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1 Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that
rise up against me.
2 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in
God.
Selah.
3 But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up
of mine head.
4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his
holy hill. Selah.
5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set
themselves against me round about.
7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine
enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the
ungodly.
8 Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy
people.
Selah.
1 O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to
the rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a
joyful noise unto him with psalms.
3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the
hills is his also.
5 The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry
land.
6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD
our maker.
7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the
sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day
of temptation in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said,
It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my
ways:
11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my
rest.
1 Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
2 Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant
that trusteth in thee.
3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.
4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift
up my soul.
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.
7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt
answer me.
8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are
there any works like unto thy works.
9 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.
11 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my
heart to fear thy name.
12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will
glorify thy name for evermore.
13 For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my
soul from the lowest hell.
14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of
violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before
them.
15 But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious,
long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
16 O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto
thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
17 Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it,
and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.
1 His foundation is in the holy mountains.
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.
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.
5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her:
and the highest himself shall establish her.
6 The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this
man was born there. Selah.
7 As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there:
all my springs are in thee.
1 I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth
will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy
faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my
servant,
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?
7 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?
9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise,
thou stillest them.
10 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou
hast scattered thine enemies with 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.
12 The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon
shall rejoice in thy name.
13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy
right hand.
14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and
truth shall go before thy face.
15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall
walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
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.
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.
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.
23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them
that hate him.
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 rock
of my salvation.
27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the
earth.
28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall
stand fast with him.
29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as
the days of heaven.
30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their
iniquity with stripes.
33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him,
nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone
out of my lips.
35 Once 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 as the moon, and as a faithful
witness 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.
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?
48 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he
deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
49 Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest
unto David in thy truth?
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.
1 The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is
clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world
also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
2 Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.
3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up
their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
4 The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea,
than the mighty waves of the sea.
5 Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O
LORD, for ever.
1 O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance
belongeth, shew thyself.
2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the
proud.
3 LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked
triumph?
4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the
workers of iniquity boast themselves?
5 They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine
heritage.
6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
7 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of
Jacob regard it.
8 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will
ye be wise?
9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the
eye, shall he not see?
10 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that
teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
11 The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest
him out of thy law;
13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until
the pit be digged for the wicked.
14 For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he
forsake his inheritance.
15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the
upright in heart shall follow it.
16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand
up for me against the workers of iniquity?
17 Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in
silence.
18 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight
my soul.
20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which
frameth mischief by a law?
21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the
righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
22 But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut
them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them
off.
1 O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the
earth.
2 Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from
day to day.
3 Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all
people.
4 For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be
feared above all gods.
5 For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the
heavens.
6 Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his
sanctuary.
7 Give unto the LORD, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the
LORD glory and strength.
8 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an
offering, and come into his courts.
9 O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him,
all the earth.
10 Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also
shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the
people righteously.
11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea
roar, and the fulness thereof.
12 Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all
the trees of the wood rejoice
13 Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the
earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people
with his truth.
1 The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of
isles be glad thereof.
2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and
judgment are the habitation of his throne.
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
4 His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and
trembled.
5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the
presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
6 The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his
glory.
7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast
themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
8 Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced
because of thy judgments, O LORD.
9 For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted
far above all gods.
10 Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his
saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in
heart.
12 Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the
remembrance of his holiness.
1 O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous
things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
2 The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he
openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
3 He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of
Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
4 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud
noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
5 Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of
a psalm.
6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the
LORD, the King.
7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they
that dwell therein.
8 Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together
9 Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with
righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
1 The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the
cherubims; let the earth be moved.
2 The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.
3 Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy.
4 The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish
equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
5 Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he
is holy.
6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that
call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.
7 He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his
testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.
8 Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that
forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.
9 Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the
LORD our God is holy.
1 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
2 Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with
singing.
3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and
not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with
praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
5 For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth
endureth to all generations.
1 I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I
sing.
2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou
come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of
them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked
person.
5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him
that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
6 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may
dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.
7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that
telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut
off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.