Psalm 42–83

Psalms XLII. & XLIII.

To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.

As the hart panteth after ^athe water brooks,

So panteth my soul after thee, O God.

^2bMy soul thirsteth for God, for ^cthe living God:

When shall I come and ^ccappear before God?

^3dMy tears have been my meat day and night,

^eWhile they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

⁴When I remember these things, ^fI pour out my soul in me:

For I had gone with the multitude, I ^gwent with them to the house of God,

With the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

^5hWhy art thou cast down, O my soul? and ^hwhy art thou ⁱdisquieted in me?

^jHope thou in God: for I shall yet ^kpraise him

For the help of his countenance.

⁶O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee

^lFrom the land of Jordan, and of the ^mHermonites, from the hill Mizar.

⁷ⁿDeep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy ^owaterspouts:

^pAll thy ^qwaves and thy billows are gone over me.

⁸Yet the Lord will ^rcommand his lovingkindness in the daytime,

And ^sin the night his song shall be with me,

And my prayer unto the God of my life.

⁹I will say unto God ^tmy rock, Why hast thou forgotten me?

^uWhy go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

¹⁰As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me;

^eWhile they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?

^11xWhy 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 is the health of my countenance, and my God.

XLIII.^aJudge me, O God, and ^bplead my cause against an ungodly nation:

O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

²For thou art ^cthe God of my strength: why dost thou ^dcast me off?

^eWhy go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

³O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me;

Let them bring me unto ^fthy holy hill, and to ^ffthy tabernacles.

⁴Then will I go unto the altar of God,

Unto God my exceeding joy:

Yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.

^5gWhy art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me?

Hope in God: for I shall yet praise him,

Who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Psalm XLIV.

To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.

We have heard with our ears, O God,

^aOur fathers have told us,

What work thou didst in their days, in ^bthe times of old.

²How thou didst ^cdrive out the heathen with thy hand, and ^dplantedst them;

How thou didst afflict the people, and ^ecast them out.

³For they got not the land in possession ^fby their own sword,

Neither did their own arm save them:

But thy right hand, and thine arm, and ^ffthe light of thy countenance,

^gBecause thou hadst a favour unto them.

^4hThou art my King, O God:

ⁱCommand deliverances for Jacob.

⁵Through thee will we ^kpush down our enemies:

Through thy name will we ^ltread them under that rise up against us.

⁶For ^mI will not trust ^fin my bow,

Neither shall my sword save me.

⁷But thou hast saved us from our enemies,

And hast ⁿput them to shame that hated us.

^8oIn God we boast all the day long,

And praise thy name for ever. Selah.

⁹But thou hast ^pcast off, and put us to shame;

And ^qgoest not forth with our armies.

¹⁰Thou makest us to ^rturn back from the enemy:

And they which hate us spoil for themselves.

^11sThou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat;

And hast ^tscattered us among the heathen.

^12uThou sellest thy people for nought,

And dost not increase thy wealth by their ^xprice.

¹³Thou ^ymakest us ^zaa reproach to our neighbours,

^aA scorn and a ^abderision to them that are round about us.

¹⁴Thou makest us ^ca byword among the heathen,

^dA shaking of the head among the people.

¹⁵My confusion is continually before me,

And ^ethe shame of my face hath covered me,

¹⁶For the voice of him that reproacheth and ^fblasphemeth;

By reason of ^gthe enemy and avenger.

^17hAll this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee,

Neither have we ⁱdealt falsely in thy covenant.

¹⁸Our heart is not ^kturned back,

Neither have our steps ^ldeclined from thy way;

¹⁹Though thou hast ^msore broken us in the place of ⁿdragons,

And covered us with ^othe shadow of death.

²⁰If we have forgotten the name of our God,

Or ^pstretched out our hands to ^qa strange god;

²¹Shall not ^rGod search this out?

For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

²²Yea, ^sfor thy sake are we killed all the day long;

We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

^23tAwake, why sleepest thou, O Lord?

Arise, ^ucast us not off for ever.

^24wWherefore hidest thou thy face,

And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

²⁵For ^xour soul is bowed down to the dust:

Our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

²⁶Arise for our help,

And redeem us for thy mercy’s sake.

Psalm XLV.

To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves.

My heart is inditing a good matter:

I speak of the things which I have made touching the king:

My tongue is the ^apen of ^ba ready writer.

²Thou art fairer than the children of men:

^cGrace is poured into thy lips:

Therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

^3dGird thy sword ^eupon thy thigh, ^fO most mighty,

With thy ^gglory and thy majesty.

⁴And in thy majesty ^hride prosperously

Because of truth and meekness and righteousness;

And thy right hand shall teach thee ⁱterrible things.

⁵Thine ^jarrows are sharp

In the heart of the king’s enemies;

Whereby the people fall under thee.

^6kThy throne, O God, is for ever and ever:

The sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.

^7lThou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness:

Therefore ^mGod, thy God, hath ⁿanointed thee

With the oil of ^ogladness above thy fellows.

⁸All thy garments smell of ^pmyrrh, and ^paloes, and cassia,

Out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

⁹Kings’ daughters were among ^qthy honourable women:

^rUpon thy right hand did stand the ^squeen in ^tgold of ^uOphir.

¹⁰Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear;

^wForget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;

¹¹So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty:

For he is ^xthy Lord; and ^yworship thou him.

¹²And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with ^za gift;

Even ^athe rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.

¹³The king’s daughter is ^ball glorious ^cwithin:

Her clothing is of wrought gold.

^14dShe shall be brought unto the king ^ein raiment of needlework:

The virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.

¹⁵With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought:

They shall enter into the king’s palace.

¹⁶Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children,

^fWhom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

¹⁷I will make thy name to be remembered in ^gall generations:

Therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.

Psalm XLVI.

To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.

God is our ^arefuge and strength,

^bA very present help ^cin trouble.

²Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed,

And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

^3dThough the waters thereof roar and be troubled,

Though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

⁴There is ^ea river, the streams whereof shall make glad ^fthe city of God,

The holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.

⁵God is ^gin the midst of her; ^hshe shall not be moved:

God shall help her, and that right early.

⁶ⁱThe heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved:

He ^kuttered his voice, the earth ^lmelted.

^7mThe Lord of hosts is with us;

The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

⁸ⁿCome, behold the works of the Lord,

What desolations he hath made in the earth.

^9oHe maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth;

^pHe breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder;

^qHe burneth the chariot in the fire.

^10rBe still, and know that I am God:

^sI will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

^11mThe Lord of hosts is with us;

The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

Psalm XLVII.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.

O ^aclap your hands, all ye people;

^aaShout unto God with the voice of triumph.

²For the Lord most High is ^bterrible;

He is a great King over all the earth.

³He shall ^csubdue the people under us,

And the nations under our feet.

⁴He shall choose our ^dinheritance for us,

The ^eexcellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

^5fGod is gone up with a shout,

The Lord with the sound of a trumpet.

⁶Sing praises to God, sing praises:

Sing praises unto our King, sing praises.

⁷For God is ^gthe King of all the earth:

^hSing ye praises with understanding.

⁸ⁱGod reigneth over the heathen:

God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.

⁹The ^jprinces of the people are gathered together,

Even the people of the God of Abraham:

For ^kthe shields of the earth belong unto God:

He is greatly exalted.

Psalm XLVIII.

A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah.

^aGreat is the Lord, and greatly to be praised

In ^bthe city of our God, in ^cthe mountain of his holiness.

^2dBeautiful for situation, ^ethe joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion,

^fOn the sides of the north, ^gthe city of the great King.

³God is known in her palaces for a ^hrefuge.

⁴For lo, ⁱthe kings were assembled, they passed by together.

⁵They saw it, and so they ^kmarvelled;

They were troubled, and ^lhasted away.

^6mFear took hold upon them there,

And ⁿpain, ^oas of a woman in travail.

⁷Thou ^pbreakest the ships of ^qTarshish ^rwith an east wind.

⁸As we have heard, so have we seen

In ^sthe city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God:

God will ^testablish it for ever. Selah.

⁹We have thought of ^uthy lovingkindness, O God,

In the midst of thy temple.

¹⁰According to ^vthy name, O God, so is thy praise unto ^wthe ends of the earth:

Thy right hand is full of righteousness.

¹¹Let mount Zion ^xrejoice,

Let ^xthe daughters of Judah be glad,

Because of thy judgments.

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

¹³Mark ye well her ^ybulwarks, consider her ^ypalaces;

That ye may tell it ^zto the generation following.

¹⁴For this God is our God for ever and ever:

He will be our guide even ^aunto death. …