The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

A song or Psalme of David. O God, mine heart is prepared, so is my tongue: I will sing and giue praise.

Awake viole and harpe: I will awake early.

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

For thy mercy is great aboue the heauens, and thy trueth vnto the clouds.

Exalt thy self, O God, aboue the heauens, and let thy glorie be vpon all the earth,

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

God hath spoken in his holinesse: 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: Iuda is my lawgiuer.

Moab shalbe my washpot: ouer Edom wil I cast out my shoe: vpon Palestina wil I triumph.

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

Wilt not thou, O God, which haddest forsaken vs, and diddest not goe foorth, 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 treade downe our enemies.

To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David. Holde not thy tongue, O God of my praise.

For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth full of deceite are opened vpon me: they haue spoken to me with a lying tongue.

They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

For my friendship they were mine aduersaries, but I gaue my selfe to praier.

And they haue rewarded me euil for good, and hatred for my friendship.

Set thou the wicked ouer him, and let the aduersarie stand at his right hand.

Whe he shalbe iudged, let him be condemned, and let his praier be turned into sinne.

Let his daies be fewe, and let another take his charge.

Let his children be fatherlesse, and his wife a widowe.

Let his children be vagabonds and beg and seeke bread, comming out of their places destroyed.

Let the extortioner catch al that he hath, and let the strangers spoile his labour.

Let there be none to extend mercie vnto him: neither let there be any to shewe mercie vpon his fatherlesse children.

Let his posteritie be destroied, and in the generation following let their name be put out.

Let the iniquitie of his fathers bee had in remembrance with the Lord: and let not the sinne of his mother be done away.

But let them alway be before the Lord, that he may cut off their memorial from ye earth.

Because he remembred not to shew mercie, but persecuted the afflicted and poore man, and the sorowfull hearted to slay him.

As he loued cursing, so shall it come vnto him, and as he loued not blessing, so shall it be farre from him.

As he clothed himselfe with cursing like a rayment, so shall it come into his bowels like water, and like oyle into his bones.

Let it be vnto him as a garment to couer him, and for a girdle, wherewith he shalbe alway girded.

Let this be the rewarde of mine aduersarie from the Lord, and of them, that speake euill against my soule.

But thou, O Lord my God, deale with me according vnto thy Name: deliuer me, (for thy mercie is good)

Because I am poore and needie, and mine heart is wounded within me.

I depart like the shadowe that declineth, and am shaken off as the grashopper.

My knees are weake through fasting, and my flesh hath lost all fatnes.

I became also a rebuke vnto them: they that looked vpon me, shaked their heads.

Helpe me, O Lord my God: saue me according to thy mercie.

And they shall know, that this is thine hand, and that thou, Lord, hast done it.

Though they curse, yet thou wilt blesse: they shall arise and be confounded, but thy seruant shall reioyce.

Let mine aduersaries be clothed with shame, and let them couer themselues with their confusion, as with a cloke.

I will giue thankes vnto the Lord greatly with my mouth and praise him among ye multitude.

For he will stand at the right hand of the poore, to saue him from them that woulde condemne his soule.

A Psalme of David. The Lord said vnto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, vntill I make thine enemies thy footestoole.

The Lord shall send the rod of thy power out of Zion: be thou ruler in the middes of thine enemies.

Thy people shall come willingly at the time of assembling thine armie in holy beautie: the youth of thy wombe shalbe as the morning dewe.

The Lord sware and wil not repent, Thou art a Priest for euer after ye order of Melchi-zedek.

The Lord, that is at thy right hand, shall wound Kings in the day of his wrath.

He shalbe iudge among the heathen: he shall fill all with dead bodies, and smite the head ouer great countreis.

He shall drinke of the brooke in the way: therefore shall he lift vp his head.

Praise ye the Lord. I will prayse the Lord with my whole heart in the assemblie and Congregation of the iust.

The workes of the Lord are great, and ought to be sought out of al them that loue them.

His worke is beautifull and glorious, and his righteousnesse endureth for euer.

He hath made his wonderfull workes to be had in remembrance: the Lord is mercifull and full of compassion.

He hath giuen a portion vnto them that feare him: he wil euer be mindfull of his couenant.

He hath shewed to his people the power of his workes in giuing vnto them the heritage of the heathen.

The workes of his handes are trueth and iudgement: all his statutes are true.

They are stablished for euer and euer, and are done in trueth and equitie.

He sent redemption vnto his people: he hath commanded his couenant for euer: holy and fearefull is his Name.

The beginning of wisedome is the feare of the Lord: all they that obserue them, haue good vnderstanding: his praise endureth for euer.

Praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man, that feareth the Lord, and deliteth greatly in his commandements.

His seede shall be mightie vpon earth: the generation of the righteous shall be blessed.

Riches and treasures shalbe in his house, and his righteousnesse endureth for euer.

Vnto the righteous ariseth light in darkenes: he is merciful and full of copassion and righteous.

A good man is mercifull and lendeth, and will measure his affaires by iudgement.

Surely he shall neuer be moued: but the righteous shalbe had in euerlasting remembrance.

He will not be afraide of euill tidings: for his heart is fixed, and beleeueth in the Lord.

His heart is stablished: therefore he will not feare, vntill he see his desire vpon his enemies.

He hath distributed and giuen to ye poore: his righteousnesse remaineth for euer: his horne shalbe exalted with glory.

The wicked shall see it and be angrie: he shall gnash with his teeth, and consume away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

Praise ye the Lord. Praise, O ye seruants of the Lord, prayse the Name of the Lord.

Blessed be the Name of the Lord from hencefoorth and for euer.

The Lordes Name is praysed from the rising of ye sunne, vnto ye going downe of the same.

The Lord is high aboue all nations, and his glorie aboue the heauens.

Who is like vnto the Lord our God, that hath his dwelling on high!

Who abaseth himselfe to beholde things in the heauen and in the earth!

He raiseth the needie out of the dust, and lifteth vp the poore out of the dung,

That he may set him with the princes, euen with the princes of his people.

He maketh the barren woman to dwell with a familie, and a ioyfull mother of children. Prayse ye the Lord.

When Israel went out of Egypt, and the house of Iaakob from the barbarous people,

Iudah was his sanctification, and Israel his dominion.

The Sea sawe it and fled: Iorden was turned backe.

The mountaines leaped like rams, and the hils as lambes.

What ailed thee, O Sea, that thou fleddest? O Iorden, why wast thou turned backe?

Ye mountaines, why leaped ye like rams, and ye hils as lambes?

The earth trembled at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Iaakob,

Which turneth the rocke into waterpooles, and the flint into a fountaine of water.

Not vnto vs, O Lord, not vnto vs, but vnto thy Name giue the glorie, for thy louing mercie and for thy truethes sake.

Wherefore shall the heathen say, Where is nowe their God?

But our God is in heauen: he doeth what so euer he will.

Their idoles are siluer and golde, euen the worke of mens hands.

They haue a mouth and speake not: they haue eyes and see not.

They haue eares and heare not: they haue noses and smelll not.

They haue handes and touche not: they haue feete and walke not: neither make they a sound with their throte.

They that make them are like vnto them: so are all that trust in them.

O Israel, trust thou in the Lord: for he is their helpe and their shielde.

O house of Aaron, trust ye in the Lord: for he is their helpe and their shielde.

Ye that feare the Lord, trust in the Lord: for he is their helper and their shield.

The Lord hath bene mindfull of vs: he will blesse, he will blesse the house of Israel, he will blesse the house of Aaron.