Psalms 2:1-30:12 Therefore did the heathen rage, and the nations imagine vain things?

LXX2012⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Therefore did the heathen rage, and the nations imagine vain things? ² The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers gathered themselves together, against the Lord, and against his Christ; ³ [saying], Let us break through their bonds, and cast away their yoke from us. ⁴ He that dwells in the heavens shall laugh them to scorn, and the Lord shall mock them. ⁵ Then shall he speak to them in his anger, and trouble them in his fury. ⁶ But I have been made king by him on Sion his holy mountain, ⁷ declaring the ordinance of the Lord: the Lord said to me, You are my Son, today have I begotten you. ⁸ Ask of me, and I will give you the heathen [for] your inheritance, and the ends of the earth [for] your possession. ⁹ You shall rule them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces as a potter's vessel. ¹⁰ Now therefore understand, you⌃ kings: be instructed, all you⌃ that judge the earth. ¹¹ Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice in him with trembling. ¹² Accept correction, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you⌃ should perish from the righteous way: whenever his wrath shall be suddenly kindled, blessed are all they that trust in him. ³ ¹ A Psalm of David, when he fled from the presence of his son Abessalom. O Lord, why are they that afflict me multiplied? many rise up against me. ² Many say concerning my soul, There is no deliverance for him in his God. Pause. ³ But you, O Lord, are my helper: my glory, and the one that lifts up my head. ⁴ I cried to the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy mountain. Pause. ⁵ I lay down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord will help me. ⁶ I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, who beset me round about. ⁷ Arise, Lord; deliver me, my God: for you have struck all who were without cause mine enemies; you have broken the teeth of sinners. ⁸ Deliverance is the Lord's, and your blessing is upon your people. ⁴ ¹ For the End, a Song of David among [the ]Psalms. When I called upon [him], the God of my righteousness heard me: you have made room for me in tribulation; pity me, and listen to my prayer. ² O you⌃ sons of men, how long [will you⌃ be] slow of heart? therefore do you⌃ love vanity, and seek falsehood? Pause. ³ But know you⌃ that the Lord has done wondrous things for his holy one: the Lord will hear me when I cry to him. ⁴ Be you⌃ angry, and sin not; feel compunction upon your beds for what you⌃ say in your hearts. Pause. ⁵ Offer the sacrifice of righteousness, and trust in the Lord. ⁶ Many say, Who will show us good things? the light of your countenance, O Lord, has been manifested towards us. ⁷ You have put gladness into my heart: they have been satisfied with the fruit of their corn and wine and oil. ⁸ I will both lie down in peace and sleep: for you, Lord, only have caused me to dwell securely. ⁵ ¹ For the end, a Psalm of David, concerning her that inherits. Listen to my words, O Lord, attend to my cry. ² Attend to the voice of my supplication, my King, and my God: for to you, O Lord, will I pray. ³ In the morning you shall hear my voice: in the morning will I wait upon you, and will look up. ⁴ For you are not a god that desires iniquity; neither shall the worker of wickedness dwell with you. ⁵ Neither shall the transgressors continue in your sight: you hate, O Lord, all them that work iniquity. ⁶ You will destroy all that speak falsehood: the Lord abhors the bloody and deceitful man. ⁷ But I will enter into your house in the multitude of your mercy: I will worship in your fear toward your holy temple. ⁸ Lead me, O Lord, in your righteousness because of mine enemies; make my way plain before your face. ⁹ For there is no truth in their mouth; their heart is vain; their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit. ¹⁰ Judge them, O God; let them fail of their counsels: cast them out according to the abundance of their ungodliness; for they have provoked you, O Lord. ¹¹ But let all that trust on you be glad in you: they shall exult for ever, and you shall dwell among them; and all that love your name shall rejoice in you. ¹² For you, Lord, shall bless the righteous: you have compassed us as with a shield of favor. ⁶ ¹ For the End, a Psalm of David among the Hymns for the eighth. O Lord, rebuke me not in your wrath, neither chasten me in your anger. ² Pity me, O Lord; for I am weak: heal me, O Lord; for my bones are vexed. ³ My soul also is grievously vexed: but you, O Lord, how long? ⁴ Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: save me for your mercy's sake. ⁵ For in death no man remembers you: and who will give you thanks in Hades? ⁶ I am wearied with my groaning; I shall wash my bed every night; I shall water my couch with tears. ⁷ Mine eye is troubled because of my wrath; I am worn out because of all my enemies. ⁸ Depart from me, all you⌃ that work iniquity; for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping. ⁹ The Lord has listened to my petition; the Lord has accepted my prayer. ¹⁰ Let all mine enemies be put to shame and sore troubled: let them be turned back and grievously put to shame speedily. ⁷ ¹ A Psalm of David, which he sang to the Lord because of the words of Chusi the Benjamite. O Lord my God, in you have I trusted: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me. ² Lest at any time [the enemy] seize my soul as a lion, while there is none to ransom, nor to save. ³ O Lord my God, if I have done this; (if there is unrighteousness in my hands;) ⁴ if I have requited with evil those who requited me [with good]; may I then perish empty by means of my enemies. ⁵ Let the enemy persecute my soul, an take it; and let him trample my life on the ground, and lay my glory in the dust. Pause. ⁶ Arise, O Lord, in your wrath; be exalted in the utmost boundaries of mine enemies: awake, O Lord my God, according to the decree which you did command. ⁷ And the congregation of the nations shall compass you: and for this cause do you return on high. ⁸ The Lord shall judge the nations: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to my innocence that is in me. ⁹ Oh let the wickedness of sinners come to an end; and [then] you shall direct the righteous, O God that search the hearts and reins. ¹⁰ My help is righteous, [coming] from God who saves the upright in heart. ¹¹ God is a righteous judge, and strong, and patient, not inflicting vengeance every day. ¹² If you⌃ will not repent, he will furbish his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready. ¹³ And on it he has fitted the instruments of death; he has completed his arrows for the raging ones. ¹⁴ Behold, he has travailed with unrighteousness, he has conceived trouble, and brought forth iniquity. ¹⁵ He has opened a pit, and dug it up, and he shall fall into the ditch which he has made. ¹⁶ His trouble shall return on his own head, and his unrighteousness shall come down on his own crown. ¹⁷ I will give thanks to the Lord according to his righteousness; I will sing to the name of the Lord most high. ⁸ ¹ For the end, concerning the wine presses, a Psalm of David. O Lord, our Lord, how wonderful is your name in all the earth! for your magnificence is exalted above the heavens. ² Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings have you perfected praise, because of your enemies; that you might put down the enemy and avenger. ³ For I will regard the heavens, the work of your fingers; the moon and stars, which you have established. ⁴ What is man, that you are mindful of him? or the son of man, that you visit him? ⁵ You made him a little less than angels, you have crowned him with glory and honor; ⁶ and you have set him over the works of your hands: you have put all things under his feet: ⁷ sheep and all oxen, yes and the cattle of the field; ⁸ the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea, the [creatures] passing through the paths of the sea. ⁹ O Lord our Lord, how wonderful is your name in all the earth! ⁹ ¹ For the end, a Psalm of David, concerning the secrets of the Son. I will give thanks to you, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will recount all your wonderful works. ² I will be glad and exult in you: I will sing to your name, O you Most High. ³ When mine enemies are turned back, they shall be feeble and perish at your presence. ⁴ For you have maintained my cause and my right; you sat on the throne, that judge righteousness. ⁵ You have rebuked the nations, and the ungodly one has perished; you have blotted out their name for ever, even for ever and ever. ⁶ The swords of the enemy have failed utterly; and you have destroyed cities: their memorial has been destroyed with a noise, ⁷ but the Lord endures for ever: he has prepared his throne for judgment. ⁸ And he will judge the world in righteousness, he will judge the nations in uprightness. ⁹ The Lord also is become a refuge for the poor, a seasonable help, in affliction. ¹⁰ And let them that know your name hope in you: for you, O Lord, have not failed them that diligently seek you. ¹¹ Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Sion: declare his dealings among the nations. ¹² For he remembered them, [in] making inquisition for blood: he has not forgotten the supplication of the poor. ¹³ Have mercy upon me, O Lord; look upon my affliction [which I suffer] of mine enemies, you that lift me up from the gates of death: ¹⁴ that I may declare all your praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion: I will exult in your salvation. ¹⁵ The heathen are caught in the destruction which they planned: in the very snare which they hid is their foot taken. ¹⁶ The Lord is known as executing judgments: the sinner is taken in the works of his hands. A song of Pause. ¹⁷ Let sinners be driven away into Hades, [even] all the nations that forget God. ¹⁸ For the poor shall not be forgotten for ever: the patience of the needy ones shall not perish for ever. ¹⁹ Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged before you. ²⁰ Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: let the heathen know that they are men. Pause. (Psalm 9a) ²¹ Why stand you afar off, O Lord? [why] do you overlook [us] in times of need, in affliction? ²² While the ungodly one acts proudly, the poor is hotly pursued: [the wicked] are taken in the crafty counsels which they imagine. ²³ Because the sinner praises himself for the desires of his heart; and the unjust one blesses himself. ²⁴ The sinner has provoked the Lord: according to the abundance of his pride he will not seek after [him]: God is not before him. ²⁵ His ways are profane at all times; your judgments are removed from before him: he will gain the mastery over all his enemies. ²⁶ For he has said in his heart, I shall not be moved, [continuing] without evil from generation to generation. ²⁷ Whose mouth is full of cursing, and bitterness, and fraud: under his tongue are trouble and pain. ²⁸ He lies in wait with rich [men] in secret places, in order to kill the innocent: his eyes are set against the poor. ²⁹ He lies in wait in secret as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to ravish the poor, to ravish the poor when he draws him [after him]: he will bring him down in his snare. ³⁰ He will bow down and fall when he has mastered the poor. ³¹ For he has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he has turned away his face so as never to look. ³² Arise, O Lord God; let your hand be lifted up: forget not the poor. ³³ Therefore, has the wicked provoked God? for he has said in his heart, He will not require [it]. ³⁴ You see [it]; for you do observe trouble and wrath, to deliver them into your hands: the poor has been left to you; you were a helper to the orphan. ³⁵ Break you the arm of the sinner and wicked man: his sin shall be sought for, and shall not be found. ³⁶ The Lord shall reign for ever, even for ever and ever: you⌃ Gentiles shall perish out his land. ³⁷ The Lord has heard the desire of the poor: your ear has inclined to the preparation of their heart; ³⁸ to plead for the orphan and afflicted, that man may no more boast upon the earth. ¹⁰ ¹ (11 in KJV) For the end, a Psalm of David. In the Lord I have put my trust: how will you⌃ say to my soul, ² Flee to the mountains as a sparrow? ³ For behold the sinners have bent their [bow], they have prepared their arrows for the quiver, to shoot For privily at the upright in heart. ⁴ For they have pulled down what you did frame, but what has the righteous done? ⁵ The Lord is in his holy temple, as for the Lord, his throne is in heaven: his eyes look upon the poor, his eyelids try the sons of men. ⁶ The Lord tries the righteous and the ungodly: and he that loves unrighteousness hates his own soul. ⁷ He shall rain upon sinners snares, fire, and brimstone, and a stormy blast [shall be] the portion of their cup. ⁸ For the Lord [is] righteous, and loves righteousness; his face beholds uprightness. ¹¹ ¹ (12) For the end, A Psalm of David, upon the eighth. Save me, O Lord; for the godly man has failed; for truth is diminished from among the children of men. ² Every one has spoken vanity to his neighbor: their lips are deceitful, they have spoken with a double heart. ³ Let the Lord destroy all the deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaks great words: ⁴ who have said, We will magnify our tongue; our lips are our own: who is Lord of us? ⁵ Because of the misery of the poor, and because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the Lord, I will set [them] in safety; I will speak [to them] thereof openly. ⁶ The oracles of the Lord are pure oracles; as silver tried in the fire, proved [in] a furnace of earth, purified seven times. ⁷ You, O Lord, shall keep us, and shall preserve us, from this generation, and for ever. ⁸ The ungodly walk around: according to your greatness you has greatly exalted the sons of men. ¹² ¹ (13) For the end, a Psalm of David. How long, O Lord, will you forget me? for ever? how long will you turn away your face from me? ² How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrows in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me? ³ Look on me, listen to me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death; ⁴ lest at any time mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him: my persecutors will exult if ever I should be moved. ⁵ But I have hoped in your mercy; my heart shall exult in your salvation. ⁶ I will sing to the Lord who has dealt bountifully with me, and I will sing psalms to the name of the Lord most high. ¹³ ¹ (14) For the end, Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted [themselves], and become abominable in their devices; there is none that does goodness, there is not even so much as one. ² The Lord looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after god. ³ They are all gone out of the way, they are together become good for nothing, there is none that does good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes. ⁴ Will not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they would eat bread? they have not called upon the Lord. ⁵ There were they alarmed with fear, where there was no fear; for God is in the righteous generation. ⁶ You⌃ have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his hope. ⁷ Who will bring the salvation of Israel out of Sion? when the Lord brings back the captivity of his people, let Jacob exult, and Israel be glad. ¹⁴ ¹ (15) A Psalm of David. O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tabernacle? and who shall dwell in your holy mountain? ² He that walks blameless, and works righteousness, who speaks truth in his heart. ³ Who has not spoken craftily with is tongue, neither has done evil to his neighbor, nor taken up a reproach against them that lived nearest to him. ⁴ In his sight an evil-worker is set at nothing, but he honors them that fear the Lord. He swears to his neighbor, and disappoints [him] not. ⁵ He has not lent his money on usury, and has not received bribes against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved. ¹⁵ ¹ (16) A writing of David. Keep me, O Lord; for I have hoped in you. ² I said to the Lord, You are my Lord; for you has no need of my goodness. ³ On behalf of the saints that are in his land, he has magnified all his pleasure in them. ⁴ Their weaknesses have been multiplied; afterward they hasted. I will by no means assemble their bloody meetings, neither will I make mention of their names with my lips. ⁵ The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: you are he that restores my inheritance to me. ⁶ The lines have fallen to me in the best places, yes, I have a most excellent heritage. ⁷ I will bless the Lord who has instructed me; my reins too have chastened me even till night. ⁸ I foresaw the Lord always before my face; for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved. ⁹ Therefore my heart rejoiced an my tongue exulted; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: ¹⁰ because you will not leave my soul in hell, neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption. ¹¹ You have made known to me the ways of life; you will fill me with joy with your countenance: at your right hand [there are] delights for ever. ¹⁶ ¹ (17) A prayer of David. Listen, O Lord of my righteousness, attend to my petition; give ear to my prayer not [uttered] with deceitful lips. ² Let my judgment come forth from your presence; let mine eyes behold righteousness. ³ You has proved mine heart; you have visited [me] by night; you have tried me as with fire, and unrighteousness has not been found in me: [I am purposed] that my mouth shall not speak [amiss]. ⁴ As for the works of men, by the words of your lips I have guarded [myself from] hard ways. ⁵ Direct my steps in your paths, that my steps slip not. ⁶ I have cried, for you heard me, O God: incline your ear to me, and listen to my words. ⁷ Show the marvels of your mercies, you that save them that hope in you. ⁸ Keep me as the apple of the eye from those that resist your right hand: you shall screen me by the covering of your wings, ⁹ from the face of the ungodly that have afflicted me: mine enemies have compassed about my soul. ¹⁰ They have enclosed [themselves with] their own fat: their mouth has spoken pride. ¹¹ They have now cast me out and compassed me round about: they have set their eyes [so as] to bow them down to the ground. ¹² They laid wait for me as a lion ready for prey, and like a lion's whelp dwelling in secret [places]. ¹³ Arise, O Lord, prevent them, and cast them down: deliver my soul from the ungodly: [draw] your sword, ¹⁴ because of the enemies of your hand: O Lord, destroy them from the earth; scatter them in their life, though their belly has been filled with your hidden [treasures]: they have been satisfied with uncleanness, and have left the remnant [of their possessions] to their babes. ¹⁵ But I shall appear in righteousness before your face: I shall be satisfied when your glory appears. ¹⁷ ¹ (18) For the end, [a Psalm] of David, the servant of the Lord; [the words] which he spoke to the Lord, [even] the words of this Song, in the day in which the Lord delivered him out the hand of all his enemies, and out the hand of Saul: and he said: I will love you, O Lord, my strength. ² The Lord is my firm support, and my refuge, and my deliverer; my God is my helper, I will hope in him; [he is] my defender, and the horn of my salvation, and my helper. ³ I will call upon the Lord with praises, and I shall be saved from mine enemies. ⁴ The pangs of death compassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness troubled me exceedingly. ⁵ The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me. ⁶ And when I was afflicted I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of this holy temple, and my cry shall enter before him, [even] into his ears. ⁷ Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and were shaken, because God was angry with them. ⁸ There went up a smoke in his wrath, and fire burst into a flame at his presence: coals were kindled at it. ⁹ And he bowed the heaven, and came down: and thick darkness was under his feet. ¹⁰ And he mounted on cherubs and flew: he flew on the wings of winds. ¹¹ And he made darkness his secret place: round about him was his tabernacle, [even] dark water in the clouds of the air. ¹² At the brightness before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire. ¹³ The Lord also thundered from heaven, and the Highest uttered his voice. ¹⁴ And he sent forth [his] weapons, and scattered them; and multiplied lightnings, and routed them. ¹⁵ And the springs of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at your rebuke, O Lord, at the blasting of the breath of your wrath. ¹⁶ He sent from on high and took me, he drew me to himself out of many waters. ¹⁷ He will deliver me from my mighty enemies, and from them that hate me; for they are stronger than I. ¹⁸ They prevented me in the day of mine affliction: but the Lord was my stay against [them]. ¹⁹ And he brought me out into a wide place: he will deliver me, because he has pleasure in me. ²⁰ And the Lord will recompense me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands will he recompense me. ²¹ For I have kept the way of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God. ²² For all his judgments were before me, and his ordinances departed not from me. ²³ And I shall be blameless with hem, and shall keep myself from mine iniquity. ²⁴ And the Lord shall recompense me according to my righteousness, and according to the purity of my hands before his eyes. ²⁵ With the holy you will be holy; and with the innocent man you will be innocent. ²⁶ And with the excellent [man] you will be excellent; and with the perverse you will show frowardness. ²⁷ For you will save the lowly people, and will humble the eyes of the proud. ²⁸ For you, O Lord, will light my lamp: my God, you will lighten my darkness. ²⁹ For by you shall I be delivered from a troop; and by my God I will pass over a wall. ³⁰ [As for] my God, his way is perfect: the oracles of the Lord are tried in the fire; he is a protector of all them that hope in him. ³¹ For who is God but the Lord? and who is a God except our God? ³² [It is] God that girds me with strength, and has made my way blameless: ³³ who strengthens my feet as hart's feet, and sets me upon high places. ³⁴ He instructs my hands for war: and you have made my arms [as] a brazen bow. ³⁵ And you have made me secure in my salvation: and your right hand has helped me, and your correction has upheld me to the end; yes, your correction itself shall instruct me. ³⁶ You has made room for my goings under me, and by footsteps did not fail. ³⁷ I will pursue mine enemies, and overtake them; and I will not turn back until they are consumed. ³⁸ I will dash them to pieces and they shall not be able to stand: they shall fall under my feet. ³⁹ For you have girded me with strength for war: you have beaten down under me all that rose up against me. ⁴⁰ And you has made mine enemies turn their backs before me; and you have destroyed them that hated me. ⁴¹ They cried, but there was no deliverer: [even] to the Lord, but he listened not to them. ⁴² I will grind them as the mud of the streets: and I will beat them small as dust before the wind. ⁴³ Deliver me from the gain sayings of the people: you shall make me head of the Gentiles: a people whom I knew not served me, ⁴⁴ at the hearing of the ear they obeyed me: the strange children lied to me. ⁴⁵ The strange children waxed old, and fell away from their paths through lameness. ⁴⁶ The Lord lives; and blessed [be] my God; and let the God of my salvation be exalted. ⁴⁷ [It is] God that avenges me, and has subdued the nations under me; ⁴⁸ my deliverer from angry enemies: you shall set me on high above them that rise up against me: you shall deliver me from the unrighteous man. ⁴⁹ Therefore will I confess to you, O Lord, among the Gentiles, and sing to your name. ⁵⁰ [God] magnifies the deliverances of his king; and deals mercifully with David his anointed, and his seed, for ever. ¹⁸ 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.