1 LORD, keep me; for I trust in thee. 2 To God thus was my speech,

Thou art my Lord; and unto thee my goodness doth not reach:

3 To saints on earth, to th' excellent, where my delight's all plac'd. 4 Their sorrows shall be multiply'd to other gods that haste:

Of their drink-offerings of blood I will no off'ring make; Yea, neither I their very names up in my lips will take. 5 God is of mine inheritance and cup the portion; The lot that fallen is to me thou dost maintain alone.

6 Unto me happily the lines in pleasant places fell; Yea, the inheritance I got in beauty doth excel.

7 I bless the Lord, because he doth
by counsel me conduct;

And in the seasons of the night
my reins do me instruct.

8 Before me still the Lord I set:
sith it is so that he

Doth ever stand at my right hand,
I shall not moved be.

9 Because of this my heart is glad,
and joy shall be exprest
Ev'n by my glory; and my flesh
in confidence shall rest.

10 Because my soul in grave to dwell shall not be left by thee;

Nor wilt thou give thine Holy One corruption to see.

11 Thou wilt me shew the path of life: of joys there is full store

Before thy face, at thy right hand are pleasures evermore.

1 THEE will I love, O Lord, my strength, My fortress is the Lord,

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My rock, and he that doth to me deliverance afford:

My God, my strength, whom I will trust, a buckler unto me,

The horn of my salvation,
and my high tow'r, is he.

3 Upon the Lord, who worthy is
of praises, will I cry;
And then shall I preserved be
safe from mine enemy.

4 Floods of ill men affrighted me,
death's pangs about me went;
5 Hell's sorrows me environed;

death's snares did me prevent. 6 In my distress I call'd on God, cry to my God did I;

He from his temple heard my voice, to his ears came my cry.

7 Th' earth, as affrighted, then did shake, trembling upon it seiz'd:

The hills' foundations moved were,
because he was displeas'd.

8 Up from his nostrils came a smoke, and from his mouth there came Devouring fire, and coals by it were turned into flame.

9 He also bowed down the heav'ns, and thence he did descend; And thickest clouds of darkness did under his feet attend.

10 And he upon a cherub rode, and thereon he did fly;

Yea, on the swift wings of the wind his flight was from on high.

11 He darkness made his secret place: about him, for his tent,

Dark waters were, and thickest clouds of th' airy firmament.

12 And at the brightness of that light, which was before his eye,

His thick clouds pass'd away, hailstones and coals of fire did fly.

18 The Lord God also in the heav'ns did thunder in his ire;

And there the Highest gave his voice, hailstones and coals of fire,

14 Yea, he his arrows sent abroad,
and them he scattered;
His lightnings also he shot out,
and them discomfited.

15 The waters' channels then were seen,
the world's foundations vast
At thy rebuke discover'd were,
and at thy nostrils' blast.

16 And from above the Lord sent down, and took me from below; From many waters he me drew, which would me overflow.

17 He me reliev'd from my strong foes, and such as did me hate;

Because he saw that they for me
too strong were, and too great.

18 They me prevented in the day
of my calamity;

But even then the Lord himself a stay was unto me. 19 He to a place where liberty

and room was hath me brought; Because he took delight in me, he my deliv'rance wrought. 20 According to my righteousness he did me recompense,

He me repaid according to
my hands' pure innocence.

21 For I God's ways kept, from my God did not turn wickedly.

22 His judgments were before me, I
his laws put not from me.

23 Sincere before him was my heart;
with him upright was I;
And watchfully I kept myself
from mine iniquity.

24 After my righteousness the Lord
hath recompensed me,

After the cleanness of my hands
appearing in his eye.

25 Thou gracious to the gracious art,
to upright men upright:

26 Pure to the pure, froward thou kyth'st unto the froward wight.

27 For thou wilt the afflicted save in grief that low do lie:

But wilt bring down the countenance of them whose looks are high.

28 The Lord will light my candle so, that it shall shine full bright: The Lord my God will also make my darkness to be light,

29 By thee through troops of men I break, and them discomfit all; And, by my God assisting me, I overleap a wall.

80 As for God, perfect is his way: the Lord his word is try'd; He is a buckler to all those who do in him confide.

81 Who but the Lord is God? but he who is a rock and stay?

That I might them destroy and slay, who did against me rise.

41 They cried out, but there was none that would or could them save; Yea, they did cry unto the Lord, but he no answer gave.

42 Then did I beat them small as dust before the wind that flies;

And I did cast them out like dirt
upon the street that lies.

and perfect makes my way.

33 He made my feet swift as the hinds, set me on my high places. [arms 34 Mine hands to war he taught, mine brake bows of steel in pieces.

35 The shield of thy salvation

thou didst on me bestow:

Thy right hand held me up, and great
thy kindness made me grow.

36 And in my way my steps thou hast
enlarged under me,
That I go safely, and my feet
are kept from sliding free.

87 Mine en'mies I pursued have,
and did them overtake:
Nor did I turn again till I

an end of them did make.

38 I wounded them, they could not rise; they at my feet did fall.

Twar; 39 Thou girdedst me with strength for my foes thou brought'st down all: 40 And thou hast giv'n to me the necks of all mine enemies;

and heathen's head to be: [strife, A people whom I have not known shall service do to me. 44 At hearing they shall me obey,

to me they shall submit. 45 Strangers for fear shall fade away, who in close places sit.

46 God lives, bless'd be my Rock; the God of my health praised be.

47 God doth avenge me, and subdues the people under me.

48 He saves me from mine enemies;
yea, thou hast lifted me

Above my foes; and from the man
of vi'lence set me free.

49 Therefore to thee will I give thanks the heathen folk among;

And to thy name, O Lord, I will
sing praises in a song.

50 He great deliv'rance gives his king: he mercy doth extend

To David, his anointed one,
and his seed without end.