Revised Version 1885 (RV1885)

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

1 I waited patiently for theLord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay; and he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

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 theLord.

4 Blessed is the man that maketh theLordhis trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

5 Many, OLordmy God, are the wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be set in order unto thee; if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

6 Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

7 Then said I, Lo, I am come; in the roll of the book it is written of me:

8 I delight to do thy will, O my God; yea, thy law is within my heart.

9 I have published righteousness in the great congregation; lo, I will not refrain my lips, OLord, thou knowest.

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.

11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, OLord: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about, mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head, and my heart hath failed me.

13 Be pleased, OLord, to deliver me: make haste to help me, OLord.

14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it: let them be turned backward and brought to dishonour that delight in my hurt.

15 Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that say unto me, Aha, Aha.

16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, TheLordbe magnified.

17 But I am poor and needy;yetthe Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

1 Blessed is he that considereth the poor: theLordwill deliver him in the day of evil.

2 TheLordwill preserve him, and keep him alive, and he shall be blessed upon the earth; and deliver not thou him unto the will of his enemies.

3 TheLordwill support him upon the couch of languishing: thou makest all his bed in his sickness.

4 I said, OLord, have mercy upon me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

5 Mine enemies speak evil against me,saying, When shall he die, and his name perish?

6 And if he come to seeme, he speaketh vanity; his heart gathereth iniquity to itself: when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

8 An evil disease,say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.

9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

10 But thou, OLord, have mercy upon me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.

11 By this I know that thou delightest in me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.

12 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.

13 Blessed be theLord, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.

For the Chief Musician; Maschil of the sons of Korah.

1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

4 These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday.

5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? andwhyart thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise himforthe health of his countenance.

6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore do I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

8 YettheLordwill command his lovingkindness in the day-time, and in the night his song shall be with me,evena prayer unto the God of my life.

9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

10 As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me; while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him,who isthe health of my countenance, and my God.

1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

2 For thou art the God of my strength; why hast thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

3 O send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me: let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: and upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God.

5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him,who isthe health of my countenance, and my God.

For the Chief Musician;

a Psalm

of the sons of Korah. Maschil.

1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the days of old.

2 Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand, and plantedst them in; thou didst afflict the peoples, and didst spread them abroad.

3 For they gat not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverance for Jacob.

5 Through thee will we push down our adversaries: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

7 But thou hast saved us from our adversaries, and hast put them to shame that hate us.

8 In God have we made our boast all the day long, and we will give thanks unto thy name for ever. Selah

9 But now thou hast castusoff, and brought us to dishonour; and goest not forth with our hosts.

10 Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

11 Thou hast given us like sheepappointedfor meat; and hast scattered us among the nations.

12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and hast not increasedthy wealthby their price.

13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

14 Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

15 All the day long is my dishonour before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the avenger.

17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

19 That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god;

21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, castusnot off for ever.

24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

26 Rise up for our help, and redeem us for thy lovingkindness’ sake.

For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim;

a Psalm

of the sons of Korah. Maschil. A Song of loves.

1 My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter: I speak the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

2 Thou art fairer than the children of men; grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O mighty one, thy glory and thy majesty.

4 And in thy majesty ride on prosperously, because of truth and meeknessandrighteousness: and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

5 Thine arrows are sharp; the peoples fall under thee;they arein the heart of the king’s enemies.

6 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of equity is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

7 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

8 All thy garmentssmell ofmyrrh, and aloes,andcassia; out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.

9 Kings’ daughters are among thy honourable women: at thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;

11 So shall the king desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.

12 And the daughter of Tyreshall be therewith a gift; even the rich among the people shall entreat thy favour.

13 The king’s daughter withinthe palaceis all glorious: her clothing is inwrought with gold.

14 She shall be led unto the king in broidered work: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.

15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be led: they shall enter into the king’s palace.

16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou shalt make princes in all the earth.

17 I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the peoples give thee thanks for ever and ever.

For the Chief Musician:

a Psalm

of the sons of Korah; set to Alamoth. A Song.

1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

2 Therefore will we not fear, though the earth do change, and though the mountains be moved in the heart of the seas;

3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah

4 There is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.

5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.

6 The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

7 TheLordof hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

8 Come, behold the works of theLord, what desolations he hath made in the earth.

9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariots in the fire.

10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.

11 TheLordof hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

For the Chief Musician; a Psalm of the sons of Korah.

1 O clap your hands, all ye peoples; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.

2 For theLordMost High is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.

3 He shall subdue the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet.

4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah

5 God is gone up with a shout, theLordwith the sound of a trumpet.

6 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.

7 For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.

8 God reigneth over the nations: God sitteth upon his holy throne.

9 The princes of the peoples are gathered togetherto bethe people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God; he is greatly exalted.

A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah.

1 Great is theLord, and highly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

2 Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion,onthe sides of the north, the city of the great King.

3 God hath made himself known in her palaces for a refuge.

4 For, lo, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together.

5 They saw it, then were they amazed; they were dismayed, they hasted away.

6 Trembling took hold of them there; pain, as of a woman in travail.

7 With the east wind thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.

8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of theLordof hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah

9 We have thought on thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

10 As is thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

11 Let mount Zion be glad, let the daughters of Judah rejoice, because of thy judgments.

12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

13 Mark ye welt her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guideevenunto death.

For the Chief Musician; a Psalm of the sons of Korah.

1 Hear this, all ye peoples; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:

2 Both low and high, rich and poor together.

3 My mouth shall speak wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels compasseth me about?

6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

7 Noneof themcan by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

8 (For the redemption of their soul is costly, and must be let alone for ever:)

9 That he should still live alway, that he should not see corruption.

10 For he seeth that wise men die, the fool and the brutish together perish, and leave their wealth to others.

11 Their inward thought is,thattheir housesshall continuefor ever,andtheir dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

12 But man abideth not in honour: he is like the beasts that perish.

13 This their way is their folly: yet after them men approve their sayings. Selah

14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; death shall be their shepherd: and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for it.

15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol: for he shall receive me. Selah

16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased:

17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away; his glory shall not descend after him.

18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul, and men praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself,

19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see the light.

20 Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.