Psalm 13–19

Psalm XIII.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

^aHow long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? ^afor ever?

How long wilt thou ^aahide thy face from me?

²How long shall I take counsel in my soul,

Having sorrow in my heart daily?

How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

³Consider and hear me, O Lord my God:

^bLighten mine eyes, ^clest I sleep the sleep of death;

^4dLest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him;

And those that trouble me rejoice when ^eI am moved.

⁵But I have ^ftrusted in thy mercy;

^fgMy heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

⁶I will sing unto the Lord, because he hath ^hdealt bountifully with me.

Psalm XIV.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

^aThe ^bfool hath said in his heart, ^cThere is no God.

^dThey are corrupt, they have done abominable works,

^eThere is none that doeth good.

²The Lord ^flooked down from heaven upon the children of men,

To see if there were ^eany ^gthat did understand, and ^hseek God.

^3eThey are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy:

There is none that doeth good, no, not one.

⁴Have all the workers of iniquity ⁱno knowledge?

Who ^keat up my people as they eat bread,

And ^lcall not upon the Lord.

^5mThere were they in great fear:

ⁿFor God is in the generation of the righteous.

⁶ⁿYou have shamed the counsel of the poor,

Because the Lord is his ^orefuge.

⁷O that the salvation of Israel were come ^pout of Zion!

When the Lord ^qbringeth back the captivity of his people,

Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

Psalm XV.

A Psalm of David.

Lord, ^awho shall abide in thy tabernacle?

Who shall dwell in ^bthy holy hill?

^2cHe that walketh uprightly, and ^ccworketh righteousness,

And ^dspeaketh the truth in his heart.

^3eHe that ^fbackbiteth not with his tongue,

Nor doeth evil to his neighbour,

Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

⁴In whose eyes a vile person is contemned;

But he honoureth them that fear the Lord.

He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

⁵He that putteth not out his money to ^gusury,

^hNor taketh reward against the innocent.

He that doeth these things ⁱshall never be moved.

Psalm XVI.

Michtam of David.

Preserve me, O God: ^afor in thee do I put my trust.

²O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord:

^bMy goodness extendeth not to thee;

³But to the saints that are in the earth,

And to the excellent, ^cin whom is all my delight.

⁴Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after ^ccanother god:

Their drink offerings of blood will I not offer,

^dNor ^etake up their names into my lips.

⁵The Lord is ^fthe portion of mine ^ginheritance and of my ^hcup:

Thou maintainest my ⁱlot.

⁶The ⁱlines are fallen unto me in ^jpleasant places;

Yea, I have a goodly heritage.

⁷I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel:

My ^kreins also instruct me ^lin the night seasons.

^8mI have ⁿset the Lord always before me:

Because ^ohe is at my right hand, ^pI shall not be moved.

⁹Therefore my heart is glad, and ^qmy glory rejoiceth:

My flesh also shall rest in hope.

¹⁰For thou wilt not leave my soul in ^rhell;

^sNeither wilt thou suffer thine ^tHoly One to see ^ucorruption.

¹¹Thou wilt shew me ^wthe path of life:

In thy presence is ^xfulness of joy;

At thy right hand there are ^ypleasures for evermore.

Psalm XVII.

A Prayer of David.

Hear the right, O Lord, ^aattend unto my cry,

Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

²Let my sentence come forth ^aafrom thy presence;

Let thine eyes behold ^bthe things that are equal.

³Thou hast ^cproved mine heart; thou hast ^dvisited me ^ein the night;

Thou hast ^ftried me, and shalt find nothing;

I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

⁴Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips

I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

^5gHold up my goings in thy ^hpaths,

That my footsteps slip not.

⁶ⁱI have called upon thee, ^jfor thou wilt hear me, O God:

ⁱIncline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.

^7kShew thy marvellous loving-kindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee

^lFrom those that rise up against them.

⁸Keep me ^mas the apple of the eye,

Hide me ⁿunder the shadow of thy wings,

⁹From the wicked that oppress me,

From my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

¹⁰They are inclosed in ^otheir own fat:

With their mouth they ^pspeak proudly.

¹¹They have now compassed us in ^ppour steps:

^qThey have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

¹²Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey,

And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

¹³Arise, O Lord, disappoint him, ^qqcast him down:

Deliver my soul from the wicked, ^rwhich is thy sword:

¹⁴From men which are thy hand, O Lord,

From men of ^sthe world, ^twhich have their portion in this life,

And whose belly thou fillest with thy ^uhid treasure:

They are full of children,

And leave ^xthe rest of their substance to their babes.

¹⁵As for me, ^yI will behold thy face in righteousness:

I shall be ^zsatisfied, ^awhen I awake, with thy ^blikeness.

Psalm XVIII.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, ^athe servant of the Lord, who spake unto the Lord the words of ^bthis song in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,

^bbI will love thee, O Lord, my strength.

²The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

My God, my strength, ^cin whom I will trust;

My buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

³I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised:

So shall I be saved from mine enemies.

⁴The sorrows of death compassed me,

And the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

⁵The sorrows of hell compassed me about:

The snares of death ^dprevented me.

^6ddIn my distress I called upon the Lord,

And cried unto my God:

He heard my voice out of his temple,

And my cry came before him, even into his ears.

⁷Then the earth shook and trembled;

The foundations also ^eof the hills moved

And were shaken, because he was wroth.

⁸There went up a smoke out of his nostrils,

And ^ffire out of his mouth devoured:

Coals were kindled by it.

⁹He bowed the heavens also, and came down:

And darkness was under his feet.

¹⁰And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly:

Yea, he did ^gfly upon the wings of the wind.

¹¹He made darkness his secret place;

His pavilion round about him

Were ^hdark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

¹²At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed,

ⁱHail-stones and coals of fire.

¹³The Lord also thundered in the heavens,

And the Highest gave his voice;

ⁱHail-stones and coals of fire.

¹⁴Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them;

And he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

¹⁵Then ^jthe channels of waters were seen,

And the foundations of the world were discovered

At thy rebuke, O Lord,

At the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

¹⁶He sent from above, he took me,

He drew me out of many waters.

¹⁷He delivered me from my strong enemy,

And from them which hated me: ^jjfor they were too strong for me.

¹⁸They ^dprevented me in the day of my calamity:

But the Lord was my stay.

¹⁹He brought me forth also into a large place;

He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

²⁰The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness;

According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

²¹For I have kept the ways of the Lord,

And have not wickedly departed from my God.

²²For all his judgments were before me,

And ^kI did not put away his statutes from me.

²³I was also upright before him,

And I kept myself from mine iniquity.

²⁴Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness,

According to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

²⁵With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful;

With an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;

²⁶With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure;

And with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.

²⁷For thou wilt save the afflicted people;

But wilt bring down ^lhigh looks.

²⁸For thou wilt ^lllight my candle:

The Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.

²⁹For by thee I have run through a troop;

And by my God have I leaped over a wall.

³⁰As for God, his way is perfect:

The word of the Lord is tried:

He is a buckler to all those that trust in him.

³¹For who is God save the Lord?

Or who is a rock save our God?

³²It is God that ^mngirdeth me with strength,

And ⁿmaketh my way perfect.

³³He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet,

And setteth me upon my high places.

³⁴He teacheth my hands to war,

So that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

³⁵Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation:

^oAnd thy right hand hath ^pholden me up,

And thy gentleness hath made me great.

³⁶Thou hast enlarged my steps under me,

That my feet did not slip.

³⁷I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them:

Neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

³⁸I have wounded them that they were not able to rise:

They are fallen under my feet.

³⁹For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle:

Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

⁴⁰Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies;

That I might destroy them that hate me.

^41qThey cried, but there was none to save them:

Even unto the Lord, but he answered them not.

⁴²Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind:

I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

⁴³Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people;

And thou hast made me the head of the heathen:

A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

⁴⁴As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me:

The strangers shall submit themselves unto me.

⁴⁵The strangers shall fade away,

And be afraid out of their close places.

⁴⁶The Lord liveth; and blessed be my rock;

And let the God of my salvation be exalted.

⁴⁷It is God that avengeth me,

And ^rsubdueth the people under me.

⁴⁸He delivereth me from mine enemies:

Yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me:

Thou hast delivered me from the violent man.

^49sTherefore will I ^tgive thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the heathen,

And sing praises unto thy name.

⁵⁰Great deliverance giveth he to…