THE PSALMS OF DAVID In Meeter: Newly translated, and diligently compared with the Original Text, and former Translations: More plain, smooth, and agreeable to the Text, than any heretofore. Allowed by the authority of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland and appointed to be sung in Congregations and Families.  
EDINBURGH, Printed by Evan Tyler, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1650.   


EDINBURGH, 6. August, 1649. Ante meridiem, Sess. ult.  
Reference to the Commission for public Affairs for re-examining the Paraphrase of the Psalms, & emitting the same for public use.  
THe General Assembly having taken some view of the new Paraphrase of the Psalms in Meeter, with the corrections and animadversions thereupon sent from several persons and Presbyteries, and finding that they cannot overtake the review and examination of the whole in this Assembly; Therefore now after so much time, and so great pains about the correcting and examining thereof from time to time some years by gone, that the Work may come now to some conclusion, They do Ordain the Brethren appointed for perusing the same during the meeting of this Assembly, viz. Masters James Hammiltoun, John Smith, Hue Mackail, Robert Trail, George Hutcheson, and Robert Lowrie, after the dissolving of this Assembly, to go on in that Work carefully, and to report their travels to the Commission of the General Assembly for public affairs, at their meeting at Edinburgh in November. And the said Commission after perusal and re-examination thereof, is hereby authorized with full power to conclude and establish the Paraphrase, and to publish and emit the same for public use.  
A. Ker.   

EDINB. 23. Nou. 1649. Postmeridiem.  
THE Commission of the General Assembly having with great diligence considered the Paraphrase of the Psalms in meeter sent from the Assembly of Divines in England, by our Commissioners, whilst they were there, as it is corrected by former General Assemblies, Committees from them, and now at last by the Brethren deputed by the late Assembly for that purpose: And having exactly examined the same, Do approve the said Paraphrase, as it is now compiled: And therefore according to the power given them by the said Assembly, Do appoint it to be printed and published for public use; Hereby authorising the same to be the only Paraphrase of the Psalms of David to be sung in the Kirk of Scotland; And discharging the old Paraphrase, and any other than this new Paraphrase to be made use of in any Congregation or Family after the first day of May in the year 1650. And for uniformity in this part of the worship of God, Do seriously recommend to Presbyteries, to cause make public intimation of this Act, and take special care that the same be timeously put to execution, and duly observed.  
A. Ker.   

EDINBURGH, 8. Jan. 1650.  
THE Committee of Estates having considered the English Paraphrase of the Psalms of David in meeter, presented this day unto them by the Commiss. of the Gen. Assembly, together with their Act, and the Act of the late Assembly, approving the said Paraphrase and appointing the same to be sung through this Kirk. Therefore the Committee doth also approve the said Paraphrase, and interpone their authority for the publishing and practising thereof: Hereby ordaining the same, and no other to be made use of, throughout this Kingdom, according to the tenor of the said Acts of the General Assembly and their Commissioners.  
T▪ Henderson.    
THE PSALMS OF DAVID In Meeter.  

PSALM I.  

THat man hath perfect blessedness,  
who walketh not astray  
In counsel of ungodly men,  
nor stands in sinner's way,  
Nor sitteth in the scorners chair.  
But placeth his delight  
Upon God's Law, and meditates  
on his Law day and night.   

He shall be like a tree that grows  
near planted by a river,  
Which in his season yields his fruit,  
and his leaf fadeth never:  
And all he doth shall prosper well.  
The wicked are not so:  
But like they are unto the chaff  
which wind drives to and fro.   

In judgement therefore shall not stand  
such as ungodly are,  
Nor in th' assembly of the just  
shall wicked men appear.  
For why? the way of godly men  
unto the Lord is known:  
Whereas the way of wicked men  
shall quite be overthrown.    

PSAL. II.  

Why rage the Heathen? and vain things  
why do the people mind?  
Kings of the earth do set themselves,  
and Princes are combined  
To plot against the Lord, and his  
Anointed, saying thus,  
Let us asunder break their band  
and cast their cords from us.   

He that in Heaven sits shall laugh:  
the Lord shall scorn them all:  
Then shall he speak to them in wrath,  
in r●●e he vex them shall.  
Yet notwithstanding I have him  
to be my King appointed:  
And over Zion, my holy hill,  
I have him King anointed.   

The sure decree I will declare:  
the Lord hath said to me,  
Thou art mine only Son, this day  
I have begotten thee.  
Ask of me, and for heritage  
the Heathen I'll make thine,  
And for possession I to thee  
will give earth's utmost line.   

Thou shalt, as with a weighty rod  
of iron, break them all,  
And, as a potters sheard, thou shalt  
them dash in pieces small.  
Now therefore, Kings, be wise, be taught  
ye Judges of the earth.  
Serve God in fear, and see that ye  
join trembling with your mirth.   

Kiss ye the Son, lest in his ire  
ye perish from the way,  
If once his wrath begin to burn.  
Blessed all that on him stay.    

PSAL. III. A Psalm of David when he fled from Absalon his son.  

O Lord, how are my foes increased?  
against me many rise.  
Many say of my soul, for him  
in God no succour lies.  
Yet thou my shield, and glory are,  
th'uplifter of my head.  
I cried and from his holy hill  
the Lord me answer made.   

I laid me down and slept, I waked,  
for God sustained me.  
I will not fear though thousands ten  
set round against me be.  
Arise, O Lord, save me, my God;  
for thou my foes hast stroke  
All on the cheekbone; and the teeth  
of wicked men hast broke.   

Salvation doth appertain  
unto the Lord alone:  
Thy blessing, Lord, for evermore  
thy people is upon.    

PSAL. IU. To the chief musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David.  

GIve ear unto me when I call,  
God of my righteousness:  
Have mercy, hear my prayer, thou hast  
enlarged me in distress.  
O ye the sons of men, how long  
will ye love vanities?  
How long my glory turn to shame,  
and will ye follow lies?   

But know that for himself, the Lord  
the godly man doth choose:  
The Lord, when I on him do call,  
to hear will not refuse.  
Fear, and sin not, talk with your heart  
on bed, and silent be.  
Offerings present of righteousness:  
and in the Lord trust ye.   

O who will show us any good?  
is that which many say:  
But of thy countenance the light,  
Lord, lift on us always.  
Upon my heart bestowed by thee  
more gladness I have found,  
Than they, even then, when corn and wine  
did most with them abound.   

I will both lay me down in peace,  
and quiet sleep will take:  
Because thou only, me to dwell  
in safety, Lord, dost make.    

PSAL. V. To the chief musician on Nehiloth, A Psalm of David.  

GIve ear unto my words, O Lord,  
my meditation weigh.  
Hear my loud cry, my King, my God;  
for I to thee will pray.  
Lord, thou shalt early hear voice;  
I early will direct  
My prayer to thee, and looking up  
an answer will expect.   

For thou art not a God that doth  
in wickedness delight:  
Neither shall evil dwell with thee.  
Nor fools stand in thy sight.  
All that ill-doers are thou hat'st.  
Cut'st off that liars be:  
The bloody and deceitful man  
abhored is by thee.   

But I into thy house will come  
in thine abundant grace:  
And I will worship in thy fear  
toward thy holy place.  
Because of those mine enemies,  
Lord, in thy righteousness  
Do thou me lead; do thou thy way  
make strait before my face.   

For in their mouth there is no truth,  
their inward part is ill;  
Their throat's an open sepulchre,  
their tongue doth flatter still.  
O God destroy them; let them be  
by their own counsel quelled:  
Them for their many sins cast out,  
for they 'gainst thee rebelled.   

But let all joy that trust in thee;  
and still make shouting noise:  
For them thou sav'st: Let all that love  
thy Name, in thee rejoice.  
For, Lord, unto the righteous man▪  
thou wilt thy blessing yield;  
With favour thou wilt compass him  
about, as with a shield.    


PSAL. VI To the chief musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, a Psalm of David.  

LOrd in thy wrath rebuke me not,  
Nor in thy hot rage chasten me.  
Lord pity me, for I am weak:  
Heal me, for my bones vexed be.  
My soul is also vexed sore:  
But, Lord, how long stay wilt thou make?  
Return, O Lord, my soul set free:  
O save me for thy mercy's sake.   

Because those that deceased are,  
Of thee shall no remembrance have:  
And who is he that will to thee  
Give praises lying in the grave?  
I with my groaning weary am,  
I also all the night, my bed  
Have caused for to swim, and I  
With tears my couch have watered.   

Mine eye consumed with grief grows old,  
Because of all mine enemies.  
Hence from me wicked workers all,  
For God hath heard my weeping cries.  
God hath my supplication heard;  
My prayer received graciously.  
Shamed, and sore vexed be all my foes,  
Shamed, and back-turned suddenly.    

Another of the same.  

IN thy great indignation,  
O Lord, rebuke me not;  
Nor on the lay thy chastning hand  
in thy displeasure hot.  
Lord, I am weak, therefore on me  
have mercy, and me spare:  
Heal me, O Lord, because thou knowst  
my bones much vexed are.   

My soul is vexed sore; but, Lord,  
how long stay wilt thou make?  
Return, Lord, free my soul, and save  
me for thy mercy's sake.  
Because of thee in death there shall  
no more remembrance be:  
Of those that in the grave do lie,  
who shall give thanks to thee?   

I with my groaning weary am,  
and all the night my bed  
I caused for to swim: with tears  
my couch I watered.  
By reason of my vexing grief,  
mine eye consumed is;  
It waxeth old, because of all  
that be mine enemies.   

But now depart from me, all ye  
that work iniquity;  
For why, the Lord hath heard my voice,  
when I did mourn and cry.  
Unto my supplication  
the Lord did hearing give;  
When I to him my prayer make,  
the Lord will it receive.   

Let all be shamed, and troubled sore,  
that enemies are to me;  
Let them turn back, and suddenly  
ashamed let them be.     

PSAL. VII. Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the Lord, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite.  

O Lord my God, in thee do I  
my confidence repose:  
Save and deliver me from all  
my persecuting foes.  
Lest that the enemy my soul  
should like a Lion tear,  
In pieces renting it, while there  
is no deliverer.   

O Lord my God, if it be so  
that I committed this;  
If it be so, that in my hands  
iniquity there is.  
If I rewarded ill to him  
that was at peace with me:  
(Yea, even the man that without cause  
my foe was, I did free.)   

Then let the foe pursue, and take  
my soul, and my life thrust  
Down to the earth, and let him lay  
mine honour in the dust.  
Rise in thy wrath, Lord, raise thyself,  
for my foes raging be:  
And to the judgement, which thou hast  
commanded, wake for me.   

So shall th'assembly of thy folk  
about encompass thee:  
Thou therefore for their sakes, return  
unto thy place on high.  
The Lord he shall the people judge:  
my judge, Jehovah, be,  
After my righteousness, and mine  
integrity in me.   

O let the wickeds malice end,  
but establish steadfastly  
The righteous: for the righteous God  
the hearts and reins doth try.  
In God, who saves th'upright in heart,  
is my defence and stay.  
God just men judgeth, God is wroth  
with ill men every day.   

If he do not return again,  
than he his sword will whet;  
His bow he hath already bend,  
and hath it ready set.  
He also hath for him prepared  
the instruments of death;  
Against the persecutors he  
his shafts ordained hath.   

Behold, he with iniquity  
doth travail as in birth;  
A mischief he conceived hath,  
and falsehood shall bring forth.  
He made a pit, and digged it deep,  
another there to take,  
But he is fallen into the ditch  
which he himself did make.   

Upon his own head, his mischief  
shall be returned home;  
His violent dealing also down  
on his own pate shall come.  
According to his righteousness  
the Lord I'll magnify:  
And will sing praise unto the Name  
of God, that is most high.    

PSAL. VIII. To the chief musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.  

HOw excellent in all the earth,  
Lord, our Lord, is thy Name!  
Who hast thy glory far advanced  
above the starry frame.  
From infants and from suckling's mouth  
thou didst strength ordain,  
For thy foe's cause, that so thou mightst  
th'avenging foe restrain.   

When I look up unto the heavens  
which thine own fingers framed,  
Unto the moon, and to the stars,  
which were by thee ordained;  
Then say I, what is man, that he  
remembered is by thee?  
Or what the son of man, that thou  
so kind to him should be?   

For thou a little lower hast  
him then the angels made,  
With glory and with dignity  
thou crowned hast his head.  
Of thy hand-works thou mad'st him Lord;  
all under's feet didst lay:  
All sheep and oxen, yea, and beasts  
that in the field do stray:   

Fowls of the air, fish of the sea,  
all that pass through the same.  
How excellent in all the earth,  
Lord, our Lord, is thy Name!    

PSAL. IX. To the chief musician upon Muth-labben, A Psalm of David.  

LOrd, thee I'll praise with all my heart,  
thy wonders all proclaim.  
In thee most high, I'll greatly joy,  
and sing unto thy Name.  
When back my foes were turned, they fell,  
and perished at thy sight.  
For thou maintained my right and cause,  
on throne satst, judging right.   

The heathen thou rebuked haste,  
the wicked overthrown;  
Thou hast put out their names, that they  
may never more be known.  
O enemy! now destructions have  
an end perpetual:  
Thou cities razed, perished with them  
is their memorial.   

God shall endure for ay: he doth  
for judgement set his throne:  
In righteousness to judge the world,  
justice to give each one.  
God also will a refuge be  
for those that are oppressed;  
A refuge will he be in times  
of trouble to distressed.   

And they that know thy Name, in thee  
their confidence will place:  
For thou hast not forsaken them  
that truly seek thy face.  
O sing ye praises to the Lord,  
that dwells in Zion hill:  
And all the nations among,  
his deeds record ye still.   

When he enquireth after blood,  
he than remembreth them:  
The humble folk he not forgets  
that call upon his Name.  
Lord, pity me, behold the grief  
which I from foes sustain,  
Even thou who from the gates of death  
dost raise me up again;   

That I, in Zions daughter's gates,  
may all thy praise advance:  
And that I may rejoice always  
in thy deliverance.  
The heathen are sunk in the pit,  
which they themselves prepared  
And in the net which they have hid  
their own feet fast are snared.   

The Lord is by the judgement known  
which he himself hath wrought:  
The sinners hands do make the snares  
wherewith themselves are caught.  
They, who are wicked, into hell,  
each one shall turned be,  
And all the nations that forget  
to seek the Lord most high.   

For they that needy are, shall not  
forgotten be always:  
The expectation of the poor  
shall not be lost for ay.  
Arise, Lord, let not man prevail,  
judge heathens in thy sight.  
That they may know themselves but men,  
the nations, Lord, affright.    

PSAL. X.  

Wherefore is it, that thou, O Lord,  
dost stand from us afar?  
And wherefore hidest thou thyself,  
when times so troublous are?  
The wicked in his loftiness  
doth persecute the poor:  
In these devices they have framed  
let them be taken sure.   

The wicked of his hearts desire  
doth talk with boasting great;  
He blesseth him that's covetous,  
whom yet the Lord doth hate.  
The wicked, through his pride of face,  
on God he doth not call:  
And in the counsels of his heart  
the Lord is not at all.   

His ways they always grievous are:  
thy judgements from his sight  
Removed are: at all his foes  
he puffeth with despite.  
Within his heart he thus hath said.  
I shall not moved be:  
And no adversity at all  
shall ever come to me.   

His mouth with cursing, fraud, deceit,  
is filled abundantly:  
And underneath his tongue, there is  
mischief and vanity.  
He closely sits in villages:  
he slays the innocent:  
Against the poor that pass him by  
his cruel eyes are bend.   

He Lion-like lurks in his den:  
he waits the poor to take:  
And when he draws him in his net,  
his prey he doth him make.  
Himself he humbleth very low,  
he croucheth down withal,  
That so a multitude of poor  
may by his strong ones fall.   

He this hath said within his heart,  
the Lord hath quite forgot:  
He hides his countenance, and he  
for ever sees it not.  
O Lord, do thou arise; O God,  
lift up thine hand on high:  
But not the meek afflicted ones  
out of thy memory.   

Why is it that the wicked man  
thus doth the Lord despise?  
Because, that God will it require,  
he in his heart denies.  
Thou hast it seen, for their mischief  
and spite thou wilt repay:  
The poor commits himself to thee,  
thou art the orphans stay.   

The arm break of the wicked man,  
and of the evil one:  
Do thou seek out his wickedness  
until thou findest none.  
The Lord is King through ages all,  
even to eternity:  
The heathen people from their land  
are perished utterly.   

O Lord, of those that humble are  
thou the desire didst hear:  
Thou wilt prepare their heart, and thou  
to hear wilt bend thine ear:  
To judge the fatherless, and those  
that are oppressed sore,  
That man, that is but sprung of earth,  
may them oppress no more.    

PSAL. XI. To the chief musician, A Psalm of David.  

I in the Lord do put my trust:  
how is it then that ye  
Say to my soul, flee as a bird  
unto your mountain high?  
For lo, the wicked bend their bow,  
their shafts on string they fit:  
That those who upright are in heart  
they privily may hit.   

If the foundations be destroyed,  
what hath the righteous done?  
God in his holy Temple is,  
in heaven is his throne:  
His eyes do see, his eyelids try  
men's sons. The just he proves:  
But his soul hates the wicked man,  
and him that violence loves.   

Snares, fire and brimstone, furious storms  
on sinners he shall rain:  
This, as the portion of their cup,  
doth unto them pertain.  
Because the Lord most righteous doth  
in righteousness delight,  
And with a pleasant countenance  
beholdeth the upright.    

PSAL XII. To the chief musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.  

HElp Lord, because the godly man  
doth daily fade away;  
And from among the sons of men  
the faithful do decay.  
Unto his neighbour every one  
doth utter vanity:  
They with a double heart do speak,  
and lips of flattery.   

God shall cut off all flattering lips,  
tongues that speak proudly, thus,  
we'll with our tongue prevail, our lips  
are ours: who's Lord o'er us?  
For poor oppressed, and for the sighs  
of needy, rise will I,  
Saith God, and him in safety set  
from such as him defy.   

The words of God are words most pure:  
they be like silver tried  
In earthen furnace, seven times  
that hath been purified.  
Lord, thou shalt them preserve and keep  
for ever, from this race.  
On each side walk the wicked, when  
vile men are high in place.    

PSAL. XIII. To chief musician, A Psalm of David.  

HOw long wilt thou forget me, Lord,  
shall it for ever be?  
O how long shall it be, that thou  
wilt hide thy face from me?  
How long take counsel in my soul,  
still sad in heart, shall I?  
How long exalted over me  
shall be mine enemy?   

O Lord my God, consider well,  
and answer to me make:  
Mine eyes enlighten, lest the sleep  
of death me overtake.  
Lest that mine enemy should say,  
against him I prevailed;  
And, those that trouble me, rejoice  
when I am moved and failed.   

But I have all my confidence  
thy mercy set upon:  
My heart within me shall rejoice  
in thy salvation.  
I will unto the Lord my God  
sing praises cheerfully,  
Because he hath his bounty shown  
to me abundantly.    

PSAL. XIV. To the chief musician, A Psalm of David.  

That there is not a God, the fool  
doth in his heart conclude:  
They are corrupt, their works are vile,  
not one of them doth good.  
Upon men's sons the Lord from heaven  
did cast his eyes abroad;  
To see if any understood,  
and did seek after God.   

They altogether filthy are,  
they all aside are gone:  
And there is none that doth good,  
yea, sure there is not one.  
These workers of iniquity  
do they not know at all,  
That they my people eat as bread,  
and on God do not call?   

There feared they much: for God is with  
the whole race of the just.  
You shame the counsel of the poor,  
because God is his trust.  
Let Israel's help from Zion come.  
When back the Lord shall bring  
His captives, Jacob shall rejoice,  
and Israel shall sing.    

PSAL. XV. A Psalm of David.  

Within thy tabernacle, Lord,  
who shall abide with thee?  
And in thy high and holy hill  
who shall a dweller be?  
The man that walketh uprightly,  
and worketh righteousness,  
And, as he thinketh in his heart,  
so doth he truth express.   

Who doth not slander with his tongue,  
nor to his friend doth hurt,  
Nor yet against his neighbour doth  
take up an ill report.  
In whose eyes vile men are despised;  
but those that God do fear  
He honoureth: and changeth not,  
though to his hurt he swear.   

His coin puts not to usury,  
nor take reward will he  
Against the guiltless. Who doth thus  
shall never moved be.    

PSAL. XVI. Michtam of David.  

LOrd keep me: for I trust in thee  
To God thus was my speech,  
Thou art my Lord, and unto thee  
my goodness doth not reach:  
To saints on earth, to th'excellent  
where my delight's all placed.  
Their sorrows shall be multiplied,  
to other gods that haste:   

Of their drink-offerings of blood  
I will no offering make,  
Yea, neither I their very names  
up in my lips will take.  
God is of mine inheritance  
and cup the portion:  
The lot that fallen is to me,  
thou dost maintain alone.   

Unto me happily the lines  
in pleasant places fell;  
Yea, the inheritance I got,  
in beauty doth excel.  
I bless the Lord, because he doth  
by counsel me conduct:  
And in the seasons of the night,  
my reins do me instruct.   

Before me still the Lord I set:  
sith it is so, that he  
Doth ever stand at my right hand,  
I shall not moved be.  
Because of this my heart is glad,  
and joy shall be expressed  
Even by my glory: and my flesh  
in confidence shall rest.   

Because my soul in grave to dwell  
shall not be left by thee;  
Nor wilt thou give thine Holy One  
corruption to see.  
Thou wilt me show the path of life:  
of joys there is full store  
Before thy face, at thy right hand  
are pleasures evermore.    

PSAL XVII. A Prayer of David.  

LOrd, hear the right, attend my cry,  
unto my prayer give heed,  
That doth not in hypocrisy  
from feigned lips proceed.  
And from before thy presence forth  
my sentence do thou send:  
Toward these things that equal are,  
do thou thine eyes intent.   

Thou prov'dst mine heart, thou visitst me,  
by night thou didst me try,  
Yet nothing found'st: for that my mouth  
shall not sin purposed I.  
As for men's works, I by the word  
that from thy lips doth flow,  
Did me preserve out of the paths  
wherein destroyers go.   

Hold up my goings, Lord: me guide  
in those thy paths divine,  
So that my footsteps may not slide  
out of these ways of thine.  
I called have on thee, O God,  
because thou wilt me hear:  
That thou may'st hearken to my speech,  
to me incline thine ear.   

Thy wondrous loving kindness show,  
thou that by thy right hand  
Sav'st them that in thee trust, from those  
that up against them stand.  
As th'apple of the eye me keep;  
in thy wings shade me close,  
From lewd oppressors, compassing  
me round, as deadly foes.   

In their own fat they are enclosed:  
their mouth speaks loftily,  
Our steps they compassed; and to ground  
down bowing set their eye.  
He like unto a lion is,  
that's greedy of his prey,  
Or lion young, which lurking doth  
in secret places stay.   

Arise, and disappoint my foe,  
and cast him down, O Lord:  
My soul save from the wicked man,  
the man which is thy sword.  
From men which are thy hand, O Lord,  
from worldly men me save,  
Which only in this present life  
their part and portion have:   

Whose belly with thy treasure hid  
thou fill'st, they children have  
In plenty, of their goods the rest  
they to their children leave.  
But as for me, I thine own face  
in righteousness will see:  
And with thy likeness, when I wake,  
I satisfied shall be.    

PSAL. XVIII. To the chief musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke unto the Lord the words of this song, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: and he said,  

THee will I love, O Lord, my strength.  
My fortress is the Lord,  
My rock, and he that doth to me  
deliverance afford:  
My God, my strength, whom I will trust,  
a buckler unto me,  
The horn of my salvation,  
and my high tower is he.   

Upon the Lord, who worthy is  
of praises, will I cry:  
And then shall I preserved be  
safe from mine enemy.  
Floods of ill men affrighted me,  
deaths pangs about me went.  
Hell's sorrows me environed:  
deaths snares did me prevent.   

In my distress I called on God,  
cry to my God did I:  
He from his temple heard my voice,  
to his ears came my cry.  
Th'earth, as affrighted, then did shake,  
trembling upon it seized;  
The hills foundations moved were,  
because he was displeased.   

Up from his nostrils came a smoke,  
and from his mouth there came  
Devouring fire, and coals by it  
were turned into flame.  
He also bowed down the heavens,  
and thence he did descend:  
And thickest clouds of darkness did  
under his feet attend.   

And he upon a cherub road,  
and thereon he did fly:  
Yea, on the swift wings of the wind  
his flight was from on hy.  
He darkness made his secret place:  
about him for his tent  
Dark waters were, and thickest clouds  
of th'airy firmament.   

And at the brightness of that light  
which was before his eye,  
His thick clouds passed away, hailstones  
and coals of fire did fly.  
The Lord God also in the heavens  
did thunder in his ire,  
And there the highest gave his voice,  
hailstones and coals of fire.   

Yea, he his arrows sent abroad,  
and them he scattered:  
His lightnings also he shot out,  
and them discomfited.  
The waters channels then were seen,  
the world's foundations vast  
At thy rebuke discovered were,  
and at thy nostrils blast.   

And from above the Lord sent down,  
and took me from below,  
From many waters he me drew,  
which would me overflow.  
He me relieved from my strong foes,  
and such as did me hare:  
Because he saw that they for me  
too strong were, and too great.   

They me prevented in the day  
of my calamity:  
But even then the Lord himself  
a stay was unto me.  
He, to a place of liberty  
where room was, hath me brought:  
Because he took delight in me,  
he my deliverance wrought.   

According to my righteousness  
he did me recompense,  
He me repaid according to  
my hands pure innocence.  
For I God's ways kept, from my God  
did not turn wickedly.  
His judgements were before me, I  
his Laws put not from me.   

Sincere before him was my heart,  
with him upright was I:  
And watchfully I kept myself  
from mine iniquity.  
After my righteousness the Lord  
hath recompensed me,  
After the cleanness of my hands  
appearing in his eye.   

Thou gracious to the gracious art,  
to upright men upright.  
Pure to the pure, froward thou kythes  
unto the froward wight.  
For thou wilt the afflicted save,  
in grief that low do lie:  
But wilt bring down the countenance  
of them whose looks are hy.   

The Lord will light my candle so,  
that it shall shine full bright:  
The Lord my God will also make  
my darkness to be light.  
By thee through troops of men I break,  
and them discomfit all:  
And, by my God assisting me,  
I overleap a wall.   

As for God, perfect is his way:  
the Lord his word is tried:  
He is a buckler to all those  
who do on him confide.  
Who but the Lord is God? but he  
who is a rock and stay?  
It's God that girdeth me with strength,  
and perfect makes my way.   

He made my feet swift as the hinds,  
set me on my high places.  
Mine hands to war he taught, mine arms  
broke bows of steel in pieces.  
The shield of thy salvation  
thou didst on me bestow:  
Thy right hand held me up, and great  
thy kindness made me grow.   

And in my way, my steps thou hast  
enlarged under me,  
That I go safely, and my feet  
are kept from sliding free.  
Mine enemies I pursued have,  
and did them overtake:  
Nor did I turn again, till I  
an end of them did make.   

I wounded them, they could not rise:  
they at my feet did fall.  
Thou girdest me with strength for war:  
my foes thou brought down all.  
And thou hast given to me the necks  
of all mine enemies:  
That I might them destroy and slay  
who did against me rise.   

They cried out, but there was none  
that would or could them save:  
Yea, they did cry unto the Lord,  
but he no answer gave.  
Then did I beat them small, as dust  
before the wind that flies:  
And I did cast them out like dirt  
upon the street that lies.   

Thou mad'st me free from people's strife;  
and heathens head to be:  
A people whom I have not known,  
shall service do to me.  
At hearing they shall me obey,  
to me they shall submit.  
Strangers for fear shall fade away,  
who in close places sit.   

God lives, blessed be my rock: the God  
of my health praised be.  
God doth avenge me, and subdues  
the people under me.  
He saves me from mine enemies:  
Yea, thou hast lifted me  
Above my foes: and from the man  
of violence, setst me free.   

Therefore to thee will I give thanks  
the heathen folk among:  
And to thy Name, O Lord, I will  
sing praises in a song.  
He great deliverance gives his King:  
he mercy doth extend  
To David, his anointed one,  
and his seed without end.    

PSAL. XIX. To the chief musician, A Psalm of David.  

THe heaven's God's glory do declare:  
the skies his hand-works preach.  
Day utters speech to day, and night  
to night doth knowledge teach.  
There is no speech nor tongue, to which  
their voice doth not extend.  
Their line is gone through all the earth,  
their words to the world's end.   

In them he set the sun a tent,  
Who bride-groom-like forth goes  
From's chamber, as a strong man doth,  
to run his race, rejoice.  
From heaven's end is his going forth,  
circling to th'end again:  
And there is nothing from his heat  
that hidden doth remain.   

God's Law is perfect, and converts  
the soul in sin that lies:  
God's testimony is most sure,  
and makes the simple wise.  
The statutes of the Lord are right,  
and do rejoice the heart:  
The Lords command is pure, and doth  
light to the eyes impart.   

Unspotted is the fear of God,  
and doth endure for ever:  
The judgements of the Lord are true,  
and righteous altogether.  
They, more than gold, yea, much fine gold,  
to be desired are:  
Then honey, from the honey comb  
that dropeth, sweeter far.   

Moreover, they thy servant warn  
how he his life should frame:  
A great reward provided is  
for them that keep the same.  
Who can his errors understand?  
O cleanse thou me within  
From secret faults. Thy servant keep  
from all presumptuous sin,   

And do not suffer them to have  
dominion over me:  
Then righteous and innocent  
I from much sin shall be.  
The words which from my mouth proceed,  
the thoughts sent from my heart  
Accept, O Lord, for thou my strength  
and my redeemer art.    

PSAL. XX. To the chief musician, A Psalm of David.  

JEhovah hear thee in the day  
when trouble he doth send,  
And let the Name of jacob's God  
thee from all ill defend.  
O let him help send from above,  
out of his sanctuaries  
From Zion his own holy hill,  
let him give strength to thee.   

Let him remember all thy gifts,  
accept thy sacrifice.  
Grant thee thine hearts wish, and fulfil  
thy thoughts and counsel wise.  
In thy salvation we will joy;  
in our Gods Name we will  
Display our banners: and the Lord  
thy prayers all fulfil.   

Now know I, God his King doth save:  
he from his holy heaven  
Will hear him, with the saving strength  
by his right hand that's given.  
In chariots some put confidence,  
some horses trust upon:  
But we remember will the Name  
of our Lord God alone.   

We rise, and upright stand, when they  
are bowed down, and fall.  
Deliver, Lord, and let the King  
us hear, when we do call.    

PSAL. XXI. To the chief musician, A psalm of David.  

THe King in thy great strength, O Lord,  
shall very joyful be,  
In thy salvation rejoice  
how vehemently shall he!  
Thou hast bestowed upon him  
all that his heart would have,  
And thou from him didst not withhold  
what e'er his lips did crave.   

For thou with blessings him prevent'st  
of goodness manifold;  
And thou hast set upon his head  
a crown of purest gold.  
When he desired life of thee,  
thou life to him didst give:  
Even such a length of days, that he  
for evermore should live.   

In that salvation wrought by thee,  
his glory is made great,  
Honour and comely majesty  
thou hast upon him set.  
Because that thou for evermore  
most blessed hast him made:  
And thou hast with thy countenance  
made him exceeding glad:   

Because the King upon the Lord  
his confidence doth lay,  
And through the grace of the most high  
shall not be moved away.  
Thine hand shall all those men find out  
that enemies are to thee,  
Even thy right hand shall find out those,  
of thee that haters be.   

Like fiery ov'n thou shalt them make,  
when kindled is thine ire:  
God shall them swallow in his wrath,  
devour them shall the fire.  
Their fruit from earth thou shalt destroy,  
their seed men from among.  
For they, beyond their might, 'gainst thee  
did plot mischief and wrong.   

Thou therefore shalt make them turn back,  
when thou thy shafts shalt place  
Upon thy strings, made ready all  
to fly against their face.  
In thy great power and strength, O Lord,  
be thou exalted high:  
So shall we sing with joyful hearts,  
thy power praise shall we.    

PSAL. XXII. To the chief musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.  

MY God, my God why hast thou me  
forsaken? why so far  
Art thou from helping me, and from  
my words that roaring are?  
All day, my God, to thee I cry,  
yet am not heard by thee;  
And in the season of the night  
I cannot silent be.   

But thou art holy, thou that dost  
inhabit Israel's praise.  
Our fathers hoped in thee, they hoped,  
and thou didst them release.  
When unto thee they sent their cry,  
to them deliverance came:  
Because they put their trust in thee,  
they were not put to shame.   

But as for me, a worm I am,  
and as no man am prized:  
Reproach of men I am, and by  
the people am despised.  
All that me see laugh me to scorn:  
shoot out the lip do they,  
They nod and shake their heads at me,  
and mocking, thus do say,   

This man did trust in God, that he  
would free him by his might:  
Let him deliver him, sith he  
had in him such delight.  
But thou art he out of the womb  
that didst me safely take:  
When I was on my mother's breasts,  
thou me to hope didst make.   

And I was cast upon thy care,  
even from the womb till now:  
And from my mother's belly, Lord,  
my God and guide art thou.  
Be not far off, for grief is near;  
and none to help is found.  
Bulls many compass me; strong bulls  
of Bashan me surround.   

Their mouths they oped wide on me,  
upon me gape did they,  
Like to a Lion ravening  
and roaring for his prey.  
Like water I'm poured out, my bones  
all out of joint do part:  
Amidst my bowels, as the wax,  
so melted is my heart.   

My strength is like a potsherd dried:  
my tongue it cleaveth fast  
Unto my jaws; and to the dust  
of death thou brought me haste.  
For dogs have compassed me about:  
the wicked, that did meet  
In their assembly, me enclosed,  
they pierced my hands and feet.   

I all my bones may tell: they do  
upon me look and stare.  
Upon my vesture lots they cast,  
and clothes among them share.  
But be not far, O Lord, my strength;  
haste to give help to me.  
From sword my soul, from power of dogs  
my darling set thou free.   

Out of the roaring Lions mouth  
do thou me shield and save:  
For from the horns of Unicorns  
an ear to me thou gave.  
I will show forth thy Name unto  
those that my brethren are:  
Amidst the congregation  
thy praise I will declare.   

Praise ye the Lord, who do him fear:  
him glorify, all ye  
The seed of Jacob; fear him all  
that israel's children be.  
For he despised not, nor abhorred  
th'afflicted's misery:  
Nor from him hid his face, but heard  
when he to him did cry.   

Within the congregation great  
my praise shall be of thee:  
My vows before them that him fear  
shall be performed by me.  
The meek shall eat, and shall be filled:  
they also praise shall give  
Unto the Lord that do him seek;  
your heart shall ever live.   

All ends of th'earth remember shall,  
and turn the Lord unto:  
All kindreds of the nations  
to him shall homage do.  
Because the Kingdom to the Lord  
doth appertain, as his:  
Likewise among the nations  
the governor he is.   

Earth's fat ones eat, and worship shall:  
all who to dust descend  
Shall bow to him: none of them can  
his soul from death defend.  
A seed shall service do to him,  
unto the Lord it shall  
Be for a generation  
reckoned in ages all.   

They shall come, and they shall declare  
his truth and righteousness  
Unto a people yet unborn,  
and that he hath done this.    

PSAL. XXIII. A Psalm of David.  

THe Lord's my shepherd, I'll not want.  
He makes me down to lie  
In pastures green: he leadeth me  
the quiet waters by.  
My soul he doth restore again;  
and me to walk doth make  
Into the paths of righteousness,  
even for his own Names sake.   

Yea, though I walk in deaths dark vale,  
yet will I fear none ill:  
For thou art with me, and thy rod  
and staff me comfort still.  
My table thou hast furnished  
in presence of my foes:  
My head thou dost with oil anoint,  
and my cup overflows.   

Goodness and mercy all my life  
shall surely follow me:  
And in God's house for evermore  
my dwelling place shall be.    

PSAL. XXIV. A Psalm of David.  

THe earth belongs unto the Lord,  
and all that it contains:  
The world that is inhabited,  
and all that there remains.  
For the foundation thereof  
he on the seas did lay,  
And he hath it established  
upon the floods to stay.   

Who is the man that shall ascend  
into the hill of God?  
Or who within his holy place  
shall have a firm abode?  
Whose hands are clean, whose heart is pure,  
and unto vanity  
Who hath not lifted up his soul,  
nor sworn deceitfully.   

He from th'eternal shall receive  
the blessing him upon,  
And righteousness, even from the God  
of his salvation.  
This is the generation  
that after him inquire,  
O Jacob, who do seek thy face  
with their whole hearts desire   

Ye gates lift up your heads on high,  
ye doors that last for ay  
Be lifted up, that so the King  
of glory enter may.  
But who of glory is the King?  
the mighty Lord is this,  
Even that same Lord, that great in might,  
and strong in battle is.   

Ye gates lift up your heads, ye doors,  
doors that do last for ay  
Be lifted up, that so the King  
of glory enter may.  
But who is he that is the King  
of glory? Who is this?  
The Lord of hosts, and none but he  
the King of glory is.    


PSAL. XXV. A Psalm of David.  

TO thee I lift my soul:  
O Lord, I trust in thee,  
My God, let me not be ashamed,  
nor foes triumph o'er me.  
Let none that wait on thee  
be put to shame at all;  
But those that without cause transgress  
let shame upon them fall.   

Show me thy ways, O Lord;  
thy paths O teach thou me.  
And do thou lead me in thy truth,  
therein my teacher be:  
For thou art God that dost  
to me salvation send,  
And I upon thee, all the day  
expecting, do attend.   

Thy tender mercies, Lord,  
I pray thee to remember,  
And loving kindnesses: for they  
have been of old for ever.  
My sins and faults of youth  
do thou, O Lord, forget:  
After thy mercy think on me,  
and for thy goodness great.   

God good and upright is:  
the way he'll sinners show.  
The meek in judgement he will guide,  
and make his path to know.  
The whole paths of the Lord  
are truth and mercy sure  
To those that do his covenant keep,  
and testimonies pure.   

Now for thine own Names sake,  
O Lord, I thee entreat  
To pardon mine iniquity:  
for it is very great.  
What man is he that fears  
the Lord, and doth him serve?  
Him shall he teach the way that he  
shall choose and still observe.   

His soul shall dwell at ease;  
and his posterity  
Shall flourish still, and of the earth  
inheritors shall be.  
With those that fear him, is  
the secret of the Lord:  
The knowledge of his covenant  
he will to them afford.   

Mine eyes upon the Lord  
continually are set:  
For it is he that shall bring forth  
my feet out of the net.  
Turn unto me thy face,  
and to me mercy show:  
Because that I am desolate,  
and am brought very low.   

My hearts griefs are increased:  
me from distress relieve.  
See mine affliction and my pain,  
and all my sins forgive.  
Consider thou my foes,  
because they many are,  
And it a cruel hatred is,  
which they against me bear.   

O do thou keep my soul,  
do thou deliver me:  
And let me never be ashamed,  
because I trust in thee.  
Let uprightness and truth  
keep me, who thee attend.  
Redemption, Lord, to Israel  
from all his troubles send.    

Another of the same.  

TO thee I lift my soul, O Lord:  
My God, I trust in thee:  
Let me not be ashamed; let not  
my foes triumph o'er me.  
Yea, let thou none ashamed be  
that do on thee attend;  
Ashamed let them be, O Lord,  
who without cause offend.   

Thy ways, Lord, show; teach me thy paths.  
Led me in truth, teach me:  
For of my safety thou art God,  
all day I wait on thee.  
Thy mercies, that most tender are,  
do thou, O Lord, remember,  
And loving kindnesses: for they  
have been of old for ever.   

Let not the errors of my youth,  
nor sins remembered be:  
In mercy, for thy goodness sake,  
O Lord, remember me.  
The Lord is good and gracious,  
He upright is also:  
He therefore sinners will instruct:  
in ways that they should go.   

The meek and lowly he will guide  
in judgement just always:  
To meek and poor afflicted ones  
he'll clearly teach his way.  
The whole paths of the Lord our God  
are truth and mercy sure,  
To such as keep his covenant.  
and testimonies pure.   

Now for thine own Names sake, O Lord,  
I humbly thee entreat  
To pardon mine iniquity:  
for it is very great.  
What man fears God? him shall he teach  
the way that he shall choose.  
His soul shall dwell at ease, his seed  
the earth, as heirs, shall use.   

The secret of the Lord is with  
such as do fear his Name,  
And he his holy covenant  
will manifest to them.  
Towards the Lord my waiting eyes  
continually are set:  
For he it is that shall bring forth  
my feet out of the net.   

O turn thee unto me, O God,  
have mercy me upon:  
Because I solitary am,  
and in affliction.  
Enlarged the griefs are of my heart:  
me from distress relieve.  
See mine affliction, and my pain,  
and all my sins forgive.   

Consider thou mine enemies,  
because they many are;  
And it a cruel hatred is,  
which they against me bear.  
O do thou keep my soul, O God,  
do thou deliver me:  
Let me not be ashamed, for I  
do put my trust in thee.   

O let integrity and truth  
keep me, who thee attend.  
Redemption, Lord, to Israel  
from all his troubles send,     

PSAL. XXVI. A Psalm of David.  

JUdge me, O Lord, for I have walked  
in mine integrity:  
I trusted also in the Lord;  
slide therefore shall not I.  
Examine me, and do me prove;  
try heart and reins, O God.  
For thy love is before mine eyes,  
thy truth's paths I have trod   

With persons vain I have not sat,  
nor with dissemblers gone.  
Th'assembly of ill men I hate:  
to sit with such I eat.  
Mine hands in innocence, O Lord,  
I'll wash and purify:  
So to thine holy altar go  
and compass it will I.   

That I, with voice of thanksgiving,  
may publish and declare,  
And tell of all thy mighty works,  
that great and wondrous are.  
The habitation of thy house,  
Lord, I have loved well,  
Yea, in that place I do delight,  
where doth thine honour dwell.   

With sinners gather not my soul,  
and such as blood would spill:  
Whose hands mischievous plots, right hand  
corrupting bribes do fill.  
But as for me, I will walk on  
in mine integrity:  
Do thou redeem me, and, O Lord,  
be merciful to me.   

My foot upon an even place  
doth stand with steadfastness:  
Within the congregations  
th'eternal I will bless.    

PSAL. XXVII. A Psalm of David.  

THe Lord's my light, and saving health,  
who shall make me dismayed?  
My life's strength is the Lord, of whom  
then shall I be afraid?  
When as mine enemies and foes,  
most wicked persons all,  
To eat my flesh against me rose,  
they stumbled and did fall.   

Against me though an host encamp,  
my heart yet fearless is:  
Though war against me rise, I will  
be confident in this.  
One thing I of the Lord desired,  
and will seek to obtain,  
That all days of my life I may  
within God's house remain,   

That I the beauty of the Lord  
behold may and admire,  
And that I in his holy place  
may reverently inquire.  
For he, in his pavilion, shall  
me hide in evil days:  
In secret of his tent me hide,  
and on a rock me raise.   

And now, even at this present time,  
mine head shall lifted be  
Above all those that be my foes,  
and round encompass me:  
Therefore unto his tabernacle  
I'll sacrifices bring  
Of joyfulness, I'll sing, yea, I  
to God will praises sing.   

O Lord, give ear unto my voice,  
when I do cry to thee:  
Upon me also mercy have,  
and do thou answer me.  
When thou didst say, seek ye my face,  
then unto thee reply  
Thus did my heart, above all things  
Thy face, Lord, seek will I.   

Far from me hide not thou thy face,  
put not away from thee  
Thy servant in thy wrath: thou hast  
an helper been to me:  
O God of my salvation,  
leave me not, nor forsake.  
Though me my parents both should leave,  
the Lord will me up take.   

O Lord, instruct me in thy way,  
to me a leader be  
In a plain path, because of those  
that hatred bear to me.  
Give me not to mine enemies will:  
for witnesses, that lie,  
Against me risen are, and such  
as breathe our cruelty.   

I fainted had, unless that I  
believed had, to see  
The Lords own goodness in the land  
of them that living be.  
Wait on the Lord: and be thou strong,  
and he shall strength afford  
Unto thine heart: yea, do thou wait,  
I say, upon the Lord.    

PSAL. XXVIII. A Psalm of David.  

TO thee I'll cry, O Lord, my rock,  
hold not thy peace to me:  
Lest, like those that to pit descend,  
I by thy silence be.  
The voice hear of my humble prayers,  
when unto thee I cry:  
When to thy holy oracle  
I lift mine hands on hy.   

With ill men draw me not away,  
that work iniquity:  
That speak peace to their friends, while in  
their hearts doth mischief lie.  
Give them according to their deeds,  
and ills endeavoured:  
And, as their handie-works deserve,  
to them be rendered.   

God shall not build, but them destroy  
who would not understand  
The Lords own works, nor did regard  
the doing of his hand.  
For ever blessed be the Lord,  
for graciously he heard  
The voice of my petitions,  
and prayers did regard.   

The Lord's my strength and shield, my heart  
upon him did rely,  
And I am helped, hence my heart  
doth joy exceedingly,  
And with my song I will him praise.  
Their strength is God alone:  
He also is the saving strength  
of his anointed One.   

O thine own people do thou save,  
bless thine inheritance:  
Them also do thou feed, and them  
for evermore advance.    

PSAL. XXIX. A Psalm of David.  

GIve ye unto the Lord, ye sons  
that of the mighty be,  
All strength and glory to the Lord,  
with cheerfulness give ye.  
Unto the Lord the glory give,  
that to his Name is due;  
And in the beauty of holiness,  
unto Jehovah bow.   

The Lord's voice on the waters is:  
the God of majesty  
Doth thunder, and on multitudes  
of waters sitteth Herald  
A powerful voice it is, that comes  
out from the Lord most high;  
The voice of that great Lord is full  
of glorious majesty.   

The voice of the Eternal doth  
asunder cedars tear:  
Yea, God the Lord doth cedars break  
that Lebanon doth bear.  
He makes them like a calf to skip:  
even that great Lebanon,  
And like to a young unicorn  
the mountain Sirion.   

God's voice divides the flames of fire:  
The desert it doth shake:  
The Lord doth make the wilderness  
of Kadesh, all to quake.  
God's voice doth make the hinds to calve;  
it makes the forest's bare:  
And in his Temple every one  
his glory doth declare.   

The Lord sits on the floods: the Lord  
sits King, and ever shall.  
The Lord will give his people strength,  
and with peace bless them all.    

PSAL. XXX. A Psalm and song at the dedication of the house of David.  

LOrd, I will thee extol, for thou  
hast lifted me on high,  
And over me thou to rejoice  
mad'st not mine enemy.  
O thou who art the Lord my God,  
I in distress to thee  
With loud cries lifted up my voice,  
and thou hast healed me.   

O Lord, my soul thou hast brought up,  
and rescued from the grave:  
That I to pit should not go down,  
alive thou didst me save.  
O ye that are his holy ones,  
sing praise unto the Lord:  
And give unto him thanks, when you  
his holiness' record.   

For, but a moment lasts his wrath;  
life in his favour lies:  
Weeping may for a night endure,  
at morn doth joy arise.  
In my prosperity, I said,  
that nothing shall me move.  
O Lord, thou hast my mountain made  
to stand strong by thy love:   

But when that thou, O gracious God,  
didst hide thy face from me,  
Then quickly was my prosperous state,  
turned into misery.  
Wherefore unto the Lord, my cry  
I caused to ascend:  
My humble supplication,  
I to the Lord did send.   

What profit is there in my blood,  
when I go down to pit?  
Shall unto thee the dust give praise?  
thy truth declare shall it?  
Hear, Lord, have mercy, help me, Lord.  
From me thou turned my sadness,  
To dancing: yea, my sackcloth loosed,  
and girded me with gladness.   

That sing thy praise my glory may,  
and never silent be:  
O Lord my God, for evermore  
I will give thanks to thee.    

PSAL. XXXI. To the chief musician, A Psalm of David.  

IN thee, O Lord, I put my trust,  
shamed let me never be:  
According to thy righteousness,  
do thou deliver me.  
Bow down thine ear to me, with speed  
send me deliverance:  
To save me, my strong rock be thou,  
and my house of defence.   

Because thou art my rock, and thee  
I for my fortress take:  
Therefore do thou me lead and guide,  
even for thine own Names sake.  
And sith thou art my strength, therefore  
pull me out of the net,  
Which they in subtlety for me  
so privily have set.   

Into thine hands, I do commit  
my spirit: for thou art he,  
O thou Jehovah, God of truth,  
that hast redeemed me.  
Those that do lying vanities  
regard, I have abhorred:  
But as for me, my confidence  
is fixed on the Lord.   

I'll in thy mercy gladly joy:  
for thou, my miseries  
Considered haste; thou hast my soul  
known in adversities;  
And thou hast not enclosed me  
within the enemy's hand;  
And by thee have my feet been made  
in a large room to stand.   

O Lord, upon me mercy have,  
for trouble is on me;  
Mine eye, my belly, and my soul  
with grief consumed be.  
Because my life with grief is spent,  
my years with sighs and groans:  
My strength doth fail; and for my sin  
consumed are my bones.   

I was a scorn to all my foes,  
and to my friends a fear:  
And specially reproached of those  
that were my neighbours near:  
When they me saw, they from me fled.  
Even so I am forgot,  
As men are out of mind, when dead:  
I'm like a broken pot.   

For slanders I of many heard,  
fear compassed me, while they  
Against me did consult and plot,  
to take my life away.  
But as for me, O Lord, my trust,  
upon thee I did lay:  
And I to thee, thou art my God,  
did confidently say.   

My times are wholly in thine hand:  
do thou deliver me  
From their hands, that mine enemies  
and persecuters be.  
Thy countenance to shine, do thou  
upon thy servant make:  
Unto me give salvation,  
for thy great mercy's sake.   

Let me not be ashamed, O Lord,  
for on thee called I have:  
Let wicked men be shamed, let them  
be silent in the grave.  
To silence put the lying lips:  
that grievous things do say,  
And hard reports, in pride and scorn,  
on righteous men do lay.   

How great's the goodness thou for them  
that fear thee keep'st in store;  
And wroughtst for them that trust in thee,  
the sons of men before!  
In secret of thy presence, thou  
shalt hide them from man's pride:  
From strife of tongues, thou closely shalt,  
as in a tent, them hid.   

All praise and thanks be to the Lord;  
for he hath magnified  
His wondrous love to me, within  
a city fortified.  
For from thine eyes cut off I am,  
(I in my haste had said)  
My voice yet heardst thou, when to thee  
with cries, my moan I made.   

O love the Lord, all ye his saints:  
because the Lord doth guard  
The faithful, and he plenteously  
proud doers doth reward.  
Be of good courage, and he strength  
unto your heart shall send,  
All ye whose hope and confidence  
doth on the Lord depend.    

PSAL XXXII. A Psalm of David. Maschil.  

O Blessed is the man, to whom  
is freely pardoned  
All the transgression he hath done,  
whose sin is covered.  
Blessed is the man, to whom the Lord  
imputeth not his sin,  
And in whose spirit there is no guile,  
nor fraud is found therein.   

When as I did refrain my speech,  
and silent was my tongue,  
My bones then waxed old, because  
I roared all day long.  
For, upon me both day and night,  
thine hand did heavy lie,  
So that my moisture turned is  
in summer's drought thereby.   

I thereupon have unto thee  
my sin acknowledged,  
And likewise mine iniquity,  
I have not covered:  
I will confess unto the Lord  
my trespasses, said I;  
And of my sin, thou freely didst  
forgive th'iniquity.   

For this, shall every godly one,  
his prayer make to thee,  
In such a time he shall thee seek,  
as found thou mayest be.  
Surely, when floods of waters great,  
do swell up to the brim,  
They shall not over-whelm his soul,  
nor once come near to him.   

Thou art my hiding-place, thou shalt  
from trouble keep me free:  
Thou, with songs of deliverance,  
about shalt compass me.  
I will instruct thee, and thee teach  
the way that thou shalt go,  
And, with mine eye upon thee set,  
I will direction show.   

Then be not like the horse, or mule,  
which do not understand:  
Whose mouth, lest they come near to thee,  
a bridle must command.  
Unto the man that wicked is,  
his sorrows shall abound:  
But him that trusteth in the Lord,  
mercy shall compass round.   

Ye righteous, in the Lord be glad,  
in him do ye rejoice:  
All ye that upright are in heart,  
for joy lift up your voice.    

PSAL. XXXIII.  

YE righteous in the Lord rejoice:  
it comely is, and right,  
That upright men with thankful voice,  
should praise the Lord of might.  
Praise God with harp: and unto him  
sing with the psaltery,  
Upon a ten-stringed instrument  
make ye sweet melody.   

A new song to him sing, and play  
with loud noise skilfully.  
For, right is God's word, all his works  
are done in verity.  
To judgement, and to righteousness,  
a love He beareth still:  
The loving kindness of the Lord  
the earth throughout doth fill.   

The heavens by the word of God,  
did their beginning take;  
And by the breathing of his mouth,  
He all their hosts did make.  
The waters of the seas He brings  
together as an heap:  
And in storehouses, as it were,  
He layeth up the depth.   

Let earth, and all that live therein,  
with reverence fear the Lord:  
Let all the world's inhabitants  
dread him with one accord.  
For he did speak the word, and done  
it was, without delay;  
Established, it firmly stood  
whatever he did say.   

God doth the counsel bring to nought,  
which heathen folk do take:  
And what the people do devise,  
of none effect doth make.  
O! but the counsel of the Lord,  
doth stand for ever sure,  
And of his heart the purposes,  
from age to age endure.   

That nation blessed is, whose God  
Jehovah is: and those  
A blessed people are, whom for  
his heritage he chose.  
The Lord from heaven sees, and beholds  
all sons of men full well.  
He views all from his dwelling place,  
that in the earth do dwell.   

He forms their hearts alike: and all  
their doings he observes.  
Great hosts save not a King: much strength,  
no mighty man preserves.  
An horse for preservation,  
is a deceitful thing:  
And by the greatness of his strength,  
can no deliverance bring.   

Behold, on those that do him fear,  
the Lord doth set his eye:  
Even those, who on his mercy do  
with confidence rely.  
From death to free their soul, in dearth,  
life unto them to yield.  
Our soul doth wait upon the Lord:  
he is our help and shield.   

Sith in his holy Name we trust,  
our heart shall joyful be.  
Lord, let thy mercy be on us,  
as we do hope in thee.    

PSAL. XXXIV. A Psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech: who drove him away, and he departed.  

GOd will I bless all times: his praise  
my mouth shall still express.  
My soul shall boast in God: the meek  
shall hear with joyfulness.  
Extol the Lord with me, let us  
exalt his Name together.  
I sought the Lord, he heard, and did  
me from all fears deliver.   

They looked to him, and lightened were:  
not shamed were their faces.  
This poor man cried, God heard, and saved  
him from all his distresses.  
The angel of the Lord encamps,  
and round encompasseth  
All those about that do him fear,  
and them delivereth.   

O taste and see, that God is good:  
who trusts in him is blest.  
Fear God his saints: none that him fear  
shall be with want oppressed.  
The lions young may hungry be,  
and they may lack their food:  
But they that truly seek the Lord,  
shall not lack any good.   

O children, hither do ye come,  
and unto me give ear:  
I shall you teach to understand  
how ye the Lord should fear.  
What man is he that life desires,  
to see good would live long?  
Thy lips refrain from speaking guile,  
and from ill words thy tongue.   

Depart from ill, do good; seek peace,  
pursue it earnestly.  
God's eyes are on the just; his ears  
are open to their cry.  
The face of God is set against  
those that do wickedly,  
That he may quite out from the earth  
cut off their memory.   

The righteous cry unto the Lord,  
he unto them gives ear;  
And they, out of their troubles all,  
by him delivered are.  
The Lord is ever nigh to them  
that be of broken spirit:  
To them he safety doth afford,  
that are in heart contrite.   

The troubles that afflict the just,  
in number many be:  
But yet at length, out of them all,  
the Lord doth set them free.  
He carefully his bones doth keep,  
what ever can befall;  
That not so much as one of them  
can broken be at all.   

Ill shall the wicked slay: laid waste  
shall be, who hate the just.  
The Lord redeems his servants souls:  
none perish that him trust.    

PSAL. XXXV. A Psalm of David.  

Pled, Lord, with those that plead, and fight  
with those that fight with me.  
Of shield and buckler take thou hold,  
stand up mine help to be.  
Draw also out the spear, and do  
against them stop the way,  
That me pursue: unto my soul,  
I'm thy salvation, say.   

Let them confounded be, and shamed,  
that for my soul have sought:  
Who plot my hurt, turned back be they,  
and to confusion brought.  
Let them be like unto the chaff,  
that flies before the wind:  
And let the angel of the Lord,  
pursue them hard behind.   

With darkness cover thou their way,  
and let it slippery prove,  
And let the angel of the Lord  
pursue them from above.  
For, without cause have they for me  
their net hid in a pit,  
They also have without a cause,  
for my soul digged it.   

Let ruin seize him unawares,  
his net he hid withal  
Himself, let catch: and in the same  
destruction let him fall.  
My soul in God shall joy: and glad  
in his salvation be.  
And all my bones shall say, O Lord,  
who is like unto thee,   

Which dost the poor set free from him  
that is for him too strong;  
The poor and needy from the man  
that spoils and does him wrong?  
False witnesses rose; to my charge  
things I not knew they laid.  
They, to the spoiling of my soul,  
me ill for good repaid.   

But as for me, when they were sick,  
in sackcloth sad I mourned:  
My humbled soul did fast, my prayer  
into my bosom turned.  
Myself I did behave, as he  
had been my friend, or brother:  
I heavily bowed down, as one  
that mourneth for his mother.   

But in my trouble they rejoiced,  
gathering themselves together:  
Yea, abjects vile, together did  
themselves against me gather;  
I knew it not, they did me tear,  
and quiet would not be.  
With mocking hypocrites, at feasts  
they gnashed their teeth at me.   

How long, Lord, look'st thou on? from those  
destructions they intent  
Rescue my soul, from lions young,  
my darling do defend.  
I will give thanks to thee, O Lord,  
within th'assembly great:  
And, where much people gathered are,  
thy praises forth will set.   

Let not my wrongful enemies  
proudly rejoice o'er me:  
Nor, who me hate without a cause,  
let them wink with the eye.  
For peace they do not speak at all.  
but crafty plots prepare  
Against all those within the land,  
that meek and quiet are.   

With mouths set wide, they 'gainst me said,  
Ha, ha, our eye doth see.  
Lord, thou hast seen, hold not thy peace:  
Lord, be not far from me.  
Stir up thyself; wake, that thou mayst  
judgement to me afford:  
Even to my cause, O thou that art  
my only God and Lord.   

O Lord my God, do thou me judge  
after thy righteousness,  
And let them not their joy 'gainst me  
triumphantly express.  
Nor let them say within their hearts,  
ah, we would have it thus;  
Nor suffer them to say, that he  
is swallowed up by us.   

Shamed and confounded be they all  
that at my hurt are glad:  
Let those against me that do boast,  
with shame and scorn be clad▪  
Let them that love my righteous cause  
be glad, shout, and not cease  
To say, the Lord be magnified,  
who loves his servants peace.   

Thy righteousness shall also be  
declared by my tongue,  
The praises that belong to thee,  
speak shall it all day long.    

PSAL. XXXVI. To the chief musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord.  

THe wicked man's transgression,  
within my heart thus says,  
Undoubtedly the fear of God  
is not before his eyes.  
Because himself he flattereth  
in his own blinded eye,  
Until the hatefulness be found  
of his iniquity.   

Words from his mouth proceeding, are  
fraud and iniquity:  
He to be wise, and to do good,  
hath left off utterly.  
He mischief, lying on his bed,  
most cunningly doth plot,  
He sets himself in ways not good;  
ill he abhoreth not.   

Thy mercy, Lord, is in the heaven;  
thy truth doth reach the clouds.  
Thy justice is like mountains great;  
thy judgements deep as floods;  
Lord, thou preservest man and beast.  
How precious is thy grace!  
Therefore, in shadow of thy wings,  
men's sons their trust shall place.   

They, with the fatness of thy house,  
shall be well satisfied:  
From rivers of thy pleasures, thou  
wilt drink to them provide.  
Because of life the fountain pure  
remains alone with thee:  
And in that purest light of thine,  
we clearly light shall see.   

Thy loving kindness unto them  
continue that thee know;  
And still on men upright in heart,  
thy righteousness bestow.  
Let not the foot of cruel pride  
come, and against me stand:  
And let me not removed be,  
Lord, by the wickeds hand.   

There fallen are they, and ruined,  
that work iniquities:  
Cast down they are, and never shall  
be able to arise.    

PSAL. XXXVII. A Psalm of David.  

FOr evil doers fret thou not  
thyself, unquietly,  
Nor do thou envy bear to those  
that work iniquity.  
For even like unto the grass,  
soon be cut down shall they,  
And, like the green and tender herb,  
they whither shall away.   

Set thou thy trust upon the Lord,  
and be thou doing good.  
And so thou in the land shalt dwell,  
and verily have food.  
Delight thyself in God he'll give  
thine hearts desire to thee.  
Thy way to God commit, him trust,  
it bring to pass shall he.   

And, like unto the light, he shall  
thy righteousness display,  
And he thy judgement shall bring forth  
like noon-tide of the day.  
Rest in the Lord, and patiently  
wait for him: do not fret  
For him, who prospering in his way,  
success in sin doth get.   

Do thou from anger cease, and wrath  
see thou forsake also:  
Fret not thyself in any wise,  
that evil thou should do.  
For, those that evil doers are,  
shall be cut off and fall:  
But those that wait upon the Lord,  
the earth inherit shall.   

For, yet a little while, and then  
the wicked shall not be:  
His place thou shall consider well,  
but it thou shalt not see.  
But, by inheritance, the earth  
the meek-ones shall possess:  
They also shall delight themselves  
in an abundant peace.   

The wicked plots against the just,  
and at him whets his teeth.  
The Lord shall laugh at him, because  
his day he coming seeth.  
The wicked have drawn out the sword,  
and bend their bow, to slay  
The poor and needy, and to kill  
men of an upright way.   

But their own sword, which they have drawn,  
shall enter their own heart,  
Their bows, which they have bend, shall break,  
and into pieces part.  
A little that a just man hath,  
is more, and better far  
Then is the wealth of many such  
as lewd and wicked are.   

For sinner's arms shall broken be:  
but God the just sustains.  
God knows the just man's days, and still  
their heritage remains.  
They shall not be ashamed, when they  
the evil time do see:  
And when the days of famine are,  
they satisfied shall be.   

But wicked men, and foes of God,  
as fat of lambs decay,  
They shall consume; yea, into smoke  
they shall consume away.  
The wicked borrows, but the same  
again he doth not pay:  
Whereas the righteous mercy shows,  
and gives his own away.   

For such as blessed be of him,  
the earth inherit shall;  
And, they that cursed are of him,  
shall be destroyed all.  
A good man's footsteps by the Lord  
are ordered aright:  
And, in the way wherein he walks,  
he greatly doth delight.   

Although he fall, yet shall he not  
be cast down utterly:  
Because the Lord with his own hand  
upholds him mightily.  
I have been young, and now am old:  
yet have I never seen  
The just man left, nor that his seed  
for bread have beggars been.   

He's ever merciful, and lends:  
his seed is blest therefore.  
Depart from evil, and do good:  
and dwell for evermore.  
For God loves judgement, and his saints  
leaves not in any case,  
They are kept ever: but cut off  
shall be the sinner's race.   

The just inherit shall the land,  
and ever in it dwell.  
The just man's mouth doth wisdom speak:  
his tongue doth judgement tell.  
In's heart the Law is of his God,  
his steps slide not away.  
The wicked man doth watch the just,  
and seeketh him to slay.   

Yet him the Lord will not forsake,  
nor leave him in his hands,  
The righteous will He not condemn,  
when he in judgement stands,  
Wait on the Lord, and keep his way,  
and thee exalt shall He,  
Th'earth to inherit: when cut off  
the wicked thou shalt see.   

I saw the wicked great in power:  
spread like a green bay-tree.  
He past, yea, was not: him I sought,  
but found he could not be.  
Mark thou the perfect, and behold  
the man of uprightness:  
Because that surely of this man  
the latter end is peace.   

But those men that transgressors are,  
shall be destroyed together,  
The latter end of wicked men  
shall be cut off for ever.  
But the salvation of the just  
is from the Lord above,  
He, in the time of their distress,  
their stay and strength doth prove.   

The Lord shall help, and them deliver:  
He shall them free and save  
From wicked men: because in him  
their confidence they have.    

PSAL. XXXVIII. A Psalm of David to bring to remembrance.  

IN thy great indignation,  
O Lord, rebuke me not:  
Nor on me lay thy chastning hand,  
in thy displeasure hot.  
For in me fast thine arrows stick,  
thine hand doth press me sore.  
And in my flesh there is no health  
nor soundness any more.   

This grief I have, because thy wrath  
is forth against me gone:  
And in my bones there is no rest,  
for sin that I have done.  
Because, gone up above mine head  
my great transgressions be:  
And, as a weighty burden, they  
too heavy are for me.   

My wounds do stink, and are corrupt:  
my folly makes it so.  
I troubled am, and much bowed down;  
all day I mourning go.  
For a disease that loathsome is,  
so fills my loins with pain.  
That in my weak and weary flesh  
no soundness doth remain.   

So feeble and infirm am I,  
and broken am so sore;  
That through disquiet of my heart,  
I have been made to roar.  
O Lord, all that I do desire,  
is still before thine eye:  
And of my heart the secret groans  
not hidden are from thee.   

My heart doth pant uncessantly,  
my strength doth quite decay:  
As for mine eyes, their wont light  
is from me gone away.  
My lovers and my friends do stand  
at distance from my sore:  
And those do stand aloof, that were  
kinsmen, and kind before.   

Yea, they that seek my life, lay snares:  
who seek to do me wrong  
Speak things mischievous, and deceits  
imagine all day long.  
But, as one deaf, that heareth not,  
I suffered all to pass:  
I as a dumb man did become,  
whose mouth not oped was.   

As one that hears not, in whose mouth  
are no reproofs at all.  
For, Lord, I hope in thee, my God,  
thou'lt hear me when I call.  
For I said, hear me, lest they should  
rejoice o'er me, with pride:  
And o'er me magnify themselves,  
when as my foot doth slide.   

For, I am near to halt, my grief  
is still before mine eye.  
For I'll declare my sin; and grieve  
for mine iniquity.  
But yet mine enemies lively are,  
and strong are they beside:  
And, they that hate me wrongfully,  
are greatly multipli'de.   

And they, for good that render ill,  
as enemies me withstood:  
Yea, even for this, because that I  
do follow what is good.  
Forsake me not, O Lord: my God,  
far from me never be.  
O Lord, thou my salvation art,  
haste to give help to me.    

PSAL. XXXIX. To the chief musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.  

I Said, I will look to my ways,  
lest with my tongue I sin:  
In sight of wicked men, my mouth  
with bridle I'll keep in.  
With silence, I as dumb became,  
I did myself restrain  
From speaking good, but then the more  
increased was my pain.   

My heart within me waxed hot,  
and while I musing was,  
The fire did burn: and from my tongue  
these words I did let pass.  
Mine end, and measure of my days,  
O Lord, unto me show  
What is the same: that I thereby,  
my frailty well may know.   

Lo, thou my days an hand-bredth mad'st,  
mine age is in thine eye  
As nothing: sure each man at best  
is wholly vanity.  
Sure, each man walks in a vain show:  
they vex themselves in vain:  
He heaps up wealth, and doth not know  
to whom it shall pertain.   

And now, O Lord. what wait I for?  
my hope is fixed on thee.  
Free me from all my trespasses,  
the fools scorn make not me.  
Dumb was I, opening not my mouth,  
because this work was thine.  
Thy stroke take from me: by the blow  
of thine hand, I do pine.   

When with rebukes thou dost correct  
man, for iniquity,  
Thou wastes his beauty like a moth:  
sure each man's vanity.  
Attend my cry, Lord, at my tears,  
and prayers, not silent be:  
I sojourn as my fathers all,  
and stranger am with thee.   

O spare thou me, that I my strength  
recover may again,  
Before from hence I do depart,  
and here no more remain.    

PSAL. XL. To the chief musician, A Psalm of David.  

I Waited for the Lord my God,  
and patiently did bear;  
At length to me he did incline  
my voice and cry to hear.  
He took me from a fearful pit,  
and from the miry clay,  
And on a rock he set my feet,  
establishing my way.   

He put a new song in my mouth,  
our God to magnify:  
Many shall see it, and shall fear,  
and on the Lord rely.  
O blessed is the man whose trust  
upon the Lord relies:  
Respecting not the proud, nor such  
as turn aside to lies.   

O Lord my God, full many are  
the wonders thou hast done;  
Thy gracious thoughts to us ward, far  
above all thoughts, are gone:  
In order none can reckon them  
to thee: if them declare,  
And speak of them I would, they moe  
than can be numbered are.   

No sacrifice, nor offering  
didst thou at all desire,  
Mine ears thou bored: sin-offering thou,  
and burnt, didst not require,  
Then to the Lord, these were my words,  
I come, behold and see:  
Within the volume of thy Book,  
it written is of me:   

To do thy will, I take delight,  
O thou my God that art:  
Yea, that most holy Law of thine,  
I have within my heart.  
Within the congregation great  
I righteousness did preach:  
Lo, thou dost know, O Lord, that I  
refrained not my speech.   

I never did within my heart  
conceal thy righteousness:  
I thy salvation have declared,  
and shown thy faithfulness:  
Thy kindness, which most loving is,  
concealed have not I,  
Nor from the congregation great  
have hid thy verity.   

Thy tender mercies, Lord, from me  
O do thou not restrain:  
Thy loving kindness, and thy truth,  
let them me still maintain.  
For ills, past reckoning, compass me,  
and mine iniquities  
Such hold upon me taken have,  
I cannot lift mine eyes:   

They more than hairs are on mine head,  
thence is my heart dismayed.  
Be pleased, Lord, to rescue me:  
Lord, hasten to mine aid.  
Shamed and confounded be they all  
that seek my soul to kill:  
Yea, let them backward driven be,  
and shamed that wish me ill.   

For a reward of this their shame,  
confounded let them be,  
That in this manner scoffing say,  
Aha, aha, to me.  
In thee let all be glad, and joy,  
who seeking thee abide:  
Who thy salvation love, say still,  
the Lord be magnified.   

I'm poor and needy, yet the Lord  
of me a care doth take:  
Thou art my help and Saviour,  
my God, no tarrying make.    

PSAL. XLI. To the chief musician, A Psalm of David.  

BLessed is he that wisely doth  
the poor man's case consider;  
For, when the time of trouble is,  
the Lord will him deliver.  
God will him keep; yea, save alive,  
on earth he blest shall live;  
And to his enemy's desire,  
thou wilt him not up give.   

God will give strength, when he on bed  
of languishing doth mourn:  
And in his sickness sore, O Lord,  
thou all his bed will turn.  
I said, O Lord, do thou extend  
thy mercy unto me;  
O do thou heal my soul, for why,  
I have offended thee.   

Those that to me are enemies,  
of me do evil say:  
When shall he die, that so his name  
may perish quite away?  
To see me if he comes, he speaks  
vain words; but then his heart  
Heaps mischief to it, which he tells,  
when forth he doth depart.   

My haters, jointly whispering,  
'gainst me, my hurt devise.  
Mischief, say they, cleaves fast to him:  
he lieth, and shall not rise.  
Yea, even mine own familiar friend,  
on whom I did rely,  
Who ate my bread, even he his heel  
against me lifted high.   

But, Lord, be merciful to me,  
and up again me raise,  
That I may justly them requite  
according to their ways.  
By this I know, that certainly  
I favoured am by thee:  
Because my hateful enemy  
triumphs not over me.   

But as for me, thou me upholdst  
in mine integrity:  
And, me before thy countenance  
thou setst continually.  
The Lord, the God of Israel,  
be blest for ever then,  
From age to age eternally.  
Amen, yea, and amen.    

PSAL. XLII. To the chief musician Maschil, for the sons of Korah.  

LIke as the hart for water-brooks  
in thirst doth pant and bray;  
So pants my longing soul, O God,  
that come to thee I may.  
My soul for God, the living God,  
doth thirst: when shall I near  
Unto thy countenance approach,  
and in God's sight appear?   

My tears have unto me been meat  
both in the night and day,  
While unto me continually,  
Where is thy God, they say?  
My soul is poured out in me,  
when this I think upon;  
Because that with the multitude  
I heretofore had gone:   

With them into God's house I went,  
with voice of joy and praise,  
Yea, with the multitude, that kept  
the solemn holy days.  
O why art thou cast down, my soul,  
why in me so dismayed?  
Trust God, for I shall praise him yet,  
his countenance is mine aid.   

My God, my soul's cast down in me:  
thee therefore mind I will  
From Jordan's land, the Hermonites,  
and even from Mizar hill.  
At the noise of thy water-spouts,  
deep unto deep doth call:  
Thy breaking waves pass over me,  
yea, and thy billows all.   

His loving kindness yet the Lord  
command will in the day,  
His songs with me by night, to God,  
by whom I live, I'll pray.  
And I will say to God, my rock,  
why me forgets thou so?  
Why, for my foe's oppression,  
thus mourning do I go?   

It's as a sword within my bones,  
when my foes me upbraid:  
Even when by them, Where is thy God,  
it's daily to me said?  
O why art thou cast down, my soul?  
why, thus with grief oppressed,  
Art thou disquieted in me?  
in God still hope and rest;   

For yet I know I shall him praise,  
who graciously to me  
The health is of my countenance,  
yea, mine own God is he.    

PSAL. XLIII.  

JUdge me, O God, and plead my cause  
against th'ungodly nation;  
From the unjust and crafty man,  
O be thou my salvation.  
For, thou the God art of my strength,  
why thrusts thou me thee fro?  
For th'enemies' oppression,  
why do I mourning go?   

O send thy light forth, and thy truth:  
let them be guides to me,  
And bring me to thine holy Hill,  
even where thy dwellings be.  
Then will I to God's Altar go,  
to God my chiefest joy:  
Yea, God, my God, thy Name to praise  
my harp I will employ.   

Why art thou then cast down, my soul?  
what should discourage thee?  
And why, with vexing thoughts, art thou  
disquieted in me?  
Still trust in God, for him to praise  
good cause I yet shall have;  
He of my countenance is the health,  
my God that doth me save.    

PSAL. XLIV. To the chief musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.  

O God, we with our ears have heard,  
our fathers have us told,  
What works thou in their days hadst done,  
even in the days of old.  
Thy hand did drive the Heathen out,  
and plant them in their place;  
Thou didst afflict the nations,  
but them thou didst increase.   

For, neither got their sword the land,  
nor did their arm them save:  
But thy right hand, presence, and arm;  
for, thou them favour gave.  
Thou art my King: for Jacob, Lord,  
deliverances command.  
Through thee, we shall push down our foes,  
that do against us stand:   

We, through thy Name, shall tread down those  
that risen against us have.  
For, in my bow I shall not trust,  
nor shall my sword me save.  
But, from our foes thou hast us saved,  
our haters put to shame.  
In God we all the day do boast,  
and ever praise thy Name.   

But now we are cast off by thee,  
and us thou pursed to shame;  
And, when our armies do go forth,  
thou go'st not with the same.  
Thou mak'st us from the enemy,  
faint-hearted, to turn back:  
And they, who hate us, for themselves  
our spoils away do take.   

Like sheep for meat thou gavest us:  
'mong Heathen cast we be.  
Thou didst for nought thy people sell.  
their price enriched not thee.  
Thou mak'st us a reproach to be  
unto our neighbours near;  
Derision, and a scorn to them,  
that round about us are.   

A byword also thou dost us  
among the Heathen make:  
The people, in contempt and spite,  
at us their heads do shake.  
Before me my confusion  
continually abides;  
And, of my bashful countenance,  
the shame me ever hides.   

For voice of him that doth reproach,  
and speaketh blasphemy:  
By reason of th'avenging foe,  
and cruel enemy.  
All this is come on us; yet we  
have not forgotten thee,  
Nor falsely in thy Covenant  
behaved ourselves have we.   

Back from thy way our heart not turned:  
our steps no straying made:  
Though us thou breakest in dragon's place,  
and coverest with death's shade.  
If we Gods Name forgot, or stretched  
to a strange god our hands:  
Shall not God search this out? for he  
hearts secrets understands.   

Yea, for thy sake, we're killed all day:  
counted as slaughter-sheep.  
Rise, Lord, cast us not ever off,  
awake, why dost thou sleep?  
O wherefore hidest thou thy face?  
forgettest our case distressed,  
And our oppression? For our soul  
is to the dust down pressed;   

Our belly also on the earth,  
fast cleaving, hold doth take.  
Rise for our help, and us redeem,  
even for thy mercy's sake.    


PSAL. XLV. To the chief musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, a song of loves.  

MY heart brings forth a goodly thing:  
my works that I indite  
Concern the King: my tongue's a pen  
of one that swift doth write.  
Thou fairer art than sons of men:  
into thy lips is store  
Of grace infused; God therefore thee  
hath blest for evermore.   

O thou that art the mighty One,  
thy sword gird on thy thigh:  
Even with thy glory excellent,  
and with thy Majesty.  
For meekness, truth and righteousness,  
in state ride prosperously:  
And thy right hand shall thee instruct  
in things that fearful be.   

Thine arrows sharply pierce the hearts  
of th'enemies' of the King;  
And under thy subjection  
the people down do bring.  
For ever and for ever is,  
O God, thy throne of might:  
The sceptre of thy Kingdom is  
a sceptre that is right.   

Thou lovest right, and hatest ill:  
for God, thy God most high  
Above thy fellows hath, with th'oil  
of joy, anointed thee.  
Of aloes, myrrh, and cassia,  
a smell thy garments had;  
Out of thy ivory palaces,  
whereby they made thee glad.   

Among thy women honourable  
Kings daughters were at hand:  
Upon thy right hand did the queen,  
in gold of Ophir stand.  
O daughter, harken and regard,  
and do thine ear incline;  
Likewise forget thy father's house,  
and people that are thine.   

Then of the King desired shall be  
thy beauty vehemently:  
Because he is thy Lord, do thou  
him worship reverently.  
The daughter there of Tyre shall be,  
with gifts and offerings great:  
Those of the people that are rich  
thy favour shall entreat.   

Behold the daughter of the King  
all glorious is within;  
And, with embroideries of gold,  
her garments wrought have been.  
She shall be brought unto the King,  
in robes with needle wrought:  
Her fellow-virgins following,  
shall unto thee be brought.   

They shall be brought with gladness great,  
and mirth on every side,  
Into the palace of the King,  
and there they shall abide.  
In stead of those thy father's dear,  
thy children thou mayst take,  
And in all places of the earth,  
them noble Princes make.   

Thy Name remembered I will make,  
through ages all, to be:  
The people therefore evermore  
shall praises give to thee.    

Another of the same.  

MY heart enditing is  
good matter in a song:  
I speak the things that I have made  
which to the King belong:  
My tongue shall be as quick  
his honour to indite,  
As is the pen of any scribe  
that useth fast to write.   

thou'rt fairest of all men,  
grace in thy lips doth slow:  
And therefore blessings evermore  
on thee doth God bestow.  
Thy sword gird on thy thigh,  
thou that art most of might:  
Appear in dreadful Majesty,  
and in thy glory bright.   

For meekness, truth and right,  
ride prosperously in state:  
And thy right hand shall teach to thee  
things terrible and great.  
Thy shafts shall pierce their hearts  
that foes are to the King:  
Whereby into subjection  
the people thou shalt bring.   

Thy royal seat, O Lord▪  
for ever shall remain:  
The sceptre of thy Kingdom doth  
all righteousness maintain.  
Thou loves right, and hates ill:  
for God, thy God most high,  
Above thy fellows hath with th'oil  
of joy anointed thee.   

Of myrrh and spices sweet  
a smell thy garments had:  
Out of thy ivory palaces,  
whereby they made thee glad.  
And, in thy glorious train,  
Kings daughters waiting stand:  
And thy fair queen, in Ophir gold,  
doth stand at thy right hand.   

O daughter, take good heed,  
incline, and give good ear;  
Thou must forget thy kindred all,  
and father's house most dear.  
Thy beauty to the King,  
shall then delightful be:  
And, do thou humbly worship him,  
because thy Lord is he.   

The daughter then of Tyre  
there with a gift shall be,  
And all the wealthy of the land  
shall make their suit to thee.  
The daughter of the King  
all glorious is within;  
And, with embroideries of gold,  
her garments wrought have been.   

She cometh to the King  
in robes with needle wrought:  
The virgins that do follow her  
shall unto thee be brought.  
They shall be brought with joy,  
and mirth on every side,  
Into the palace of the King,  
and there they shall abide.   

And, in thy father's stead,  
thy children thou may'st take,  
And, in all places of the earth,  
them noble Princes make.  
I will show forth thy Name  
to generations all:  
Therefore thy people evermore  
to thee give praises shall.     

PSAL. XLVI. To the chief musician for the sons of Korah, A song upon Alamoth.  

GOd is our refuge, and our strength,  
in straits a present aid.  
Therefore, although the earth remove,  
we will not be afraid:  
Though hills amidst the sea be cast,  
Though waters roaring make,  
And troubled be; yea, though the hills  
by swelling seas do shake.   

A river is, whose streams do glad  
the City of our God:  
The holy place, wherein the Lord  
most high hath his abode.  
God in the midst of her doth dwell:  
nothing shall her remove;  
The Lord to her an helper will,  
and that right early, prove.   

The Heathen raged tumultuously,  
the Kingdoms moved were:  
The Lord God uttered his voice,  
the earth did melt for fear.  
The Lord of hosts upon our side  
doth constantly remain:  
The God of Jacob's our refuge,  
us safely to maintain.   

Come, and behold what wondrous works  
have by the Lord been wrought:  
Come, see what desolations  
he on the earth hath brought.  
Unto the ends of all the earth  
wars into peace he turns:  
The bow he breaks, the spear he cuts,  
in fire the chariot burns.   

Be still, and know that I am God:  
among the Heathen I  
Will be exalted, I on earth  
will be exalted high.  
Our God, who is the Lord of hosts,  
is still upon our side.  
The God of Jacob our refuge  
for ever will abide.    

PSAL. XLVII. To the chief musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.  

ALL people clap your hands, to God  
with voice of triumph shout.  
For dreadful is the Lord most high,  
great King, the earth throughout.  
The Heathen people under us  
he surely shall subdue:  
And he shall make the Nations  
under our feet to bow.   

The lot of our inheritance  
choose out for us shall he,  
Of Jacob whom he loved well,  
even the excellency.  
God is with shouts gone up, the Lord  
with trumpets sounding high.  
Sing praise to God, sing praise, sing praise,  
praise to our King sing ye.   

For, God is King of all the earth,  
with knowledge praise express.  
God rules the nations, God sits on  
his throne of holiness.  
The princes of the people are  
assembled willingly,  
Even of the God of Abraham  
they who the people be.   

For why, the shields that do defend  
the earth, are only his:  
They to the Lord belong, yea He  
exalted greatly is.    

PSAL. XLVIII. A song, and psalm for the sons of Korah.  

GReat is the Lord, and greatly He  
is to be praised still,  
Within the City of our God,  
upon his holy hill.  
Mount Zion stands most beautiful,  
the joy of all the land;  
The City of the mighty King  
on her north side doth stand.   

The Lord, within her palaces,  
is for a refuge known:  
For lo, the Kings that gathered were  
together by have gone.  
But, when they did behold the same,  
they wondering, would not stay;  
But, being troubled at the sight,  
they thence did haste away.   

Great terror there took hold on them,  
they were possessed with fear,  
Their grief came like a woman's pain,  
when she a child doth bear.  
Thou Tarshish ships with east wind breaks;  
As we have heard it told;  
So in the City of the Lord  
our eyes did it behold,   

In our God's City, which his hand  
for ever establish will.  
We, of thy loving kindness thought,  
Lord, in thy Temple still.  
O Lord, according to thy Name,  
through all the earth's thy praise:  
And thy right hand, O Lord, is full  
of righteousness always.   

Because thy judgements are made known,  
let Zion mount rejoice;  
Of Judah let the daughters all  
send forth a cheerful voice.  
Walk about Zion, and go round,  
the high towers thereof tell:  
Consider ye her palaces,  
and mark her bulwarks well,   

That ye may tell posterity.  
For this God doth abide  
Our God for evermore, he will  
even unto death us guide.    

PSAL. XLIX. To the chief musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.  

HEar this all people, and give ear  
all in the world that dwell,  
Both low and high, both rich and poor.  
My mouth shall wisdom tell.  
My heart shall knowledge meditate,  
I will incline mine ear  
To parables, and on the harp  
my sayings dark declare.   

Amidst those days, that evil be,  
why should I, fearing, doubt?  
When of my heels th'iniquity  
shall compass me about.  
Who e'er they be, that in their wealth  
their confidence do pitch,  
And boast themselves, because they are  
become exceeding rich.   

Yet none of these his brother can  
redeem by any way,  
Nor can he unto God, for him  
sufficient ransom pay;  
(Their souls redemption precious is,  
and it can never be)  
That still he should for ever live,  
and not corruption see.   

For why? he seeth that wise men die,  
and brutish fools also  
Do perish, and their wealth, when dead,  
to others they let go.  
Their inward thought is, that their house,  
and dwelling places shall  
Stand through all ages; they their lands  
by their own names do call.   

But yet in honour shall not man  
abide continually;  
But passing hence, may be compared  
unto the beasts that die.  
Thus, brutish folly plainly is  
their wisdom, and their way;  
Yet, their posterity approve  
what they do fond say.   

Like sheep, they in the grave are laid,  
and death shall them devour;  
And, in the morning, upright men  
shall over them have power:  
Their beauty, from their dwelling, shall  
consume within the grave.  
But, from hell's hand God will me free,  
for he shall me receive.   

Be thou not then afraid, when one  
enriched thou dost see,  
Nor when the glory of his house  
advanced is on high.  
For, he shall carry nothing hence,  
when death his days doth end;  
Nor shall his glory after him  
into the grave descend.   

Although he his own soul did bless  
whilst he on earth did live,  
(And when thou to thyself dost well,  
men will thee peaises give)  
He to his father's race shall go,  
they never shall see light.  
Man honoured, wanting knowledge, is  
like beasts that perish quite.    


PSAL. L. A Psalm of Asaph.  

THe mighty God, the Lord  
hath spoken, and did call  
The earth, from rising of the sun,  
to where he hath his fall.  
From out of Zion hill,  
which, of excellency  
And beauty the perfection is,  
God shined gloriously.   

Our God shall surely come,  
keep silence shall not He;  
Before Him fire shall waste, great storms  
shall round about Him be.  
Unto the heaven's clear,  
He from above shall call,  
And to the earth likewise, that He  
may judge his people all.   

Together let my saints  
unto me gathered be,  
Those that by sacrifice have made  
a covenant with me.  
And then the heavens shall  
his righteousness declare;  
Because the Lord himself is He,  
by whom men judged are.   

My people Israel hear,  
speak will I from on high,  
Against thee I will testify,  
God, even thy God am I.  
I, for thy sacrifice,  
no blame will on thee lay,  
Nor for burnt-offrings, which to me  
thou off'redst every day.   

I'll take no calf, nor goats,  
from house or fold of thine:  
For, beasts of forests, cattle all  
on thousand hills are mine.  
The fowls on mountains high,  
are all to me well known,  
Wild beasts, which in the fields do lie,  
even they are all mine own.   

Then, if I hungry were,  
I would not tell it thee;  
Because the world, and fullness all  
thereof belongs to me.  
Will I eat flesh of bulls?  
or goat's blood drink will I?  
Thanks offer thou to God, and pay  
thy vows to the most high;   

And call upon me, when  
in trouble thou shalt be,  
I will deliver thee, and thou  
my Name shalt glorify,  
But to the wicked man  
God saith, my laws and truth  
Shouldst thou declare? how dar'st thou take  
my covenant in thy mouth?   

Sith thou instruction hates,  
which should thy ways direct.  
And, sith my words behind thy back  
thou casts, and dost reject.  
When thou a thief didst see,  
with him thou didst consent;  
And with the vile adulterer's  
partaker on thou went.   

Thou giv'st thy mouth to ill,  
thy tongue deceit doth frame;  
Thou sits, and 'gainst thy brother speaks,  
thy mother's son does shame.  
Because I silence kept,  
while thou these things hast wrought;  
That I was altogether like  
thyself, hath been thy thought:   

Yet I will thee reprove,  
and set before thine eyes  
In order ranked thy misdeeds,  
and thine iniquities.  
Now, ye that God forget,  
this carefully consider;  
Lest I in pieces tear you all,  
and none can you deliver.   

Who so doth offer praise,  
me glorifies, and I  
Will show him God's salvation,  
that orders right his way.    

Another of the same.  

THe mighty God the Lord hath spoke,  
and called the earth upon,  
Even from the rising of the sun,  
unto his going down.  
From out of Zion, his own hill,  
where the perfection high  
Of beauty is, from thence the Lord  
hath shined gloriously.   

Our God shall come, and shall no more  
be silent, but speak out:  
Before him fire shall waste, great storms  
shall compass him about.  
He, to the heavens from above,  
and to the earth below  
Shall call, that He his judgement may  
before his people show.   

Let all my saints together be  
unto me gathered,  
Those, that by sacrifice, with me  
a covenant have made.  
And then the heavens shall declare  
His righteousness abroad:  
Because the Lord himself doth come,  
none else is judge but God.   

Hear, O my people, and I'll speak:  
O Israel by name,  
Against thee I will testify,  
God, even thy God I am.  
ay, for thy sacrifices few,  
reprove thee never will;  
Nor for burnt-offrings to have been  
before me offered still.   

I'll take no bullock, nor hee-goats  
from house, nor folds of thine:  
For, beasts of forests, cattle all  
on thousand hills, are mine.  
The fowls are all to me well known,  
that mountains high do yield;  
And I do challenge as mine own,  
the wild beasts of the field.   

If I were hungry, I would not  
to thee for need complain;  
For earth, and all its fullness, doth  
to me of right pertain.  
That I, to eat the flesh of bulls  
take pleasure, dost thou think?  
Or, that I need to quench my thirst,  
the blood of goats to drink?   

Nay, rather unto me, thy God,  
thanksgiving offer thou,  
To the most high perform thy word,  
and fully pay thy vow.  
And, in the day of trouble great,  
see that thou call on me;  
I will deliver thee, and thou  
my Name shalt glorify,   

But, God unto the wicked saith,  
why should thou mention make  
Of my commands? how dar'st thou in  
thy mouth my covenant take?  
Sith it is so, that thou dost hate  
all good instruction;  
And sith thou casts, behind thy back,  
and slights my words each one.   

When thou a thief didst see, then strait  
thou joined with him in sin;  
And, with the vile adulterers,  
thou hast partaker been:  
Thy mouth to evil thou dost give,  
thy tongue deceit doth frame,  
Thou sit'st, and 'gainst thy brother speakest,  
thy mother's son to shame.   

These things thou wickedly hast done,  
and I have silent been;  
Thou thought that I was like thyself,  
and did approve thy sin:  
But I will sharply thee reprove,  
and I will order right,  
Thy sins and thy transgressions  
in presence of thy sight.   

Consider this, and be afraid,  
ye that forget the Lord,  
Left I in pieces tear you all,  
when none can help afford.  
Who offereth praise, me glorifies:  
I will show God's salvation  
To him that ordereth aright  
his life, and conversation.     

PSAL. LI. To the chief musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.  

AFter thy loving kindness, Lord,  
have mercy upon me:  
For thy compassions great, blot out  
all mine iniquity.  
Me cleanse from sin, and throughly wash  
from mine iniquity.  
For, my transgressions I confess,  
my sin I ever see.   

'Gainst thee, thee only, have I sinned,  
in thy sight done this ill,  
That, when thou speaks, thou may be just,  
and clear in judging still.  
Behold, I in iniquity  
was formed the womb within;  
My mother also me conceived  
in guiltiness and sin.   

Behold, thou, in the inward parts,  
with truth delighted art;  
And wisdom thou shalt make me know  
within the hidden part.  
Do thou with hyssop sprinkle me,  
I shall be cleansed so;  
Yea, wash thou me, and then I shall  
be whiter than the snow.   

Of gladness, and of joyfulness,  
make me to hear the voice;  
That so, these very bones, which thou  
hast broken, may rejoice.  
All mine iniquities blot out,  
thy face hide from my sin.  
Create a clean heart: Lord, renew  
a right spirit me within.   

Cast me not from thy sight, nor take  
thy holy spirit away:  
Restore me thy salvations joy;  
with thy free spirit me stay.  
Then will I teach thy ways unto  
those that transgressors be;  
And those that sinners are, shall then  
be turned unto thee.   

O GOD of my salvation God,  
me from blood-guiltiness  
Set free: then shall my tongue aloud  
sing of thy righteousness.  
My closed lips, O Lord, by thee  
let them be opened;  
Then shall thy praises by my mouth  
abroad be published.   

For thou desir'st not sacrifice,  
else would I give it thee;  
Nor wilt thou with burnt-offering  
at all delighted be.  
A broken spirit is to God  
a pleasing sacrifice,  
A broken, and a contrite heart,  
Lord, thou wilt not despise.   

Show kindness and do good, O Lord,  
to Zion thine own hill;  
The walls of thy Jerusalem  
build up, of thy good will.  
Then righteous offerings shall thee please,  
and offerings burnt, which they,  
With whole burnt-offrings and with calves,  
shall on thine altar lay.    

PSAL. LII. To the chief musician Maschil, A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech.  

Why dost thou boast, O mighty man,  
of mischief and of ill?  
The goodness of Almighty God  
endureth ever still.  
Thy tongue mischievous calumnies  
deviseth subtly,  
Like to a razor, sharp to cut,  
working deceitfully.   

Ill more than good, and more than truth  
thou lovest to speak wrong:  
Thou lovest all devouring words,  
O thou deceitful tongue.  
So God shall thee destroy for ay,  
remove thee, pluck thee out  
Quite from thy house, out of the land  
of life he shall thee root.   

The righteous shall it see, and fear,  
and laugh at him they shall:  
Lo, this the man is, that did not  
make GOD his strength at all:  
But he, in his abundant wealth,  
his confidence did place;  
And he took strength unto himself  
from his own wickedness.   

But I am in the house of God  
like to an olive green:  
My confidence for ever hath  
upon God's mercy been.  
And I for ever will thee praise,  
because thou hast done this:  
I on thy Name will wait, for good  
before thy saints it is.    

PSAL. LIII. To the chief musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David.  

THat there is not a God, the fool  
doth in his heart conclude:  
They are corrupt, their works are vile,  
not one of them doth good.  
The Lord upon the sons of men  
from heaven did cast his eyes,  
To see if any one there was  
that sought God, and was wise.   

They altogether filthy are,  
they all are backward gone;  
And there is none that doth good,  
no not so much as one.  
These workers of iniquity  
do they not know at all,  
That they my people eat as bread  
and on God do not call.   

Even there they were afraid, and stood  
with trembling all dismayed,  
Whereas there was no cause at all,  
why they should be afraid.  
For God his bones that thee besieged  
hath scattered all abroad,  
Thou hast confounded them, for they  
despised are of God.   

Let Israel's help from Zion come▪  
When back the Lord shall bring  
His captives, Jacob shall rejoice,  
and Israel shall sing▪    

PSAL. LIV. To the chief musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, doth not David hide himself with us?  

SAve me, O God, by thy great Name,  
and judge me by thy strength:  
My prayer hear, O God; give ear  
unto my words at length.  
For they that strangers are to me  
do up against me rise;  
Oppressors seek my soul, and God  
set not before their eyes.   

The Lord my God my helper is,  
lo, therefore I am bold,  
He taketh part with every one  
that doth my soul uphold.  
Unto mine enemies he shall  
mischief and ill repay.  
O for thy truth's sake cut them off,  
and sweep them clean away.   

I will a sacrifice to thee  
give with free willingness:  
Thy Name, O Lord, because it's good,  
with praise I will confess.  
For he hath me delivered  
from all adversities:  
And his desire mine eye hath seen  
upon mine enemies.    

PSAL LV. To the chief musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David.  

LOrd, hear my prayer, hide not thyself  
from my entreating voice:  
Attend and hear me, in my plaint  
I mourn and make a noise.  
Because of th'enemies' voice, and for  
lewd men's oppression great;  
On me they cast iniquity,  
and they in wrath me hate.   

Sore pained within me is my heart,  
deaths terrors on me fall;  
On me comes trembling, fear and dread  
overwhelmed me withal.  
O that I like a dove had wings,  
said I, then would I fly  
Far hence, that I might find a place  
where I in rest might be.   

Lo then far off I wander would,  
and in the desert stay:  
From windy storm and tempest I  
would haste to scape away.  
O Lord, on them destruction bring,  
and do their tongues divide:  
For in the city violence,  
and strife I have espied.   

They day and night upon the walls  
do go about it round:  
There mischief is, and sorrow there  
in midst of it is found.  
Abundant wickedness there is  
within her inward part;  
And from her streets deceitfulness  
and guile do not depart.   

He was no foe that me reproached,  
then that endure I could,  
Nor hater that did 'gainst me boast,  
from him me hide I would.  
But thou man, who mine equal, guide,  
and mine acquaintance waste,  
We joined sweet counsels, to God's house  
in company we passed.   

Let death upon them seize, and down  
let them go quick to hell;  
For wickedness doth much abound  
among them where they dwell.  
I'll call on God, God will me save.  
I'll pray and make a noise  
At evening, morning, and at noon;  
and he shall hear my voice.   

He hath my soul delivered,  
that it in peace might be,  
From battle that against me was,  
for many were with me.  
The Lord shall hear, and them afflict,  
of old who hath abode:  
Because they never changes have,  
therefore they fear not God.   

'Gainst those that were at peace with him  
he hath put forth his hand:  
The covenant that he had made,  
by breaking he profaned.  
More smooth than butter were his words,  
while in his heart was war;  
His speeches were more soft than oil,  
and yet drawn swords they are.   

Cast thou thy burden on the Lord,  
and he shall thee sustain;  
Yea, he shall cause the righteous man  
unmoved to remain.  
But thou, O Lord my God, those men  
in justice shalt o'erthrow,  
And in destruction's dungeon dark  
at last shalt lay them low.   

The bloody and deceitful men  
shall not live half their days;  
But upon thee with confidence  
I will depend always.    

PSAL. LVI. To the chief musician upon Jonath-elemrechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.  

Show mercy, Lord to me: for man  
would swallow me outright:  
He me oppresseth, while he doth  
against me daily fight.  
They daily would me swallow up,  
that hate me spitefully;  
For they be many that do fight  
against me, O most high.   

When I'm afraid, I'll trust in thee:  
In God I'll praise his word,  
I will not fear what flesh can do,  
my trust is in the Lord.  
Each day they wrest my words, their thoughts  
'gainst me are all for ill.  
They meet, they lurk, they mark my steps  
waiting my soul to kill.   

But shall they by iniquity  
escape thy judgement so?  
O God, with indignation, down  
do thou the people throw.  
My wander all what they have been  
thou knowst, their number took.  
Into thy bottle put my tears,  
are they not in thy book?   

My foes shall, when I cry, turn back,  
I know't, God is for me.  
In God his word I'll praise, his word  
in God shall praised be.  
In God I trust, I will not fear  
what man can do to me.  
Thy vows upon me are, O God:  
I'll render praise to thee.   

Wilt thou not, who from death me saved,  
my feet from falls keep free,  
To walk before God in the light  
of those that living be.    

PSAL. LVII. To the chief musician Al-taschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave,  

BE merciful to me, O God,  
thy mercy unto me  
Do thou extend, because my soul  
doth put her trust in thee.  
Yea, in the shadow of thy wings  
my refuge I will place,  
Until these sad calamities  
do wholly overpasse.   

My cry I will cause to ascend  
unto the Lord most high,  
To God, who doth all things for me  
perform most perfectly.  
From heaven he shall send down, and me  
from his reproach defend,  
That would devour me; God his truth  
and mercy forth shall send.   

My soul among fierce lions is,  
I firebrands live among,  
Mens sons, whose teeth are spears and darts,  
a sharp sword is their tongue.  
Be thou exalted very high  
above the heavens, O God;  
Let thou thy glory be advanced  
o'er all the earth abroad.   

My soul's bowed down, for they a net  
have laid, my steps to snare;  
Into the pit, which they have digged  
for me, they fallen are.  
My heart is fixed, my heart is fixed,  
O God, I'll sing, and praise.  
My glory wake, wake psaltry, harp;  
myself I'll early raise.   

I'll praise thee 'mong the people, Lord,  
'mong nations sing will I▪  
For great to heaven thy mercy is,  
thy truth is to the sky.  
O Lord, exalted be thy Name,  
above the heavens to stand:  
Do thou thy glory far advance  
above both sea and land.    

PSAL. LVIII. To the chief musician Al-taschith, Michtam of David.  

DO ye, O congregation,  
indeed speak righteousness?  
O ye that are the sons of men,  
judge ye with uprightness?  
Yea even within your very hearts  
ye wickedness have done;  
And ye the violence of your hands  
do weigh the earth upon.   

The wicked men estranged are  
even from the very womb;  
They speaking lies do stray, as soon  
as to the world they come.  
Unto a serpent's poison like  
their poison doth appear;  
Yea, they are like the adder deaf,  
that closely stops her ear:   

That so she may not hear the voice  
of one that charm her would,  
No not though he most cunning were,  
and charm most wisely could.  
Their teeth, O God, within their mouth  
break thou in pieces small;  
The great teeth break thou out, O Lord,  
of these young lions all.   

Let them like waters melt away,  
which downward still do flow:  
In pieces cut his arrows all,  
when he shall bend his bow.  
Like to a snail that melts away,  
let each of them be gone:  
Like woman's birth untimely, that  
they never see the sun.   

He shall them take away, before  
your pots the thorns can find,  
Both living, and in fury great,  
as with a stormy wind.  
The righteous when he vengeance sees,  
he shall be joyful then;  
The righteous one shall wash his feet  
in blood of wicked men.   

So men shall say, the righteous man  
reward shall never miss;  
And verily upon the earth  
a God to judge there is.    

PSAL. LIX. To the chief musician Al-taschith, Michtam of David: when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.  

MY God, deliver me from those  
that are mine enemies:  
And do thou me defend from those  
that up against me rise.  
Do thou deliver me from them  
that work iniquity;  
And give me safety from the men  
of blood cruelty.   

For lo, they for my soul lay wait;  
the mighty do combine  
Against me, Lord, not for my fault,  
nor any sin of mine.  
They run, and without fault in me  
themselves do ready make:  
Awake to meet me with thy help,  
and do thou notice take.   

Awake therefore, Lord God of hosts▪  
thou God of Israel,  
To visit Heathen all: spare none  
that wickedly rebel.  
At evening they go to and fro;  
they make great noise, and sound  
Like to a dog, and often walk  
about the city round.   

Behold, they belch out with their mouth;  
and in their lips are swords:  
For they do say thus, who is he  
that now doth hear our words?  
But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them,  
and all the Heathen mock.  
While he's in power I'll wait on thee:  
for God is my high rock.   

He of my mercy that is God,  
betimes shall me prevent:  
Upon mine enemy's God shall let  
me see mine hearts content.  
Them slay not, left my folk forget;  
but scatter them abroad  
By thy strong power; and bring them down,  
O thou our shield, and God.   

For their mouths sin, and for the words  
that from their lips do fly,  
Let them be taken in their pride,  
because they curse and lie.  
In wrath consume them, them consume,  
that so they may not be:  
And that in Jacob God doth rule  
to th'earth's ends let them see.   

At evening let thou them return,  
making great noise, and sound  
Like to a dog, and often walk  
about the city round.  
And let them wander up and down  
in seeking food, to eat;  
And let them grudge when they shall not  
be satisfied with meat.   

But of thy power I'll sing aloud  
at morn thy mercy praise:  
For thou to me my refuge waste,  
and tower in troublous days.  
O God, that art my strength, I will  
sing praises unto thee;  
For God is my defence, a God  
of mercy unto me.    

PSAL. LX. To the chief musician upon Shushan-eduth, Michtam of David, to teach, when he strove with Aram Naharaim, and with Aram Zobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt, twelve thousand,  

O Lord, thou hast rejected us,  
and scattered us abroad,  
Thou justly hast displeased been,  
return to us, O God.  
The earth to tremble thou hast made;  
therein didst breaches make:  
Do thou thereof the breaches heal,  
because the land doth shake.   

Unto thy people, thou hard things  
hast showed, and on them sent:  
And thou hast caused us to drink  
wine of astonishment.  
And yet a banner thou hast given  
to them who thee do fear:  
That it by them, because of truth  
displayed may appear.   

That thy beloved people may  
delivered be from thrall;  
Save with the power of thy right hand,  
and hear me when I call.  
God in his holiness hath spoke,  
herein I will take pleasure:  
Shechem I will divide, and forth  
will Succoths valley measure.   

Gilead I claim as mine, by right,  
Manasseh mine shall be,  
Ephraim is of mine head the strength,  
Judah gives laws for me.  
Moab's my washing-pot, my shoe  
I'll over Edom throw:  
And over Palestina's land  
I will in triumph go.   

O who is he will bring me to  
the city fortified?  
O who is he that to the land  
of Edom will me guide?  
O God, which hadst us cast off,  
this thing wilt thou not do?  
Even thou, O God, which didst not  
forth with our armies go.   

Help us from trouble: for the help  
is vain which man supplies.  
Through God we'll do great acts: he shall  
tread down our enemies.    

PSAL. LXI. To the chief musician upon Neginoth, A Psalm of David.  

O God, give ear unto my cry.  
unto my prayer attend.  
From th'utmost corner of the land  
my cry to thee I'll send,  
What time my heart is overwhelmed,  
and in perplexity;  
Do thou me lead unto the Rock  
that higher is than I.   

For thou hast for my refuge been  
a shelter by thy power,  
And, for defence against my foes,  
thou hast been a strong tower  
Within thy Tabernacle I  
for ever will abide:  
And under covert of thy wings  
with confidence me hide.   

For thou, the vows that I did make.  
O Lord my God, didst hear:  
Thou hast given me the heritage  
of those thy Name that fear.  
A life prolonged for many days  
thou to the King shalt give:  
Like many generations be  
the years which he shall live.   

He in God's presence, his abode  
for evermore shall have:  
O do thou truth and mercy both  
prepare that may him save.  
And so will I perpetually  
sing praise unto thy Name.  
That, having made my vows, I may  
each day perform the same.    

PSAL. LXII. To the chief musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.  

MY soul with expectation  
depends on God indeed;  
My strength and my salvation doth  
from him alone proceed.  
He only my salvation is,  
and my strong rock is He;  
He only is my sure defence;  
much moved I shall not be.   

How long will ye against a man  
plot mischief? ye shall all  
Be slain, ye as a tottering fence  
shall be, and bowing wall.  
They only plot to cast him down  
from his excellency;  
They joy in lies, with mouth they bless,  
but they curse inwardly.   

My soul wait thou with patience  
upon thy God alone:  
On him dependeth all my hope  
and expectation.  
He only my salvation is,  
and my strong Rock is He;  
He only is my sure defence:  
I shall not moved be.   

In God my glory placed is,  
and my salvation sure:  
In God the Rock is of my strength,  
my refuge most secure.  
Ye people place your confidence  
in him continually;  
Before him pour ye out your heart:  
God is our refuge high.   

Surely mean men are vanity,  
and great men are a lie:  
In balance laid, they wholly are  
more light than vanity.  
Trust ye not in oppression,  
in robbery be not vain:  
On wealth set not your hearts, when as  
increased is your gain.   

God hath it spoken once to me,  
yea, this I heard again,  
That power, to Almighty God  
alone, doth appertain.  
Yea, mercy also unto thee  
belongs, O Lord, alone;  
For thou according to his work  
rewardest every one.    

PSAL. LXIII. A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.  

LOrd, thee my God I'll early seek:  
my soul doth thirst for thee,  
My flesh longs in a dry parched land,  
wherein no waters be.  
That I thy power may behold,  
and brightness of thy face,  
As I have seen thee heretofore,  
within thy holy place.   

Since better is thy love then life,  
my lips thee praise shall give.  
I in thy Name will lift my hands,  
and bless thee while I live.  
Even as with marrow and with fat,  
my soul shall filled be;  
Then shall my mouth, with joyful lips,  
sing praises unto thee:   

When I do thee upon my bed  
remember with delight,  
And when on thee I meditate  
in watches of the night.  
In shadow of thy wings I'll joy.  
for thou mine help hast been.  
My soul thee follows hard; and me  
thy right hand doth sustain.   

Who seek my soul to spill, shall sink  
down to earth's lowest room:  
They by thy sword shall be cut off,  
and foxes pray become.  
Yet shall the King in God rejoice,  
and each one glory shall  
That swear by him, but stopped shall be  
the mouth of liars all.    

PSAL. LXIV. To the chief musician, A Psalm of David.  

When I to thee my prayer make,  
Lord, to my voice give ear:  
My life save from the enemy  
of whom I stand in fear.  
Me from their secret counsel hide  
who do live wickedly;  
From insurrection of those men  
that work iniquity.   

Who do their tongues with malice whet,  
and make them cut like swords;  
In whose bend bows are arrows set;  
even sharp and bitter words:  
That they may at the perfect man  
in secret aim their shot;  
Yea suddenly they dare at him  
to shoot and fear it not.   

In ill encourage they themselves;  
and their snares close to lay  
Together conference they have,  
Who shall them see? they say.  
They have searched out iniquities,  
a perfect search they keep:  
Of each of them the inward thought,  
and very heart is deep.   

God shall an arrow shoot at them,  
and wound them suddenly.  
So their own tongue shall them confound:  
all who them see shall fly.  
And on all men a fear shall fall;  
God's works they shall declare:  
For they shall wisely notice take  
what these his doings are.   

In God the righteous shall rejoice,  
and trust upon his might;  
Yea they, shall greatly glory all,  
in heart that are upright.    

PSAL. LXV. To the chief musician, A Psalm and song of David.  

PRaise waits for thee in Zion, Lord;  
to thee vows paid shall be.  
O thou that hearer art of prayer,  
all flesh shall come to thee.  
Iniquities, I must confess,  
prevail against me do:  
But as for our transgressions,  
them purge away shalt thou.   

Blessed is the man whom thou dost choose,  
and mak'st approach to thee:  
That he within thy courts, O Lord,  
may still a dweller be:  
We surely shall be satisfied  
with thy abundant grace,  
And with the goodness of thy House,  
even of thy holy place.   

O God of our salvation,  
thou in thy righteousness  
By fearful works unto our prayers  
thine answer dost express:  
Therefore the ends of all the earth,  
and these afar that be  
Upon the sea, their confidence.  
O Lord, will place in thee.   

Who, being girt with power, sets fast,  
by his great strength, the hills.  
Who noise of seas, noise of their waves,  
and people's tumult stills.  
Those in the utmost parts that dwell  
are at thy signs afraid:  
Th'outgoings of the morn and even  
by thee are joyful made.   

The earth thou visit'st watering it,  
thou mak'st it rich to grow  
With God's full flood; thou corn preparest,  
when thou providest it so.  
Her ridges thou dost water much,  
her furrows settleft;  
With showers thou dost her mollify,  
her spring by thee is blest.   

So thou the year most liberally  
dost with thy goodness crown;  
And all thy paths abundantly  
on us drop fatness down.  
They drop upon the pastures wide,  
that do in deserts lie:  
The little hills on every side  
rejoice right pleasantly.   

With flocks the pastures clothed be,  
the vales with corn are clad;  
And now they shout and sing to thee,  
for thou hast made them glad.    

PSAL. LXVI. To the chief musician, A song or psalm.  

ALL lands to God in joyful sounds  
aloft your voices raise.  
Sing forth the honour of his Name,  
and glorious make his praise.  
Say unto God, How terrible  
in all thy works art thou?  
Through thy great power thy foes to thee  
shall be constrained to bow.   

All on the earth shall worship thee,  
they shall thy praise proclaim.  
In songs: they shall sing cheerfully  
unto thy holy Name.  
Come, and the works that God hath wrought  
with admiration see:  
In's workings to the sons of men  
most terrible is he.   

Into dry land the sea he turned,  
and they a passage had.  
Even marching through the flood on foot,  
there we in him were glad.  
He ruleth ever by his power,  
his eyes the nations see:  
O let not the rebellious ones  
lift up themselves on high.   

Ye people bless our God; aloud  
the voice speak of his praise.  
Our soul in life who safe preserves,  
our foot from sliding stays.  
For thou didst prove, and try us, Lord,  
as men do silver try;  
Brought'st us into the net, and mad'st  
bands on our loins to lie.   

Thou hast caused men ride o'er our heads;  
and though that we did pass  
Through fire and water, yet thou brought'st  
us to a wealthy place.  
I'll bring burnt-offrings to thy house,  
to thee my vows I'll pay,  
Which my lips uttered, my mouth spoke  
when trouble on me lay.   

Burnt-sacrifices of fat rams  
with incense I will bring;  
Of bullocks and of goats I will  
present an offering.  
All that fear God come hear, I'll tell  
what he did for my soul.  
I with my mouth unto him cried  
my tongue did him extol.   

If in my heart I sin regard,  
the Lord me will not hear:  
But surely God me heard, and to  
my prayers voice gave ear.  
O let the Lord, our gracious God,  
for ever blessed be,  
Who turned not my prayer from him,  
nor yet his grace from me.    


PSAL. LXVII. To the chief musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or song.  

LOrd, bless and pity us,  
shine on us with thy face:  
That th'earth thy way, and nations all  
may know thy saving grace,  
Let people praise thee, Lord,  
let people all thee praise.  
O let the nations be glad,  
in songs their voices raise:   

Thou'lt justly people judge,  
on earth rule nations all.  
Let people praise thee, Lord, let them  
praise thee both great and small.  
The earth her fruit shall yield,  
our God shall blessing send.  
God shall us bless, men shall him fear,  
unto earth's utmost end.    

Another of the same.  

LOrd, unto us be merciful,  
do thou us also bless:  
And graciously cause shine on us  
the brightness of his face.  
That so thy way upon the earth  
to all men may be known,  
Also among the nations all  
thy saying health be shown.   

O let the people praise thee, Lord,  
let people all thee praise.  
O let the nations be glad,  
and sing for joy always:  
For rightly thou shalt people judge,  
and nations rule on earth.  
Let people praise thee, Lord, let all  
the folk praise thee with mirth.   

Then shall the earth yield her increase,  
God, our God bless us shall.  
God shall us bless, and of the earth  
the ends shall fear him all.     

PSAL. LXVIII. To the chief musician, A Psalm or song of David.  

LEt God arise, and scattered  
let all his enemies be;  
And let all those that do him hate  
before his presence flee.  
As smoke is driven, so drive thou them:  
as fire melts wax away,  
Before God's face let wicked men  
so perish and decay.   

But let the righteous be glad,  
let them before God's sight  
Be very joyful, yea let them  
rejoice with all their might.  
To God sing, to his Name sing praise,  
extol him with your voice,  
That rides on heaven by his Name JAH,  
before his face rejoice.   

Because the Lord a Father is  
unto the fatherless:  
God is the widow's judge, within  
his place of holiness.  
God doth the solitary set  
in families; and from bands  
The chained doth free, but rebels do  
inhabit parched lands.   

O God, what time thou didst go forth  
before thy people's face;  
And when, through the great wilderness,  
thy glorious marching was;  
Then at God's presence shook the earth,  
then drops from heaven fell;  
This Sinai shook before the Lord,  
the God Israel.   

O God, thou to thine heritage  
didst send a plenteous rain;  
Whereby thou, when it weary was,  
didst it refresh again.  
Thy congregation then did make  
their habitation there:  
Of thine own goodness for the poor,  
O God, thou didst prepare.   

The Lord himself did give the word,  
the word abroad did spread;  
Great was the company of them  
the same who published.  
Kings of great armies foiled were,  
and forced to flee away,  
And women, who remained at home,  
did distribute the prey.   

Though ye have lain among the pots,  
like doves ye shall appear;  
Whose wings with silver, and with gold  
whose feathers covered are.  
When there th'Almighty scattered Kings,  
like Salmon's snow 'twas white.  
God's hill is like to Bashan hill,  
like Bashan hill for height.   

Why do ye leap ye mountains high?  
this is the hill where God  
Desires to dwell, yea God in it  
for ay will make abode.  
God's chariots twenty thousand are,  
thousands of Angels strong;  
In's holy place God is, as in  
mount Sinai, them among.   

Thou hast, O Lord, most glorious  
ascended up on high,  
And in triumph victorious led  
captive captivity:  
Thou hast received gifts for men,  
for such as did rebel,  
Yea, even for them; that God the Lord  
in midst of them might dwell.   

Blessed be the Lord, who is to us  
of our salvation God,  
Who daily with his benefits  
us plenteously doth load.  
He, of salvation is the God,  
who is our God most strong▪  
And unto God the Lord from death  
the issues belong.   

But surely, God shall wound the head  
of those that are his foes;  
The hairy scalp of him that still  
on in his trespass goes.  
God said, my people I will bring  
again from Bashan hill;  
Yea, from the seas devouring deeps,  
them bring again I will.   

That in the blood of enemies  
thy foot imbrued may be;  
And, of thy dogs dipped in the same,  
the tongues thou mayest see.  
Thy goings they have seen, O God,  
the steps of Majesty  
Of my God, and my mighty King,  
within the sanctuary.   

Before went singers, player's next  
on instruments took way;  
And them among the damsels were  
that did on timbrels play.  
Within the congregations  
bless God with one accord;  
From israel's fountain do ye bless  
and praise the mighty Lord.   

With their Prince little Benjamin,  
Princes and council there  
Of Judah were, there Zabulons  
and Naphtalies' Princes were.  
Thy God commands thy strength: make strong  
what thou wroughtst for us, Lord.  
For thy house at Jerusalem  
Kings shall thee gifts afford.   

The spearmen's host, the multitude  
of bulls, which fiercely look,  
Those calves which people have forth sent,  
O Lord our God rebuke,  
Till every one submit himself,  
and silver pieces bring:  
The people that delight in war  
disperse, O God and King.   

Those that be Princes great, shall then  
come out of Egypt lands,  
And Aethiopia to God  
shall soon stretch out her hands.  
O all ye Kingdoms of the earth,  
sing praises to this King;  
For he is Lord that ruleth all,  
unto him praises sing.   

To him that rides on heavens of heavens  
which he of old did found;  
Lo, he sends out his voice, a voice  
in might that doth abound.  
Strength unto God do ye ascribe;  
for his excellency  
Is over Israel, his strength  
is in the clouds most high.   

thou'rt from thy Temple dreadful, Lord;  
israel's own God is he  
Who gives his people strength, and power:  
O let God blessed be.    

PSAL. LXIX. To the chief musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.  

SAve me, O God, because the floods  
do so environ me,  
That even into my very soul  
come in the waters be.  
I downward in deep mire do sink,  
where standing there is none:  
I am into deep waters come,  
where floods have o'er me gone.   

I weary with my crying am,  
my throat is also dried;  
Mine eyes do fail, while for my God  
I waiting do abide.  
Those men that do without a cause  
bear hatred unto me  
Then are the hairs upon my head,  
in number moe they be:   

They that would me destroy, and are  
mine enemies wrongfully  
Are mighty: so, what I took not,  
to render forced was I.  
Lord thou my folly knowst, my sins  
not covered are from thee.  
Let none that wait oh thee be shamed,  
Lord, God of hosts, for me.   

O Lord, the God of Israel,  
let none, who search do make  
And seek thee, be at any time  
confounded for my sake.  
For I have born reproach for thee,  
my face is hid with shame.  
To brethren strange, to mother's sons  
an alien I became.   

Because the zeal did eat me up  
which to thy House I bore;  
And the reproaches cast at thee,  
upon me fallen are.  
My tears and fasts t'afflict my soul  
were turned to my shame.  
When sackcloth I did wear, to them  
a proverb I became.   

The men, that in the gate do sit,  
against me evil spoke;  
They also, that vile drunkards were,  
of me their song did make.  
But in an acceptable time  
my prayer, Lord, is to thee:  
In truth of thy salvation, Lord,  
and mercy great, hear me.   

Deliver me out of the mire,  
from sinking do me keep;  
Free me from those that do me hate,  
and from the waters deep.  
Let not the flood on me prevail,  
whose water overflows;  
Nor deep me swallow, nor the pit  
her mouth upon me close.   

Hear me, O Lord, because thy love  
and kindness is most good;  
Turn unto me, according to  
thy mercy's multitude.  
Nor from thy servant hide thy face,  
I'm troubled, soon attend.  
Draw near my soul, and it redeem,  
me from my foes defend.   

To thee is my reproach well known,  
my shame, and my disgrace:  
Those that mine adversaries be,  
are all before thy face.  
Reproach hath broke my heart, I'm full  
of grief; I looked for one  
To pity me, but none I found;  
comforters found I none.   

They also bitter gall did give  
unto me for my meat:  
They gave me vinegar to drink,  
when as my thirst was great.  
Before them let their table prove  
a snare; and do thou make  
Their welfare and prosperity  
a trap, themselves to take.   

Let thou their eyes so darkened be,  
that sight may them forsake;  
And let their loins be made by thee  
continually to shake.  
Thy fury pour thou out on them,  
and indignation;  
And let thy wrathful anger, Lord,  
fast hold take them upon.   

All waste and desolate let be  
their habitation,  
And in their tabernacles all  
inhabitants be none.  
Because him they do persecute,  
whom thou didst smite before;  
They talk unto the grief of those  
whom thou hast wounded sore.   

Add thou iniquity unto  
their former wickedness:  
And do not let them come at all  
into thy righteousness.  
Out of the book of life let them  
be razed, and blotted quite;  
Among the just and righteous  
let not their names be writ.   

But now, become exceeding poor,  
and sorrowful am I:  
By thy salvation, O my God,  
let me be set on high.  
The Name of God, I, with a song,  
most cheerfully will praise;  
And I, in giving thanks to him,  
his Name shall highly raise.   

This to the Lord a sacrifice  
more gracious shall prove,  
Then bullock, ox, or any beast  
that hath both horn and hoof.  
When this the humble men shall see,  
it joy to them shall give:  
O all ye, that do seek the Lord,  
your heart shall ever live.   

For, God the poor hears, and will not  
his prisoners contemn.  
Let heaven, and earth, and seas him praise,  
and all that move in them.  
For God will Judah's cities build,  
and He will Zion save;  
That they may dwell therein, and it  
in sure possession have.   

And they that are his servants seed,  
inherit shall the same;  
So shall they have their dwelling there,  
that love his blessed Name.    


PSAL. LXX. To the chief musician, A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.  

LOrd, haste me to deliver,  
with speed, Lord, secure me.  
Let them, that for my soul do seek,  
shamed and confounded be:  
Turned back be they and shamed,  
that in my hurt delight.  
Turned back be they, Ha ha that say,  
their shaming to requite.   

In thee let all be glad,  
and joy that seek for thee:  
Let them, who thy salvation love,  
say still, God praised be.  
I poor and needy am,  
come, Lord, and make no stay:  
My help thou and deliverer art,  
O Lord, make no delay.    

Another of the same.  

MAke haste, O God, me to preserve,  
with speed, Lord, secure me.  
Let them that for my soul do seek  
shamed and confounded be:  
Let them be turned back and shamed,  
that in my hurt delight.  
Turned back be they, Ha ha that say,  
their shaming to requite.   

O Lord, in thee let all be glad,  
and joy that seek for thee:  
Let them, who thy salvation love,  
say still, God praised be.  
But I both poor and needy am:  
come, Lord, and make no stay:  
My help thou and deliverer art,  
O Lord, make no delay.     

PSAL. LXXI.  

O Lord, my hope and confidence  
is placed in thee alone:  
Then let thy servant never be  
put to confusion.  
And let me, in thy righteousness,  
from thee deliverance have;  
Cause me escape, incline thine ear  
unto me, and me save.   

Be thou my dwelling rock, to which  
I ever may resort:  
Thou gav'st commandment me to save,  
for thou'rt my rock and fort.  
Free me, my God, from wicked hands,  
hands cruel and unjust.  
For thou, O Lord God, art my hope,  
and, from my youth, my trust.   

Thou from the womb didst hold me up:  
thou art the same that me  
Out of my mother's bowels took,  
I ever will praise thee.  
To many I a wonder am;  
but thou'rt my refuge strong.  
Filled let my mouth be with thy praise,  
and honour, all day long.   

O do not cast me off, when as  
old age doth overtake me;  
And, when my strength decayed is,  
then do not Thou forsake me.  
For those that are mine enemies,  
against me speak with hate:  
And, they together counsel take  
that for my soul lay wait.   

They said, God leaves him; him pursue  
and take; none will him save.  
Be Thou not far from me, my God:  
thy speedy help I crave.  
Confound, consume them, that unto  
my soul are enemies:  
Clothed be they with reproach and shame,  
that do my hurt devise.   

But I with expectation  
will hope continually;  
And yet with praises more and more  
I will thee magnify.  
Thy justice and salvation  
my mouth abroad shall show,  
Even all the day; for I thereof  
the numbers do not know.   

And I will constantly go on  
in strength of God, the Lord:  
And thine own righteousness, even thine  
alone, I will record.  
For, even from my youth, O God,  
by Thee I have been taught;  
And hitherto I have declared  
the wonders Thou hast wrought.   

And now, Lord, leave me not, when I  
old and gray-headed grow;  
Till to this age thy strength and power,  
to all to come I show.  
And thy most perfect righteousness,  
O Lord, is very high,  
Who hast so great things done: O God,  
who is like unto Thee?   

Thou Lord, who great adversities,  
and sore to me didst show,  
Shalt quicken, and bring me again  
from depths of earth below.  
My greatness, and my power thou wilt  
increase and far extend:  
On every side, against all grief,  
thou wilt me comfort send.   

Thee, even thy truth I'll also praise,  
my God, with psaltery:  
Thou holy One of Israel,  
with harp I'll sing to Thee.  
My lips shall much rejoice in Thee,  
when I thy praises sound:  
My soul, which Thou redeemed haste,  
in joy shall much abound.   

My tongue thy justice shall proclaim,  
continuing all day long;  
For they confounded are, and shamed,  
that seek to do me wrong.    

PSAL. LXXII. A Psalm for Solomon.  

O Lord, thy judgements give the King,  
his son thy righteousness.  
With right he shall thy people judge,  
thy poor with uprightness.  
The lofty mountains shall bring forth  
unto the people peace;  
Likewise the little hills the same  
shall do by righteousness.   

The people's poor ones he shall judge,  
the needies children save:  
And those shall he in pieces break  
who them oppressed have.  
They shall thee fear, while sun and moon  
do last, through ages all.  
Like rain on mown grass he shall drop,  
or showers on earth that fall.   

The just shall flourish in his days,  
and prosper in his reign:  
He shall, while doth the moon endure,  
abundant peace maintain  
His large and great dominion shall  
from sea to sea extend,  
It from the river shall reach forth  
unto earth's utmost end.   

They, in the wilderness that dwell,  
bow down before him must:  
And they, that are his enemies,  
shall lick the very dust.  
The Kings of Tarshish, and the Isles  
to him shall presents bring;  
And unto him shall offer gifts  
Sheba's and Seba's King.   

Yea, all the mighty Kings on earth  
before him down shall fall:  
And all the nations of the world  
do service to him shall.  
For He the needy shall preserve,  
when he to Him doth call;  
The poor also, and him that hath  
no help of man at all.   

The poor man and the indigent  
in mercy He shall spare:  
He shall preserve alive the souls  
of those that needy are.  
Both from deceit and violence,  
their soul He shall set free;  
And in His sight right precious  
and dear their blood shall be.   

Yea, He shall live, and given to Him  
shall be of Sheba's gold;  
For Him still shall they pray, and He  
shall daily be extolled.  
Of corn an handful in the earth  
on tops of mountains high,  
With prosperous fruit shall shake, like trees  
on Lebanon that be.   

The city shall be flourishing,  
her citizens abound  
In number shall, like to the grass  
that grows upon the ground,  
His Name for ever shall endure,  
last like the sun it shall:  
Men shall be blest in Him, and blest  
all nations shall Him call.   

Now blessed be the Lord, our God,  
the God of Israel,  
For He alone doth wondrous works,  
in glory that excel.  
And blessed be His glorious Name  
to all eternity;  
The whole earth let His glory fill:  
Amen, so let it be.   

The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.    

PSAL. LXXIII. A Psalm of Asaph.  

YEt God is good to Israel,  
to each pure hearted one.  
But as for me, my steps near slipped,  
my feet were almost gone.  
For I envious was, and grudged  
the foolish folk to see,  
When I perceived the wicked sort  
enjoy prosperity.   

For still their strength continueth firm,  
their death of bands is free:  
They are not toiled as other men,  
nor plagued as others be:  
Therefore, their pride, like to a chain,  
them compasseth about;  
And, as a garment, violence  
doth cover them throughout.   

Their eyes stand out with fat, they have  
more than their hearts could wish.  
They are corrupt, their talk of wrong  
both lewd and lofty is.  
They set their mouth against the heavens,  
in their blasphemous talk;  
And their reproaching tongue throughout  
the earth at large doth walk.   

His people oftentimes for this  
look back, and turn about,  
Sith waters of so full a cup  
to these are poured out.  
And thus they say, How can it be  
that God these things doth know?  
Or, can there in the Highest be  
knowledge of things below?   

Behold, these are the wicked ones,  
yet prosper at their will  
In worldly things, they do increase  
in wealth and riches still.  
I verily have done in vain  
my heart to purify:  
To no effect in innocence  
washed my hands have I.   

For daily, and all day throughout  
great plagues I suffered have;  
Yea, every morning I of new  
did chastisement receive.  
If in this manner foolishly  
to speak I would intend,  
Thy children's generation  
behold I should offend.   

When I this thought to know, it was  
too hard a thing for me,  
Till to God's Sanctuary I went,  
than I their end did see.  
Assuredly thou didst them set  
a slippery place upon:  
Them suddenly thou castedst down  
into destruction.   

How in a moment, suddenly  
to ruin brought are they!  
With fearful terrors utterly  
they are consumed away.  
Even like unto a dream, when one  
from sleeping doth arise;  
So thou, O Lord, when thou awak'st,  
their image shalt despise.   

Thus grieved was my heart in me,  
and me my reins oppressed.  
So rude was I, and ignorant,  
and in thy sight a beast.  
Nevertheless continually,  
O Lord, I am with thee:  
Thou dost me hold by my right hand,  
and still upholdest me.   

Thou, with thy counsel, while I live,  
will't me conduct and guide;  
And to thy glory afterward  
receive me, to abide.  
Whom have I in the heavens high,  
but thee, O Lord, alone?  
And in the earth, whom I desire  
beside thee, there is none.   

My flesh and heart doth faint and fail,  
but God doth fail me never;  
For of my heart God is the strength,  
and portion for ever.  
For lo, those that are far from thee,  
they quickly perish shall:  
Them, that whoring from thee go,  
thou hast destroyed all.   

But surely it is good for me,  
that I draw near to God:  
In God I trust, that all thy works  
I may declare abroad.    

PSAL. LXXIV. Maschil of Asaph.  

O God, why hast thou cast us off?  
is it for evermore?  
Against thy pasture sheep why doth  
thine anger smoke so sore?  
O call to thy remembrance  
thy congregation,  
Which thou hast purchased of old;  
still think the same upon.   

The rod of thine inheritance,  
which thou redeemed haste,  
This Zion hill, wherein thou hadst,  
thy dwelling in times past.  
To these long desolations  
thy feet lift, do not tarry;  
For all the ills thy foes have done  
within thy Sanctuary.   

Amidst thy congregations  
thine enemies do roar:  
Their ensigns they set up, for signs  
of triumph, thou before.  
A man was famous, and was had  
in estimation,  
According as he lifted up  
his axe thick trees upon.   

But all at once with axes now  
and hammers they go to,  
And down the carved work thereof  
they break, and quite undo.  
They fired have thy Sanctuary,  
and have defiled the same,  
By casting down unto the ground  
the place where dwelled thy Name.   

Thus said they in their hearts, Let us  
destroy them out of hand:  
They burned up all the Synagogues  
of God, within the land.  
Our signs we do not now behold;  
there is not us among  
A prophet more, nor any one  
that knows the time how long.   

How long, Lord, shall the enemy  
thus in reproach exclaim?  
And shall the adversary thus  
always blaspheme thy Name?  
Thy hand, even thy right hand of might,  
why dost thou thus draw back?  
O from thy bosom pluck it out  
for our deliverance sake.   

For certainly God is my King,  
even from the times of old,  
Working in midst of all the earth  
salvation manifold.  
The sea, by thy great power to part  
asunder, thou didst make;  
And thou the dragon's heads, O Lord,  
within the waters broke.   

The Leviathans heads thou broke  
in pieces, and didst give  
Him to be meat unto the folk  
in wilderness that live.  
Thou clavae the fountain and the flood,  
which did with streams abound:  
Thou dry'dst the mighty waters up  
unto the very ground.   

Thine only is the day, O Lord,  
thine also is the night;  
And thou alone prepared haste  
the sun and shining light.  
By thee the borders of the earth  
were settled every where:  
The summer and the winter both  
by thee created were.   

That th'enemy reproached hath,  
O keep it in record;  
And that the foolish people have  
blasphemed thy Name, O Lord.  
Unto the multitude do not  
thy turtles soul deliver;  
The congregation of thy poor  
do not forget for ever.   

Unto thy covenant have respect:  
for earth's dark places be  
Full of the habitations  
of horrid cruelty.  
O let not those that be oppressed  
return again with shame:  
Let those that poor and needy are  
give praise unto thy Name.   

Do thou, O God, arise and plead  
the cause, that is thine own:  
Remember how thou art reproached  
still by the foolish one.  
Do not forget the voice of those  
that are thine enemies:  
Of those the tumult ever grows  
that do against thee rise.    

PSAL. LXXXV. To the chief musician Al-taschith, A psalm or song of Asaph.  

TO thee, O God, do we give thanks,  
we do give thanks to thee:  
Because thy wondrous works declare  
thy great Name near to be.  
I purpose, when I shall receive  
the congregation,  
That I shall judgement uprightly  
render to every one.   

Dissolved is the land, with all  
that in the same do dwell;  
But I the pillars thereof do  
bear up and establish well.  
ay, to the foolish people said,  
Do not deal foolishly;  
And unto those that wicked are,  
Lift not your horn on high.   

Lift not your horn on high, nor speak  
with stubborn neck: but know,  
That nor from East, nor West, nor South  
promotion doth flow.  
But God is Judge: He puts down one,  
and sets another up.  
For in the hand of God most high  
of red wine is a cup;   

It's full of mixture; he pours forth,  
and makes the wicked all  
Wring out the bitter dregs thereof,  
yea, and they drink them shall.  
But I, for ever will declare,  
I jacob's God will praise.  
All horns of lewd men I'll cut off;  
but just men's horns will raise.    

PSAL. LXXVI. To the chief musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or song of Asaph.  

IN Judah's land God is well known,  
his Name's in Israel great:  
In Salem is his Tabernacle,  
in Zion is his Seat.  
There arrows of the bow he broke,  
the shield, the sword, the war.  
More glorious thou than hills of prey,  
more excellent art far.   

Those that were stout of heart are spoiled,  
they slept their sleep outright;  
And none of those their hands did find  
that were the men of might.  
When thy rebuke, O jacob's God,  
had forth against them past,  
Their horses and their chariots both  
were in a dead sleep cast.   

Thou, Lord, even thou art He that should  
be feared, and who is he  
That may stand up before thy sight,  
if once thou angry be?  
From heaven thou judgement caused be heard;  
the earth was still with fear,  
When God to judgement rose, to save  
all meek on earth that were.   

Surely the very wrath of man  
unto thy praise redounds:  
Thou to the remnant of his wrath  
wilt set restraining bounds.  
Vow to the Lord, your God, and pay;  
all ye that near Him be  
Bring gifts and presents unto Him,  
for to be feared is Herald   

By Him the spirits shall be cut off  
of those that princes are:  
Unto the Kings that are on earth  
He fearful doth appear.    

PSAL. LXXVII. To the chief musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph.  

UNto the Lord I with my voice,  
I unto God did cry  
Even with my voice, and unto me  
his ear he did apply.  
I in my trouble sought the Lord;  
my sore by night did run,  
And ceased not: my grieved soul  
did consolation shun.   

I to remembrance God did call,  
yet trouble did remain;  
And overwhelmed my spirit was  
whiles I did sore complain.  
Mine eyes debarred from rest and sleep,  
thou makest still to wake:  
My trouble is so great, that I  
unable am to speak.   

The days of old to mind I called,  
and oft did think upon  
The times and ages, that are passed  
full many years agone.  
By night my song I call to mind,  
and commune with my heart,  
My spirit did carefully inquire  
how I might ease my smart.   

For ever will the Lord cast off?  
and gracious be no more?  
For ever is his mercy gone?  
fails his word evermore?  
Is't true that to be gracious  
the Lord forgotten hath?  
And that his tender mercies He  
hath shut up in his wrath?   

Then did I say, that surely this  
is mine infirmity:  
I'll mind the years of the right hand  
of Him that is most high.  
Yea, I remember will the works  
performed by the Lord;  
The wonders done of old by thee  
I surely will record.   

I also will of all thy works  
my meditation make,  
And of thy doings to discourse  
great pleasure I will take.  
O God, thy way most holy is  
within thy Sanctuary:  
And what God is so great in power,  
as is our God most high?   

Thou art the God that wonders dost  
by thy right hand most strong;  
Thy mighty power thou hast declared  
the nations among.  
To thine own people with thine arm  
thou didst redemption bring;  
To jacob's sons, and to the Tribes  
of Joseph that do spring.   

The waters, Lord, perceived thee,  
the waters saw thee well;  
And they for fear aside did fly;  
the depths on trembling fell.  
The clouds in water forth were poured,  
sound loudly did the sky;  
And swiftly through the world abroad  
thine arrows fierce did fly.   

Thy thunder's voice alongst the heaven  
a mighty noise did make:  
By lightnings lightened was the world,  
th'earth tremble did and shake.  
Thy way is in the sea, and in  
the waters great thy path;  
Yet are thy footsteps hid, O Lord,  
none knowledge thereof hath.   

Thy people thou didst safely lead  
like to a flock of sheep,  
By Moses hand and Aaron's Thou  
didst them conduct and keep.    

PSAL. LXXVIII. Maschil of Asaph.  

A Trend, my people, to my Law,  
thereto give thou an ear:  
The words that from my mouth proceed  
attentively do hear.  
My mouth shall speak a parable,  
and sayings dark of old:  
The same which we have heard, and known,  
and us our fathers told.   

We also will them not conceal  
from their posterity:  
Them to the generation  
to come declare will we:  
The praises of the Lord our God,  
and His Almighty strength,  
The wondrous works that He hath done  
we will show forth at length.   

His testimony and His law  
in Israel He did place,  
And charged, our fathers, it to show  
to their succeeding race.  
That so the race, which was to come,  
might well them learn and know;  
And sons unborn, who should arise,  
might to their sons them show:   

That they might set their hope in God,  
and suffer not to fall  
His mighty works out of their mind,  
but keep His precepts all.  
And might not, like their fathers, be  
a stiff rebellious race,  
A race not right in heart; with God  
whose spirit not steadfast was.   

The sons of Ephraim, who nor bows  
nor other arms did lack,  
When as the day of battle was  
they faintly turned back.  
They broke God's covenant, and refused  
in His commands to go.  
His works and wonders they forgot,  
which He to them did show.   

Things marvellous He brought to pass,  
their fathers them beheld,  
Within the land of Egypt done,  
yea even in Zoans field.  
By Him divided was the sea,  
He caused them through to pass;  
And He the water made to stand,  
that like an heap it was.   

With cloud by day, with light of fire  
all night he did them guide.  
In desert rocks He clavae and drink  
as from great depths supplied.  
He from the rock brought streams, like floods  
made waters to run down.  
Yet sinning more, in desert they  
provoked the Highest One.   

For, in their heart they tempted God:  
and speaking with mistrust,  
They greedily did meat require  
to satisfy their lust.  
Against the Lord himself they spoke,  
and murmuring said thus,  
A table in the wilderness  
can God prepare for us?   

Behold, He smote the rock, and thence  
came streams and waters great;  
But can He give His people bread?  
and send them flesh to eat?  
The Lord did hear, and waxed wroth,  
so kindled was a flame  
'Gainst Jacob; and 'gainst Israel  
up indignation came:   

For they believed not God, nor trust  
in His salvation had:  
Though floods above He did command,  
and heaven's doors open made;  
And Manna reigned on them, and gave  
them corn of heaven to eat.  
Man Angels food did eat, to them  
He to the full sent meat.   

And in the heaven He did cause  
an Eastern wind to blow;  
And by his power He let out  
the Southern wind to go.  
Then flesh, as thick as dust, He made  
to rain down them among;  
And feathered fowls, like as the sand  
which lieth the shore along.   

At his command amidst their camp  
these showers of flesh down fell,  
All round about the tabernacles  
and tents where they did dwell.  
So did they eat abundantly,  
and had of meat their fill;  
For He did give to them what was  
their own desire and will.   

They from their lust had not estranged  
their heart and their desire;  
But while the meat was in their mouth,  
which they did so require,  
God's wrath upon them came, and slew  
the fattest of them all;  
So that the choice of Israel,  
o'erthrown by death, did fall.   

Yet notwithstanding of all this,  
they sinned still the more;  
And, though He had great wonders wrought,  
believed Him not therefore.  
Wherefore their days in vanity  
He did consume and waste,  
And by His wrath their wretched years  
away in trouble past.   

But when He slew them, than they did  
to seek Him show desire:  
Yea, they returned, and after God  
right early did inquire.  
And that the Lord had been their Rock  
they did remember then:  
Even that the high Almighty God  
had their Redeemer been.   

Yet with their mouth they flattered Him,  
and spoke but feignedly,  
And they unto the God of truth  
with their false tongues did lie.  
For, though their words were good, their heart  
with Him was not sincere:  
Unsteadfast and perfidious  
they in his covenant were.   

But full of pity, He forgave  
their sin, them did not slay;  
Nor stirred up all His wrath, but oft  
his anger turned away.  
For that they were but fading flesh  
to mind He did recall;  
A wind that passeth soon away,  
and not returns at all.   

How often did they Him provoke  
within the wilderness?  
And in the desert did Him grieve  
with their rebelliousness?  
Yea, turning back they tempted God,  
and limits set upon  
Him who in midst of Israel is  
the only Holy One.   

They did not call to mind His power;  
nor yet the day when He  
Delivered them out of the hand  
of their fierce enemy.  
Nor how great signs in Egypt land  
He openly had wrought,  
What miracles in Zoans field  
His hand to pass had brought.   

How lakes and rivers every where  
He turned into blood;  
So that nor man, nor beast could drink  
of standing lake or flood.  
He brought among them swarms of flies,  
which did them sore annoy;  
And divers kinds of filthy frogs  
He sent, them to destroy.   

He to the caterpillar gave  
the fruits of all their soil:  
Their labours He delivered up  
unto the locusts spoil.  
Their vines with hail, their sycomors  
He with the frost did blast.  
Their beasts to hail He gave, their flocks  
hot thunderbolts did waste.   

Fierce burning wrath He on them cast,  
and indignation strong,  
And troubles sore, by sending forth  
ill angels them among.  
He to His wrath made way: their soul  
from death He did not save;  
But over to the pestilence  
the lifes of them He gave.   

In Egypt Land the firstborn all  
He smote down every where;  
Amongst the tents of Ham, even these  
chief of their strength that were.  
But His own people like to sheep  
thence to go forth He made;  
And He amidst the wilderness  
them, as a flock, did lead.   

And He them safely on did lead,  
so that they did not fear:  
Whereas their enemies by the sea  
quite overwhelmed were.  
To borders of His Sanctuary  
the Lord his people led,  
Even to the mount, which His right hand  
for them had purchased.   

The nations of Canaan  
by His Almighty hand  
Before their face He did expel  
out of their native land,  
Which for inheritance to them  
by line He did divide,  
And made the tribes of Israel  
within their tents abide.   

Yet God most high they did provoke,  
and tempted ever still,  
And to observe His testimonies  
did not incline their will.  
But like their fathers turned back,  
and dealt unfaithfully:  
Aside they turned, like a bow  
that shoots deceitfully.   

For, they to anger did provoke  
Him with their places high;  
And with their graven images  
moved Him to jealousy.  
When God heard this, He waxed wroth,  
and much loathed Israel then:  
So Shilohs tent He left, the tent  
which He had placed with men:   

And He his strength delivered  
into captivity,  
He left his glory in the hand  
of his proud enemy.  
His people also He gave over  
unto the swords fierce rage:  
So sore His wrath inflamed was  
against his heritage.   

The fire consumed their choice young men:  
their maids no marriage had.  
And when their priests fell by the sword,  
their wives no mourning made.  
But then the Lord arose, as one  
that doth from sleep awake;  
And like a giant, that by wine  
refreshed, a shout doth make.   

Upon his enemies hinder parts  
He made his stroke to fall;  
And so upon them He did put  
a shame perpetual.  
Moreover, He the tabernacle  
of Joseph did refuse;  
The mighty tribe of Ephraim  
He would in no wise choose.   

But He did choose Jehudahs' tribe  
to be the rest above,  
And of mount Zion He made choice,  
which He so much did love.  
And He his Sanctuary built,  
like to a palace high,  
Like to the earth, which He did found  
to perpetuity.   

Of David, that his servant was,  
He also choice did make;  
And even from the folds of sheep  
was pleased him to take.  
From waiting on the ewes with young,  
He brought him for to feed  
Israel, His inheritance,  
His people jacob's seed.   

So after the integrity  
of his heart He them fed;  
And by the good skill of His hands  
them wisely governed.    

PSAL. LXXIX. A Psalm of Asaph.  

O God, the heathen entered have  
Thine heritage, by them  
Defiled is Thy house; on heaps  
they laid Jerusalem.  
The bodies of thy servants they  
have cast forth to be meat  
To ravenous fowls, thy dear saints flesh  
they give to beasts, to eat.   

Their blood about Jerusalem  
like water have they shed;  
And there was none to bury them  
when they were slain and dead.  
Unto our neighbours a reproach  
most base become are we;  
A scorn and laughing stock to them  
that round about us be.   

How long, Lord, shall thine anger last?  
wilt thou still keep the same?  
And shall thy fervent jealousy  
burn, like unto a flame?  
On heathens pour thy fury forth,  
that have thee never known,  
And on these kingdoms which thy Name  
have never called upon.   

For these are they which Jacob have  
devoured cruelly,  
And they his habitation  
have caused waste to lie.  
Against us mind not former sins:  
thy tender mercies show,  
Let them prevent us speedily,  
for we're brought very low.   

For thy Names glory help us, Lord,  
who hast our Saviour been:  
Deliver us; for thy Names sake  
O purge away our sin.  
Why say the heathen, Where's their God?  
let Him to them be known,  
When these, who shed thy servants blood,  
are in our sight o'erthrown.   

O let the prisoners sighs ascend  
before thy sight on high:  
Preserve those in thy mighty power,  
that are designed to die.  
And to our neighbour's bosom cause  
it sevenfold rendered be,  
Even the reproach, wherewith they have,  
O Lord, reproached thee.   

So we thy folk, and pasture-sheep,  
shall give thee thanks always,  
And unto generations all  
we will show forth thy praise.    

PSAL. LXXX. To the chief musician upon Shoshannim Eduth, A Psalm of Asaph.  

HEar, Israel's Shepherd, like a flock  
thou that dost Joseph guide;  
Shine forth, O thou that dost between  
the cherubims abide.  
In Ephraim's and Benjamins,  
and in Manassehs sight,  
O come for our salvation,  
stir up thy strength and might.   

Turn us again, O Lord, our God,  
and upon us vouchsafe  
To make thy countenance to shine,  
and so we shall be safe.  
O Lord of hosts, Almighty God,  
how long shall kindled be  
Thy wrath against the prayer made  
by thine own folk to thee?   

Thou tears of sorrow gives to them,  
in stead of bread, to eat;  
Yea, tears in stead of drink thou gives  
to them in measure great.  
Thou makest us a strife unto  
our neighbours round about:  
Our enemies among themselves  
at us do laugh and flout.   

Turn us again, O God of hosts,  
and upon us vouchsafe  
To make thy countenance to shine,  
and so we shall be safe.  
A vine from Egypt brought thou hast,  
by thine outstretched hand:  
And thou the heathen out didst cast,  
to plant it in their land.   

Before it thou a room didst make,  
where it might grow and stand;  
Thou causedst it deep root to take,  
and it did fill the land.  
The mountains veiled were with its shade,  
as with a covering:  
Like goodly Cedars were the boughs,  
which out from it did spring.   

Upon the one hand, to the sea  
her boughs she did out send;  
On th'other side, unto the flood  
her branches did extend.  
Why hast thou then thus broken down  
and ta'en her hedge away?  
So that all passengers do pluck,  
and make of her a prey.   

The boar who from the forest comes  
doth waste it at his pleasure:  
The wild beast of the field also  
devours it out of measure.  
O God of hosts, we thee beseech  
return now unto thine;  
Look down from heaven in love, behold  
and visit this thy vine:   

This vineyard which thine own right hand  
hath planted us among:  
And that same branch, which for thyself  
thou hast made to be strong.  
Burnt up it is with flaming fire,  
it also is cut down:  
They utterly are perished  
when as thy face doth frown.   

O let thy hand be still upon  
the man of thy right hand;  
The son of man, whom for thyself  
thou madest strong to stand.  
So henceforth we will not go back,  
nor turn from thee at all:  
O do thou quicken us, and we  
upon thy Name will call.   

Turn us again, Lord God of hosts,  
and upon us vouchsafe  
To make thy countenance to shine,  
and so we shall be safe.    

PSAL. LXXXI. To the chief musician upon Gittith A Psalm of Asaph.  

SIng loud to God, our strength; with joy  
to jacob's God do sing.  
Take up a psalm, the pleasant harp,  
timbrel and psaltry bring.  
Blow trumpets at new moon, what day  
our feast appointed is;  
For charge to Israel, and a Law  
of jacob's God was this.   

To Joseph this a testimony  
He made, when Egypt land  
He travelled through, where speech I heard  
I did not understand.  
His shoulder I from burdens took,  
his hands from pots did free.  
Thou didst in trouble on me call,  
and I delivered thee:   

In secret place of thundering  
I did thee answer make;  
And at the streams of Meribah,  
of thee a proof did take,  
O thou, my people, give an ear,  
I'll testify to thee;  
To thee, O Israel, if thou wilt  
but hearken unto me.   

In midst of thee there shall not be  
any strange god at all;  
Nor unto any god unknown,  
thou bowing down shalt fall.  
I am the Lord thy God, which did  
from Egypt land thee guide:  
I'll fill thy mouth abundantly,  
do thou it open wide.   

But yet my people to my voice  
would not attentive be;  
And even may chosen Israel  
he would have none of Me.  
So to the lust of their own hearts  
I them delivered:  
And then in counsels of their own  
they vainly wandered.   

O that my people had me heard,  
israel My ways had chose!  
I had their enemies soon subdued,  
my hand turned on their foes.  
The haters of the Lord, to Him  
submission should have feigned;  
But as for them, their time should have  
for evermore remained.   

He should have also fed them with  
the finest of the wheat:  
Of honey from the rock, thy fill  
I should have made thee eat.    

PSAL. LXXXII. A Psalm of Asaph.  

IN god's assembly GOD doth stand;  
He judgeth gods among.  
How long, accepting persons vile,  
will ye give judgement wrong?  
Defend the poor and fatherless,  
to poor oppressed do right.  
The poor and needy ones set free,  
rid them from ill men's might.   

They know not, nor will understand,  
in darkness they walk on:  
All the foundations of the earth  
out of their course are gone.  
I said that you are gods, and are  
sons of the Highest all;  
But ye shall die like men, and as  
one of the princes fall.   

O God, do thou raise up thyself,  
the earth to judgement call:  
For thou, as thine inheritance,  
shalt take the nations all.    

PSAL. LXXXIII. A song or Psalm of Asaph.  

KEep not, O God, we thee entreat,  
O keep not silence now:  
Do thou not hold thy peace, O God,  
and still no more be thou.  
For lo, thine enemies a noise  
tumultuously have made;  
And they that haters are of thee,  
have lifted up the head.   

Against thy chosen people they  
do crafty counsel take;  
And they against thy hidden ones  
do consultations make.  
Come, let us cut them off, said they,  
from being a nation;  
That of the name of Israel may  
no more be mention.   

For with joint heart they plot, in league  
against thee they combine.  
The tents of Edom, Ishmaelites,  
Moabs, and Hagars' line.  
Gebal and Ammon, Amalek,  
Philistines, those of Tyre;  
And Assur joined with them, to help  
Lot's children they conspire.   

Do to them as to Midian,  
Jabin at Kison-strand;  
And Sisera, which at Endor fell,  
as dung to fat the land.  
Like Oreb, and like Zeeb make  
their noble men to fall▪  
Like Zeba, and Zalmunna-like,  
make thou their princes all:   

Who said, For our possession  
let us Gods houses take.  
My God, them like a wheel, as chaff  
before the wind, them make.  
As fire consumes a wood, as flame  
doth mountains set on fire;  
Chase and affright them with the storm  
and tempest of thine ire.   

Their faces fill with shame, O Lord,  
that they may seek thy Name.  
Let them confounded be, and vexed,  
and perish in their shame.  
That men may know, that Thou, to whom  
alone doth appertain  
The Name JEHOVAH, dost most high  
o'er all the earth remain.    

PSAL. LXXXIV. To the chief musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.  

HOw lovely is thy dwelling place,  
O Lord of hosts, to me!  
The Tabernacles of thy grace  
how pleasant, Lord, they be!  
My thirsty soul longs vehemently,  
yea, faints thy Courts to see:  
My very heart and flesh cry out,  
O living God, for thee.   

Behold, the sparrow findeth out  
an house wherein to rest:  
The swallow also for herself  
hath purchased a nest:  
Even thine own altars, where she safe  
her young ones forth may bring,  
O thou Almighty, Lord of hosts,  
who art my God, and King.   

Blessed are they in thy House that dwell,  
they ever give thee praise.  
Blessed is the man whose strength thou art,  
in whose heart are thy ways.  
Who passing through Baca's dry vale,  
therein do dig up wells;  
Also the rain that falleth down  
the pools with water fills.   

So they from strength unwearied go  
still forward unto strength,  
Until in Zion they appear  
before the Lord at length.  
Lord God of hosts, my prayer hear,  
O jacob's God, give ear.  
See God, our shield, look on the face  
of thine anointed dear.   

For in thy Courts one day excels  
a thousand; rather in  
My God's house will I keep a door,  
then dwell in tents of sin.  
For, God the Lord's a sun and shield:  
he'll grace and glory give;  
And will withhold no good from them  
that uprightly do live.   

O thou that art the Lord of hosts,  
that man is truly blest,  
Who by assured confidence  
on thee alone doth rest.    

PSAL. LXXXV. To the chief musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.  

O Lord, thou hast been favourable  
to thy beloved Land:  
jacob's captivity thou hast  
recalled with mighty hand.  
Thou pardoned thy people hast  
all their iniquities,  
Thou all their trespasses and sins  
hast covered from thine eyes.   

Thou tookst off all thine ire, and turnedst  
from thy wrath's furiousness.  
Turn us, God of our health, and cause  
thy wrath 'gainst us to cease.  
Shall thy displeasure thus endure  
against us without end?  
Wilt thou to generations all  
thine anger forth extend?   

That in thee may thy people joy,  
wilt thou not us revive?  
Show us thy mercy, Lord, to us  
do thy salvation give.  
I'll hear what God, the Lord; will speak:  
to his folk He'll speak peace,  
And to His saints; but let them not  
return to foolishness.   

To them that fear Him, surely near  
is His salvation;  
That glory in our land may have  
her habitation.  
Truth met with mercy, righteousness  
and peace kissed mutually.  
Truth springs from earth, and righteousness  
looks down from heaven high.   

Yea, what is good the Lord shall give:  
our land shall yield increase.  
Justice, to set us in His steps,  
shall go before His face.    

PSAL. LXXXVI. A Prayer of David.  

O Lord, do thou bow down thine ear,  
and hear me graciously;  
Because I sore afflicted am,  
and am in poverty.  
Because I'm holy, let my soul  
by thee preserved be:  
O thou my God, thy servant save  
that puts his trust in thee.   

Sith unto thee I daily cry,  
be merciful to me.  
Rejoice thy servants soul: for, Lord,  
I lift my soul to thee.  
For thou art gracious, O Lord,  
and ready to forgive,  
And rich in mercy, all that call  
upon thee, to relieve.   

Hear, Lord, my prayer; unto the voice  
of my request attend.  
In troublous times I'll call on thee,  
for thou wilt answer send.  
Lord, there is none among the gods  
that may with thee compare;  
And like the works which thou hast done  
not any work is there.   

All nations, whom thou mad'st, shall come  
and worship reverently  
Before thy face; and they, O Lord,  
thy Name shall glorify.  
Because thou art exceeding great,  
and works by thee are done,  
Which are to be admired; and thou  
art God thyself alone.   

Teach me thy way, and in thy truth,  
O Lord, than walk will I:  
Unite my heart, that I thy Name  
may fear continually.  
O Lord, my God, with all my heart  
to thee I will give praise;  
And I the glory will ascribe  
unto thy Name always.   

Because thy mercy toward me  
in greatness doth excel;  
And thou delivered hast my soul  
out from the lowest hell.  
O God, the proud against me rise,  
and violent men have met,  
That for my soul have sought; and thee  
before them have not set.   

But thou art full of pity, Lord,  
a God most gracious,  
Long-suffering, and in thy truth  
and mercy plenteous.  
O turn to me thy countenance,  
and mercy on me have:  
Thy servant strengthen, and the son  
of thine own handmaid save.   

Show me a sign for good, that they  
which do me hate, may see,  
And be ashamed; because thou, Lord,  
didst help and comfort me.    

PSAL. LXXXVII. A Psalm or song for the sons of Korah.  

UPon the hills of holiness  
He his foundation sets.  
God, more than jacob's dwellings all,  
delights in Zions' gates.  
Things glorious are said of thee,  
thou City of the Lord.  
Rahab and Babel I, to those  
that know me, will record:   

Behold even Tyrus, and with it  
the land of Palestine,  
And likewise AEthiopia;  
this man was born therein.  
And it of Zion shall be said,  
This man, and that man there  
Was born; and He that is most high  
himself shall establish her.   

When God the people writes, He'll count  
that this man born was there.  
There be that sing, and play; and all  
my well-springs in thee are.    

PSAL. LXXXVIII. A song or psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.  

LOrd God, my Saviour, day and night  
before thee cried have I.  
Before thee let my prayer come,  
give ear unto my cry.  
For troubles great do fill my soul:  
my life draws nigh the grave.  
I'm counted with those that go down  
to pit, and no strength have.   

Even free among the dead, like them  
that slain in grave do lie,  
Cut off from thy hand, whom no more  
thou hast in memory.  
Thou hast me laid in lowest pit,  
in deeps, and darksome caves.  
Thy wrath lies hard on me, thou hast  
me pressed with all thy waves.   

Thou hast put far from me my friends,  
thou mad'st them to abhor me;  
And I am so shut up, that I  
find no evasion for me.  
By reason of affliction  
mine eye mourns dolefully:  
To thee, Lord, do I call, and stretch  
my hands continually.   

Wilt thou show wonders to the dead?  
shall they rise and thee bless?  
Shall in the grave thy love be told?  
in death thy faithfulness?  
Shall thy great wonders in the dark,  
or shall thy righteousness  
Be known to any in the land  
of deep forgetfulness?   

But, Lord, to thee I cried, my prayer  
at morn prevent shall thee.  
Why, Lord, dost thou cast off my soul?  
and hidest thy face from me?  
Distressed am I, and from my youth  
I ready am to die;  
Thy terrors I have born, and am  
distracted fearfully.   

The dreadful fierceness of thy wrath  
quite over me doth go:  
Thy terrors great have cut me off,  
they did pursue me so.  
For round about me every day  
like water, they did roll:  
And gathering together, they  
have compassed my soul.   

My friend thou hast put far from me,  
and him that did me love;  
And those that mine acquaintance were  
to darkness didst remove.    

PSAL. LXXXIX. Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.  

GOds mercies I will ever sing,  
and with my mouth I shall  
Thy faithfulness make to be known  
to generations all.  
For mercy shall be built, said I,  
for ever to endure.  
Thy faithfulness even in the heavens  
thou wilt establish sure.   

I with my chosen one have made  
a covenant graciously;  
And to My servant whom I loved,  
to David sworn have I:  
That I thy seed establish shall  
for ever to remain;  
And will to generations all  
thy Throne build and maintain.   

The praises of thy wonders, Lord,  
the heavens shall express;  
And in the congregation  
of saints, thy faithfulness.  
For who in heaven with the Lord  
may once himself compare?  
Who is like God among the sons  
of those that mighty are?   

Great fear in meetings of the saints  
is due unto the Lord;  
And He, of all about Him, should  
with reverence be adored.  
O thou that art the Lord of hosts,  
what Lord in mightiness  
Is like to thee? who compassed round  
art with thy faithfulness.   

Even in the raging of the sea  
thou over it dost reign;  
And when the waves thereof do swell,  
thou stillest them again.  
Rahab in pieces thou didst break,  
like one that slaughtered is;  
And with thy mighty arm thou hast  
dispersed thine enemies.   

The heavens are thine, thou for thine own  
the earth dost also take:  
The world, and fullness of the same,  
thy power did found and make.  
The North and South from thee alone  
their first beginning had:  
Both Tabor mount, and Hermon hill  
shall in thy Name be glad.   

Thou hast an arm that's full of power,  
thy Hand is great in might;  
And thy right hand exceedingly  
exalted is in height.  
Justice and judgement of thy Throne  
are made the dwelling place:  
Mercy, accompanied with truth,  
shall go before thy face.   

O greatly blest the people are,  
the joyful sound that know:  
In brightness of thy face, O Lord,  
they ever on shall go.  
They in thy Name shall all the day  
rejoice exceedingly,  
And in thy righteousness shall they  
exalted be on hy.   

Because the glory of their strength  
doth only stand in thee,  
And in thy favour shall our horn  
and power exalted be.  
For God is our defence, and He  
to us doth safety bring:  
The Holy One of Israel  
is our Almighty King.   

In vision to thy holy-one  
thou saidst, I help upon  
A strong one laid; out of the folk  
I raised a chosen one.  
Even David, I have found him out  
a servant unto Me;  
And with my holy oil My King  
anointed him to be.   

With whom My hand shall established be,  
Mine arm shall make him strong.  
On him the foe shall not exact,  
nor son of mischief wrong.  
I will beat down before his face  
all his malicious foes:  
I will them greatly plague, who do  
with hatred him oppose.   

My mercy, and my faithfulness  
with him yet still shall be;  
And in My Name his horn and power,  
men shall exalted see.  
His hand and power shall reach afar,  
I'll set it in the sea;  
And his right hand established  
shall in the rivers be.   

Thou art my father, he shall ery,  
thou art my God alone;  
And he shall say, Thou art the rock  
of my salvation.  
I'll make him My firstborn, more high  
than Kings of any land:  
My love I'll ever keep for him.  
My covenant fast shall stand.   

His seed I by My power will make  
for ever to endure;  
And, as the days of heaven, his throne  
shall stable be and sure.  
But if his children shall forsake  
My Laws, and go astray,  
And in My judgements shall not walk,  
but wander from My way.   

If they My Laws break, and do not  
keep My Commandments,  
I'll visit then their faults with rods,  
their sins with chastisements.  
Yet I'll not take My love from him,  
nor false My promise make;  
My covenant I'll not break, nor change  
what with my mouth I spoke.   

Once by My Holiness I swore,  
to David I'll not lie.  
His seed and throne shall as the sun  
before Me last for ay.  
It like the moon shall ever be  
established steadfastly;  
And like to that which in the heaven  
doth witness faithfully.   

But thou displeased, hast cast off,  
thou didst abhor and loathe;  
With him that thine anointed is  
thou hast been very wroth.  
Thou hast thy servants covenan  
made void and quite cast by;  
Thou hast profaned his crown, while it  
cast on the ground doth lie.   

Thou all his hedges hast broke down,  
his strong holds down hast torn.  
He to all passers by a spoil,  
to neighbours is a scorn.  
Thou hast set up his foes right hand,  
mad'st all his enemies glad;  
Turned his sword's edge, and him to stand  
in battle hast not made.   

His glory thou hast made to cease,  
his throne to ground down cast;  
Shortened his days of youth, and him  
with shame thou covered haste.  
How long, Lord? wilt thou hide thyself  
for ever in thine ire?  
And shall thine indignation  
burn like unto a fire?   

Remember, Lord, how short a time  
I shall on earth remain;  
O wherefore is it so, that thou  
hast made all men in vain?  
What man is he that liveth here,  
and death shall never see?  
Or from the power of the grave  
what man his soul shall free?   

Thy former loving kindnesses,  
O Lord; where be they now?  
Those which in truth and faithfulness  
to David sworn hast thou.  
Mind, Lord, thy servants sad reproach:  
how I in bosom bear  
The scorn of the people all  
who strong and mighty are.   

Wherewith thy raging enemies  
reproached, O Lord, think on,  
Wherewith they have reproached the steps  
of thine anointed one.  
All blessing to the Lord, our God,  
let be ascribed then:  
For evermore so let it be.  
Amen, yea and amen.    

PSAL. XC. A prayer of Moses, the man of God.  

LOrd, thou hast been our dwelling place  
in generations all.  
Before thou ever hadst, brought forth  
the mountains great or small.  
Ere ever thou hadst formed the earth,  
and all the world abroad,  
Even thou, from everlasting art  
to everlasting, God.   

Thou dost unto destruction  
man that is mortal turn:  
And unto them thou sayest, again  
ye sons of men return.  
Because a thousand years appear  
no more before thy sight  
Then yesterday, when it is past,  
or then a watch by night.   

As with an overflowing flood  
thou carriest them away:  
They like a sleep are, like the grass  
that grows at morn are they.  
At morn it flourishes and grows,  
cut down at even doth fade:  
For by thine anger we consume,  
thy wrath makes us afraid.   

Our sins thou and iniquities  
dost in thy presence place,  
And setst our secret faults before  
the brightness of thy face.  
For in thine anger all our days  
do pass on, to an end;  
And, as a tale that hath been told,  
so we our years do spend.   

Threescore and ten years do sum up  
our days and years we see:  
Or if by reason of more strength,  
in some fourscore they be;  
Yet doth the strength of such old men  
but grief and labour prove;  
For it is soon cut off, and we  
fly hence, and soon remove.   

Who knows the power of thy wrath?  
according to thy fear  
So is thy wrath. Lord teach thou us  
our end in mind to bear:  
And so to count our days, that we  
our hearts may still apply  
To learn thy wisdom and thy truth,  
that we may live thereby.   

Turn yet again to us, O Lord;  
how long thus shall it be?  
Let it repent thee now, for those  
that servants are to thee.  
O with thy tender mercies, Lord,  
us early satisfy;  
So we rejoice shall all our days,  
and still be glad in thee.   

According as the days have been  
wherein we grief have had,  
And years wherein we ill have seen,  
so do thou make us glad.  
O let thy work and power appear  
thy servants face before;  
And show unto their children dear  
thy glory evermore.   

And let the beauty of the Lord  
our God be us upon:  
Our handie-works establish thou,  
establish them each one.    

PSAL. XCI.  

HE that doth in the secret place  
of the most High reside,  
Under the shade of Him, that is  
th'Almighty, shall abide.  
I of the Lord, my God, will say,  
He is my refuge still,  
He is my fortress, and my God,  
and in Him trust I will.   

Assuredly He shall thee save,  
and give deliverance  
From subtle fowler's snare, and from  
the noisome pestilence.  
His feathers shall thee hide; thy trust  
under His wings shall be:  
His faithfulness shall be a shield  
and buckler unto thee.   

Thou shalt not need to be afraid  
for terrors of the night,  
Nor for the arrow that doth fly  
by day, while it is light:  
Nor for the pestilence, that walks  
in darkness secretly,  
Nor for destruction, that doth waste  
at noonday, openly.   

A thousand at thy side shall fall,  
on thy right hand shall lie  
Ten thousand dead, yet unto thee  
it shall not once come nigh.  
Only thou with thine eyes shalt look,  
and a beholder be;  
And thou therein the just reward  
of wicked men shalt see.   

Because the Lord, who constantly  
my refuge is alone,  
Even the most High is made by thee  
thy habitation.  
No plague shall near thy dwelling come,  
no ill shall thee befall:  
For thee to keep in all thy ways  
His Angels charge He shall.   

They in their hands shall bear thee up,  
still waiting thee upon;  
Lest thou at any time should dash  
thy foot against a stone.  
Upon the adder thou shalt tread,  
and on the Lion strong;  
Thy feet on Dragon's trample shall,  
and on the Lion's young.   

Because on Me he set his love,  
I'll save and set him free:  
Because My great Name he hath known,  
I will him set on high.  
He'll call on Me, I'll answer him,  
I will be with him still  
In trouble to deliver him,  
and honour him I will.   

With length of days unto his mind  
I will him satisfy;  
I also My salvation  
will cause his eyes to see.    

PSAL. XCII. A psalm or song for the Sabbath-day.  

TO render thanks unto the Lord  
it is a comely thing,  
And to thy Name, O thou most high,  
due praise aloud to sing.  
Thy loving kindness to show forth,  
when shines the morning light;  
And to declare thy faithfulness,  
with pleasure, every night,   

On a ten stringed instrument,  
upon the psaltery:  
And on the harp, with solemn sound,  
and grave-sweet melody.  
For thou, Lord, by thy mighty work,  
hast made my heart right glad;  
And I will triumph in the works  
which by thine hands were made.   

How great, Lord, are thy works! each thought  
of thine a deep it is;  
A brutish man it knoweth not,  
fools understand not this.  
When those that lewd and wicked are,  
spring quickly up like grass,  
And workers of iniquity  
do flourish all apace,   

It is that they for ever may  
destroyed be and slain:  
But thou, O Lord, art the most High,  
for ever to remain.  
For lo, thine enemies, O Lord,  
thine enemies perish shall:  
The workers of iniquity  
shall be dispersed all.   

But thou shalt, like unto the horn  
of th'unicorn exalt  
My horn on high; thou with fresh oil  
anoint me also shalt.  
Mine eye shall also my desire  
see on mine enemies;  
Mine ears shall of the wicked hear,  
that do against me rise.   

But like the palmtree, flourishing  
shall be the righteous one:  
He shall like to the Cedar grow  
that is in Lebanon.  
Those that within the house of God  
are planted by His grace,  
They shall grow up, and flourish all  
in our Gods holy place.   

And in old age, when others fade,  
they fruit still forth shall bring:  
They shall be fat, and full of sap,  
and ay be flourishing.  
To show that upright is the Lord,  
He is a rock to me:  
And He from all unrighteousness  
is altogether free.    

PSAL. XCIII.  

THe Lord doth reign, and clothed is He  
with majesty most bright:  
His works do show him clothed to be,  
and girt about with might.  
The world is also established,  
that it can not depart.  
Thy Throne is fixed of old, and thou  
from everlasting art.   

The floods, O Lord, have lifted up,  
they lifted up their voice;  
The floods have lifted up their waves,  
and made a mighty noise.  
But yet the Lord, that is on high,  
is more of might by far,  
Then noise of many waters is,  
or great sea billows are.   

Thy testimonies, every one,  
in faithfulness excel:  
And holiness for ever, Lord,  
thine House becometh well.    

PSAL. XCIV.  

O Lord God, unto whom alone  
all vengeance doth belong,  
O mighty God, who vengeance ownest,  
shine forth, avenging wrong.  
Lift up thyself, thou of the earth  
the Sovereign Judge that art,  
And unto those that are so proud  
a due reward impart.   

How long, O mighty God, shall they  
who lewd and wicked be,  
How long shall they who wicked are,  
thus triumph haughtilie?  
How long shall things most hard by them  
be uttered and told,  
And all that work iniquity  
to boast themselves be bold?   

Thy folk they break in pieces, Lord,  
thine heritage oppress:  
The widow they, and stranger slay,  
and kill the fatherless.  
Yet say they, God it shall not see,  
nor God of Jacob know.  
Ye brutish people understand,  
fools, when wise will ye grow?   

The Lord did plant the ear of man,  
and hear then shall not He?  
He only formed the eye, and then  
shall he not clearly see?  
He that the nations doth correct,  
shall He not chastise you?  
He knowledge unto man doth teach,  
and shall Himself not know?   

Man's thoughts to be but vanity,  
the Lord doth well discern,  
Blessed is the man thou chastnest, Lord,  
and mak'st thy Law to learn.  
That thou may'st give him rest from days  
of sad adversity,  
Until the pit be digged for those  
that work iniquity.   

For sure the Lord will not cast off  
those that His people be,  
Neither His own inheritance  
quite and forsake will Herald  
But judgement unto righteousness  
shall yet return again,  
And all shall follow after it  
that are right hearted men.   

Who will rise up for me, against  
those that do wickedly?  
Who will stand up for me, 'gainst those  
that work iniquity?  
Unless the Lord had been my help,  
when I was sore oppressed,  
Almost my soul had in the house  
of silence been at rest.   

When I had uttered this word,  
My foot doth slip away,  
Thy mercy held me up, O Lord,  
thy goodness did me stay,  
Amidst the multitude of thoughts,  
which in my heart do fight,  
My soul, left it be overcharged,  
thy comforts do delight.   

Shall of iniquity the throne  
have fellowship with thee,  
Which mischief, cunningly contrived,  
doth by a law decree?  
Against the righteous souls they join,  
they guiltless blood condemn:  
But of my refuge God's the rock,  
and my defence from them.   

On them their own iniquity  
the Lord shall bring and lay,  
And cut them off in their own sin,  
our Lord God shall them slay.    

PSAL. XCV.  

O Come, let us sing to the Lord,  
come, let us, every one,  
A joyful noise make to the Rock  
of our salvation.  
Let us before His presence come,  
with praise and thankful voice:  
Let us sing Psalms to Him with grace,  
and make a joyful noise.   

For God a great God, and great King,  
above all gods, He is.  
Depths of the earth are in His hand,  
the strength of hills is His.  
To Him the spacious sea belongs,  
for He the same did make:  
The dry land also from His hands  
its form at first did take.   

O come, and let us worship Him,  
let us bow down withal,  
And on our knees before the Lord,  
our maker, let us fall.  
For He's our God, the people we  
of His own pasture are,  
And of His hand the sheep; to day  
if ye His voice will hear,   

Then harden not your hearts, as in  
the provocation,  
As in the desert, on the day  
of the tentation.  
When Me your fathers tempted, and proved,  
and did My working see:  
Even for the space of forty years  
this race hath grieved Me:   

I said, This people errs in heart,  
My ways they do not know:  
To whom I swore in wrath, that to  
My rest they should not go.    

PSAL. XCVI.  

O sing a new song to the Lord,  
sing, all the earth, to God:  
To God sing, bless His Name, show still  
His saving health abroad.  
Among the heathen nations  
His glory do declare:  
And unto all the people show  
His works that wondrous are.   

For great's the Lord, and greatly He  
is to be magnified;  
Yea, worthy to he feared is He  
above all gods beside:  
For all the gods are idols dumb  
which blinded nations fear:  
But our God is the Lord, by whom  
the heavens created were.   

Great honour is before His face,  
and majesty divine:  
Strength is with in His holy place,  
and there doth beauty shine.  
Do you, ascribe unto the Lord,  
of people every tribe,  
Glory do you unto the Lord,  
and mighty power ascribe.   

Give ye the glory to the Lord  
that to His Name is due:  
Come ye into His Courts, and bring  
an offering with you,  
In beauty of His holiness  
O do the Lord adore:  
Likewise let all the earth throughout  
tremble His face before.   

Among the heathen say, God reigns:  
the world shall steadfastly  
Be fixed from moving, He shall judge  
the people righteously.  
Let heavens be glad before the Lord,  
and let the earth rejoice,  
Let seas, and all that is therein,  
cry out, and make a noise:   

Let fields rejoice, and every thing  
that springeth of the earth:  
Then woods, and every tree shall sing  
with gladness and with mirth  
Before the Lord; because He comes,  
to judge the earth comes He:  
He'll judge the world with righteousness,  
the people faithfully.    

PSAL. XCVII.  

GOD reigneth, let the earth be glad,  
and isles rejoice each one.  
Dark clouds Him compass, and in right  
with judgement dwells His Throne.  
Fire goes before Him, and His foes  
it burns up round about.  
His lightnings lighten did the world,  
earth saw, and shook throughout.   

Hills, at the presence of the Lord,  
like wax, did melt away:  
Even at the presence of the Lord  
of all the earth, I say.  
The heavens declare His righteousness,  
all men His glory see.  
All who serve graven images  
confounded let them be:   

Who do of idols boast themselves  
let shame upon them fall.  
Ye that are called gods, see that  
ye do Him worship all.  
Zion did hear, and joyful was,  
glad Judah's daughters were,  
They much rejoiced, O Lord, because  
Thy judgements did appear.   

For thou O Lord, art high above  
all things on earth that are:  
Above all other gods thou art  
exalted very far.  
Hate ill, all ye that love the Lord:  
His saints souls keepeth He,  
And from the hands of wicked men  
He sets them safe and free.   

For all those that be righteous  
swoon is a joyful light,  
And gladness sown is for all those  
that are in heart upright.  
Ye righteous in the Lord rejoice,  
express your thankfulness,  
When ye into your memory  
do call His holiness.    

PSAL. XCVIII. A Psalm.  

O sing a new song to the Lord,  
for wonders He hath done:  
His right hand, and His holy arm  
Him victory hath won.  
The Lord God his salvation  
hath caused to be known:  
His justice in the heathens sighed  
He openly hath shown.   

He mindful of His grace and truth  
to Israel's house hath been:  
And the salvation of our God  
all ends of th'earth have seen.  
Let all the earth unto the Lord  
send forth a joyful noise:  
Lift up your voice aloud to Him,  
sing praises, and rejoice.   

With harp, with harp, and voice of psalms,  
unto JEHOVAH sing.  
With trumpets, cornets, gladly sound  
before the Lord, the King.  
Let seas, and all their fullness roar,  
the world, and dwellers there.  
Let floods clap hands, and let the hills  
together joy declare   

Before the Lord; because he comes,  
to judge the earth comes He:  
He'll judge the world with righteousness,  
His folk with equity.    

PSAL. XCIX.  

TH' Eternal Lord doth reign, as King,  
let all the people quake:  
He sits between the Cherubims,  
let th'earth be moved and shake.  
The Lord in Zion great, and high  
above all people is.  
Thy great and dreadful Name (for it  
is Holy) let them bless.   

The King's strength also judgement loves:  
thou settlest equity,  
Just judgement thou dost execute  
in Jacob, righteously.  
The Lord our God exalt on high,  
and reverently do ye  
Before His footstool worship Him:  
the Holy-One is Herald   

Moses and Aaron 'mongst His priests,  
Samuel with them that call  
Upon His Name; these called on God,  
and He them answered all.  
Within the pillar of the cloud  
He unto them did speak:  
The testimonies, He them taught,  
and laws, they did not break.   

Thou answeredst them, O Lord, our God,  
thou wast a God that gave  
Pardon to them, though on their deeds  
thou wouldst vengeance have.  
Do ye exalt the Lord, our God,  
and at His holy hill  
Do ye Him worship; for the Lord  
our God is Holy still.    


PSAL. C. A Psalm of praise.  

ALL people that on earth do dwell,  
Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice.  
Him serve with mirth, His praise forth tell,  
Come ye before Him and rejoice.  
Know, that the Lord is God indeed,  
Without our aid He did us make:  
We are his flock, he doth us feed,  
And for his sheep he doth us take.   

O enter then his gates with praise,  
Approach with joy his Courts unto:  
Praise, laud; and bless his Name always,  
For it is seemly so to do.  
For why? the Lord our God is good,  
His mercy is for ever sure:  
His truth at all times firmly stood,  
And shall from age to age endure.    

Another of the same.  

O All ye lands, unto the Lord  
make ye a joyful noise.  
Serve God with gladness, him before  
come with a singing voice.  
Know ye the Lord, that he is God,  
not we, but He us made;  
We are his people, and the sheep  
within his pasture fed.   

Enter his gates and courts, with praise,  
to thank him go ye thither:  
To him express your thankfulness,  
and bless his Name together.  
Because the Lord our God is good,  
his mercy faileth never;  
And to all generations  
his truth endureth ever.     

PSAL. CI. A Psalm of David.  

I Mercy will, and judgement sing,  
Lord, I will sing to thee.  
With wisdom, in a perfect way  
shall my behaviour be.  
O when in kindness unto me,  
wilt thou be pleased to come?  
I with a perfect heart will walk  
within my house, at home.   

I will endure no wicked thing  
before mine eyes to be:  
I hate their work that turn aside,  
it shall not cleave to me.  
A stubborn and a froward heart  
depart quite from me shall:  
A person given to wickedness  
I will not know at all.   

I'll cut him off, that slandereth  
his neighbour privily:  
The haughty heart I will not bear,  
nor him that looketh high.  
Upon the faithful of the land  
mine eyes shall be, that they  
May dwell with me: he shall me serve  
that walks in perfect way.   

Who of deceit a worker is,  
in my house shall not dwell:  
And in my presence shall he not  
remain, that lies doth tell.  
Yea, all the wicked of the land  
early destroy will I:  
All from God's city to cut off,  
that work iniquity.    


PSAL CII. A prayer of the afflicted when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the Lord.  

O Lord, unto my prayer give ear,  
my cry let come to thee;  
And in the day of my distress  
hide not thy face from me:  
Give ear to me: what time I call,  
to answer me make haste.  
For as an hearth my bones are burnt,  
my days, like smoke, do waste.   

My heart within me smitten is,  
and it is withered,  
Like very grass, so that I do  
forget to eat my bread.  
By reason of my groaning voice,  
my bones cleave to my skin.  
Like pelican in wilderness  
forsaken I have been:   

I like an owl in desert am,  
that nightly there doth moan:  
I watch, and like a sparrow am  
on the house top alone.  
My bitter enemies all the day  
reproaches cast on me:  
And being mad at me, with rage  
against me sworn they be.   

For why, I ashes eaten have,  
like bread, in sorrows deep;  
My drink I also mingled have  
with tears that I did weep.  
Thy wrath and indignation  
did cause this grief and pain:  
For thou hast lift me up on high,  
and cast me down again.   

My days are like unto a shade,  
which doth declining pass:  
And I am dried and withered,  
even like unto the grass.  
But thou, Lord, everlasting art,  
and thy remembrance shall  
Continually endure, and be  
to generations all.   

Thou shalt arise, and mercy have  
upon thy Zion yet:  
The time to favour her is come,  
the time that thou hast set.  
For in her rubbish, and her stones  
thy servants pleasure take,  
Yea, they the very dust thereof  
do favour, for her sake.   

So shall the heathen people fear  
the Lords most holy Name:  
And all the Kings on earth shall dread  
thy glory, and thy fame.  
When Zion by the mighty Lord  
built up again shall be,  
In Glory then, and Majesty  
to men appear shall Herald   

The prayer of the destitute  
he surely will regard,  
Their prayer will he not despise,  
by him it shall be heard.  
For generations yet to come  
this shall be on record:  
So shall the people, that shall be  
created, praise the Lord.   

He from his Sanctuaries height  
hath downward cast his eye▪  
And from his glorious Throne in heaven,  
the Lord the earth did spy:  
That of the mournful prisoner  
the groan he might hear,  
To set them free that unto death  
by men appointed are:   

That they in Zion may declare  
the Lords most holy Name,  
And publish in Jerusalem  
the praises of the same:  
When as the people gather shall  
in troops with one accord,  
When Kingdoms shall assembled be  
to serve the highest Lord.   

My wont force and strength he hath  
abated in the way;  
And he my days hath shortened:  
Thus therefore did I say▪  
My God, in mid-time of my days,  
take thou me not away:  
From age to age, eternally  
thy years endure and stay.   

The firm foundation of the earth  
of old time thou hast laid:  
The heavens also are the work  
which thine own hands have made.  
Thou shalt for evermore endure,  
but they shall perish all;  
Yea, every one of them wax old,  
like to a garment, shall:   

Thou as a vesture shalt them change,  
and they shall changed be.  
But Thou the same art, and thy years  
are to eternity.  
The children of thy servants shall  
continually endure,  
And in thy sight, O Lord, their seed  
shall be established sure.    

Another of the same.  

LOrd, hear my prayer, and let my cry  
Have speedy access unto thee.  
In day of my calamity  
O hide not Thou thy face from me:  
Hear when I call to thee, that day  
An answer speedily return:  
My days like smoke consume away,  
And, as an hearth, my bones do burn.   

My heart is wounded very sore,  
And withered, like to grass, doth fade:  
I am forgetful grown therefore  
To take and eat my daily bread.  
By reason of my smart within,  
And voice of my most grievous groans,  
My flesh consumed is, my skin,  
All parched, doth cleave unto my bones.   

The Pelican of wilderness,  
The Owl in deserts I do match,  
And Sparrow-like companionlesse,  
Upon the houses top I watch.  
I all day long am made a scorn,  
Reproached by my malicious foes:  
The mad men are against me sworn,  
The men against me that arose.   

For I have ashes eaten up,  
To me as if they had been bread;  
And with my drink I in my cup  
Of bitter tears a mixture made.  
Because thy wrath was not appeased,  
And dreadful indignation,  
Therefore it was that thou me raised,  
And thou again didst cast me down.   

My days are like a shade always,  
Which doth declining swiftly pass:  
And I am withered away  
Much like unto the fading grass.  
But thou O Lord, shalt still endure  
From change and all mutation free,  
And, to all generations, sure  
Shall thy remembrance ever be.   

Thou shalt arise, and mercy yet  
Thou to mount Zion shalt extend:  
Her time for favour which was set,  
Behold, is now come to an end.  
Thy saints take pleasure in her stones,  
Her very dust to them is dear.  
All heathen lands and kingly thrones  
On earth, thy glorious Name shall fear.   

God in his glory shall appear,  
When Zion he builds and repairs.  
He shall regard and lend his ear  
Unto the needies humble prayers.  
Th' afflict prayer He will not scorn:  
All times this shall be in record,  
And generations yet unborn  
Shall praise and magnify the Lord.   

He from his holy place looked down,  
The earth he viewed from heaven on high;  
To hear the prisoners mourning groan,  
And free them that are damned to die;  
That Zion, and Jerusalem too  
His Name and praise may well record,  
When people and the Kingdoms do  
Assemble all to praise the Lord.   

My strength he weakened in the way,  
My days of life he shortened.  
My God, O take me not away  
In mid-time of my days, I said:  
Thy years throughout all ages last.  
Of old thou hast established  
The earth's foundation firm and fast:  
Thy mighty hands the heavens have made.   

They perish shall, as garments do,  
But thou shalt evermore endure:  
As vestures, thou shalt change them so,  
And they shall all be changed sure.  
But from all changes thou art free,  
Thy endless years do last for ay.  
Thy servants, and their seed who be,  
Established shall before thee stay.     

PSAL. CIII. A Psalm of David.  

O thou my soul, bless God, the Lord,  
and all that in me is  
Be stirred up his holy Name  
to magnify and bless.  
Bless, O my soul, the Lord, thy God,  
and not forgetful be  
Of all his gracious benefits  
he hath bestowed on thee.   

All thine iniquities who doth  
most graciously forgive:  
Who thy diseases all and pains  
doth heal, and thee relieve.  
Who doth redeem thy life, that thou  
to death may not go down:  
Who thee with loving kindness doth  
and tender mercy's crown.   

Who with abundance of good things  
doth satisfy thy mouth:  
So that, even as the Eagles age,  
renewed is thy youth.  
God righteous judgement executes  
for all oppressed ones.  
His way to Moses, he his acts  
made known to Israel's sons.   

Lord our God is merciful,  
and he is gracious,  
Long suffering, and slow to wrath,  
in mercy plenteous.  
He will not chide continually,  
nor keep his anger still.  
With us he dealt not as we sinned,  
nor did require our ill.   

For as the heaven in its height  
the earth surmounteth far,  
So great to those that do him fear,  
his tender mercies are.  
As far as East is distant from  
the West, so far hath He  
From us removed, in His love,  
all our iniquity.   

Such pity as a father hath  
unto his children dear,  
Like pity shows the Lord to such  
as worship Him in fear.  
For He remembers, we are dust,  
and He our frame well knows.  
Frail man, his days are like the grass,  
as flower in field he grows.   

For over it the wind doth pass,  
and it away is gone,  
And of the place where once it was  
it shall no more be known.  
But unto them, that do Him fear,  
God's mercy never ends;  
And to their children's children still  
His righteousness extends:   

To such as keep, his covenant,  
and mindful are always  
Of His most just commandments,  
that they may them obey.  
The Lord prepared hath His Throne  
in heavens firm to stand:  
And every thing that being hath  
His Kingdom doth command.   

O ye his Angels, that excel  
in strength, bless ye the Lord,  
Ye who obey what he commands,  
and hearken to his word.  
O bless, and magnify the Lord,  
ye glorious hosts of his,  
Ye ministers, that do fulfil  
what e'er his pleasure is.   

O bless the Lord, all ye his works,  
wherewith the world is stored  
In his dominions everywhere:  
my soul bless thou the Lord.    

PSAL. CIV.  

Bless God, my soul: O Lord my God,  
thou are exceeding great,  
With Honour and with Majesty  
thou clothed art in state.  
With light, as with a robe, thyself  
thou coverest about;  
And, like unto a curtain, thou  
the heavens stretchest out.   

Who of his chambers doth the beams  
within the waters lay;  
Who doth the clouds his chariot make,  
on wings of wind make way.  
Who flaming fire his ministers,  
his Angel's spirits doth make;  
Who earth's foundations did lay,  
that it should never shake.   

Thou didst it cover with the deep,  
as with a garment spread:  
The waters stood above the hills,  
when thou the word but said.  
But, at the voice of thy rebuke  
they fled, and would not stay:  
They, at thy thunders dreadful voice,  
did haste them fast away.   

They by the mountains do ascend,  
and by the valley ground  
Descend, unto that very place  
which thou for them didst found.  
Thou hast a bound unto them set▪  
that they may not pass over,  
That they do not return again  
the face of earth to cover.   

He to the valleys sends the springs,  
which run among the hills:  
They to all beasts of field give drink,  
wild asses drink their fills.  
By them the fowls of heaven shall have  
their habitation,  
Which do among the branches sing  
with delectation.   

He from his chambers watereth  
the hills, when they are dried:  
With fruit and increase of thy works  
the earth is satisfied.  
For cattle he makes grass to grow,  
he makes the herb to spring  
For th' use of man, that food to him,  
he from the earth may bring.   

And wine, that to the heart of man  
doth cheerfulness impart,  
Oil that his face makes shine, and bread  
that strengtheneth his heart.  
The trees of God are full of sap,  
the Cedars that do stand  
In Lebanon, which planted were  
by his Almighty hand.   

Birds of the air upon their boughs  
do choose their nests to make:  
As for the Stork, the fir-trees she  
doth for her dwelling take.  
The lofty mountains for wild goats  
a place of refuge be:  
The Coneys also to the rocks  
do for their safety flee.   

He sets the Moon in heaven, thereby  
the seasons to discern:  
From Him the Sun, his certain time  
of going down, doth learn.  
Thou darkness mak'st, 'tis night, than beasts  
of forests creep abroad.  
The Lion's young roar for their prey,  
and seek their meat from God.   

The Sun doth rise, and home they flock,  
down in their dens they lie.  
Man goes to work, his labour he  
doth to the evening ply.  
How manifold, Lord, are thy works!  
in wisdom wonderful  
Thou every one of them hast made;  
earth's of thy riches full.   

So is this great and spacious sea,  
wherein things creeping are  
Which numbered cannot be; and beasts  
both great and small are there.  
There ships go, there thou mak'st to play  
that Leviathan great:  
These all wait on thee, that thou may'st  
in due time give them meat.   

That, which thou givest unto them,  
they gather for their food;  
Thine hand thou op'nest liberally,  
they filled are with good.  
Thou hidest thy face, they troubled are;  
their breath thou tak'st away,  
Then do they die, and to their dust  
return again do they.   

Thy quickening Spirit thou sendest forth,  
than they created be:  
And then the earth's decayed face  
renewed is by thee.  
The glory of the mighty Lord  
continue shall for ever:  
The Lord JEHOVAH shall rejoice  
in all his works together.   

Earth, as affrighted, trembleth all,  
if He on it but look:  
And if the mountains He but touch,  
they presently do smoke.  
I will sing to the Lord most high,  
so long as I shall live;  
And while I being have, I shall  
to my God praises give.   

Of Him my meditation shall  
sweet thoughts to me afford;  
And as for me, I will rejoice  
in God, my only Lord.   

From earth let sinners be consumed,  
let ill men no more be.  
O thou my soul, bless thou the Lord:  
praise to the Lord give ye.    

PSAL. CV.  

GIve thanks to God, call on His Name,  
to men his deeds make known.  
Sing ye to him, sing psalms; proclaim  
his wondrous works each one.  
See that ye in his holy Name  
to glory do accord:  
And let the heart of every one  
rejoice, that seeks the Lord.   

The Lord Almighty, and his strength  
with steadfast hearts seek ye.  
His blessed and his gracious face  
seek ye continually.  
Think on the works that he hath done,  
which admiration breed;  
His wonders; and the judgements all  
which from his mouth proceed.   

O ye that are of Abraham's race,  
his servant well approv'n,  
And ye that jacob's children are,  
whom he choosed for his own,  
Because He, and He only, is  
the mighty Lord, our God;  
And his most righteous judgements are  
in all the earth abroad.   

His Covenant he remembered hath,  
that it may ever stand:  
To thousand generations  
the word he did command.  
Which Covenant he firmly made  
with faithful Abraham,  
And unto Isaac by his oath  
he did renew the same:   

And unto Jacob, for a Law,  
he made it firm and sure,  
A Covenant to Israel,  
which ever should endure.  
He said, I'll give Canaan's land  
for heritage to you:  
While they were strangers there, and few,  
in number very few.   

While yet they went from land to land,  
without a sure abode;  
And while, through sundry kingdoms, they  
did wander far abroad:  
Yet notwithstanding suffered he  
no man to do them wrong:  
Yea, for their sakes, he did reprove  
Kings, who were great and strong.   

Thus did he say, Touch ye not those  
that mine anointed be,  
Not do the Prophets any harm  
that do pertain to Me.  
He called for famine the land,  
he broke the staff of bread.  
But yet he sent a man before,  
by whom they should be fed:   

Even Joseph, whom unnaturally  
sell for a slave did they;  
Whose feet with fetters they did hurt,  
and he in irons lay.  
Until the time that his word came  
to give him liberty:  
The word and purpose of the Lord  
did him in prison try.   

Then sent the King, and did command  
that he enlarged should be,  
He that the people's ruler was,  
did send to set him free.  
A Lord, to rule his family,  
he raised him, as most fit;  
To him, of all that he possessed,  
he did the charge commit.   

That he might at his pleasure bind  
the Princes of the land;  
And he might teach his Senators  
wisdom to understand.  
The people then of Israel  
down into Egypt came:  
And Jacob also sojourned  
within the land of Ham.   

And he did greatly, by his power,  
increase his people there;  
And stronger than their enemies  
they by his blessing were.  
Their heart he turned to envy  
his folk maliciously,  
With those that his own servants were  
to deal in subtlety.   

His servant Moses he did send,  
Aaron his chosen one:  
By these, his signs and wonders great  
in Hams land were made known.  
Darkness he sent, and made it dark:  
his word they did obey.  
He turned their waters into blood,  
and he their fish did slay.   

The land in plenty brought forth frogs  
in chambers of their Kings.  
His word all sorts of flies and lice  
in all their borders brings.  
He hail for rain, and flaming fire  
into their land he sent:  
And he their vines and figtrees smote,  
trees of their coasts he rend.   

He spoke, and Caterpillars came,  
Locusts did much abound,  
Which in their land all herbs consumed,  
and all fruits of their ground.  
He smote all firstborn in their land,  
chief of their strength each one.  
With gold and silver brought them forth,  
weak in their tribes were none.   

Egypt was glad when forth they went:  
their fear on them did light.  
He spread a cloud for covering,  
and fire to shine by night.  
They asked, and he brought Quails; with bread  
of heaven he filled them.  
He oped rocks, floods gushed, and ran  
in deserts, like a stream.   

For on his holy promise he,  
and servant Abraham, thought,  
With joy his people, his elect  
with gladness forth he brought▪  
And unto them the pleasant lands  
he of the heathen gave,  
That of the people's labours they  
inheritance might have;   

That they his statutes might observe,  
according to his word,  
And that they might his Laws obey.  
Give praise unto the Lord.    

PSAL. CVI  

GIve praise and thanks unto the Lord,  
for bountiful is He:  
His tender mercy doth endure  
unto eternity.  
God's mighty works who can express?  
or show forth all his praise?  
Blessed are they that judgement keep,  
and justly do always.   

Remember me, Lord, with that love,  
which thou to thine dost bear:  
With thy salvation, O my God,  
to visit me, draw near:  
That I thy chosens good may see,  
and in their joy rejoice,  
And may with thine inheritance  
triumph with cheerful voice.   

We with our fathers sinned have,  
and of iniquity  
Too long we have the workers been,  
we have done wickedly.  
The wonders great which thou, O Lord,  
didst work in Egypt land,  
Our fathers, though they saw, yet them  
they did not understand:   

And they thy mercy's multitude  
kept not in memory,  
But at the sea, even the Red-sea,  
provoked him grievously.  
Nevertheless he saved them,  
even for his own Names sake;  
That so, he might to be welt known  
his mighty power, make.   

When he the Red-sea did rebuke,  
than dried up it was:  
Through depths, as through the wilderness,  
He safely made them pass.  
From hands, of those that hated them,  
he did his people save,  
And from the enemies cruel hand  
to them redemption gave.   

The waters overwhelmed their foes,  
not one was left alive:  
Then they believed his word, and praise  
to him in songs did give.  
But soon did they his mighty works  
forget unthankfully,  
And on, his counsel and his will  
did not wait patiently.   

But much did lust in wilderness,  
and God in desert tempt.  
He gave them what they sought, but to  
their soul he leanness sent.  
And against Moses, in the camp,  
their envy did appear,  
At Aaron they, the saint of God,  
envious also were.   

Therefore the earth did open wide,  
and Dathan did devour,  
And all abiram's company  
did cover in that hour.  
Likewise among their company  
a fire was kindled then,  
And so the hot consuming flame  
burnt up these wicked men.   

Upon the hill of Horeb, they  
an idol-calf did frame,  
A molten image they did make,  
and worshipped the same  
And thus their Glory, and their God,  
most vainly changed they  
Into the likeness of an ox  
that eateth grass or hay.   

They did forget the mighty God,  
that had their Saviour been,  
By whom such great things brought to pass  
they had in Egypt seen.  
In Hams land he did wondrous works:  
things terrible did he,  
When he his mighty hand and arm  
stretched out at the Red-sea.   

Then said he, he would them destroy,  
had not, his wrath to stay,  
His chosen Moses stood in breach,  
that them he should not slay.  
Yea, they despised the pleasant land,  
believed not his word;  
But in their tents they murmured,  
not harkening to the Lord.   

Therefore in desert, them to slay  
he lifted up his hand:  
'mong nations to o'erthrow their seed,  
and scatter in each land.  
They unto Baal-Peor did  
themselves associate:  
The sacrifices of the dead  
they did profanely eat.   

Thus, by their lewd inventions,  
they did provoke his ire;  
And then, upon them suddenly  
the plague broke in, as fire.  
Then Phineas rose, and justice did,  
and so the plague did cease:  
That to all ages counted was  
to him for righteousness.   

And at the waters, where they strove,  
they did him angry make,  
In such sort, that it fared ill  
with Moses for their sake.  
Because they there his spirit meek  
provoked bitterly,  
So that he uttered with his lips  
words unadvisedly.   

Nor, as the Lord commanded them,  
did they the nations slay;  
But with the heathen mingled were,  
and learned of them their way.  
And they their idols served, which did  
a snare unto them turn:  
Their sons and daughters they to devils  
in sacrifice did burn.   

In their own children's guiltless blood  
their hands they did imbrue,  
Whom to Canaan's idols they  
for sacrifices slew.  
So was the land defiled with blood;  
They stained with their own way,  
And with their own inventions  
a whoring they did stray.   

Against his people kindled was  
the wrath of God therefore,  
Insomuch that he did his own  
inheritance abhor.  
He gave them to the heathens hand,  
their foes did them command:  
Their enemies them oppressed, they were  
made subject to their hand.   

He many times delivered them,  
but with their counsel, so  
They him provoked, that for their sin  
they were brought very low.  
Yet their affliction he beheld,  
when he did hear their cry:  
And he for them his Covenant  
did call to memory:   

After his mercy's multitude  
he did repent; And made  
Them to be pitied of all those  
who them did captive lead.  
O Lord, our God, us save, and gather  
the heathen from among,  
That we thy holy Name may praise  
in a triumphant song.   

Blessed be JEHOVAH, Israel's God,  
to all eternity:  
Let all the people say, Amen.  
Praise to the Lord give ye.    

PSAL. CVII.  

PRaise God, for he is good, for still  
his mercies lasting be.  
Let Gods redeemed say so, whom he  
from th' enemy's hand did free:  
And gathered them out of the lands,  
from North, South, East and West.  
They strayed in deserts pathless way▪  
no city found to rest.   

For thirst and hunger in them faints  
their soul. When straits them press  
They cry unto the Lord, and he  
them frees from their distress.  
Them also in a way to walk,  
that right is, he did guide,  
That they might to a city go,  
wherein they might abide.   

O that men to the Lord would give  
praise, for his goodness, then,  
And for his works of wonder done  
unto the sons of men.  
For he the soul that longing is  
doth fully satisfy,  
With goodness he the hungry soul  
doth fill abundantly   

Such as shut up in darkness deep,  
and in deathsshade abide,  
Whom strongly hath affliction bound,  
and irons fast have tied  
(Because against the words of God  
they wrought rebelliously,  
And they the counsel did contemn  
of him that is most high)   

Their heart he did bring down with grief,  
they fell, no help could have.  
In trouble than they cried to God,  
he them from straits did save.  
He out of darkness did them bring,  
and from death's shade them take:  
These bands wherewith they had been bound,  
asunder quite he broke.   

O that men to the Lord would give  
praise, for his goodness then,  
And for his works of wonder done  
unto the sons of men.  
Because the mighty gates of brass  
in piece she did tear,  
By him in sunder also cut  
the bars of iron were.   

Fools for their sin, and their offence,  
do sore affliction bear.  
All kind of meat their soul abhors,  
they to deaths-gates draw near.  
In grief they cry to God, he saves  
them from their miseries:  
He sends his word them heals, and them  
from their destructions frees.   

O that men to the Lord would give  
praise, for his goodness then,  
And for his works of wonder done  
unto the sons of men.  
And let them sacrifice to him  
offerings of thankfulness,  
And let them show abroad his work  
in songs of joyfulness.   

Who go to sea in ships, and in  
great waters trading be,  
Within the deep these men Gods works,  
and his great wonders see.  
For he commands, and forth in haste  
the stormy tempest flies,  
Which makes the sea with rolling waves  
aloft to swell and rise.   

They mount to heaven, then to the depths  
they do go down again,  
Their soul doth faint, and melt away  
with trouble and with pain.  
They reel and stagger like one drunk,  
at their wits end they be:  
Then they to God in trouble cry,  
who them from straits doth free.   

The storm is changed into a calm,  
at his command and will,  
So that the waves which raged before,  
now quiet are and still.  
Then are they glad, because at rest  
and quiet now they be,  
So to the haven he them brings  
which they desired to see.   

O that men to the Lord would give  
praise, for his goodness, then,  
And for his works of wonder, done  
unto the sons of men.  
Among the people gathered,  
let them exalt his Name;  
Among assembled Elders spread  
his most renowned fame.   

He to dry land turns water-springs,  
and floods to wilderness:  
For sins of those that dwell therein  
fat land to barrenness.  
The burnt and parched wilderness  
to water-pools he brings.  
The ground that was dried up before  
he turns to water springs.   

And there, for dwelling, he a place  
doth to the hungry give,  
That they a city may prepare  
commodiously to live.  
There sow they fields, and vineyards plant  
to yield fruits of increase.  
His blessing makes them multiply,  
le's not their beasts decrease.   

Again they are diminished,  
and very low brought down,  
Through sorrow, and affliction,  
and great oppression.  
He upon Princes pours contempt,  
and causeth them to stray  
And wander in a wilderness,  
wherein there is no way.   

Yet setteth he the poor on high  
from all his miseries;  
And he, much like unto a flock,  
doth make him families.  
They that are righteous shall rejoice,  
when they the same shall see;  
And, ashamed, stop her mouth  
shall all iniquity.   

Who so is wise, and will these things  
observe, and them record,  
Even they shall understand the love  
and kindness of the Lord.    

PSAL. CVIII. A song or Psalm of David.  

MY heart is fixed, Lord: I will sing,  
and with my glory praise.  
Awake up psaltery and harp,  
myself I'll early raise.  
I'll praise thee 'mongst the people, Lord,  
'mong nations sing will I.  
For above heaven thy mercy's great,  
thy truth doth reach the sky.   

Be thou above the heavens, Lord,  
exalted gloriously:  
Thy glory all the earth above  
be lifted up on high.  
That those who thy beloved are  
delivered may be;  
O do thou save with thy right hand,  
and answer give to me.   

God in his holiness hath said,  
Herein I will take pleasure,  
Shechem I will divide, and forth  
will Succoths valley measure.  
Gilead I claim as Mine by right,  
Manasseh Mine shall be,  
Ephraim is of My head the strength,  
Judah gives laws for Me.   

Moab's My washing-pot, My shoe  
I'll over Edom throw,  
Over the land of Palestine  
I will in triumph go.  
who is he will bring me to  
the City fortified!  
O who is he that to the land  
of Edom will me guide!   

O God, thou who hadst cast us off,  
this thing wilt thou not do?  
And wilt not thou, even thou, O God,  
forth with our armies go?  
Do thou from trouble give us help,  
for helpless is man's aid.  
Through God we shall do valiantly,  
our foes He shall down tread.    

PSAL. CIX. To the chief musician, A Psalm of David.  

O thou the God of all my praise,  
do thou not hold thy peace:  
For mouths of wicked men, to speak  
against me, do not cease;  
The mouths of vile deceitful men  
against me opened be:  
And with a false and lying tongue  
they have accused me.   

They did beset me round about  
with words of hateful spite:  
And, though to them no cause I gave,  
against me they did fight.  
They for my love became my foes,  
but I me set to pray.  
Evil for good, hatred for love  
to me they did repay.   

Set thou the wicked over him,  
and upon his right hand  
Give thou his greatest enemy,  
even Satan, leave to stand.  
And when by thee he shall be judged,  
let him condemned be;  
And let his prayer be turned to sin,  
when he shall call on thee.   

Few be his days, and in his room  
his charge another take.  
His children let be fotherlesse,  
his wife a widow make.  
His children let be vagabonds,  
and beg continually;  
And from their places desolate  
seek bread for their supply.   

Let covetous extortioners  
catch all he hath away:  
Of all for which he laboured hath  
let strangers make a prey.  
Let there be none to pity him,  
let there be none at all  
That on his children fatherless  
will let his mercy fall.   

Let his posterity from earth  
cut off for ever be,  
And in the following age their name  
be blotted out by thee.  
Let God his father's wickedness  
still to remembrance call;  
And never let his mother's sin  
he blotted out at all.   

But let them all before the Lord  
appear continually,  
That He may wholly from the earth  
cut off their memory.  
Because he mercy minded not,  
but persecuted still  
The poor and needy, that he might  
the brokenhearted kill.   

As he in cursing pleasure took,  
so let it to him fall;  
As he delighted not to bless,  
so bless him not at all.  
As cursing he like clothes put on,  
into his bowels so  
Like water, and into his bones  
like oil down let it go.   

Like to that garment let it be  
which doth himself array,  
And for a girdle wherewith he  
is girt about always.  
From God let his be their reward  
that enemies are to me,  
And their reward, that speak against  
my soul maliciously.   

But do thou, for thine own Names sake,  
O God the Lord, for me:  
Sith good and sweet they mercy is,  
from trouble set me free.  
For I am poor and indigent,  
afflicted sore am I,  
My heart within me also is  
wounded exceedingly.   

I pass like a declining shade.  
am like the locust tossed.  
My knees through fasting weakened are,  
my flesh hath fatness lost.  
I also am a vile reproach  
unto them made to be:  
And they that did upon me look  
did shake their heads at me.   

O do thou help and succour me,  
who art my God and Lord:  
And, for thy tender mercy's sake,  
safety to me afford.  
That thereby they may know, that this  
is thy Almighty hand,  
And that thou, Lord, hast done the same  
they may well understand.   

Although they curse with spite, yet, Lord,  
bless thou with loving voice:  
Let them ashamed be, when they rise:  
thy servant let rejoice.  
Let thou mine adversaries all  
with shame be clothed over,  
And let their own confusion  
them, as a mantle, cover.   

But as for me, I with my mouth  
will greatly praise the Lord;  
And I among the multitude  
His praises will record.  
For He shall stand at his right hand  
who is in poverty,  
To save him from all those that would  
condemn his soul to die.    

PSAL. CX. A Psalm of David.  

THe Lord did say unto my Lord,  
Sat thou at My right hand,  
Until I make thy foes a stool,  
whereon thy feet may stand.  
The Lord shall out of Zion send  
the rod of thy great power:  
In midst of all thine enemies  
be thou the Governor.   

A willing people, in thy day  
of power, shall come to thee,  
In holy beauties, from morn's womb:  
thy youth like dew shall be.  
The Lord himself hath made an oath,  
and will repent him never,  
Of th' order of Melchisedek  
Thou art a Priest for ever.   

The glorious and mighty Lord,  
that sits at thy right hand,  
Shall, in his day of wrath, strike through  
Kings, that do Him withstand.  
He shall among the heathen judge,  
He shall with bodies dead  
The places fill, o'er many lands,  
He wound shall every head.   

The brook that runneth in the way  
with drink shall Him supply:  
And for this cause, in triumph He  
shall lift His head on high.    

PSAL. CXI.  

PRaise ye the Lord: with my whole heart  
I will God's praise declare,  
Where the assemblies of the just  
and congregations are.  
The whole works of the Lord our God  
are great above all measure,  
Sought out they are of every one  
that do therein take pleasure.   

His work most honourable is,  
most glorious and pure,  
And his untainted Righteousness  
for ever doth endure.  
His works most wonderful He hath  
made to be thought upon:  
The Lord is gracious, and He is  
full of compassion.   

He giveth meat unto all those  
that truly do Him fear;  
And evermore His Covenant  
He in his mind will bear.  
He did the power of His works  
unto His people show,  
When He the heathens heritage  
upon them did bestow.   

His handiworks are truth and right:  
all His commands are sure;  
And done in truth and uprightness,  
they evermore endure.  
He sent redemption to His folk,  
His Covenant for ay   

He did command: Holy His Name  
and reverend is always.  
Wisdoms beginning is God's fear:  
good understanding they  
Have all, that His commands fulfil:  
His praise endures for ay.    

PSAL. CXII.  

PRaise ye the Lord. The man is blest  
that fears the Lord aright,  
He who in His commandments  
doth greatly take delight.  
His seed and offspring powerful  
shall be the earth upon:  
Of upright men blessed shall be  
the generation.   

Riches and wealth shall ever be  
within his house in store:  
And His unspotted righteousness  
endures for evermore.  
Unto the upright light doth rise,  
though he in darkness be:  
Compassionate and merciful,  
and righteous is he.   

A good man doth his favour show,  
and doth to others lend:  
He with discretion his affairs  
will guide unto the end.  
Surely there is not any thing  
that ever shall him move:  
The righteous man's memorial  
shall everlasting prove.   

When he shall evil tidings hear,  
he shall not be afraid;  
His heart is fixed, his confidence  
upon the Lord is stayed.  
His heart is firmly established,  
afraid he shall not be,  
Until upon his enemies  
he his desire shall see.   

He hath dispersed, given to the poor,  
his righteousness shall be  
To ages all; with honour shall  
his horn be raised high.  
The wicked shall it see, and fret,  
his teeth gnash, melt away:  
What wicked men do most desire  
shall utterly decay.    

PSAL. CXIII.  

PRaise God: ye servants of the Lord,  
O praise, the Lords Name praise.  
Yea, blessed be the Name of God  
from this time forth always.  
From rising Sun, to where it sets,  
God's Name is to be praised.  
Above all nations God is high,  
'bove heaven His glory raised.   

Unto the Lord, our God, that dwells  
on high, who can compare?  
Himself that humbleth things to see  
in heaven and earth that are.  
He from the dust doth raise the poor,  
that very low did lie,  
And from the dunghill lifts the man  
oppressed with poverty:   

That He may highly him advance,  
and with the Princes set,  
With those that of His people are  
the chief, even Princes great  
The barren woman house to keep  
He maketh, and to be  
Of sons a mother full of joy.  
Praise to the Lord give ye.    

PSAL. CXIV.  

When Isra'l out of Egypt went,  
and did his dwelling change,  
When jacob's house went out from those  
that were of language strange,  
He Judah did His Sanctuary,  
His Kingdom Israel make:  
The sea it saw, and quickly fled,  
Jordan was driven back.   

Like rams the mountains, and like lambs  
the hills skipped to and fro:  
O sea why stedst thou? Jordan back  
why wast thou driven so?  
Ye mountains great, wherefore was it,  
that ye did skip like rams?  
And wherefore was it, little hills,  
that ye did leap like lambs?   

O at the presence of the Lord  
earth tremble thou for fear,  
While as the presence of the God  
of Jacob doth appear.  
Who from the hard and stony rock  
did standing water bring,  
And by His power did turn the flint  
into a water spring.    

PSAL. CXV.  

NOt unto us, Lord, not to us,  
but do thou glory take  
Unto thy Name, even for thy truth,  
and for thy mercy's sake.  
O wherefore should the heathen say,  
Where is their God now gone?  
But our God in the heavens is,  
what pleased Him He hath done.   

Their idols silver are and gold,  
work of men's hands they be:  
Mouths have they, but they do not speak;  
and eyes, but do not see.  
Ears have they, but they do not hear;  
noses, but savour not:  
Hands, feet, but handle not, nor walk,  
nor speak they through their throat.   

Like them their makers are, and all  
on them their trust that build.  
O israel, trust thou in the Lord,  
He is their help and shield.  
O Aaron's house, trust in the Lord,  
their help and shield is Herald  
Ye that fear God, trust in the Lord,  
their help and shield He'll be.   

The Lord of us hath mindful been,  
and He will bless us still,  
He will the house of Isra'l bless,  
bless Aaron's house He will.  
Both small and great that fear the Lord  
He will them surely bless.  
The Lord will you, you and your seed  
ay more and more increase.   

O blessed are ye of the Lord,  
who made the earth and heaven.  
The heaven, even heavens are Gods, but He  
earth to men's sons hath given.  
The dead, nor who to silence go,  
God's praise do not record.  
But henceforth we for ever will  
bless God▪ Praise ye the Lord.    

PSAL. CXVI.  

I Love the Lord, because my voice  
and prayers He did hear.  
ay, while I live, will call on Him,  
who bowed to me His ear.  
Of death the cords, and sorrows did  
about me compass round,  
The pains of hell took hold on me,  
I grief and trouble found.   

Upon the Name of God, the Lord,  
than did I call, and say,  
Deliver Thou my soul, O Lord,  
I do thee humbly pray.  
God merciful and righteous is,  
yea, gracious is our Lord.  
God saves the meek: I was brought low,  
He did me help afford.   

O thou my soul, do thou return  
unto thy quiet rest  
For largely lo▪ the Lord to thee  
His bounty hath expressed.  
For my distressed soul from death  
delivered was by Thee,  
Thou didst my mourning eyes from tears,  
my feet from falling, free.   

I in the land of those that live  
will walk the Lord before.  
I did believe, therefore I spoke:  
I was afflicted sore.  
I said when I was in my haste,  
That all men liars be.  
What shall I render to the Lord,  
for all His gifts to me?   

I'll of salvation take the cup,  
on God's Name will I call:  
I'll pay my vows now to the Lord,  
before His people all.  
Dear in God's sight is His saints death.  
Thy servant, Lord, am I,  
Thy servant sure, Thine handmaids son:  
my bands Thou didst untie.   

Thank-offerings I to Thee will give,  
and on God's Name will call.  
I'll pay my vows now to the Lord,  
before His people all  
Within the courts of Gods own house,  
within the midst of thee,  
O City of Jerusalem.  
Praise to the Lord give ye.    

PSAL. CXVII.  
O give ye praise unto the Lord,  
all nations that be:  
Likewise, ye people all, accord  
His Name to magnify.  
For great to us-ward ever are  
His loving kindnesses:  
His truth endures for evermore.  
The Lord O do ye bless.   

PSAL. CXVIII.  

O praise the Lord, for He is good:  
His mercy lasteth ever.  
Let those of Israel now say,  
His mercy faileth never.  
Now let the house of Aaron say,  
His mercy lasteth ever.  
Let those that fear the Lord now say,  
His mercy faileth never.   

I in distress called on the Lord;  
the Lord did answer me,  
He in a large place did me set,  
from trouble made me free.  
The mighty Lord is on my side.  
I will not be afraid:  
For any thing that man can do  
I shall not be dismayed.   

The Lord doth take my part with them  
that help to succour me:  
Therefore on those that do me hate  
I my desire shall see.  
Better it is to trust in God,  
then trust in man's defence:  
Better to trust in God, then make  
Princes our confidence.   

The nations, joining all in one,  
did compass me about:  
But in the Lords most Holy Name  
I shall them all root out.  
They compassed me about, I say,  
they compassed me about:  
But in the Lords most Holy Name  
I shall them all root out.   

Like Bees they compassed me about:  
like unto thorns that flame  
They quenched are: for them shall I  
destroy in Gods own Name.  
Thou sore hast thrust, that I might fall,  
but my Lord helped me.  
God my salvation is become,  
my strength and song is Herald   

In dwellings of the righteous  
is heard the melody  
Of joy and health: the Lords right hand  
doth ever valiantly.  
The right hand of the Mighty Lord  
exalted is on hy:  
The right hand of the Mighty Lord  
doth ever valiantly.   

I shall not die, but live, and shall  
the works of God discover.  
The Lord hath me chastised sore,  
but not to death given over.  
O set ye open unto me  
the gates of righteousness:  
Then will I enter into them,  
and I the Lord will bless.   

This is the gate of God, by it  
the just shall enter in.  
Thee will I praise, for thou me heardst,  
and hast my safety been.  
That stone, is made head cornerstone,  
which builders did despise:  
This is the doing of the Lord,  
and wondrous in our eyes.   

This is the day God made, in it  
we'll joy triumphantly.  
Save now I pray thee, Lord, I pray  
send now prosperity.  
Blessed is He, in God's great Name  
that cometh us to save.  
We, from the house which to the Lord  
pertains, you blessed have.   

God is the Lord, who unto us  
hath made light to arise:  
Bind ye unto the altars horns,  
with cords, the sacrifice.  
Thou art my God, I'll thee exalt:  
my God, I will thee praise.  
Give thanks to God, for He is good,  
His mercy lasts always.    

PSAL. CXIX.  

א ALEPH. The first part.  

BLessed are they that undefiled,  
and strait are in the way:  
Who in the Lords most holy Law  
do walk, and do not stray,  
Blessed are they, who to observe  
His statutes are inclined;  
And who do seek the living God  
with their whole heart and mind.   

Such in his ways do walk, and they  
do no iniquity:  
Thou hast commanded us to keep  
thy precepts carefully.  
O that thy statutes to observe  
thou wouldst my ways direct:  
Then shall I not be shamed, when I  
thy precepts all respect.   

Then with integrity of heart  
thee will I praise and bless,  
When I the judgements all have learned  
of thy pure righteousness.  
That I will keep thy statutes all  
firmly resolved have I:  
O do not then, most gracious God,  
forsake me utterly.    

ב BETH. The 2. part.  

By what means shall a young man learn  
his way to purify?  
If he according to thy Word  
thereto attentive be.  
Unfeignedly Thee have I sought  
with all my soul and heart:  
O let me not from the right path  
of thy commands depart.   

Thy word I in my heart have hid,  
that I offend not thee.  
O Lord, thou ever blessed art,  
thy statutes teach thou me.  
The judgements of thy mouth each one  
my lips declared have:  
More joy thy testimonies way  
then riches all, me gave.   

I will thy holy precepts make  
my meditation:  
And carefully I'll have respect  
unto thy ways each one.  
Upon thy statutes my delight  
shall constantly be set:  
And by thy grace I never will  
thy holy word forget.    

ג GIMEL. The 3. part.  

With me thy servant, in thy grace,  
deal bountifully, Lord:  
That by thy favour I may live,  
and duly keep thy word.  
Open mine eyes, that of thy Law  
the wonders I may see.  
I am a stranger on this earth,  
hide not thy Laws from me.   

My soul within me breaks, and doth  
much fainting still endure,  
Through longing that it hath all times  
unto thy judgements pure.  
Thou hast rebuked the cursed proud,  
who from thy precepts swerve.  
Reproach and shame remove from me,  
for I thy Laws observe.   

Against me Princes spoke with spite,  
while they in council sat:  
But I, thy servant, did upon  
thy statutes meditate.  
My comfort, and my hearts delight  
thy testimonies be,  
And they in all my doubts and fears  
are counsellors to me.    

ד DALETH. The 4. part.  

My soul to dust cleaves: quicken me  
according to thy word.  
My ways I showed, and me thou heardst:  
teach me thy statutes, Lord.  
The way of thy commandments  
make me aright to know:  
So all thy works, that wondrous are,  
I shall to others show.   

My soul doth melt, and drop away,  
for heaviness and grief:  
To me, according to thy word,  
give strength, and send relief.  
From me the wicked way of lies  
let far removed be,  
And graciously thy holy Law  
do thou grant unto me.   

I chosen have the perfect way  
of truth and verity:  
Thy judgements, that most righteous are,  
before me, laid, have I.  
I to thy testimonies cleave:  
shame do not on me cast.  
I'll run thy precepts way, when thou  
my heart enlarged haste.    

ה HERALD The 5. part.  

Teach me, O Lord, the perfect way  
of thy precepts divine,  
And to observe it to the end  
I shall my heart incline.  
Give understanding unto me,  
so keep thy Law shall I;  
Yea, even with my whole heart, I shall  
observe it carefully.   

In thy Laws path make me to go,  
for I delight therein.  
My heart unto thy testimonies,  
and not to greed incline.  
Turn thou away my sight and eyes  
from viewing vanity,  
And in thy good and holy way  
be pleased to quicken me.   

Confirm to me thy gracious word,  
which I did gladly hear,  
Even to thy servant, Lord, who is  
devoted to thy fear.  
Turn thou away my feared reproach:  
for good thy judgements be.  
Lo, for thy precepts I have longed:  
in thy truth quicken me.    

ו VAU. The 6. part.  

Let thy sweet mercies also come,  
and visit me, O Lord,  
Even thy benign salvation,  
according to thy word.  
So shall I have wherewith I may  
give him an answer just,  
Who spitefully reproacheth me:  
for in thy word I trust.   

The word of truth out of my mouth  
take thou not utterly:  
For on thy judgements righteous  
my hope doth still rely.  
So shall I keep for evermore  
thy Law continually:  
And sith that I thy precepts seek,  
I'll walk at liberty.   

I'll speak thy word to Kings, and I  
with shame shall not be moved:  
And will delight myself always  
in thy Laws, which I loved.  
To thy commandments which I loved,  
my hands lift up I will:  
And I will also meditate  
upon thy statutes still.    

ז ZAIN. The 7. part.  

Remember, Lord, thy gracious word,  
thou to thy servant spoke,  
Which, for a ground of my sure hope,  
thou causedst me to take.  
This word of thine my comfort is  
in my affliction:  
For in my straits I am revived  
by this thy word alone.   

The men whose hearts with pride are stuffed,  
did greatly me deride:  
Yet from thy strait commandments  
I have not turned aside,  
Thy judgements righteous, O Lord,  
which thou of old forth gave,  
I did remember, and myself  
by them comforted have.   

Horror took hold on me, because  
ill men thy Law forsake.  
I in my house of pilgrimage  
thy Laws my songs do make.  
Thy Name by night, Lord, I did mind,  
and I have kept thy Law.  
And this I had, because thy word  
I kept, and stood in awe.    

ח ch. The 8. part.  

Thou my sure portion art alone,  
which I did choose, O Lord:  
I have resolved and said, that I  
would keep thy holy word.  
With my whole heart I did entreat  
thy face, and favour free:  
According to thy gracious word  
be merciful to me.   

I thought upon my former ways,  
and did my life well try:  
And to thy testimonies pure  
my feet then turned I.  
I did not stay, nor linger long,  
as those that slothful are,  
But hastily thy Laws to keep  
myself I did prepare.   

Bands of ill men me robbed; yet I  
thy precepts did not slight.  
I'll rise at midnight, thee to praise,  
even for thy judgements right.  
I am companion to all those,  
who fear, and thee obey.  
O Lord, thy mercy fills the earth:  
teach me thy Laws, I pray.    

ט TETH. The 9 part.  

Well hast thou with thy servant dealt,  
as thou didst promise give.  
Good judgement me, and knowledge, teach;  
for I thy word believe.  
Ere I afflicted was, I strayed,  
but now I keep thy word,  
Both good thou art, and good thou dost:  
teach me thy statutes, Lord.   

The men, that are puffed up with pride,  
against me forged a lie:  
Yet thy commandments observe  
with my whole heart will I.  
Their hearts, through worldly ease & wealth,  
as fat as grease they be:  
But in thy holy Law I take  
delight continually.   

It hath been very good for me,  
that I afflicted was,  
That I might well instructed be,  
and learn thy holy Laws.  
The word that cometh from thy mouth  
is better unto me,  
Then many thousands, and great sums  
of gold and silver be.    

י JOD. The 10. part.  

Thou mad'st and fashionedst me: thy Laws  
to know give wisdom, Lord.  
So who thee fear, shall joy to see  
me trusting in thy word.  
That very right thy judgements are  
I know and do confess,  
And that thou hast afflicted me  
in truth and faithfulness.   

O let thy kindness merciful,  
I pray thee, comfort me,  
As to thy servant faithfully  
was promised by thee.  
And let thy tender mercies come  
to me, that I may live:  
Because thy holy Laws to me  
sweet delectation give.   

Lord, let the proud ashamed be:  
for they, without a cause,  
With me perversely deal; but I  
will muse upon thy Laws.  
Let such as fear thee, and have known  
thy statutes, turn to me.  
My heart let in thy Laws be sound,  
that shamed I never be.    

כ CAPH. The 11. part.  

My soul for thy salvation faints:  
yet I thy word believe.  
Mine eyes fail for thy word: I say,  
When wilt thou comfort give?  
For like a bottle I'm become,  
that in the smoke is set:  
I'm black and parched with grief, yet I  
thy statutes not forget.   

How many are thy servants days?  
when wilt thou execute  
Just judgement on these wicked men  
that do me persecute?  
The proud have digged pits for me,  
which is against thy Laws.  
Thy words all faithful are: help me  
pursued without a cause.   

They so consumed me, that on earth  
my life they scarce did leave:  
Thy precepts yet forsook I not,  
but close to them I clavae.  
After thy loving kindness, Lord,  
me quicken, and preserve:  
The testimony of thy mouth  
so shall I still observe.    

ל LAMED. The 12. part.  

Thy word for ever is, O Lord,  
in heaven settled fast:  
Unto all generations  
thy faithfulness doth last.  
The earth thou hast established,  
and it abides by thee:  
This day they stand, as thou ordained:  
for all thy servants be.   

Unless in thy most perfect Law  
my soul delights had found,  
I should have perished, when as  
my troubles did abound.  
Thy precepts I will never forget:  
they quickening to me brought.  
Lord, I am thine: O save thou me:  
thy precepts I have sought.   

For me the wicked have laid wait,  
me seeking to destroy:  
But I thy testimonies true  
consider will with joy.  
An end of all perfection  
here have I seen, O God:  
But as for thy commandment  
it is exceeding broad.    

מ MEM. The 13. part.  

O how love I thy Law! it is  
my study all the day.  
It makes me wiser than my foes:  
for it doth with me stay.  
Then all my teachers, now I have  
more understanding far:  
Because my meditation  
thy▪ testimonies are.   

In understanding I excel  
those that are ancients,  
For I endeavoured to keep  
all thy commandments.  
My feet from each ill way I stayed,  
that I may keep thy word.  
I from thy judgements have not swerved,  
for thou hast taught me, Lord.   

How sweet unto my taste, O Lord,  
are all thy words of truth!  
Yea, I do find them sweeter far,  
than honey to my mouth.  
ay, through thy precepts that are pure,  
do understanding get:  
I therefore every way that's false  
with all my heart do hate.    

נ NUN. The 14. part.  

Thy word is to my feet a lamp,  
and to my path a light.  
I sworn have, and I will perform,  
to keep thy judgements right.  
I am with sore affliction  
even overwhelmed, O Lord:  
In mercy raise, and quicken me,  
according to thy word.   

The freewill offerings of my mouth  
accept, I thee beseech:  
And unto me thy servant, Lord,  
thy judgements clearly teach.  
Though still my soul be in my hand,  
thy Laws I'll not forget.  
I erred not from them, though for me  
the wicked snares did set.   

I of thy testimonies have  
above all things made choice,  
To be my heritage for ay,  
for they my Heart rejoice.  
I carefully inclined have  
my heart, still to attend,  
That I thy statures may perform  
always unto the end.    

ס SAMECH. The 15. part.  

I hate the thoughts of vanity,  
but love thy Law do I.  
My shield and hiding-place thou art:  
I on thy word rely.  
All ye that evil doers are,  
from me depart away;  
For the commandments of my God  
I purpose to obey.   

According to thy faithful word  
uphold and establish me,  
That I may live, and of my hope  
ashamed never be.  
Hold thou me up, so shall I be  
in peace and safety still,  
And to thy statutes have respect  
continually ay will.   

Thou treadest down all that love to stray,  
false their deceit doth prove.  
Lewd men, like dross, away thou putst,  
therefore thy Law I love.  
For fear of thee my very flesh  
doth tremble, all dismayed;  
And of thy righteous judgements, Lord,  
my soul is much afraid.    

ע AIN. The 16. part.  

To all men I have judgement done,  
performing justice right:  
Then let me not be left unto  
my fierce oppressors might.  
For good unto thy servant, Lord,  
thy servants surety be:  
From the oppression of the proud  
do thou deliver me.   

Mine eyes do fail with looking long  
for thy salvation,  
The word of thy pure righteousness  
while I do wait upon.  
In mercy with thy servant deal,  
thy Laws me teach and show:  
I am thy servant, wisdom give,  
that I thy Laws may know.   

It's time thou work, Lord: for they have  
made void thy Law divine:  
Therefore thy precepts more I love  
then gold, yea gold most fine.  
Concerning all things, thy commands  
all right I judge therefore:  
And every false and wicked way  
I perfectly abhor.    

פ PE. The 17. part.  

Thy statutes, Lord, are wonderful,  
my soul them keeps with care.  
The entrance of thy words gives light,  
makes wise who simple are.  
My mouth I have wide opened,  
and panted earnestly,  
While after thy commandments  
I longed exceedingly.   

Look on me, Lord, and merciful  
do thou unto me prove,  
As thou art wont to do to those,  
thy Name who truly love.  
O let my footsteps in thy word  
aright still ordered be:  
Let no iniquity obtain  
dominion over me.   

From man's oppression save thou me  
so keep thy Laws I will.  
Thy face make on thy servant shine:  
teach me the statutes still.  
Rivers of waters from mine eyes  
did run down, when I saw  
How wicked men run on in sin,  
and do not keep thy Law.    

צ TSADDI. The 18. part.  

O Lord, thou art most righteous,  
thy judgements are upright.  
Thy testimonies thou command'st  
most faithful are and right.  
My zeal hath even consumed me,  
because mine enemies  
Thy holy words forgotten have,  
and do thy Laws despise.   

Thy word's most pure, therefore on it  
thy servants love is set.  
Small, and despised I am, yet I  
thy precepts not forget.  
Thy righteousness, is righteousness  
which ever doth endure:  
Thy holy Law, Lord, also is  
the very truth most pure.   

Trouble and anguish have me found,  
and taken hold on me:  
Yet in my trouble my delight  
thy just commandments be.  
Eternal righteousness is in  
thy testimonies all:  
Lord, to me understanding give,  
and ever live I shall.    

ק KOPH. The 19 part.  

With my whole heart I cried, Lord, hear:  
I will thy word obey.  
I cried to thee, save me, and I  
will keep thy Laws always.  
I of the morning did prevent  
the dawning, and did cry:  
For all my expectation  
did on thy word rely.   

Mine eyes did timously prevent  
the watches of the night,  
That in thy word, with careful mind,  
then meditate I might,  
After thy loving kindness hear  
my voice, that calls on thee:  
According to thy judgement, Lord,  
revive and quicken me.   

Who follow mischief, they draw nigh;  
they from thy Law are far:  
But thou art near, Lord: most firm truth  
all thy commandments are.  
As for thy testimonies all,  
of old this have I tried,  
That thou hast surely founded them,  
for ever to abide.    

ר RESH. The 20. part.  

Consider mine affliction,  
in safety do me set:  
Deliver me, O Lord, for I  
thy Law do not forget.  
After thy word revive thou me;  
save me, and plead my cause.  
Salvation is from sinners far,  
for they seek not thy Laws.   

O Lord, both great and manifold  
thy tender mercies be:  
According to thy judgements just  
revive and quicken me.  
My persecuters many are,  
and foes, which do combine:  
Yet from thy testimonies pure  
my heart doth not decline.   

I saw transgressors, and was grieved:  
for they keep not thy word.  
See how I love thy Law! as thou  
art kind, me quicken, Lord.  
From the beginning all thy word  
hath been most true and sure:  
Thy righteous judgements every one  
for evermore endure.    

ש SHIN. The 21. part.  

Princes have persecuted me,  
although no cause they saw:  
But still of thy most holy word  
my heart doth stand in awe.  
I at thy word rejoice, as one  
of spoil that finds great store.  
Thy Law I love, but lying all  
I hate and do abhor.   

Seven times a day it is my care  
to give due praise to thee:  
Because of all thy judgements, Lord,  
which righteous ever be.  
Great peace have they who love thy Law:  
offence they shall have none.  
I hoped for thy salvation, Lord,  
and thy commands have done.   

My soul thy testimonies pure  
observed carefully:  
On them my heart is set, and them  
I love exceedingly.  
Thy testimonies and thy Laws  
I kept, with special care:  
For all my works, and ways each one  
before thee open are.    

ת TAU. The 22. part.  

O let my earnest prayer and cry  
come near before thee, Lord:  
Give understanding unto me  
according to thy word,  
Let my request before thee come:  
after thy word me free.  
My lips shall utter praise, when thou  
hast taught thy Laws to me.   

My tongue of thy most blessed word  
shall speak, and it confess:  
Because all thy commandments  
are perfect righteousness.  
Let thy strong hand make help to me:  
thy precepts are my choice.  
I longed for thy salvation, Lord,  
and in thy Law rejoice.   

O let my soul live, and it shall  
give praises unto thee:  
And let thy judgements gracious  
be helpful unto me.  
I like a lost sheep went astray,  
thy servant seek, and find:  
For thy commands I suffered not  
to slip out of my mind.     

PSAL. CXX. A song of degrees.  

IN my distress to God I cried,  
and He gave ear to me.  
From lying lips, and guilful tongue  
O Lord, my soul set free.  
What shall be given thee? or what shall  
be done to thee, false tongue?  
Even burning coals of juniper,  
sharp arrows of the strong.   

Wo's me, that I in Mesech am  
a sojourner so long;  
That I in tabernacles dwell  
to Kedar that belong.  
My soul with him that hateth peace  
hath long a dweller been.  
I am for peace: but when I speak  
for battle they are keen.    

PSAL. CXXI. A song of degrees.  

I to the hills will lift mine eyes,  
from whence doth come mine aid:  
My safety cometh from the Lord,  
who heaven and earth hath made.  
Thy foot he'll not let slide, nor will  
He slumber that thee keeps:  
Behold, He that keeps Israel,  
He slumbers not, nor sleeps.   

The Lord thee keeps, the Lord thy shade  
on thy right hand doth stay:  
The Moon by night thee shall not smite,  
nor yet the Sun by day.  
The Lord shall keep thy soul, He shall  
preserve thee from all ill:  
Henceforth thy going out and in  
God keep for ever will.    

PSAL. CXXII. A song of degrees of David.  

I joyed, when to the house of God  
go up, they said to me.  
Jerusalem within thy gates  
our feet shall standing be.  
Jerusalem as a city is  
compactly built together:  
Unto that place the Tribes go up,  
the Tribes of God go thither,   

To Israel's testimony, there  
to Gods Name thanks to pay.  
For thrones of judgement, even the thrones  
of David's house there stay.  
Pray that Jerusalem may have  
peace and felicity:  
Let them, that love thee and thy peace,  
have still prosperity.   

Therefore I wish that peace may still  
within thy walls remain,  
And ever may thy palaces  
prosperity retain.  
Now, for my friends and brethren's sake,  
peace be in thee, I'll say:  
And for the house of God our Lord,  
I'll seek thy good always.    

PSAL. CXXIII. A song of degrees.  

O thou that dwellest in the heavens,  
I lift mine eyes to Thee.  
Behold, as servants eyes do look  
their master's hand to see,  
As handmaids eyes her mistress hand,  
so do our eyes attend  
Upon the Lord our God, until  
to us he mercy send.   

O Lord, be gracious to us,  
unto us gracious be:  
Because replenished with contempt  
exceedingly are we.  
Our soul is filled with scorn of those  
that at their ease abide,  
And with the insolent contempt  
of those that swell in pride.    


PSAL CXXIV. A song of degrees of David.  

HAd not the Lord been on our side,  
may Israel now say:  
Had not the Lord been on our side,  
when men rose us to slay:  
They had us swallowed quick when as  
their wrath 'gainst us did flame:  
Waters had covered us, our soul  
had sunk beneath the stream.   

Then had the waters, swelling high,  
over our soul made way.  
Blessed be the Lord, who to their teeth  
us gave not for a prey.  
Our soul's escaped, as a bird  
out of the fowler's snare:  
The snare asunder broken is,  
and we escaped are.   

Our sure, and all-sufficient help  
is in JEHOVAH'S Name;  
His Name, who did the heaven create,  
and who the earth did frame.    

Another of the same.  

NOw Israel  
may say, and that truly,  
If that the Lord  
had not our cause maintained:  
If that the Lord  
had not our right sustained,  
When cruel men  
against us furiously  
Rose up in wrath,  
to make of us their prey.   

Then certainly  
they had devoured us all,  
And swallowed quick,  
for aught that we could deem;  
Such was their rage,  
as we might well esteem:  
And as fierce floods  
before them all things drown,  
So had they brought  
our soul to death quite down.   

The raging streams,  
with their proud swelling waves,  
Had then our soul  
ov'rwhelmed in the deep:  
But blessed be God,  
who doth us safely keep.  
And hath not given  
us for a living prey  
Unto their teeth  
and bloody cruelty.   

Even as a bird  
out of the fowler's snare  
Escapes away,  
so is our soul set free;  
Broke are their nets,  
and thus escaped we.  
Therefore our help  
is in the Lords great Name,  
Who heaven and earth  
by his great power did frame.     

PSAL. CXXV. A song of degrees.  

THey, in the Lord that firmly trust,  
shall be like Zion hill,  
Which at no time can be removed,  
but standeth ever still.  
As round about Jerusalem  
the mountains stand always,  
The Lord His folk doth compass so  
from henceforth and for ay.   

For ill men's rod upon the lot  
of just men shall not lie,  
Left righteous men stretch forth their hands  
unto iniquity.  
Do thou to all those that be good  
thy goodness, Lord, impart;  
And do thou good to those that are  
upright within their heart.   

But as for such as turn aside  
after their crooked way,  
God shall lead forth with wicked men:  
on Israel peace shall stay,    

PSAL. CXXVI. A song of degrees.  

When Zions' bondage God turned back,  
as men that dreamed were we.  
Then filled with laughter was our mouth,  
our tongue with melody:  
They 'mong the heathen said, The Lord  
great things for them hath wrought:  
The Lord hath done great things for us,  
whence joy to us is brought.   

As streams of water in the South,  
our bondage, Lord, recall.  
Who sow in tears, a reaping time  
of joy enjoy they shall.  
That man, who bearing precious seed,  
in going forth doth mourn,  
He doubtless, bringing back his sheaves,  
rejoicing shall return.    

PSAL. CXXVII. A song of degrees for Solomon.  

EXcept the Lord do build the house,  
the builders lose their pain:  
Except the Lord the city keep,  
the watchmen watch in vain.  
It's vain for you to rise betimes,  
or late from rest to keep,  
To feed on sorrows bread: so gives  
He his beloved sleep.   

Lo, children are God's heritage,  
the wombs-fruit His reward.  
The sons of youth as arrows are  
for strong men's hands prepared.  
O happy is the man that hath  
his quiver filled with those:  
They, unashamed, in the gate  
shall speak unto their foes.    

PSAL. CXXVIII. A song of degrees.  

Blessed is each one that fears the Lord,  
and walketh in his ways.  
For of thy labour thou shalt eat,  
and happy be always.  
Thy wife shall, as a fruitful vine,  
by thy house sides, be found,  
Thy children like to olive plants  
about thy table round.   

Behold, the man that fears the Lord,  
thus blessed shall he be.  
The Lord shall out of Zion give  
His blessing unto thee:  
Thou shalt Jerusalem's good behold,  
whilst thou on earth dost dwell.  
Thou shalt thy children's children see,  
and peace on Israel.    

PSAL. CXXIX. A song of degrees.  

OFt did they vex me from my youth,  
may Israel now declare:  
Oft did they vex me from my youth,  
yet not victorious were.  
The plowers ploughed upon my back,  
they long their furrows drew.  
The righteous Lord did cut the cords  
of the ungodly crew.   

Let Zions' haters all be turned  
back with confusion.  
As grass on houses tops be they,  
which fades ere it be grown:  
Whereof enough to fill his hand  
the mower can not find:  
Nor can the man his bosom fill,  
whose work is, sheaves to bind.   

Neither say they who do go by,  
God's blessing on you rest;  
We, in the Name of God, the Lord,  
do wish you to be blest.    

PSAL. CXXX. A song of degrees.  

LOrd, from the depths to thee I cried.  
My voice, Lord, do thou hear:  
Unto my supplications voice,  
give an attentive ear.  
Lord, who shall stand, if thou, O Lord,  
shouldst mark iniquity?  
But yet with Thee forgiveness is,  
that feared Thou mayest be.   

I wait for God, my soul doth wait,  
my hope is in His word.  
More than they, that for morning watch,  
my soul waits for the Lord:  
I say, more than they that do watch  
the morning light to see.  
Let Israel hope in the Lord,  
for with Him mercies be,   

And plenteous redemption  
is ever found with Him.  
And from all his iniquities  
he Israel shall redeem.    

PSAL. CXXXI. A song of degrees of David.  

MY heart not haughty is, O Lord,  
mine eyes not lofty be:  
Nor do I deal in matters great,  
or things for me too high.  
I surely have myself behaved  
with quiet spirit and mild,  
As child of mother weaned: my soul  
is like a weaned child.   

Upon the Lord let all the hope  
of Israel rely,  
Even from the time that present is  
unto eternity.    

PSAL. CXXXII. A song of degrees.  

DAvid, and his afflictions all,  
Lord, do thou think upon:  
How unto God he swore, and vowed  
to jacob's mighty One.  
I will not come within my house,  
nor rest in bed at all:  
Nor shall mine eyes take any sleep,  
nor eyelids slumber shall,   

Till for the Lord a place I find,  
where He may make abode:  
A place of habitation  
for jacob's mighty God.  
Lo, at the place of Ephratah  
of it we understood:  
And we did find it in the fields  
and city of the wood.   

We'll go into His Tabernacles,  
and at His footstool bow.  
Arise, O Lord, into Thy rest,  
th' Ark of Thy strength, and Thou.  
O let Thy Priests be clothed, Lord,  
with truth and righteousness:  
And let all those that are Thy saints  
shout loud for joyfulness.   

For thine own servant David's sake,  
do not deny Thy grace,  
Nor of Thine own anointed one  
turn Thou away the face.  
The Lord in truth to David swore,  
He will not turn from it,  
I of thy body's fruit will make  
upon thy throne to sit.   

My Covenant if thy sons will keep,  
and Laws to them made known,  
Their children then shall also sit  
for ever on Thy throne.  
For God of Zion hath made choice,  
there He desires to dwell.  
This is My rest, here still I'll stay,  
for I do like it well.   

Her food I'll greatly bless, her poor  
with bread will satisfy.  
Her priests I'll clothe with health, her saints  
shall shout forth joyfully.  
And there will I make David's horn  
to bud forth pleasantly:  
For him that Mine anointed is,  
a lamp ordained have I.   

As with a garment, I will clothe  
with shame his enemies all:  
But yet the crown that he doth wear,  
upon him flourish shall.    

PSAL. CXXXIII. A song of degrees of David.  

BEhold, how good a thing it is,  
and how becoming well,  
Together such as brethren are  
in unity to dwell.  
Like precious ointment on the head,  
that down the beard did flow,  
Even Aaron's beard, and to the skirts  
did of his garments go.   

As Hermons dew, the dew that doth  
on Zion hills descend:  
For there the blessing God commands,  
life that shall never end.    

PSAL. CXXXIV. A song of degrees.  

BEhold, bless ye the Lord, all ye  
that his attendants are,  
Even you that in God's Temple be,  
and praise Him nightly there.  
Your hands within God's holy place  
lift up, and praise His Name.  
From Zion hill the Lord thee bless,  
that heaven and earth did frame.    

PSAL. CXXXV.  

PRaise ye the Lord; the Lords Name praise,  
His servants praise ye God:  
Who stand in God's house, in the Courts  
of our God make abode.  
Praise ye the Lord, for He is good,  
unto Him praises sing:  
Sing praises to His Name, because  
it is a pleasant thing.   

For Jacob to Himself the Lord  
did choose, of His good pleasure,  
And He hath chosen Israel  
for His peculiar treasure.  
Because I know assuredly  
the Lord is very great,  
And that our Lord, above all gods,  
in glory hath His seat.   

What thing soever pleased the Lord,  
that in the heaven did He,  
And in the earth, the seas, and all  
the places deep that be.  
He from the ends of earth doth make  
the vapours to ascend:  
With rain He lightnings makes, and wind  
doth from His treasures send.   

Egypt's firstborn from man to beast  
who smore. Strange tokens He  
On Pharaoh, and his servants sent,  
Egypt, in midst of thee.  
He smote great nations, flew great Kings:  
Sihon of Heshbon King,  
And Og of Bashan, and to nought  
did Canaan's Kingdoms bring.   

And for a wealthy heritage  
their pleasant land He gave,  
An heritage which Israel  
His chosen folk should have.  
Thy Name, O Lord, shall still endure,  
and Thy memorial  
With honour shall continued be  
to generations all.   

For why, the righteous God will judge  
His people righteously,  
Concerning those that do Him serve  
Himself repent will Herald  
The idols of the nations  
of silver are and gold,  
And by the hands of men is made  
their fashion and mould.   

Mouths have they, but they do not speak;  
eyes, but they do not see:  
Ears have they but hear not, and in  
their mouths no breathing be.  
Their makers are like them, so are  
all that on them rely.  
O Israel's house bless God; bless God  
O Aaron's family.   

O bless the Lord of Levies house  
ye who His servants are;  
And bless the Holy Name of God  
all ye the Lord that fear.  
And blessed be the Lord our God,  
from Zions' holy hill,  
Who dwelleth at Jerusalem.  
The Lord O praise ye still.    


PSAL. CXXXVI.  

GIve thanks to God, for good is He:  
for mercy hath He ever.  
Thanks to the God of gods give ye:  
for His grace faileth never.  
Thanks give the Lord of lords unto:  
for mercy hath He ever.  
Who only wonders great can do:  
for His grace faileth never.   

Who by His wisdom made heavens high:  
for mercy He hath ever.  
Who stretched the earth above the sea:  
for His grace faileth never.  
To Him that made the great Light shine:  
for mercy He hath ever.  
The Sun to rule till day decline:  
for His grace faileth never.   

The Moon and Stars to rule by night,  
for mercy hath He ever.  
Who Egypt's firstborn killed outright,  
for His grace faileth never.  
And Israel brought from Egypt land,  
for mercy hath He ever.  
With stretched out arm, and with strong hand:  
for His grace faileth never.   

By whom the Red-sea parted was;  
for mercy hath He ever.  
And through its midst made Israel pass:  
for His grace faileth never.  
But Pharaoh, and his host did drown:  
for mercy hath He ever.  
Who through the desert led His own:  
for His grace faileth never.   

To Him great Kings who overthrew:  
for He hath mercy ever.  
Yea, famous Kings in battle slew:  
for His grace faileth never.  
Even Sihon King of Amorites:  
for He hath mercy ever.  
And Og the King of Bashanites:  
for His grace faileth never.   

Their land in heritage to have,  
(for mercy He hath ever)  
His servant Israel right He gave:  
for His grace faileth never.  
In our low state who on us thought:  
for He hath mercy ever.  
And from our foes our freedom wrought▪  
for His grace faileth never.   

Who doth all flesh with food relieve:  
for He hath mercy ever.  
Thanks to the God of heaven give:  
for His grace faileth never.    

Another of the same.  

PRaise God, for He is kind,  
His mercy lasts for ay.  
Give thanks with heart and mind  
To God of gods always:  
For certainly  
His mercies dure  
Most firm and sure  
Eternally.   

The Lord of lords praise ye,  
Whose mercies still endure.  
Great wonders only He  
Doth work by His great power:  
For certainly, etc.   

Which God Omnipotent,  
By might and wisdom high,  
The heaven and firmament  
Did frame, as we may see:  
For certainly, etc.   

To Him who did outstretch  
This earth so great and wide,  
Above the waters reach  
Making it to abide:  
For certainly, etc.   

Great Lights He made to be,  
For His grace lasteth ay:  
Such as the Sun we see  
To rule the lightsome day:  
For certainly, etc.   

Also the Moon so clear,  
Which shineth in our sight:  
The Stars that do appear,  
To guide the darksome night:  
For certainly, etc.   

To Him that Egypt smote,  
Who did his message scorn;  
And in His anger hot  
Did kill all their firstborn:  
For certainly, etc.   

Thence Israel out He brought:  
For His grace lasteth ever.  
With a strong hand He wrought,  
And stretched out arm deliver:  
For certainly, etc.   

The sea He cut in two;  
For His grace lasteth still:  
And through its midst to go  
Made His own Israel:  
For certainly, etc.   

But overwhelmed and lost  
Was proud King Pharaoh,  
With all his mighty host,  
And chariots there also:  
For certainly, etc.   

To Him who powerfully  
His chosen people led,  
Even through the desert dry,  
And in that place them fed:  
For certainly, etc.   

To Him great Kings who smote:  
For His grace hath no bound.  
Who slew and spared not  
Kings famous and renowned:  
For certainly, etc.   

Sihon th' Amorites King:  
For His grace lasteth ever.  
Og also who did reign  
The land of Bashan over:  
For certainly, etc.   

Their land by lot He gave,  
For His grace faileth never,  
That Israel might it have,  
In heritage for ever:  
For certainly, etc.   

Who hath remembered  
Us, in our low estate;  
And us delivered  
From foes who did us hate:  
For certainly, etc.   

Who to all flesh gives food:  
For His grace faileth never.  
Give thanks to God most good,  
The God of heaven for ever:  
For certainly, etc.     

PSAL. CXXXVII.  

BY Babel's streams we sat, and wept,  
when Zion we thought on.  
In midst thereof we hanged our harps  
the willow trees upon.  
For there a song required they  
who did us captive bring;  
Our spoilers called for mirth, and said,  
A song of Zion sing.   

O how the Lords song shall we sing  
within a fora in land?  
If thee Jerusalem I forget,  
skill part from my right hand.  
My tongue to my mouths roof let cleave,  
if I do thee forget  
Jerusalem, and thee above  
my chief joy do not set.   

Remember Edom's children, Lord,  
who in Jerusalem's day,  
Even unto its foundation  
raze, raze it quite, did say.  
O daughter thou of Babylon,  
near to destruction,  
Blessed shall he be that thee rewards,  
as thou to us hast done.   

Yea, happy surely shall he be,  
thy tender little ones  
Who shall lay hold upon, and them  
shall dash against the stones.    

PSAL. CXXXVIII. A Psalm of David.  

THee will I praise with all my heart,  
I will sing praise to thee  
Before the gods: And worship will  
toward thy Sanctuary.  
I'll praise thy Name, even for thy truth,  
and kindness of thy love:  
For thou thy word hast magnified  
all thy great Name above,   

Thou didst me answer in the day  
when I to thee did cry:  
And thou my fainting soul with strength  
didst strengthen inwardly.  
All Kings upon the earth that are,  
shall give thee praise, O Lord,  
When as they from thy mouth shall hear  
thy true and faithful word.   

Yea, in the righteous ways of God  
with gladness they shall sing:  
For great's the Glory of the Lord,  
who doth for ever reign.  
Though God be high, yet He respects  
all those that lowly be;  
Whereas the proud and lofty ones  
afar off knoweth Herald   

Though I in midst of trouble walk,  
I life from thee shall have,  
'Gainst my foe's wrath thou'lt stretch thine hand,  
thy right hand shall me save.  
Surely that which concerneth me,  
the Lord will perfect make:  
Lord, still thy mercy lasts, Do not  
thine own hands works forsake.    

PSAL. CXXXIX. To the chief musician, A Psalm of David.  

O Lord thou hast me searched and known.  
Thou know'st my sitting down,  
And rising up; yea, all my thoughts  
afar to thee are known.  
My footsteps, and my lying down  
thou compassest always;  
Thou also most entirely art  
acquaint with all my ways.   

For in my tongue, before I speak,  
not any word can be,  
But altogether, lo, O Lord,  
it is well known to thee.  
Behind, before, thou hast beset,  
and laid on me thy hand.  
Such knowledge is too strange for me,  
too high to understand.   

From thy spirit whither shall I go?  
or from thy presence fly?  
Ascend I heaven, lo, thou art there;  
there if in hell I lie.  
Take I the morning's wings, and dwell  
in utmost parts of sea:  
Even there, Lord, shall thy hand me lead,  
thy right hand hold shall me.   

If I do say, that darkness shall  
me cover from thy sight,  
Then surely shall the very night  
about me be as light.  
Yea, darkness hideth not from thee,  
but night doth shine as day:  
To thee the darkness and the light  
are both alike always,   

For thou possessed hast my reins,  
and thou hast covered me,  
When I within my mother's womb  
enclosed was by thee,  
Thee will I praise, for fearfully  
and strangely made I am;  
Thy works are marvellous, and right well  
my soul doth know the same.   

My substance was not hid from thee,  
when as in secret I  
Was made, and in earth's lowest parts  
was wrought most curiously.  
Thine eyes my substance did behold,  
yet being unperfite,  
And in the volume of thy book  
my members all were writ,   

Which after in continuance  
were fashioned every one,  
When as they yet all shapeless were,  
and of them there was none.  
How precious also are thy thoughts  
O gracious God, to me?  
And in their sum how passing great  
and numberless they be?   

If I should count them, than the sand  
they more in number be:  
What time soever I awake,  
I ever am with thee.  
Thou, Lord, wilt sure the wicked slay:  
hence from me bloody men.  
Thy foes against thee lewdly speak,  
and take thy Name in vain.   

Do not I hate all those, O Lord,  
that hatred bear to thee?  
With those that up against thee rise  
can I but grieved be?  
With perfect hatred them I hate,  
my foes I them do hold.  
Search me, O God, and know my heart,  
try me my thoughts unfold:   

And see if any wicked way  
there be at all in me;  
And in thine everlasting way  
to me a leader be.    

PSAL. CXL. To the chief musician, A Psalm of David.  

LOrd, from the ill and froward man  
give me deliverance,  
And do thou safe preserve me, from  
the man of violence.  
Who in their heart mischievous things  
are meditating ever;  
And they for war assembled are  
continually together.   

Much like unto a serpent's tongue  
their tongues they sharp do make;  
And underneath their lips there lies  
the poison of a snake.  
Lord, keep me from the wickeds hands,  
from violent men me save;  
Who, utterly to overthrow  
my goings, purposed have.   

The proud for me a snare have hid,  
and cords, yea they a net  
Have by the way side for me spread,  
they grins for me have set.  
I said unto the Lord, Thou art  
my God: unto the cry  
Of all my supplications,  
Lord, do thine ear apply.   

O God the Lord, who art the strength  
of my salvation,  
A covering in the day of war  
my head thou hast put on.  
Unto the wicked man, O Lord,  
his wishes do not grant,  
Nor further thou his ill device,  
lest they themselves should vaunt.   

As for the head and chief of those  
about that compass me,  
Even by the mischief of their lips  
let thou them covered be.  
Let burning coals upon them fall,  
them throw in fiery flame,  
And in deep pits, that they no more  
may rise out of the same.   

Let not an evil-speaker be  
on earth established:  
Mischief shall hunt the violent man  
till he be ruined.  
I know God will th'afflicted's 'cause  
maintain, and poor men's right.  
Surely the just shall praise thy Name,  
th'upright dwell in thy sight.    

PSAL. CXLI. A Psalm of David.  

O Lord, I unto thee do cry,  
do thou make haste to me,  
And give an ear unto my voice,  
when I cry unto thee.  
As incense let my prayer be  
directed in thine eyes;  
And the uplifting of my hands  
as th'evening sacrifice.   

Set, Lord, a watch before my mouth,  
keep of my lips the door.  
My heart incline thou not unto  
the ills I should abhor,  
To practise wicked works with men  
that work iniquity:  
And with their delicates my taste  
let me not satisfy.   

Let him that righteous is me smite,  
it shall a kindness be;  
Let him reprove, I shall it count  
a precious oil to me:  
Such smiting shall not break my head:  
for yet the time shall fall,  
When I in their calamities  
to God pray for them shall.   

When as their Judges down shall be  
in stony places cast,  
Then shall they hear my words, for they  
shall sweet be to their taste.  
About the graves devouring mouth  
our bones are scattered round,  
As wood, which men do cut and cleave,  
lies scattered on the ground.   

But unto thee, O God the Lord,  
mine eyes uplifted be:  
My soul do not leave destitute,  
my trust is set on thee.  
Lord, keep me safely from the snare,  
which they for me prepare,  
And from the subtle grins of them,  
that wicked workers are.   

Let workers of iniquity  
into their own nets fall,  
Whilst I do by thine help escape  
the danger of them all.    

PSAL. CXLXII. Maschil of David: a prayer when he was in the cave.  

I with my voice cried to the Lord,  
with it made my request:  
Poured out to Him my plaint, to Him  
my trouble I expressed.  
When in me was overwhelmed my spirit,  
than well thou knewest my way:  
Where I did walk, a snare for me  
they privily did lay.   

I looked on my right hand, and viewed,  
but none to know me were;  
All refuge failed me, no man  
did for my soul take care.  
I cried to thee, I said, Thou art  
my refuge, Lord, alone,  
And in the land of those that live  
thou art my portion.   

Because I am brought very low,  
attend unto my cry;  
Me from my persecuters save,  
who stronger are then I.  
From prison bring my soul, that I  
thy Name may glorify:  
The just shall compass me, when thou  
with me dealest bounteously.    


PSAL. CXLIII. A Psalm of David.  

LOrd, hear my prayer, attend my suits  
and in thy faithfulness  
Give thou an answer unto me,  
and in thy righteousness.  
Thy servant also bring thou not  
in judgement to be tried;  
Because no living man can be  
in thy sight justified,   

For th'enemy hath pursued my soul,  
my life to ground down tread:  
In darkness he hath made me dwell,  
as who have long been dead.  
My spirit is therefore overwhelmed  
in me, perplexedly;  
Within me is my very heart  
amazed wondrously.   

I call to mind the days of old,  
to meditate I use  
On all thy works; upon the deeds  
I, of thy hands, do muse.  
My hands to thee I stretch: my soul  
thirsts, as dry land, for thee.  
Haste, Lord, to hear, my spirit fails,  
hide not thy face from me:   

Lest like to them I do become,  
that go down to the dust.  
At morn let me thy kindness hear,  
for in thee do I trust.  
Teach me the way that I should walk,  
I lift my soul to thee.  
Lord, free me from my foes, I fly  
to thee, to cover me.   

Because thou art my God, to do  
thy will do me instruct:  
Thy spirit is good, me to the land  
of uprightness conduct.  
Revive and quicken me, O Lord,  
even for thine own Names sake:  
And do thou, for thy righteousness,  
my soul from trouble take.   

And of thy mercy slay my foes;  
let all destroyed be  
That do afflict my soul, for I  
a servant am to thee.    

Another of the same.  

OH, hear my prayer, Lord,  
And unto my desire  
To bow thine ear accord,  
I humbly thee require:  
And in thy faithfulness  
Unto me answer make,  
And in thy righteousness  
Upon me pity take.   

In judgement enter not  
With me thy servant poor:  
For why, this well I wot,  
No sinner can endure  
The sight of thee, O God,  
If thou his deeds shalt try,  
He dare make none abode  
Himself to justify.   

Behold the cruel foe  
Me persecutes with spite,  
My soul to overthrow:  
Yea he my life down quite  
Unto the ground hath smote,  
And made me dwell full low  
In darkness, as forgot,  
Or men dead long ago.   

Therefore, my spirit much vexed  
Overwhelmed is me within;  
My heart right sore perplexed,  
And desolate hath been.  
Yet I do call to mind  
What ancient days record,  
Thy works of every kind  
I think upon, O Lord.   

Lo, I do stretch my hands  
To thee my help alone,  
For thou well understands  
All my complaint and moan:  
My thirsting soul desires,  
And longeth after Thee,  
As thirsty ground requires  
With rain refreshed to be.   

Lord, let my prayer prevail,  
To answer it make speed,  
For lo, my spirit doth fail;  
Hide not thy face in need,  
Left I be like to those.  
That do in darkness sit.  
Or him that downward goes  
Into the dreadful pit.   

Because I trust in thee,  
O Lord, cause me to hear  
Thy loving kindness free,  
When morning doth appear:  
Cause me to know the way  
Wherein my path should be,  
For why my soul on high  
I do lift up to thee.   

From my fierce enemy  
In safety do me guide,  
Because I fly to thee,  
Lord, that thou mayst me hide.  
My God alone art thou,  
Teach me thy righteousness:  
Thy sp'rit's good, lead me to  
The land of uprightness,   

O Lord for thy Names sake,  
Be pleased to quicken me:  
And for thy truth, forth take  
My soul from misery.  
And of thy grace destroy  
My foes, and put to shame  
All who my soul annoy:  
For I thy servant am.     

PSAL. CXLIV. A Psalm of David.  

O Blessed ever be the Lord,  
who is my strength and might,  
Who doth instruct my hands to war,  
my fingers teach to fight.  
My goodness, fortress, my high tower,  
deliverer, and shield,  
In whom I trust; who under me  
my people makes to yield.   

Lord, what is man, that thou of him  
dost so much knowledge take?  
Or son of man, that thou of him  
so great account dost make?  
Man is like vanity: his days,  
as shadows, pass away.  
Lord▪ bow thy heavens come down, touch thou  
the hills, and smoke shall they.   

Cast forth thy lightning, scatter them:  
thine arrows shoot, them rout.  
Thine hand send from above me save,  
from great depths draw me out:  
And from the hand of children strange,  
Whose mouth speaks vanity:  
And their right hand is a right hand  
that works deceitfully.   

A new song I to thee will sing,  
Lord, on a psaltery;  
I, on a ten-stringed instrument,  
will praises sing to thee.  
Even He it is, that unto King's  
salvation doth send:  
Who His own servant David doth  
from hurtful sword defend.   

O free me from strange children's hands,  
whose mouth speaks vanity;  
And their right hand a right hand is,  
that works deceitfully.  
That as the plants our sons may be  
in youth grown up that are;  
Our daughters like to corner stones  
carried like a palace fair.   

That to afford all kind of store  
our garners may be filled;  
That our sheep thousands, in our streets  
ten thousands they may yield.  
That strong our oxen be for work,  
that no in-breaking be,  
Nor going out, and that our streets  
may from complaints be free.   

Those people blessed are, who be  
in such a case as this:  
Yea, blessed all those people are,  
whose God JEHOVAH is.    


PSAL. CXLV. David's psalm of praise.  

I'll thee extol, my God, O King,  
I'll bless thy Name always:  
Thee will I bless each day, and will  
thy Name for ever praise.  
Great is the Lord, much to be praised,  
His greatness search exceeds,  
Race unto race shall praise thy works,  
and show thy mighty deeds.   

I of thy glorious Majesty  
the Honour will record,  
I'll speak of all thy mighty works,  
which wondrous are, O Lord.  
Men of thine acts the might shall show,  
thine acts, that dreadful are:  
And I, thy Glory to advance,  
thy Greatness will declare.   

The memory of thy goodness great  
they largely shall express:  
With songs of praise they shall extol  
thy perfect righteousness.  
The Lord is very gracious,  
in him compassions flow,  
In mercy He is very great,  
and is to anger slow.   

The Lord JEHOVAH unto all  
His goodness doth declare:  
And over all His other works  
His tender mercies are,  
thou all thy works shall praise, O Lord,  
and thee thy saints shall bless.  
They shall thy Kingdom's glory show,  
thy power by speech express.   

To make the sons of men to know  
His acts done mightily,  
And of His Kingdom th'excellent  
and glorious Majesty.  
Thy Kingdom shall for ever stand,  
thy reign through ages all.  
God raiseth all that are bowed down,  
upholdeth all that fall.   

The eyes of all things wait on thee,  
the giver of all good,  
And thou in time convenient  
bestows on them their food.  
Thy hand thou openest liberally,  
and of thy bounty gives  
Enough to satisfy the need  
of every thing that lives.   

The Lord is just in all his ways;  
Holy, in his works all.  
God's near to all that call on him,  
in truth that on him call.  
He will accomplish the desire  
of those that do him fear:  
He also will deliver them,  
and he their cry will hear.   

The Lord preserves all who Him love,  
that nought can them annoy:  
But he all those that wicked are  
will utterly destroy.  
My mouth the praises of the Lord  
to publish, cease shall never:  
Let all flesh bless his Holy Name  
for ever and for ever.    

Another of the same.  

O Lord, that art my God and King,  
Thee will I magnify and praise:  
I will thee bless, and gladly sing  
Unto thy holy Name always.  
Each day I rise, I will thee bless,  
And praise thy Name time without end.  
Much to be praised, and great God is,  
His Greatness none can comprehend.   

Race shall thy works praise unto race,  
The mighty acts show, done by thee.  
I will speak of the glorious grace,  
And honour of thy Majesty:  
Thy wondrous works I will record.  
By men the Might shall be extolled  
Of all thy dreadful acts, O Lord:  
And I thy greatness will unfold.   

They utter shall abundantly  
The memory of thy goodness great,  
And shall sing praises cheerfully,  
Whilst they thy righteousness relate.  
The Lord our God is gracious,  
Compassionate is he also,  
In mercy he is plenteous,  
But unto wrath and anger slow.   

Good unto all men is the Lord:  
O'er all his works his mercy is.  
Thy works all praise to thee afford:  
Thy saints, O Lord thy Name shall bless.  
The glory of thy Kingdom show  
Shall they, and of thy power tell.  
That so men's sons his deeds may know,  
His Kingdom's grace that doth excel.   

Thy Kingdom hath none end at all,  
It doth through ages all remain.  
The Lord upholdeth all that fall,  
The cast-down raiseth up again.  
The eyes of all things, Lord, attend,  
And on thee wait, that here do live:  
And thou in season due dost send  
Sufficient food them to relieve.   

Yea, thou thine hand dost open wide,  
And every thing dost satisfy,  
That lives, and doth on earth abide,  
Of thy great liberality.  
The Lord is just in his ways all,  
And holy in his works each one.  
He's near to all that on him call,  
Who call in truth on him alone.   

God will the just desire fulfil  
Of such as do him fear and dread:  
Their cry regard, and hear he will,  
And save them in the time of need.  
The Lord preserves all, more and less,  
That bear to him a loving heart:  
But workers all of wickedness  
Destroy will he, and clean subvert.   

Therefore my mouth and lips I'll frame  
To speak the praises of the Lord:  
To magnify his holy Name  
For ever let all flesh accord.     

PSAL. CXLVI.  

PRaise God: the Lord praise, O my soul.  
I'll praise God while I live:  
While I have being, to my God  
in songs I'll praises give.  
Trust not in Princes, nor man's son,  
in whom there is no stay:  
His breath departs, to's earth he turns,  
that day his thoughts decay.   

O happy is that man and blessed,  
whom jacob's God doth aid,  
Whose hope upon the Lord doth rest,  
and on his God is stayed  
Who made the earth and heavens high,  
who made the swelling deep,  
And all that is within the same:  
who truth doth ever keep:   

Who righteous judgement executes  
for those oppressed that be;  
Who to the hungry giveth food,  
God sets the prisoners free.  
The Lord doth give the blind their sight,  
the bowel down doth raise:  
The Lord doth dearly love all those  
that walk in upright ways.   

The stranger's shield, the widows stay▪  
the orphans help is he:  
But yet by him the wickeds way  
turned upsidedown shall be.  
The Lord shall reign for evermore,  
thy God, O Zion, He  
Reigns to all generations.  
Praise to the Lord give ye.    

PSAL. CXLVII.  

PRaise ye the Lord: for it is good  
praise to our God to sing:  
For it is pleasant, and to praise  
it is a comely thing.  
God doth build up Jerusalem:  
and He it is alone  
That the dispersed of Israel  
doth gather into one.   

Those, that are broken in their hearts,  
and grieved in their minds,  
He healeth, and their painful wounds  
he tenderly up binds.  
He counts the number of the stars,  
he names them every one.  
Great is our Lord, and of great power:  
his wisdom search can none.   

The Lord lifts up the meek, and casts  
the wicked to the ground.  
Sing to the Lord, and give him thanks,  
on harp his praises sound:  
Who covereth the heaven with clouds,  
who for the earth below  
Prepareth rain, who maketh grass  
upon the mountains grow.   

He gives the beast his food he feeds  
the ravens young, that cry.  
His pleasure not in horses strength,  
nor in man's legs doth lie:  
But in all those, that do him fear,  
the Lord doth pleasure take,  
In those that to his mercy do  
by hope themselves betake.   

The Lord praise, O Jerusalem;  
Zion, thy God confess:  
For thy gates bars he maketh strong,  
thy sons in thee doth bless.  
He in thy borders maketh peace:  
with fine wheat filleth thee.  
He sends forth his command on earth,  
his word runs speedily.   

Hoar frost, like ashes, scattereth he:  
like wool he snow doth give:  
Like morsels casteth forth his ye;  
who in its cold can live?  
He sendeth forth his mighty word,  
and melteth them again:  
His winds he makes to blow, and then  
the waters flow amain.   

The doctrine of his holy word  
to Jacob he doth show;  
His statutes and his judgements He  
gives Israel to know.  
To any nation never He  
such favour did afford:  
For they his judgements have not known.  
O do ye praise the Lord.    


PSAL. CXLVIII.  

PRaise God. From heaven's praise the Lord,  
in heights praise to Him be.  
All ye his Angels praise ye Him,  
his hosts all praise Him ye.  
O praise ye Him both Sun and Moon,  
praise Him all stars of light.  
Ye heavens of heavens Him praise, and floods  
above the heaven's height.   

Let all the creatures praise the Name  
of our Almighty Lord:  
For he commanded, and they were  
created by his word.  
He also, for all times to come,  
hath them established sure:  
He hath appointed them a Law,  
which ever shall endure.   

Praise ye JEHOVAH from the earth,  
dragons, and every deep:  
Fire, hail, snow, vapour, stormy wind,  
his word that fully keep.  
All hills and mountains, fruitful trees,  
and all ye cedars hy.  
Beasts, and all cattle creeping things,  
and all ye birds that fly.   

Kings of the earth, all Nations,  
Princes, earth's Judges all.  
Both young men, yea, and maidens too,  
old men, and children small.  
Let them Gods Name praise: for his Name  
alone is excellent:  
His glory reacheth far above  
the earth, and firmament.   

His people's horn, The praise of all  
his saints exalteth He  
Even Israel's seed, a people near  
to Him. The Lord praise ye.    

Another of the same.  

THe Lord of heaven confess,  
On high his glories raise.  
Him let all Angels bless,  
Him all his army's praise.  
Him glorify  
Sun, Moon, and Stars:  
Ye higher Spheres,  
And cloudy sky.   

From God your beings are,  
Him therefore famous make:  
You all created were,  
When he the word but spoke.  
And from that place,  
Where sixth you be  
By his decree,  
You cannot pass.   

Praise God from earth below,  
Ye dragons, and ye deeps:  
Fire, hail, clouds, wind and snow,  
Whom in command He keeps.  
Praise ye his Name  
Hills great and small,  
Trees low and tall:  
Beasts wild and tame.   

All things that creep or fly:  
Ye Kings, ye vulgar throng,  
All Princes mean or high.  
Both men and virgins young,  
Even young and old,  
Exalt his Name,  
For much his fame  
Should be extolled.   

O let Gods Name be praised  
Above both earth and sky:  
For He his saints hath raised,  
And set their horn on hy;  
Even those that be  
Of Israel's race  
Near to his grace.  
The Lord praise ye.     

PSAL. CXLIX.  

PRaise ye the Lord: unto Him sing  
a new song, and his praise  
In the assembly of his saints  
in sweet Psalms do ye raise.  
Let Israel in his Maker joy,  
and to Him praises sing:  
Let all, that Zions' children are,  
be joyful in their King.   

O let them unto his great Name  
give praises in the dance:  
Let them with timbrel and with harp  
in songs his praise advance.  
For God doth pleasure take in those  
that his own people be:  
And He with his salvation  
the meek will beautify.   

And in his glory excellent  
let all his saints rejoice:  
Let them to him upon their beds  
aloud lift up their voice.  
Let in their mouth aloft be raised  
the high praise of the Lord,  
And let them have in their right hand  
a sharp two-edged sword:   

To execute the vengeance due  
upon the heathen all,  
And make deserved punishment  
upon the people fall.  
And even with chains as prisoners, bind  
their Kings that them command,  
Yea, and with iron fetters strong  
the nobles of their land.   

On them the judgement to perform  
found written in his word:  
This honour is to all his saints.  
O do ye praise the Lord.    

PSAL. CL.  

PRaise ye the Lord: God's praise, within  
his Sanctuary raise:  
And to Him in the firmament  
of his power give ye praise.  
Because of all his mighty acts  
with praise Him magnify:  
O praise Him, as he doth excel  
in glorious Majesty.   

Praise Him with Trumpets sound, his praise  
with Psaltery advance:  
With Timbrel, Harp, stringed instruments,  
and Organs, in the dance.  
Praise Him on Cymbals loud, Him praise  
on Cymbals sounding high.  
Let each thing breathing praise the Lord.  
Praise to the Lord give ye.   
FINIS.   

An Index to find any Psalm of the Book, whereof ye have the first line. The first figure showeth the number of the Psalm: The second the number of the Page.  

A.  

Psalm 47 ALl people clap your hands Page. 90  
Psalm 51 After thy loving kindness Page. 100  
Psalm 66 All lands to God in joyful sounds Page. 124  
Psalm 78 Attend my people to my Law Page. 154  
Psalm 100 All people that on earth do dwell Page. 199    

B.  

Psalm 41 Blessed is he that wisely doth Page. 77  
Psalm 57 Be merciful to me, O God, Page. 110  
Psalm 104 Bless God, my soul Page. 2●0  
Psalm 119 Blessed are they that undefiled Page. 244  
Psalm 128 Blest is each one that fears the Lord, Page. 267  
Psalm 133 Behold, how good a thing it is, Page. 271  
Psalm 134 Behold, bless ye the Lord Page. 271  
Psalm 137 By Babel's streams we sat, Page. 289    

D.  

Psalm 58 Do ye, O Congregation, Page. 1●1  
Psalm 132 David and his afflictions all Page. 269    

E.  

Psalm 127 Except the Lord do build Page. 266    

F.  

Psalm 37 For evil doers fret thou not, Page. 66    

G.  

Psalm 4 Give ear unto me when I call. Page. 4  
Psalm 5 Give ear unto my words, O Lord. Page. 5  
Psalm 29 Give ye unto the Lord Page. 49  
Psalm 34 God will I bless all times Page. 59  
Psalm 46 God is our refuge Page. 89  
Psalm 48 Great is the Lord Page. 91  
Psalm 89 Gods mercies I will ever sing, Page. 178  
Psalm 97 God reigneth let the earth be glad, Page. 196  
Psalm 105 Give thanks to God call on his Name, Page. 214  
Psalm 106 Give praise and thanks unto the Lord, Page. 218  
Psalm 136 Give thanks to God, Page. 285    

H.  

Psalm 8 How excellent in all the earth Page. 11  
Psalm 12 Help, Lord, because the godly man Page. 17  
Psalm 13 How long wilt thou forget me, Lord? Page. 18  
Psalm 49 Hear this all people Page. 92  
Psalm 80 Hear, Israel's shepherd Page. 164  
Psalm 84 How lovely is thy dwelling-place, Page. 1●0  
Psalm 91 He that doth in the secret place Page. 186  
Psalm 124 Had not the Lord been on our side? Page. 263    

I.  

Psalm 6 In thy great indignation Page. 7  
Psalm 11 I in the Lord do put my trust, Page. 16  
Psalm 20 Jehovah hear thee Page. 31  
Psalm 26 Judge me O Lord, Page. 44  
Psalm 31 In thee, O Lord, I put my trust, Page. 52  
Psalm 38 In thy great indignation Page. 71  
Psalm 39 I said, I will look to my ways, Page. 73  
Psalm 40 I waited for the Lord Page. 75  
Psalm 43 Judge me, O God, and plead Page. 81  
Psalm 76 In Judah's land God is well known, Page. 150  
Psalm 82 In God's assembly God doth stand, Page. 168  
Psalm 101 I mercy will and judgement sing. Page. 200  
Psalm 116 I love the Lord, because my voice Page. 239  
Psalm 120 In my distress to God I cried, Page. 261    


Psalm 107 Praise God, for He is good Page. 283  
Psalm 111 Praise ye the Lord, Page. 234  
Psalm 112 Praise ye the Lord, Page. 235  
Psalm 113 Praise God ye servants of the Lord, Page. 236  
Psalm 135 Praise ye the Lord, the Lords Name Page. 272  
Psalm 146 Praise God: the Lord praise, Page. 295  
Psalm 147 Praise ye the Lord: Page. 296  
Psalm 148 Praise God. From heaven's Page. 298  
Psalm 149 Praise ye the Lord: Page. 300  
Psalm 150 Praise ye the Lord, Page. 302    

S.  

Psalm 54 Save me, O God, Page. 105  
Psalm 56 Show mercy, Lord, Page. 108  
Psalm 69 Save me, O God, because the floods Page. 132  
Psalm 81 Sing loud to God our strength Page. 166    

T.  

Psalm 1 That man hath perfect blessedness Page. 1  
Psalm 14 That there is not a God Page. 19  
Psalm 18 Thee will I love, O Lord, Page. 24  
Psalm 19 The heavens God's glory do declare, Page. 30  
Psalm 21 The King in thy great strength Page. 32  
Psalm 23 The Lord's my shepherd Page. 38  
Psalm 24 The earth belongs unto the Lord, Page. 38  
Psalm 25 To thee I lift my soul, O Lord, Page. 42  
Psalm 27 The Lord's my light Page. 46  
Psalm 28 To thee I'll cry, O Lord, my Rock, Page. 48  
Psalm 36 The whicked man's transgression Page. 65  
Psalm 50 The mighty God the Lord Page. 95  
Psalm 50 The mighty God the Lord Page. 97  
Psalm 53 That there is not a God Page. 104  
Psalm 75 To thee, O God, do we give thanks Page. 149  
Psalm 92 To render thanks unto the Lord Page. 188  
Psalms ●● The Lord doth reign Page. 190  
Psalms ●● Th'Eternal Lord doth reign Page. 198  
Psalm 110 The Lord did say unto my Lord, Page. 233  
Psalm 125 They in the Lord that firmly trust, Page. 265  
Psalm 138 Thee will I praise with all my heart, Page. 290    

W. U.  

Psalm 2 Why rage the Heathen? Page. 2  
Psalm 10 Wherefore is it, that thou, O Lord, Page. 14  
Psalm 15 Within thy Tabernacle, Lord, Page. 20  
Psalm 52 Why dost thou boast Page. 103  
Psalm 64 When I to thee my prayer make Page. 121  
Psalm 77 Unto the Lord I with my voice Page. 151  
Psalm 87 Upon the hills of holiness Page. 175  
Psalm 124 When Israel out of Egypt went Page. 237  
Psalm 126 When Zions' bondage God turned back Page. 266    

Y.  

Psalm 33 Ye righteous in the Lord rejoice Page. 57  
Psalm 73 Yet God is good to Israel Page. 142   
FINIS.