Psalms 10:1-30:12 Why do thou stand afar off, O LORD? Why do thou hide thyself in times of trouble?

ACV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Why do thou stand afar off, O LORD? Why do thou hide thyself in times of trouble? ² In the pride of the wicked man the poor man is hotly pursued. Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived. ³ For the wicked man boasts of his heart's desire. And the greedy man renounces, yea, despises LORD. ⁴ The wicked man, in the pride of his countenance, says, He will not require it. All his thoughts are, There is no God. ⁵ His ways are profane at all times. Thy judgments are far above out of his sight. As for all his adversaries, he puffs at them. ⁶ He says in his heart, I shall not be moved. To all generations I shall not be in adversity. ⁷ His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity. ⁸ He sits in the lurking-places of the villages. In the covert places he murders the innocent man. His eyes are secretly set against the poor man. ⁹ He lurks in secret as a lion in his covert. He lies in wait to catch the poor man. He catches the poor man when he draws him in his net. ¹⁰ He crouches, he bows down, and helpless men fall by his strong men. ¹¹ He says in his heart, God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it. ¹² Arise, O LORD, O God, lift up thy hand. Do not forget the poor. ¹³ Why does the wicked man despise God, and say in his heart, Thou will not require it? ¹⁴ Thou have seen. For thou behold mischief and spite, to repay with thy hand. The poor man commits himself to thee. Thou have been the helper of the fatherless. ¹⁵ Break thou the arm of the sinner and the evil man. His wickedness shall be sought, and shall not be found. ¹⁶ LORD is King forever and ever. The nations have perished out of his land. ¹⁷ LORD, thou have heard the desire of the humble. Thou will prepare their heart, thou will cause thine ear to hear, ¹⁸ to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may no more be terrible. ¹¹ ¹ In LORD I take refuge. How will ye say to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain. ² For, lo, the wicked bend the bow. They make ready their arrow upon the string that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart. ³ If the foundations be destroyed, what can a righteous man do? ⁴ LORD is in his holy temple. LORD's throne is in heaven. His eyes, behold, his eyelids try, the sons of men. ⁵ LORD tries the righteous man, but his soul hates the wicked man and him who loves violence. ⁶ He will rain snares upon sinners. Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup. ⁷ For LORD is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright man shall behold his face. ¹² ¹ Help, LORD, for the holy man ceases, for the faithful fail from among the sons of men. ² They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. With flattering lip, and with a double heart, they speak. ³ LORD will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaks great things, ⁴ who have said, With our tongue will we prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us? ⁵ Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, says LORD. I will set him in the safety he gasps for. ⁶ The words of LORD are pure words, as silver tried in a furnace on the earth, purified seven times. ⁷ Thou will keep them, O LORD. Thou will preserve them from this generation forever. ⁸ The wicked walk on every side when vileness is exalted among the sons of men. ¹³ ¹ How long, O LORD? Will thou forget me forever? How long will thou hide thy face from me? ² How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? ³ Consider and answer me, O LORD my God. Lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the death, ⁴ lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him, lest my adversaries rejoice when I am moved. ⁵ But I have trusted in thy loving kindness. My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. ⁶ I will sing to LORD because he has dealt bountifully with me. ¹⁴ ¹ The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none that does good. ² LORD looked down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God. ³ They are all gone aside. They are together become filthy. There is none who does good, no, not one. ⁴ Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon LORD? ⁵ There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous. ⁶ Ye put to shame the counsel of the poor because LORD is his refuge. ⁷ O that the salvation of Israel came out of Zion! When LORD brings back the captivity of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. ¹⁵ ¹ LORD, who shall sojourn in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? ² He who walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks truth in his heart, ³ he who does no slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor, ⁴ in whose eyes a reprobate is despised, but who honors those who fear LORD, he that swears to his own hurt, and changes not, ⁵ he who puts not his money out to interest, nor takes a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved. ¹⁶ ¹ Preserve me, O God, for in thee do I take refuge. ² Thou my soul have said to LORD, Thou are my Lord. I have no good beyond thee. ³ As for the sanctified who are in the earth, they are the excellent in whom is all my delight. ⁴ Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts for another god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their names upon my lips. ⁵ LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup. Thou maintain my lot. ⁶ The lines are fallen to me in pleasant places. Yea, I have a fine heritage. ⁷ I will bless LORD, who has given me counsel. Yea, my heart instructs me in the night seasons. ⁸ I beheld LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. ⁹ Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices. My flesh also shall dwell in hope. ¹⁰ For thou will not leave my soul to Sheol, nor will thou allow thy holy man to see corruption. ¹¹ Thou made known to me the path of life. Thou will fill me of joy with thy countenance. ¹⁷ ¹ Hear the right, O LORD, attend to my cry. Give ear to my prayer, that goes not out of feigned lips. ² Let my justice come forth from thy presence. Let thine eyes look upon equity. ³ Thou have proved my heart. Thou have visited me in the night. Thou have tried me, and find nothing. I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress. ⁴ As for the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept from the ways of a violent man. ⁵ My steps have held fast to thy paths. My feet have not slipped. ⁶ I have called upon thee, for thou will answer me, O God. Incline thine ear to me, and hear my speech. ⁷ Show thy marvelous loving kindness, O thou who saves by thy right hand those who take refuge from those who rise up. ⁸ Keep me as the apple of the eye. Hide me under the shadow of thy wings, ⁹ from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who encompass me around. ¹⁰ They are enclosed in their own fat. With their mouth they speak proudly. ¹¹ They have now encompassed us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast down to the earth. ¹² He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. ¹³ Arise, O LORD, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by thy sword, ¹⁴ from men by thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world whose portion is in this life, and whose belly thou fill with thy treasure. They are satisfied with sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes. ¹⁵ As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy form. ¹⁸ ¹ I love thee, O LORD, my strength. ² LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower. ³ I will call upon LORD, who is worthy to be praised. So I shall be saved from my enemies. ⁴ The cords of death encompassed me, and the floods of lawlessness made me afraid. ⁵ The cords of Sheol were round about me. The snares of death came upon me. ⁶ In my distress I called upon LORD, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry before him came into his ears. ⁷ Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken because he was angry. ⁸ There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured. Coals were kindled by it. ⁹ He also bowed the heavens, and came down, and thick darkness was under his feet. ¹⁰ And he rode upon a cherub, and flew. Yea, he soared upon the wings of the wind. ¹¹ He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies. ¹² At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire. ¹³ LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire. ¹⁴ And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them, Yea, lightnings manifold, and discomfited them. ¹⁵ Then the channels of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were laid bare at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils. ¹⁶ He sent from on high, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. ¹⁷ He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me. ¹⁸ They came upon me in the day of my calamity, but LORD was my stay. ¹⁹ He also brought me forth into a large place. He delivered me because he delighted in me. ²⁰ LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me. ²¹ For I have kept the ways of LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. ²² For all his ordinances were before me, and I put not away his statutes from me. ²³ I was also perfect with him, and I kept myself from my iniquity. ²⁴ Therefore LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. ²⁵ With the merciful thou will show thyself merciful. With the perfect man thou will show thyself perfect. ²⁶ With the pure thou will show thyself pure. And with the perverse thou will show thyself contrary. ²⁷ For thou will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes thou will bring down. ²⁸ For thou will light my lamp. LORD my God will lighten my darkness. ²⁹ For by thee I run upon a troop, and by my God I leap over a wall. ³⁰ As for God, his way is perfect. The word of LORD is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him. ³¹ For who is God, except LORD? And who is a rock, besides our God, ³² the God who girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect? ³³ He makes my feet like hinds' feet, and sets me upon my high places. ³⁴ He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of brass. ³⁵ Thou have also given me the shield of thy salvation, and thy right hand has held me up, and thy gentleness has made me great. ³⁶ Thou have enlarged my steps under me, and my feet have not slipped. ³⁷ I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again till they are consumed. ³⁸ I will smite them through, so that they shall not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet. ³⁹ For thou have girded me with strength to the battle. Thou have subdued under me those who rose up against me. ⁴⁰ Thou have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me. ⁴¹ They cried, but there was none to save, even to LORD, but he answered them not. ⁴² Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets. ⁴³ Thou have delivered me from the strivings of the people. Thou have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me. ⁴⁴ As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me. ⁴⁵ The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their close places. ⁴⁶ LORD lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation, ⁴⁷ even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me. ⁴⁸ He rescues me from my enemies. Yea, thou lift me up above those who rise up against me. Thou deliver me from the violent man. ⁴⁹ Therefore I will give thanks to thee, O LORD, among the Gentiles, and will sing praises to thy name. ⁵⁰ He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, for evermore. ¹⁹ ¹ The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows his handiwork. ² Day to day utters speech, and night to night shows knowledge. ³ There is no speech nor language in which their voice is not heard. ⁴ Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tabernacle for the sun, ⁵ which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man to run his course. ⁶ His going forth is from the end of the heavens, and his circuit to the ends of it, and there is nothing hid from the heat of it. ⁷ The law of LORD is perfect, restoring the soul. The testimony of LORD is sure, making a simple man wise. ⁸ The precepts of LORD are right, rejoicing the heart. The commandment of LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. ⁹ The fear of LORD is clean, enduring forever. The ordinances of LORD are true, and righteous altogether. ¹⁰ More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold. Sweeter also than honey and the droppings of the honeycomb. ¹¹ Moreover by them thy servant is warned. In keeping them there is great reward. ¹² Who can discern his errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults. ¹³ Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be upright, and I shall be clear from great transgression. ¹⁴ Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my rock, and my redeemer. ²⁰ ¹ LORD answer thee in the day of trouble. The name of the God of Jacob set thee up on high, ² send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion, ³ remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt-sacrifice (Selah), ⁴ grant thee thy heart's desire, and fulfill all thy counsel. ⁵ We will triumph in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners. LORD fulfill all thy petitions. ⁶ Now I know that LORD saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand. ⁷ Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we will make mention of the name of LORD our God. ⁸ They are bowed down and fallen, but we are risen, and stand upright. ⁹ Save, LORD! Let the King answer us when we call. ²¹ ¹ The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD. And in thy salvation how greatly he shall rejoice! ² Thou have given him his heart's desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah. ³ For thou meet him with the blessings of goodness. Thou set a crown of fine gold on his head. ⁴ He asked life from thee. Thou gave it him, even length of days forever and ever. ⁵ His glory is great in thy salvation. Honor and majesty thou do lay upon him. ⁶ For thou make him most blessed forever. Thou make him glad with joy in thy presence. ⁷ For the king trusts in LORD. And through the loving kindness of the Most High he shall not be moved. ⁸ Thy hand will find out all thine enemies. Thy right hand will find out those who hate thee. ⁹ Thou will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger. LORD will swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them. ¹⁰ Thou will destroy their fruit from the earth, and their seed from among the sons of men. ¹¹ For they intended evil against thee. They conceived a device which they are not able to perform. ¹² For thou will make them turn their back. Thou will make ready with thy bowstrings against their face. ¹³ Be thou exalted, O LORD, in thy strength. We will sing and praise thy power. ²² ¹ My God, my God, why have thou forsaken me, far from helping me, and the words of my groaning? ² O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answer not, and in the night season, and I am not silent. ³ But thou are holy, O thou who inhabit the praises of Israel. ⁴ Our fathers trusted in thee. They trusted, and thou delivered them. ⁵ They cried to thee, and were delivered. They trusted in thee, and were not put to shame. ⁶ But I am a worm, and no man, a reproach of men, and despised by the people. ⁷ All those who see me laugh me to scorn. They shoot out the lip. They shake the head, saying, ⁸ He trusted on LORD. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him. ⁹ But thou are he who took me out of the womb. Thou made me trust upon my mother's breasts. ¹⁰ I was cast upon thee from the womb. Thou are my God since my mother bore me. ¹¹ Be not far from me, for trouble is near, for there is none to help. ¹² Many bulls have encompassed me. Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me around. ¹³ They gape upon me with their mouth, as a ravening and a roaring lion. ¹⁴ I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me. ¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws, and thou have brought me into the dust of death. ¹⁶ For dogs have encompassed me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They pierced my hands and my feet. ¹⁷ I may count all my bones. They look and stare upon me. ¹⁸ They part my garments among them, and upon my vesture do they cast a lot. ¹⁹ But be thou not far off, O LORD. O thou my succor, hasten thee to help me. ²⁰ Deliver my soul from the sword, the only one of me from the power of the dog. ²¹ Save me from the lion's mouth, yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen. Thou have answered me. ²² I will declare thy name to my brothers. In the midst of the congregation I will praise thee. ²³ Ye who fear LORD, praise him. All ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him, and stand in awe of him, all ye the seed of Israel. ²⁴ For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, neither has he hid his face from him, but when he cried to him, he heard. ²⁵ From thee comes my praise in the great assembly. I will pay my vows before those who fear him. ²⁶ The meek shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise LORD who seek after him. Let your heart live forever. ²⁷ All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to LORD, and all the kinfolk of the nations shall worship before thee. ²⁸ For the kingdom is LORD's, and he is the ruler over the nations. ²⁹ All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who cannot keep his soul alive. ³⁰ A seed shall serve him. It shall be told of the Lord to the next generation. ³¹ They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, that he has done it. ²³ ¹ LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want. ² He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. ³ He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. ⁴ Yea, tho I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou are with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. ⁵ Thou prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. Thou have anointed my head with oil. My cup runs over. ⁶ Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of LORD forever. ²⁴ ¹ The earth is LORD's, and the fullness thereof, the world, and those who dwell therein. ² For he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. ³ Who shall ascend into the hill of LORD? And who shall stand in his holy place? ⁴ He who has clean hands, and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully. ⁵ He shall receive a blessing from LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. ⁶ This is the generation of those who seek after him, who seek thy face, even Jacob. Selah. ⁷ Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in. ⁸ Who is the King of glory? LORD strong and mighty, LORD mighty in battle. ⁹ Lift up your heads, O ye gates. Yea, lift them up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in. ¹⁰ Who is this King of glory? LORD of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah. ²⁵ ¹ To thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul. ² O my God, in thee I have trusted. Let me not be put to shame. Let not my enemies triumph over me. ³ Yea, none who wait for thee shall be put to shame. They shall be put to shame who deal treacherously without cause. ⁴ Show me thy ways, O LORD. Teach me thy paths. ⁵ Guide me in thy truth, and teach me. For thou are the God of my salvation. For thee do I wait all the day. ⁶ Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy loving kindness. For they have been ever of old. ⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. According to thy loving kindness remember thou me, for thy goodness' sake, O LORD. ⁸ Good and upright is LORD. Therefore he will instruct sinners in the way. ⁹ The meek he will guide in justice, and the meek he will teach his way. ¹⁰ All the paths of LORD are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. ¹¹ For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity, for it is great. ¹² What man is he who fears LORD? Him he shall instruct in the way that he shall choose. ¹³ His soul shall dwell at ease, and his seed shall inherit the land. ¹⁴ The friendship of LORD is with those who fear him, and he will show them his covenant. ¹⁵ My eyes are ever toward LORD, for he will pluck my feet out of the net. ¹⁶ Turn thee to me, and have mercy upon me, for I am desolate and afflicted. ¹⁷ The troubles of my heart are enlarged. O bring thou me out of my distresses. ¹⁸ Consider my affliction and my travail, and forgive all my sins. ¹⁹ Consider my enemies, for they are many. And they hate me with cruel hatred. ²⁰ O keep my soul, and deliver me. Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in thee. ²¹ Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for thee. ²² Redeem Israel, O God, out of all of his troubles. ²⁶ ¹ Judge me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity. I have also trusted in LORD without wavering. ² Examine me, O LORD, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind. ³ For thy loving kindness is before my eyes, and I have walked in thy truth. ⁴ I have not sat with men of falsehood, nor will I go in with dissemblers. ⁵ I hate the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked. ⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will encompass thine altar, O LORD, ⁷ that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard, and tell of all thy wondrous works. ⁸ LORD, I love the habitation of thy house, and the place where thy glory dwells. ⁹ Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with men of blood, ¹⁰ in whose hands is wickedness, and their right hand is full of bribes. ¹¹ But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me. ¹² My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless LORD. ²⁷ ¹ LORD is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? LORD is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid? ² When evildoers came upon me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell. ³ Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident. ⁴ One thing I have asked of LORD, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of LORD, and to inquire in his temple. ⁵ For in the day of trouble he will hide me in his pavilion. In the covert of his tabernacle he will hide me. He will lift me up upon a rock. ⁶ And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies round about me. And I will offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy. I will sing, yea, I will sing praises to LORD. ⁷ Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also upon me, and answer me. ⁸ My heart said to thee, I have sought thy face. O LORD, I will seek thy face. ⁹ Hide not thy face from me. Put not thy servant away in anger. Thou have been my help. Cast me not off, nor forsake me, O God of my salvation. ¹⁰ When my father and my mother forsake me, then LORD will take me up. ¹¹ Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies. ¹² Deliver me not over to the will of my adversaries. For false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. ¹³ I believe that I shall see the goodness of LORD in the land of the living. ¹⁴ Wait for LORD. Be strong, and let thy heart take courage. Yea, wait thou for LORD. ²⁸ ¹ To thee, O LORD, I will call. My rock, be not thou deaf to me, lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like those who go down into the pit. ² Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to 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, who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts. ⁴ Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them after the operation of their hands. Render to them their recompense, ⁵ because they regard not the works of LORD, nor the operation of his hands. He will break them down and not build them up. ⁶ Blessed be LORD, because he has heard the voice of my supplications. ⁷ LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices, and with my song I will praise him. ⁸ LORD is their strength, and he is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed. ⁹ Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever. ²⁹ ¹ Ascribe to LORD, O ye sons of the mighty, ascribe to LORD glory and strength. ² Ascribe to LORD the glory due to his name. Worship LORD in holy array. ³ The voice of LORD is upon the waters. The God of glory thunders, even LORD upon many waters. ⁴ The voice of LORD is powerful. The voice of LORD is full of majesty. ⁵ The voice of LORD breaks the cedars. Yea, LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. ⁶ He makes them also to skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox. ⁷ The voice of LORD splits the flames of fire. ⁸ The voice of LORD shakes the wilderness. LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. ⁹ The voice of LORD makes the hinds to calve, and strips the forests bare. And in his temple everything says, Glory. ¹⁰ LORD sat as King at the Flood. Yea, LORD sits as King forever. ¹¹ LORD will give strength to his people. LORD will bless his people with peace. ³⁰ ¹ I will extol thee, O LORD, for thou have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me. ² O LORD my God, I cried to thee, and thou have healed me. ³ O LORD, thou have brought up my soul from Sheol. Thou have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. ⁴ Sing praise to LORD, O ye sanctified of his, and give thanks to his holiness. ⁵ For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy is in the morning. ⁶ As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved. ⁷ Thou, LORD, of thy favor had made my mountain to stand strong. Thou hid thy face; I was troubled. ⁸ I cried to thee, O LORD, and to 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 have turned for me my mourning into dancing. Thou have loosed 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 to thee forever.