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Psalms 10:1-18
10:1 -- Why standest thou afar off,
O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
10:2 -- The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be
taken in the devices that they have imagined.
10:3 -- For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth
the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
10:4 -- The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not
seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
10:5 -- His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out
of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
10:6 -- He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall
never be in adversity.
10:7 -- His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his
tongue is mischief and vanity.
10:8 -- He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret
places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against
the poor.
10:9 -- He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in
wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him
into his net.
10:10 -- He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall
by his strong ones.
10:11 -- He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his
face; he will never see it.
10:12 -- Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
10:13 -- Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his
heart, Thou wilt not require it.
10:14 -- Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite,
to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee;
thou art the helper of the fatherless.
10:15 -- Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out
his wickedness till thou find none.
10:16 -- The LORD is King forever and ever: the heathen are perished
out of his land.
10:17 -- LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt
prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
10:18 -- To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of
the earth may no more oppress.
Psalms 52:1-9
52:1 -- 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. Why boastest thou thyself in
mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth
continually.
52:2 -- Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working
deceitfully.
52:3 -- Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak
righteousness. Selah.
52:4 -- Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
52:5 -- God shall likewise destroy thee forever, he shall take thee
away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of
the land of the living. Selah.
52:6 -- The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at
him:
52:7 -- Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted
in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
52:8 -- But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust
in the mercy of God forever and ever.
52:9 -- I will praise thee forever, because thou hast done it: and
I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.
Psalms: 115:1-18
115:1 -- Not unto us, O LORD, not
unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy,
and for thy truth's sake.
115:2 -- Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
115:3 -- But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he
hath pleased.
115:4 -- Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
115:5 -- They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but
they see not:
115:6 -- They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they
smell not:
115:7 -- They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but
they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
115:8 -- They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that
trusteth in them.
115:9 -- O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their
shield.
115:10 -- O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and
their shield.
115:11 -- Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help
and their shield.
115:12 -- The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will
bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.
115:13 -- He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great.
115:14 -- The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
115:15 -- Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
Psa 115:16 -- The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's: but the
earth hath he given to the children of men.
115:17 -- The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into
silence.
115:18 -- But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and forevermore.
Praise the LORD.
Psalms 35: 1-28
35:1 -- A Psalm of David. Plead
my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me:
fight against them that fight against me.
35:2 -- Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
35:3 -- Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that
persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
35:4 -- 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.
35:5 -- Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of
the LORD chase them.
35:6 -- Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the
LORD persecute them.
35:7 -- For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit,
which without cause they have digged for my soul.
35:8 -- Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net
that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him
fall.
35:9 -- And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in
his salvation.
35:10 -- 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?
35:11 -- False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things
that I knew not.
35:12 -- They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
35:13 -- 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.
35:14 -- I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother:
I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
35:15 -- 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:
35:16 -- With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me
with their teeth.
35:17 -- Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their
destructions, my darling from the lions.
35:18 -- I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will
praise thee among much people.
35:19 -- Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over
me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
35:20 -- For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters
against them that are quiet in the land.
35:21 -- Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha,
aha, our eye hath seen it.
35:22 -- This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be
not far from me.
35:23 -- Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause,
my God and my Lord.
35:24 -- Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and
let them not rejoice over me.
35:25 -- Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it:
let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
35:26 -- Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that
rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that
magnify themselves against me.
35:27 -- Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous
cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which
hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
35:28 -- And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy
praise all the day long.
Psalms 56:
1-13
56:1 -- To the chief Musician upon
Jonath-elem-rechokim, Michtam of David, when the
Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful unto me,
O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily
oppresseth me.
56:2 -- Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that
fight against me, O thou most High.
56:3 -- What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
56:4 -- In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust;
I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
56:5 -- Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against
me for evil.
56:6 -- They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they
mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
56:7 -- Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the
people, O God.
56:8 -- Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle:
are they not in thy book?
56:9 -- When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this
I know; for God is for me.
56:10 -- In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his
word.
56:11 -- In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man
can do unto me.
56:12 -- Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
56:13 -- For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou
deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light
of the living.
Psalms 120:
1-7
120:1 -- A Song of degrees. In my
distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
120:2 -- Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful
tongue.
120:3 -- What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto
thee, thou false tongue?
120:4 -- Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
120:5 -- Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents
of Kedar!
120:6 -- My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
120:7 -- I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
Psalms - 11: 1-7
11:1 -- To the chief Musician, A
Psalm of David. In the LORD put I my trust: how say
ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
11:2 -- 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.
11:3 -- If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
11:4 -- The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven:
his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
11:5 -- The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that
loveth violence his soul hateth.
11:6 -- Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and
a horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
11:7 -- For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance
doth behold the upright.
Psalms 36: 1-12
36:1 -- 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.
36:2 -- For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity
be found to be hateful.
36:3 -- The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left
off to be wise, and to do good.
36:4 -- He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a
way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
36:5 -- Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness
reacheth unto the clouds.
36:6 -- Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments
are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
36:7 -- How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children
of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
36:8 -- They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy
house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
36:9 -- For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we
see light.
36:10 -- O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and
thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
36:11 -- Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the
hand of the wicked remove me.
36:12 -- There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down,
and shall not be able to rise.
Psalms 49:
1-20
49:1 -- To the chief Musician, A
Psalm for the sons of Korah. Hear this, all ye people;
give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:
49:2 -- Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
49:3 -- My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart
shall be of understanding.
49:4 -- I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying
upon the harp.
49:5 -- Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity
of my heels shall compass me about?
49:6 -- They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the
multitude of their riches;
49:7 -- None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give
to God a ransom for him:
49:8 -- (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth
forever: --
49:9 -- That he should still live forever, and not see corruption.
49:10 -- For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the
brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
49:11 -- Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue
forever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their
lands after their own names.
49:12 -- Nevertheless man being in honor abideth not: he is like the
beasts that perish.
49:13 -- This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve
their sayings. Selah.
49:14 -- Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on
them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning;
and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
49:15 -- But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for
he shall receive me. Selah.
49:16 -- Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of
his house is increased;
49:17 -- For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall
not descend after him.
49:18 -- Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise
thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
49:19 -- He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never
see light.
49:20 -- Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, is like the beasts
that perish.
Psalms 26:
1-12
26:1 -- A Psalm of David. Judge
me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity:
I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall
not slide.
26:2 -- Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
26:3 -- For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked
in thy truth.
26:4 -- I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with
dissemblers.
26:5 -- I have hated the congregation of evildoers; and will not sit
with the wicked.
26:6 -- I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine
altar, O LORD:
26:7 -- That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell
of all thy wondrous works.
26:8 -- LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place
where thine honor dwelleth.
26:9 -- Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
26:10 -- In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of
bribes.
26:11 -- But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and
be merciful unto me.
26:12 -- My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will
I bless the LORD.
Psalms
28: 1-9
28:1 -- A Psalm of David. Unto thee
will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me:
lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them
that go down into the pit.
28:2 -- Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when
I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
28:3 -- Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity,
which speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.
28:4 -- Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness
of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render
to them their desert.
28:5 -- Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation
of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
28:6 -- Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my
supplications.
28:7 -- The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in
him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with
my song will I praise him.
28:8 -- The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of
his anointed.
28:9 -- Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also,
and lift them up forever.
Psalms tthew
40: 1-17
40:1 -- To the chief Musician, A
Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD;
and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
40:2 -- He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry
clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
40:3 -- And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our
God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
40:4 -- Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth
not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
40:5 -- Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast
done, and thy thoughts which are to usward: they cannot be reckoned
up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are
more than can be numbered.
40:6 -- Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast
thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
40:7 -- Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written
of me,
40:8 -- I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within
my heart.
40:9 -- I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo,
I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
40:10 -- I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared
thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness
and thy truth from the great congregation.
40:11 -- Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let
thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
40:12 -- For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities
have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are
more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
40:13 -- Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help
me.
40:14 -- Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after
my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame
that wish me evil.
40:15 -- Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say
unto me, Aha, aha.
40:16 -- Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee:
let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
40:17 -- But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou
art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
Psalms 5: 1-12
5:1 -- To the chief Musician upon
Nehiloth, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words,
O LORD, consider my meditation.
5:2 -- Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto
thee will I pray.
5:3 -- My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning
will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
5:4 -- For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither
shall evil dwell with thee.
5:5 -- The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers
of iniquity.
5:6 -- Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor
the bloody and deceitful man.
5:7 -- But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of
thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
5:8 -- Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies;
make thy way straight before my face.
5:9 -- For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part
is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter
with their tongue.
5:10 -- Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels;
cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have
rebelled against thee.
5:11 -- But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let
them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also
that love thy name be joyful in thee.
5:12 -- For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favor wilt thou
compass him as with a shield.
Psalms 12:
1-8
12:1 -- To the chief Musician upon
Sheminith, A Psalm of David. Help, LORD; for the
godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among
the children of men.
12:2 -- They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering
lips and with a double heart do they speak.
12:3 -- The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue
that speaketh proud things:
12:4 -- Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are
our own: who is lord over us?
12:5 -- For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy,
now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him
that puffeth at him.
12:6 -- The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a
furnace of earth, purified seven times.
12:7 -- Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from
this generation forever.
12:8 -- The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
Ephesians 120:
1-7
120:1 -- A Song of degrees. In my
distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
120:2 -- Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful
tongue.
120:3 -- What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto
thee, thou false tongue?
120:4 -- Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
120:5 -- Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents
of Kedar!
120:6 -- My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
120:7 -- I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
Psalms 71: 1-24
71:1 -- In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to
confusion.
71:2 -- Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline
thine ear unto me, and save me.
71:3 -- Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort:
thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my
fortress.
71:4 -- Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of
the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
71:5 -- For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my
youth.
71:6 -- By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that
took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of
thee.
71:7 -- I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.
71:8 -- Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honor all
the day.
71:9 -- Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when
my strength faileth.
71:10 -- For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait
for my soul take counsel together,
71:11 -- Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for
there is none to deliver him.
71:12 -- O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
71:13 -- Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to
my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my
hurt.
71:14 -- But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more
and more.
71:15 -- My mouth shall show forth thy righteousness and thy salvation
all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
71:16 -- I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention
of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
71:17 -- O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have
I declared thy wondrous works.
71:18 -- Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not;
until I have showed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power
to every one that is to come.
71:19 -- Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done
great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
71:20 -- Thou, which hast showed me great and sore troubles, shalt
quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the
earth.
71:21 -- Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every
side.
71:22 -- I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth,
O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.
71:23 -- My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my
soul, which thou hast redeemed.
71:24 -- My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day
long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that
seek my hurt.
Psalms 92:
1-15
92:1 -- A Psalm or Song for the
sabbath day. It is a good thing to give thanks unto
the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most
High:
92:2 -- To show forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness
every night,
92:3 -- Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon
the harp with a solemn sound.
92:4 -- For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will
triumph in the works of thy hands.
92:5 -- O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very
deep.
92:6 -- A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
92:7 -- When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers
of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed forever:
92:8 -- But thou, LORD, art most high forevermore.
92:9 -- For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall
perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
92:10 -- But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of a unicorn: I
shall be anointed with fresh oil.
92:11 -- Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine
ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
92:12 -- The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall
grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
92:13 -- Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish
in the courts of our God.
92:14 -- They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall
be fat and flourishing;
92:15 -- To show that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there
is no unrighteousness in him.
Psalms 35: 1-28
35:1 -- A Psalm of David. Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive
with me: fight against them that fight against me.
35:2 -- Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
35:3 -- Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that
persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
35:4 -- 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.
35:5 -- Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of
the LORD chase them.
35:6 -- Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the
LORD persecute them.
35:7 -- For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit,
which without cause they have digged for my soul.
35:8 -- Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net
that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him
fall.
35:9 -- And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in
his salvation.
35:10 -- 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?
35:11 -- False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things
that I knew not.
35:12 -- They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
35:13 -- 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.
35:14 -- I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother:
I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
35:15 -- 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:
35:16 -- With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me
with their teeth.
35:17 -- Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their
destructions, my darling from the lions.
35:18 -- I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will
praise thee among much people.
35:19 -- Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over
me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
35:20 -- For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters
against them that are quiet in the land.
35:21 -- Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha,
aha, our eye hath seen it.
35:22 -- This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be
not far from me.
35:23 -- Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause,
my God and my Lord.
35:24 -- Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and
let them not rejoice over me.
35:25 -- Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it:
let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
35:26 -- Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that
rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that
magnify themselves against me.
35:27 -- Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous
cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which
hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
35:28 -- And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy
praise all the day long.
Ephesians 120:
1-7
120:1 -- A Song of degrees. In my
distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
120:2 -- Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful
tongue.
120:3 -- What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto
thee, thou false tongue?
120:4 -- Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
120:5 -- Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents
of Kedar!
120:6 -- My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
120:7 -- I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
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