The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

For thy louing kindnesse is better then life: therefore my lippes shall prayse thee.

Thus will I magnifie thee all my life, and lift vp mine hands in thy name.

My soule shalbe satisfied, as with marowe and fatnesse, and my mouth shall praise thee with ioyfull lippes,

When I remember thee on my bedde, and when I thinke vpon thee in the night watches.

Because thou hast bene mine helper, therefore vnder the shadow of thy wings wil I reioyce.

My soule cleaueth vnto thee: for thy right hand vpholdeth me.

Therefore they that seeke my soule to destroy it, they shall goe into the lowest partes of the earth.

They shall cast him downe with the edge of the sword, and they shall be a portion for foxes.

But the King shall reioyce in God, and all that sweare by him shall reioyce in him: for the mouth of them that speake lyes, shall be stopped.

To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David. Heare my voyce, O God, in my prayer: preserue my life from feare of the enemie.

Hide me from the conspiracie of the wicked, and from the rage of the workers of iniquitie.

Which haue whette their tongue like a sword, and shot for their arrowes bitter wordes.

To shoote at the vpright in secrete: they shoote at him suddenly, and feare not.

They encourage themselues in a wicked purpose: they commune together to lay snares priuilie, and say, Who shall see them?

They haue sought out iniquities, and haue accomplished that which they sought out, euen euery one his secret thoughtes, and the depth of his heart.

But God will shoote an arrowe at them suddenly: their strokes shalbe at once.

They shall cause their owne tongue to fall vpon them: and whosoeuer shall see them, shall flee away.

And all men shall see it, and declare the worke of God, and they shall vnderstand, what he hath wrought.

But the righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and trust in him: and all that are vpright of heart, shall reioyce.

To him that excelleth. A Psalme or song of David. O God, praise waiteth for thee in Zion, and vnto thee shall the vowe be perfourmed.

Because thou hearest the prayer, vnto thee shall all flesh come.

Wicked deedes haue preuailed against me: but thou wilt be mercifull vnto our transgressions.

Blessed is he, whom thou chusest and causest to come to thee: he shall dwell in thy courtes, and we shall be satisfied with the pleasures of thine House, euen of thine holy Temple.

O God of our saluation, thou wilt answere vs with fearefull signes in thy righteousnes, O thou the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are farre off in the sea.

He stablisheth the mountaines by his power: and is girded about with strength.

He appeaseth the noyse of the seas and the noyse of the waues thereof, and the tumults of the people.

They also, that dwell in the vttermost parts of the earth, shalbe afraide of thy signes: thou shalt make the East and the West to reioyce.

Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou makest it very riche: the Riuer of God is full of water: thou preparest them corne: for so thou appointest it.

Thou waterest abundantly the furrowes thereof: thou causest the raine to descende into the valleies thereof: thou makest it soft with showres, and blessest the bud thereof.

Thou crownest ye yeere with thy goodnesse, and thy steppes droppe fatnesse.

They drop vpon the pastures of the wildernesse: and the hils shalbe compassed with gladnes.

The pastures are clad with sheepe: the valleis also shalbe couered with corne: therefore they shoute for ioye, and sing.

To him that excelleth. A song or Psalme. Rejoice in God, all ye inhabitants of the earth.

Sing forth the glory of his name: make his praise glorious.

Say vnto God, Howe terrible art thou in thy workes! through the greatnesse of thy power shall thine enemies be in subiection vnto thee.

All the worlde shall worship thee, and sing vnto thee, euen sing of thy Name. Selah.

Come and beholde the workes of God: he is terrible in his doing towarde the sonnes of men.

He hath turned the Sea into drie land: they passe through the riuer on foote: there did we reioyce in him.

He ruleth the worlde with his power: his eyes beholde the nations: the rebellious shall not exalt them selues. Selah.

Prayse our God, ye people, and make the voyce of his prayse to be heard.

Which holdeth our soules in life, and suffereth not our feete to slippe.

For thou, O God, hast proued vs, thou hast tryed vs as siluer is tryed.

Thou hast brought vs into the snare, and layed a strait chaine vpon our loynes.

Thou hast caused men to ryde ouer our heads: we went into fire and into water, but thou broughtest vs out into a welthie place.

I will go into thine House with burnt offrings, and will pay thee my vowes,

Which my lippes haue promised, and my mouth hath spoken in mine affliction.

I will offer vnto thee the burnt offerings of fat rammes with incense: I will prepare bullocks and goates. Selah.

Come and hearken, all ye that feare God, and I will tell you what he hath done to my soule.

I called vnto him with my mouth, and he was exalted with my tongue.

If I regard wickednesse in mine heart, the Lord will not heare me.

But God hath heard me, and considered the voyce of my prayer.

Praysed be God, which hath not put backe my prayer, nor his mercie from me.

To him that excelleth on Neginoth. A Psalme or song. God be mercifull vnto vs, and blesse vs, and cause his face to shine among vs. Selah.

That they may know thy way vpon earth, and thy sauing health among all nations.

Let the people prayse thee, O God: let all the people prayse thee.

Let the people be glad and reioyce: for thou shalt iudge the people righteously, and gouerne the nations vpon the earth. Selah.

Let the people prayse thee, O God: let all the people prayse thee.

Then shall the earth bring foorth her increase, and God, euen our God shall blesse vs.

God shall blesse vs, and all the endes of the earth shall feare him.

To him that excelleth. A Psalme or song of David. God will arise, and his enemies shalbe scattered: they also that hate him, shall flee before him.

As the smoke vanisheth, so shalt thou driue them away: and as waxe melteth before the fire, so shall the wicked perish at the presence of God.

But the righteous shalbe glad, and reioyce before God: yea, they shall leape for ioye.

Sing vnto God, and sing prayses vnto his name: exalt him that rideth vpon the heauens, in his Name Iah, and reioyce before him.

He is a Father of the fatherlesse, and a Iudge of the widowes, euen God in his holy habitation.

God maketh the solitarie to dwell in families, and deliuereth them that were prisoners in stocks: but the rebellious shall dwell in a dry land.

O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people: when thou wentest through the wildernesse, (Selah)

The earth shooke, and the heauens dropped at the presence of this God: euen Sinai was moued at the presence of God, euen the God of Israel.

Thou, O God, sendest a gracious raine vpon thine inheritance, and thou didest refresh it when it was wearie.

Thy Congregation dwelled therein: for thou, O God, hast of thy goodnesse prepared it for the poore.

The Lord gaue matter to the women to tell of the great armie.

Kings of the armies did flee: they did flee, and she that remained in the house, deuided the spoyle.

Though ye haue lien among pots, yet shall ye be as the winges of a doue that is couered with siluer, and whose fethers are like yelowe golde.

When the Almightie scattered Kings in it, it was white as the snowe in Zalmon.

The mountaine of God is like the mountaine of Bashan: it is an high Mountaine, as mount Bashan.

Why leape ye, ye high mountaines? as for this Mountaine, God deliteth to dwell in it: yea, the Lord will dwell in it for euer.

The charets of God are twentie thousande thousand Angels, and the Lord is among them, as in the Sanctuarie of Sinai.

Thou art gone vp on high: thou hast led captiuitie captiue, and receiued giftes for men: yea, euen the rebellious hast thou led, that the Lord God might dwell there.

Praysed be the Lord, euen the God of our saluation, which ladeth vs dayly with benefites. Selah.

This is our God, euen the God that saueth vs: and to the Lord God belong the issues of death.

Surely God will wound the head of his enemies, and the hearie pate of him that walketh in his sinnes.

The Lord hath sayde, I will bring my people againe from Bashan: I will bring them againe from the depths of the Sea:

That thy foote may bee dipped in blood, and the tongue of thy dogges in the blood of the enemies, euen in it.

They haue seene, O God, thy goings, the goings of my God, and my King, which art in the Sanctuarie.

The singers went before, the players of instruments after: in the middes were the maides playing with timbrels.

Praise yee God in the assemblies, and the Lord, ye that are of the fountaine of Israel.

There was litle Beniamin with their ruler, and the princes of Iudah with their assemblie, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.

Thy God hath appointed thy strength: stablish, O God, that, which thou hast wrought in vs,

Out of thy Temple vpon Ierusalem: and Kings shall bring presents vnto thee.

Destroy the company of the spearemen, and multitude of the mightie bulles with the calues of the people, that tread vnder feete pieces of siluer: scatter the people that delite in warre.

Then shall the princes come out of Egypt: Ethiopia shall hast to stretche her hands vnto God.

Sing vnto God, O yee kingdomes of the earth: sing praise vnto the Lord, (Selah)

To him that rideth vpon ye most high heauens, which were from the beginning: beholde, he will send out by his voice a mightie sound.

Ascribe the power to God: for his maiestie is vpon Israel, and his strength is in the cloudes.

O God, thou art terrible out of thine holie places: the God of Israel is hee that giueth strength and power vnto the people: praised be God.

To him that excelleth upon Shoshannim. A Psalme of David. Save mee, O God: for the waters are entred euen to my soule.

I sticke fast in the deepe myre, where no staie is: I am come into deepe waters, and the streames runne ouer me.

I am wearie of crying: my throte is drie: mine eyes faile, whiles I waite for my God.

They that hate mee without a cause, are moe then the heares of mine heade: they that would destroy mee, and are mine enemies falsly, are mightie, so that I restored that which I tooke not.

O God, thou knowest my foolishnesse, and my fautes are not hid from thee.

Let not them that trust in thee, O Lord God of hostes, be ashamed for me: let not those that seeke thee, be confounded through mee, O God of Israel.