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Psalm 65

  • 65:1 Praise waits for you, O God, in Sion: and to you shall the vow be performed.
  • 65:2 O you that hear prayer, to you shall all flesh come.
  • 65:3 Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, you shall purge them away.
  • 65:4 Blessed is the man whom you choose, and cause to approach to you, that he may dwell in your courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, even of your holy temple.
  • 65:5 By terrible things in righteousness will you answer us, O God of our salvation; who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off on the sea:
  • 65:6 Which by his strength sets fast the mountains; being girded with power:
  • 65:7 Which stills the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
  • 65:8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at your tokens: you make the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
  • 65:9 You visit the earth, and water it: you greatly enrich it with the river of God, which is full of water: you prepare them corn, when you have so provided for it.
  • 65:10 You water the ridges thereof abundantly: you settle the furrows thereof: you make it soft with showers: you bless the springing thereof.
  • 65:11 You crown the year with your goodness; and your paths drop fatness.
  • 65:12 They drop on the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.
  • 65:13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.

Psalm 64

  • 64:1 Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
  • 64:2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
  • 64:3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
  • 64:4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
  • 64:5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privately; they say, Who shall see them?
  • 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.
  • 64:7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
  • 64:8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall on themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
  • 64:9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.
  • 64:10 The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.

Psalm 63

  • 63:1 O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
  • 63:2 To see your power and your glory, so as I have seen you in the sanctuary.
  • 63:3 Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
  • 63:4 Thus will I bless you while I live: I will lift up my hands in your name.
  • 63:5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise you with joyful lips:
  • 63:6 When I remember you on my bed, and meditate on you in the night watches.
  • 63:7 Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings will I rejoice.
  • 63:8 My soul follows hard after you: your right hand upholds me.
  • 63:9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
  • 63:10 They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
  • 63:11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that swears by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

Psalm 62

  • 62:1 Truly my soul waits on God: from him comes my salvation.
  • 62:2 He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defense; I shall not be greatly moved.
  • 62:3 How long will you imagine mischief against a man? you shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall you be, and as a tottering fence.
  • 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.
  • 62:5 My soul, wait you only on God; for my expectation is from him.
  • 62:6 He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defense; I shall not be moved.
  • 62:7 In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
  • 62:8 Trust in him at all times; you people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
  • 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.
  • 62:10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart on them.
  • 62:11 God has spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongs to God.
  • 62:12 Also to you, O Lord, belongs mercy: for you render to every man according to his work.

Psalm 61

  • 61:1 Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer.
  • 61:2 From the end of the earth will I cry to you, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
  • 61:3 For you have been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
  • 61:4 I will abide in your tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of your wings. Selah.
  • 61:5 For you, O God, have heard my vows: you have given me the heritage of those that fear your name.
  • 61:6 You will prolong the king’s life: and his years as many generations.
  • 61:7 He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.
  • 61:8 So will I sing praise to your name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.

Psalm 60

  • 60:1 O God, you have cast us off, you have scattered us, you have been displeased; O turn yourself to us again.
  • 60:2 You have made the earth to tremble; you have broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shakes.
  • 60:3 You have showed your people hard things: you have made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
  • 60:4 You have given a banner to them that fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
  • 60:5 That your beloved may be delivered; save with your right hand, and hear me.
  • 60:6 God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
  • 60:7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of my head; Judah is my lawgiver;
  • 60:8 Moab is my wash pot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph you because of me.
  • 60:9 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
  • 60:10 Will not you, O God, which had cast us off? and you, O God, which did not go out with our armies?
  • 60:11 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
  • 60:12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

Psalm 59

  • 59:1 Deliver me from my enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.
  • 59:2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
  • 59:3 For, see, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.
  • 59:4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.
  • 59:5 You therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
  • 59:6 They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
  • 59:7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, does hear?
  • 59:8 But you, O LORD, shall laugh at them; you shall have all the heathen in derision.
  • 59:9 Because of his strength will I wait on you: for God is my defense.
  • 59:10 The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire on my enemies.
  • 59:11 Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by your power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
  • 59:12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
  • 59:13 Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God rules in Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah.
  • 59:14 And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
  • 59:15 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
  • 59:16 But I will sing of your power; yes, I will sing aloud of your mercy in the morning: for you have been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble.
  • 59:17 To you, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defense, and the God of my mercy.

Psalm 58

  • 58:1 Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men?
  • 58:2 Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
  • 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
  • 58:4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stops her ear;
  • 58:5 Which will not listen to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
  • 58:6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
  • 58:7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
  • 58:8 As a snail which melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
  • 58:9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
  • 58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
  • 58:11 So that a man shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous: truly he is a God that judges in the earth.

Psalm 57

  • 57:1 Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me: for my soul trusts in you: yes, in the shadow of your wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be over.
  • 57:2 I will cry to God most high; to God that performes all things for me.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 57:5 Be you exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be above all the earth.
  • 57:6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have dig a pit before me, into the middle whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
  • 57:7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.
  • 57:8 Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
  • 57:9 I will praise you, O Lord, among the people: I will sing to you among the nations.
  • 57:10 For your mercy is great to the heavens, and your truth to the clouds.
  • 57:11 Be you exalted, O God, above the heavens: let your glory be above all the earth.

Psalm 56

  • 56:1 Be merciful to me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresses me.
  • 56:2 My enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O you most High.
  • 56:3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in you.
  • 56:4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do to me.
  • 56:5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
  • 56:6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
  • 56:7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in your anger cast down the people, O God.
  • 56:8 You tell my wanderings: put you my tears into your bottle: are they not in your book?
  • 56:9 When I cry to you, then shall my enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.
  • 56:10 In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word.
  • 56:11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do to me.
  • 56:12 Your vows are on me, O God: I will render praises to you.
  • 56:13 For you have delivered my soul from death: will not you deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?