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1 ¶ <<A Psalm of David.>> Plead my cause,
O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight
against me.
2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them
that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul:
let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the
LORD chase them.
6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD
persecute them.
7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit,
which without cause they have digged for my soul.
8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that
he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his
salvation.
10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee,
which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea,
the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
11 ¶ False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things
that I knew not.
12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my
soul.
13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was
sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into
mine own bosom.
14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or
brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his
mother.
15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves
together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against
me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with
their teeth.
17 ¶ Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their
destructions, my darling from the lions.
18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise
thee among much people.
19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither
let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters
against them that are quiet in the land.
21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said,
Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
22 This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be
not far from me.
23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my
cause, my God and my Lord.
24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let
them not rejoice over me.
25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let
them not say, We have swallowed him up.
26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that
rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour
that magnify themselves against me.
27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous
cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which
hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy
praise all the day long.
1 ¶ <<To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the
servant of the LORD.>> The transgression of the wicked saith
within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be
found to be hateful.
3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath
left off to be wise, and to do good.
4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that
is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
5 ¶ Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy
faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
6 Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy
judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and
beast.
7 How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the
children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house;
and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall
we see light.
10 O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy
righteousness to the upright in heart.
11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand
of the wicked remove me.
12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down,
and shall not be able to rise.
1 ¶ <<A Psalm of David.>> Fret not thyself
because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of
iniquity.
2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the
green herb.
3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the
land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the
desires of thine heart.
5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall
bring it to pass.
6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy
judgment as the noonday.
7 ¶ Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself
because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who
bringeth wicked devices to pass.
8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise
to do evil.
9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the
LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be:
yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not
be.
11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight
themselves in the abundance of peace.
12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with
his teeth.
13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is
coming.
14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to
cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright
conversation.
15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows
shall be broken.
16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the
riches of many wicked.
17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD
upholdeth the righteous.
18 The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance
shall be for ever.
19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of
famine they shall be satisfied.
20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall
be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they
consume away.
21 ¶ The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous
sheweth mercy, and giveth.
22 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth;
and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.
23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he
delighteth in his way.
24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD
upholdeth him with his hand.
25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen
the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
26 He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is
blessed.
27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
28 For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they
are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for
ever.
30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue
talketh of judgment.
31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps
shall slide.
32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he
is judged.
34 ¶ Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee
to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself
like a green bay tree.
36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought
him, but he could not be found.
37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end
of that man is peace.
38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of
the wicked shall be cut off.
39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he
is their strength in the time of trouble.
40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver
them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.
1 ¶ <<A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.>> O
LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot
displeasure.
2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger;
neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden
they are too heavy for me.
5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day
long.
7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there
is no soundness in my flesh.
8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the
disquietness of my heart.
9 Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not
hid from thee.
10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of
mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my
kinsmen stand afar off.
12 ¶ They also that seek after my life lay snares for me:
and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine
deceits all the day long.
13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a
dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are
no reproofs.
15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should
rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves
against me.
17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is
continually before me.
18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong:
and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries;
because I follow the thing that good is.
21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
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