The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

Yet I was alway with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.

Thou wilt guide me by thy counsell, and afterward receiue me to glory.

Whom haue I in heauen but thee? and I haue desired none in the earth with thee.

My flesh fayleth and mine heart also: but God is the strength of mine heart, and my portion for euer.

For loe, they that withdrawe themselues from thee, shall perish: thou destroyest all them that goe a whoring from thee.

As for me, it is good for me to draw neere to God: therefore I haue put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy workes.

A Psalme to give instruction, committed to Asaph. O God, why hast thou put vs away for euer? why is thy wrath kindled against the sheepe of thy pasture?

Thinke vpon thy Congregation, which thou hast possessed of olde, and on the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed, and on this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

Lift vp thy strokes, that thou mayest for euer destroy euery enemie that doeth euill to the Sanctuarie.

Thine aduersaries roare in the middes of thy Congregation, and set vp their banners for signes.

He that lifted the axes vpon the thicke trees, was renowmed, as one, that brought a thing to perfection:

But nowe they breake downe the carued worke thereof with axes and hammers.

They haue cast thy Sanctuarie into the fire, and rased it to the grounde, and haue defiled the dwelling place of thy Name.

They saide in their hearts, Let vs destroy them altogether: they haue burnt all the Synagogues of God in the land.

We see not our signes: there is not one Prophet more, nor any with vs that knoweth howe long.

O God, howe long shall the aduersarie reproche thee? shall the enemie blaspheme thy Name for euer?

Why withdrawest thou thine hand, euen thy right hand? drawe it out of thy bosome, and consume them.

Euen God is my King of olde, working saluation in the middes of the earth.

Thou didest deuide the sea by thy power: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

Thou brakest the head of Liuiathan in pieces, and gauest him to be meate for the people in wildernesse.

Thou brakest vp the fountaine and riuer: thou dryedst vp mightie riuers.

The day is thine, and the night is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sunne.

Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

Remember this, that the enemie hath reproched the Lord, and the foolish people hath blasphemed thy Name.

Giue not the soule of thy turtle doue vnto the beast, and forget not the Congregation of thy poore for euer.

Consider thy couenant: for the darke places of the earth are full of the habitations of the cruell.

Oh let not the oppressed returne ashamed, but let the poore and needie prayse thy Name.

Arise, O God: mainteine thine owne cause: remember thy dayly reproche by the foolish man.

Forget not the voyce of thine enemies: for the tumult of them, that rise against thee, ascendeth continually.

To him that excelleth. Destroy not. A Psalme or song committed toAsaph. We will prayse thee, O God, we will prayse thee, for thy Name is neere: therefore they will declare thy wonderous workes.

When I shall take a conuenient time, I will iudge righteously.

The earth and all the inhabitantes thereof are dissolued: but I will establish the pillars of it. Selah.

I saide vnto the foolish, Be not so foolish, and to the wicked, Lift not vp the horne.

Lift not vp your horne on high, neither speake with a stiffe necke.

For to come to preferment is neither from the East, nor from the West, nor from the South,

But God is the iudge: he maketh lowe and he maketh hie.

For in the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full mixt, and he powreth out of the same: surely all the wicked of the earth shall wring out and drinke the dregges thereof.

But I will declare for euer, and sing prayses vnto the God of Iaakob.

All the hornes of the wicked also will I breake: but the hornes of the righteous shalbe exalted.

To him that excelleth on Neginoth. A Psalme or song committed to Asaph. God is knowen in Iudah: his Name is great in Israel.

For in Shalem is his Tabernacle, and his dwelling in Zion.

There brake he the arrowes of the bowe, the shielde and the sword and the battell. Selah.

Thou art more bright and puissant, then the mountaines of pray.

The stout hearted are spoyled: they haue slept their sleepe, and all the men of strength haue not found their hands.

At thy rebuke, O God of Iaakob, both the chariot and horse are cast a sleepe.

Thou, euen thou art to be feared: and who shall stand in thy sight, when thou art angrie!

Thou didest cause thy iudgement to bee heard from heauen: therefore the earth feared and was still,

When thou, O God, arose to iudgement, to helpe all the meeke of the earth. Selah.

Surely the rage of man shall turne to thy praise: the remnant of the rage shalt thou restrayne.

Vowe and performe vnto the Lord your God, all ye that be rounde about him: let them bring presents vnto him that ought to be feared.

He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the Kings of the earth.

For the excellent musician Ieduthun. A Psalme committed to Asaph. My voyce came to God, when I cryed: my voyce came to God, and he heard me.

In the day of my trouble I sought ye Lord: my sore ranne and ceased not in the night: my soule refused comfort.

I did thinke vpon God, and was troubled: I praied, and my spirit was full of anguish. Selah.

Thou keepest mine eyes waking: I was astonied and could not speake.

Then I considered the daies of olde, and the yeeres of ancient time.

I called to remembrance my song in the night: I communed with mine owne heart, and my spirit searched diligently.

Will the Lord absent him selfe for euer? and will he shewe no more fauour?

Is his mercie cleane gone for euer? doeth his promise faile for euermore?

Hath God forgotten to be mercifull? hath he shut vp his teder mercies in displeasure? Selah.

And I sayde, This is my death: yet I remembred the yeeres of the right hand of the most High.

I remembred the workes of the Lord: certainely I remembred thy wonders of olde.

I did also meditate all thy woorkes, and did deuise of thine actes, saying,

Thy way, O God, is in the Sanctuarie: who is so great a God as our God!

Thou art ye God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy power among the people.

Thou hast redeemed thy people with thine arme, euen the sonnes of Iaakob and Ioseph. Selah.

The waters sawe thee, O God: the waters sawe thee, and were afraide: yea, the depths trembled.

The cloudes powred out water: the heauens gaue a sounde: yea, thine arrowes went abroade.

The voyce of thy thunder was rounde about: the lightnings lightened the worlde: the earth trembled and shooke.

Thy way is in the Sea, and thy paths in the great waters, and thy footesteps are not knowen.

Thou diddest leade thy people like sheepe by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

A Psalme to give instruction committed to Asaph. Heare my doctrine, O my people: incline your eares vnto the wordes of my mouth.

I will open my mouth in a parable: I will declare high sentences of olde.

Which we haue heard and knowen, and our fathers haue tolde vs.

Wee will not hide them from their children but to the generation to come we wil shewe the praises of the Lord his power also, and his wonderful woorkes that he hath done:

How he established a testimonie in Iaakob, and ordeined a Law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they shoulde teache their children:

That the posteritie might knowe it, and the children, which should be borne, should stand vp, and declare it to their children:

That they might set their hope on God, and not forget the workes of God but keepe his commandements:

And not to bee as their fathers, a disobedient and rebellious generation: a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirite was not faithfull vnto God.

The children of Ephraim being armed and shooting with the bowe, turned backe in the day of battell.

They kept not the couenant of God, but refused to walke in his Lawe,

And forgate his Actes, and his wonderfull woorkes that he had shewed them.

Hee did marueilous thinges in the sight of their fathers in the lande of Egypt: euen in the fielde of Zoan.

He deuided the Sea, and led them through: he made also the waters to stand as an heape.

In the day time also hee led them with a cloude, and all the night with a light of fire.

He claue the rockes in the wildernes, and gaue them drinke as of the great depths.

He brought floods also out of the stonie rocke; so that hee made the waters to descend like the riuers.

Yet they sinned stil against him, and prouoked the Highest in the wildernesse,

And tempted God in their heartes in requiring meate for their lust.

They spake against God also, saying, Can God prepare a table in the wildernesse?

Behold, he smote the rocke, that the water gushed out, and the streames ouerflowed: can hee giue bread also? or prepare flesh for his people?

Therefore the Lord heard and was angrie, and the fire was kindled in Iaakob, and also wrath came vpon Israel,

Because they beleeued not in God, and trusted not in his helpe.

Yet he had comanded the clouds aboue, and had opened the doores of heauen,

And had rained downe MAN vpon them for to eate, and had giuen them of the wheate of heauen.

Man did eate the bread of Angels: hee sent them meate ynough.

He caused the Eastwinde to passe in the heauen, and through his power he brought in the Southwinde.

Hee rained flesh also vpon them as dust, and feathered foule as the sand of the sea.

And hee made it fall in the middes of their campe euen round about their habitations.

So they did eate and were well filled: for he gaue them their desire.