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Psalm 55

  • 55:1 Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not yourself from my supplication.
  • 55:2 Attend to me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
  • 55:3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity on me, and in wrath they hate me.
  • 55:4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen on me.
  • 55:5 Fearfulness and trembling are come on me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
  • 55:6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
  • 55:7 See, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
  • 55:8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
  • 55:9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
  • 55:10 Day and night they go about it on the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the middle of it.
  • 55:11 Wickedness is in the middle thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
  • 55:12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
  • 55:13 But it was you, a man my equal, my guide, and my acquaintance.
  • 55:14 We took sweet counsel together, and walked to the house of God in company.
  • 55:15 Let death seize on them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
  • 55:16 As for me, I will call on God; and the LORD shall save me.
  • 55:17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
  • 55:18 He has delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
  • 55:19 God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that stays of old.
  • Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
  • 55:20 He has put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he has broken his covenant.
  • 55:21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
  • 55:22 Cast your burden on the LORD, and he shall sustain you: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
  • 55:23 But you, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in you.

Psalm 54

  • 54:1 Save me, O God, by your name, and judge me by your strength.
  • 54:2 Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
  • 54:3 For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
  • 54:4 Behold, God is my helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul.
  • 54:5 He shall reward evil to my enemies: cut them off in your truth.
  • 54:6 I will freely sacrifice to you: I will praise your name, O LORD; for it is good.
  • 54:7 For he has delivered me out of all trouble: and my eye has seen his desire on my enemies.

Psalm 53

  • 53:1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that does good.
  • 53:2 God looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
  • 53:3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that does good, no, not one.
  • 53:4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called on God.
  • 53:5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God has scattered the bones of him that encamps against you: you have put them to shame, because God has despised them.
  • 53:6 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

Psalm 52

  • 52:1 Why boast you yourself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endures continually.
  • 52:2 The tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
  • 52:3 You love evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
  • 52:4 You love all devouring words, O you deceitful tongue.
  • 52:5 God shall likewise destroy you for ever, he shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
  • 52:6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
  • 52:7 See, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
  • 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.
  • 52:9 I will praise you for ever, because you have done it: and I will wait on your name; for it is good before your saints.

Psalm 51

  • 51:1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your loving kindness: according to the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
  • 51:2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
  • 51:3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
  • 51:4 Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done this evil in your sight: that you might be justified when you speak, and be clear when you judge.
  • 51:5 Behold, I was shaped in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
  • 51:6 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part you shall make me to know wisdom.
  • 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
  • 51:8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
  • 51:9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
  • 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
  • 51:11 Cast me not away from your presence; and take not your holy spirit from me.
  • 51:12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation; and uphold me with your free spirit.
  • 51:13 Then will I teach transgressors your ways; and sinners shall be converted to you.
  • 51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, you God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
  • 51:15 O Lord, open you my lips; and my mouth shall show forth your praise.
  • 51:16 For you desire not sacrifice; else would I give it: you delight not in burnt offering.
  • 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
  • 51:18 Do good in your good pleasure to Zion: build you the walls of Jerusalem.
  • 51:19 Then shall you be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks on your altar.

Psalm 50

  • 50:1 The mighty God, even the LORD, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof.
  • 50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined.
  • 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.
  • 50:4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
  • 50:5 Gather my saints together to me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
  • 50:6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
  • 50:7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, even your God.
  • 50:8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
  • 50:9 I will take no bullock out of your house, nor he goats out of your folds.
  • 50:10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
  • 50:11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
  • 50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.
  • 50:13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
  • 50:14 Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay your vows to the most High:
  • 50:15 And call on me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.
  • 50:16 But to the wicked God said, What have you to do to declare my statutes, or that you should take my covenant in your mouth?
  • 50:17 Seeing you hate instruction, and casts my words behind you.
  • 50:18 When you saw a thief, then you consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers.
  • 50:19 You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
  • 50:20 You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
  • 50:21 These things have you done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether such an one as yourself: but I will reprove you, and set them in order before your eyes.
  • 50:22 Now consider this, you that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
  • 50:23 Whoever offers praise glorifies me: and to him that orders his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God.

Psalm 49

  • 49:1 Hear this, all you people; give ear, all you inhabitants of the world:
  • 49:2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
  • 49:3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
  • 49:4 I will incline my ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying on the harp.
  • 49:5 Why should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
  • 49:6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
  • 49:7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
  • 49:8 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceases for ever:)
  • 49:9 That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
  • 49:10 For he sees that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
  • 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.
  • 49:12 Nevertheless man being in honor stays not: he is like the beasts that perish.
  • 49:13 This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
  • 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.
  • 49:15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
  • 49:16 Be not you afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
  • 49:17 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
  • 49:18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise you, when you do well to yourself.
  • 49:19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
  • 49:20 Man that is in honor, and understands not, is like the beasts that perish.

Psalm 48

  • 48:1 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
  • 48:2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
  • 48:3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
  • 48:4 For, see, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
  • 48:5 They saw it, and so they marveled; they were troubled, and hurried away.
  • 48:6 Fear took hold on them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
  • 48:7 You break the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
  • 48:8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
  • 48:9 We have thought of your loving kindness, O God, in the middle of your temple.
  • 48:10 According to your name, O God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth: your right hand is full of righteousness.
  • 48:11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of your judgments.
  • 48:12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
  • 48:13 Mark you well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that you may tell it to the generation following.
  • 48:14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even to death.

Psalm 47

  • 47:1 O clap your hands, all you people; shout to God with the voice of triumph.
  • 47:2 For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
  • 47:3 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.
  • 47:4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
  • 47:5 God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
  • 47:6 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises to our King, sing praises.
  • 47:7 For God is the King of all the earth: sing you praises with understanding.
  • 47:8 God reigns over the heathen: God sits on the throne of his holiness.
  • 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 to God: he is greatly exalted.

Psalm 46

  • 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
  • 46:2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the middle of the sea;
  • 46:3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
  • 46:4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
  • 46:5 God is in the middle of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
  • 46:6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
  • 46:7 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
  • 46:8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he has made in the earth.
  • 46:9 He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow, and cuts the spear in sunder; he burns the chariot in the fire.
  • 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
  • 46:11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.