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Psalm 45

  • 45:1 My heart is gushing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
  • 45:2 You are fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into your lips: therefore God has blessed you for ever.
  • 45:3 Gird your sword on your thigh, O most mighty, with your glory and your majesty.
  • 45:4 And in your majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and your right hand shall teach you terrible things.
  • 45:5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under you.
  • 45:6 Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the scepter of your kingdom is a right scepter.
  • 45:7 You love righteousness, and hate wickedness: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
  • 45:8 All your garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made you glad.
  • 45:9 Kings’ daughters were among your honorable women: on your right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
  • 45:10 Listen, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; forget also your own people, and your father’s house;
  • 45:11 So shall the king greatly desire your beauty: for he is your Lord; and worship you him.
  • 45:12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall entreat your favor.
  • 45:13 The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of worked gold.
  • 45:14 She shall be brought to the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought to you.
  • 45:15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace.
  • 45:16 Instead of your fathers shall be your children, whom you may make princes in all the earth.
  • 45:17 I will make your name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise you for ever and ever.

Psalm 44

  • 44:1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old.
  • 44:2 How you did drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out.
  • 44:3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you had a favor to them.
  • 44:4 You are my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
  • 44:5 Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
  • 44:6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
  • 44:7 But you have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated us.
  • 44:8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise your name for ever.  Selah.
  • 44:9 But you have cast off, and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies.
  • 44:10 You make us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
  • 44:11 You have given us like sheep appointed for meat; and have scattered us among the heathen.
  • 44:12 You sell your people for nothing, and do not increase your wealth by their price.
  • 44:13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
  • 44:14 You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
  • 44:15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,
  • 44:16 For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
  • 44:17 All this is come on us; yet have we not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant.
  • 44:18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way;
  • 44:19 Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
  • 44:20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
  • 44:21 Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart.
  • 44:22 Yes, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
  • 44:23 Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
  • 44:24 Why hide you your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
  • 44:25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly sticks to the earth.
  • 44:26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercies’ sake.

Psalm 43

  • 43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
  • 43:2 For you are the God of my strength: why do you cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
  • 43:3 O send out your light and your truth: let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill, and to your tabernacles.
  • 43:4 Then will I go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy: yes, on the harp will I praise you, O God my God.
  • 43:5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Psalm 42

  • 42:1 As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God.
  • 42:2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
  • 42:3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is your God?
  • 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 holy day.
  • 42:5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted in me?  hope you in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
  • 42:6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember you from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
  • 42:7 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterspouts: all your waves and your billows are gone over me.
  • 42:8 Yet the LORD will command his loving kindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer to the God of my life.
  • 42:9 I will say to God my rock, Why have you forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
  • 42:10 As with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say daily to me, Where is your God?
  • 42:11 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope you in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Psalm 41

  • 41:1 Blessed is he that considers the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
  • 41:2 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed on the earth: and you will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.
  • 41:3 The LORD will strengthen him on the bed of languishing: you will make all his bed in his sickness.
  • 41:4 I said, LORD, be merciful to me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against you.
  • 41:5 My enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
  • 41:6 And if he come to see me, he speaks vanity: his heart gathers iniquity to itself; when he goes abroad, he tells it.
  • 41:7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
  • 41:8 An evil disease, say they, sticks fast to him: and now that he lies he shall rise up no more.
  • 41:9 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
  • 41:10 But you, O LORD, be merciful to me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.
  • 41:11 By this I know that you favor me, because my enemy does not triumph over me.
  • 41:12 And as for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me before your face for ever.
  • 41:13 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.

Psalm 40

  • 40:1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined to me, and heard my cry.
  • 40:2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet on a rock, and established my goings.
  • 40:3 And he has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
  • 40:4 Blessed is that man that makes the LORD his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
  • 40:5 Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order to you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
  • 40:6 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.
  • 40:7 Then said I, See, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
  • 40:8 I delight to do your will, O my God: yes, your law is within my heart.
  • 40:9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: see, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, you know.
  • 40:10 I have not hid your righteousness within my heart; I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation: I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great congregation.
  • 40:11 Withhold not you your tender mercies from me, O LORD: let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
  • 40:12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: my iniquities have taken hold on me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart fails me.
  • 40:13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
  • 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.
  • 40:15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say to me, Aha, aha.
  • 40:16 Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: let such as love your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
  • 40:17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks on me: you are my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

Psalm 39

  • 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.
  • 39:2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
  • 39:3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spoke I with my tongue,
  • 39:4 LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.
  • 39:5 Behold, you have made my days as an handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity.  Selah.
  • 39:6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.
  • 39:7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in you.
  • 39:8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
  • 39:9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because you did it.
  • 39:10 Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.
  • 39:11 When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
  • 39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
  • 39:13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

Psalm 38

  • 38:1 O lord, rebuke me not in your wrath: neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
  • 38:2 For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses me sore.
  • 38:3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
  • 38:4 For my iniquities are gone over my head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
  • 38:5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
  • 38:6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
  • 38:7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
  • 38:8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
  • 38:9 Lord, all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hid from you.
  • 38:10 My heart pants, my strength fails me: as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
  • 38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
  • 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.
  • 38:13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that opens not his mouth.
  • 38:14 Thus I was as a man that hears not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
  • 38:15 For in you, O LORD, do I hope: you will hear, O Lord my God.
  • 38:16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.
  • 38:17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
  • 38:18 For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
  • 38:19 But my enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
  • 38:20 They also that render evil for good are my adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
  • 38:21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
  • 38:22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.

Psalm 37

  • 37:1 Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you envious against the workers of iniquity.
  • 37:2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
  • 37:3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shall you dwell in the land, and truly you shall be fed.
  • 37:4 Delight yourself also in the LORD: and he shall give you the desires of your heart.
  • 37:5 Commit your way to the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
  • 37:6 And he shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your judgment as the noonday.
  • 37:7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.
  • 37:8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not yourself in any wise to do evil.
  • 37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait on the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
  • 37:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yes, you shall diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
  • 37:11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
  • 37:12 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes on him with his teeth.
  • 37:13 The LORD shall laugh at him: for he sees that his day is coming.
  • 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.
  • 37:15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
  • 37:16 A little that a righteous man has is better than the riches of many wicked.
  • 37:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholds the righteous.
  • 37:18 The LORD knows the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.
  • 37:19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
  • 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.
  • 37:21 The wicked borrows, and pays not again: but the righteous shows mercy, and gives.
  • 37:22 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.
  • 37:23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delights in his way.
  • 37:24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholds him with his hand.
  • 37:25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
  • 37:26 He is ever merciful, and lends; and his seed is blessed.
  • 37:27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for ever more.
  • 37:28 For the LORD loves judgment, and forsakes not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
  • 37:29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.
  • 37:30 The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of judgment.
  • 37:31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
  • 37:32 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to slay him.
  • 37:33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
  • 37:34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt you to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.
  • 37:35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
  • 37:36 Yet he passed away, and, see, he was not: yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
  • 37:37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
  • 37:38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
  • 37:39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.
  • 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.

Psalm 36

  • 36:1 The transgression of the wicked said within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
  • 36:2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
  • 36:3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has left off to be wise, and to do good.
  • 36:4 He devises mischief on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he abhors not evil.
  • 36:5 Your mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
  • 36:6 Your righteousness is like the great mountains; your judgments are a great deep: O LORD, you preserve man and beast.
  • 36:7 How excellent is your loving kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of your wings.
  • 36:8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of your house; and you shall make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
  • 36:9 For with you is the fountain of life: in your light shall we see light.
  • 36:10 O continue your loving kindness to them that know you; and your righteousness to the upright in heart.
  • 36:11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
  • 36:12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.