The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

Day and night they goe about it vpon the walles thereof: both iniquitie and mischiefe are in the middes of it.

Wickednes is in the middes thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streetes.

Surely mine enemie did not defame mee: for I could haue borne it: neither did mine aduersarie exalt himselfe against mee: for I would haue hid me from him.

But it was thou, O man, euen my companion, my guide and my familiar:

Which delited in consulting together, and went into the House of God as companions.

Let death sense vpon them: let them goe downe quicke into the graue: for wickednes is in their dwellings, euen in the middes of them.

But I will call vnto God, and the Lord will saue me.

Euening and morning, and at noone will I pray, and make a noyse, and he wil heare my voice.

He hath deliuered my soule in peace from the battel, that was against me: for many were with me.

God shall heare and afflict them, euen hee that reigneth of olde, Selah. because they haue no changes, therefore they feare not God.

Hee layed his hande vpon such, as be at peace with him, and he brake his couenant.

The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his words were more gentle then oyle, yet they were swordes.

Cast thy burden vpon the Lord, and hee shall nourish thee: he wil not suffer the righteous to fall for euer.

And thou, O God, shalt bring them downe into the pitte of corruption: the bloudie, and deceitfull men shall not liue halfe their dayes: but I will trust in thee.

To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David on Michtam, concerning the dumme doue in a farre countrey, when the Philistims tooke him in Gath. Be mercifull vnto me, O God, for man would swallow me vp: he fighteth continually and vexeth me.

Mine enemies would dayly swallowe mee vp: for many fight against me, O thou most High.

When I was afrayd, I trusted in thee.

I will reioyce in God, because of his word, I trust in God, and will not feare what flesh can doe vnto me.

Mine owne wordes grieue me dayly: all their thoughtes are against me to doe me hurt.

They gather together, and keepe them selues close: they marke my steps, because they waite for my soule.

They thinke they shall escape by iniquitie: O God, cast these people downe in thine anger.

Thou hast counted my wandrings: put my teares into thy bottel: are they not in thy register?

When I cry, then mine enemies shall turne backe: this I know, for God is with me.

I will reioyce in God because of his worde: in the Lord wil I reioyce because of his worde.

In God doe I trust: I will not be afrayd what man can doe vnto me.

Thy vowes are vpon me, O God: I will render prayses vnto thee.

For thou hast deliuered my soule from death, and also my feete from falling, that I may walke before God in the light of the liuing.

To him that excelleth. Destroy not. A Psalme of David on Michtam. When he fled from Saul in the cave. Have mercie vpon me, O God, haue mercie vpon me: for my soule trusteth in thee, and in the shadowe of thy wings wil I trust, till these afflictions ouerpasse.

I will call vnto the most high God, euen to the God, that performeth his promise toward me.

He will send from heauen, and saue me from the reproofe of him that would swallowe me. Selah. God wil send his mercy, and his trueth.

My soule is among lions: I lie among the children of men, that are set on fire: whose teeth are speares and arrowes, and their tongue a sharpe sworde.

Exalt thy selfe, O God, aboue the heauen, and let thy glory be vpon all the earth.

They haue layd a net for my steps: my soule is pressed downe: they haue digged a pit before me, and are fallen into the mids of it. Selah.

Mine heart is prepared, O God, mine heart is prepared: I will sing and giue prayse.

Awake my tongue, awake viole and harpe: I wil awake early.

I will prayse thee, O Lord, among the people, and I wil sing vnto thee among the nations.

For thy mercie is great vnto the heauens, and thy trueth vnto the cloudes.

Exalt thy selfe, O God, aboue the heauens, and let thy glory be vpon all the earth.

To him that excelleth. Destroy not. A Psalme of David on Michtam. Is it true? O Congregation, speake ye iustly? O sonnes of men, iudge ye vprightly?

Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands execute crueltie vpon the earth.

The wicked are strangers from ye wombe: euen from the belly haue they erred, and speake lyes.

Their poyson is euen like the poyson of a serpent: like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare.

Which heareth not the voyce of the inchanter, though he be most expert in charming.

Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouthes: breake the iawes of the yong lions, O Lord.

Let them melt like the waters, let them passe away: when hee shooteth his arrowes, let them be as broken.

Let them consume like a snayle that melteth, and like the vntimely fruite of a woman, that hath not seene the sunne.

As raw flesh before your pots feele the fire of thornes: so let him cary them away as with a whirlewinde in his wrath.

The righteous shall reioyce when he seeeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feete in the blood of the wicked.

And men shall say, Verily there is fruite for the righteous: doutlesse there is a God that iudgeth in the earth.

To him that excelleth. Destroy not. A Psalme of David on Michtam. When Saul sent and they did watch the house to kill him. O my God, deliuer mee from mine enemies: defend me from them that rise vp against me.

Deliuer me from the wicked doers, and saue me from the bloody men.

For loe, they haue layd waite for my soule: the mightie men are gathered against me, not for mine offence, nor for my sinne, O Lord.

They runne and prepare themselues without a fault on my part: arise therefore to assist me, and beholde.

Euen thou, O Lord God of hostes, O God of Israel awake to visit all the heathen, and be not merciful vnto all that transgresse maliciously. Selah.

They goe to and from in the euening: they barke like dogs, and goe about the citie.

Behold, they brag in their talke, and swords are in their lips: for, Who, say they, doeth heare?

But thou, O Lord, shalt haue them in derision, and thou shalt laugh at all the heathen.

He is strong: but I will waite vpon thee: for God is my defence.

My mercifull God will preuent me: God wil let me see my desire vpon mine enemies.

Slay them not, least my people forget it: but scatter them abroad by thy power, and put them downe, O Lord our shield,

For the sinne of their mouth, and the words of their lips: and let them be taken in their pride, euen for their periurie and lies, that they speake.

Consume them in thy wrath: consume them that they be no more: and let them knowe that God ruleth in Iaakob, euen vnto the ends of the world. Selah.

And in the euening they shall go to and from, and barke like dogs, and go about the citie.

They shall runne here and there for meate: and surely they shall not be satisfied, though they tary all night.

But I wil sing of thy power, and will prayse thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast bene my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Vnto thee, O my Strength, wil I sing: for God is my defence, and my mercifull God.

To him that excelleth upon Shushan Eduth, or Michtam. A Psalme of David to teach. When he fought against Aram Naharaim, and against Aram Zobah, when Joab returned and slew twelve thousand Edomites in the salt valley. O God, thou hast cast vs out, thou hast scattered vs, thou hast bene angry, turne againe vnto vs.

Thou hast made the land to tremble, and hast made it to gape: heale the breaches thereof, for it is shaken.

Thou hast shewed thy people heauy things: thou hast made vs to drinke the wine of giddines.

But now thou hast giuen a banner to them that feare thee, that it may be displayed because of thy trueth. Selah.

That thy beloued may be deliuered, helpe with thy right hand and heare me.

God hath spoken in his holines: therefore I will reioyce: I shall deuide Shechem, and measure the valley of Succoth.

Gilead shalbe mine, and Manasseh shalbe mine: Ephraim also shalbe the strength of mine head: Iudah is my lawgiuer.

Moab shalbe my wash pot: ouer Edom will I cast out my shoe: Palestina shew thy selfe ioyfull for me.

Who will leade me into the strong citie? who will bring me vnto Edom?

Wilt not thou, O God, which hadest cast vs off, and didest not go forth, O God, with our armies?

Giue vs helpe against trouble: for vaine is the helpe of man.

Through God we shall doe valiantly: for he shall tread downe our enemies.

To him that excelleth on Neginoth. A Psalme of David. Heare my cry, O God: giue eare vnto my prayer.

From the endes of the earth will I crye vnto thee: when mine heart is opprest, bring me vpon the rocke that is higher then I.

For thou hast bene mine hope, and a strong tower against the enemie.

I will dwell in thy Tabernacle for euer, and my trust shall be vnder the couering of thy wings. Selah.

For thou, O God, hast heard my desires: thou hast giuen an heritage vnto those that feare thy Name.

Thou shalt giue the King a long life: his yeeres shalbe as many ages.

Hee shall dwell before God for euer: prepare mercie and faithfulnes that they may preserue him.

So will I alway sing prayse vnto thy Name in performing dayly my vowes.

To the excelletn musician Ieduthun. A Psalme of David. Yet my soule keepeth silence vnto God: of him commeth my saluation.

Yet he is my strength and my saluation, and my defence: therefore I shall not much be mooued.

How long wil ye imagine mischiefe against a man? ye shalbe all slaine: ye shalbe as a bowed wall, or as a wall shaken.

Yet they consult to cast him downe from his dignitie: their delight is in lies, they blesse with their mouthes, but curse with their hearts. Selah.

Yet my soule keepe thou silence vnto God: for mine hope is in him.

Yet is hee my strength, and my saluation, and my defence: therefore I shall not be mooued.

In God is my saluation and my glory, the rocke of my strength: in God is my trust.

Trust in him alway, ye people: powre out your hearts before him, for God is our hope. Selah.

Yet the children of men are vanitie, the chiefe men are lies: to lay them vpon a balance they are altogether lighter then vanitie.

Trust not in oppression nor in robberie: be not vaine: if riches increase, set not your heart thereon.

God spake once or twise, I haue heard it, that power belongeth vnto God,

And to thee, O Lord, mercie: for thou rewardest euery one according to his worke.

A Psalme of David. When he was in the wildernesse of Judah. O God, thou art my God, earely will I seeke thee: my soule thirsteth for thee: my flesh longeth greatly after thee in a barren and drye land without water.

Thus I beholde thee as in the Sanctuarie, when I beholde thy power and thy glorie.