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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.

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.