The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have been humbled and troubled.

Thy wrath hath come upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me.

They have come round about me like water all the day: they have compassed me about together.

Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my acquaintance, because of misery.

Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite.

The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation.

For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them.

I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant:

Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne unto generation and generation.

The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: and thy truth in the church of the saints.

For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: or who among the sons of God shall be like to God?

God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and terrible above all them that are about him.

O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee.

Thou rulest the power of the sea: and appeasest the motion of the waves thereof.

Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: with the arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies.

Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fulness thereof thou hast founded:

The north and the sea thou hast created. Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name:

Thy arm is with might. Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy right hand exalted:

Justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face:

Blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance:

And in thy name they shall rejoice all the day, and in thy justice they shall be exalted.

For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy good pleasure shall our horn be exalted.

For our protection is of the Lord, and of our king the holy one of Israel.

Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints, and saidst: I have laid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of my people.

I have found David my servant: with my holy oil I have anointed him.

For my hand shall help him: and my arm shall strengthen him.

The enemy shall have no advantage over him: nor the son of iniquity have power to hurt him.

And I will cut down his enemies before his face; and them that hate him I will put to flight.

And my truth and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

And I will set his hand in the sea; and his right hand in the rivers.

He shall cry out to me: Thou art my father: my God, and the support of my salvation.

And I will make him my firstborn, high above the kings of the earth.

I will keep my mercy for him for ever: and my covenant faithful to him.

And I will make his seed to endure for evermore: and his throne as the days of heaven.

And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments:

If they profane my justices: and keep not my commandments:

I will visit their iniquities with a rod and their sins with stripes.

But my mercy I will not take away from him: nor will I suffer my truth to fail.

Neither will I profane my covenant: and the words that proceed from my mouth I will not make void.

Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David:

His seed shall endure for ever.

And his throne as the sun before me: and as the moon perfect for ever, and a faithful witness in heaven.

But thou hast rejected and despised: thou hast been angry with my anointed.

Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his sanctuary on the earth.

Thou hast broken down all his hedges: thou hast made his strength fear.

All that pass by the way have robbed him: he is become a reproach to his neighbours.

Thou hast set up the right hand of them that oppress him: thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

Thou hast turned away the help of his sword; and hast not assisted him in battle.

Thou hast made his purification to cease: and thou hast cast his throne down to the ground.

Thou hast shortened the days of his time: thou hast covered him with confusion.

How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy anger burn like fire?

Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the children of men in vain?

Who is the man that shall live, and not see death: that shall deliver his soul from the hand of hell?

Lord, where are thy ancient mercies, according to what thou didst swear to David in thy truth?

Be mindful, O Lord, of the reproach of thy servants (which I have held in my bosom) of many nations:

Wherewith thy enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the change of thy anointed.

Blessed be the Lord for evermore. So be it. So be it.

A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation.

Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God.

Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.

For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past. And as a watch in the night,

Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

In the morning man shall grow up like grass; in the morning he shall flourish and pass away: in the evening he shall fall, grow dry, and wither.

For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy indignation.

Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the light of thy countenance.

For all our days are spent; and in thy wrath we have fainted away. Our years shall be considered as a spider:

The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected.

Who knoweth the power of thy anger, and for thy fear

Can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom.

Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated in favour of thy servants.

We are filled in the morning with thy mercy: and we have rejoiced, and are delighted all our days.

We have rejoiced for the days in which thou hast humbled us: for the years in which we have seen evils.

Look upon thy servants and upon their works: and direct their children.

And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou direct.

The praise of a canticle for David. He that dwelleth in the aid of the most High, shall abide under the protection of the God of Jacob.

He shall say to the Lord: Thou art my protector, and my refuge: my God, in him will I trust.

For he hath delivered me from the snare of the hunters: and from the sharp word.

He will overshadow thee with his shoulders: and under his wings thou shalt trust.

His truth shall compass thee with a shield: thou shalt not be afraid of the terror of the night.

Of the arrow that flieth in the day, of the business that walketh about in the dark: of invasion, or of the noonday devil.

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand: but it shall not come nigh thee.

But thou shalt consider with thy eyes: and shalt see the reward of the wicked.

Because thou, O Lord, art my hope: thou hast made the most High thy refuge.

There shall no evil come to thee: nor shall the scourge come near thy dwelling.

For he hath given his angels charge over thee; to keep thee in all thy ways.

In their hands they shall bear thee up: lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Thou shalt walk upon the asp and the basilisk: and thou shalt trample under foot the lion and the dragon.

Because he hoped in me I will deliver him: I will protect him because he hath known my name.

He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I am with him in tribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him.

I will fill him with length of days; and I will shew him my salvation.

A psalm of a canticle on the sabbath day.

It is good to give praise to the Lord: and to sing to thy name, O most High.

To shew forth thy mercy in the morning, and thy truth in the night:

Upon an instrument of ten strings, upon the psaltery: with a canticle upon the harp.

For thou hast given me, O Lord, a delight in thy doings: and in the works of thy hands I shall rejoice.

O Lord, how great are thy works! thy thoughts are exceeding deep.

The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand these things.

When the wicked shall spring up as grass: and all the workers of iniquity shall appear: That they may perish for ever and ever:

But thou, O Lord, art most high for evermore.

For behold thy enemies, O lord, for behold thy enemies shall perish: and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.