The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

Therefore the Lord rewarded me according to my righteousnesse, and according to the purenes of mine hands in his sight.

With the godly thou wilt shewe thy selfe godly: with the vpright man thou wilt shew thy selfe vpright.

With the pure thou wilt shewe thy selfe pure, and with the froward thou wilt shewe thy selfe froward.

Thus thou wilt saue the poore people, and wilt cast downe the proude lookes.

Surely thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God wil lighten my darkenes.

For by thee I haue broken through an hoste, and by my God I haue leaped ouer a wall.

The way of God is vncorrupt: the worde of the Lord is tried in the fire: he is a shield to all that trust in him.

For who is God besides the Lord? and who is mightie saue our God?

God girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way vpright.

He maketh my feete like hindes feete, and setteth me vpon mine high places.

He teacheth mine hands to fight: so that a bowe of brasse is broken with mine armes.

Thou hast also giuen me the shield of thy saluation, and thy right hand hath stayed me, and thy louing kindenes hath caused me to increase.

Thou hast enlarged my steps vnder mee, and mine heeles haue not slid.

I haue pursued mine enemies, and taken them, and haue not turned againe till I had consumed them.

I haue wounded them, that they were not able to rise: they are fallen vnder my feete.

For thou hast girded me with strength to battell: them, that rose against me, thou hast subdued vnder me.

And thou hast giuen me the neckes of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.

They cryed but there was none to saue them, euen vnto the Lord, but hee answered them not.

Then I did beate them small as the dust before the winde: I did treade them flat as the clay in the streetes.

Thou hast deliuered me from the contentions of the people: thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people, whom I haue not knowen, shall serue me.

As soone as they heare, they shall obey me: the strangers shall be in subiection to me.

Strangers shall shrinke away, and feare in their priuie chambers.

Let the Lord liue, and blessed be my strength, and the God of my saluation be exalted.

It is God that giueth me power to auenge me, and subdueth the people vnder me.

O my deliuerer from mine enemies, euen thou hast set mee vp from them, that rose against me: thou hast deliuered mee from the cruell man.

Therefore I will prayse thee, O Lord, among the nations, and wil sing vnto thy Name.

Great deliuerances giueth hee vnto his King, and sheweth mercie to his anoynted, euen to Dauid, and to his seede for euer.

To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. The heauens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth ye worke of his hands.

Day vnto day vttereth the same, and night vnto night teacheth knowledge.

There is no speach nor language, where their voyce is not heard.

Their line is gone forth through all the earth, and their words into the endes of the world: in them hath he set a tabernacle for the sunne.

Which commeth forth as a bridegrome out of his chamber, and reioyceth like a mightie man to runne his race.

His going out is from the ende of the heauen, and his compasse is vnto the endes of ye same, and none is hid from the heate thereof.

The Lawe of the Lord is perfite, conuerting the soule: the testimonie of the Lord is sure, and giueth wisedome vnto the simple.

The statutes of the Lord are right and reioyce the heart: the commandement of the Lord is pure, and giueth light vnto the eyes.

The feare of the Lord is cleane, and indureth for euer: the iudgements of the Lord are trueth: they are righteous altogether,

And more to be desired then golde, yea, then much fine golde: sweeter also then honie and the honie combe.

Moreouer by them is thy seruant made circumspect, and in keeping of them there is great reward.

Who can vnderstand his faultes? clense me from secret fautes.

Keepe thy seruant also from presumptuous sinnes: let them not reigne ouer me: so shall I be vpright, and made cleane from much wickednes.

Let the wordes of my mouth, and the meditation of mine heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.

To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. The Lord heare thee in the day of trouble: the name of ye God of Iaakob defend thee:

Send thee helpe from the Sanctuarie, and strengthen thee out of Zion.

Let him remember all thine offerings, and turne thy burnt offerings into asshes. Selah:

And graunt thee according to thine heart, and fulfill all thy purpose:

That we may reioyce in thy saluation, and set vp the banner in the Name of our God, when the Lord shall performe all thy petitions.

Now know I that the Lord will helpe his anointed, and will heare him from his Sanctuarie, by the mightie helpe of his right hand.

Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the Name of ye Lord our God.

They are brought downe and fallen, but we are risen, and stand vpright.

Saue Lord: let the King heare vs in the day that we call.

To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. The King shall reioyce in thy strength, O Lord: yea how greatly shall he reioyce in thy saluation!

Thou hast giuen him his hearts desire, and hast not denyed him the request of his lips. Selah.

For thou diddest preuent him with liberall blessings, and didest set a crowne of pure gold vpon his head.

He asked life of thee, and thou gauest him a long life for euer and euer.

His glory is great in thy saluation: dignitie and honour hast thou laid vpon him.

For thou hast set him as blessings for euer: thou hast made him glad with the ioy of thy countenance.

Because the King trusteth in the Lord, and in the mercie of the most High, he shall not slide.

Thine hand shall finde out all thine enemies, and thy right hand shall finde out them that hate thee.

Thou shalt make them like a fierie ouen in time of thine anger: the Lord shall destroy them in his wrath, and the fire shall deuoure them.

Their fruite shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seede from the children of men.

For they intended euill against thee, and imagined mischiefe, but they shall not preuaile.

Therefore shalt thou put them aparte, and the strings of thy bowe shalt thou make readie against their faces.

Be thou exalted, O Lord, in thy strength: so will we sing and prayse thy power.

To him that excelleth upon Aiieleth Hasshahar. A Psalme of Dauid. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, and art so farre from mine health, and from the wordes of my roaring?

O my God, I crie by day, but thou hearest not, and by night, but haue no audience.

But thou art holy, and doest inhabite the prayses of Israel.

Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didest deliuer them.

They called vpon thee, and were deliuered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

But I am a worme, and not a man: a shame of men, and the contempt of the people.

All they that see me, haue me in derision: they make a mowe and nod the head, saying,

He trusted in the Lord, let him deliuer him: let him saue him, seeing he loueth him.

But thou didest draw me out of ye wombe: thou gauest me hope, euen at my mothers breasts.

I was cast vpon thee, euen from ye wombe: thou art my God from my mothers belly.

Be not farre from me, because trouble is neere: for there is none to helpe me.

Many yong bulles haue compassed me: mightie bulles of Bashan haue closed me about.

They gape vpon me with their mouthes, as a ramping and roaring lyon.

I am like water powred out, and all my bones are out of ioynt: mine heart is like waxe: it is molten in the middes of my bowels.

My strength is dryed vp like a potsheard, and my tongue cleaueth to my iawes, and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

For dogges haue compassed me, and the assemblie of the wicked haue inclosed me: they perced mine hands and my feete.

I may tell all my bones: yet they beholde, and looke vpon me.

They part my garments among them, and cast lottes vpon my vesture.

But be thou not farre off, O Lord, my strength: hasten to helpe me.

Deliuer my soule from the sword: my desolate soule from the power of the dogge.

Saue me from the lyons mouth, and answere me in sauing me from the hornes of the vnicornes.

I wil declare thy Name vnto my brethren: in the middes of the Congregation will I praise thee, saying,

Prayse the Lord, ye that feare him: magnifie ye him, all the seede of Iaakob, and feare ye him, all the seede of Israel.

For he hath not despised nor abhorred ye affliction of the poore: neither hath he hid his face from him, but when he called vnto him, he heard.

My prayse shalbe of thee in the great Congregation: my vowes will I perfourme before them that feare him.

The poore shall eate and be satisfied: they that seeke after the Lord, shall prayse him: your heart shall liue for euer.

All the endes of the worlde shall remember themselues, and turne to the Lord: and all the kinreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

For the kingdome is the Lords, and he ruleth among the nations.

All they that be fat in the earth, shall eate and worship: all they that go downe into the dust, shall bowe before him, euen he that cannot quicken his owne soule.

Their seede shall serue him: it shalbe counted vnto the Lord for a generation.

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousnesse vnto a people that shall be borne, because he hath done it.

A Psalme of David. The Lord is my shepheard, I shall not want.

He maketh me to rest in greene pasture, and leadeth me by the still waters.

He restoreth my soule, and leadeth me in the paths of righteousnesse for his Names sake.

Yea, though I should walke through the valley of the shadowe of death, I will feare no euill: for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staffe, they comfort me.

Thou doest prepare a table before me in the sight of mine aduersaries: thou doest anoynt mine head with oyle, and my cuppe runneth ouer.

Doubtlesse kindnesse and mercie shall follow me all the dayes of my life, and I shall remaine a long season in the house of the Lord.