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Psalm 30

  • 30:1 I will extol you, O LORD; for you have lifted me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.
  • 30:2 O LORD my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.
  • 30:3 O LORD, you have brought up my soul from the grave: you have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
  • 30:4 Sing to the LORD, O you saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
  • 30:5 For his anger endures but a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
  • 30:6 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
  • 30:7 LORD, by your favor you have made my mountain to stand strong: you did hide your face, and I was troubled.
  • 30:8 I cried to you, O LORD; and to the LORD I made supplication.
  • 30:9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? shall it declare your truth?
  • 30:10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy on me: LORD, be you my helper.
  • 30:11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing: you have put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
  • 30:12 To the end that my glory may sing praise to you, and not be silent.  O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you for ever.

Psalm 29

  • 29:1 Give to the LORD, O you mighty, give to the LORD glory and strength.
  • 29:2 Give to the LORD the glory due to his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
  • 29:3 The voice of the LORD is on the waters: the God of glory thunders: the LORD is on many waters.
  • 29:4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
  • 29:5 The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; yes, the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
  • 29:6 He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
  • 29:7 The voice of the LORD divides the flames of fire.
  • 29:8 The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
  • 29:9 The voice of the LORD makes the hinds to calve, and discovers the forests: and in his temple does every one speak of his glory.
  • 29:10 The LORD sits on the flood; yes, the LORD sits King for ever.
  • 29:11 The LORD will give strength to his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.

Psalm 28

  • 28:1 To you will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if you be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
  • 28:2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy oracle.
  • 28:3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.
  • 28:4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
  • 28:5 Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
  • 28:6 Blessed be the LORD, because he has heard the voice of my supplications.
  • 28:7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoices; and with my song will I praise him.
  • 28:8 The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
  • 28:9 Save your people, and bless your inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.

Psalm 27

  • 27:1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
  • 27:2 When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came on me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
  • 27:3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
  • 27:4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.
  • 27:5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up on a rock.
  • 27:6 And now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.
  • 27:7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also on me, and answer me.
  • 27:8 When you said, Seek you my face; my heart said to you, Your face, LORD, will I seek.
  • 27:9 Hide not your face far from me; put not your servant away in anger: you have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
  • 27:10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
  • 27:11 Teach me your way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies.
  • 27:12 Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
  • 27:13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
  • 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

Psalm 26

  • 26:1 Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in my integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.
  • 26:2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
  • 26:3 For your loving kindness is before my eyes: and I have walked in your truth.
  • 26:4 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
  • 26:5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
  • 26:6 I will wash my hands in innocence: so will I compass your altar, O LORD:
  • 26:7 That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all your wondrous works.
  • 26:8 LORD, I have loved the habitation of your house, and the place where your honor dwells.
  • 26:9 Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
  • 26:10 In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
  • 26:11 But as for me, I will walk in my integrity: redeem me, and be merciful to me.
  • 26:12 My foot stands in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.

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.