not; and I was as a dumb man that je 7 And now, LORD, what wait I openeth not his mouth. for? my hope is in thee.

8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the re proach of the foolish.

14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. c 15 For in thee, O LORD, do Id 9 I was dumb, I opened not my hope: thou wilt hear, O LORD my mouth; because thou didst it. 10 Kemove thy stroke away from 16 For I said, Hear me, lest other-me: I am consumed by the blow of wise they should rejoice over me: thy hand. when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

God.

E11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vaniSelah.

17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. d 18 For I will declare mine ini-ty. quity; I will be sorry for my sin.

19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully, are multiplied. 20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.

21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.

12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

PSALM XL.

22 Make haste to help me, O To the chief Musician, A Psalm LORD my salvation.

PSALM XXXIX.

of David. WAITED patiently for the

¶ To the chief Musician, even to Je-I LORD; and he inclined unte

2 I was dumb with silence; held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

3 My heart was hot within me; while I was musing the fire burned: ef then spake I with my tongue.

d 4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail 1 am.

t 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

E6 Surely every man walketh in

me, and heard my cry.

e 2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD. b 4 Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respect. eth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

t 5 Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if 1 would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst a vain shew surely they are dis- not desire; mine ears hast thou quieted in vain he heapeth up rich-opened: burnt-offering and sin-ofes, and knoweth not who shall ga-fering hast thou not required. ther them T7 Then said 1, Lo, I come: in

the volume of the book it is written of me,

8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation lo, have not refrained my lips, O LORD,

thou knowest.

wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.

3 The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. d 4 I said, LORD, be merciful unto Ime: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

e 10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy sal-c 6 And if he come to see me, he vation: I have not concealed thy speaketh vanity: his heart gatherloving-kindness and thy truth from eth iniquity to itself; when he goeth the great congregation. abroad, he telleth it.

7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they

b1 Withhold not thou thy tender
mercies from me, O LORD: let thy
Joving-kindness and thy truth con-devise my hurt.
tinually preserve me.

e 12 For innumerable evils have
compassed me about: mine iniqui-
ties have taken hold upon me, so
that I am not able to look up
they are more than the hairs of my
head therefore my heart faileth

me.

:

8 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.

9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

b 10 But thou, O LORD, be mercib 13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deli-ful unto me, and raise me up, that ver me: O LORD, make haste to I may requite them. help me.

14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

11 By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.

12 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.

15 Let them be desolate for a re-d 13 Blessed be the LORD God of ward of their shame that say unto Israel from everlasting, and to everme, Aha, aha. lasting. Amen, and Amen. PSALM XLII.

b 16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.

17 But I am poor and needy; yet the LORD thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

PSALM XLI.

¶ To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.

LAS the art panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul

after thee, O God.

2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

To the chief Musician, A Psalm c 3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continu

of David.

BLESSED is he that consider

eth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

2 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou

ally say unto me, Where is thy

God?

4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the

voice of joy and praise, with a mul- within me? hope in God: for I titude that kept holy-day. shall yet praise him, who is the d 5 Why art thou cast down, Omy health of my countenance, and my soul? and why art thou disquieted God. in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

PSALM XLIV.

¶ To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.

46 O my God, my soul is cast WE have heard with our ears,

down me will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy water-spouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over

me.

18 Yet the LORD will command his loving-kindness in the day-time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

10 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?

11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

C

PSALM XLUI.

O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. t 3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them. c 4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

5 Through thee will we push down our enemies through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. c 6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.

e 8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.

9 But thou hast cast off, and put a UDGE me, O God, and plead us to shame; and goest not forth

JUDGE

nation : O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

2 For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? b3 O send out thy fight and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.

13 Thou makest us a reproach to 14 Then will I go unto the altar of our neighbours, a scorn and a deriGod, unto God my exceeding joy:sion to them that are round about us. yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.

5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted

14 Thou makest us a by-word among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

15 My confusion is continually be

fore me, and the shame of my face right hand shall teach thee terrible hath covered me,

things.

16 For the voice of him that 5 Thine arrows are sharp in the reproacheth and blasphemeth; by heart of the King's enemies; wherereason of the enemy and avenger. by the people fall under thee. p 17 All this is come upon us; yet t* 6 Thy throne, O God, is for ever have we not forgotten thee, neither and ever: the sceptre of thy kinghave we dealt falsely in thy cove- dom is a right sceptre. t 7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

nant.

18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. p20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god:

t21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

8 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

9 Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

d 10 Hearken, O daughter, and 22 Yea, for thy sake are we kill- consider, and incline thine ear; fored all the day long; we are count-get also thine own people, and thy ed as sheep for the slaughter. father's house;

b 23 Awake, why sleepest thou, Od 11 So shall the King greatly deLORD? arise, cast us not off for sire thy beauty: for he is thy lord; and worship thou bim.

ever.

24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression ?

25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

26 Arise for our help, and deem us for thy mercies' sake. PSALM XLV.

12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall entreat thy favour.

E 13 The King's daughter is all glorious within her clothing is of re-wrought gold.

which I have made touching the King my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

14 She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.

15 With gladness and rejoicing enter into the King's palace. shall they be brought they shall

16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

t 2 Thou art fairer than the chil-r 17 I will make thy name to be redren of men: grace is poured into membered in all generations: therethy lips therefore God hath blessed fore shall the people praise thee for thee for ever. ever and ever.

S3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O Most Mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.

4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy

2 Therefore will not we fear, 6 Sing praises to God, sing prais though the earth be removed, and es: sing praises unto our King, though the mountains be carried sing praises. into the midst of the sea;

3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.

8 God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.

i 4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city 9 The princes of the people are of God, the holy place of the taber-gathered together, even the people nacles of the Most High. of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted. PSALM XLVIII.

b5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.

Korah.

$6 The heathen raged, the king-T A Song and Psalm for the sons of doms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

c 7 The LORD of hosts is with us: the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

S8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.

9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.

d 10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

c 11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

PSALM XLVII.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. CLAP your hands, all ye

t

GREAT is the LORD, and

greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

A2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

4 For lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.

5 They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.

6 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

b 8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God

O people, shout unto God with will establish it for ever. Doda

the voice of triumph.

t 2 For the LORD Most High is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.

3 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.

d 9 We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

10 According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth; thy right hand is full of righteousness.

b 4 He shall choose our inheritanced 11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the for us, the excellency of Jacob whom daughters of Judah be glad, because he loved. Selah. of thy judgments. 15 God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.

A 12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.