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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.

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.