The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

For there is not a word in my tongue, but loe, thou knowest it wholy, O Lord.

Thou holdest mee straite behinde and before, and layest thine hand vpon me.

Thy knowledge is too wonderfull for mee: it is so high that I cannot attaine vnto it.

Whither shall I goe from thy Spirite? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

If I ascende into heauen, thou art there: if I lye downe in hell, thou art there.

Let mee take the winges of the morning, and dwell in the vttermost parts of the sea:

Yet thither shall thine hand leade me, and thy right hand holde me.

If I say, Yet the darkenes shall hide me, euen the night shalbe light about me.

Yea, the darkenes hideth not from thee: but the night shineth as the day: the darkenes and light are both alike.

For thou hast possessed my reines: thou hast couered me in my mothers wombe.

I will praise thee, for I am fearefully and wonderously made: marueilous are thy workes, and my soule knoweth it well.

My bones are not hid from thee, though I was made in a secret place, and facioned beneath in the earth.

Thine eyes did see me, when I was without forme: for in thy booke were all things written, which in continuance were facioned, when there was none of them before.

Howe deare therefore are thy thoughtes vnto me, O God! how great is ye summe of them!

If I should count them, they are moe then the sand: when I wake, I am still with thee.

Oh that thou wouldest slay, O God, the wicked and bloody men, to whom I say, Depart ye from mee:

Which speake wickedly of thee, and being thine enemies are lifted vp in vaine.

Doe not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and doe not I earnestly contend with those that rise vp against thee?

I hate them with an vnfained hatred, as they were mine vtter enemies.

Try mee, O God, and knowe mine heart: prooue me and know my thoughtes,

And consider if there be any way of wickednes in me, and leade me in the way for euer.

To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David. Deliuer me, O Lord, from the euill man: preserue me from the cruel man:

Which imagine euill things in their heart, and make warre continually.

They haue sharpened their tongues like a serpent: adders poyson is vnder their lips. Selah.

Keepe mee, O Lord, from the handes of the wicked: preserue mee from the cruell man, which purposeth to cause my steppes to slide.

The proude haue layde a snare for me, and spred a nette with cordes in my pathway, and set grennes for me. Selah.

Therefore I saide vnto the Lord, Thou art my God: heare, O Lord, the voyce of my prayers.

O Lord God the strength of my saluation, thou hast couered mine head in the day of battel.

Let not the wicked haue his desire, O Lord: performe not his wicked thought, least they be proude. Selah.

As for the chiefe of them, that compasse me about, let the mischiefe of their owne lippes come vpon them.

Let coles fal vpon them: let him cast them into the fire, and into the deepe pits, that they rise not.

For the backbiter shall not be established vpon the earth: euill shall hunt the cruell man to destruction.

I know that the Lord will auenge the afflicted, and iudge the poore.

Surely the righteous shall prayse thy Name, and the iust shall dwell in thy presence.

A Psalme of David. O Lord, I call vpon thee: haste thee vnto me: heare my voyce, when I cry vnto thee.

Let my prayer be directed in thy sight as incense, and the lifting vp of mine hands as an euening sacrifice.

Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keepe the doore of my lips.

Incline not mine heart to euill, that I should commit wicked workes with men that worke iniquitie: and let me not eate of their delicates.

Let the righteous smite me: for that is a benefite: and let him reprooue me, and it shalbe a precious oyle, that shall not breake mine head: for within a while I shall euen pray in their miseries.

When their iudges shall be cast downe in stonie places, they shall heare my wordes, for they are sweete.

Our bones lye scattered at the graues mouth, as he that heweth wood or diggeth in the earth.

But mine eyes looke vnto thee, O Lord God: in thee is my trust: leaue not my soule destitute.

Keepe me from the snare, which they haue layde for me, and from the grennes of the workers of iniquitie.

Let the wicked fall into his nettes together, whiles I escape.

A Psalme of David, to give instruction, and a prayer, when he was in the cave. I cryed vnto the Lord with my voyce: with my voyce I prayed vnto the Lord.

I powred out my meditation before him, and declared mine affliction in his presence.

Though my spirit was in perplexitie in me, yet thou knewest my path: in the way wherein I walked, haue they priuily layde a snare for me.

I looked vpon my right hand, and beheld, but there was none that would knowe me: all refuge failed me, and none cared for my soule.

Then cryed I vnto thee, O Lord, and sayde, thou art mine hope, and my portion in the land of the liuing.

Hearken vnto my crye, for I am brought very lowe: deliuer me from my persecuters, for they are too strong for me.

Bring my soule out of prison, that I may prayse thy Name: then shall the righteous come about me, when thou art beneficiall vnto me.

A Psalme of David. Heare my prayer, O Lord, and hearken vnto my supplication: answer me in thy trueth and in thy righteousnes.

(And enter not into iudgement with thy seruant: for in thy sight shall none that liueth, be iustified)

For the enemie hath persecuted my soule: he hath smitten my life downe to the earth: he hath layde me in the darkenes, as they that haue bene dead long agoe:

And my spirit was in perplexitie in me, and mine heart within me was amased.

Yet do I remember the time past: I meditate in all thy workes, yea, I doe meditate in the workes of thine hands.

I stretche forth mine hands vnto thee: my soule desireth after thee, as the thirstie land. Selah.

Heare me spedely, O Lord, for my spirit faeleth: hide not thy face from me, els I shall be like vnto them that go downe into the pit.

Let me heare thy louing kindenes in the morning, for in thee is my trust: shewe mee the waie, that I should walke in, for I lift vp my soule vnto thee.

Deliuer me, O Lord, from mine enemies: for I hid me with thee.

Teach me to do thy will, for thou art my God: let thy good Spirit leade me vnto the land of righteousnes.

Quicken me, O Lord, for thy Names sake, and for thy righteousnes bring my soule out of trouble.

And for thy mercy slay mine enemies, and destrie all them that oppresse my soule: for I am thy seruant.

A Psalme of David. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth mine hands to fight, and my fingers to battell.

He is my goodnes and my fortresse, my towre and my deliuerer, my shield, and in him I trust, which subdueth my people vnder me.

Lord, what is man that thou regardest him! or the sonne of man that thou thinkest vpon him!

Man is like to vanitie: his dayes are like a shadow, that vanisheth.

Bow thine heauens, O Lord, and come downe: touch the mountaines and they shall smoke.

Cast forth the lightning and scatter them: shoote out thine arrowes, and consume them.

Send thine hand from aboue: deliuer me, and take me out of the great waters, and from the hand of strangers,

Whose mouth talketh vanitie, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

I wil sing a new song vnto thee, O God, and sing vnto thee vpon a viole, and an instrument of ten strings.

It is he that giueth deliuerance vnto Kings, and rescueth Dauid his seruant from the hurtfull sworde.

Rescue me, and deliuer me from the hand of strangers, whose mouth talketh vanitie, and their right hand is a right hand of falshood:

That our sonnes may be as the plantes growing vp in their youth, and our daughters as the corner stones, grauen after the similitude of a palace:

That our corners may be full, and abounding with diuers sorts, and that our sheepe may bring forth thousands and ten thousand in our streetes:

That our oxen may be strong to labour: that there be none inuasion, nor going out, nor no crying in our streetes.

Blessed are the people, that be so, yea, blessed are the people, whose God is the Lord.

A Psalme of David of Praise. O my God and King, I will extold thee, and will blesse thy Name for euer and euer.

I will blesse thee dayly, and prayse thy Name for euer and euer.

Great is the Lord, and most worthy to be praysed, and his greatnes is incomprehensible.

Generation shall praise thy works vnto generation, and declare thy power.

I wil meditate of the beautie of thy glorious maiestie, and thy wonderfull workes,

And they shall speake of the power of thy fearefull actes, and I will declare thy greatnes.

They shall breake out into the mention of thy great goodnes, and shall sing aloude of thy righteousnesse.

The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great mercie.

The Lord is good to all, and his mercies are ouer all his workes.

All thy workes prayse thee, O Lord, and thy Saints blesse thee.

They shewe the glory of thy kingdome, and speake of thy power,

To cause his power to be knowen to the sonnes of men, and the glorious renoume of his kingdome.

Thy kingdome is an euerlasting kingdome, and thy dominion endureth throughout all ages.

The Lord vpholdeth all that fall, and lifteth vp all that are ready to fall.

The eyes of all waite vpon thee, and thou giuest them their meate in due season.

Thou openest thine hand, and fillest all things liuing of thy good pleasure.

The Lord is righteous in all his wayes, and holy in all his workes.

The Lord is neere vnto all that call vpon him: yea, to all that call vpon him in trueth.

He wil fulfill the desire of them that feare him: he also wil heare their cry, and wil saue them.

The Lord preserueth all them that loue him: but he will destroy all the wicked.

My mouth shall speake the prayse of the Lord, and all flesh shall blesse his holy Name for euer and euer.

Praise ye the Lord. Praise thou the Lord, O my soule.