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1 Why do you stand afar off, O LORD? why do you hide
yourself
in times of trouble?
2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them
be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
3 For the wicked boasts of his heart’s desire, and blesses the
covetous, whom the LORD abhors.
4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after
God: God is not in all his thoughts.
5 His ways are always grievous; your judgments are far above
out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffs at them.
6 He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall
never be in adversity.
7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his
tongue is mischief and vanity.
8 He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret
places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against
the poor.
9 He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait
to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draws him into
his net.
10 He crouches, and humbles himself, that the poor may
fall by his strong ones.
11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hides his
face; he will never see it.
12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up your hand: forget not the
humble.
13 Why does the wicked contemn God? he has said in his
heart, You will not require it.
14 You have seen it; for you see mischief and spite,
to requite it with your hand: the poor commits himself unto
you; you are the helper of the fatherless.
15 Break the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek
out his wickedness till you find none.
16 The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are
perished out of his land.
17 LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble: you will
prepare their heart, you will cause your ear to hear:
18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the
earth may no more oppress.
1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of
David. In the LORD put I my trust: how do you say to my soul, Flee
as a bird to your mountain?
2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their
arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in
heart.
3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
4 The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’S throne is
in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
5 The LORD tries the righteous: but the wicked and him that loves
violence his soul hates.
6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an
horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
7 For the righteous LORD loves righteousness; his countenance doth
behold the upright.
1 To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of
David. Help, LORD; for the godly man ceases; for the faithful
fail from among the children of men.
2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with
flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue
that speaks proud things:
4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are
our own: who is lord over us?
5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now
will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from
him that puffs at him.
6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver
tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
7 You shall keep them, O LORD, thou shall preserve them from this
generation for ever.
8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How
long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide
thy face from me?
2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in
my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes,
lest I sleep the sleep of death;
4 Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and
those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy
salvation.
6 I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with
me.
1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of
David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no
God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is
none that doeth good.
2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see
if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become
filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my
people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the
generation of the righteous.
6 You have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is
his refuge.
7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion!
when the LORD brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall
rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
1 A Psalm of David. LORD, who shall abide in your
tabernacle? who shall dwell in your holy hill?
2 He that walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and
speaks the truth in his heart.
3 He that backbites not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to
his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor.
4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honors them
that fear the LORD. He that swears to his own hurt,
and changes not.
5 He that puts not out his money to usury, nor takes reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall
never be moved.
1 Michtam of David. Preserve me, O God: for in
you do I put my trust.
2 O my soul, you have said unto the LORD, You are
my Lord: my goodness extends not to you;
3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to
the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after
another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer,
nor take up their names into my lips.
5 The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup:
thou maintains my lot.
6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I
have a goodly heritage.
7 I will bless the LORD, who has given me counsel: my reins also
instruct me in the night seasons.
8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at
my right hand, I shall not be moved.
9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices: my flesh also
shall rest in hope.
10 For you will not leave my soul in hell; neither will you
suffer your Holy One to see corruption.
11 You will show me the path of life: in your presence is
full of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures for
evermore.
1 A Prayer of David. Hear the right, O LORD,
attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goes not out
of feigned lips.
2 Let my sentence come forth from your presence; let your eyes
behold the things that are equal.
3 You have proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the
night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I am
purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept me
from the paths of the destroyer.
5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip
not.
6 I have called upon you, for you will hear me, O God: incline your ear unto me, and hear my speech.
7 Show your marvelous loving kindness, O you that saves by your
right hand them which put their trust in you from those that
rise up against them.
8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of
your wings,
9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who
compass me about.
10 They are enclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak
proudly.
11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their
eyes bowing down to the earth;
12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were
a young lion lurking in secret places.
13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul
from the wicked, which is thy sword:
14 From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the
world, which have their portion in this life, and whose
belly you fill with your hidden treasure: they are full of
children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
15 As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness: I shall be
satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.
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