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Psalm 70

  • 70:1 MAKE HASTE, O GOD, TO DELIVER ME; MAKE HASTE TO HELP ME, O LORD.
  • 70:2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
  • 70:3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.
  • 70:4 Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: and let such as love your salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
  • 70:5 But I am poor and needy: make haste to me, O God: you are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.

Psalm 69

  • 69:1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in to my soul.
  • 69:2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
  • 69:3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
  • 69:4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: they that would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
  • 69:5 O God, you know my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from you.
  • 69:6 Let not them that wait on you, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek you be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
  • 69:7 Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.
  • 69:8 I am become a stranger to my brothers, and an alien to my mother’s children.
  • 69:9 For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen on me.
  • 69:10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
  • 69:11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
  • 69:12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
  • 69:13 But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation.
  • 69:14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
  • 69:15 Let not the flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth on me.
  • 69:16 Hear me, O LORD; for your loving kindness is good: turn to me according to the multitude of your tender mercies.
  • 69:17 And hide not your face from your servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
  • 69:18 Draw near to my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies.
  • 69:19 You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: my adversaries are all before you.
  • 69:20 Reproach has broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
  • 69:21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
  • 69:22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
  • 69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
  • 69:24 Pour out your indignation on them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them.
  • 69:25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
  • 69:26 For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded.
  • 69:27 Add iniquity to their iniquity: and let them not come into your righteousness.
  • 69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
  • 69:29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let your salvation, O God, set me up on high.
  • 69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
  • 69:31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that has horns and hoofs.
  • 69:32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
  • 69:33 For the LORD hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners.
  • 69:34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moves therein.
  • 69:35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
  • 69:36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

Psalm 68

  • 68:1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.
  • 68:2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
  • 68:3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yes, let them exceedingly rejoice.
  • 68:4 Sing to God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rides on the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
  • 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
  • 68:6 God sets the solitary in families: he brings out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
  • 68:7 O God, when you went forth before your people, when you did march through the wilderness; Selah:
  • 68:8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
  • 68:9 You, O God, did send a plentiful rain, whereby you did confirm your inheritance, when it was weary.
  • 68:10 Your congregation has dwelled therein: you, O God, have prepared of your goodness for the poor.
  • 68:11 The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.
  • 68:12 Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.
  • 68:13 Though you have lien among the pots, yet shall you be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
  • 68:14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.
  • 68:15 The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan.
  • 68:16 Why leap you, you high hills? this is the hill which God desires to dwell in; yes, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.
  • 68:17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.
  • 68:18 You have ascended on high, you have led captivity captive: you have received gifts for men; yes, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
  • 68:19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
  • 68:20 He that is our God is the God of salvation; and to GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
  • 68:21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goes on still in his trespasses.
  • 68:22 The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:
  • 68:23 That your foot may be dipped in the blood of your enemies, and the tongue of your dogs in the same.
  • 68:24 They have seen your goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.
  • 68:25 The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with tambourines.
  • 68:26 Bless you God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.
  • 68:27 There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
  • 68:28 Your God has commanded your strength: strengthen, O God, that which you have worked for us.
  • 68:29 Because of your temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents to you.
  • 68:30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter you the people that delight in war.
  • 68:31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands to God.
  • 68:32 Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises to the Lord; Selah:
  • 68:33 To him that rides on the heavens of heavens, which were of old; see, he does send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
  • 68:34 Ascribe you strength to God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
  • 68:35 O God, you are terrible out of your holy places: the God of Israel is he that gives strength and power to his people. Blessed be God.

Psalm 67

  • 67:1 God be merciful to us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine on us; Selah.
  • 67:2 That your way may be known on earth, your saving health among all nations.
  • 67:3 Let the people praise you, O God; let all the people praise you.
  • 67:4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for you shall judge the people righteously, and govern the nations on earth. Selah.
  • 67:5 Let the people praise you, O God; let all the people praise you.
  • 67:6 Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.
  • 67:7 God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.

Psalm 66

  • 66:1 Make a joyful noise to God, all you lands:
  • 66:2 Sing forth the honor of his name: make his praise glorious.
  • 66:3 Say to God, How terrible are you in your works! through the greatness of your power shall your enemies submit themselves to you.
  • 66:4 All the earth shall worship you, and shall sing to you; they shall sing to your name. Selah.
  • 66:5 Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
  • 66:6 He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
  • 66:7 He rules by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
  • 66:8 O bless our God, you people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:
  • 66:9 Which holds our soul in life, and suffers not our feet to be moved.
  • 66:10 For you, O God, have proved us: you have tried us, as silver is tried.
  • 66:11 You brought us into the net; you laid affliction on our loins.
  • 66:12 You have caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but you brought us out into a wealthy place.
  • 66:13 I will go into your house with burnt offerings: I will pay you my vows,
  • 66:14 Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth has spoken, when I was in trouble.
  • 66:15 I will offer to you burnt sacrifices of fatted calves, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
  • 66:16 Come and hear, all you that fear God, and I will declare what he has done for my soul.
  • 66:17 I cried to him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.
  • 66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
  • 66:19 But truly God has heard me; he has attended to the voice of my prayer.
  • 66:20 Blessed be God, which has not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.

Psalm 65

  • 65:1 Praise waits for you, O God, in Sion: and to you shall the vow be performed.
  • 65:2 O you that hear prayer, to you shall all flesh come.
  • 65:3 Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, you shall purge them away.
  • 65:4 Blessed is the man whom you choose, and cause to approach to you, that he may dwell in your courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, even of your holy temple.
  • 65:5 By terrible things in righteousness will you answer us, O God of our salvation; who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off on the sea:
  • 65:6 Which by his strength sets fast the mountains; being girded with power:
  • 65:7 Which stills the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
  • 65:8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at your tokens: you make the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
  • 65:9 You visit the earth, and water it: you greatly enrich it with the river of God, which is full of water: you prepare them corn, when you have so provided for it.
  • 65:10 You water the ridges thereof abundantly: you settle the furrows thereof: you make it soft with showers: you bless the springing thereof.
  • 65:11 You crown the year with your goodness; and your paths drop fatness.
  • 65:12 They drop on the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.
  • 65:13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.

Psalm 64

  • 64:1 Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
  • 64:2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
  • 64:3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
  • 64:4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
  • 64:5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privately; they say, Who shall see them?
  • 64:6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
  • 64:7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
  • 64:8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall on themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
  • 64:9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.
  • 64:10 The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.

Psalm 63

  • 63:1 O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
  • 63:2 To see your power and your glory, so as I have seen you in the sanctuary.
  • 63:3 Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
  • 63:4 Thus will I bless you while I live: I will lift up my hands in your name.
  • 63:5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise you with joyful lips:
  • 63:6 When I remember you on my bed, and meditate on you in the night watches.
  • 63:7 Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings will I rejoice.
  • 63:8 My soul follows hard after you: your right hand upholds me.
  • 63:9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
  • 63:10 They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
  • 63:11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that swears by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

Psalm 62

  • 62:1 Truly my soul waits on God: from him comes my salvation.
  • 62:2 He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defense; I shall not be greatly moved.
  • 62:3 How long will you imagine mischief against a man? you shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall you be, and as a tottering fence.
  • 62:4 They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
  • 62:5 My soul, wait you only on God; for my expectation is from him.
  • 62:6 He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defense; I shall not be moved.
  • 62:7 In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
  • 62:8 Trust in him at all times; you people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
  • 62:9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
  • 62:10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart on them.
  • 62:11 God has spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongs to God.
  • 62:12 Also to you, O Lord, belongs mercy: for you render to every man according to his work.

Psalm 61

  • 61:1 Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer.
  • 61:2 From the end of the earth will I cry to you, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
  • 61:3 For you have been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
  • 61:4 I will abide in your tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of your wings. Selah.
  • 61:5 For you, O God, have heard my vows: you have given me the heritage of those that fear your name.
  • 61:6 You will prolong the king’s life: and his years as many generations.
  • 61:7 He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.
  • 61:8 So will I sing praise to your name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.