T4 He asked life of thee, and thou |c 6 But I am a worm, and no man: gavest it him, even length of days a reproach of men, and despised of for ever and ever. the people. 5 His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him. 6 For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy coun tenance. c7 For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the Most High he shall not be moved. w 8 Thy hand shall find out all thine enemies thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee. T7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, 8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. 9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts. 10 I was cast upon thee from the womb thou art my God from my mother's belly. 11 Be not far from me; for trouble near; for there is none to help. 12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. 9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine an-is ger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them. w 10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men. 11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform. 12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them. d 13 Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power. PSALM XXII. 13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. T 14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax: it is melted in the midst of my bowels. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. 16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have en closed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. 17 Í may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. T 18 They part my garments Mthou forsaken me? why among them, and cast lots upon my art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. t3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. 4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. 5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. vesture. 19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my Strength, haste thee to help me. 20 Deliver my soul from the sword, my darling from the power of the dog. 21 Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. 22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. d 23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise] him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel. 24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from t him; but when he cried unto him, he heard. 25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him. c 26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him your heart shall live for ever. r 27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. t 28 For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among the nations. 29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him and none can keep alive his own soul. 6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever. : PSALM XXIV. ¶ A Psalm of David. Tthe fulness thereof; the world, HE earth is the LORD's, and and they that dwell therein. 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. 3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? and who shall stand in his holy place? c 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. b 5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. 6 This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah. 7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. r30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the LORD for a ge-t 8 Who is this King of glory? the neration. LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. 31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this. PSALM XXIII. E 2 He maketh me to lie down in 3 He restoreth my soul; he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 14 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. b 5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. 9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. 2 O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. 3 Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause. 4 Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths. 5 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. 6 Remember, O LORD, thy ten- 2 Examine me, O LORD, and der mercies and thy loving-kind- prove me; try my reins and my nesses; for they have been ever of heart. old. 3 For thy loving-kindness is be7 Remember not the sins of my fore mine eyes and I have walked youth, nor my transgressions: ac- in thy truth. cording to thy mercy remember thoup 4 I have not sat with vain perme for thy goodness' sake, O LORD. sous, neither will I go in with "dis8 Good and upright is the LORD: semblers. therefore will he teach sinners in the c 5 I have hated the congregation way. of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked. b9 The meek will he guide in judgment and the meek will he teach his way. d 6 I will wash my hands in innocency so will I compass thine altar, O LORD: 7 That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works. 10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. b11 For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great. d 8 LORD, I have loved the habi12 What man is he that feareth tation of thy house, and the place the LORD him shall be teach in where thine honour dwelleth. the way that he shall choose. b 9 Gather not my soul with sinb 13 His soul shall dwell at ease; ners, nor my life with bloody men: and his seed shall inherit the earth. 14 The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant. 16 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted. 17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses. b18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins. 19 Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred. 20 O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee. 21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee. b22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. d 10 In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes. 11 But as for me, 1 will walk in mine integrity redeem me, and be merciful unto me. : d 12 My foot standeth in an even place in the congregations will I bless the LORD. : PSALM XXVII. TA Psalm of David. cHE LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stum bled and fell. 3 Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. 4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple. PSALM XXVI. TA Psalm of David. UDGE me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integri-E5 For in the time of trouble he ty: I have trusted also in the LORD shall hide me in his pavilion: in the therefore I shall not slide. secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me he shall set me up upon a ness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; reu unto the LORD. rock. d 6 And now shall my head be lift-der to them their desert. ed up above mine enemies round c 5 Because they regard not the about me therefore will I offer in works of the LORD, nor the operahis tabernacle sacrifices of joy; Ition of his hands, he shall destroy will sing, yea, I will sing praises them, and not build them up. b 6 Blessed be the LORD, because 7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry he bath heard the voice of my supwith my voice: have mercy also plications. upon me, and answer me. d8 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek. 9 Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. d10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. b 11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, d 7 The LORD is my strength, and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him. 8 The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed. 9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance feed them also, and lift them up for ever. PSALM XXIX. A Psalm of David. and lead me in a plain path, be-d G mighty, give unto the LORD cause of mine enemies. ry due unto his name; worship the 12 Deliver me not over unto the glory and strength. will of mine enemies for false wit-d 2 Give unto the LORD the glonesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. c 13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. d 14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thy heart wait, I say, on the LORD. 니. PSALM XXVIII. UNT 4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty. 5 The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon. 6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Syrion like a young unicorn. lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. E7 The voice of the LORD divid2 Hear the voice of my supplica-eth the flames of fire. tions, when I cry unto thee, when I 8 The voice of the LORD shaklift up my hands toward thy holy eth the wilderness; the LORD shakoracle. eth the wilderness of Kadesh. c 3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts. 4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wicked 9 The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory. t 10 The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever. 3 For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me. 4 4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength. 2 O LORD my God, I cried untod 5 Into thy hand I commit my thee, and thou hast healed me. spirit: thou hast redeemed me, LORD God of truth. 30 LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. d 4 Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. E5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. u 6 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. e 6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD. 7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities; 8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my foot in a large room. : 9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. #7 LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong thou didst hide thy face, and I wase 10 For my life is spent with grief, troubled. and my years with sighing my d8 I cried to thee, O LORD; and strength faileth because of mine iniunto the LORD I made supplica-quity, and my bones are consumed. tion. 9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? 10 Hear, O LORD, and have merey upon me: LORD, be thou my helper. f1 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness d 12 To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever. PSALM XXXI. 11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance; they that did see me without fled from me. 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. 13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life. c 14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God. 15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine eneTo the chief Musician, A Psalm mies, and from them that persecute of David. me. IN thee, O LORD, do I put my 616 Make thy face to shine upon trust; let me never be asham- thy servant: save me for thy mered: deliver me in thy righteous-cies' sake. Dess. 17 Let me not be ashamed, O |