Psalms - Chapter 1

Psalms 1:1

Blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Psalms 1:2

but his delight is in the LORD's law. On his law he meditates day and night.

Psalms 1:3

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

Psalms 1:4

The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

Psalms 1:5

Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

Psalms 1:6

For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.


Psalms - Chapter 2

Psalms 2:1

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?



Psalms 2:2

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his Anointed, saying,

Psalms 2:3

"Let's break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us."

Psalms 2:4

He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

Psalms 2:5

Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:

Psalms 2:6

"Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion."

Psalms 2:7

I will tell of the decree. the LORD said to me, "You are my son. Today I have become your father.

Psalms 2:8

Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.



Psalms 2:9

You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."

Psalms 2:10

Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.

Psalms 2:11

Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

Psalms 2:12

Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him. A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son.


Psalms - Chapter 3

Psalms 3:1

the LORD, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.

Psalms 3:2

Many there are who say of my soul, "There is no help for him in God." Selah.

Psalms 3:3

But you, the LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.



Psalms 3:4

I cry to the LORD with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.

Psalms 3:5

I laid myself down and slept. I awakened; for the LORD sustains me.

Psalms 3:6

I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me on every side.

Psalms 3:7

Arise, the LORD! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

Psalms 3:8

Salvation belongs to the LORD. Your blessing be on your people. Selah. For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 4

Psalms 4:1

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

Psalms 4:2

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.



Psalms 4:3

But know that the LORD has set apart for himself him who is godly: the LORD will hear when I call to him.

Psalms 4:4

Stand in awe, and don't sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.

Psalms 4:5

Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in the LORD.

Psalms 4:6

Many say, "Who will show us any good?" the LORD, let the light of your face shine on us.

Psalms 4:7

You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.

Psalms 4:8

In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, the LORD alone, make me live in safety. For the Chief Musician, with the flutes. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 5

Psalms 5:1

Give ear to my words, the LORD. Consider my meditation.



Psalms 5:2

Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for to you do I pray.

Psalms 5:3

the LORD, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

Psalms 5:4

For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can't live with you.

Psalms 5:5

The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

Psalms 5:6

You will destroy those who speak lies. the LORD abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

Psalms 5:7

But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.

Psalms 5:8

Lead me, the LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.

Psalms 5:9

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

Psalms 5:10

Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

Psalms 5:11

But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice, Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them. Let them also who love your name be joyful in you.

Psalms 5:12

For you will bless the righteous. the LORD, you will surround him with favor as with a shield. For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, upon the eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 6

Psalms 6:1

the LORD, don't rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath.

Psalms 6:2

Have mercy on me, the LORD, for I am faint. the LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

Psalms 6:3

My soul is also in great anguish. But you, the LORD--how long?

Psalms 6:4

Return, the LORD. Deliver my soul, and save me for your loving kindness' sake.

Psalms 6:5

For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

Psalms 6:6

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

Psalms 6:7

My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

Psalms 6:8

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.

Psalms 6:9

the LORD has heard my supplication. the LORD accepts my prayer.

Psalms 6:10

May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly. A meditation by David, which he sang to the LORD, concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite.


Psalms - Chapter 7

Psalms 7:1

the LORD, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,

Psalms 7:2

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

Psalms 7:3

the LORD, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,

Psalms 7:4

if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

Psalms 7:5

let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

Psalms 7:6

Arise, the LORD, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

Psalms 7:7

Let the congregation of the peoples surround you. Rule over them on high.

Psalms 7:8

the LORD administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, the LORD, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.

Psalms 7:9

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

Psalms 7:10

My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

Psalms 7:11

God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day.

Psalms 7:12

If a man doesn't relent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.

Psalms 7:13

He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.

Psalms 7:14

Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

Psalms 7:15

He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

Psalms 7:16

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

Psalms 7:17

I will give thanks to the LORD according to his righteousness, and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High. For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 8

Psalms 8:1

the LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, who has set your glory above the heavens!

Psalms 8:2

From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

Psalms 8:3

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

Psalms 8:4

what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

Psalms 8:5

For you have made him a little lower than God, and crowned him with glory and honor.

Psalms 8:6

You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

Psalms 8:7

All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field,

Psalms 8:8

The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

Psalms 8:9

the LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! For the Chief Musician. Set to "The Death of the Son." A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 9

Psalms 9:1

I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.

Psalms 9:2

I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

Psalms 9:3

When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.

Psalms 9:4

For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.

Psalms 9:5

You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

Psalms 9:6

The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.

Psalms 9:7

But the LORD reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.

Psalms 9:8

He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.

Psalms 9:9

the LORD will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

Psalms 9:10

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, the LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.

Psalms 9:11

Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.

Psalms 9:12

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn't forget the cry of the afflicted.

Psalms 9:13

Have mercy on me, the LORD. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death;

Psalms 9:14

that I may show forth all your praise. In the gates of the daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in your salvation.

Psalms 9:15

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

Psalms 9:16

the LORD has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.

Psalms 9:17

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

Psalms 9:18

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

Psalms 9:19

Arise, the LORD! Don't let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight.

Psalms 9:20

Put them in fear, the LORD. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.


Psalms - Chapter 10

Psalms 10:1

Why do you stand far off, the LORD? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

Psalms 10:2

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

Psalms 10:3

For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns the LORD.

Psalms 10:4

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

Psalms 10:5

His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

Psalms 10:6

He says in his heart, "I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble."

Psalms 10:7

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Psalms 10:8

He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

Psalms 10:9

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

Psalms 10:10

The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.

Psalms 10:11

He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."

Psalms 10:12

Arise, the LORD! God, lift up your hand! Don't forget the helpless.

Psalms 10:13

Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, "God won't call me into account?"

Psalms 10:14

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

Psalms 10:15

Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.

Psalms 10:16

the LORD is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.

Psalms 10:17

the LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

Psalms 10:18

to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more. For the Chief Musician. By David.


Psalms - Chapter 11

Psalms 11:1

In the LORD, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain!"

Psalms 11:2

For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

Psalms 11:3

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?

Psalms 11:4

the LORD is in his holy temple. the LORD is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.

Psalms 11:5

the LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.

Psalms 11:6

On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

Psalms 11:7

For the LORD is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face. For the Chief Musician; upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David.


Psalms - Chapter 12

Psalms 12:1

Help, the LORD; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

Psalms 12:2

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

Psalms 12:3

May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

Psalms 12:4

who have said, "With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?"

Psalms 12:5

"Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says the LORD; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."

Psalms 12:6

The words of the LORD are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

Psalms 12:7

You will keep them, the LORD. You will preserve them from this generation forever.

Psalms 12:8

The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 13

Psalms 13:1

How long, the LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Psalms 13:2

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?

Psalms 13:3

Behold, and answer me, the LORD, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

Psalms 13:4

Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him;" Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.

Psalms 13:5

But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation.

Psalms 13:6

I will sing to the LORD, because he has been good to me. For the Chief Musician. By David.


Psalms - Chapter 14

Psalms 14:1

The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who does good.

Psalms 14:2

the LORD looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who did understand, who did seek after God.

Psalms 14:3

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is none who does good, no, not one.

Psalms 14:4

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on the LORD?

Psalms 14:5

There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.

Psalms 14:6

You frustrate the plan of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

Psalms 14:7

Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When the LORD restores the fortunes of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 15

Psalms 15:1

the LORD, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill?

Psalms 15:2

He who walks blamelessly does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;

Psalms 15:3

He who doesn't slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

Psalms 15:4

In whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear the LORD; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn't change;

Psalms 15:5

he who doesn't lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken. A Poem by David.


Psalms - Chapter 16

Psalms 16:1

Preserve me, God, for in you do I take refuge.

Psalms 16:2

My soul, you have said to the LORD, "You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing."

Psalms 16:3

As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.

Psalms 16:4

Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their names on my lips.

Psalms 16:5

the LORD assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.

Psalms 16:6

The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance.

Psalms 16:7

I will bless the LORD, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

Psalms 16:8

I have set the LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

Psalms 16:9

Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety.

Psalms 16:10

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

Psalms 16:11

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forevermore. A Prayer by David.


Psalms - Chapter 17

Psalms 17:1

Hear, the LORD, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn't go out of deceitful lips.

Psalms 17:2

Let my sentence come forth from your presence. Let your eyes look on equity.

Psalms 17:3

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

Psalms 17:4

As for the works of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

Psalms 17:5

My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

Psalms 17:6

I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.

Psalms 17:7

Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.

Psalms 17:8

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

Psalms 17:9

from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.

Psalms 17:10

They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

Psalms 17:11

They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

Psalms 17:12

He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

Psalms 17:13

Arise, the LORD, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;

Psalms 17:14

from men by your hand, the LORD, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

Psalms 17:15

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form. For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said,


Psalms - Chapter 18

Psalms 18:1

I love you, the LORD, my strength.

Psalms 18:2

the LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

Psalms 18:3

I call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved from my enemies.

Psalms 18:4

The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

Psalms 18:5

The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.

Psalms 18:6

In my distress I called on the LORD, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

Psalms 18:7

Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.

Psalms 18:8

Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.

Psalms 18:9

He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

Psalms 18:10

He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.

Psalms 18:11

He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

Psalms 18:12

At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.

Psalms 18:13

the LORD also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.

Psalms 18:14

He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.

Psalms 18:15

Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, the LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

Psalms 18:16

He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.

Psalms 18:17

He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

Psalms 18:18

They came on me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support.

Psalms 18:19

He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

Psalms 18:20

the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.

Psalms 18:21

For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

Psalms 18:22

For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't put away his statutes from me.

Psalms 18:23

I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

Psalms 18:24

Therefore the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

Psalms 18:25

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.

Psalms 18:26

With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

Psalms 18:27

For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down.

Psalms 18:28

For you will light my lamp, the LORD. My God will light up my darkness.

Psalms 18:29

For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.

Psalms 18:30

As for God, his way is perfect. The word of the LORD is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

Psalms 18:31

For who is God, except the LORD? Who is a rock, besides our God,

Psalms 18:32

the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?

Psalms 18:33

He makes my feet like deer's feet, and sets me on my high places.

Psalms 18:34

He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.

Psalms 18:35

You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.

Psalms 18:36

You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

Psalms 18:37

I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again until they are consumed.

Psalms 18:38

I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.

Psalms 18:39

For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

Psalms 18:40

You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

Psalms 18:41

They cried, but there was none to save; even to the LORD, but he didn't answer them.

Psalms 18:42

Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.

Psalms 18:43

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Psalms 18:44

As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.

Psalms 18:45

The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their close places.

Psalms 18:46

the LORD lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,

Psalms 18:47

even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me.

Psalms 18:48

He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

Psalms 18:49

Therefore I will give thanks to you, the LORD, among the nations, and will sing praises to your name.

Psalms 18:50

He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, forevermore. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 19

Psalms 19:1

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

Psalms 19:2

Day after day they pour forth speech, and night after night they display knowledge.

Psalms 19:3

There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

Psalms 19:4

Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

Psalms 19:5

which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.

Psalms 19:6

His going forth is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends; There is nothing hidden from its heat.

Psalms 19:7

the LORD's law is perfect, restoring the soul. the LORD's testimony is sure, making wise the simple.

Psalms 19:8

the LORD's precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. the LORD's commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

Psalms 19:9

The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever. the LORD's ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.

Psalms 19:10

More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

Psalms 19:11

Moreover by them is your servant warned. In keeping them there is great reward.

Psalms 19:12

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

Psalms 19:13

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

Psalms 19:14

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, the LORD, my rock, and my redeemer. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 20

Psalms 20:1

May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,

Psalms 20:2

send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion,

Psalms 20:3

remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice. Selah.

Psalms 20:4

May He grant you your heart's desire, and fulfill all your counsel.

Psalms 20:5

We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God, we will set up our banners. May the LORD grant all your requests.

Psalms 20:6

Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, with the saving strength of his right hand.

Psalms 20:7

Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust the name of the LORD our God.

Psalms 20:8

They are bowed down and fallen, but we rise up, and stand upright.

Psalms 20:9

Save, the LORD! Let the King answer us when we call! For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 21

Psalms 21:1

The king rejoices in your strength, the LORD! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!

Psalms 21:2

You have given him his heart's desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.

Psalms 21:3

For you meet him with the blessings of goodness. You set a crown of fine gold on his head.

Psalms 21:4

He asked life of you, you gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever.

Psalms 21:5

His glory is great in your salvation. You lay honor and majesty on him.

Psalms 21:6

For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence.

Psalms 21:7

For the king trusts in the LORD. Through the loving kindness of the Most High, he shall not be moved.

Psalms 21:8

Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.

Psalms 21:9

You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. the LORD will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

Psalms 21:10

You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men.

Psalms 21:11

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

Psalms 21:12

For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.

Psalms 21:13

Be exalted, the LORD, in your strength, so we will sing and praise your power. For the Chief Musician; set to "The Doe of the Morning." A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 22

Psalms 22:1

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

Psalms 22:2

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

Psalms 22:3

But you are holy, you who inhabit the praises of Israel.

Psalms 22:4

Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered them.

Psalms 22:5

They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.

Psalms 22:6

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

Psalms 22:7

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

Psalms 22:8

"He trusts in the LORD; let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him."

Psalms 22:9

But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at my mother's breasts.

Psalms 22:10

I was thrown on you from my mother's womb. You are my God since my mother bore me.

Psalms 22:11

Don't be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is none to help.

Psalms 22:12

Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

Psalms 22:13

They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

Psalms 22:14

I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.

Psalms 22:15

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

Psalms 22:16

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

Psalms 22:17

I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.

Psalms 22:18

They divide my garments among them. They cast lots for my clothing.

Psalms 22:19

But don't be far off, the LORD. You are my help: hurry to help me.

Psalms 22:20

Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog.

Psalms 22:21

Save me from the lion's mouth! Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen, you have answered me.

Psalms 22:22

I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the assembly, I will praise you.

Psalms 22:23

You who fear the LORD, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!

Psalms 22:24

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

Psalms 22:25

Of you comes my praise in the great assembly. I will pay my vows before those who fear him.

Psalms 22:26

The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise the LORD who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.

Psalms 22:27

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.

Psalms 22:28

For the kingdom is the LORD's. He is the ruler over the nations.

Psalms 22:29

All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who can't keep his soul alive.

Psalms 22:30

Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.

Psalms 22:31

They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, for he has done it. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 23

Psalms 23:1

the LORD is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

Psalms 23:2

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.

Psalms 23:3

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Psalms 23:4

Even 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.

Psalms 23:5

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

Psalms 23:6

Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the LORD's house forever. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 24

Psalms 24:1

The earth is the LORD's, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.

Psalms 24:2

For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

Psalms 24:3

Who may ascend to the LORD's hill? Who may stand in his holy place?

Psalms 24:4

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

Psalms 24:5

He shall receive a blessing from the LORD, righteousness from the God of his salvation.

Psalms 24:6

This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face--even Jacob. Selah.

Psalms 24:7

Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.

Psalms 24:8

Who is the King of glory? the LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.

Psalms 24:9

Lift up your heads, you gates; yes, lift them up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.

Psalms 24:10

Who is this King of glory? the LORD of Armies is the King of glory! Selah. By David.


Psalms - Chapter 25

Psalms 25:1

To you, the LORD, do I lift up my soul.

Psalms 25:2

My God, I have trusted in you. Don't let me be shamed. Don't let my enemies triumph over me.

Psalms 25:3

Yes, no one who waits for you shall be shamed. They shall be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

Psalms 25:4

Show me your ways, the LORD. Teach me your paths.

Psalms 25:5

Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.

Psalms 25:6

the LORD, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.

Psalms 25:7

Don't remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness' sake, the LORD.

Psalms 25:8

Good and upright is the LORD, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.

Psalms 25:9

He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.

Psalms 25:10

All the paths of the LORD are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

Psalms 25:11

For your name's sake, the LORD, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

Psalms 25:12

What man is he who fears the LORD? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.

Psalms 25:13

His soul shall dwell at ease. His seed shall inherit the land.

Psalms 25:14

The friendship of the LORD is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

Psalms 25:15

My eyes are ever on the LORD, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

Psalms 25:16

Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

Psalms 25:17

The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.

Psalms 25:18

Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.

Psalms 25:19

Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.

Psalms 25:20

Oh keep my soul, and deliver me. Let me not be disappointed, for I take refuge in you.

Psalms 25:21

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.

Psalms 25:22

Redeem Israel, God, out all of his troubles. By David.


Psalms - Chapter 26

Psalms 26:1

Judge me, the LORD, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in the LORD without wavering.

Psalms 26:2

Examine me, the LORD, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

Psalms 26:3

For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.

Psalms 26:4

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

Psalms 26:5

I hate the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked.

Psalms 26:6

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, the LORD;

Psalms 26:7

that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard, and tell of all your wondrous works.

Psalms 26:8

the LORD, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.

Psalms 26:9

Don't gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;

Psalms 26:10

in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.

Psalms 26:11

But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.

Psalms 26:12

My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless the LORD. By David.


Psalms - Chapter 27

Psalms 27:1

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?

Psalms 27:2

When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

Psalms 27:3

Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.

Psalms 27:4

One thing I have asked of the LORD, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to see the LORD's beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

Psalms 27:5

For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the covert of his tabernacle he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

Psalms 27:6

Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.

Psalms 27:7

Hear, the LORD, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me.

Psalms 27:8

When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, the LORD."

Psalms 27:9

Don't hide your face from me. Don't put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don't abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

Psalms 27:10

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

Psalms 27:11

Teach me your way, the LORD. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.

Psalms 27:12

Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

Psalms 27:13

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

Psalms 27:14

Wait for the LORD. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for the LORD. By David.


Psalms - Chapter 28

Psalms 28:1

To you, the LORD, I call. My rock, don't be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

Psalms 28:2

Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

Psalms 28:3

Don't draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

Psalms 28:4

Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.

Psalms 28:5

Because they don't respect the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

Psalms 28:6

Blessed be the LORD, because he has heard the voice of my petitions.

Psalms 28:7

the LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

Psalms 28:8

the LORD is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

Psalms 28:9

Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 29

Psalms 29:1

Ascribe to the LORD, you sons of the mighty, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.

Psalms 29:2

Ascribe to the LORD the glory due to his name. Worship the LORD in holy array.

Psalms 29:3

the LORD's voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even the LORD on many waters.

Psalms 29:4

the LORD's voice is powerful. the LORD's voice is full of majesty.

Psalms 29:5

The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars. Yes, the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

Psalms 29:6

He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.

Psalms 29:7

the LORD's voice strikes with flashes of lightning.

Psalms 29:8

the LORD's voice shakes the wilderness. the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

Psalms 29:9

the LORD's voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, "Glory!"

Psalms 29:10

the LORD sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, the LORD sits as King forever.

Psalms 29:11

the LORD will give strength to his people. the LORD will bless his people with peace. A Psalm. A Song for the Dedication of the Temple. By David.


Psalms - Chapter 30

Psalms 30:1

I will extol you, the LORD, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

Psalms 30:2

the LORD my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.

Psalms 30:3

the LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Psalms 30:4

Sing praise to the LORD, you saints of his. Give thanks to his holy name.

Psalms 30:5

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

Psalms 30:6

As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved."

Psalms 30:7

You, the LORD, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

Psalms 30:8

I cried to you, the LORD. To the LORD I made supplication:

Psalms 30:9

"What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

Psalms 30:10

Hear, the LORD, and have mercy on me. the LORD, be my helper."

Psalms 30:11

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

Psalms 30:12

To the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. the LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever! For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 31

Psalms 31:1

In you, the LORD, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.

Psalms 31:2

Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.

Psalms 31:3

For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me.

Psalms 31:4

Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.

Psalms 31:5

Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, the LORD, God of truth.

Psalms 31:6

I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in the LORD.

Psalms 31:7

I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

Psalms 31:8

You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

Psalms 31:9

Have mercy on me, the LORD, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

Psalms 31:10

For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

Psalms 31:11

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

Psalms 31:12

I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

Psalms 31:13

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

Psalms 31:14

But I trust in you, the LORD. I said, "You are my God."

Psalms 31:15

My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

Psalms 31:16

Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness.

Psalms 31:17

Let me not be disappointed, the LORD, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

Psalms 31:18

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

Psalms 31:19

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

Psalms 31:20

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

Psalms 31:21

Praise be to the LORD, for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city.

Psalms 31:22

As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

Psalms 31:23

Oh love the LORD, all you his saints! the LORD preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.

Psalms 31:24

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in the LORD. By David. A contemplative psalm.


Psalms - Chapter 32

Psalms 32:1

Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

Psalms 32:2

Blessed is the man to whom the LORD doesn't impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Psalms 32:3

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

Psalms 32:4

For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

Psalms 32:5

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Psalms 32:6

For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

Psalms 32:7

You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.

Psalms 32:8

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

Psalms 32:9

Don't be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

Psalms 32:10

Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in the LORD.

Psalms 32:11

Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!


Psalms - Chapter 33

Psalms 33:1

Rejoice in the LORD, you righteous! Praise is fitting for the upright.

Psalms 33:2

Give thanks to the LORD with the lyre. Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.

Psalms 33:3

Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy!

Psalms 33:4

For the word of the LORD is right. All his work is done in faithfulness.

Psalms 33:5

He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of the LORD.

Psalms 33:6

By the LORD's word, the heavens were made; all their army by the breath of his mouth.

Psalms 33:7

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

Psalms 33:8

Let all the earth fear the LORD. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

Psalms 33:9

For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.

Psalms 33:10

the LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

Psalms 33:11

The counsel of the LORD stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

Psalms 33:12

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

Psalms 33:13

the LORD looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men.

Psalms 33:14

From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,

Psalms 33:15

he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.

Psalms 33:16

There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.

Psalms 33:17

A horse is a vain thing for safety, neither does he deliver any by his great power.

Psalms 33:18

Behold, the LORD's eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness;

Psalms 33:19

to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine.

Psalms 33:20

Our soul has waited for the LORD. He is our help and our shield.

Psalms 33:21

For our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

Psalms 33:22

Let your loving kindness be on us, the LORD, since we have hoped in you. By David; when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.


Psalms - Chapter 34

Psalms 34:1

I will bless the LORD at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth.

Psalms 34:2

My soul shall boast in the LORD. The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.

Psalms 34:3

Oh magnify the LORD with me. Let us exalt his name together.

Psalms 34:4

I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Psalms 34:5

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

Psalms 34:6

This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Psalms 34:7

The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

Psalms 34:8

Oh taste and see that the LORD is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

Psalms 34:9

Oh fear the LORD, you his saints, for there is no lack with those who fear him.

Psalms 34:10

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

Psalms 34:11

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

Psalms 34:12

Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?

Psalms 34:13

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

Psalms 34:14

Depart from evil, and do good. seek peace, and pursue it.

Psalms 34:15

the LORD's eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

Psalms 34:16

the LORD's face is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Psalms 34:17

The righteous cry, and the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

Psalms 34:18

the LORD is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

Psalms 34:19

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.

Psalms 34:20

He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.

Psalms 34:21

Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

Psalms 34:22

the LORD redeems the soul of his servants. None of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned. By David.


Psalms - Chapter 35

Psalms 35:1

Contend, the LORD, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

Psalms 35:2

Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.

Psalms 35:3

Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, "I am your salvation."

Psalms 35:4

Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

Psalms 35:5

Let them be as chaff before the wind, the LORD's angel driving them on.

Psalms 35:6

Let their way be dark and slippery, the LORD's angel pursuing them.

Psalms 35:7

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

Psalms 35:8

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

Psalms 35:9

My soul shall be joyful in the LORD. It shall rejoice in his salvation.

Psalms 35:10

All my bones shall say, "the LORD, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?"

Psalms 35:11

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don't know about.

Psalms 35:12

They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.

Psalms 35:13

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.

Psalms 35:14

I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.

Psalms 35:15

But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.

Psalms 35:16

Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

Psalms 35:17

Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

Psalms 35:18

I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise you among many people.

Psalms 35:19

Don't let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

Psalms 35:20

For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

Psalms 35:21

Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!"

Psalms 35:22

You have seen it, the LORD. Don't keep silent. Lord, don't be far from me.

Psalms 35:23

Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!

Psalms 35:24

Vindicate me, the LORD my God, according to your righteousness. Don't let them gloat over me.

Psalms 35:25

Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!" Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!"

Psalms 35:26

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

Psalms 35:27

Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause. Yes, let them say continually, "the LORD be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!"

Psalms 35:28

My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long. For the Chief Musician. By David, the servant of the LORD.


Psalms - Chapter 36

Psalms 36:1

An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: "There is no fear of God before his eyes."

Psalms 36:2

For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.

Psalms 36:3

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

Psalms 36:4

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn't abhor evil.

Psalms 36:5

Your loving kindness, the LORD, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

Psalms 36:6

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. the LORD, you preserve man and animal.

Psalms 36:7

How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

Psalms 36:8

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

Psalms 36:9

For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall we see light.

Psalms 36:10

Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart.

Psalms 36:11

Don't let the foot of pride come against me. Don't let the hand of the wicked drive me away.

Psalms 36:12

There the workers of iniquity are fallen. They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise. By David.


Psalms - Chapter 37

Psalms 37:1

Don't fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

Psalms 37:2

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

Psalms 37:3

Trust in the LORD, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

Psalms 37:4

Also delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Psalms 37:5

Commit your way to the LORD. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

Psalms 37:6

he will make your righteousness go forth as the light, and your justice as the noon day sun.

Psalms 37:7

Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him. Don't fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

Psalms 37:8

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don't fret, it leads only to evildoing.

Psalms 37:9

For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the LORD shall inherit the land.

Psalms 37:10

For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn't there.

Psalms 37:11

But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

Psalms 37:12

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

Psalms 37:13

The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

Psalms 37:14

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.

Psalms 37:15

Their sword shall enter into their own heart. Their bows shall be broken.

Psalms 37:16

Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.

Psalms 37:17

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.

Psalms 37:18

the LORD knows the days of the perfect. Their inheritance shall be forever.

Psalms 37:19

They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

Psalms 37:20

But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of the LORD shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish-- vanish like smoke.

Psalms 37:21

The wicked borrow, and don't pay back, but the righteous give generously.

Psalms 37:22

For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

Psalms 37:23

A man's goings are established by the LORD. He delights in his way.

Psalms 37:24

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for the LORD holds him up with his hand.

Psalms 37:25

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

Psalms 37:26

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His seed is blessed.

Psalms 37:27

Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever.

Psalms 37:28

For the LORD loves justice, and doesn't forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

Psalms 37:29

The righteous shall inherit the land, and live in it forever.

Psalms 37:30

The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.

Psalms 37:31

The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.

Psalms 37:32

The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

Psalms 37:33

the LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

Psalms 37:34

Wait for the LORD, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

Psalms 37:35

I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

Psalms 37:36

But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

Psalms 37:37

Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

Psalms 37:38

As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

Psalms 37:39

But the salvation of the righteous is from the LORD. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.

Psalms 37:40

the LORD helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked, and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him. A Psalm by David, for a memorial.


Psalms - Chapter 38

Psalms 38:1

the LORD, don't rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

Psalms 38:2

For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

Psalms 38:3

There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

Psalms 38:4

For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

Psalms 38:5

My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.

Psalms 38:6

I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

Psalms 38:7

For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.

Psalms 38:8

I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

Psalms 38:9

Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.

Psalms 38:10

My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

Psalms 38:11

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

Psalms 38:12

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

Psalms 38:13

But I, as a deaf man, don't hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth.

Psalms 38:14

Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.

Psalms 38:15

For in you, the LORD, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God.

Psalms 38:16

For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."

Psalms 38:17

For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

Psalms 38:18

For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.

Psalms 38:19

But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

Psalms 38:20

They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

Psalms 38:21

Don't forsake me, the LORD. My God, don't be far from me.

Psalms 38:22

Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation. For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 39

Psalms 39:1

I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."

Psalms 39:2

I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

Psalms 39:3

My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue:

Psalms 39:4

"the LORD, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

Psalms 39:5

Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.

Psalms 39:6

"Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.

Psalms 39:7

Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

Psalms 39:8

Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don't make me the reproach of the foolish.

Psalms 39:9

I was mute. I didn't open my mouth, because you did it.

Psalms 39:10

Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

Psalms 39:11

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.

Psalms 39:12

"Hear my prayer, the LORD, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

Psalms 39:13

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more." For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 40

Psalms 40:1

I waited patiently for the LORD. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

Psalms 40:2

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

Psalms 40:3

He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

Psalms 40:4

Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, and doesn't respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

Psalms 40:5

Many, the LORD, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can't be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

Psalms 40:6

Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

Psalms 40:7

Then I said, "Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.

Psalms 40:8

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart."

Psalms 40:9

I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, the LORD, you know.

Psalms 40:10

I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

Psalms 40:11

Don't withhold your tender mercies from me, the LORD. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

Psalms 40:12

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

Psalms 40:13

Be pleased, the LORD, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, the LORD.

Psalms 40:14

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

Psalms 40:15

Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, "Aha! Aha!"

Psalms 40:16

Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, "Let the LORD be exalted!"

Psalms 40:17

But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don't delay, my God. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 41

Psalms 41:1

Blessed is he who considers the poor. the LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.

Psalms 41:2

the LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

Psalms 41:3

the LORD will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.

Psalms 41:4

I said, "the LORD, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you."

Psalms 41:5

My enemies speak evil against me: "When will he die, and his name perish?"

Psalms 41:6

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

Psalms 41:7

All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

Psalms 41:8

"An evil disease," they say, "has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more."

Psalms 41:9

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

Psalms 41:10

But you, the LORD, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.

Psalms 41:11

By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn't triumph over me.

Psalms 41:12

As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

Psalms 41:13

Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen. BOOK II For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah.


Psalms - Chapter 42

Psalms 42:1

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

Psalms 42:2

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

Psalms 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

Psalms 42:4

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

Psalms 42:5

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

Psalms 42:6

My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

Psalms 42:7

Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

Psalms 42:8

the LORD will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

Psalms 42:9

I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

Psalms 42:10

As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

Psalms 42:11

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.


Psalms - Chapter 43

Psalms 43:1

Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

Psalms 43:2

For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Psalms 43:3

Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.

Psalms 43:4

Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.

Psalms 43:5

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God. For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm.


Psalms - Chapter 44

Psalms 44:1

We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old.

Psalms 44:2

You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.

Psalms 44:3

For they didn't get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.

Psalms 44:4

You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!

Psalms 44:5

Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.

Psalms 44:6

For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

Psalms 44:7

But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.

Psalms 44:8

In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah.

Psalms 44:9

But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don't go out with our armies.

Psalms 44:10

You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take spoil for themselves.

Psalms 44:11

You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

Psalms 44:12

You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.

Psalms 44:13

You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

Psalms 44:14

You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

Psalms 44:15

All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,

Psalms 44:16

At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.

Psalms 44:17

All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.

Psalms 44:18

Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

Psalms 44:19

Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Psalms 44:20

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god;

Psalms 44:21

won't God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

Psalms 44:22

Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

Psalms 44:23

Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don't reject us forever.

Psalms 44:24

Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

Psalms 44:25

For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.

Psalms 44:26

Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness' sake. For the Chief Musician. Set to "The Lilies." A contemplation by the sons of Korah. A wedding song.


Psalms - Chapter 45

Psalms 45:1

My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.

Psalms 45:2

You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.

Psalms 45:3

Strap your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendor and your majesty.

Psalms 45:4

In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds.

Psalms 45:5

Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king's enemies.

Psalms 45:6

Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.

Psalms 45:7

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

Psalms 45:8

All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.

Psalms 45:9

Kings' daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.

Psalms 45:10

Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father's house.

Psalms 45:11

So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.

Psalms 45:12

The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich among the people entreat your favor.

Psalms 45:13

The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is interwoven with gold.

Psalms 45:14

She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.

Psalms 45:15

With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led. They shall enter into the king's palace.

Psalms 45:16

Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make them princes in all the earth.

Psalms 45:17

I will make your name to be remembered in all generations. Therefore the peoples shall give you thanks forever and ever. For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth.


Psalms - Chapter 46

Psalms 46:1

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Psalms 46:2

Therefore we won't be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;

Psalms 46:3

though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling. Selah.

Psalms 46:4

There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.

Psalms 46:5

God is in her midst. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.

Psalms 46:6

The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice, and the earth melted.

Psalms 46:7

the LORD of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

Psalms 46:8

Come, see the LORD's works, what desolations he has made in the earth.

Psalms 46:9

He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire.

Psalms 46:10

"Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth."

Psalms 46:11

the LORD of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.


Psalms - Chapter 47

Psalms 47:1

Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph!

Psalms 47:2

For the LORD Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth.

Psalms 47:3

He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet.

Psalms 47:4

He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

Psalms 47:5

God has gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.

Psalms 47:6

Sing praise to God, sing praises. Sing praises to our King, sing praises.

Psalms 47:7

For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding.

Psalms 47:8

God reigns over the nations. God sits on his holy throne.

Psalms 47:9

The princes of the peoples are gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God. He is greatly exalted! A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.


Psalms - Chapter 48

Psalms 48:1

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

Psalms 48:2

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.

Psalms 48:3

God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.

Psalms 48:4

For, behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together.

Psalms 48:5

They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed. They hurried away.

Psalms 48:6

Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.

Psalms 48:7

With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.

Psalms 48:8

As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of the LORD of Armies, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah.

Psalms 48:9

We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the midst of your temple.

Psalms 48:10

As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.

Psalms 48:11

Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice, Because of your judgments.

Psalms 48:12

Walk about Zion, and go around her. Number its towers.

Psalms 48:13

Mark well her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may tell it to the next generation.

Psalms 48:14

For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.


Psalms - Chapter 49

Psalms 49:1

Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,

Psalms 49:2

both low and high, rich and poor together.

Psalms 49:3

My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart shall utter understanding.

Psalms 49:4

I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle on the harp.

Psalms 49:5

Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?

Psalms 49:6

Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches--

Psalms 49:7

none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

Psalms 49:8

For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,

Psalms 49:9

That he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.

Psalms 49:10

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Psalms 49:11

Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.

Psalms 49:12

But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.

Psalms 49:13

This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah.

Psalms 49:14

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

Psalms 49:15

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.

Psalms 49:16

Don't be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased.

Psalms 49:17

For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him.

Psalms 49:18

Though while he lived he blessed his soul-- and men praise you when you do well for yourself--

Psalms 49:19

he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

Psalms 49:20

A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish. A Psalm by Asaph.


Psalms - Chapter 50

Psalms 50:1

The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.

Psalms 50:2

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.

Psalms 50:3

Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.

Psalms 50:4

He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:

Psalms 50:5

"Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice."

Psalms 50:6

The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.

Psalms 50:7

"Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

Psalms 50:8

I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

Psalms 50:9

I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.

Psalms 50:10

For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.

Psalms 50:11

I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.

Psalms 50:12

If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

Psalms 50:13

Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Psalms 50:14

Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

Psalms 50:15

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."

Psalms 50:16

But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

Psalms 50:17

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

Psalms 50:18

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

Psalms 50:19

"You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

Psalms 50:20

You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son.

Psalms 50:21

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

Psalms 50:22

"Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver.

Psalms 50:23

Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him." For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.


Psalms - Chapter 51

Psalms 51:1

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

Psalms 51:2

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

Psalms 51:3

For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

Psalms 51:4

Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

Psalms 51:5

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

Psalms 51:6

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

Psalms 51:7

Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Psalms 51:8

Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

Psalms 51:9

Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.

Psalms 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Psalms 51:11

Don't throw me from your presence, and don't take your holy Spirit from me.

Psalms 51:12

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

Psalms 51:13

Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners shall be converted to you.

Psalms 51:14

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

Psalms 51:15

Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise.

Psalms 51:16

For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

Psalms 51:17

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Psalms 51:18

Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.

Psalms 51:19

Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar. For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, "David has come to Abimelech's house."


Psalms - Chapter 52

Psalms 52:1

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God's loving kindness endures continually.

Psalms 52:2

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Psalms 52:3

You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.

Psalms 52:4

You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

Psalms 52:5

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

Psalms 52:6

The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,

Psalms 52:7

"Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness."

Psalms 52:8

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God's house. I trust in God's loving kindness forever and ever.

Psalms 52:9

I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your saints. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Mahalath." A contemplation by David.


Psalms - Chapter 53

Psalms 53:1

The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

Psalms 53:2

God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.

Psalms 53:3

Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

Psalms 53:4

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on God?

Psalms 53:5

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

Psalms 53:6

Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, "Isn't David hiding himself among us?"


Psalms - Chapter 54

Psalms 54:1

Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might.

Psalms 54:2

Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth.

Psalms 54:3

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.

Psalms 54:4

Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.

Psalms 54:5

He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.

Psalms 54:6

With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I will give thanks to your name, the LORD, for it is good.

Psalms 54:7

For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies. For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David.


Psalms - Chapter 55

Psalms 55:1

Listen to my prayer, God. Don't hide yourself from my supplication.

Psalms 55:2

Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan,

Psalms 55:3

Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

Psalms 55:4

My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.

Psalms 55:5

Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.

Psalms 55:6

I said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.

Psalms 55:7

Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness." Selah.

Psalms 55:8

"I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm."

Psalms 55:9

Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Psalms 55:10

Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.

Psalms 55:11

Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don't depart from her streets.

Psalms 55:12

For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.

Psalms 55:13

But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.

Psalms 55:14

We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God's house with company.

Psalms 55:15

Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

Psalms 55:16

As for me, I will call on God. the LORD will save me.

Psalms 55:17

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

Psalms 55:18

He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, although there are many who oppose me.

Psalms 55:19

God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, who don't fear God.

Psalms 55:20

He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.

Psalms 55:21

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

Psalms 55:22

Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

Psalms 55:23

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in Distant Lands." A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.


Psalms - Chapter 56

Psalms 56:1

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

Psalms 56:2

My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

Psalms 56:3

When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

Psalms 56:4

In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

Psalms 56:5

All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

Psalms 56:6

They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

Psalms 56:7

Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.

Psalms 56:8

You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren't they in your book?

Psalms 56:9

Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this, that God is for me.

Psalms 56:10

In God, I will praise his word. In the LORD, I will praise his word.

Psalms 56:11

I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

Psalms 56:12

Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you.

Psalms 56:13

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem by David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.


Psalms - Chapter 57

Psalms 57:1

Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.

Psalms 57:2

I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my requests for me.

Psalms 57:3

He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.

Psalms 57:4

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalms 57:5

Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth!

Psalms 57:6

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into its midst themselves. Selah.

Psalms 57:7

My heart is steadfast, God, my heart is steadfast. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises.

Psalms 57:8

Wake up, my glory! Wake up, psaltery and harp! I will wake up the dawn.

Psalms 57:9

I will give thanks to you, Lord, among the peoples. I will sing praises to you among the nations.

Psalms 57:10

For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies.

Psalms 57:11

Be exalted, God, above the heavens. Let your glory be over all the earth. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem by David.


Psalms - Chapter 58

Psalms 58:1

Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?

Psalms 58:2

No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

Psalms 58:3

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Psalms 58:4

Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

Psalms 58:5

which doesn't listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skillful the charmer may be.

Psalms 58:6

Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, the LORD.

Psalms 58:7

Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

Psalms 58:8

Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

Psalms 58:9

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

Psalms 58:10

The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;

Psalms 58:11

so that men shall say, "Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth." For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem by David, when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.


Psalms - Chapter 59

Psalms 59:1

Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.

Psalms 59:2

Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men.

Psalms 59:3

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, the LORD.

Psalms 59:4

I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!

Psalms 59:5

You, the LORD God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah.

Psalms 59:6

They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city.

Psalms 59:7

Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"

Psalms 59:8

But you, the LORD, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations.

Psalms 59:9

Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, for God is my high tower.

Psalms 59:10

My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.

Psalms 59:11

Don't kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.

Psalms 59:12

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

Psalms 59:13

Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth. Selah.

Psalms 59:14

At evening let them return. Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city.

Psalms 59:15

They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren't satisfied.

Psalms 59:16

But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.

Psalms 59:17

To you, my strength, I will sing praises. For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lily of the Covenant." A teaching poem by David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.


Psalms - Chapter 60

Psalms 60:1

God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

Psalms 60:2

You have made the land tremble. You have torn it. Mend its fractures, for it quakes.

Psalms 60:3

You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.

Psalms 60:4

You have given a banner to those who fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

Psalms 60:5

So that your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us.

Psalms 60:6

God has spoken from his sanctuary: "I will triumph. I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.

Psalms 60:7

Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the defense of my head. Judah is my scepter.

Psalms 60:8

Moab is my wash basin. I will throw my shoe on Edom. I shout in triumph over Philistia."

Psalms 60:9

Who will bring me into the strong city? Who has led me to Edom?

Psalms 60:10

Haven't you, God, rejected us? You don't go out with our armies, God.

Psalms 60:11

Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain.

Psalms 60:12

Through God we shall do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our adversaries. For the Chief Musician. For a stringed instrument. By David.


Psalms - Chapter 61

Psalms 61:1

Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.

Psalms 61:2

From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

Psalms 61:3

For you have been a refuge for me, a strong tower from the enemy.

Psalms 61:4

I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings. Selah.

Psalms 61:5

For you, God, have heard my vows. You have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.

Psalms 61:6

You will prolong the king's life; his years shall be for generations.

Psalms 61:7

He shall be enthroned in God's presence forever. Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.

Psalms 61:8

So I will sing praise to your name forever, that I may fulfill my vows daily. For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthan. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 62

Psalms 62:1

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.

Psalms 62:2

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress-- I will never be greatly shaken.

Psalms 62:3

How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

Psalms 62:4

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

Psalms 62:5

My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

Psalms 62:6

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken.

Psalms 62:7

With God is my salvation and my honor. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

Psalms 62:8

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.

Psalms 62:9

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

Psalms 62:10

Don't trust in oppression. Don't become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don't set your heart on them.

Psalms 62:11

God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.

Psalms 62:12

Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work. A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah.


Psalms - Chapter 63

Psalms 63:1

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

Psalms 63:2

So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.

Psalms 63:3

Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.

Psalms 63:4

So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.

Psalms 63:5

My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,

Psalms 63:6

when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.

Psalms 63:7

For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.

Psalms 63:8

My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.

Psalms 63:9

But those who seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

Psalms 63:10

They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be jackal food.

Psalms 63:11

But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 64

Psalms 64:1

Hear my voice, God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

Psalms 64:2

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

Psalms 64:3

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

Psalms 64:4

to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

Psalms 64:5

They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?"

Psalms 64:6

They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!" Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.

Psalms 64:7

But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

Psalms 64:8

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

Psalms 64:9

All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done.

Psalms 64:10

The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall take refuge in him. All the upright in heart shall praise him! For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song.


Psalms - Chapter 65

Psalms 65:1

Praise waits for you, God, in Zion. To you shall vows be performed.

Psalms 65:2

You who hear prayer, to you all men will come.

Psalms 65:3

Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions.

Psalms 65:4

Blessed is one whom you choose, and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.

Psalms 65:5

By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, of those who are far away on the sea;

Psalms 65:6

Who by his power forms the mountains, having armed yourself with strength;

Psalms 65:7

who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.

Psalms 65:8

They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning's dawn and the evening with songs of joy.

Psalms 65:9

You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.

Psalms 65:10

You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop.

Psalms 65:11

You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow with abundance.

Psalms 65:12

The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness.

Psalms 65:13

The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are clothed with grain. They shout for joy! They also sing. For the Chief Musician. A song. A Psalm.


Psalms - Chapter 66

Psalms 66:1

Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth!

Psalms 66:2

Sing to the glory of his name! Offer glory and praise!

Psalms 66:3

Tell God, "How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you.

Psalms 66:4

All the earth will worship you, and will sing to you; they will sing to your name." Selah.

Psalms 66:5

Come, and see God's deeds-- awesome work on behalf of the children of men.

Psalms 66:6

He turned the sea into dry land. They went through the river on foot. There, we rejoiced in him.

Psalms 66:7

He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. Don't let the rebellious rise up against him. Selah.

Psalms 66:8

Praise our God, you peoples! Make the sound of his praise heard,

Psalms 66:9

who preserves our life among the living, and doesn't allow our feet to be moved.

Psalms 66:10

For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

Psalms 66:11

You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.

Psalms 66:12

You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.

Psalms 66:13

I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,

Psalms 66:14

which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.

Psalms 66:15

I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals, with the offering of rams, I will offer bulls with goats. Selah.

Psalms 66:16

Come, and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul.

Psalms 66:17

I cried to him with my mouth. He was extolled with my tongue.

Psalms 66:18

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn't have listened.

Psalms 66:19

But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer.

Psalms 66:20

Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his loving kindness from me. For the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm. A song.


Psalms - Chapter 67

Psalms 67:1

May God be merciful to us, bless us, and cause his face to shine on us. Selah.

Psalms 67:2

That your way may be known on earth, and your salvation among all nations,

Psalms 67:3

let the peoples praise you, God. Let all the peoples praise you.

Psalms 67:4

Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you will judge the peoples with equity, and govern the nations on earth. Selah.

Psalms 67:5

Let the peoples praise you, God. Let all the peoples praise you.

Psalms 67:6

The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us.

Psalms 67:7

God will bless us. All the ends of the earth shall fear him. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song.


Psalms - Chapter 68

Psalms 68:1

Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him.

Psalms 68:2

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

Psalms 68:3

But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.

Psalms 68:4

Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on the clouds: to Yah, his name! Rejoice before him!

Psalms 68:5

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Psalms 68:6

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

Psalms 68:7

God, when you went forth before your people, when you marched through the wilderness... Selah.

Psalms 68:8

The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai-- at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

Psalms 68:9

You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary.

Psalms 68:10

Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.

Psalms 68:11

The Lord announced the word. The ones who proclaim it are a great company.

Psalms 68:12

"Kings of armies flee! They flee!" She who waits at home divides the spoil,

Psalms 68:13

while you sleep among the campfires, the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold.

Psalms 68:14

When the Almighty scattered kings in her, it snowed on Zalmon.

Psalms 68:15

The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains. The mountains of Bashan are rugged.

Psalms 68:16

Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, the LORD will dwell there forever.

Psalms 68:17

The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.

Psalms 68:18

You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among men, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.

Psalms 68:19

Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, even the God who is our salvation. Selah.

Psalms 68:20

God is to us a God of deliverance. To the LORD, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

Psalms 68:21

But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.

Psalms 68:22

The Lord said, "I will bring you again from Bashan, I will bring you again from the depths of the sea;

Psalms 68:23

That you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies."

Psalms 68:24

They have seen your processions, God, even the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.

Psalms 68:25

The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, in the midst of the ladies playing with tambourines,

Psalms 68:26

"Bless God in the congregations, even the Lord in the assembly of Israel!"

Psalms 68:27

There is little Benjamin, their ruler, the princes of Judah, their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.

Psalms 68:28

Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.

Psalms 68:29

Because of your temple at Jerusalem, kings shall bring presents to you.

Psalms 68:30

Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.

Psalms 68:31

Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.

Psalms 68:32

Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth! Sing praises to the Lord! Selah.

Psalms 68:33

To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.

Psalms 68:34

Ascribe strength to God! His excellency is over Israel, his strength is in the skies.

Psalms 68:35

You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries. The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God! For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Lilies." By David.


Psalms - Chapter 69

Psalms 69:1

Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

Psalms 69:2

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Psalms 69:3

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

Psalms 69:4

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn't take away.

Psalms 69:5

God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren't hidden from you.

Psalms 69:6

Don't let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord the LORD of Armies. Don't let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.

Psalms 69:7

Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.

Psalms 69:8

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's children.

Psalms 69:9

For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

Psalms 69:10

When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.

Psalms 69:11

When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

Psalms 69:12

Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.

Psalms 69:13

But as for me, my prayer is to you, the LORD, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.

Psalms 69:14

Deliver me out of the mire, and don't let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Psalms 69:15

Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.

Psalms 69:16

Answer me, the LORD, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.

Psalms 69:17

Don't hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

Psalms 69:18

Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.

Psalms 69:19

You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.

Psalms 69:20

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

Psalms 69:21

They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

Psalms 69:22

Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

Psalms 69:23

Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see. Let their backs be continually bent.

Psalms 69:24

Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.

Psalms 69:25

Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.

Psalms 69:26

For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

Psalms 69:27

Charge them with crime upon crime. Don't let them come into your righteousness.

Psalms 69:28

Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

Psalms 69:29

But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.

Psalms 69:30

I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

Psalms 69:31

It will please the LORD better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.

Psalms 69:32

The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.

Psalms 69:33

For the LORD hears the needy, and doesn't despise his captive people.

Psalms 69:34

Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein!

Psalms 69:35

For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.

Psalms 69:36

The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein. For the Chief Musician. By David. A reminder.


Psalms - Chapter 70

Psalms 70:1

Hurry, God, to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, the LORD.

Psalms 70:2

Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

Psalms 70:3

Let them be turned because of their shame Who say, "Aha! Aha!"

Psalms 70:4

Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation continually say, "Let God be exalted!"

Psalms 70:5

But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. the LORD, don't delay.


Psalms - Chapter 71

Psalms 71:1

In you, the LORD, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed.

Psalms 71:2

Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.

Psalms 71:3

Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.

Psalms 71:4

Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

Psalms 71:5

For you are my hope, Lord the LORD; my confidence from my youth.

Psalms 71:6

I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother's womb. I will always praise you.

Psalms 71:7

I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.

Psalms 71:8

My mouth shall be filled with your praise, with your honor all the day.

Psalms 71:9

Don't reject me in my old age. Don't forsake me when my strength fails.

Psalms 71:10

For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,

Psalms 71:11

saying, "God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him."

Psalms 71:12

God, don't be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.

Psalms 71:13

Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.

Psalms 71:14

But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

Psalms 71:15

My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don't know its full measure.

Psalms 71:16

I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord the LORD. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.

Psalms 71:17

God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

Psalms 71:18

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

Psalms 71:19

Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?

Psalms 71:20

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

Psalms 71:21

Increase my honor, and comfort me again.

Psalms 71:22

I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.

Psalms 71:23

My lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you!

Psalms 71:24

My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me. By Solomon.


Psalms - Chapter 72

Psalms 72:1

God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.

Psalms 72:2

He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

Psalms 72:3

The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.

Psalms 72:4

He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

Psalms 72:5

They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.

Psalms 72:6

He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

Psalms 72:7

In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.

Psalms 72:8

He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.

Psalms 72:9

Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him. His enemies shall lick the dust.

Psalms 72:10

The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

Psalms 72:11

Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him.

Psalms 72:12

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

Psalms 72:13

He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.

Psalms 72:14

He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

Psalms 72:15

They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all day long.

Psalms 72:16

Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.

Psalms 72:17

His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.

Psalms 72:18

Praise be to the LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.

Psalms 72:19

Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen.

Psalms 72:20

This ends the prayers by David, the son of Jesse. BOOK III A Psalm by Asaph.


Psalms - Chapter 73

Psalms 73:1

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

Psalms 73:2

But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.

Psalms 73:3

For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Psalms 73:4

For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

Psalms 73:5

They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.

Psalms 73:6

Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

Psalms 73:7

Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

Psalms 73:8

They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

Psalms 73:9

They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

Psalms 73:10

Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.

Psalms 73:11

They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"

Psalms 73:12

Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

Psalms 73:13

Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,

Psalms 73:14

For all day long have I been plagued, and punished every morning.

Psalms 73:15

If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

Psalms 73:16

When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;

Psalms 73:17

Until I entered God's sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

Psalms 73:18

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

Psalms 73:19

How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

Psalms 73:20

As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

Psalms 73:21

For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

Psalms 73:22

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

Psalms 73:23

Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

Psalms 73:24

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

Psalms 73:25

Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire besides you.

Psalms 73:26

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Psalms 73:27

For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

Psalms 73:28

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord the LORD my refuge, that I may tell of all your works. A contemplation by Asaph.


Psalms - Chapter 74

Psalms 74:1

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

Psalms 74:2

Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived.

Psalms 74:3

Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

Psalms 74:4

Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.

Psalms 74:5

They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.

Psalms 74:6

Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.

Psalms 74:7

They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.

Psalms 74:8

They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.

Psalms 74:9

We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.

Psalms 74:10

How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

Psalms 74:11

Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it out of your pocket and consume them!

Psalms 74:12

Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

Psalms 74:13

You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

Psalms 74:14

You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.

Psalms 74:15

You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.

Psalms 74:16

The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

Psalms 74:17

You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.

Psalms 74:18

Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, the LORD. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

Psalms 74:19

Don't deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don't forget the life of your poor forever.

Psalms 74:20

Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.

Psalms 74:21

Don't let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

Psalms 74:22

Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.

Psalms 74:23

Don't forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A Psalm by Asaph. A song.


Psalms - Chapter 75

Psalms 75:1

We give thanks to you, God. We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about your wondrous works.

Psalms 75:2

When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly.

Psalms 75:3

The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.

Psalms 75:4

I said to the arrogant, "Don't boast!" I said to the wicked, "Don't lift up the horn.

Psalms 75:5

Don't lift up your horn on high. Don't speak with a stiff neck."

Psalms 75:6

For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.

Psalms 75:7

But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

Psalms 75:8

For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.

Psalms 75:9

But I will declare this forever: I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

Psalms 75:10

I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up. For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaph. A song.


Psalms - Chapter 76

Psalms 76:1

In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.

Psalms 76:2

His tabernacle is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion.

Psalms 76:3

There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.

Psalms 76:4

Glorious are you, and excellent, more than mountains of game.

Psalms 76:5

Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.

Psalms 76:6

At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a deep sleep.

Psalms 76:7

You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?

Psalms 76:8

You pronounced judgment from heaven. The earth feared, and was silent,

Psalms 76:9

when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones of the earth. Selah.

Psalms 76:10

Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.

Psalms 76:11

Make vows to the LORD your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.

Psalms 76:12

He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings of the earth. For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by Asaph.


Psalms - Chapter 77

Psalms 77:1

My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me.

Psalms 77:2

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

Psalms 77:3

I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.

Psalms 77:4

You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can't speak.

Psalms 77:5

I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

Psalms 77:6

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

Psalms 77:7

"Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?

Psalms 77:8

Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?

Psalms 77:9

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?" Selah.

Psalms 77:10

Then I thought, "I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High."

Psalms 77:11

I will remember Yah's deeds; for I will remember your wonders of old.

Psalms 77:12

I will also meditate on all your work, and consider your doings.

Psalms 77:13

Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God?

Psalms 77:14

You are the God who does wonders. You have made your strength known among the peoples.

Psalms 77:15

You have redeemed your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

Psalms 77:16

The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. The depths also convulsed.

Psalms 77:17

The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.

Psalms 77:18

The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.

Psalms 77:19

Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

Psalms 77:20

You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron. A contemplation by Asaph.


Psalms - Chapter 78

Psalms 78:1

Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

Psalms 78:2

I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

Psalms 78:3

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

Psalms 78:4

We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.

Psalms 78:5

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

Psalms 78:6

that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,

Psalms 78:7

that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,

Psalms 78:8

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Psalms 78:9

The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

Psalms 78:10

They didn't keep God's covenant, and refused to walk in his law.

Psalms 78:11

They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them.

Psalms 78:12

He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

Psalms 78:13

He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.

Psalms 78:14

In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.

Psalms 78:15

He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

Psalms 78:16

He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

Psalms 78:17

Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

Psalms 78:18

They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

Psalms 78:19

Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Psalms 78:20

Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?"

Psalms 78:21

Therefore the LORD heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,

Psalms 78:22

because they didn't believe in God, and didn't trust in his salvation.

Psalms 78:23

Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.

Psalms 78:24

He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.

Psalms 78:25

Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.

Psalms 78:26

He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.

Psalms 78:27

He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.

Psalms 78:28

He let them fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations.

Psalms 78:29

So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.

Psalms 78:30

They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

Psalms 78:31

when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of the fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel.

Psalms 78:32

For all this they still sinned, and didn't believe in his wondrous works.

Psalms 78:33

Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

Psalms 78:34

When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

Psalms 78:35

They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.

Psalms 78:36

But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

Psalms 78:37

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

Psalms 78:38

But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn't stir up all his wrath.

Psalms 78:39

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.

Psalms 78:40

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

Psalms 78:41

They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Psalms 78:42

They didn't remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

Psalms 78:43

how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,

Psalms 78:44

he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

Psalms 78:45

He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

Psalms 78:46

He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

Psalms 78:47

He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.

Psalms 78:48

He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

Psalms 78:49

He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.

Psalms 78:50

He made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

Psalms 78:51

and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

Psalms 78:52

But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

Psalms 78:53

He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

Psalms 78:54

He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.

Psalms 78:55

He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

Psalms 78:56

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn't keep his testimonies;

Psalms 78:57

but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

Psalms 78:58

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.

Psalms 78:59

When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;

Psalms 78:60

So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

Psalms 78:61

and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary's hand.

Psalms 78:62

He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.

Psalms 78:63

Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.

Psalms 78:64

Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep.

Psalms 78:65

Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

Psalms 78:66

He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.

Psalms 78:67

Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn't choose the tribe of Ephraim,

Psalms 78:68

But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

Psalms 78:69

He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

Psalms 78:70

He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

Psalms 78:71

from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.

Psalms 78:72

So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands. A Psalm by Asaph.


Psalms - Chapter 79

Psalms 79:1

God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

Psalms 79:2

They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.

Psalms 79:3

Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

Psalms 79:4

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

Psalms 79:5

How long, the LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Psalms 79:6

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you; on the kingdoms that don't call on your name;

Psalms 79:7

For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.

Psalms 79:8

Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

Psalms 79:9

Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name's sake.

Psalms 79:10

Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants' blood is being poured out.

Psalms 79:11

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

Psalms 79:12

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

Psalms 79:13

So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lilies of the Covenant." A Psalm by Asaph.


Psalms - Chapter 80

Psalms 80:1

Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine forth.

Psalms 80:2

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!

Psalms 80:3

Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

Psalms 80:4

the LORD God of Armies, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

Psalms 80:5

You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

Psalms 80:6

You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

Psalms 80:7

Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

Psalms 80:8

You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.

Psalms 80:9

You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.

Psalms 80:10

The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God's cedars.

Psalms 80:11

It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.

Psalms 80:12

Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?

Psalms 80:13

The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.

Psalms 80:14

Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,

Psalms 80:15

the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.

Psalms 80:16

It's burned with fire. It's cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

Psalms 80:17

Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.

Psalms 80:18

So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.

Psalms 80:19

Turn us again, the LORD God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved. For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph.


Psalms - Chapter 81

Psalms 81:1

Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!

Psalms 81:2

Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.

Psalms 81:3

Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.

Psalms 81:4

For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

Psalms 81:5

He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn't know.

Psalms 81:6

"I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.

Psalms 81:7

You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah." Selah.

Psalms 81:8

"Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!

Psalms 81:9

There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.

Psalms 81:10

I am the LORD, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

Psalms 81:11

But my people didn't listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

Psalms 81:12

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

Psalms 81:13

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

Psalms 81:14

I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.

Psalms 81:15

The haters of the LORD would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.

Psalms 81:16

But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock." A Psalm by Asaph.


Psalms - Chapter 82

Psalms 82:1

God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.

Psalms 82:2

"How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?" Selah.

Psalms 82:3

"Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

Psalms 82:4

Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked."

Psalms 82:5

They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Psalms 82:6

I said, "You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.

Psalms 82:7

Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers."

Psalms 82:8

Arise, God, judge the earth, for you inherit all of the nations. A song. A Psalm by Asaph.


Psalms - Chapter 83

Psalms 83:1

God, don't keep silent. Don't keep silent, and don't be still, God.

Psalms 83:2

For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

Psalms 83:3

They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.

Psalms 83:4

"Come," they say, "and let's destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more."

Psalms 83:5

For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.

Psalms 83:6

The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;

Psalms 83:7

Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

Psalms 83:8

Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.

Psalms 83:9

Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;

Psalms 83:10

who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.

Psalms 83:11

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;

Psalms 83:12

who said, "Let us take possession of God's pasturelands."

Psalms 83:13

My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind.

Psalms 83:14

As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

Psalms 83:15

so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.

Psalms 83:16

Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, the LORD.

Psalms 83:17

Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

Psalms 83:18

that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth. For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.


Psalms - Chapter 84

Psalms 84:1

How lovely are your dwellings, the LORD of Armies!

Psalms 84:2

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the LORD. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Psalms 84:3

Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, the LORD of Armies, my King, and my God.

Psalms 84:4

Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you. Selah.

Psalms 84:5

Blessed are those whose strength is in you; who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.

Psalms 84:6

Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.

Psalms 84:7

They go from strength to strength. Everyone of them appears before God in Zion.

Psalms 84:8

the LORD, God of Armies, hear my prayer. Listen, God of Jacob. Selah.

Psalms 84:9

Behold, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed.

Psalms 84:10

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Psalms 84:11

For the LORD God is a sun and a shield. the LORD will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

Psalms 84:12

the LORD of Armies, blessed is the man who trusts in you. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.


Psalms - Chapter 85

Psalms 85:1

the LORD, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.

Psalms 85:2

You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah.

Psalms 85:3

You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.

Psalms 85:4

Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.

Psalms 85:5

Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?

Psalms 85:6

Won't you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

Psalms 85:7

Show us your loving kindness, the LORD. Grant us your salvation.

Psalms 85:8

I will hear what God, the LORD, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.

Psalms 85:9

Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

Psalms 85:10

Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Psalms 85:11

Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven.

Psalms 85:12

Yes, the LORD will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.

Psalms 85:13

Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps. A Prayer by David.


Psalms - Chapter 86

Psalms 86:1

Hear, the LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

Psalms 86:2

Preserve my soul, for I am godly. You, my God, save your servant who trusts in you.

Psalms 86:3

Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.

Psalms 86:4

Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.

Psalms 86:5

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

Psalms 86:6

Hear, the LORD, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions.

Psalms 86:7

In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me.

Psalms 86:8

There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds like your deeds.

Psalms 86:9

All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.

Psalms 86:10

For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone.

Psalms 86:11

Teach me your way, the LORD. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

Psalms 86:12

I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart. I will glorify your name forevermore.

Psalms 86:13

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

Psalms 86:14

God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don't hold regard for you before them.

Psalms 86:15

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

Psalms 86:16

Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your handmaid.

Psalms 86:17

Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, the LORD, have helped me, and comforted me. A Psalm by the sons of Korah; a Song.


Psalms - Chapter 87

Psalms 87:1

His foundation is in the holy mountains.

Psalms 87:2

the LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Psalms 87:3

Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Selah.

Psalms 87:4

I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me. Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia: "This one was born there."

Psalms 87:5

Yes, of Zion it will be said, "This one and that one was born in her;" the Most High himself will establish her.

Psalms 87:6

the LORD will count, when he writes up the peoples, "This one was born there." Selah.

Psalms 87:7

Those who sing as well as those who dance say, "All my springs are in you." A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Suffering of Affliction." A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite.


Psalms - Chapter 88

Psalms 88:1

the LORD, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

Psalms 88:2

Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry.

Psalms 88:3

For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

Psalms 88:4

I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

Psalms 88:5

set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

Psalms 88:6

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

Psalms 88:7

Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.

Psalms 88:8

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape.

Psalms 88:9

My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, the LORD. I have spread out my hands to you.

Psalms 88:10

Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the dead rise up and praise you? Selah.

Psalms 88:11

Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?

Psalms 88:12

Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Psalms 88:13

But to you, the LORD, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.

Psalms 88:14

the LORD, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

Psalms 88:15

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.

Psalms 88:16

Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

Psalms 88:17

They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.

Psalms 88:18

You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness. A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite.


Psalms - Chapter 89

Psalms 89:1

I will sing of the loving kindness of the LORD forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.

Psalms 89:2

I indeed declare, "Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them."

Psalms 89:3

"I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,

Psalms 89:4

'I will establish your seed forever, and build up your throne to all generations.'" Selah.

Psalms 89:5

The heavens will praise your wonders, the LORD; your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.

Psalms 89:6

For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like the LORD,

Psalms 89:7

a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?

Psalms 89:8

the LORD, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.

Psalms 89:9

You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.

Psalms 89:10

You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

Psalms 89:11

The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; the world and its fullness. You have founded them.

Psalms 89:12

The north and the south, you have created them. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.

Psalms 89:13

You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.

Psalms 89:14

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

Psalms 89:15

Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, the LORD.

Psalms 89:16

In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.

Psalms 89:17

For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.

Psalms 89:18

For our shield belongs to the LORD; our king to the Holy One of Israel.

Psalms 89:19

Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, "I have bestowed strength on the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.

Psalms 89:20

I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,

Psalms 89:21

with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also strengthen him.

Psalms 89:22

No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.

Psalms 89:23

I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.

Psalms 89:24

But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.

Psalms 89:25

I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.

Psalms 89:26

He will call to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!'

Psalms 89:27

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

Psalms 89:28

I will keep my loving kindness for him forevermore. My covenant will stand firm with him.

Psalms 89:29

I will also make his seed endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

Psalms 89:30

If his children forsake my law, and don't walk in my ordinances;

Psalms 89:31

if they break my statutes, and don't keep my commandments;

Psalms 89:32

then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

Psalms 89:33

But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

Psalms 89:34

I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

Psalms 89:35

Once have I sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.

Psalms 89:36

His seed will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.

Psalms 89:37

It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky." Selah.

Psalms 89:38

But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

Psalms 89:39

You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.

Psalms 89:40

You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

Psalms 89:41

All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

Psalms 89:42

You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice.

Psalms 89:43

Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven't supported him in battle.

Psalms 89:44

You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.

Psalms 89:45

You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah.

Psalms 89:46

How long, the LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?

Psalms 89:47

Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

Psalms 89:48

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

Psalms 89:49

Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?

Psalms 89:50

Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,

Psalms 89:51

With which your enemies have mocked, the LORD, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

Psalms 89:52

Blessed be the LORD forevermore. Amen, and Amen. BOOK IV A Prayer by Moses, the man of God.


Psalms - Chapter 90

Psalms 90:1

Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

Psalms 90:2

Before the mountains were brought forth, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

Psalms 90:3

You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."

Psalms 90:4

For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

Psalms 90:5

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

Psalms 90:6

In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

Psalms 90:7

For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

Psalms 90:8

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

Psalms 90:9

For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

Psalms 90:10

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

Psalms 90:11

Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

Psalms 90:12

So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Psalms 90:13

Relent, the LORD! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

Psalms 90:14

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Psalms 90:15

Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

Psalms 90:16

Let your work appear to your servants; your glory to their children.

Psalms 90:17

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.


Psalms - Chapter 91

Psalms 91:1

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

Psalms 91:2

I will say of the LORD, "He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust."

Psalms 91:3

For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.

Psalms 91:4

He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

Psalms 91:5

You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day;

Psalms 91:6

nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.

Psalms 91:7

A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.

Psalms 91:8

You will only look with your eyes, and see the recompense of the wicked.

Psalms 91:9

Because you have made the LORD your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place,

Psalms 91:10

no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.

Psalms 91:11

For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.

Psalms 91:12

They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won't dash your foot against a stone.

Psalms 91:13

You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.

Psalms 91:14

"Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

Psalms 91:15

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

Psalms 91:16

I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation." A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day.


Psalms - Chapter 92

Psalms 92:1

It is a good thing to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to your name, Most High;

Psalms 92:2

to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night,

Psalms 92:3

with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody of the lyre.

Psalms 92:4

For you, the LORD, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands.

Psalms 92:5

How great are your works, the LORD! Your thoughts are very deep.

Psalms 92:6

A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:

Psalms 92:7

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

Psalms 92:8

But you, the LORD, are on high forevermore.

Psalms 92:9

For, behold, your enemies, the LORD, for, behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evildoers will be scattered.

Psalms 92:10

But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.

Psalms 92:11

My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.

Psalms 92:12

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Psalms 92:13

They are planted in the LORD's house. They will flourish in our God's courts.

Psalms 92:14

They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

Psalms 92:15

to show that the LORD is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.


Psalms - Chapter 93

Psalms 93:1

the LORD reigns! He is clothed with majesty! the LORD is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can't be moved.

Psalms 93:2

Your throne is established from long ago. You are from everlasting.

Psalms 93:3

The floods have lifted up, the LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.

Psalms 93:4

Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, the LORD on high is mighty.

Psalms 93:5

Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, the LORD, forevermore.


Psalms - Chapter 94

Psalms 94:1

the LORD, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth.

Psalms 94:2

Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.

Psalms 94:3

the LORD, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?

Psalms 94:4

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

Psalms 94:5

They break your people in pieces, the LORD, and afflict your heritage.

Psalms 94:6

They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

Psalms 94:7

They say, "Yah will not see, neither will Jacob's God consider."

Psalms 94:8

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

Psalms 94:9

He who implanted the ear, won't he hear? He who formed the eye, won't he see?

Psalms 94:10

He who disciplines the nations, won't he punish? He who teaches man knows.

Psalms 94:11

the LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

Psalms 94:12

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law;

Psalms 94:13

that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

Psalms 94:14

For the LORD won't reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

Psalms 94:15

For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.

Psalms 94:16

Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?

Psalms 94:17

Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.

Psalms 94:18

When I said, "My foot is slipping!" Your loving kindness, the LORD, held me up.

Psalms 94:19

In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.

Psalms 94:20

Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?

Psalms 94:21

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

Psalms 94:22

But the LORD has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.

Psalms 94:23

He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. the LORD, our God, will cut them off.


Psalms - Chapter 95

Psalms 95:1

Oh come, let's sing to the LORD. Let's shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!

Psalms 95:2

Let's come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let's extol him with songs!

Psalms 95:3

For the LORD is a great God, a great King above all gods.

Psalms 95:4

In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his.

Psalms 95:5

The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.

Psalms 95:6

Oh come, let's worship and bow down. Let's kneel before the LORD, our Maker,

Psalms 95:7

for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

Psalms 95:8

Don't harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

Psalms 95:9

when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.

Psalms 95:10

Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways."

Psalms 95:11

Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They won't enter into my rest."


Psalms - Chapter 96

Psalms 96:1

Sing to the LORD a new song! Sing to the LORD, all the earth.

Psalms 96:2

Sing to the LORD! Bless his name! Proclaim his salvation from day to day!

Psalms 96:3

Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples.

Psalms 96:4

For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised! He is to be feared above all gods.

Psalms 96:5

For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.

Psalms 96:6

Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

Psalms 96:7

Ascribe to the LORD, you families of nations, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.

Psalms 96:8

Ascribe to the LORD the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come into his courts.

Psalms 96:9

Worship the LORD in holy array. Tremble before him, all the earth.

Psalms 96:10

Say among the nations, "the LORD reigns." The world is also established. It can't be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity.

Psalms 96:11

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar, and its fullness!

Psalms 96:12

Let the field and all that is in it exult! Then all the trees of the woods shall sing for joy

Psalms 96:13

before the LORD; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth.


Psalms - Chapter 97

Psalms 97:1

the LORD reigns! Let the earth rejoice! Let the multitude of islands be glad!

Psalms 97:2

Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

Psalms 97:3

A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side.

Psalms 97:4

His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees, and trembles.

Psalms 97:5

The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

Psalms 97:6

The heavens declare his righteousness. All the peoples have seen his glory.

Psalms 97:7

Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!

Psalms 97:8

Zion heard and was glad. The daughters of Judah rejoiced, because of your judgments, the LORD.

Psalms 97:9

For you, the LORD, are most high above all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods.

Psalms 97:10

You who love the LORD, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

Psalms 97:11

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

Psalms 97:12

Be glad in the LORD, you righteous people! Give thanks to his holy Name. A Psalm.


Psalms - Chapter 98

Psalms 98:1

Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand, and his holy arm, have worked salvation for him.

Psalms 98:2

the LORD has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.

Psalms 98:3

He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Psalms 98:4

Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!

Psalms 98:5

Sing praises to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and the voice of melody.

Psalms 98:6

With trumpets and sound of the ram's horn, make a joyful noise before the King, the LORD.

Psalms 98:7

Let the sea roar with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.

Psalms 98:8

Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together.

Psalms 98:9

Let them sing before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.


Psalms - Chapter 99

Psalms 99:1

the LORD reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned among the cherubim. Let the earth be moved.

Psalms 99:2

the LORD is great in Zion. He is high above all the peoples.

Psalms 99:3

Let them praise your great and awesome name. He is Holy!

Psalms 99:4

The King's strength also loves justice. You do establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Psalms 99:5

Exalt the LORD our God. Worship at his footstool. He is Holy!

Psalms 99:6

Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel among those who call on his name; they called on the LORD, and he answered them.

Psalms 99:7

He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies, the statute that he gave them.

Psalms 99:8

You answered them, the LORD our God. You are a God who forgave them, although you took vengeance for their doings.

Psalms 99:9

Exalt the LORD, our God. Worship at his holy hill, for the LORD, our God, is holy! A Psalm of thanksgiving.


Psalms - Chapter 100

Psalms 100:1

Shout for joy to the LORD, all you lands!

Psalms 100:2

Serve the LORD with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.

Psalms 100:3

Know that the LORD, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Psalms 100:4

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.

Psalms 100:5

For the LORD is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 101

Psalms 101:1

I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, the LORD, I will sing praises.

Psalms 101:2

I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.

Psalms 101:3

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

Psalms 101:4

A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.

Psalms 101:5

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

Psalms 101:6

My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me.

Psalms 101:7

He who practices deceit won't dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won't be established before my eyes.

Psalms 101:8

Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land; to cut off all the workers of iniquity from the LORD's city. A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before the LORD.


Psalms - Chapter 102

Psalms 102:1

Hear my prayer, the LORD! Let my cry come to you.

Psalms 102:2

Don't hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.

Psalms 102:3

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

Psalms 102:4

My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

Psalms 102:5

By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

Psalms 102:6

I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.

Psalms 102:7

I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.

Psalms 102:8

My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.

Psalms 102:9

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

Psalms 102:10

Because of your indignation and your wrath, for you have taken me up, and thrown me away.

Psalms 102:11

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

Psalms 102:12

But you, the LORD, will remain forever; your renown endures to all generations.

Psalms 102:13

You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

Psalms 102:14

For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.

Psalms 102:15

So the nations will fear the name of the LORD; all the kings of the earth your glory.

Psalms 102:16

For the LORD has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.

Psalms 102:17

He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

Psalms 102:18

This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise Yah.

Psalms 102:19

For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, the LORD saw the earth;

Psalms 102:20

to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;

Psalms 102:21

that men may declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;

Psalms 102:22

when the peoples are gathered together, the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.

Psalms 102:23

He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.

Psalms 102:24

I said, "My God, don't take me away in the midst of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.

Psalms 102:25

Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.

Psalms 102:26

They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.

Psalms 102:27

But you are the same. Your years will have no end.

Psalms 102:28

The children of your servants will continue. Their seed will be established before you." By David.


Psalms - Chapter 103

Psalms 103:1

Praise the LORD, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name!

Psalms 103:2

Praise the LORD, my soul, and don't forget all his benefits;

Psalms 103:3

who forgives all your sins; who heals all your diseases;

Psalms 103:4

who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies;

Psalms 103:5

who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

Psalms 103:6

the LORD executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.

Psalms 103:7

He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the children of Israel.

Psalms 103:8

the LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

Psalms 103:9

He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever.

Psalms 103:10

He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities.

Psalms 103:11

For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.

Psalms 103:12

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

Psalms 103:13

Like a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.

Psalms 103:14

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

Psalms 103:15

As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

Psalms 103:16

For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

Psalms 103:17

But the LORD's loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children's children;

Psalms 103:18

to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.

Psalms 103:19

the LORD has established his throne in the heavens. His kingdom rules over all.

Psalms 103:20

Praise the LORD, you angels of his, who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, obeying the voice of his word.

Psalms 103:21

Praise the LORD, all you armies of his, you servants of his, who do his pleasure.

Psalms 103:22

Praise the LORD, all you works of his, in all places of his dominion. Praise the LORD, my soul!


Psalms - Chapter 104

Psalms 104:1

Bless the LORD, my soul. the LORD, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty.

Psalms 104:2

He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

Psalms 104:3

He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

Psalms 104:4

He makes his messengers winds; his servants flames of fire.

Psalms 104:5

He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.

Psalms 104:6

You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.

Psalms 104:7

At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.

Psalms 104:8

The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them.

Psalms 104:9

You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they don't turn again to cover the earth.

Psalms 104:10

He sends forth springs into the valleys. They run among the mountains.

Psalms 104:11

They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst.

Psalms 104:12

The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches.

Psalms 104:13

He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.

Psalms 104:14

He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food out of the earth:

Psalms 104:15

wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man's heart.

Psalms 104:16

the LORD's trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;

Psalms 104:17

where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the fir trees.

Psalms 104:18

The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.

Psalms 104:19

He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.

Psalms 104:20

You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

Psalms 104:21

The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.

Psalms 104:22

The sun rises, and they steal away, and lay down in their dens.

Psalms 104:23

Man goes forth to his work, to his labor until the evening.

Psalms 104:24

the LORD, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

Psalms 104:25

There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals.

Psalms 104:26

There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.

Psalms 104:27

These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.

Psalms 104:28

You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.

Psalms 104:29

You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.

Psalms 104:30

You send forth your Spirit: they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

Psalms 104:31

Let the glory of the LORD endure forever. Let the LORD rejoice in his works.

Psalms 104:32

He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke.

Psalms 104:33

I will sing to the LORD as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.

Psalms 104:34

Let your meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in the LORD.

Psalms 104:35

Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, my soul. Praise Yah!


Psalms - Chapter 105

Psalms 105:1

Give thanks to the LORD! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples.

Psalms 105:2

Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works.

Psalms 105:3

Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

Psalms 105:4

Seek the LORD and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

Psalms 105:5

Remember his marvelous works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,

Psalms 105:6

you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

Psalms 105:7

He is the LORD, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.

Psalms 105:8

He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

Psalms 105:9

the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,

Psalms 105:10

and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute; to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

Psalms 105:11

saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;"

Psalms 105:12

when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.

Psalms 105:13

They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

Psalms 105:14

He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,

Psalms 105:15

"Don't touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!"

Psalms 105:16

He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.

Psalms 105:17

He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.

Psalms 105:18

They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,

Psalms 105:19

until the time that his word happened, and the LORD's word proved him true.

Psalms 105:20

The king sent and freed him; even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

Psalms 105:21

He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions;

Psalms 105:22

to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.

Psalms 105:23

Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob lived in the land of Ham.

Psalms 105:24

He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.

Psalms 105:25

He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.

Psalms 105:26

He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

Psalms 105:27

They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

Psalms 105:28

He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn't rebel against his words.

Psalms 105:29

He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish.

Psalms 105:30

Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the rooms of their kings.

Psalms 105:31

He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders.

Psalms 105:32

He gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land.

Psalms 105:33

He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.

Psalms 105:34

He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number,

Psalms 105:35

ate up every plant in their land; and ate up the fruit of their ground.

Psalms 105:36

He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their manhood.

Psalms 105:37

He brought them forth with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes.

Psalms 105:38

Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on them.

Psalms 105:39

He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.

Psalms 105:40

They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.

Psalms 105:41

He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.

Psalms 105:42

For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.

Psalms 105:43

He brought forth his people with joy, his chosen with singing.

Psalms 105:44

He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,

Psalms 105:45

that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!


Psalms - Chapter 106

Psalms 106:1

Praise the LORD! Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

Psalms 106:2

Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD, or fully declare all his praise?

Psalms 106:3

Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

Psalms 106:4

Remember me, the LORD, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation,

Psalms 106:5

that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.

Psalms 106:6

We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.

Psalms 106:7

Our fathers didn't understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn't remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

Psalms 106:8

Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power known.

Psalms 106:9

He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.

Psalms 106:10

He saved them from the hand of him who hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

Psalms 106:11

The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left.

Psalms 106:12

Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.

Psalms 106:13

They soon forgot his works. They didn't wait for his counsel,

Psalms 106:14

but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

Psalms 106:15

He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.

Psalms 106:16

They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, the LORD's saint.

Psalms 106:17

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

Psalms 106:18

A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked.

Psalms 106:19

They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped a molten image.

Psalms 106:20

Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass.

Psalms 106:21

They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,

Psalms 106:22

Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by the Red Sea.

Psalms 106:23

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn't destroy them.

Psalms 106:24

Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn't believe his word,

Psalms 106:25

but murmured in their tents, and didn't listen to the LORD's voice.

Psalms 106:26

Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,

Psalms 106:27

that he would overthrow their seed among the nations, and scatter them in the lands.

Psalms 106:28

They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Psalms 106:29

Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.

Psalms 106:30

Then Phinehas stood up, and executed judgment, so the plague was stopped.

Psalms 106:31

That was credited to him for righteousness, for all generations to come.

Psalms 106:32

They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;

Psalms 106:33

because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.

Psalms 106:34

They didn't destroy the peoples, as the LORD commanded them,

Psalms 106:35

but mixed themselves with the nations, and learned their works.

Psalms 106:36

They served their idols, which became a snare to them.

Psalms 106:37

Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

Psalms 106:38

They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.

Psalms 106:39

Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.

Psalms 106:40

Therefore the LORD burned with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance.

Psalms 106:41

He gave them into the hand of the nations. Those who hated them ruled over them.

Psalms 106:42

Their enemies also oppressed them. They were brought into subjection under their hand.

Psalms 106:43

Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.

Psalms 106:44

Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.

Psalms 106:45

He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

Psalms 106:46

He made them also to be pitied by all those who carried them captive.

Psalms 106:47

Save us, the LORD, our God, gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise!

Psalms 106:48

Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting! Let all the people say, "Amen." Praise Yah! BOOK V


Psalms - Chapter 107

Psalms 107:1

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

Psalms 107:2

Let the redeemed by the LORD say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,

Psalms 107:3

And gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.

Psalms 107:4

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.

Psalms 107:5

Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

Psalms 107:6

Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses,

Psalms 107:7

he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in.

Psalms 107:8

Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Psalms 107:9

For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

Psalms 107:10

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

Psalms 107:11

because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.

Psalms 107:12

Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was none to help.

Psalms 107:13

Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

Psalms 107:14

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds in sunder.

Psalms 107:15

Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Psalms 107:16

For he has broken the gates of brass, and cut through bars of iron.

Psalms 107:17

Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.

Psalms 107:18

Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death.

Psalms 107:19

Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses.

Psalms 107:20

He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves.

Psalms 107:21

Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Psalms 107:22

Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with singing.

Psalms 107:23

Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters;

Psalms 107:24

These see the LORD's works, and his wonders in the deep.

Psalms 107:25

For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.

Psalms 107:26

They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.

Psalms 107:27

They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

Psalms 107:28

Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress.

Psalms 107:29

He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.

Psalms 107:30

Then they are glad because it is calm, so he brings them to their desired haven.

Psalms 107:31

Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful works for the children of men!

Psalms 107:32

Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders.

Psalms 107:33

He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,

Psalms 107:34

and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

Psalms 107:35

He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.

Psalms 107:36

There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,

Psalms 107:37

sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.

Psalms 107:38

He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn't allow their livestock to decrease.

Psalms 107:39

Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

Psalms 107:40

He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

Psalms 107:41

Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

Psalms 107:42

The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.

Psalms 107:43

Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of the LORD. A Song. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 108

Psalms 108:1

My heart is steadfast, God. I will sing and I will make music with my soul.

Psalms 108:2

Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn.

Psalms 108:3

I will give thanks to you, the LORD, among the nations. I will sing praises to you among the peoples.

Psalms 108:4

For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

Psalms 108:5

Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth.

Psalms 108:6

That your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us.

Psalms 108:7

God has spoken from his sanctuary: "In triumph, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.

Psalms 108:8

Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is my helmet. Judah is my scepter.

Psalms 108:9

Moab is my wash pot. I will toss my sandal on Edom. I will shout over Philistia."

Psalms 108:10

Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom?

Psalms 108:11

Haven't you rejected us, God? You don't go forth, God, with our armies.

Psalms 108:12

Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.

Psalms 108:13

Through God, we will do valiantly. For it is he who will tread down our enemies. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 109

Psalms 109:1

God of my praise, don't remain silent,

Psalms 109:2

for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

Psalms 109:3

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

Psalms 109:4

In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.

Psalms 109:5

They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Psalms 109:6

Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand.

Psalms 109:7

When he is judged, let him come forth guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.

Psalms 109:8

Let his days be few. Let another take his office.

Psalms 109:9

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Psalms 109:10

Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

Psalms 109:11

Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.

Psalms 109:12

Let there be none to extend kindness to him, neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.

Psalms 109:13

Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Psalms 109:14

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the LORD. Don't let the sin of his mother be blotted out.

Psalms 109:15

Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

Psalms 109:16

because he didn't remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.

Psalms 109:17

Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn't delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

Psalms 109:18

He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.

Psalms 109:19

Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, for the belt that is always around him.

Psalms 109:20

This is the reward of my adversaries from the LORD, of those who speak evil against my soul.

Psalms 109:21

But deal with me, the LORD the Lord, for your name's sake, because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;

Psalms 109:22

for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

Psalms 109:23

I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

Psalms 109:24

My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.

Psalms 109:25

I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

Psalms 109:26

Help me, the LORD, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness;

Psalms 109:27

that they may know that this is your hand; that you, the LORD, have done it.

Psalms 109:28

They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice.

Psalms 109:29

Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

Psalms 109:30

I will give great thanks to the LORD with my mouth. Yes, I will praise him among the multitude.

Psalms 109:31

For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 110

Psalms 110:1

the LORD says to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet."

Psalms 110:2

the LORD will send forth the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies.

Psalms 110:3

Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

Psalms 110:4

the LORD has sworn, and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek."

Psalms 110:5

The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.

Psalms 110:6

He will judge among the nations. He will heap up dead bodies. He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.

Psalms 110:7

He will drink of the brook in the way; therefore he will lift up his head.


Psalms - Chapter 111

Psalms 111:1

Praise Yah! I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.

Psalms 111:2

the LORD's works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.

Psalms 111:3

His work is honor and majesty. His righteousness endures forever.

Psalms 111:4

He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered. the LORD is gracious and merciful.

Psalms 111:5

He has given food to those who fear him. He always remembers his covenant.

Psalms 111:6

He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the heritage of the nations.

Psalms 111:7

The works of his hands are truth and justice. All his precepts are sure.

Psalms 111:8

They are established forever and ever. They are done in truth and uprightness.

Psalms 111:9

He has sent redemption to his people. He has ordained his covenant forever. His name is holy and awesome!

Psalms 111:10

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!


Psalms - Chapter 112

Psalms 112:1

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who delights greatly in his commandments.

Psalms 112:2

His seed will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

Psalms 112:3

Wealth and riches are in his house. His righteousness endures forever.

Psalms 112:4

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

Psalms 112:5

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

Psalms 112:6

For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.

Psalms 112:7

He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD.

Psalms 112:8

His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries.

Psalms 112:9

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

Psalms 112:10

The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.


Psalms - Chapter 113

Psalms 113:1

Praise Yah! Praise, you servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD.

Psalms 113:2

Blessed be the name of the LORD, from this time forth and forevermore.

Psalms 113:3

From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, the LORD's name is to be praised.

Psalms 113:4

the LORD is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens.

Psalms 113:5

Who is like the LORD, our God, who has his seat on high,

Psalms 113:6

Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?

Psalms 113:7

He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;

Psalms 113:8

that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

Psalms 113:9

He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!


Psalms - Chapter 114

Psalms 114:1

When Israel went forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language;

Psalms 114:2

Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

Psalms 114:3

The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.

Psalms 114:4

The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.

Psalms 114:5

What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?

Psalms 114:6

You mountains, that you skipped like rams; you little hills, like lambs?

Psalms 114:7

Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

Psalms 114:8

who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of waters.


Psalms - Chapter 115

Psalms 115:1

Not to us, the LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth's sake.

Psalms 115:2

Why should the nations say, "Where is their God, now?"

Psalms 115:3

But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.

Psalms 115:4

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Psalms 115:5

They have mouths, but they don't speak. They have eyes, but they don't see.

Psalms 115:6

They have ears, but they don't hear. They have noses, but they don't smell.

Psalms 115:7

They have hands, but they don't feel. They have feet, but they don't walk, neither do they speak through their throat.

Psalms 115:8

Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.

Psalms 115:9

Israel, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.

Psalms 115:10

House of Aaron, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.

Psalms 115:11

You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.

Psalms 115:12

the LORD remembers us. He will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron.

Psalms 115:13

He will bless those who fear the LORD, both small and great.

Psalms 115:14

May the LORD increase you more and more, you and your children.

Psalms 115:15

Blessed are you by the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

Psalms 115:16

The heavens are the heavens of the LORD; but the earth has he given to the children of men.

Psalms 115:17

The dead don't praise Yah, neither any who go down into silence;

Psalms 115:18

But we will bless Yah, from this time forth and forevermore. Praise Yah!


Psalms - Chapter 116

Psalms 116:1

I love the LORD, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.

Psalms 116:2

Because he has turned his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.

Psalms 116:3

The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

Psalms 116:4

Then I called on the name of the LORD: "the LORD, I beg you, deliver my soul."

Psalms 116:5

the LORD is Gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.

Psalms 116:6

the LORD preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.

Psalms 116:7

Return to your rest, my soul, for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.

Psalms 116:8

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

Psalms 116:9

I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

Psalms 116:10

I believed, therefore I said, "I was greatly afflicted."

Psalms 116:11

I said in my haste, "All men are liars."

Psalms 116:12

What will I give to the LORD for all his benefits toward me?

Psalms 116:13

I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the LORD.

Psalms 116:14

I will pay my vows to the LORD, yes, in the presence of all his people.

Psalms 116:15

Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.

Psalms 116:16

the LORD, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains.

Psalms 116:17

I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on the name of the LORD.

Psalms 116:18

I will pay my vows to the LORD, yes, in the presence of all his people,

Psalms 116:19

in the courts of the LORD's house, in the midst of you, Jerusalem. Praise Yah!


Psalms - Chapter 117

Psalms 117:1

Praise the LORD, all you nations! Extol him, all you peoples!

Psalms 117:2

For his loving kindness is great toward us. the LORD's faithfulness endures forever. Praise Yah!


Psalms - Chapter 118

Psalms 118:1

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

Psalms 118:2

Let Israel now say that his loving kindness endures forever.

Psalms 118:3

Let the house of Aaron now say that his loving kindness endures forever.

Psalms 118:4

Now let those who fear the LORD say that his loving kindness endures forever.

Psalms 118:5

Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.

Psalms 118:6

the LORD is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

Psalms 118:7

the LORD is on my side among those who help me. Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me.

Psalms 118:8

It is better to take refuge in the LORD, than to put confidence in man.

Psalms 118:9

It is better to take refuge in the LORD, than to put confidence in princes.

Psalms 118:10

All the nations surrounded me, but in the name of the LORD, I cut them off.

Psalms 118:11

They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In the name of the LORD I indeed cut them off.

Psalms 118:12

They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the name of the LORD I cut them off.

Psalms 118:13

You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but the LORD helped me.

Psalms 118:14

Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation.

Psalms 118:15

The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. "The right hand of the LORD does valiantly.

Psalms 118:16

The right hand of the LORD is exalted! The right hand of the LORD does valiantly!"

Psalms 118:17

I will not die, but live, and declare Yah's works.

Psalms 118:18

Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.

Psalms 118:19

Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to Yah.

Psalms 118:20

This is the gate of the LORD; the righteous will enter into it.

Psalms 118:21

I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me, and have become my salvation.

Psalms 118:22

The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.

Psalms 118:23

This is the LORD's doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.

Psalms 118:24

This is the day that the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

Psalms 118:25

Save us now, we beg you, the LORD! the LORD, we beg you, send prosperity now.

Psalms 118:26

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD! We have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.

Psalms 118:27

the LORD is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.

Psalms 118:28

You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God, I will exalt you.

Psalms 118:29

Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. ALEPH


Psalms - Chapter 119

Psalms 119:1

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the LORD's law.

Psalms 119:2

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

Psalms 119:3

Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways.

Psalms 119:4

You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.

Psalms 119:5

Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!

Psalms 119:6

Then I wouldn't be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.

Psalms 119:7

I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I learn your righteous judgments.

Psalms 119:8

I will observe your statutes. Don't utterly forsake me. BET

Psalms 119:9

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

Psalms 119:10

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don't let me wander from your commandments.

Psalms 119:11

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Psalms 119:12

Blessed are you, the LORD. Teach me your statutes.

Psalms 119:13

With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.

Psalms 119:14

I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.

Psalms 119:15

I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.

Psalms 119:16

I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL

Psalms 119:17

Do good to your servant. I will live and I will obey your word.

Psalms 119:18

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.

Psalms 119:19

I am a stranger on the earth. Don't hide your commandments from me.

Psalms 119:20

My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

Psalms 119:21

You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.

Psalms 119:22

Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

Psalms 119:23

Though princes sit and slander me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.

Psalms 119:24

Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors. DALED

Psalms 119:25

My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!

Psalms 119:26

I declared my ways, and you answered me. Teach me your statutes.

Psalms 119:27

Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.

Psalms 119:28

My soul is weary with sorrow: strengthen me according to your word.

Psalms 119:29

Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!

Psalms 119:30

I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.

Psalms 119:31

I cling to your statutes, the LORD. Don't let me be disappointed.

Psalms 119:32

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free. HEY

Psalms 119:33

Teach me, the LORD, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end.

Psalms 119:34

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

Psalms 119:35

Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.

Psalms 119:36

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

Psalms 119:37

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

Psalms 119:38

Fulfill your promise to your servant, that you may be feared.

Psalms 119:39

Take away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good.

Psalms 119:40

Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. WAW

Psalms 119:41

Let your loving kindness also come to me, the LORD, your salvation, according to your word.

Psalms 119:42

So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in your word.

Psalms 119:43

Don't snatch the word of truth out of my mouth, for I put my hope in your ordinances.

Psalms 119:44

So I will obey your law continually, forever and ever.

Psalms 119:45

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

Psalms 119:46

I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed.

Psalms 119:47

I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.

Psalms 119:48

I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes. ZAYIN

Psalms 119:49

Remember your word to your servant, because you gave me hope.

Psalms 119:50

This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.

Psalms 119:51

The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don't swerve from your law.

Psalms 119:52

I remember your ordinances of old, the LORD, and have comforted myself.

Psalms 119:53

Indignation has taken hold on me, because of the wicked who forsake your law.

Psalms 119:54

Your statutes have been my songs, in the house where I live.

Psalms 119:55

I have remembered your name, the LORD, in the night, and I obey your law.

Psalms 119:56

This is my way, that I keep your precepts. CHET

Psalms 119:57

the LORD is my portion. I promised to obey your words.

Psalms 119:58

I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.

Psalms 119:59

I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.

Psalms 119:60

I will hurry, and not delay, to obey your commandments.

Psalms 119:61

The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won't forget your law.

Psalms 119:62

At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of your righteous ordinances.

Psalms 119:63

I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.

Psalms 119:64

The earth is full of your loving kindness, the LORD. Teach me your statutes. TET

Psalms 119:65

Do good to your servant, according to your word, the LORD.

Psalms 119:66

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

Psalms 119:67

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.

Psalms 119:68

You are good, and do good. Teach me your statutes.

Psalms 119:69

The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

Psalms 119:70

Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.

Psalms 119:71

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

Psalms 119:72

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver. YUD

Psalms 119:73

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

Psalms 119:74

Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I have put my hope in your word.

Psalms 119:75

the LORD, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

Psalms 119:76

Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant.

Psalms 119:77

Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.

Psalms 119:78

Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

Psalms 119:79

Let those who fear you turn to me. They will know your statutes.

Psalms 119:80

Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed. KAF

Psalms 119:81

My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.

Psalms 119:82

My eyes fail for your word. I say, "When will you comfort me?"

Psalms 119:83

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don't forget your statutes.

Psalms 119:84

How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me?

Psalms 119:85

The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.

Psalms 119:86

All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

Psalms 119:87

They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn't forsake your precepts.

Psalms 119:88

Preserve my life according to your loving kindness, so I will obey the statutes of your mouth. LAMED

Psalms 119:89

the LORD, your word is settled in heaven forever.

Psalms 119:90

Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains.

Psalms 119:91

Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you.

Psalms 119:92

Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

Psalms 119:93

I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.

Psalms 119:94

I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.

Psalms 119:95

The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.

Psalms 119:96

I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless. MEM

Psalms 119:97

How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

Psalms 119:98

Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.

Psalms 119:99

I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.

Psalms 119:100

I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.

Psalms 119:101

I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.

Psalms 119:102

I have not turned aside from your ordinances, for you have taught me.

Psalms 119:103

How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!

Psalms 119:104

Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. NUN

Psalms 119:105

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

Psalms 119:106

I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances.

Psalms 119:107

I am afflicted very much. Revive me, the LORD, according to your word.

Psalms 119:108

Accept, I beg you, the willing offerings of my mouth. the LORD, teach me your ordinances.

Psalms 119:109

My soul is continually in my hand, yet I won't forget your law.

Psalms 119:110

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven't gone astray from your precepts.

Psalms 119:111

I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

Psalms 119:112

I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end. SAMEKH

Psalms 119:113

I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.

Psalms 119:114

You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.

Psalms 119:115

Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.

Psalms 119:116

Uphold me according to your word, that I may live. Let me not be ashamed of my hope.

Psalms 119:117

Hold me up, and I will be safe, and will have respect for your statutes continually.

Psalms 119:118

You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.

Psalms 119:119

You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore I love your testimonies.

Psalms 119:120

My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments. AYIN

Psalms 119:121

I have done what is just and righteous. Don't leave me to my oppressors.

Psalms 119:122

Ensure your servant's well-being. Don't let the proud oppress me.

Psalms 119:123

My eyes fail looking for your salvation, for your righteous word.

Psalms 119:124

Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness. Teach me your statutes.

Psalms 119:125

I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.

Psalms 119:126

It is time to act, the LORD, for they break your law.

Psalms 119:127

Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.

Psalms 119:128

Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way. PEY

Psalms 119:129

Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them.

Psalms 119:130

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

Psalms 119:131

I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments.

Psalms 119:132

Turn to me, and have mercy on me, as you always do to those who love your name.

Psalms 119:133

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don't let any iniquity have dominion over me.

Psalms 119:134

Redeem me from the oppression of man, so I will observe your precepts.

Psalms 119:135

Make your face shine on your servant. Teach me your statutes.

Psalms 119:136

Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don't observe your law. TZADI

Psalms 119:137

You are righteous, the LORD. Your judgments are upright.

Psalms 119:138

You have commanded your statutes in righteousness. They are fully trustworthy.

Psalms 119:139

My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.

Psalms 119:140

Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.

Psalms 119:141

I am small and despised. I don't forget your precepts.

Psalms 119:142

Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.

Psalms 119:143

Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.

Psalms 119:144

Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live. KUF

Psalms 119:145

I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, the LORD! I will keep your statutes.

Psalms 119:146

I have called to you. Save me! I will obey your statutes.

Psalms 119:147

I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.

Psalms 119:148

My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.

Psalms 119:149

Hear my voice according to your loving kindness. Revive me, the LORD, according to your ordinances.

Psalms 119:150

They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from your law.

Psalms 119:151

You are near, the LORD. All your commandments are truth.

Psalms 119:152

Of old I have known from your testimonies, that you have founded them forever. RESH

Psalms 119:153

Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don't forget your law.

Psalms 119:154

Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.

Psalms 119:155

Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don't seek your statutes.

Psalms 119:156

Great are your tender mercies, the LORD. Revive me according to your ordinances.

Psalms 119:157

Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven't swerved from your testimonies.

Psalms 119:158

I look at the faithless with loathing, because they don't observe your word.

Psalms 119:159

Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, the LORD, according to your loving kindness.

Psalms 119:160

All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever. SIN AND SHIN

Psalms 119:161

Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

Psalms 119:162

I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great spoil.

Psalms 119:163

I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.

Psalms 119:164

Seven times a day, I praise you, because of your righteous ordinances.

Psalms 119:165

Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

Psalms 119:166

I have hoped for your salvation, the LORD. I have done your commandments.

Psalms 119:167

My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.

Psalms 119:168

I have obeyed your precepts and your testimonies, for all my ways are before you. TAV

Psalms 119:169

Let my cry come before you, the LORD. Give me understanding according to your word.

Psalms 119:170

Let my supplication come before you. Deliver me according to your word.

Psalms 119:171

Let my lips utter praise, for you teach me your statutes.

Psalms 119:172

Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.

Psalms 119:173

Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

Psalms 119:174

I have longed for your salvation, the LORD. Your law is my delight.

Psalms 119:175

Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.

Psalms 119:176

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don't forget your commandments. A Song of Ascents.


Psalms - Chapter 120

Psalms 120:1

In my distress, I cried to the LORD. He answered me.

Psalms 120:2

Deliver my soul, the LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

Psalms 120:3

What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?

Psalms 120:4

Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

Psalms 120:5

Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

Psalms 120:6

My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.

Psalms 120:7

I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war. A Song of Ascents.


Psalms - Chapter 121

Psalms 121:1

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?

Psalms 121:2

My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

Psalms 121:3

He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

Psalms 121:4

Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

Psalms 121:5

the LORD is your keeper. the LORD is your shade on your right hand.

Psalms 121:6

The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.

Psalms 121:7

the LORD will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

Psalms 121:8

the LORD will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forth, and forevermore. A Song of Ascents. By David.


Psalms - Chapter 122

Psalms 122:1

I was glad when they said to me, "Let's go to the LORD's house!"

Psalms 122:2

Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem;

Psalms 122:3

Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together;

Psalms 122:4

where the tribes go up, even Yah's tribes, according to an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.

Psalms 122:5

For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of David's house.

Psalms 122:6

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.

Psalms 122:7

Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.

Psalms 122:8

For my brothers' and companions' sakes, I will now say, "Peace be within you."

Psalms 122:9

For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good. A Song of Ascents.


Psalms - Chapter 123

Psalms 123:1

To you I do lift up my eyes, you who sit in the heavens.

Psalms 123:2

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to the LORD, our God, until he has mercy on us.

Psalms 123:3

Have mercy on us, the LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

Psalms 123:4

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud. A Song of Ascents. By David.


Psalms - Chapter 124

Psalms 124:1

If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, let Israel now say,

Psalms 124:2

if it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us;

Psalms 124:3

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

Psalms 124:4

then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

Psalms 124:5

then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

Psalms 124:6

Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

Psalms 124:7

Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

Psalms 124:8

Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth. A Song of Ascents.


Psalms - Chapter 125

Psalms 125:1

Those who trust in the LORD are as Mount Zion, which can't be moved, but remains forever.

Psalms 125:2

As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people from this time forth and forevermore.

Psalms 125:3

For the scepter of wickedness won't remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won't use their hands to do evil.

Psalms 125:4

Do good, the LORD, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts.

Psalms 125:5

But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel. A Song of Ascents.


Psalms - Chapter 126

Psalms 126:1

When the LORD brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

Psalms 126:2

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, "the LORD has done great things for them."

Psalms 126:3

the LORD has done great things for us, and we are glad.

Psalms 126:4

Restore our fortunes again, the LORD, like the streams in the Negev.

Psalms 126:5

Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

Psalms 126:6

He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves. A Song of Ascents. By Solomon.


Psalms - Chapter 127

Psalms 127:1

Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

Psalms 127:2

It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

Psalms 127:3

Behold, children are a heritage of the LORD. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

Psalms 127:4

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.

Psalms 127:5

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate. A Song of Ascents.


Psalms - Chapter 128

Psalms 128:1

Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways.

Psalms 128:2

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

Psalms 128:3

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.

Psalms 128:4

Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears the LORD.

Psalms 128:5

May the LORD bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

Psalms 128:6

Yes, may you see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel. A Song of Ascents.


Psalms - Chapter 129

Psalms 129:1

Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

Psalms 129:2

many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

Psalms 129:3

The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.

Psalms 129:4

the LORD is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

Psalms 129:5

Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

Psalms 129:6

Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;

Psalms 129:7

with which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

Psalms 129:8

Neither do those who go by say, "The blessing of the LORD be on you. We bless you in the name of the LORD." A Song of Ascents.


Psalms - Chapter 130

Psalms 130:1

Out of the depths I have cried to you, the LORD.

Psalms 130:2

Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.

Psalms 130:3

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

Psalms 130:4

But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.

Psalms 130:5

I wait for the LORD. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

Psalms 130:6

My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; more than watchmen for the morning.

Psalms 130:7

Israel, hope in the LORD, for with the LORD there is loving kindness. With him is abundant redemption.

Psalms 130:8

He will redeem Israel from all their sins. A Song of Ascents. By David.


Psalms - Chapter 131

Psalms 131:1

the LORD, my heart isn't haughty, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

Psalms 131:2

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

Psalms 131:3

Israel, hope in the LORD, from this time forth and forevermore. A Song of Ascents.


Psalms - Chapter 132

Psalms 132:1

the LORD, remember David and all his affliction,

Psalms 132:2

how he swore to the LORD, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:

Psalms 132:3

"Surely I will not come into the structure of my house, nor go up into my bed;

Psalms 132:4

I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids;

Psalms 132:5

until I find out a place for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob."

Psalms 132:6

Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the field of Jaar:

Psalms 132:7

"We will go into his dwelling place. We will worship at his footstool.

Psalms 132:8

Arise, the LORD, into your resting place; you, and the ark of your strength.

Psalms 132:9

Let your priest be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!"

Psalms 132:10

For your servant David's sake, don't turn away the face of your anointed one.

Psalms 132:11

the LORD has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: "I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.

Psalms 132:12

If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forevermore."

Psalms 132:13

For the LORD has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.

Psalms 132:14

"This is my resting place forever. Here I will live, for I have desired it.

Psalms 132:15

I will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with bread.

Psalms 132:16

Her priests I will also clothe with salvation. Her saints will shout aloud for joy.

Psalms 132:17

There I will make the horn of David to bud. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.

Psalms 132:18

I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown will be resplendent." A Song of Ascents. By David.


Psalms - Chapter 133

Psalms 133:1

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

Psalms 133:2

It is like the precious oil on the head, that ran down on the beard, even Aaron's beard; that came down on the edge of his robes;

Psalms 133:3

like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion: for there the LORD gives the blessing, even life forevermore. A Song of Ascents.


Psalms - Chapter 134

Psalms 134:1

Look! Praise the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who stand by night in the LORD's house!

Psalms 134:2

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise the LORD!

Psalms 134:3

May the LORD bless you from Zion; even he who made heaven and earth.


Psalms - Chapter 135

Psalms 135:1

Praise Yah! Praise the name of the LORD! Praise him, you servants of the LORD,

Psalms 135:2

you who stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of our God's house.

Psalms 135:3

Praise Yah, for the LORD is good. Sing praises to his name, for that is pleasant.

Psalms 135:4

For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.

Psalms 135:5

For I know that the LORD is great, that our Lord is above all gods.

Psalms 135:6

Whatever the LORD pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps;

Psalms 135:7

who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; who makes lightnings with the rain; who brings forth the wind out of his treasuries;

Psalms 135:8

Who struck the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and animal;

Psalms 135:9

Who sent signs and wonders into the midst of you, Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his servants;

Psalms 135:10

who struck many nations, and killed mighty kings,

Psalms 135:11

Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan,

Psalms 135:12

and gave their land for a heritage, a heritage to Israel, his people.

Psalms 135:13

Your name, the LORD, endures forever; your renown, the LORD, throughout all generations.

Psalms 135:14

For the LORD will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants.

Psalms 135:15

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Psalms 135:16

They have mouths, but they can't speak. They have eyes, but they can't see.

Psalms 135:17

They have ears, but they can't hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

Psalms 135:18

Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.

Psalms 135:19

House of Israel, praise the LORD! House of Aaron, praise the LORD!

Psalms 135:20

House of Levi, praise the LORD! You who fear the LORD, praise the LORD!

Psalms 135:21

Blessed be the LORD from Zion, Who dwells at Jerusalem. Praise Yah!


Psalms - Chapter 136

Psalms 136:1

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever.

Psalms 136:2

Give thanks to the God of gods; for his loving kindness endures forever.

Psalms 136:3

Give thanks to the Lord of lords; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Psalms 136:4

To him who alone does great wonders; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Psalms 136:5

To him who by understanding made the heavens; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Psalms 136:6

To him who spread out the earth above the waters; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Psalms 136:7

To him who made the great lights; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Psalms 136:8

The sun to rule by day; for his loving kindness endures forever;

Psalms 136:9

The moon and stars to rule by night; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Psalms 136:10

To him who struck down the Egyptian firstborn; for his loving kindness endures forever;

Psalms 136:11

And brought out Israel from among them; for his loving kindness endures forever;

Psalms 136:12

With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Psalms 136:13

To him who divided the Red Sea apart; for his loving kindness endures forever;

Psalms 136:14

And made Israel to pass through its midst; for his loving kindness endures forever;

Psalms 136:15

But overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Psalms 136:16

To him who led his people through the wilderness; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Psalms 136:17

To him who struck great kings; for his loving kindness endures forever;

Psalms 136:18

And killed mighty kings; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Psalms 136:19

Sihon king of the Amorites; for his loving kindness endures forever;

Psalms 136:20

Og king of Bashan; for his loving kindness endures forever;

Psalms 136:21

And gave their land as an inheritance; for his loving kindness endures forever;

Psalms 136:22

Even a heritage to Israel his servant; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Psalms 136:23

Who remembered us in our low estate; for his loving kindness endures forever;

Psalms 136:24

And has delivered us from our adversaries; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Psalms 136:25

Who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever.

Psalms 136:26

Oh give thanks to the God of heaven; for his loving kindness endures forever.


Psalms - Chapter 137

Psalms 137:1

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

Psalms 137:2

On the willows in its midst, we hung up our harps.

Psalms 137:3

For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"

Psalms 137:4

How can we sing the LORD's song in a foreign land?

Psalms 137:5

If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill.

Psalms 137:6

Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don't remember you; if I don't prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.

Psalms 137:7

Remember, the LORD, against the children of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; who said, "Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!"

Psalms 137:8

Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who rewards you, as you have served us.

Psalms 137:9

Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock. By David.


Psalms - Chapter 138

Psalms 138:1

I will give you thanks with my whole heart. Before the gods, I will sing praises to you.

Psalms 138:2

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

Psalms 138:3

In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

Psalms 138:4

All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, the LORD, for they have heard the words of your mouth.

Psalms 138:5

Yes, they will sing of the ways of the LORD; for great is the LORD's glory.

Psalms 138:6

For though the LORD is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.

Psalms 138:7

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

Psalms 138:8

the LORD will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, the LORD, endures forever. Don't forsake the works of your own hands. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 139

Psalms 139:1

the LORD, you have searched me, and you know me.

Psalms 139:2

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

Psalms 139:3

You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

Psalms 139:4

For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, the LORD, you know it altogether.

Psalms 139:5

You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.

Psalms 139:6

This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.

Psalms 139:7

Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?

Psalms 139:8

If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!

Psalms 139:9

If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;

Psalms 139:10

Even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.

Psalms 139:11

If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"

Psalms 139:12

even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

Psalms 139:13

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.

Psalms 139:14

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

Psalms 139:15

My frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

Psalms 139:16

Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.

Psalms 139:17

How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!

Psalms 139:18

If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.

Psalms 139:19

If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

Psalms 139:20

For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.

Psalms 139:21

the LORD, don't I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?

Psalms 139:22

I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.

Psalms 139:23

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

Psalms 139:24

See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 140

Psalms 140:1

Deliver me, the LORD, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man;

Psalms 140:2

those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

Psalms 140:3

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.

Psalms 140:4

the LORD, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.

Psalms 140:5

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.

Psalms 140:6

I said to the LORD, "You are my God." Listen to the cry of my petitions, the LORD.

Psalms 140:7

the LORD, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.

Psalms 140:8

the LORD, don't grant the desires of the wicked. Don't let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah.

Psalms 140:9

As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

Psalms 140:10

Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.

Psalms 140:11

An evil speaker won't be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

Psalms 140:12

I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

Psalms 140:13

Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name. The upright will dwell in your presence. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 141

Psalms 141:1

the LORD, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.

Psalms 141:2

Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

Psalms 141:3

Set a watch, the LORD, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

Psalms 141:4

Don't incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don't let me eat of their delicacies.

Psalms 141:5

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don't let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

Psalms 141:6

Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.

Psalms 141:7

"As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."

Psalms 141:8

For my eyes are on you, the LORD, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. Don't leave my soul destitute.

Psalms 141:9

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

Psalms 141:10

Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, while I pass by. A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer.


Psalms - Chapter 142

Psalms 142:1

I cry with my voice to the LORD. With my voice, I ask the LORD for mercy.

Psalms 142:2

I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.

Psalms 142:3

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my path. In the way in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

Psalms 142:4

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

Psalms 142:5

I cried to you, the LORD. I said, "You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living."

Psalms 142:6

Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me.

Psalms 142:7

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me. A Psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 143

Psalms 143:1

Hear my prayer, the LORD. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.

Psalms 143:2

Don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Psalms 143:3

For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

Psalms 143:4

Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

Psalms 143:5

I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands.

Psalms 143:6

I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.

Psalms 143:7

Hurry to answer me, the LORD. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, so that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.

Psalms 143:8

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

Psalms 143:9

Deliver me, the LORD, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.

Psalms 143:10

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

Psalms 143:11

Revive me, the LORD, for your name's sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.

Psalms 143:12

In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant. By David.


Psalms - Chapter 144

Psalms 144:1

Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

Psalms 144:2

my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge; who subdues my people under me.

Psalms 144:3

the LORD, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

Psalms 144:4

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Psalms 144:5

Part your heavens, the LORD, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.

Psalms 144:6

Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.

Psalms 144:7

Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners;

Psalms 144:8

whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Psalms 144:9

I will sing a new song to you, God. On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises to you.

Psalms 144:10

You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.

Psalms 144:11

Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Psalms 144:12

Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

Psalms 144:13

Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision. Our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields.

Psalms 144:14

Our oxen will pull heavy loads. There is no breaking in, and no going away, and no outcry in our streets.

Psalms 144:15

Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is the LORD. A praise psalm by David.


Psalms - Chapter 145

Psalms 145:1

I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever.

Psalms 145:2

Every day I will praise you. I will extol your name forever and ever.

Psalms 145:3

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.

Psalms 145:4

One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.

Psalms 145:5

Of the glorious majesty of your honor, of your wondrous works, I will meditate.

Psalms 145:6

Men will speak of the might of your awesome acts. I will declare your greatness.

Psalms 145:7

They will utter the memory of your great goodness, and will sing of your righteousness.

Psalms 145:8

the LORD is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.

Psalms 145:9

the LORD is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

Psalms 145:10

All your works will give thanks to you, the LORD. Your saints will extol you.

Psalms 145:11

They will speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk about your power;

Psalms 145:12

to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, the glory of the majesty of his kingdom.

Psalms 145:13

Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Your dominion endures throughout all generations. the LORD is faithful in all his words, and loving in all his deeds.

Psalms 145:14

the LORD upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

Psalms 145:15

The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.

Psalms 145:16

You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

Psalms 145:17

the LORD is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.

Psalms 145:18

the LORD is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Psalms 145:19

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

Psalms 145:20

the LORD preserves all those who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.

Psalms 145:21

My mouth will speak the praise of the LORD. Let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.


Psalms - Chapter 146

Psalms 146:1

Praise Yah! Praise the LORD, my soul.

Psalms 146:2

While I live, I will praise the LORD. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.

Psalms 146:3

Don't put your trust in princes, each a son of man in whom there is no help.

Psalms 146:4

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

Psalms 146:5

Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD, his God:

Psalms 146:6

who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;

Psalms 146:7

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. the LORD frees the prisoners.

Psalms 146:8

the LORD opens the eyes of the blind. the LORD raises up those who are bowed down. the LORD loves the righteous.

Psalms 146:9

the LORD preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

Psalms 146:10

the LORD will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise Yah!


Psalms - Chapter 147

Psalms 147:1

Praise Yah, for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.

Psalms 147:2

the LORD builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.

Psalms 147:3

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

Psalms 147:4

He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by their names.

Psalms 147:5

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

Psalms 147:6

the LORD upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

Psalms 147:7

Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving. Sing praises on the harp to our God,

Psalms 147:8

who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.

Psalms 147:9

He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.

Psalms 147:10

He doesn't delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.

Psalms 147:11

the LORD takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

Psalms 147:12

Praise the LORD, Jerusalem! Praise your God, Zion!

Psalms 147:13

For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed your children within you.

Psalms 147:14

He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat.

Psalms 147:15

He sends out his commandment to the earth. His word runs very swiftly.

Psalms 147:16

He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes.

Psalms 147:17

He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold?

Psalms 147:18

He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.

Psalms 147:19

He shows his word to Jacob; his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

Psalms 147:20

He has not done this for just any nation. They don't know his ordinances. Praise Yah!


Psalms - Chapter 148

Psalms 148:1

Praise Yah! Praise the LORD from the heavens! Praise him in the heights!

Psalms 148:2

Praise him, all his angels! Praise him, all his army!

Psalms 148:3

Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!

Psalms 148:4

Praise him, you heavens of heavens, You waters that are above the heavens.

Psalms 148:5

Let them praise the name of the LORD, For he commanded, and they were created.

Psalms 148:6

He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.

Psalms 148:7

Praise the LORD from the earth, you great sea creatures, and all depths!

Psalms 148:8

Lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling his word;

Psalms 148:9

mountains and all hills; fruit trees and all cedars;

Psalms 148:10

wild animals and all livestock; small creatures and flying birds;

Psalms 148:11

kings of the earth and all peoples; princes and all judges of the earth;

Psalms 148:12

both young men and maidens; old men and children:

Psalms 148:13

let them praise the name of the LORD, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.

Psalms 148:14

He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise Yah!


Psalms - Chapter 149

Psalms 149:1

Praise the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of the saints.

Psalms 149:2

Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

Psalms 149:3

Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!

Psalms 149:4

For the LORD takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.

Psalms 149:5

Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on their beds.

Psalms 149:6

May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hand;

Psalms 149:7

To execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples;

Psalms 149:8

To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

Psalms 149:9

to execute on them the written judgment. All his saints have this honor. Praise Yah!


Psalms - Chapter 150

Psalms 150:1

Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!

Psalms 150:2

Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him according to his excellent greatness!

Psalms 150:3

Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him with harp and lyre!

Psalms 150:4

Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!

Psalms 150:5

Praise him with loud cymbals! Praise him with resounding cymbals!

Psalms 150:6

Let everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!


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Christian Literature

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He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, saith the Lord. These are the words of Christ; and they direct us to imitate his life and character. The Imitation of Christ is guide to following the example of Jesus Christ. Let it be our most earnest study to dwell upon the life and example of Jesus.


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In Mark 12:30 Jesus said; And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this [is] the first commandment.

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