Psalm 24–26

Psalm 24

¹Unto the end, a psalm for David.

To thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul.

²In thee, O my God, I put my trust; let me not be ashamed.

³Neither let my enemies laugh at me: for none of them that wait on thee shall be confounded.

⁴Let all them be confounded that act unjust things without cause. Shew, O Lord, thy ways to me, and teach me thy paths.

⁵Direct me in thy truth, and teach me; for thou art God my Saviour; and on thee have I waited all the day long.

⁶Remember, O Lord, thy bowels of compassion; and thy mercies that are from the beginning of the world.

⁷The sins of my youth and my ignorances do not remember. According to thy mercy remember thou me: for thy goodness’ sake, O Lord.

⁸The Lord is sweet and righteous: therefore he will give a law to sinners in the way.

⁹He will guide the mild in judgment: he will teach the meek his ways.

¹⁰All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth, to them that seek after his covenant and his testimonies.

¹¹For thy name’s sake, O Lord, thou wilt pardon my sin: for it is great.

¹²Who is the man that feareth the Lord? He hath appointed him a law in the way he hath chosen.

¹³His soul shall dwell in good things: and his seed shall inherit the land.

¹⁴The Lord is a firmament to them that fear him: and his covenant shall be made manifest to them.

¹⁵My eyes are ever towards the Lord: for he shall pluck my feet out of the snare.

¹⁶Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me; for I am alone and poor.

¹⁷The troubles of my heart are multiplied: deliver me from my necessities.

¹⁸See my abjection and my labour; and forgive me all my sins.

¹⁹Consider my enemies for they are multiplied, and have hated me with an unjust hatred.

²⁰Keep thou my soul, and deliver me: I shall not be ashamed, for I have hoped in thee.

²¹The innocent and the upright have adhered to me: because I have waited on thee.

²²Deliver Israel, O God, from all his tribulations.

Psalm 25

¹Unto the end, a psalm for David.

Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked in my innocence: and I have put my trust in the Lord, and shall not be weakened.

²Prove me, O Lord, and try me; burn my reins and my heart.

³For thy mercy is before my eyes; and I am well pleased with thy truth.

⁴I have not sat with the council of vanity: neither will I go in with the doers of unjust things.

⁵I have hated the assembly of the malignant; and with the wicked I will not sit.

⁶I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy altar, O Lord:

⁷That I may hear the voice of thy praise: and tell of all thy wondrous works.

⁸I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house; and the place where thy glory dwelleth.

⁹Take not away my soul, O God, with the wicked: nor my life with bloody men:

¹⁰In whose hands are iniquities: their right hand is filled with gifts.

¹¹But as for me, I have walked in my innocence: redeem me, and have mercy on me.

¹²My foot hath stood in the direct way: in the churches I will bless thee, O Lord.

Psalm 26

¹The psalm of David before he was anointed.

The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life: of whom shall I be afraid?

²Whilst the wicked draw near against me, to eat my flesh. My enemies that trouble me, have themselves been weakened, and have fallen.

³If armies in camp should stand together against me, my heart shall not fear. If a battle should rise up against me, in this will I be confident.

⁴One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. That I may see the delight of the Lord, and may visit his temple.

⁵For he hath hidden me in his tabernacle; in the day of evils, he hath protected me in the secret place of his tabernacle.

⁶He hath exalted me upon a rock: and now he hath lifted up my head above my enemies. I have gone round, and have offered up in his tabernacle a sacrifice of jubilation: I will sing, and recite a psalm to the Lord.

⁷Hear, O Lord, my voice, with which I have cried to thee: have mercy on me and hear me.

⁸My heart hath said to thee: My face hath sought thee: thy face, O Lord, will I still seek.

⁹Turn not away thy face from me; decline not in thy wrath from thy servant. Be thou my helper, forsake me not; do not thou despise me, O God my Saviour.

¹⁰For my father and my mother have left me: but the Lord hath taken me up.

¹¹Set me, O Lord, a law in thy way, and guide me in the right path, because of my enemies.

¹²Deliver me not over to the will of them that trouble me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me; and iniquity hath lied to itself.

¹³I believe to see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.

¹⁴Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord.