Psalms 18:1-30:12 (19) For the end, a Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims the work of his hands.

LXX2012⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ (19) For the end, a Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims the work of his hands. ² Day to day utters speech, and night to night proclaims knowledge. ³ There are no speeches or words, in which their voices are not heard. ⁴ Their voice is gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world. ⁵ In the sun he has set his tabernacle; and he comes forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber: he will exult as a giant to run his course. ⁶ His going forth is from the extremity of heaven, and his circuit to the [other] end of heaven: and no one shall be hidden from his heat. ⁷ The law of the Lord is perfect, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, instructing babes. ⁸ The ordinances of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is bright, enlightening the eyes. ⁹ The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring for ever and ever: the judgments of the Lord are true, [and] justified altogether. ¹⁰ To be desired more than gold, and much precious stone: sweeter also than honey and the honey-comb. ¹¹ For your servant keeps to them: in the keeping of them [there is] great reward. ¹² Who will understand [his] transgressions? purge you me from my secret [sins]. ¹³ And spare your servant [the attack] of strangers: if they do not gain the dominion over me, then shall I be blameless, and I shall be clear from great sin. ¹⁴ So shall the sayings of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be pleasing continually before you, O Lord my helper, and my redeemer. ¹⁹ ¹ (20) For the end, 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 aid you out of Sion. ³ Remember all your sacrifice, and enrich your whole burnt offering. Pause. ⁴ Grant you according to your heart, and fulfill all your desire. ⁵ We will exult in your salvation, and in the name of our God shall we be magnified: the Lord fulfil all your petitions. ⁶ Now I know that the Lord has saved his Christ: he shall hear him from his holy heaven: the salvation of his right hand is mighty. ⁷ Some [glory] in chariots, and some in horses: but we will glory in the name of the Lord our God. ⁸ They are overthrown and fallen: but we are risen, and have been set upright. ⁹ O Lord, save the king: and hear us in whatever day we call upon you. ²⁰ ¹ (21) For the end, a Psalm of David. O Lord, the king shall rejoice in your strength; and in your salvation he shall greatly exult. ² You have granted him the desire of his soul, and have not withheld from him the request of his lips. Pause. ³ For you have prevented him with blessings of goodness: you has set upon his head a crown of precious stone. ⁴ He asked life of you, and you gave him length of days for ever and ever. ⁵ His glory is great in your salvation: you will crown him with glory and majesty. ⁶ For you will give him a blessing for ever and ever: you will gladden him with joy with your countenance. ⁷ For the king trusts in the Lord, and through the mercy of the Highest he shall not be moved. ⁸ Let your hand be found by all your enemies: let your right hand find all that hate you. ⁹ You shall make them as a fiery oven at the time of your presence: the Lord shall trouble them in his anger, and fire shall devour them. ¹⁰ You shall destroy their fruit from the earth, and their seed from [among] the sons of men. ¹¹ For they intended evils against you; they imagined a device which they shall by no means be able to perform. ¹² For you shall make them [turn their] back in your latter end, you will prepare their face. ¹³ Be you exalted, O Lord, in your strength: we will sing and praise your mighty acts. ²¹ ¹ (22) For the end, concerning the morning aid, a Psalm of David. O God, my God, attend to me: why have you forsaken me? the account of my transgressions is far from my salvation. ² O my God, I will cry to you by day, but you will not hear: and by night, and [it shall] not [be accounted] for folly to me. ³ But you, the praise of Israel, dwell in a sanctuary. ⁴ Our fathers hoped in you; they hoped, and you did deliver them. ⁵ They cried to you, and were saved: they hoped in you, and were not ashamed. ⁶ But I am a worm, and not a man; a reproach of men, and scorn of the people. ⁷ All that saw me mocked me: they spoke with [their] lips, they shook the head, [saying], ⁸ He hoped in the Lord: let him deliver him, let him save him, because he takes pleasure in him. ⁹ For you are he that drew me out of the womb; my hope from my mother's breasts. ¹⁰ I was cast on you from the womb: you are my God from my mother's belly. ¹¹ Stand not aloof from me; for affliction is near; for there is no helper. ¹² Many bullocks have compassed me: fat bulls have beset me round. ¹³ They have opened their mouth against me, as a ravening and roaring lion. ¹⁴ I am poured out like water, and all my bones are loosened: my heart in the midst of my belly is become like melting wax. ¹⁵ My strength is dried up, like a potsherd; and my tongue is glued to my throat; and you have brought me down to the dust of death. ¹⁶ For many dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked doers has beset me round: they pierced my hands and my feet. ¹⁷ They counted all my bones; and they observed and looked upon me. ¹⁸ They parted my garments [among] themselves, and cast lots upon my raiment. ¹⁹ But you, O Lord, remove not my help afar off: be ready for mine aid. ²⁰ Deliver my soul from the sword; my only-begotten one from the power of the dog. ²¹ Save me from the lion's mouth; and [regard] my lowliness from the horns of the unicorns. ²² I will declare your name to my brethren: in the midst of the church will I sing praise to you. ²³ You⌃ that fear the Lord, praise him; all you⌃ seed of Jacob, glorify him: let all the seed of Israel fear him. ²⁴ For he has not despised nor been angry at the supplication of the poor; nor turned away his face from me; but when I cried to him, he heard me. ²⁵ My praise is of you in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him. ²⁶ The poor shall eat and be satisfied; and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their heart shall live for ever. ²⁷ All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord: and all the kindred of the nations shall worship before him. ²⁸ For the kingdom is the Lord's; and he is the governor of the nations. ²⁹ All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and worshipped: all that go down to the earth shall fall down before him: my soul also lives to him. ³⁰ And my seed shall serve him: the generation that is coming shall be reported to the Lord. ³¹ And they shall report his righteousness to the people that shall be born, whom the Lord has made. ²² ¹ (23) A Psalm of David. The Lord tends me as a shepherd, and I shall lack nothing. ² In a place of green grass, there he has made me dwell: he has nourished me by the water of rest. ³ He has restored my soul: he has guided me into the paths of righteousness, for his name's sake. ⁴ Yes, even if I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will not be afraid of evils: for you are with me; your rod and your staff, these have comforted me. ⁵ You has prepared a table before me in presence of them that afflict me: you have thoroughly anointed my head with oil; and your cup cheers me like the best [wine]. ⁶ Your mercy also shall follow me all the days of my life: and my dwelling [shall be] in the house of the Lord for a very long time. ²³ ¹ (24) A Psalm for David on the first day of the week. A Psalm for David on the first day of the week. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof; the world, and all that dwell in it. ² He has founded it upon the seas, and prepared it upon the rivers. ³ Who shall go up to the mountain of the Lord, and who shall stand in his holy place? ⁴ He that is innocent in his hands and pure in his heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbor. ⁵ He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his Saviour. ⁶ This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek the face of the God of Jacob. Pause. ⁷ Lift up your gates, you⌃ princes, 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 gates, you⌃ princes; and be you⌃ lift 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 this king of glory. ²⁴ ¹ (25) A Psalm of David. To you, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul. ² O my God, I have trusted in you: let me not be confounded, neither let mine enemies laugh me to scorn. ³ For none of them that wait on you shall in any wise be ashamed: let them be ashamed that transgress without cause. ⁴ Show me your ways, O Lord; and teach me your paths. ⁵ Lead me in your truth, and teach me: for you are God my Saviour: and I have waited on you all the day. ⁶ Remember your compassions, O Lord, and your mercies, for they are from everlasting. ⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth, nor [my sins] of ignorance: remember me according to your mercy, for your 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: the meek will he teach his ways. ¹⁰ All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth to them that seek his covenant and his testimonies. ¹¹ For your name's sake, O Lord, do you also be merciful to my sin; for it is great. ¹² Who is the man that fears the Lord? he shall instruct him in the way which he has chosen. ¹³ His soul shall dwell in prosperity; and his seed shall inherit the earth. ¹⁴ The Lord is the strength of them that fear him; and his covenant is to manifest [truth] to them. ¹⁵ Mine eyes are continually to the Lord; for he shall draw my feet out of the snare. ¹⁶ Look upon me, and have mercy upon me; for I am an only child and poor. ¹⁷ The afflictions of my heart have been multiplied; deliver me from my distresses. ¹⁸ Look upon mine affliction and my trouble; and forgive all my sins. ¹⁹ Look upon mine enemies; for they have been multiplied; and they have hated me with unjust hatred. ²⁰ Keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I have hoped in you. ²¹ The harmless and upright joined themselves to me: for I waited for you, O Lord. ²² Deliver Israel, O God, out of all his afflictions. ²⁵ ¹ (26) [A Psalm] of David. Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in my innocence: and hoping in the Lord I shall not be moved. ² Prove me, O Lord, and try me; purify as with fire my reins and my heart. ³ For your mercy is before mine eyes: and I am well pleased with your truth. ⁴ I have not sat with the council of vanity, and will in nowise enter in with transgressors. ⁵ I have hated the assembly of wicked doers; and will not sit with ungodly [men]. ⁶ I will wash my hands in innocency, and compass your altar, O Lord: ⁷ to hear the voice of praise, and to declare all your wonderful works. ⁸ O Lord, I have loved the beauty of your house, and the place of the tabernacle of your glory. ⁹ Destroy not my soul together with the ungodly, nor my life with bloody men: ¹⁰ in whose hands [are] iniquities, [and] their right hand is filled with bribes. ¹¹ But I have walked in my innocence: redeem me, and have mercy upon me. ¹² My foot stands in an even place: in the congregations will I bless you, O Lord. ²⁶ ¹ (27) [A Psalm] of David, before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my Saviour; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the defender of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? ² When evil-doers drew near against me to eat up my flesh, my persecutors and mine enemies, they fainted and fell. ³ Though an army should set itself in array against me, my heart shall not be afraid: though war should rise up against me, in this am I confident. ⁴ One thing have I asked of the Lord, this will I earnestly seek: that I should dwell in the house of the Lord, all the days of my life, that I should behold the fair beauty of the Lord, and survey his temple. ⁵ For in the day of mine afflictions he hid me in his tabernacle: he sheltered me in the secret of his tabernacle; he set me up on a rock. ⁶ And now, behold, he has lifted up mine head over mine enemies: I went round and offered in his tabernacle the sacrifice of joy; I will sing even sing psalms to the Lord. ⁷ Hear, O Lord, my voice which I have uttered aloud: pity me, and listen to me. ⁸ My heart said to you, I have diligently sought your face: your face, O Lord, I will seek. ⁹ Turn not your face away from me, turn not you away from your servant in anger: be you my helper, forsake me not; and, O God my Saviour, overlook me not. ¹⁰ For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord has taken me to himself. ¹¹ Teach me, O Lord, in your way, and guide me in a right path, because of mine enemies. ¹² Deliver me not over to the desire of them that afflict me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me, and injustice has lied within herself. ¹³ I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. ¹⁴ Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and let your heart be strengthened: yes wait on the Lord. ²⁷ ¹ (28) [A Psalm] of David. To you, O Lord, have I cried; my God, be not silent toward me: lest you be silent toward me, and so I should be likened to them that go down to the pit. ² Listen to the voice of my supplication, when I pray to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy temple. ³ Draw not away my soul with sinners, and destroy me not with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace with their neighbors, but evils are in their hearts. ⁴ Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their devices: give them according to the works of their hands; render their recompense to them. ⁵ Because they have not attended to the works of the Lord, even to the works of his hands, you shall pull them down, and shall not build them up. ⁶ Blessed be the Lord, for he has listened to the voice of my petition. ⁷ The Lord is my helper and my defender; my heart has hoped in him, and I am helped: my flesh has revived, and willingly will I give praise to him. ⁸ The Lord is the strength of his people, and the saving defender of his anointed. ⁹ Save your people, and bless your inheritance: and take care of them, and lift them up for ever. ²⁸ ¹ (29) A Psalm of David [on the occasion] of the solemn assembly of the Tabernacle. Bring to the Lord, you⌃ sons of God, bring to the Lord young rams; bring to the Lord glory and honor. ² Bring to the Lord glory, [due] to his name; worship the lord in his holy court. ³ The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory has thundered: the Lord is upon many waters. ⁴ The voice of the Lord is mighty; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. ⁵ [There is] the voice of the Lord who breaks the cedars; the Lord will break the cedars of Libanus. ⁶ And he will beat them small, [even] Libanus itself, like a calf; and the beloved one is as a young unicorn. ⁷ [There is] a voice of the Lord who divides a flame of fire. ⁸ A voice of the Lord who shakes the wilderness; the Lord will shake the wilderness of Cades. ⁹ The voice of the Lord strengthens the hinds, and will uncover the thickets: and in his temple every one speaks [of his] glory. ¹⁰ The Lord will dwell on the waterflood: and the Lord will sit a king for ever. ¹¹ The Lord will give strength to his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace. ²⁹ ¹ (30) For the end, a Psalm and Song at the dedication of the house of David. I will exalt you, O Lord; for you have lifted me up, and not caused mine enemies to rejoice over me. ² O Lord my God, I cried to you, and you did heal me. ³ O Lord, you have brought up my soul from Hades, you have delivered me from [among] them that go down to the pit. ⁴ Sing to the Lord, you⌃ his saints, and give thanks for the remembrance of his holiness. ⁵ For anger is in his wrath, but life in his favor: weeping shall wait for the evening, but joy shall be in the morning. ⁶ And I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved. ⁷ O Lord, in your good pleasure you did add strength to my beauty: but you did turn away your face, and I was troubled. ⁸ To you, O Lord, will I cry; and to my God will I make supplication. ⁹ What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to destruction? Shall the dust give praise to you? or shall it declare your truth? ¹⁰ The Lord heard, and had compassion upon me; the Lord is become my helper. ¹¹ You have turned my mourning into joy for me: you have tore off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; ¹² that my glory may sing praise to you, and I may not be pierced [with sorrow]. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you for ever. ³⁰ ¹ (31) For the end, a Psalm of David, [an utterance] of extreme fear. O Lord, I have hoped in you; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in your righteousness and rescue me. ² Incline your ear to me; make haste to rescue me: be you to me for a protecting God, and for a house of refuge to save me. ³ For you are my strength and my refuge; and you shall guide me for your name's sake, and maintain me. ⁴ You shall bring me out of the snare which they have hidden for me; for you, O Lord, are my defender. ⁵ Into your hands I will commit my spirit: you have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth. ⁶ You has hated them that idly persist in vanities: but I have hoped in the Lord. ⁷ I will exult and be glad in your mercy: for you have looked upon mine affliction; you have saved my soul from distresses. ⁸ And you have not shut me up into the hands of the enemy: you have set my feet in a wide place. ⁹ Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with indignation, my soul and by belly. ¹⁰ For my life is spent with grief, and my years with groanings: my strength has been weakened through poverty, and my bones are troubled. ¹¹ I became a reproach among all mine enemies, but exceedingly so to my neighbors, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that saw me without fled from me. ¹² I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become as a broken vessel.