Psalm 31 - To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed:
deliver me in thy righteousness.
Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock,
for an house of defence to save me.
For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy
name's sake lead me, and guide me.
Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.
Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.
I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou
hast known my soul in adversities; hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy:
thou hast set my feet in a large room.
Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with
grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my
strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my
neighbours, to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they
took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.
My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies,
and from them that persecute me.
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
Let me not be ashamed, O Lord; for I have called upon thee:
let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and
contemptuously against the righteous.
Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee;
which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man:
thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
Blessed be the Lord: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.
For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless
thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and
plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart,
all ye that hope in the Lord.
Psalm 32 - A Psalm of David, Maschil.
Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and
in whose spirit there is no guile.
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is
turned into the drought of summer.
Selah.
I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid.
I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and
thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.
Selah.
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest
be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble;
thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance.
Selah.
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go:
I will guide thee with mine eye.
Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose
mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord,
mercy shall compass him about.
Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy,
all ye that are upright in heart.
Psalm 33
Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.
Praise the Lord with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and
an instrument of ten strings.
Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
For the word of the Lord is right; and all his works are done in truth.
He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.
By and
all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
he layeth
up the depth in storehouses.
Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of
the world stand in awe of him.
For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
the
heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, the thoughts of
his heart to all generations.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he
hath chosen for his own inheritance.
The Lord looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the
inhabitants of the earth.
He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.
There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man
is not delivered by much strength.
An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver
any by his great strength.
Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon
them that hope in his mercy;
To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
Our soul waiteth for the Lord: he is our help and our shield.
For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.
Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.
Psalm 34 - A Psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech;
who drove him away, and he departed.
I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall
hear thereof, and be glad.
O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.
I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved
him out of all his troubles.
delivereth them.
O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: that seek the Lord
shall not want any good thing.
Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his
ears are open unto their cry.
The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the
remembrance of them from the earth.
The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth
them out of all their troubles.
The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth
such as be of a contrite spirit.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous:
him out of them all.
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that
trust in him shall be desolate.
Psalm 35 - A Psalm of David
Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight
against them that fight against me.
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me:
say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let
them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord chase them.
Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the Lord persecute them.
their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he
hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord: it shall rejoice in his salvation.
All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like unto thee, which deliverest
the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the
needy from him that spoileth him?
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth:
I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily,
as one that mourneth for his mother.
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: the
abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they
did tear me, and ceased not: With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they
gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Lord, how long wilt thou look on?
rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will
praise thee among much people.
Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me:
neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against
them that are quiet in the land.
Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said,
Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
This thou hast seen, O Lord: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
Judge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousness; and
let them not rejoice over me.
Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them
not say, We have swallowed him up.
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice
at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that
magnify themselves against me.
Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea,
let them say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, which hath pleasure
in the prosperity of his servant.
And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of
thy praise all the day long.