Psalm 84–89

Psalm 84

To the chief Musician *upon Gittith, A Psalm ||for the sons of Korah.

1  *How aamiable are bthy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

2  cMy soul longeth, yea, even dfainteth for ethe courts of the Lord:

My heart and my flesh crieth out for fthe living God.

3  Yea, the gsparrow hath found an house,

And the gswallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young,

Even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, hmy King, and my God.

4  iBlessed are they that dwell in thy house:

They kwill be still praising thee. Selah.

5  Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee;

In whose heart are lthe ways of them.

6  Who passing through the valley ||of Baca make it a well;

The mrain also †nfilleth the pools.

7  They go ||ofrom strength to strength,

Every one of them in Zion pappeareth before God.

8  qO Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer:

Give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.

9  rBehold, O God our sshield,

And look upon the face of tthine anointed.

10  For a day in ethy courts is better than a thousand.

†I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God,

Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

11  For the Lord God is ua sun and sshield:

The Lord will give grace and glory:

xNo good thing will he withhold from them that ywalk uprightly.

12  O Lord of hosts,

zBlessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

Psalm 85

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

1  Lord, thou hast been ||Favourable unto thy land:

Thou hast abrought back the captivity of Jacob.

2  Thou hast bforgiven the iniquity of thy people,

Thou hast bcovered all their sin. Selah.

3  Thou hast taken away all thy wrath:

||Thou hast cturned dthyself from the fierceness of thine anger.

4  eTurn us, O God of our salvation,

fAnd cause thine anger toward us to cease.

5  gWilt thou be angry with us for ever?

Wilt thou hdraw out thine anger to all generations?

6  Wilt thou not irevive us again:

That jthy people may rejoice in thee?

7  Shew us thy mercy, O Lord,

And grant us thy salvation.

8  kI will hear what God the Lord will speak:

For lhe will speak peace unto his people, and to mhis saints:

But let them not nturn again to ofolly.

9  Surely phis salvation is nigh them that fear him;

That qglory may dwell in our land.

10  rMercy and truth rrare met together;

sRighteousness and stpeace have kissed each other.

11  Truth shall uspring out of the earth;

And urighteousness shall look down from heaven.

12  Yea, xthe Lord shall give that which is good;

And your land shall yield her increase.

13  zRighteousness shall go before him;

And shall set us in the way of his steps.

Psalm 86

||A Prayer of David.

1  aBow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me:

For bI am poor and needy.

2  Preserve my soul; for I am ||holy:

O thou my God, save thy servant cthat trusteth in thee.

3  dBe merciful unto me, O Lord:

For eI cry unto thee ||daily.

4  Rejoice the soul of thy servant:

For funto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

5  For thou, Lord, art good, and ffready to forgive;

And gplenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

6  hGive ear, O Lord, unto my prayer;

And hiattend to the voice of my supplications.

7  jIn the day of my trouble I will call upon thee:

kFor thou wilt answer me.

8  lAmong the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord;

Neither are there any works mlike unto thy works.

9  All nations whom thou hast made nshall come

And oworship before thee, O Lord;

And shall glorify thy name.

10  For thou art pgreat, and qdoest wondrous things:

rThou art God alone.

11  sTeach me thy way, O Lord; tI will walk in thy truth:

Unite my heart to fear thy name.

12  I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart:

And I will glorify thy name for evermore.

13  For great is thy mercy toward me:

And thou hast udelivered my soul from vthe lowest ||hell.

14  O God, wthe proud are risen against me,

And the assemblies of †violent men have sought after my soul;

And have not set thee before them.

15  xBut thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious,

Longsuffering, and gplenteous in mercy and truth.

16  O yturn unto me, and dhave mercy upon me;

Give thy strength unto zthy servant,

And save zthe son of thine handmaid.

17  aShew me a token bfor good;

That they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed:

Because thou, Lord, hast cholpen me, and comforted me.

Psalm 87

*A Psalm or Song ||for the sons of Korah.

1  His afoundation is in bthe holy mountains.

2  The Lord cloveth the gates of Zion

More than all the dwellings of Jacob.

3  Glorious things are spoken of thee,

O dcity of God. Selah.

4  I will make mention of eRahab and fBabylon gto them that know me:

Behold Philistia, and Tyre, with hEthiopia;

This man was born ithere.

5  And of iZion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her:

And the highest himself shall establish her.

6  The Lord shall kcount, when he lwriteth up the people,

That this man was born there. Selah.

7  As well the singers as the mplayers on instruments shall be there:

All my springs are in thee.

Psalm 88

*A Song or Psalm ||for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon *Mahalath †Leannoth, ||Maschil of *Heman the †Ezrahite.

1  O Lord aGod of my salvation,

I have bcried day and night before thee:

2  Let my prayer come before thee:

cIncline thine ear unto my cry;

3  For my soul is full of troubles:

And dmy life draweth nigh unto ethe grave.

4  I am counted fwith them that go down into the pit:

I am as a man that hath no strength:

5  Free among the dead,

Like the slain that lie in the grave,

Whom thou grememberest no more:

And they are hcut off ||from thy hand.

6  Thou hast laid me in ithe lowest pit,

kIn darkness, in lthe deeps.

7  Thy wrath lieth hard upon me,

And thou hast afflicted me with mall thy waves. Selah.

8  Thou hast put away nmine acquaintance far from me;

Thou hast made me oan abomination unto them:

I am pshut up, qand I cannot come forth.

9  rMine eye mourneth by reason of affliction:

Lord, sI have called daily upon thee,

tI have stretched out my hands unto thee.

10  gWilt thou ushew wonders to the dead?

Shall xthe dead arise and praise thee? Selah.

11  Shall thy lovingkindness gbe declared in the grave?

Or thy faithfulness in ydestruction?

12  Shall zthy wonders be known in athe dark?

And thy righteousness in the land of bforgetfulness?

13  But cunto thee have I cried, O Lord;

And din the morning shall my prayer eprevent thee.

14  Lord, why fCastest thou off my soul?

Why ghidest thou thy face from me?

15  I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up:

While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

16  Thy fierce wrath hgoeth over me;

Thy iterrors have cut me off.

17  jThey came round about me ||daily like water;

They kcompassed me about together.

18  lLover and friend mhast thou put far from me,

And mmine acquaintance into ndarkness.

Psalm 89

||Maschil of *Ethan the †Ezrahite.

1  aI will sing of the bcmercies of the Lord for ever:

With my mouth will I make known cdthy faithfulness †to all generations.

2  For I have said, Mercy shall be ibuilt up for ever:

dThy faithfulness eshalt thou establish in the very heavens.

3  I have made a covenant with fmy chosen,

I have gsworn unto David my servant,

4  hThy seed will I establish for ever,

And ibuild up kthy throne lto all generations. Selah.

5  And mthe heavens shall praise nthy wonders, O Lord:

dThy faithfulness also nnin the congregation oof the saints.

6  For who in the heaven pcan be compared unto the Lord?

Who among qthe sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord?

7  God is greatly to be feared in qqthe assembly oof the saints,

And rto be had in reverence of all them that are about him.

8  O Lord God of hosts,

Who is a strong sLord tlike unto thee?

Or to dthy faithfulness round about thee?

9  Thou rulest the raging of the sea:

When the waves thereof arise, thou ustillest them.

10  xThou hast broken ||Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain;

Thou hast yscattered thine enemies †with thy strong arm.

11  zThe heavens are thine, the earth also is thine:

As for athe world and athe fulness thereof, thou hast bfounded them.

12  cThe north and the south thou hast created them:

dTabor and eHermon shall frejoice in thy name.

13  Thou hast †a mighty arm:

Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.

14  gJustice and judgment are the ||ghabitation of thy throne:

hMercy and truth shall igo before thy face.

15  Blessed is the people that know the kjoyful sound:

They shall walk, O Lord, in the llight of thy countenance.

16  In thy name shall they rejoice all the day:

And in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.

17  For thou art the glory mof their strength:

And in thy favour nour horn shall be exalted.

18  For ||the Lord is our defence;

And pthe Holy One of Israel is qour king.

19  qThen thou spakest in vision to rthy holy one,

And saidst, I have slaid help upon one that is tmighty;

I have exalted one uchosen out of the people.

20  xI have found David my servant;

yWith my holy oil have I anointed him:

21  zWith whom my hand shall be established:

Mine arm also shall zstrengthen him.

22  The enemy shall not exact upon him;

Nor athe son of wickedness afflict him.

23  And I will bbeat down his foes before his face,

And plague them that hate him.

24  But cmy faithfulness and cmy mercy shall be with him:

And in my name dshall his horn be exalted.

25  I will set his hand also in ethe sea,

And his right hand in ethe rivers.

26  He shall cry unto me, Thou art fmy father,

My God, and gthe rock of my salvation.

27  Also I will make him hmy firstborn,

iHigher than the kings of the earth.

28  kMy mercy will I keep for him for evermore,

And lmy covenant shall stand fast with him.

29  mHis seed also will I make to endure for ever,

And nhis throne oas the days of heaven.

30  pIf his children qforsake my law,

And walk not in my judgments;

31  If they †break my statutes,

And keep not my commandments;

32  Then will I rvisit their transgression with sthe rod,

And their iniquity with sstripes.

33  Nevertheless cmy lovingkindness †will I not utterly take from him,

Nor suffer cmy faithfulness †to fail.

34  lMy covenant will I not tbreak,

Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

35  Once have I usworn vby my holiness

†That I will not lie unto David.

36  mHis seed shall endure for ever,

And nhis throne xas the sun before me.

37  It shall be established for ever as xthe moon,

And as a faithful ywitness in heaven. Selah.

38  But thou hast zcast off and ab…