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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.

Psalm 5

  • 5:1 Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
  • 5:2 Listen to the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for to you will I pray.
  • 5:3 My voice shall you hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer to you, and will look up.
  • 5:4 For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with you.
  • 5:5 The foolish shall not stand in your sight: you hate all workers of iniquity.
  • 5:6 You shall destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
  • 5:7 But as for me, I will come into your house in the multitude of your mercy: and in your fear will I worship toward your holy temple.
  • 5:8 Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before my face.
  • 5:9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue.
  • 5:10 Destroy you them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against you.
  • 5:11 But let all those that put their trust in you rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because you defend them: let them also that love your name be joyful in you.
  • 5:12 For you, LORD, will bless the righteous; with favor will you compass him as with a shield.

Psalm 4

  • 4:1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: you have enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
  • 4:2 O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame? how long will you love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
  • 4:3 But know that the LORD has set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call to him.
  • 4:4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.
  • 4:5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.
  • 4:6 There be many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift you up the light of your countenance on us.
  • 4:7 You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
  • 4:8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for you, LORD, only make me dwell in safety.

Psalm 3

  • 3:1 Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
  • 3:2 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God.  Selah.
  • 3:3 But you, O LORD, are a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head.
  • 3:4 I cried to the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
  • 3:5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
  • 3:6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.
  • 3:7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for you have smitten all my enemies on the cheek bone; you have broken the teeth of the ungodly.
  • 3:8 Salvation belongs to the LORD: your blessing is on your people.  Selah.

Psalm 2

  • 2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
  • 2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
  • 2:3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
  • 2:4 He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.
  • 2:5 Then shall he speak to them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
  • 2:6 Yet have I set my king on my holy hill of Zion.
  • 2:7 I will declare the decree: the LORD has said to me, You are my Son; this day have I begotten you.
  • 2:8 Ask of me, and I shall give you the heathen for your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
  • 2:9 You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
  • 2:10 Be wise now therefore, O you kings: be instructed, you judges of the earth.
  • 2:11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
  • 2:12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Psalm 1

  • 1:1 Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.
  • 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law does he meditate day and night.
  • 1:3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.
  • 1:4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
  • 1:5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
  • 1:6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.