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Psalm 120

  • 120:1 In my distress I cried to the LORD, and he heard me.
  • 120:2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
  • 120:3 What shall be given to you? or what shall be done to you, you false tongue?
  • 120:4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
  • 120:5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
  • 120:6 My soul has long dwelled with him that hates peace.
  • 120:7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

Psalm 119

  • 119:1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
  • 119:2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
  • 119:3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
  • 119:4 You have commanded us to keep your precepts diligently.
  • 119:5 O that my ways were directed to keep your statutes!
  • 119:6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect to all your commandments.
  • 119:7 I will praise you with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned your righteous judgments.
  • 119:8 I will keep your statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
  • 119:9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to your word.
  • 119:10 With my whole heart have I sought you: O let me not wander from your commandments.
  • 119:11 Your word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
  • 119:12 Blessed are you, O LORD: teach me your statutes.
  • 119:13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of your mouth.
  • 119:14 I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.
  • 119:15 I will meditate in your precepts, and have respect to your ways.
  • 119:16 I will delight myself in your statutes: I will not forget your word.
  • 119:17 Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live, and keep your word.
  • 119:18 Open you my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
  • 119:19 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not your commandments from me.
  • 119:20 My soul breaks for the longing that it has to your judgments at all times.
  • 119:21 You have rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from your commandments.
  • 119:22 Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept your testimonies.
  • 119:23 Princes also did sit and speak against me: but your servant did meditate in your statutes.
  • 119:24 Your testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
  • 119:25 My soul sticks to the dust: quicken you me according to your word.
  • 119:26 I have declared my ways, and you heard me: teach me your statutes.
  • 119:27 Make me to understand the way of your precepts: so shall I talk of your wondrous works.
  • 119:28 My soul melts for heaviness: strengthen you me according to your word.
  • 119:29 Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me your law graciously.
  • 119:30 I have chosen the way of truth: your judgments have I laid before me.
  • 119:31 I have stuck to your testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.
  • 119:32 I will run the way of your commandments, when you shall enlarge my heart.
  • 119:33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of your statutes; and I shall keep it to the end.
  • 119:34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep your law; yes, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
  • 119:35 Make me to go in the path of your commandments; for therein do I delight.
  • 119:36 Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to covetousness.
  • 119:37 Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken you me in your way.
  • 119:38 Establish your word to your servant, who is devoted to your fear.
  • 119:39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for your judgments are good.
  • 119:40 Behold, I have longed after your precepts: quicken me in your righteousness.
  • 119:41 Let your mercies come also to me, O LORD, even your salvation, according to your word.
  • 119:42 So shall I have with which to answer him that reproaches me: for I trust in your word.
  • 119:43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in your judgments.
  • 119:44 So shall I keep your law continually for ever and ever.
  • 119:45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek your precepts.
  • 119:46 I will speak of your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.
  • 119:47 And I will delight myself in your commandments, which I have loved.
  • 119:48 My hands also will I lift up to your commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in your statutes.
  • 119:49 Remember the word to your servant, on which you have caused me to hope.
  • 119:50 This is my comfort in my affliction: for your word has quickened me.
  • 119:51 The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from your law.
  • 119:52 I remembered your judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.
  • 119:53 Horror has taken hold on me because of the wicked that forsake your law.
  • 119:54 Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
  • 119:55 I have remembered your name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept your law.
  • 119:56 This I had, because I kept your precepts.
  • 119:57 You are my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep your words.
  • 119:58 I entreated your favor with my whole heart: be merciful to me according to your word.
  • 119:59 I thought on my ways, and turned my feet to your testimonies.
  • 119:60 I made haste, and delayed not to keep your commandments.
  • 119:61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten your law.
  • 119:62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you because of your righteous judgments.
  • 119:63 I am a companion of all them that fear you, and of them that keep your precepts.
  • 119:64 The earth, O LORD, is full of your mercy: teach me your statutes.
  • 119:65 You have dealt well with your servant, O LORD, according to your word.
  • 119:66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed your commandments.
  • 119:67 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept your word.
  • 119:68 You are good, and do good; teach me your statutes.
  • 119:69 The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep your precepts with my whole heart.
  • 119:70 Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in your law.
  • 119:71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn your statutes.
  • 119:72 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
  • 119:73 Your hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.
  • 119:74 They that fear you will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in your word.
  • 119:75 I know, O LORD, that your judgments are right, and that you in faithfulness have afflicted me.
  • 119:76 Let, I pray you, your merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant.
  • 119:77 Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live: for your law is my delight.
  • 119:78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in your precepts.
  • 119:79 Let those that fear you turn to me, and those that have known your testimonies.
  • 119:80 Let my heart be sound in your statutes; that I be not ashamed.
  • 119:81 My soul faints for your salvation: but I hope in your word.
  • 119:82 My eyes fail for your word, saying, When will you comfort me?
  • 119:83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget your statutes.
  • 119:84 How many are the days of your servant? when will you execute judgment on them that persecute me?
  • 119:85 The proud have dig pits for me, which are not after your law.
  • 119:86 All your commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help you me.
  • 119:87 They had almost consumed me on earth; but I forsook not your precepts.
  • 119:88 Quicken me after your loving kindness; so shall I keep the testimony of your mouth.
  • 119:89 For ever, O LORD, your word is settled in heaven.
  • 119:90 Your faithfulness is to all generations: you have established the earth, and it stays.
  • 119:91 They continue this day according to your ordinances: for all are your servants.
  • 119:92 Unless your law had been my delights, I should then have perished in my affliction.
  • 119:93 I will never forget your precepts: for with them you have quickened me.
  • 119:94 I am yours, save me: for I have sought your precepts.
  • 119:95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider your testimonies.
  • 119:96 I have seen an end of all perfection: but your commandment is exceeding broad.
  • 119:97 O how I love your law! it is my meditation all the day.
  • 119:98 You through your commandments have made me wiser than my enemies: for they are ever with me.
  • 119:99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for your testimonies are my meditation.
  • 119:100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep your precepts.
  • 119:101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep your word.
  • 119:102 I have not departed from your judgments: for you have taught me.
  • 119:103 How sweet are your words to my taste! yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
  • 119:104 Through your precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
  • 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.
  • 119:106 I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep your righteous judgments.
  • 119:107 I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according to your word.
  • 119:108 Accept, I beseech you, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me your judgments.
  • 119:109 My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget your law.
  • 119:110 The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from your precepts.
  • 119:111 Your testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
  • 119:112 I have inclined my heart to perform your statutes always, even to the end.
  • 119:113 I hate vain thoughts: but your law do I love.
  • 119:114 You are my hiding place and my shield: I hope in your word.
  • 119:115 Depart from me, you evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
  • 119:116 Uphold me according to your word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
  • 119:117 Hold you me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect to your statutes continually.
  • 119:118 You have trodden down all them that err from your statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
  • 119:119 You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love your testimonies.
  • 119:120 My flesh trembles for fear of you; and I am afraid of your judgments.
  • 119:121 I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to my oppressors.
  • 119:122 Be surety for your servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
  • 119:123 My eyes fail for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.
  • 119:124 Deal with your servant according to your mercy, and teach me your statutes.
  • 119:125 I am your servant; give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.
  • 119:126 It is time for you, LORD, to work: for they have made void your law.
  • 119:127 Therefore I love your commandments above gold; yes, above fine gold.
  • 119:128 Therefore I esteem all your precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
  • 119:129 Your testimonies are wonderful: therefore does my soul keep them.
  • 119:130 The entrance of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.
  • 119:131 I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for your commandments.
  • 119:132 Look you on me, and be merciful to me, as you use to do to those that love your name.
  • 119:133 Order my steps in your word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
  • 119:134 Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep your precepts.
  • 119:135 Make your face to shine on your servant; and teach me your statutes.
  • 119:136 Rivers of waters run down my eyes, because they keep not your law.
  • 119:137 Righteous are you, O LORD, and upright are your judgments.
  • 119:138 Your testimonies that you have commanded are righteous and very faithful.
  • 119:139 My zeal has consumed me, because my enemies have forgotten your words.
  • 119:140 Your word is very pure: therefore your servant loves it.
  • 119:141 I am small and despised: yet do not I forget your precepts.
  • 119:142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your law is the truth.
  • 119:143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet your commandments are my delights.
  • 119:144 The righteousness of your testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
  • 119:145 I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep your statutes.
  • 119:146 I cried to you; save me, and I shall keep your testimonies.
  • 119:147 I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in your word.
  • 119:148 My eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in your word.
  • 119:149 Hear my voice according to your loving kindness: O LORD, quicken me according to your judgment.
  • 119:150 They draw near that follow after mischief: they are far from your law.
  • 119:151 You are near, O LORD; and all your commandments are truth.
  • 119:152 Concerning your testimonies, I have known of old that you have founded them for ever.
  • 119:153 Consider my affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget your law.
  • 119:154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to your word.
  • 119:155 Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not your statutes.
  • 119:156 Great are your tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to your judgments.
  • 119:157 Many are my persecutors and my enemies; yet do I not decline from your testimonies.
  • 119:158 I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not your word.
  • 119:159 Consider how I love your precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to your loving kindness.
  • 119:160 Your word is true from the beginning: and every one of your righteous judgments endures for ever.
  • 119:161 Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart stands in awe of your word.
  • 119:162 I rejoice at your word, as one that finds great spoil.
  • 119:163 I hate and abhor lying: but your law do I love.
  • 119:164 Seven times a day do I praise you because of your righteous judgments.
  • 119:165 Great peace have they which love your law: and nothing shall offend them.
  • 119:166 LORD, I have hoped for your salvation, and done your commandments.
  • 119:167 My soul has kept your testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
  • 119:168 I have kept your precepts and your testimonies: for all my ways are before you.
  • 119:169 Let my cry come near before you, O LORD: give me understanding according to your word.
  • 119:170 Let my supplication come before you: deliver me according to your word.
  • 119:171 My lips shall utter praise, when you have taught me your statutes.
  • 119:172 My tongue shall speak of your word: for all your commandments are righteousness.
  • 119:173 Let your hand help me; for I have chosen your precepts.
  • 119:174 I have longed for your salvation, O LORD; and your law is my delight.
  • 119:175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise you; and let your judgments help me.
  • 119:176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant; for I do not forget your commandments.

Psalm 118

  • 118:1 O give thanks to the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endures for ever.
  • 118:2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy endures for ever.
  • 118:3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endures for ever.
  • 118:4 Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endures for ever.
  • 118:5 I called on the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.
  • 118:6 The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do to me?
  • 118:7 The LORD takes my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire on them that hate me.
  • 118:8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
  • 118:9 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.
  • 118:10 All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.
  • 118:11 They compassed me about; yes, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
  • 118:12 They compassed me about like bees: they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
  • 118:13 You have thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.
  • 118:14 The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.
  • 118:15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly.
  • 118:16 The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly.
  • 118:17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
  • 118:18 The LORD has chastened me sore: but he has not given me over to death.
  • 118:19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:
  • 118:20 This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.
  • 118:21 I will praise you: for you have heard me, and are become my salvation.
  • 118:22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
  • 118:23 This is the LORD’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.
  • 118:24 This is the day which the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
  • 118:25 Save now, I beseech you, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech you, send now prosperity.
  • 118:26 Blessed be he that comes in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.
  • 118:27 God is the LORD, which has showed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.
  • 118:28 You are my God, and I will praise you: you are my God, I will exalt you.
  • 118:29 O give thanks to the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endures for ever.

Psalm 117

  • 117:1 O praise the LORD, all you nations: praise him, all you people.
  • 117:2 For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endures for ever. Praise you the LORD.

Psalm 116

  • 116:1 I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my supplications.
  • 116:2 Because he has inclined his ear to me, therefore will I call on him as long as I live.
  • 116:3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell got hold on me: I found trouble and sorrow.
  • 116:4 Then called I on the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech you, deliver my soul.
  • 116:5 Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yes, our God is merciful.
  • 116:6 The LORD preserves the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
  • 116:7 Return to your rest, O my soul; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.
  • 116:8 For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
  • 116:9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
  • 116:10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
  • 116:11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
  • 116:12 What shall I render to the LORD for all his benefits toward me?
  • 116:13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the LORD.
  • 116:14 I will pay my vows to the LORD now in the presence of all his people.
  • 116:15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
  • 116:16 O LORD, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, and the son of your handmaid: you have loosed my bonds.
  • 116:17 I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on the name of the LORD.
  • 116:18 I will pay my vows to the LORD now in the presence of all his people.
  • 116:19 In the courts of the LORD’s house, in the middle of you, O Jerusalem. Praise you the LORD.

Psalm 115

  • 115:1 Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your mercy, and for your truth’s sake.
  • 115:2 Why should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
  • 115:3 But our God is in the heavens: he has done whatever he has pleased.
  • 115:4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
  • 115:5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:
  • 115:6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:
  • 115:7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
  • 115:8 They that make them are like to them; so is every one that trusts in them.
  • 115:9 O Israel, trust you in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.
  • 115:10 O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.
  • 115:11 You that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.
  • 115:12 The LORD has been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.
  • 115:13 He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great.
  • 115:14 The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
  • 115:15 You are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
  • 115:16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’s: but the earth has he given to the children of men.
  • 115:17 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
  • 115:18 But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for ever more.  Praise the LORD.

Psalm 114

  • 114:1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
  • 114:2 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
  • 114:3 The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
  • 114:4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
  • 114:5 What ailed you, O you sea, that you fled? you Jordan, that you were driven back?
  • 114:6 You mountains, that you skipped like rams; and you little hills, like lambs?
  • 114:7 Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;
  • 114:8 Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

Psalm 113

  • 113:1 Praise you the LORD. Praise, O you servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD.
  • 113:2 Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for ever more.
  • 113:3 From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same the LORD’s name is to be praised.
  • 113:4 The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.
  • 113:5 Who is like to the LORD our God, who dwells on high,
  • 113:6 Who humbles himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!
  • 113:7 He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the dunghill;
  • 113:8 That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.
  • 113:9 He makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise you the LORD.

Psalm 112

  • 112:1 Praise you the LORD. Blessed is the man that fears the LORD, that delights greatly in his commandments.
  • 112:2 His seed shall be mighty on earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.
  • 112:3 Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endures for ever.
  • 112:4 To the upright there rises light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
  • 112:5 A good man shows favor, and lends: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
  • 112:6 Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
  • 112:7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.
  • 112:8 His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he see his desire on his enemies.
  • 112:9 He has dispersed, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honor.
  • 112:10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 111

  • 111:1 Praise you the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.
  • 111:2 The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
  • 111:3 His work is honorable and glorious: and his righteousness endures for ever.
  • 111:4 He has made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD is gracious and full of compassion.
  • 111:5 He has given meat to them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant.
  • 111:6 He has showed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.
  • 111:7 The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.
  • 111:8 They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.
  • 111:9 He sent redemption to his people: he has commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.
  • 111:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endures for ever.