house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God. b 4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah. b 5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them, g 6 Who passing through the valTey of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. d 7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. 8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. t 9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed. e 10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather that thy people may rejoice in thee? b 7 Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation. d 8 I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly. c 9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land. 10 Mercy and truth are met together righteousness and peace have kissed each other. 11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. 12 Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase. 13 Righteousness shall go before him; and shali set us in the way of his steps. PSALM LXXXVI. be a door-keeper in the house of my bB LORD, hear me : for I am God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. poor and needy. b 11 For the LORD God is a sune 2 Preserve my soul; for I am and shield the LORD will give holy: O thou my God, save thy grace and glory; no good thing servant that trusteth in thee. will he withhold from them that d 3 Be merciful unto me, walk uprightly. for I cry unto thee daily. b 12 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. PSALM LXXXV. To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. LORD, thou hast heen favour ble unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Ja cob. O LORD: 4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant : for unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul. t 5 For thou, LORD, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee. 6 Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer and attend to the voice of my supplications. b 2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast cover-d 7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer ed all their sin. Selah. 3 Thou hast taken away all thy me. wrath thou hast turned thyself 8 Among the gods there is none from the fierceness of thine anger. like unto thee, O LORD; neither d 4 Turn us, O God of our salva- are there any works like unto thy tion, and cause thine anger toward works. r9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O LORD; and shall glorify thy name. 10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone. d 11 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name. PSALM LXXXVIII. TA Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: d 12 I will praise thee, O LORD my d c 14 O God, the proud are risen t 15 But thou, O LORD, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, long-suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. b 16 O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thy handmaid. 2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; 3 For my soul is full of troubles : and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. 4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. E6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. 7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. 17 Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see 8 Thou hast put away mine acit, and be ashamed: because thou, quaintance far from me; thou hast LORD, hast holpen me, and comfort-made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. ed me. PSALM LXXXVII. ¶ A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah. H mountains. IS foundation is in the holy 2 The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. g 4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there. d 9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee. E 10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. 11 Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction? 12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? d 13 But unto thee have I cried, O LORD and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. b 5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her and the Highest himself shall esta-e 14 LORD; why castest thou off lish her. my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? 6 The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah. 15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer t7 As well the singers as the play-thy terrors I am distracted. ers on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee. 16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over Ime; thy terrors have cut me off. 17 They came round about met 14 Justice and judgment are the daily like water; they compassed habitation of thy throne: mercy me about together. E 18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. PSALM LXXXIX. Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. WILL sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. t2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very hea vens. c3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, t 4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah. 5 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. 6 For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD? d7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. 8 O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee? E9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. and truth shall go before thy face. b 15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy counte nance. 16 In thy name shall they rejoice all the day and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted. 17 For thou art the glory of their strength; and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted." t 18 For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our King. 19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy Holy One, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. o 20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him: 21 With whom my hand shall be established mine arm also shall strengthen him. 22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him. b 23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him. b 24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him and in my name shall his horn be exalted. 25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. 26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, my God, and the 10 Thou hast broken Rahab in Rock of my salvation. pieces, as one that is slain; thour 27 Also I will make him my firsthast scattered thine enemies with born, higher than the kings of the thy strong arm. 11 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world, and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. earth. 28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. r29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as 12 The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Her-the days of heaven. mon shall rejoice in thy name. 13 Thou hast a mighty arm strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. 30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; 31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments w 32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. 633 Nevertheless, my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. t34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. t 35 Ouce have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. ☛ 36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. 37 It shall be established for ever 50 Remember, LORD, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people; 51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed. 52 Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen. PSALM XC. ¶ A Prayer of Moses the man of God. as the moon, and as a faithful wit LORD, thou hast been our dwell ness in heaven. Selah. 38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. 39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. E 40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin. 41 All that pass by the way spoil him he is a reproach to his neighbours. 42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. 43 Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle. 44 Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground. 45 The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah. 46 How long, LORD, wilt thou hide thyself? for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire? 47 Remember how short my time is wherefore hast thou made all men in vain ? 148 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he de liver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah. ing-place in all generations. t 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. t 3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. t 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. E 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. 6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath we spend our years, as a tale that is told 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. 49 LORD, where are thy former d 12 So teach us to number our loving-kindnesses, which thou swar-days, that we may apply our hearts est unto David in thy truth? unto wisdom. 13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. b14 O satisfy us early with thy. mercy that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. 16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. b 17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. 2 HE PSALM XCI. 12 They shall bear thee up in 13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion 16 With long life will I satisfy Calm or Song for the sabbath ́ ́? E that dwelleth in the secret d place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Al-sing mighty. 21 will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. 3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. E 4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; High. day. is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to praises unto thy name, O Most To shew forth thy loving kindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night, 3 Upon an instrument of ten 4 For thou, LORD, hast made me 6 A brutish man knoweth not; 6 Nor for the pestilence that walk- neither doth a fool understand this. eth in darkness; nor for the destruc-t 7 When the wicked spring as the tion that wasteth at noon-day. b7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. 8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. c9 Because thou hast made the LORD which is my refuge, even the Most high, thy habitation; 10 There shall no evil befal thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. b11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. grass, and when all the workers of 8 But thou, LORD, art most high 9 For lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. 10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of a unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil. 11 Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me. |