Psalm 44–49

Psalm 44

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

¹We 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 mercies’ sake.

Psalm 45

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

¹My 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 46

To the chief Musician ^||for the sons of Korah, ^*A Song upon ^†Alamoth.

¹God 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 47

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

¹O ^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.

^9||The ^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 48

^*A Song and Psalm ^||for the sons of Korah.

^1aGreat 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.

^13†Mark 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.

Psalm 49

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

^1aHear this, all ye people;

Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the ^aworld:

²Both ^blow and high,

Rich and poor, together.

³My mouth shall speak of ^bbwisdom;

And the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

⁴I will incline mine ear to ^ca parable:

I will open ^dmy dark saying upon the harp.

⁵Wherefore should I fear in ^ddthe days of evil,

When ^ethe iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?

⁶They that ^ftrust in their wealth,

And boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

⁷None of them ^gcan by any means redeem his brother,

Nor ^hgive to God ⁱa ransom for him:

⁸(For ^kthe redemption of their soul is precious,

And it ceaseth for ever:)

⁹That he should still live for ever,

And ^lnot see corruption.

¹⁰For he seeth that ^mwise men die,

Likewise the ^mfool and the ⁿbrutish person perish,

And ^oleave their wealth to others.

^11pTheir inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever,

And their dwelling places ^†to all generations;

They ^qcall their lands after their own names.

¹²Nevertheless ^rman being in honour abideth not:

^sHe is like the beasts that perish.

¹³This their way is their ^ssfolly:

Yet their posterity ^†approve their sayings. Selah.

¹⁴Like sheep they are laid in the grave;

Death shall feed on them;

And the upright ^tshall have dominion over them in the morning;

And ^utheir ^||beauty shall consume ^||in the grave from their dwelling.

¹⁵But God ^wwill redeem my soul ^†from the power of ^||the grave:

For ^xhe shall receive me. Selah.

¹⁶Be not thou afraid when one is made rich,

When the glory of his house is increased;

^17yFor when he dieth he shall carry nothing away:

His glory shall not descend after him.

¹⁸Though ^†while he lived ^zhe blessed his soul:

And men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.

^19†He shall ^ago to the generation of his fathers;

They shall never see ^blight.

^20cMan that is in honour, and understandeth not,

Is like the beasts that perish.