Psalms 2:1-30:12 Why do the nations rage, and the peoples imagine a vain thing?

ERV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Why do the nations rage, and the peoples imagine a vain thing? ² The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, [saying], ³ Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. ⁴ He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. ⁵ Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure: ⁶ Yet I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. ⁷ I will tell of the decree: the LORD said unto me, Thou art my son; this day have I begotten thee. ⁸ Ask of me, and I will give thee the nations for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. ⁹ Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. ¹⁰ Now therefore be wise, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. ¹¹ Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. ¹² Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. ³ ¹ A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. LORD, how are mine adversaries increased! many are they that rise up against me. ² Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah ³ But thou, O LORD, art a shield about me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. ⁴ I cry unto the LORD with my voice, and he answereth me out of his holy hill. Selah ⁵ I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustaineth me. ⁶ I will not be afraid of ten thousands of the people, that have set themselves against me round about. ⁷ Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the wicked. ⁸ Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing be upon thy people. Selah ⁴ ¹ For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness; thou hast set me at large [when I was] in distress: have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer. ² O ye sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonour? [how long] will ye love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah ³ But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him. ⁴ Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah ⁵ Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD. ⁶ Many there be that say, Who will shew us [any] good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. ⁷ Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than [they have] when their corn and their wine are increased. ⁸ In peace will I both lay me down and sleep: for thou, LORD, alone makest me dwell in safety. ⁵ ¹ For the Chief Musician; with the Nehiloth. A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation. ² Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee do I pray. ³ O LORD, in the morning shalt thou hear my voice; in the morning will I order [my prayer] unto thee, and will keep watch. ⁴ For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: evil shall not sojourn with thee. ⁵ The arrogant shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. ⁶ Thou shalt destroy them that speak lies: the LORD abhorreth the bloodthirsty and deceitful man. ⁷ But as for me, in the multitude of thy lovingkindness will I come into thy house: in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple. ⁸ Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way plain before my face. ⁹ For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness: their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. ¹⁰ Hold them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own counsels: thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee. ¹¹ But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice, let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee. ¹² For thou wilt bless the righteous; O LORD, thou wilt compass him with favour as with a shield. ⁶ ¹ For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, set to the Sheminith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. ² Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am withered away: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. ³ My soul also is sore vexed: and thou, O LORD, how long? ⁴ Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: save me for thy lovingkindness’ sake. ⁵ For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in Sheol who shall give thee thanks? ⁶ I am weary with my groaning; every night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. ⁷ Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine adversaries. ⁸ Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping. ⁹ The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer. ¹⁰ All mine enemies shall be ashamed and sore vexed: they shall turn back, they shall be ashamed suddenly. ⁷ ¹ Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the LORD; concerning the words of Cush a Benjamite. O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that pursue me, and deliver me: ² Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver. ³ O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands; ⁴ If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine adversary:) ⁵ Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yea, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah ⁶ Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself against the rage of mine adversaries: and awake for me; thou hast commanded judgment. ⁷ And let the congregation of the peoples compass thee about: and over them return thou on high. ⁸ The LORD ministereth judgment to the peoples: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and to mine integrity that is in me. ⁹ Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins. ¹⁰ My shield is with God, which saveth the upright in heart. ¹¹ God is a righteous judge, yea, a God that hath indignation every day. ¹² If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. ¹³ He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he maketh his arrows fiery [shafts]. ¹⁴ Behold, he travaileth with iniquity; yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. ¹⁵ He hath made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. ¹⁶ His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violence shall come down upon his own pate. ¹⁷ I will give thanks unto the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High. ⁸ ¹ For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory upon the heavens. ² Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength, because of thine adversaries, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. ³ When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; ⁴ What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? ⁵ For thou hast made him but little lower than God, and crownest him with glory and honour. ⁶ Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: ⁷ All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; ⁸ The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. ⁹ O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! ⁹ ¹ For the Chief Musician; set to Muthlabben. A Psalm of David. I will give thanks unto the LORD with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvelous works. ² I will be glad and exult in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou Most High. ³ When mine enemies turn back, they stumble and perish at thy presence. ⁴ For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging righteously. ⁵ Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever. ⁶ The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for ever; and the cities which thou hast overthrown, their very memorial is perished. ⁷ But the LORD sitteth [as king] for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment. ⁸ And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the peoples in uprightness. ⁹ The LORD also will be a high tower for the oppressed, a high tower in times of trouble; ¹⁰ And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee. ¹¹ Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings. ¹² For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the poor. ¹³ Have mercy upon me, O LORD; behold my affliction [which I suffer] of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death; ¹⁴ That I may shew forth all thy praise: in the gates of the daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in thy salvation. ¹⁵ The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. ¹⁶ The LORD hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higaion. Selah ¹⁷ The wicked shall return to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God. ¹⁸ For the needy shall not alway be forgotten, nor the expectation of the poor perish for ever. ¹⁹ Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the nations be judged in thy sight. ²⁰ Put them in fear, O LORD: let the nations know themselves to be but men. Selah ¹⁰ ¹ Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? ² In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. ³ For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and the covetous renounceth, [yea], contemneth the LORD. ⁴ The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, [saith], He will not require [it]. All his thoughts are, There is no God. ⁵ His ways are firm at all times; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them. ⁶ He saith 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 sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the covert places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the helpless. ⁹ He lurketh in the covert as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net. ¹⁰ He croucheth, he boweth down, and the helpless fall by his strong ones. ¹¹ He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it. ¹² Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the poor. ¹³ Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, and say in his heart, Thou wilt not require [it]? ¹⁴ Thon hast seen [it]; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to take it into thy hand: the helpless committeth [himself] unto thee; thou hast been the helper of the fatherless. ¹⁵ Break thou the arm of the wicked; and as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none. ¹⁶ The LORD is King for ever and ever: the nations are perished out of his land. ¹⁷ LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the meek: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: ¹⁸ To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man which is of the earth may be terrible no more. ¹¹ ¹ For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David. In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye 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 the righteous do? ⁴ The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD, his throne is in heaven; his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men. ⁵ The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. ⁶ Upon the wicked he shall rain snares; fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup. ⁷ For the LORD is righteous; he loveth righteousness: the upright shall behold his face. ¹² ¹ For the Chief Musician; set to the Sheminith. A Psalm of David. Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. ² They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak. ³ The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaketh great things: ⁴ Who have said, with our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? ⁵ For the spoiling of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety at whom they puff. ⁶ The words of the LORD are pure words; as silver tried in a furnace on the earth, purified seven times. ⁷ Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. ⁸ The wicked walk on every side, when vileness is exalted among the sons of men. ¹³ ¹ For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long, O LORD, wilt thou forget me for ever? how long wilt 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 mine enemy be exalted over me? ³ Consider [and] answer me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the [sleep of] death; ⁴ Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; [lest] mine adversaries rejoice when I am moved. ⁵ But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation: ⁶ I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me. ¹⁴ ¹ For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works; there is none that doeth good. ² The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek after God. ³ They are all gone aside; they are together become filthy; there is none that doeth 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 the LORD. ⁵ There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous. ⁶ Ye put to shame the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge. ⁷ Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, then shall Jacob rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad. ¹⁵ ¹ A Psalm of David. LORD, who shall sojourn in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? ² He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh truth in his heart. ³ He that slandereth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his friend, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour. ⁴ In whose eyes a reprobate is despised; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not. ⁵ He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved. ¹⁶ ¹ Michtam of David. Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust. ² I have said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: I have no good beyond thee. ³ As for the saints that are in the earth, they are the excellent in whom is all my delight. ⁴ Their sorrows shall be multiplied that exchange [the LORD] for another [god]: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take their names upon my lips. ⁵ The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. ⁶ The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. ⁷ I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: yea, my reins instruct me in the night seasons. ⁸ I have set the 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 rejoiceth: my flesh also shall dwell in safety. ¹⁰ For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol; neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption. ¹¹ Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; in thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. ¹⁷ ¹ A Prayer of David. Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry; give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. ² Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes look upon equity. ³ Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and findest nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress. ⁴ As for the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the ways of the violent. ⁵ My steps have held fast to thy paths, my feet have not slipped. ⁶ I have called upon thee, for thou wilt answer me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, [and] hear my speech. ⁷ Shew thy marvelous lovingkindness, O thou that savest them which put their trust [in thee] from those that rise up [against them], by thy right hand. ⁸ Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings, ⁹ From the wicked that spoil me, my deadly enemies, that compass me about. ¹⁰ They are enclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly. ¹¹ They have now compassed us in our steps: they set their eyes to cast [us] 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 fillest with thy treasure: they are satisfied with children, 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 likeness. ¹⁸ ¹ For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: and he said, I love thee, O LORD, my strength. ² The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strong rock, in him will I trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower. ³ I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. ⁴ The cords of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodliness made me afraid. ⁵ The cords of Sheol were round about me: the snares of death came on me. ⁶ In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto 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, me foundations also of the mountains moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. ⁸ There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. ⁹ He bowed the heavens also, and came down, and thick darkness was under his feet. ¹⁰ And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly, yea, he flew swiftly 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 The 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 them that hated me, for they were too mighty for me. ¹⁸ They came upon me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay. ¹⁹ He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me. ²⁰ The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. ²¹ For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. ²² For all his judgments were before me, and I put not away his statutes from me. ²³ I was also perfect with him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity. ²⁴ Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. ²⁵ With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with the perfect man thou wilt shew thyself perfect; ²⁶ With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the perverse thou wilt shew thyself froward. ²⁷ For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but the haughty eyes thou wilt bring down. ²⁸ For thou wilt light my lamp: the LORD my God will lighten my darkness. ²⁹ For by thee I run upon a troop; and by my God do I leap over a wall. ³⁰ As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried; he is a shield unto all them that trust in him. ³¹ For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, beside our God? ³² The God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect. ³³ He maketh my feet like hinds’ [feet]: and setteth me upon my high places, ³⁴ He teacheth my hands to war; so that mine arms do bend a bow of brass. ³⁵ Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great. ³⁶ Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, and my feet have not slipped. ³⁷ I will pursue mine enemies, and overtake them: neither will I turn again till they are consumed. ³⁸ I will smite them through that they shall not be able to rise: they shall fall under my feet. ³⁹ For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me. ⁴⁰ Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me, that I might cut off them that hate me. ⁴¹ They cried, but there was none to save: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not. ⁴² Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the mire of the streets. ⁴³ Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; thou hast 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 strangers shall submit themselves unto me. ⁴⁵ The strangers shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their close places. ⁴⁶ The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of my salvation: ⁴⁷ Even the God that executeth vengeance for me, and subdueth peoples under me. ⁴⁸ He rescueth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above them that rise up against me: thou deliverest me from the violent man. ⁴⁹ Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the nations, and will sing praises unto thy name. ⁵⁰ Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth lovingkindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, for evermore. ¹⁹ ¹ For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. ² Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. ³ There is no speech nor language; their voice cannot be heard. ⁴ Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, ⁵ Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run his course. ⁶ His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. ⁷ The law of the LORD is perfect, restoring the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. ⁸ The precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. ⁹ The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the 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 honeycomb. ¹¹ Moreover by them is thy servant warned: in keeping of 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 shall I be perfect, 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 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The 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: the LORD fulfill all thy petitions. ⁶ Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he wilt 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 the 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 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! ² Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah ³ For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of fine gold on his head. ⁴ He asked life of thee, thou gavest it him; even length of days for ever and ever. ⁵ His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty dost thou lay upon him. ⁶ For thou makest him most blessed for ever: thou makest him glad with joy in thy presence. ⁷ For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the lovingkindness of the Most High he shall not be moved. ⁸ Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee. ⁹ Thou shalt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger. The LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them. ¹⁰ Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men. ¹¹ For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a device, which they are not able to perform. ¹² For thou shalt make them turn their back, thou shalt make ready with thy bowstrings against the face of them. ¹³ Be thou exalted, O LORD, in thy strength: so will we sing and praise thy power. ²² ¹ For the Chief Musician; set to Aijeleth hash-Shahar. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my roaring? ² O my God, I cry in the day-time, but thou answerest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. ³ But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. ⁴ Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. ⁵ They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not ashamed. ⁶ But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. ⁷ All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying], ⁸ Commit [thyself] unto the LORD; let him deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighteth in him. ⁹ But thou art he that took me out the womb: thou didst make me trust [when I was] upon my mother’s breasts. ¹⁰ I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly. ¹¹ Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help. ¹² Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. 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 in the midst of my bowels. ¹⁵ My Strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. ¹⁶ For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of evil-doers have enclosed me; they pierced my hands and my feet. ¹⁷ I may tell all my bones; they look and stare upon me: ¹⁸ They part my garments among them, and upon my vesture do they cast lots. ¹⁹ But be not thou far off, O LORD: O thou my succour, haste thee to help me. ²⁰ Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog; ²¹ Save me from the lion’s mouth; yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen thou hast answered me. ²² I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. ²³ Ye that fear the 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 hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard. ²⁵ Of thee cometh my praise in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him. ²⁶ The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek after him: let your heart live for ever. ²⁷ All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. ²⁸ For the kingdom is the LORD’S: and he is the ruler over the nations. ²⁹ All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he that cannot keep his soul alive. ³⁰ A seed shall serve him; it shall be told of the Lord unto the [next] generation. ³¹ They shall come and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done it. ²³ ¹ A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. ² He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. ³ He restoreth my soul: he guideth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. ⁴ Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. ⁵ Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou hast anointed my head with oil; my cup runneth over. ⁶ Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever. ²⁴ ¹ A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. ² For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. ³ Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? and who shall stand in his holy place? ⁴ He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, and hath not sworn deceitfully. ⁵ He shall receive a blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. ⁶ This is the generation of them that seek after him, that seek thy face, [O God of] Jacob. Selah ⁷ Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors: and the King of glory shall come in. ⁸ Who is the King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. ⁹ Lift up your heads, O ye gates; yea, lift them up, ye everlasting doors: and the King of glory shall come in. ¹⁰ Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah ²⁵ ¹ [A Psalm] of David. Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul. ² O my God, in thee have I trusted, let me not be ashamed; let not mine enemies triumph over me. ³ Yea, none that wait on thee shall be ashamed: they shall be ashamed that deal treacherously without cause. ⁴ Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths. ⁵ Guide me in thy truth, and teach me; for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. ⁶ Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old. ⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy lovingkindness remember thou me, for thy goodness’ sake, O LORD. ⁸ Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he instruct sinners in the way. ⁹ The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way. ¹⁰ All the paths of the LORD are lovingkindness and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. ¹¹ For thy name’s sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity, for it is great. ¹² What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he instruct in the way that he shall choose. ¹³ His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the land. ¹⁴ The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant. ¹⁵ Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. ¹⁶ Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted. ¹⁷ The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses. ¹⁸ Consider mine affliction and my travail; and forgive all my sins. ¹⁹ Consider mine enemies, for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred. ²⁰ O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed, for I put my trust in thee. ²¹ Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait on thee. ²² Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. ²⁶ ¹ [A Psalm] of David. Judge me, O LORD, for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD without wavering. ² Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart. ³ For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes; and I have walked in thy truth. ⁴ I have not sat with vain persons; neither will I go in with dissemblers. ⁵ I hate the congregation of evil-doers, and will not sit with the wicked. ⁶ I will wash mine hands in innocency; so will I compass 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 dwelleth. ⁹ Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with men of blood: ¹⁰ In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes. ¹¹ But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me. ¹² My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD. ²⁷ ¹ [A Psalm] of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? ² When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, [even] mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell. ³ Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, even then will I be confident. ⁴ One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple. ⁵ For in the day of trouble he shall keep me secretly in his pavilion: in the covert of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall lift me up upon a rock. ⁶ And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me; and I will offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD. ⁷ Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. ⁸ [When thou saidst], Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek. ⁹ Hide not thy face from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; cast me not off, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. ¹⁰ For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the LORD will take me up. ¹¹ Teach me thy way, O LORD; and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. ¹² Deliver me not over unto the will of mine adversaries: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. ¹³ [I had fainted], unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. ¹⁴ Wait on the LORD: be strong, and let thine heart take courage; yea, wait thou on the LORD. ²⁸ ¹ [A Psalm] of David. Unto thee, O LORD, will I call; my rock, be not thou deaf unto me: lest, if thou be silent unto me, I become like them that go down into the pit. ² Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle. ³ Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity; which speak peace with their neighbours, 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 desert. ⁵ Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall break them down and not build them up. ⁶ Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications. ⁷ The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart hath trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will praise him. ⁸ The LORD is their strength, and he is a strong hold of salvation to his anointed. ⁹ Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and bear them up for ever. ²⁹ ¹ A Psalm of David. Give unto the LORD, O ye sons of the mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength. ² Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. ³ The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth, even the LORD upon many waters. ⁴ The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty. ⁵ The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. ⁶ He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox. ⁷ The voice of the LORD cleaveth the flames of fire. ⁸ The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh. ⁹ The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and strippeth the forests bare: and in his temple every thing saith, Glory. ¹⁰ The LORD sat [as king] at the Flood; yea, the LORD sitteth as king for ever. ¹¹ The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace. ³⁰ ¹ A Psalm; a Song at the Dedication of the House; [a Psalm] of David. I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast raised me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me. ² O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. ³ O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. ⁴ Sing praise unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks to his holy name. ⁵ For his anger is but for a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may tarry for the night, but joy [cometh] in the morning. ⁶ As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved. ⁷ Thou, LORD, of thy favour hadst made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face; I was troubled. ⁸ I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication: ⁹ What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? ¹⁰ Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper. ¹¹ Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; thou hast 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 unto thee for ever.