11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth
continually 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.
13 Be pleased, O LORD, to 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.
17 But I ampoor and needy; yetthe Lord thinketh upon me: thou artmy help and my deliverer;
make no tarrying, O my God.
1 <<To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.>> Blessed ishe that considereth the poor: the LORD
will deliver him in time of trouble.
2 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; andhe shall be blessed upon the earth: and
thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
3 The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his
sickness.
4 I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.
5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; whenhe
goeth abroad, he telleth it.
7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
8 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and nowthat 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
hisheel against me.
10 But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.
11 By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
12 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.
13 Blessed bethe LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
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.
2 My soul thirsteth for God, for 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 isthy
God?
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.
5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and whyart thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I
shall yet praise him forthe 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 Yetthe LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall
bewith me, andmy prayer unto the 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?
10 Aswith a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me,
Where isthy 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 isthe health of my countenance, and my God.
1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the
deceitful and unjust man.
2 For thou artthe God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of
the oppression of the enemy?
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.
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.
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 isthe health of my countenance, and my God.
1 <<To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.>> We have heard with our ears, O God,
our fathers have told us, whatwork thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
2 Howthou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; howthou didst
afflict the people, and cast them out.
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.
4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: 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.
7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our 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 appointedfor meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealthby their price.
13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round
about us.
14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
15 My confusion iscontinually 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.
17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in
thy covenant.
18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of
death.
20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast usnot off for ever.
24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, andforgettest our affliction and our oppression?
25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.

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 isthe pen of 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.
3 Gird thy sword upon thythigh, O mostmighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness andrighteousness; and
thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
5 Thine arrows aresharp in the heart of the king's enemies; wherebythe people fall under thee.
6 Thy throne, O God, isfor ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom isa right sceptre.
7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee
with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
8 All thy garments smellof myrrh, and aloes, andcassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby
they have made thee glad.
9 Kings' daughters wereamong thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen
in gold of Ophir.
10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and
thy father's house;
11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he isthy Lord; and worship thou him.
12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be therewith a gift; eventhe rich among the people shall
intreat thy favour.
13 The king's daughter isall glorious within: her clothing isof 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.
15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.
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.
1 <<To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.>> God isour refuge and
strength, a very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried
into the midst of the sea;
3 Thoughthe waters thereof roar andbe troubled, thoughthe mountains shake with the
swelling thereof. Selah.
4 There isa river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy placeof the
tabernacles of the most High.
5 God isin the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and thatright early.
6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
7 The LORD of hosts iswith us; the God of Jacob isour refuge. Selah.
8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
9 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.
10 Be still, and know that I amGod: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the
earth.
11 The LORD of hosts iswith us; the God of Jacob isour refuge. Selah.
1 <<To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.>> O clap your hands, all ye people;
shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
2 For the LORD most high isterrible; he isa great King over all the earth.