David prayeth for remission of sins. PSALMS. He prayeth for the people 9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift 12 My foot standeth in an even place: in the them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of congregations will I bless the LORD. glory shall come in. 10 Who is this King of glory? the Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah. UNTO PSALM XXV. David's confidence in prayer. A Psalm of David. THE PSALM XXVII. A Psalm of David. HE LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. NTO thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul. 20 my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. 3 Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let 3 Though a host should encamp against me, them be ashamed which transgress without cause. my heart shall not fear: though war should rise 4 Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy against me, in this will I be confident. paths. 4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that 5 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. 6 Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy loving-kindnesses; for they have been ever of old. 7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD. Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. 9 The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way. 10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. 11 For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great. 12 What man is lie that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose. 13 His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth. 14 The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant. 15 Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. 16 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted. 17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged: 0 bring thou me out of my distresses. 18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins. 19 Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred. 20 O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee. 21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee. 22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. PSALM XXVI. David resorteth unto God. A Psalm of David. of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the 11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in 13 Thad fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. 14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thy heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. PSALM XXVIII. David prayeth against his enemies. Unet silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to NTO thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; he me, I become like them that go down into the pit. 2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle. 3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to JUDGE me, O LORD; for I have walked in their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts. mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide. Examine ine, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart. 3 For thy loving-kindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth. 4 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers. 5I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked. 4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert. 5 Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up. 6 Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications. 7 The LORD is my strength, and my shield; my 61 will wash my hands in innocency: so will heart trusted in him, and I am helped therefore I compass thine altar, O LORD: my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song 7 That I may publish with the voice of thanks-will I praise him. giving, and tell of all thy wondrous works. 8 LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth. 9 Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men: 10 In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes. 8 The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed. 9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever. PSALM XXIX. Why God must be honoured. But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: G the LORD glory and strength. IVE unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto redeem ine, and be merciful unto ine. David exhorteth to praise God. PSALMS. He praiseth him for his goodness. 2 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. my soul and my belly. 3 The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: 10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon with sighing: my strength faileth because of many waters. mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed. 11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me 4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty. 5 The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; 7 The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire. 8 The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh. 9 The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory. 10 The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever. 11 The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace. PSALM XXX. Danid praiseth God for deliverance. I 20 LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed ine. 30 LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. 4 Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. 5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. 6 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. 7 LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled. 8 I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication. 9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? 10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper. 11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; 12 To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever. PSALM XXXI. The psalmist's confidence in God. To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. IN thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness. 2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for a house of defence to save me. 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. 13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel tɔgether against me, they devised to take away my life. 14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God. : 15 My times are in thy hand deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. 16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake. 17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave. 18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous. 19 Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! 20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues. 21 Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city. 22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from lefore thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee. 23 O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer. 24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD. PSALM XXXII. BL The benefit of remission of sins A Psalm of David, Maschil. LESSED is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. 3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: ny moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. 5 I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. 6 For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall 3 For thou art my rock and my fortress; there-not come nigh unto him. 6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD. 7 Thou art my hiding-place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selali. 8 I will instruct thee, and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. 9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which 71 will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy for have no understanding: whose uouth must be thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near known my soul in adversities; unto thee. 8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the 10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but enemy: thou hast set my foot in a large room. he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall com9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in pass him about. Confidence is to be placed in God. PSALMS. God to be praised for his goodness. REJOICE in the LORD, Oye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright. 2 Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. 3 Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise. 4 For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth. 5 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD. 6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. 7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap: he layeth up the depth in store-houses. 8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. 9 For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast. 10 The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. 11 The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. The privileges of the righteous. 11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD. 12 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? 13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. 14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. 15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. 16 The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. 17 The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. 18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all. 20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken. 21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. 22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate. PSALM XXXV. PLEAD my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight 13 The LORD looketh from heaven; he behold-jagainst me. eth all the sons of men. 2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand 14 From the place of his habitation he looketh up for my help. upon all the inhabitants of the earth. 3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way 15 He fashioneth their hearts alike; he consid-against them that persecute me: say unto my ereth all their works. soul, I am thy salvation. 16 There is no king saved by the multitude of 4 Let them be confounded and put to shame a host a mighty man is not delivered by much strength. 17 A horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength. 18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; 19 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. 20 Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield. 21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. 22 Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee. 1 PSALM XXXIV. An exhortation to praise God. A Psalm of David when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed. WILL bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. 2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. 30 magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. 4 I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. 5 They looked unto him, and were lightened and their faces were not ashamed. 6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt. 5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them. 6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them. 7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul. 8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall. 9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation. 10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him? 11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. 12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul. 13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosoni. 14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother. 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I 7 The angel of the LORD encampeth round knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not: about them that fear him, and delivereth them. 16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they bless-gnashed upon me with their teeth. 8 O taste and see that the LORD is good: ed is the man that trusteth in him. 9 O fear the LORD, ye his saints; for there is no want to them that fear him. 17 LORD, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. 10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: 18I will give thee thanks in the great congregabut they that seek the LORD shall not want any tion: I will praise thee among much people. good thing. 19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrong David prayeth for compassion. PSALMS. Obedience is the best sacrifice 2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of fathers were. 4 For mine iniquities are gone over my head: as 6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. PSALM XL. The benefit of trusting in God. T To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. WAITED patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. and established my goings. 2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, 7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome dis-out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, ease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. 8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. 9 LORD, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. 10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. 11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from lny sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shali trust in the LORD. 4 Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. 5 Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts 12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up e: and they that seek my hurt speak mischiev-in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak ous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. of them, they are more than can be numbered. 13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. 14 Thus I was as a nian that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. 15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O LORD my God. 6 Sacritice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required. 7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, 8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. 16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they 9 I have preached righteousness in the great magnify themselves against me. 17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. 18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. 19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully, are multiplied. 20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is. 21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me. 22 Make haste to help me, O LORD my salvation. PSALM XXXIX. Shortness and vanity of life. To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. 2 I was dumb with silence; I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. 3 My heart was hot within me; while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue. 4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest. 10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy loving-kindness and thy truth from the great congregation. 11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy loving-kindness and thy truth continually preserve me. 12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart faileth me. 13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me. 14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. 15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, alia 16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified. 17 But I am poor and needy; yet the LORD thinketh upon ine: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God. PSALM XLI. BL The charitable man's recompense. T To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. LESSED is he that considereth the poor: 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up 2 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth 7 And now, LORD, what wait I for? my hope and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of is in thee. his enemies. 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make 3 The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed me not the reproach of the foolish. of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his 9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because sickness. thou didst it. 41 said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my 10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am soul; for I have sinned against thee. consumed by the blow of thy hand. 5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall 11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for he die, and his name perish? iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away 6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanilike a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah. ty: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when 12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto he goeth abroad, he telleth it. |