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Psalm 75

  • 75:1 To you, O God, do we give thanks, to you do we give thanks: for that your name is near your wondrous works declare.
  • 75:2 When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
  • 75:3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
  • 75:4 I said to the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
  • 75:5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
  • 75:6 For promotion comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
  • 75:7 But God is the judge: he puts down one, and sets up another.
  • 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 pours out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
  • 75:9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
  • 75:10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

Psalm 74

  • 74:1 O God, why have you cast us off for ever? why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
  • 74:2 Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old; the rod of your inheritance, which you have redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein you have dwelled.
  • 74:3 Lift up your feet to the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.
  • 74:4 Your enemies roar in the middle of your congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
  • 74:5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes on the thick trees.
  • 74:6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
  • 74:7 They have cast fire into your sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of your name to the ground.
  • 74:8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
  • 74:9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knows how long.
  • 74:10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme your name for ever?
  • 74:11 Why withdraw you your hand, even your right hand? pluck it out of your bosom.
  • 74:12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the middle of the earth.
  • 74:13 You did divide the sea by your strength: you brake the heads of the dragons in the waters.
  • 74:14 You brake the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gave him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
  • 74:15 You did split the fountain and the flood: you dried up mighty rivers.
  • 74:16 The day is yours, the night also is yours: you have prepared the light and the sun.
  • 74:17 You have set all the borders of the earth: you have made summer and winter.
  • 74:18 Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed your name.
  • 74:19 O deliver not the soul of your turtledove to the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of your poor for ever.
  • 74:20 Have respect to the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
  • 74:21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise your name.
  • 74:22 Arise, O God, plead your own cause: remember how the foolish man reproaches you daily.
  • 74:23 Forget not the voice of your enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against you increases continually.

Psalm 73

  • 73:1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
  • 73:2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well near slipped.
  • 73:3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
  • 73:4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
  • 73:5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
  • 73:6 Therefore pride compasses them about as a chain; violence covers them as a garment.
  • 73:7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
  • 73:8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
  • 73:9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.
  • 73:10 Therefore his people return here: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
  • 73:11 And they say, How does God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
  • 73:12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
  • 73:13 Truly I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.
  • 73:14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
  • 73:15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of your children.
  • 73:16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
  • 73:17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
  • 73:18 Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into destruction.
  • 73:19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
  • 73:20 As a dream when one wakes; so, O Lord, when you wake, you shall despise their image.
  • 73:21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
  • 73:22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before you.
  • 73:23 Nevertheless I am continually with you: you have held me by my right hand.
  • 73:24 You shall guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
  • 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but you? and there is none on earth that I desire beside you.
  • 73:26 My flesh and my heart fails: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
  • 73:27 For, see, they that are far from you shall perish: you have destroyed all them that go a whoring from you.
  • 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 your works.

Psalm 72

  • 72:1 Give the king your judgments, O God, and your righteousness to the king’s son.
  • 72:2 He shall judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with judgment.
  • 72:3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
  • 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.
  • 72:5 They shall fear you as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.
  • 72:6 He shall come down like rain on the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
  • 72:7 In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endures.
  • 72:8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth.
  • 72:9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.
  • 72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
  • 72:11 Yes, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.
  • 72:12 For he shall deliver the needy when he cries; the poor also, and him that has no helper.
  • 72:13 He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.
  • 72:14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
  • 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.
  • 72:16 There shall be an handful of corn in the earth on the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
  • 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.
  • 72:18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only does wondrous things.
  • 72:19 And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
  • 72:20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

Psalm 71

  • 71:1 In you, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.
  • 71:2 Deliver me in your righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline your ear to me, and save me.
  • 71:3 Be you my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: you have given commandment to save me; for you are my rock and my fortress.
  • 71:4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
  • 71:5 For you are my hope, O Lord GOD: you are my trust from my youth.
  • 71:6 By you have I been held up from the womb: you are he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of you.
  • 71:7 I am as a wonder to many; but you are my strong refuge.
  • 71:8 Let my mouth be filled with your praise and with your honor all the day.
  • 71:9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength fails.
  • 71:10 For my enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
  • 71:11 Saying, God has forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
  • 71:12 O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
  • 71:13 Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt.
  • 71:14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise you more and more.
  • 71:15 My mouth shall show forth your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
  • 71:16 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of your righteousness, even of your only.
  • 71:17 O God, you have taught me from my youth: and till now have I declared your wondrous works.
  • 71:18 Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed your strength to this generation, and your power to every one that is to come.
  • 71:19 Your righteousness also, O God, is very high, who have done great things: O God, who is like to you!
  • 71:20 You, which have showed me great and sore troubles, shall quicken me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
  • 71:21 You shall increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
  • 71:22 I will also praise you with the psaltery, even your truth, O my God: to you will I sing with the harp, O you Holy One of Israel.
  • 71:23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to you; and my soul, which you have redeemed.
  • 71:24 My tongue also shall talk of your righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought to shame, that seek my hurt.

Psalm 70

  • 70:1 MAKE HASTE, O GOD, TO DELIVER ME; MAKE HASTE TO HELP ME, O LORD.
  • 70:2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
  • 70:3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.
  • 70:4 Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: and let such as love your salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
  • 70:5 But I am poor and needy: make haste to me, O God: you are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.

Psalm 69

  • 69:1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in to my soul.
  • 69:2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
  • 69:3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
  • 69:4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: they that would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
  • 69:5 O God, you know my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from you.
  • 69:6 Let not them that wait on you, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek you be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
  • 69:7 Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.
  • 69:8 I am become a stranger to my brothers, and an alien to my mother’s children.
  • 69:9 For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen on me.
  • 69:10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
  • 69:11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
  • 69:12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
  • 69:13 But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation.
  • 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.
  • 69:15 Let not the flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth on me.
  • 69:16 Hear me, O LORD; for your loving kindness is good: turn to me according to the multitude of your tender mercies.
  • 69:17 And hide not your face from your servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
  • 69:18 Draw near to my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies.
  • 69:19 You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: my adversaries are all before you.
  • 69:20 Reproach has 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.
  • 69:21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
  • 69:22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
  • 69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
  • 69:24 Pour out your indignation on them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them.
  • 69:25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
  • 69:26 For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded.
  • 69:27 Add iniquity to their iniquity: and let them not come into your righteousness.
  • 69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
  • 69:29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let your salvation, O God, set me up on high.
  • 69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
  • 69:31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that has horns and hoofs.
  • 69:32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
  • 69:33 For the LORD hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners.
  • 69:34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moves therein.
  • 69:35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
  • 69:36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

Psalm 68

  • 68:1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.
  • 68:2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
  • 68:3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yes, let them exceedingly rejoice.
  • 68:4 Sing to God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rides on the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
  • 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
  • 68:6 God sets the solitary in families: he brings out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
  • 68:7 O God, when you went forth before your people, when you did march through the wilderness; Selah:
  • 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.
  • 68:9 You, O God, did send a plentiful rain, whereby you did confirm your inheritance, when it was weary.
  • 68:10 Your congregation has dwelled therein: you, O God, have prepared of your goodness for the poor.
  • 68:11 The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.
  • 68:12 Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.
  • 68:13 Though you have lien among the pots, yet shall you be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
  • 68:14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.
  • 68:15 The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan.
  • 68:16 Why leap you, you high hills? this is the hill which God desires to dwell in; yes, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.
  • 68:17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.
  • 68:18 You have ascended on high, you have led captivity captive: you have received gifts for men; yes, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
  • 68:19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
  • 68:20 He that is our God is the God of salvation; and to GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
  • 68:21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goes on still in his trespasses.
  • 68:22 The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:
  • 68:23 That your foot may be dipped in the blood of your enemies, and the tongue of your dogs in the same.
  • 68:24 They have seen your goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.
  • 68:25 The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with tambourines.
  • 68:26 Bless you God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.
  • 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.
  • 68:28 Your God has commanded your strength: strengthen, O God, that which you have worked for us.
  • 68:29 Because of your temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents to you.
  • 68:30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter you the people that delight in war.
  • 68:31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands to God.
  • 68:32 Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises to the Lord; Selah:
  • 68:33 To him that rides on the heavens of heavens, which were of old; see, he does send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
  • 68:34 Ascribe you strength to God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
  • 68:35 O God, you are terrible out of your holy places: the God of Israel is he that gives strength and power to his people. Blessed be God.

Psalm 67

  • 67:1 God be merciful to us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine on us; Selah.
  • 67:2 That your way may be known on earth, your saving health among all nations.
  • 67:3 Let the people praise you, O God; let all the people praise you.
  • 67:4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for you shall judge the people righteously, and govern the nations on earth. Selah.
  • 67:5 Let the people praise you, O God; let all the people praise you.
  • 67:6 Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.
  • 67:7 God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.

Psalm 66

  • 66:1 Make a joyful noise to God, all you lands:
  • 66:2 Sing forth the honor of his name: make his praise glorious.
  • 66:3 Say to God, How terrible are you in your works! through the greatness of your power shall your enemies submit themselves to you.
  • 66:4 All the earth shall worship you, and shall sing to you; they shall sing to your name. Selah.
  • 66:5 Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
  • 66:6 He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
  • 66:7 He rules by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
  • 66:8 O bless our God, you people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:
  • 66:9 Which holds our soul in life, and suffers not our feet to be moved.
  • 66:10 For you, O God, have proved us: you have tried us, as silver is tried.
  • 66:11 You brought us into the net; you laid affliction on our loins.
  • 66:12 You have caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but you brought us out into a wealthy place.
  • 66:13 I will go into your house with burnt offerings: I will pay you my vows,
  • 66:14 Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth has spoken, when I was in trouble.
  • 66:15 I will offer to you burnt sacrifices of fatted calves, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
  • 66:16 Come and hear, all you that fear God, and I will declare what he has done for my soul.
  • 66:17 I cried to him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.
  • 66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
  • 66:19 But truly God has heard me; he has attended to the voice of my prayer.
  • 66:20 Blessed be God, which has not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.