Psalms 116:1-150:6 I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my supplications.

KJ2000⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my supplications. ² Because he has inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. ³ The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the pangs of sheol got hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. ⁴ Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech you, deliver my soul. ⁵ Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. ⁶ The LORD preserves the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me. ⁷ Return unto your rest, O my soul; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you. ⁸ For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. ⁹ I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. ¹⁰ I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: ¹¹ I said in my haste, All men are liars. ¹² What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me? ¹³ I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. ¹⁴ I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people. ¹⁵ Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. ¹⁶ O LORD, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, and the son of your handmaid: you have loosed my bonds. ¹⁷ I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD. ¹⁸ I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people, ¹⁹ In the courts of the LORD's house, in the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise you the LORD. ¹¹⁷ ¹ O Praise the LORD, all you nations: praise him, all you people. ² For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endures forever. Praise you the LORD. ¹¹⁸ ¹ O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endures forever. ² Let Israel now say, that his mercy endures forever. ³ Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endures forever. ⁴ Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endures forever. ⁵ I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a broad place. ⁶ The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me? ⁷ The LORD takes my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me. ⁸ It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. ⁹ It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes. ¹⁰ All nations encompassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them. ¹¹ They encompassed me about; yea, they encompassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. ¹² They encompassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. ¹³ You have thrust hard at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me. ¹⁴ The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation. ¹⁵ The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly. ¹⁶ The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly. ¹⁷ I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD. ¹⁸ The LORD has chastened me severely: but he has not given me over unto death. ¹⁹ Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD: ²⁰ This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter. ²¹ I will praise you: for you have heard me, and have become my salvation. ²² The stone which the builders rejected has become the head stone of the corner. ²³ This is the LORD'S doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. ²⁴ This is the day which the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. ²⁵ Save now, I beseech you, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech you, send now prosperity. ²⁶ Blessed be he that comes in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD. ²⁷ God is the LORD, who has showed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar. ²⁸ You are my God, and I will praise you: you are my God, I will exalt you. ²⁹ O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endures forever. ¹¹⁹ ¹ [Aleph] Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. ² Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. ³ They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. ⁴ You have commanded us to keep your precepts diligently. ⁵ O that my ways were directed to keep your statutes! ⁶ Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all your commandments. ⁷ I will praise you with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned your righteous judgments. ⁸ I will keep your statutes: O forsake me not utterly. ⁹ [Beth] How shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to your word. ¹⁰ With my whole heart have I sought you: O let me not wander from your commandments. ¹¹ Your word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against you. ¹² Blessed are you, O LORD: teach me your statutes. ¹³ With my lips have I declared all the judgments of your mouth. ¹⁴ I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches. ¹⁵ I will meditate in your precepts, and have respect unto your ways. ¹⁶ I will delight myself in your statutes: I will not forget your word. ¹⁷ [Gimel] Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live, and keep your word. ¹⁸ Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. ¹⁹ I am a stranger in the earth: hide not your commandments from me. ²⁰ My soul breaks for the longing that it has unto your judgments at all times. ²¹ You have rebuked the proud that are cursed, who do err from your commandments. ²² Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept your testimonies. ²³ Princes also did sit and speak against me: but your servant did meditate in your statutes. ²⁴ Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors. ²⁵ [Daleth] My soul clings unto the dust: revive me according to your word. ²⁶ I have declared my ways, and you heard me: teach me your statutes. ²⁷ Make me to understand the way of your precepts: so shall I talk of your wondrous works. ²⁸ My soul melts for heaviness: strengthen me according unto your word. ²⁹ Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me your law graciously. ³⁰ I have chosen the way of truth: your judgments have I laid before me. ³¹ I have clung unto your testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame. ³² I will run the way of your commandments, when you shall enlarge my heart. ³³ [He] Teach me, O LORD, the way of your statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end. ³⁴ Give me understanding, and I shall keep your law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. ³⁵ Make me to go in the path of your commandments; for therein do I delight. ³⁶ Incline my heart unto your testimonies, and not to covetousness. ³⁷ Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity; and revive me in your way. ³⁸ Establish your word unto your servant, who is devoted to your fear. ³⁹ Turn away my reproach which I fear: for your judgments are good. ⁴⁰ Behold, I have longed after your precepts: revive me in your righteousness. ⁴¹ [Waw] Let your mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even your salvation, according to your word. ⁴² So shall I have an answer for him that reproaches me: for I trust in your word. ⁴³ And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in your judgments. ⁴⁴ So shall I keep your law continually forever and ever. ⁴⁵ And I will walk at liberty: for I seek your precepts. ⁴⁶ I will speak of your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed. ⁴⁷ And I will delight myself in your commandments, which I have loved. ⁴⁸ My hands also will I lift up unto your commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in your statutes. ⁴⁹ [Zayin] Remember the word unto your servant, upon which you have caused me to hope. ⁵⁰ This is my comfort in my affliction: for your word has revived me. ⁵¹ The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not turned from your law. ⁵² I remembered your judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself. ⁵³ Horror has taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake your law. ⁵⁴ Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. ⁵⁵ I have remembered your name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept your law. ⁵⁶ This I had, because I kept your precepts. ⁵⁷ [Heth] You are my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep your words. ⁵⁸ I entreated your favor with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to your word. ⁵⁹ I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto your testimonies. ⁶⁰ I made haste, and delayed not to keep your commandments. ⁶¹ The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten your law. ⁶² At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto you because of your righteous judgments. ⁶³ I am a companion of all them that fear you, and of them that keep your precepts. ⁶⁴ The earth, O LORD, is full of your mercy: teach me your statutes. ⁶⁵ [Teth] You have dealt well with your servant, O LORD, according unto your word. ⁶⁶ Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed your commandments. ⁶⁷ Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept your word. ⁶⁸ You are good, and do good; teach me your statutes. ⁶⁹ The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep your precepts with my whole heart. ⁷⁰ Their heart is as gross as grease; but I delight in your law. ⁷¹ It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn your statutes. ⁷² The law of your mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver pieces. ⁷³ [Yod] Your hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments. ⁷⁴ They that fear you will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in your word. ⁷⁵ I know, O LORD, that your judgments are right, and that you in faithfulness have afflicted me. ⁷⁶ Let, I pray you, your merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to your word unto your servant. ⁷⁷ Let your tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for your law is my delight. ⁷⁸ Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in your precepts. ⁷⁹ Let those that fear you turn unto me, and those that have known your testimonies. ⁸⁰ Let my heart be sound in your statutes; that I be not ashamed. ⁸¹ [Kaph] My soul faints for your salvation: but I hope in your word. ⁸² My eyes fail for your word, saying, When will you comfort me? ⁸³ For I am become like a wineskin in the smoke; yet do I not forget your statutes. ⁸⁴ How many are the days of your servant? when will you execute judgment on them that persecute me? ⁸⁵ The proud have dug pits for me, which is not after your law. ⁸⁶ All your commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help me. ⁸⁷ They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not your precepts. ⁸⁸ Revive me according to your lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of your mouth. ⁸⁹ [Lamed] Forever, O LORD, your word is settled in heaven. ⁹⁰ Your faithfulness is unto all generations: you have established the earth, and it abides. ⁹¹ They continue this day according to your ordinances: for all are your servants. ⁹² Unless your law had been my delights, I should then have perished in my affliction. ⁹³ I will never forget your precepts: for with them you have revived me. ⁹⁴ I am yours, save me; for I have sought your precepts. ⁹⁵ The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider your testimonies. ⁹⁶ I have seen a limit to all perfection: but your commandment is exceedingly broad. ⁹⁷ [Mem] O how love I your law! it is my meditation all the day. ⁹⁸ You through your commandments have made me wiser than my enemies: for they are ever with me. ⁹⁹ I have more understanding than all my teachers: for your testimonies are my meditation. ¹⁰⁰ I understand more than the ancients, because I keep your precepts. ¹⁰¹ I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep your word. ¹⁰² I have not departed from your judgments: for you have taught me. ¹⁰³ How sweet are your words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! ¹⁰⁴ Through your precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. ¹⁰⁵ [Nun] Your word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. ¹⁰⁶ I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep your righteous judgments. ¹⁰⁷ I am afflicted very much: revive me, O LORD, according unto your word. ¹⁰⁸ Accept, I beseech you, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me your judgments. ¹⁰⁹ My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget your law. ¹¹⁰ The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I strayed not from your precepts. ¹¹¹ Your testimonies have I taken as a heritage forever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart. ¹¹² I have inclined my heart to perform your statutes always, even unto the end. ¹¹³ [Samek] I hate vain thoughts: but your law do I love. ¹¹⁴ You are my hiding place and my shield: I hope in your word. ¹¹⁵ Depart from me, you evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God. ¹¹⁶ Uphold me according unto your word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope. ¹¹⁷ Hold me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto your statutes continually. ¹¹⁸ You have trodden down all them that stray from your statutes: for their deceit is falsehood. ¹¹⁹ You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love your testimonies. ¹²⁰ My flesh trembles for fear of you; and I am afraid of your judgments. ¹²¹ [Ayin] I have done what is right and just: leave me not to my oppressors. ¹²² Be surety for your servant for good: let not the proud oppress me. ¹²³ My eyes fail for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness. ¹²⁴ Deal with your servant according unto your mercy, and teach me your statutes. ¹²⁵ I am your servant; give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies. ¹²⁶ It is time for you, LORD, to work: for they have made void your law. ¹²⁷ Therefore I love your commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. ¹²⁸ Therefore I esteem all your precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way. ¹²⁹ [Pe] Your testimonies are wonderful: therefore does my soul keep them. ¹³⁰ The entrance of your words gives light; it gives understanding unto the simple. ¹³¹ I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for your commandments. ¹³² Look upon me, and be merciful unto me, as you do unto those that love your name. ¹³³ Order my steps in your word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. ¹³⁴ Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep your precepts. ¹³⁵ Make your face to shine upon your servant; and teach me your statutes. ¹³⁶ Rivers of waters run down my eyes, because they keep not your law. ¹³⁷ [Tsadde] Righteous are you, O LORD, and upright are your judgments. ¹³⁸ Your testimonies that you have commanded are righteous and very faithful. ¹³⁹ My zeal has consumed me, because my enemies have forgotten your words. ¹⁴⁰ Your word is very pure: therefore your servant loves it. ¹⁴¹ I am small and despised: yet do I not forget your precepts. ¹⁴² Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your law is the truth. ¹⁴³ Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet your commandments are my delights. ¹⁴⁴ The righteousness of your testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live. ¹⁴⁵ I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep your statutes. ¹⁴⁶ I cried unto you; save me, and I shall keep your testimonies. ¹⁴⁷ I rose before the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in your word. ¹⁴⁸ My eyes awake before the night watches, that I might meditate in your word. ¹⁴⁹ Hear my voice according unto your lovingkindness: O LORD, revive me according to your judgment. ¹⁵⁰ They draw near that follow after evil: they are far from your law. ¹⁵¹ You are near, O LORD; and all your commandments are truth. ¹⁵² Concerning your testimonies, I have known of old that you have founded them forever. ¹⁵³ [Resh] Consider my affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget your law. ¹⁵⁴ Plead my cause, and deliver me: revive me according to your word. ¹⁵⁵ Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not your statutes. ¹⁵⁶ Great are your tender mercies, O LORD: revive me according to your judgments. ¹⁵⁷ Many are my persecutors and my enemies; yet do I not turn from your testimonies. ¹⁵⁸ I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not your word. ¹⁵⁹ Consider how I love your precepts: revive me, O LORD, according to your lovingkindness. ¹⁶⁰ Your word is true from the beginning: and every one of your righteous judgments endures forever. ¹⁶¹ [Shin] Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart stands in awe of your word. ¹⁶² I rejoice at your word, as one that finds great spoil. ¹⁶³ I hate and abhor lying: but your law do I love. ¹⁶⁴ Seven times a day do I praise you because of your righteous judgments. ¹⁶⁵ Great peace have they who love your law: and nothing shall offend them. ¹⁶⁶ LORD, I have hoped for your salvation, and done your commandments. ¹⁶⁷ My soul has kept your testimonies; and I love them exceedingly. ¹⁶⁸ I have kept your precepts and your testimonies: for all my ways are before you. ¹⁶⁹ [Tau] Let my cry come near before you, O LORD: give me understanding according to your word. ¹⁷⁰ Let my supplication come before you: deliver me according to your word. ¹⁷¹ My lips shall utter praise, when you have taught me your statutes. ¹⁷² My tongue shall speak of your word: for all your commandments are righteousness. ¹⁷³ Let your hand help me; for I have chosen your precepts. ¹⁷⁴ I have longed for your salvation, O LORD; and your law is my delight. ¹⁷⁵ Let my soul live, and it shall praise you; and let your judgments help me. ¹⁷⁶ I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant; for I do not forget your commandments. ¹²⁰ ¹ [A song of ascents.] In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me. ² Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. ³ What shall be given unto you? or what shall be done unto you, you false tongue? ⁴ Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. ⁵ Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! ⁶ My soul has long dwelt with him that hates peace. ⁷ I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war. ¹²¹ ¹ [A song of ascents.] I will lift up my eyes unto the hills, from which comes my help. ² My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. ³ He will not allow your foot to be moved: he that keeps you will not slumber. ⁴ Behold, he that keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. ⁵ The LORD is your keeper: the LORD is your shade upon your right hand. ⁶ The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. ⁷ The LORD shall preserve you from all evil: he shall preserve your soul. ⁸ The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth, and even forevermore. ¹²² ¹ [A song of ascents. Of David.] I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. ² Our feet shall stand within your gates, O Jerusalem. ³ Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together: ⁴ Where the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD. ⁵ For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David. ⁶ Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love you. ⁷ Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces. ⁸ For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within you. ⁹ Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek your good. ¹²³ ¹ [A song of ascents.] Unto you I lift up my eyes, O you that dwell in the heavens. ² Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until he has mercy upon us. ³ Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. ⁴ Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorn of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud. ¹²⁴ ¹ [A song of ascents. Of David.] If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say; ² If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us: ³ Then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us: ⁴ Then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul: ⁵ Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul. ⁶ Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth. ⁷ Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. ⁸ Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth. ¹²⁵ ¹ [A song of ascents.] They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abides forever. ² As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from this time forth even forever. ³ For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity. ⁴ Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts. ⁵ As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel. ¹²⁶ ¹ [A song of ascents.] When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. ² Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the nations, The LORD has done great things for them. ³ The LORD has done great things for us; and we are glad. ⁴ Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the South. ⁵ They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. ⁶ He that goes forth weeping, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. ¹²⁷ ¹ [A song of ascents. Of Solomon.] Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain that build it: unless the LORD keeps the city, the watchman wakes, but in vain. ² It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep. ³ Lo, children are a heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. ⁴ As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. ⁵ Happy is the man that has his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate. ¹²⁸ ¹ [A song of ascents.] Blessed is every one that fears the LORD; that walks in his ways. ² For you shall eat the labor of your hands: happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you. ³ Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of your house: your children like olive plants round about your table. ⁴ Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that fears the LORD. ⁵ The LORD shall bless you out of Zion: and you shall see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life. ⁶ Yea, you shall see your children's children, and peace upon Israel. ¹²⁹ ¹ [A song of ascents.] Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: ² Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. ³ The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows. ⁴ The LORD is righteous: he has cut asunder the cords of the wicked. ⁵ Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. ⁶ Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up: ⁷ With which the reaper fills not his hand; nor he that binds sheaves his bosom. ⁸ Neither do they who go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD. ¹³⁰ ¹ [A song of ascents.] Out of the depths have I cried unto you, O LORD. ² Lord, hear my voice: let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. ³ If you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? ⁴ But there is forgiveness with you, that you may be feared. ⁵ I wait for the LORD, my soul does wait, and in his word do I hope. ⁶ My soul waits for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning. ⁷ Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is abundant redemption. ⁸ And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. ¹³¹ ¹ [A song of ascents. Of David.] LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. ² Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child. ³ Let Israel hope in the LORD from this time forth and forever. ¹³² ¹ [A song of ascents.] LORD, remember David, and all his afflictions: ² How he swore unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob; ³ Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed; ⁴ I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids, ⁵ Until I find out a place for the LORD, a habitation for the mighty God of Jacob. ⁶ Lo, we heard of it at Ephrathah: we found it in the fields of the woods. ⁷ We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool. ⁸ Arise, O LORD, into your rest; you, and the ark of your strength. ⁹ Let your priests be clothed with righteousness; and let your saints shout for joy. ¹⁰ For your servant David's sake turn not away the face of your anointed. ¹¹ The LORD has sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of your body will I set upon your throne. ¹² If your children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon your throne forevermore. ¹³ For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation. ¹⁴ This is my rest forever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it. ¹⁵ I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread. ¹⁶ I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy. ¹⁷ There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for my anointed. ¹⁸ His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish. ¹³³ ¹ [A song of ascents. Of David.] Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! ² It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; ³ As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life forevermore. ¹³⁴ ¹ [A song of ascents.] Behold, bless you the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who by night stand in the house of the LORD. ² Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD. ³ The LORD that made heaven and earth bless you out of Zion. ¹³⁵ ¹ Praise you the LORD. Praise you the name of the LORD; praise him, O you servants of the LORD. ² You that stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God, ³ Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good: sing praises unto his name; for it is pleasant. ⁴ For the LORD has chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure. ⁵ For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods. ⁶ Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places. ⁷ He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain; he brings the wind out of his treasuries. ⁸ Who struck the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast. ⁹ Who sent signs and wonders into the midst of you, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants. ¹⁰ Who struck great nations, and slew mighty kings; ¹¹ Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan: ¹² And gave their land for a heritage, a heritage unto Israel his people. ¹³ Your name, O LORD, endures forever; and your memorial, O LORD, throughout all generations. ¹⁴ For the LORD will judge his people, and he will have compassion on his servants. ¹⁵ The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. ¹⁶ They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not; ¹⁷ They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths. ¹⁸ They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusts in them. ¹⁹ Bless the LORD, O house of Israel: bless the LORD, O house of Aaron: ²⁰ Bless the LORD, O house of Levi: you that fear the LORD, bless the LORD. ²¹ Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, who dwells at Jerusalem. Praise you the LORD. ¹³⁶ ¹ O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endures forever. ² O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endures forever. ³ O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endures forever. ⁴ To him who alone does great wonders: for his mercy endures forever. ⁵ To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endures forever. ⁶ To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endures forever. ⁷ To him that made great lights: for his mercy endures forever: ⁸ The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endures forever: ⁹ The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endures forever. ¹⁰ To him that struck Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endures forever: ¹¹ And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endures forever: ¹² With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm: for his mercy endures forever. ¹³ To him who divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endures forever: ¹⁴ And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endures forever: ¹⁵ But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endures forever. ¹⁶ To him who led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endures forever. ¹⁷ To him who struck great kings: for his mercy endures forever: ¹⁸ And slew famous kings: for his mercy endures forever: ¹⁹ Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endures forever: ²⁰ And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endures forever: ²¹ And gave their land for a heritage: for his mercy endures forever: ²² Even a heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy endures forever. ²³ Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endures forever: ²⁴ And has redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endures forever. ²⁵ Who gives food to all flesh: for his mercy endures forever. ²⁶ O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endures forever. ¹³⁷ ¹ By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. ² We hung our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. ³ For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. ⁴ How shall we sing the LORD's song in a foreign land? ⁵ If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its cunning. ⁶ If I do not remember you, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. ⁷ Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation thereof. ⁸ O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewards you as you have served us. ⁹ Happy shall he be, that takes and dashes your little ones against the stones. ¹³⁸ ¹ [A Psalm of David.] I will praise you with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto you. ² I will worship toward your holy temple, and praise your name for your lovingkindness and for your truth: for you have magnified your word above all your name. ³ In the day when I cried you answered me, and strengthened me with strength in my soul. ⁴ All the kings of the earth shall praise you, O LORD, when they hear the words of your mouth. ⁵ Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD. ⁶ Though the LORD be high, yet has he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knows from afar. ⁷ Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will revive me: you shall stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand shall save me. ⁸ The LORD will perfect that which concerns me: your mercy, O LORD, endures forever: forsake not the works of your own hands. ¹³⁹ ¹ [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] O LORD, you have searched me, and known me. ² You know my downsitting and my uprising, you understand my thought afar off. ³ You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. ⁴ For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, you know it altogether. ⁵ You have hedged me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me. ⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. ⁷ Where shall I go from your Spirit? or where shall I flee from your presence? ⁸ If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there. ⁹ If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; ¹⁰ Even there shall your hand lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. ¹¹ If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. ¹² Yea, the darkness hides not from you; but the night shines as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you. ¹³ For you have formed my inward parts: you have covered me in my mother's womb. ¹⁴ I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are your works; and that my soul knows right well. ¹⁵ My frame was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. ¹⁶ Your eyes did see my substance, being yet unformed; and in your book they were all written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them. ¹⁷ How precious also are your thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! ¹⁸ If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with you. ¹⁹ Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, you bloody men. ²⁰ For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain. ²¹ Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate you? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against you? ²² I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them my enemies. ²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: ²⁴ And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. ¹⁴⁰ ¹ [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man; ² Who imagine evil in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war. ³ They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah. ⁴ Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my paths. ⁵ The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set traps for me. Selah. ⁶ I said unto the LORD, you are my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD. ⁷ O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle. ⁸ Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah. ⁹ As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them. ¹⁰ Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again. ¹¹ Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him. ¹² I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor. ¹³ Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto your name: the upright shall dwell in your presence. ¹⁴¹ ¹ [A Psalm of David.] LORD, I cry unto you: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto you. ² Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. ³ Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips. ⁴ Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their delicacies. ⁵ Let the righteous strike me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be against their evil. ⁶ When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet. ⁷ Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cuts and splits wood upon the earth. ⁸ But my eyes are unto you, O GOD the Lord: in you is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. ⁹ Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the traps of the workers of iniquity. ¹⁰ Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I thus escape. ¹⁴² ¹ [A maschil of David. A prayer when he was in the cave.] I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication. ² I poured out my complaint before him; I showed before him my trouble. ³ When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then you knew my path. In the way in which I walked have they secretly laid a snare for me. ⁴ I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would acknowledge me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. ⁵ I cried unto you, O LORD: I said, you are my refuge and my portion in the land of the living. ⁶ Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I. ⁷ Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise your name: the righteous shall surround me; for you shall deal bountifully with me. ¹⁴³ ¹ [A Psalm of David.] Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in your faithfulness answer me, and in your righteousness. ² And enter not into judgment with your servant: for in your sight shall no man living be justified. ³ For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead. ⁴ Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. ⁵ I remember the days of old; I meditate on all your works; I ponder on the work of your hands. ⁶ I stretch forth my hands unto you: my soul thirsts after you, as a thirsty land. Selah. ⁷ Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: hide not your face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. ⁸ Cause me to hear your lovingkindness in the morning; for in you do I trust: cause me to know the way in which I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto you. ⁹ Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies: I flee unto you to hide me. ¹⁰ Teach me to do your will; for you are my God: your Spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. ¹¹ Revive me, O LORD, for your name's sake: for your righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble. ¹² And in your mercy cut off my enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am your servant. ¹⁴⁴ ¹ [A Psalm of David.] Blessed be the LORD my strength, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to fight: ² My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdues my people under me. ³ LORD, what is man, that you take knowledge of him! or the son of man, that you make account of him! ⁴ Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away. ⁵ Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. ⁶ Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out your arrows, and destroy them. ⁷ Send your hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of foreigners; ⁸ Whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. ⁹ I will sing a new song unto you, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto you. ¹⁰ It is he that gives salvation unto kings: who delivers David his servant from the hurtful sword. ¹¹ Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood: ¹² That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner pillars, polished after the similitude of a palace: ¹³ That our barns may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets: ¹⁴ That our oxen may be strong to labor; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no outcry in our streets. ¹⁵ Happy is that people, that is in such a state: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD. ¹⁴⁵ ¹ [A Psalm of praise of David.] I will extol you, my God, O king; and I will bless your name forever and ever. ² Every day will I bless you; and I will praise your name forever and ever. ³ Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable. ⁴ One generation shall praise your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts. ⁵ I will speak of the glorious honor of your majesty, and of your wondrous works. ⁶ And men shall speak of the might of your wondrous acts: and I will declare your greatness. ⁷ They shall abundantly utter the memory of your great goodness, and shall sing of your righteousness. ⁸ The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. ⁹ The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. ¹⁰ All your works shall praise you, O LORD; and your saints shall bless you. ¹¹ They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk of your power; ¹² To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom. ¹³ Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations. ¹⁴ The LORD upholds all that fall, and raises up all those that are bowed down. ¹⁵ The eyes of all wait upon you; and you give them their food in due season. ¹⁶ You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing. ¹⁷ The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. ¹⁸ The LORD is near unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. ¹⁹ He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them. ²⁰ The LORD preserves all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy. ²¹ My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever. ¹⁴⁶ ¹ Praise you the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul. ² While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. ³ Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. ⁴ His breath goes forth, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. ⁵ Happy is he that has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God: ⁶ Who made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that is therein: who keeps truth forever: ⁷ Who executes justice for the oppressed: who gives food to the hungry. The LORD looses the prisoners: ⁸ The LORD opens the eyes of the blind: the LORD raises them that are bowed down: the LORD loves the righteous: ⁹ The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down. ¹⁰ The LORD shall reign forever, even your God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise you the LORD. ¹⁴⁷ ¹ Praise you the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is fitting. ² The LORD does build up Jerusalem: he gathers together the outcasts of Israel. ³ He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds. ⁴ He determines the number of the stars; he calls them all by their names. ⁵ Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite. ⁶ The LORD lifts up the meek: he casts the wicked down to the ground. ⁷ Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: ⁸ Who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains. ⁹ He gives to the beast its food, and to the young ravens that cry. ¹⁰ He delights not in the strength of the horse: he takes not pleasure in the legs of a man. ¹¹ The LORD takes pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy. ¹² Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion. ¹³ For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; he has blessed your children within you. ¹⁴ He makes peace in your borders, and fills you with the finest of the wheat. ¹⁵ He sends forth his commandment upon earth: his word runs very swiftly. ¹⁶ He gives snow like wool: he scatters the frost like ashes. ¹⁷ He casts forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold? ¹⁸ He sends out his word, and melts them: he causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow. ¹⁹ He shows his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. ²⁰ He has not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise you the LORD. ¹⁴⁸ ¹ Praise you the LORD. Praise you the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the heights. ² Praise him, all his angels: praise him, all his hosts. ³ Praise him, sun and moon: praise him, all you stars of light. ⁴ Praise him, you heavens of heavens, and you waters that be above the heavens. ⁵ Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created. ⁶ He has also established them forever and ever: he has made a decree which shall not pass. ⁷ Praise the LORD from the earth, you sea creatures, and all deeps: ⁸ Fire, and hail; snow, and vapors; stormy wind fulfilling his word: ⁹ Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars: ¹⁰ Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl: ¹¹ Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth: ¹² Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children: ¹³ Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven. ¹⁴ He also exalts the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise you the LORD. ¹⁴⁹ ¹ Praise you the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints. ² Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. ³ Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp. ⁴ For the LORD takes pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation. ⁵ Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds. ⁶ Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand; ⁷ To execute vengeance upon the nations, and punishments upon the people; ⁸ To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; ⁹ To execute upon them the judgment written: this honor have all his saints. Praise you the LORD. ¹⁵⁰ ¹ Praise you the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. ² Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. ³ Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the lute and harp. ⁴ Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and pipes. ⁵ Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the clashing cymbals. ⁶ Let every thing that has breath praise the LORD. Praise you the LORD.