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Psalm 90

  • 90:1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.
  • 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
  • 90:3 You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men.
  • 90:4 For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
  • 90:5 You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.
  • 90:6 In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and wither.
  • 90:7 For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled.
  • 90:8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.
  • 90:9 For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
  • 90:10 The days of our years are three score years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
  • 90:11 Who knows the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so is your wrath.
  • 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
  • 90:13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants.
  • 90:14 O satisfy us early with your mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
  • 90:15 Make us glad according to the days wherein you have afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
  • 90:16 Let your work appear to your servants, and your glory to their children.
  • 90:17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be on us: and establish you the work of our hands on us; yes, the work of our hands establish you it.

Psalm 89

  • 89:1 I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known your faithfulness to all generations.
  • 89:2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: your faithfulness shall you establish in the very heavens.
  • 89:3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant,
  • 89:4 Your seed will I establish for ever, and build up your throne to all generations. Selah.
  • 89:5 And the heavens shall praise your wonders, O LORD: your faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
  • 89:6 For who in the heaven can be compared to the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened to the LORD?
  • 89:7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
  • 89:8 O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like to you? or to your faithfulness round about you?
  • 89:9 You rule the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, you still them.
  • 89:10 You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; you have scattered your enemies with your strong arm.
  • 89:11 The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours: as for the world and the fullness thereof, you have founded them.
  • 89:12 The north and the south you have created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in your name.
  • 89:13 You have a mighty arm: strong is your hand, and high is your right hand.
  • 89:14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of your throne: mercy and truth shall go before your face.
  • 89:15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of your countenance.
  • 89:16 In your name shall they rejoice all the day: and in your righteousness shall they be exalted.
  • 89:17 For you are the glory of their strength: and in your favor our horn shall be exalted.
  • 89:18 For the LORD is our defense; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
  • 89:19 Then you spoke in vision to your holy one, and said, I have laid help on one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
  • 89:20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
  • 89:21 With whom my hand shall be established: my arm also shall strengthen him.
  • 89:22 The enemy shall not exact on him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
  • 89:23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
  • 89:24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
  • 89:25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
  • 89:26 He shall cry to me, You are my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
  • 89:27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
  • 89:28 My mercy will I keep for him for ever more, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
  • 89:29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
  • 89:30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
  • 89:31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
  • 89:32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
  • 89:33 Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
  • 89:34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
  • 89:35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie to David.
  • 89:36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
  • 89:37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
  • 89:38 But you have cast off and abhorred, you have been wroth with your anointed.
  • 89:39 You have made void the covenant of your servant: you have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
  • 89:40 You have broken down all his hedges; you have brought his strong holds to ruin.
  • 89:41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbors.
  • 89:42 You have set up the right hand of his adversaries; you have made all his enemies to rejoice.
  • 89:43 You have also turned the edge of his sword, and have not made him to stand in the battle.
  • 89:44 You have made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
  • 89:45 The days of his youth have you shortened: you have covered him with shame. Selah.
  • 89:46 How long, LORD? will you hide yourself for ever? shall your wrath burn like fire?
  • 89:47 Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain?
  • 89:48 What man is he that lives, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
  • 89:49 Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your truth?
  • 89:50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
  • 89:51 With which your enemies have reproached, O LORD; with which they have reproached the footsteps of your anointed.
  • 89:52 Blessed be the LORD for ever more. Amen, and Amen.

Psalm 88

  • 88:1 O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you:
  • 88:2 Let my prayer come before you: incline your ear to my cry;
  • 88:3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws near to the grave.
  • 88:4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that has no strength:
  • 88:5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more: and they are cut off from your hand.
  • 88:6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
  • 88:7 Your wrath lies hard on me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
  • 88:8 You have put away my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination to them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
  • 88:9 My eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily on you, I have stretched out my hands to you.
  • 88:10 Will you show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise you? Selah.
  • 88:11 Shall your loving kindness be declared in the grave? or your faithfulness in destruction?
  • 88:12 Shall your wonders be known in the dark? and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
  • 88:13 But to you have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent you.
  • 88:14 LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your face from me?
  • 88:15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer your terrors I am distracted.
  • 88:16 Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have cut me off.
  • 88:17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
  • 88:18 Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.

Psalm 87

  • 87:1 His foundation is in the holy mountains.
  • 87:2 The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
  • 87:3 Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah.
  • 87:4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.
  • 87:5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
  • 87:6 The LORD shall count, when he writes up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
  • 87:7 As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in you.

Psalm 86

  • 86:1 Bow down your ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
  • 86:2 Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O you my God, save your servant that trusts in you.
  • 86:3 Be merciful to me, O Lord: for I cry to you daily.
  • 86:4 Rejoice the soul of your servant: for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
  • 86:5 For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy to all them that call on you.
  • 86:6 Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.
  • 86:7 In the day of my trouble I will call on you: for you will answer me.
  • 86:8 Among the gods there is none like to you, O Lord; neither are there any works like to your works.
  • 86:9 All nations whom you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord; and shall glorify your name.
  • 86:10 For you are great, and do wondrous things: you are God alone.
  • 86:11 Teach me your way, O LORD; I will walk in your truth: unite my heart to fear your name.
  • 86:12 I will praise you, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify your name for ever more.
  • 86:13 For great is your mercy toward me: and you have delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
  • 86:14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set you before them.
  • 86:15 But you, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
  • 86:16 O turn to me, and have mercy on me; give your strength to your servant, and save the son of your handmaid.
  • 86:17 Show me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because you, LORD, have helped me, and comforted me.

Psalm 85

  • 85:1 Lord, you have been favorable to your land: you have brought back the captivity of Jacob.
  • 85:2 You have forgiven the iniquity of your people, you have covered all their sin. Selah.
  • 85:3 You have taken away all your wrath: you have turned yourself from the fierceness of your anger.
  • 85:4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause your anger toward us to cease.
  • 85:5 Will you be angry with us for ever? will you draw out your anger to all generations?
  • 85:6 Will you not revive us again: that your people may rejoice in you?
  • 85:7 Show us your mercy, O LORD, and grant us your salvation.
  • 85:8 I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace to his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
  • 85:9 Surely his salvation is near them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
  • 85:10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
  • 85:11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
  • 85:12 Yes, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.
  • 85:13 Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.

Psalm 84

  • 84:1 How amiable are your tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
  • 84:2 My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh cries out for the living God.
  • 84:3 Yes, the sparrow has found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
  • 84:4 Blessed are they that dwell in your house: they will be still praising you. Selah.
  • 84:5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in you; in whose heart are the ways of them.
  • 84:6 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also fills the pools.
  • 84:7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appears before God.
  • 84:8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
  • 84:9 Behold, O God our shield, and look on the face of your anointed.
  • 84:10 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
  • 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
  • 84:12 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in you.

Psalm 83

  • 83:1 Keep not you silence, O God: hold not your peace, and be not still, O God.
  • 83:2 For, see, your enemies make a tumult: and they that hate you have lifted up the head.
  • 83:3 They have taken crafty counsel against your people, and consulted against your hidden ones.
  • 83:4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
  • 83:5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against you:
  • 83:6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
  • 83:7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
  • 83:8 Assur also is joined with them: they have helped the children of Lot.  Selah.
  • 83:9 Do to them as to the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
  • 83:10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
  • 83:11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yes, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
  • 83:12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
  • 83:13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
  • 83:14 As the fire burns a wood, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire;
  • 83:15 So persecute them with your tempest, and make them afraid with your storm.
  • 83:16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek your name, O LORD.
  • 83:17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yes, let them be put to shame, and perish:
  • 83:18 That men may know that you, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, are the most high over all the earth.

Psalm 82

  • 82:1 God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods.
  • 82:2 How long will you judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
  • 82:3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
  • 82:4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
  • 82:5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
  • 82:6 I have said, You are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
  • 82:7 But you shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
  • 82:8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for you shall inherit all nations.

Psalm 81

  • 81:1 Sing aloud to God our strength: make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.
  • 81:2 Take a psalm, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
  • 81:3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
  • 81:4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
  • 81:5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
  • 81:6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
  • 81:7 You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder: I proved you at the waters of Meribah.  Selah.
  • 81:8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify to you: O Israel, if you will listen to me;
  • 81:9 There shall no strange god be in you; neither shall you worship any strange god.
  • 81:10 I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt: open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
  • 81:11 But my people would not listen to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
  • 81:12 So I gave them up to their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
  • 81:13 Oh that my people had listened to me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
  • 81:14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
  • 81:15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves to him: but their time should have endured for ever.
  • 81:16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied you.