42:1As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
42:2My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
42:3My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
42:4When 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.
42:5Why 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.
42:6O 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.
42:7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
42:8Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
42:9I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
42:10As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
42:11Why 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.
44:1We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
44:2How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
44:3For 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.
44:4Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
44:5Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
44:6For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
44:7But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
44:8In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
44:9But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
44:10Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
44:11Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
44:12Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
44:13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
44:14Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
44:15My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
44:16For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
44:17All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
44:18Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
44:19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
44:20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
44:21Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
44:22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
44:23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
44:24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
44:25For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
44:26Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
45:0To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves.
45:1My 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.
45:2Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
45:3Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
45:4And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
45:5Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
45:6Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
45:7Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
45:8All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
45:9Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
45:10Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
45:11So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.
45:12And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
45:13The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
45:14She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
45:15With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.
45:16Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
45:17I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.
46:0To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.
46:1God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
46:2Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
46:3Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
46:4There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
46:5God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
46:6The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
46:7The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
46:8Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
46:9He 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.
46:10Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
46:11The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
47:0To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
47:1O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
47:2For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
47:3He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.
47:4He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
47:5God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
47:6Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.
47:7For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
47:8God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.
47:9The 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.
48:0A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah.
48:1Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
48:2Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
48:3God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
48:4For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
48:5They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
48:6Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
48:7Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
48:8As 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.
48:9We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
48:10According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
48:11Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
48:12Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
48:13Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
48:14For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
49:0To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
49:1Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:
49:2Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
49:3My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
49:4I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
49:5Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
49:6They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
49:7None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
49:8(For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)
49:9That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
49:10For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
49:11Their 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.
49:12Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
49:13This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
49:14Like 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.
49:15But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
49:16Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
49:17For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
49:18Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
49:19He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
49:20Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
84:1How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
84:2My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
84:3Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
84:4Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.
84:5Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
84:6Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
84:7They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
84:8O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
84:9Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
84:10For a day in thy 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.
84:11For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
84:12O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
85:0To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
85:1LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
85:2Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
85:3Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
85:4Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
85:5Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
85:6Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
85:7Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.
85:8I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
85:9Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
85:10Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
85:11Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
85:12Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.
85:13Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.
87:1His foundation is in the holy mountains.
87:2The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
87:3Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
87:4I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.
87:5And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
87:6The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
87:7As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.