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.
60:1O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
60:2Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
60:3Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
60:4Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
60:5That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.
60:6God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
60:7Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
60:8Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.
60:9Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
60:10Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?
60:11Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
60:12Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
69:1Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
69:2I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
69:3I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
69:4They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
69:5O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
69:6Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
69:7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
69:8I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
69:9For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
69:10When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
69:11I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
69:12They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
69:13But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
69:14Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
69:15Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
69:16Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
69:17And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
69:18Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
69:19Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
69:20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
69:21They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
69:22Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
69:23Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
69:24Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
69:25Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
69:26For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
69:27Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
69:28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
69:29But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
69:30I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
69:31This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
69:32The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
69:33For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
69:34Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
69:35For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
69:36The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
80:1Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
80:2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.
80:3Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
80:4O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
80:5Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
80:6Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
80:7Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
80:8Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
80:9Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
80:10The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
80:11She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
80:12Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
80:13The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
80:14Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
80:15And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
80:16It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
80:17Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
80:18So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
80:19Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.