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Psalm 25

  • 25:1 To you, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
  • 25:2 O my God, I trust in you: let me not be ashamed, let not my enemies triumph over me.
  • 25:3 Yes, let none that wait on you be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
  • 25:4 Show me your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths.
  • 25:5 Lead me in your truth, and teach me: for you are the God of my salvation; on you do I wait all the day.
  • 25:6 Remember, O LORD, your tender mercies and your loving kindnesses; for they have been ever of old.
  • 25:7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to your mercy remember you me for your goodness’ sake, O LORD.
  • 25:8 Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
  • 25:9 The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
  • 25:10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
  • 25:11 For your name’s sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity; for it is great.
  • 25:12 What man is he that fears the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
  • 25:13 His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.
  • 25:14 The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.
  • 25:15 My eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
  • 25:16 Turn you to me, and have mercy on me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
  • 25:17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring you me out of my distresses.
  • 25:18 Look on my affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
  • 25:19 Consider my enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
  • 25:20 O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in you.
  • 25:21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on you.
  • 25:22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

Psalm 24

  • 24:1 The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
  • 24:2 For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.
  • 24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
  • 24:4 He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
  • 24:5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
  • 24:6 This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek your face, O Jacob. Selah.
  • 24:7 Lift up your heads, O you gates; and be you lift up, you everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
  • 24:8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
  • 24:9 Lift up your heads, O you gates; even lift them up, you everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
  • 24:10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.

Psalm 23

  • 23:1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
  • 23:2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside the still waters.
  • 23:3 He restores my soul: he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
  • 23:4 Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me.
  • 23:5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies: you anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.
  • 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

Psalm 22

  • 22:1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
  • 22:2 O my God, I cry in the day time, but you hear not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
  • 22:3 But you are holy, O you that inhabit the praises of Israel.
  • 22:4 Our fathers trusted in you: they trusted, and you did deliver them.
  • 22:5 They cried to you, and were delivered: they trusted in you, and were not confounded.
  • 22:6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
  • 22:7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
  • 22:8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
  • 22:9 But you are he that took me out of the womb: you did make me hope when I was on my mother’s breasts.
  • 22:10 I was cast on you from the womb: you are my God from my mother’s belly.
  • 22:11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
  • 22:12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
  • 22:13 They gaped on me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
  • 22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the middle of my bowels.
  • 22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue sticks to my jaws; and you have brought me into the dust of death.
  • 22:16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
  • 22:17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare on me.
  • 22:18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots on my clothing.
  • 22:19 But be not you far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste you to help me.
  • 22:20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
  • 22:21 Save me from the lion’s mouth: for you have heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
  • 22:22 I will declare your name to my brothers: in the middle of the congregation will I praise you.
  • 22:23 You that fear the LORD, praise him; all you the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all you the seed of Israel.
  • 22:24 For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither has he hid his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.
  • 22:25 My praise shall be of you in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
  • 22:26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
  • 22:27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before you.
  • 22:28 For the kingdom is the LORD’s: and he is the governor among the nations.
  • 22:29 All they that be fat on earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
  • 22:30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
  • 22:31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, that he has done this.

Psalm 21

  • 21:1 The king shall joy in your strength, O LORD; and in your salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
  • 21:2 You have given him his heart’s desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.
  • 21:3 For you prevent him with the blessings of goodness: you set a crown of pure gold on his head.
  • 21:4 He asked life of you, and you gave it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
  • 21:5 His glory is great in your salvation: honor and majesty have you laid on him.
  • 21:6 For you have made him most blessed for ever: you have made him exceeding glad with your countenance.
  • 21:7 For the king trusts in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
  • 21:8 Your hand shall find out all your enemies: your right hand shall find out those that hate you.
  • 21:9 You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
  • 21:10 Their fruit shall you destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
  • 21:11 For they intended evil against you: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
  • 21:12 Therefore shall you make them turn their back, when you shall make ready your arrows on your strings against the face of them.
  • 21:13 Be you exalted, LORD, in your own strength: so will we sing and praise your power.

Psalm 20

  • 20:1 The LORD hear you in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend you;
  • 20:2 Send you help from the sanctuary, and strengthen you out of Zion;
  • 20:3 Remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice; Selah.
  • 20:4 Grant you according to your own heart, and fulfill all your counsel.
  • 20:5 We will rejoice in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfill all your petitions.
  • 20:6 Now know I that the LORD saves his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
  • 20:7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
  • 20:8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
  • 20:9 Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.

Psalm 19

  • 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows his handiwork.
  • 19:2 Day to day utters speech, and night to night shows knowledge.
  • 19:3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
  • 19:4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun,
  • 19:5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.
  • 19:6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit to the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
  • 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
  • 19:8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
  • 19:9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
  • 19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
  • 19:11 Moreover by them is your servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
  • 19:12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse you me from secret faults.
  • 19:13 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
  • 19:14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

Psalm 18

  • 18:1 I will love you, O LORD, my strength.
  • 18:2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
  • 18:3 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies.
  • 18:4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
  • 18:5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
  • 18:6 In my distress I called on the LORD, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
  • 18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
  • 18:8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
  • 18:9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
  • 18:10 And he rode on a cherub, and did fly: yes, he did fly on the wings of the wind.
  • 18:11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
  • 18:12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
  • 18:13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
  • 18:14 Yes, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightning, and discomfited them.
  • 18:15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
  • 18:16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
  • 18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
  • 18:18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
  • 18:19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
  • 18:20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
  • 18:21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
  • 18:22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
  • 18:23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.
  • 18:24 Therefore has the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
  • 18:25 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; with an upright man you will show yourself upright;
  • 18:26 With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the fraudulent you will show yourself devious.
  • 18:27 For you will save the afflicted people; but will bring down high looks.
  • 18:28 For you will light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
  • 18:29 For by you I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
  • 18:30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.
  • 18:31 For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?
  • 18:32 It is God that girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect.
  • 18:33 He makes my feet like hinds’ feet, and sets me on my high places.
  • 18:34 He teaches my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms.
  • 18:35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation: and your right hand has held me up, and your gentleness has made me great.
  • 18:36 You have enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
  • 18:37 I have pursued my enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
  • 18:38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
  • 18:39 For you have girded me with strength to the battle: you have subdued under me those that rose up against me.
  • 18:40 You have also given me the necks of my enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
  • 18:41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even to the LORD, but he answered them not.
  • 18:42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
  • 18:43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; and you have made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
  • 18:44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves to me.
  • 18:45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
  • 18:46 The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
  • 18:47 It is God that avenges me, and subdues the people under me.
  • 18:48 He delivers me from my enemies: yes, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.
  • 18:49 Therefore will I give thanks to you, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises to your name.
  • 18:50 Great deliverance gives he to his king; and shows mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for ever more.

Psalm 17

  • 17:1 Hear the right, O LORD, attend to my cry, give ear to my prayer, that goes not out of feigned lips.
  • 17:2 Let my sentence come forth from your presence; let your eyes behold the things that are equal.
  • 17:3 You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
  • 17:4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
  • 17:5 Hold up my goings in your paths, that my footsteps slip not.
  • 17:6 I have called on you, for you will hear me, O God: incline your ear to me, and hear my speech.
  • 17:7 Show your marvelous loving kindness, O you that save by your right hand them which put their trust in you from those that rise up against them.
  • 17:8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of your wings,
  • 17:9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
  • 17:10 They are enclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
  • 17:11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
  • 17:12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
  • 17:13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is your sword:
  • 17:14 From men which are your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
  • 17:15 As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.

Psalm 16

  • 16:1 Preserve me, O God: for in you do I put my trust.
  • 16:2 O my soul, you have said to the LORD, You are my Lord: my goodness extends not to you;
  • 16:3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
  • 16:4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
  • 16:5 The LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: you maintain my lot.
  • 16:6 The lines are fallen to me in pleasant places; yes, I have a goodly heritage.
  • 16:7 I will bless the LORD, who has given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
  • 16:8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
  • 16:9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
  • 16:10 For you will not leave my soul in hell; neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption.
  • 16:11 You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures for ever more.