Psalm 63–64

Psalm 63

¹Unto the end, a psalm for David.

²Hear O God, my prayer, when I make supplication to thee: deliver my soul from the fear of the enemy.

³Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity.

⁴For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing,

⁵To shoot in secret the undefiled.

⁶They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have said: Who shall see them?

⁷They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their search. Man shall come to a deep heart:

⁸And God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds:

⁹And their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them were troubled;

¹⁰And every man was afraid. And they declared the works of God, and understood his doings.

¹¹The just shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall hope in him: and all the upright in heart shall be praised.

Psalm 64

¹To the end, a psalm of David. The canticle of Jeremias and Ezechiel to the people of the captivity, when they began to go out.

²A hymn, O God, becometh thee in Sion: and a vow shall be paid to thee in Jerusalem.

³O hear my prayer: all flesh shall come to thee.

⁴The words of the wicked have prevailed over us: and thou wilt pardon our transgressions.

⁵Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen and taken to thee: he shall dwell in thy courts. We shall be filled with the good things of thy house; holy is thy temple,

⁶Wonderful in justice. Hear us, O God our saviour, who art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and in the sea afar off.

⁷Thou who preparest the mountains by thy strength, being girded with power:

⁸Who troublest the depth of the sea, the noise of its waves. The Gentiles shall be troubled,

⁹And they that dwell in the uttermost borders shall be afraid at thy signs: thou shalt make the outgoings of the morning and of the evening to be joyful.

¹⁰Thou hast visited the earth, and hast plentifully watered it; thou hast many ways enriched it. The river of God is filled with water, thou hast prepared their food: for so is its preparation.

¹¹Fill up plentifully the streams thereof, multiply its fruits; it shall spring up and rejoice in its showers.

¹²Thou shalt bless the crown of the year of thy goodness: and thy fields shall be filled with plenty.

¹³The beautiful places of the wilderness shall grow fat: and the hills shall be girded about with joy,

¹⁴The rams of the flock are clothed, and the vales shall abound with corn: they shall shout, yea they shall sing a hymn.