The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

If thou, O Lord, straightly markest iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

But mercie is with thee, that thou mayest be feared.

I haue waited on the Lord: my soule hath waited, and I haue trusted in his worde.

My soule waiteth on the Lord more then the morning watch watcheth for the morning.

Let Israel waite on the Lord: for with the Lord is mercie, and with him is great redemption.

And he shall redeeme Israel from all his iniquities.

A song of degrees or Psalme of David. Lord, mine heart is not hautie, neither are mine eyes loftie, neither haue I walked in great matters and hid from me.

Surely I haue behaued my selfe, like one wained from his mother, and kept silence: I am in my selfe as one that is wained.

Let Israel waite on the Lord from hencefoorth and for euer.

A song of degrees. Lord, remember Dauid with all his affliction.

Who sware vnto the Lord, and vowed vnto the mightie God of Iaakob, saying,

I will not enter into the tabernacle of mine house, nor come vpon my pallet or bed,

Nor suffer mine eyes to sleepe, nor mine eye lids to slumber,

Vntill I finde out a place for the Lord, an habitation for the mightie God of Iaakob.

Lo, we heard of it in Ephrathah, and found it in the fieldes of the forest.

We will enter into his Tabernacles, and worship before his footestoole.

Arise, O Lord, to come into thy rest, thou, and the Arke of thy strength.

Let thy Priests be clothed with righteousnesse, and let thy Saints reioyce.

For thy seruant Dauids sake refuse not the face of thine Anointed.

The Lord hath sworne in trueth vnto Dauid, and he wil not shrinke from it, saying, Of the fruite of thy body will I set vpon thy throne.

If thy sonnes keepe my couenant, and my testimonies, that I shall teach them, their sonnes also shall sit vpon thy throne for euer.

For the Lord hath chosen Zion, and loued to dwell in it, saying,

This is my rest for euer: here will I dwell, for I haue a delite therein.

I will surely blesse her vitailes, and will satisfie her poore with bread,

And will clothe her Priests with saluation, and her Saints shall shoute for ioye.

There will I make the horne of Dauid to bud: for I haue ordeined a light for mine Anoynted.

His enemies will I clothe with shame, but on him his crowne shall florish.

A song of degrees or Psalme of David. Behold, howe good and howe comely a thing it is, brethren to dwell euen together.

It is like to the precious oyntment vpon the head, that runneth downe vpon the beard, euen vnto Aarons beard, which went downe on the border of his garments:

And as the dew of Hermon, which falleth vpon the mountaines of Zion: for there the Lord appointed the blessing and life for euer.

A song of degrees. Behold, praise ye the Lord, all ye seruants of the Lord, ye that by night stande in the house of the Lord.

Lift vp your hands to the Sanctuarie, and praise the Lord.

The Lord, that hath made heauen and earth, blesse thee out of Zion.

Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Name of the Lord: ye seruants of the Lord, praise him.

Ye that stande in the House of the Lord, and in the courtes of the House of our God,

Praise ye the Lord: for the Lord is good: sing praises vnto his Name: for it is a comely thing.

For the Lord hath chosen Iaakob to himselfe, and Israel for his chiefe treasure.

For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is aboue all gods.

Whatsoeuer pleased the Lord, that did hee in heauen and in earth, in the sea, and in all the depths.

He bringeth vp the cloudes from the ends of the earth, and maketh the lightnings with ye raine: he draweth foorth the winde out of his treasures.

He smote the first borne of Egypt both of man and beast.

He hath sent tokens and wonders into the middes of thee, O Egypt, vpon Pharaoh, and vpon all his seruants.

He smote many nations, and slew mightie Kings:

As Sihon King of the Amorites, and Og King of Bashan, and all the kingdomes of Canaan:

And gaue their lande for an inheritance, euen an inheritance vnto Israel his people.

Thy Name, O Lord, endureth for euer: O Lord, thy remembrance is from generation to generation.

For the Lord will iudge his people, and be pacified towardes his seruants.

The idoles of the heathen are siluer and golde, euen the worke of mens handes.

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

They haue eares and heare not, neither is there any breath in their mouth.

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

Praise the Lord, ye house of Israel: praise the Lord, ye house of Aaron.

Praise the Lord, ye house of Leui: ye that feare the Lord, praise the Lord.

Praised bee the Lord out of Zion, which dwelleth in Ierusalem. Praise ye the Lord.

Praise ye the Lord, because he is good: for his mercie endureth for euer.

Praise ye the God of gods: for his mercie endureth for euer.

Praise ye the Lord of lordes: for his mercie endureth for euer:

Which onely doeth great wonders: for his mercie endureth for euer:

Which by his wisedome made the heauens: for his mercie endureth for euer:

Which hath stretched out the earth vpon the waters: for his mercie endureth for euer:

Which made great lightes: for his mercie endureth for euer:

As the sunne to rule the day: for his mercie endureth for euer:

The moone and the starres to gouerne the night: for his mercie endureth for euer:

Which smote Egypt with their first borne, (for his mercie endureth for euer)

And brought out Israel from among them (for his mercie endureth for euer)

With a mightie hande and stretched out arme: for his mercie endureth for euer:

Which deuided the red Sea in two partes: for his mercie endureth for euer:

And made Israel to passe through the mids of it: for his mercie endureth for euer:

And ouerthrewe Pharaoh and his hoste in the red Sea: for his mercie endureth for euer:

Which led his people through the wildernes: for his mercie endureth for euer:

Which smote great Kings: for his mercie endureth for euer:

And slewe mightie Kings: for his mercie endureth for euer:

As Sihon King of the Amorites: for his mercie endureth for euer:

And Og the King of Bashan: for his mercie endureth for euer:

And gaue their land for an heritage: for his mercie endureth for euer:

Euen an heritage vnto Israel his seruant: for his mercie endureth for euer:

Which remembred vs in our base estate: for his mercie endureth for euer:

And hath rescued vs from our oppressours: for his mercie endureth for euer:

Which giueth foode to all flesh: for his mercie endureth for euer.

Praise ye the God of heauen: for his mercie endureth for euer.

By the riuers of Babel we sate, and there wee wept, when we remembred Zion.

Wee hanged our harpes vpon the willowes in the middes thereof.

Then they that ledde vs captiues, required of vs songs and mirth, when wee had hanged vp our harpes, saying, Sing vs one of the songs of Zion.

Howe shall we sing, said we, a song of the Lord in a strange land?

If I forget thee, O Ierusalem, let my right hand forget to play.

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth: yea, if I preferre not Ierusalem to my chiefe ioy.

Remember the children of Edom, O Lord, in the day of Ierusalem, which saide, Rase it, rase it to the foundation thereof.

O daughter of Babel, worthy to be destroyed, blessed shall he be that rewardeth thee, as thou hast serued vs.

Blessed shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy children against the stones.

A Psalme of David. I will praise thee with my whole heart: euen before the gods will I praise thee.

I will worship toward thine holy Temple and praise thy Name, because of thy louing kindenesse and for thy trueth: for thou hast magnified thy Name aboue all things by thy word.

When I called, then thou heardest me, and hast encreased strength in my soule.

All the Kings of the earth shall praise thee, O Lord: for they haue heard the wordes of thy mouth.

And they shall sing of the wayes of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord is great.

For the Lord is high: yet he beholdeth the lowly, but the proude he knoweth afarre off.

Though I walke in the middes of trouble, yet wilt thou reuiue me: thou wilt stretch foorth thine hand vpon the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall saue me.

The Lord will performe his worke toward me: O Lord, thy mercie endureth for euer: forsake not the workes of thine handes.

To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David. O Lord, thou hast tried me and knowen me.

Thou knowest my sitting and my rising: thou vnderstandest my thought afarre off.

Thou compassest my pathes, and my lying downe, and art accustomed to all my wayes.