The Online Library of Liberty

A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.

• Advertisement.
• Revisers’ Preface.
• Old Testament
• The First Book of Moses, Commonly Called Genesis.
• The Second Book of Moses, Commonly Called Exodus.
• The Third Book of Moses, Commonly Called Leviticus.
• The Fourth Book of Moses, Commonly Called Numbers.
• The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy.
• The Book of Joshua.
• The Book of Judges.
• The Book of Ruth.
• The First Book of Samuel.
• The Second Book of Samuel.
• The First Book of the Kings.
• The Second Book of the Kings.
• The First Book of the Chronicles.
• The Second Book of the Chronicles.
• Ezra.
• The Book of Nehemiah.
• The Book of Esther.
• The Book of Job.
• The Psalms.
• Book I.
• Book II.
• Book III.
• Book IV.
• Book V.
• The Proverbs.
• Ecclesiastes; Or, the Preacher.
• The Song of Songs.
• The Book of the Prophet Isaiah.
• The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah.
• The Lamentations of Jeremiah.
• The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel.
• The Book of Daniel.
• Hosea.
• Joel.
• Amos.
• Obadiah.
• Jonah.
• Micah.
• Nahum.
• Habakkuk.
• Zephaniah.
• Haggai.
• Zechariah.
• Malachi.
• Appendix.
• Classes of Passages.

BOOK III.

73

A Psalm of Asaph.

• 1

  1 Surely God is good to Israel,
• Even to such as are pure in heart.

• 2

  But as for me, my feet were almost gone;
• My steps had well nigh slipped.

• 3

  For I was envious at the 2 arrogant,
• When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

• 4

  For there are no 3 bands in their death:
• But their strength is firm.

• 5

  They are not 4 in trouble as other men;
• Neither are they plagued like other men.

• 6

  Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck;
• Violence covereth them as a garment.

• 7

  Their eyes stand out with fatness:
• 5 They have more than heart could wish.

• 8

  They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression:
• They speak 6 loftily.

• 9

  They have set their mouth 7 in the heavens,
• And their tongue walketh through the earth.

• 10

  Therefore 8 his people return hither:
• And waters of a full cup are 9 wrung out by them.

• 11

  And they say, How doth God know?
• And is there knowledge in the Most High?

• 12

  Behold, these are the wicked;
• And, being alway at ease, they increase in riches.

• 13

  Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart,
• And washed my hands in innocency;

• 14

  For all the day long have I been plagued,
• And 10 chastened every morning.

• 15

  If I had said, I will speak thus;
• Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.

• 16

  When I thought how I might know this,
• 1 It was too painful for me;

• 17

  Until I went into the sanctuary of God,
• And considered their latter end.

• 18

  Surely thou settest them in slippery places:
• Thou castest them down to 2 destruction.

• 19

  How are they become a desolation in a moment!
• They are utterly consumed with terrors.

• 20

  As a dream when one awaketh;
• So, O Lord, 3 when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

• 21

  For my heart 4 was grieved,
• And I was pricked in my reins:

• 22

  So brutish 5 was I, and ignorant;
• I was as a beast 6 before thee.

• 23

  Nevertheless I am continually with thee:
• Thou hast holden my right hand.

• 24

  Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel,
• And afterward receive me 7 to glory.

• 25

  Whom have I in heaven but thee?
• And there is none upon earth that I desire 8 beside thee.

• 26

  My flesh and my heart faileth:
• But God is the 9 strength of my heart and my portion for ever.

• 27

  For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish:
• Thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.

• 28

  But it is good for me to draw near unto God:
• I have made the Lord God my refuge,
• That I may tell of all thy works.

74

Maschil of Asaph.

• • 1

    O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever?
  • Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

  • 2

    Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old,
  • Which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance;
  • And mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

  • 3

    Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins,
  • 10 All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.

  • 4

    Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly;
  • They have set up their ensigns for signs.

  • 5

    They 11 seemed as men that lifted up
  • Axes upon a thicket of trees.

  • 6

    And now all the carved work thereof together
  • They break down with hatchet and hammers.

  • 7

    They have set thy sanctuary on fire;
  • They have profaned the dwelling place of thy name even to the ground.

  • 8

    They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether:
  • They have burned up all the 12 synagogues of God in the land.

  • 9

    We see not our signs:
  • There is no more any prophet;
  • Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

  • 10

    How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach?
  • Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

  • 11

    Why drawest thou back thy hand, even thy right hand?
  • Pluck it out of thy bosom and consume them.

• • 12

    Yet God is my King of old,
  • Working salvation in the midst of the earth.

  • 13

    Thou didst 13 divide the sea by thy strength:
  • Thou brakest the heads of the 14 dragons in the waters.

  • 14

    Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces,
  • Thou gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

  • 15

    Thou didst cleave fountain and flood:
  • Thou driedst up 15 mighty rivers.

  • 16

    The day is thine, the night also is thine:
  • Thou hast prepared the 16 light and the sun.

  • 17

    Thou hast set all the borders of the earth:
  • Thou hast made summer and winter.

  • 18

    Remember this, that the enemy 1 hath reproached, O Lord,
  • And that a foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

  • 19

    O deliver not 2 the soul of thy turtledove unto the wild beast:
  • Forget not the 3 life of thy poor for ever.

  • 20

    Have respect unto the covenant:
  • For the dark places of the 4 earth are full of the habitations of violence.

  • 21

    O let not the oppressed return ashamed:
  • Let the poor and needy praise thy name.

  • 22

    Arise, O God, plead thine own cause:
  • Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day.

  • 23

    Forget not the voice of thine adversaries:
  • The tumult of those that rise up against thee 5 ascendeth continually.

75

For the Chief Musician; set to Al-tashheth. A Psalm of Asaph, a Song.

• 1

  We give thanks unto thee, O God;
• We give thanks, 6 for thy name is near:
• Men tell of thy wondrous works.

• 2

  When I shall 7 find the set time,
• I will judge uprightly.

• 3

  8 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved:
• I have 9 set up the pillars of it. [Selah

• 4

  I said unto the 10 arrogant, Deal not arrogantly:
• And to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

• 5

  Lift not up your horn on high;
• 11 Speak not with a stiff neck.

• 6

  For neither from the east, nor from the west,
• Nor yet 12 from the 13 south, cometh lifting up.

• 7

  But God is the judge:
• He putteth down one, and lifteth up another.

• 8

  For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine 14 foameth;
• It is full of mixture, and he poureth out of the same:
• Surely the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall 15 wring them out, and drink them.

• 9

  But I will declare for ever,
• I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

• 10

  All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off;
• But the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.

76

For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph, a Song.

• 1

  In Judah is God known:
• His name is great in Israel.

• 2

  In Salem also is his 16 tabernacle,
• And his 17 dwelling place in Zion.

• 3

  There he brake the 18 arrows of the bow;
• The shield, and the sword, and the battle. [Selah

• 4

  Glorious art thou and excellent, 19 from the mountains of prey.

• 5

  The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep;
• And none of the men of might have found their hands.

• 6

  At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob,
• Both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

• 7

  Thou, even thou, art to be feared:
• And who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

• 8

  Thou didst cause sentence to be heard from heaven;
• The earth feared, and was still,

• 9

  When God arose to judgement,
• To save all the meek of the earth. [Selah

• 10

  Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee:
• The residue of wrath shalt thou 20 gird upon thee.

• 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

  He shall cut off the spirit of princes:
• He is terrible to the kings of the earth.

77

For the Chief Musician; after the manner of Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph.

• 1

  I will cry unto God with my voice;
• Even unto God with my voice, and he will give ear unto me.

• 2

  In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord:
• My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not;
• My soul refused to be comforted.

• 3

  I remember God, and am disquieted:
• I complain, and my spirit 1 is overwhelmed. [Selah

• 4

  Thou holdest mine eyes watching:
• I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

• 5

  I have considered the days of old,
• The years of ancient times.

• 6

  I call to remembrance my song in the night:
• I commune with mine own heart;
• And my spirit made diligent search.

• 7

  Will the Lord cast off for ever?
• And will he be favourable no more?

• 8

  Is his mercy clean gone for ever?
• Doth his promise fail for evermore?

• 9

  Hath God forgotten to be gracious?
• Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? [Selah

• 10

  And I said, This is my infirmity;
• 2But I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.

• 11

  I will make mention of the deeds of 3 the Lord;
• For I will remember thy wonders of old.

• 12

  I will meditate also upon all thy work,
• And muse on thy doings.

• 13

  Thy way, O God, is 4 in the sanctuary:
• Who is a great god like unto God?

• 14

  Thou art the God that doest wonders:
• Thou hast made known thy strength among the peoples.

• 15

  Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people,
• The sons of Jacob and Joseph. [Selah

• 16

  The waters saw thee, O God;
• The waters saw thee, they 5 were afraid:
• The depths also trembled.

• 17

  The clouds poured out water;
• The skies sent out a sound:
• Thine arrows also went abroad.

• 18

  The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind;
• The lightnings lightened the world:
• The earth trembled and shook.

• 19

  Thy way was in the sea,
• And thy paths in the great waters,
• And thy footsteps were not known.

• 20

  Thou leddest thy people like a flock,
• By the hand of Moses and Aaron.

78

Maschil of Asaph.

• 1

  Give ear, O my people, to my 6 law:
• Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

• 2

  I will open my mouth in a parable;
• I will utter dark sayings of old:

• 3

  Which we have heard and known,
• And our fathers have told us.

• 4

  We will not hide them from their children,
• Telling to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,
• And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done.

• 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

  That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born;
• Who should arise and tell them to their children:

• 7

  That they might set their hope in God,
• And not forget the works of God,
• But keep his commandments:

• 8

  And might not be as their fathers,
• A stubborn and rebellious generation;
• A generation 1 that set not their heart aright,
• And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

• 9

  The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows,
• Turned back in the day of battle.

• 10

  They kept not the covenant of God,
• And refused to walk in his law;

• 11

  And they forgat his doings,
• And his wondrous works that he had shewed them.

• 12

  Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers,
• In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

• 13

  He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through;
• And he made the waters to stand as an heap.

• 14

  In the day-time also he led them with a cloud,
• And all the night with a light of fire.

• 15

  He clave rocks in the wilderness,
• And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

• 16

  He brought streams also out of the rock,
• And caused waters to run down like rivers.

• 17

  Yet went they on still to sin against him,
• To rebel against the Most High in 2 the desert.

• 18

  And they tempted God in their heart
• By asking meat for their lust.

• 19

  Yea, they spake against God;
• They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

• 20

  Behold, he smote the rock, that waters gushed out,
• And streams overflowed;
• Can he give bread also?
• Will he provide flesh for his people?

• 21

  Therefore the Lord heard, and was wroth:
• And a fire was kindled against Jacob,
• And anger also went up against Israel;

• 22

  Because they believed not in God,
• And trusted not in his salvation.

• 23

  Yet he commanded the skies above,
• And opened the doors of heaven;

• 24

  And he rained down manna upon them to eat,
• And gave them of the corn of heaven.

• 25

  3 Man did eat the bread of the mighty:
• He sent them meat to the full.

• 26

  He 4 caused the east wind to blow in the heaven:
• And by his power he guided the south wind.

• 27

  He rained flesh also upon them as the dust,
• And winged fowl as the sand of the seas:

• 28

  And he let it fall in the midst of their camp,
• Round about their habitations.

• 29

  So they did eat, and were well filled;
• And he gave them that they lusted after.

• 30

  They were not estranged from their lust,
• Their meat was yet in their mouths,

• 31

  When the anger of God went up against them,
• And slew of the fattest of them,
• And smote down the young men of Israel.

• 32

  For all this they sinned still,
• And believed not in his wondrous works.

• 33

  Therefore their days did he consume in vanity,
• And their years in terror.

• 34

  When he slew them, then they inquired after him.
• And they returned and sought God 5 early.

• 35

  And they remembered that God was their rock,
• And the Most High God their redeemer.

• 36

  But they flattered him with their mouth,
• And lied unto him with their tongue.

• 37

  For their heart was not 6 right with him,
• Neither were they faithful in his covenant.

• 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

  And he remembered that they were but flesh;
• A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

• 40

  How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness,
• And grieve him in the desert!

• 41

  And they turned again and tempted God,
• And 7 provoked the Holy One of Israel.

• 42

  They remembered not his hand,
• Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary.

• 43

  How he set his signs in Egypt,
• And his wonders in the field of Zoan;

• 44

  And turned their rivers into blood,
• And their streams, that they could not drink.

• 45

  He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them;
• And frogs, which destroyed them.

• 46

  He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller,
• And their labour unto the locust.

• 47

  He 1 destroyed their vines with hail,
• And their sycomore trees with 2 frost.

• 48

  He gave over their cattle also to the hail,
• And their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

• 49

  He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger,
• Wrath, and indignation, and trouble,
• 3 A band of angels of evil.

• 50

  He 4 made a path for his anger;
• He spared not their soul from death,
• But gave 5 their life over to the pestilence;

• 51

  And smote all the firstborn in Egypt,
• The 6 chief of their strength in the tents of Ham:

• 52

  But he led forth his own people like sheep,
• And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

• 53

  And he led them safely, so that they feared not:
• But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

• 54

  And he brought them to 7 the border of his sanctuary,
• To this 8 mountain, which his right hand had purchased.

• 55

  He drove out the nations also before them,
• And allotted them for an inheritance by line,
• And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

• 56

  Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God,
• And kept not his testimonies;

• 57

  But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers:
• They were turned aside like a deceitful bow

• 58

  For they provoked him to anger with their high places,
• And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

• 59

  When God heard this, he was wroth,
• And greatly abhorred Israel:

• 60

  So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh,
• The tent which he placed among men;

• 61

  And delivered his strength into captivity,
• And his glory into the adversary’s hand.

• 62

  He gave his people over also unto the sword;
• And was wroth with his inheritance.

• 63

  Fire devoured their young men;
• And their maidens had no marriage-song.

• 64

  Their priests fell by the sword;
• And their widows made no lamentation.

• 65

  Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep,
• Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

• 66

  And he smote his adversaries backward:
• He put them to a perpetual reproach.

• 67

  Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph,
• And chose not the tribe of Ephraim;

• 68

  But chose the tribe of Judah,
• The mount Zion which he loved.

• 69

  And he built his sanctuary like the heights,
• Like the earth which he hath established for ever.

• 70

  He chose David also his servant,
• And took him from the sheepfolds:

• 71

  From following the ewes that give suck he brought him,
• To feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

• 72

  So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart;
• And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

79

A Psalm of Asaph.

• 1

  O God, the 1 heathen are come into thine inheritance;
• Thy holy temple have they defiled;
• They have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

• 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

  Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem;
• And there was none to bury them.

• 4

  We are become a reproach to our neighbours,
• A scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

• 5

  How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry for ever?
• Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

• 6

  Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that know thee not,
• And upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name.

• 7

  For they have devoured Jacob,
• And laid waste his 2 habitation.

• 8

  Remember not against us the iniquities of our forefathers:
• Let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us:
• For we are brought very low.

• 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

  Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God?
• Let the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed
• Be known among the heathen in our sight.

• 11

  Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee;
• According to the greatness of 3 thy power preserve thou 4 those that are appointed to death;

• 12

  And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom
• Their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

• 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.

80

For the Chief Musician; set to 5 Shoshannim Eduth. A Psalm of Asaph.

• • 1

    Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
  • Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock;
  • Thou that 6 sittest upon the cherubim, shine forth.

  • 2

    Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy might,
  • And come to save us.

  • 3

    7 Turn us again, O God;
  • And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

• • 4

    O Lord God of hosts,
  • How long 8 wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

  • 5

    Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears,
  • And given them tears to drink in large measure.

  • 6

    Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours:
  • And our enemies laugh among themselves.

  • 7

    Turn us again, O God of hosts;
  • And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

• • 8

    Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt:
  • Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.

  • 9

    Thou preparedst room before it,
  • And it took deep root, and filled the land.

  • 10

    The mountains were covered with the shadow of it,
  • And 9 the boughs thereof were like10 cedars of God.

  • 11

    She sent out her branches unto the sea,
  • And her shoots unto the River.

  • 12

    Why hast thou broken down her fences,
  • So that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

  • 13

    The boar out of the wood doth ravage it,
  • And the wild beasts of the field feed on it.

  • 14

    Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts:
  • Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,

  • 15

    And 1 the stock which thy right hand hath planted,
  • And the 2 branch that thou madest strong for thyself.

  • 16

    It is burned with fire, it is cut down:
  • They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

  • 17

    Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand,
  • Upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.

  • 18

    So shall we not go back from thee:
  • Quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name.

  • 19

    Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts;
  • Cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

81

For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph

• 1

  Sing aloud unto God our strength:
• Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

• 2

  Take up the psalm, and 3 bring hither the timbrel,
• The pleasant harp with the psaltery.

• 3

  Blow up the trumpet in the new moon,
• At the full moon, on our solemn feast day.

• 4

  For it is a statute for Israel,
• An ordinance of the God of Jacob.

• 5

  He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony,
• When he went out 4 over the land of Egypt:
• Where I heard 5 a language that I knew not.

• 6

  I removed his shoulder from the burden:
• His hands were freed from the basket.

• 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

  Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee:
• O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!

• 9

  There shall no strange god be in thee;
• Neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

• 10

  I am the Lord thy God,
• Which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt:
• Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

• 11

  But my people hearkened not to my voice;
• And Israel would none of me.

• 12

  So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart,
• That they might walk in their own counsels.

• 13

  Oh that my people would hearken unto me,
• That Israel would walk in my ways!

• 14

  I should soon subdue their enemies,
• And turn my hand against their adversaries.

• 15

  The haters of the Lord should 6 submit themselves unto him:
• But their time should endure for ever.

• 16

  He should feed them also with the 7 finest of the wheat:
• And with honey out of the rock should I satisfy thee.

82

A Psalm of Asaph.

• 1

  God standeth in the congregation of God;
• He judgeth among the gods.

• 2

  How long will ye judge unjustly,
• And respect the persons of the wicked? [Selah

• 3

  Judge the 8 poor and fatherless:
• Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

• 4

  Rescue the 8 poor and needy:
• Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.

• 5

  They know not, neither do they understand;
• They walk to and fro in darkness:
• All the foundations of the earth are moved.

• 6

  I said, Ye are gods,
• And all of you sons of the Most High.

• 7

  Nevertheless ye shall die like men,
• And fall like one of the princes.

• 8

  Arise, O God, judge the earth:
• For thou shalt inherit all the nations.

83

A Song, a Psalm of Asaph.

• 1

  O God, keep not thou silence:
• Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

• 2

  For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult:
• And they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

• 3

  They take crafty counsel against thy people,
• And consult together against thy hidden ones.

• 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

  For they have consulted together with one consent;
• Against thee do they make a covenant:

• 6

  The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;
• Moab, and the 1 Hagarenes;

• 7

  Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek;
• Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre:

• 8

  Assyria also is joined with them;
• 2 They have holpen the children of Lot. [Selah

• 9

  Do thou unto them as unto Midian;
• As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon:

• 10

  Which perished at En-dor;
• They became as dung for the earth.

• 11

  Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb;
• Yea, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna:

• 12

  Who said, Let us take to ourselves in possession
• The 3 habitations of God.

• 13

  O my God, make them like the whirling dust;
• As stubble before the wind.

• 14

  As the fire that burneth the forest,
• And as the flame that setteth the mountains on fire;

• 15

  So pursue them with thy tempest,
• And terrify them with thy storm.

• 16

  Fill their faces with confusion;
• That they may seek thy name, O Lord.

• 17

  Let them be ashamed and dismayed for ever;
• Yea, let them be confounded and perish:

• 18

  That they may know that 4 thou alone, whose name is jehovah,
• Art the Most High over all the earth.

84

For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

• 1

  How 5 amiable are thy tabernacles,
• O Lord of hosts!

• 2

  My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord;
• My heart and my flesh 6 cry out unto the living God.

• 3

  Yea, the sparrow hath found her 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

  Blessed are they that dwell in thy house:
• They will be still praising thee. [Selah

• 5

  Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee;
• In whose heart are the high ways to Zion.

• 6

  Passing through the valley of 7 Weeping they make it a place of springs;
• Yea, the early rain covereth it with blessings.

• 7

  They go from strength to strength,
• Every one of them appeareth before God in Zion.

• 8

  O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer:
• Give ear, O God of Jacob. [Selah

• 9

  8 Behold, O God our shield,
• And look upon the face of thine anointed.

• 10

  For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand.
• I had rather 9 be a doorkeeper in the house of my God,
• Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

• 11

  For the Lord God is a sun and a shield:
• The Lord will give grace and glory:
• No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

• 12

  O Lord of hosts,
• Blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

85

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

• 1

  Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land:
• Thou hast 1 brought back the captivity of Jacob.

• 2

  Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people,
• Thou hast covered all their sin. [Selah

• 3

  Thou hast taken away all thy wrath:
• Thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.

• 4

  2 Turn us, O God of our salvation,
• And cause thine indignation toward us to cease.

• 5

  Wilt thou be angry with us for ever?
• Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?

• 6

  Wilt thou not quicken us again:
• That thy people may rejoice in thee?

• 7

  Shew us thy mercy, O Lord,
• And grant us thy salvation.

• 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

  Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him;
• That glory may dwell in our land.

• 10

  Mercy and truth are met together;
• Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

• 11

  Truth springeth out of the earth;
• And righteousness hath looked down from heaven.

• 12

  Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good;
• And our land shall yield her increase.

• 13

  Righteousness shall go before him;
• And shall 3 make his footsteps a way to walk in.

86

A Prayer of David.

• 1

  Bow down thine ear, O Lord, and answer me;
• For I am poor and needy.

• 2

  Preserve my soul; for I am godly:
• O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.

• 3

  Be merciful unto me, O Lord;
• For unto thee do I cry all the day long.

• 4

  Rejoice the soul of thy servant;
• For unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

• 5

  For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive,
• And plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

• 6

  Give ear, O Lord, unto my prayer;
• And hearken unto the voice of my supplications

• 7

  In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee;
• For thou wilt answer me.

• 8

  There is none like unto thee among the gods, O Lord;
• Neither are there any works like unto thy works.

• 9

  All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord;
• And they shall glorify thy name.

• 10

  For thou art great, and doest wondrous things:
• Thou art God alone.

• 11

  Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk in thy truth:
• Unite my heart to fear thy name.

• 12

  I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart;
• And I will glorify thy name for evermore.

• 13

  For great is thy mercy toward me;
• And thou hast delivered my soul from 4 the lowest pit.

• 14

  O God, the proud are risen up against me,
• And the congregation of violent men have sought after my soul,
• And have not set thee before them.

• 15

  But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion and gracious,
• Slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

• 16

  O turn unto me, and 1 have mercy upon me;
• Give thy strength unto thy servant,
• And save the son of thine handmaid.

• 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.

87

A Psalm of the sons of Korah; a Song.

• 1

  2 His foundation is in the holy mountains.

• 2

  The Lord loveth the gates of Zion
• More than all the dwellings of Jacob.

• 3

  Glorious things are spoken of thee,
• O city of God. [Selah

• 4

  I will make mention of 3 Rahab and Babylon as among them that know me:
• Behold Philistia, and Tyre, with 4 Ethiopia;
• This one was born there.

• 5

  Yea, of Zion it shall be said, This one and that one was born in her;
• And the Most High himself shall establish her.

• 6

  The Lord shall count, when he writeth up the peoples,
• This one was born there. [Selah

• 7

  They that sing as well as 5 they that dance shall say,
• All my fountains are in thee.

88

A Song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah, for the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath 6 Leannoth. Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.

• 1

  O Lord, the God of my salvation,
• I have cried day and night before thee:

• 2

  Let my prayer enter into thy presence;
• Incline thine ear unto my cry:

• 3

  For my soul is full of troubles,
• And my life draweth nigh unto 7 Sheol.

• 4

  I am counted with them that go down into the pit;
• I am as a man that hath no help:

• 5

  8 Cast off 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

  Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit,
• In dark places, in the deeps.

• 7

  Thy wrath lieth hard upon me,
• And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. [Selah

• 8

  Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me;
• Thou hast made me an abomination unto them:
• I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

• 9

  Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction:
• I have called daily upon thee, O Lord,
• I have spread forth my hands unto thee.

• 10

  Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead?
• Shall 9 they that are deceased arise and praise thee? [Selah

• 11

  Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave?
• Or thy faithfulness in 10 Destruction?

• 12

  Shall thy wonders be known in the dark?
• And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

• 13

  But unto thee, O Lord, have I cried,
• And in the morning shall my prayer come before thee.

• 14

  Lord, why castest thou off my soul?
• Why hidest thou thy face from me?

• 15

  I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up:
• While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

• 16

  Thy fierce wrath is gone over me;
• Thy terrors have cut me off.

• 17

  They came round about me like water all the day long;
• They compassed me about together.

• 18

  Lover and friend hast thou put far from me,
• And mine acquaintance 11 into darkness.

89

Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.

• • 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

    For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever;
  • Thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.

• • 3

    I have made a covenant with my chosen,
  • I have sworn unto David my servant;

  • 4

    Thy seed will I establish for ever,
  • And build up thy throne to all generations. [Selah

  • 5

    And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord;
  • Thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.

  • 6

    For who in the skies can be compared unto the Lord?
  • Who among the 1 sons of the 2 mighty is like unto the Lord,

  • 7

    A God very terrible in the council of the holy ones,
  • And to be feared above all them that are round about him?

  • 8

    O Lord God of hosts,
  • Who is a mighty one, like unto thee, O jah?
  • And thy faithfulness is round about thee.

  • 9

    Thou rulest the pride of the sea:
  • When the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.

  • 10

    Thou hast broken 3 Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain;
  • Thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.

  • 11

    The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine:
  • The world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

  • 12

    And north and the south, thou hast created them:
  • Tabor and Hermon rejoice in thy name.

  • 13

    Thou hast 4 a mighty arm:
  • Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.

  • 14

    Righteousness and judgement are the foundation of thy throne:
  • Mercy and truth go before thy face.

  • 15

    Blessed is the people that know the 5 joyful sound:
  • They walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance.

  • 16

    In thy name do they rejoice all the day:
  • And in thy righteousness are they exalted.

  • 17

    For thou art the glory of their strength:
  • And in thy favour 6 our horn shall be exalted.

  • 18

    For our shield belongeth unto the Lord;
  • 7 And our king to the Holy One of Israel.

• • 19

    Then thou spakest in vision to thy 8 saints,
  • And saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty;
  • I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

  • 20

    I have found David my servant;
  • With my holy oil have I anointed him:

  • 21

    With whom my hand shall be established;
  • Mine arm also shall strengthen him.

  • 22

    The enemy shall not 9 exact upon him;
  • Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

  • 23

    And I will beat down his adversaries before him,
  • And smite them that hate him.

  • 24

    But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him;
  • And in my name shall his horn be exalted.

  • 25

    I will set his hand also on the sea,
  • And his right hand on the rivers.

  • 26

    He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father,
  • My God, and the rock of my salvation.

  • 27

    I also will make him my firstborn,
  • The highest of the kings of the earth.

  • 28

    My mercy will I keep for him for evermore,
  • And my covenant shall 10 stand fast with him.

  • 29

    His seed also will I make to endure for ever,
  • And his throne as the days of heaven.

  • 30

    If his children forsake my law,
  • And walk not in my judgements;

  • 31

    If they 11 break my statutes,
  • And keep not my commandments;

  • 32

    Then will I visit their transgression with the rod,
  • And their iniquity with stripes.

  • 33

    But my mercy will I not utterly take from him,
  • Nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

  • 34

    My covenant will I not 1 break,
  • Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

  • 35

    2 Once have I sworn by my holiness;
  • I will not lie unto David;

  • 36

    His seed shall endure for ever,
  • And his throne as the sun before me.

  • 37

    3 It shall be established for ever as the moon,
  • 4 And as the faithful witness in the sky. [Selah

• • 38

    But thou hast cast off and rejected,
  • Thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

  • 39

    Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant:
  • Thou hast profaned his crown even to the ground.

  • 40

    Thou hast broken down all his hedges;
  • Thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.

  • 41

    All that pass by the way spoil him:
  • He is become a reproach to his neighbours.

  • 42

    Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries;
  • Thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

  • 43

    Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword,
  • And hast not made him to stand in the battle.

  • 44

    Thou hast made his brightness to cease,
  • And cast his throne down to the ground.

  • 45

    The days of his youth hast thou shortened:
  • Thou hast covered him with shame. [Selah

  • 46

    How long, O Lord, wilt thou hide thyself for ever?
  • How long shall thy wrath burn like fire?

  • 47

    O remember how short my time is:
  • For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

  • 48

    What man is he that shall live and not see death,
  • That shall deliver his soul from the 5 power of 6 Sheol? [Selah

  • 49

    Lord, where are thy former mercies,
  • Which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?

  • 50

    Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants;
  • How I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the 7 mighty peoples;

  • 51

    Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Lord;
  • Wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

• • 52

    Blessed be the Lord for evermore.
  • Amen, and Amen.

[1 ]Or, Only good is God

[2 ]Or, fools

[3 ]Or, pangs

[4 ]Heb. in the trouble of men.

[5 ]Or, The imaginations of their heart overflow

[6 ]Or, from on high

[7 ]Or, against

[8 ]Another reading is, he will bring back his people.

[9 ]Or, drained

[10 ]Heb. my chastisement was.

[1 ]Heb. It was labour in mine eyes.

[2 ]Heb. ruins.

[3 ]Or, in the city

[4 ]Heb. was in a ferment

[5 ]Or, am

[6 ]Heb with thee.

[7 ]Or, with

[8 ]Or, with thee

[9 ]Heb. rock

[10 ]Or, The enemy hath wrought all evil

[11 ]Or, made themselves knoun

[12 ]Or, places of assembly

[13 ]Heb. break up.

[14 ]Or, seamonsters

[15 ]Or, everflowing

[16 ]Heb luminary.

[1 ]Or, hath reproached the Lord

[2 ]Or, thy turtledove unto the greedy multitude

[3 ]Or, multitude

[4 ]Or, land

[5 ]Or, which ascendeth

[6 ]Or, for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare

[7 ]Heb. take.

[8 ]Or, When the earth . . . I set up

[9 ]Heb. proportioned.

[10 ]Or, fools

[11 ]Or, Speak not insolently with a haughty neck

[12 ]Or, from the wilderness of mountains, cometh judgement

[13 ]Heb. wilderness.

[14 ]Or, is red

[15 ]Or, drain

[16 ]Or, covert

[17 ]Or, lair

[18 ]Or, fiery shafts Or, lightnings

[19 ]Or, more than

[20 ]Or, restrain

[1 ]Or, fainteth

[2 ]Or, That the right hand of the Most High doth change

[3 ]Heb. Jah.

[4 ]Or, in holiness

[5 ]Or, were in pain

[6 ]Or, teacking

[1 ]Or, that prepared not their heart

[2 ]Or, a dry land

[3 ]Or, Every one

[4 ]Heb. led forth the cast wind.

[5 ]Or, earnestly

[6 ]Or, stedfast

[7 ]Or, limited

[1 ]Heb. killed.

[2 ]Or, great hailstones

[3 ]Heb A sending.

[4 ]Heb. levelled

[5 ]Or, their beasts to the murrain

[6 ]Heb. beginning. See Deut. xxi. 17.

[7 ]Or, his holy border

[8 ]Or, mountain land

[1 ]Or, nations

[2 ]Or, pasture

[3 ]Heb. thine arm.

[4 ]Heb. the children of death.

[5 ]That is, Lilies, a testimony.

[6 ]Or, dwellest between

[7 ]Or, Restore

[8 ]Heb. wilt thou smoke. See Ps. lxxiv. 1.

[9 ]Or, the cedars of God with the boughs thereof

[10 ]Or, goodly cedars

[1 ]Or, protect (or maintain) that which &c.

[2 ]Heb son.

[3 ]Or, strike the timbrel

[4 ]Or, against

[5 ]Or, the speech of one that &c.

[6 ]Or, yield feigned obedience Heb. lie.

[7 ]Heb. fat of wheat.

[8 ]Or, weak

[1 ]Or, Hay rites See 1 Chr. v. 10

[2 ]Heb. They have been an arm to the children of Lot.

[3 ]Or, pastures

[4 ]Or, thou, whose name alone is jehovah. art &c.

[5 ]Or, lovely

[6 ]Or, sing for joy

[7 ]Or, balsam trees Heb. Baca. See 2 Sam. v. 23.

[8 ]Or, Behold our shield, O God

[9 ]Or, stand at the threshold of &c.

[1 ]Or, returned to

[2 ]Or, Turn to us

[3 ]Or, set us in the way of his steps

[4 ]Or, Sheol beneath

[1 ]Or, be gracious unto

[2 ]Or, His foundation in the holy mountains the Lord loveth, even the gates &c.

[3 ]Or, Egypt

[4 ]Heb. Cush.

[5 ]Or, the players on instruments shall be there

[6 ]Or, for singing

[7 ]Or, the grave

[8 ]Or, Cast away

[9 ]Or, the shades Heb. Rephaim.

[10 ]Heb. Abaddon. See Job xxvi. 6.

[11 ]Or, are darkness

[1 ]Or, sons of God

[2 ]Or, gods See Ps. xxix. 1.

[3 ]Or, Egypt

[4 ]Heb an arm with might.

[5 ]Or, trumpet sound

[6 ]Another reading is, thou shall exalt our horn.

[7 ]Or, Even to the Holy One of Israel our King

[8 ]Many MSS. and ancient versions read the plural. Other authorities have the singular.

[9 ]Or, do him violence

[10 ]Or, be faithful

[11 ]Heb. profane.

[1 ]Heb profane

[2 ]Or, One thing

[3 ]Or, As the moon which is established for ever, and as the faithful witness &c. or, and is a faithful witness &c.

[4 ]Or, And the witness in the sky is faithful

[5 ]Heb. hand.

[6 ]Or, the grave

[7 ]Or, many