Psalm 11–20
*To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
1 aIn the Lord put I my trust:
bHow say ye to my soul,
Flee as a bird to your mountain?
2 For, lo, cthe wicked bend their bow,
dThey make ready their arrow upon the string,
That they may †privily shoot at ethe upright in heart.
3 If fthe foundations be destroyed,
What gcan the righteous do?
4 hThe Lord is in ihis holy temple,
kThe Lord’s throne is in heaven:
lHis eyes behold,
His eyelids try, the children of men.
5 The Lord mtrieth the righteous:
But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
6 Upon the wicked he shall rain ||snares, fire and nbrimstone,
And ||an ohorrible tempest: this shall be pthe portion of their cup.
7 For the righteous Lord qloveth righteousness;
rHis countenance doth behold the upright.
To the chief Musician ||*upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.
1 ||Help, Lord; for athe godly man ceaseth;
For the faithful fail from among the children of men.
2 They aaspeak vanity every one with his neighbour:
With bflattering lips and with †a double heart do they speak.
3 The Lord shall cut off all bflattering lips,
And the tongue that speaketh †proud things:
4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail;
Our lips †are our own: who is lord over us?
5 cFor the oppression of dthe poor, for the sighing of the needy,
eNow will I arise, saith the Lord;
I will set him in safety from him that ||fpuffeth at him.
6 gThe words of the Lord are pure words:
As silver gtried in a furnace of earth, hpurified iseven times.
7 Thou shalt keep them, O Lord,
Thou shalt preserve †them from this generation for ever.
8 The wicked walk on every side,
When †the vilest men are exalted.
To the ||chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
1 aHow long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? afor ever?
How long wilt thou aahide thy face from me?
2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul,
Having sorrow in my heart daily?
How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
3 Consider and hear me, O Lord my God:
bLighten mine eyes, clest I sleep the sleep of death;
4 dLest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him;
And those that trouble me rejoice when eI am moved.
5 But I have ftrusted in thy mercy;
fgMy heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
6 I will sing unto the Lord, because he hath hdealt bountifully with me.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
1 aThe bfool hath said in his heart, cThere is no God.
dThey are corrupt, they have done abominable works,
eThere is none that doeth good.
2 The Lord flooked down from heaven upon the children of men,
To see if there were eany gthat did understand, and hseek God.
3 eThey are all gone aside, they are all together become †filthy:
There is none that doeth good, no, not one.
4 Have all the workers of iniquity ino knowledge?
Who keat up my people as they eat bread,
And lcall not upon the Lord.
5 mThere †were they in great fear:
nFor God is in the generation of the righteous.
6 nYe have shamed the counsel of the poor,
Because the Lord is his orefuge.
7 †Oh that the salvation of Israel were come pout of Zion!
When the Lord qbringeth back the captivity of his people,
Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
1 Lord, aWho shall †abide in thy tabernacle?
Who shall dwell in bthy holy hill?
2 cHe that walketh uprightly, and ccworketh righteousness,
And dspeaketh the truth in his heart.
3 eHe that fbackbiteth not with his tongue,
Nor doeth evil to his neighbour,
Nor ||taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned;
But he honoureth them that fear the Lord.
He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
5 He that putteth not out his money to gusury,
hNor taketh reward against the innocent.
He that doeth these things ishall never be moved.
||Michtam of David.
1 Preserve me, O God: afor in thee do I put my trust.
2 O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord:
bMy goodness extendeth not to thee;
3 But to the saints that are in the earth,
And to the excellent, cin whom is all my delight.
4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that ||hasten after ccanother god:
Their drink offerings of blood will I not offer,
dNor etake up their names into my lips.
5 The Lord is fthe portion †of mine ginheritance and of my hcup:
Thou maintainest my ilot.
6 The ilines are fallen unto me in jpleasant places;
Yea, I have a goodly heritage.
7 I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel:
My kreins also instruct me lin the night seasons.
8 mI have nset the Lord always before me:
Because ohe is at my right hand, pI shall not be moved.
9 Therefore my heart is glad, and qmy glory rejoiceth:
My flesh also shall †rest in hope.
10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in rhell;
sNeither wilt thou suffer thine tHoly One to see ucorruption.
11 Thou wilt shew me wthe path of life:
In thy presence is xfulness of joy;
At thy right hand there are ypleasures for evermore.
A *Prayer of David.
1 Hear †the right, O Lord, aattend unto my cry,
Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth †not out of feigned lips.
2 Let my sentence come forth aafrom thy presence;
Let thine eyes behold bthe things that are equal.
3 Thou hast cproved mine heart; thou hast dvisited me ein the night;
Thou hast ftried me, and shalt find nothing;
I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips
I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
5 gHold up my goings in thy hpaths,
That my footsteps †slip not.
6 iI have called upon thee, jfor thou wilt hear me, O God:
iIncline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.
7 kShew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou ||that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee
lFrom those that rise up against them.
8 Keep me mas the apple of the eye,
Hide me nunder the shadow of thy wings,
9 From the wicked †that oppress me,
From †my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
10 They are inclosed in otheir own fat:
With their mouth they pspeak proudly.
11 They have now compassed us in ppour steps:
qThey have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
12 †Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey,
And as it were a young lion †lurking in secret places.
13 Arise, O Lord, †disappoint him, qqcast him down:
Deliver my soul from the wicked, r||which is thy sword:
14 ||From men which are thy hand, O Lord,
From men of sthe world, twhich have their portion in this life,
And whose belly thou fillest with thy uhid treasure:
||They are full of children,
And leave xthe rest of their substance to their babes.
15 As for me, yI will behold thy face in righteousness:
I shall be zsatisfied, awhen I awake, with thy blikeness.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, athe servant of the Lord, who spake unto the Lord the words of bthis song in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,
1 bbI will love thee, O Lord, my strength.
2 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
My God, †my strength, cin whom I will trust;
My buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
3 I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised:
So shall I be saved from mine enemies.
4 The ||sorrows of death compassed me,
And the floods of †ungodly men made me afraid.
5 The ||sorrows of hell compassed me about:
The snares of death dprevented me.
6 ddIn my distress I called upon the Lord,
And cried unto my God:
He heard my voice out of his temple,
And my cry came before him, even into his ears.
7 Then the earth shook and trembled;
The foundations also eof the hills moved
And were shaken, because he was wroth.
8 There went up a smoke †out of his nostrils,
And ffire out of his mouth devoured:
Coals were kindled by it.
9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down:
And darkness was under his feet.
10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly:
Yea, he did gfly upon the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness his secret place;
His pavilion round about him
Were hdark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed,
iHail stones and coals of fire.
13 The Lord also thundered in the heavens,
And the Highest gave his voice;
iHail stones and coals of fire.
14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them;
And he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
15 Then jthe channels of waters were seen,
And the foundations of the world were discovered
At thy rebuke, O Lord,
At the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
16 He sent from above, he took me,
He drew me out of ||many waters.
17 He delivered me from my strong enemy,
And from them which hated me: jjfor they were too strong for me.
18 They dprevented me in the day of my calamity:
But the Lord was my stay.
19 He brought me forth also into a large place;
He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
20 The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness;
According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord,
And have not wickedly departed from my God.
22 For all his judgments were before me,
And kI did not put away his statutes from me.
23 I was also upright †before him,
And I kept myself from mine iniquity.
24 Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness,
According to the cleanness of my hands †in his eyesight.
25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful;
With an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure;
And with the froward thou wilt ||shew thyself froward.
27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people;
But wilt bring down lhigh looks.
28 For thou wilt lllight my ||candle:
The Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.
29 For by thee I have ||run through a troop;
And by my God have I leaped over a wall.
30 As for God, his way is perfect:
The word of the Lord is ||tried:
He is a buckler to all those that trust in him.
31 For who is God save the Lord?
Or who is a rock save our God?
32 It is God that mngirdeth me with strength,
And nmaketh my way perfect.
33 He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet,
And setteth me upon my high places.
34 He teacheth my hands to war,
So that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation:
oAnd thy right