1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

<>I waited patiently for the LORD, <>patiently, <>heard my cry

2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

<>vv. 2-3, <>He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, <>He … set my feet upon a rock

3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

<>vv. 2-3, <>he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God, <>he hath put a new song in my mouth, <>trust in the LORD

4 Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

<>turn aside, <>lies

5 Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

<>v. 5, <>Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, <>thy wonderful works, <>thy thoughts which are to us-ward, <>thy thoughts … they are more than can be numbered, <>in order

6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

<>vv. 6-8, <>v. 6, <>Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire … burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required., <>mine ears hast thou opened, <>burnt offering, <>sin offering

7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

<>vv. 6-8, <>I come, <>it is written

8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

<>vv. 6-8, <>delight, <>thy law is within my heart

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

<>I have preached righteousness, <>congregation

10 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.

<>v. 10, <>thy faithfulness, <>salvation, <>I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth, <>thy lovingkindness

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

<>Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD, <>thy tender mercies, <>preserve me

12 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.

<>vv. 12-13, <>compassed, <>mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up, <>mine iniquities … are more than the hairs of mine head, <>heart faileth

13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.

<>vv. 12-13, <>v. 13, <>deliver me, <>O LORD, make haste to help me.

14 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.

15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

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

<>v. 16, <>seek thee, <>rejoice and be glad

17 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.

<>I am poor, <>poor, <>needy, <>the Lord thinketh upon me, <>tarrying

1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

<>Blessed is he that considereth the poor, <>the poor, <>the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble, <>the LORD will deliver him

2 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.

<>The LORD will preserve him, <>keep

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

<>The LORD will strengthen him, <>languishing, <>sickness

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

<>be merciful unto me, <>I have sinned against thee, <>I have sinned

5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

<>Mine enemies speak evil of me, <>speak evil, <>shall he die, <>perish

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

7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

<>whisper

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

<>disease, <>cleaveth, <>now that he lieth he shall rise up no more

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

<>v. 9, <>bread

10 But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.

<>requite

11 By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.

<>thou favourest me

12 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.

13 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.

<>the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting, <>Israel

1 To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

<>the water, <>brooks

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

<>My soul thirsteth for God, <>the living God, <>when shall I come and appear before God?

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

<>meat

4 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.

<>I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, <>the house of God, <>kept, <>holyday

5 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.

<>O my soul … why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God, <>hope, <>the help of his countenance

6 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.

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

8 Yet 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.

<>his lovingkindness, <>his lovingkindness … daytime … night … his song, <>in the night his song shall be with me, <>God of my life

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

<>God my rock

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

<>As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies … say daily unto me, Where is thy God?, <>a sword in my bones, <>mine enemies reproach me, <>Where is thy God?

11 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.

<>v. 11

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

<>my cause, <>ungodly, <>deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man, <>deliver me

2 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?

<>thou art the God of my strength

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

<>thy light, <>thy truth, <>let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles, <>thy holy hill, <>thy tabernacles

4 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.

<>the altar, <>God my exceeding joy

5 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.

<>v. 5, <>O my soul … why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God, <>hope

1 To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. 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.

<>O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, <>our fathers have told us

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

<>plantedst them, <>them, <>thou didst afflict the people, <>afflict

3 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.

<>v. 3, <>right hand, <>and thine arm, <>the light of thy countenance, <>thou hadst a favour unto them

4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

<>Jacob

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

<>v. 5, <>through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us

6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

<>save me

7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.

<>thou hast saved us from our enemies

8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.

<>In God we boast

9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

<>armies

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

11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

<>Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat, <>meat

12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.

<>nought

13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

<>scorn, <>derision

14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

<>byword

15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.

<>him that reproacheth, <>the enemy and avenger

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

<>v. 17

18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

<>vv. 18-19, <>turned back

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

<>vv. 18-19, <>the shadow of death, <>death

20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

<>vv. 20-21

21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

<>vv. 20-21, <>Shall not God search this out?, <>God … knoweth the secrets of the heart., <>search

22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

<>v. 22

23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

<>Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord?

24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

<>Wherefore hidest thou thy face

25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

<>v. 25, <>cleaveth

26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.

<>redeem us, <>thy mercies

1 To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves. 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.

<>My heart is inditing a good matter, <>a ready writer

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

<>the children of men, <>children, <>grace is poured into thy lips, <>grace

3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.

<>Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, <>most mighty

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

<>meekness, <>thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things, <>right hand, <>teach

5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.

<>Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies, <>the king's enemies

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

<>vv. 6-7

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

<>vv. 6-7, <>v. 7, <>anointed

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

<>myrrh

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

<>daughters, <>honourable, <>women

10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

<>vv. 10-11, <>O daughter … forget also thine own people, and thy father's house, <>consider, <>house

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

<>vv. 10-11, <>So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty … worship thou him., <>he is thy Lord … worship thou him

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

<>the rich

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

<>The king's daughter is all glorious within, <>her clothing is of wrought gold

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

<>raiment of needlework, <>virgins, <>thee

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

<>they shall enter into the king's palace, <>enter into

16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

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

<>I will make thy name to be remembered