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Psalm 140

  • 140:1 Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
  • 140:2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
  • 140:3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
  • 140:4 Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
  • 140:5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
  • 140:6 I said to the LORD, You are my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD.
  • 140:7 O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.
  • 140:8 Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
  • 140:9 As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
  • 140:10 Let burning coals fall on them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
  • 140:11 Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
  • 140:12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
  • 140:13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks to your name: the upright shall dwell in your presence.

Psalm 139

  • 139:1 O lord, you have searched me, and known me.
  • 139:2 You know my sitting down and my rising up, you understand my thought afar off.
  • 139:3 You compass my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
  • 139:4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, see, O LORD, you know it altogether.
  • 139:5 You have beset me behind and before, and laid your hand on me.
  • 139:6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain to it.
  • 139:7 Where shall I go from your spirit? or where shall I flee from your presence?
  • 139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, you are there.
  • 139:9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
  • 139:10 Even there shall your hand lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
  • 139:11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
  • 139:12 Yes, the darkness hides not from you; but the night shines as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you.
  • 139:13 For you have possessed my reins: you have covered me in my mother’s womb.
  • 139:14 I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are your works; and that my soul knows right well.
  • 139:15 My substance was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and curiously worked in the lowest parts of the earth.
  • 139:16 Your eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect; and in your book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
  • 139:17 How precious also are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
  • 139:18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with you.
  • 139:19 Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, you bloody men.
  • 139:20 For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain.
  • 139:21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate you? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against you?
  • 139:22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them my enemies.
  • 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
  • 139:24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Psalm 138

  • 138:1 I will praise you with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise to you.
  • 138:2 I will worship toward your holy temple, and praise your name for your loving kindness and for your truth: for you have magnified your word above all your name.
  • 138:3 In the day when I cried you answered me, and strengthened me with strength in my soul.
  • 138:4 All the kings of the earth shall praise you, O LORD, when they hear the words of your mouth.
  • 138:5 Yes, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD.
  • 138:6 Though the LORD be high, yet has he respect to the lowly: but the proud he knows afar off.
  • 138:7 Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me: you shall stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand shall save me.
  • 138:8 The LORD will perfect that which concerns me: your mercy, O LORD, endures for ever: forsake not the works of your own hands.

Psalm 137

  • 137:1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
  • 137:2 We hanged our harps on the willows in the middle thereof.
  • 137:3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
  • 137:4 How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a strange land?
  • 137:5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
  • 137:6 If I do not remember you, let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
  • 137:7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation thereof.
  • 137:8 O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewards you as you have served us.
  • 137:9 Happy shall he be, that takes and dashes your little ones against the stones.

Psalm 136

  • 136:1 O give thanks to the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:2 O give thanks to the God of gods: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:4 To him who alone does great wonders: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:5 To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:6 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:7 To him that made great lights: for his mercy endures for ever:
  • 136:8 The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endures for ever:
  • 136:9 The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:10 To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endures for ever:
  • 136:11 And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endures for ever:
  • 136:12 With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:13 To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endures for ever:
  • 136:14 And made Israel to pass through the middle of it: for his mercy endures for ever:
  • 136:15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:16 To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:17 To him which smote great kings: for his mercy endures for ever:
  • 136:18 And slew famous kings: for his mercy endures for ever:
  • 136:19 Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endures for ever:
  • 136:20 And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endures for ever:
  • 136:21 And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy endures for ever:
  • 136:22 Even an heritage to Israel his servant: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:23 Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endures for ever:
  • 136:24 And has redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:25 Who gives food to all flesh: for his mercy endures for ever.
  • 136:26 O give thanks to the God of heaven: for his mercy endures for ever.

Psalm 135

  • 135:1 Praise you the LORD. Praise you the name of the LORD; praise him, O you servants of the LORD.
  • 135:2 You that stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God.
  • 135:3 Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good: sing praises to his name; for it is pleasant.
  • 135:4 For the LORD has chosen Jacob to himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.
  • 135:5 For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.
  • 135:6 Whatever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
  • 135:7 He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning for the rain; he brings the wind out of his treasuries.
  • 135:8 Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.
  • 135:9 Who sent tokens and wonders into the middle of you, O Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his servants.
  • 135:10 Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;
  • 135:11 Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan:
  • 135:12 And gave their land for an heritage, an heritage to Israel his people.
  • 135:13 Your name, O LORD, endures for ever; and your memorial, O LORD, throughout all generations.
  • 135:14 For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.
  • 135:15 The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
  • 135:16 They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;
  • 135:17 They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths.
  • 135:18 They that make them are like to them: so is every one that trusts in them.
  • 135:19 Bless the LORD, O house of Israel: bless the LORD, O house of Aaron:
  • 135:20 Bless the LORD, O house of Levi: you that fear the LORD, bless the LORD.
  • 135:21 Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, which dwells at Jerusalem.  Praise you the LORD.

Psalm 134

  • 134:1 Behold, bless you the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD.
  • 134:2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
  • 134:3 The LORD that made heaven and earth bless you out of Zion.

Psalm 133

  • 133:1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity!
  • 133:2 It is like the precious ointment on the head, that ran down on the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;
  • 133:3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended on the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for ever more.

Psalm 132

  • 132:1 Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions:
  • 132:2 How he swore to the LORD, and vowed to the mighty God of Jacob;
  • 132:3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;
  • 132:4 I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids,
  • 132:5 Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
  • 132:6 See, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.
  • 132:7 We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.
  • 132:8 Arise, O LORD, into your rest; you, and the ark of your strength.
  • 132:9 Let your priests be clothed with righteousness; and let your saints shout for joy.
  • 132:10 For your servant David’s sake turn not away the face of your anointed.
  • 132:11 The LORD has sworn in truth to David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of your body will I set on your throne.
  • 132:12 If your children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit on your throne for ever more.
  • 132:13 For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation.
  • 132:14 This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
  • 132:15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.
  • 132:16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.
  • 132:17 There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.
  • 132:18 His enemies will I clothe with shame: but on himself shall his crown flourish.

Psalm 131

  • 131:1 Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
  • 131:2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
  • 131:3 Let Israel hope in the LORD from now on and for ever.