Psalms 140:1-150:6 {To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} Free me, O Jehovah, from the evil man; preserve me from the violent man:

Darby⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ {To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} Free me, O Jehovah, from the evil man; preserve me from the violent man: ² Who devise mischiefs in [their] heart; every day are they banded together for war. ³ They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; adders` poison is under their lips. Selah. ⁴ Keep me, O Jehovah, from the hands of the wicked [man], preserve me from the violent man, who devise to overthrow my steps. ⁵ The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the way-side; they have set traps for me. Selah. ⁶ I have said unto Jehovah, Thou art my ?God: give ear, O Jehovah, to the voice of my supplications. ⁷ Jehovah, the Lord, is the strength of my salvation: thou hast covered my head in the day of battle. ⁸ Grant not, O Jehovah, the desire of the wicked; further not his device: they would exalt themselves. Selah. ⁹ [As for] the head of those that encompass me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them. ¹⁰ Let burning coals fall on them; let them be cast into the fire; into deep waters, that they rise not up again. ¹¹ Let not the man of [evil] tongue be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the man of violence to [his] ruin. ¹² I know that Jehovah will maintain the cause of the afflicted one, the right of the needy. ¹³ Yea, the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name; the upright shall dwell in thy presence. ¹⁴¹ ¹ {A Psalm of David.} Jehovah, I have called upon thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I call unto thee. ² Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense, the lifting up of my hands as the evening oblation. ³ Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. ⁴ Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise deeds of wickedness with men that are workers of iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties. ⁵ Let the righteous smite me, it is kindness; and let him reprove me, it is an excellent oil which my head shall not refuse: for yet my prayer also is [for them] in their calamities. ⁶ When their judges are thrown down from the rocks, they shall hear my words, for they are sweet. ⁷ Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol, as when one cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth. ⁸ For unto thee, Jehovah, Lord, are mine eyes; in thee do I trust: leave not my soul destitute. ⁹ Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the traps of the workers of iniquity. ¹⁰ Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that *I* withal pass over. ¹⁴² ¹ {An instruction of David; when he was in the cave: a prayer.} I cry unto Jehovah with my voice: with my voice unto Jehovah do I make supplication. ² I pour out my plaint before him; I shew before him my trouble. ³ When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then *thou* knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they hidden a snare for me. ⁴ Look on the right hand and see; there is no man that knoweth me: refuge hath failed me; no man careth for my soul. ⁵ I cried unto thee, Jehovah; I said, Thou art my refuge, 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 celebrate thy name. The righteous shall surround me, because thou dealest bountifully with me. ¹⁴³ ¹ {A Psalm of David.} Jehovah, hear my prayer; give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, in thy righteousness. ² And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight no man living shall be justified. ³ For the enemy persecuteth my soul: he hath crushed my life down to the earth; he hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead. ⁴ And my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. ⁵ I remember the days of old: I meditate on all thy doing; I muse on the work of thy hands. ⁶ I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul, as a parched land, [thirsteth] after thee. Selah. ⁷ Answer me speedily, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, or I shall be like unto them that go down into the pit. ⁸ Cause me to hear thy loving-kindness in the morning, for in thee do I confide; make me to know the way wherein I should walk, for unto thee do I lift up my soul. ⁹ Deliver me, O Jehovah, from mine enemies: unto thee do I flee for refuge. ¹⁰ Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: let thy good Spirit lead me in a plain country. ¹¹ Revive me, O Jehovah, for thy name`s sake; in thy righteousness bring my soul out of trouble; ¹² And in thy loving-kindness cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that oppress my soul: for I am thy servant. ¹⁴⁴ ¹ {[A Psalm] of David.} Blessed be Jehovah my rock, who teacheth my hands to war, my fingers to fight; ² My mercy and my fortress, my high tower and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I trust, who subdueth my people under me! ³ Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him, the son of man, that thou takest thought of him? ⁴ Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away. ⁵ Jehovah, bow thy heavens, and come down; touch the mountains, that they smoke; ⁶ Cast forth lightnings, and scatter them; send forth thine arrows, and discomfit them: ⁷ Stretch out thy hands from above; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of aliens, ⁸ Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. ⁹ O God, I will sing a new song unto thee; with the ten-stringed lute will I sing psalms unto thee: ¹⁰ Who givest salvation unto kings; who rescuest David thy servant from the hurtful sword. ¹¹ Rescue me, and deliver me from the hand of aliens, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. ¹² That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; our daughters as corner-columns, sculptured after the fashion of a palace: ¹³ Our granaries full, affording all manner of store; our sheep bringing forth thousands, ten thousands in our pastures; ¹⁴ Our kine laden [with young]; no breaking in and no going forth, and no outcry in our streets. ¹⁵ Blessed the people that is in such a case! Blessed the people whose God is Jehovah! ¹⁴⁵ ¹ {A Psalm of praise. Of David.} I will extol thee, my God, O King, and I will bless thy name for ever and ever. ² Every day will I bless thee, and I will praise thy name for ever and ever. ³ Great is Jehovah, and exceedingly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable. ⁴ One generation shall laud thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts. ⁵ I will speak of the glorious splendour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works. ⁶ And they shall tell of the might of thy terrible acts; and thy great deeds will I declare. ⁷ They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. ⁸ Jehovah is gracious and merciful; slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness. ⁹ Jehovah is good to all; and his tender mercies are over all his works. ¹⁰ All thy works shall praise thee, Jehovah, and thy saints shall bless thee. ¹¹ They shall tell of the glory of thy kingdom, and speak of thy power; ¹² To make known to the children of men his mighty acts, and the glorious splendour of his kingdom. ¹³ Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages, and thy dominion is throughout all generations. ¹⁴ Jehovah upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all that are bowed down. ¹⁵ The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their food in its season. ¹⁶ Thou openest thy hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. ¹⁷ Jehovah is righteous in all his ways, and kind in all his works. ¹⁸ Jehovah is nigh unto all that call upon him, unto all that call upon him in truth. ¹⁹ He fulfilleth the desire of them that fear him; he heareth their cry, and saveth them. ²⁰ Jehovah keepeth all that love him, and all the wicked will he destroy. ²¹ My mouth shall speak the praise of Jehovah; and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever. ¹⁴⁶ ¹ Hallelujah! Praise Jehovah, O my soul. ² As long as I live will I praise Jehovah; I will sing psalms unto my God while I have my being. ³ Put not confidence in nobles, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. ⁴ His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his purposes perish. ⁵ Blessed is he who hath the ?God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Jehovah his God, ⁶ Who made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is therein; who keepeth truth for ever; ⁷ Who executeth judgment for the oppressed, who giveth bread to the hungry. Jehovah looseth the prisoners; ⁸ Jehovah openeth [the eyes of] the blind; Jehovah raiseth up them that are bowed down; Jehovah loveth the righteous; ⁹ Jehovah preserveth the strangers; he lifteth up the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he subvert. ¹⁰ Jehovah will reign for ever, [even] thy God, O Zion, from generation to generation. Halleluiah! ¹⁴⁷ ¹ Praise ye Jah! for it is good. Sing psalms of our God; for it is pleasant: praise is comely. ² Jehovah doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth the outcasts of Israel. ³ He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. ⁴ He counteth the number of the stars; he giveth names to them all. ⁵ Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite. ⁶ Jehovah lifteth up the meek; he abaseth the wicked to the earth. ⁷ Sing unto Jehovah with thanksgiving; sing psalms upon the harp unto our God: ⁸ Who covereth the heavens with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains; ⁹ Who giveth to the cattle their food, to the young ravens which cry. ¹⁰ He delighteth not in the strength of the horse, he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man; ¹¹ Jehovah taketh pleasure in those that fear him, in those that hope in his loving-kindness. ¹² Laud Jehovah, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion. ¹³ For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee; ¹⁴ He maketh peace in thy borders; he satisfieth thee with the finest of the wheat. ¹⁵ He sendeth forth his oracles to the earth: his word runneth very swiftly. ¹⁶ He giveth snow like wool, scattereth the hoar frost like ashes; ¹⁷ He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold? ¹⁸ He sendeth his word, and melteth them; he causeth his wind to blow -- the waters flow. ¹⁹ He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. ²⁰ He hath not dealt thus with any nation; and as for [his] judgments, they have not known them. Hallelujah! ¹⁴⁸ ¹ Hallelujah! Praise Jehovah from the heavens; praise him in the heights. ² Praise ye him, all his angels; praise ye him, all his hosts. ³ Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all ye stars of light. ⁴ Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that are above the heavens. ⁵ Let them praise the name of Jehovah, for he it is that commanded, and they were created: ⁶ And he established them for ever and ever; he made [for them] a statute which shall not pass. ⁷ Praise Jehovah from the earth, ye sea-monsters, and all deeps; ⁸ Fire and hail, snow and vapour, stormy wind fulfilling his word; ⁹ Mountains and all hills, fruit-trees and all cedars; ¹⁰ Beasts and all cattle, creeping things and winged fowl; ¹¹ Kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all judges of the earth; ¹² Both young men and maidens, old men with youths, -- ¹³ Let them praise the name of Jehovah: for his name alone is exalted; his majesty is above the earth and the heavens. ¹⁴ And he hath lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints, [even] of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Hallelujah! ¹⁴⁹ ¹ Hallelujah! Sing unto Jehovah a new song; [sing] his praise in the congregation of the godly. ² Let Israel rejoice in his Maker; let the sons of Zion be joyful in their King. ³ Let them praise his name in the dance; let them sing psalms unto him with the tambour and harp. ⁴ For Jehovah taketh pleasure in his people; he beautifieth the meek with salvation. ⁵ Let the godly exult in glory; let them shout for joy 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 against the nations, [and] punishment among the peoples; ⁸ To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; ⁹ To execute upon them the judgment written. This honour have all his saints. Hallelujah! ¹⁵⁰ ¹ Hallelujah! Praise ?God in his sanctuary; praise him in the firmament of his power. ² Praise him in his mighty acts; praise him according to the abundance of his greatness. ³ Praise him with the sound of the trumpet; praise him with lute and harp; ⁴ Praise him with the tambour and dance; praise him with stringed instruments and the pipe; ⁵ Praise him with loud cymbals; praise him with high sounding cymbals. ⁶ Let everything that hath breath praise Jah. Hallelujah!