The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth, And lay my glory in the dust. [Selah

Arise, O Jehovah, in thine anger; Lift up thyself against the rage of mine adversaries, And awake for me; thou hast commanded judgment.

And let the congregation of the peoples compass thee about; And over them return thou on high.

Jehovah ministereth judgment to the peoples: Judge me, O Jehovah, according to my righteousness, and to mine integrity that is in me.

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous: For the righteous God trieth the minds and hearts.

My shield is with God, Who saveth the upright in heart.

God is a righteous judge, Yea, a God that hath indignation every day.

If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath bent his bow, and made it ready;

He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; He maketh his arrows fiery [shafts].

Behold, he travaileth with iniquity; Yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made.

His mischief shall return upon his own head, And his violence shall come down upon his own pate.

I will give thanks unto Jehovah according to his righteousness, And will sing praise to the name of Jehovah Most High.

For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth, Who hast set thy glory upon the heavens!

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength, Because of thine adversaries, That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him?

For thou hast made him but little lower than God, And crownest him with glory and honor.

Thou makest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet:

All sheep and oxen, Yea, and the beasts of the field,

The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, Whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth!

For the Chief Musician; set to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David. I will give thanks unto Jehovah with my whole heart; I will show forth all thy marvellous works.

I will be glad and exult in thee; I will sing praise to thy name, O thou Most High.

When mine enemies turn back, They stumble and perish at thy presence.

For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; Thou sittest in the throne judging righteously.

Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked; Thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.

The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for ever; And the cities which thou hast overthrown, The very remembrance of them is perished.

But Jehovah sitteth [as king] for ever: He hath prepared his throne for judgment;

And he will judge the world in righteousness, He will minister judgment to the peoples in uprightness.

Jehovah also will be a high tower for the oppressed, A high tower in times of trouble;

And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; For thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

Sing praises to Jehovah, who dwelleth in Zion: Declare among the people his doings.

For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them; He forgetteth not the cry of the poor.

Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; Behold my affliction [which I suffer] of them that hate me, Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death;

That I may show forth all thy praise. In the gates of the daughter of Zion I will rejoice in thy salvation.

The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

Jehovah hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment: The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. [Higgaion. Selah

The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol, Even all the nations that forget God.

For the needy shall not alway be forgotten, Nor the expectation of the poor perish for ever.

Arise, O Jehovah; let not man prevail: Let the nations be judged in thy sight.

Put them in fear, O Jehovah: Let the nations know themselves to be but men. [Selah

Why standest thou afar off, O Jehovah? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.

For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, And the covetous renounceth, [yea], contemneth Jehovah.

The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, [saith], He will not require [it]. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

His ways are firm at all times; Thy judgments are far above out of his sight: As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.

He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved; To all generations I shall not be in adversity.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are privily set against the helpless.

He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.

He croucheth, he boweth down, And the helpless fall by his strong ones.

He saith in his heart: God hath forgotten; He hideth his face, he will never see it.

Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand: Forget not the poor.

Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, And say in his heart, Thou wilt not require [it]?

Thou hast seen [it]; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: The helpless committeth [himself] unto thee; Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.

Break thou the arm of the wicked; And as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

Jehovah is King for ever and ever: The nations are perished out of his land.

Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek: Thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear;

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, That man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.

For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David. In Jehovah do I take refuge: How say ye to my soul, Flee [as] a bird to your mountain;

For, lo, the wicked bend the bow, They make ready their arrow upon the string, That they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart;

If the foundations be destroyed, What can the righteous do?

Jehovah is in his holy temple; Jehovah, his throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

Jehovah trieth the righteous; But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

Upon the wicked he will rain snares; Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.

For Jehovah is righteous; he loveth righteousness: The upright shall behold his face.

For the Chief Musician; set to the Sheminith. A Psalm of David. Help, Jehovah; for the godly man ceaseth; For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaketh great things;

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; Our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, Now will I arise, saith Jehovah; I will set him in the safety he panteth for.

The words of Jehovah are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, Purified seven times.

Thou wilt keep them, O Jehovah, Thou wilt preserve them from this generation for ever.

The wicked walk on every side, When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

Consider [and] answer me, O Jehovah my God: Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the [sleep of] death;

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; [Lest] mine adversaries rejoice when I am moved.

But I have trusted in thy lovingkindness; My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

I will sing unto Jehovah, Because he hath dealt bountifully with me.

For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works; There is none that doeth good.

Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God.

They are all gone aside; they are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, And call not upon Jehovah?

There were they in great fear; For God is in the generation of the righteous.

Ye put to shame the counsel of the poor, Because Jehovah is his refuge.

Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When Jehovah bringeth back the captivity of his people, Then shall Jacob rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad.

A Psalm of David. Jehovah, who shall sojourn in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill?

He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, And speaketh truth in his heart;

He that slandereth not with his tongue, Nor doeth evil to his friend, Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor;

In whose eyes a reprobate is despised, But who honoreth them that fear Jehovah; He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not;

He that putteth not out his money to interest, Nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

Michtam of David. Preserve me, O God; for in thee do I take refuge.

[O my soul], thou hast said unto Jehovah, Thou art my Lord: I have no good beyond thee.

As for the saints that are in the earth, They are the excellent in whom is all my delight.

Their sorrows shall be multiplied that give gifts for another [god]: Their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer, Nor take their names upon my lips.

Jehovah is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: Thou maintainest my lot.

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; Yea, I have a goodly heritage.

I will bless Jehovah, who hath given me counsel; Yea, my heart instructeth me in the night seasons.