The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

Put them in feare, O Lord, that the heathen may knowe that they are but men. Selah.

Why standest thou farre off, O Lord, and hidest thee in due time, euen in affliction?

The wicked with pride doeth persecute the poore: let them be taken in the craftes that they haue imagined.

For the wicked hath made boast of his owne heartes desire, and the couetous blesseth himselfe: he contemneth the Lord.

The wicked is so proude that hee seeketh not for God: hee thinketh alwayes, There is no God.

His wayes alway prosper: thy iudgements are hie aboue his sight: therefore defieth he all his enemies.

He saith in his heart, I shall neuer be moued, nor be in danger.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceite and fraude: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie.

He lieth in waite in the villages: in the secret places doeth hee murder the innocent: his eyes are bent against the poore.

He lyeth in waite secretly, euen as a lyon in his denne: he lyeth in waite to spoyle the poore: he doeth spoyle the poore, when he draweth him into his net.

He croucheth and boweth: therefore heaps of the poore doe fall by his might.

He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth away his face, and will neuer see.

Arise, O Lord God: lift vp thine hande: forget not the poore.

Wherefore doeth the wicked contemne God? he saith in his heart, Thou wilt not regard.

Yet thou hast seene it: for thou beholdest mischiefe and wrong, that thou mayest take it into thine handes: the poore committeth himselfe vnto thee: for thou art the helper of the fatherlesse.

Breake thou the arme of the wicked and malicious: searche his wickednes, and thou shalt finde none.

The Lord is King for euer and euer: the heathen are destroyed foorth of his land.

Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the poore: thou preparest their heart: thou bendest thine eare to them,

To iudge the fatherlesse and poore, that earthly man cause to feare no more.

To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. In the Lord put I my trust: howe say yee then to my soule, Flee to your mountaine as a birde?

For loe, the wicked bende their bowe, and make readie their arrowes vpon the string, that they may secretly shoote at them, which are vpright in heart.

For the foundations are cast downe: what hath the righteous done?

The Lord is in his holy palace: the Lordes throne is in the heauen: his eyes wil consider: his eye lids will try the children of men.

The Lord will try the righteous: but the wicked and him that loueth iniquitie, doeth his soule hate.

Vpon the wicked he shall raine snares, fire, and brimstone, and stormie tempest: this is the porcion of their cup.

For the righteous Lord loueth righteousnes: his countenance doeth beholde the iust.

To him that excelleth upon the eight tune. A Psalme of Dauid. Helpe Lord, for there is not a godly man left: for the faithfull are fayled from among the children of men.

They speake deceitfully euery one with his neighbour, flattering with their lips, and speake with a double heart.

The Lord cut off all flattering lippes, and the tongue that speaketh proude things:

Which haue saide, With our tongue will we preuaile: our lippes are our owne: who is Lord ouer vs?

Now for the oppression of the needy, and for the sighes of the poore, I will vp, sayeth the Lord, and will set at libertie him, whom the wicked hath snared.

The wordes of the Lord are pure wordes, as the siluer, tried in a fornace of earth, fined seuen folde.

Thou wilt keepe them, O Lord: thou wilt preserue him from this generation for euer.

The wicked walke on euery side: when they are exalted, it is a shame for the sonnes of men.

To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. Howe long wilt thou forget me, O Lord, for euer? howe long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

How long shall I take counsell within my selfe, hauing wearinesse dayly in mine heart? how long shall mine enemie be exalted aboue me?

Beholde, and heare mee, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, that I sleepe not in death:

Lest mine enemie say, I haue preuailed against him: and they that afflict me, reioyce when I slide.

But I trust in thy mercie: mine heart shall reioyce in thy saluation: I will sing to the Lord, because he hath delt louingly with me.

To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. The foole hath said in his heart, There is no God: they haue corrupted, and done an abominable worke: there is none that doeth good.

The Lord looked downe from heauen vpon the children of men, to see if there were any that would vnderstand, and seeke God.

All are gone out of the way: they are all corrupt: there is none that doeth good, no not one.

Doe not all the workers of iniquitie know that they eate vp my people, as they eate bread? they call not vpon the Lord.

There they shall be taken with feare, because God is in the generation of the iust.

You haue made a mocke at the counsell of the poore, because the Lord is his trust.

Oh giue saluation vnto Israel out of Zion: when the Lord turneth the captiuitie of his people, then Iaakob shall reioyce, and Israel shall be glad.

A Psalme of Dauid. Lord, who shall dwell in thy Tabernacle? who shall rest in thine holy Mountaine?

He that walketh vprightly and worketh righteousnes, and speaketh the trueth in his heart.

He that slandereth not with his tongue, nor doeth euill to his neighbour, nor receiueth a false report against his neighbour.

In whose eyes a vile person is contemned, but he honoureth them that feare the Lord: he that sweareth to his owne hinderance and changeth not.

He that giueth not his money vnto vsurie, nor taketh reward against the innocent: hee that doeth these things, shall neuer be moued.

Michtam of Dauid. Preserue mee, O God: for in thee doe I trust.

O my soule, thou hast sayd vnto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my weldoing extendeth not to thee,

But to the Saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent: all my delite is in them.

The sorowes of them, that offer to an other god, shall be multiplied: their offerings of blood will I not offer, neither make mention of their names with my lips.

The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou shalt mainteine my lot.

The lines are fallen vnto me in pleasant places: yea, I haue a faire heritage.

I wil prayse the Lord, who hath giuen me counsell: my reines also teach me in the nightes.

I haue set the Lord alwayes before me: for hee is at my right hand: therefore I shall not slide.

Wherefore mine heart is glad and my tongue reioyceth: my flesh also doeth rest in hope.

For thou wilt not leaue my soule in the graue: neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption.

The prayer of Dauid. Heare the right, O Lord, consider my crye: hearken vnto my prayer of lips vnfained.

Let my sentence come forth from thy presence, and let thine eyes beholde equitie.

Thou hast prooued and visited mine heart in the night: thou hast tryed me, and foundest nothing: for I was purposed that my mouth should not offend.

Concerning the workes of men, by the wordes of thy lips I kept mee from the paths of the cruell man.

Stay my steps in thy paths, that my feete doe not slide.

I haue called vpon thee: surely thou wilt heare me, O God: incline thine eare to me, and hearken vnto my wordes.

Shewe thy marueilous mercies, thou that art the Sauiour of them that trust in thee, from such as resist thy right hand.

Keepe me as the apple of the eye: hide me vnder the shadowe of thy wings,

From the wicked that oppresse mee, from mine enemies, which compasse me round about for my soule.

They are inclosed in their owne fat, and they haue spoken proudely with their mouth.

They haue compassed vs now in our steps: they haue set their eyes to bring downe to the ground:

Like as a lyon that is greedy of pray, and as it were a lyons whelp lurking in secret places.

Vp Lord, disappoint him: cast him downe: deliuer my soule from the wicked with thy sworde,

From men by thine hand, O Lord, from men of the world, who haue their portion in this life, whose bellies thou fillest with thine hid treasure: their children haue ynough, and leaue the rest of their substance for their children.

But I will beholde thy face in righteousnes, and when I awake, I shalbe satisfied with thine image.

To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid the seruant of the Lord, which spake unto the Lord the wordes of this song (in the day that the Lord delivered him for the hande of all this enemies, and form the and of saul) and sayd, I will loue thee dearely, O Lord my strength.

The Lord is my rocke, and my fortresse, and he that deliuereth me, my God and my strength: in him will I trust, my shield, the horne also of my saluation, and my refuge.

I will call vpon the Lord, which is worthie to be praysed: so shall I be safe from mine enemies.

The sorowes of death compassed me, and the floods of wickednes made me afraide.

The sorowes of the graue haue compassed me about: the snares of death ouertooke me.

But in my trouble did I call vpon the Lord, and cryed vnto my God: he heard my voyce out of his Temple, and my crye did come before him, euen into his eares.

Then the earth trembled, and quaked: the foundations also of the mountaines mooued and shooke, because he was angrie.

Smoke went out at his nostrels, and a consuming fire out of his mouth: coales were kindled thereat.

He bowed the heauens also and came downe, and darkenes was vnder his feete.

And he rode vpon Cherub and did flie, and he came flying vpon the wings of the winde.

He made darkenes his secrete place, and his pauilion round about him, euen darkenesse of waters, and cloudes of the ayre.

At the brightnes of his presence his clouds passed, haylestones and coles of fire.

The Lord also thundred in the heauen, and the Highest gaue his voyce, haylestones and coales of fire.

Then hee sent out his arrowes and scattred them, and he increased lightnings and destroyed them.

And the chanels of waters were seene, and the foundations of the worlde were discouered at thy rebuking, O Lord, at the blasting of the breath of thy nostrels.

He hath sent downe from aboue and taken mee: hee hath drawen mee out of many waters.

He hath deliuered mee from my strong enemie, and from them which hate me: for they were too strong for me.

They preuented me in the day of my calamitie: but the Lord was my stay.

Hee brought mee foorth also into a large place: hee deliuered mee because hee fauoured me.

The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousnes: according to the purenes of mine hands he recompensed me:

Because I kept the wayes of the Lord, and did not wickedly against my God.

For all his Lawes were before mee, and I did not cast away his commandements from mee.

I was vpright also with him, and haue kept me from my wickednes.