Psalms 18:1-30:12 To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid the seruant of the Lord, which spake unto the Lord the wordes of this song (in the day that the Lord delivered him for the hande of all this enemies, and form the and of saul) and sayd, I will loue thee dearely, O Lord my strength.

Geneva⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid the seruant of the Lord, which spake unto the Lord the wordes of this song (in the day that the Lord delivered him for the hande of all this enemies, and form the and of saul) and sayd, I will loue thee dearely, O Lord my strength. ² The Lord is my rocke, and my fortresse, and he that deliuereth me, my God and my strength: in him will I trust, my shield, the horne also of my saluation, and my refuge. ³ I will call vpon the Lord, which is worthie to be praysed: so shall I be safe from mine enemies. ⁴ The sorowes of death compassed me, and the floods of wickednes made me afraide. ⁵ The sorowes of the graue haue compassed me about: the snares of death ouertooke me. ⁶ But in my trouble did I call vpon the Lord, and cryed vnto my God: he heard my voyce out of his Temple, and my crye did come before him, euen into his eares. ⁷ Then the earth trembled, and quaked: the foundations also of the mountaines mooued and shooke, because he was angrie. ⁸ Smoke went out at his nostrels, and a consuming fire out of his mouth: coales were kindled thereat. ⁹ He bowed the heauens also and came downe, and darkenes was vnder his feete. ¹⁰ And he rode vpon Cherub and did flie, and he came flying vpon the wings of the winde. ¹¹ He made darkenes his secrete place, and his pauilion round about him, euen darkenesse of waters, and cloudes of the ayre. ¹² At the brightnes of his presence his clouds passed, haylestones and coles of fire. ¹³ The Lord also thundred in the heauen, and the Highest gaue his voyce, haylestones and coales of fire. ¹⁴ Then hee sent out his arrowes and scattred them, and he increased lightnings and destroyed them. ¹⁵ And the chanels of waters were seene, and the foundations of the worlde were discouered at thy rebuking, O Lord, at the blasting of the breath of thy nostrels. ¹⁶ He hath sent downe from aboue and taken mee: hee hath drawen mee out of many waters. ¹⁷ He hath deliuered mee from my strong enemie, and from them which hate me: for they were too strong for me. ¹⁸ They preuented me in the day of my calamitie: but the Lord was my stay. ¹⁹ Hee brought mee foorth also into a large place: hee deliuered mee because hee fauoured me. ²⁰ The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousnes: according to the purenes of mine hands he recompensed me: ²¹ Because I kept the wayes of the Lord, and did not wickedly against my God. ²² For all his Lawes were before mee, and I did not cast away his commandements from mee. ²³ I was vpright also with him, and haue kept me from my wickednes. ²⁴ Therefore the Lord rewarded me according to my righteousnesse, and according to the purenes of mine hands in his sight. ²⁵ With the godly thou wilt shewe thy selfe godly: with the vpright man thou wilt shew thy selfe vpright. ²⁶ With the pure thou wilt shewe thy selfe pure, and with the froward thou wilt shewe thy selfe froward. ²⁷ Thus thou wilt saue the poore people, and wilt cast downe the proude lookes. ²⁸ Surely thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God wil lighten my darkenes. ²⁹ For by thee I haue broken through an hoste, and by my God I haue leaped ouer a wall. ³⁰ The way of God is vncorrupt: the worde of the Lord is tried in the fire: he is a shield to all that trust in him. ³¹ For who is God besides the Lord? and who is mightie saue our God? ³² God girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way vpright. ³³ He maketh my feete like hindes feete, and setteth me vpon mine high places. ³⁴ He teacheth mine hands to fight: so that a bowe of brasse is broken with mine armes. ³⁵ Thou hast also giuen me the shield of thy saluation, and thy right hand hath stayed me, and thy louing kindenes hath caused me to increase. ³⁶ Thou hast enlarged my steps vnder mee, and mine heeles haue not slid. ³⁷ I haue pursued mine enemies, and taken them, and haue not turned againe till I had consumed them. ³⁸ I haue wounded them, that they were not able to rise: they are fallen vnder my feete. ³⁹ For thou hast girded me with strength to battell: them, that rose against me, thou hast subdued vnder me. ⁴⁰ And thou hast giuen me the neckes of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me. ⁴¹ They cryed but there was none to saue them, euen vnto the Lord, but hee answered them not. ⁴² Then I did beate them small as the dust before the winde: I did treade them flat as the clay in the streetes. ⁴³ Thou hast deliuered me from the contentions of the people: thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people, whom I haue not knowen, shall serue me. ⁴⁴ As soone as they heare, they shall obey me: the strangers shall be in subiection to me. ⁴⁵ Strangers shall shrinke away, and feare in their priuie chambers. ⁴⁶ Let the Lord liue, and blessed be my strength, and the God of my saluation be exalted. ⁴⁷ It is God that giueth me power to auenge me, and subdueth the people vnder me. ⁴⁸ O my deliuerer from mine enemies, euen thou hast set mee vp from them, that rose against me: thou hast deliuered mee from the cruell man. ⁴⁹ Therefore I will prayse thee, O Lord, among the nations, and wil sing vnto thy Name. ⁵⁰ Great deliuerances giueth hee vnto his King, and sheweth mercie to his anoynted, euen to Dauid, and to his seede for euer. ¹⁹ ¹ To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. The heauens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth ye worke of his hands. ² Day vnto day vttereth the same, and night vnto night teacheth knowledge. ³ There is no speach nor language, where their voyce is not heard. ⁴ Their line is gone forth through all the earth, and their words into the endes of the world: in them hath he set a tabernacle for the sunne. ⁵ Which commeth forth as a bridegrome out of his chamber, and reioyceth like a mightie man to runne his race. ⁶ His going out is from the ende of the heauen, and his compasse is vnto the endes of ye same, and none is hid from the heate thereof. ⁷ The Lawe of the Lord is perfite, conuerting the soule: the testimonie of the Lord is sure, and giueth wisedome vnto the simple. ⁸ The statutes of the Lord are right and reioyce the heart: the commandement of the Lord is pure, and giueth light vnto the eyes. ⁹ The feare of the Lord is cleane, and indureth for euer: the iudgements of the Lord are trueth: they are righteous altogether, ¹⁰ And more to be desired then golde, yea, then much fine golde: sweeter also then honie and the honie combe. ¹¹ Moreouer by them is thy seruant made circumspect, and in keeping of them there is great reward. ¹² Who can vnderstand his faultes? clense me from secret fautes. ¹³ Keepe thy seruant also from presumptuous sinnes: let them not reigne ouer me: so shall I be vpright, and made cleane from much wickednes. ¹⁴ Let the wordes of my mouth, and the meditation of mine heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer. ²⁰ ¹ To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. The Lord heare thee in the day of trouble: the name of ye God of Iaakob defend thee: ² Send thee helpe from the Sanctuarie, and strengthen thee out of Zion. ³ Let him remember all thine offerings, and turne thy burnt offerings into asshes. Selah: ⁴ And graunt thee according to thine heart, and fulfill all thy purpose: ⁵ That we may reioyce in thy saluation, and set vp the banner in the Name of our God, when the Lord shall performe all thy petitions. ⁶ Now know I that the Lord will helpe his anointed, and will heare him from his Sanctuarie, by the mightie helpe of his right hand. ⁷ Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the Name of ye Lord our God. ⁸ They are brought downe and fallen, but we are risen, and stand vpright. ⁹ Saue Lord: let the King heare vs in the day that we call. ²¹ ¹ To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. The King shall reioyce in thy strength, O Lord: yea how greatly shall he reioyce in thy saluation! ² Thou hast giuen him his hearts desire, and hast not denyed him the request of his lips. Selah. ³ For thou diddest preuent him with liberall blessings, and didest set a crowne of pure gold vpon his head. ⁴ He asked life of thee, and thou gauest him a long life for euer and euer. ⁵ His glory is great in thy saluation: dignitie and honour hast thou laid vpon him. ⁶ For thou hast set him as blessings for euer: thou hast made him glad with the ioy of thy countenance. ⁷ Because the King trusteth in the Lord, and in the mercie of the most High, he shall not slide. ⁸ Thine hand shall finde out all thine enemies, and thy right hand shall finde out them that hate thee. ⁹ Thou shalt make them like a fierie ouen in time of thine anger: the Lord shall destroy them in his wrath, and the fire shall deuoure them. ¹⁰ Their fruite shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seede from the children of men. ¹¹ For they intended euill against thee, and imagined mischiefe, but they shall not preuaile. ¹² Therefore shalt thou put them aparte, and the strings of thy bowe shalt thou make readie against their faces. ¹³ Be thou exalted, O Lord, in thy strength: so will we sing and prayse thy power. ²² ¹ To him that excelleth upon Aiieleth Hasshahar. A Psalme of Dauid. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, and art so farre from mine health, and from the wordes of my roaring? ² O my God, I crie by day, but thou hearest not, and by night, but haue no audience. ³ But thou art holy, and doest inhabite the prayses of Israel. ⁴ Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didest deliuer them. ⁵ They called vpon thee, and were deliuered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. ⁶ But I am a worme, and not a man: a shame of men, and the contempt of the people. ⁷ All they that see me, haue me in derision: they make a mowe and nod the head, saying, ⁸ He trusted in the Lord, let him deliuer him: let him saue him, seeing he loueth him. ⁹ But thou didest draw me out of ye wombe: thou gauest me hope, euen at my mothers breasts. ¹⁰ I was cast vpon thee, euen from ye wombe: thou art my God from my mothers belly. ¹¹ Be not farre from me, because trouble is neere: for there is none to helpe me. ¹² Many yong bulles haue compassed me: mightie bulles of Bashan haue closed me about. ¹³ They gape vpon me with their mouthes, as a ramping and roaring lyon. ¹⁴ I am like water powred out, and all my bones are out of ioynt: mine heart is like waxe: it is molten in the middes of my bowels. ¹⁵ My strength is dryed vp like a potsheard, and my tongue cleaueth to my iawes, and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. ¹⁶ For dogges haue compassed me, and the assemblie of the wicked haue inclosed me: they perced mine hands and my feete. ¹⁷ I may tell all my bones: yet they beholde, and looke vpon me. ¹⁸ They part my garments among them, and cast lottes vpon my vesture. ¹⁹ But be thou not farre off, O Lord, my strength: hasten to helpe me. ²⁰ Deliuer my soule from the sword: my desolate soule from the power of the dogge. ²¹ Saue me from the lyons mouth, and answere me in sauing me from the hornes of the vnicornes. ²² I wil declare thy Name vnto my brethren: in the middes of the Congregation will I praise thee, saying, ²³ Prayse the Lord, ye that feare him: magnifie ye him, all the seede of Iaakob, and feare ye him, all the seede of Israel. ²⁴ For he hath not despised nor abhorred ye affliction of the poore: neither hath he hid his face from him, but when he called vnto him, he heard. ²⁵ My prayse shalbe of thee in the great Congregation: my vowes will I perfourme before them that feare him. ²⁶ The poore shall eate and be satisfied: they that seeke after the Lord, shall prayse him: your heart shall liue for euer. ²⁷ All the endes of the worlde shall remember themselues, and turne to the Lord: and all the kinreds of the nations shall worship before thee. ²⁸ For the kingdome is the Lords, and he ruleth among the nations. ²⁹ All they that be fat in the earth, shall eate and worship: all they that go downe into the dust, shall bowe before him, euen he that cannot quicken his owne soule. ³⁰ Their seede shall serue him: it shalbe counted vnto the Lord for a generation. ³¹ They shall come, and shall declare his righteousnesse vnto a people that shall be borne, because he hath done it. ²³ ¹ A Psalme of David. The Lord is my shepheard, I shall not want. ² He maketh me to rest in greene pasture, and leadeth me by the still waters. ³ He restoreth my soule, and leadeth me in the paths of righteousnesse for his Names sake. ⁴ Yea, though I should walke through the valley of the shadowe of death, I will feare no euill: for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staffe, they comfort me. ⁵ Thou doest prepare a table before me in the sight of mine aduersaries: thou doest anoynt mine head with oyle, and my cuppe runneth ouer. ⁶ Doubtlesse kindnesse and mercie shall follow me all the dayes of my life, and I shall remaine a long season in the house of the Lord. ²⁴ ¹ A Psalme of David. The earth is the Lordes, and all that therein is: the worlde and they that dwell therein. ² For he hath founded it vpon the seas: and established it vpon the floods. ³ Who shall ascende into the mountaine of the Lord? and who shall stand in his holy place? ⁴ Euen he that hath innocent handes, and a pure heart: which hath not lift vp his minde vnto vanitie, nor sworne deceitfully. ⁵ He shall receiue a blessing from the Lord, and righteousnesse from the God of his saluation. ⁶ This is the generation of them that seeke him, of them that seeke thy face, this is Iaakob. Selah. ⁷ Lift vp your heads ye gates, and be ye lift vp ye euerlasting doores, and the King of glory shall come in. ⁸ Who is this King of glorie? the Lord, strong and mightie, euen the Lord mightie in battell. ⁹ Lift vp your heads, ye gates, and lift vp your selues, ye euerlasting doores, and the King of glorie shall come in. ¹⁰ Who is this King of glory? the Lord of hostes, he is the King of glorie. Selah. ²⁵ ¹ A Psalme of David. Unto thee, O Lord, lift I vp my soule. ² My God, I trust in thee: let me not be confounded: let not mine enemies reioyce ouer mee. ³ So all that hope in thee, shall not be ashamed: but let them be confounded, that transgresse without cause. ⁴ Shew me thy waies, O Lord, and teache me thy paths. ⁵ Leade me foorth in thy trueth, and teache me: for thou art the God of my saluation: in thee doe I trust all the day. ⁶ Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies, and thy louing kindnesse: for they haue beene for euer. ⁷ Remember not the sinnes of my youth, nor my rebellions, but according to thy kindenesse remember thou me, euen for thy goodnesse sake, O Lord. ⁸ Gracious and righteous is the Lord: therefore will he teache sinners in the way. ⁹ Them that be meeke, will hee guide in iudgement, and teach the humble his way. ¹⁰ All the pathes of the Lord are mercie and trueth vnto such as keepe his couenant and his testimonies. ¹¹ For thy Names sake, O Lord, be merciful vnto mine iniquitie, for it is great. ¹² What man is he that feareth the Lord? him wil he teache the way that hee shall chuse. ¹³ His soule shall dwell at ease, and his seede shall inherite the land. ¹⁴ The secrete of the Lord is reueiled to them, that feare him: and his couenant to giue them vnderstanding. ¹⁵ Mine eyes are euer towarde the Lord: for he will bring my feete out of the net. ¹⁶ Turne thy face vnto mee, and haue mercie vpon me: for I am desolate and poore. ¹⁷ The sorowes of mine heart are enlarged: drawe me out of my troubles. ¹⁸ Looke vpon mine affliction and my trauel, and forgiue all my sinnes. ¹⁹ Beholde mine enemies, for they are manie, and they hate me with cruell hatred. ²⁰ Keepe my soule, and deliuer me: let me not be confounded, for I trust in thee. ²¹ Let mine vprightnes and equitie preserue me: for mine hope is in thee. ²² Deliuer Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. ²⁶ ¹ A Psalme of David. Judge me, O Lord, for I haue walked in mine innocency: my trust hath bene also in the Lord: therefore shall I not slide. ² Proue me, O Lord, and trie mee: examine my reines, and mine heart. ³ For thy louing kindnesse is before mine eyes: therefore haue I walked in thy trueth. ⁴ I haue not hanted with vaine persons, neither kept companie with the dissemblers. ⁵ I haue hated the assemblie of the euill, and haue not companied with the wicked. ⁶ I will wash mine handes in innocencie, O Lord, and compasse thine altar, ⁷ That I may declare with the voyce of thankesgiuing, and set foorth all thy wonderous woorkes. ⁸ O Lord, I haue loued the habitation of thine house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth. ⁹ Gather not my soule with the sinners, nor my life with the bloodie men: ¹⁰ In whose handes is wickednes, and their right hand is full of bribes. ¹¹ But I will walke in mine innocencie: redeeme me therefore, and be mercifull vnto me. ¹² My foote standeth in vprightnesse: I will praise thee, O Lord, in the Congregations. ²⁷ ¹ A Psalme of David. The Lord is my light and my saluation, whom shall I feare? the Lord is the strength of my life, of whome shall I be afraide? ² When the wicked, euen mine enemies and my foes came vpon mee to eate vp my flesh; they stumbled and fell. ³ Though an hoste pitched against me, mine heart should not be afraide: though warre be raised against me, I will trust in this. ⁴ One thing haue I desired of the Lord, that I will require, euen that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the dayes of my life, to beholde the beautie of the Lord, and to visite his Temple. ⁵ For in the time of trouble hee shall hide mee in his Tabernacle: in the secrete place of his pauillion shall he hide me, and set me vp vpon a rocke. ⁶ And nowe shall hee lift vp mine head aboue mine enemies rounde about mee: therefore wil I offer in his Tabernacle sacrifices of ioy: I wil sing and praise the Lord. ⁷ Hearken vnto my voyce, O Lord, when I crie: haue mercie also vpon mee and heare mee. ⁸ When thou saidest, Seeke ye my face, mine heart answered vnto thee, O Lord, I will seeke thy face. ⁹ Hide not therefore thy face from mee, nor cast thy seruat away in displeasure: thou hast bene my succour: leaue me not, neither forsake mee, O God of my saluation. ¹⁰ Though my father and my mother shoulde forsake me, yet the Lord will gather me vp. ¹¹ Teache mee thy way, O Lord, and leade me in a right path, because of mine enemies. ¹² Giue me not vnto the lust of mine aduersaries: for there are false witnesses risen vp against me, and such as speake cruelly. ¹³ I should haue fainted, except I had beleeued to see the goodnes of the Lord in the land of the liuing. ¹⁴ Hope in the Lord: be strong, and he shall comfort thine heart, and trust in the Lord. ²⁸ ¹ A Psalme of David. Unto thee, O Lord, doe I crie: O my strength, be not deafe toward mee, lest, if thou answere me not, I be like them that goe downe into the pit. ² Heare the voyce of my petitions, when I crie vnto thee, when I holde vp mine handes towarde thine holy Oracle. ³ Drawe mee not away with the wicked, and with the woorkers of iniquitie: which speake friendly to their neighbours, when malice is in their hearts. ⁴ Reward them according to their deedes, and according to the wickednes of their inuentions: recompense them after the woorke of their handes: render them their reward. ⁵ For they regarde not the woorkes of the Lord, nor the operation of his handes: therefore breake them downe, and builde them not vp. ⁶ Praised be the Lord, for he hath heard the voyce of my petitions. ⁷ The Lord is my strength and my shielde: mine heart trusted in him, and I was helped: therfore mine heart shall reioyce, and with my song will I praise him. ⁸ The Lord is their strength, and he is the strength of the deliuerances of his anointed. ⁹ Saue thy people, and blesse thine inheritance: feede them also, and exalt them for euer. ²⁹ ¹ A Psalme of David. Give vnto the Lord, ye sonnes of the mightie: giue vnto the Lord glorie and strength. ² Giue vnto the Lord glorie due vnto his Name: worship the Lord in the glorious Sanctuarie. ³ The voyce of the Lord is vpon the waters: the God of glorie maketh it to thunder: the Lord is vpon the great waters. ⁴ The voyce of the Lord is mightie: the voyce of the Lord is glorious. ⁵ The voyce of the Lord breaketh the cedars: yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon. ⁶ He maketh them also to leape like a calfe: Lebanon also and Shirion like a yong vnicorne. ⁷ The voice of the Lord deuideth the flames of sire. ⁸ The voice of the Lord maketh the wildernes to tremble: the Lord maketh the wildernes of Kadesh to tremble. ⁹ The voice of the Lord maketh the hindes to calue, and discouereth the forests: therefore in his Temple doth euery man speake of his glory. ¹⁰ The Lord sitteth vpon the flood, and the Lord doeth remaine King for euer. ¹¹ The Lord shall giue strength vnto his people: the Lord shall blesse his people with peace. ³⁰ ¹ A Psalme or song of the dedication of the house of David. I will magnifie thee, O Lord: for thou hast exalted mee, and hast not made my foe to reioyce ouer me. ² O Lord my God, I cried vnto thee, and thou hast restored me. ³ O Lord, thou hast brought vp my soule out of the graue: thou hast reuiued me from them that goe downe into the pit. ⁴ Sing praises vnto the Lord, ye his Saintes, and giue thankes before the remembrance of his Holinesse. ⁵ For he endureth but a while in his anger: but in his fauour is life: weeping may abide at euening, but ioy commeth in the morning. ⁶ And in my prosperitie I sayde, I shall neuer be moued. ⁷ For thou Lord of thy goodnes hadest made my mountaine to stande strong: but thou didest hide thy face, and I was troubled. ⁸ Then cried I vnto thee, O Lord, and praied to my Lord. ⁹ What profite is there in my blood, when I go downe to the pit? shall the dust giue thankes vnto thee? or shall it declare thy trueth? ¹⁰ Heare, O Lord, and haue mercy vpon me: Lord, be thou mine helper. ¹¹ Thou hast turned my mourning into ioy: thou hast loosed my sacke and girded mee with gladnesse. ¹² Therefore shall my tongue praise thee and not cease: O Lord my God, I will giue thankes vnto thee for euer.