The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O mighty one, Thy glory and thy majesty.

And in thy majesty ride on prosperously, Because of truth and meekness [and] righteousness: And thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

Thine arrows are sharp; The peoples fall under thee; [They are] in the heart of the king’s enemies.

Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: A sceptre of equity is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness: Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee With the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

All thy garments [smell of] myrrh, and aloes, [and] cassia; Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.

Kings’ daughters are among thy honorable women: At thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; Forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house:

So will the king desire thy beauty; For he is thy lord; and reverence thou him.

And the daughter of Tyre [shall be there] with a gift; The rich among the people shall entreat thy favor.

The king’s daughter within [the palace] is all glorious: Her clothing is inwrought with gold.

She shall be led unto the king in broidered work: The virgins her companions that follow her Shall be brought unto thee.

With gladness and rejoicing shall they be led: They shall enter into the king’s palace.

Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, Whom thou shalt make princes in all the earth.

I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: Therefore shall the peoples give thee thanks for ever and ever.

For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of the sons of Korah; set to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.

Therefore will we not fear, though the earth do change, And though the mountains be shaken into the heart of the seas;

Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though the mountains tremble with the swelling thereof. [Selah

There is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God will help her, and that right early.

The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved: He uttered his voice, the earth melted.

Jehovah of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge. [Selah

Come, behold the works of Jehovah, What desolations he hath made in the earth.

He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariots in the fire.

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.

Jehovah of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge. [Selah

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Oh clap your hands, all ye peoples; Shout unto God with the voice of triumph.

For Jehovah Most High is terrible; He is a great King over all the earth.

He subdueth peoples under us, And nations under our feet.

He chooseth our inheritance for us, The glory of Jacob whom he loved. [Selah

God is gone up with a shout, Jehovah with the sound of a trumpet.

Sing praises to God, sing praises: Sing praises unto our King, sing praises.

For God is the King of all the earth: Sing ye praises with understanding.

God reigneth over the nations: God sitteth upon his holy throne.

The princes of the peoples are gathered together [To be] the people of the God of Abraham; For the shields of the earth belong unto God: He is greatly exalted.

A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised, In the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, Is mount Zion, [on] the sides of the north, The city of the great King.

God hath made himself known in her palaces for a refuge.

For, lo, the kings assembled themselves, They passed by together.

They saw it, then were they amazed; They were dismayed, they hasted away.

Trembling took hold of them there, Pain, as of a woman in travail.

With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.

As we have heard, so have we seen In the city of Jehovah of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. [Selah

We have thought on thy lovingkindness, O God, In the midst of thy temple.

As is thy name, O God, So is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: Thy right hand is full of righteousness.

Let mount Zion be glad, Let the daughters of Judah rejoice, Because of thy judgments.

Walk about Zion, and go round about her; Number the towers thereof;

Mark ye well her bulwarks; Consider her palaces: That ye may tell it to the generation following.

For this God is our God for ever and ever: He will be our guide [even] unto death.

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Hear this, all ye peoples; Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world,

Both low and high, Rich and poor together.

My mouth shall speak wisdom; And the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, When iniquity at my heels compasseth me about?

They that trust in their wealth, And boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

None [of them] can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him

(For the redemption of their life is costly, And it faileth for ever),

That he should still live alway, That he should not see corruption.

For he shall see it. Wise men die; The fool and the brutish alike perish, And leave their wealth to others.

Their inward thought is, [that] their houses [shall continue] for ever, [And] their dwelling-places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names.

But man [being] in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish.

This their way is their folly: Yet after them men approve their sayings. [Selah

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd: And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol; For he will receive me. [Selah

Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, When the glory of his house is increased:

For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away; His glory shall not descend after him.

Though while he lived he blessed his soul (And men praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself),

He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see the light.

Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, Is like the beasts that perish.

A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God, Jehovah, hath spoken, And called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth.

Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence: A fire devoureth before him, And it is very tempestuous round about him.

He calleth to the heavens above, And to the earth, that he may judge his people:

Gather my saints together unto me, Those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; For God is judge himself. [Selah

Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, [even] thy God.

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; And thy burnt-offerings are continually before me.

I will take no bullock out of thy house, Nor he-goats out of thy folds.

For every beast of the forest is mine, And the cattle upon a thousand hills.

I know all the birds of the mountains; And the wild beasts of the field are mine.

If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?

Offer unto God the sacrifice of thanksgiving; And pay thy vows unto the Most High;

And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth,

Seeing that thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee?

When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him, And hast been partaker with adulterers.

Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit.

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself: [But] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.

Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:

Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifieth me; And to him that ordereth his way [aright] Will I show the salvation of God.

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.

For I know my transgressions; And my sin is ever before me.

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in thy sight; That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, And be clear when thou judgest.

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts; And in the hidden part thou wilt make me to know wisdom.

Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Make me to hear joy and gladness, That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.