======================================================================== THE BAY PSALTER (1640) - VOLUME 1 by Psalter ======================================================================== The first volume of the Bay Psalm Book of 1640, an early American metrical Psalter produced by colonial Puritans providing versified Psalm texts for worship and congregational singing in New England churches. Chapters: 99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TABLE OF CONTENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 000.2) Introduction 2. 001) Psalm 1 3. 002) Psalm 2 4. 003) Psalm 3 5. 004) Psalm 4 6. 005) Psalm 5 7. 006) Psalm 6 8. 007) Psalm 7 9. 008) Psalm 8 10. 009) Psalm 9 11. 010) (2) 12. 011) Psalm 10 13. 012) (2) 14. 013) Psalm 11 15. 014) Psalm 12 16. 015) Psalm 13 17. 016) Psalm 14 18. 017) Psalm 15 19. 018) Psalm 16 20. 019) Psalm 17 21. 020) (2) 22. 021) Psalm 18 23. 022) (2) 24. 023) (3) 25. 024) (4) 26. 025) Psalm 19 27. 026) (2) 28. 027) Psalm 20 29. 028) Psalm 21 30. 029) Psalm 22 31. 030) (2) 32. 031) (3) 33. 032) Psalm 23 34. 033) Psalm 24 35. 034) Psalm 25 36. 035) (2) 37. 036) Psalm 26 38. 037) Psalm 27 39. 038) (2) 40. 039) Psalm 28 41. 040) Psalm 29 42. 041) Psalm 30 43. 042) Psalm 31 44. 043) (2) 45. 044) (3) 46. 045) Psalm 32 47. 046) Psalm 33 48. 047) (2) 49. 048) Psalm 34 50. 049) (2) 51. 050) Psalm 35 52. 051) (2) 53. 052) Psalm 36 54. 053) (2) 55. 054) Psalm 37 56. 055) (2) 57. 056) (3) 58. 057) (4) 59. 058) Psalm 38 60. 059) (2) 61. 060) Psalm 39 62. 061) (2) 63. 062) Psalm 40 64. 063) (2) 65. 064) (3) 66. 065) Psalm 41 67. 066) (2) 68. 067) Psalm 42 69. 068) (2) 70. 069) Psalm 43 71. 070) Psalm 44 72. 071) (2) 73. 072) (3) 74. 073) Psalm 45 75. 074) (2) 76. 075) Psalm 46 77. 076) Psalm 47 78. 077) Psalm 48 79. 078) (2) 80. 079) Psalm 49 81. 080) (2) 82. 081) Psalm 50 83. 082) (2) 84. 083) (3) 85. 084) Psalm 51 (1st Version) 86. 085) (2) 87. 086) Psalm 51 (2nd Version – Another of the same.) 88. 087) (2) 89. 088) Psalm 52 90. 089) Psalm 53 91. 090) Psalm 54 92. 091) Psalm 55 93. 092) (2) 94. 093) (2) 95. 094) Psalm 56 96. 095) Psalm 57 97. 096) Psalm 58 98. 097) Psalm 59 99. 098) (2) ======================================================================== CHAPTER 1: 000.2) INTRODUCTION ======================================================================== Introduction The singing of Psalms, though it breath forth nothing but holy harmony, and melody: yet such is the subtlety of the enemy, and enmity of our nature against the Lord, and his ways, that our hearts can find matter of discord in this harmony, and crotchets [i.e., whimsical notions] of division in this holy melody.—for.—There have been three questions especially stirring concerning singing. First, what psalms are to be sung in churches? whether David’s and other scripture psalms, or the psalms invented by the gifts of godly men in every age of the church. Secondly, if scripture psalms, whether in their own words, or in such metre as English poetry is wont to run in? Thirdly, by whom are they to be sung? whether by the whole churches together with their voices? or by one man singing alone and the rest joining in silence, and in the close saying amen. Touching the first, certainly the singing of David’s psalms was an acceptable worship of God, not only in his, but in succeeding times. as in Solomon’s time 2 Chronicles 5:13. in Jehosaphat’s time 2 Chronicles 20:21. in Ezra’s time Ezra 3:10-11. and the text is evident in Hezekiah’s time they are commanded to sing praise in the words of David and Asaph, 2 Chronicles 29:30. which one place may serve to resolve two of the questions (the first and the last) at once, for this commandment was it ceremonial or moral? some things in it indeed were ceremonial, as their musical instruments, etc. but what ceremony was there in singing praise with the words of David and Asaph? what if David was a type of Christ, was Asaph also? was everything of David typical? are his words (which are of moral, universal, and perpetual authority in all nations and ages) are they typical? what type can be imagined in making use of his songs to praise the Lord? If they were typical because of the ceremony of musical instruments was joined to them, then their prayers were also typical, because they had that ceremony of incense admixt with them: but we know that prayer then was a moral duty, notwithstanding the incense; so singing those psalms notwithstanding their musical instruments. Beside, that which was typical (as that they were sung with musical instruments, by the twenty-four orders of Priests and Levites 1 Chronicles 25:9) must have the moral and spiritual accomplishment in the New Testament, in all the Churches of the Saints principally, who are made kings and priests Revelation 1:6 and are the firstfruits unto God Revelation 14:4 as the Levites were Numbers 3:45. with hearts and lips, instead of musical instruments, to praise the Lord; who are set forth (as some judiciously think) Revelation 4:4. by twenty-four Elders, in the ripe age of the Church, Galatians 4:1-3 answering to the twenty-four orders of Priests and Levites 1 Chronicles 25:9. Therefore not some select members, but the whole Church is commanded to teach one another in all the several sorts of David’s psalms, some being called by himself MyrOmzm: psalms, some Myllyht: hymns, some Myryw: spiritual songs. So that if the singing of David’s psalms be a moral duty and therefore perpetual; then we under the New Testament are bound to sing them as well as they under the old: and if we are expressly commanded to sing Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, then either we must sing David’s psalms, or else may affirm they are not spiritual songs: which being penned by an extraordinary gifts of the Spirit, for the sake especially of God’s spiritual Israel, not to be read and preached only (as other parts of holy writ) but to be sung also, they are therefore most spiritual, and still to be sung of all the Israel of God: and verily as their sin is exceeding great, who will allow David’s psalms (as other scriptures) to be read in churches (which is one end) but not to be preached also, which is another end so their sin is crying before God, who will allow them to be read and preached, but seek to deprive the Lord of the glory of the third end of them, which is to sing them in Christian churches. Obj. 1. If it be said that the Saints in the primitive Church did compile spiritual songs of their own inditing [i.e., composition], and sing them before the Church. 1 Corinthians 14:15-16. Ans. We answer first, that those Saints compiled these spiritual songs by the extraordinary gifts of the Spirit (common in those days) whereby they were enabled to praise the Lord in strange tongues, wherein learned Paraeus proves those psalms were uttered, in his Comment[ary] on that place vers 14 which extraordinary gifts, if they were still in the Churches, we should allow them the like liberty now. Secondly, suppose those psalms were sung by an ordinary gift (which we suppose cannot be evicted [i.e., evidenced]) does it therefore follow that they did not, and that we ought not to sing David’s psalms, must the ordinary gifts of a private man quench the Spirit still speaking to us by the extraordinary gifts of his servant David. there is not the least foot-step of example, or precept, or color reason for such bold practice. Obj. 2. Ministers are allowed to pray conceived prayers, and why not to sing conceived psalms? must we not sing in the Spirit as well as pray in the Spirit? Ans. First because every good minister has not the gift of spiritual poetry to compose extemporaneous psalms as he has of prayer. Secondly, suppose he had, yet seeing psalms are to be sung by a joint consent and harmony of all the Church in heart and voice (as we shall prove) this cannot be done except he that composes a psalm, brings into the Church set forms of psalms of his own invention; for which we find no warrant or precedent in any ordinary officers of the Church throughout the scriptures. Thirdly, because the book of psalms is so complete a system of psalms, which the Holy Ghost himself in infinite wisdom has made to suit all conditions, necessities, temptations, affections, etc. of men in all ages; (as most of all interpreters on the psalms have fully and particularly cleared) therefore by this the Lord seems to stop all men’s mouths and minds ordinarily to compile or sing any other psalms (under color that the occasions and conditions of the Church are new) etc. for the public use of the Church, seeing, let our condition be what it will, the Lord himself has supplied us with far better; and therefore in Hezekiah’s time, though doubtless there were among them those which had extraordinary gifts to compile new songs on those new occasions, as Isaiah and Micah etc. yet we read that they are commanded to sing in the words of David and Asaph, which were ordinarily to be used in the public worship of God: and we doubt not but those that are wise will easily see; that those set forms of psalms of God’s own appointment not of man’s conceived gift or human imposition were sung in the Spirit by those holy Levites, as well as their prayers were in the Spirit which themselves conceived, the Lord not then binding them therein to any set forms; and shall set forms of psalms appointed of God not be sung in the Spirit now, which others did then? Question. But why may not one compose a psalm and sing it alone with a loud voice and the rest join with him in silence and in the end say amen. Ans. If such a practice was found in the Church of Corinth, when any had a psalm suggested by an extraordinary gift; yet in singing ordinary psalms the whole Church is to join together in heart and voice to praise the Lord.—for— First, David’s psalms as has been shown, were sung in heart and voice together by the twenty-four orders of the musicians of the Temple, who typed out the twenty-four Elders all the members especially of Christian Churches Revelation 5:8. who are made Kings and Priests to God to praise him as they did: for if they were any other order of singing Choristers beside the body of the people to succeed those, the Lord would doubtless have given direction in the gospel for their qualification, election, maintenance etc. as he did for the musicians of the Temple, and as his faithfulness had done for all other church officers in the New Testament. Secondly, others beside the Levites (the chief singers) in the Jewish Church did also sing the Lord’s songs; else why are they commanded frequently to sing: as in Psalms 100:1-3. Psalms 95:1-3. Psalms 102:1 with Psalms 102:18 and Exodus 15:1 not only Moses but all Israel sang that song, they spake saying (as it is in the orig[inal language]) all as well as Moses, the women also as well as the men. Exodus 15:20-21 and Deuteronomy 32:1-52 (whereto some think, John had reference as well as to Exodus 15:1. when he brings in the Protestant Churches getting the victory over the Beast with harps in their hands and singing the song of Moses. Revelation 15:3.) this song Moses is commanded not only to put it into their hearts but into their mouths also: Deuteronomy 31:19. which argues, that they were with their mouths to sing together as well as with their hearts. Thirdly, Isaiah foretells in the days of the New Testament that God’s watchmen and desolate lost souls, (signified by waste places) should with their voices sing together, Isaiah 52:8-9 and Revelation 7:9-10 the song of the Lamb was by many together, and the Apostle expressly commands the singing of psalms, hymns, etc. not to any select Christians, but to the whole Church. Ephesians 5:19. Colossians 3:16. Paul and Silas sang together in private Acts 16:25 and must the public hear only one man sing? to all these we may add the practice of the primitive Churches; the testimony of ancient and holy Basil is instead of many Epist. 63 [letter 207; sec. 3]. When one of us (says he) has begun a psalm, the rest of us set in to sing with him, all of us with one heart and one voice; and this says he is the common practice of the Churches in Egypt, Libya, Thebes, Palestine, Syria, and those dwelling on Euphrates, and generally everywhere, where singing of psalms is of any account. To the same purpose also Eusebius gives witness. Eccles. Hist. Lib. 2 cap. 17. The objections made against this do most of them plead against joining to sing in heart as well as in voice, as that by this means others out of the Church will sing as also that we are not always in a suitable estate to the matter sung, and likewise that all cannot sing with understanding; shall not therefore all that have understanding join in heart and voice together? are not all the creatures in heaven, earth, seas: men, beasts, fishes, fowls, etc. commanded to praise the Lord, and yet none of these but men, and godly men too, can do it with spiritual understanding? As for the scruple that some take at the translation of the Book of Psalms into metre, because David’s psalms were sung in his own words without metre: we answer—First, there are many verses together in several psalms of David which run in rhythms (as those that know Hebrew and as Buxtorf shows Thesau. pa. 629.) which shows at least the lawfulness of singing psalms in English rhythms. Secondly, the psalms are penned in such verses as are suitable to the poetry of the Hebrew language, and not in the common style of such other books of the Old Testament as are not poetical; now no Protestant doubts but that all the books of scripture should by God’s ordinance be extant in the mother tongue of each nation, that they may be understood of all, hence the psalms are to be translated into our English tongue; and in it our English tongue we are to sing them, then as all our English songs (according to the course of our English poetry) do run in metre, so ought David’s psalms to be translated into metre, that so we may sing the Lord’s songs, as in our English tongue so in such verses as are familiar to an English ear which are commonly metrical: and as it can be no just offense to any good conscience to sing David’s Hebrew songs in English words, so neither to sing his poetical verses in English poetical metre: men might as well stumble at singing the Hebrew psalms in our English tunes (and not in the Hebrew tunes) as at singing them in English metre, (which are our verses) and not in such verses as are generally used by David according to the poetry of the Hebrew language: but the truth is, as the Lord has hid from us the Hebrew tunes, lest we should think ourselves bound to imitate them; so also the course and frame (for the most part) of their Hebrew poetry, that we might not think ourselves bound to imitate that, but that every nation without scruple might follow as the grave sort of tunes of their own country songs, so the graver sort of verses of their own country poetry. Neither let any think, that for the metre sake we have taken liberty or poetical license to depart from the true and proper sense of David’s words in the Hebrew verses, no; but it has been one part of our religious care and faithful endeavour, to keep close to the original text. As for other objections taken from the difficulty of Ainsworth’s tunes, and the corruptions in our common psalm books, we hope they are answered in this new edition of psalms; which we here present to God and his Churches. For although we have cause to bless God in many respects for the religious endeavours of the translators of the psalms into metre usually annexed to our Bibles, yet it is not unknown to the godly learned that they have rather presented a paraphrase than the words of David translated according to the rule 2 Chronicles 29:30. and that their addition to the words, detractions from the words are not seldom and rare, but very frequent and many times needless, (which we suppose would not be approved of if the Psalms were so translated into prose) and that their variations of the sense, and alterations to the sacred text too frequently, may justly minister matter of offense to them that are able to compare the translation with the text; of which failings, some judicious have often complained, others have been grieved, whereupon it has been generally desired, that as we do enjoy other, so (if it were the Lord’s will) we might enjoy this ordinance also in its native purity: we have therefore done our endeavour to make a plain and familiar translation of the psalms and words of David into English metre, and have not so much as presumed to paraphrase to give the sense of his meaning in other words; we have therefore attended herein as our chief guide the original, shunning all additions, except such as even the best translators of them in prose supply, avoiding all material detractions from words or sense. The word v which we translate and as it is redundant sometimes in the Hebrew, so sometimes (though not very often) it has been left out and yet not then, if the sense were not fair without it. As for our translations, we have with our English Bibles (to which next to the original we have had respect) used the idioms of our own tongue instead of hebraisms, lest they might seem English barbarisms. Synonyms we use indifferently: as folk for people, and Lord for Jehovah, and sometimes (though seldom) God for Jehovah; for which (as for some other interpretations of places cited in the New Testament) we have the scripture’s authority Psalms 14:1-7 with Psalms 53:1-6. Hebrews 1:6. with Psalms 97:7. Where a phrase is doubtful we have followed that which (in our own apprehension) is most genuine and edifying: Sometime we have contracted, sometimes dilated the same Hebrew word, both for the verse and the verse sake: which dilation we conceive to be no paraphrastical addition no more than the contraction of a true and full translation to be any unfaithful detraction or diminution: as when we dilate who healeth and say he it is who healeth; so when we contract, those that stand in awe of God and say God fearers. Lastly, because some Hebrew words have a more full and emphatic signification than any one English word can or does sometimes express, hence we have done that sometimes which faithful translators may do, viz. not only to translate the word but the emphasis of it; as lx mighty God, for God. jrb humbly bless for bless; rise to stand, Psalms 1:1-6 for stand. truth and faithfulness for truth. Howbeit, for the verse sake we do not always thus, yet we render the word truly though not fully; as when we sometimes say rejoice for shout for joy. As for all other changes of numbers, tenses, and characters of speech, they are such as either the Hebrew will unforcedly bear, or our English forceably calls for, or in no way changes the sense; and such are printed usually in another character. If therefore the verses are not always so smooth and elegant as some may desire or expect; let them consider that God’s altar needs not our polishings: Exodus 20:1-26. for we have respected rather a plain translation, than to smooth our verses with the sweetness of any paraphrases, and so have attended conscience rather than elegance, fidelity rather than poetry, in translating the Hebrew words into English language, and David’s poetry into English metre, that so we may sing in Sion the Lord’s songs of praise according to his own will; until he take us from hence, and wipe away all our tears, & bid us enter into our master’s joy to sing eternal hallelujahs. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 2: 001) PSALM 1 ======================================================================== Psalm 1 8.6.8.6 1 O blessed man, that in th’ advice of wicked doeth not walk: nor stand in sinners way, nor sit in chair of scornful folk. 2 But in the law of Jehovah, is his longing delight: and in his law doth meditate, by day and eke by night. 3 And he shall be like to a tree planted by water-rivers: that in his season yields his fruit, and his leaf never withers. 4 And all he doth shall prosper well. The wicked are not so: but they are like unto the chafe, which wind drives to and fro. 5 Therefore shall not ungodly men rise to stand in the doom, nor shall the sinners with the just in their assembly come. 6 For of the righteous men the Lord acknowledgeth the way: but the way of ungodly men shall utterly decay. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 3: 002) PSALM 2 ======================================================================== Psalm 2 8.6.8.6 1 Why rage the Heathen furiously? muse vain things people do. 2 Kings of the earth do set themselves, Princes consult also with one consent against the Lord, and his anointed one. 3 Let us asunder break their bands, their cords be from us thrown. 4 Who sits in heav’n shall laugh; the lord will mock them; then will he 5 Speak to them in his ire and wrath, and vex them suddenly. 6 But I anointed have my King upon my holy hill 7 of Zion. The established counsel declare I will. God spake to me, Thou art my Son; this day I thee begot. 8 Ask thou of me, and I will give the Heathen for thy lot, and of the earth thou shalt possess the utmost coasts abroad. 9 Thou shalt them break as potter’s sherds and crush with iron rod. 10 And now ye kings be wise, be learn’d ye judges of th’ earth hear. 11 Serve ye the Lord with reverence, rejoice in him with fear. 12 Kiss ye the Son, lest he be wroth, and ye fall in the way. when his wrath quickly burns. Oh blest are all that on him stay. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 4: 003) PSALM 3 ======================================================================== Psalm 3 A Psalm of David when he fled from the face of Absalom his son. 8.8.8.8 1 O Lord, how many are my foes? how many up against me stand? 2 Many say to my soul, No help in God for him at any hand. 3 But thou, Lord, art my shield, my glory, and the up lifter of my head. 4 With voice to God I call’d, who from his holy hill me answered. 5 I laid me down, I slept, I wak’d, for Jehovah did me up bear. 6 People that set against me round, ten thousand of them I’ll not fear. 7 Arise, o Lord, save me my God, for all mine enemies thou hast stroke upon the cheek-bone; and the teeth of the ungodly thou hast broke. 8 This, and all such salvation, belongeth unto Jehovah: thy blessing is, and let it be upon thine own people. Selah. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 5: 004) PSALM 4 ======================================================================== Psalm 4 To the chief Musician onNeginoth, a Psalm of David. 8.6.8.6 1 GOD of my justice, when I call answer me: when distrest thou hast enlarg’d me, shew me grace and hear thou my request. 2 Ye sons of men, my glory turn to shame how long will you? how long will ye love vanity and still deceit pursue? 3 But know the Lord doth for himself set by his gracious saint: the Lord will hear when I to him do pour out my complaint. 4 Be stirred up, but do not sin, consider seriously within your heart upon your bed and wholly silent be. 5 Let sacrifices of justice for sacrifices be. and confidently put your trust on Jehovah do ye. 6 Many there be that say, O who will cause us good to see? the light, Lord, of thy countenance let on us lifted be. 7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than the time wherein their corn and also their new wine have much increased been. 8 In peace with him I will lie down, and take my sleep will I: For thou, Lord, mak’st me dwell alone in confident safety. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 6: 005) PSALM 5 ======================================================================== Psalm 5 To the chief Musician uponNehiloth, a Psalm of David. 8.8.8.8 1 Hear thou my words and understand my meditation, Jehovah. 2 My King, my God, attend the voice of my cry: for to thee I pray. 3 At morn, Jehovah, thou shalt hear my voice; to thee I will address 4 at morn I will looked up. For thou art not a God lov’st wickedness: neither shall evil with thee dwell. 5 Vain glorious fools before thine eyes shall never stand: for thou hatest all them that work iniquities. 6 Thou wilt bring to destruction the speakers of lying-falsehood, the Lord will make to be abhor’d the man deceitful and of blood. 7 But I will come into thine house in multitude of thy mercy: and will in fear of thee bow down, in temple of thy sanctity. 8 Lead me forth in thy righteousness because of mine observing spies; O Jehovah, do thou thy ways make straight and plain before mine eyes 9 For there no truth is in his mouth; their inward part iniquities; their throat an open sepulchre; their tongue is bent to flatteries. 10 O God, make thou them desolate; from their own plots let them fall far; cast them out in their heaps of sins; for they against thee rebels are. 11 And all that trust in thee shall joy and shout for joy eternally, and thou shalt them protect: and they that love thy name shall joy in thee. 12 For thou, Jehovah, wilt bestow a blessing on the righteous one; and wilt him crown as with a shield with gracious acceptation. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 7: 006) PSALM 6 ======================================================================== Psalm 6 To the chief Musician onNeginothupon-Sheminith, A Psalm of David 8.8.8.8 1 LORD in thy wrath rebuke me not, nor in thy hot wrath chasten me. 2 Pity me, Lord, for I am weak: Lord, heal me; for my bones vex’d be. 3 Also my soul is troubled sore: how long, Lord, wilt thou me forsake? 4 Return, O Lord, my soul release: oh save me for thy mercy sake. 5 In death no mem’ry is of thee: and who shall praise thee in the grave? 6 I faint with groans; all night my bed swims; I with tears my couch wash’d have. 7 Mine eye with grief is dim and old because of all mine enemies. 8 But now depart away from me, all ye that work iniquities; for Jehovah ev’n now hath heard the voice of these my weeping tears. 9 Jehovah heard my humble suit; Jehovah doth receive my prayers. 10 Let all mine enemies be asham’d and greatly troubled let them be: yea let them be returned back and be ashamed suddenly. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 8: 007) PSALM 7 ======================================================================== Psalm 7 Shiggaion of David, which he sang to Jehovah, upon the words of Cush the Benjamite. 6.6.8.6 1 O LORD my God, in thee I do my trust repose: save and deliver me from all my persecuting foes. 2 Lest like a lion he my soul in pieces tear rending asunder, while there is not one deliverer. 3 Jehovah O my God, if this thing done have I: if so there be within my hands wrongful iniquity; 4 If I required ill the man with me a peace; (yea I have him delivered that was my foe causeless:) 5 Let foe pursue my soul, and take, and tread to clay my life, and honor in the dust there let him wholly lay. 6 Arise, Lord, in thy wrath for th’ enemies fierceness be thou lift up and wake to me judgment thou did’st express. 7 So thee encompass round shall peoples assembly: and for the same do thou return, unto the place on high. 8 The Lord shall judge the folk: Jehovah judge thou me. according to my righteousness, and mine integrity. 9 Let ill men’s malice cease; but do the just confirm: for thou who art the righteous God dost hearts and reins discern. 10 For God my shield, the right in heart he saved hath. 11 The God that doth the righteous judge, yet daily kindleth wrath. 12 If he does not return, his sword he sharp will whet; his bow he bended hath, and he the same hath ready set. 13 For him he hath prepar’d the instruments of death; for them that hotly persecute his arrows he sharpeneth. 14 Behold he travelleth of vain iniquity a toilsome mischief he conceiv’d, but shall bring forth a lie. 15 A pit he digged hath, and delved deep the same: but fall’n he is into the ditch that he himself did frame. 16 His mischievous labour shall on his head turn down and his injurious violence shall fall upon his crown. 17 Jehovah I will praise for his just equity: and I will sing unto the name of Jehovah most high. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 9: 008) PSALM 8 ======================================================================== Psalm 8 To the chief Musician uponGittith, a Psalm of David. 8.6.8.6 1 O LORD our God, in all the earth how’s thy name wondrous great! who hast thy glorious majesty above the heavens set. 2 Out of the mouth of sucking babes thy strength thou didst ordain, that thou might’st still the enemy, and them that thee disdain. 3 when I thy fingers work, thy heav’ns, the moon and stars consider, 4 which thou hast set; What’s wretched man that thou dost him remember? or what’s the son of man, that thus him visited thou hast? 5 For next to Angels thou hast him a little lower plac’d, and hast with glory crowned him and comely majesty: 6 And on thy works hast given him lordly authority; 7 all hast thou put under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, 8 and beasts of field; Fowls of the air, and fishes of the sea, and all that pass through paths of seas. 9 O Jehovah our Lord, how wondrously-magnificent is thy name through the world? ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 10: 009) PSALM 9 ======================================================================== Psalm 9 To the chief Musician uponMuth-Labbena psalm of David 8.6.8.6 1 LORD I’ll the praise, with all my heart; thy wonders all proclaim. 2 I will be glad and joy in thee; most high, I’ll sing thy name. 3 In turning back my foes, they’ll fall and perish at thy sight. 4 For thou maintains my right, and cause: In throne sits judging right. 5 Thou t’ heathen check’st, and th’ wicked ‘stroy’d their names raz’d ever aye. 6 Thy ruins, foe, for aye are done; thou mad’st their towns decay; their memory with them is lost. 7 Yet ever sits the Lord: his throne to judgment he prepares. 8 With right he’ll judge the world: he to the folk shall minister judgment in uprightness. 9 The Lord is for th’ oppress’d a fort: a fort in times of stress. 10 Who knows thy name, will trust in thee: nor dost thou, Lord forsake, 11 them that thee seek. Psalms, to the Lord that dwells in Sion, make: declare among the folk his works. 12 For blood when he doth seek, he them remembers: nor forgets the crying of the meek. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 11: 010) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 13 Jehovah, mercy on me have, from them that do me hate mark mine afflictions that arise, thou lift’st me from deaths-gate. 14 That I may tell in the gates of the daughter of Sion, thy praises all: and may rejoice in thy salvation. 15 The heathen are sunk down into the pit that they had made: their own foot taken is ith net which privily they laid. 16 By judgment which he executes Jehovah is made known: the wicked’s snar’d in’s own hand work. deep meditation. 17 The wicked shall be turn’d to hell, all lands that God forget. 18 Forgot the needy shall ne’re be: poor’s hope ne’re fail’d him yet. 19 Arise, o Lord, lest men prevail, judge t’ heathen in thy sight. 20 That they may know they be but men, the nations Lord affright. Selah ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 12: 011) PSALM 10 ======================================================================== Psalm 10 8.6.8.6 1 Why stand’st thou Lord a far? why hid’st thy self in times of strait? 2 In pride the wicked persecutes the poor afflicted weight: snare them in their contrived plots. 3 For of his hearts desire the wicked boasts, and covetous blesseth, stirring God’s ire. 4 The wicked one by reason of his countenances pride will not seek afterGod: not God so all his thoughts abide. 5 his ways do always bring forth grief, on high thy judgments be above his sight: his pressing foes puff at them all will he. 6 Within his heart he thus hath said, I moved shall not be: from aye to aye because Iam not in adversity. 7 His mouth with cursing filled is, deceits, and fallacy: under his tongue perverseness is, also iniquity. 8 In the close places of the towns he sits, in secret dens he slays the harmless: ‘gainst the poor slyly his eyes down bends. 9 He closely lurks as lion lurks in den, the poor to catch he lurks, and trapping them in’s net th’ afflicted poor doth snatch. 10 Down doth he crouch, and to the dust humbly he bows withal: that so a multitude of poor in his strong paws may fall. 11 He saith in heart, God hath forgot: he hides his face away, so that he will not see this thing unto eternal aye. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 13: 012) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 12 Jehovah rise thou up, o God lift thou thine hand on high, let not the meek afflicted one be out of memory. 13 Wherefore doth the ungodly man contemn th’ almighty one? he in his heart saith, thou wilt not make inquisition. 14 Thou seest, for thou mark’st wrong, and spite, with thy hand to repay: the poor leaves it to thee, thou art of fatherless the stay. 15 Break thou the arm of the wicked, and of the evil one. search thou out his impiety, until thou findest none. 16 Jehovah king for ever is, and to eternal aye: out of his land the heathen folk are perished away. 17 The meek afflicted-mans desire Jehovah, thou dost hear: thou firmly dost prepare their heart, thou mak’st attent thine ear. 18 To judge the fatherless and poor: that add no more he may sorrowful man out of the land with terror to dismay. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 14: 013) PSALM 11 ======================================================================== Psalm 11 To the chief Musician a psalm of David. 8.6.8.6 1 I In the Lord do trust; how then to my soul do ye say, as doth a little bird unto your mountain fly away? 2 For lo, the wicked bend their bow, their arrows they prepare on string; to shoot in dark at them in heart that upright are. 3 If that the firm foundations, utterly ruin’d be: as for the man that righteous is, what then perform can he? 4 The Lord in’s holy temple is, the Lords throne in heaven: his eyes will view, and his eye lids will prove the Sons of men. 5 The man that truly-righteous is ev’n him the Lord will prove; his soul they wicked hates, and him that violence doth love. 6 Snares, fire, and brimstone he will rain, ungodly men upon: and burning tempest; of their cup shall-be their portion. 7 For Jehovah that righteous is, all righteousness doth love: his countenance the upright one beholding, doth approve. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 15: 014) PSALM 12 ======================================================================== Psalm 12 To the chief Musician uponSheminitha psalm of David. 8.6.8.6 1 Help Lord: for godly men do cease: faithful fail men among. 2 Each to his friend speaks vanity; with flattering lips, and tongue and with a double heart they speak. 3 All flatt’ring lips the Lord shall cut them of, with every tongue that speaketh boasting word. 4 Thus have they said, we with our tongue, prevailing pow’r shall get: are not our lips our own. for Lord who over us is set? 5 Thus saith the Lord, for sighs of them that want, for poor opprest, I’ll now arise, from such as puff, will set him safe at rest. 6 Pure are the words the Lord doth speak: as silver that is tried in earthen furnace, seven times that hath been purified. 7 Thou shalt them keep, o Lord, thou shalt preserve them ev’ry one, For evermore in safety from this generation. 8 The wicked men on every side do walk presumptuously, when as the vilest sons of men exalted are on high. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 16: 015) PSALM 13 ======================================================================== Psalm 13 To the chief Musician: a psalm of David. 8.6.8.6 1 O JEHOVAH, how long wilt thou forget me aye? how long wilt thou thy countenance hide from me far away? 2 How long shall I counsel, in my soul take, sorrow in my heart daily? o‘re me set how long shall be my foe? 3 Jehovah, o my God, behold me answer make, Illuminate mine eyes, lest I the sleep of death do take. 4 Lest my foe say, I have prevail’d ‘gainst him: and me those who do trouble, do rejoice, when I shall moved be. 5 But I assured trust have put in thy mercy; my heart in thy salvation shall joy exceedingly. 6 Unto Jehovah I will sing, because that he, for evil bountifully hath rewarded good to me. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 17: 016) PSALM 14 ======================================================================== Psalm 14 To the chief Musician a psalm of David. 8.6.8.6 1 The fool in’s heart saith there’s no God; they are corrupt, have done abominable-practices, that doth good there is none. 2 The Lord from heaven looked down on Sons of men: to see, if any that doth understand, that seeketh God there be. 3 All are gone back, together they ev’n filthy are become: and there is none that doeth good, no not so much as one. 4 The workers of iniquities, have they no knowledge all? that eat my people: they eat bread, and on God do not call. 5 There with a very grievous fear affrighted sore they were, for God in generation is of such as righteous are. 6 The counsel ye would make of him that poor afflicted is, to be asham’d and that because the Lord his refuge is. 7 Who Israel’s health from Sion gives? his folks captivity when God shall turn: Jacob shall joy glad Israel shall be. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 18: 017) PSALM 15 ======================================================================== Psalm 15 A psalm of David. 8.6.8.6 1 JEHOVAH, who shall in thy tent sojourn, and who is he shall dwell within thy holy mount? 2 He that walks uprightly, And worketh justice, and speaks truth 3 in’s heart, And with his tongue he doth not slander, neither doth unto his neighbour wrong, And ‘gainst his neighbour that doth not take up reproachful lies. 4 He that an abject person is contemn’d is in his eyes; But he will highly honour them that do Jehovah fear: and changeth not, though to his loss, it that he once do swear. 5 Nor gives his coin to usury, and bribe he doth not take against the harmless. he that doth these things shall never shake. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 19: 018) PSALM 16 ======================================================================== Psalm 16 Michtam of David 8.6.8.6 1 O Mighty God, preserve thou me, for on thee do I rest. Thou art my God, unto the Lord my soul thou hast profess’d: My goodness reacheth not to thee. 3 But to the Saints upon the earth and to the excellent, whom all my joy is on. 4 They who give gifts to a strange God, their sorrows multiply: their drink oblations of blood offer up will not I. Neither will I into my lips the names of them take up. 5 Jehovah is the portion of my part, and my cup: Thou art maintainer of my lot. 6 To me the lines fall’n be in pleasant places: yea, faire is the heritage for me. 7 I will Jehovah humbly-bless, who hath me counselled: yea in the nights my reins have me, chastising nurtured. 8 Jehovah I always set as present before me: because he is at my right hand I shall not moved be. 9 Wherefore my heart rejoiced hath, and glad is my glory: moreover also my flesh shall in hope lodge securely. 10 Because thou wilt not leave my soul within the grave to be, nor wilt thou give thine holy one, corruption for to see. 11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life, of joys abundant-store before thy face, at thy right hand are pleasures evermore. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 20: 019) PSALM 17 ======================================================================== Psalm 17 A Prayer of David. 8.6.8.6 1 Hearkin, o Lord, unto the right, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my pray’r, that goes from lips that do not lie. 2 From thy face let my judgment come: thine eyes the right let see. 3 Thou prov’st mine heart, thou visitest by night, and triest me. yet nothing find’st, I have resolv’d my mouth shall not offend. 4 From men’s works: by word of thy lips I spoilers paths attend. 5 Stay my feet in thy paths, lest my 6 steps slip. I call’d on thee, for thou wilt hear, God, hear my speech, incline thine ear to me. 7 O thou that sav’st by thy right hand, thy marvelous mercies, shew unto them that trust in thee, from such as ‘gainst them rise. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 21: 020) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 8 As apple of thine eye me keep. In thy wings shade me hide. 9 From wicked who me wast: my foes in heart are on each side. 10 Clos’d in their fat they are: and they speak with their mouth proudly. 11 They round us in our steps: they set on earth their bow’d down eye. 12 His likeness as a lion is, that greedy is to tear, in secret places lurking as he a young lion were. 13 Him, in his sight, rise, disappoint make him bow down o Lord, do thou my soul deliver from the wicked one, thy sword, 14 From mortal men thine hand, o Lord from men that mortal are, and of this passing-world, who have within this life their share, with thy hid treasure furthermore whose belly thou fillest: their sons are fill’d, and to their babes of wealth they leave the rest. 15 In righteousness, thy favour I shall very clearly see, and waking with thine image, I shall satisfied be. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 22: 021) PSALM 18 ======================================================================== Psalm 18 To the chief Musician, apsalmof David, the servant of the Lord, who spakethewords of this Song, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hands of all his enemies, and from the handofSaul. and he Said, 8.8.8.8 1 I’LL dearly love thee, Lord, my strength. 2The Lord is my rock, and my tower and my deliverer, my God, I’ll trust in him who is my power, My shield, and my salvation’s-horn, 3 my high-fort; Who is praise worthy I on the Lord will call, so shall I be kept from mine enemy. 4 Deaths sorrows me encompassed, me fear’d the floods of ungodly, 5 Hells pangs beset me round about, the snares of death prevented me. 6 I in my straits, call’d on the Lord, and to my God cry’d: he did hear from his temple my voice, my cry, before him came, unto his ear. 7 Then th’ earth shook, and quak’t, and mountains roots mov’d, and were stirr’d at his ire, 8 Up from his nostrils went a smoke, and from his mouth devouring fire: By it the coals enkindled were. 9 Likewise the heavens he down-bow’d, and he descended, and there was under his feet a gloomy cloud. 10 And he on cherub rode, and flew; yea he flew on the wings of wind. 11 His secret place he darkness made his covert that him round confine, Dark waters, and thick clouds of skies. 12 From brightness, that before him was, his thicken’d clouds did pass away, hail-stones and coals of fire did pass. 13 Also Jehovah thundered, within the heavens, the most high likewise his angry-voice did give, hail-stones, and coals of fire did fly. 14 Yea he did out his arrows send, and bruising he them scattered, and lightnings he did multiply, likewise he them discomfited. 15 The waters channels then were seen, and the foundations of the world appear’d; at thy rebuke, at blast, of the breath of thy nostrils Lord. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 23: 022) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 16 He from above sent he me took: me out of waters-great he drew. 17 He from mine enemies-strong, and from them which me hated did rescue: For they were mightier then I. 18 They me prevented in the day of my cloudy calamity; but for me was the Lord a stay. 19 And he me to large place brought forth: he sav’d me, for he did delight 20 in me. The Lord rewarded me according as I did aright, According to the cleanness of my hands, he recompensed me. 21 For the ways of the Lord I kept: nor from my God went wickedly. 22 For all his judgments me before: nor from me put I his decree. 23 With him I upright was, and kept myself from mine iniquity. 24 The Lord hath recompensed me, after my righteousness therefore: according to the cleanness of my hands that was his eyes before. 25 With merciful, thou merciful, with upright thou deals uprightly. 26 With pure thou pure, thou also wilt with froward turn thy self awry. 27 For thou wilt save th’ afflicted folk: but wilt the lofty looks suppress. 28 For thou wilt light my lamp: the Lord, my God will lighten my darkness. 29 For by thee I ran through a troupe, and by my God leapt o’re a wall. 30 Gods way is perfect: Gods word tried: that trust in him he’s shield to all. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 24: 023) (3) ======================================================================== (3) 31 For who is God except the Lord? or who a rock, our God except? 32 Its God that girdeth me with strength, and he doth make my way perfect. 33 Like to the hinds he makes my feet: and on my high place makes me stand. 34 Mine arms do break a bow of brass; so well to war he learns my hand. 35 The shield of thy salvation thou furthermore hast given me: and thy right-hand hath me upheld, thy meekness made me great to be. 36 Under me thou mak’st large my steps, so that mine ankles did not slide 37 My foes pursu’d I, and them caught: nor turn’d I till they were destroy’d. 38 I wounded them and they could not rise up: under my feet they fell. 39 Because that thou hast girded me with fortitude to the battle: Thou hast subdued under me, those that did up against me rise. 40 And my foes necks thou gavest me, that I might wast mine enemies. 41 They cried but there was none to save, to God, yet with no answer meet. 42 I beat them then as dust i’th wind and cast them out as dirt i’th street. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 25: 024) (4) ======================================================================== (4) 43 And thou from the contentions hast of the people me set free; thou of the heathen mad’st me head: people I knew not shall serve me. 44 They’ll at first hearing me obey: strangers shall yield themselves to me. 45 The strangers shall consume away, and from their closets frighted be. 46 The Lord lives, and blest be my Rock, let my health’s God exalted be. 47 It’s God for me that vengeance works, and brings down people under me. 48 Me from mine enemies he doth save: and above those that ‘gainst me went, thou lift’st me up; and thou hast freed me from the man that’s violent. 49 I with confession will therefore unto thee render thanksgiving, o Lord, among the heathen-folk; and to thy name I’ll praise sing. 50 He giveth great deliverance to his King, and doth shew mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed eternally. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 26: 025) PSALM 19 ======================================================================== Psalm 19 To the chief musician a psalm of David. 6.6.8.6 1 The heavens do declare the majesty of God: also the firmament shows forth his handy-work abroad. 2 Day speaks to day, knowledge night hath to night declar’d. 3 There neither speech nor language is, where their voice is not heard. 4 Through all the earth their line is gone forth, and unto the utmost end of all the world, their speeches reach also: A Tabernacle he in them pitch’t for the Sun. 5 Who Bridegroom like from’s chamber goes glad Giants-race to run. 6 From heavens utmost end, his course and compassing; to ends of it, and from the heat thereof is hid nothing. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 27: 026) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 7 The Lords law perfect is, the soul converting back: Gods testimony faithful is, makes wise who-wisdom-lack. 8 The statutes of the Lord, are right, and glad the heart: the Lords commandement is pure, light doth to eyes impart. 9 Jehovah’s fear is clean, and doth endure for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether. 10 Then gold, then much fine gold, more to be prized are, then honey, and the honey-comb, sweeter they are by far. 11 Also thy servant is admonished from hence: and in the keeping of the same is a full recompence. 12 Who can his errors know? from secret faults cleanse me. 13 And from presumptuous-sins, kept back o let thy servant be: Let them not bear the rule in me, and then shall I be perfect, and shall cleansed be from much iniquity. 14 Let the words of my mouth, and the thoughts of my heart, be pleasing with thee, Lord, my Rock who my redeemer art. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 28: 027) PSALM 20 ======================================================================== Psalm 20 To the chief Musician, a psalm of David. 8.6.8.6 1 JEHOVAH hear thee in the day of sore calamity, the name of the God of Jacob defend thee mightily. 2 Send thee help from his holy place: from Sion strengthen thee. 3 Mind all thy gifts, thy sacrifice accepted let it be. Selah. 4 Grant thee according to thy heart, all thy counsel fulfill. 5 In thy perfect salvation with singing joy we will: And we in the name of our God our banners will erect: when as all thy petitions Jehovah shall effect. 6 Now I know, that Jehovah doth save his anointed-Dear: with saving strength of his right hand from his pure heav’n will hear. 7 In chariots some their confidence, and some in horses set: but we the name of Jehovah our God will not forget. 8 They are brought down and fall’n: but we, rise and stand stedfastly. 9 Save Lord, and let the King us hear when as to him we cry. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 29: 028) PSALM 21 ======================================================================== Psalm 21 To the chief Musician a psalm of David. 6.6.8.6 1 JEHOVAH, in thy strength the King shall joyful be; and joy in thy salvation how vehemently shall he? 2 Thou of his heart to him hast granted the desire: and thou hast not withholden back, what his lips did require. Selah. 3 For thou dost with blessings of goodness prevent him: thou on his head of finest gold hast set a Diadem. 4 Of thee he asked life, to him thou gav’st it free, even length of days for evermore unto eternity. 5 In thy salvation his glory hath been great: honour, and comely dignity thou hast upon him set. 6 For thou him blessings set’st to perpetuity: Thou mak’st him with thy countenance exceeding glad to be. 7 Because that in the Lord the King doth trust, and he through mercy of the highest one, shall not removed be. 8 Thine hand shall find out all that are thine enemies: thy right hand also shall find out those that do thee despise. 9 Thou set’st as fiery oven them in times of thine ire: the Lord will swallow them in’s wrath and them consume with fire. 10 Thou wilt destroy the fruit, that doth proceed of them, out of the earth: and their seed from among the Sons of men. 11 Because they evil have intended against thee: a wicked plot they have devis’d, but shall not able be. 12 For thou wilt as a butt them set; and thou wilt place thine arrows ready on thy string, full right against their face. 13 Lord, in thy fortitude exalted be on high: and we will sing; yea praise with psalms thy mighty pow’r will we. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 30: 029) PSALM 22 ======================================================================== Psalm 22 To the chief musician uponAijeleth Shahara psalm of David. 8.6.8.6 1 MY God, my God, wherefore hast thou forsaken me? and why, art thou so far from helping me, from the words of my cry? 2 O my God, I do cry by day, but me thou dost not hear; and eke by night, and unto me no quiet rest is there. 3 Nevertheless thou holy art, who constantly dost dwell, within the thankful praises of thy people Israel. 4 Our fore-fathers in thee have put assured confidence: they trusted have, and thou to them didst give deliverance. 5 Unto thee they did cry aloud, and were delivered: in thee they put their confidence, and were not confounded. 6 But I a worm, and not a man; of men an opprobry, and also of the people am despis’d contemptuously. 7 All they that do upon me look, a scoff at me do make: they with the lip do make a mow, the head in scorn they shake. 8 Upon the Lord he road himself, let him now rid him quite: let him deliver him, because in him he doth delight. 9 But thou art he that me out of the belly forth didst take: when I was on my mothers breasts, to hope thou didst me make. 10 Unto thee from the tender-womb committed been have I: yea thou hast been my mighty-God from my mothers belly. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 31: 030) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 11 Be thou not far away from me, for tribulation exceeding great is near at hand, for helper there is none. 12 Me many bulls on every side about have compassed: the mighty-bulls of Bashan have me round environed. 13 They have with their wide-opened-mouths so gaped me upon; like as it were a ravening and a roaring Lion. 14 As water I am poured-out, and all my bones sundred: my heart in midst of my bowels, is like to wax melted. 15 My strength like a potsherd is dried; and my tongue fast cleaveth unto my jaws, and thou hast brought me to the dust of death. 16 For dogs have compast me about; th’ assembly me beset of the wicked; they pierced through my hands, also my feet. 17 My bones I may them number all: they look’t, they did me view. 18 My cloths among them they did part: and lot for my coat threw. 19 But thou Lord be not far, my strength, to help me hasten thou. 20 My soul from sword, my darling from the power of dogs rescue. 21 And from the mouth of the Lion give me salvation free: for thou from horns of Unicorns answer hast given me. 22 Thy name, I will declare to them that Brethren are to me: in midst of congregation I will give praise to thee. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 32: 031) (3) ======================================================================== (3) 23 Yee that do fear the Lord praise him, all Jacob’s seed praise ye, him glorify, and dread him all ye Israel’s seed that be. 24 For he the poor’s affliction loathes not, nor doth despise; nor hides his face from him, but heats when unto him he cries. 25 Concerning thee shall be my praise in the great assembly: before them that him reverence perform my vows will I. 26 The meek shall eat and be suffic’d: Jehovah praise shall they that do him seek: your heart shall live unto perpetual aye. 27 All ends of th’ earth remember shall and turn unto the Lord: and thee all heathen-families to worship shall accord. 28 Because unto Jehovah doth the kingdom appertain: and he among the nations is ruler Sovereign. 29 Earths-fat-ones, eat and worship shall: all who to dust descend, (though none can make alive his soul) before his face shall bend. 30 With service a posterity him shall attend upon; to God it shall accounted be a generation. 31 Come shall they, and his righteousness by them declar’d shall be, unto a people yet unborn, that done this thing hath he. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 33: 032) PSALM 23 ======================================================================== Psalm 23 APsalm of David. 8.6.8.6 1 The Lord to me a shepherd is, want therefore shall not I. 2 He in the folds of tender-grass, doth cause me down to lie: To waters calm me gently leads 3 Restore my soul doth he: he doth in paths of righteousness: for his names sake lead me. 4 Yea though in valley of deaths shade I walk, none ill I’ll fear: because thou art with me, thy rod, and staff my comfort are. 5 For me a table thou hast spread, in presence of my foes: thou dost anoint my head with oil, my cup it over-flows. 6 Goodness and mercy surely shall all my days follow me: and in the Lords house I shall dwell so long as days shall be. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 34: 033) PSALM 24 ======================================================================== Psalm 24 A psalm of David. 6.6.8.6 1 The earth Jehovah’s is, and the fulness of it: the habitable world, and they that there upon do sit. 2 Because upon the seas, he hath it firmly laid: and it upon the water-floods most solidly hath stay’d. 3 The mountain of the Lord, who shall thereto ascend? and in his place of holiness, who is it that shall stand? 4 The clean in hands, and pure in heart; to vanity who hath not lifted up his soul, nor sworn deceitfully. 5 From God he shall receive a benediction, and righteousness from the strong-God of his salvation. 6 This is the progeny of them that seek thy face: of them that do inquire for him: of Jacob ‘tis the race. Selah. 7 Yee gates lift-up your heads, and doors everlasting, be ye lift up: and there into shall come the glorious-King. 8 Who is this glorious King? Jehovah, puissant, and valiant, Jehovah is in battle valiant. 9 Yee gates lift-up your heads, and doors everlasting, do ye lift-up: and there into shall come the glorious-King. 10 Who is this glorious-King? lo, it is Jehovah of warlike armies, he the King of glory is. Selah. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 35: 034) PSALM 25 ======================================================================== Psalm 25 A psalmof David. 8.6.8.6 1 I Lift my soul to thee o Lord. My God I trust in thee, let me not be asham’d: nor let my foes joy over me. 3 Yea, all that wait on thee shall not, be fill’d with shamefulness: but they shall be ashamed all, who without cause transgress. 4 Thy ways, Jehovah, make me know, thy paths make me discern. 5 Cause me my steps to order well, in thy truth, and me learn, For thou God of my saving health, on thee I wait all day. 6 Thy bowels, Lord, and thy mercies mind; for they are for aye. 7 Sins of my youth remember not, neither my trespasses: after thy mercy mind thou me o Lord for thy goodness. 8 Good and upright God is, therefore will sinners teach the way. 9 The meek he’ll guide in judgment: and will teach the meek his way. 10 Jehovah’s paths they mercy are, all of them truth also; to them that keep his covenant, and testimonies do. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 36: 035) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 11 For thy names sake o Jehovah, freely do thou remit mine own perverse iniquity: because that great is it. 12 Who fears the Lord, him he will teach the way that he shall choose. 13 his soul shall dwell at ease, his seed as heirs the earth shall use. 14 The secret of God is with those that do him reverence: and of his covenant he them will give intelligence. 15 Mine eyes continually are upon Jehovah set: for it is he that will bring forth my feet out of the net. 16 Unto me-wards turn thou thy face, and on me mercy show: because I solitary am afflicted poor also. 17 My hearts troubles enlarged are; from my distress me bring. 18 See mine affliction, and my pain; and pardon all my sin. 19 Mark my foes; for they many are, and cruelly me hate, 20 My soul keep, free me; nor let me be sham’d, who on thee wait. 21 Let soundness, and uprightness keep me: for I trust in thee. 22 Israel from his troubles all, o God, do thou set free. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 37: 036) PSALM 26 ======================================================================== Psalm 26 Apsalmof David. 8.6.8.6 1 Judge me, o Lord, for I have walk’t in mine integrity: and I have trusted in the Lord, therefore slide shall not I. 2 Examine me, Lord, and me prove; my reins, and my heart try. 3 For thy grace is before mine eyes; and in thy truth walk I. 4 I sat not with vain men, nor go with men themselves that hide. 5 Evil men’s company I hate: nor will with vile abide. 6 In cleanness, Lord, I’ll wash mine hands, so I’ll thine altar round: 7 That I may preach with thankful-voice, and all thy praises sound. 8 The habitation of thy house, Lord, dearly love do I, the place and tabernacle of thy glorious majesty. 9 My soul with sinners gather not, with men of blood my life. 10 In whose hand ‘s guile, in whose right hand bribery is full rise. 11 Redeem, and pity me; for I’ll walk in mine uprightness. 12 My foot stands right: in th’ assembly I will Jehovah bless. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 38: 037) PSALM 27 ======================================================================== Psalm 27 APsalm of David. 8.6.8.6 1 The Lord my light, and my health is, what shall make me dismay’d? The Lord is my life’s-strength, of whom should I then be afraid? 2 When wicked men, mine enemies, and my foes in battle; against me come, to eat my flesh, themselves stumbled and fell. 3 If that an host against me camp, my heart undaunted is: if war against me should arise, I am secure in this. 4 One thing of God I asked have, which I will still request: that I may in the house of God, all days of my life rest: To see the beauty of the Lord, and in his Temple seek. 5 For in his tent in th’ evil-day, hidden he will me keep: He will me hide in secrecy of his pavilion: and will me highly lift upon the rocks-munition. 6 Moreover at this-time my head lifted on high shall be, above mine enemies, who do about encompass me. Therefore in’s tent I’ll sacrifice, of joy an offering, unto Jehovah, sing will I, yea, I will praises sing. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 39: 038) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 7 When as I with my voice do cry, me, o Jehovah, hear, have mercy also upon me, and unto me answer. 8 When thou didst say, seek ye my face, my heart said unto thee, why countenance, o Jehovah, it shall be sought by me. 9 Hide not thy face from me, nor off in wrath thy servant cast: God of my health, leave, leave not me, my helper been thou hast. 10 My father and my mother both though they do me forsake, yet will Jehovah gathering unto himself me take. 11 Jehovah, teach thou me the way, and be a guide to me in righteous path, because of them that mine observers be. 12 Give me not up unto the will of my strait-enemies: for witness false against me stand, and breath out cruelties. 13 I should have fainted, had not I believed for to see, Jehovah’s goodness in the land of them that living be. 14 Doe thou upon Jehovah wait: be stablished, and let thine heart be strengthened, and thine hope upon Jehovah set. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 40: 039) PSALM 28 ======================================================================== Psalm 28 A psalmof David. 8.8.8.8 1 JEHOVAH, unto thee I cry, my Rock, be thou not deaf me fro: lest thou be dumb from me and I be like them down to pit that go. 2 Hear thou the voice of my request for grace, when unto thee I cry: when I lift up mine hands unto thine Oracle of Sanctity. 3 With ill men draw me not away, with workers of unrighteousness, that with their neighbours peace do speak, but in their hands is wickedness. 4 Give thou to them like to their works and like the evil of their deeds: give them like to their handy-works, and render unto them their meeds. 5 Because unto Jehovah’s work they did not wise-attention yield neither unto his handy work, them he will wast, but no up-build. 6 The Lord be blest, for he hath heard the voice of my requests for grace. 7 God is my strength, my shield, in him my heart did trust, and help’t I was: Therefore my heart will gladness shew, and with my song I’ll him confess. 8 The Lord of his anointed ones their strength, and tower of safety is. 9 Salvation to thy people give, and bless thou thine inheritance, and ev’n unto eternity do thou them feed and them advance. This. After the common tunes. (8.6.8.6) Save Lord, thy people, and do thou bless thine inheritance: and unto all eternity them feed and them advance. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 41: 040) PSALM 29 ======================================================================== Psalm 29 A psalm of David. 8.6.8.6 1 Unto the Lord do ye ascribe (o Sons of the mighty) unto the Lord do ye ascribe glory and potency. 2 Unto the Lord do ye ascribe his names glorious renown, in beauty of his holiness unto the Lord bow down. 3 The mighty voice of Jehovah upon the waters is: the God of glory thundereth, God on great waters is. 4 Jehovah’s voice is powerful, Gods voice is glorious, 5 Gods voice breaks Cedars: yea God breaks Cedars of Lebanus. 6 He makes them like a calf to skip: the mountain Lebanon, and like to a young Unicorn the hill of Sirion. 7 Gods voice divides the flames of fire. 8 Jehovah’s voice doth make the desert shake: the Lord doth cause the Kadesh-desert shake. 9 The Lords voice makes the hinds to calve, and makes the forest bare: and in his temple every one his glory doth declare. 10 The Lord sate on the floods: the Lord for ever sits as King. 11 God to his folk gives strength: the Lord his folk with peace blessing. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 42: 041) PSALM 30 ======================================================================== Psalm 30 A Psalm and Song,atthe dedication of the house of David. 8.6.8.6 1 JEHOVAH, I will thee extol, for thou hast lift up me; and over me thou hast not made my foes joyful to be. 2 O Lord my God, to thee I cry’d and thou hast made me whole. 3 Out of the grave, o Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul: Thou mad’st me to live, I went not down 4 to pit. Sing to the Lord, (ye his Saints) and give thanks when ye his holiness record. 5 For but a moment in his wrath; life in his love doth stray: weeping may lodge with us a night but joy at break of day. 6 I said in my prosperity, I shall be moved never. 7 Lord by thy favour thou hast made my mountain stand fast ever: Thou hid’st thy face, I troubled was. 8 I unto thee did cry, o Lord: also my humble suit unto the Lord made I. 9 What gain is in my blood; when I into the pit go down? shall dust give glory unto thee? shall it thy truth make known? 10 Do thou me o Jehovah, hear, and on me mercy have: Jehovah, o be thou to me an helper me to save. 11 Thou into dancing for my sake converted hast my sadness: my sackcloth thou unloosed hast, and girded me with gladness: 12 That sing to thee my glory may, and may not silent be: o Lord my God, I will give thanks for evermore to thee. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 43: 042) PSALM 31 ======================================================================== Psalm 31 To the chief of Musician, a psalm of David. 8.6.8.6 1 IN thee, o Lord, I put my trust, let me be shamed never: according to thy righteousness o do thou me deliver. 2 Bow down to me thine ear, with speed let me deliverance have: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence me to save. 3 Because thou unto me a rock and my fortress wilt be: therefore for thy names sake do thou, lead me and guide thou me. 4 Doe thou me pull out of the net, which they have for me laid so privily: because that thou art to me a sure aid. 5 Into thy hands my spirit I reposing do commit: Jehovah God of verity, thou hast redeemed it. 6 I hated them that have regard to lying vanity: 7 but I in God trust. I’ll be glad, and joy in thy mercy: Because thou hast considered my afflicting distress; thou hast my soul acknowledged in painful anguishes; 8 And thou hast not inclosed me within the enemies hand: thou mad’st my feet within the place of liberty to stand. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 44: 043) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 9 Have mercy upon me, o Lord, for in distress am I, with grief mine eye consumed is, my soul and my belly. 10 For my life with grief and my years with sighs are consumed: because of my sin, my strength fails, and my bones are wasted. 11 To all my foes I was a scorn, chiefly my neighbours to; a fear to friends: they that saw me without, did fly me fro. 12 I am forgot as a dead man that’s out of memory: and like a vessel that is broke ev’n such a one am I. 13 Because that I of many men the slandering did hear, round about me on every side there was exceeding fear: While as that they did against me counsel together take, they craftily have purposed my life away to make. 14 But o Jehovah, I in thee my confidence have put 15 I said thou art my God. My times within thy hands are shut: From the hands of mine enemies do thou deliver me, and from the men who me against my persecutors be. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 45: 044) (3) ======================================================================== (3) 16 Thy countenance for to shine forth upon thy servant make: o give to me salvation even for thy mercy sake. 17 Let me not be asham’d, o Lord, for call’d on thee I have: let wicked men be sham’d, let them be silent in the grave. 18 Let lying lips be silenced, that against men upright do speak such things as grievous are, in pride, and in despite. 19 How great ‘s thy goodness, thou for the that fear thee hast hidden: which thou work’st for them that thee trust, before the Sons of men. 20 Thou in the secret of thy face, shalt hide them from mans pride: in a pavilion, from the strife of tongues, thou wilt them hide. 21 O let Jehovah blessed be; for he hath shewed me his loving kindness wonderful in a fenced-city. 22 For I in hast said, I am cast from the sight of thine eyes: yet thou heard’st the voice of my suit, when to thee were my cries. 23 O love the Lord all ye his Saints: because the Lord doth guard the faithful, but the proud doer doth plenteously reward. 24 See that ye be encouraged, and let your heart wax strong: all whosoever hopefully do for Jehovah long. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 46: 045) PSALM 32 ======================================================================== Psalm 32 Apsalmof David, Maschil. 8.6.8.6 1 O Blessed is the man who hath his trespass pardoned, and he whose aberration is wholly covered, 2 O blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputes not sin: and he who such a spirit hath that guile is not therein. 3 When I kept silence then my bones, began to wear away, with age; by means of my roaring continuing on all the day. 4 For day and night thy hand on me, heavily did endure: into the drought of Summer time turn’d is my moisture. Selah. 5 Mine aberration unto thee I have acknowledged, and mine iniquity I have not closely covered: Against myself my sin, said I, I will to God confess, and thou didst the iniquity forgive of my trespass. Selah. 6 For this each godly one to thee in finding time shall pray. surely in floods of waters great, come nigh him shall not they. 7 Thou art my hiding-place, thou shalt from trouble save me out: thou with songs of deliverance shalt compass me about. 8 I will instruct thee, also teach thee in the way will I which thou shalt go: I will to thee give counsel with mine eye. 9 Like to the horse and mule, which have no knowledge be not ye: whose mouths are held with bridle-bit, that come not near to thee. 10 To those men that ungodly are, their sorrows do abound: but him that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass round. 11 Be in Jehovah joyful ye, ye righteous ones rejoice; and all that are upright in heart shout ye with joyful voice. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 47: 046) PSALM 33 ======================================================================== Psalm 33 6.6.8.6 1 YE just in God rejoice, praise well th’ upright doth suit: 2 Praise God with Harp, with psalt’ry sing to him, on ten string’d lute. 3 Sing to him a new song, aloud play skilfully. 4 For the Lords word is right: and all his works in verity. 5 He loveth righteousness, and also equity: the earth replenished is with the Lords benignity. 6 By the word of the Lord the heavens had their frame, and by the spirit of his mouth, all the host of the same. 7 The waters of the seas, he gathers as an heap; together as in store-houses he layeth up the deep. 8 Be all the earth in fear, because of Jehovah: let all the dwellers of the world before him stand in awe. 9 Because he did but speak the word, and it was made: he gave out the commandement, and it was firmly stay’d. 10 The Lord to nought doth bring the nations counsel; he devises of the people makes of none effect to be. 11 The counsel of the Lord abide for ever shall, the cogitations of his heart to generations all. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 48: 047) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 12 O blessed nation, whose God Jehovah is: and people whom for heritage chosen he hath for his. 13 The Lord from heaven looks, all Sons of men views well. 14 From his firm dwelling he looks forth, on all that on earth dwell. 15 The hearts of all of them alike he fashioneth: and all their operations he well considereth. 16 By multitude of host there is no King saved: nor is by multitude of strength the strong delivered. 17 A horse a vain thing is to be a saviour: nor shall he work deliverance by greatness of his power. 18 On them that do him fear lo, is Jehovah’s eye: upon them that do place their hope on his benignity. 19 To save alive in dearth, and their soul from death free. 20 Our soul doth for Jehovah wait, our help, and shield is he. 21 For our heart joys in him: for in’s pure name trust we. 22 Let thy mercy (Lord) be on us: like as we trust in thee. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 49: 048) PSALM 34 ======================================================================== Psalm 34 Apsalmof David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech, who drove him away and he departed. 8.6.8.6 1 I’LL bless God always; his praise shall still in my mouth be had. 2 My soul shall boast in God: the meek shall hear this and be glad. 3 Exalt the Lord with me, his name let us together advance. 4 I sought, God heard, who gave from all my fears deliverance. 5 Him they beheld, and light’ned were, nor sham’d were their faces. 6 This poor man cry’d, the Lord him heard, and freed from all distress. 7 His camp about them round doth pitch the Angell of the Lord; who do him fear; and to them doth deliverance afford. 8 O taste, also consider ye, that God is good: o blest, that man is ever whose hope doth for safety in him rest. 9 O stand in fear of Jehovah, his holy ones who be. because that such as do him fear not any want shall see. 10 The Lions young do suffer lack, and suffer hungering: but they that seek Jehovah, shall not want any good thing. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 50: 049) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 11 I will you teach to fear the Lord: come children hark to me. 12 Who is the man that willeth life: and loves good days to see? 13 Thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile keep thou. 14 Depart from evil and do good: seek peace, and it follow. 15 Upon the men that righteous are the Lord doth set his eye: and likewise he doth bow his ear when unto him they cry. 16 Jehovah’s face is set against them that do wickedly: that he of them from off the earth may cut the memory. 17 They cry’d, God heard, and set them free, from their distresses all. 18 To broken hearts the Lord is near, and contrite save he shall. 19 The just mans sorrows many are, from all God sets him free. 20 He keepeth all his bones, that none of them shall broken be. 21 Evil shall certainly bring death the wicked man upon: and those that hate the just shall come to desolation. 22 The souls of them that do him serve, Jehovah doth redeem: nor any shall be desolate, that put their trust in him. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 51: 050) PSALM 35 ======================================================================== Psalm 35 A psalmof David. 8.8.8.8 1 Plead, Lord, with them that with me plead: fight against them that fight with me. 2 Of shield and buckler take thou hold, stand up my helper for to be. 3 Draw out the spear and stop the way ‘gainst them that my pursuers be: and do thou say unto my soul I am salvation unto thee. 4 Let them confounded be, and sham’d, that seek my soul how they may spill: let them be turn’d back and sham’d that in their thoughts devise mine ill. 5 As chaff before wind, let them be, and Gods Angell them driving. 6 Let their way dark and slippery be, and the Lords Angell them chasing. 7 For in a pit without cause, they hidden have for me a net: which they without a cause have digg’d that they there in my soul may get. 8 Let unknown ruin come on him, and let his net that he doth hide, himself ensnare: let him into the very same destruction slide. 9 My soul shall in the Lord be glad: in his salvation joyful be 10 And all my bones shall also say, o Lord, who is like unto thee? Who from the stronger then himself the poor afflicted settest free: the poor afflicted and needy, from such as spoilers of him be. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 52: 051) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 11 False witnesses did up arise: what I knew not they charg’d on me. 12 Evil for good they me repay’d, whereby my soul might spoiled be, 13 But I, when they were sick, was cloath’d with sackcloth, and I afflicted my soul with fasting, and my pray’r into my bosom return’d. 14 I walked as if had been my near friend or mine own brother: I heavily bow’d down as one that mourneth for his own mother. 15 But they in mine adversity rejoiced, and they gathered themselves together: yea abjects themselves against me gathered; And I was ignorant hereof; and they incessantly me tear, 16 With hypocrites, mockers in feasts; at me their teeth they gnashing were. 17 How long o Lord wilt thou look on? my soul from their destructions, o do thou set at liberty, mine only one from the Lions. 18 I freely will give thanks to thee within the congregation great: and I thy praises will set forth where there be many people met. 19 Those that are wrongfully my foes, let them not rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye, that are my haters causelessly. 20 Because that they do not speak peace: but in their thoughts they do invent deceitful matters against them that in the land for peace are bent. 21 Gainst me they op’ned their mouths wide, and said, ah, ah our eye it saw. 22 Thou saw’st it (Lord) hold not thy peace: Lord, from me be not far away. 23 Stir up and wake to my judgment, my God and my Lord, to my plea. 24 After thy justice, judge me, Lord my God, lest or’e me joy should they. 25 Let them not say within their hearts, aha, our souls’ desire have we: we now have swallowed him up, o let them never say of me. 26 Sham’d let them be and confounded jointly, who at my hurt are glad: let them that ‘gainst me magnify, with shame and dishonour be clad. 27 Let them for joy shout, and be glad that favour do my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, extolled be the Lord with praise, Who doth in the prosperity of his servants his pleasure stay 28 And my tongue of thy justice shall, and of thy praise speak all the day. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 53: 052) PSALM 36 ======================================================================== Psalm 36 To the chief Musician a psalm of David, the servant of the Lord. 8.6.8.6 1 The trespass of the wicked one saith in assured-wise: within my heart, the fear of God is not before his eyes. 2 For in his eyes he sooths himself: his sin is found mean while 3 hateful. The words of his mouth are iniquity and guile: He to be wise, to do good leaves. 4 He mischief plots on’s bed, he sets himself in way not good: he hath not ill hated. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 54: 053) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 5 Thy mercy (Lord) in heaven is, to clouds thy faithfulness. 6 Thy judgments a great deep, like great mountains thy righteousness: Thou savest man and beast, o Lord. 7 How precious is thy grace, therefore in shadow of thy wings men’s sons their trust do place. 8 They of the fatness of thy house unto the full shall take: and of the river of thy joys to drink thou shalt them make. 9 For with thee is the spring of life: in thy light we’ll see light. 10 To them that know thee stretch thy grace; to right in heart thy right. 11 Let no proud foot against me come, nor wicked hand move me. 12 Wrong doers there are fall’n cast down, and rais’d they cannot be, ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 55: 054) PSALM 37 ======================================================================== Psalm 37 A Psalm of David. 8.6.8.6 1 Fret not thy self because of those that evil workers be, nor envious be against the men that work iniquity. 2 For like unto the grass they shall be cut down, suddenly: and like unto the tender herb they withering shall dye. 3 Upon the Lord put thou thy trust, and be thou doing good, so shalt thou dwell within the land, and sure thou shalt have food. 4 See that thou set thy hearts delight also upon the Lord, and the desirers of thy heart to thee he will afford. 5 Trust in the Lord: and he’ll it work, to him commit thy way. 6 As light thy justice he’ll bring forth, thy judgment as noon day. 7 Rest in Jehovah, and for him with patience do thou stay: fret not thy self because of him who prospers in his way, Nor at the man, who brings to pass the crafts he doth devise. 8 Cease ire, and wrath leave: to do ill thy self fret in no wise. 9 For evil doers shall be made by cutting down to fall: but those that wait upon the Lord, the land inherit shall. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 56: 055) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 10 For yet a little while, and then the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently mark his place, and it not see. 11 But meek ones the inheritance shall of the earth possess: also they shall themselves delight in multitude of peace. 12 The wicked plots against the just, gnashing at him his teeth. 13 The Lord shall laugh at him: because his day coming he seeth. 14 The wicked have drawn out their sword, and bent their bow have they, to cast the poor and needy down, to kill th’ upright in way. 15 Their sword shall enter their own heart, their bows shall broken be. 16 The just mans little, better is then wicked’s treasury. 17 For th’ arms of wicked shall be broke: the Lord the just doth stay. 18 The Lord doth know upright men’s days: and their lot is for aye. 19 Neither shall they ashamed be in any time of ill: and when the days of famine come, they then shall have their fill. 20 But wicked, and foes of the Lord as lambs fat shall decay: they shall consume: yea into smoke they shall consume away. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 57: 056) (3) ======================================================================== (3) 21 The man ungodly borroweth, but he doth not repay: but he that righteous is doth shew mercy, and gives away. 22 For such as of him blessed be, the earth inherit shall, and they that of him cursed are, by cutting down shall fall. 23 The foot-steps of a godly man they are by Jehovah established: and also he delighteth in his way. 24 Although he fall, yet shall he not be utterly down cast: because Jehovah with his hand doth under prop him fast. 25 I have been young and now am old; yet have I never seen the just man left, nor that his seed for bread have beggars been. 26 But every day he’s merciful, and lends: his seed is blest. 27 Depart from evil, and do good: and ever dwell at rest. 28 Because the Lord doth judgment love, his Saints forsakes not he; kept ever are they: but cut off the sinners seed shall be. 29 The just inherit shall the land, and therein ever dwell. 30 The just man’s mouth wisdom doth speak; his tongue doth judgment tell. 31 The law of his God is in’s heart; none of his steps slideth. 32 The wicked watcheth for the just, and him to slay seeketh. 33 Jehovah will not such a one relinquish in his hand, neither will he condemn him when adjudged he doth stand. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 58: 057) (4) ======================================================================== (4) 34 Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall thee exalt th’ earth to inherit: when cut off the wicked, see thou shalt. 35 The wicked men I have beheld in mighty pow’r to be, also himself spreading abroad like to a green bay tree. 36 Nevertheless he past away, and lo, then was not he: moreover I did seek for him, but found he could not be. 37 Take notice of the perfect man, and the upright attend: because that unto such a man peace is his latter end. 38 But such men that transgressors are together perish shall: the latter end shall be cut off of the ungodly all. 39 But the salvation of the just doth of Jehovah come: he is their strength to them in times that are most troublesome. 40 Yea, help and free them will the Lord: he shall deliver them from wicked men, because that they do put their trust in him. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 59: 058) PSALM 38 ======================================================================== Psalm 38 A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. 8.8.8.8 1 LORD, in thy wrath rebuke me not: nor in thy hot rage chasten me. 2 Because thine hand doth press me sore, and in me thy shafts fastened be. 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because thine anger I am in; nor is there any rest within my bones by reason of my sin. 4 Because that mine iniquities ascended are above my head: like as an heavy burden they to heavy upon me are laid. 5 My wounds stink and corrupt they be my foolishness doth make it so. 6 I troubled am; and much bow’d down; all the day long I mourning go. 7 For with foul sores my loins are fill’d: and in my flesh is no soundness. 8 I’m weak and broken sore: I roar’d because of my heart’s restlessness. 9 All my desire’s before thee, Lord; nor is my groaning hid from thee. 10 My heart doth pant, my strength me fails: and mine eyesight is gone from me. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 60: 059) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 11 My friends and lovers from my sore stand off; off stand my kinsmen eke. 12 And they lay snares that seek my life: that seek my hurt they mischief speak, and all day long imagine guile. 13 But, as one deaf, I did not hear; and as a dumb man I became as if his mouth not open were. 14 Thus was I as man that hears not, and in whose mouth reproofs none were. 15 Because, O Lord, in thee I hope: O Lord my God, thou wilt me hear. 16 For said I, lest or’e me they joy: when my foot slips, they vaunt the more 17 themselves ‘gainst me. For I to halt am near; my grief’s still me before. 18 For my transgression I’ll declare; I for my sins will sorry be. 19 But yet my lively foes are strong: who falsely hate me multiply. 20 Moreover they that do repay evil instead of good to me; because I follow what is good to me they adversaries be. 21 Jehovah, do not me forsake: my God, O do not far depart 22 from me. Make hast unto mine aid, O Lord who my salvation art. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 61: 060) PSALM 39 ======================================================================== Psalm 39 To the chief Musician,evento Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. 8.6.8.6 1 I said, I will look to my ways, lest I sin with my tongue: I’ll keep my mouth with bit, while I the wicked am among. 2 With silence tied was my tongue, my mouth I did refrain, from speaking that thing which is good; and stirred was my pain. 3 Mine heart within me waxed hot, while I was musing long enkindled in me was the fire: then spake I with my tongue, 4 Mine end, O Lord, and my days, let me the measure learn; that what a momentary thing I am I may discern. 5 Behold, thou mad’st my days a span; mine age as nought to thee: surely each man at’s best estate is wholly vanity. Selah. 6 Sure in a vain show walketh man: sure stir’d in vain they are: he heaps up riches and knows not who shall the same gather. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 62: 061) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 7 And now, O Lord, what wait I for? my hope is upon thee. 8 Free me from all my trespasses: the fools scorn make not me. 9 I was dumb nor op’ned my mouth; this done because thou hast. 10 Remove thy stroke away from me: by thy hands blow I waste. 11 When with rebukes thou dost correct man for iniquity, thou blasts his beauty like a moth: sure each man ’s vanity. Selah. 12 Hear my pray’r, Lord, hark to my cry; be not still at my tears: for stranger, and pilgrim with thee, I’ me, as all my fathers. 13 O turn aside a while from me, that I may strength recall, before I do depart from hence, and be no more at all. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 63: 062) PSALM 40 ======================================================================== Psalm 40 To the chief musician, a Psalm of David. 8.6.8.6 1 With expectation for the Lord I waited patiently; and he inclined unto me, also he heard my cry. 2 He brought me out of dreadful pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, he stablished my way. 3 And in my mouth put a new song, of praise out God unto: many shall see, and fear, upon the Lord shall trust also. 4 Blest is the man that on the Lord maketh his trust abide, nor doth the proud respect, nor such to lies as turn aside. 5 O thou Jehovah thou my God, hast many a wonder wrought, and likewise towards us thou hast conceived many a thought: their sum cannot be reck’ned up in order unto thee: would I declare and speak of them, beyond account they be. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 64: 063) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 6 Thou sacrifice and offering wouldst not; thou boar’st mine ear: burnt off’ring and sin offering thou neither didst require. 7 Then said I, Lo, I come: i’th’ books roll it is writ of me, 8 To do thy will, God, I delight: thy laws in my heart be. 9 In the great congregation thy righteousness I show: lo, I have not refrain’d my lips, Jehovah, thou dost know. 10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart alone; I have declar’d thy faithfulness and thy salvation: thy mercy nor thy truth have I from the great church conceal’d. 11 Let not thy tender mercies be from me, O Lord, withheld: let both thy kindness and thy truth keep me my life throughout. 12 Because innumerable ills have compast me about: my sins have caught, me so that I not able am to see; more are they then hairs of my head: therefore my heart fails me. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 65: 064) (3) ======================================================================== (3) 13 Be pleas’d, Lord, to deliver me: to help me, Lord, make hast. 14 At once abasht and sham’d let be who seek my soul to waste; let them be driven back and sham’d, that with me misery. 15 Let them be waste to quit their shame that say to me, fie fie. 16 Let all be glad and joy in thee that seek thee: let them say who thy salvation love, The Lord be magnified alway. 17 I both distress’d and needy am; the Lord yet thinks on me: my help and my deliverer thou; my God, do not tarry. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 66: 065) PSALM 41 ======================================================================== Psalm 41 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. 8.6.8.6 1 Blessed is he that wisely doth unto the poor attend: the Lord will him deliverance in time of trouble send. 2 Him God will keep, and make to live; on earth he blest shall be: nor do thou him unto the will give of his enemy. 3 Upon the bed of languishing the Lord will strengthen him: thou also wilt make all his bed within his sickness time. 4 I said, Jehovah, O be thou merciful unto me: heal thou my soul, because that I have sinned against thee. 5 Those men that be mine enemies, with evil me defame, When will the time come he shall die, and perish shall his name? 6 And if he come to see me, he speaks vanity: his heart sin to itself heaps; when he goes forth, he doth it impart. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 67: 066) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 7 All that me hate against me they together whisper still: against me they imagine do to me malicious ill. 8 Thus do they say some ill disease unto him cleaveth sore: and seeing now he lieth down he shall rise up no more. 9 Moreover my familiar friend on whom my trust I set, his heel against me lifted up, who of my bread did eat. 10 But Lord me pity, and me raise, that I may them requite. 11 By this I know assuredly in me thou dost delight, for o’er me triumphs not my foe. 12 And me, thou dost me stay in mine integrity, and set’st me thee before for aye. 13 Blest hath Jehovah Israel’s God from everlasting been, also unto everlasting. Amen, yea and Amen. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 68: 067) PSALM 42 ======================================================================== Psalm 42 To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. 8.6.8.6 1 Like as the hart panting doth bray after the water brooks, even in such wise, O God, my soul after thee panting looks. 2 For God, even for the living God, my soul it thirsteth sore: oh when shall I come and appear the face of God before? 3 My tears have been unto me meat by night also by day, while all the day they unto me, Where is thy God? do say. 4 When as I do in mind record these things, then me upon I do my soul out pour: for I with multitude had gone, with them unto God’s house I went, with voice of joy and praise, I with a multitude did go that did keep holy days. 5 My soul, why art cast down? and art stirr’d in me? thy hope place in God: for yet him praise I shall for the help of his face. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 69: 068) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 6 My God, my soul in me’s cast down: therefore thee mind I will from Jordan’s, and Hermonites’ land, and from the little hill. 7 At the noise of thy water spouts deep unto deep doth call: thy waves they are gone over me, also thy billows all. 8 His loving kindness yet the Lord command will in the day, and in the night his song with me, to my life’s God I’ll pray. 9 I unto God will say, My rock, why hast thou forgot me? why go I sad by reason of pressure of th’ enemy? 10 As with a sword within my bones, my foes reproach me do; while all the day, Where is thy God? they do say me unto. 11 My soul, O wherefore dost thou bow thyself down heavily? and wherefore in me makest thou a stir tumultuously? hope thou in God: because I shall with praise him yet advance, who is my God; also he is health of my countenance. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 70: 069) PSALM 43 ======================================================================== Psalm 43 8.6.8.6 1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause from nation merciless: from the guileful and man unjust O send thou me redress. 2 For of my strength thou art the God: why cast’s thou me thee fro’? why go I mourning for the sore oppression of the foe? 3 Thy light O send out and thy truth: let them lead; and bring me unto thy holy hill, and where thy tabernacles be. 4 Then will I to God’s altar go, to God my joy’s gladness: upon the harp, O God my God, I will thy praise express. 5 My soul, O wherefore dost thou bow thyself down heavily? and wherefore in me makest thou a stir tumultuously? hope thou in God: because I shall with praise him yet advance, who is my God; also he is health of my countenance. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 71: 070) PSALM 44 ======================================================================== Psalm 44 To the chief Musician, for the sons of Korah, Maschil. 8.6.8.6 1 We with our ears have heard, O God, our fathers have us told, what works thou diddest in their days, in former days of old. 2 How thy hand drave the heathen out, and them thou planted hast; how thou the people didst afflict, and thou didst them out cast. 3 For they got not by their own sword the lands possession, neither yet was it their own arm wrought their salvation: but thy right hand, thine arm also, thy countenance’s light, because that of thine own good will thou didst in them delight. 4 Thou art my King, O mighty God, thou dost the same endure: do thou for Jacob by command deliverances procure. 5 Through thee as with a horn we will push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them down that up against us rise. 6 Because that I will in no wise any affiance have upon my bow, neither is it my sword that shall me save. 7 But from our enemies us thou sav’d, and put our foes to shame. 8 In God we boast all the day long, and for aye praise thy name. Selah. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 72: 071) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 9 But thou hast cast us off away, thou makest us also to be asham’d; neither dost thou forth with our armies go. 10 Us from before the enemy thou makest back recoil: likewise they which our haters be for themselves us do spoil. 11 Thou hast given us like to sheep to slaughter that belong; also thou hast us scattered the heathen folk among. 12 Thou dost thy people set to sale whereby no wealth doth rise, neither dost thou obtain increase of riches by their price. 13 Unto our neighbours a reproach thou doest us expose, a scorn we are and mocking stock to them that us inclose. 14 Among the heathen people thou a by word dost us make, also among the nations at us their heads they shake. 15 Before me my confusion it is continually, and of my countenance the shame hath over covered me. 16 Because of his voice that doth scorn, and scoffingly despite; by reason of the enemy, and self revenging wight. ??? ======================================================================== CHAPTER 73: 072) (3) ======================================================================== (3) 17 All this is come on us; we yet have not forgotten thee, neither against thy covenant have we dealt faithlessly. 18 Our heart is not turn’d back, nor have our steps from thy way stray’d; 19 Though us thou brake in dragons place, and hid us in deaths shade. 20 Had we forgot God’s name, or stretcht to a strange God our hands; 21 Shall not God search this out? for he heart’s secrets understands. 22 Yea, for thee all day we are kill’d; counted as sheep to slay. 23 Awake, why sleepest thou, Lord? arise, cast us not off for aye. 24 Thy countenance away from us O wherefore dost thou hide, of our grief and oppression forgetful dost abide? 25 For our soul is bow’d down to dust: to earth cleaves our belly. 26 Rise for our help, and us redeem because of thy mercy. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 74: 073) PSALM 45 ======================================================================== Psalm 45 To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil A Song of loves. 8.6.8.6 1 My heart good matter boileth forth: my works touching the king I speak: my tongue is as the pen of scribe swiftly writing. 2 Fairer thou art than sons of men: grace in thy lips is shed: because of this the Lord hath thee for evermore blessed. 3 Thy wasting sword, O mighty one, gird thou upon thy thigh, thy glorious magnificence and comely majesty. 4 Ride forth upon the word of truth, meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall lead thee forth in works of dreadfulness. 5 Within the heart of the king’s foes thine arrows piercing be; whereby the people overcome shall fall down under thee. 6 Thy throne, O God, forever is: the scepter of thy state 7 right scepter is. Justice thou lov’st, but wickedness dost hate: because of this God, ev’n thy God, he hath anointed thee with oil of gladness above them that they companions be. 8 Myrrh, aloes, and cassias smell, all thy garments had, out of the ivory palaces whereby thy made thee glad. 9 Amongst thine honourable maids kings daughters present were: the queen is set at thy right hand in fine gold of Ophir. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 75: 074) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 10 Hearken, O daughter, and behold, do thou incline thine ear; do thou forget thine own people, and house of thy father. 11 So shall the king delighting rest himself in thy beauty: and bowing down worship thou him; because thy Lord is he. 12 Then shall be present with a gift the daughter there of Tyre; the wealthy ones of the people thy favour shall desire. 13 The daughter of the king she is all glorious within: and with embroideries of gold her garments wrought have been. 14 She is led in unto the king in robes with needle wrought: the virgins that do follow her shall unto thee be brought. 15 They shall be brought forth with gladness also with rejoicing: so shall they entrance have into the palace of the king. 16 Thy children shall instead of those that were thy fathers be, whom thou may’st place in all the earth in princely dignity. 17 Thy name remember’d I will make through generations all: therefore forever and for aye the people praise thee shall. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 76: 075) PSALM 46 ======================================================================== Psalm 46 To the chief Musician, for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. 8.6.8.6 1 GOD is our refuge, strength, and help in troubles very near. 2 Therefore we will not be afraid, though th’ earth removed were, though mountains move to midst of seas. 3 Though waters roaring make and troubled be, at whose swellings although the mountains shake. Selah. 4 There is a river, streams whereof shall rejoice God’s city, the holy place the tent wherein abideth the most high. 5 God is within the midst of her; moved she shall not be: God shall be unto her an help, in the morning early. 6 The nations made tumultuous noise, the kingdoms moved were: he did give forth his thundering voice, the earth did melt with fear. 7 The God of armies is with us; th’ eternal Jehovah the God of Jacob is for us a refuge high. Selah. 8 O come ye forth behold the works which Jehovah hath wrought, the fearful desolations which on the earth he brought. 9 Unto the utmost ends of th’ earth wars into peace he turns; the spear he cuts, the bow he breaks; in fire the chariots burns. 10 Be still, and know that I am God: exalted be will I among the heathen, through the earth I’ll be exalted high. 11 The God of armies is with us, th’ eternal Jehovah; the God of Jacob is for us a refuge high. Selah. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 77: 076) PSALM 47 ======================================================================== Psalm 47 To the chief musician: A Psalm for the sons of Korah. 8.8.8.8 1 Clap hands all people, shout for joy to God with voice of singing mirth. 2 For high Jehovah fearful is; a great King over all the earth. 3 People to us he doth subdue, and nations under our feet lay. 4 For us our heritage he chose, his dear Jacob’s glory. Selah. 5 God is ascended with a shout: Jehovah with the trumpets noise. 6 Sing psalms to God, sing psalms, sing psalms unto our King with singing voice. 7 For God is King of all the earth, sing ye psalms of instruction: 8 Over the heathen God will reign God sits his holy throne upon. 9 To the people of Abrahams-God Princes of peoples gathered be, for shields of th’ earth to God belong: he is exalted mightily. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 78: 077) PSALM 48 ======================================================================== Psalm 48 To the chief musician, a song and psalm for the sons of Korah. 8.6.8.6 1 Great is Jehovah, and he is to be praised greatly within the city of our God, in his mountain holy. 2 For situation beautiful, the joy of the whole earth mount Sion; the great Kings city on the sides of the north. 3 God in her palaces is known to be a refuge high. 4 For lo, the kings assembled were: they past together by. 5 They saw, and so they marveled, were troubled, fled for fear. 6 Trembling seiz’d on them there and pain like her that child doth bare. 7 The navies that of Tarshish are in pieces thou breakest: ev’n with a very blast of wind coming out of the east. 8 As we heard, so we saw within the Lord of host’s city, in our God’s city, God will it stablish eternally. Selah. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 79: 078) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 9 O God we have had thoughts upon thy free benignity, within the very middle part of thy temple holy, 10 According to thy name, o God so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand’s full of righteousness also. 11 Let the mountain Sion rejoice, and triumph let them make who are the daughters of Judah, ev’n for thy judgments sake. 12 About the hill of Sion walk, and go about her ye, and do ye reckon up thereof the tow’rs that therein be. 13 Doe ye full well her bulwarks mark, her Palaces view well, that to the generation to come ye may it tell. 14 For this same God he is our God for ever and for aye: likewise unto the very death he guides us in our way. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 80: 079) PSALM 49 ======================================================================== Psalm 49 To the chief musician a psalm for the sons of Korah. 8.6.8.6 1 Hear this all people, all give ear that dwell the world all o’re. 2 Sons both of low, and higher men, jointly both rich and poor. 3 My mouth it shall variety of wisdom be speaking: and my hearts meditation shall be of understanding. 4 Unto a speech proverbial I will mine ear incline; I will also upon the Harp open my dark doctrine. 5 Why should I be at all afraid in days that evil be: when that my heels iniquity about shall compass me. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 81: 080) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 6 Those men that make their great estates their stay to trust unto, who in the plenty of their wealth themselves do boast also: 7 There’s not a man of them that can by any means redeem his brother, nor give unto God enough to ransom him. 8 So dear their souls’ redemption is and ever ceaseth it. 9 That he should still forever live and never see the pit. 10 For he doth see that wise man dye, to fool and brutish too to perish, and their rich estate to others leave they doo. 11 They think their houses are for aye to generations all their dwelling places, and their lands by their own names they call. 12 Nevertheless, in honour man, abideth not a night: become he is just like unto the beasts the perish quite. 13 This their own way their folly is; yet whatsoe’re they say, their successors that follow them do well approve. Selah. 14 Like sheep so are they laid in grave, death shall them feed upon; and th’ upright over them in morn shall have dominion. And from the place where they do dwell, the beauty which they have, shall utterly consume away in the devouring grave. (3) 15 But surely God redemption unto my soul will give, even from the power of the grave, for he will me receive. Selah. 16 Be not afraid when as a man in wealth is made to grow, and when the glory of his house abundantly doth flow. 17 Because he shall carry away nothing when he doth dye: neither shall after him descend ought of his dignity. 18 And albeit that he his soul in time of his life blest, and men will praise thee, when as thou much of thy self makest. 19 He shall go to his fathers race, they never shall see light. 20 Man in honour, and know’th not, is like beasts that perish quite. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 82: 081) PSALM 50 ======================================================================== Psalm 50 A psalm of Asaph. 8.6.8.6 1 The mighty God, the Lord hath spoke, and he the earth doth call, from the uprising of the Sun, thereof unto the fall. 2 The mighty God hath clearly shinn’d out of the mount Sion, which is of beauty excellent the full perfection. 3 Our God shall come, and not be still fire shall waste in his sight; and round about him shall be rais’d a storm of vehement might. 4 His folk to judge he from above calls heavens, and earth likewise, 5 Bring me my Saints, that cov’nant make with me by sacrifice. 6 And the heavens shall his righteousness shew forth apparently: because the mighty God himself a righteous judge will be. Selah. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 83: 082) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 7 Hear, o my people, and I will speak, I will testify also to thee o Israel, I ev’n thy God am I. 8 As for thy sacrifices I will find no fault with thee, or thy burnt off’rings, which have been at all times before me. 9 Ile take no bullocks, nor he-goats from house, or folds of thine. 10 For forest beasts, and cattle all on thousand hills are mine. 11 The flying fouls of the mountains all of them do I know: and every wild beast of the field it is with me also. 12 If I were hungry I would not it unto thee declare: for mine the habitable world, and fullness of it are. 13 Of bullocks eat the flesh, or drink the blood of goats will I? 14 Thanks offer unto God, and pay thy vows to the most high. 15 And in the day of trouble sore do thou unto me cry, and I will thee deliver, and thou me shalt glorify. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 84: 083) (3) ======================================================================== (3) 16 But to the wicked God saith, why dost thou the mention make of my statutes, why in thy mouth should’st thou my cov’nant take? 17 Sith thou dost hate teaching and dost my words behind thee cast. 18 When thou didst see a thief, then thou with him consented hast; And likewise with adulterers thy part hath been the same. 19 Thy mouth to evil thou dost give, and guile thy tongue doth frame, 20 Thou fittest, thou dost speak against the man that is thy brother: and thou dost slander him that is the son of thine own mother. 21 These things hast thou committed, and in silence I kept close: that I was altogether like thy self, thou didst suppose: I’ll thee reprove, and in order before thine eyes them set. 22 O therefore now consider this ye that do God forget: Lest I you tear, and there be not any deliverer. 23 He glorifieth me that doth praise unto me offer. 24 And he that doth order aright his conversation, to him will I give that he may see Gods salvation. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 85: 084) PSALM 51 (1ST VERSION) ======================================================================== Psalm 51 (1st Version) To the chief musician, a psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in unto Bathsheba. 8.6.8.6 1 Have mercy upon me o God, in thy loving kindness: in multitude of thy mercies blot out my trespasses. 2 From mine iniquity do thou wash me most perfectly, and also from this sin of mine do thou me purify. 3 Because, of my transgressions myself do take notice, and sin that I committed have before me ever is. 4 Gainst thee, thee only I have sinn’d this ill done thee before: when thou speak’st just thou art, and clear when thou dost judge therefore. 5 Behold, how in iniquity I did shape receive: also my mother that me bare in sin did me conceive. 6 Behold, thou dost desire the truth within the inward part: and thou shalt make me wisdom know in secret of my heart. 7 With hyssop do me purify, I shall be cleansed so: do thou me wash, and then I shall be whiter then the snow. 8 Of joy and gladness do thou make me to hear the voice: that so the bones which thou hast broke may cheerfully rejoice. 9 From the beholding of my sin hide thou away thy face: also all mine iniquities do utterly deface. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 86: 085) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 10 A clean heart (Lord) in me create, also a spirit right 11 in me renew. O cast not me away out of thy sight; Nor from me take thy holy spirit. 12 Restore the joy to me of thy salvation, and uphold me with thy spirit free. 13 Then will I teach thy ways to those that work iniquity: and by this means shall sinners be converted unto thee. 14 O God, God of my health, set me free from blood guiltiness, and so my tongue shall joyfully sing of thy righteousness. 15 O Lord-my-stay, let thou my lips by thee be opened, and by my mouth thy praises shall be openly shewed. 16 For thou desir’st not sacrifice, it would I freely bring: neither dost thou contentment take in a whole burnt offering. 17 The sacrifices of the Lord they are a broken sprite: God, thou wilt not despise a heart that’s broken, and contrite. 18 In thy good pleasure o do thou do good to Sion hill: the walls of thy Jerusalem o do thou build up still. 19 The sacrifice of justice shall please thee, with burnt offering, and whole burnt offering; then they shall calves to thine Altar bring. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 87: 086) PSALM 51 (2ND VERSION – ANOTHER OF THE SAME.) ======================================================================== Psalm 51 (2nd Version – Another of the same.) To the chief musician, a psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in unto Bathsheba. 8.8.8.8 1 O GOD, have mercy upon me, according to thy kindness dear: and as thy mercies many be, quite do thou my transgressions clear. 2 From my perverseness me wash through, and from my sin me purify. 3 For my transgressions I do know, before me is my sin daily. 4 Gainst thee, thee only sinn’d have I, and done this evil in thy sight: that when thou speak’st thee justify men may, and judging clear thee quite. 5 Lo, in injustice shape’t I was: in sin my mother conceiv’d me. 6 Lo, thou in th’ inwards truth lov’d has: and made me wise in secrecy. 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I clear shall be; me wash, and then the snow 8 I shall be whiter. Make me hear Joy and gladness, the bones which so Thou broken hast joy cheerly shall. 9 Hyde from my sins thy face away blot thou iniquities out all which are upon me any way. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 88: 087) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 10 Create in me clean heart at last God: a right spirit in me new make. 11 Nor from thy presence quite me cast, thy holy spirit nor from me take. 12 Me thy salvations joy restore, and stay me with thy spirit free. 13 I will, transgressors teach thy lore, and sinners shall be turn’d to thee. 14 Deliver me from guilt of blood, o God, God of my health-saving, which if thou shalt vouchsafe, aloud thy righteousness my tongue shall sing. 15 My lips do thou, o Lord, unclose, and thy praise shall my mouth forth show. 16 For sacrifice thou hast not chose, that I should it on thee bestow: Thou joy’st not in burnt sacrifice. 17 Gods sacrifices are a sp’rit broken; o God, thou’ll not despise, a heart that’s broken and contrite. 18 In thy good will do thou bestow on Sion goodness bounteously: Jerusalem’s walls that lay so low do thou vouchsafe to edify. 19 Then shalt thou please to entertain the sacrifices with content of righteousness, the offerings slain, which unto thee we shall present, Together with the offerings such as in fire whole burned are: and then they shall their bullocks bring, offerings to be on thine altar. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 89: 088) PSALM 52 ======================================================================== Psalm 52 To the chief musician, Maschil. a psalm of David: when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech. 8.6.8.6 1 O Man of might, wherefore dost thou thus boast thy self in ill? the goodness of the mighty God endureth ever still. 2 Thy tongue presumptuously doth mischievous things devise: it is like to a razor sharp, working deceitful lies. 3 Thou lovest evil more then good, more to speak lies then right. 4 O guileful tongue, thou dost in all devouring words delight. 5 God shall likewise for evermore destroying thee deface, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee from thy dwelling place, And also root thee out from off the land of the living. Selah. 6 The righteous also shall it see and fear, at him laughing. 7 Lo, this the man that made not God his strength: but trusted in his store of wealth, himself made strong in his mischievous sin. 8 But in the house of God am I like a green Olive-tree: I trust for ever and for aye, in God’s benignity. 9 Thee will I praise for evermore, because thou hast done this: and I’ll wait on thy name, for good before thy Saints that is. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 90: 089) PSALM 53 ======================================================================== Psalm 53 To the chief musician upon Mahalath, Maschil. apsalmof David. 8.6.8.6 1 The fool in’s heart saith, there’s no God; they are corrupt, have done abominable practices; that doth good there is none. 2 The Lord from heaven looked down on sons of men, to see if any that doth understand, that seeketh God there be. 3 All are gone back, together they ev’n filthy are become: and there is none that doeth good, no not so much as one. 4 The workers of iniquities have they no knowledge all? who eat my people: they eat bread; and on God do not call. 5 Greatly they fear’d, where no fear was, ‘gainst thee in camp that lies his bones God scattered; and them sham’d for God doth them despise. 6 Who Israel’s health from Sion gives? his folks captivity when God shall turn: Jacob shall joy glad Israel shall be. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 91: 090) PSALM 54 ======================================================================== Psalm 54 To the chief musician on Neginoth, Maschil,apsalm:of David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, doth not David hide himself with us? 8.6.8.6 1 Preserve me, by thy name, o God, and by thy strength judge me. 2 O God, my pray’r hear, give ear to words in my mouth that be. 3 For strangers up against me rise, and who oppress me sore, pursue my soul; neither have they set God themselves before. Selah. 4 Lo, God helps me, the Lord’s with them that do my soul sustain. 5 He shall reward ill to my foes: them in thy truth restrain. 6 Unto thee sacrifice will I, with voluntariness; Lord, to thy name I will give praise, because of thy goodness. 7 For he hath me delivered, out of all miseries: and its desire mine eye hath seen upon mine enemies. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 92: 091) PSALM 55 ======================================================================== Psalm 55 To the chief musician on Neginoth, Maschil, a psalm of David. 8.6.8.6 1 O GOD, do thou give ear unto my supplication: and do not hide thy self away from my petition. 2 Bee thou attentive unto me, and answer me return, I in my meditation do make a noise and mourn. 3 Because of th’ enemies voice, because the wicked have opprest, for they injustice on me cast and in wrath me detest. 4 My heart in me is payn’d, on me deaths terrors fallen be. 5 Trembling and fear are on me come, horror hath covered me. 6 Then did I say, o who to me wings of a dove will give; that I might fly away and might in quiet dwelling live. 7 Lo, I would wander far away, and in the desert rest. Selah. 8 Soon would I ‘scape from windy storm, from violent tempest. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 93: 092) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 9 Lord bring on them destruction, do thou their tongues divide; for strife and violence I within the city have espy’d. 10 About it on the walls thereof, they do walk night and day: mischief also and sorrow do in middest of it stay. 11 In midst thereof there’s wickedness; deceitfulness also, and out of the broad streets thereof guilefulness doth not go. 12 For ’twas no foe reproach’t me, then could I have borne; nor did my foe against me lift himself from him had I me hid. 13 But thou it was, the man that wert my well esteemed peer, which wast to me my special guide, and mine acquaintance near. 14 We did together counsel take in sweet society: and we did walk into the house of God in company. 15 Let death seize on them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness among them is in places where they dwell. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 94: 093) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 16 As for me, I will call on God; and me the Lord save shall. 17 Ev’ning morn, and at noon will I pray, and aloud will call, 18 and he shall hear my voice. He hath in peace my soul set free from war that was ‘gainst me, because there many were with me. 19 God shall hear, and them smite, ev’n he that doth of old abide; Selah. because they have no change, therefore Gods fear they lay aside. 20 Gainst such as be at peace with him he hath put forth his hand: he hath also the covenant which he had made prophan’d. 21 His words then butter smoother were, but war in’s heart: his words more then the oil were softened but yet they were drawn swords. 22 Thy burden cast upon the Lord, and he sustain thee shall: nor shall he suffer righteous ones to be remov’d at all. 23 But thou o God, shalt down to hell bring them who bloody be, guileful shall not live half their days: but I will trust in thee. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 95: 094) PSALM 56 ======================================================================== Psalm 56 To the chief musician upon Jonath-elem-rechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath. 6.6.8.6 1 LORD, pity me, because man would up swallow me: and fighting all the day throughout, oppress me sore doth he. 2 Mine enemies they would me swallow up daily; for they be many that do fight against me, o most high. 3 I’ll put my trust in thee, what time I am afraid. 4 In God I’ll praise his word, in God my confidence have stay’d; I will not be afraid what flesh can do to me. 5 All day they wrest my words: their thoughts for ill against me be. 6 They join themselves together; themselves they closely hide; they mark my steps when for my soul waiting they do abide. 7 Shall they make an escape by their iniquity; thou in thine anger down depress the folk, o God mighty. 8 My wanderings thou dost tell, put thou my weeping tears into thy bottle; are they not within thy registers. 9 Then shall my foes turn back, when I cry unto thee: this I do know assuredly, because God is for me. 10 In God I’ll praise his word: the Lords word I will praise. 11 In God I trust: I will not fear what man ‘gainst me can raise. 12 Thy vows on me o God; I’ll render praise to thee. 13 Because that thou my soul from death delivering dost free; Deliver wilt not thou my feet from down falling? so that I may walk before God i’th light of the living. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 96: 095) PSALM 57 ======================================================================== Psalm 57 To the chief musician Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave. 8.6.8.6 1 O GOD, to me be merciful, be merciful to me: because my soul for shelter-safe betakes itself to thee. Yea in the shadow of thy wings, my refuge I have plac’t, until these sore calamities shall quite be over past. 2 To God most high I cry: the God that doth for me perform. 3 He will from heaven send, and save me from the spiteful scorn Of him that would with greedy hast, swallow me utterly: Selah. the Lord from heaven will send forth his grace and verity. 4 My soul’s ‘mongst lions, and I lye with me on-fire-set: men’s sons whose teeth are spears, and shafts, whose tongues as swords are whet. 5 O God, do thou exalt thy self, above the heavens high: up over all the earth also lifted be thy glory. 6 They for my steps prepar’d a net, my soul is bow’d; a pit they digg’d before me, but themselves are fall’n in midst of it. Selah. 7 My heart o God, prepared is, prepared is my heart, sing will I, and sing praise with psalms. 8 Up o my glory start; Wake Psaltery and Harp, I will awake in the morning. 9 Among the folk I’ll praise thee, Lord, ‘mongst nations to thee sing. 10 For great unto the heavens is thy merciful bounty: thy verity also doth reach unto the cloudy sky. 11 O God, do thou exalt thy self, above the heavens high: up over all the earth also lifted be thy glory. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 97: 096) PSALM 58 ======================================================================== Psalm 58 To the chief musician, Altaschith, michtam of David. 8.6.8.6 1 Doe ye o congregation, indeed speak righteousness? and o ye sons of earthly men, do ye judge uprightness? 2 Yea you in heart will working be injurious-wickedness; and in the land you will weigh out your hands violentness. 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb, they go astray as soon as ever they are borne; uttering lies are they. 4 Their poison’s like serpents poison: they like deaf Asp, her ear 5 that stops. Though Charmer wisely charm, his voice she will not hear. 6 Within their mouth do thou their teeth break out, o God most strong, do thou Jehovah, the great teeth break of the lions young. 7 As waters let them melt away, that run continually: and when he bends his shafts, let them as cut asunder be. 8 Like to a snail that melts, so let each of the pass away; like to a woman’s untimely birth see Sun that never they may. 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, take them away shall he, as with a whirlwind both living, and in his jealousy. 10 The righteous will rejoice when as the vengeance he doth see: his feet wash shall he in the blood of them that wicked be. 11 So that a man shall say, surely for righteous there is fruit: sure there’s a God that in the earth judgment doth execute. ___________________ ======================================================================== CHAPTER 98: 097) PSALM 59 ======================================================================== Psalm 59 To the chief musician Altaschith, Michtam of David: when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. 8.6.8.6 1 O GOD from them deliver me that are mine enemies: set thou me up on high from them that up against me rise. 2 Deliver me from them that work grievous-iniquity: and be a saviour unto me from men that be bloody. 3 For lo, they for my soul lay wait; the strong causeless combine against me, not for my crime, Lord, not any sin of mine. 4 Without iniquity in me they run, and ready make themselves, do thou behold, also unto my help awake. 5 Lord God of host, thou Israel’s God, rise to visit therefore all heathens; who sin wilfully, to them shew grace no more. 6 At ev’ning they return, and like to dogs a noise do make; and so about the city round a compass they do take. 7 Behold they belch out with their mouths, within their lips swords are: for who is he (do these men say) which us at all doth hear. 8 But thou o Lord, at them wilt laugh, and heathens all wilt mock. 9 And for his strength. I’ll wait on thee for God is my high Rock. ======================================================================== CHAPTER 99: 098) (2) ======================================================================== (2) 10 God of my mercy manifold with good shall prevent me: and my desire upon my foes the Lord will let me see. 11 Slay them not, lest my folk forget: but scatter them abroad by thy strong-power; and bring them down, who art our shield o God. 12 For their mouths sin, and their lips words, and in their pride them take: and for their cursing, and lying which in their speech they make. 13 Consume in wrath, consume and let them be no more; that they may know that God in Jacob rules, to th’ ends of th’ earth. Selah. 14 And at ev’ning let them return, and like dogs a noise make; and so about the city round a compass let them take. 15 And let them wander up and down seeking what they may eat, and if they be not satisfied, then let them grudge thereat, 16 But I will sing thy power; and shout i’th morning thy kindness: for thou my tower and refuge art in day of my distress. 17 Thou art my strength, and unto thee, sing psalms of praise will I: for God is mine high tower, he is the God of my mercy. ___________________ ======================================================================== Source: https://sermonindex.net/books/psalter-the-bay-psalter-1640-volume-1/ ========================================================================