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

KJ2000⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Why do the nations rage, and the people 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 sits in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. ⁵ Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and distress them in his great displeasure. ⁶ Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. ⁷ I will declare the decree: the LORD has said unto me, You are my Son; this day have I begotten you. ⁸ Ask of me, and I shall give you the nations for your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession. ⁹ You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. ¹⁰ Be wise now therefore, O you kings: be instructed, you judges of the earth. ¹¹ Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. ¹² Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. 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 they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me. ² Many there be who say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah. ³ But you, O LORD, are a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head. ⁴ I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah. ⁵ I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me. ⁶ I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about. ⁷ Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for you have smitten all my enemies upon the cheek bone; you have broken the teeth of the ungodly. ⁸ Salvation belongs unto the LORD: your blessing is upon your people. Selah. ⁴ ¹ [To the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.] Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: you have delivered me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer. ² O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame? how long will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah. ³ But know that the LORD has 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 There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift up the light of your countenance upon us. ⁷ You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their grain and their wine increased. ⁸ I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for you, LORD, only make me dwell in safety. ⁵ ¹ [To the Chief Musician. With flutes. 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 you will I pray. ³ My voice shall you hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto you, and will look up. ⁴ For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with you. ⁵ The foolish shall not stand in your sight: you hate all workers of iniquity. ⁶ You shall destroy them that speak falsehood: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man. ⁷ But as for me, I will come into your house in the multitude of your mercy: and in your fear will I worship toward your holy temple. ⁸ Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before my face. ⁹ For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue. ¹⁰ Destroy them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against you. ¹¹ But let all those that put their trust in you rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because you defend them: let them also that love your name be joyful in you. ¹² For you, LORD, will bless the righteous; with favor will you surround him with a shield. ⁶ ¹ [To the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. According to sheminith. A Psalm of David.] O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure. ² Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are troubled. ³ My soul is also greatly troubled: but you, O LORD, how long? ⁴ Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for your mercies' sake. ⁵ For in death there is no remembrance of you: in the grave who shall give you thanks? ⁶ I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed wet with tears; I water my couch with my tears. ⁷ My eye is consumed because of grief; it grows old because of all my enemies. ⁸ Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; for the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping. ⁹ The LORD has heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer. ¹⁰ Let all my enemies be ashamed and greatly troubled: let them return and be ashamed suddenly. ⁷ ¹ [A shaggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush, a Benjamite.] O LORD my God, in you do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me: ² Lest they 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 is my enemy:) ⁵ Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah. ⁶ Arise, O LORD, in your anger, lift up yourself because of the rage of my enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that you have commanded. ⁷ So shall the congregation of the people surround you: for their sakes therefore return you on high. ⁸ The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity that is in me. ⁹ Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God tests the minds and hearts. ¹⁰ My defense is with God, who saves the upright in heart. ¹¹ God judges the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day. ¹² If he turns not, he will whet his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready. ¹³ He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death; he makes ready his arrows against the persecutors. ¹⁴ Behold, he brought forth iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. ¹⁵ He made a pit, and dug it, and has fallen into the ditch which he made. ¹⁶ His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own crown. ¹⁷ I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high. ⁸ ¹ [To the Chief Musician upon gittith. A Psalm of David.] O LORD our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! who have set your glory above the heavens. ² Out of the mouth of babes and infants have you ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still the enemy and the avenger. ³ When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained; ⁴ What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit him? ⁵ For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and have crowned him with glory and honor. ⁶ You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands; you have 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, and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas. ⁹ O LORD our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! ⁹ ¹ [To the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Death of the Son.” A Psalm of David.] I will praise you, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all your marvelous works. ² I will be glad and rejoice in you: I will sing praise to your name, O most High. ³ When my enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at your presence. ⁴ For you have maintained my right and my cause; you sat in the throne judging right. ⁵ You have rebuked the nations, you have destroyed the wicked, you have put out their name forever and ever. ⁶ O you enemy, destructions are come to an everlasting end: and you have destroyed cities; their memory is perished with them. ⁷ But the LORD shall endure forever: he has prepared his throne for judgment. ⁸ And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness. ⁹ The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. ¹⁰ And they that know your name will put their trust in you: for you, LORD, have not forsaken them that seek you. ¹¹ Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion: declare among the people his doings. ¹² When he avenges blood, he remembers them: he forgets not the cry of the humble. ¹³ Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer from them that hate me, you that lift me up from the gates of death: ¹⁴ That I may show forth all your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in your 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 is known by the judgment which he executes: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. ¹⁷ The wicked shall be turned into sheol, and all the nations that forget God. ¹⁸ For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish forever. ¹⁹ Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the nations be judged in your sight. ²⁰ Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah. ¹⁰ ¹ Why stand you afar off, O LORD? why hide you yourself in times of trouble? ² The wicked in his pride does persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. ³ For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD abhors. ⁴ The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in any of his thoughts. ⁵ His ways are always prosperous; your judgments are far above, out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he sneers at them. ⁶ He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity. ⁷ His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity. ⁸ He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent: his eyes are secretly set against the poor. ⁹ He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to catch the poor: he does catch the poor, when he draws him into his net. ¹⁰ He crouches, and lies low, that the poor may fall by his strength. ¹¹ He has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he hides his face; he will never see it. ¹² Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up your hand: forget not the humble. ¹³ Why does the wicked renounce God? he has said in his heart, You will not require it. ¹⁴ You have seen it: for you behold mischief and spite, to repay it with your hand: the poor commits himself unto you; you are the helper of the fatherless. ¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till you find none. ¹⁶ The LORD is King forever and ever: the nations are perished out of his land. ¹⁷ LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble: you will prepare their heart, you will cause your ear to hear: ¹⁸ To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress. ¹¹ ¹ [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] In the LORD put I my trust: how say you to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain? ² For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may secretly shoot 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'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids test, the children of men. ⁵ The LORD tests the righteous: but the wicked and him that loves violence his soul hates. ⁶ Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup. ⁷ For the righteous LORD loves righteousness; his countenance does behold the upright. ¹² ¹ [To the Chief Musician upon sheminith. A Psalm of David.] Help, LORD; for the godly man ceases; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. ² They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. ³ The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things: ⁴ Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? ⁵ For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that sneers at him. ⁶ The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tested in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. ⁷ You shall keep them, O LORD, you shall preserve them from this generation forever. ⁸ The wicked prowl on every side, when vile men are exalted. ¹³ ¹ [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] How long will you forget me, O LORD? forever? how long will you hide your face from me? ² How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me? ³ Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; ⁴ Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved. ⁵ But I have trusted in your mercy; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. ⁶ I will sing unto the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me. ¹⁴ ¹ [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good. ² The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. ³ They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that does good, no, not one. ⁴ Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD. ⁵ There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous. ⁶ You have shamed the counsel of the poor, but the LORD is his refuge. ⁷ Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. ¹⁵ ¹ [A Psalm of David.] LORD, who shall abide in your tabernacle? who shall dwell in your holy hill? ² He that walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart. ³ He that backbites not with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor. ⁴ In whose eyes a vile person is despised; but he honors them that fear the LORD. He that swears to his own hurt, and changes not. ⁵ He that puts not out his money at interest, nor takes reward against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved. ¹⁶ ¹ [A miktam of David.] Preserve me, O God: for in you do I put my trust. ² O my soul, you have said unto the LORD, You are my Lord: my goodness reaches not to you; ³ But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the noble, in whom is all my delight. ⁴ Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names upon my lips. ⁵ The LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: you maintain 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 has given me counsel: my heart also instructs 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 rejoices: my flesh also shall rest in hope. ¹⁰ For you will not leave my soul in sheol; neither will you allow your Holy One to see corruption. ¹¹ You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures forevermore. ¹⁷ ¹ [A prayer of David.] Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goes not out of feigned lips. ² Let my vindication come forth from your presence; let your eyes behold the things that are right. ³ You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tested me, and shall find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress. ⁴ Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the paths of the destroyer. ⁵ Hold up my steps in your paths, that my feet slip not. ⁶ I have called upon you, for you will hear me, O God: incline your ear unto me, and hear my speech. ⁷ Show your marvelous lovingkindness, O you that save by your right hand them who put their trust in you from those that rise up against them. ⁸ Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of your wings, ⁹ From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who surround me. ¹⁰ They are enclosed in their own fat hearts: with their mouth they speak proudly. ¹¹ They have now surrounded us in our steps: they have set their eyes, crouching down to the earth; ¹² Like as a lion that is greedy of its 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 your sword: ¹⁴ From men by your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, who have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes. ¹⁵ As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness. ¹⁸ ¹ [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. And he said,] I will love you, O LORD, my strength. ² The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. ³ I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies. ⁴ The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. ⁵ The sorrows of sheol surrounded me: the snares of death confronted 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 came before him, even into his ears. ⁷ Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was angry. ⁸ There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. ⁹ He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet. ¹⁰ And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. ¹¹ He made darkness his secret place; his canopy round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. ¹² At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, with hailstones and coals of fire. ¹³ The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire. ¹⁴ Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and vanquished them. ¹⁵ Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils. ¹⁶ He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. ¹⁷ He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them who hated me: for they were too strong for me. ¹⁸ They confronted 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 has 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 did not put away his statutes from me. ²³ I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity. ²⁴ Therefore has the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. ²⁵ With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; with an upright man you will show yourself upright; ²⁶ With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the devious you will show yourself shrewd. ²⁷ For you will save the humble people; but will bring down haughty looks. ²⁸ For you will light my lamp: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness. ²⁹ For by you I have advanced against a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall. ³⁰ As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is proven: he is a shield to all those that trust in him. ³¹ For who is God except the LORD? or who is a rock except our God? ³² It is God that girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect. ³³ He makes my feet like hinds' feet, and sets me upon my high places. ³⁴ He teaches my hands to make war, so that a bow of bronze is bent by my arms. ³⁵ You have also given me the shield of your salvation: and your right hand has held me up, and your gentleness has made me great. ³⁶ You have enlarged my path under me, that my feet did not slip. ³⁷ I have pursued my enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed. ³⁸ I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet. ³⁹ For you have girded me with strength unto the battle: you have subdued under me those that rose up against me. ⁴⁰ You have also given me the necks of my enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me. ⁴¹ They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not. ⁴² Then did I beat them as fine as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets. ⁴³ You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; and you have made me the head of the nations: a people whom I have not known shall serve me. ⁴⁴ As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the foreigners shall submit themselves unto me. ⁴⁵ The foreigners shall fade away, and be frightened out of their fortresses. ⁴⁶ The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted. ⁴⁷ It is God that avenges me, and subdues the people under me. ⁴⁸ He delivers me from my enemies: yea, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man. ⁴⁹ Therefore will I give thanks unto you, O LORD, among the nations, and sing praises unto your name. ⁵⁰ Great deliverance gives he to his king; and shows mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his descendants forevermore. ¹⁹ ¹ [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows his handiwork. ² Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night shows knowledge. ³ There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. ⁴ Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he 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 a race. ⁶ Its going forth is from the end of the heaven, and its circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. ⁷ The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. ⁸ The statutes 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 forever: 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 your servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. ¹² Who can understand his errors? cleanse me from secret faults. ¹³ Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent of great transgression. ¹⁴ Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer. ²⁰ ¹ [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] The LORD hear you in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend you; ² Send you help from the sanctuary, and strengthen you out of Zion; ³ Remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice; Selah. ⁴ Grant you according to your own heart, and fulfill all your plans. ⁵ We will rejoice in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfill all your petitions. ⁶ Now know I that the LORD saves his anointed; he will hear 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 remember the name of the LORD our God. ⁸ They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright. ⁹ Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call. ²¹ ¹ [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] The king shall joy in your strength, O LORD; and in your salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! ² You have given him his heart's desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah. ³ For you meet him with the blessings of goodness: you set a crown of pure gold on his head. ⁴ He asked life of you, and you gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever. ⁵ His glory is great in your salvation: honor and majesty have you laid upon him. ⁶ For you have made him most blessed forever: you have made him exceedingly glad with your presence. ⁷ For the king trusts in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved. ⁸ Your hand shall find out all your enemies: your right hand shall find out those that hate you. ⁹ You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them. ¹⁰ Their offspring shall you destroy from the earth, and their descendants from among the children of men. ¹¹ For they intended evil against you: they devised a mischievous act, which they are not able to perform. ¹² Therefore shall you make them turn their back, when you shall make ready your arrows upon your strings toward their face. ¹³ Be exalted, LORD, in your own strength: so will we sing and praise your power. ²² ¹ [To the Chief Musician upon aijeleth shahar. A Psalm of David.] My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? ² O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you hear not; and in the night season, and am not silent. ³ But you are holy, O you that inhabit the praises of Israel. ⁴ Our fathers trusted in you: they trusted, and you did deliver them. ⁵ They cried unto you, and were delivered: they trusted in you, and were not disappointed. 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 He trusted in the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. ⁹ But you are he that took me out of the womb: you did make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts. ¹⁰ I was cast upon you from birth: you are my God from my mother's womb. 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 about. ¹³ They gaped on me with their mouths, 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 body. ¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue clings to my jaws; and you have brought me to the dust of death. ¹⁶ For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. ¹⁷ I can count all my bones: they look and stare upon me. ¹⁸ They part my garments among them, and cast lots for my clothing. ¹⁹ But be not far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste you to help me. ²⁰ Deliver my soul from the sword; my life from the power of the dog. ²¹ Save me from the lion's mouth: for you have heard me from the horns of the wild oxen. ²² I will declare your name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise you. ²³ You that fear the LORD, praise him; all you descendants of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all you descendants 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 unto him, he heard. ²⁵ My praise shall be of you 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 him: your heart shall live forever. ²⁷ All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before you. ²⁸ For the kingdom is the LORD'S: and he is the governor among the nations. ²⁹ All the prosperous of earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul. ³⁰ A posterity shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. ³¹ They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he has done this. ²³ ¹ [A Psalm of David.] The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not lack. ² He makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside the still waters. ³ He restores my soul: he leads 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 you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me. ⁵ You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies: you anoint my head with oil; my cup runs 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 forever. ²⁴ ¹ [A Psalm of David.] The earth is the LORD'S, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that 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 the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? ⁴ He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. ⁵ He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. ⁶ This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek your face, O Jacob. Selah. ⁷ Lift up your heads, O you gates; and be you lifted up, you everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. ⁸ Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. ⁹ Lift up your heads, O you gates; even lift them up, you 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 you, O LORD, do I lift up my soul. ² O my God, I trust in you: let me not be ashamed, let not my enemies triumph over me. ³ Yea, let none that wait on you be ashamed: let them be ashamed who transgress without cause. ⁴ Show me your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths. ⁵ Lead me in your truth, and teach me: for you are the God of my salvation; on you do I wait all the day. ⁶ Remember, O LORD, your tender mercies and your lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old. ⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to your mercy remember me for your goodness' sake, O LORD. ⁸ Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. ⁹ The meek will he guide in justice: and the meek will he teach his way. ¹⁰ All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. ¹¹ For your name's sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity; for it is great. ¹² What man is he that fears the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose. ¹³ His soul shall dwell at ease; and his descendants shall inherit the earth. ¹⁴ The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant. ¹⁵ My eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. ¹⁶ Turn you unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted. ¹⁷ The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring me out of my distresses. ¹⁸ Look upon my affliction and my pain; 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 ashamed; for I put my trust in you. ²¹ Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on you. 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 my integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide. ² Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my heart and my mind. ³ For your lovingkindness is before my eyes: and I have walked in your truth. ⁴ I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with hypocrites. ⁵ I have hated the congregation of evildoers; and will not sit with the wicked. ⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence: so will I go about your altar, O LORD: ⁷ That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all your wondrous works. ⁸ LORD, I have loved the habitation of your house, and the place where your honor dwells. ⁹ Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men: ¹⁰ In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes. ¹¹ But as for me, I will walk in my integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me. ¹² My foot stands 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 the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. ³ Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. ⁴ One thing have I desired 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 time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret place of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. ⁶ And now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies round about me: therefore will I 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 you said, Seek my face; my heart said unto you, your face, LORD, will I seek. ⁹ Hide not your face far from me; put not your servant away in anger: you have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. ¹⁰ When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. ¹¹ Teach me your way, O LORD, and lead me in a level path, because of my enemies. ¹² Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. ¹³ I would have fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. ¹⁴ Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. ²⁸ ¹ [A Psalm of David.] Unto you will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if you be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. ² Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy sanctuary. ³ Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts. ⁴ Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them what they deserve. ⁵ Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up. ⁶ Blessed be the LORD, because he has heard the voice of my supplications. ⁷ The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoices; and with my song will I praise him. ⁸ The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed. ⁹ Save your people, and bless your inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up forever. ²⁹ ¹ [A Psalm of David.] Give unto the LORD, O you 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 thunders: the LORD is 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 breaks the cedars; yea, the LORD breaks 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 the LORD divides the flames of fire. ⁸ The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. ⁹ The voice of the LORD makes the hinds to calve, and strips bare the forests: and in his temple does every one speak of his glory. ¹⁰ The LORD sits upon the flood; yea, the LORD sits as King forever. ¹¹ The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace. ³⁰ ¹ [A Psalm of David. A song at the dedication of the house of David.] I will extol you, O LORD; for you have lifted me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me. ² O LORD my God, I cried unto you, and you have healed me. ³ O LORD, you have brought up my soul from the grave: you have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. ⁴ Sing unto the LORD, O you saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. ⁵ For his anger endures but for a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. ⁶ And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. ⁷ LORD, by your favor you have made my mountain to stand strong: you did hide your face, and I was troubled. ⁸ I cried to you, 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 you? shall it declare your truth? ¹⁰ Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be my helper. ¹¹ You have turned for me my mourning into dancing: you have put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; ¹² To the end that my glory may sing praise to you, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto you forever.