The Book of Psalms III
Chapter Selection
Psalm 73
A Psalm of Asaph.
1 Psalm 73:1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
2 Psalm 73:2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
3 Psalm 73:3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4 Psalm 73:4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
5 Psalm 73:5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
6 Psalm 73:6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
7 Psalm 73:7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
8 Psalm 73:8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
9 Psalm 73:9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
10 Psalm 73:10 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
11 Psalm 73:11 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
12 Psalm 73:12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
13 Psalm 73:13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
14 Psalm 73:14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
15 Psalm 73:15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
16 Psalm 73:16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
17 Psalm 73:17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
18 Psalm 73:18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
19 Psalm 73:19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
20 Psalm 73:20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
21 Psalm 73:21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
22 Psalm 73:22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
23 Psalm 73:23 Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.
24 Psalm 73:24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
25 Psalm 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
26 Psalm 73:26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
27 Psalm 73:27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
28 Psalm 73:28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.
Psalm 74
Maschil of Asaph.
1 Psalm 74:1 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
2 Psalm 74:2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
3 Psalm 74:3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
4 Psalm 74:4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
5 Psalm 74:5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
6 Psalm 74:6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
7 Psalm 74:7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
8 Psalm 74:8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
9 Psalm 74:9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
10 Psalm 74:10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
11 Psalm 74:11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
12 Psalm 74:12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13 Psalm 74:13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
14 Psalm 74:14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
15 Psalm 74:15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
16 Psalm 74:16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
17 Psalm 74:17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
18 Psalm 74:18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
19 Psalm 74:19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
20 Psalm 74:20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
21 Psalm 74:21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
22 Psalm 74:22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
23 Psalm 74:23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
Psalm 75
To the chief Musician, Altaschith, A Psalm or Song of Asaph.
1 Psalm 75:1 Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.
2 Psalm 75:2 When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
3 Psalm 75:3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
4 Psalm 75:4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
5 Psalm 75:5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
6 Psalm 75:6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
7 Psalm 75:7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
8 Psalm 75:8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
9 Psalm 75:9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
10 Psalm 75:10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
Psalm 76
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song of Asaph.
1 Psalm 76:1 In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.
2 Psalm 76:2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
3 Psalm 76:3 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
4 Psalm 76:4 Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.
5 Psalm 76:5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.
6 Psalm 76:6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
7 Psalm 76:7 Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?
8 Psalm 76:8 Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,
9 Psalm 76:9 When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.
10 Psalm 76:10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
11 Psalm 76:11 Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
12 Psalm 76:12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
Psalm 77
To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph.
1 Psalm 77:1 I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.
2 Psalm 77:2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
3 Psalm 77:3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
4 Psalm 77:4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
5 Psalm 77:5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
6 Psalm 77:6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
7 Psalm 77:7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
8 Psalm 77:8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
9 Psalm 77:9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
10 Psalm 77:10 And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
11 Psalm 77:11 I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
12 Psalm 77:12 I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
13 Psalm 77:13 Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?
14 Psalm 77:14 Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.
15 Psalm 77:15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
16 Psalm 77:16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
17 Psalm 77:17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
18 Psalm 77:18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
19 Psalm 77:19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
20 Psalm 77:20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Psalm 78
Maschil of Asaph.
1 Psalm 78:1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 Psalm 78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
3 Psalm 78:3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
4 Psalm 78:4 We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
5 Psalm 78:5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
6 Psalm 78:6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
7 Psalm 78:7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
8 Psalm 78:8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
9 Psalm 78:9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
10 Psalm 78:10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
11 Psalm 78:11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
12 Psalm 78:12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13 Psalm 78:13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
14 Psalm 78:14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
15 Psalm 78:15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
16 Psalm 78:16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
17 Psalm 78:17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
18 Psalm 78:18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
19 Psalm 78:19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
20 Psalm 78:20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
21 Psalm 78:21 Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
22 Psalm 78:22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
23 Psalm 78:23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
24 Psalm 78:24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
25 Psalm 78:25 Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.
26 Psalm 78:26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
27 Psalm 78:27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
28 Psalm 78:28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
29 Psalm 78:29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
30 Psalm 78:30 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
31 Psalm 78:31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
32 Psalm 78:32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
33 Psalm 78:33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
34 Psalm 78:34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
35 Psalm 78:35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
36 Psalm 78:36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
37 Psalm 78:37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
38 Psalm 78:38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
39 Psalm 78:39 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
40 Psalm 78:40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
41 Psalm 78:41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
42 Psalm 78:42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
43 Psalm 78:43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
44 Psalm 78:44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
45 Psalm 78:45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
46 Psalm 78:46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
47 Psalm 78:47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
48 Psalm 78:48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
49 Psalm 78:49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
50 Psalm 78:50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
51 Psalm 78:51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
52 Psalm 78:52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53 Psalm 78:53 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54 Psalm 78:54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
55 Psalm 78:55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
56 Psalm 78:56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
57 Psalm 78:57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
58 Psalm 78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
59 Psalm 78:59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
60 Psalm 78:60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
61 Psalm 78:61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.
62 Psalm 78:62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
63 Psalm 78:63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
64 Psalm 78:64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
65 Psalm 78:65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
66 Psalm 78:66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
67 Psalm 78:67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
68 Psalm 78:68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
69 Psalm 78:69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
70 Psalm 78:70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
71 Psalm 78:71 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
72 Psalm 78:72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
Psalm 79
A Psalm of Asaph.
1 Psalm 79:1 O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
2 Psalm 79:2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
3 Psalm 79:3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
4 Psalm 79:4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
5 Psalm 79:5 How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
6 Psalm 79:6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
7 Psalm 79:7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
8 Psalm 79:8 O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
9 Psalm 79:9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake.
10 Psalm 79:10 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
11 Psalm 79:11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;
12 Psalm 79:12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
13 Psalm 79:13 So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.
Psalm 80
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannimeduth, A Psalm of Asaph.
1 Psalm 80:1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
2 Psalm 80:2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.
3 Psalm 80:3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
4 Psalm 80:4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
5 Psalm 80:5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
6 Psalm 80:6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
7 Psalm 80:7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
8 Psalm 80:8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
9 Psalm 80:9 Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
10 Psalm 80:10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
11 Psalm 80:11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
12 Psalm 80:12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
13 Psalm 80:13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
14 Psalm 80:14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
15 Psalm 80:15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
16 Psalm 80:16 It is burnt with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
17 Psalm 80:17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
18 Psalm 80:18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
19 Psalm 80:19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Psalm 81
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph.
1 Psalm 81:1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2 Psalm 81:2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3 Psalm 81:3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4 Psalm 81:4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
5 Psalm 81:5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
6 Psalm 81:6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
7 Psalm 81:7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
8 Psalm 81:8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
9 Psalm 81:9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
10 Psalm 81:10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 Psalm 81:11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
12 Psalm 81:12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
13 Psalm 81:13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
14 Psalm 81:14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
15 Psalm 81:15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
16 Psalm 81:16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
Psalm 82
A Psalm of Asaph.
1 Psalm 82:1 God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
2 Psalm 82:2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
3 Psalm 82:3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
4 Psalm 82:4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
5 Psalm 82:5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
6 Psalm 82:6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
7 Psalm 82:7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
8 Psalm 82:8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.
Psalm 83
A Song or Psalm of Asaph.
1 Psalm 83:1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
2 Psalm 83:2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
3 Psalm 83:3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 Psalm 83:4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 Psalm 83:5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
6 Psalm 83:6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Psalm 83:7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Psalm 83:8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
9 Psalm 83:9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
10 Psalm 83:10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
11 Psalm 83:11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
12 Psalm 83:12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
13 Psalm 83:13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
14 Psalm 83:14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
15 Psalm 83:15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
16 Psalm 83:16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
17 Psalm 83:17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
18 Psalm 83:18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
Psalm 84
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
1 Psalm 84:1 How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
2 Psalm 84:2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
3 Psalm 84:3 Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
4 Psalm 84:4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.
5 Psalm 84:5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
6 Psalm 84:6 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
7 Psalm 84:7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
8 Psalm 84:8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
9 Psalm 84:9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
10 Psalm 84:10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
11 Psalm 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
12 Psalm 84:12 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
Psalm 85
To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
1 Psalm 85:1 LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
2 Psalm 85:2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
3 Psalm 85:3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
4 Psalm 85:4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
5 Psalm 85:5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
6 Psalm 85:6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
7 Psalm 85:7 Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.
8 Psalm 85:8 I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
9 Psalm 85:9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
10 Psalm 85:10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
11 Psalm 85:11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
12 Psalm 85:12 Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.
13 Psalm 85:13 Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.
Psalm 86
A Prayer of David.
1 Psalm 86:1 Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
2 Psalm 86:2 Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.
3 Psalm 86:3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.
4 Psalm 86:4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
5 Psalm 86:5 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
6 Psalm 86:6 Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.
7 Psalm 86:7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.
8 Psalm 86:8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.
9 Psalm 86:9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
10 Psalm 86:10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.
11 Psalm 86:11 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
12 Psalm 86:12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.
13 Psalm 86:13 For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
14 Psalm 86:14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.
15 Psalm 86:15 But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
16 Psalm 86:16 O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
17 Psalm 86:17 Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.
Psalm 87
A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah.
1 Psalm 87:1 His foundation is in the holy mountains.
2 Psalm 87:2 The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3 Psalm 87:3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
4 Psalm 87:4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.
5 Psalm 87:5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
6 Psalm 87:6 The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
7 Psalm 87:7 As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.
Psalm 88
A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.
1 Psalm 88:1 O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
2 Psalm 88:2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
3 Psalm 88:3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
4 Psalm 88:4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
5 Psalm 88:5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
6 Psalm 88:6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
7 Psalm 88:7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
8 Psalm 88:8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
9 Psalm 88:9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
10 Psalm 88:10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
11 Psalm 88:11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
12 Psalm 88:12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
13 Psalm 88:13 But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
14 Psalm 88:14 LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
15 Psalm 88:15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
16 Psalm 88:16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
17 Psalm 88:17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
18 Psalm 88:18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
Psalm 89
Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
1 Psalm 89:1 I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
2 Psalm 89:2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
3 Psalm 89:3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
4 Psalm 89:4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.
5 Psalm 89:5 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
6 Psalm 89:6 For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
7 Psalm 89:7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
8 Psalm 89:8 O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?
9 Psalm 89:9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
10 Psalm 89:10 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
11 Psalm 89:11 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
12 Psalm 89:12 The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
13 Psalm 89:13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
14 Psalm 89:14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
15 Psalm 89:15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
16 Psalm 89:16 In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
17 Psalm 89:17 For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.
18 Psalm 89:18 For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
19 Psalm 89:19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
20 Psalm 89:20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
21 Psalm 89:21 With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.
22 Psalm 89:22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
23 Psalm 89:23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
24 Psalm 89:24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
25 Psalm 89:25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
26 Psalm 89:26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
27 Psalm 89:27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
28 Psalm 89:28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
29 Psalm 89:29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
30 Psalm 89:30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
31 Psalm 89:31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
32 Psalm 89:32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
33 Psalm 89:33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
34 Psalm 89:34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
35 Psalm 89:35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
36 Psalm 89:36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
37 Psalm 89:37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
38 Psalm 89:38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
39 Psalm 89:39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
40 Psalm 89:40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.
41 Psalm 89:41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
42 Psalm 89:42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
43 Psalm 89:43 Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.
44 Psalm 89:44 Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
45 Psalm 89:45 The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
46 Psalm 89:46 How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
47 Psalm 89:47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
48 Psalm 89:48 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
49 Psalm 89:49 Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
50 Psalm 89:50 Remember, LORD, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
51 Psalm 89:51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
52 Psalm 89:52 Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.
