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<h1 id="Ps.1">Psalm 1</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Blessed is the man<br/>
who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,<br/>
nor stands in the way of sinners,<br/>
nor sits in the seat of scoffers;</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: but his delight is in the law of the Lord,<br/>
and on his law he meditates day and night.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: He is like a tree<br/>
planted by streams of water<br/>
that yields its fruit in its season,<br/>
and its leaf does not wither.<br/>
In all that he does, he prospers.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: The wicked are not so,<br/>
but are like chaff that the wind drives away.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,<br/>
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: for the Lord knows the way of the righteous,<br/>
but the way of the wicked will perish.</p>
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<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.2">Psalm 2</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Why do the nations rage<br/>
and the peoples plot in vain?</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: The kings of the earth set themselves,<br/>
and the rulers take counsel together,<br/>
against the Lord and against his anointed, saying,</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: “Let us burst their bonds apart<br/>
and cast away their cords from us.”</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: He who sits in the heavens laughs;<br/>
the Lord holds them in derision.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Then he will speak to them in his wrath,<br/>
and terrify them in his fury, saying,</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: “As for me, I have set my King<br/>
on Zion, my holy hill.”</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: I will tell of the decree:<br/>
The Lord said to me, “You are my Son;<br/>
today I have begotten you.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,<br/>
and the ends of the earth your possession.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: You shall break them with a rod of iron<br/>
and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.”</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Now therefore, O kings, be wise;<br/>
be warned, O rulers of the earth.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Serve the Lord with fear,<br/>
and rejoice with trembling.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Kiss the Son,<br/>
lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,<br/>
for his wrath is quickly kindled.<br/>
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.3">Psalm 3</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: O Lord, how many are my foes!<br/>
Many are rising against me;</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: many are saying of my soul,<br/>
there is no salvation for him in God. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="3">3: But you, O Lord, are a shield about me,<br/>
my glory, and the lifter of my head.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: I cried aloud to the Lord,<br/>
and he answered me from his holy hill. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="5">5: I lay down and slept;<br/>
I woke again, for the Lord sustained me.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: I will not be afraid of many thousands of people<br/>
who have set themselves against me all around.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Arise, O Lord!<br/>
Save me, O my God!<br/>
For you strike all my enemies on the cheek;<br/>
you break the teeth of the wicked.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Salvation belongs to the Lord;<br/>
your blessing be on your people! <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.4">Psalm 4</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness!<br/>
You have given me relief when I was in distress.<br/>
Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame?<br/>
How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="3">3: But know that the Lord has set apart the godly for himself;<br/>
the Lord hears when I call to him.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Be angry, and do not sin;<br/>
ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Offer right sacrifices,<br/>
and put your trust in the Lord.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: There are many who say, “Who will show us some good?<br/>
Lift up the light of your face upon us, O Lord!”</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: You have put more joy in my heart<br/>
than they have when their grain and wine abound.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: In peace I will both lie down and sleep;<br/>
for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.</p>
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<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.5">Psalm 5</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Give ear to my words, O Lord;<br/>
consider my groaning.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Give attention to the sound of my cry,<br/>
my King and my God,<br/>
for to you do I pray.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice;<br/>
in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: For you are not a God who delights in wickedness;<br/>
evil may not dwell with you.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: The boastful shall not stand before your eyes;<br/>
you hate all evildoers.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: You destroy those who speak lies;<br/>
the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love,<br/>
will enter your house.<br/>
I will bow down toward your holy temple<br/>
in the fear of you.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Lead me, O Lord, in your righteousness<br/>
because of my enemies;<br/>
make your way straight before me.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: For there is no truth in their mouth;<br/>
their inmost self is destruction;<br/>
their throat is an open grave;<br/>
they flatter with their tongue.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Make them bear their guilt, O God;<br/>
let them fall by their own counsels;<br/>
because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out,<br/>
for they have rebelled against you.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: But let all who take refuge in you rejoice;<br/>
let them ever sing for joy,<br/>
and spread your protection over them,<br/>
that those who love your name may exult in you.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: For you bless the righteous, O Lord;<br/>
you cover him with favor as with a shield.</p>
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<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.6">Psalm 6</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger,<br/>
nor discipline me in your wrath.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing;<br/>
heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: My soul also is greatly troubled.<br/>
But you, O Lord—how long?</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Turn, O Lord, deliver my life;<br/>
save me for the sake of your steadfast love.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: For in death there is no remembrance of you;<br/>
in Sheol who will give you praise?</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: I am weary with my moaning;<br/>
every night I flood my bed with tears;<br/>
I drench my couch with my weeping.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: My eye wastes away because of grief;<br/>
it grows weak because of all my foes.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Depart from me, all you workers of evil,<br/>
for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: The Lord has heard my plea;<br/>
the Lord accepts my prayer.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled;<br/>
they shall turn back and be put to shame in a moment.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.7">Psalm 7</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: O Lord my God, in you do I take refuge;<br/>
save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: lest like a lion they tear my soul apart,<br/>
rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: O Lord my God, if I have done this,<br/>
if there is wrong in my hands,</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: if I have repaid my friend with evil<br/>
or plundered my enemy without cause,</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,<br/>
and let him trample my life to the ground<br/>
and lay my glory in the dust. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Arise, O Lord, in your anger;<br/>
lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;<br/>
awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;<br/>
over it return on high.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: The Lord judges the peoples;<br/>
judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness<br/>
and according to the integrity that is in me.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,<br/>
and may you establish the righteous—<br/>
you who test the minds and hearts,<br/>
O righteous God!</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: My shield is with God,<br/>
who saves the upright in heart.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: God is a righteous judge,<br/>
and a God who feels indignation every day.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword;<br/>
he has bent and readied his bow;</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,<br/>
making his arrows fiery shafts.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: Behold, the wicked man conceives evil<br/>
and is pregnant with mischief<br/>
and gives birth to lies.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: He makes a pit, digging it out,<br/>
and falls into the hole that he has made.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: His mischief returns upon his own head,<br/>
and on his own skull his violence descends.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness,<br/>
and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.8">Psalm 8</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: O Lord, our Lord,<br/>
how majestic is your name in all the earth!<br/>
You have set your glory above the heavens.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: <br/>
Out of the mouth of babes and infants,<br/>
you have established strength because of your foes,<br/>
to still the enemy and the avenger.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,<br/>
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: what is man that you are mindful of him,<br/>
and the son of man that you care for him?</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings<br/>
and crowned him with glory and honor.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;<br/>
you have put all things under his feet,</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: all sheep and oxen,<br/>
and also the beasts of the field,</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,<br/>
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: O Lord, our Lord,<br/>
how majestic is your name in all the earth!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.9">Psalm 9</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;<br/>
I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: I will be glad and exult in you;<br/>
I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: When my enemies turn back,<br/>
they stumble and perish before your presence.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: For you have maintained my just cause;<br/>
you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish;<br/>
you have blotted out their name forever and ever.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins;<br/>
their cities you rooted out;<br/>
the very memory of them has perished.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: But the Lord sits enthroned forever;<br/>
he has established his throne for justice,</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: and he judges the world with righteousness;<br/>
he judges the peoples with uprightness.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed,<br/>
a stronghold in times of trouble.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: And those who know your name put their trust in you,<br/>
for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Sing praises to the Lord, who sits enthroned in Zion!<br/>
Tell among the peoples his deeds!</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: For he who avenges blood is mindful of them;<br/>
he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: Be gracious to me, O Lord!<br/>
See my affliction from those who hate me,<br/>
O you who lift me up from the gates of death,</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: that I may recount all your praises,<br/>
that in the gates of the daughter of Zion<br/>
I may rejoice in your salvation.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: The nations have sunk in the pit that they made;<br/>
in the net that they hid their own foot has been caught.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: The Lord has made himself known; he has executed judgment;<br/>
the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. <em class="selah">Higgaion. Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="17">17: The wicked shall return to Sheol,<br/>
all the nations that forget God.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: For the needy shall not always be forgotten,<br/>
and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: Arise, O Lord! Let not man prevail;<br/>
let the nations be judged before you!</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: Put them in fear, O Lord!<br/>
Let the nations know that they are but men! <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.10">Psalm 10</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Why, O Lord, do you stand afar off?<br/>
Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor;<br/>
let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul,<br/>
and the one greedy for gain curses and renounces the Lord.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him;<br/>
all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: His ways prosper at all times;<br/>
your judgments are on high, out of his sight;<br/>
as for all his foes, he puffs at them.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: He says in his heart, “I shall not be moved;<br/>
throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity.”</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression;<br/>
under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: He sits in ambush in the villages;<br/>
in hiding places he murders the innocent.<br/>
His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: <br/>
he lurks in ambush like a lion in his thicket;<br/>
he lurks that he may seize the poor;<br/>
he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: The helpless are crushed, sink down,<br/>
and fall by his might.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: He says in his heart, “God has forgotten,<br/>
he has hidden his face, he will never see it.”</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand;<br/>
forget not the afflicted.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: Why does the wicked renounce God<br/>
and say in his heart, “You will not call to account”?</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation,<br/>
that you may take it into your hands;<br/>
to you the helpless commits himself;<br/>
you have been the helper of the fatherless.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer;<br/>
call his wickedness to account till you find none.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: The Lord is king forever and ever;<br/>
the nations perish from his land.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted;<br/>
you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed,<br/>
so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.11">Psalm 11</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: In the Lord I take refuge;<br/>
how can you say to my soul,<br/>
“Flee like a bird to your mountain,</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: for behold, the wicked bend the bow;<br/>
they have fitted their arrow to the string<br/>
to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart;</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: if the foundations are destroyed,<br/>
what can the righteous do?”</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: The Lord is in his holy temple;<br/>
the Lord's throne is in heaven;<br/>
his eyes see, his eyelids test, the children of man.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: The Lord tests the righteous,<br/>
but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Let him rain coals on the wicked;<br/>
fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: For the Lord is righteous;<br/>
he loves righteous deeds;<br/>
the upright shall behold his face.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.12">Psalm 12</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Save, O Lord, for the godly one is gone;<br/>
for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Everyone utters lies to his neighbor;<br/>
with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: May the Lord cut off all flattering lips,<br/>
the tongue that makes great boasts,</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail,<br/>
our lips are with us; who is master over us?”</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: “Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan,<br/>
I will now arise,” says the Lord;<br/>
“I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: The words of the Lord are pure words,<br/>
like silver refined in a furnace on the ground,<br/>
purified seven times.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: You, O Lord, will keep them;<br/>
you will guard us from this generation forever.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: On every side the wicked prowl,<br/>
as vileness is exalted among the children of man.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.13">Psalm 13</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever?<br/>
How long will you hide your face from me?</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: How long must I take counsel in my soul<br/>
and have sorrow in my heart all the day?<br/>
How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Consider and answer me, O Lord my God;<br/>
light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed over him,”<br/>
lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: But I have trusted in your steadfast love;<br/>
my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: I will sing to the Lord,<br/>
because he has dealt bountifully with me.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.14">Psalm 14</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”<br/>
They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds,<br/>
there is none who does good.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man,<br/>
to see if there are any who understand,<br/>
who seek after God.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt;<br/>
there is none who does good,<br/>
not even one.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers<br/>
who eat up my people as they eat bread<br/>
and do not call upon the Lord?</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: There they are in great terror,<br/>
for God is with the generation of the righteous.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: You would shame the plans of the poor,<br/>
but the Lord is his refuge.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!<br/>
When the Lord restores the fortunes of his people,<br/>
let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.15">Psalm 15</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent?<br/>
Who shall dwell on your holy hill?</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: He who walks blamelessly and does what is right<br/>
and speaks truth in his heart;</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: who does not slander with his tongue<br/>
and does no evil to his neighbor,<br/>
nor takes up a reproach against his friend;</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: in whose eyes a vile person is despised,<br/>
but who honors those who fear the Lord;<br/>
who swears to his own hurt and does not change;</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: who does not put out his money at interest<br/>
and does not take a bribe against the innocent.<br/>
He who does these things shall never be moved.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.16">Psalm 16</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;<br/>
I have no good apart from you.”</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones,<br/>
in whom is all my delight.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply;<br/>
their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out<br/>
or take their names on my lips.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup;<br/>
you hold my lot.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;<br/>
indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: I bless the Lord who gives me counsel;<br/>
in the night also my heart instructs me.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: I have set the Lord always before me;<br/>
because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices;<br/>
my flesh also dwells secure.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol,<br/>
or let your holy one see corruption.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: You make known to me the path of life;<br/>
in your presence there is fullness of joy;<br/>
at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.17">Psalm 17</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Hear a just cause, O Lord; attend to my cry!<br/>
Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: From your presence let my vindication come!<br/>
Let your eyes behold the right!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night,<br/>
you have tested me, and you will find nothing;<br/>
I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: With regard to the works of man, by the word of your lips<br/>
I have avoided the ways of the violent.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: My steps have held fast to your paths;<br/>
my feet have not slipped.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God;<br/>
incline your ear to me; hear my words.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Wondrously show your steadfast love,<br/>
O Savior of those who seek refuge<br/>
from their adversaries at your right hand.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Keep me as the apple of your eye;<br/>
hide me in the shadow of your wings,</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: from the wicked who do me violence,<br/>
my deadly enemies who surround me.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: They close their hearts to pity;<br/>
with their mouths they speak arrogantly.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: They have now surrounded our steps;<br/>
they set their eyes to cast us to the ground.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: He is like a lion eager to tear,<br/>
as a young lion lurking in ambush.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: Arise, O Lord! Confront him, subdue him!<br/>
Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword,</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: from men by your hand, O Lord,<br/>
from men of the world whose portion is in this life.<br/>
You fill their womb with treasure;<br/>
they are satisfied with children,<br/>
and they leave their abundance to their infants.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness;<br/>
when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.18">Psalm 18</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: I love you, O Lord, my strength.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,<br/>
my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge,<br/>
my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised,<br/>
and I am saved from my enemies.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: The cords of death encompassed me;<br/>
the torrents of destruction assailed me;</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: the cords of Sheol entangled me;<br/>
the snares of death confronted me.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: In my distress I called upon the Lord;<br/>
to my God I cried for help.<br/>
From his temple he heard my voice,<br/>
and my cry to him reached his ears.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Then the earth reeled and rocked;<br/>
the foundations also of the mountains trembled<br/>
and quaked, because he was angry.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Smoke went up from his nostrils,<br/>
and devouring fire from his mouth;<br/>
glowing coals flamed forth from him.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: He bowed the heavens and came down;<br/>
thick darkness was under his feet.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: He rode on a cherub and flew;<br/>
he came swiftly on the wings of the wind.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him,<br/>
thick clouds dark with water.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Out of the brightness before him<br/>
hailstones and coals of fire broke through his clouds.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: The Lord also thundered in the heavens,<br/>
and the Most High uttered his voice,<br/>
hailstones and coals of fire.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: And he sent out his arrows and scattered them;<br/>
he flashed forth lightnings and routed them.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: Then the channels of the sea were seen,<br/>
and the foundations of the world were laid bare<br/>
at your rebuke, O Lord,<br/>
at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: He sent from on high, he took me;<br/>
he drew me out of many waters.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: He rescued me from my strong enemy<br/>
and from those who hated me,<br/>
for they were too mighty for me.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: They confronted me in the day of my calamity,<br/>
but the Lord was my support.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: He brought me out into a broad place;<br/>
he rescued me, because he delighted in me.</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: The Lord dealt with me according to my righteousness;<br/>
according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: For I have kept the ways of the Lord,<br/>
and have not wickedly departed from my God.</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: For all his rules were before me,<br/>
and his statutes I did not put away from me.</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: I was blameless before him,<br/>
and I kept myself from my guilt.</p>
<p data-verse="24">24: So the Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness,<br/>
according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.</p>
<p data-verse="25">25: With the merciful you show yourself merciful;<br/>
with the blameless man you show yourself blameless;</p>
<p data-verse="26">26: with the purified you show yourself pure;<br/>
and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.</p>
<p data-verse="27">27: For you save a humble people,<br/>
but the haughty eyes you bring down.</p>
<p data-verse="28">28: For it is you who light my lamp;<br/>
the Lord my God lightens my darkness.</p>
<p data-verse="29">29: For by you I can run against a troop,<br/>
and by my God I can leap over a wall.</p>
<p data-verse="30">30: This God—his way is perfect;<br/>
the word of the Lord proves true;<br/>
he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.</p>
<p data-verse="31">31: For who is God, but the Lord?<br/>
And who is a rock, except our God?—</p>
<p data-verse="32">32: the God who equipped me with strength<br/>
and made my way blameless.</p>
<p data-verse="33">33: He made my feet like the feet of a deer<br/>
and set me secure on the heights.</p>
<p data-verse="34">34: He trains my hands for war,<br/>
so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.</p>
<p data-verse="35">35: You have given me the shield of your salvation,<br/>
and your right hand supported me,<br/>
and your gentleness made me great.</p>
<p data-verse="36">36: You gave a wide place for my steps under me,<br/>
and my feet did not slip.</p>
<p data-verse="37">37: I pursued my enemies and overtook them,<br/>
and did not turn back till they were consumed.</p>
<p data-verse="38">38: I thrust them through, so that they were not able to rise;<br/>
they fell under my feet.</p>
<p data-verse="39">39: For you equipped me with strength for the battle;<br/>
you made those who rise against me sink under me.</p>
<p data-verse="40">40: You made my enemies turn their backs to me,<br/>
and those who hated me I destroyed.</p>
<p data-verse="41">41: They cried for help, but there was none to save;<br/>
they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.</p>
<p data-verse="42">42: I beat them fine as dust before the wind;<br/>
I cast them out like the mire of the streets.</p>
<p data-verse="43">43: You delivered me from strife with the people;<br/>
you made me the head of the nations;<br/>
people whom I had not known served me.</p>
<p data-verse="44">44: As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me;<br/>
foreigners came cringing to me.</p>
<p data-verse="45">45: Foreigners lost heart<br/>
and came trembling out of their fortresses.</p>
<p data-verse="46">46: The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock,<br/>
and exalted be the God of my salvation—</p>
<p data-verse="47">47: the God who gave me vengeance<br/>
and subdued peoples under me,</p>
<p data-verse="48">48: who delivered me from my enemies;<br/>
yes, you exalted me above those who rose against me;<br/>
you rescued me from the man of violence.</p>
<p data-verse="49">49: For this I will praise you, O Lord, among the nations,<br/>
and sing to your name.</p>
<p data-verse="50">50: Great salvation he brings to his king,<br/>
and shows steadfast love to his anointed,<br/>
to David and his offspring forever.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.19">Psalm 19</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: The heavens declare the glory of God,<br/>
and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Day to day pours out speech,<br/>
and night to night reveals knowledge.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: There is no speech, nor are there words,<br/>
whose voice is not heard.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Their measuring line goes out through all the earth,<br/>
and their words to the end of the world.<br/>
In them he has set a tent for the sun,</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: <br/>
which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber,<br/>
and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Its rising is from the end of the heavens,<br/>
and its circuit to the end of them,<br/>
and there is nothing hidden from its heat.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: The law of the Lord is perfect,<br/>
reviving the soul;<br/>
the testimony of the Lord is sure,<br/>
making wise the simple;</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: the precepts of the Lord are right,<br/>
rejoicing the heart;<br/>
the commandment of the Lord is pure,<br/>
enlightening the eyes;</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: the fear of the Lord is clean,<br/>
enduring forever;<br/>
the rules of the Lord are true,<br/>
and righteous altogether.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: More to be desired are they than gold,<br/>
even much fine gold;<br/>
sweeter also than honey<br/>
and drippings of the honeycomb.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Moreover, by them is your servant warned;<br/>
in keeping them there is great reward.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Who can discern his errors?<br/>
Declare me innocent from hidden faults.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins;<br/>
let them not have dominion over me!<br/>
Then I shall be blameless,<br/>
and innocent of great transgression.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart<br/>
be acceptable in your sight,<br/>
O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.20">Psalm 20</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble!<br/>
May the name of the God of Jacob protect you!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: May he send you help from the sanctuary<br/>
and give you support from Zion!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: May he remember all your offerings<br/>
and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="4">4: May he grant you your heart's desire<br/>
and fulfill all your plans!</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: May we shout for joy over your salvation,<br/>
and in the name of our God set up our banners!<br/>
May the Lord fulfill all your petitions!</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed;<br/>
he will answer him from his holy heaven<br/>
with the saving might of his right hand.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Some trust in chariots and some in horses,<br/>
but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: They collapse and fall,<br/>
but we rise and stand upright.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: O Lord, save the king!<br/>
May he answer us when we call.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.21">Psalm 21</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: O Lord, in your strength the king rejoices,<br/>
and in your salvation how greatly he exults!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: You have given him his heart's desire<br/>
and have not withheld the request of his lips. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="3">3: For you meet him with rich blessings;<br/>
you set a crown of fine gold upon his head.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: He asked life of you; you gave it to him,<br/>
length of days forever and ever.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: His glory is great through your salvation;<br/>
splendor and majesty you bestow on him.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: For you make him most blessed forever;<br/>
you make him glad with the joy of your presence.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: For the king trusts in the Lord,<br/>
and through the steadfast love of the Most High he shall not be moved.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Your hand will find out all your enemies;<br/>
your right hand will find out those who hate you.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: You will make them as a blazing oven<br/>
when you appear.<br/>
The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath,<br/>
and fire will consume them.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: You will destroy their descendants from the earth,<br/>
and their offspring from among the children of man.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Though they plan evil against you,<br/>
though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: For you will put them to flight;<br/>
you will aim at their faces with your bows.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: Be exalted, O Lord, in your strength!<br/>
We will sing and praise your power.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.22">Psalm 22</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?<br/>
Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer,<br/>
and by night, but I find no rest.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Yet you are holy,<br/>
enthroned on the praises of Israel.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: In you our fathers trusted;<br/>
they trusted, and you delivered them.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: To you they cried and were rescued;<br/>
in you they trusted and were not put to shame.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: But I am a worm and not a man,<br/>
scorned by mankind and despised by the people.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: All who see me mock me;<br/>
they make mouths at me; they wag their heads;</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: “He trusts in the Lord; let him deliver him;<br/>
let him rescue him, for he delights in him!”</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Yet you are he who took me from the womb;<br/>
you made me trust you at my mother's breasts.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: On you was I cast from my birth,<br/>
and from my mother's womb you have been my God.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Be not far from me,<br/>
for trouble is near,<br/>
and there is none to help.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Many bulls encompass me;<br/>
strong bulls of Bashan surround me;</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: they open wide their mouths at me,<br/>
like a ravening and roaring lion.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: I am poured out like water,<br/>
and all my bones are out of joint;<br/>
my heart is like wax;<br/>
it is melted within my breast;</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: my strength is dried up like a potsherd,<br/>
and my tongue sticks to my jaws;<br/>
you lay me in the dust of death.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: For dogs encompass me;<br/>
a company of evildoers encircles me;<br/>
they have pierced my hands and feet—</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: I can count all my bones—<br/>
they stare and gloat over me;</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: they divide my garments among them,<br/>
and for my clothing they cast lots.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: But you, O Lord, do not be far off!<br/>
O you my help, come quickly to my aid!</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: Deliver my soul from the sword,<br/>
my precious life from the power of the dog!</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: <br/>
Save me from the mouth of the lion!<br/>
You have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen!</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: I will tell of your name to my brothers;<br/>
in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: You who fear the Lord, praise him!<br/>
All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him,<br/>
and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!</p>
<p data-verse="24">24: For he has not despised or abhorred<br/>
the affliction of the afflicted,<br/>
and he has not hidden his face from him,<br/>
but has heard, when he cried to him.</p>
<p data-verse="25">25: From you comes my praise in the great congregation;<br/>
my vows I will perform before those who fear him.</p>
<p data-verse="26">26: The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied;<br/>
those who seek him shall praise the Lord!<br/>
May your hearts live forever!</p>
<p data-verse="27">27: All the ends of the earth shall remember<br/>
and turn to the Lord,<br/>
and all the families of the nations<br/>
shall worship before you.</p>
<p data-verse="28">28: For kingship belongs to the Lord,<br/>
and he rules over the nations.</p>
<p data-verse="29">29: All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship;<br/>
before him shall bow all who go down to the dust,<br/>
even the one who could not keep himself alive.</p>
<p data-verse="30">30: Posterity shall serve him;<br/>
it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation;</p>
<p data-verse="31">31: they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn,<br/>
that he has done it.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.23">Psalm 23</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: <br/>
He makes me lie down in green pastures.<br/>
He leads me beside still waters.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: <br/>
He restores my soul.<br/>
He leads me in paths of righteousness<br/>
for his name's sake.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,<br/>
I will fear no evil,<br/>
for you are with me;<br/>
your rod and your staff,<br/>
they comfort me.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: You prepare a table before me<br/>
in the presence of my enemies;<br/>
you anoint my head with oil;<br/>
my cup overflows.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me<br/>
all the days of my life,<br/>
and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord<br/>
forever.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.24">Psalm 24</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof,<br/>
the world and those who dwell therein,</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: for he has founded it upon the seas<br/>
and established it upon the rivers.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord?<br/>
And who shall stand in his holy place?</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: He who has clean hands and a pure heart,<br/>
who does not lift up his soul to what is false<br/>
and does not swear deceitfully.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: He will receive blessing from the Lord<br/>
and righteousness from the God of his salvation.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Such is the generation of those who seek him,<br/>
who seek the face of the God of Jacob. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Lift up your heads, O gates!<br/>
And be lifted up, O ancient doors,<br/>
that the King of glory may come in.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Who is this King of glory?<br/>
The Lord, strong and mighty,<br/>
the Lord, mighty in battle!</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Lift up your heads, O gates!<br/>
And lift them up, O ancient doors,<br/>
that the King of glory may come in.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Who is this King of glory?<br/>
The Lord of hosts,<br/>
he is the King of glory! <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.25">Psalm 25</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: O my God, in you I trust;<br/>
let me not be put to shame;<br/>
let not my enemies exult over me.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame;<br/>
they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Make me to know your ways, O Lord;<br/>
teach me your paths.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Lead me in your truth and teach me,<br/>
for you are the God of my salvation;<br/>
for you I wait all the day long.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Remember your mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love,<br/>
for they have been from of old.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions;<br/>
according to your steadfast love remember me,<br/>
for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Good and upright is the Lord;<br/>
therefore he instructs sinners in the way.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: He leads the humble in what is right,<br/>
and teaches the humble his way.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness,<br/>
for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: For your name's sake, O Lord,<br/>
pardon my guilt, for it is great.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Who is the man who fears the Lord?<br/>
Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: His soul shall abide in well-being,<br/>
and his offspring shall inherit the land.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him,<br/>
and he makes known to them his covenant.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: My eyes are ever toward the Lord,<br/>
for he will pluck my feet out of the net.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: Turn to me and be gracious to me,<br/>
for I am lonely and afflicted.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: The troubles of my heart are enlarged;<br/>
bring me out of my distresses.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: Consider my affliction and my trouble,<br/>
and forgive all my sins.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: Consider how many are my foes,<br/>
and with what violent hatred they hate me.</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: Oh, guard my soul, and deliver me!<br/>
Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: May integrity and uprightness preserve me,<br/>
for I wait for you.</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: Redeem Israel, O God,<br/>
out of all his troubles.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.26">Psalm 26</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Vindicate me, O Lord,<br/>
for I have walked in my integrity,<br/>
and I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Prove me, O Lord, and try me;<br/>
test my heart and my mind.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: For your steadfast love is before my eyes,<br/>
and I walk in your faithfulness.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: I do not sit with men of falsehood,<br/>
nor do I consort with hypocrites.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: I hate the assembly of evildoers,<br/>
and I will not sit with the wicked.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: I wash my hands in innocence<br/>
and go around your altar, O Lord,</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: proclaiming thanksgiving aloud,<br/>
and telling all your wondrous deeds.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: O Lord, I love the habitation of your house<br/>
and the place where your glory dwells.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Do not sweep my soul away with sinners,<br/>
nor my life with bloodthirsty men,</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: in whose hands are evil devices,<br/>
and whose right hands are full of bribes.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity;<br/>
redeem me, and be gracious to me.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: My foot stands on level ground;<br/>
in the great assembly I will bless the Lord.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.27">Psalm 27</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: The Lord is my light and my salvation;<br/>
whom shall I fear?<br/>
The Lord is the stronghold of my life;<br/>
of whom shall I be afraid?</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: When evildoers assail me<br/>
to eat up my flesh,<br/>
my adversaries and foes,<br/>
it is they who stumble and fall.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Though an army encamp against me,<br/>
my heart shall not fear;<br/>
though war arise against me,<br/>
yet I will be confident.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: One thing have I asked of the Lord,<br/>
that will I seek after:<br/>
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord<br/>
all the days of my life,<br/>
to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord<br/>
and to inquire in his temple.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: For he will hide me in his shelter<br/>
in the day of trouble;<br/>
he will conceal me under the cover of his tent;<br/>
he will lift me high upon a rock.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: And now my head shall be lifted up<br/>
above my enemies all around me,<br/>
and I will offer in his tent<br/>
sacrifices with shouts of joy;<br/>
I will sing and make melody to the Lord.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud;<br/>
be gracious to me and answer me!</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: You have said, “Seek my face.”<br/>
My heart says to you,<br/>
“Your face, Lord, do I seek.”</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: <br/>
Hide not your face from me.<br/>
Turn not your servant away in anger,<br/>
O you who have been my help.<br/>
Cast me not off; forsake me not,<br/>
O God of my salvation!</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: For my father and my mother have forsaken me,<br/>
but the Lord will take me in.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Teach me your way, O Lord,<br/>
and lead me on a level path<br/>
because of my enemies.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Give me not up to the will of my adversaries;<br/>
for false witnesses have risen against me,<br/>
and they breathe out violence.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord<br/>
in the land of the living!</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: Wait for the Lord;<br/>
be strong, and let your heart take courage;<br/>
wait for the Lord!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.28">Psalm 28</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: To you, O Lord, I call;<br/>
my rock, be not deaf to me,<br/>
lest, if you be silent to me,<br/>
I become like those who go down to the pit.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy,<br/>
when I cry to you for help,<br/>
when I lift up my hands<br/>
toward your most holy sanctuary.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Do not drag me off with the wicked,<br/>
with the workers of evil,<br/>
who speak peace with their neighbors<br/>
while evil is in their hearts.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Give to them according to their work<br/>
and according to the evil of their deeds;<br/>
give to them according to the work of their hands;<br/>
render them their due reward.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Because they do not regard the works of the Lord<br/>
or the work of his hands,<br/>
he will tear them down and build them up no more.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Blessed be the Lord!<br/>
for he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: The Lord is my strength and my shield;<br/>
in him my heart trusts, and I am helped;<br/>
my heart exults,<br/>
and with my song I give thanks to him.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: The Lord is the strength of his people;<br/>
he is the saving refuge of his anointed.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Oh, save your people and bless your heritage!<br/>
Be their shepherd and carry them forever.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.29">Psalm 29</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Ascribe to the Lord, O heavenly beings,<br/>
ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name;<br/>
worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: The voice of the Lord is over the waters;<br/>
the God of glory thunders,<br/>
the Lord, over many waters.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: The voice of the Lord is powerful;<br/>
the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars;<br/>
the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf,<br/>
and Sirion like a young wild ox.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: The voice of the Lord flashes forth flames of fire.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness;<br/>
the Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: The voice of the Lord makes the deer give birth<br/>
and strips the forests bare,<br/>
and in his temple all cry, “Glory!”</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: The Lord sits enthroned over the flood;<br/>
the Lord sits enthroned as king forever.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: May the Lord give strength to his people!<br/>
May the Lord bless his people with peace!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.30">Psalm 30</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: I will extol you, O Lord, for you have drawn me up<br/>
and have not let my foes rejoice over me.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: O Lord my God, I cried to you for help,<br/>
and you have healed me.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: O Lord, you have brought up my soul from Sheol;<br/>
you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints,<br/>
and give thanks to his holy name.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: For his anger is but for a moment,<br/>
and his favor is for a lifetime.<br/>
Weeping may tarry for the night,<br/>
but joy comes with the morning.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: As for me, I said in my prosperity,<br/>
“I shall never be moved.”</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: By your favor, O Lord,<br/>
you made my mountain stand strong;<br/>
you hid your face;<br/>
I was dismayed.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: To you, O Lord, I cry,<br/>
and to the Lord I plead for mercy:</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: “What profit is there in my death,<br/>
if I go down to the pit?<br/>
Will the dust praise you?<br/>
Will it tell of your faithfulness?</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Hear, O Lord, and be merciful to me!<br/>
O Lord, be my helper!”</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;<br/>
you have loosed my sackcloth<br/>
and clothed me with gladness,</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent.<br/>
O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.31">Psalm 31</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;<br/>
let me never be put to shame;<br/>
in your righteousness deliver me!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Incline your ear to me;<br/>
rescue me speedily!<br/>
Be a rock of refuge for me,<br/>
a strong fortress to save me!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: For you are my rock and my fortress;<br/>
and for your name's sake you lead me and guide me;</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: you take me out of the net they have hidden for me,<br/>
for you are my refuge.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Into your hand I commit my spirit;<br/>
you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: I hate those who pay regard to worthless idols,<br/>
but I trust in the Lord.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love,<br/>
because you have seen my affliction;<br/>
you have known the distress of my soul,</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: and you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy;<br/>
you have set my feet in a broad place.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;<br/>
my eye is wasted from grief;<br/>
my soul and my body also.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: For my life is spent with sorrow,<br/>
and my years with sighing;<br/>
my strength fails because of my iniquity,<br/>
and my bones waste away.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach,<br/>
especially to my neighbors,<br/>
and an object of dread to my acquaintances;<br/>
those who see me in the street flee from me.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: I have been forgotten like one who is dead;<br/>
I have become like a broken vessel.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: For I hear the whispering of many—<br/>
terror on every side!—<br/>
as they scheme together against me,<br/>
as they plot to take my life.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: But I trust in you, O Lord;<br/>
I say, “You are my God.”</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: My times are in your hand;<br/>
rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: Make your face shine on your servant;<br/>
save me in your steadfast love!</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: O Lord, let me not be put to shame,<br/>
for I call upon you;<br/>
let the wicked be put to shame;<br/>
let them go silently to Sheol.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: Let the lying lips be mute,<br/>
which speak insolently against the righteous<br/>
in pride and contempt.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: Oh, how abundant is your goodness,<br/>
which you have stored up for those who fear you<br/>
and worked for those who take refuge in you,<br/>
in the sight of the children of mankind!</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: In the cover of your presence you hide them<br/>
from the plots of men;<br/>
you store them in your shelter<br/>
from the strife of tongues.</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: Blessed be the Lord,<br/>
for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me<br/>
when I was in a besieged city.</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: I had said in my alarm,<br/>
“I am cut off from your sight.”<br/>
But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy<br/>
when I cried to you for help.</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: Love the Lord, all you his saints!<br/>
The Lord preserves the faithful<br/>
but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.</p>
<p data-verse="24">24: Be strong, and let your heart take courage,<br/>
all you who wait for the Lord!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.32">Psalm 32</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven,<br/>
whose sin is covered.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity,<br/>
and in whose spirit there is no deceit.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away<br/>
through my groaning all day long.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;<br/>
my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="5">5: I acknowledged my sin to you,<br/>
and I did not cover my iniquity;<br/>
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”<br/>
and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Therefore let everyone who is godly<br/>
offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found;<br/>
surely in the rush of great waters,<br/>
they shall not reach him.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: You are a hiding place for me;<br/>
you preserve me from trouble;<br/>
you surround me with shouts of deliverance. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="8">8: I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;<br/>
I will counsel you with my eye upon you.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding,<br/>
which must be curbed with bit and bridle,<br/>
or it will not stay near you.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Many are the sorrows of the wicked,<br/>
but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous,<br/>
and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.33">Psalm 33</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Shout for joy in the Lord, O you righteous!<br/>
Praise befits the upright.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre;<br/>
make melody to him with the harp of ten strings!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Sing to him a new song;<br/>
play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: For the word of the Lord is upright,<br/>
and all his work is done in faithfulness.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: He loves righteousness and justice;<br/>
the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,<br/>
and by the breath of his mouth all their host.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap;<br/>
he puts the deeps in storehouses.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Let all the earth fear the Lord;<br/>
let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: For he spoke, and it came to be;<br/>
he commanded, and it stood firm.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;<br/>
he frustrates the plans of the peoples.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: The counsel of the Lord stands forever,<br/>
the plans of his heart to all generations.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,<br/>
the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: The Lord looks down from heaven;<br/>
he sees all the children of man;</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: from where he sits enthroned he looks out<br/>
on all the inhabitants of the earth,</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: he who fashions the hearts of them all<br/>
and observes all their deeds.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: The king is not saved by his great army;<br/>
a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: The war horse is a false hope for salvation,<br/>
and by its great might it cannot rescue.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him,<br/>
on those who hope in his steadfast love,</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: that he may deliver their soul from death<br/>
and keep them alive in famine.</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: Our soul waits for the Lord;<br/>
he is our help and our shield.</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: For our heart is glad in him,<br/>
because we trust in his holy name.</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us,<br/>
even as we hope in you.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.34">Psalm 34</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: I will bless the Lord at all times;<br/>
his praise shall continually be in my mouth.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: My soul makes its boast in the Lord;<br/>
let the humble hear and be glad.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Oh, magnify the Lord with me,<br/>
and let us exalt his name together!</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: I sought the Lord, and he answered me<br/>
and delivered me from all my fears.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Those who look to him are radiant,<br/>
and their faces shall never be ashamed.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him<br/>
and saved him out of all his troubles.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: The angel of the Lord encamps<br/>
around those who fear him, and delivers them.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!<br/>
Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints,<br/>
for those who fear him have no lack!</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: The young lions suffer want and hunger;<br/>
but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Come, O children, listen to me;<br/>
I will teach you the fear of the Lord.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: What man is there who desires life<br/>
and loves many days, that he may see good?</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: Keep your tongue from evil<br/>
and your lips from speaking deceit.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: Turn away from evil and do good;<br/>
seek peace and pursue it.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous<br/>
and his ears toward their cry.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: The face of the Lord is against those who do evil,<br/>
to cut off the memory of them from the earth.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears<br/>
and delivers them out of all their troubles.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: The Lord is near to the brokenhearted<br/>
and saves the crushed in spirit.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: Many are the afflictions of the righteous,<br/>
but the Lord delivers him out of them all.</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: He keeps all his bones;<br/>
not one of them is broken.</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: Affliction will slay the wicked,<br/>
and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: The Lord redeems the life of his servants;<br/>
none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.35">Psalm 35</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Contend, O Lord, with those who contend with me;<br/>
fight against those who fight against me!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Take hold of shield and buckler<br/>
and rise for my help!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Draw the spear and javelin<br/>
against my pursuers!<br/>
Say to my soul,<br/>
“I am your salvation!”</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Let them be put to shame and dishonor<br/>
who seek after my life!<br/>
Let them be turned back and disappointed<br/>
who devise evil against me!</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Let them be like chaff before the wind,<br/>
with the angel of the Lord driving them away!</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Let their way be dark and slippery,<br/>
with the angel of the Lord pursuing them!</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: For without cause they hid their net for me;<br/>
without cause they dug a pit for my life.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Let destruction come upon him when he does not know it!<br/>
And let the net that he hid ensnare him;<br/>
let him fall into it—to his destruction!</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Then my soul will rejoice in the Lord,<br/>
exulting in his salvation.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: All my bones shall say,<br/>
“O Lord, who is like you,<br/>
delivering the poor<br/>
from him who is too strong for him,<br/>
the poor and needy from him who robs him?”</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Malicious witnesses rise up;<br/>
they ask me of things that I do not know.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: They repay me evil for good;<br/>
my soul is bereft.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: But I, when they were sick—<br/>
I wore sackcloth;<br/>
I afflicted myself with fasting;<br/>
I prayed with head bowed on my chest.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: <br/>
I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother;<br/>
as one who laments his mother,<br/>
I bowed down in mourning.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered;<br/>
they gathered together against me;<br/>
wretches whom I did not know<br/>
tore at me without ceasing;</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: like profane mockers at a feast,<br/>
they gnash at me with their teeth.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: How long, O Lord, will you look on?<br/>
Rescue me from their destruction,<br/>
my precious life from the lions!</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: I will thank you in the great congregation;<br/>
in the mighty throng I will praise you.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: Let not those rejoice over me<br/>
who are wrongfully my foes,<br/>
and let not those wink the eye<br/>
who hate me without cause.</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: For they do not speak peace,<br/>
but against those who are quiet in the land<br/>
they devise words of deceit.</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: They open wide their mouths against me;<br/>
they say, “Aha, Aha!<br/>
our eyes have seen it!”</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: You have seen, O Lord; be not silent!<br/>
O Lord, be not far from me!</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: Awake and rouse yourself for my vindication,<br/>
for my cause, my God and my Lord!</p>
<p data-verse="24">24: Vindicate me, O Lord, my God,<br/>
according to your righteousness,<br/>
and let them not rejoice over me!</p>
<p data-verse="25">25: Let them not say in their hearts,<br/>
“Aha, our heart's desire!”<br/>
Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”</p>
<p data-verse="26">26: Let them be put to shame and disappointed altogether<br/>
who rejoice at my calamity!<br/>
Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor<br/>
who magnify themselves against me!</p>
<p data-verse="27">27: Let those who delight in my righteousness<br/>
shout for joy and be glad<br/>
and say evermore,<br/>
“Great is the Lord,<br/>
who delights in the welfare of his servant!”</p>
<p data-verse="28">28: Then my tongue shall tell of your righteousness<br/>
and of your praise all the day long.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.36">Psalm 36</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Transgression speaks to the wicked<br/>
deep in his heart;<br/>
there is no fear of God<br/>
before his eyes.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: For he flatters himself in his own eyes<br/>
that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: The words of his mouth are trouble and deceit;<br/>
he has ceased to act wisely and do good.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: He plots trouble while on his bed;<br/>
he sets himself in a way that is not good;<br/>
he does not reject evil.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens,<br/>
your faithfulness to the clouds.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Your righteousness is like the mountains of God;<br/>
your judgments are like the great deep;<br/>
man and beast you save, O Lord.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: How precious is your steadfast love, O God!<br/>
The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: They feast on the abundance of your house,<br/>
and you give them drink from the river of your delights.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: For with you is the fountain of life;<br/>
in your light do we see light.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Oh, continue your steadfast love to those who know you,<br/>
and your righteousness to the upright of heart!</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Let not the foot of arrogance come upon me,<br/>
nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: There the evildoers lie fallen;<br/>
they are thrust down, unable to rise.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.37">Psalm 37</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Fret not yourself because of evildoers;<br/>
be not envious of wrongdoers!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: For they will soon fade like the grass<br/>
and wither like the green herb.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Trust in the Lord, and do good;<br/>
dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Delight yourself in the Lord,<br/>
and he will give you the desires of your heart.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Commit your way to the Lord;<br/>
trust in him, and he will act.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,<br/>
and your justice as the noonday.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him;<br/>
fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way,<br/>
over the man who carries out evil devices!</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath!<br/>
Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: For the evildoers shall be cut off,<br/>
but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: In just a little while, the wicked will be no more;<br/>
though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: But the meek shall inherit the land<br/>
and delight themselves in abundant peace.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: The wicked plots against the righteous<br/>
and gnashes his teeth at him,</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: but the Lord laughs at the wicked,<br/>
for he sees that his day is coming.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows<br/>
to bring down the poor and needy,<br/>
to slay those whose way is upright;</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: their sword shall enter their own heart,<br/>
and their bows shall be broken.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: Better is the little that the righteous has<br/>
than the abundance of many wicked.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: For the arms of the wicked shall be broken,<br/>
but the Lord upholds the righteous.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: The Lord knows the days of the blameless,<br/>
and their heritage will remain forever;</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: they are not put to shame in evil times;<br/>
in the days of famine they have abundance.</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: But the wicked will perish;<br/>
the enemies of the Lord are like the glory of the pastures;<br/>
they vanish—like smoke they vanish away.</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: The wicked borrows but does not pay back,<br/>
but the righteous is generous and gives;</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: for those blessed by the Lord shall inherit the land,<br/>
but those cursed by him shall be cut off.</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: The steps of a man are established by the Lord,<br/>
when he delights in his way;</p>
<p data-verse="24">24: though he fall, he shall not be cast headlong,<br/>
for the Lord upholds his hand.</p>
<p data-verse="25">25: I have been young, and now am old,<br/>
yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken<br/>
or his children begging for bread.</p>
<p data-verse="26">26: He is ever lending generously,<br/>
and his children become a blessing.</p>
<p data-verse="27">27: Turn away from evil and do good;<br/>
so shall you dwell forever.</p>
<p data-verse="28">28: For the Lord loves justice;<br/>
he will not forsake his saints.<br/>
They are preserved forever,<br/>
but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.</p>
<p data-verse="29">29: The righteous shall inherit the land<br/>
and dwell upon it forever.</p>
<p data-verse="30">30: The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom,<br/>
and his tongue speaks justice.</p>
<p data-verse="31">31: The law of his God is in his heart;<br/>
his steps do not slip.</p>
<p data-verse="32">32: The wicked watches for the righteous<br/>
and seeks to put him to death.</p>
<p data-verse="33">33: The Lord will not abandon him to his power<br/>
or let him be condemned when he is brought to trial.</p>
<p data-verse="34">34: Wait for the Lord and keep his way,<br/>
and he will exalt you to inherit the land;<br/>
you will look on when the wicked are cut off.</p>
<p data-verse="35">35: I have seen a wicked, ruthless man,<br/>
spreading himself like a green laurel tree.</p>
<p data-verse="36">36: But he passed away, and behold, he was no more;<br/>
though I sought him, he could not be found.</p>
<p data-verse="37">37: Mark the blameless and behold the upright,<br/>
for there is a future for the man of peace.</p>
<p data-verse="38">38: But transgressors shall be altogether destroyed;<br/>
the future of the wicked shall be cut off.</p>
<p data-verse="39">39: The salvation of the righteous is from the Lord;<br/>
he is their stronghold in the time of trouble.</p>
<p data-verse="40">40: The Lord helps them and delivers them;<br/>
he delivers them from the wicked and saves them,<br/>
because they take refuge in him.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.38">Psalm 38</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger,<br/>
nor discipline me in your wrath!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: For your arrows have sunk into me,<br/>
and your hand has come down on me.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: There is no soundness in my flesh<br/>
because of your indignation;<br/>
there is no health in my bones<br/>
because of my sin.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: For my iniquities have gone over my head;<br/>
like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: My wounds stink and fester<br/>
because of my foolishness,</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: I am utterly bowed down and prostrate;<br/>
all the day I go about mourning.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: For my sides are filled with burning,<br/>
and there is no soundness in my flesh.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: I am feeble and crushed;<br/>
I groan because of the tumult of my heart.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: O Lord, all my longing is before you;<br/>
my sighing is not hidden from you.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: My heart throbs; my strength fails me,<br/>
and the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague,<br/>
and my nearest kin stand far off.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Those who seek my life lay their snares;<br/>
those who seek my hurt speak of ruin<br/>
and meditate treachery all day long.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear,<br/>
like a mute man who does not open his mouth.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: I have become like a man who does not hear,<br/>
and in whose mouth are no rebukes.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: But for you, O Lord, do I wait;<br/>
it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: For I said, “Only let them not rejoice over me,<br/>
who boast against me when my foot slips!”</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: For I am ready to fall,<br/>
and my pain is ever before me.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: I confess my iniquity;<br/>
I am sorry for my sin.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty,<br/>
and many are those who hate me wrongfully.</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: Those who render me evil for good<br/>
accuse me because I follow after good.</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: Do not forsake me, O Lord!<br/>
O my God, be not far from me!</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: Make haste to help me,<br/>
O Lord, my salvation!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.39">Psalm 39</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: I said, “I will guard my ways,<br/>
that I may not sin with my tongue;<br/>
I will guard my mouth with a muzzle,<br/>
so long as the wicked are in my presence.”</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: I was mute and silent;<br/>
I held my peace to no avail,<br/>
and my distress grew worse.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: <br/>
My heart became hot within me.<br/>
As I mused, the fire burned;<br/>
then I spoke with my tongue:</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: “O Lord, make me know my end<br/>
and what is the measure of my days;<br/>
let me know how fleeting I am!</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths,<br/>
and my lifetime is as nothing before you.<br/>
Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="6">6: <br/>
Surely a man goes about as a shadow!<br/>
Surely for nothing they are in turmoil;<br/>
man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: “And now, O Lord, for what do I wait?<br/>
My hope is in you.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Deliver me from all my transgressions.<br/>
Do not make me the scorn of the fool!</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: I am mute; I do not open my mouth,<br/>
for it is you who have done it.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Remove your stroke from me;<br/>
I am spent by the hostility of your hand.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: When you discipline a man<br/>
with rebukes for sin,<br/>
you consume like a moth what is dear to him;<br/>
surely all mankind is a mere breath! <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="12">12: “Hear my prayer, O Lord,<br/>
and give ear to my cry;<br/>
hold not your peace at my tears!<br/>
For I am a sojourner with you,<br/>
a guest, like all my fathers.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: Look away from me, that I may smile again,<br/>
before I depart and am no more!”</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.40">Psalm 40</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: I waited patiently for the Lord;<br/>
he inclined to me and heard my cry.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: He drew me up from the pit of destruction,<br/>
out of the miry bog,<br/>
and set my feet upon a rock,<br/>
making my steps secure.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: He put a new song in my mouth,<br/>
a song of praise to our God.<br/>
Many will see and fear,<br/>
and put their trust in the Lord.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Blessed is the man who makes<br/>
the Lord his trust,<br/>
who does not turn to the proud,<br/>
to those who go astray after a lie!</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: You have multiplied, O Lord my God,<br/>
your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us;<br/>
none can compare with you!<br/>
I will proclaim and tell of them,<br/>
yet they are more than can be told.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Sacrifice and offering you have not desired,<br/>
but you have given me an open ear.<br/>
Burnt offering and sin offering<br/>
you have not required.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Then I said, “Behold, I have come;<br/>
in the scroll of the book it is written of me:</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: I desire to do your will, O my God;<br/>
your law is within my heart.”</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: I have told the glad news of deliverance<br/>
in the great congregation;<br/>
behold, I have not restrained my lips,<br/>
as you know, O Lord.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart;<br/>
I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation;<br/>
I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness<br/>
from the great congregation.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: As for you, O Lord, you will not restrain<br/>
your mercy from me;<br/>
your steadfast love and your faithfulness will<br/>
ever preserve me!</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: For evils have encompassed me<br/>
beyond number;<br/>
my iniquities have overtaken me,<br/>
and I cannot see;<br/>
they are more than the hairs of my head;<br/>
my heart fails me.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me!<br/>
O Lord, make haste to help me!</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: Let those be put to shame and disappointed altogether<br/>
who seek to snatch away my life;<br/>
let those be turned back and brought to dishonor<br/>
who desire my hurt!</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: Let those be appalled because of their shame<br/>
who say to me, “Aha, Aha!”</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: But may all who seek you<br/>
rejoice and be glad in you;<br/>
may those who love your salvation<br/>
say continually, “Great is the Lord!”</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: As for me, I am poor and needy,<br/>
but the Lord takes thought for me.<br/>
You are my help and my deliverer;<br/>
do not delay, O my God!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.41">Psalm 41</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Blessed is the one who considers the poor!<br/>
In the day of trouble the Lord delivers him;</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: the Lord protects him and keeps him alive;<br/>
he is called blessed in the land;<br/>
you do not give him up to the will of his enemies.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: The Lord sustains him on his sickbed;<br/>
in his illness you restore him to full health.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: As for me, I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me;<br/>
heal me, for I have sinned against you!”</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: My enemies say of me in malice,<br/>
“When will he die and his name perish?”</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: And when one comes to see me, he utters empty words,<br/>
while his heart gathers iniquity;<br/>
when he goes out, he tells it abroad.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: All who hate me whisper together about me;<br/>
they imagine the worst for me.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: They say, “A deadly thing is poured out on him;<br/>
he will not rise again from where he lies.”</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Even my close friend in whom I trusted,<br/>
who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: But you, O Lord, be gracious to me,<br/>
and raise me up, that I may repay them!</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: By this I know that you delight in me:<br/>
my enemy will not shout in triumph over me.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: But you have upheld me because of my integrity,<br/>
and set me in your presence forever.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,<br/>
from everlasting to everlasting!<br/>
Amen and Amen.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.42">Psalm 42</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: As a deer pants for flowing streams,<br/>
so pants my soul for you, O God.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: My soul thirsts for God,<br/>
for the living God.<br/>
When shall I come and appear before God?</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: My tears have been my food<br/>
day and night,<br/>
while they say to me continually,<br/>
“Where is your God?”</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: These things I remember,<br/>
as I pour out my soul:<br/>
how I would go with the throng<br/>
and lead them in procession to the house of God<br/>
with glad shouts and songs of praise,<br/>
a multitude keeping festival.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Why are you cast down, O my soul,<br/>
and why are you in turmoil within me?<br/>
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,<br/>
my salvation</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: and my God.<br/>
My soul is cast down within me;<br/>
therefore I remember you<br/>
from the land of Jordan and of Hermon,<br/>
from Mount Mizar.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Deep calls to deep<br/>
at the roar of your waterfalls;<br/>
all your breakers and your waves<br/>
have gone over me.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: By day the Lord commands his steadfast love,<br/>
and at night his song is with me,<br/>
a prayer to the God of my life.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: I say to God, my rock:<br/>
“Why have you forgotten me?<br/>
Why do I go mourning<br/>
because of the oppression of the enemy?”</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: As with a deadly wound in my bones,<br/>
my adversaries taunt me,<br/>
while they say to me continually,<br/>
“Where is your God?”</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Why are you cast down, O my soul,<br/>
and why are you in turmoil within me?<br/>
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,<br/>
my salvation and my God.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.43">Psalm 43</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause<br/>
against an ungodly people,<br/>
from the deceitful and unjust man<br/>
deliver me!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: For you are the God in whom I take refuge;<br/>
why have you rejected me?<br/>
Why do I go about mourning<br/>
because of the oppression of the enemy?</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Send out your light and your truth;<br/>
let them lead me;<br/>
let them bring me to your holy hill<br/>
and to your dwelling!</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Then I will go to the altar of God,<br/>
to God my exceeding joy,<br/>
and I will praise you with the lyre,<br/>
O God, my God.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Why are you cast down, O my soul,<br/>
and why are you in turmoil within me?<br/>
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,<br/>
my salvation and my God.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.44">Psalm 44</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: O God, we have heard with our ears,<br/>
our fathers have told us,<br/>
what deeds you performed in their days,<br/>
in the days of old:</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: you with your own hand drove out the nations,<br/>
but them you planted;<br/>
you afflicted the peoples,<br/>
but them you set free;</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: for not by their own sword did they win the land,<br/>
nor did their own arm save them,<br/>
but your right hand and your arm,<br/>
and the light of your face,<br/>
for you delighted in them.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: You are my King, O God;<br/>
ordain salvation for Jacob!</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Through you we push down our foes;<br/>
through your name we tread down those who rise up against us.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: For not in my bow do I trust,<br/>
nor can my sword save me.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: But you have saved us from our foes<br/>
and have put to shame those who hate us.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: In God we have boasted continually,<br/>
and we will give thanks to your name forever. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="9">9: But you have rejected us and disgraced us<br/>
and have not gone out with our armies.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: You have made us turn back from the foe,<br/>
and those who hate us have gotten spoil.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: You have made us like sheep for slaughter<br/>
and have scattered us among the nations.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: You have sold your people for a trifle,<br/>
demanding no high price for them.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: You have made us the taunt of our neighbors,<br/>
the derision and scorn of those around us.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: You have made us a byword among the nations,<br/>
a laughingstock among the peoples.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: All day long my disgrace is before me,<br/>
and shame has covered my face</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: at the sound of the taunter and reviler,<br/>
at the sight of the enemy and the avenger.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: All this has come upon us,<br/>
though we have not forgotten you,<br/>
and we have not been false to your covenant.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: Our heart has not turned back,<br/>
nor have our steps departed from your way;</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: yet you have broken us in the place of jackals<br/>
and covered us with the shadow of death.</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: If we had forgotten the name of our God<br/>
or spread out our hands to a foreign god,</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: would not God discover this?<br/>
For he knows the secrets of the heart.</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long;<br/>
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: Awake! Why are you sleeping, O Lord?<br/>
Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever!</p>
<p data-verse="24">24: Why do you hide your face?<br/>
Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?</p>
<p data-verse="25">25: For our soul is bowed down to the dust;<br/>
our belly clings to the ground.</p>
<p data-verse="26">26: Rise up; come to our help!<br/>
Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.45">Psalm 45</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: My heart overflows with a pleasing theme;<br/>
I address my verses to the king;<br/>
my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: You are the most handsome of the sons of men;<br/>
grace is poured upon your lips;<br/>
therefore God has blessed you forever.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one,<br/>
in your splendor and majesty!</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: In your majesty ride out victoriously<br/>
for the cause of truth and meekness and righteousness;<br/>
let your right hand teach you awesome deeds!</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Your arrows are sharp<br/>
in the heart of the king's enemies;<br/>
the peoples fall under you.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Your throne, O God, is forever and ever.<br/>
The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness;</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: <br/>
you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness.<br/>
Therefore God, your God, has anointed you<br/>
with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: <br/>
your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia.<br/>
From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad;</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: <br/>
daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor;<br/>
at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear:<br/>
forget your people and your father's house,</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: <br/>
and the king will desire your beauty.<br/>
Since he is your lord, bow to him.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: <br/>
The people of Tyre will seek your favor with gifts,<br/>
the richest of the people.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: All glorious is the princess in her chamber, with robes interwoven with gold.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: <br/>
In many-colored robes she is led to the king,<br/>
with her virgin companions following behind her.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: With joy and gladness they are led along<br/>
as they enter the palace of the king.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: In place of your fathers shall be your sons;<br/>
you will make them princes in all the earth.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations;<br/>
therefore nations will praise you forever and ever.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.46">Psalm 46</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: God is our refuge and strength,<br/>
a very present help in trouble.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way,<br/>
though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea,</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: though its waters roar and foam,<br/>
though the mountains tremble at its swelling. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="4">4: There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,<br/>
the holy habitation of the Most High.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved;<br/>
God will help her when morning dawns.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: The nations rage, the kingdoms totter;<br/>
he utters his voice, the earth melts.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: The Lord of hosts is with us;<br/>
the God of Jacob is our fortress. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Come, behold the works of the Lord,<br/>
how he has brought desolations on the earth.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;<br/>
he breaks the bow and shatters the spear;<br/>
he burns the chariots with fire.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: “Be still, and know that I am God.<br/>
I will be exalted among the nations,<br/>
I will be exalted in the earth!”</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: The Lord of hosts is with us;<br/>
the God of Jacob is our fortress. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.47">Psalm 47</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Clap your hands, all peoples!<br/>
Shout to God with loud songs of joy!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: For the Lord, the Most High, is to be feared,<br/>
a great king over all the earth.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: He subdued peoples under us,<br/>
and nations under our feet.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: He chose our heritage for us,<br/>
the pride of Jacob whom he loves. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="5">5: God has gone up with a shout,<br/>
the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Sing praises to God, sing praises!<br/>
Sing praises to our King, sing praises!</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: For God is the King of all the earth;<br/>
sing praises with a psalm!</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: God reigns over the nations;<br/>
God sits on his holy throne.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: The princes of the peoples gather<br/>
as the people of the God of Abraham.<br/>
For the shields of the earth belong to God;<br/>
he is highly exalted!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.48">Psalm 48</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised<br/>
in the city of our God!<br/>
His holy mountain,</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: beautiful in elevation,<br/>
is the joy of all the earth,<br/>
Mount Zion, in the far north,<br/>
the city of the great King.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Within her citadels God<br/>
has made himself known as a fortress.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: For behold, the kings assembled;<br/>
they came on together.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: As soon as they saw it, they were astounded;<br/>
they were in panic; they took to flight.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Trembling took hold of them there,<br/>
anguish as of a woman in labor.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: By the east wind you shattered<br/>
the ships of Tarshish.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: As we have heard, so have we seen<br/>
in the city of the Lord of hosts,<br/>
in the city of our God,<br/>
which God will establish forever. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="9">9: We have thought on your steadfast love, O God,<br/>
in the midst of your temple.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: As your name, O God,<br/>
so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth.<br/>
Your right hand is filled with righteousness.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: <br/>
Let Mount Zion be glad!<br/>
Let the daughters of Judah rejoice<br/>
because of your judgments!</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Walk about Zion, go around her,<br/>
number her towers,</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: consider well her ramparts,<br/>
go through her citadels,<br/>
that you may tell the next generation</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: <br/>
that this is God,<br/>
our God forever and ever.<br/>
He will guide us forever.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.49">Psalm 49</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Hear this, all peoples!<br/>
Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: both low and high,<br/>
rich and poor together!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: My mouth shall speak wisdom;<br/>
the meditation of my heart shall be understanding.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: I will incline my ear to a proverb;<br/>
I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Why should I fear in times of trouble,<br/>
when the iniquity of those who cheat me surrounds me,</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: those who trust in their wealth<br/>
and boast of the abundance of their riches?</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Truly no man can ransom another,<br/>
or give to God the price of his life,</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: for the ransom of their life is costly<br/>
and can never suffice,</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: that he should live on forever<br/>
and never see the pit.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: For he sees that even the wise die;<br/>
the fool and the stupid alike must perish<br/>
and leave their wealth to others.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Their graves are their homes forever,<br/>
their dwelling places to all generations,<br/>
though they called lands by their own names.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Man in his pomp will not remain;<br/>
he is like the beasts that perish.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: This is the path of those who have foolish confidence;<br/>
yet after them people approve of their boasts. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="14">14: Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol;<br/>
Death shall be their shepherd,<br/>
and the upright shall rule over them in the morning.<br/>
Their form shall be consumed in Sheol, with no place to dwell.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol,<br/>
for he will receive me. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="16">16: Be not afraid when a man becomes rich,<br/>
when the glory of his house increases.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: For when he dies he will carry nothing away;<br/>
his glory will not go down after him.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: For though, while he lives, he counts himself blessed,<br/>
—and though you get praise when you do well for yourself—</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: his soul will go to the generation of his fathers,<br/>
who will never again see light.</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: Man in his pomp yet without understanding is like the beasts that perish.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.50">Psalm 50</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: The Mighty One, God the Lord,<br/>
speaks and summons the earth<br/>
from the rising of the sun to its setting.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,<br/>
God shines forth.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Our God comes; he does not keep silence;<br/>
before him is a devouring fire,<br/>
around him a mighty tempest.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: He calls to the heavens above<br/>
and to the earth, that he may judge his people:</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: “Gather to me my faithful ones,<br/>
who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!”</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: The heavens declare his righteousness,<br/>
for God himself is judge! <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="7">7: “Hear, O my people, and I will speak;<br/>
O Israel, I will testify against you.<br/>
I am God, your God.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you;<br/>
your burnt offerings are continually before me.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: I will not accept a bull from your house<br/>
or goats from your folds.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: For every beast of the forest is mine,<br/>
the cattle on a thousand hills.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: I know all the birds of the hills,<br/>
and all that moves in the field is mine.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: “If I were hungry, I would not tell you,<br/>
for the world and its fullness are mine.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: Do I eat the flesh of bulls<br/>
or drink the blood of goats?</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,<br/>
and perform your vows to the Most High,</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: and call upon me in the day of trouble;<br/>
I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: But to the wicked God says:<br/>
“What right have you to recite my statutes<br/>
or take my covenant on your lips?</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: For you hate discipline,<br/>
and you cast my words behind you.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: If you see a thief, you are pleased with him,<br/>
and you keep company with adulterers.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: “You give your mouth free rein for evil,<br/>
and your tongue frames deceit.</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: You sit and speak against your brother;<br/>
you slander your own mother's son.</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: These things you have done, and I have been silent;<br/>
you thought that I was one like yourself.<br/>
But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: “Mark this, then, you who forget God,<br/>
lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me;<br/>
to one who orders his way rightly<br/>
I will show the salvation of God!”</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.51">Psalm 51</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Have mercy on me, O God,<br/>
according to your steadfast love;<br/>
according to your abundant mercy<br/>
blot out my transgressions.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,<br/>
and cleanse me from my sin!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: For I know my transgressions,<br/>
and my sin is ever before me.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Against you, you only, have I sinned<br/>
and done what is evil in your sight,<br/>
so that you may be justified in your words<br/>
and blameless in your judgment.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,<br/>
and in sin did my mother conceive me.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being,<br/>
and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;<br/>
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Let me hear joy and gladness;<br/>
let the bones that you have broken rejoice.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Hide your face from my sins,<br/>
and blot out all my iniquities.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Create in me a clean heart, O God,<br/>
and renew a right spirit within me.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Cast me not away from your presence,<br/>
and take not your Holy Spirit from me.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Restore to me the joy of your salvation,<br/>
and uphold me with a willing spirit.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: Then I will teach transgressors your ways,<br/>
and sinners will return to you.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,<br/>
O God of my salvation,<br/>
and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: O Lord, open my lips,<br/>
and my mouth will declare your praise.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;<br/>
you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;<br/>
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;<br/>
build up the walls of Jerusalem;</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: then will you delight in right sacrifices,<br/>
in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings;<br/>
then bulls will be offered on your altar.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.52">Psalm 52</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?<br/>
The steadfast love of God endures all the day.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Your tongue plots destruction,<br/>
like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: You love evil more than good,<br/>
and lying more than speaking what is right. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="4">4: You love all words that devour,<br/>
O deceitful tongue.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: But God will break you down forever;<br/>
he will snatch and tear you from your tent;<br/>
he will uproot you from the land of the living. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="6">6: The righteous shall see and fear,<br/>
and shall laugh at him, saying,</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: “See the man who would not make<br/>
God his refuge,<br/>
but trusted in the abundance of his riches<br/>
and sought refuge in his own destruction!”</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: But I am like a green olive tree<br/>
in the house of God.<br/>
I trust in the steadfast love of God<br/>
forever and ever.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: I will thank you forever,<br/>
because you have done it.<br/>
I will wait for your name, for it is good,<br/>
in the presence of the godly.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.53">Psalm 53</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”<br/>
They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity;<br/>
there is none who does good.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: God looks down from heaven<br/>
on the children of man<br/>
to see if there are any who understand,<br/>
who seek after God.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: They have all fallen away;<br/>
together they have become corrupt;<br/>
there is none who does good,<br/>
not even one.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Have those who work evil no knowledge,<br/>
who eat up my people as they eat bread,<br/>
and do not call upon God?</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: There they are, in great terror,<br/>
where there is no terror!<br/>
For God scatters the bones of him who encamps against you;<br/>
you put them to shame, for God has rejected them.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!<br/>
When God restores the fortunes of his people,<br/>
Let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.54">Psalm 54</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: O God, save me, by your name,<br/>
and vindicate me by your might.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: O God, hear my prayer;<br/>
give ear to the words of my mouth.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: For strangers have risen against me;<br/>
ruthless men seek my life;<br/>
they do not set God before themselves. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Behold, God is my helper;<br/>
the Lord is the upholder of my life.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: He will return the evil to my enemies;<br/>
in your faithfulness put an end to them.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: With a freewill offering I will sacrifice to you;<br/>
I will give thanks to your name, O Lord, for it is good.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: For he has delivered me from every trouble,<br/>
and my eye has looked in triumph on my enemies.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.55">Psalm 55</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Give ear to my prayer, O God,<br/>
and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Attend to me, and answer me;<br/>
I am restless in my complaint and I moan,</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: because of the noise of the enemy,<br/>
because of the oppression of the wicked.<br/>
For they drop trouble upon me,<br/>
and in anger they bear a grudge against me.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: My heart is in anguish within me;<br/>
the terrors of death have fallen upon me.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Fear and trembling come upon me,<br/>
and horror overwhelms me.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!<br/>
I would fly away and be at rest;</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: yes, I would wander far away;<br/>
I would lodge in the wilderness; <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="8">8: I would hurry to find a shelter<br/>
from the raging wind and tempest.”</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues;<br/>
for I see violence and strife in the city.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Day and night they go around it<br/>
on its walls,<br/>
and iniquity and trouble are within it;</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: <br/>
ruin is in its midst;<br/>
oppression and fraud<br/>
do not depart from its marketplace.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: For it is not an enemy who taunts me—<br/>
then I could bear it;<br/>
it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me—<br/>
then I could hide from him.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: But it is you, a man, my equal,<br/>
my companion, my familiar friend.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: We used to take sweet counsel together;<br/>
within God's house we walked in the throng.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: Let death steal over them;<br/>
let them go down to Sheol alive;<br/>
for evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: But I call to God,<br/>
and the Lord will save me.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: Evening and morning and at noon<br/>
I utter my complaint and moan,<br/>
and he hears my voice.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: He redeems my soul in safety<br/>
from the battle that I wage,<br/>
for many are arrayed against me.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: God will give ear and humble them,<br/>
he who is enthroned from of old, <em class="selah">Selah</em><br/>
because they do not change<br/>
and do not fear God.</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: My companion stretched out his hand against his friends;<br/>
he violated his covenant.</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: His speech was smooth as butter,<br/>
yet war was in his heart;<br/>
his words were softer than oil,<br/>
yet they were drawn swords.</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: Cast your burden on the Lord,<br/>
and he will sustain you;<br/>
he will never permit<br/>
the righteous to be moved.</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: But you, O God, will cast them down<br/>
into the pit of destruction;<br/>
men of blood and treachery<br/>
shall not live out half their days.<br/>
But I will trust in you.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.56">Psalm 56</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me;<br/>
all day long an attacker oppresses me;</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: my enemies trample on me all day long,<br/>
for many attack me proudly.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: When I am afraid,<br/>
I put my trust in you.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: In God, whose word I praise,<br/>
in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.<br/>
What can flesh do to me?</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: All day long they injure my cause;<br/>
all their thoughts are against me for evil.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: They stir up strife, they lurk;<br/>
they watch my steps,<br/>
as they have waited for my life.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: For their crime will they escape?<br/>
In wrath cast down the peoples, O God!</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: You have kept count of my tossings;<br/>
put my tears in your bottle.<br/>
Are they not in your book?</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Then my enemies will turn back<br/>
in the day when I call.<br/>
This I know, that God is for me.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: In God, whose word I praise,<br/>
in the Lord, whose word I praise,</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.<br/>
What can man do to me?</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: I must perform my vows to you, O God;<br/>
I will render thank offerings to you.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: For you have delivered my soul from death,<br/>
yes, my feet from falling,<br/>
that I may walk before God<br/>
in the light of life.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.57">Psalm 57</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me,<br/>
for in you my soul takes refuge;<br/>
in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge,<br/>
till the storms of destruction pass by.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: I cry out to God Most High,<br/>
to God who fulfills his purpose for me.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: He will send from heaven and save me;<br/>
he will put to shame him who tramples on me. <em class="selah">Selah</em><br/>
God will send out his steadfast love and his faithfulness!</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: My soul is in the midst of lions;<br/>
I lie down amid fiery beasts—<br/>
the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows,<br/>
whose tongues are sharp swords.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Be exalted, O God, above the heavens!<br/>
Let your glory be over all the earth!</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: They set a net for my steps;<br/>
my soul was bowed down.<br/>
They dug a pit in my way,<br/>
but they have fallen into it themselves. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="7">7: My heart is steadfast, O God,<br/>
my heart is steadfast!<br/>
I will sing and make melody!</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: <br/>
Awake, my glory!<br/>
Awake, O harp and lyre!<br/>
I will awake the dawn!</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples;<br/>
I will sing praises to you among the nations.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: For your steadfast love is great to the heavens,<br/>
your faithfulness to the clouds.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Be exalted, O God, above the heavens!<br/>
Let your glory be over all the earth!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.58">Psalm 58</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods?<br/>
Do you judge the children of man uprightly?</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: No, in your hearts you devise wrongs;<br/>
your hands deal out violence on earth.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: The wicked are estranged from the womb;<br/>
they go astray from birth, speaking lies.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: They have venom like the venom of a serpent,<br/>
like the deaf adder that stops its ear,</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: so that it does not hear the voice of charmers<br/>
or of the cunning enchanter.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: O God, break the teeth in their mouths;<br/>
tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Let them vanish like water that runs away;<br/>
when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime,<br/>
like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns,<br/>
whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance;<br/>
he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Mankind will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous;<br/>
surely there is a God who judges on earth.”</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.59">Psalm 59</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Deliver me from my enemies, O my God;<br/>
protect me from those who rise up against me;</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: deliver me from those who work evil,<br/>
and save me from bloodthirsty men.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: For behold, they lie in wait for my life;<br/>
fierce men stir up strife against me.<br/>
For no transgression or sin of mine, O Lord,</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: <br/>
for no fault of mine, they run and make ready.<br/>
Awake, come to meet me, and see!</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: <br/>
You, Lord God of hosts, are God of Israel.<br/>
Rouse yourself to punish all the nations;<br/>
spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Each evening they come back,<br/>
howling like dogs<br/>
and prowling about the city.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: There they are, bellowing with their mouths<br/>
with swords in their lips—<br/>
for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: But you, O Lord, laugh at them;<br/>
you hold all the nations in derision.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: O my Strength, I will watch for you,<br/>
for you, O God, are my fortress.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: My God in his steadfast love will meet me;<br/>
God will let me look in triumph on my enemies.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Kill them not, lest my people forget;<br/>
make them totter by your power and bring them down,<br/>
O Lord, our shield!</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips,<br/>
let them be trapped in their pride.<br/>
For the cursing and lies that they utter,</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: <br/>
consume them in wrath;<br/>
consume them till they are no more,<br/>
that they may know that God rules over Jacob<br/>
to the ends of the earth. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="14">14: Each evening they come back,<br/>
howling like dogs<br/>
and prowling about the city.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: They wander about for food<br/>
and growl if they do not get their fill.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: But I will sing of your strength;<br/>
I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning.<br/>
For you have been to me a fortress<br/>
and a refuge in the day of my distress.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: O my Strength, I will sing praises to you,<br/>
for you, O God, are my fortress,<br/>
the God who shows me steadfast love.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.60">Psalm 60</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses;<br/>
you have been angry; oh, restore us.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: You have made the land to quake; you have torn it open;<br/>
repair its breaches, for it totters.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: You have made your people see hard things;<br/>
you have given us wine to drink that made us stagger.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: You have set up a banner for those who fear you,<br/>
that they may flee to it from the bow. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="5">5: That your beloved ones may be delivered,<br/>
give salvation by your right hand and answer us!</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: God has spoken in his holiness:<br/>
“With exultation I will divide up Shechem<br/>
and portion out the Vale of Succoth.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine;<br/>
Ephraim is my helmet;<br/>
Judah is my scepter.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Moab is my washbasin;<br/>
upon Edom I cast my shoe;<br/>
over Philistia I shout in triumph.”</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Who will bring me to the fortified city?<br/>
Who will lead me to Edom?</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Have you not rejected us, O God?<br/>
You do not go forth, O God, with our armies.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Oh, grant us help against the foe,<br/>
for vain is the salvation of man!</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: With God we shall do valiantly;<br/>
it is he who will tread down our foes.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.61">Psalm 61</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Hear my cry, O God,<br/>
listen to my prayer;</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: from the end of the earth I call to you<br/>
when my heart is faint.<br/>
Lead me to the rock<br/>
that is higher than I,</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: for you have been my refuge,<br/>
a strong tower against the enemy.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Let me dwell in your tent forever!<br/>
Let me take refuge under the shelter of your wings! <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="5">5: For you, O God, have heard my vows;<br/>
you have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Prolong the life of the king;<br/>
may his years endure to all generations!</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: May he be enthroned forever before God;<br/>
appoint steadfast love and faithfulness to watch over him!</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: So will I ever sing praises to your name,<br/>
as I perform my vows day after day.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.62">Psalm 62</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: For God alone my soul waits in silence;<br/>
from him comes my salvation.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: He only is my rock and my salvation,<br/>
my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: How long will all of you attack a man<br/>
to batter him,<br/>
like a leaning wall, a tottering fence?</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: They only plan to thrust him down from his high position.<br/>
They take pleasure in falsehood.<br/>
They bless with their mouths,<br/>
but inwardly they curse. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="5">5: For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence,<br/>
for my hope is from him.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: He only is my rock and my salvation,<br/>
my fortress; I shall not be shaken.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: On God rests my salvation and my glory;<br/>
my mighty rock, my refuge is God.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Trust in him at all times, O people;<br/>
pour out your heart before him;<br/>
God is a refuge for us. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Those of low estate are but a breath;<br/>
those of high estate are a delusion;<br/>
in the balances they go up;<br/>
they are together lighter than a breath.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Put no trust in extortion;<br/>
set no vain hopes on robbery;<br/>
if riches increase, set not your heart on them.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Once God has spoken;<br/>
twice have I heard this:<br/>
that power belongs to God,</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: <br/>
and that to you, O Lord, belongs steadfast love.<br/>
For you will render to a man<br/>
according to his work.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.63">Psalm 63</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you;<br/>
my soul thirsts for you;<br/>
my flesh faints for you,<br/>
as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary,<br/>
beholding your power and glory.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Because your steadfast love is better than life,<br/>
my lips will praise you.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: So I will bless you as long as I live;<br/>
in your name I will lift up my hands.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food,<br/>
and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips,</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: when I remember you upon my bed,<br/>
and meditate on you in the watches of the night;</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: for you have been my help,<br/>
and in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: My soul clings to you;<br/>
your right hand upholds me.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: But those who seek to destroy my life<br/>
shall go down into the depths of the earth;</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: they shall be given over to the power of the sword;<br/>
they shall be a portion for jackals.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: But the king shall rejoice in God;<br/>
all who swear by him shall exult,<br/>
for the mouths of liars will be stopped.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.64">Psalm 64</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint;<br/>
preserve my life from dread of the enemy.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked,<br/>
from the throng of evildoers,</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: who whet their tongues like swords,<br/>
who aim bitter words like arrows,</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: shooting from ambush at the blameless,<br/>
shooting at him suddenly and without fear.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: They hold fast to their evil purpose;<br/>
they talk of laying snares secretly,<br/>
thinking, who can see them?</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: <br/>
They search out injustice,<br/>
saying, “We have accomplished a diligent search.”<br/>
For the inward mind and heart of a man are deep!</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: But God shoots his arrow at them;<br/>
they are wounded suddenly.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: They are brought to ruin, with their own tongues turned against them;<br/>
all who see them will wag their heads.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Then all mankind fears;<br/>
they tell what God has brought about<br/>
and ponder what he has done.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Let the righteous one rejoice in the Lord<br/>
and take refuge in him!<br/>
Let all the upright in heart exult!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.65">Psalm 65</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion,<br/>
and to you shall vows be performed.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: O you who hears prayer,<br/>
to you shall all flesh come.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: When iniquities prevail against me,<br/>
you atone for our transgressions.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Blessed is the one you choose and bring near,<br/>
to dwell in your courts!<br/>
We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house,<br/>
the holiness of your temple!</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: By awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness,<br/>
O God of our salvation,<br/>
the hope of all the ends of the earth<br/>
and of the farthest seas;</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: the one who by his strength established the mountains,<br/>
being girded with might;</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: who stills the roaring of the seas,<br/>
the roaring of their waves,<br/>
the tumult of the peoples,</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: so that those who dwell at the ends of the earth are in awe at your signs.<br/>
You make the going out of the morning and the evening to shout for joy.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: You visit the earth and water it;<br/>
you greatly enrich it;<br/>
the river of God is full of water;<br/>
you provide their grain,<br/>
for so you have prepared it.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: You water its furrows abundantly,<br/>
settling its ridges,<br/>
softening it with showers,<br/>
and blessing its growth.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: You crown the year with your bounty;<br/>
your wagon tracks overflow with abundance.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: The pastures of the wilderness overflow,<br/>
the hills gird themselves with joy,</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: the meadows clothe themselves with flocks,<br/>
the valleys deck themselves with grain,<br/>
they shout and sing together for joy.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.66">Psalm 66</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Shout for joy to God, all the earth;</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: <br/>
sing the glory of his name;<br/>
give to him glorious praise!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds!<br/>
So great is your power that your enemies come cringing to you.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: All the earth worships you<br/>
and sings praises to you;<br/>
they sing praises to your name.” <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Come and see what God has done:<br/>
he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: He turned the sea into dry land;<br/>
they passed through the river on foot.<br/>
There did we rejoice in him,</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: <br/>
who rules by his might forever,<br/>
whose eyes keep watch on the nations—<br/>
let not the rebellious exalt themselves. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Bless our God, O peoples;<br/>
let the sound of his praise be heard,</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: who has kept our soul among the living<br/>
and has not let our feet slip.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: For you, O God, have tested us;<br/>
you have tried us as silver is tried.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: You brought us into the net;<br/>
you laid a crushing burden on our backs;</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: you let men ride over our heads;<br/>
we went through fire and through water;<br/>
yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: I will come into your house with burnt offerings;<br/>
I will perform my vows to you,</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: that which my lips uttered<br/>
and my mouth promised when I was in trouble.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: I will offer to you burnt offerings of fattened animals,<br/>
with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams;<br/>
I will make an offering of bulls and goats. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="16">16: Come and hear, all you who fear God,<br/>
and I will tell what he has done for my soul.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: I cried to him with my mouth,<br/>
and high praise was on my tongue.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: If I had cherished iniquity in my heart,<br/>
the Lord would not have listened.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: But truly God has listened;<br/>
he has attended to the voice of my prayer.</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: Blessed be God,<br/>
because he has not rejected my prayer<br/>
or removed his steadfast love from me!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.67">Psalm 67</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: May God be gracious to us and bless us<br/>
and make his face to shine upon us, <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="2">2: that your way may be known on earth,<br/>
your saving power among all nations.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Let the peoples praise you, O God;<br/>
let all the peoples praise you!</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Let the nations be glad and sing for joy,<br/>
for you judge the peoples with equity<br/>
and guide the nations upon earth. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Let the peoples praise you, O God;<br/>
let all the peoples praise you!</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: The earth has yielded its increase;<br/>
God, our God, shall bless us.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: God shall bless us;<br/>
let all the ends of the earth fear him!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.68">Psalm 68</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: God shall arise, his enemies shall be scattered;<br/>
and those who hate him shall flee before him!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: As smoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away;<br/>
as wax melts before fire,<br/>
so the wicked shall perish before God!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: But the righteous shall be glad;<br/>
they shall exult before God;<br/>
they shall be jubilant with joy!</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Sing to God, sing praises to his name;<br/>
lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts;<br/>
his name is the Lord;<br/>
exult before him!</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Father of the fatherless and protector of widows<br/>
is God in his holy habitation.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: God settles the solitary in a home;<br/>
he leads out the prisoners to prosperity,<br/>
but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: O God, when you went out before your people,<br/>
when you marched through the wilderness, <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="8">8: the earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain,<br/>
before God, the One of Sinai,<br/>
before God, the God of Israel.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Rain in abundance, O God, you shed abroad;<br/>
you restored your inheritance as it languished;</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: your flock found a dwelling in it;<br/>
in your goodness, O God, you provided for the needy.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: The Lord gives the word;<br/>
the women who announce the news are a great host:</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: <br/>
“The kings of the armies—they flee, they flee!”<br/>
The women at home divide the spoil—</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: <br/>
though you men lie among the sheepfolds—<br/>
the wings of a dove covered with silver,<br/>
its pinions with shimmering gold.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: When the Almighty scatters kings there,<br/>
let snow fall on Zalmon.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: O mountain of God, mountain of Bashan;<br/>
O many-peaked mountain, mountain of Bashan!</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: Why do you look with hatred, O many-peaked mountain,<br/>
at the mount that God desired for his abode,<br/>
yes, where the Lord will dwell forever?</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: The chariots of God are twice ten thousand,<br/>
thousands upon thousands;<br/>
the Lord is among them; Sinai is now in the sanctuary.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: You ascended on high,<br/>
leading a host of captives in your train<br/>
and receiving gifts among men,<br/>
even among the rebellious, that the Lord God may dwell there.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: Blessed be the Lord,<br/>
who daily bears us up;<br/>
God is our salvation. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="20">20: Our God is a God of salvation,<br/>
and to God, the Lord, belong deliverances from death.</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: But God will strike the heads of his enemies,<br/>
the hairy crown of him who walks in his guilty ways.</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: The Lord said,<br/>
“I will bring them back from Bashan,<br/>
I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: that you may strike your feet in their blood,<br/>
that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe.”</p>
<p data-verse="24">24: Your procession is seen, O God,<br/>
the procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary—</p>
<p data-verse="25">25: the singers in front, the musicians last,<br/>
between them virgins playing tambourines:</p>
<p data-verse="26">26: “Bless God in the great congregation,<br/>
the Lord, O you who are of Israel's fountain!”</p>
<p data-verse="27">27: There is Benjamin, the least of them, in the lead,<br/>
the princes of Judah in their throng,<br/>
the princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.</p>
<p data-verse="28">28: Summon your power, O God,<br/>
the power, O God, by which you have worked for us.</p>
<p data-verse="29">29: Because of your temple at Jerusalem<br/>
kings shall bear gifts to you.</p>
<p data-verse="30">30: Rebuke the beasts that dwell among the reeds,<br/>
the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples.<br/>
Trample underfoot those who lust after tribute;<br/>
scatter the peoples who delight in war.</p>
<p data-verse="31">31: Nobles shall come from Egypt;<br/>
Cush shall hasten to stretch out her hands to God.</p>
<p data-verse="32">32: O kingdoms of the earth, sing to God;<br/>
sing praises to the Lord, <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="33">33: to him who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens;<br/>
behold, he sends out his voice, his mighty voice.</p>
<p data-verse="34">34: Ascribe power to God,<br/>
whose majesty is over Israel,<br/>
and whose power is in the skies.</p>
<p data-verse="35">35: Awesome is God from his sanctuary;<br/>
the God of Israel—he is the one who gives power and strength to his people.<br/>
Blessed be God!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.69">Psalm 69</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Save me, O God!<br/>
For the waters have come up to my neck.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: I sink in deep mire,<br/>
where there is no foothold;<br/>
I have come into deep waters,<br/>
and the flood sweeps over me.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: I am weary with my crying out;<br/>
my throat is parched.<br/>
My eyes grow dim<br/>
with waiting for my God.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: More in number than the hairs of my head<br/>
are those who hate me without cause;<br/>
mighty are those who would destroy me,<br/>
those who attack me with lies.<br/>
What I did not steal<br/>
must I now restore?</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: O God, you know my folly;<br/>
the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through me,<br/>
O Lord God of hosts;<br/>
let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me,<br/>
O God of Israel.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: For it is for your sake that I have borne reproach,<br/>
that dishonor has covered my face.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: I have become a stranger to my brothers,<br/>
an alien to my mother's sons.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: For zeal for your house has consumed me,<br/>
and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting,<br/>
it became my reproach.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: When I made sackcloth my clothing,<br/>
I became a byword to them.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: I am the talk of those who sit in the gate,<br/>
and the drunkards make songs about me.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Lord.<br/>
At an acceptable time, O God,<br/>
in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: Deliver me<br/>
from sinking in the mire;<br/>
let me be delivered from my enemies<br/>
and from the deep waters.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: Let not the flood sweep over me,<br/>
or the deep swallow me up,<br/>
or the pit close its mouth over me.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: Answer me, O Lord, for your steadfast love is good;<br/>
according to your abundant mercy, turn to me.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: Hide not your face from your servant;<br/>
for I am in distress; make haste to answer me.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: Draw near to my soul, redeem me;<br/>
ransom me because of my enemies!</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: You know my reproach,<br/>
and my shame and my dishonor;<br/>
my foes are all known to you.</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: Reproaches have broken my heart,<br/>
so that I am in despair.<br/>
I looked for pity, but there was none,<br/>
and for comforters, but I found none.</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: They gave me poison for food,<br/>
and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: Let their own table before them become a snare;<br/>
and when they are at peace, let it become a trap.</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see,<br/>
and make their loins tremble continually.</p>
<p data-verse="24">24: Pour out your indignation upon them,<br/>
and let your burning anger overtake them.</p>
<p data-verse="25">25: May their camp be a desolation;<br/>
let no one dwell in their tents.</p>
<p data-verse="26">26: For they persecute him whom you have struck down,<br/>
and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.</p>
<p data-verse="27">27: Add to them punishment upon punishment;<br/>
may they have no acquittal from you.</p>
<p data-verse="28">28: Let them be blotted out of the book of the living;<br/>
let them not be enrolled among the righteous.</p>
<p data-verse="29">29: But I am afflicted and in pain;<br/>
let your salvation, O God, set me on high!</p>
<p data-verse="30">30: I will praise the name of God with a song;<br/>
I will magnify him with thanksgiving.</p>
<p data-verse="31">31: This will please the Lord more than an ox<br/>
or a bull with horns and hoofs.</p>
<p data-verse="32">32: When the humble see it they will be glad;<br/>
you who seek God, let your hearts revive.</p>
<p data-verse="33">33: For the Lord hears the needy<br/>
and does not despise his own people who are prisoners.</p>
<p data-verse="34">34: Let heaven and earth praise him,<br/>
the seas and everything that moves in them.</p>
<p data-verse="35">35: For God will save Zion<br/>
and build up the cities of Judah,<br/>
and people shall dwell there and possess it;</p>
<p data-verse="36">36: <br/>
the offspring of his servants shall inherit it,<br/>
and those who love his name shall dwell in it.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.70">Psalm 70</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Make haste, O God, to deliver me!<br/>
O Lord, make haste to help me!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Let them be put to shame and confusion<br/>
who seek my life!<br/>
Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor<br/>
who desire my hurt!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Let them turn back because of their shame<br/>
who say, “Aha, Aha!”</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: May all who seek you<br/>
rejoice and be glad in you!<br/>
May those who love your salvation<br/>
say evermore, “God is great!”</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: But I am poor and needy;<br/>
hasten to me, O God!<br/>
You are my help and my deliverer;<br/>
O Lord, do not delay!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.71">Psalm 71</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;<br/>
let me never be put to shame!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;<br/>
incline your ear to me, and save me!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Be to me a rock of refuge,<br/>
to which I may continually come;<br/>
you have given the command to save me,<br/>
for you are my rock and my fortress.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,<br/>
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: For you, O Lord, are my hope,<br/>
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;<br/>
you are he who took me from my mother's womb.<br/>
My praise is continually of you.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: I have been as a portent to many,<br/>
but you are my strong refuge.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: My mouth is filled with your praise,<br/>
and with your glory all the day.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Do not cast me off in the time of old age;<br/>
forsake me not when my strength is spent.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: For my enemies speak concerning me;<br/>
those who watch for my life consult together</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: and say, “God has forsaken him;<br/>
pursue and seize him,<br/>
for there is none to deliver him.”</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: O God, be not far from me;<br/>
O my God, make haste to help me!</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;<br/>
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered<br/>
who seek my hurt.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: But I will hope continually<br/>
and will praise you yet more and more.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,<br/>
of your deeds of salvation all the day,<br/>
for their number is past my knowledge.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;<br/>
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: O God, from my youth you have taught me,<br/>
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: So even to old age and gray hairs,<br/>
O God, do not forsake me,<br/>
until I proclaim your might to another generation,<br/>
your power to all those to come.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: Your righteousness, O God,<br/>
reaches the high heavens.<br/>
You who have done great things,<br/>
O God, who is like you?</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: You who have made me see many troubles and calamities<br/>
will revive me again;<br/>
from the depths of the earth<br/>
you will bring me up again.</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: You will increase my greatness<br/>
and comfort me again.</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: I will also praise you with the harp<br/>
for your faithfulness, O my God;<br/>
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,<br/>
O Holy One of Israel.</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: My lips will shout for joy,<br/>
when I sing praises to you;<br/>
my soul also, which you have redeemed.</p>
<p data-verse="24">24: And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,<br/>
for they have been put to shame and disappointed<br/>
who sought to do me hurt.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.72">Psalm 72</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Give the king your justice, O God,<br/>
and your righteousness to the royal son!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: May he judge your people with righteousness,<br/>
and your poor with justice!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Let the mountains bear prosperity for the people,<br/>
and the hills, in righteousness!</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: May he defend the cause of the poor of the people,<br/>
give deliverance to the children of the needy,<br/>
and crush the oppressor!</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: May they fear you while the sun endures,<br/>
and as long as the moon, throughout all generations!</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass,<br/>
like showers that water the earth!</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: In his days may the righteous flourish,<br/>
and peace abound, till the moon be no more!</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: May he have dominion from sea to sea,<br/>
and from the River to the ends of the earth!</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: May desert tribes bow down before him<br/>
and his enemies lick the dust!</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: May the kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands<br/>
render him tribute;<br/>
may the kings of Sheba and Seba<br/>
bring gifts!</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: May all kings fall down before him,<br/>
all nations serve him!</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: For he delivers the needy when he calls,<br/>
the poor and him who has no helper.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: He has pity on the weak and the needy,<br/>
and saves the lives of the needy.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: From oppression and violence he redeems their life,<br/>
and precious is their blood in his sight.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: Long may he live;<br/>
may gold of Sheba be given to him!<br/>
May prayer be made for him continually,<br/>
and blessings invoked for him all the day!</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: May there be abundance of grain in the land;<br/>
on the tops of the mountains may it wave;<br/>
may its fruit be like Lebanon;<br/>
and may people blossom in the cities<br/>
like the grass of the field!</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: May his name endure forever,<br/>
his fame continue as long as the sun!<br/>
May people be blessed in him,<br/>
all nations call him blessed!</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,<br/>
who alone does wondrous things.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: Blessed be his glorious name forever;<br/>
may the whole earth be filled with his glory!<br/>
Amen and Amen!</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.73">Psalm 73</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Truly God is good to Israel,<br/>
to those who are pure in heart.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled,<br/>
my steps had nearly slipped.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: For I was envious of the arrogant<br/>
when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: For they have no pangs until death;<br/>
their bodies are fat and sleek.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: They are not in trouble as others are;<br/>
they are not stricken like the rest of mankind.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Therefore pride is their necklace;<br/>
violence covers them as a garment.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Their eyes swell out through fatness;<br/>
their hearts overflow with follies.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: They scoff and speak with malice;<br/>
loftily they threaten oppression.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: They set their mouths against the heavens,<br/>
and their tongue struts through the earth.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Therefore his people turn back to them,<br/>
and find no fault in them.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: And they say, “How can God know?<br/>
Is there knowledge in the Most High?”</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Behold, these are the wicked;<br/>
always at ease, they increase in riches.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: All in vain have I kept my heart clean<br/>
and washed my hands in innocence.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: For all the day long I have been stricken<br/>
and rebuked every morning.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: If I had said, “I will speak thus,”<br/>
I would have betrayed the generation of your children.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: But when I thought how to understand this,<br/>
it seemed to me a wearisome task,</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: until I went into the sanctuary of God;<br/>
then I discerned their end.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: Truly you set them in slippery places;<br/>
you make them fall to ruin.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: How they are destroyed in a moment,<br/>
swept away utterly by terrors!</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: Like a dream when one awakes,<br/>
O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: When my soul was embittered,<br/>
when I was pricked in heart,</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: I was brutish and ignorant;<br/>
I was like a beast toward you.</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: Nevertheless, I am continually with you;<br/>
you hold my right hand.</p>
<p data-verse="24">24: You guide me with your counsel,<br/>
and afterward you will receive me to glory.</p>
<p data-verse="25">25: Whom have I in heaven but you?<br/>
And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.</p>
<p data-verse="26">26: My flesh and my heart may fail,<br/>
but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.</p>
<p data-verse="27">27: For behold, those who are far from you shall perish;<br/>
you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you.</p>
<p data-verse="28">28: But for me it is good to be near God;<br/>
I have made the Lord God my refuge,<br/>
that I may tell of all your works.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.74">Psalm 74</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: O God, why do you cast us off forever?<br/>
Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old,<br/>
which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage!<br/>
Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins;<br/>
the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Your foes have roared in the midst of your meeting place;<br/>
they set up their own signs for signs.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: They were like those who swing axes<br/>
in a forest of trees.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: And all its carved wood<br/>
they broke down with hatchets and hammers.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: They set your sanctuary on fire;<br/>
they profaned the dwelling place of your name,<br/>
bringing it down to the ground.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;<br/>
they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: We do not see our signs;<br/>
there is no longer any prophet,<br/>
and there is none among us who knows how long.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: How long, O God, is the foe to scoff?<br/>
Is the enemy to revile your name forever?</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand?<br/>
Take it from the fold of your garment and destroy them!</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Yet God my King is from of old,<br/>
working salvation in the midst of the earth.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: You divided the sea by your might;<br/>
you broke the heads of the sea monsters on the waters.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: You crushed the heads of Leviathan;<br/>
you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: You split open springs and brooks;<br/>
you dried up ever-flowing streams.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: Yours is the day, yours also the night;<br/>
you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: You have fixed all the boundaries of the earth;<br/>
you have made summer and winter.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs,<br/>
and a foolish people reviles your name.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild beasts;<br/>
do not forget the life of your poor forever.</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: Have regard for the covenant,<br/>
for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: Let not the downtrodden turn back in shame;<br/>
let the poor and needy praise your name.</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: Arise, O God, defend your cause;<br/>
remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: Do not forget the clamor of your foes,<br/>
the uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.75">Psalm 75</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: We give thanks to you, O God;<br/>
we give thanks, for your name is near.<br/>
We recount your wondrous deeds.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: “At the set time that I appoint<br/>
I will judge with equity.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants,<br/>
it is I who keep steady its pillars. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="4">4: I say to the boastful, “Do not boast,”<br/>
and to the wicked, “Do not lift up your horn;</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: do not lift up your horn on high,<br/>
or speak with haughty neck.””</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: For not from the east or from the west<br/>
and not from the wilderness comes lifting up,</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: but it is God who executes judgment,<br/>
putting down one and lifting up another.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup<br/>
with foaming wine, well mixed,<br/>
and he pours out from it,<br/>
and all the wicked of the earth<br/>
shall drain it down to the dregs.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: But I will declare it forever;<br/>
I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: All the horns of the wicked I will cut off,<br/>
but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.76">Psalm 76</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: In Judah God is known;<br/>
his name is great in Israel.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: His abode has been established in Salem,<br/>
his dwelling place in Zion.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: There he broke the flashing arrows,<br/>
the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Glorious are you, more majestic<br/>
than the mountains of prey.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil;<br/>
they sank into sleep;<br/>
all the men of war<br/>
were unable to use their hands.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: At your rebuke, O God of Jacob,<br/>
both rider and horse lay stunned.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: But you, you are to be feared!<br/>
Who can stand before you<br/>
when once your anger is roused?</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: From the heavens you uttered judgment;<br/>
the earth feared and was still,</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: when God arose to establish judgment,<br/>
to save all the humble of the earth. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Surely the wrath of man shall praise you;<br/>
the remnant of wrath you will put on like a belt.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Make your vows to the Lord your God and perform them;<br/>
let all around him bring gifts<br/>
to him who is to be feared,</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: who cuts off the spirit of princes,<br/>
who is to be feared by the kings of the earth.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.77">Psalm 77</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: I cry aloud to God,<br/>
aloud to God, and he will hear me.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord;<br/>
in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying;<br/>
my soul refuses to be comforted.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: When I remember God, I moan;<br/>
when I meditate, my spirit faints. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="4">4: You hold my eyelids open;<br/>
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: I consider the days of old,<br/>
the years long ago.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: I said, “Let me remember my song in the night;<br/>
let me meditate in my heart.”<br/>
Then my spirit made a diligent search:</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: “Will the Lord spurn forever,<br/>
and never again be favorable?</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Has his steadfast love forever ceased?<br/>
Are his promises at an end for all time?</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Has God forgotten to be gracious?<br/>
Has he in anger shut up his compassion?” <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Then I said, “I will appeal to this,<br/>
to the years of the right hand of the Most High.”</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: I will remember the deeds of the Lord;<br/>
yes, I will remember your wonders of old.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: I will ponder all your work,<br/>
and meditate on your mighty deeds.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: Your way, O God, is holy.<br/>
What god is great like our God?</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: You are the God who works wonders;<br/>
you have made known your might among the peoples.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: You with your arm redeemed your people,<br/>
the children of Jacob and Joseph. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="16">16: When the waters saw you, O God,<br/>
when the waters saw you, they were afraid;<br/>
indeed, the deep trembled.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: The clouds poured out water;<br/>
the skies gave forth thunder;<br/>
your arrows flashed on every side.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind;<br/>
your lightnings lighted up the world;<br/>
the earth trembled and shook.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: Your way was through the sea,<br/>
your path through the great waters;<br/>
yet your footprints were unseen.</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: You led your people like a flock<br/>
by the hand of Moses and Aaron.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.78">Psalm 78</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Give ear, O my people, to my teaching;<br/>
incline your ears to the words of my mouth!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: I will open my mouth in a parable;<br/>
I will utter dark sayings from of old,</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: things that we have heard and known,<br/>
that our fathers have told us.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: We will not hide them from their children,<br/>
but tell to the coming generation<br/>
the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might,<br/>
and the wonders that he has done.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: He established a testimony in Jacob<br/>
and appointed a law in Israel,<br/>
which he commanded our fathers<br/>
to teach to their children,</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: that the next generation might know them,<br/>
the children yet unborn,<br/>
and arise and tell them to their children,</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: <br/>
so that they should set their hope in God<br/>
and not forget the works of God,<br/>
but keep his commandments;</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: and that they should not be like their fathers,<br/>
a stubborn and rebellious generation,<br/>
a generation whose heart was not steadfast,<br/>
whose spirit was not faithful to God.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: The Ephraimites, armed with the bow,<br/>
turned back on the day of battle.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: They did not keep God's covenant,<br/>
but refused to walk according to his law.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: They forgot his works<br/>
and the wonders that he had shown them.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: In the sight of their fathers he performed wonders<br/>
in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: He divided the sea and let them pass through it,<br/>
and made the waters stand like a heap.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: In the daytime he led them with a cloud,<br/>
and all the night with a fiery light.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: He split rocks in the wilderness<br/>
and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: He made streams come out of the rock<br/>
and caused waters to flow down like rivers.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: Yet they sinned still more against him,<br/>
rebelling against the Most High in the desert.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: They tested God in their heart<br/>
by demanding the food they craved.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: They spoke against God, saying,<br/>
“Can God spread a table in the wilderness?</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: He struck the rock so that water gushed out<br/>
and streams overflowed.<br/>
Can he also give bread<br/>
or provide meat for his people?”</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: Therefore, when the Lord heard, he was full of wrath;<br/>
a fire was kindled against Jacob;<br/>
his anger rose against Israel,</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: because they did not believe in God<br/>
and did not trust his saving power.</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: Yet he commanded the skies above<br/>
and opened the doors of heaven,</p>
<p data-verse="24">24: and he rained down on them manna to eat<br/>
and gave them the grain of heaven.</p>
<p data-verse="25">25: Man ate of the bread of the angels;<br/>
he sent them food in abundance.</p>
<p data-verse="26">26: He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens,<br/>
and by his power he led out the south wind;</p>
<p data-verse="27">27: he rained meat on them like dust,<br/>
winged birds like the sand of the seas;</p>
<p data-verse="28">28: he let them fall in the midst of their camp,<br/>
all around their dwellings.</p>
<p data-verse="29">29: And they ate and were well filled,<br/>
for he gave them what they craved.</p>
<p data-verse="30">30: But before they had satisfied their craving,<br/>
while the food was still in their mouths,</p>
<p data-verse="31">31: the anger of God rose against them,<br/>
and he killed the strongest of them<br/>
and laid low the young men of Israel.</p>
<p data-verse="32">32: In spite of all this, they still sinned;<br/>
despite his wonders, they did not believe.</p>
<p data-verse="33">33: So he made their days vanish like a breath,<br/>
and their years in terror.</p>
<p data-verse="34">34: When he killed them, they sought him;<br/>
they repented and sought God earnestly.</p>
<p data-verse="35">35: They remembered that God was their rock,<br/>
the Most High God their redeemer.</p>
<p data-verse="36">36: But they flattered him with their mouths;<br/>
they lied to him with their tongues.</p>
<p data-verse="37">37: Their heart was not steadfast toward him;<br/>
they were not faithful to his covenant.</p>
<p data-verse="38">38: Yet he, being compassionate,<br/>
atoned for their iniquity<br/>
and did not destroy them;<br/>
he restrained his anger often<br/>
and did not stir up all his wrath.</p>
<p data-verse="39">39: He remembered that they were but flesh,<br/>
a wind that passes and comes not again.</p>
<p data-verse="40">40: How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness<br/>
and grieved him in the desert!</p>
<p data-verse="41">41: They tested God again and again<br/>
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.</p>
<p data-verse="42">42: They did not remember his power<br/>
or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,</p>
<p data-verse="43">43: when he performed his signs in Egypt<br/>
and his marvels in the fields of Zoan.</p>
<p data-verse="44">44: He turned their rivers to blood,<br/>
so that they could not drink of their streams.</p>
<p data-verse="45">45: He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them,<br/>
and frogs, which destroyed them.</p>
<p data-verse="46">46: He gave their crops to the destroying locust<br/>
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.</p>
<p data-verse="47">47: He destroyed their vines with hail<br/>
and their sycamores with frost.</p>
<p data-verse="48">48: He gave over their cattle to the hail<br/>
and their flocks to thunderbolts.</p>
<p data-verse="49">49: He let loose on them his burning anger,<br/>
wrath, indignation, and distress,<br/>
a company of destroying angels.</p>
<p data-verse="50">50: He made a path for his anger;<br/>
he did not spare them from death,<br/>
but gave their lives over to the plague.</p>
<p data-verse="51">51: He struck down every firstborn in Egypt,<br/>
the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.</p>
<p data-verse="52">52: Then he led out his people like sheep<br/>
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.</p>
<p data-verse="53">53: He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid,<br/>
but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.</p>
<p data-verse="54">54: And he brought them to his holy land,<br/>
to the mountain which his right hand had won.</p>
<p data-verse="55">55: He drove out nations before them;<br/>
he apportioned them for a possession<br/>
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.</p>
<p data-verse="56">56: Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God<br/>
and did not keep his testimonies,</p>
<p data-verse="57">57: but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers;<br/>
they twisted like a deceitful bow.</p>
<p data-verse="58">58: For they provoked him to anger with their high places;<br/>
they moved him to jealousy with their idols.</p>
<p data-verse="59">59: When God heard, he was full of wrath,<br/>
and he utterly rejected Israel.</p>
<p data-verse="60">60: He forsook his dwelling at Shiloh,<br/>
the tent where he dwelt among mankind,</p>
<p data-verse="61">61: and delivered his power to captivity,<br/>
his glory to the hand of the foe.</p>
<p data-verse="62">62: He gave his people over to the sword<br/>
and vented his wrath on his heritage.</p>
<p data-verse="63">63: Fire devoured their young men,<br/>
and their young women had no marriage song.</p>
<p data-verse="64">64: Their priests fell by the sword,<br/>
and their widows made no lamentation.</p>
<p data-verse="65">65: Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,<br/>
like a strong man shouting because of wine.</p>
<p data-verse="66">66: And he put his adversaries to rout;<br/>
he put them to everlasting shame.</p>
<p data-verse="67">67: He rejected the tent of Joseph;<br/>
he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,</p>
<p data-verse="68">68: but he chose the tribe of Judah,<br/>
Mount Zion, which he loves.</p>
<p data-verse="69">69: He built his sanctuary like the high heavens,<br/>
like the earth, which he has founded forever.</p>
<p data-verse="70">70: He chose David his servant<br/>
and took him from the sheepfolds;</p>
<p data-verse="71">71: from following the nursing ewes he brought him<br/>
to shepherd Jacob his people,<br/>
Israel his inheritance.</p>
<p data-verse="72">72: With upright heart he shepherded them<br/>
and guided them with his skillful hand.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.79">Psalm 79</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: O God, the nations have come into your inheritance;<br/>
they have defiled your holy temple;<br/>
they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: They have given the bodies of your servants<br/>
to the birds of the heavens for food,<br/>
the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: They have poured out their blood like water<br/>
all around Jerusalem,<br/>
and there was no one to bury them.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: We have become a taunt to our neighbors,<br/>
mocked and derided by those around us.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever?<br/>
Will your jealousy burn like fire?</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Pour out your anger on the nations<br/>
that do not know you,<br/>
and on the kingdoms<br/>
that do not call upon your name!</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: For they have devoured Jacob<br/>
and laid waste his habitation.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Do not remember against us our former iniquities;<br/>
let your compassion come speedily to meet us,<br/>
for we are brought very low.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Help us, O God of our salvation,<br/>
for the glory of your name;<br/>
deliver us, and atone for our sins,<br/>
for your name's sake!</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Why should the nations say,<br/>
“Where is their God?”<br/>
Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants<br/>
be known among the nations before our eyes!</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Let the groans of the prisoners come before you;<br/>
according to your great power, preserve those doomed to die!</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Return sevenfold into the lap of our neighbors<br/>
the taunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord!</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: But we your people, the sheep of your pasture,<br/>
will give thanks to you forever;<br/>
from generation to generation we will recount your praise.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.80">Psalm 80</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,<br/>
you who lead Joseph like a flock!<br/>
You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: <br/>
Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh,<br/>
stir up your might<br/>
and come to save us!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Restore us, O God;<br/>
let your face shine, that we may be saved!</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: O Lord God of hosts,<br/>
how long will you be angry with your people's prayers?</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: You have fed them with the bread of tears<br/>
and given them tears to drink in full measure.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: You make us an object of contention for our neighbors,<br/>
and our enemies laugh among themselves.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Restore us, O God of hosts;<br/>
let your face shine, that we may be saved!</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: You brought a vine out of Egypt;<br/>
you drove out the nations and planted it.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: You cleared the ground for it;<br/>
it took deep root and filled the land.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: The mountains were covered with its shade,<br/>
the mighty cedars with its branches.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: It sent out its branches to the sea<br/>
and its shoots to the River.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Why then have you broken down its walls,<br/>
so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: The boar from the forest ravages it,<br/>
and all that move in the field feed on it.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: Turn again, O God of hosts!<br/>
Look down from heaven, and see;<br/>
have regard for this vine,</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: <br/>
the stock that your right hand planted,<br/>
and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down;<br/>
may they perish at the rebuke of your face!</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: But let your hand be on the man of your right hand,<br/>
the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: Then we shall not turn back from you;<br/>
give us life, and we will call upon your name!</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: Restore us, O Lord God of hosts!<br/>
let your face shine, that we may be saved!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.81">Psalm 81</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Sing aloud to God our strength;<br/>
shout for joy to the God of Jacob!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Raise a song; sound the tambourine,<br/>
the sweet lyre with the harp.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Blow the trumpet at the new moon,<br/>
at the full moon, on our feast day.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: For it is a statute for Israel,<br/>
a rule of the God of Jacob.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: He made it a decree in Joseph<br/>
when he went out over the land of Egypt.<br/>
I hear a language I had not known:</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: “I relieved your shoulder of the burden;<br/>
your hands were freed from the basket.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: In distress you called, and I delivered you;<br/>
I answered you in the secret place of thunder;<br/>
I tested you at the waters of Meribah. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Hear, O my people, while I admonish you!<br/>
O Israel, if you would but listen to me!</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: There shall be no strange god among you;<br/>
you shall not bow down to a foreign god.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: I am the Lord your God,<br/>
who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.<br/>
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: “But my people did not listen to my voice;<br/>
Israel would not submit to me.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,<br/>
to follow their own counsels.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: Oh, that my people would listen to me,<br/>
that Israel would walk in my ways!</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: I would soon subdue their enemies<br/>
and turn my hand against their foes.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: Those who hate the Lord would cringe toward him,<br/>
and their fate would last forever.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat,<br/>
and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.82">Psalm 82</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: God has taken his place in the divine council;<br/>
in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: “How long will you judge unjustly<br/>
and show partiality to the wicked? <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Give justice to the weak and the fatherless;<br/>
maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Rescue the weak and the needy;<br/>
deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: They have neither knowledge nor understanding,<br/>
they walk about in darkness;<br/>
all the foundations of the earth are shaken.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: I said, “You are gods,<br/>
sons of the Most High, all of you;</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: nevertheless, like men you shall die,<br/>
and fall like any prince.”</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Arise, O God, judge the earth;<br/>
for you shall inherit all the nations!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.83">Psalm 83</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: O God, do not keep silence;<br/>
do not hold your peace or be still, O God!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: For behold, your enemies make an uproar;<br/>
those who hate you have raised their heads.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: They lay crafty plans against your people;<br/>
they consult together against your treasured ones.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation;<br/>
let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: For they conspire with one accord;<br/>
against you they make a covenant—</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,<br/>
Moab and the Hagrites,</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,<br/>
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Asshur also has joined them;<br/>
they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Do to them as you did to Midian,<br/>
as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: who were destroyed at En-dor,<br/>
who became dung for the ground.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,<br/>
all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: who said, “Let us take possession for ourselves<br/>
of the pastures of God.”</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: O my God, make them like whirling dust,<br/>
like chaff before the wind.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: As fire consumes the forest,<br/>
as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: so may you pursue them with your tempest<br/>
and terrify them with your hurricane!</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: Fill their faces with shame,<br/>
that they may seek your name, O Lord.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever;<br/>
let them perish in disgrace,</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: that they may know that you alone,<br/>
whose name is the Lord,<br/>
are the Most High over all the earth.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.84">Psalm 84</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: How lovely is your dwelling place,<br/>
O Lord of hosts!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: My soul longs, yes, faints<br/>
for the courts of the Lord;<br/>
my heart and flesh sing for joy<br/>
to the living God.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Even the sparrow finds a home,<br/>
and the swallow a nest for herself,<br/>
where she may lay her young,<br/>
at your altars, O Lord of hosts,<br/>
my King and my God.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Blessed are those who dwell in your house,<br/>
ever singing your praise! <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Blessed are those whose strength is in you,<br/>
in whose heart are the highways to Zion.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: As they go through the Valley of Baca<br/>
they make it a place of springs;<br/>
the early rain also covers it with pools.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: They go from strength to strength;<br/>
each one appears before God in Zion.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;<br/>
give ear, O God of Jacob! <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Behold our shield, O God;<br/>
look on the face of your anointed!</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: For a day in your courts is better<br/>
than a thousand elsewhere.<br/>
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God<br/>
than dwell in the tents of wickedness.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: For the Lord God is a sun and shield;<br/>
the Lord bestows favor and honor.<br/>
No good thing does he withhold<br/>
from those who walk uprightly.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: O Lord of hosts,<br/>
blessed is the one who trusts in you!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.85">Psalm 85</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Lord, you were favorable to your land;<br/>
you restored the fortunes of Jacob.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: You forgave the iniquity of your people;<br/>
you covered all their sin. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="3">3: You withdrew all your wrath;<br/>
you turned from your hot anger.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Restore us again, O God of our salvation,<br/>
and put away your indignation toward us!</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Will you be angry with us forever?<br/>
Will you prolong your anger to all generations?</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Will you not revive us again,<br/>
that your people may rejoice in you?</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Show us your steadfast love, O Lord,<br/>
and grant us your salvation.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Let me hear what God the Lord will speak,<br/>
for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints;<br/>
but let them not turn back to folly.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him,<br/>
that glory may dwell in our land.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Steadfast love and faithfulness meet;<br/>
righteousness and peace kiss each other.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Faithfulness springs up from the ground,<br/>
and righteousness looks down from the sky.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Yes, the Lord will give what is good,<br/>
and our land will yield its increase.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: Righteousness will go before him<br/>
and make his footsteps a way.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.86">Psalm 86</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me,<br/>
for I am poor and needy.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Preserve my life, for I am godly;<br/>
save your servant, who trusts in you—you are my God.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Be gracious to me, O Lord,<br/>
for to you do I cry all the day.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Gladden the soul of your servant,<br/>
for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving,<br/>
abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer;<br/>
listen to my plea for grace.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: In the day of my trouble I call upon you,<br/>
for you answer me.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: There is none like you among the gods, O Lord,<br/>
nor are there any works like yours.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: All the nations you have made shall come<br/>
and worship before you, O Lord,<br/>
and shall glorify your name.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: For you are great and do wondrous things;<br/>
you alone are God.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Teach me your way, O Lord,<br/>
that I may walk in your truth;<br/>
unite my heart to fear your name.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart,<br/>
and I will glorify your name forever.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: For great is your steadfast love toward me;<br/>
you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: O God, insolent men have risen up against me;<br/>
a band of ruthless men seek my life,<br/>
and they do not set you before them.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious,<br/>
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: Turn to me and be gracious to me;<br/>
give your strength to your servant,<br/>
and save the son of your maidservant.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: Show me a sign of your favor,<br/>
that those who hate me may see and be put to shame<br/>
because you, Lord, have helped me and comforted me.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.87">Psalm 87</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: On the holy mount stands the city he founded;</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: <br/>
the Lord loves the gates of Zion<br/>
more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Glorious things of you are spoken,<br/>
O city of God. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon;<br/>
behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Cush—<br/>
“This one was born there,” they say.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: And of Zion it shall be said,<br/>
“This one and that one were born in her”;<br/>
for the Most High himself will establish her.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: The Lord records as he registers the peoples,<br/>
“This one was born there.” <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Singers and dancers alike say,<br/>
“All my springs are in you.”</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.88">Psalm 88</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: O Lord, God of my salvation;<br/>
I cry out day and night before you.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Let my prayer come before you;<br/>
incline your ear to my cry!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: For my soul is full of troubles,<br/>
and my life draws near to Sheol.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: I am counted among those who go down to the pit;<br/>
I am a man who has no strength,</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: like one set loose among the dead,<br/>
like the slain that lie in the grave,<br/>
like those whom you remember no more,<br/>
for they are cut off from your hand.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: You have put me in the depths of the pit,<br/>
in the regions dark and deep.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Your wrath lies heavy upon me,<br/>
and you overwhelm me with all your waves. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="8">8: You have caused my companions to shun me;<br/>
you have made me a horror to them.<br/>
I am shut in so that I cannot escape;</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: <br/>
my eye grows dim through sorrow.<br/>
Every day I call upon you, O Lord;<br/>
I spread out my hands to you.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Do you work wonders for the dead?<br/>
Do the departed rise up to praise you? <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Is your steadfast love declared in the grave,<br/>
or your faithfulness in Abaddon?</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Are your wonders known in the darkness,<br/>
or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: But I, O Lord, cry to you;<br/>
in the morning my prayer comes before you.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: O Lord, why do you cast my soul away?<br/>
Why do you hide your face from me?</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: Afflicted and close to death from my youth up,<br/>
I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: Your wrath has swept over me;<br/>
your dreadful assaults destroy me.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: They surround me like a flood all day long;<br/>
they close in on me together.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me;<br/>
my companions have become darkness.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.89">Psalm 89</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: I will sing of the steadfast love of the Lord, forever;<br/>
with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: For I said, “Steadfast love will be built up forever;<br/>
in the heavens you will establish your faithfulness.”</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: You have said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one;<br/>
I have sworn to David my servant:</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: “I will establish your offspring forever,<br/>
and build your throne for all generations.”” <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Let the heavens praise your wonders, O Lord,<br/>
your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones!</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord?<br/>
Who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord,</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: a God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones,<br/>
and awesome above all who are around him?</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: O Lord God of hosts,<br/>
who is mighty as you are, O Lord,<br/>
with your faithfulness all around you?</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: You rule the raging of the sea;<br/>
when its waves rise, you still them.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: You crushed Rahab like a carcass;<br/>
you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours;<br/>
the world and all that is in it, you have founded them.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: The north and the south, you have created them;<br/>
Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: You have a mighty arm;<br/>
strong is your hand, high your right hand.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;<br/>
steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: Blessed are the people who know the festal shout,<br/>
who walk, O Lord, in the light of your face,</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: who exult in your name all the day<br/>
and in your righteousness are exalted.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: For you are the glory of their strength;<br/>
by your favor our horn is exalted.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: For our shield belongs to the Lord,<br/>
our king to the Holy One of Israel.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: Of old you spoke in a vision to your godly one, and said:<br/>
“I have granted help to one who is mighty;<br/>
I have exalted one chosen from the people.</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: I have found David, my servant;<br/>
with my holy oil I have anointed him,</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: so that my hand shall be established with him;<br/>
my arm also shall strengthen him.</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: The enemy shall not outwit him;<br/>
the wicked shall not humble him.</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: I will crush his foes before him<br/>
and strike down those who hate him.</p>
<p data-verse="24">24: My faithfulness and my steadfast love shall be with him,<br/>
and in my name shall his horn be exalted.</p>
<p data-verse="25">25: I will set his hand on the sea<br/>
and his right hand on the rivers.</p>
<p data-verse="26">26: He shall cry to me, “You are my Father,<br/>
my God, and the Rock of my salvation.”</p>
<p data-verse="27">27: And I will make him the firstborn,<br/>
the highest of the kings of the earth.</p>
<p data-verse="28">28: My steadfast love I will keep for him forever,<br/>
and my covenant will stand firm for him.</p>
<p data-verse="29">29: I will establish his offspring forever<br/>
and his throne as the days of the heavens.</p>
<p data-verse="30">30: If his children forsake my law<br/>
and do not walk according to my rules,</p>
<p data-verse="31">31: if they violate my statutes<br/>
and do not keep my commandments,</p>
<p data-verse="32">32: then I will punish their transgression with the rod<br/>
and their iniquity with stripes,</p>
<p data-verse="33">33: but I will not remove from him my steadfast love<br/>
or be false to my faithfulness.</p>
<p data-verse="34">34: I will not violate my covenant<br/>
or alter the word that went forth from my lips.</p>
<p data-verse="35">35: Once for all I have sworn by my holiness;<br/>
I will not lie to David.</p>
<p data-verse="36">36: His offspring shall endure forever,<br/>
his throne as long as the sun before me.</p>
<p data-verse="37">37: Like the moon it shall be established forever,<br/>
a faithful witness in the skies.” <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="38">38: But now you have cast off and rejected;<br/>
you are full of wrath against your anointed.</p>
<p data-verse="39">39: You have renounced the covenant with your servant;<br/>
you have defiled his crown in the dust.</p>
<p data-verse="40">40: You have breached all his walls;<br/>
you have laid his strongholds in ruins.</p>
<p data-verse="41">41: All who pass by plunder him;<br/>
he has become the scorn of his neighbors.</p>
<p data-verse="42">42: You have exalted the right hand of his foes;<br/>
you have made all his enemies rejoice.</p>
<p data-verse="43">43: You have also turned back the edge of his sword,<br/>
and you have not made him stand in battle.</p>
<p data-verse="44">44: You have made his splendor to cease<br/>
and cast his throne to the ground.</p>
<p data-verse="45">45: You have cut short the days of his youth;<br/>
you have covered him with shame. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="46">46: How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever?<br/>
How long will your wrath burn like fire?</p>
<p data-verse="47">47: Remember how short my time is!<br/>
For what vanity you have created all the children of man!</p>
<p data-verse="48">48: What man can live and never see death?<br/>
Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="49">49: Lord, where is your steadfast love of old,<br/>
which by your faithfulness you swore to David?</p>
<p data-verse="50">50: Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked,<br/>
and how I bear in my heart the insults of all the many nations,</p>
<p data-verse="51">51: with which your enemies mock, O Lord,<br/>
with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.</p>
<p data-verse="52">52: Blessed be the Lord forever!<br/>
Amen and Amen.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.90">Psalm 90</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Lord, you have been our dwelling place<br/>
in all generations.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Before the mountains were brought forth,<br/>
or ever you had formed the earth and the world,<br/>
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: You return man to dust<br/>
and say, “Return, O children of man!”</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: For a thousand years in your sight<br/>
are but as yesterday when it is past,<br/>
or as a watch in the night.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream,<br/>
like grass that is renewed in the morning:</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;<br/>
in the evening it fades and withers.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: For we are brought to an end by your anger;<br/>
by your wrath we are dismayed.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: You have set our iniquities before you,<br/>
our secret sins in the light of your presence.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: For all our days pass away under your wrath;<br/>
we bring our years to an end like a sigh.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: The years of our life are seventy,<br/>
or even by reason of strength eighty;<br/>
yet their span is but toil and trouble;<br/>
they are soon gone, and we fly away.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Who considers the power of your anger,<br/>
and your wrath according to the fear of you?</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: So teach us to number our days<br/>
that we may get a heart of wisdom.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: Return, O Lord! How long?<br/>
Have pity on your servants!</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,<br/>
that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,<br/>
and for as many years as we have seen evil.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: Let your work be shown to your servants,<br/>
and your glorious power to their children.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us,<br/>
and establish the work of our hands upon us;<br/>
yes, establish the work of our hands!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.91">Psalm 91</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High<br/>
will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress,<br/>
my God, in whom I trust.”</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler<br/>
and from the deadly pestilence.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: He will cover you with his pinions,<br/>
and under his wings you will find refuge;<br/>
his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: You will not fear the terror of the night,<br/>
nor the arrow that flies by day,</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness,<br/>
nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: A thousand may fall at your side,<br/>
ten thousand at your right hand,<br/>
but it will not come near you.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: You will only look with your eyes<br/>
and see the recompense of the wicked.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Because you have made the Lord your dwelling place—<br/>
the Most High, who is my refuge—</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: no evil shall be allowed to befall you,<br/>
no plague come near your tent.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: For he will command his angels concerning you<br/>
to guard you in all your ways.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: On their hands they will bear you up,<br/>
lest you strike your foot against a stone.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: You will tread on the lion and the adder;<br/>
the young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: “Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him;<br/>
I will protect him, because he knows my name.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: When he calls to me, I will answer him;<br/>
I will be with him in trouble;<br/>
I will rescue him and honor him.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: With long life I will satisfy him<br/>
and show him my salvation.”</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.92">Psalm 92</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: It is good to give thanks to the Lord,<br/>
to sing praises to your name, O Most High;</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: to declare your steadfast love in the morning,<br/>
and your faithfulness by night,</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: to the music of the lute and the harp,<br/>
to the melody of the lyre.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: For you, O Lord, have made me glad by your work;<br/>
at the works of your hands I sing for joy.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: How great are your works, O Lord!<br/>
Your thoughts are very deep!</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: The stupid man cannot know;<br/>
the fool cannot understand this:</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: that though the wicked sprout like grass<br/>
and all evildoers flourish,<br/>
they are doomed to destruction forever;</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: <br/>
but you, O Lord, are on high forever.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: For behold, your enemies, O Lord,<br/>
for behold, your enemies shall perish;<br/>
all evildoers shall be scattered.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox;<br/>
you have poured over me fresh oil.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies;<br/>
my ears have heard the doom of my evil assailants.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: The righteous flourish like the palm tree<br/>
and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: They are planted in the house of the Lord;<br/>
they flourish in the courts of our God.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: They still bear fruit in old age;<br/>
they are ever full of sap and green,</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: to declare that the Lord is upright;<br/>
he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.93">Psalm 93</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: The Lord reigns; he is robed in majesty;<br/>
the Lord is robed; he has put on strength as his belt.<br/>
Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Your throne is established from of old;<br/>
you are from everlasting.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: The floods have lifted up, O Lord,<br/>
the floods have lifted up their voice;<br/>
the floods lift up their roaring.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Mightier than the thunders of many waters,<br/>
mightier than the waves of the sea,<br/>
the Lord on high is mighty!</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Your decrees are very trustworthy;<br/>
holiness befits your house,<br/>
O Lord, forevermore.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.94">Psalm 94</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: O Lord, God of vengeance,<br/>
O God of vengeance, shine forth!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Rise up, O judge of the earth;<br/>
repay to the proud what they deserve!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: O Lord, how long shall the wicked,<br/>
how long shall the wicked exult?</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: They pour out their arrogant words;<br/>
all the evildoers boast.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: They crush your people, O Lord,<br/>
and afflict your heritage.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: They kill the widow and the sojourner,<br/>
and murder the fatherless;</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: and they say, “The Lord does not see;<br/>
the God of Jacob does not perceive.”</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Understand, O dullest of the people!<br/>
Fools, when will you be wise?</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: He who planted the ear, does he not hear?<br/>
He who formed the eye, does he not see?</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke?<br/>
He who teaches man knowledge—</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: <br/>
the Lord—knows the thoughts of man,<br/>
that they are but a breath.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord,<br/>
and whom you teach out of your law,</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: to give him rest from days of trouble,<br/>
until a pit is dug for the wicked.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: For the Lord will not forsake his people;<br/>
he will not abandon his heritage;</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: for justice will return to the righteous,<br/>
and all the upright in heart will follow it.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: Who rises up for me against the wicked?<br/>
Who stands up for me against evildoers?</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: If the Lord had not been my help,<br/>
my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: When I thought, “My foot slips,”<br/>
your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: When the cares of my heart are many,<br/>
your consolations cheer my soul.</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: Can wicked rulers be allied with you,<br/>
those who frame injustice by statute?</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: They band together against the life of the righteous<br/>
and condemn the innocent to death.</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: But the Lord has become my stronghold,<br/>
and my God the rock of my refuge.</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: He will bring back on them their iniquity<br/>
and wipe them out for their wickedness;<br/>
the Lord our God will wipe them out.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.95">Psalm 95</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Oh come, let us sing to the Lord;<br/>
let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;<br/>
let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: For the Lord is a great God,<br/>
and a great King above all gods.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: In his hand are the depths of the earth;<br/>
the heights of the mountains are his also.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: The sea is his, for he made it,<br/>
and his hands formed the dry land.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Oh come, let us worship and bow down;<br/>
let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: For he is our God,<br/>
and we are the people of his pasture,<br/>
and the sheep of his hand.<br/>
Today, if you hear his voice,</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: <br/>
do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,<br/>
as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: when your fathers put me to the test<br/>
and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: For forty years I loathed that generation<br/>
and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart,<br/>
and they have not known my ways.”</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Therefore I swore in my wrath,<br/>
“They shall not enter my rest.”</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.96">Psalm 96</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Oh sing to the Lord a new song;<br/>
sing to the Lord, all the earth!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Sing to the Lord, bless his name;<br/>
tell of his salvation from day to day.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Declare his glory among the nations,<br/>
his marvelous works among all the peoples!</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;<br/>
he is to be feared above all gods.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols,<br/>
but the Lord made the heavens.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Splendor and majesty are before him;<br/>
strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples,<br/>
ascribe to the Lord glory and strength!</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name;<br/>
bring an offering, and come into his courts!</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness;<br/>
tremble before him, all the earth!</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns!<br/>
Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved;<br/>
he will judge the peoples with equity.”</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;<br/>
let the sea roar, and all that fills it;</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: <br/>
let the field exult, and everything in it!<br/>
Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: <br/>
before the Lord, for he comes,<br/>
for he comes to judge the earth.<br/>
He will judge the world in righteousness,<br/>
and the peoples in his faithfulness.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.97">Psalm 97</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: The Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice;<br/>
let the many coastlands be glad!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Clouds and thick darkness are all around him;<br/>
righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Fire goes before him<br/>
and burns up his adversaries all around.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: His lightnings light up the world;<br/>
the earth sees and trembles.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: The mountains melt like wax before the Lord,<br/>
before the Lord of all the earth.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: The heavens proclaim his righteousness,<br/>
and all the peoples see his glory.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: All worshipers of images are put to shame,<br/>
who make their boast in worthless idols;<br/>
worship him, all you gods!</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Zion hears and is glad,<br/>
and the daughters of Judah rejoice,<br/>
because of your judgments, O Lord.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: For you, O Lord, are most high over all the earth;<br/>
you are exalted far above all gods.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: O you who love the Lord, hate evil!<br/>
He preserves the lives of his saints;<br/>
he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Light is sown for the righteous,<br/>
and joy for the upright in heart.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous,<br/>
and give thanks to his holy name!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.98">Psalm 98</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Oh sing to the Lord a new song,<br/>
for he has done marvelous things!<br/>
His right hand and his holy arm<br/>
have worked salvation for him.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: The Lord has made known his salvation;<br/>
he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness<br/>
to the house of Israel.<br/>
All the ends of the earth have seen<br/>
the salvation of our God.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth;<br/>
break forth into joyous song and sing praises!</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Sing praises to the Lord with the lyre,<br/>
with the lyre and the sound of melody!</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: With trumpets and the sound of the horn<br/>
make a joyful noise before the King, the Lord!</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Let the sea roar, and all that fills it;<br/>
the world and those who dwell in it!</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Let the rivers clap their hands;<br/>
let the hills sing for joy together</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: before the Lord, for he comes<br/>
to judge the earth.<br/>
He will judge the world with righteousness,<br/>
and the peoples with equity.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.99">Psalm 99</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: The Lord reigns; let the peoples tremble!<br/>
He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: The Lord is great in Zion;<br/>
he is exalted over all the peoples.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Let them praise your great and awesome name!<br/>
Holy is he!</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: The King in his might loves justice.<br/>
You have established equity;<br/>
you have executed justice<br/>
and righteousness in Jacob.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Exalt the Lord our God;<br/>
worship at his footstool!<br/>
Holy is he!</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Moses and Aaron were among his priests,<br/>
Samuel also was among those who called upon his name.<br/>
They called to the Lord, and he answered them.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: In the pillar of the cloud he spoke to them;<br/>
they kept his testimonies<br/>
and the statute that he gave them.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: O Lord our God, you answered them;<br/>
you were a forgiving God to them,<br/>
but an avenger of their wrongdoings.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Exalt the Lord our God,<br/>
and worship at his holy mountain;<br/>
for the Lord our God is holy!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.100">Psalm 100</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: <br/>
Serve the Lord with gladness!<br/>
Come into his presence with singing!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Know that the Lord, he is God!<br/>
It is he who made us, and we are his;<br/>
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Enter his gates with thanksgiving,<br/>
and his courts with praise!<br/>
Give thanks to him; bless his name!</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: For the Lord is good;<br/>
his steadfast love endures forever,<br/>
and his faithfulness to all generations.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.101">Psalm 101</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: I will sing of steadfast love and justice;<br/>
to you, O Lord, I will make music.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: I will ponder the way that is blameless.<br/>
Oh when will you come to me?<br/>
I will walk with integrity of heart<br/>
within my house;</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: I will not set before my eyes<br/>
anything that is worthless.<br/>
I hate the work of those who fall away;<br/>
it shall not cling to me.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: A perverse heart shall be far from me;<br/>
I will know nothing of evil.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly<br/>
I will destroy.<br/>
Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart<br/>
I will not endure.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: I will look with favor on the faithful in the land,<br/>
that they may dwell with me;<br/>
he who walks in the way that is blameless<br/>
shall minister to me.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: No one who practices deceit<br/>
shall dwell in my house;<br/>
no one who utters lies<br/>
shall continue before my eyes.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Morning by morning I will destroy<br/>
all the wicked in the land,<br/>
cutting off all the evildoers<br/>
from the city of the Lord.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.102">Psalm 102</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Hear my prayer, O Lord;<br/>
let my cry come to you!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Do not hide your face from me<br/>
in the day of my distress!<br/>
Incline your ear to me;<br/>
answer me speedily in the day when I call!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: For my days pass away like smoke,<br/>
and my bones burn like a furnace.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: My heart is struck down like grass and has withered;<br/>
I forget to eat my bread.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Because of my loud groaning<br/>
my bones cling to my flesh.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: I am like a desert owl of the wilderness,<br/>
like an owl of the waste places;</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: I lie awake;<br/>
I am like a lonely sparrow on the housetop.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: All the day my enemies taunt me;<br/>
those who deride me use my name for a curse.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: For I eat ashes like bread<br/>
and mingle tears with my drink,</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: because of your indignation and anger;<br/>
for you have taken me up and thrown me down.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: My days are like an evening shadow;<br/>
I wither away like grass.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: But you, O Lord, are enthroned forever;<br/>
you are remembered throughout all generations.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: You will arise and have pity on Zion;<br/>
it is the time to favor her;<br/>
the appointed time has come.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: For your servants hold her stones dear<br/>
and have pity on her dust.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: Nations will fear the name of the Lord,<br/>
and all the kings of the earth will fear your glory.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: For the Lord builds up Zion;<br/>
he appears in his glory;</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: he regards the prayer of the destitute<br/>
and does not despise their prayer.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: Let this be recorded for a generation to come,<br/>
so that a people yet to be created may praise the Lord:</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: that he looked down from his holy height;<br/>
from heaven the Lord looked at the earth,</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: to hear the groans of the prisoners,<br/>
to set free those who were doomed to die,</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: that they may declare in Zion the name of the Lord,<br/>
and in Jerusalem his praise,</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: when peoples gather together,<br/>
and kingdoms, to worship the Lord.</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: He has broken my strength in midcourse;<br/>
he has shortened my days.</p>
<p data-verse="24">24: “O my God,” I say, “take me not away<br/>
in the midst of my days—<br/>
you whose years endure<br/>
throughout all generations!”</p>
<p data-verse="25">25: Of old you laid the foundation of the earth,<br/>
and the heavens are the work of your hands.</p>
<p data-verse="26">26: They will perish, but you will remain;<br/>
they will all wear out like a garment.<br/>
You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away,</p>
<p data-verse="27">27: <br/>
but you are the same, and your years have no end.</p>
<p data-verse="28">28: The children of your servants shall dwell secure;<br/>
their offspring shall be established before you.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.103">Psalm 103</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Bless the Lord, O my soul,<br/>
and all that is within me,<br/>
bless his holy name!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Bless the Lord, O my soul,<br/>
and forget not all his benefits,</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: who forgives all your iniquity,<br/>
who heals all your diseases,</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: who redeems your life from the pit,<br/>
who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: who satisfies you with good<br/>
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: The Lord works righteousness<br/>
and justice for all who are oppressed.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: He made known his ways to Moses,<br/>
his acts to the people of Israel.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: The Lord is merciful and gracious,<br/>
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: He will not always chide,<br/>
nor will he keep his anger forever.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: He does not deal with us according to our sins,<br/>
nor repay us according to our iniquities.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: For as high as the heavens are above the earth,<br/>
so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: as far as the east is from the west,<br/>
so far does he remove our transgressions from us.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: As a father shows compassion to his children,<br/>
so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: For he knows our frame;<br/>
he remembers that we are dust.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: As for man, his days are like grass;<br/>
he flourishes like a flower of the field;</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,<br/>
and its place knows it no more.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him,<br/>
and his righteousness to children's children,</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: to those who keep his covenant<br/>
and remember to do his commandments.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: The Lord has established his throne in the heavens,<br/>
and his kingdom rules over all.</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: Bless the Lord, O you his angels,<br/>
you mighty ones who do his word,<br/>
obeying the voice of his word!</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: Bless the Lord, all his hosts,<br/>
his ministers, who do his will!</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: Bless the Lord, all his works,<br/>
in all places of his dominion.<br/>
Bless the Lord, O my soul!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.104">Psalm 104</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Bless the Lord, O my soul!<br/>
O Lord my God, you are very great!<br/>
You are clothed with splendor and majesty,</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: <br/>
covering yourself with light as with a garment,<br/>
stretching out the heavens like a tent.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters;<br/>
he makes the clouds his chariot;<br/>
he rides on the wings of the wind;</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: he makes his messengers winds,<br/>
his ministers a flaming fire.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: He set the earth on its foundations,<br/>
so that it should never be moved.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: You covered it with the deep as with a garment;<br/>
the waters stood above the mountains.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: At your rebuke they fled;<br/>
at the sound of your thunder they took to flight.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: The mountains rose, the valleys sank down<br/>
to the place that you appointed for them.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: You set a boundary that they may not pass,<br/>
so that they might not again cover the earth.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: You make springs gush forth in the valleys;<br/>
they flow between the hills;</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: they give drink to every beast of the field;<br/>
the wild donkeys quench their thirst.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell;<br/>
they sing among the branches.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: From your lofty abode you water the mountains;<br/>
the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: You cause the grass to grow for the livestock<br/>
and plants for man to cultivate,<br/>
that he may bring forth food from the earth</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: <br/>
and wine to gladden the heart of man,<br/>
oil to make his face shine<br/>
and bread to strengthen man's heart.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: The trees of the Lord are watered abundantly,<br/>
the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: In them the birds build their nests;<br/>
the stork has her home in the fir trees.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: The high mountains are for the wild goats;<br/>
the rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: He made the moon to mark the seasons;<br/>
the sun knows its time for setting.</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: You make darkness, and it is night,<br/>
when all the beasts of the forest creep about.</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: The young lions roar for their prey,<br/>
seeking their food from God.</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: When the sun rises, they steal away<br/>
and lie down in their dens.</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: Man goes out to his work<br/>
and to his labor until the evening.</p>
<p data-verse="24">24: O Lord, how manifold are your works!<br/>
In wisdom have you made them all;<br/>
the earth is full of your creatures.</p>
<p data-verse="25">25: Here is the sea, great and wide,<br/>
which teems with creatures innumerable,<br/>
living things both small and great.</p>
<p data-verse="26">26: There go the ships,<br/>
and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it.</p>
<p data-verse="27">27: These all look to you,<br/>
to give them their food in due season.</p>
<p data-verse="28">28: When you give it to them, they gather it up;<br/>
when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.</p>
<p data-verse="29">29: When you hide your face, they are dismayed;<br/>
when you take away their breath, they die<br/>
and return to their dust.</p>
<p data-verse="30">30: When you send forth your Spirit, they are created,<br/>
and you renew the face of the ground.</p>
<p data-verse="31">31: May the glory of the Lord endure forever;<br/>
may the Lord rejoice in his works,</p>
<p data-verse="32">32: who looks on the earth and it trembles,<br/>
who touches the mountains and they smoke!</p>
<p data-verse="33">33: I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;<br/>
I will sing praise to my God while I have being.</p>
<p data-verse="34">34: May my meditation be pleasing to him,<br/>
for I rejoice in the Lord.</p>
<p data-verse="35">35: Let sinners be consumed from the earth,<br/>
and let the wicked be no more!<br/>
Bless the Lord, O my soul!<br/>
Praise the Lord!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.105">Psalm 105</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Oh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name;<br/>
make known his deeds among the peoples!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Sing to him, sing praises to him;<br/>
tell of all his wondrous works!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Glory in his holy name;<br/>
let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Seek the Lord and his strength;<br/>
seek his presence continually!</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Remember the wondrous works that he has done,<br/>
his miracles, and the judgments he uttered,</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: O offspring of Abraham, his servant,<br/>
children of Jacob, his chosen ones!</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: He is the Lord our God;<br/>
his judgments are in all the earth.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: He remembers his covenant forever,<br/>
the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations,</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: the covenant that he made with Abraham,<br/>
his sworn promise to Isaac,</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute,<br/>
to Israel as an everlasting covenant,</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan<br/>
as your portion for an inheritance.”</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: When they were few in number,<br/>
of little account, and sojourners in it,</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: wandering from nation to nation,<br/>
from one kingdom to another people,</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: he allowed no one to oppress them;<br/>
he rebuked kings on their account,</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: saying, “Touch not my anointed ones,<br/>
do my prophets no harm!”</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: When he summoned a famine on the land<br/>
and broke all supply of bread,</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: he had sent a man ahead of them,<br/>
Joseph, who was sold as a slave.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: His feet were hurt with fetters;<br/>
his neck was put in a collar of iron;</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: until what he had said came to pass,<br/>
the word of the Lord tested him.</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: The king sent and released him;<br/>
the ruler of the peoples set him free;</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: he made him lord of his house<br/>
and ruler of all his possessions,</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: to bind his princes at his pleasure<br/>
and to teach his elders wisdom.</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: Then Israel came to Egypt;<br/>
Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.</p>
<p data-verse="24">24: And the Lord made his people very fruitful<br/>
and made them stronger than their foes.</p>
<p data-verse="25">25: He turned their hearts to hate his people,<br/>
to deal craftily with his servants.</p>
<p data-verse="26">26: He sent Moses, his servant,<br/>
and Aaron, whom he had chosen.</p>
<p data-verse="27">27: They performed his signs among them<br/>
and miracles in the land of Ham.</p>
<p data-verse="28">28: He sent darkness, and made the land dark;<br/>
they did not rebel against his words.</p>
<p data-verse="29">29: He turned their waters into blood<br/>
and caused their fish to die.</p>
<p data-verse="30">30: Their land swarmed with frogs,<br/>
even in the chambers of their kings.</p>
<p data-verse="31">31: He spoke, and there came swarms of flies,<br/>
and gnats throughout their country.</p>
<p data-verse="32">32: He gave them hail for rain,<br/>
and fiery lightning bolts through their land.</p>
<p data-verse="33">33: He struck down their vines and fig trees,<br/>
and shattered the trees of their country.</p>
<p data-verse="34">34: He spoke, and the locusts came,<br/>
young locusts without number,</p>
<p data-verse="35">35: which devoured all the vegetation in their land<br/>
and ate up the fruit of their ground.</p>
<p data-verse="36">36: He struck down all the firstborn in their land,<br/>
the firstfruits of all their strength.</p>
<p data-verse="37">37: Then he brought out Israel with silver and gold,<br/>
and there was none among his tribes who stumbled.</p>
<p data-verse="38">38: Egypt was glad when they departed,<br/>
for dread of them had fallen upon it.</p>
<p data-verse="39">39: He spread a cloud for a covering,<br/>
and fire to give light by night.</p>
<p data-verse="40">40: They asked, and he brought quail,<br/>
and gave them bread from heaven in abundance.</p>
<p data-verse="41">41: He opened the rock, and water gushed out;<br/>
it flowed through the desert like a river.</p>
<p data-verse="42">42: For he remembered his holy promise,<br/>
and Abraham, his servant.</p>
<p data-verse="43">43: So he brought his people out with joy,<br/>
his chosen ones with singing.</p>
<p data-verse="44">44: And he gave them the lands of the nations,<br/>
and they took possession of the fruit of the peoples' toil,</p>
<p data-verse="45">45: that they might keep his statutes<br/>
and observe his laws.<br/>
Praise the Lord!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.106">Psalm 106</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Praise the Lord!<br/>
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Who can utter the mighty deeds of the Lord,<br/>
or declare all his praise?</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Blessed are they who observe justice,<br/>
who do righteousness at all times!</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people;<br/>
help me when you save them,</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: that I may look upon the prosperity of your chosen ones,<br/>
that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation,<br/>
that I may glory with your inheritance.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Both we and our fathers have sinned;<br/>
we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Our fathers, when they were in Egypt,<br/>
did not consider your wondrous works;<br/>
they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love,<br/>
but rebelled by the Sea, at the Red Sea.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Yet he saved them for his name's sake,<br/>
that he might make known his mighty power.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: He rebuked the Red Sea, and it became dry,<br/>
and he led them through the deep as through a desert.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: So he saved them from the hand of the foe<br/>
and redeemed them from the power of the enemy.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: And the waters covered their adversaries;<br/>
not one of them was left.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Then they believed his words;<br/>
they sang his praise.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: But they soon forgot his works;<br/>
they did not wait for his counsel.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness,<br/>
and put God to the test in the desert;</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: he gave them what they asked,<br/>
but sent a wasting disease among them.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: When men in the camp were jealous of Moses<br/>
and Aaron, the holy one of the Lord,</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,<br/>
and covered the company of Abiram.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: Fire also broke out in their company;<br/>
the flame burned up the wicked.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: They made a calf in Horeb<br/>
and worshiped a metal image.</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: They exchanged the glory of God<br/>
for the image of an ox that eats grass.</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: They forgot God, their Savior,<br/>
who had done great things in Egypt,</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: wondrous works in the land of Ham,<br/>
and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: Therefore he said he would destroy them—<br/>
had not Moses, his chosen one,<br/>
stood in the breach before him,<br/>
to turn away his wrath from destroying them.</p>
<p data-verse="24">24: Then they despised the pleasant land,<br/>
having no faith in his promise.</p>
<p data-verse="25">25: They murmured in their tents,<br/>
and did not obey the voice of the Lord.</p>
<p data-verse="26">26: Therefore he raised his hand and swore to them<br/>
that he would make them fall in the wilderness,</p>
<p data-verse="27">27: and would make their offspring fall among the nations,<br/>
scattering them among the lands.</p>
<p data-verse="28">28: Then they yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor,<br/>
and ate sacrifices offered to the dead;</p>
<p data-verse="29">29: they provoked the Lord to anger with their deeds,<br/>
and a plague broke out among them.</p>
<p data-verse="30">30: Then Phinehas stood up and intervened,<br/>
and the plague was stayed.</p>
<p data-verse="31">31: And that was counted to him as righteousness<br/>
from generation to generation forever.</p>
<p data-verse="32">32: They angered him at the waters of Meribah,<br/>
and it went ill with Moses on their account,</p>
<p data-verse="33">33: for they made his spirit bitter,<br/>
and he spoke rashly with his lips.</p>
<p data-verse="34">34: They did not destroy the peoples,<br/>
as the Lord commanded them,</p>
<p data-verse="35">35: but they mixed with the nations<br/>
and learned to do as they did.</p>
<p data-verse="36">36: They served their idols,<br/>
which became a snare to them.</p>
<p data-verse="37">37: They sacrificed their sons<br/>
and their daughters to the demons;</p>
<p data-verse="38">38: they poured out innocent blood,<br/>
the blood of their sons and daughters,<br/>
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,<br/>
and the land was polluted with blood.</p>
<p data-verse="39">39: Thus they became unclean by their acts,<br/>
and played the whore in their deeds.</p>
<p data-verse="40">40: Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people,<br/>
and he abhorred his heritage;</p>
<p data-verse="41">41: he gave them into the hand of the nations,<br/>
so that those who hated them ruled over them.</p>
<p data-verse="42">42: Their enemies oppressed them,<br/>
and they were brought into subjection under their power.</p>
<p data-verse="43">43: Many times he delivered them,<br/>
but they were rebellious in their purposes<br/>
and were brought low through their iniquity.</p>
<p data-verse="44">44: Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress,<br/>
when he heard their cry.</p>
<p data-verse="45">45: For their sake he remembered his covenant,<br/>
and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love.</p>
<p data-verse="46">46: He caused them to be pitied<br/>
by all those who held them captive.</p>
<p data-verse="47">47: Save us, O Lord our God,<br/>
and gather us from among the nations,<br/>
that we may give thanks to your holy name<br/>
and glory in your praise.</p>
<p data-verse="48">48: Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,<br/>
from everlasting to everlasting!<br/>
And let all the people say, “Amen!”<br/>
Praise the Lord!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.107">Psalm 107</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,<br/>
whom he has redeemed from trouble</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: and gathered in from the lands,<br/>
from the east and from the west,<br/>
from the north and from the south.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Some wandered in desert wastes,<br/>
finding no way to a city to dwell in;</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: hungry and thirsty,<br/>
their soul fainted within them.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,<br/>
and he delivered them from their distress.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: He led them by a straight way<br/>
till they reached a city to dwell in.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,<br/>
for his wondrous works to the children of men!</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: For he satisfies the longing soul,<br/>
and the hungry soul he fills with good things.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,<br/>
prisoners in affliction and in irons,</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: for they had rebelled against the words of God,<br/>
and spurned the counsel of the Most High.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: So he bowed their hearts down with hard labor;<br/>
they fell down, with none to help.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,<br/>
and he delivered them from their distress.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,<br/>
and burst their bonds apart.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,<br/>
for his wondrous works to the children of men!</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: For he shatters the doors of bronze<br/>
and cuts in two the bars of iron.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: Some were fools through their sinful ways,<br/>
and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: they loathed any kind of food,<br/>
and they drew near to the gates of death.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,<br/>
and he delivered them from their distress.</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: He sent out his word and healed them,<br/>
and delivered them from their destruction.</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,<br/>
for his wondrous works to the children of men!</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: And let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving,<br/>
and tell of his deeds in songs of joy!</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: Some went down to the sea in ships,<br/>
doing business on the great waters;</p>
<p data-verse="24">24: they saw the deeds of the Lord,<br/>
his wondrous works in the deep.</p>
<p data-verse="25">25: For he commanded and raised the stormy wind,<br/>
which lifted up the waves of the sea.</p>
<p data-verse="26">26: They mounted up to heaven; they went down to the depths;<br/>
their courage melted away in their evil plight;</p>
<p data-verse="27">27: they reeled and staggered like drunken men<br/>
and were at their wits' end.</p>
<p data-verse="28">28: Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,<br/>
and he delivered them from their distress.</p>
<p data-verse="29">29: He made the storm be still,<br/>
and the waves of the sea were hushed.</p>
<p data-verse="30">30: Then they were glad that the waters were quiet,<br/>
and he brought them to their desired haven.</p>
<p data-verse="31">31: Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,<br/>
for his wondrous works to the children of men!</p>
<p data-verse="32">32: Let them extol him in the congregation of the people,<br/>
and praise him in the assembly of the elders.</p>
<p data-verse="33">33: He turns rivers into a desert,<br/>
springs of water into thirsty ground,</p>
<p data-verse="34">34: a fruitful land into a salty waste,<br/>
because of the evil of its inhabitants.</p>
<p data-verse="35">35: He turns a desert into pools of water,<br/>
a parched land into springs of water.</p>
<p data-verse="36">36: And there he lets the hungry dwell,<br/>
and they establish a city to live in;</p>
<p data-verse="37">37: they sow fields and plant vineyards<br/>
and get a fruitful yield.</p>
<p data-verse="38">38: By his blessing they multiply greatly,<br/>
and he does not let their livestock diminish.</p>
<p data-verse="39">39: When they are diminished and brought low<br/>
through oppression, evil, and sorrow,</p>
<p data-verse="40">40: he pours contempt on princes<br/>
and makes them wander in trackless wastes;</p>
<p data-verse="41">41: but he raises up the needy out of affliction<br/>
and makes their families like flocks.</p>
<p data-verse="42">42: The upright see it and are glad,<br/>
and all wickedness shuts its mouth.</p>
<p data-verse="43">43: Whoever is wise, let him attend to these things;<br/>
let them consider the steadfast love of the Lord.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.108">Psalm 108</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: My heart is steadfast, O God!<br/>
I will sing and make melody with all my being!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Awake, O harp and lyre!<br/>
I will awake the dawn!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples;<br/>
I will sing praises to you among the nations.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: For your steadfast love is great above the heavens;<br/>
your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Be exalted, O God, above the heavens!<br/>
Let your glory be over all the earth!</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: That your beloved ones may be delivered,<br/>
give salvation by your right hand and answer me!</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: God has promised in his holiness:<br/>
“With exultation I will divide up Shechem<br/>
and portion out the Valley of Succoth.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine;<br/>
Ephraim is my helmet,<br/>
Judah my scepter.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Moab is my washbasin;<br/>
upon Edom I cast my shoe;<br/>
over Philistia I shout in triumph.”</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Who will bring me to the fortified city?<br/>
Who will lead me to Edom?</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Have you not rejected us, O God?<br/>
You do not go out, O God, with our armies.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Oh grant us help against the foe,<br/>
for vain is the salvation of man!</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: With God we shall do valiantly;<br/>
it is he who will tread down our foes.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.109">Psalm 109</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Be not silent, O God of my praise!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me,<br/>
speaking against me with lying tongues.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: They encircle me with words of hate,<br/>
and attack me without cause.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: In return for my love they accuse me,<br/>
but I give myself to prayer.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: So they reward me evil for good,<br/>
and hatred for my love.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Appoint a wicked man against him;<br/>
let an accuser stand at his right hand.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: When he is tried, let him come forth guilty;<br/>
let his prayer be counted as sin!</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: May his days be few;<br/>
may another take his office!</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: May his children be fatherless<br/>
and his wife a widow!</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: May his children wander about and beg,<br/>
seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: May the creditor seize all that he has;<br/>
may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil!</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Let there be none to extend kindness to him,<br/>
nor any to pity his fatherless children!</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: May his posterity be cut off;<br/>
may his name be blotted out in the second generation!</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord,<br/>
and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out!</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: Let them be before the Lord continually,<br/>
that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth!</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: For he did not remember to show kindness,<br/>
but pursued the poor and needy<br/>
and the brokenhearted, to put them to death.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: He loved to curse; let curses come upon him!<br/>
He did not delight in blessing; may it be far from him!</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: He clothed himself with cursing as his coat;<br/>
may it soak into his body like water,<br/>
like oil into his bones!</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: May it be like a garment that he wraps around him,<br/>
like a belt that he puts on every day!</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: May this be the reward of my accusers from the Lord,<br/>
of those who speak evil against my life!</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: But you, O God my Lord,<br/>
deal on my behalf for your name's sake;<br/>
because your steadfast love is good, deliver me!</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: For I am poor and needy,<br/>
and my heart is stricken within me.</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: I am gone like a shadow at evening;<br/>
I am shaken off like a locust.</p>
<p data-verse="24">24: My knees are weak through fasting;<br/>
my body has become gaunt, with no fat.</p>
<p data-verse="25">25: I am an object of scorn to my accusers;<br/>
when they see me, they wag their heads.</p>
<p data-verse="26">26: Help me, O Lord my God!<br/>
Save me according to your steadfast love!</p>
<p data-verse="27">27: Let them know that this is your hand;<br/>
you, O Lord, have done it!</p>
<p data-verse="28">28: Let them curse, but you will bless!<br/>
They arise and are put to shame, but your servant will be glad!</p>
<p data-verse="29">29: May my accusers be clothed with dishonor;<br/>
may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a cloak!</p>
<p data-verse="30">30: With my mouth I will give great thanks to the Lord;<br/>
I will praise him in the midst of the throng.</p>
<p data-verse="31">31: For he stands at the right hand of the needy,<br/>
to save him from those who condemn his soul to death.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.110">Psalm 110</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: The Lord says to my Lord:<br/>
“Sit at my right hand,<br/>
until I make your enemies your footstool.”</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: The Lord sends forth from Zion<br/>
your mighty scepter.<br/>
Rule in the midst of your enemies!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Your people will offer themselves freely<br/>
on the day of your power,<br/>
in holy garments;<br/>
from the womb of the morning,<br/>
the dew of your youth will be yours.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: The Lord has sworn<br/>
and will not change his mind,<br/>
“You are a priest forever<br/>
after the order of Melchizedek.”</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: The Lord is at your right hand;<br/>
he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: He will execute judgment among the nations,<br/>
filling them with corpses;<br/>
he will shatter chiefs<br/>
over the wide earth.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: He will drink from the brook by the way;<br/>
therefore he will lift up his head.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.111">Psalm 111</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Praise the Lord!<br/>
I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart,<br/>
in the company of the upright, in the congregation.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Great are the works of the Lord,<br/>
studied by all who delight in them.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Full of splendor and majesty is his work,<br/>
and his righteousness endures forever.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: He has caused his wondrous works to be remembered;<br/>
the Lord is gracious and merciful.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: He provides food for those who fear him;<br/>
he remembers his covenant forever.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: He has shown his people the power of his works,<br/>
in giving them the inheritance of the nations.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: The works of his hands are faithful and just;<br/>
all his precepts are trustworthy;</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: they are established forever and ever,<br/>
to be performed with faithfulness and uprightness.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: He sent redemption to his people;<br/>
he has commanded his covenant forever.<br/>
Holy and awesome is his name!</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;<br/>
all those who practice it have a good understanding.<br/>
His praise endures forever!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.112">Psalm 112</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Praise the Lord!<br/>
Blessed is the man who fears the Lord,<br/>
who greatly delights in his commandments!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: His offspring will be mighty in the land;<br/>
the generation of the upright will be blessed.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Wealth and riches are in his house,<br/>
and his righteousness endures forever.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Light dawns in the darkness for the upright;<br/>
he is gracious, merciful, and righteous.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: It is well with the man who deals generously and lends;<br/>
who conducts his affairs with justice.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: For the righteous will never be moved;<br/>
he will be remembered forever.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: He is not afraid of bad news;<br/>
his heart is firm, trusting in the Lord.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: His heart is steady; he will not be afraid,<br/>
until he looks in triumph on his adversaries.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: He has distributed freely; he has given to the poor;<br/>
his righteousness endures forever;<br/>
his horn is exalted in honor.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: The wicked man sees it and is angry;<br/>
he gnashes his teeth and melts away;<br/>
the desire of the wicked will perish!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.113">Psalm 113</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Praise the Lord!<br/>
Praise, O servants of the Lord,<br/>
praise the name of the Lord!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Blessed be the name of the Lord<br/>
from this time forth and forevermore!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: From the rising of the sun to its setting,<br/>
the name of the Lord is to be praised!</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: The Lord is high above all nations,<br/>
and his glory above the heavens!</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Who is like the Lord our God,<br/>
who is seated on high,</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: who looks far down<br/>
on the heavens and the earth?</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: He raises the poor from the dust<br/>
and lifts the needy from the ash heap,</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: to make them sit with princes,<br/>
with the princes of his people.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: He gives the barren woman a home,<br/>
making her the joyous mother of children.<br/>
Praise the Lord!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.114">Psalm 114</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: When Israel went out from Egypt,<br/>
the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Judah became his sanctuary,<br/>
Israel his dominion.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: The sea looked and fled;<br/>
Jordan turned back.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: The mountains skipped like rams,<br/>
the hills like lambs.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: What ails you, O sea, that you flee?<br/>
O Jordan, that you turn back?</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: O mountains, that you skip like rams?<br/>
O hills, like lambs?</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,<br/>
at the presence of the God of Jacob,</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: who turns the rock into a pool of water,<br/>
the flint into a spring of water.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.115">Psalm 115</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory,<br/>
for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Why should the nations say,<br/>
“Where is their God?”</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Our God is in the heavens;<br/>
he does all that he pleases.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Their idols are silver and gold,<br/>
the work of human hands.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: They have mouths, but do not speak;<br/>
eyes, but do not see.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: They have ears, but do not hear;<br/>
noses, but do not smell.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: They have hands, but do not feel;<br/>
feet, but do not walk;<br/>
and they do not make a sound in their throat.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Those who make them become like them;<br/>
so do all who trust in them.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: O Israel, trust in the Lord!<br/>
He is their help and their shield.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord!<br/>
He is their help and their shield.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: You who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord!<br/>
He is their help and their shield.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: The Lord has remembered us; he will bless us;<br/>
he will bless the house of Israel;<br/>
he will bless the house of Aaron;</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: he will bless those who fear the Lord,<br/>
both the small and the great.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: May the Lord give you increase,<br/>
you and your children!</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: May you be blessed by the Lord,<br/>
who made heaven and earth!</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: The heavens are the Lord's heavens,<br/>
but the earth he has given to the children of man.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: The dead do not praise the Lord,<br/>
nor do any who go down into silence.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: But we will bless the Lord<br/>
from this time forth and forevermore.<br/>
Praise the Lord!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.116">Psalm 116</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: I love the Lord, because he has heard<br/>
my voice and my pleas for mercy.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Because he inclined his ear to me,<br/>
therefore I will call on him as long as I live.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: The snares of death encompassed me;<br/>
the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;<br/>
I suffered distress and anguish.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Then I called on the name of the Lord:<br/>
“O Lord, I pray, deliver my soul!”</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Gracious is the Lord, and righteous;<br/>
our God is merciful.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: The Lord preserves the simple;<br/>
when I was brought low, he saved me.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Return, O my soul, to your rest;<br/>
for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: For you have delivered my soul from death,<br/>
my eyes from tears,<br/>
my feet from stumbling;</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: I will walk before the Lord<br/>
in the land of the living.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: I believed, even when I spoke,<br/>
“I am greatly afflicted”;</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: I said in my alarm,<br/>
“All mankind are liars.”</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: What shall I render to the Lord<br/>
for all his benefits to me?</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: I will lift up the cup of salvation<br/>
and call on the name of the Lord,</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: I will pay my vows to the Lord<br/>
in the presence of all his people.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: Precious in the sight of the Lord<br/>
is the death of his saints.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: O Lord, I am your servant;<br/>
I am your servant, the son of your maidservant.<br/>
You have loosed my bonds.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving<br/>
and call on the name of the Lord.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: I will pay my vows to the Lord<br/>
in the presence of all his people,</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: in the courts of the house of the Lord,<br/>
in your midst, O Jerusalem.<br/>
Praise the Lord!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.117">Psalm 117</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Praise the Lord, all nations!<br/>
Extol him, all peoples!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: For great is his steadfast love toward us,<br/>
and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever.<br/>
Praise the Lord!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.118">Psalm 118</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Let Israel say,<br/>
“His steadfast love endures forever.”</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Let the house of Aaron say,<br/>
“His steadfast love endures forever.”</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Let those who fear the Lord say,<br/>
“His steadfast love endures forever.”</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Out of my distress I called on the Lord;<br/>
the Lord answered me and set me free.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: The Lord is on my side; I will not fear.<br/>
What can man do to me?</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: The Lord is on my side as my helper;<br/>
I shall look in triumph on those who hate me.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: It is better to take refuge in the Lord<br/>
than to trust in man.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: It is better to take refuge in the Lord<br/>
than to trust in princes.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: All nations surrounded me;<br/>
in the name of the Lord I cut them off!</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: They surrounded me, surrounded me on every side;<br/>
in the name of the Lord I cut them off!</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: They surrounded me like bees;<br/>
they went out like a fire among thorns;<br/>
in the name of the Lord I cut them off!</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: I was pushed hard, so that I was falling,<br/>
but the Lord helped me.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: The Lord is my strength and my song;<br/>
he has become my salvation.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: Glad songs of salvation<br/>
are in the tents of the righteous:<br/>
“The right hand of the Lord does valiantly,</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: <br/>
the right hand of the Lord exalts,<br/>
the right hand of the Lord does valiantly!”</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: I shall not die, but I shall live,<br/>
and recount the deeds of the Lord.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: The Lord has disciplined me severely,<br/>
but he has not given me over to death.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: Open to me the gates of righteousness,<br/>
that I may enter through them<br/>
and give thanks to the Lord.</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: This is the gate of the Lord;<br/>
the righteous shall enter through it.</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: I thank you that you have answered me<br/>
and have become my salvation.</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: The stone that the builders rejected<br/>
has become the cornerstone.</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: This is the Lord's doing;<br/>
it is marvelous in our eyes.</p>
<p data-verse="24">24: This is the day that the Lord has made;<br/>
let us rejoice and be glad in it.</p>
<p data-verse="25">25: Save us, we pray, O Lord!<br/>
O Lord, we pray, give us success!</p>
<p data-verse="26">26: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!<br/>
We bless you from the house of the Lord.</p>
<p data-verse="27">27: The Lord is God,<br/>
and he has made his light to shine upon us.<br/>
Bind the festal sacrifice with cords,<br/>
up to the horns of the altar!</p>
<p data-verse="28">28: You are my God, and I will give thanks to you;<br/>
you are my God; I will extol you.</p>
<p data-verse="29">29: Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.119">Psalm 119</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Blessed are those whose way is blameless,<br/>
who walk in the law of the Lord!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Blessed are those who keep his testimonies,<br/>
who seek him with their whole heart,</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: who also do no wrong,<br/>
but walk in his ways!</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: You have commanded your precepts<br/>
to be kept diligently.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Oh that my ways may be steadfast<br/>
in keeping your statutes!</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Then I shall not be put to shame,<br/>
having my eyes fixed on all your commandments.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: I will praise you with an upright heart,<br/>
when I learn your righteous rules.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: I will keep your statutes;<br/>
do not utterly forsake me!<br/>
</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: How can a young man keep his way pure?<br/>
By guarding it according to your word.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: With my whole heart I seek you;<br/>
let me not wander from your commandments!</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: I have stored up your word in my heart,<br/>
that I might not sin against you.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Blessed are you, O Lord;<br/>
teach me your statutes!</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: With my lips I declare<br/>
all the rules of your mouth.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: In the way of your testimonies I delight<br/>
as much as in all riches.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: I will meditate on your precepts<br/>
and fix my eyes on your ways.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: I will delight in your statutes;<br/>
I will not forget your word.<br/>
</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: Deal bountifully with your servant,<br/>
that I may live and keep your word.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: Open my eyes, that I may behold<br/>
wondrous things out of your law.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: I am a sojourner on the earth;<br/>
hide not your commandments from me!</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: My soul is consumed with longing<br/>
for your rules at all times.</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones,<br/>
who wander from your commandments.</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: Take away from me scorn and contempt,<br/>
for I have kept your testimonies.</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: Even though princes sit plotting against me,<br/>
your servant will meditate on your statutes.</p>
<p data-verse="24">24: Your testimonies are my delight;<br/>
they are my counselors.<br/>
</p>
<p data-verse="25">25: My soul clings to the dust;<br/>
give me life according to your word!</p>
<p data-verse="26">26: When I told of my ways, you answered me;<br/>
teach me your statutes!</p>
<p data-verse="27">27: Make me understand the way of your precepts,<br/>
and I will meditate on your wondrous works.</p>
<p data-verse="28">28: My soul melts away for sorrow;<br/>
strengthen me according to your word!</p>
<p data-verse="29">29: Put false ways far from me<br/>
and graciously teach me your law!</p>
<p data-verse="30">30: I have chosen the way of faithfulness;<br/>
I set your rules before me.</p>
<p data-verse="31">31: I cling to your testimonies, O Lord;<br/>
let me not be put to shame!</p>
<p data-verse="32">32: I will run in the way of your commandments<br/>
when you enlarge my heart!<br/>
</p>
<p data-verse="33">33: Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes;<br/>
and I will keep it to the end.</p>
<p data-verse="34">34: Give me understanding, that I may keep your law<br/>
and observe it with my whole heart.</p>
<p data-verse="35">35: Lead me in the path of your commandments,<br/>
for I delight in it.</p>
<p data-verse="36">36: Incline my heart to your testimonies,<br/>
and not to selfish gain!</p>
<p data-verse="37">37: Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things;<br/>
and give me life in your ways.</p>
<p data-verse="38">38: Confirm to your servant your promise,<br/>
that you may be feared.</p>
<p data-verse="39">39: Turn away the reproach that I dread,<br/>
for your rules are good.</p>
<p data-verse="40">40: Behold, I long for your precepts;<br/>
in your righteousness give me life!<br/>
</p>
<p data-verse="41">41: Let your steadfast love come to me, O Lord,<br/>
your salvation according to your promise;</p>
<p data-verse="42">42: then shall I have an answer for him who taunts me,<br/>
for I trust in your word.</p>
<p data-verse="43">43: And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth,<br/>
for my hope is in your rules.</p>
<p data-verse="44">44: I will keep your law continually,<br/>
forever and ever,</p>
<p data-verse="45">45: and I shall walk in a wide place,<br/>
for I have sought your precepts.</p>
<p data-verse="46">46: I will also speak of your testimonies before kings<br/>
and shall not be put to shame,</p>
<p data-verse="47">47: for I find my delight in your commandments,<br/>
which I love.</p>
<p data-verse="48">48: I will lift up my hands toward your commandments, which I love,<br/>
and I will meditate on your statutes.<br/>
</p>
<p data-verse="49">49: Remember your word to your servant,<br/>
in which you have made me hope.</p>
<p data-verse="50">50: This is my comfort in my affliction,<br/>
that your promise gives me life.</p>
<p data-verse="51">51: The insolent utterly deride me,<br/>
but I do not turn away from your law.</p>
<p data-verse="52">52: When I think of your rules from of old,<br/>
I take comfort, O Lord.</p>
<p data-verse="53">53: Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked,<br/>
who forsake your law.</p>
<p data-verse="54">54: Your statutes have been my songs<br/>
in the house of my sojourning.</p>
<p data-verse="55">55: I remember your name in the night, O Lord,<br/>
and keep your law.</p>
<p data-verse="56">56: This blessing has fallen to me,<br/>
that I have kept your precepts.<br/>
</p>
<p data-verse="57">57: The Lord is my portion;<br/>
I promise to keep your words.</p>
<p data-verse="58">58: I entreat your favor with all my heart;<br/>
be gracious to me according to your promise.</p>
<p data-verse="59">59: When I think on my ways,<br/>
I turn my feet to your testimonies;</p>
<p data-verse="60">60: I hasten and do not delay<br/>
to keep your commandments.</p>
<p data-verse="61">61: Though the cords of the wicked ensnare me,<br/>
I do not forget your law.</p>
<p data-verse="62">62: At midnight I rise to praise you,<br/>
because of your righteous rules.</p>
<p data-verse="63">63: I am a companion of all who fear you,<br/>
of those who keep your precepts.</p>
<p data-verse="64">64: The earth, O Lord, is full of your steadfast love;<br/>
teach me your statutes!<br/>
</p>
<p data-verse="65">65: You have dealt well with your servant,<br/>
O Lord, according to your word.</p>
<p data-verse="66">66: Teach me good judgment and knowledge,<br/>
for I believe in your commandments.</p>
<p data-verse="67">67: Before I was afflicted I went astray,<br/>
but now I keep your word.</p>
<p data-verse="68">68: You are good and do good;<br/>
teach me your statutes.</p>
<p data-verse="69">69: The insolent smear me with lies,<br/>
but with my whole heart I keep your precepts;</p>
<p data-verse="70">70: their heart is unfeeling like fat,<br/>
but I delight in your law.</p>
<p data-verse="71">71: It is good for me that I was afflicted,<br/>
that I might learn your statutes.</p>
<p data-verse="72">72: The law of your mouth is better to me<br/>
than thousands of gold and silver pieces.<br/>
</p>
<p data-verse="73">73: Your hands have made and fashioned me;<br/>
give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.</p>
<p data-verse="74">74: Those who fear you shall see me and rejoice,<br/>
because I have hoped in your word.</p>
<p data-verse="75">75: I know, O Lord, that your rules are righteous,<br/>
and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.</p>
<p data-verse="76">76: Let your steadfast love comfort me<br/>
according to your promise to your servant.</p>
<p data-verse="77">77: Let your mercy come to me, that I may live;<br/>
for your law is my delight.</p>
<p data-verse="78">78: Let the insolent be put to shame,<br/>
because they have wronged me with falsehood;<br/>
as for me, I will meditate on your precepts.</p>
<p data-verse="79">79: Let those who fear you turn to me,<br/>
that they may know your testimonies.</p>
<p data-verse="80">80: May my heart be blameless in your statutes,<br/>
that I may not be put to shame!<br/>
</p>
<p data-verse="81">81: My soul longs for your salvation;<br/>
I hope in your word.</p>
<p data-verse="82">82: My eyes long for your promise;<br/>
I ask, “When will you comfort me?”</p>
<p data-verse="83">83: For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke,<br/>
yet I have not forgotten your statutes.</p>
<p data-verse="84">84: How long must your servant endure?<br/>
When will you judge those who persecute me?</p>
<p data-verse="85">85: The insolent have dug pitfalls for me;<br/>
they do not live according to your law.</p>
<p data-verse="86">86: All your commandments are sure;<br/>
they persecute me with falsehood; help me!</p>
<p data-verse="87">87: They have almost made an end of me on earth,<br/>
but I have not forsaken your precepts.</p>
<p data-verse="88">88: In your steadfast love give me life,<br/>
that I may keep the testimonies of your mouth.<br/>
</p>
<p data-verse="89">89: Forever, O Lord, your word<br/>
is firmly fixed in the heavens.</p>
<p data-verse="90">90: Your faithfulness endures to all generations;<br/>
you have established the earth, and it stands fast.</p>
<p data-verse="91">91: By your appointment they stand this day,<br/>
for all things are your servants.</p>
<p data-verse="92">92: If your law had not been my delight,<br/>
I would have perished in my affliction.</p>
<p data-verse="93">93: I will never forget your precepts,<br/>
for by them you have given me life.</p>
<p data-verse="94">94: I am yours; save me,<br/>
for I have sought your precepts.</p>
<p data-verse="95">95: The wicked lie in wait to destroy me,<br/>
but I consider your testimonies.</p>
<p data-verse="96">96: I have seen a limit to all perfection,<br/>
but your commandment is exceedingly broad.<br/>
</p>
<p data-verse="97">97: Oh how I love your law!<br/>
It is my meditation all the day.</p>
<p data-verse="98">98: Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies,<br/>
for it is ever with me.</p>
<p data-verse="99">99: I have more understanding than all my teachers,<br/>
for your testimonies are my meditation.</p>
<p data-verse="100">100: I understand more than the aged,<br/>
for I keep your precepts.</p>
<p data-verse="101">101: I hold back my feet from every evil way,<br/>
in order to keep your word.</p>
<p data-verse="102">102: I do not turn aside from your rules,<br/>
for you have taught me.</p>
<p data-verse="103">103: How sweet are your words to my taste,<br/>
sweeter than honey to my mouth!</p>
<p data-verse="104">104: Through your precepts I get understanding;<br/>
therefore I hate every false way.<br/>
</p>
<p data-verse="105">105: Your word is a lamp to my feet<br/>
and a light to my path.</p>
<p data-verse="106">106: I have sworn an oath and confirmed it,<br/>
to keep your righteous rules.</p>
<p data-verse="107">107: I am severely afflicted;<br/>
give me life, O Lord, according to your word!</p>
<p data-verse="108">108: Accept my freewill offerings of praise, O Lord,<br/>
and teach me your rules.</p>
<p data-verse="109">109: I hold my life in my hand continually,<br/>
but I do not forget your law.</p>
<p data-verse="110">110: The wicked have laid a snare for me,<br/>
but I do not stray from your precepts.</p>
<p data-verse="111">111: Your testimonies are my heritage forever,<br/>
for they are the joy of my heart.</p>
<p data-verse="112">112: I incline my heart to perform your statutes<br/>
forever, to the end.<br/>
</p>
<p data-verse="113">113: I hate the double-minded,<br/>
but I love your law.</p>
<p data-verse="114">114: You are my hiding place and my shield;<br/>
I hope in your word.</p>
<p data-verse="115">115: Depart from me, you evildoers,<br/>
that I may keep the commandments of my God.</p>
<p data-verse="116">116: Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live,<br/>
and let me not be put to shame in my hope!</p>
<p data-verse="117">117: Hold me up, that I may be safe<br/>
and have regard for your statutes continually!</p>
<p data-verse="118">118: You spurn all who go astray from your statutes,<br/>
for their cunning is in vain.</p>
<p data-verse="119">119: All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross,<br/>
therefore I love your testimonies.</p>
<p data-verse="120">120: My flesh trembles for fear of you,<br/>
and I am afraid of your judgments.<br/>
</p>
<p data-verse="121">121: I have done what is just and right;<br/>
do not leave me to my oppressors.</p>
<p data-verse="122">122: Give your servant a pledge of good;<br/>
let not the insolent oppress me.</p>
<p data-verse="123">123: My eyes long for your salvation<br/>
and for the fulfillment of your righteous promise.</p>
<p data-verse="124">124: Deal with your servant according to your steadfast love,<br/>
and teach me your statutes.</p>
<p data-verse="125">125: I am your servant; give me understanding,<br/>
that I may know your testimonies!</p>
<p data-verse="126">126: It is time for the Lord to act,<br/>
for your law has been broken.</p>
<p data-verse="127">127: Therefore I love your commandments<br/>
above gold, above fine gold.</p>
<p data-verse="128">128: Therefore I consider all your precepts to be right;<br/>
I hate every false way.<br/>
</p>
<p data-verse="129">129: Your testimonies are wonderful;<br/>
therefore my soul keeps them.</p>
<p data-verse="130">130: The unfolding of your words gives light;<br/>
it imparts understanding to the simple.</p>
<p data-verse="131">131: I open my mouth and pant,<br/>
because I long for your commandments.</p>
<p data-verse="132">132: Turn to me and be gracious to me,<br/>
as is your way with those who love your name.</p>
<p data-verse="133">133: Keep steady my steps according to your promise,<br/>
and let no iniquity get dominion over me.</p>
<p data-verse="134">134: Redeem me from man's oppression,<br/>
that I may keep your precepts.</p>
<p data-verse="135">135: Make your face shine upon your servant,<br/>
and teach me your statutes.</p>
<p data-verse="136">136: My eyes shed streams of tears,<br/>
because people do not keep your law.<br/>
</p>
<p data-verse="137">137: Righteous are you, O Lord,<br/>
and right are your rules.</p>
<p data-verse="138">138: You have appointed your testimonies in righteousness<br/>
and in all faithfulness.</p>
<p data-verse="139">139: My zeal consumes me,<br/>
because my foes forget your words.</p>
<p data-verse="140">140: Your promise is well tried,<br/>
and your servant loves it.</p>
<p data-verse="141">141: I am small and despised,<br/>
yet I do not forget your precepts.</p>
<p data-verse="142">142: Your righteousness is righteous forever,<br/>
and your law is true.</p>
<p data-verse="143">143: Trouble and anguish have found me out,<br/>
but your commandments are my delight.</p>
<p data-verse="144">144: Your testimonies are righteous forever;<br/>
give me understanding that I may live.<br/>
</p>
<p data-verse="145">145: With my whole heart I cry; answer me, O Lord!<br/>
I will keep your statutes.</p>
<p data-verse="146">146: I call to you; save me,<br/>
that I may observe your testimonies.</p>
<p data-verse="147">147: I rise before dawn and cry for help;<br/>
I hope in your words.</p>
<p data-verse="148">148: My eyes are awake before the watches of the night,<br/>
that I may meditate on your promise.</p>
<p data-verse="149">149: Hear my voice according to your steadfast love;<br/>
O Lord, according to your justice give me life.</p>
<p data-verse="150">150: They draw near who persecute me with evil purpose;<br/>
they are far from your law.</p>
<p data-verse="151">151: But you are near, O Lord,<br/>
and all your commandments are true.</p>
<p data-verse="152">152: Long have I known from your testimonies<br/>
that you have founded them forever.<br/>
</p>
<p data-verse="153">153: Look on my affliction and deliver me,<br/>
for I do not forget your law.</p>
<p data-verse="154">154: Plead my cause and redeem me;<br/>
give me life according to your promise!</p>
<p data-verse="155">155: Salvation is far from the wicked,<br/>
for they do not seek your statutes.</p>
<p data-verse="156">156: Great is your mercy, O Lord;<br/>
give me life according to your rules.</p>
<p data-verse="157">157: Many are my persecutors and my adversaries,<br/>
but I do not swerve from your testimonies.</p>
<p data-verse="158">158: I look at the faithless with disgust,<br/>
because they do not keep your commands.</p>
<p data-verse="159">159: Consider how I love your precepts!<br/>
Give me life according to your steadfast love.</p>
<p data-verse="160">160: The sum of your word is truth,<br/>
and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.<br/>
</p>
<p data-verse="161">161: Princes persecute me without cause,<br/>
but my heart stands in awe of your words.</p>
<p data-verse="162">162: I rejoice at your word<br/>
like one who finds great spoil.</p>
<p data-verse="163">163: I hate and abhor falsehood,<br/>
but I love your law.</p>
<p data-verse="164">164: Seven times a day I praise you<br/>
for your righteous rules.</p>
<p data-verse="165">165: Great peace have those who love your law;<br/>
nothing can make them stumble.</p>
<p data-verse="166">166: I hope for your salvation, O Lord,<br/>
and I do your commandments.</p>
<p data-verse="167">167: My soul keeps your testimonies;<br/>
I love them exceedingly.</p>
<p data-verse="168">168: I keep your precepts and testimonies,<br/>
for all my ways are before you.<br/>
</p>
<p data-verse="169">169: Let my cry come before you, O Lord;<br/>
give me understanding according to your word!</p>
<p data-verse="170">170: Let my plea come before you;<br/>
deliver me according to your word.</p>
<p data-verse="171">171: My lips will pour forth praise,<br/>
for you teach me your statutes.</p>
<p data-verse="172">172: My tongue will sing of your word,<br/>
for all your commandments are right.</p>
<p data-verse="173">173: Let your hand be ready to help me,<br/>
for I have chosen your precepts.</p>
<p data-verse="174">174: I long for your salvation, O Lord,<br/>
and your law is my delight.</p>
<p data-verse="175">175: Let my soul live and praise you,<br/>
and let your rules help me.</p>
<p data-verse="176">176: I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant,<br/>
for I do not forget your commandments.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.120">Psalm 120</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: In my distress I called to the Lord,<br/>
and he answered me.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Deliver me, O Lord,<br/>
from lying lips,<br/>
from a deceitful tongue.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: What shall be given to you,<br/>
and what more shall be done to you,<br/>
you deceitful tongue?</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: A warrior's sharp arrows,<br/>
with glowing coals of the broom tree!</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Woe to me, that I sojourn in Meshech,<br/>
that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Too long have I had my dwelling<br/>
among those who hate peace.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: I am for peace,<br/>
but when I speak, they are for war!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.121">Psalm 121</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: I lift up my eyes to the hills.<br/>
From where does my help come?</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: My help comes from the Lord,<br/>
who made heaven and earth.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: He will not let your foot be moved;<br/>
he who keeps you will not slumber.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Behold, he who keeps Israel<br/>
will neither slumber nor sleep.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: The Lord is your keeper;<br/>
the Lord is your shade on your right hand.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: The sun shall not strike you by day,<br/>
nor the moon by night.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: The Lord will keep you from all evil;<br/>
he will keep your life.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: The Lord will keep<br/>
your going out and your coming in<br/>
from this time forth and forevermore.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.122">Psalm 122</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: I was glad when they said to me,<br/>
“Let us go to the house of the Lord!”</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Our feet have been standing<br/>
within your gates, O Jerusalem!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Jerusalem—built as a city<br/>
that is bound firmly together,</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: to which the tribes go up,<br/>
the tribes of the Lord,<br/>
as was decreed for Israel,<br/>
to give thanks to the name of the Lord.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: There thrones for judgment were set,<br/>
the thrones of the house of David.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!<br/>
“May they be secure who love you!</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Peace be within your walls<br/>
and security within your towers!”</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: For my brothers and companions' sake<br/>
I will say, “Peace be within you!”</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: For the sake of the house of the Lord our God,<br/>
I will seek your good.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.123">Psalm 123</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: To you I lift up my eyes,<br/>
O you who are enthroned in the heavens!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Behold, as the eyes of servants<br/>
look to the hand of their master,<br/>
as the eyes of a maidservant<br/>
to the hand of her mistress,<br/>
so our eyes look to the Lord our God,<br/>
till he has mercy upon us.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us,<br/>
for we have had more than enough of contempt.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Our soul has had more than enough<br/>
of the scorn of those who are at ease,<br/>
of the contempt of the proud.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.124">Psalm 124</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: If it had not been the Lord who was on our side—<br/>
let Israel now say—</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: if it had not been the Lord who was on our side<br/>
when people rose up against us,</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: then they would have swallowed us up alive,<br/>
when their anger was kindled against us;</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: then the flood would have swept us away,<br/>
the torrent would have gone over us;</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: then over us would have gone<br/>
the raging waters.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Blessed be the Lord,<br/>
who has not given us<br/>
as prey to their teeth!</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: We have escaped like a bird<br/>
from the snare of the fowlers;<br/>
the snare is broken,<br/>
and we have escaped!</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Our help is in the name of the Lord,<br/>
who made heaven and earth.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.125">Psalm 125</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion,<br/>
which cannot be moved, but abides forever.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: As the mountains surround Jerusalem,<br/>
so the Lord surrounds his people,<br/>
from this time forth and forevermore.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest<br/>
on the land allotted to the righteous,<br/>
lest the righteous stretch out<br/>
their hands to do wrong.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Do good, O Lord, to those who are good,<br/>
and to those who are upright in their hearts!</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: But those who turn aside to their crooked ways<br/>
the Lord will lead away with evildoers!<br/>
Peace be upon Israel!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.126">Psalm 126</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion,<br/>
we were like those who dream.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Then our mouth was filled with laughter,<br/>
and our tongue with shouts of joy;<br/>
then they said among the nations,<br/>
“The Lord has done great things for them.”</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: The Lord has done great things for us;<br/>
we are glad.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Restore our fortunes, O Lord,<br/>
like streams in the Negeb!</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Those who sow in tears<br/>
shall reap with shouts of joy!</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: He who goes out weeping,<br/>
bearing the seed for sowing,<br/>
shall come home with shouts of joy,<br/>
bringing his sheaves with him.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.127">Psalm 127</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Unless the Lord builds the house,<br/>
those who build it labor in vain.<br/>
Unless the Lord watches over the city,<br/>
the watchman stays awake in vain.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: It is in vain that you rise up early<br/>
and go late to rest,<br/>
eating the bread of anxious toil;<br/>
for he gives to his beloved sleep.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord,<br/>
the fruit of the womb a reward.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Like arrows in the hand of a warrior<br/>
are the children of one's youth.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Blessed is the man<br/>
who fills his quiver with them!<br/>
He shall not be put to shame<br/>
when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.128">Psalm 128</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord,<br/>
who walks in his ways!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands;<br/>
you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Your wife will be like a fruitful vine<br/>
within your house;<br/>
your children will be like olive shoots<br/>
around your table.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Behold, thus shall the man be blessed<br/>
who fears the Lord.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: The Lord bless you from Zion!<br/>
May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem<br/>
all the days of your life!</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: May you see your children's children!<br/>
Peace be upon Israel!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.129">Psalm 129</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: “Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth”—<br/>
let Israel now say—</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: “Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth,<br/>
yet they have not prevailed against me.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: The plowers plowed upon my back;<br/>
they made long their furrows.”</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: The Lord is righteous;<br/>
he has cut the cords of the wicked.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: May all who hate Zion<br/>
be put to shame and turned backward!</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Let them be like the grass on the housetops,<br/>
which withers before it grows up,</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: with which the reaper does not fill his hand<br/>
nor the binder of sheaves his arms,</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: nor do those who pass by say,<br/>
“The blessing of the Lord be upon you!<br/>
We bless you in the name of the Lord!”</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.130">Psalm 130</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: <br/>
O Lord, hear my voice!<br/>
Let your ears be attentive<br/>
to the voice of my pleas for mercy!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,<br/>
O Lord, who could stand?</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: But with you there is forgiveness,<br/>
that you may be feared.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,<br/>
and in his word I hope;</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: my soul waits for the Lord<br/>
more than watchmen for the morning,<br/>
more than watchmen for the morning.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: O Israel, hope in the Lord!<br/>
For with the Lord there is steadfast love,<br/>
and with him is plentiful redemption.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: And he will redeem Israel<br/>
from all his iniquities.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.131">Psalm 131</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: O Lord, my heart is not lifted up;<br/>
my eyes are not raised too high;<br/>
I do not occupy myself with things<br/>
too great and too marvelous for me.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: But I have calmed and quieted my soul,<br/>
like a weaned child with its mother;<br/>
like a weaned child is my soul within me.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: O Israel, hope in the Lord<br/>
from this time forth and forevermore.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.132">Psalm 132</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Remember, O Lord, in David's favor,<br/>
all the hardships he endured,</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: how he swore to the Lord<br/>
and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob,</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: “I will not enter my house<br/>
or get into my bed,</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: I will not give sleep to my eyes<br/>
or slumber to my eyelids,</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: until I find a place for the Lord,<br/>
a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob.”</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah;<br/>
we found it in the fields of Jaar.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: “Let us go to his dwelling place;<br/>
let us worship at his footstool!”</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Arise, O Lord, and go to your resting place,<br/>
you and the ark of your might.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Let your priests be clothed with righteousness,<br/>
and let your saints shout for joy.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: For the sake of your servant David,<br/>
do not turn away the face of your anointed one.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: The Lord swore to David a sure oath<br/>
from which he will not turn back:<br/>
“One of the sons of your body<br/>
I will set on your throne.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: If your sons keep my covenant<br/>
and my testimonies that I shall teach them,<br/>
their sons also forever<br/>
shall sit on your throne.”</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: For the Lord has chosen Zion;<br/>
he has desired it for his dwelling place:</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: “This is my resting place forever;<br/>
here I will dwell, for I have desired it.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: I will abundantly bless her provisions;<br/>
I will satisfy her poor with bread.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: Her priests I will clothe with salvation,<br/>
and her saints will shout for joy.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: There I will make a horn to sprout for David;<br/>
I have prepared a lamp for my anointed.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: His enemies I will clothe with shame,<br/>
but on him his crown will shine.”</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.133">Psalm 133</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Behold, how good and pleasant it is<br/>
when brothers dwell in unity!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: It is like the precious oil on the head,<br/>
running down on the beard,<br/>
on the beard of Aaron,<br/>
running down on the collar of his robes!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: It is like the dew of Hermon,<br/>
which falls on the mountains of Zion!<br/>
For there the Lord has commanded the blessing,<br/>
life forevermore.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.134">Psalm 134</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Come, bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord,<br/>
who stand by night in the house of the Lord!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Lift up your hands to the holy place<br/>
and bless the Lord!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: May the Lord bless you from Zion,<br/>
he who made heaven and earth!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.135">Psalm 135</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Praise the Lord!<br/>
Praise the name of the Lord,<br/>
give praise, O servants of the Lord,</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: who stand in the house of the Lord,<br/>
in the courts of the house of our God!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good;<br/>
sing to his name, for it is pleasant!</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself,<br/>
Israel as his own possession.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: For I know that the Lord is great,<br/>
and that our Lord is above all gods.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Whatever the Lord pleases, he does,<br/>
in heaven and on earth,<br/>
in the seas and all deeps.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth,<br/>
who makes lightnings for the rain<br/>
and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: He it was who struck down the firstborn of Egypt,<br/>
both of man and of beast;</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: who in your midst, O Egypt,<br/>
sent signs and wonders<br/>
against Pharaoh and all his servants;</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: who struck down many nations<br/>
and killed mighty kings,</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Sihon, king of the Amorites,<br/>
and Og, king of Bashan,<br/>
and all the kingdoms of Canaan,</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: and gave their land as a heritage,<br/>
a heritage to his people Israel.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: Your name, O Lord, endures forever,<br/>
your renown, O Lord, throughout all ages.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: For the Lord will vindicate his people<br/>
and have compassion on his servants.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: The idols of the nations are silver and gold,<br/>
the work of human hands.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: They have mouths, but do not speak;<br/>
they have eyes, but do not see;</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: they have ears, but do not hear,<br/>
nor is there any breath in their mouths.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: Those who make them become like them,<br/>
so do all who trust in them!</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: O house of Israel, bless the Lord!<br/>
O house of Aaron, bless the Lord!</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: O house of Levi, bless the Lord!<br/>
You who fear the Lord, bless the Lord!</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: Blessed be the Lord from Zion,<br/>
he who dwells in Jerusalem!<br/>
Praise the Lord!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.136">Psalm 136</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Give thanks to the God of gods,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Give thanks to the Lord of lords,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever;</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: to him who alone does great wonders,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever;</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: to him who by understanding made the heavens,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever;</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: to him who spread out the earth above the waters,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever;</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: to him who made the great lights,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever;</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: the sun to rule over the day,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever;</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: the moon and stars to rule over the night,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever;</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: to him who struck down the firstborn of Egypt,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever;</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: and brought Israel out from among them,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever;</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: with a strong hand and an outstretched arm,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever;</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: to him who divided the Red Sea in two,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever;</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: and made Israel pass through the midst of it,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever;</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: but overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever;</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: to him who led his people through the wilderness,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever;</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: to him who struck down great kings,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever;</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: and killed mighty kings,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever;</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: Sihon, king of the Amorites,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever;</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: and Og, king of Bashan,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever;</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: and gave their land as a heritage,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever;</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: a heritage to Israel his servant,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever.</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: It is he who remembered us in our low estate,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever;</p>
<p data-verse="24">24: and rescued us from our foes,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever;</p>
<p data-verse="25">25: he who gives food to all flesh,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever.</p>
<p data-verse="26">26: Give thanks to the God of heaven,<br/>
for his steadfast love endures forever.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.137">Psalm 137</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: By the waters of Babylon,<br/>
there we sat down and wept,<br/>
when we remembered Zion.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: On the willows there<br/>
we hung up our lyres.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: For there our captors<br/>
required of us songs,<br/>
and our tormentors, mirth, saying,<br/>
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: How shall we sing the Lord's song<br/>
in a foreign land?</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: If I forget you, O Jerusalem,<br/>
let my right hand forget its skill!</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,<br/>
if I do not remember you,<br/>
if I do not set Jerusalem<br/>
above my highest joy!</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites<br/>
the day of Jerusalem,<br/>
how they said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare,<br/>
down to its foundations!”</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed,<br/>
blessed shall he be who repays you<br/>
with what you have done to us!</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones<br/>
and dashes them against the rock!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.138">Psalm 138</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: I give you thanks, O Lord, with my whole heart;<br/>
before the gods I sing your praise;</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: I bow down toward your holy temple<br/>
and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness,<br/>
for you have exalted above all things<br/>
your name and your word.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: On the day I called, you answered me;<br/>
my strength of soul you increased.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: All the kings of the earth shall give you thanks, O Lord,<br/>
for they have heard the words of your mouth,</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: and they shall sing of the ways of the Lord,<br/>
for great is the glory of the Lord.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly,<br/>
but the haughty he knows from afar.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Though I walk in the midst of trouble,<br/>
you preserve my life;<br/>
you stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies,<br/>
and your right hand delivers me.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me;<br/>
your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever.<br/>
Do not forsake the work of your hands.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.139">Psalm 139</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: O Lord, you have searched me and known me!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: You know when I sit down and when I rise up;<br/>
you discern my thoughts from afar.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: You search out my path and my lying down<br/>
and are acquainted with all my ways.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Even before a word is on my tongue,<br/>
behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: You hem me in, behind and before,<br/>
and lay your hand upon me.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;<br/>
it is high; I cannot attain it.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Where shall I go from your Spirit?<br/>
Or where shall I flee from your presence?</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: If I ascend to heaven, you are there!<br/>
If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: If I take the wings of the morning<br/>
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: even there your hand shall lead me,<br/>
and your right hand shall hold me.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,<br/>
and the light about me be night,”</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: even the darkness is not dark to you;<br/>
the night is bright as the day,<br/>
for darkness is as light with you.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: For you formed my inward parts;<br/>
you knitted me together in my mother's womb.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.<br/>
Wonderful are your works;<br/>
my soul knows it very well.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: My frame was not hidden from you,<br/>
when I was being made in secret,<br/>
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: Your eyes saw my unformed substance;<br/>
in your book were written, every one of them,<br/>
the days that were formed for me,<br/>
when as yet there were none of them.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!<br/>
How vast is the sum of them!</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: If I would count them, they are more than the sand.<br/>
I awake, and I am still with you.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God!<br/>
O men of blood, depart from me!</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: They speak against you with malicious intent;<br/>
your enemies take your name in vain!</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord?<br/>
And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?</p>
<p data-verse="22">22: I hate them with complete hatred;<br/>
I count them my enemies.</p>
<p data-verse="23">23: Search me, O God, and know my heart!<br/>
Try me and know my thoughts!</p>
<p data-verse="24">24: And see if there be any grievous way in me,<br/>
and lead me in the way everlasting!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.140">Psalm 140</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Deliver me, O Lord, from evil men;<br/>
preserve me from violent men,</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: who plan evil things in their heart<br/>
and stir up wars continually.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's,<br/>
and under their lips is the venom of asps. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Guard me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked;<br/>
preserve me from violent men,<br/>
who have planned to trip up my feet.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: The arrogant have hidden a trap for me,<br/>
and with cords they have spread a net;<br/>
beside the way they have set snares for me. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="6">6: I say to the Lord, You are my God;<br/>
give ear to the voice of my pleas for mercy, O Lord!</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: O Lord, my Lord, the strength of my salvation,<br/>
you have covered my head in the day of battle.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked;<br/>
do not further their evil plot or they will be exalted! <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="9">9: As for the head of those who surround me,<br/>
let the mischief of their lips overwhelm them!</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Let burning coals fall upon them!<br/>
Let them be cast into fire,<br/>
into miry pits, no more to rise!</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Let not the slanderer be established in the land;<br/>
let evil hunt down the violent man speedily!</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted,<br/>
and will execute justice for the needy.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: Surely the righteous shall give thanks to your name;<br/>
the upright shall dwell in your presence.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.141">Psalm 141</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: O Lord, I call upon you; hasten to me!<br/>
Give ear to my voice when I call to you!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Let my prayer be counted as incense before you,<br/>
and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth;<br/>
keep watch over the door of my lips!</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Do not let my heart incline to any evil,<br/>
to busy myself with wicked deeds<br/>
in company with men who work iniquity,<br/>
and let me not eat of their delicacies!</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness;<br/>
let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head;<br/>
let my head not refuse it.<br/>
Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: When their judges are thrown over the cliff,<br/>
then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: As when one plows and breaks up the earth,<br/>
so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: But my eyes are toward you, O God, my Lord;<br/>
in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless!</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me<br/>
and from the snares of evildoers!</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Let the wicked fall into their own nets,<br/>
while I pass by safely.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.142">Psalm 142</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: With my voice I cry out to the Lord;<br/>
with my voice I plead for mercy to the Lord.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: I pour out my complaint before him;<br/>
I tell my trouble before him.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: When my spirit faints within me,<br/>
you know my way!<br/>
In the path where I walk<br/>
they have hidden a trap for me.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Look to the right and see:<br/>
there is none who takes notice of me;<br/>
no refuge remains to me;<br/>
no one cares for my soul.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: I cry to you, O Lord;<br/>
I say, “You are my refuge,<br/>
my portion in the land of the living.”</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Attend to my cry,<br/>
for I am brought very low!<br/>
Deliver me from my persecutors,<br/>
for they are too strong for me!</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Bring me out of prison,<br/>
that I may give thanks to your name!<br/>
The righteous will surround me,<br/>
for you will deal bountifully with me.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.143">Psalm 143</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Hear my prayer, O Lord;<br/>
give ear to my pleas for mercy!<br/>
In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Enter not into judgment with your servant,<br/>
for no one living is righteous before you.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: For the enemy has pursued my soul;<br/>
he has crushed my life to the ground;<br/>
he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Therefore my spirit faints within me;<br/>
my heart within me is appalled.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: I remember the days of old;<br/>
I meditate on all that you have done;<br/>
I ponder the work of your hands.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: I stretch out my hands to you;<br/>
my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. <em class="selah">Selah</em></p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Answer me quickly, O Lord!<br/>
My spirit fails!<br/>
Hide not your face from me,<br/>
lest I be like those who go down to the pit.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love,<br/>
for in you I trust.<br/>
Make me know the way I should go,<br/>
for to you I lift up my soul.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord!<br/>
I have fled to you for refuge!</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Teach me to do your will,<br/>
for you are my God!<br/>
Let your good Spirit lead me<br/>
on level ground!</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: For your name's sake, O Lord, preserve my life!<br/>
In your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble!</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: And in your steadfast love you will cut off my enemies,<br/>
and you will destroy all the adversaries of my soul,<br/>
for I am your servant.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.144">Psalm 144</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Blessed be the Lord, my rock,<br/>
who trains my hands for war,<br/>
and my fingers for battle;</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: he is my steadfast love and my fortress,<br/>
my stronghold and my deliverer,<br/>
my shield and he in whom I take refuge,<br/>
who subdues peoples under me.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: O Lord, what is man that you regard him,<br/>
or the son of man that you think of him?</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Man is like a breath;<br/>
his days are like a passing shadow.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down!<br/>
Touch the mountains so that they smoke!</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Flash forth the lightning and scatter them;<br/>
send out your arrows and rout them!</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Stretch out your hand from on high;<br/>
rescue me and deliver me from the many waters,<br/>
from the hand of foreigners,</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: whose mouths speak lies<br/>
and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: I will sing a new song to you, O God;<br/>
upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to you,</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: who gives victory to kings,<br/>
who rescues David his servant from the cruel sword.</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Rescue me and deliver me<br/>
from the hand of foreigners,<br/>
whose mouths speak lies<br/>
and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: May our sons in their youth<br/>
be like plants full grown,<br/>
our daughters like corner pillars<br/>
cut for the structure of a palace;</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: may our granaries be full,<br/>
providing all kinds of produce;<br/>
may our sheep bring forth thousands<br/>
and ten thousands in our fields;</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: may our cattle be heavy with young,<br/>
suffering no mishap or failure in bearing;<br/>
may there be no cry of distress in our streets!</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall!<br/>
Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.145">Psalm 145</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: I will extol you, my God and King,<br/>
and bless your name forever and ever.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Every day I will bless you<br/>
and praise your name forever and ever.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,<br/>
and his greatness is unsearchable.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: One generation shall commend your works to another,<br/>
and shall declare your mighty acts.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: On the glorious splendor of your majesty,<br/>
and on your wondrous works, I will meditate.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: They shall speak of the might of your awesome deeds,<br/>
and I will declare your greatness.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: They shall pour forth the fame of your abundant goodness<br/>
and shall sing aloud of your righteousness.</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: The Lord is gracious and merciful,<br/>
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: The Lord is good to all,<br/>
and his mercy is over all that he has made.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: All your works shall give thanks to you, O Lord,<br/>
and all your saints shall bless you!</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom<br/>
and tell of your power,</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: to make known to the children of man your mighty deeds,<br/>
and the glorious splendor of your kingdom.</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,<br/>
and your dominion endures throughout all generations.<br/>
[The Lord is faithful in all his words<br/>
and kind in all his works.]</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: The Lord upholds all who are falling<br/>
and raises up all who are bowed down.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: The eyes of all look to you,<br/>
and you give them their food in due season.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: You open your hand;<br/>
you satisfy the desire of every living thing.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: The Lord is righteous in all his ways<br/>
and kind in all his works.</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: The Lord is near to all who call on him,<br/>
to all who call on him in truth.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: He fulfills the desire of those who fear him;<br/>
he also hears their cry and saves them.</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: The Lord preserves all who love him,<br/>
but all the wicked he will destroy.</p>
<p data-verse="21">21: My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord,<br/>
and let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.146">Psalm 146</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Praise the Lord!<br/>
Praise the Lord, O my soul!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: I will praise the Lord as long as I live;<br/>
I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Put not your trust in princes,<br/>
in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: When his breath departs he returns to the earth;<br/>
on that very day his plans perish.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,<br/>
whose hope is in the Lord his God,</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: who made heaven and earth,<br/>
the sea, and all that is in them,<br/>
who keeps faith forever;</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: <br/>
who executes justice for the oppressed,<br/>
who gives food to the hungry.<br/>
The Lord sets the prisoners free;</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: <br/>
the Lord opens the eyes of the blind.<br/>
The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down;<br/>
the Lord loves the righteous.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: The Lord watches over the sojourners;<br/>
he upholds the widow and the fatherless,<br/>
but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: The Lord will reign forever,<br/>
your God, O Zion, to all generations.<br/>
Praise the Lord!</p>
</div>
<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.147">Psalm 147</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Praise the Lord!<br/>
For it is good to sing praises to our God;<br/>
for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting.</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: The Lord builds up Jerusalem;<br/>
he gathers the outcasts of Israel.</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: He heals the brokenhearted<br/>
and binds up their wounds.</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: He determines the number of the stars;<br/>
he gives to all of them their names.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Great is our Lord, and abundant in power;<br/>
his understanding is beyond measure.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: The Lord lifts up the humble;<br/>
he casts the wicked to the ground.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving;<br/>
make melody to our God on the lyre!</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: He covers the heavens with clouds;<br/>
he prepares rain for the earth;<br/>
he makes grass grow on the hills.</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: He gives to the beasts their food,<br/>
and to the young ravens that cry.</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: His delight is not in the strength of the horse,<br/>
nor his pleasure in the legs of a man,</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: but the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him,<br/>
in those who hope in his steadfast love.</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem!<br/>
Praise your God, O Zion!</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: For he strengthens the bars of your gates;<br/>
he blesses your children within you.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: He makes peace in your borders;<br/>
he fills you with the finest of the wheat.</p>
<p data-verse="15">15: He sends out his command to the earth;<br/>
his word runs swiftly.</p>
<p data-verse="16">16: He gives snow like wool;<br/>
he scatters hoarfrost like ashes.</p>
<p data-verse="17">17: He hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs;<br/>
who can stand before his cold?</p>
<p data-verse="18">18: He sends out his word, and melts them;<br/>
he makes his wind blow and the waters flow.</p>
<p data-verse="19">19: He declares his word to Jacob,<br/>
his statutes and rules to Israel.</p>
<p data-verse="20">20: He has not dealt thus with any other nation;<br/>
they do not know his rules.<br/>
Praise the Lord!</p>
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<h1 id="Ps.148">Psalm 148</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Praise the Lord!<br/>
Praise the Lord from the heavens;<br/>
praise him in the heights!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Praise him, all his angels;<br/>
praise him, all his hosts!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Praise him, sun and moon,<br/>
praise him, all you shining stars!</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Praise him, you highest heavens,<br/>
and you waters above the heavens!</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Let them praise the name of the Lord!<br/>
For he commanded and they were created.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: And he established them forever and ever;<br/>
he gave a decree, and it shall not pass away.</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: Praise the Lord from the earth,<br/>
you great sea creatures and all deeps,</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: fire and hail, snow and mist,<br/>
stormy wind fulfilling his word!</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: Mountains and all hills,<br/>
fruit trees and all cedars!</p>
<p data-verse="10">10: Beasts and all livestock,<br/>
creeping things and flying birds!</p>
<p data-verse="11">11: Kings of the earth and all peoples,<br/>
princes and all rulers of the earth!</p>
<p data-verse="12">12: Young men and maidens together,<br/>
old men and children!</p>
<p data-verse="13">13: Let them praise the name of the Lord,<br/>
for his name alone is exalted;<br/>
his majesty is above earth and heaven.</p>
<p data-verse="14">14: He has raised up a horn for his people,<br/>
praise for all his saints,<br/>
for the people of Israel who are near to him.<br/>
Praise the Lord!</p>
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<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.149">Psalm 149</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Praise the Lord!<br/>
Sing to the Lord a new song,<br/>
his praise in the assembly of the godly!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Let Israel be glad in his Maker;<br/>
let the children of Zion rejoice in their King!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Let them praise his name with dancing,<br/>
making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: For the Lord takes pleasure in his people;<br/>
he adorns the humble with salvation.</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Let the godly exult in glory;<br/>
let them sing for joy on their beds.</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Let the high praises of God be in their throats<br/>
and two-edged swords in their hands,</p>
<p data-verse="7">7: to execute vengeance on the nations<br/>
and punishments on the peoples,</p>
<p data-verse="8">8: to bind their kings with chains<br/>
and their nobles with fetters of iron,</p>
<p data-verse="9">9: to execute on them the judgment written!<br/>
This is honor for all his godly ones.<br/>
Praise the Lord!</p>
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<div class="psalm">
<h1 id="Ps.150">Psalm 150</h1>
<p data-verse="1">1: Praise the Lord!<br/>
Praise God in his sanctuary;<br/>
praise him in his mighty heavens!</p>
<p data-verse="2">2: Praise him for his mighty deeds;<br/>
praise him according to his excellent greatness!</p>
<p data-verse="3">3: Praise him with trumpet sound;<br/>
praise him with lute and harp!</p>
<p data-verse="4">4: Praise him with tambourine and dance;<br/>
praise him with strings and pipe!</p>
<p data-verse="5">5: Praise him with sounding cymbals;<br/>
praise him with loud clashing cymbals!</p>
<p data-verse="6">6: Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!<br/>
Praise the Lord!</p>
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