The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

For lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee, haue lifted vp the head.

They haue taken craftie counsell against thy people, and haue consulted against thy secret ones.

They haue said, Come and let vs cut them off from being a nation: and let the name of Israel be no more in remembrance.

For they haue consulted together in heart, and haue made a league against thee:

The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Agarims:

Gebal and Ammon, and Amalech, the Philistims with the inhabitants of Tyrus:

Asshur also is ioyned with them: they haue bene an arme to the children of Lot. Selah.

Doe thou to them as vnto the Midianites: as to Sisera and as to Iabin at the riuer of Kishon.

They perished at En-dor, and were dung for the earth.

Make them, euen their princes like Oreb and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes like Zebah and like Zalmuna.

Which haue said, Let vs take for our possession the habitations of God.

O my God, make them like vnto a wheele, and as the stubble before the winde.

As the fire burneth the forest, and as the flame setteth the mountaines on fire:

So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraide with thy storme.

Fill their faces with shame, that they may seeke thy Name, O Lord.

Let them be confounded and troubled for euer: yea, let them be put to shame and perish,

That they may knowe that thou, which art called Iehouah, art alone, euen the most High ouer all the earth.

To him that excelleth upon Gittith. A Psalme committed to the sonnes of Korah. O Lord of hostes, howe amiable are thy Tabernacles!

My soule longeth, yea, and fainteth for the courtes of the Lord: for mine heart and my flesh reioyce in the liuing God.

Yea, the sparrowe hath found her an house, and the swallow a nest for her, where she may lay her yong: euen by thine altars, O Lord of hostes, my King and my God.

Blessed are they that dwell in thine house: they will euer praise thee. Selah.

Blessed is the man, whose strength is in thee, and in whose heart are thy wayes.

They going through the vale of Baca, make welles therein: the raine also couereth the pooles.

They goe from strength to strength, till euery one appeare before God in Zion.

O Lord God of hostes, heare my prayer: hearken, O God of Iaakob. Selah.

Beholde, O God, our shielde, and looke vpon the face of thine Anointed.

For a day in thy courtes is better then a thousand other where: I had rather be a doore keeper in the House of my God, then to dwell in the Tabernacles of wickednesse.

For the Lord God is the sunne and shielde vnto vs: the Lord will giue grace and glory, and no good thing will he withhold from them that walke vprightly.

O Lord of hostes, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

To him that excelleth. A Psalme committed to the sonnes of Korah. Lord, thou hast bene fauourable vnto thy land: thou hast brought againe the captiuitie of Iaakob.

Thou hast forgiuen the iniquitie of thy people, and couered all their sinnes. Selah.

Thou hast withdrawen all thine anger, and hast turned backe from the fiercenes of thy wrath.

Turne vs, O God of our saluation, and release thine anger toward vs.

Wilt thou be angry with vs for euer? and wilt thou prolong thy wrath from one generation to another?

Wilt thou not turne againe and quicken vs, that thy people may reioyce in thee?

Shew vs thy mercie, O Lord, and graunt vs thy saluation.

I will hearken what the Lord God will say: for he will speake peace vnto his people, and to his Saintes, that they turne not againe to follie.

Surely his saluation is neere to them that feare him, that glory may dwell in our land.

Mercie and trueth shall meete: righteousnes and peace shall kisse one another.

Trueth shall bud out of the earth, and righteousnes shall looke downe from heauen.

Yea, the Lord shall giue good things, and our land shall giue her increase.

Righteousnesse shall go before him, and shall set her steps in the way.

A prayer of David. Incline thine eare, O Lord, and heare me: for I am poore and needy.

Preserue thou my soule, for I am mercifull: my God, saue thou thy seruant, that trusteth in thee.

Be mercifull vnto me, O Lord: for I crie vpon thee continually.

Reioyce the soule of thy seruant: for vnto thee, O Lord, doe I lift vp my soule.

For thou, Lord, art good and mercifull, and of great kindenes vnto all them, that call vpon thee.

Giue eare, Lord, vnto my prayer, and hearken to the voyce of my supplication.

In the day of my trouble I will call vpon thee: for thou hearest me.

Among the gods there is none like thee, O Lord, and there is none that can doe like thy workes.

All nations, whome thou hast made, shall come and worship before thee, O Lord, and shall glorifie thy Name.

For thou art great and doest wonderous things: thou art God alone.

Teach me thy way, O Lord, and I will walke in thy trueth: knit mine heart vnto thee, that I may feare thy Name.

I wil prayse thee, O Lord my God, with all mine heart: yea, I wil glorifie thy Name for euer.

For great is thy mercie toward me, and thou hast deliuered my soule from the lowest graue.

O God, the proude are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men haue sought my soule, and haue not set thee before them.

But thou, O Lord, art a pitifull God and mercifull, slowe to anger and great in kindenes and trueth.

Turne vnto me, and haue mercy vpon me: giue thy strength vnto thy seruant, and saue the sonne of thine handmayd.

Shew a token of thy goodnes towarde me, that they which hate me, may see it, and be ashamed, because thou, O Lord, hast holpen me and comforted me.

A Psalme or song committed to the sonnes of Korah. God layde his foundations among the holy mountaines.

The Lord loueth the gates of Zion aboue all the habitations of Iaakob.

Glorious things are spoken of thee, O citie of God. Selah.

I will make mention of Rahab and Babel among them that knowe me: beholde Palestina and Tyrus with Ethiopia, There is he borne.

And of Zion it shall be sayde, Many are borne in her: and he, euen the most High shall stablish her.

The Lord shall count, when hee writeth the people, He was borne there. Selah.

Aswell the singers as the players on instruments shall prayse thee: all my springs are in thee.

A song or Psalme of Heman the Ezrahite to give instruction, committed to the sonnes of Korah for him that excelleth upon Malath Leannoth. O Lord God of my saluation, I cry day and night before thee.

Let my prayer enter into thy presence: incline thine eare vnto my cry.

For my soule is filled with euils, and my life draweth neere to the graue.

I am counted among them that go downe vnto the pit, and am as a man without strength:

Free among the dead, like the slaine lying in the graue, whome thou remembrest no more, and they are cut off from thine hand.

Thou hast layde me in the lowest pit, in darkenes, and in the deepe.

Thine indignation lyeth vpon me, and thou hast vexed me with all thy waues. Selah.

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance farre from me, and made mee to be abhorred of them: I am shut vp, and cannot get foorth.

Mine eye is sorowfull through mine affliction: Lord, I call dayly vpon thee: I stretch out mine hands vnto thee.

Wilt thou shewe a miracle to the dead? or shall the dead rise and prayse thee? Selah.

Shall thy louing kindenes be declared in the graue? or thy faithfulnes in destruction?

Shall thy wonderous workes be knowen in the darke? and thy righteousnes in the land of obliuion?

But vnto thee haue I cryed, O Lord, and early shall my prayer come before thee.

Lord, why doest thou reiect my soule, and hidest thy face from me?

I am afflicted and at the point of death: from my youth I suffer thy terrours, doubting of my life.

Thine indignations goe ouer me, and thy feare hath cut me off.

They came round about me dayly like water, and compassed me together.

My louers and friends hast thou put away from me, and mine acquaintance hid themselues.

A Psalme to give instruction, of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing the mercies of the Lord for euer: with my mouth will I declare thy trueth from generation to generation.

For I said, Mercie shalbe set vp for euer: thy trueth shalt thou stablish in ye very heauens.

I haue made a couenant with my chosen: I haue sworne to Dauid my seruant,

Thy seede will I stablish for euer, and set vp thy throne from generation to generation. Selah.

O Lord, euen the heauens shall prayse thy wonderous worke: yea, thy trueth in the Congregation of the Saints.

For who is equall to the Lord in the heauen? and who is like the Lord among the sonnes of the gods?

God is very terrible in the assemblie of the Saints, and to be reuerenced aboue all, that are about him.

O Lord God of hostes, who is like vnto thee, which art a mightie Lord, and thy trueth is about thee?

Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waues thereof arise, thou stillest them.

Thou hast beaten downe Rahab as a man slaine: thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy mightie arme.

The heauens are thine, the earth also is thine: thou hast layde the foundation of the world, and all that therein is.

Thou hast created the North and the South: Tabor and Hermon shall reioyce in thy Name.

Thou hast a mightie arme: strong is thine hand, and high is thy right hand.

Righteousnesse and equitie are the stablishment of thy throne: mercy and trueth goe before thy face.

Blessed is the people, that can reioyce in thee: they shall walke in the light of thy countenance, O Lord.

They shall reioyce continually in thy Name, and in thy righteousnes shall they exalt them selues.