DIVISION 75-100
Psalm#76
1 ¶ <<To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or
Song of Asaph.>> In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.
2 In Salem also
is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
3 There brake he
the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
4 Thou art more
glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.
5 The
stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of
might have found their hands.
6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are
cast into a dead sleep.
7 ¶ Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand
in thy sight when once thou art angry?
8 Thou didst
cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,
9 When God arose
to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.
10 Surely the
wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
11 Vow, and pay
unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him
that ought to be feared.
12 He shall cut
off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
1 ¶ <<To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm
of Asaph.>> I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice;
and he gave ear unto me.
2 In the day of
my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul
refused to be comforted.
3 I remembered
God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
4 Thou holdest
mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
5 I have
considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
6 I call to
remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit
made diligent search.
7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no
more?
8 Is his mercy
clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
9 Hath God
forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
10 And I said,
This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the
most High.
11 ¶ I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will
remember thy wonders of old.
12 I will
meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
13 Thy way, O God,
is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?
14
Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy
strength among the people.
15 Thou hast with
thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
16 The waters saw
thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were
troubled.
17 The clouds
poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
18 The voice of
thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth
trembled and shook.
19 Thy way is in
the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
20 Thou leddest
thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
1 ¶ <<Maschil of Asaph.>> Give ear, O my
people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my
mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
3 Which we have
heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
4 We will not
hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of
the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
5 For he
established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he
commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
6 That the
generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who
should arise and declare them to their children:
7 That
they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his
commandments:
8 And might not
be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that
set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
9 ¶ The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying
bows, turned back in the day of battle.
10 They kept not
the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
11 And forgat his
works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
12 Marvellous
things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field
of Zoan.
13 He divided the
sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an
heap.
14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night
with a light of fire.
15 He clave the
rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
16 He brought
streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
17 And they
sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
18 And they
tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
19 Yea, they
spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
20 Behold, he
smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he
give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
21 Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was
kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
22 Because they
believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
23 Though he had
commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
24 And had rained
down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
25 Man did eat
angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
26 He caused an
east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
27 He rained
flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their
habitations.
29 So they did
eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
30 They were not
estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
31 The wrath of
God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men
of Israel.
32 For all this
they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
33 Therefore
their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
34 When he slew
them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God
their redeemer.
36 Nevertheless
they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their
tongues.
37 For their
heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
38 But he, being
full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a
time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
39 For he
remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not
again.
40 ¶ How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and
grieve him in the desert!
41 Yea, they
turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them
from the enemy.
43 How he had
wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
44 And had turned
their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
45 He sent divers
sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed
them.
46 He gave also
their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
47 He destroyed
their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
48 He gave up
their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and
indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
50 He made a way
to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to
the pestilence;
51 And smote all
the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
52 But made his
own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a
flock.
53 And he led
them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54 And he brought
them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right
hand had purchased.
55 He cast out
the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made
the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his
testimonies:
57 But turned
back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a
deceitful bow.
58 For they
provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with
their graven images.
59 When God heard
this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
60 So that he
forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
61 And delivered
his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
62 He gave his
people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not
given to marriage.
64 Their priests
fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
65 Then the Lord
awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of
wine.
66 And he smote
his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
67 Moreover he
refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
68 But chose the
tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
69 And he built
his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for
ever.
70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
71 From following
the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel
his inheritance.
72 So he fed them
according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of
his hands.
1 ¶ <<A Psalm of
Asaph.>> O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy
temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto
the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and
there was none to bury them.
4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision
to them that are round about us.
5 How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy
burn like fire?
6 ¶ Pour out thy wrath upon the
heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon
thy name.
7 For they have
devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
8 O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender
mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and
deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
10 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be
known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy
servants which is shed.
11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to
the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;
12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their
reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
13 So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks
for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.
1 ¶ <<To the chief
Musician upon Shoshannimeduth, A Psalm of Asaph.>> Give ear, O Shepherd
of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between
the cherubims, shine forth.
2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength,
and come and save us.
3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall
be saved.
4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer
of thy people?
5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears
to drink in great measure.
6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies
laugh among themselves.
7 Turn us again, O
God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
8 ¶ Thou hast brought a vine
out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
9 Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep
root, and it filled the land.
10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs
thereof were like the goodly cedars.
11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the
river.
12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which
pass by the way do pluck her?
13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the
field doth devour it.
14 Return, we beseech
thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the
branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke
of thy countenance.
17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of
man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call
upon thy name.
19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and
we shall be saved.
1 ¶ <<To the chief
Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph.>> Sing aloud unto God our
strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp
with the psaltery.
3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on
our solemn feast day.
4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out
through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered
from the pots.
7 Thou calledst in
trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I
proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
8 ¶ Hear, O my people, and I
will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship
any strange god.
10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of
Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would
none of me.
12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in
their own counsels.
13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in
my ways!
14 I should soon have
subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him:
but their time should have endured for ever.
16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and
with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
1 ¶ <<A Psalm of
Asaph.>> God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among
the gods.
2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the
wicked? Selah.
3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and
needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the
wicked.
5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in
darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
6 ¶ I have said, Ye are gods;
and all of you are children of the most High.
7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all
nations.
1 ¶ <<A Song or Psalm of
Asaph.>> Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not
still, O God.
2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee
have lifted up the head.
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted
against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a
nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are
confederate against thee:
6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the
Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,
and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of
Lot. Selah.
9 ¶ Do unto them as unto the
Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their
princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in
possession.
13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
14 As the fire
burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy
storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be
put to shame, and perish:
18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the
most high over all the earth.
1 ¶ <<To the chief
Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.>> How amiable are
thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my
heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
3 Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for
herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my
King, and my God.
4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still
praising thee. Selah.
5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are
the ways of them.
6 Who passing
through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion
appeareth before God.
8 ¶ O LORD God of hosts, hear
my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine
anointed.
10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather
be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of
wickedness.
11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace
and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
12 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
1 ¶ <<To the chief
Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.>> LORD, thou hast been
favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered
all their sin. Selah.
3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from
the fierceness of thine anger.
4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us
to cease.
5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine
anger to all generations?
6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in
thee?
7 Shew us thy mercy,
O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.
8 ¶ I will hear what God the
LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints:
but let them not turn again to folly.
9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may
dwell in our land.
10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have
kissed each other.
11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look
down from heaven.
12 Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall
yield her increase.
13 Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of
his steps.
1 ¶ <<A Prayer of
David.>> Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
2 Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant
that trusteth in thee.
3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.
4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift
up my soul.
5 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in
mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
6 Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my
supplications.
7 In the day of my
trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.
8 ¶ Among the gods there is
none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.
9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before
thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God
alone.
11 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my
heart to fear thy name.
12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will
glorify thy name for evermore.
13 For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul
from the lowest hell.
14 O God, the proud
are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my
soul; and have not set thee before them.
15 But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious,
longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
16 O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto
thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
17 Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and
be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.
1 ¶ <<A Psalm or Song for
the sons of Korah.>> His foundation is in the holy mountains.
2 The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of
Jacob.
3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
4 ¶ I will make mention of
Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with
Ethiopia; this man was born there.
5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her:
and the highest himself shall establish her.
6 The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this
man was born there. Selah.
7 As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there:
all my springs are in thee.
1 ¶ <<A Song or Psalm for
the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of
Heman the Ezrahite.>> O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and
night before thee:
2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto
the grave.
4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man
that hath no strength:
5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom
thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
7 Thy wrath lieth
hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made
me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called
daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
10 ¶ Wilt thou shew wonders to
the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy
faithfulness in destruction?
12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in
the land of forgetfulness?
13 But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my
prayer prevent thee.
14 LORD, why castest
thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer
thy terrors I am distracted.
16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me
about together.
18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance
into darkness.
1 ¶ <<Maschil of Ethan
the Ezrahite.>> I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my
mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy
faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my
servant,
4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to
all generations. Selah.
5 ¶ And the heavens shall
praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the
saints.
6 For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among
the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
7 God is greatly to
be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them
that are about him.
8 O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to
thy faithfulness round about thee?
9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise,
thou stillest them.
10 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast
scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
11 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world
and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
12 The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon
shall rejoice in thy name.
13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right
hand.
14 Justice and
judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy
face.
15 ¶ Blessed is the people that
know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy
countenance.
16 In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy
righteousness shall they be exalted.
17 For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our
horn shall be exalted.
18 For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our
king.
19 ¶ Then thou spakest in
vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I
have exalted one chosen out of the people.
20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed
him:
21 With whom my hand
shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.
22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness
afflict him.
23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them
that hate him.
24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my
name shall his horn be exalted.
25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the
rivers.
26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of
my salvation.
27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the
earth.
28 My
mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with
him.
29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as
the days of heaven.
30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their
iniquity with stripes.
33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him,
nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone
out of my lips.
35 Once have I sworn
by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before
me.
37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful
witness in heaven. Selah.
38 ¶ But thou hast cast off and
abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast
profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his
strong holds to ruin.
41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his
neighbours.
42 Thou hast set up
the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
43 Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made
him to stand in the battle.
44 Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to
the ground.
45 The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him
with shame. Selah.
46 How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn
like fire?
47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men
in vain?
48 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he
deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
49 Lord, where are
thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my
bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they
have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
52 Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.
1 ¶ <<A Prayer of Moses
the man of God.>> Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all
generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst
formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art
God.
3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children
of men.
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is
past, and as a watch in the night.
5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in
the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it
is cut down, and withereth.
7 ¶ For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are
we troubled.
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the
light of thy countenance.
9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years
as a tale that is told.
10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by
reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and
sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear,
so is thy wrath.
12 ¶ So teach us to number our
days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy
servants.
14 O satisfy us early
with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted
us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their
children.
17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish
thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou
it.
1 ¶ He that dwelleth in the
secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God;
in him will I trust.
3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and
from the noisome pestilence.
4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt
thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the
arrow that flieth by day;
6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the
destruction that wasteth at noonday.
7 A
thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it
shall not come nigh thee.
8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the
wicked.
9 ¶ Because thou hast made the
LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come
nigh thy dwelling.
11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in
all thy ways.
12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot
against a stone.
13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the
dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
14 Because he hath
set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high,
because he hath known my name.
15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him
in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
1 ¶ <<A Psalm or Song for
the sabbath day.>> It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and
to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy
faithfulness every night,
3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon
the harp with a solemn sound.
4 For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will
triumph in the works of thy hands.
5 O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
7 ¶ When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the
workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
8 But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.
9 For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall
perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall
be anointed with fresh oil.
11 Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears
shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow
like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in
the courts of our God.
14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat
and flourishing;
15 To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no
unrighteousness in him.
1 ¶ The LORD reigneth, he is clothed
with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded
himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
2 Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.
3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up
their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
4 The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea,
than the mighty waves of the sea.
5 Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O
LORD, for ever.
1 ¶ O LORD God, to whom
vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the
proud.
3 LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked
triumph?
4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the
workers of iniquity boast themselves?
5 They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine
heritage.
6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
7 Yet they say, The
LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
8 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will
ye be wise?
9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the
eye, shall he not see?
10 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that
teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
11 The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
12 ¶ Blessed is the man whom
thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until
the pit be digged for the wicked.
14 For the LORD will
not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright
in heart shall follow it.
16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand
up for me against the workers of iniquity?
17 Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in
silence.
18 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my
soul.
20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which
frameth mischief by a law?
21 They gather
themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent
blood.
22 But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut
them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.
1 ¶ O come, let us sing unto
the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a
joyful noise unto him with psalms.
3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the
hills is his also.
5 The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry
land.
6 O come, let us
worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
7 ¶ For he is our God; and we
are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will
hear his voice,
8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day
of temptation in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It
is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my
rest.
1 ¶ O sing unto the LORD a new
song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
2 Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from
day to day.
3 Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all
people.
4 For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be
feared above all gods.
5 For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the
heavens.
6 Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his
sanctuary.
7 Give unto the LORD,
O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength.
8 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an
offering, and come into his courts.
9 O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him,
all the earth.
10 ¶ Say among the heathen that
the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be
moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea
roar, and the fulness thereof.
12 Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all
the trees of the wood rejoice
13 Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth:
he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
1 ¶ The LORD reigneth; let the
earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.
2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and
judgment are the habitation of his throne.
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
4 His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the
presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
6 The heavens declare
his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.
7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast
themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
8 ¶ Zion heard, and was glad;
and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.
9 For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted
far above all gods.
10 Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his
saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in
heart.
12 Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the
remembrance of his holiness.
1 ¶ <<A Psalm.>> O sing
unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand,
and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
2 The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he
openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
3 He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of
Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
4 ¶ Make a joyful noise unto
the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
5 Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of
a psalm.
6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the
LORD, the King.
7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they
that dwell therein.
8 Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together
9 Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with
righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
1 ¶ The LORD reigneth; let the
people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.
2 The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.
3 Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy.
4 The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish
equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
5 Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he
is holy.
6 ¶ Moses and Aaron among his
priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the
LORD, and he answered them.
7 He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his
testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.
8 Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that
forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.
9 Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the
LORD our God is holy.
1 ¶ <<A Psalm of
praise.>> Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
2 Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with
singing.
3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and
not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with
praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
5 For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth
endureth to all generations.