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