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Psalm 15

  • 15:1 Lord, who shall abide in your tabernacle? who shall dwell in your holy hill?
  • 15:2 He that walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart.
  • 15:3 He that backbites not with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor.
  • 15:4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honors them that fear the LORD. He that swears to his own hurt, and changes not.
  • 15:5 He that puts not out his money to usury, nor takes reward against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.

Psalm 14

  • 14:1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good.
  • 14:2 The LORD looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
  • 14:3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that does good, no, not one.
  • 14:4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not on the LORD.
  • 14:5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
  • 14:6 You have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
  • 14:7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

Psalm 13

  • 13:1 How long will you forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long will you hide your face from me?
  • 13:2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
  • 13:3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
  • 13:4 Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
  • 13:5 But I have trusted in your mercy; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
  • 13:6 I will sing to the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me.

Psalm 12

  • 12:1 Help, LORD; for the godly man ceases; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
  • 12:2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
  • 12:3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things:
  • 12:4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
  • 12:5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, said the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffs at him.
  • 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
  • 12:7 You shall keep them, O LORD, you shall preserve them from this generation for ever.
  • 12:8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

Psalm 11

  • 11:1 In the LORD put I my trust: how say you to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
  • 11:2 For, see, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow on the string, that they may privately shoot at the upright in heart.
  • 11:3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
  • 11:4 The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
  • 11:5 The LORD tries the righteous: but the wicked and him that loves violence his soul hates.
  • 11:6 On the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
  • 11:7 For the righteous LORD loves righteousness; his countenance does behold the upright.

Psalm 10

  • 10:1 Why stand you afar off, O LORD? why hide you yourself in times of trouble?
  • 10:2 The wicked in his pride does persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
  • 10:3 For the wicked boasts of his heart’s desire, and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD abhors.
  • 10:4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
  • 10:5 His ways are always grievous; your judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffs at them.
  • 10:6 He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
  • 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
  • 10:8 He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent: his eyes are privately set against the poor.
  • 10:9 He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to catch the poor: he does catch the poor, when he draws him into his net.
  • 10:10 He crouches, and humbles himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
  • 10:11 He has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he hides his face; he will never see it.
  • 10:12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up your hand: forget not the humble.
  • 10:13 Why does the wicked scorn God? he has said in his heart, You will not require it.
  • 10:14 You have seen it; for you behold mischief and spite, to requite it with your hand: the poor commits himself to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.
  • 10:15 Break you the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till you find none.
  • 10:16 The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
  • 10:17 LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble: you will prepare their heart, you will cause your ear to hear:
  • 10:18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

Psalm 9

  • 9:1 I will praise you, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all your marvelous works.
  • 9:2 I will be glad and rejoice in you: I will sing praise to your name, O you most High.
  • 9:3 When my enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at your presence.
  • 9:4 For you have maintained my right and my cause; you sat in the throne judging right.
  • 9:5 You have rebuked the heathen, you have destroyed the wicked, you have put out their name for ever and ever.
  • 9:6 O you enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and you have destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
  • 9:7 But the LORD shall endure for ever: he has prepared his throne for judgment.
  • 9:8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
  • 9:9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
  • 9:10 And they that know your name will put their trust in you: for you, LORD, have not forsaken them that seek you.
  • 9:11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwells in Zion: declare among the people his doings.
  • 9:12 When he makes inquisition for blood, he remembers them: he forgets not the cry of the humble.
  • 9:13 Have mercy on me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, you that lift me up from the gates of death:
  • 9:14 That I may show forth all your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in your salvation.
  • 9:15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
  • 9:16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executes: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
  • 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
  • 9:18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
  • 9:19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in your sight.
  • 9:20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

Psalm 8

  • 8:1 O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! who have set your glory above the heavens.
  • 8:2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings have you ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still the enemy and the avenger.
  • 8:3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
  • 8:4 What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit him?
  • 8:5 For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and have crowned him with glory and honor.
  • 8:6 You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet:
  • 8:7 All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field;
  • 8:8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
  • 8:9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth!

Psalm 7

  • 7:1 O LORD my God, in you do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
  • 7:2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
  • 7:3 O LORD my God, If I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
  • 7:4 If I have rewarded evil to him that was at peace with me; (yes, I have delivered him that without cause is my enemy:)
  • 7:5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yes, let him tread down my life on the earth, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah.
  • 7:6 Arise, O LORD, in your anger, lift up yourself because of the rage of my enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that you have commanded.
  • 7:7 So shall the congregation of the people compass you about: for their sakes therefore return you on high.
  • 7:8 The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity that is in me.
  • 7:9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God tries the hearts and reins.
  • 7:10 My defense is of God, which saves the upright in heart.
  • 7:11 God judges the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.
  • 7:12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.
  • 7:13 He has also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordains his arrows against the persecutors.
  • 7:14 Behold, he travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
  • 7:15 He made a pit, and dig it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
  • 7:16 His mischief shall return on his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down on his own pate.
  • 7:17 I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.

Psalm 6

  • 6:1 O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
  • 6:2 Have mercy on me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
  • 6:3 My soul is also sore vexed: but you, O LORD, how long?
  • 6:4 Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for your mercies’ sake.
  • 6:5 For in death there is no remembrance of you: in the grave who shall give you thanks?
  • 6:6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
  • 6:7 My eye is consumed because of grief; it waxes old because of all my enemies.
  • 6:8 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; for the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.
  • 6:9 The LORD has heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.
  • 6:10 Let all my enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.