon my affliction and my trouble; and forgive all my sins.

19-Look upon my enemies; for they have been multiplied; and they have hated me with unjust hatred.

20-Keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I have hoped in you.

21-The harmless and upright joined themselves to me: for I waited for you, O Lord.

22-Deliver Israel, O God, out of all his afflictions.

Chapter 25 (26)

A Psalm of David.

1-Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in my innocence: and hoping in the Lord I shall not be moved.

2-Prove me, O Lord, and try me; purify as with fire my reins and my heart.

3-For your mercy is before my eyes: and I am well pleased with your truth.

4-I have not sat with the council of vanity, and will in nowise enter in with transgressors.

5-I have hated the assembly of wicked doers; and will not sit with ungodly men.

6-I will wash my hands in innocency, and compass your altar, O Lord:

7-to hear the voice of praise, and to declare all your wonderful works.

8-O Lord, I have loved the beauty of your house, and the place of the tabernacle of your glory.

9-Destroy not my soul together with the ungodly, nor my life with bloody men:

10-in whose hands are iniquities, and their right hand is filled with bribes.

11-But I have walked in my innocence: redeem me, and have mercy upon me.

12-My foot stands in an even place: in the congregations will I bless you, O Lord.

Chapter 26 (27)

A Psalm of David, before he was anointed.

1-The Lord is my light and my Saviour; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the defender of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

2-When evil-doers drew near against me to eat up my flesh, my persecutors and my enemies, they fainted and fell.

3-Though an army should set itself in array against me, my heart shall not be afraid: though war should rise up against me, in this am I confident.

4-One thing have I asked of the Lord, this will I earnestly seek: that I should dwell in the house of the Lord, all the days of my life, that I should behold the fair beauty of the Lord, and survey his temple.

5-For in the day of my afflictions he hid me in his tabernacle: he sheltered me in the secret of his tabernacle; he set me up on a rock.

6-And now, behold, he has lifted up my head over my enemies: I went round and offered in his tabernacle the sacrifice of joy; I will sing even sing psalms to the Lord.

7-Hear, O Lord, my voice which I have uttered aloud: pity me, and listen to me.

8-My heart said to you, I have diligently sought your face: your face, O Lord, I will seek.

9-Turn not your face away from me, turn not you away from your servant in anger: be you my helper, forsake me not; and, O God my Saviour, overlook me not.

10-For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord has taken me to himself.

11-Teach me, O Lord, in your way, and guide me in a right path, because of my enemies.

12-Deliver me not over to the desire of them that afflict me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me, and injustice has lied within herself.

13-I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

14-Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and let your heart be strengthened: yes wait on the Lord.

Chapter 27(28)

A Psalm of David.

1-To you, O Lord, have I cried; my God, be not silent toward me: lest you be silent toward me, and so I should be likened to them that go down to the pit.

2-Listen to the voice of my supplication, when I pray to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy temple.

3-Draw not away my soul with sinners, and destroy me not with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace with their neighbors, but evils are in their hearts.

4-Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their devices: give them according to the works of their hands; render their recompense to them.

5-Because they have not attended to the works of the Lord, even to the works of his hands, you shall pull them down, and shall not build them up.

6-Blessed be the Lord, for he has listened to the voice of my petition.

7-The Lord is my helper and my defender; my heart has hoped in him, and I am helped: my flesh has revived, and willingly will I give praise to him.

8-The Lord is the strength of his people, and the saving defender of his anointed.

9-Save your people, and bless your inheritance: and take care of them, and lift them up for ever.

Chapter 28 (29)

A Psalm of David on the occasion of the solemn assembly of the Tabernacle.

1-Bring to the Lord, you° sons of God, bring to the Lord young rams; bring to the Lord glory and honor.

2-Bring to the Lord glory, due to his name; worship the lord in his holy court.

3-The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory has thundered: the Lord is upon many waters.

4-The voice of the Lord is mighty; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

5- There is the voice of the Lord who breaks the cedars; the Lord will break the cedars of Libanus.

6-And he will beat them small, even Libanus itself, like a calf; and the beloved one is as a young unicorn.

7- There is a voice of the Lord who divides a flame of fire.

8-A voice of the Lord who shakes the wilderness; the Lord will shake the wilderness of Cades.

9-The voice of the Lord strengthens the hinds, and will uncover the thickets: and in his temple every one speaks of his glory.

10-The Lord will dwell on the waterflood: and the Lord will sit a king for ever.

11-The Lord will give strength to his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace.

Chapter 29 (30)

For the end, a Psalm and Song at the dedication of the house of David.

1-I will exalt you, O Lord; for you have lifted me up, and not caused my enemies to rejoice over me.

2-O Lord my God, I cried to you, and you did heal me.

3-O Lord, you have brought up my soul from Hades, you have delivered me from among them that go down to the pit.

4-Sing to the Lord, you° his saints, and give thanks for the remembrance of his holiness.

5-For anger is in his wrath, but life in his favor: weeping shall wait for the evening, but joy shall be in the morning.

6-And I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved.

7-O Lord, in your good pleasure you did add strength to my beauty: but you did turn away your face, and I was troubled.

8-To you, O Lord, will I cry; and to my God will I make supplication.

9-What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to destruction? Shall the dust give praise to you? or shall it declare your truth?

10-The Lord heard, and had compassion upon me; the Lord is become my helper.

11-You have turned my mourning into joy for me: you have torn off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

12-that my glory may sing praise to you, and I may not be pierced with sorrow. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you for ever.

Chapter 30 (31)

For the end, a Psalm of David, an utterance of extreme fear.

1-O Lord, I have hoped in you; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in your righteousness and rescue me.

2-Incline your ear to me; make haste to rescue me: be you to me for a protecting God, and for a house of refuge to save me.

3-For you are my strength and my refuge; and you shall guide me for your name's sake, and maintain me.

4-You shall bring me out of the snare which they have hidden for me; for you, O Lord, are my defender.

5-Into your hands I will commit my spirit: you have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.

6-You have hated them that idly persist in vanities: but I have hoped in the Lord.

7-I will exult and be glad in your mercy: for you have looked upon my affliction; you have saved my soul from distresses.

8-And you have not shut me up into the hands of the enemy: you have set my feet in a wide place.

9-Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with indignation, my soul and my belly.

10-For my life is spent with grief, and my years with groanings: my strength has been weakened through poverty, and my bones are troubled.

11-I became a reproach among all my enemies, but exceedingly so to my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintance: they that saw me without fled from me.

12-I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become as a broken vessel.

13-For I heard the slander of many that lived round about: when they were gathered together against me, they took counsel to take my life.

14-But I hoped in you, O Lord: I said, You are my God.

15-My lots are in your hands: deliver me from the hand of my enemies,

16-and from them that persecute me. Make your face to shine upon your servant: save me in your mercy.

17-O Lord, let me not be ashamed, for I have called upon you: let the ungodly be ashamed, and brought down to Hades.

18-Let the deceitful lips become dumb, which speak iniquity against the righteous with pride and scorn.

19-How abundant is the multitude of your goodness, O Lord, which you have laid up for them that fear you! you have wrought it out for them that hope on you, in the presence of the sons of men.

20-You will hide them in the secret of your presence from the vexation of man: you will screen them in a tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues.

21-Blessed be the Lord: for he has magnified his mercy in a fortified city.

22-But I said in my extreme fear, I am cast out from the sight of your eyes: therefore you did listen, O Lord, to the voice of my supplication when I cried to you.

23-Love the Lord, all you° his saints: for the Lord seeks for truth, and renders a reward to them that deal very proudly.

24-Be of good courage, and let your heart be strengthened, all you° that hope in the Lord.

Chapter 31 (32)

A Psalm of instruction by David.

1- Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, and who sins are covered.

2-Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin, and in whose mouth there is no guile.

3-Because I kept silence, my bones waxed old, from my crying all the day.

4-For day and night your hand was heavy upon me: I became thoroughly miserable while a thorn was fastened in me. Pause.

5-I acknowledged my sin, and hid not my iniquity: I said, I will confess my iniquity to the Lord against myself; and you forgave the ungodliness of my heart. Pause.

6-Therefore shall every holy one pray to you in a fit time: only in the deluge of many waters they shall not come near to him.

7-You are my refuge from the affliction that encompasses me; my joy, to deliver me from them that have compassed me. Pause.

8-I will instruct you and guide you in this way wherein you shall go: I will fix my eyes upon you.

9-Be you° not as horse and mule, which have no understanding; but you must constrain their jaws with bit and curb, lest they should come near to you.

10-Many are the scourges of the sinner: but him that hopes in the Lord mercy shall compass about.

11-Be glad in the Lord, and exult, you° righteous: and glory, all you° that are upright in heart.

Chapter 32 (33)

A Psalm of David.

1-Rejoice in the Lord, you° righteous; praise becomes the upright.

2- Praise the Lord on the harp; platy to him on a lute of ten strings.

3-Sing to him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise.

4-For the word of the Lord is right; and all his works are faithful.

5-He loves mercy and judgment; the earth is full the mercy of the Lord.

6-By the word of the Lord the heavens were established; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

7-Who gathers the waters of the sea as in a bottle; who lays up the deeps in treasuries.

8-Let all the earth fear the Lord; and let all that dwell in the world be moved because of him.

9-For he spoke, and they were made; he commanded, and they were created.

10-The Lord frustrates the counsels of the nations; he brings to nothing also the reasonings of the peoples, and brings to nothing the counsels of princes.

11-But the counsel of the Lord endures for ever, the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation.

12-Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

13-The Lord looks out of heaven; he beholds all the sons of men.

14-He looks from his prepared habitation on all the dwellers on the earth;

15-who fashioned their hearts alone; who understands all their works.

16-A king is not saved by reason of a great host; and a giant shall not be delivered by the greatness of his strength.

17-A horse is vain for safety; neither shall he be delivered by the greatness of his power.

18-Behold, the eyes of the Lord are on them that fear him, those that hope in his mercy;

19-to deliver their souls from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

20-Our soul waits on the Lord; for he is our helper and defender.

21-For our heart shall rejoice in him, and we have hoped in his holy name.

22-Let your mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we have hoped in you.

Chapter 33 (34)

A Psalm of David, when he changed his countenance before Abimelech; and he let him go, and he departed.

1-I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall be continually in my mouth.

2-My soul shall boast herself in the Lord: let the meek hear, and rejoice.

3-Magnify you° the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.

4-I sought the Lord diligently, and he listened to me, and delivered me from all my sojournings.

5-Draw near to him, and be enlightened: and your faces shall not by any means be ashamed.

6-This poor man cried, and the Lord listened to him, and delivered him out of all his afflictions.

7-The angel of the Lord will encamp round about them that fear him, and will deliver them.

8-Taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man who hopes in him.

9-Fear the Lord, all you° his saints: for there is no lack to them that fear him.

10-The rich have become poor and hungry: but they that seek the Lord diligently shall not lack any good thing. Pause.

11-Come, you° children, hear me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

12- What man is there that desires life, loving to see good days?

13-Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking guile.

14-Turn away from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

15-The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer:

16-but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to destroy their memorial from the earth. The righteous cried, and the Lord listened to them,

17-and delivered them out of all their afflictions.

18-The Lord is near to them that are of a contrite heart; and will save the lowly in spirit.

19-Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but out of them all Lord will deliver them.

20-He keeps all their bones: not one of them shall be broken.

21-The death of sinners is evil: and they that hate righteousness will go wrong.

22-The Lord will redeem the souls of his servants: and none of those that hope in him shall go wrong.

Chapter 34 (35)

A Psalm of David.

1-Judge you, O Lord, them that injure me, fight against them that fight against me.

2-Take hold of shield and buckler, and arise for my help.

3-Bring forth a sword, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say to my soul, I am your salvation.

4-Let them that seek my soul be ashamed and confounded: let them that devise evils against me be turned back and put to shame.

5-Let them be as dust before the wind, and an angel of the Lord afflicting them.

6-Let their way be dark and slippery, and an angel of the Lord persecuting them.

7-For without cause they have hid for me their destructive snare: without a cause they have reproached my soul.

8-Let a snare which they know not come upon them; and the gin which they hid take them; and let them fall into the very same snare.

9-But my soul shall exult in the Lord: it shall delight in his salvation.

10-All my bones shall say, O Lord, who is like to you? delivering the poor out of the hand of them that are stronger than he, yes, the poor and needy one from them that spoil him.

11-Unjust witnesses arose, and asked me of things I new not.

12-They rewarded me evil for good, and bereavement to my soul.

13-But I, when they troubled me, put on sackcloth, and humbled my soul with fasting: and my prayer shall return to my own bosom.

14-I behaved agreeably towards them as if it had been our neighbor or brother: I humbled myself as one mourning and sad of countenance.

15-Yet they rejoiced against me, and plagues were plentifully brought against me, and I knew it not: they were scattered, but repented not.

16-They tempted me, they sneered at me most contemptuously, they gnashed their teeth upon me.

17-O Lord, when will you look upon me? Deliver my soul from their mischief, my only-begotten one from the lions.

18-I will give thanks to you even in a great congregation: in an abundant people I will praise you.

19-Let not them that are my enemies without a cause rejoice against me; who hate me for nothing, and wink with their eyes.

20-For to me they spoke peaceably, but imagined deceits in their anger.

21-And they opened wide their mouth upon me; they said Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it.

22-You have seen it, O Lord: keep not silence: O Lord, withdraw not yourself from me.

23-Awake, O Lord, and attend to my judgment, even to my cause, my God and my Lord.

24-Judge me, O Lord, according to your righteousness, O Lord my God; and let them not rejoice against me.

25-Let them not say in their hearts, Aha, aha, it is pleasing to our soul: neither let them say, We have devoured him.

26-Let them be confounded and ashamed together that rejoice at my afflictions: let them be clothed with shame and confusion that speak great swelling words against me.

27-Let them that rejoice in my righteousness exult and be glad: and let them say continually, The Lord be magnified, who desire the peace of his servant.

28-And my tongue shall meditate on your righteousness, and on your praise all the day.

Chapter 35 (36)

For the end, by David the servant of the Lord.

1-The transgressor, that he may sin, says within himself, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

2-For he has dealt craftily before him, to discover his iniquity and hate it.

3-The words of his mouth are transgression and deceit: he is not inclined to understand how to do good.

4-He devises iniquity on his bed; he gives himself to every evil way; and does not abhor evil.

5-O Lord, your mercy is in the heaven; and your truth reaches to the clouds.

6-Your righteousness is as the mountains of God, your judgments are as a great deep: O Lord, you will preserve men and beasts.

7-How have you multiplied your mercy, O God! so the children of men shall trust in the shelter of your wings.

8-They shall be fully satisfied with the fatness of your house; and you shall cause them to drink of the full stream of your delights.

9-For with you is the fountain of life: in your light we shall see light.

10-Extend your mercy to them that know you; and your righteousness to the upright in heart.

11-Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of sinners move me.

12-There have all the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast out, and shall not be able to stand.

Chapter 36 (37)

A Psalm of David.

1-Fret not yourself because of evil-doers, neither be envious of them that do iniquity.

2-For they shall soon be withered as the grass, and shall soon fall away as the green herbs.

3-Hope in the Lord, and do good; and dwell on the land, and you shall be fed with the wealth of it.

4-Delight yourself in the Lord; and he shall grant you the requests of your heart.

5-Disclose your way to the Lord, and hope in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

6-And he shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your judgment as the noon-day.

7-Submit yourself to the Lord, and supplicate him: fret not yourself because of him that prospers in his way, at the man that does unlawful deeds.

8-ease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not yourself so as to do evil.

9-For evil-doers shall be destroyed: but they that wait on the Lord, they shall inherit the land.

10-And yet a little while, and the sinner shall not be, and you shall seek for his place, and shall not find it.

11-But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

12-The sinner will watch for the righteous, and gnash his teeth upon him.

13-But the Lord shall laugh at him: for he foresees that his day will come.

14-Sinners have drawn their swords, they have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy one, and to kill the upright in heart.

15-Let their sword enter into their own heart, and their bows be broken.

16-A little is better to the righteous than abundant wealth of sinners.

17-For the arms of sinners shall be broken; but the Lord supports the righteous.

18-The Lord knows the ways of the perfect; and their inheritance shall be for ever.

19-They shall not be ashamed in an evil time; and in days of famine they shall be satisfied.

20-For the sinners shall perish; and the enemies of the Lord at the moment of their being honored and exalted have utterly vanished like smoke.

21-The sinner borrows, and will not pay again: but the righteous has compassion, and gives.

22-For they that bless him shall inherit the earth; and they that curse him shall be utterly destroyed.

23-The steps of a man are rightly ordered by the Lord: and he will take pleasure in his way.

24-When he falls, he shall not be ruined: for the Lord supports his hand.

25-I was once young, indeed I am now old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread.

26-He is merciful, and lends continually; and his seed shall be blessed.

27-Turn aside from evil, and do good; and dwell for ever.

28-For the Lord loves judgment, and will not forsake his saints; they shall be preserved for ever: the blameless shall be avenged, but the seed of the ungodly shall be utterly destroyed.

29-But the righteous shall inherit the earth, and dwell upon it for ever.

30-The mouth of the righteous will meditate wisdom, and his tongue will speak of judgment.

31-The law of his God is in his heart; and his steps shall not slide.

32-The sinner watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

33-But the Lord will not leave him in his hands, nor by any means condemn him when he is judged.

34-Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt you to inherit the land: when the wicked are destroyed, you shall see it.

35-I saw the ungodly very highly exalting himself, and lifting himself up like the cedars of Libanus.

36-Yet I passed by, and behold! he was not: and I sought him, but his place was not found.

37-Maintain innocence, and behold uprightness: for there is a remnant to the peaceful man.

38-But the transgressors shall be utterly destroyed together: the remnants of the ungodly shall be utterly destroyed.

39-But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord; and he is their defender in the time of affliction.

40-And the Lord shall help them, and deliver them: and he shall rescue them from sinners, and save them, because they have hoped in him.

Chapter 37 (38)

A Psalm of David for remembrance concerning the Sabbath-day.

1-O Lord, rebuke me not in your wrath, neither chasten me in your anger.

2-For your weapons are fixed in me, and you have pressed your hand heavily upon me.

3-For there is no health in my flesh because of your anger; there is no peace to my bones because of my sins.

4-For my transgressions have gone over my head: they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden.

5-My bruises have become noisome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.

6-I have been wretched and bowed down continually: I went with a mourning countenance all the day.

7-For my soul is filled with mockings; and there is no health in my flesh.

8-I have been afflicted and brought down exceedingly: I have roared for the groaning of my heart.

9-But all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hidden from you.

10-My heart is troubled, my strength has failed me; and the light of my eyes is not with me.

11-My friends and my neighbors drew near before me, and stood still; and my nearest of kin stood afar off.

12-While they pressed hard upon me that sought my soul: and they that sought my hurt spoke vanities, and devised deceits all the day.

13-But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and was as a dumb man not opening his mouth.

14-And I was as a man that hears not, and who has no reproofs in his mouth.

15-For I hoped in you, O Lord: you will hear, O Lord my God.

16-For I said, Lest my enemies rejoice against me: for when my feet were moved, they spoke boastingly against me.

17-For I am ready for plagues, and my grief is continually before me.

18-For I will declare my iniquity, and be distressed for my sin.

19-But my enemies live, and are mightier than I: and they that hate me unjustly are multiplied.

20-They that reward evil for good slandered me; because I followed righteousness.

21-Forsake me not, O Lord my God: depart not from me.

22-Draw near to my help, O Lord of my salvation.

Chapter 38 (39)

For the end, a Song of David, to Idithun.

1-I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I set a guard on my mouth, while the sinner stood in my presence.

2-I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good words; and my grief was renewed.

3-My heart grew hot within me, and a fire would kindle in my meditation: I spoke with my tongue,

4-O Lord, make me to know my end, and the number of my days, what it is; that I may know what I lack.

5-Behold, you have made my days old; and my existence is as nothing before you: nay, every man living is altogether vanity. Pause.

6-Surely man walks in a shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain: he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them.

7-And now what is my expectation? is it not the Lord? and my ground of hope is with you. Pause.

8-Deliver me from all my transgressions: you have made me a reproach to the foolish.

9-I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; for you are he that made me.

10-Remove your scourges from me: I have fainted by reason of the strength of your hand.

11-You chasten man with rebukes for iniquity, and you make his life to consume away like a spider's web; nay, every man is disquieted in vain. Pause.

12-O Lord, listen to my prayer and my supplication: attend to my tears: be not silent, for I am a sojourner in the land, and a stranger, as all my fathers were.

13-Spare me, that I may be refreshed, before I depart, and be no more.

Chapter 39 (40)

For the end, a Psalm of David.

1-I waited patiently for the Lord; and he attended to me, and listened to my supplication.

2-And he brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay: and he set my feet on a rock, and ordered my goings aright.

3-And he put a new song into my mouth, even a hymn to our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall hope in the Lord.

4-Blessed is the man whose hope is in the name of the Lord, and who has not regarded vanities and false frenzies.

5-O Lord my God, you have multiplied your wonderful works, and in your thoughts there is none who shall be likened to you: I declared and spoke of them: they exceeded number.

6- Sacrifice and offering you would not; but a body have you prepared me: whole burnt offering and sacrifice for sin you did not require.

7-Then I said, Behold, I come: in the volume of the book it is written concerning me,

8-I desired to do your will, O my God, and your law in the midst of my heart.

9-I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; behold! I will not refrain my lips; O Lord, you know my righteousness.

10-I have not hid your truth within my heart, and I have declared your salvation; I have not hid your mercy and your truth from the great congregation.

11-But you, Lord, remove not your compassion far from me; your mercy and your truth have helped me continually.

12-For innumerable evils have encompassed me; my transgressions have taken hold of me, and I could not see; they are multiplied more than the hairs of my head; and my heart has failed me.

13-Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, draw near to help me.

14-Let those that seek my soul, to destroy it, be ashamed and confounded together; let those that wish me evil be turned backward and put to shame.

15-Let those that say to me, Aha, aha, quickly receive shame for their reward.

16-Let all those that seek you, O Lord, exult and rejoice in you; and let them that love your salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified.

17-But I am poor and needy; the Lord will take care of me; you are my helper, and my defender, O my God, delay not.

Chapter 40 (41)

For the end, a Psalm of David.

1-Blessed is the man who thinks, on the poor and needy: the Lord shall deliver him in an evil day.

2-May the Lord preserve him and keep him alive, and bless him on the earth, and not deliver him into the hands of his enemy.

3-May the Lord help him upon the bed of his pain; you have made all his bed in his sickness.

4-I said, O Lord, have mercy upon me; heal my soul; for I have sinned against you.

5-Mine enemies have spoken evil against me, saying, When shall he die, and his name perish?

6-And if he came to see me, his heart spoke vainly; he gathered iniquity to himself; he went forth and spoke in like manner.

7-All my enemies whispered against me; against me they devised my hurt.

8-They denounced a wicked word against me, saying, Now that he lies, shall he not rise up again?

9-For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, lifted up his heel against me.

10-But you, O Lord, have compassion upon me, and raise me up, and I shall requite them.

11-By this I know that you have delighted in me, because my enemy shall not rejoice over me.

12-But you did help me because of my innocence, and have established me before you for ever.

13-Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. So be it, so be it.

Chapter 41 (42)

For the end, a Psalm for instruction, for the sons of Core.

1-As the hart earnestly desires the fountains of water, so my soul earnestly longs for you, O God.

2-My soul has thirsted for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

3-My tears have been bread to me day and night, while they daily said to me, Where is your God?

4-I remembered these things, and poured out my soul in me, for I will go to the place of your wondrous tabernacle, even to the house of God, with a voice of exultation and thanksgiving and of the sound of those who keep festival.

5-Therefore are you very sad, O my soul? and therefore do you trouble me? hope in God; for I will give thanks to him; he is the salvation of my countenance.

6-O my God, my soul has been troubled within me: therefore will I remember you from the land of Jordan, and of the Ermonites, from the little hill.

7-Deep calls to deep at the voice of your cataracts: all your billows and your waves have gone over me.

8-By day the Lord will command his mercy, and manifest it by night: with me is prayer to the God of my life.

9-I will say to God, You are my helper; why have you forgotten me? therefore do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses me?

10-While my bones were breaking, they that afflicted me reproached me; while they said to me daily, Where is your God?

11-Therefore are you very sad, O my soul? and therefore do you trouble me? hope in God; for I will give thanks to him; he is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Chapter 42 (43)

A Psalm of David.

1-Judge me, O God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation: deliver me from the unjust and crafty man.

2-For you, O God, are my strength: therefore have you cast me off? and why do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses me?

3-Send forth your light and your truth: they have led me, and brought me to your holy mountain, and to your tabernacles.

4-And I will go in to the altar of God, to God who gladdens my youth: I will give thanks to you on the harp, O God, my God.

5-Therefore are you very sad, O my soul? and therefore do you trouble me? Hope in God; for I will give thanks to him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Chapter 43 (44)

For the end, a Psalm for instruction, for the sons of Core.

1-O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, the work which you wrought in their days, in the days of old.

2-Your hand utterly destroyed the heathen, and you did plant them: you did afflict the nations, and cast them out.

3-For they inherited not the land by their own sword, and their own arm did not deliver them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you were well pleased in them.

4-You are indeed my King and my God, who command deliverances for Jacob.

5-In you will we push down our enemies, and in your name will we bring to nothing them that rise up against us.

6-For I will not trust in my bow, and my sword shall not save me.

7-For you have saved us from them that afflicted us, and have put to shame them that hated us.

8-In God will we make our boast all the day, and to your name will we give thanks for ever. Pause.

9-But now you have cast off, and put us to shame; and you will not go forth with our hosts.

10-You have turned us back before our enemies; and they that hated us spoiled for themselves.

11-You made us as sheep for meat; and you scattered us among the nations.

12-You have sold your people without price, and there was no profit by their exchange.

13-You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision them that are round about us.

14-You have made us a proverb among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the nations.

15-All the day my shame is before me, and the confusion of my face has covered me,

16-because of the voice of the slanderer and reviler; because of the enemy and avenger.

17-All these things are come upon us: but we have not forgotten you, neither have we dealt unrighteously in your covenant.

18-And our heart has not gone back; but you have turned aside our paths from your way.

19-For you have laid us low in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us.

20-If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread out our hands to a strange god; shall not God search these things out?

21-for he knows the secrets of the heart.

22- For, for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for slaughter.

23-Awake, therefore sleep you, O Lord? arise, and do not cast us off for ever.

24-Therefore turn you your face away, and forget our poverty and our affliction?

25-For our soul has been brought down to the dust; our belly has cleaved to the earth.

26-Arise, O Lord, help us, and redeem us for your name's sake.

Chapter 44 (45)

For the end, for alternate strains by the sons of Core; for instruction, a Song concerning the beloved.

1-My heart has uttered a good matter: I declare my works to the king: my tongue is the pen of a quick writer.

2-You are more beautiful than the sons of men: grace has been shed forth on your lips: therefore God has blessed you for ever.

3-Gird your sword upon your thigh, O Mighty One, in your comeliness, and in your beauty;

4-and bend your bow, and prosper, and reign, because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and your right hand shall guide you wonderfully.

5-Your weapons are sharpened, Mighty One, (the nations shall fall under you) they are in the heart of the king's enemies.

6- Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of your kingdom is a sceptre of righteousness.

7-You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your fellows.

8-Myrrh, and stacte, and cassia are exhaled from your garments, and out of the ivory palaces,

9-with which kings' daughters have gladdened you for your honor: the queen stood by on your right hand, clothed in vesture wrought with gold, and arrayed in various colors.

10-Hear, O daughter, and see, and incline your ear; forget also your people, and your father's house.

11-Because the king has desired your beauty; for he is your Lord.

12-And the daughter of Tyre shall adore him with gifts; the rich of the people of the land shall supplicate your favor.

13-All her glory is that of the daughter of the king of Esebon, robed as she is in golden fringed garments,

14-in embroidered clothing: virgins shall be brought to the king after her: her fellows shall be brought to you.

15-They shall be brought with gladness and exultation: they shall be led into the king's temple.

16-Instead of your fathers children are born to you: you shall make them princes over all the earth.

17-They shall make mention of your name from generation to generation: therefore shall the nations give thanks to you for ever, even for ever and ever.

Chapter 45 (46)

For the end, for the sons of Core; a Psalm concerning secret things.

1-God is our refuge and strength, a help in the afflictions that have come heavily upon us.

2-Therefore will we not fear when the earth is troubled, and the mountains are removed into the depths of the seas.

3-Their waters have roared and been troubled, the mountains have been troubled by his might. Pause.

4-The flowings of the river gladden the city of God: the Most High has sanctified his tabernacle.

5-God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her with his countenance.

6-The nations were troubled, the kingdoms tottered: he uttered his voice, the earth shook.

7-The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our helper. Pause.

8-Come, and behold the works of the Lord, what wonders he has achieved on the earth.

9-Putting an end to wars as for the ends of the earth; he will crush the bow, and break in pieces the weapon, and burn the bucklers with fire.

10-Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.

11-The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our helper.

Chapter 46 (47)

For the end, a Psalm for the sons of Core.

1-Clap your hands, all you° nations; shout to God with a voice of exultation.

2-For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great king over all the earth.

3-He has subdued the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet.

4-He has chosen out his inheritance for us, the beauty of Jacob which he loved. Pause.

5-God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with a sound of a trumpet.

6-Sing praises to our God, sing praises: sing praises to our King, sing praises.

7-For God is king of all the earth: sing praises with understanding.

8-God reigns over the nations: God sits upon the throne of his holiness.

9-The rulers of the people are assembled with the God of Abraam: for God's mighty ones of the earth have been greatly exalted.

Chapter 47 (48)

A Psalm of praise for the sons of Core on the second day of the week.

1-Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

2-The city of the great King is well planted on the mountains of Sion, with the joy of the whole earth, on the sides of the north.

3-God is known in her palaces, when he undertakes to help her.

4-For, behold the kings of the earth were assembled, they came together.

5-They saw, and so they wondered: they were troubled, they were moved.

6-Trembling took hold on them: there were the pangs as of a woman in travail.

7-You will break the ships of Tharsis with a vehement wind.

8-As we have heard, so have we also seen, in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God has founded it for ever. Pause.

9-We have thought of your mercy, O God, in the midst of your people.

10-According to your name, O God, so is also your praise to the ends of the earth: your right hand is full of righteousness.

11-Let mount Sion rejoice, let the daughters of Judaea exult, because of your judgments, O Lord.

12-Go round about Sion, and encompass her: tell you° her towers.

13-Mark you° well her strength, and observe her palaces; that you° may tell the next generation.

14-For this is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide for evermore.

Chapter 48 (49)

For the end, a Psalm for the sons of Core.

1-Hear these words, all you° nations, listen, all you° that dwell upon the earth:

2-both the sons of mean men, and sons of great men; the rich and poor man together.

3-My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall bring forth understanding.

4-I will incline my ear to a parable: I will open my riddle on the harp.

5-Therefore should I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall compass me.

6-They that trust in their strength, and boast themselves in the multitude of their wealth—

7-A brother does not redeem, shall a man redeem? he shall not give to God a ransom for himself,

8-or the price of the redemption of his soul, though he labor for ever,

9-and live to the end, so that he should not see corruption.

10-When he shall see wise men dying, the fool and the senseless one shall perish together; and they shall leave their wealth to strangers.

11-And their sepulchres are their houses for ever, even their tabernacles to all generations: they have called their lands after their own names.

12-And man being in honor, understands not: he is compared to the senseless cattle, and is like to them.

13-This their way is an offense to them: yet afterwards men will commend their sayings. Pause.

14-They have laid them as sheep in Hades; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning, and their help shall fail in Hades from their glory.

15-But God shall deliver my soul from the power of Hades, when he shall receive me. Pause.

16-Fear not when a man is enriched, and when the glory of his house is increased.

17-For he shall take nothing when he dies; neither shall his glory descend with him.

18-For his soul shall be blessed in his life: he shall give thanks to you when you do well to him.

19- Yet he shall go in to the generation of his fathers; he shall never see light.

20-Man that is in honor, understands not: he is compared to the senseless cattle, and is like them.

Chapter 49 (50)

A Psalm for Asaph.

1-The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof.

2-Out of Sion comes the excellence of his beauty.

3-God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled before him, and round about him there shall be a very great tempest.

4-He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.

5-Assemble you° his saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices.

6-And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. Pause.

7-Hear, my people, and I will speak to you, O Israel: and I will testify to you: I am God, your God.

8-I will not reprove you on account of your sacrifices; for your whole burnt offerings are before me continually.

9-I will take no bullocks out of your house, nor he-goats out of your flocks.

10-For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen.

11-I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine.

12-If I should be hungry, I will not tell you: for the world is mine, and the fullness of it.

13-Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

14-Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay your vows to the Most High.

15-And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me. Pause.

16-But to the sinner God has said, Why do you declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in your mouth?

17-Whereas you have hated instruction, and have cast my words behind you.

18-If you saw a thief, you ran along with him, and have cast in your lot with adulterers.

19-Your mouth has multiplied wickedness, and your tongue has framed deceit.

20-You did sit and speak against your brother, and did scandalize your mother's son.

21-These things you did, and I kept silence: you thought wickedly that I should be like you, but I will reprove you, and set your offenses before you.

22-Now consider these things, you° that forget God, lest he rend you, and there is no deliverer.

23-The sacrifice of praise will glorify me: and that is the way wherein I will show to him the salvation of God.

Chapter 50 (51)

For the end, a Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, when he had gone to Bersabee.

1-Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your great mercy; and according to the multitude of your compassions blot out my transgression.

2-Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

3-For I am conscious of my iniquity; and my sin is continually before me.

4-Against you only have I sinned, and done evil before you: that you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged.

5-For, behold, I was conceived in iniquities, and in sins did my mother conceive me.

6-For, behold, you love truth: you have manifested to me the secret and hidden things of your wisdom.

7-You shall sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be purified: you shall wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.

8-You shall cause me to hear gladness and joy: the afflicted bones shall rejoice.

9-Turn away your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

10-Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit in my inward parts.

11-Cast me not away from your presence; and remove not your holy Spirit from me.

12-Restore to me the joy of your salvation: establish me with your directing Spirit.

13- Then will I teach transgressors your ways; and ungodly men shall turn to you.

14-Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation: and my tongue shall joyfully declare your righteousness.

15-O Lord, you shall open my lips; and my mouth shall declare your praise.

16-For if you desired sacrifice, I would have given it: you will not take pleasure in whole burnt offerings.

17-Sacrifice to God is a broken spirit: a broken and humbled heart God will not despise.

18-Do good, O Lord, to Sion in your good pleasure; and let the walls of Jerusalem be built.

19-Then shall you be pleased with a sacrifice of righteousness, offering, and whole burnt sacrifices: then shall they offer calves upon your altar.

Chapter 51 (52)

For the end, a Psalm of instruction by David, when Doec the Idumean came and told Saul, and said to him, David is gone to the house of Abimelech.

1-Why do you, O mighty man, boast of iniquity in your mischief? All the day

2-your tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor you have wrought deceit.

3-You have loved wickedness more than goodness; unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. Pause.

4-You have loved all words of destruction, and a deceitful tongue.

5-Therefore may God destroy you for ever, may he pluck you up and utterly remove you from your dwelling, and your root from the land of the living. Pause.

6-And the righteous shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, and say,

7-Behold the man who made not God his help; but trusted in the abundance of his wealth, and strengthened himself in his vanity.

8-But I am as a fruitful olive in the house of God: I have trusted in the mercy of God for ever, even for evermore.

9-I will give thanks to you for ever, for you have done it: and I will wait on your name; for it is good before the saints.

Chapter 52 (53)

For the end, a Psalm of David upon Maeleth, of instruction.

1-The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, and become abominable in iniquities: there is none that does good.

2-God looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after God.

3- They have all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, there is not even one.

4-Will none of the workers of iniquity know, who devour my people as they would eat bread? they have not called upon God. There were they greatly afraid, where there was no fear:

5-or God has scattered the bones of the men-pleasers; they were ashamed, for God despised them.

6-Who will bring the salvation of Israel out of Sion? When the Lord turns the captivity of his people, Jacob shall exult, and Israel shall be glad.

Chapter 53 (54)

For the end, among Hymns of instruction by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Behold, is not David hid with us?

1-Save me, O God, by your name, and judge me by your might.

2-O God, hear my prayer; listen to the words of my mouth.

3-For strangers have risen up against me, and mighty men have sought my life: they have not set God before them. Pause.

4-For behold! God assists me; and the Lord is the helper of my soul.

5-He shall return evil to my enemies; utterly destroy them in your truth.

6-I will willingly sacrifice to you: I will give thanks to your name, O Lord; for it is good.

7-For you have delivered me out of all affliction, and my eye has seen my desire upon my enemies.

Chapter 54 (55)

For the end, among Hymns of instruction by David.

1-Listen, O God, to my prayer; and disregard not my supplication.

2-Attend to me, and listen to me: I was grieved in my meditation, and troubled;

3-because of the voice of the enemy, and because of the oppression of the sinner: for they brought iniquity against me, and were wrathfully angry with me.

4-My heart was troubled within me; and the fear of death fell upon me.

5-Fear and trembling came upon me, and darkness covered me.

6-And I said, O that I had wings as those of a dove! then would I flee away, and be at rest.

7-Behold! I have fled afar off, and lodged in the wilderness. Pause.

8-I waited for him that should deliver me from distress of spirit and tempest.

9-Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen iniquity and gain saying in the city.

10-Day and night he shall go round about it upon its walls: iniquity and sorrow and unrighteousness are in the midst of it;

11-and usury and craft have not failed from its streets.

12-For if an enemy had reproached me, I would have endured it; and if one who hated me had spoken vauntingly against me, I would have hid myself from him.

13-But you, O man like minded, my guide, and my acquaintance,

14-who in companionship with me sweetened our food: we walked in the house of God in concord.

15-Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into Hades, for iniquity is in their dwellings, in the midst of them.

16-I cried to God, and the Lord listened to me.

17-Evening, and morning, and at noon I will declare and make known my wants: and he shall hear my voice.

18-He shall deliver my soul in peace from them that draw near to me: for they were with me in many cases.

19-God shall hear, and bring them low, even he that has existed from eternity. Pause. For they suffer no reverse, and therefore they have not feared God.

20-He has reached forth his hand for retribution; they have profaned his covenant.

21-They were scattered at the anger of his countenance, and his heart drew near them. His words were smoother than oil, yet are they darts.

22- Cast your care upon the Lord, and he shall sustain you; he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

23-But you, O God, shall bring them down to the pit of destruction; bloody and crafty men shall not live out half their days; but I will hope in you, O Lord.

Chapter 55 (56)

For the end, concerning the people that were removed from the sanctuary, by David for a memorial, when the Philistines caught him in Geth.

1-Have mercy upon me, O God; for man has trodden me down; all the day long he warring has afflicted me.

2-Mine enemies have trodden me down all the day from the dawning of the day; for there are many warring against me.

3-They shall be afraid, but I will trust in you.

4-In God I will praise my words; all the day have I hoped in God; I will not fear what flesh shall do to me.

5-All the day long they have abominated my words; all their devices are against me for evil.

6-They will dwell near and hide themselves; they will watch my steps, accordingly as I have waited patiently in my soul.

7-You will on no account save them; you will bring down the people in wrath.

8-O God, I have declared my life to you; you have set my tears before you, even according to your promise.

9-Mine enemies shall be turned back, in the day wherein I shall call upon you; behold, I know that you are my God.

10-In God, will I praise his word; in the Lord will I praise his saying.

11-I have hoped in God; I will not be afraid of what man shall do to me.

12-The vows of your praise, O God, which I will pay, are upon me.

13-For you have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from sliding, that I should be well-pleasing before God in the land of the living.

Chapter 56 (57)

For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial, when he fled from the presence of Saul to the cave.

1-Have mercy, upon me, O God, have mercy upon me: for my soul has trusted in you: and in the shadow of your wings will I hope, until the iniquity has passed away.

2-I will cry to God most high; the God who has benefited me. Pause.

3-He sent from heaven and saved me; he gave to reproach them that trampled on me: God has sent forth his mercy and his truth;

4-and he has delivered my soul from the midst of lions'whelps: I lay down to sleep, though troubled. As for the sons of men, their teeth are arms and missile weapons, and their tongue a sharp sword.

5-Be you exalted, O God, above the heavens; and your glory above all the earth.

6-They have prepared snares for my feet, and have bowed down my soul: they have dug a pit before my face, and fallen into it themselves. Pause.

7-My heart, O God, is ready, my heart is ready: I will sing, yes will sing psalms.

8-Awake, my glory; awake, lute and harp: I will awake early.

9-O Lord, I will give thanks to you among the nations: I will sing to you among the Gentiles.

10-For your mercy has been magnified even to the heavens, and your truth to the clouds.

11-Be you exalted, O God, above the heavens; and your glory above all the earth.

Chapter 57 (58)

For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial.

1-If you° do indeed speak righteousness, then do you° judge rightly, you° sons of men.

2-For you° work iniquities in your hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.

3-Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.

4-Their venom is like that of a serpent; as that of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;

5-which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor heed the charm prepared skillfully by the wise.

6-God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.

7-They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.

8-They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.

9-Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.

10-The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.

11-And a man shall say, Verily then there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judges them in the earth.

Chapter 58 (59)

For the end. Destroy not: by David for a memorial, when Saul sent, and watched his house to kill him.

1-Deliver me from my enemies, O God; and ransom me from those that rise up against me.

2-Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

3-For, behold, they have hunted after my soul; violent men have set upon me: neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord.

4-Without iniquity I ran and directed my course aright: awake to help me, and behold.

5-And you, Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, draw near to visit all the heathen; pity not any that work iniquity. Pause.

6-They shall return at evening, and hunger like a dog, and go round about the city.

7-Behold, they shall utter a voice with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips; for who, say they, has heard?

8-But you, Lord, will laugh them to scorn; you will utterly set at nothing all the heathen.

9-will keep my strength, looking to you; for you, O God, are my helper.

10- As for my God, his mercy shall go before me: my God will show me vengeance on my enemies.

11-Slay them not, lest they forget your law; scatter them by your power; and bring them down, O Lord, my defender.

12- For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips, let them be even taken in their pride.

13-And for their cursing and falsehood shall utter destruction be denounced: they shall fall by the wrath of utter destruction, and shall not be; so shall they know that the God of Jacob is Lord of the ends of the earth. Pause.

14-They shall return at evening, and be hungry as a dog, and go round about the city.

15-They shall be scattered hither and there for meat; and if they be not satisfied, they shall even murmur.

16-But I will sing to your strength, and in the morning will I exult in your mercy; for you have been my supporter, and my refuge in the day of my affliction.

17- You are my helper; to you, my God, will I sing; you are my supporter, O my God, and my mercy.

Chapter 59 (60)

For the end, for them that shall yet be changed; for an inscription by David for instruction, when he had burned Mesopotamia of Syria, and Syria Sobal, and Joab had returned and struck in the valley of salt twelve thousand.

1-O God, you have rejected and destroyed us; you have been angry, yet have pitied us.

2-You have shaken the earth, and troubled it; heal its breaches, for it has been shaken.

3-You have shown your people hard things: you have made us drink the wine of astonishment.

4-You have given a token to them that fear you, that they might flee from the bow. Pause.

5-That your beloved ones may be delivered; save with your right hand, and hear me.

6-God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, and divide Sicima, and measure out the valley of tents.

7-Galaad is mine, and Manasse is mine; and Ephraim is the strength of my head;

8-Judas is my king; Moab is the caldron of my hope; over Idumea will I stretch out my shoe; the Philistines have been subjected to me.

9-Who will lead me into the fortified city? who will guide me as far a Idumea?

10-Will not you, O God, who have cast us off? and will not you, O God, go forth with our forces?

11-Give us help from trouble: for vain is the deliverance of man.

12-In God will we do valiantly; and he shall bring to nothing them that harass us.

Chapter 60 (61)

For the end, among the Hymns of David.

1-O God, listen to my petition; attend to my prayer.

2-From the ends of the earth have I cried to you, when my heart was in trouble: you lifted me up on a rock you did guide me:

3-because you were my hope, a tower of strength from the face of the enemy.

4-I will dwell in your tabernacle for ever; I will shelter myself under the shadow of your wings. Pause.

5-For you, o God, have heard my prayers; you have given an inheritance to them that fear your name.

6-You shall add days to the days of the king; you shall lengthen his years to all generations.

7-He shall endure for ever before God: which of them will seek out his mercy and truth?

8-So will I sing to your name for ever and ever, that I may daily perform my vows.

Chapter 61 (62)

For the end, a Psalm of David for Idithun.

1-Shall not my soul be subjected to God? for of him is my salvation.

2-For he is my God, and my savior; my helper, I shall not be moved very much.

3-How long will you° assault a man? you° are all slaughtering as with a bowed wall and a broken hedge.

4-They only took counsel to set at nothing my honor: I ran in thirst: with their mouth they blessed, but with their heart they cursed. Pause.

5-Nevertheless do you, my soul, be subjected to God; for of him is my patient hope.

6-For he is my God and my Saviour; my helper, I shall not be moved.

7- In God is my salvation and my glory: he is the God of my help, and my hope is in God.

8-Hope in him, all you° congregation of the people; pour out your hearts before him, for God is our helper. Pause.

9-But the sons of men are vain; the sons of men are false, so as to be deceitful in the balances; they are all alike formed out of vanity.

10-Trust not in unrighteousness, and lust not after robberies: if wealth should flow in, set not your heart upon it.

11-God has spoken once, and I have heard these two things, that power is of God;

12-and mercy is yours, O Lord; for you will recompense every one according to his works.

Chapter 62 (63)

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Idumea.

1-O God, my God, I cry to you early; my soul has thirsted for you: how often has my flesh longed after you, in a barren and trackless and dry land!

2-Thus have I appeared before you in the sanctuary, that I might see your power and your glory.

3-For your mercy is better than life: my lips shall praise you.

4-Thus will I bless you during my life: I will lift up my hands in your name.

5-Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness; and my joyful lips shall praise your name.

6- Forasmuch as I have remembered you on my bed: in the early seasons I have meditated on you.

7-For you have been my helper, and in the shelter of your wings will I rejoice.

8-My soul has kept very close behind you: your right hand has upheld me.

9-But they vainly sought after my soul; they shall go into the lowest parts of the earth.

10-They shall be delivered up to the power of the sword; they shall be portions for foxes.

11-But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that swears by him shall be praised; for the mouth of them that speak unjust things has been stopped.

Chapter 63 (64)

For the end, a Psalm of David.

1-Hear my prayer, O God, when I make my petition to you; deliver my soul from fear of the enemy.

2-You have sheltered me from the conspiracy of them that do wickedly; from the multitude of them that work iniquity;

3-who have sharpened their tongues as a sword; they have bent their bow maliciously;

4-to shoot in secret at the blameless; they will shoot him suddenly, and will not fear.

5-They have set up for themselves an evil matter, they have given counsel to hide snares; they have said, Who shall see them?

6-They have searched out iniquity; they have wearied themselves with searching diligently, a man shall approach and the heart is deep,

7-and God shall be exalted, their wounds were caused by the weapon of the foolish children,

8-and their tongues have set him at nothing, all that saw them were troubled;

9-and every man was alarmed, and they related the works of God, and understood his deeds.

10-The righteous shall rejoice in the Lord, and hope on him, and all the upright in heart shall be praised.