The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

As we haue heard, so haue we seene in the citie of the Lord of hostes, in the Citie of our God: God will stablish it for euer. Selah.

We waite for thy louing kindnes, O God, in the middes of thy Temple.

O God, according vnto thy Name, so is thy prayse vnto the worlds end: thy right hand is full of righteousnes.

Let mount Zion reioyce, and the daughters of Iudah be glad, because of thy iudgements.

Compasse about Zion, and goe round about it, and tell the towres thereof.

Marke well the wall thereof: beholde her towres, that ye may tell your posteritie.

For this God is our God for euer and euer: he shall be our guide vnto the death.

To him that excelleth. A Psalme committed to the sonnes of Korah. Heare this, all ye people: giue eare, all ye that dwell in the world,

As well lowe as hie, both rich and poore.

My mouth shall speake of wisdome, and the meditation of mine heart is of knowledge.

I will incline mine eare to a parable, and vtter my graue matter vpon the harpe.

Wherefore should I feare in the euil dayes, when iniquitie shall compasse me about, as at mine heeles?

They trust in their goods, and boast them selues in the multitude of their riches.

Yet a man can by no meanes redeeme his brother: he can not giue his raunsome to God,

(So precious is the redemption of their soules, and the continuance for euer)

That he may liue still for euer, and not see the graue.

For he seeth that wise men die, and also that the ignorant and foolish perish, and leaue their riches for others.

Yet they thinke, their houses, and their habitations shall continue for euer, euen from generation to generation, and call their lands by their names.

But man shall not continue in honour: he is like the beastes that die.

This their way vttereth their foolishnes: yet their posteritie delite in their talke. Selah.

Like sheepe they lie in graue: death deuoureth them, and the righteous shall haue domination ouer them in the morning: for their beautie shall consume, when they shall goe from their house to graue.

But God shall deliuer my soule from the power of the graue: for he will receiue me. Selah.

Be not thou afrayd when one is made rich, and when the glory of his house is increased.

For he shall take nothing away when he dieth, neither shall his pompe descende after him.

For while he liued, he reioyced himselfe: and men will prayse thee, when thou makest much of thy selfe.

He shall enter into the generation of his fathers, and they shall not liue for euer.

Man is in honour, and vnderstandeth not: he is like to beasts that perish.

A Psalme of Asaph. The God of Gods, euen the Lord hath spoken and called the earth from the rising vp of the sunne vnto the going downe thereof.

Out of Zion, which is the perfection of beautie, hath God shined.

Our God shall come and shall not keepe silence: a fire shall deuoure before him, and a mightie tempest shall be mooued round about him.

Hee shall call the heauen aboue, and the earth to iudge his people.

Gather my Saints together vnto me, those that make a couenant with me with sacrifice.

And the heauens shall declare his righteousnes: for God is iudge himselfe. Selah.

Heare, O my people, and I wil speake: heare, O Israel, and I wil testifie vnto thee: for I am God, euen thy God.

I wil not reproue thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt offerings, that haue not bene continually before me.

I will take no bullocke out of thine house, nor goates out of thy foldes.

For all the beastes of the forest are mine, and the beastes on a thousand mountaines.

I knowe all the foules on the mountaines: and the wilde beastes of the fielde are mine.

If I bee hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and all that therein is.

Will I eate the flesh of bulles? or drinke the blood of goates?

Offer vnto God praise, and pay thy vowes vnto the most High,

And call vpon me in the day of trouble: so will I deliuer thee, and thou shalt glorifie me.

But vnto the wicked said God, What hast thou to doe to declare mine ordinances, that thou shouldest take my couenant in thy mouth,

Seeing thou hatest to bee reformed, and hast cast my wordes behinde thee?

For when thou seest a thiefe, thou runnest with him, and thou art partaker with the adulterers.

Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.

Thou sittest, and speakest against thy brother, and slanderest thy mothers sonne.

These things hast thou done, and I held my tongue: therefore thou thoughtest that I was like thee: but I will reproue thee, and set them in order before thee.

Oh cosider this, ye that forget God, least I teare you in pieces, and there be none that can deliuer you.

He that offereth praise, shall glorifie mee: and to him, that disposeth his way aright, will I shew the saluation of God.

To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David, when the Prophet Nathan came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have mercie vpon me, O God, according to thy louing kindnes: according to the multitude of thy compassions put away mine iniquities.

Wash me throughly from mine iniquitie, and clense me from my sinne.

For I know mine iniquities, and my sinne is euer before me.

Against thee, against thee onely haue I sinned, and done euill in thy sight, that thou mayest be iust when thou speakest, and pure when thou iudgest.

Beholde, I was borne in iniquitie, and in sinne hath my mother conceiued me.

Beholde, thou louest trueth in the inwarde affections: therefore hast thou taught mee wisedome in the secret of mine heart.

Purge me with hyssope, and I shalbe cleane: wash me, and I shalbe whiter then snowe.

Make me to heare ioye and gladnes, that the bones, which thou hast broken, may reioyce.

Hide thy face from my sinnes, and put away all mine iniquities.

Create in mee a cleane heart, O God, and renue a right spirit within me.

Cast mee not away from thy presence, and take not thine holy Spirit from me.

Restore to me the ioy of thy saluation, and stablish me with thy free Spirit.

Then shall I teache thy wayes vnto the wicked, and sinners shalbe conuerted vnto thee.

Deliuer me from blood, O God, which art the God of my saluation, and my tongue shall sing ioyfully of thy righteousnes.

Open thou my lippes, O Lord, and my mouth shall shewe foorth thy praise.

For thou desirest no sacrifice, though I would giue it: thou delitest not in burnt offering.

The sacrifices of God are a contrite spirit: a contrite and a broken heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Bee fauourable vnto Zion for thy good pleasure: builde the walles of Ierusalem.

Then shalt thou accept ye sacrifices of righteousnes, euen the burnt offering and oblation: then shall they offer calues vpon thine altar.

To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid to giue instruction. When Doeg the Edomite came and shewed Saul, and saide to him, Dauid is come to the house of Abimelech. Why boastest thou thy selfe in thy wickednesse, O man of power? the louing kindenesse of God indureth dayly.

Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully.

Thou doest loue euill more then good, and lies more then to speake the trueth. Selah.

Thou louest all wordes that may destroye, O deceitfull tongue!

So shall God destroy thee for euer: he shall take thee and plucke thee out of thy tabernacle, and roote thee out of ye land of the liuing. Selah.

The righteous also shall see it, and feare, and shall laugh at him, saying,

Beholde the man that tooke not God for his strength, but trusted vnto the multitude of his riches, and put his strength in his malice.

But I shall bee like a greene oliue tree in the house of God: for I trusted in the mercie of God for euer and euer.

I will alway praise thee, for that thou hast done this, and I will hope in thy Name, because it is good before thy Saints.

To him that excelleth on Mahalath. A Psalme of David to give instruction. The foole hath saide in his heart, There is no God. they haue corrupted and done abominable wickednes: there is none that doeth good.

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

Euery one is gone backe: they are altogether corrupt: there is none that doth good, no not one.

Doe not the workers of iniquitie knowe that they eate vp my people as they eate bread? they call not vpon God.

There they were afraide for feare, where no feare was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that besieged thee: thou hast put them to confusion, because God hath cast them off.

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

To him that excelleth on Neginoth. A Psalme of David, to give instruction. When the Ziphims came and said unto Saul, Is not David hid among us? Save mee, O God, by thy Name, and by thy power iudge me.

O God, heare my prayer: hearken vnto the wordes of my mouth.

For strangers are risen vp against me, and tyrants seeke my soule: they haue not set God before them. Selah.

Beholde, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that vpholde my soule.

He shall rewarde euill vnto mine enemies: Oh cut them off in thy trueth!

Then I will sacrifice freely vnto thee: I wil praise thy Name, O Lord, because it is good.

For he hath deliuered me out of al trouble, and mine eye hath seene my desire vpon mine enemies.

To him that excelleth on Neginoth. A Psalme of David to give instruction. Heare my prayer, O God, and hide not thy selfe from my supplication.

Hearken vnto me, and answere me: I mourne in my prayer, and make a noyse,

For the voyce of the enemie, and for the vexation of ye wicked, because they haue brought iniquitie vpon me, and furiously hate me.

Mine heart trembleth within mee, and the terrours of death are fallen vpon me.

Feare and trembling are come vpon mee, and an horrible feare hath couered me.

And I said, Oh that I had wings like a doue: then would I flie away and rest.

Beholde, I woulde take my flight farre off, and lodge in the wildernes. Selah.

Hee would make haste for my deliuerance from the stormie winde and tempest.

Destroy, O Lord, and deuide their tongues: for I haue seene crueltie and strife in the citie.