Psalms 19:-36:1 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows his handiwork.

ACV⁽ⁱ⁾ 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. ³¹ ¹ In thee, O LORD, do I take refuge. Let me never be put to shame. Deliver me in thy righteousness. ² Bow down thine ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be thou to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me. ³ For thou are my rock and my fortress. Therefore for thy name's sake lead me and guide me. ⁴ Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for thou are my stronghold. ⁵ Into thy hand I commend my spirit. Thou have redeemed me, O LORD, thou God of truth. ⁶ I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in LORD. ⁷ I will be glad and rejoice in thy loving kindness, for thou have seen my affliction. Thou have known my soul in adversities, ⁸ and thou have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. Thou have set my feet in a large place. ⁹ Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in distress. My eye wastes away with grief, yea, my soul and my body. ¹⁰ For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are wasted away. ¹¹ I have become a reproach because of all my adversaries, yea, to my neighbors exceedingly, and a fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me outside fled from 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 together against me. They devised to take away my life. ¹⁴ But I trusted in thee, O LORD. I said, Thou are my God. ¹⁵ My times are in thy hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me. ¹⁶ Make thy face to shine upon thy servant. Save me in thy loving kindness. ¹⁷ Let me not be put to shame, O LORD, for I have called upon thee. Let the wicked be put to shame. Let them be silent in Sheol. ¹⁸ Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak against the righteous man insolently, with pride and contempt. ¹⁹ O how great is thy goodness, which thou have laid up for those who fear thee, which thou have wrought for those who take refuge in thee before the sons of men! ²⁰ In the covert of thy presence thou will hide them from the plotting of man. Thou will keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues. ²¹ Blessed be LORD, for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city. ²² As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes. Nevertheless thou heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to thee. ²³ O love LORD, all ye his sanctified. LORD preserves the faithful, and plentifully repays him who deals proudly. ²⁴ Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all ye who hope in LORD. ³² ¹ Blessed are those whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. ² Blessed is the man to whom LORD does not impute sin, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. ³ When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long. ⁴ For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. Selah. ⁵ I acknowledged my sin to thee, and I did not hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to LORD, and thou forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah. ⁶ For this let everyone who is devout pray to thee in a time when thou may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow they shall not reach to him. ⁷ Thou are my hiding-place. Thou will preserve me from trouble. Thou will encompass me around with songs of deliverance. Selah. ⁸ I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shall go. I will counsel thee with my eye upon thee. ⁹ Become ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding, whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in, else they will not come near to thee. ¹⁰ Many sorrows shall be to the wicked, but he who trusts in LORD, loving kindness shall encompass him about. ¹¹ Be glad in LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous. And shout for joy, all ye who are upright in heart. ³³ ¹ Rejoice in LORD, O ye righteous. Praise is comely for the upright. ² Give thanks to LORD with the harp. Sing praises to him with the psaltery of ten strings. ³ Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a loud noise. ⁴ For the word of LORD is right, and all his work is done in faithfulness. ⁵ He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of LORD. ⁶ By the word of LORD were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. ⁷ He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in store-houses. ⁸ Let all the earth fear LORD. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. ⁹ For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood fast. ¹⁰ LORD brings the counsel of the nations to naught. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect. ¹¹ The counsel of LORD stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. ¹² Blessed is the nation whose God is LORD, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance. ¹³ LORD looks from heaven. He beholds all the sons of men. ¹⁴ From the place of his habitation he looks forth upon all the inhabitants of the earth; ¹⁵ he who fashions the hearts of them all, who considers all their works. ¹⁶ There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength. ¹⁷ A horse is a vain thing for safety, nor does he deliver any by his great power. ¹⁸ Behold, the eye of LORD is upon those who fear him, upon those who hope in his loving kindness, ¹⁹ to deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. ²⁰ Our soul has waited for 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 loving kindness, O LORD, be upon us, according as we have hoped in thee. ³⁴ ¹ I will bless LORD at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth. ² My soul shall make its boast in LORD. The humble shall hear of it, and be glad. ³ O magnify LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. ⁴ I sought LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. ⁵ They looked to him, and were radiant, and their faces shall never be confounded. ⁶ This poor man cried, and LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. ⁷ The agent of LORD encamps round about those who fear him, and delivers them. ⁸ O taste and see that LORD is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. ⁹ O fear LORD, ye his sanctified, for there is no want to those who fear him. ¹⁰ The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek LORD shall not want any good thing. ¹¹ Come, ye children, hearken to me. I will teach you the fear of LORD. ¹² What man is he who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good? ¹³ Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking deceit. ¹⁴ Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it. ¹⁵ The eyes of LORD are toward the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. ¹⁶ (The face of LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.) ¹⁷ They cried, and LORD heard, and delivered them out of all their troubles. ¹⁸ LORD is near to those who are of a broken heart, and saves such as are of a contrite spirit. ¹⁹ Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but LORD delivers him out of them all. ²⁰ He keeps all his bones. Not one of them is broken. ²¹ Evil shall kill the wicked, and those who hate the righteous shall be condemned. ²² LORD redeems the soul of his servants, and none of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned. ³⁵ ¹ Strive thou, O LORD, with those who strive with me. Fight thou against those who fight against me. ² Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help. ³ Draw out the spear also, and stop the way against those who pursue me. Say to my soul, I am thy salvation. ⁴ Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor who seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and confounded who devise my hurt. ⁵ Let them be as chaff before the wind, and the agent of LORD driving them on. ⁶ Let their way be dark and slippery, and the agent of LORD pursuing them. ⁷ For without cause they have hid their net for me in a pit. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul. ⁸ Let destruction come upon him unawares, and let his net that he has hid catch himself. Let him fall in it with destruction. ⁹ And my soul shall be joyful in LORD. It shall rejoice in his salvation. ¹⁰ All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like thee, who delivers a poor man from him who is too strong for him, yea, a poor and needy man from him who robs him? ¹¹ Unrighteous witnesses rise up, they ask me of things that I know not. ¹² They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul. ¹³ But as for me, when they were sick my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into my own bosom. ¹⁴ I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as he who bewails his mother. ¹⁵ But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The wretches gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not. They tore me, and ceased not. ¹⁶ Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. ¹⁷ Lord, how long will thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. ¹⁸ I will give thee thanks in the great assembly. I will praise thee among much people. ¹⁹ Let not those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me. Neither let them wink with the eye who hate me without a cause. ²⁰ For they speak not peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land. ²¹ Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it. ²² Thou have seen it, O LORD. Keep not silence. O Lord, be not far from me. ²³ Stir up thyself, and awake to the justice to me, to my cause, my God and my Lord. ²⁴ Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness, and let them not rejoice over me. ²⁵ Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it. Let them not say, We have swallowed him up. ²⁶ Let them be put to shame and confounded together who rejoice at my hurt. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me. ²⁷ Let them shout for joy, and be glad, who favor my righteous cause. Yea, let them say continually, LORD be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. ²⁸ And my tongue shall talk of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long. ³⁶ ¹ The transgression of the wicked man says within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes.