A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless the name of his holiness.

² Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:

³ Who forgives all thine iniquities; who heals all thy diseases;

⁴ who redeems thy life from destruction; who crowns thee with mercy and compassion;

⁵ who satisfies thy mouth with good things so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

⁶ ¶ The LORD executes righteousness and justice unto all that suffer violence.

⁷ He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the sons of Israel.

⁸ The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

⁹ He will not always chide, neither will he keep his anger for ever.

¹⁰ He has not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

¹¹ For as the heavens are high above the earth so does he increase his mercy over those that fear him.

¹² As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our rebellions from us.

¹³ Like as a father has mercy upon his children, so the LORD has mercy upon those that fear him.

¹⁴ For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass; as an open flower of the field, so he blossoms.

¹⁶ For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place shall know it no more.

¹⁷ But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon those that fear him, and his righteousness unto the children’s children,

¹⁸ to such as keep his covenant and to those that remember his commandments to do them.

¹⁹ ¶ The LORD has prepared his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all.

²⁰ Bless the LORD, ye his angels, valiant and strong, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.

²¹ Bless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts, ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.

²² Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul.

A Song or Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise; this is my glory.

² Awake, psaltery and harp; I will awake the dawn.

³ I will praise thee, O LORD, among the peoples, and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.

⁴ For thy mercy is great above the heavens, and thy truth reaches unto the heavens.

⁵ Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens and thy glory above all the earth;

⁶ ¶ that thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.

⁷ God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem and mete out the valley of Succoth.

⁸ Gilead shall be mine; Manasseh shall be mine; Ephraim also shall be the strength of my head; Judah shall be my lawgiver;

⁹ Moab shall be my washpot; over Edom I will cast my shoe; over Philistia I will triumph.

¹⁰ Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

¹¹ Surely thou, O God, who had cast us off and did not, O God, go forth with our hosts.

¹² Give us help from trouble; for the salvation of man is deception.

¹³ Through God we shall do valiantly, for he shall tread down our enemies again.

To the Overcomer, A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ Do not hold thy peace, O God of my praise;

² for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me; they have spoken of me with a lying tongue.

³ They compassed me about with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause.

⁴ They have responded to my love by becoming my adversaries, but I give myself unto prayer.

⁵ And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

⁶ ¶ Set thou the wicked man over him, and let Satan stand at his right hand.

⁷ When he shall be judged, let him be condemned, and let his prayer become sin.

⁸ Let his days be few, and let another take his office.

⁹ Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

¹⁰ Let his children be continually vagabonds and beg; let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.

¹¹ Let the extortioner catch all that he has, and let the strangers spoil his labour.

¹² Let there be no one to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

¹³ Let his posterity be cut off, and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

¹⁴ Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

¹⁵ Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

¹⁶ Because he did not remember to show mercy but persecuted the man who is poor in spirit and destitute and broken in heart, that he might slay him.

¹⁷ As he loved the curse, so let it come unto him; as he delighted not in the blessing, so let it be far from him.

¹⁸ As he clothed himself with the curse like as with his garment, and it entered into his bowels like water and like oil into his bones.

¹⁹ Let it be unto him as the garment which covers him and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

²⁰ Let this be the reward from the LORD of those who spoke falsely against me and of those that speak evil against my soul.

²¹ ¶ And thou, O GOD the Lord, do unto me for thy name’s sake; because thy mercy is good, deliver me.

²² For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

²³ I am gone like the shadow when it declines; I am tossed up and down by the wind as the locust.

²⁴ My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh fails for lack of fatness.

²⁵ I have become a reproach unto them; when they looked upon me they shook their heads.

²⁶ Help me, O LORD my God; O save me according to thy mercy,

²⁷ that they may know that this is thy hand, that thou, O LORD, hast done it.

²⁸ Let them curse, but bless thou; when they arise, let them be ashamed, but let thy slave rejoice.

²⁹ Let those who speak evil against me falsely be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion as with a mantle.

³⁰ I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

³¹ For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor in spirit to save his soul from those that judge him.

A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

² The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion; rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

³ Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauty of holiness; as the dew which falls from the womb of the morning, thus shall those who are thine be born unto thee.

⁴ The LORD has sworn and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

⁵ ¶ The Lord at thy right hand shall smite the kings in the day of his wrath.

⁶ He shall judge among the Gentiles; he shall fill their places with dead bodies; he shall wound the head over much of the earth.

⁷ He shall drink of the brook in the way; therefore he shall lift up his head.

A Song of degrees of David.

¹ ¶ I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.

² Our feet stood within thy gates, O Jerusalem.

³ Jerusalem, that one which is built as a city that is well united together

⁴ Because the tribes went up there, the tribes of JAH, the testimony to Israel, to praise the name of the LORD.

⁵ For there are set thrones of the judgment, the thrones of the house of David.

⁶ ¶ Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; those that love thee shall be brought into rest.

⁷ Peace be within thy walls and rest within thy palaces.

⁸ For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.

⁹ Because of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek thy good.

A Song of degrees of David.

¹ ¶ If the LORD had not been for us, now may Israel say,

² If the LORD had not been for us, when men rose up against us,

³ then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

⁴ then the waters would have overwhelmed us; the flood would have gone over our soul;

⁵ then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

⁶ ¶ Blessed be the LORD, who did not give us as a prey to their teeth.

⁷ Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare has broken, and we are escaped.

⁸ Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made the heaven and the earth.