⁴For they got not the possession of the land by their own sword: neither did their own arm save them. But thy right hand and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance: because thou wast pleased with them.

⁵Thou art thyself my king and my God, who commandest the saving of Jacob.

⁶Through thee we will push down our enemies with the horn: and through thy name we will despise them that rise up against us.

⁷For I will not trust in my bow: neither shall my sword save me.

⁸But thou hast saved us from them that afflict us: and hast put them to shame that hate us.

⁹In God shall we glory all the day long: and in thy name we will give praise for ever.

¹⁰But now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame: and thou, O God, wilt not go out with our armies.

¹¹Thou hast made us turn our back to our enemies: and they that hated us plundered for themselves.

¹²Thou hast given us up like sheep to be eaten: thou hast scattered us among the nations.

¹³Thou hast sold thy people for no price: and there was no reckoning in the exchange of them.

¹⁴Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and derision to them that are round about us.

¹⁵Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles: a shaking of the head among the people.

¹⁶All the day long my shame is before me: and the confusion of my face hath covered me,

¹⁷At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: at the face of the enemy and persecutor.

¹⁸All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee: and we have not done wickedly in thy covenant.

¹⁹And our heart hath not turned back: neither hast thou turned aside our steps from thy way.

²⁰For thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction: and the shadow of death hath covered us.

²¹If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread forth our hands to a strange god:

²²Shall not God search out these things: for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. Because for thy sake we are killed all the day long: we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

²³Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end.

²⁴Why turnest thou thy face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble?

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

²⁶Arise, O Lord, help us and redeem us for thy name’s sake.

Psalm 44

¹Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, for the sons of Core, for understanding. A canticle for the Beloved.

²My heart hath uttered a good word: I speak my works to the king: My tongue is the pen of a scrivener that writeth swiftly.

³Thou art beautiful above the sons of men: grace is poured abroad in thy lips; therefore hath God blessed thee for ever.

⁴Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O thou most mighty.

⁵With thy comeliness and thy beauty set out, proceed prosperously, and reign. Because of truth and meekness and justice: and thy right hand shall conduct thee wonderfully.

⁶Thy arrows are sharp: under thee shall people fall, into the hearts of the king’s enemies.

⁷Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a sceptre of uprightness.

⁸Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

⁹Myrrh and stacte and cassia perfume thy garments, from the ivory houses: out of which

¹⁰The daughters of kings have delighted thee in thy glory. The queen stood on thy right hand, in gilded clothing; surrounded with variety.

¹¹Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thy ear: and forget thy people and thy father’s house.

¹²And the king shall greatly desire thy beauty; for he is the Lord thy God, and him they shall adore.

¹³And the daughters of Tyre with gifts, yea, all the rich among the people, shall entreat thy countenance.

¹⁴All the glory of the king’s daughter is within in golden borders,

¹⁵Clothed round about with varieties. After her shall virgins be brought to the king: her neighbours shall be brought to thee.

¹⁶They shall be brought with gladness and rejoicing: they shall be brought into the temple of the king.

¹⁷Instead of thy fathers, sons are born to thee: thou shalt make them princes over all the earth.

¹⁸They shall remember thy name throughout all generations. Therefore shall people praise thee for ever; yea, for ever and ever.

Psalm 45

¹Unto the end, for the sons of Core, for the hidden.

²Our God is our refuge and strength: a helper in troubles, which have found us exceedingly.

³Therefore we will not fear, when the earth shall be troubled; and the mountains shall be removed into the heart of the sea.

⁴Their waters roared and were troubled: the mountains were troubled with his strength.

⁵The stream of the river maketh the city of God joyful: the most High hath sanctified his own tabernacle.

⁶God is in the midst thereof, it shall not be moved: God will help it in the morning early.

⁷Nations were troubled, and kingdoms were bowed down: he uttered his voice, the earth trembled.

⁸The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our protector.

⁹Come and behold ye the works of the Lord: what wonders he hath done upon earth,

¹⁰Making wars to cease even to the end of the earth. He shall destroy the bow, and break the weapons: and the shield he shall burn in the fire.

¹¹Be still and see that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, and I will be exalted in the earth.

¹²The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our protector.

Psalm 46

¹Unto the end, for the sons of Core.

²O clap your hands, all ye nations: shout unto God with the voice of joy,

³For the Lord is high, terrible: a great king over all the earth.

⁴He hath subdued the people under us; and the nations under our feet.

⁵He hath chosen for us his inheritance, the beauty of Jacob which he hath loved.

⁶God is ascended with jubilee, and the Lord with the sound of trumpet.

⁷Sing praises to our God, sing ye: sing praises to our king, sing ye.

⁸For God is the king of all the earth: sing ye wisely.

⁹God shall reign over the nations: God sitteth on his holy throne.

¹⁰The princes of the people are gathered together, with the God of Abraham: for the strong gods of the earth are exceedingly exalted.

Psalm 47

¹A psalm of a canticle, for the sons of Core, on the second day of the week.

²Great is the Lord, and exceedingly to be praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

³With the joy of the whole earth is mount Sion founded, on the sides of the north, the city of the great king.

⁴In her houses shall God be known, when he shall protect her.

⁵For behold the kings of the earth assembled themselves: they gathered together.

⁶So they saw, and they wondered, they were troubled, they were moved:

⁷Trembling took hold of them. There were pains as of a woman in labour.

⁸With a vehement wind thou shalt break in pieces the ships of Tharsis.

⁹As we have heard, so have we seen, in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God hath founded it for ever.

¹⁰We have received thy mercy, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

¹¹According to thy name, O God, so also is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of justice.

¹²Let mount Sion rejoice, and the daughters of Juda be glad; because of thy judgments, O Lord.

¹³Surround Sion, and encompass her: tell ye in her towers.

¹⁴Set your hearts on her strength; and distribute her houses, that ye may relate it in another generation.

¹⁵For this is God, our God unto eternity, and for ever and ever: he shall rule us for evermore.

Psalm 48

¹Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core.

²Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world.

³All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and poor together.

⁴My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the meditation of my heart understanding.

⁵I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery.

⁶Why shall I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall encompass me.

⁷They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude of their riches,

⁸No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom,

⁹Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for ever,

¹⁰And shall still live unto the end.

¹¹He shall not see destruction, when he shall see the wise dying: the senseless and the fool shall perish together: And they shall leave their riches to strangers:

¹²And their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their dwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by their names.

¹³And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them.

¹⁴This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to them: and afterwards they shall delight in their mouth.

¹⁵They are laid in hell like sheep: death shall feed upon them. And the just shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their help shall decay in hell from their glory.

¹⁶But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hell, when he shall receive me.

¹⁷Be not thou afraid, when a man shall be made rich, and when the glory of his house shall be increased.

¹⁸For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his glory descend with him.

¹⁹For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well to him.

²⁰He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall never see light.

²¹Man when he was in honour did not understand: he hath been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them.

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