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Psalm 145

  • 145:1 I will extol you, my God, O king; and I will bless your name for ever and ever.
  • 145:2 Every day will I bless you; and I will praise your name for ever and ever.
  • 145:3 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.
  • 145:4 One generation shall praise your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts.
  • 145:5 I will speak of the glorious honor of your majesty, and of your wondrous works.
  • 145:6 And men shall speak of the might of your terrible acts: and I will declare your greatness.
  • 145:7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of your great goodness, and shall sing of your righteousness.
  • 145:8 The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
  • 145:9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
  • 145:10 All your works shall praise you, O LORD; and your saints shall bless you.
  • 145:11 They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk of your power;
  • 145:12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.
  • 145:13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations.
  • 145:14 The LORD upholds all that fall, and raises up all those that be bowed down.
  • 145:15 The eyes of all wait on you; and you give them their meat in due season.
  • 145:16 You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
  • 145:17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
  • 145:18 The LORD is near to all them that call on him, to all that call on him in truth.
  • 145:19 He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
  • 145:20 The LORD preserves all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.
  • 145:21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.

Psalm 144

  • 144:1 Blessed be the LORD my strength which teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
  • 144:2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdues my people under me.
  • 144:3 LORD, what is man, that you take knowledge of him! or the son of man, that you make account of him!
  • 144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
  • 144:5 Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
  • 144:6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out your arrows, and destroy them.
  • 144:7 Send your hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
  • 144:8 Whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
  • 144:9 I will sing a new song to you, O God: on a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises to you.
  • 144:10 It is he that gives salvation to kings: who delivers David his servant from the hurtful sword.
  • 144:11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
  • 144:12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
  • 144:13 That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
  • 144:14 That our oxen may be strong to labor; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.
  • 144:15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yes, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.

Psalm 143

  • 143:1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in your faithfulness answer me, and in your righteousness.
  • 143:2 And enter not into judgment with your servant: for in your sight shall no man living be justified.
  • 143:3 For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
  • 143:4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
  • 143:5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all your works; I muse on the work of your hands.
  • 143:6 I stretch forth my hands to you: my soul thirsts after you, as a thirsty land. Selah.
  • 143:7 Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: hide not your face from me, lest I be like to them that go down into the pit.
  • 143:8 Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning; for in you do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul to you.
  • 143:9 Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies: I flee to you to hide me.
  • 143:10 Teach me to do your will; for you are my God: your spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
  • 143:11 Quicken me, O LORD, for your name’s sake: for your righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.
  • 143:12 And of your mercy cut off my enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am your servant.

Psalm 142

  • 142:1 I cried to the LORD with my voice; with my voice to the LORD did I make my supplication.
  • 142:2 I poured out my complaint before him; I showed before him my trouble.
  • 142:3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then you knew my path.  In the way wherein I walked have they privately laid a snare for me.
  • 142:4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
  • 142:5 I cried to you, O LORD: I said, You are my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
  • 142:6 Attend to my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
  • 142:7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise your name: the righteous shall compass me about; for you shall deal bountifully with me.

Psalm 141

  • 141:1 Lord, I cry to you: make haste to me; give ear to my voice, when I cry to you.
  • 141:2 Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
  • 141:3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
  • 141:4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
  • 141:5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
  • 141:6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.
  • 141:7 Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cuts and splits wood on the earth.
  • 141:8 But my eyes are to you, O GOD the Lord: in you is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
  • 141:9 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
  • 141:10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I with escape.

Psalm 140

  • 140:1 Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
  • 140:2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
  • 140:3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
  • 140:4 Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
  • 140:5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
  • 140:6 I said to the LORD, You are my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD.
  • 140:7 O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.
  • 140:8 Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
  • 140:9 As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
  • 140:10 Let burning coals fall on them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
  • 140:11 Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
  • 140:12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
  • 140:13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks to your name: the upright shall dwell in your presence.

Psalm 139

  • 139:1 O lord, you have searched me, and known me.
  • 139:2 You know my sitting down and my rising up, you understand my thought afar off.
  • 139:3 You compass my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
  • 139:4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, see, O LORD, you know it altogether.
  • 139:5 You have beset me behind and before, and laid your hand on me.
  • 139:6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain to it.
  • 139:7 Where shall I go from your spirit? or where shall I flee from your presence?
  • 139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, you are there.
  • 139:9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
  • 139:10 Even there shall your hand lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
  • 139:11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
  • 139:12 Yes, the darkness hides not from you; but the night shines as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you.
  • 139:13 For you have possessed my reins: you have covered me in my mother’s womb.
  • 139:14 I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are your works; and that my soul knows right well.
  • 139:15 My substance was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and curiously worked in the lowest parts of the earth.
  • 139:16 Your eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect; and in your book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
  • 139:17 How precious also are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
  • 139:18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with you.
  • 139:19 Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, you bloody men.
  • 139:20 For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain.
  • 139:21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate you? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against you?
  • 139:22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them my enemies.
  • 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
  • 139:24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Psalm 138

  • 138:1 I will praise you with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise to you.
  • 138:2 I will worship toward your holy temple, and praise your name for your loving kindness and for your truth: for you have magnified your word above all your name.
  • 138:3 In the day when I cried you answered me, and strengthened me with strength in my soul.
  • 138:4 All the kings of the earth shall praise you, O LORD, when they hear the words of your mouth.
  • 138:5 Yes, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD.
  • 138:6 Though the LORD be high, yet has he respect to the lowly: but the proud he knows afar off.
  • 138:7 Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me: you shall stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand shall save me.
  • 138:8 The LORD will perfect that which concerns me: your mercy, O LORD, endures for ever: forsake not the works of your own hands.

Psalm 137

  • 137:1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
  • 137:2 We hanged our harps on the willows in the middle thereof.
  • 137:3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
  • 137:4 How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a strange land?
  • 137:5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
  • 137:6 If I do not remember you, let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
  • 137:7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation thereof.
  • 137:8 O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewards you as you have served us.
  • 137:9 Happy shall he be, that takes and dashes your little ones against the stones.

Psalm 136

  • 136:1 O give thanks to the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:2 O give thanks to the God of gods: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:4 To him who alone does great wonders: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:5 To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:6 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:7 To him that made great lights: for his mercy endures for ever:
  • 136:8 The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endures for ever:
  • 136:9 The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:10 To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endures for ever:
  • 136:11 And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endures for ever:
  • 136:12 With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:13 To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endures for ever:
  • 136:14 And made Israel to pass through the middle of it: for his mercy endures for ever:
  • 136:15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:16 To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:17 To him which smote great kings: for his mercy endures for ever:
  • 136:18 And slew famous kings: for his mercy endures for ever:
  • 136:19 Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endures for ever:
  • 136:20 And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endures for ever:
  • 136:21 And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy endures for ever:
  • 136:22 Even an heritage to Israel his servant: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:23 Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endures for ever:
  • 136:24 And has redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:25 Who gives food to all flesh: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:26 O give thanks to the God of heaven: for his mercy endures for ever.