Tuesday > Tuesday Matins
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 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and
though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the
mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of
God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall
help her, and that right early.
6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice,
the earth melted.
7 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah.
8 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.
10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the
heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah.
1 O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice
of triumph.
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.
4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob
whom he loved. Selah.
5 God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a
trumpet.
6 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King,
sing praises.
7 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.
9 The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people
of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God:
he is greatly exalted.
1 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our
God, in the mountain of his holiness.
2 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.
8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of
hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
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.
11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad,
because of thy judgments.
12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers
thereof.
13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may
tell it to the generation following.
14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide
even unto death.
1 Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the
world:
2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart
shall be of understanding.
4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying
upon the harp.
5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of
my heels shall compass me about?
6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the
multitude of their riches;
7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God
a ransom for him:
8 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for
ever:)
9 That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
10 For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the
brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
11 Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for
ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their
lands after their own names.
12 Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the
beasts that perish.
13 This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their
sayings. Selah.
14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them;
and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and
their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he
shall receive me. Selah.
16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his
house is increased;
17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall
not descend after him.
18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise
thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never
see light.
20 Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts
that perish.
1 The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth
from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall
devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that
he may judge his people.
5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a
covenant with me by sacrifice.
6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge
himself. Selah.
7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify
against thee: I am God, even thy God.
8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt
offerings, to have been continually before me.
9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy
folds.
10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a
thousand hills.
11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of
the field are mine.
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine,
and the fulness thereof.
13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most
High:
15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and
thou shalt glorify me.
16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare
my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my words behind
thee.
18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and
hast been partaker with adulterers.
19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest
thine own mother's son.
21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest
that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee,
and set them in order before thine eyes.
22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in
pieces, and there be none to deliver.
23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth
his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
1 Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness
of God endureth continually.
2 The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working
deceitfully.
3 Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak
righteousness. Selah.
4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
5 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee
away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of
the land of the living. Selah.
6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted
in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his
wickedness.
8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in
the mercy of God for ever and ever.
9 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I
will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are
they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth
good.
2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if
there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become
filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people
as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath
scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put
them to shame, because God hath despised them.
6 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God
bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and
Israel shall be glad.
1 Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.
2 Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
3 For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after
my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
4 Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my
soul.
5 He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy
truth.
6 I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O
LORD; for it is good.
7 For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and mine eye hath
seen his desire upon mine enemies.
1 Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my
supplication.
2 Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a
noise;
3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of
the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are
fallen upon me.
5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath
overwhelmed me.
6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly
away, and be at rest.
7 Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness.
Selah.
8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen
violence and strife in the city.
10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief
also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not
from her streets.
12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have
borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself
against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine
acquaintance.
14 We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God
in company.
15 Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell:
for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud:
and he shall hear my voice.
18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was
against me: for there were many with me.
19 God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old.
Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
20 He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with
him: he hath broken his covenant.
21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in
his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
22 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he
shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of
destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their
days; but I will trust in thee.
1 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he
fighting daily oppresseth me.
2 Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that
fight against me, O thou most High.
3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will
not fear what flesh can do unto me.
5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me
for evil.
6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark
my steps, when they wait for my soul.
7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the
people, O God.
8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle:
are they not in thy book?
9 When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I
know; for God is for me.
10 In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his
word.
11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do
unto me.
12 Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou
deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light
of the living?
1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge
uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your
hands in the earth.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as
they be born, speaking lies.
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the
deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never
so wisely.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great
teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he
bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like
the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as
with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he
shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the
righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
1 Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that
rise up against me.
2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody
men.
3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered
against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.
4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help
me, and behold.
5 Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to
visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors.
Selah.
6 They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go
round about the city.
7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their
lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
8 But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the
heathen in derision.
9 Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my
defence.
10 The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my
desire upon mine enemies.
11 Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power;
and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them
even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they
speak.
13 Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and
let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth.
Selah.
14 And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a
dog, and go round about the city.
15 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not
satisfied.
16 But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy
mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the
day of my trouble.
17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence,
and the God of my mercy.