The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

For thy sake haue I suffred reproofe: shame hath couered my face.

I am become a stranger vnto my brethren, euen an aliant vnto my mothers sonnes.

For the zeale of thine house hath eaten mee, and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee, are fallen vpon me.

I wept and my soule fasted, but that was to my reproofe.

I put on a sacke also: and I became a prouerbe vnto them.

They that sate in the gate, spake of mee, and the drunkards sang of me.

But Lord, I make my praier vnto thee in an acceptable time, euen in the multitude of thy mercie: O God, heare me in the trueth of thy saluation.

Deliuer mee out of the myre, that I sinke not: let me be deliuered from them that hate me, and out of the deepe waters.

Let not the water flood drowne mee, neither let the deepe swallowe me vp: and let not the pit shut her mouth vpon me.

Heare me, O Lord, for thy louing kindnes is good: turne vnto me according to ye multitude of thy tender mercies.

And hide not thy face from thy seruant, for I am in trouble: make haste and heare me.

Draw neere vnto my soule and redeeme it: deliuer me because of mine enemies.

Thou hast knowen my reproofe and my shame, and my dishonour: all mine aduersaries are before thee.

Rebuke hath broken mine heart, and I am full of heauinesse, and I looked for some to haue pitie on me, but there was none: and for comforters, but I found none.

For they gaue me gall in my meate, and in my thirst they gaue me vineger to drinke.

Let their table be a snare before them, and their prosperitie their ruine.

Let their eyes be blinded that they see not: and make their loynes alway to tremble.

Powre out thine anger vpon them, and let thy wrathfull displeasure take them.

Let their habitation be voide, and let none dwell in their tents.

For they persecute him, whome thou hast smitten: and they adde vnto the sorrowe of them, whome thou hast wounded.

Laie iniquitie vpon their iniquitie, and let them not come into thy righteousnesse.

Let them be put out of the booke of life, neither let them be written with the righteous.

When I am poore and in heauinesse, thine helpe, O God, shall exalt me.

I will praise the Name of God with a song, and magnifie him with thankesgiuing.

This also shall please the Lord better then a yong bullocke, that hath hornes and hoofes.

The humble shall see this, and they that seeke God, shalbe glad, and your heart shall liue.

For the Lord heareth the poore, and despiseth not his prisoners.

Let heauen and earth praise him: the seas and all that moueth in them.

For God will saue Zion, and builde the cities of Iudah, that men may dwell there and haue it in possession.

The seede also of his seruants shall inherit it: and they that loue his name, shall dwel therein.

To him excelleth. A Psalme of David to put in remembrance. O God, haste thee to deliuer mee: make haste to helpe me, O Lord.

Let them be confounded and put to shame, that seeke my soule: let them bee turned backewarde and put to rebuke, that desire mine hurt.

Let them be turned backe for a rewarde of their shame, which said, Aha, aha.

But let all those that seeke thee, be ioyfull and glad in thee, and let all that loue thy saluation, say alwaies, God be praised.

Nowe I am poore and needie: O God, make haste to me: thou art mine helper, and my deliuerer: O Lord, make no tarying.

In thee, O Lord, I trust: let me neuer be ashamed.

Rescue mee and deliuer me in thy righteousnes: incline thine eare vnto me and saue me.

Be thou my strong rocke, whereunto I may alway resort: thou hast giuen commandement to saue me: for thou art my rocke, and my fortresse.

Deliuer mee, O my God, out of the hande of the wicked: out of the hande of the euill and cruell man.

For thou art mine hope, O Lord God, euen my trust from my youth.

Vpon thee haue I beene stayed from the wombe: thou art he that tooke me out of my mothers bowels: my praise shalbe alwaies of thee.

I am become as it were a monster vnto many: but thou art my sure trust.

Let my mouth be filled with thy praise, and with thy glory euery day.

Cast mee not off in the time of age: forsake me not when my strength faileth.

For mine enemies speake of mee, and they that lay waite for my soule, take their counsell together,

Saying, God hath forsaken him: pursue and take him, for there is none to deliuer him.

Goe not farre from me, O God: my God, haste thee to helpe me.

Let them be confounded and consumed that are against my soule: let them be couered with reproofe and confusion, that seeke mine hurt.

But I will waite continually, and will praise thee more and more.

My mouth shall daily rehearse thy righteousnesse, and thy saluation: for I knowe not the nomber.

I will goe forwarde in the strength of the Lord God, and will make mention of thy righteousnesse, euen of thine onely.

O God, thou hast taught me from my youth euen vntill nowe: therefore will I tell of thy wonderous workes,

Yea, euen vnto mine olde age and graie head, O God: forsake me not, vntill I haue declared thine arme vnto this generation, and thy power to all them, that shall come.

And thy righteousnes, O God, I wil exalt on high: for thou hast done great thinges: O God, who is like vnto thee!

Which hast shewed me great troubles and aduersities, but thou wilt returne, and reuiue me, and wilt come againe, and take mee vp from the depth of the earth.

Thou wilt increase mine honour, and returne and comfort me.

Therefore will I praise thee for thy faithfulnesse, O God, vpon instrument and viole: vnto thee will I sing vpon the harpe, O Holy one of Israel.

My lippes will reioyce when I sing vnto thee, and my soule, which thou hast deliuered.

My tongue also shall talke of thy righteousnesse daily: for they are confounded and brought vnto shame, that seeke mine hurt.

A Psalme of Salomon. Give thy iudgements to the King, O God, and thy righteousnesse to the Kings sonne.

Then shall he iudge thy people in righteousnesse, and thy poore with equitie.

The mountaines and the hilles shall bring peace to the people by iustice.

He shall iudge the poore of the people: he shall saue the children of the needie, and shall subdue the oppressor.

They shall feare thee as long as the sunne and moone endureth, from generatio to generation.

He shall come downe like the rayne vpon the mowen grasse, and as the showres that water the earth.

In his dayes shall the righteous florish, and abundance of peace shalbe so long as the moone endureth.

His dominion shall be also from sea to sea, and from the Riuer vnto the endes of the land.

They that dwell in ye wildernes, shall kneele before him, and his enemies shall licke the dust.

The Kings of Tarshish and of the yles shall bring presents: the Kings of Sheba and Seba shall bring giftes.

Yea, all Kings shall worship him: all nations shall serue him.

For he shall deliuer the poore when he cryeth: the needie also, and him that hath no helper.

He shalbe mercifull to the poore and needie, and shall preserue the soules of the poore.

He shall redeeme their soules from deceite and violence, and deare shall their blood be in his sight.

Yea, he shall liue, and vnto him shall they giue of the golde of Sheba: they shall also pray for him continually, and dayly blesse him.

An handfull of corne shall be sowen in the earth, euen in the toppe of the mountaines, and the fruite thereof shall shake like the trees of Lebanon: and the children shall florish out of the citie like the grasse of the earth.

His name shall be for euer: his name shall indure as long as the sunne: all nations shall blesse him, and be blessed in him.

Blessed be the Lord God, euen the God of Israel, which onely doeth wonderous things.

And blessed be his glorious Name for euer: and let all the earth be filled with his glorie. So be it, euen so be it. HERE END THE prayers of Dauid, the sonne of Ishai.

A Psalme committed to Asaph. Yet God is good to Israel: euen, to the pure in heart.

As for me, my feete were almost gone: my steps had well neere slipt.

For I feared at the foolish, when I sawe the prosperitie of the wicked.

For there are no bandes in their death, but they are lustie and strong.

They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued with other men.

Therefore pride is as a chayne vnto them, and crueltie couereth them as a garment.

Their eyes stande out for fatnesse: they haue more then heart can wish.

They are licentious, and speake wickedly of their oppression: they talke presumptuously.

They set their mouth against heauen, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

Therefore his people turne hither: for waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

And they say, Howe doeth God know it? or is there knowledge in the most High?

Lo, these are the wicked, yet prosper they alway, and increase in riches.

Certainely I haue clensed mine heart in vaine, and washed mine hands in innocencie.

For dayly haue I bene punished, and chastened euery morning.

If I say, I will iudge thus, beholde the generation of thy children: I haue trespassed.

Then thought I to know this, but it was too painefull for me,

Vntill I went into the Sanctuarie of God: then vnderstoode I their ende.

Surely thou hast set them in slipperie places, and castest them downe into desolation.

How suddenly are they destroyed, perished and horribly consumed,

As a dreame when one awaketh! O Lord, when thou raisest vs vp, thou shalt make their image despised.

Certainely mine heart was vexed, and I was pricked in my reines:

So foolish was I and ignorant: I was a beast before thee.