The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

KOPH. I haue cried with my whole heart: heare me, O Lord, and I will keepe thy statutes.

I called vpon thee: saue mee, and I will keepe thy testimonies.

I preuented the morning light, and cried: for I waited on thy word.

Mine eyes preuent the night watches to meditate in thy word.

Heare my voyce according to thy louing kindenesse: O Lord, quicken me according to thy iudgement.

They drawe neere, that follow after malice, and are farre from thy Lawe.

Thou art neere, O Lord: for all thy commandements are true.

I haue knowen long since by thy testimonies, that thou hast established them for euer.

RESH. Beholde mine affliction, and deliuer mee: for I haue not forgotten thy Lawe.

Pleade my cause, and deliuer me: quicken me according vnto thy word.

Saluation is farre from the wicked, because they seeke not thy statutes.

Great are thy tender mercies, O Lord: quicken me according to thy iudgements.

My persecutours and mine oppressours are many: yet doe I not swarue from thy testimonies.

I saw the transgressours and was grieued, because they kept not thy worde.

Consider, O Lord, how I loue thy preceptes: quicken mee according to thy louing kindenesse.

The beginning of thy worde is trueth, and all the iudgements of thy righteousnesse endure for euer.

SCHIN. Princes haue persecuted mee without cause, but mine heart stood in awe of thy wordes.

I reioyce at thy worde, as one that findeth a great spoyle.

I hate falshoode and abhorre it, but thy Lawe doe I loue.

Seuen times a day doe I praise thee, because of thy righteous iudgements.

They that loue thy Law, shall haue great prosperitie, and they shall haue none hurt.

Lord, I haue trusted in thy saluation, and haue done thy commandements.

My soule hath kept thy testimonies: for I loue them exceedingly.

I haue kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my wayes are before thee.

TAV. Let my complaint come before thee, O Lord, and giue me vnderstanding, according vnto thy worde.

Let my supplication come before thee, and deliuer me according to thy promise.

My lippes shall speake praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.

My tongue shall intreate of thy word: for all thy commandements are righteous.

Let thine hand helpe me: for I haue chosen thy precepts.

I haue longed for thy saluation, O Lord, and thy Lawe is my delite.

Let my soule liue, and it shall praise thee, and thy iudgements shall helpe me.

I haue gone astraye like a lost sheepe: seeke thy seruant, for I doe not forget thy commandements.

A song of degrees. I called vnto the Lord in my trouble, and hee heard me.

Deliuer my soule, O Lord, from lying lippes, and from a deceitfull tongue.

What doeth thy deceitfull tongue bring vnto thee? or what doeth it auaile thee?

It is as the sharpe arrowes of a mightie man, and as the coales of iuniper.

Woe is to me that I remaine in Meschech, and dwell in the tentes of Kedar.

My soule hath too long dwelt with him that hateth peace.

I seeke peace, and when I speake thereof, they are bent to warre.

A song of degrees. I will lift mine eyes vnto the mountaines, from whence mine helpe shall come.

Mine helpe commeth from the Lord, which hath made the heauen and the earth.

He wil not suffer thy foote to slippe: for he that keepeth thee, will not slumber.

Beholde, he that keepeth Israel, wil neither slumber nor sleepe.

The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shadow at thy right hand.

The sunne shall not smite thee by day, nor the moone by night.

The Lord shall preserue thee from all euil: he shall keepe thy soule.

The Lord shall preserue thy going out, and thy comming in from henceforth and for euer.

A song of degrees, or Psalme of David. I rejoiced, when they sayd to me, We wil go into the house of the Lord.

Our feete shall stand in thy gates, O Ierusalem.

Ierusalem is builded as a citie, that is compact together in it selfe:

Whereunto the Tribes, euen the Tribes of the Lord go vp according to the testimonie to Israel, to prayse the Name of the Lord.

For there are thrones set for iudgement, euen the thrones of the house of Dauid.

Pray for the peace of Ierusalem: let them prosper that loue thee.

Peace be within thy walles, and prosperitie within thy palaces.

For my brethren and neighbours sakes I will wish thee now prosperitie.

Because of the House of the Lord our God, I will procure thy wealth.

A song of degrees. I lift vp mine eyes to thee, that dwellest in the heauens.

Behold, as the eyes of seruants looke vnto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a mayden vnto the hand of her mistres: so our eyes waite vpon the Lord our God vntil he haue mercie vpon vs.

Haue mercie vpon vs, O Lord, haue mercie vpon vs: for we haue suffered too much contempt.

Our soule is filled too full of ye mocking of the wealthy, and of the despitefulnes of the proude.

A song of degrees, or Psalme of David. If the Lord had not bene on our side, (may Israel now say)

If the Lord had not bene on our side, when men rose vp against vs,

They had then swallowed vs vp quicke, when their wrath was kindled against vs.

Then the waters had drowned vs, and the streame had gone ouer our soule:

Then had the swelling waters gone ouer our soule.

Praysed be the Lord, which hath not giuen vs as a praye vnto their teeth.

Our soule is escaped, euen as a bird out of the snare of the foulers: the snare is broken, and we are deliuered.

Our helpe is in the Name of the Lord, which hath made heauen and earth.

A song of degrees. They that trust in the Lord, shalbe as mount Zion, which can not be remooued, but remaineth for euer.

As the mountaines are about Ierusalem: so is the Lord about his people from henceforth and for euer.

For the rod of the wicked shall not rest on the lot of the righteous, least the righteous put forth their hand vnto wickednes.

Doe well, O Lord, vnto those that be good and true in their hearts.

But these that turne aside by their crooked wayes, them shall the Lord leade with the workers of iniquitie: but peace shalbe vpon Israel.

A song of degrees, or Psalme of David. When ye Lord brought againe the captiuitie of Zion, we were like them that dreame.

Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with ioye: then sayd they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them.

The Lord hath done great things for vs, whereof we reioyce.

O Lord, bring againe our captiuitie, as the riuers in the South.

They that sowe in teares, shall reape in ioy.

They went weeping and caried precious seede: but they shall returne with ioye and bring their sheaues.

A song of degrees, or Psalme of Salomon. Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vaine that build it: except the Lord keepe the citie, the keeper watcheth in vaine.

It is in vaine for you to rise earely, and to lie downe late, and eate the bread of sorow: but he wil surely giue rest to his beloued.

Beholde, children are the inheritance of the Lord, and the fruite of the wombe his rewarde.

As are the arrowes in the hand of ye strong man: so are the children of youth.

Blessed is the man, that hath his quiuer full of them: for they shall not be ashamed, when they speake with their enemies in the gate.

A song of degrees. Blessed is euery one that feareth the Lord and walketh in his wayes.

When thou eatest the labours of thine hands, thou shalt be blessed, and it shall be well with thee.

Thy wife shalbe as the fruitfull vine on the sides of thine house, and thy children like the oliue plantes round about thy table.

Lo, surely thus shall the man be blessed, that feareth the Lord.

The Lord out of Zion shall blesse thee, and thou shalt see the wealth of Ierusalem all the dayes of thy life.

Yea, thou shalt see thy childrens children, and peace vpon Israel.

A song of degrees. They haue often times afflicted me from my youth (may Israel nowe say)

They haue often times afflicted me from my youth: but they could not preuaile against me.

The plowers plowed vpon my backe, and made long furrowes.

But the righteous Lord hath cut the cordes of the wicked.

They that hate Zion, shalbe all ashamed and turned backward.

They shalbe as the grasse on the house tops, which withereth afore it commeth forth.

Whereof the mower filleth not his hand, neither the glainer his lap:

Neither they, which go by, say, The blessing of the Lord be vpon you, or, We blesse you in the Name of the Lord.

A song of degrees. Out of the deepe places haue I called vnto thee, O Lord.

Lord, heare my voyce: let thine eares attend to the voyce of my prayers.