1 ¶ <<A Song or Psalm of Asaph.>> Keep not thou
silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee
have lifted up the head.
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted
against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a
nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are
confederate against thee:
6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the
Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the
inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of
Lot. Selah.
9 ¶ Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to
Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for
the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their
princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in
possession.
13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the
wind.
14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the
mountains on fire;
15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with
thy storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O
LORD.
17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be
put to shame, and perish:
18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is
JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
1 ¶ <<To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the
sons of Korah.>> How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD
of hosts!
2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD:
my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
3 Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for
herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD
of hosts, my King, and my God.
4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be
still praising thee. Selah.
5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in
whose heart are the ways of them.
6 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the
rain also filleth the pools.
7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in
Zion appeareth before God.
8 ¶ O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob.
Selah.
9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine
anointed.
10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had
rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the
tents of wickedness.