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The superscriptions in the Psalms in bold font and marked with ¶
In the King James Version (KJV), the superscription of the Psalms is written as a separate, unnumbered heading. Example, see Psalms chapter 3:
¶ A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom.
Ps. 3:1 LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
Origin, Function and Verse Numbering
In many of the psalms in the book of Psalms, there is an introductory text before the first verse, often called a superscription, superscription, or heading. These texts are part of the basic Hebrew text and contain important information about the psalm, such as authorship, historical background or musical instructions. They can influence the verse numbering and have an interesting history both in the Masoretic Text and in various Bible translations.
1. Origin and occurrence in the Hebrew Bible
In the Masoretic Text (MT), which is the basic Hebrew text of the Old Testament, these superscriptions are an integral part of the psalm. They are often counted as the first verse, which means that the text of the psalm itself begins with a higher verse numbering compared to many translations.
These superscriptions appear in about 116 of the 150 hymns and can contain different types of information:
Authorship - Many hymns are attributed to specific people, for example ‘A Psalm of David’.
Historical context - Some psalms contain a brief description of the circumstances surrounding their creation, e.g. Psalm 34: ‘A psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he went his way.’
Musical instructions - Many psalms begin with instructions to musicians, such as ‘To the first master of song’, as well as words that may refer to specific melodies or musical styles, such as "On Gittít ’ (Ps 8, 81, 84).
Liturgical use - Some headings suggest that the psalm was used in specific contexts, such as the Sabbath or the temple service.
2. Verse numbering and differences in translations
Since the Hebrew superscriptions are part of the original text, they are included in the verse numbering of the Masoretic text. This means that in Hebrew, the actual psalm text may start at verse 2 instead of verse 1.
Example: Psalm 34
Masoretic Text (MT): Verse 1: ‘A psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he went his way.’Verse 2: ‘I will bless the Lord always: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.’
King James Version (KJV): The superscription is written as a separate, unnumbered heading. Verse 1: ‘ I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.’
This difference applies to many psalms and often affects references in academic or theological discussions between texts in Hebrew and different translations.
Most English translations (KJV, NIV, ESV, NASB, NLT) treat the superscription as a heading, separate from the first verse. Some older and Jewish translations (DRB, JPS 1917) count the superscription as the first verse. Modern paraphrases (MSG, NLT) reformulate the superscriptions, sometimes with interpretative additions - In the KJV the superscriptions are preserved.
3. Theological and literary significance
The superscriptions play an important role in the understanding of the psalms, both historically and theologically.
Historical context: by indicating specific events linked to David or other biblical figures, they help the reader to understand the background and emotional tone of the hymn.
Musical and liturgical function: Many hymns were intended to be sung or performed in the temple service, and the superscriptions give clues as to how they were originally used.
The question of inspiration: since these superscriptions are part of the basic Hebrew text, they are considered by many to be inspired by God in the same way as the rest of the psalm.
Separating the superscriptions as headings makes it easier to read the psalms without having to include the superscription in the prayer or song itself.
This facilitated public reading where a singer could read the rubric and then begin the hymn.
The KJV has a strong emphasis on the rhythm and flow of the language. Including the superscription as part of the first verse creates an unnatural reading in English.
Example: Psalm 51 (KJV)
(superscription) ‘To the chief musician, a psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him after he was gone in unto Bath-sheba.
1 ‘Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy mercy...’
If the superscription had been part of the first verse, the beginning of the psalm itself would not have been as clear.
The superscriptions in the Psalms are an original part of the Hebrew text and fulfil an important function by providing information about authors, historical events and musical guidelines and give important clues to the use of the Psalms in the Israelite cult and have a theological significance that extends into Christian and Jewish tradition.
4. Stephen's chapter and verse system
Robert Estienne, also known as Stephanus, was a French printer and linguist who developed the chapter and verse system we use today in the 16th century. His system was based on earlier divisions but was the first to consistently number verses throughout the Bible, including the Old and New Testaments.
In 1551, he published an edition of the Textus Receptus, a Greek primer to the New Testament, in which he numbered each verse separately.
In 1555, he applied a similar verse division to the whole Bible, based on the Latin Vulgate, and this system was later used in English translations, including the Geneva Bible (1560) and the King James Bible (1611).
The KJV translators largely followed this verse division, which means that their verse numbering sometimes differs from the Hebrew Masoretic Text (MT), where the superscriptions are often included as the first verse of a psalm.
The KJV Bible also follows the Christian book order, rather than the Jewish Tanakh:
The Christian book order ends with the prophet Malachi (the last book of the OT), pointing ahead to John the Baptist and Jesus: "Behold, I will send unto you Elijah the prophet, until the great and dreadful day of the LORD come.And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the land with a curse."
The Hebrew Bible ends with 2 Chronicles (the last book of the OT), which provides a more historical conclusion to the restoration of Israel. The end of the Tanakh (2 Chronicles 36:23): "Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.Let every one of you who is of his people go up to it, and may his God be with him."
This is for both theological and textual reasons, with the Christian Biblical order emphasising the Messiah and the hope of the future, while the Jewish order focuses on the return of the nation to the land.
KING JAMES VERSION
PSALMS, PSALM 1
1 The
happiness of the godly. 4 The unhappiness of the ungodly.
Ps 1:1 BLESSED is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Ps 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Ps 1:3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Ps 1:4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Ps 1:5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
Ps 1:6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
1 The
kingdom of Christ. 10 Kings are exhorted to accept it.
Ps 2:1 WHY do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
Ps 2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
Ps 2:3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Ps 2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
Ps 2:5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
Ps 2:6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
Ps 2:7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
Ps 2:8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
Ps 2:9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
Ps 2:10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
Ps 2:11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
Ps 2:12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
1 David prays and professes his
study in prayer. 4 God favors not the wicked. 7 David, professing his faith,
prays to God to guide him, 10 to destroy his enemies, 11 and to preserve the
godly.
¶ To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David.
Ps 5:1 GIVE ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
Ps 5:2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.
Ps 5:3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
Ps 5:4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
Ps 5:5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
Ps 5:6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
Ps 5:7 But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
Ps 5:8 Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
Ps 5:9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
Ps 5:10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.
Ps 5:11 But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.
Ps 5:12 For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
God's glory is magnified by His
works, and by His love to man.
¶ To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.
Ps 8:1 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
Ps 8:2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
Ps 8:3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
Ps 8:4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Ps 8:5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
Ps 8:6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
Ps 8:7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
Ps 8:8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and what so ever passeth through the paths of the seas.
Ps 8:9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
1
David complains to God of the outrage of the wicked. 12 He prays for remedy. 16
He professes his confidence.
Ps 10:1 WHY standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
Ps 10:2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Ps 10:3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
Ps 10:4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Ps 10:5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
Ps 10:6 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
Ps 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Ps 10:8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
Ps 10:9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
Ps 10:10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
Ps 10:11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
Ps 10:12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
Ps 10:13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
Ps 10:14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Ps 10:15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
Ps 10:16 The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
Ps 10:17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
Ps 10:18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
1 David, destitute of human
comfort, craves help of God. 3 He comforts himself with God's judgments on the
wicked, and confidence in God's tried promises.
¶ To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.
Ps 12:1 HELP, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
Ps 12:2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
Ps 12:3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
Ps 12:4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
Ps 12:5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Ps 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Ps 12:7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
Ps 12:8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
1 David describes the corruption
of a natural man. 4 He convinces the wicked by the light of their conscience. 7
He glories in the salvation of God.
¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
Ps 14:1 THE fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Ps 14:2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
Ps 14:3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Ps 14:4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Ps 14:5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
Ps 14:6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
Ps 14:7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
1 David, in distrust of merits and
hatred of idolatry, flees to God for preservation. 5 He shows the hope of his
calling, of the resurrection, and everlasting life.
¶ Michtam of David.
Ps 16:1 PRESERVE me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
Ps 16:2O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
Ps 16:3But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
Ps 16:4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
Ps 16:5 The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
Ps 16:6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
Ps 16:7 I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
Ps 16:8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Ps 16:9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
Ps 16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Ps 16:11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
1 David, in confidence of his
integrity, craves defense of God against his enemies. 10 He shows their pride,
craft, and eagerness. 13 He prays against them in confidence of his hope.
¶ A Prayer of David.
Ps 17:1 HEAR the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
Ps 17:2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.
Ps 17:3 Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
Ps 17:4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
Ps 17:5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
Ps 17:6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.
Ps 17:7 Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.
Ps 17:8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
Ps 17:9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
Ps 17:10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Ps 17:11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
Ps 17:12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Ps 17:13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:
Ps 17:14 From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
Ps 17:15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
David praises God for His manifold
and marvelous blessings.
¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,
Ps 18:1 I WILL love thee, O LORD, my strength.
Ps 18:2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
Ps 18:3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
Ps 18:4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
Ps 18:5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
Ps 18:6 In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
Ps 18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
Ps 18:8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
Ps 18:9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
Ps 18:10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Ps 18:11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Ps 18:12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
Ps 18:13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
Ps 18:14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
Ps 18:15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
Ps 18:16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
Ps 18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
Ps 18:18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
Ps 18:19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
Ps 18:20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
Ps 18:21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Ps 18:22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
Ps 18:23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
Ps 18:24 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
Ps 18:25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
Ps 18:26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
Ps 18:27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
Ps 18:28 For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
Ps 18:29 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
Ps 18:30As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.
Ps 18:31 For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?
Ps 18:32It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
Ps 18:33 He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet, and setteth me upon my high places.
Ps 18:34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
Ps 18:35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.
Ps 18:36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
Ps 18:37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
Ps 18:38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
Ps 18:39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
Ps 18:40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
Ps 18:41 They cried, but there was none to save them:even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
Ps 18:42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
Ps 18:43 Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
Ps 18:44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
Ps 18:45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
Ps 18:46 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
Ps 18:47It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
Ps 18:48 He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
Ps 18:49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.
Ps 18:50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.
1 The creatures show God's glory.
7 The word His grace. 12 David prays for grace.
¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
Ps 19:1 THE heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
Ps 19:2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
Ps 19:3There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
Ps 19:4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
Ps 19:5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
Ps 19:6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Ps 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
Ps 19:8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Ps 19:9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
Ps 19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
Ps 19:11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
Ps 19:12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
Ps 19:13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
Ps 19:14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
1 David complains in great
discouragement. 9 He prays in great distress. 23 He praises God.
¶ To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.
Ps 22:1 MY God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
Ps 22:2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
Ps 22:3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
Ps 22:4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
Ps 22:5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
Ps 22:6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
Ps 22:7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
Ps 22:8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
Ps 22:9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.
Ps 22:10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.
Ps 22:11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
Ps 22:12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
Ps 22:13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
Ps 22:14 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.
Ps 22:15 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.
Ps 22:16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
Ps 22:17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
Ps 22:18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
Ps 22:19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
Ps 22:20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
Ps 22:21 Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
Ps 22:22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
Ps 22:23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
Ps 22:24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
Ps 22:25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
Ps 22:26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
Ps 22:27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
Ps 22:28 For the kingdom is the LORD’S: and he is the governor among the nations.
Ps 22:29 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.
Ps 22:30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
Ps 22:31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.
Ps 23:1 THE LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Ps 23:2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
Ps 23:3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Ps 23:4 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.
Ps 23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Ps 23:6 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.
1 David sustains his faith by the
power of God, 4 by his love to the service of God, 9 by prayer.
¶ A Psalm of David.
Ps 27:1 THE 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?
Ps 27:2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
Ps 27:3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
Ps 27:4 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.
Ps 27:5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
Ps 27:6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
Ps 27:7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
Ps 27:8When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
Ps 27:9 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.
Ps 27:10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
Ps 27:11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.
Ps 27:12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
Ps 27:13I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Ps 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
1 David prays earnestly against
his enemies. 6 He blesses God. 9 He prays for the people.
¶ A Psalm of David.
Ps 28:1 UNTO thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Ps 28:2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Ps 28:3 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.
Ps 28:4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
Ps 28:5 Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
Ps 28:6 Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
Ps 28:7 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.
Ps 28:8 The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
Ps 28:9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
1 David, showing his confidence in
God, craves His help. 7 He rejoices in His mercy. 9 He prays in his calamity.
19 He praises God for His goodness.
¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
Ps 31:1 IN thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
Ps 31:2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
Ps 31:3 For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me.
Ps 31:4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.
Ps 31:5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
Ps 31:6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
Ps 31:7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
Ps 31:8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
Ps 31:9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
Ps 31:10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Ps 31:11 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.
Ps 31:12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
Ps 31:13 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.
Ps 31:14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.
Ps 31:15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
Ps 31:16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies’ sake.
Ps 31:17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
Ps 31:18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Ps 31:19Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Ps 31:20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
Ps 31:21 Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.
Ps 31:22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
Ps 31:23 O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
Ps 31:24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.
1 Blessedness consists in
remission of sins. 3 Confession of sins gives ease to the conscience. 8 God's
promises bring joy.
¶ A Psalm of David, Maschil.
Ps 32:1 BLESSED is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Ps 32:2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
Ps 32:3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Ps 32:4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
Ps 32:5 I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
Ps 32:6 For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
Ps 32:7 Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
Ps 32:8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
Ps 32:9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
Ps 32:10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
Ps 32:11 Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
1 David praises God and exhorts
others thereto by his experience. 8 They are blessed that trust in God. 11 He
exhorts to the fear of God. 15 The privileges of the righteous.
¶ A Psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed.
Ps 34:1 I WILL bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
Ps 34:2 My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
Ps 34:3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
Ps 34:4 I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
Ps 34:5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
Ps 34:6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Ps 34:7 The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
Ps 34:8 O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
Ps 34:9 O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
Ps 34:10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
Ps 34:11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
Ps 34:12 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
Ps 34:13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Ps 34:14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Ps 34:15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
Ps 34:16 The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Ps 34:17The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
Ps 34:18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Ps 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
Ps 34:20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
Ps 34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
Ps 34:22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
1 David prays for his own safety
and his enemies' confusion. 11 He complains of their wrongful dealing. 22
Thereby he incites God against them.
¶ A Psalm of David.
Ps 35:1 PLEAD my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
Ps 35:2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
Ps 35:3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
Ps 35:4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
Ps 35:5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
Ps 35:6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.
Ps 35:7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
Ps 35:8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
Ps 35:9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.
Ps 35:10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
Ps 35:11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
Ps 35:12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
Ps 35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
Ps 35:14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
Ps 35:15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
Ps 35:16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Ps 35:17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
Ps 35:18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.
Ps 35:19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
Ps 35:20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
Ps 35:21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
Ps 35:22This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
Ps 35:23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
Ps 35:24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
Ps 35:25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Ps 35:26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
Ps 35:27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
Ps 35:28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
David persuades to patience and
confidence in God by the different estate of the godly and the wicked.
¶ A Psalm of David.
Ps 37:1 FRET not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
Ps 37:2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Ps 37:3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Ps 37:4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
Ps 37:5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
Ps 37:6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
Ps 37:7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
Ps 37:8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
Ps 37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
Ps 37:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
Ps 37:11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
Ps 37:12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
Ps 37:13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.
Ps 37:14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
Ps 37:15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
Ps 37:16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
Ps 37:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.
Ps 37:18 The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.
Ps 37:19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
Ps 37:20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
Ps 37:21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
Ps 37:22 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.
Ps 37:23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
Ps 37:24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.
Ps 37:25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Ps 37:26He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.
Ps 37:27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
Ps 37:28 For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
Ps 37:29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.
Ps 37:30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
Ps 37:31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
Ps 37:32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
Ps 37:33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
Ps 37:34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
Ps 37:35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Ps 37:36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Ps 37:37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
Ps 37:38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
Ps 37:39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.
Ps 37:40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.
David moves God to take compassion
on his pitiable case.
¶ A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.
Ps 38:1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
Ps 38:2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
Ps 38:3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
Ps 38:4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Ps 38:5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
Ps 38:6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
Ps 38:7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
Ps 38:8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Ps 38:9 Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
Ps 38:10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Ps 38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
Ps 38:12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
Ps 38:13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
Ps 38:14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Ps 38:15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
Ps 38:16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
Ps 38:17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
Ps 38:18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
Ps 38:19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
Ps 38:20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
Ps 38:21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
Ps 38:22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
1 David's care of his thoughts, 4
the consideration of the brevity and vanity of life, 7 the reverence of God's
judgments, 10 and prayer, are his bridles of impatience.
¶ To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.
Ps 39:1 I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Ps 39:2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
Ps 39:3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
Ps 39:4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Ps 39:5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Ps 39:6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Ps 39:7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
Ps 39:8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
Ps 39:9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
Ps 39:10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
Ps 39:11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Ps 39:12 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.
Ps 39:13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
1 The benefit of confidence in
God. 6 Obedience is the best sacrifice. 11 The sense of David’s evils inflames
his prayer.
¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
Ps 40:1 I WAITED patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
Ps 40:2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
Ps 40:3 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.
Ps 40:4 Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
Ps 40:5 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 I would declare and speak oft hem, they are more than can be numbered.
Ps 40:6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
Ps 40:7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
Ps 40:8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Ps 40:9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
Ps 40:10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
Ps 40:11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
Ps 40:12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
Ps 40:13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
Ps 40:14 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.
Ps 40:15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
Ps 40:16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
Ps 40:17 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.
1 God's care of the poor. 4 David
complains of his enemies' treachery. 10 He flees to God for succor.
¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
Ps 41:1 BLESSED is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
Ps 41:2 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
Ps 41:3 The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
Ps 41:4 I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.
Ps 41:5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
Ps 41:6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
Ps 41:7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
Ps 41:8 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
Ps 41:9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
Ps 41:10 But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.
Ps 41:11 By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
Ps 41:12 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.
Ps 41:13 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
1 David’s zeal to serve God in the
Temple. 5 He encourages his soul to trust in God.
¶ To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.
Ps 42:1 AS the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
Ps 42:2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
Ps 42:3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
Ps 42:4 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 multitude that kept holyday.
Ps 42:5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Ps 42:6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
Ps 42:7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Ps 42:8Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
Ps 42:9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Ps 42:10As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
Ps 42:11 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, whois the health of my countenance, and my God.
1
David, praying to be restored to the Temple, promises to serve God joyfully. 5
He encourages his soul to trust in God.
Ps 43:1 JUDGE me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
Ps 43:2 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?
Ps 43:3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
Ps 43:4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
Ps 43:5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, whois the health of my countenance, and my God.
1 The Church, in memory of former
favors, 7 complains of their present evils. 17 Professing her integrity, 24 she
fervently prays for succor.
¶ To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.
Ps 44:1 WE have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
Ps 44:2How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
Ps 44:3 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.
Ps 44:4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
Ps 44:5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
Ps 44:6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
Ps 44:7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
Ps 44:8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
Ps 44:9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
Ps 44:10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
Ps 44:11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
Ps 44:12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
Ps 44:13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Ps 44:14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
Ps 44:15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
Ps 44:16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
Ps 44:17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
Ps 44:18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
Ps 44:19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
Ps 44:20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
Ps 44:21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Ps 44:22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Ps 44:23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
Ps 44:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
Ps 44:25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
Ps 44:26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake.
The nations are exhorted
cheerfully to entertain the kingdom of Christ.
¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
Ps 47:1 O CLAP your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
Ps 47:2 For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
Ps 47:3 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.
Ps 47:4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
Ps 47:5 God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
Ps 47:6 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.
Ps 47:7 For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
Ps 47:8 God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.
Ps 47:9 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 An earnest persuasion to build
the faith of resurrection, not on worldly power, but on God. 16 Worldly
prosperity is not to be admired.
¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
Ps 49:1 HEAR this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:
Ps 49:2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
Ps 49:3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
Ps 49:4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
Ps 49:5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
Ps 49:6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
Ps 49:7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
Ps 49:8 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)
Ps 49:9 That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
Ps 49:10 For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Ps 49:11 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.
Ps 49:12 Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
Ps 49:13 This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
Ps 49:14 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.
Ps 49:15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
Ps 49:16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
Ps 49:17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
Ps 49:18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
Ps 49:19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
Ps 49:20 Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
1 The majesty of God in the
Church. 5 His order to gather saints. 7 The pleasure of God is not in
ceremonies, 14 but in sincerity of obedience.
¶ A Psalm of Asaph.
Ps 50:1 THE mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
Ps 50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
Ps 50:3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Ps 50:4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
Ps 50:5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
Ps 50:6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
Ps 50:7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
Ps 50:8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
Ps 50:9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
Ps 50:10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
Ps 50:11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
Ps 50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Ps 50:13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Ps 50:14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
Ps 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Ps 50:16 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?
Ps 50:17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
Ps 50:18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
Ps 50:19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Ps 50:20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
Ps 50:21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a none as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Ps 50:22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Ps 50:23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
1 David prays for remission of
sins, whereof he makes a deep confession. 6 He prays for sanctification. 16 God
delights not in sacrifice, but in sincerity. 18 He prays for the Church.
¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.
Ps 51:1 HAVE mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
Ps 51:2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Ps 51:3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
Ps 51:4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
Ps 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Ps 51:6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
Ps 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Ps 51:8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Ps 51:9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
Ps 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Ps 51:11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
Ps 51:12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me withthy free spirit.
Ps 51:13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
Ps 51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
Ps 51:15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
Ps 51:16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
Ps 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Ps 51:18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
Ps 51:19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
1 David, condemning the
spitefulness of Doeg, prophesies his destruction. 6 The righteous shall rejoice
at it. 8 David, upon his confidence in God’s mercy, gives thanks.
¶ To the chief Musician, Maschil, APsalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech.
Ps 52:1 WHY boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
Ps 52:2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.
Ps 52:3 Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
Ps 52:4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
Ps 52:5 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.
Ps 52:6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
Ps 52:7 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.
Ps 52:8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
Ps 52:9 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 David describes the corruption
of a natural man. 4 He convinces the wicked by the light of their own
conscience. 6 He glories in the salvation of God.
¶ To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David.
Ps 53:1 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.
Ps 53:2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
Ps 53:3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Ps 53:4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
Ps 53:5 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.
Ps 53:6 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 David, in his prayer, complains
of his fearful case. 9 He prays against his enemies, of whose wickedness and
treachery he complains. 16 He comforts himself in God's preservation of him and
the confusion of his enemies.
¶ To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David.
Ps 55:1 GIVE ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
Ps 55:2 Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
Ps 55:3 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.
Ps 55:4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Ps 55:5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
Ps 55:6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Ps 55:7 Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
Ps 55:8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
Ps 55:9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Ps 55:10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
Ps 55:11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
Ps 55:12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither wasit he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
Ps 55:13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
Ps 55:14 We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
Ps 55:15 Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
Ps 55:16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me.
Ps 55:17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
Ps 55:18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
Ps 55:19 God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
Ps 55:20 He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.
Ps 55:21The 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.
Ps 55:22 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
Ps 55:23 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 David, praying to God in
confidence of His word, complains of his enemies. 9 He professes his confidence
in God's word and promises to praise Him.
¶ To the chief Musician upon Jonath-elem-rechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.
Ps 56:1 BE merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
Ps 56:2 Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
Ps 56:3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
Ps 56:4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
Ps 56:5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Ps 56:6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
Ps 56:7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.
Ps 56:8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
Ps 56:9 When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.
Ps 56:10 In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word.
Ps 56:11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.
Ps 56:12 Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
Ps 56:13 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 David, in prayer fleeing unto
God, complains of his dangerous case. 7 He encourages himself to praise
God.
¶ To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave.
Ps 57:1 BE merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
Ps 57:2 I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.
Ps 57:3 He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
Ps 57:4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Ps 57:5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.
Ps 57:6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
Ps 57:7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.
Ps 57:8 Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
Ps 57:9 I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.
Ps 57:10 For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.
Ps 57:11 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth.
1 David prays to be delivered from
his enemies. 6 He complains of their cruelty. 8 He trusts in God. 11 He prays
against them. 16 He praises God.
¶ To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.
Ps 59:1 DELIVER me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.
Ps 59:2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
Ps 59:3 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.
Ps 59:4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.
Ps 59:5 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.
Ps 59:6 They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
Ps 59:7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
Ps 59:8 But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.
Ps 59:9Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence.
Ps 59:10 The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.
Ps 59:11 Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Ps 59:12For 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.
Ps 59:13 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.
Ps 59:14 And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
Ps 59:15 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
Ps 59:16 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.
Ps 59:17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy.
1 David, complaining to God of
former judgment, 4 now upon better hope prays for deliverance. 6 Comforting
himself in God's promises, he craves that help whereon he trusts.
¶ To the chief Musician upon Shushan-eduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand.
Ps 60:1 O GOD, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
Ps 60:2 Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
Ps 60:3 Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
Ps 60:4 Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
Ps 60:5 That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.
Ps 60:6 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
Ps 60:7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
Ps 60:8 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.
Ps 60:9 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
Ps 60:10Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?
Ps 60:11 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Ps 60:12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
1 David, professing his confidence
in God, discourages his enemies. 5 In the same confidence, he encourages the
godly. 9 No trust is to be put in worldly things. 11 Power and mercy belong to
God.
¶ To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.
Ps 62:1 TRULY my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.
Ps 62:2 He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
Ps 62:3 How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, andas a tottering fence.
Ps 62:4 They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
Ps 62:5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
Ps 62:6 He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
Ps 62:7 In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
Ps 62:8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
Ps 62:9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Ps 62:10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
Ps 62:11 God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.
Ps 62:12 Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.
1 David’s thirst for God. 4 His
manner of blessing God. 9 His confidence of his enemies’ destruction and his
own safety.
¶ A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
Ps 63:1 O GOD, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
Ps 63:2 To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
Ps 63:3 Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
Ps 63:4 Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
Ps 63:5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:
Ps 63:6 When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
Ps 63:7 Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
Ps 63:8 My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
Ps 63:9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
Ps 63:10 They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
Ps 63:11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
1 David prays for deliverance,
complaining of his enemies. 7 He promises himself to see such an evident
destruction of his enemies, as the righteous shall rejoice at it.
¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
Ps 64:1 HEAR my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
Ps 64:2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
Ps 64:3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
Ps 64:4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
Ps 64:5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
Ps 64:6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
Ps 64:7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
Ps 64:8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
Ps 64:9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.
Ps 64:10 The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.
1 David praises God for His grace.
4 The blessedness of God's chosen, by reason of benefits.
¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm and Song of David.
Ps 65:1 PRAISE waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed.
Ps 65:2 O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
Ps 65:3 Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.
Ps 65:4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.
Ps 65:5By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
Ps 65:6 Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:
Ps 65:7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
Ps 65:8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
Ps 65:9 Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
Ps 65:10 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
Ps 65:11 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.
Ps 65:12 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.
Ps 65:13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
1 David exhorts to praise God, 5
to observe His great works, 8 to bless Him for His gracious benefits. 12 He
vows for himself religious service to God. 16 He declares God’s special
goodness to himself.
¶ To the chief Musician, A Song or Psalm.
Ps 66:1 MAKE a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:
Ps 66:2 Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious.
Ps 66:3 Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.
Ps 66:4 All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.
Ps 66:5 Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
Ps 66:6 He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
Ps 66:7 He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
Ps 66:8 O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:
Ps 66:9 Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.
Ps 66:10 For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
Ps 66:11 Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.
Ps 66:12 Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.
Ps 66:13 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,
Ps 66:14 Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.
Ps 66:15 I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
Ps 66:16 Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
Ps 66:17 I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.
Ps 66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
Ps 66:19But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
Ps 66:20 Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.
1 A prayer at the removing of the
Ark. 4 An exhortation to praise God for His mercies, 7 for His care of the
Church, 19 for His great works.
¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm or Song of David.
Ps 68:1 LET God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.
Ps 68:2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
Ps 68:3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
Ps 68:4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
Ps 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Ps 68:6 God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
Ps 68:7 O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
Ps 68:8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Ps 68:9 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
Ps 68:10 Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.
Ps 68:11 The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.
Ps 68:12 Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.
Ps 68:13 Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Ps 68:14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.
Ps 68:15 The hill of God isas the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan.
Ps 68:16 Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell init for ever.
Ps 68:17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, asin Sinai, in the holy place.
Ps 68:18 Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
Ps 68:19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
Ps 68:20He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
Ps 68:21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
Ps 68:22 The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:
Ps 68:23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
Ps 68:24 They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.
Ps 68:25 The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
Ps 68:26 Bless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.
Ps 68:27 There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
Ps 68:28 Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.
Ps 68:29 Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee.
Ps 68:30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till everyone submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.
Ps 68:31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
Ps 68:32 Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto the Lord; Selah:
Ps 68:33 To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
Ps 68:34 Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
Ps 68:35 O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.
1 David complains of his
affliction. 13 He prays for deliverance. 22 He devotes his enemies to
destruction. 30 He praises God with thanksgiving.
¶ To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.
Ps 69:1 SAVE me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
Ps 69:2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Ps 69:3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Ps 69:4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
Ps 69:5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
Ps 69:6 Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
Ps 69:7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
Ps 69:8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
Ps 69:9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
Ps 69:10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
Ps 69:11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
Ps 69:12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
Ps 69:13 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
Ps 69:14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Ps 69:15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
Ps 69:16 Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
Ps 69:17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
Ps 69:18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
Ps 69:19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
Ps 69:20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
Ps 69:21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Ps 69:22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
Ps 69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
Ps 69:24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
Ps 69:25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
Ps 69:26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
Ps 69:27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
Ps 69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
Ps 69:29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
Ps 69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
Ps 69:31This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
Ps 69:32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
Ps 69:33 For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
Ps 69:34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
Ps 69:35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
Ps 69:36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
1
David, in confidence of faith and experience of God's favor, prays both for
himself and against the enemies of his soul. 14 He promises constancy. 17 He
prays for perseverance. 19 He praises God and promises to do it cheerfully.
Ps 71:1 IN thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.
Ps 71:2 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
Ps 71:3 Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.
Ps 71:4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
Ps 71:5 For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.
Ps 71:6 By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.
Ps 71:7 I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.
Ps 71:8 Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.
Ps 71:9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
Ps 71:10 For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
Ps 71:11 Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
Ps 71:12 O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
Ps 71:13 Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
Ps 71:14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.
Ps 71:15 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
Ps 71:16 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
Ps 71:17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
Ps 71:18 Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
Ps 71:19 Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
Ps 71:20Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
Ps 71:21 Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
Ps 71:22 I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.
Ps 71:23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
Ps 71:24 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.
1 David, praying for Solomon,
shows the goodness and glory of his kingdom, in type and in truth, of Christ’s
kingdom. 18 He blesses God.
¶ A Psalm for Solomon.
Ps 72:1 GIVE the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son.
Ps 72:2 He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
Ps 72:3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
Ps 72:4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
Ps 72:5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.
Ps 72:6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
Ps 72:7 In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.
Ps 72:8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.
Ps 72:9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.
Ps 72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
Ps 72:11 Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.
Ps 72:12 For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
Ps 72:13 He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.
Ps 72:14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
Ps 72:15 And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.
Ps 72:16 There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
Ps 72:17 His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
Ps 72:18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.
Ps 72:19 And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
Ps 72:20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
1 The prophet, prevailing in a
temptation, 2 shows the occasion thereof, the prosperity of the wicked: 13 the
wound given thereby, diffidence. 15 The victory over it, knowledge of God's
purpose in destroying the wicked and sustaining the righteous.
¶ A Psalm of Asaph.
Ps 73:1 TRULY God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
Ps 73:2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
Ps 73:3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Ps 73:4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
Ps 73:5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
Ps 73:6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
Ps 73:7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
Ps 73:8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
Ps 73:9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
Ps 73:10 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
Ps 73:11 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
Ps 73:12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
Ps 73:13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
Ps 73:14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
Ps 73:15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
Ps 73:16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
Ps 73:17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
Ps 73:18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
Ps 73:19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
Ps 73:20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
Ps 73:21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
Ps 73:22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
Ps 73:23 Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.
Ps 73:24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
Ps 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
Ps 73:26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Ps 73:27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
Ps 73:28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.
1 The prophet complains of the
desolation of the sanctuary. 10 He moves God to help in consideration of His
power. 18 Of his reproachful enemies, of His children, and of His
covenant.
¶ Maschil of Asaph.
Ps 74:1 O GOD, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
Ps 74:2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
Ps 74:3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
Ps 74:4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
Ps 74:5A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
Ps 74:6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
Ps 74:7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
Ps 74:8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
Ps 74:9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
Ps 74:10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
Ps 74:11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
Ps 74:12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
Ps 74:13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Ps 74:14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Ps 74:15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
Ps 74:16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Ps 74:17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
Ps 74:18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
Ps 74:19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
Ps 74:20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
Ps 74:21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
Ps 74:22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
Ps 74:23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
1 The prophet praises God. 2 He
promises to judge uprightly. 4 He rebukes the proud by consideration of God's
providence. 9 He praises God and promises to execute justice.
¶ To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, A Psalm or Song of Asaph.
Ps 75:1 UNTO thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.
Ps 75:2 When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
Ps 75:3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
Ps 75:4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
Ps 75:5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
Ps 75:6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
Ps 75:7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
Ps 75:8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
Ps 75:9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
Ps 75:10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.