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I was a reproch among all mine enemies, but specially among my neighbours: and a feare to mine acquaintance, who seeing me in the streete, fled from me.
I am forgotten, as a dead man out of minde: I am like a broken vessell.
For I haue heard the rayling of great men: feare was on euery side, while they conspired together against mee, and consulted to take my life.
But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.
My times are in thine hande: deliuer mee from the hande of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
Make thy face to shine vpon thy seruant, and saue me through thy mercie.
Let me not be confounded, O Lord: for I haue called vpon thee: let the wicked bee put to confusion, and to silence in the graue.
Let the lying lips be made dumme, which cruelly, proudly and spitefully speake against the righteous.
Howe great is thy goodnesse, which thou hast layde vp for them, that feare thee! and done to them, that trust in thee, euen before the sonnes of men!
Thou doest hide them priuily in thy presence from the pride of men: thou keepest them secretly in thy Tabernacle from the strife of tongues.
Blessed be the Lord: for hee hath shewed his marueilous kindenesse toward me in a strong citie.
Though I said in mine haste, I am cast out of thy sight, yet thou heardest the voyce of my prayer, when I cryed vnto thee.
Loue ye the Lord all his Saintes: for the Lord preserueth the faithfull, and rewardeth abundantly the proud doer.
All ye that trust in the Lord, be strong, and he shall establish your heart.
A Psalme of David to give instruction. Blessed is he whose wickednes is forgiuen, and whose sinne is couered.
Blessed is the man, vnto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquitie, and in whose spirite there is no guile.
When I helde my tongue, my bones consumed, or when I roared all the day,
(For thine hand is heauie vpon me, day and night: and my moysture is turned into ye drought of summer. Selah)
Then I acknowledged my sinne vnto thee, neither hid I mine iniquitie: for I thought, I will confesse against my selfe my wickednesse vnto the Lord, and thou forgauest the punishment of my sinne. Selah.
Therefore shall euery one, that is godly, make his prayer vnto thee in a time, when thou mayest be founde: surely in the flood of great waters they shall not come neere him.
Thou art my secret place: thou preseruest me from trouble: thou compassest me about with ioyfull deliuerance. Selah.
I will instruct thee, and teache thee in the way that thou shalt goe, and I will guide thee with mine eye.
Be ye not like an horse, or like a mule, which vnderstand not: whose mouthes thou doest binde with bit and bridle, least they come neere thee.
Many sorowes shall come to the wicked: but he, that trusteth in the Lord, mercie shall compasse him.
Be glad ye righteous, and reioyce in the Lord, and be ioyfull all ye, that are vpright in heart.
Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous: for it becommeth vpright men to be thankefull.
Prayse the Lord with harpe: sing vnto him with viole and instrument of ten strings.
Sing vnto him a newe song: sing cheerefully with a loude voyce.
For the word of the Lord is righteous, and all his workes are faithfull.
He loueth righteousnesse and iudgement: the earth is full of the goodnesse of the Lord.
By the worde of the Lord were the heauens made, and all the hoste of them by the breath of his mouth.
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as vpon an heape, and layeth vp the depths in his treasures.
Let all the earth feare the Lord: let al them that dwell in the world, feare him.
For he spake, and it was done: he commanded, and it stood.
The Lord breaketh the counsell of the heathen, and bringeth to nought the deuices of the people.
The counsell of the Lord shall stand for euer, and the thoughts of his heart throughout all ages.
Blessed is that nation, whose God is the Lord: euen the people that he hath chosen for his inheritance.
The Lord looketh downe from heauen, and beholdeth all the children of men.
From the habitation of his dwelling he beholdeth all them that dwell in the earth.
He facioneth their hearts euery one, and vnderstandeth all their workes.
The King is not saued by the multitude of an hoste, neither is the mightie man deliuered by great strength.
A horse is a vaine helpe, and shall not deliuer any by his great strength.
Beholde, the eye of the Lord is vpon them that feare him, and vpon them, that trust in his mercie,
To deliuer their soules from death, and to preserue them in famine.
Our soule waiteth for the Lord: for he is our helpe and our shielde.
Surely our heart shall reioyce in him, because we trusted in his holy Name.
Let thy mercie, O Lord, be vpon vs, as we trust in thee.
A Psalme of Dauid, when he changed his behauiour before Abimelech, who droue him away, and he departed. I will alway giue thankes vnto the Lord: his praise shalbe in my mouth continually.
My soule shall glory in the Lord: the humble shall heare it, and be glad.
Praise ye the Lord with me, and let vs magnifie his Name together.
I sought the Lord, and he heard me: yea, he deliuered me out of all my feare.
They shall looke vnto him, and runne to him: and their faces shall not be ashamed, saying,
This poore man cryed, and the Lord heard him, and saued him out of all his troubles.
The Angel of the Lord pitcheth round about them, that feare him, and deliuereth them.
Taste ye and see, howe gratious the Lord is: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
Feare the Lord, ye his Saintes: for nothing wanteth to them that feare him.
The lyons doe lacke and suffer hunger, but they, which seeke the Lord, shall want nothing that is good.
Come children, hearken vnto me: I will teache you the feare of the Lord.
What man is he, that desireth life, and loueth long dayes for to see good?
Keepe thy tongue from euill, and thy lips, that they speake no guile.
Eschewe euill and doe good: seeke peace and follow after it.
The eyes of the Lord are vpon the righteous, and his eares are open vnto their crie.
But the face of the Lord is against them that doe euill, to cut off their remembrance from the earth.
The righteous crie, and the Lord heareth them, and deliuereth them out of all their troubles.
The Lord is neere vnto them that are of a contrite heart, and will saue such as be afflicted in Spirite.
Great are the troubles of the righteous: but the Lord deliuereth him out of them all.
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
But malice shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous, shall perish.
The Lord redeemeth the soules of his seruants: and none, that trust in him, shall perish.
A Psalme of Dauid. Pleade thou my cause, O Lord, with them that striue with me: fight thou against them, that fight against me.
Lay hand vpon the shielde and buckler, and stand vp for mine helpe.
Bring out also the speare and stop the way against them, that persecute me: say vnto my soule, I am thy saluation.
Let them be confounded and put to shame, that seeke after my soule: let them be turned backe, and brought to confusion, that imagine mine hurt.
Let them be as chaffe before the winde, and let the Angel of the Lord scatter them.
Let their way be darke and slipperie: and let the Angel of the Lord persecute them.
For without cause they haue hid the pit and their net for me: without cause haue they digged a pit for my soule.
Let destruction come vpon him at vnwares, and let his net, that he hath laid priuilie, take him: let him fall into the same destruction.
Then my soule shalbe ioyfull in the Lord: it shall reioyce in his saluation.
All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like vnto thee, which deliuerest the poore from him, that is too strong for him! yea, the poore and him that is in miserie, from him that spoyleth him!
Cruell witnesses did rise vp: they asked of me things that I knewe not.
They rewarded me euill for good, to haue spoyled my soule.
Yet I, when they were sicke, I was clothed with a sacke: I humbled my soule with fasting: and my praier was turned vpon my bosome.
I behaued my selfe as to my friend, or as to my brother: I humbled my selfe, mourning as one that bewaileth his mother.
But in mine aduersitie they reioyced, and gathered them selues together: the abiects assembled themselues against me, and knewe not: they tare me and ceased not,
With the false skoffers at bankets, gnashing their teeth against me.
Lord, how long wilt thou beholde this? deliuer my soule from their tumult, euen my desolate soule from the lions.
So will I giue thee thankes in a great Congregation: I will praise thee among much people.
Let not them that are mine enemies, vniustly reioyce ouer mee, neyther let them winke with the eye, that hate mee without a cause.
For they speake not as friendes: but they imagine deceitfull woordes against the quiet of the lande.
And they gaped on mee with their mouthes, saying, Aha, aha, our eye hath seene.
Thou hast seene it, O Lord: keepe not silence: be not farre from me, O Lord.
Arise and wake to my iudgement, euen to my cause, my God, and my Lord.
Iudge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousnesse, and let them not reioyce ouer mee.
Let them not say in their hearts, O our soule reioyce: neither let them say, We haue deuoured him.
Let them bee confounded, and put to shame together, that reioyce at mine hurt: let them bee clothed with confusion and shame, that lift vp themselues against me.
But let them be ioyful and glad, that loue my righteousnesse: yea, let them say alway, Let the Lord be magnified, which loueth the prosperitie of his seruant.
And my tongue shall vtter thy righteousnesse, and thy praise euery day.
To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid, the servant of the Lord. Wickedness sayeth to the wicked man, euen in mine heart, that there is no feare of God before his eyes.
For hee flattereth himselfe in his owne eyes, while his iniquitie is foud worthy to be hated.
The wordes of his mouth are iniquitie and deceit: hee hath left off to vnderstand and to doe good.