Chapter 4

19:040:009 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

19:040:010 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

19:040:011 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

19:040:012 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

19:040:013 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.

19:040:014 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

19:040:015 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

19:040:016 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.

19:040:017 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

19:041:001 Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

19:041:002 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.

19:041:003 The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

19:041:004 I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

19:041:005 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

19:041:006 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

19:041:007 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

19:041:008 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.

19:041:009 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

19:041:010 But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.

19:041:011 By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.

19:041:012 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.

19:041:013 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.

19:042:001 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

19:042:002 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

19:042:003 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

19:042:004 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

19:042:005 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

19:042:006 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

19:042:007 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

19:042:008 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

19:042:009 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

19:042:010 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?

19:042:011 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

19:043:001 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

19:043:002 For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

19:043:003 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

19:043:004 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.

19:043:005 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

19:044:001 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

19:044:002 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.

19:044:003 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

19:044:004 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

19:044:005 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

19:044:006 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

19:044:007 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.

19:044:008 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.

19:044:009 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

19:044:010 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

19:044:011 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

19:044:012 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.

19:044:013 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

19:044:014 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

19:044:015 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

19:044:016 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.

19:044:017 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

19:044:018 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

19:044:019 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

19:044:020 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

19:044:021 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

19:044:022 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

19:044:023 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

19:044:024 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

19:044:025 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

19:044:026 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.

19:045:001 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

19:045:002 Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

19:045:003 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.

19:045:004 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

19:045:005 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.

19:045:006 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.

19:045:007 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

19:045:008 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

19:045:009 Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

19:045:010 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

19:045:011 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.

19:045:012 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.

19:045:013 The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.

19:045:014 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.

19:045:015 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.

19:045:016 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

19:045:017 I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.

19:046:001 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

19:046:002 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

19:046:003 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

19:046:004 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.

19:046:005 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.

19:046:006 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

19:046:007 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

19:046:008 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.

19:046:009 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.

19:046:010 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

19:046:011 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

19:047:001 O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.

19:047:002 For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.

19:047:003 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.

19:047:004 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

19:047:005 God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.

19:047:006 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.

19:047:007 For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.

19:047:008 God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.

19:047:009 The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.

19:048:001 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

19:048:002 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

19:048:003 God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

19:048:004 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.

19:048:005 They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.

19:048:006 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

19:048:007 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

19:048:008 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.

19:048:009 We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

19:048:010 According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

19:048:011 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

19:048:012 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

19:048:013 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

19:048:014 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

19:049:001 Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:

19:049:002 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.

19:049:003 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

19:049:004 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

19:049:005 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?

19:049:006 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

19:049:007 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

19:049:008 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)

19:049:009 That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.

19:049:010 For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

19:049:011 Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

19:049:012 Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.

19:049:013 This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

19:049:014 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

19:049:015 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.

19:049:016 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;

19:049:017 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.

19:049:018 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.

19:049:019 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

19:049:020 Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.

19:050:001 The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

19:050:002 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

19:050:003 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

19:050:004 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

19:050:005 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

19:050:006 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.

19:050:007 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.

19:050:008 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

19:050:009 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.

19:050:010 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

19:050:011 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

19:050:012 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

19:050:013 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

19:050:014 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:

19:050:015 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

19:050:016 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

19:050:017 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

19:050:018 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

19:050:019 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

19:050:020 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

19:050:021 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

19:050:022 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

19:050:023 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

19:051:001 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

19:051:002 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

19:051:003 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

19:051:004 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

19:051:005 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

19:051:006 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

19:051:007 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

19:051:008 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

19:051:009 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

19:051:010 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

19:051:011 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

19:051:012 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

19:051:013 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

19:051:014 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

19:051:015 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

19:051:016 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

19:051:017 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

19:051:018 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

19:051:019 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

19:052:001 Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

19:052:002 The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

19:052:003 Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

19:052:004 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

19:052:005 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

19:052:006 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:

19:052:007 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

19:052:008 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

19:052:009 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.

19:053:001 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

19:053:002 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

19:053:003 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

19:053:004 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

19:053:005 There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

19:053:006 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

19:054:001 Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.

19:054:002 Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.