dby - Psalms:42-72

dby@Psalms:42:1 @ {To the chief Musician. An instruction; of the sons of Korah.} As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

dby@Psalms:42:2 @ My soul thirsteth for God, for the living �God: when shall I come and appear before God?

dby@Psalms:42:3 @ My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

dby@Psalms:42:4 @ These things I remember and have poured out my soul within me: how I passed along with the multitude, how I went on with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a festive multitude.

dby@Psalms:42:5 @ Why art thou cast down, my soul, and art disquieted in me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, [for] the health of his countenance.

dby@Psalms:42:6 @ My God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, and the Hermons, from mount Mizar.

dby@Psalms:42:7 @ Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy cataracts; all thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.

dby@Psalms:42:8 @ In the day-time will Jehovah command his loving-kindness, and in the night his song shall be with me, a prayer unto the �God of my life.

dby@Psalms:42:9 @ I will say unto �God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

dby@Psalms:42:10 @ As with a crushing in my bones mine adversaries reproach me, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

dby@Psalms:42:11 @ Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.

dby@Psalms:43:1 @ Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; deliver me from the deceitful and unrighteous man.

dby@Psalms:43:2 @ For thou art the God of my strength: why hast thou cast me off? why go I about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

dby@Psalms:43:3 @ Send out thy light and thy truth: they shall lead me, they shall bring me to thy holy mount, and unto thy habitations.

dby@Psalms:43:4 @ Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto the �God of the gladness of my joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God.

dby@Psalms:43:5 @ Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.

dby@Psalms:44:1 @ {To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction.} O God, with our ears have we heard, our fathers have told us, the work thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old:

dby@Psalms:44:2 @ Thou, by thy hand, didst dispossess the nations, but them thou didst plant; thou didst afflict the peoples, but them didst thou cause to spread out.

dby@Psalms:44:3 @ For not by their own sword did they take possession of the land, neither did their own arm save them; but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst delight in them.

dby@Psalms:44:4 @ Thou thyself art my king, O God: command deliverance for Jacob.

dby@Psalms:44:5 @ Through thee will we push down our adversaries; through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

dby@Psalms:44:6 @ For I will not put confidence in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

dby@Psalms:44:7 @ For thou hast saved us from our adversaries, and hast put them to shame that hate us.

dby@Psalms:44:8 @ In God will we boast all the day, and we will praise thy name for ever. Selah.

dby@Psalms:44:9 @ But thou hast cast off, and put us to confusion, and dost not go forth with our armies;

dby@Psalms:44:10 @ Thou hast made us to turn back from the adversary, and they that hate us spoil for themselves;

dby@Psalms:44:11 @ Thou hast given us over like sheep [appointed] for meat, and hast scattered us among the nations;

dby@Psalms:44:12 @ Thou hast sold thy people for nought, and hast not increased [thy wealth] by their price;

dby@Psalms:44:13 @ Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision for them that are round about us;

dby@Psalms:44:14 @ Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

dby@Psalms:44:15 @ All the day my confusion is before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

dby@Psalms:44:16 @ Because of the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the avenger.

dby@Psalms:44:17 @ All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely against thy covenant:

dby@Psalms:44:18 @ Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy path;

dby@Psalms:44:19 @ Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

dby@Psalms:44:20 @ If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange �god,

dby@Psalms:44:21 @ Would not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

dby@Psalms:44:22 @ But for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are reckoned as sheep for slaughter.

dby@Psalms:44:23 @ Awake, why sleepest thou, Lord? arise, cast [us] not off for ever.

dby@Psalms:44:24 @ Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

dby@Psalms:44:25 @ For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

dby@Psalms:44:26 @ Rise up for our help, and redeem us for thy loving-kindness' sake.

dby@Psalms:45:1 @ {To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction; -- a song of the Beloved.} My heart is welling forth [with] a good matter: I say what I have composed touching the king. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

dby@Psalms:45:2 @ Thou art fairer than the sons of men; grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

dby@Psalms:45:3 @ Gird thy sword upon [thy] thigh, O mighty one, [in] thy majesty and thy splendour;

dby@Psalms:45:4 @ And [in] thy splendour ride prosperously, because of truth and meekness [and] righteousness: and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

dby@Psalms:45:5 @ Thine arrows are sharp -- peoples fall under thee -- in the heart of the king's enemies.

dby@Psalms:45:6 @ Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; a sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of thy kingdom:

dby@Psalms:45:7 @ Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness; therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions.

dby@Psalms:45:8 @ Myrrh and aloes, cassia, are all thy garments; out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.

dby@Psalms:45:9 @ Kings' daughters are among thine honourable women; upon thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

dby@Psalms:45:10 @ Hearken, daughter, and see, and incline thine ear; and forget thine own people and thy father's house:

dby@Psalms:45:11 @ And the king will desire thy beauty; for he is thy Lord, and worship thou him.

dby@Psalms:45:12 @ And the daughter of Tyre with a gift, the rich ones among the people, shall court thy favour.

dby@Psalms:45:13 @ All glorious is the king's daughter within; her clothing is of wrought gold:

dby@Psalms:45:14 @ She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of embroidery; the virgins behind her, her companions, shall be brought in unto thee:

dby@Psalms:45:15 @ With joy and gladness shall they be brought; they shall enter into the king's palace.

dby@Psalms:45:16 @ Instead of thy fathers shall be thy sons; princes shalt thou make them in all the earth.

dby@Psalms:45:17 @ I will make thy name to be remembered throughout all generations; therefore shall the peoples praise thee for ever and ever.

dby@Psalms:46:1 @ {To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. On Alamoth. A song.} God is our refuge and strength, a help in distresses, very readily found.

dby@Psalms:46:2 @ Therefore will we not fear though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the heart of the seas;

dby@Psalms:46:3 @ Though the waters thereof roar [and] foam, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

dby@Psalms:46:4 @ There is a river the streams whereof make glad the city of God, the sanctuary of the habitations of the Most High.

dby@Psalms:46:5 @ God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her at the dawn of the morning.

dby@Psalms:46:6 @ The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved; he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

dby@Psalms:46:7 @ Jehovah of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our high fortress. Selah.

dby@Psalms:46:8 @ Come, behold the works of Jehovah, what desolations he hath made in the earth:

dby@Psalms:46:9 @ He hath made wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariots in the fire.

dby@Psalms:46:10 @ Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.

dby@Psalms:46:11 @ Jehovah of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our high fortress. Selah.

dby@Psalms:47:1 @ {To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.} All ye peoples, clap your hands; shout unto God with the voice of triumph!

dby@Psalms:47:2 @ For Jehovah, the Most High, is terrible, a great king over all the earth.

dby@Psalms:47:3 @ He subdueth the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet.

dby@Psalms:47:4 @ He hath chosen our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

dby@Psalms:47:5 @ God is gone up amid shouting, Jehovah amid the sound of the trumpet.

dby@Psalms:47:6 @ Sing psalms of God, sing psalms; sing psalms unto our King, sing psalms!

dby@Psalms:47:7 @ For God is the King of all the earth; sing psalms with understanding.

dby@Psalms:47:8 @ God reigneth over the nations; God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.

dby@Psalms:47:9 @ The willing-hearted of the peoples have gathered together, [with] the people of the God of Abraham. For unto God [belong] the shields of the earth: he is greatly exalted.

dby@Psalms:48:1 @ {A Song; a Psalm. Of the sons of Korah.} Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the hill of his holiness.

dby@Psalms:48:2 @ Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, [on] the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

dby@Psalms:48:3 @ God is known in her palaces as a high fortress.

dby@Psalms:48:4 @ For behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together;

dby@Psalms:48:5 @ They saw, -- so they marvelled; they were troubled, they fled in consternation:

dby@Psalms:48:6 @ Trembling took hold upon them there; anguish, as of a woman in travail.

dby@Psalms:48:7 @ With an east wind thou hast broken the ships of Tarshish.

dby@Psalms:48:8 @ As we have heard, so have we seen, in the city of Jehovah of hosts, in the city of our God: God doth establish it for ever. Selah.

dby@Psalms:48:9 @ We have thought, O God, of thy loving-kindness, in the midst of thy temple.

dby@Psalms:48:10 @ According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

dby@Psalms:48:11 @ Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

dby@Psalms:48:12 @ Walk about Zion, and go round about her: count the towers thereof;

dby@Psalms:48:13 @ Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces: that ye may tell it to the generation following.

dby@Psalms:48:14 @ For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide until death.

dby@Psalms:49:1 @ {To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.} Hear this, all ye peoples; give ear, all inhabitants of the world:

dby@Psalms:49:2 @ Both men of low and men of high degree, rich and poor alike.

dby@Psalms:49:3 @ My mouth shall speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding:

dby@Psalms:49:4 @ I will incline mine ear to a parable, I will open my riddle upon the harp.

dby@Psalms:49:5 @ Wherefore should I fear in the days of adversity, [when] the iniquity of my supplanters encompasseth me? --

dby@Psalms:49:6 @ They depend upon their wealth, and boast themselves in the abundance of their riches....

dby@Psalms:49:7 @ None can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him,

dby@Psalms:49:8 @ (For the redemption of their soul is costly, and must be given up for ever,)

dby@Psalms:49:9 @ That he should still live perpetually, [and] not see corruption.

dby@Psalms:49:10 @ For he seeth that wise men die; all alike, the fool and the brutish perish, and they leave their wealth to others.

dby@Psalms:49:11 @ Their inward thought is, that their houses are for ever, their dwelling-places from generation to generation: they call the lands after their own names.

dby@Psalms:49:12 @ Nevertheless, man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.

dby@Psalms:49:13 @ This their way is their folly, yet they that come after them delight in their sayings. Selah.

dby@Psalms:49:14 @ Like sheep are they laid in Sheol: Death feedeth on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their comeliness shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for them.

dby@Psalms:49:15 @ But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol: for he will receive me. Selah.

dby@Psalms:49:16 @ Be not afraid when a man becometh rich, when the glory of his house is increased:

dby@Psalms:49:17 @ For when he dieth, he shall carry nothing away; his glory shall not descend after him.

dby@Psalms:49:18 @ Though he blessed his soul in his lifetime, -- and men will praise thee when thou doest well to thyself, --

dby@Psalms:49:19 @ It shall go to the generation of his fathers: they shall never see light.

dby@Psalms:49:20 @ Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.

dby@Psalms:50:1 @ {A Psalm. Of Asaph.} �God, Elohim-Jehovah, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

dby@Psalms:50:2 @ Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth.

dby@Psalms:50:3 @ Our God will come, and will not keep silence: fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

dby@Psalms:50:4 @ He will call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people:

dby@Psalms:50:5 @ Gather unto me my godly ones, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice!

dby@Psalms:50:6 @ And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God executeth judgment himself. Selah.

dby@Psalms:50:7 @ Hear, my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, thy God.

dby@Psalms:50:8 @ I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt-offerings, continually before me;

dby@Psalms:50:9 @ I will take no bullock out of thy house, [nor] he-goats out of thy folds:

dby@Psalms:50:10 @ For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle upon a thousand hills;

dby@Psalms:50:11 @ I know all the fowl of the mountains, and the roaming creatures of the field are mine:

dby@Psalms:50:12 @ If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

dby@Psalms:50:13 @ Should I eat the flesh of bulls, and drink the blood of goats?

dby@Psalms:50:14 @ Offer unto God thanksgiving, and perform thy vows unto the Most High;

dby@Psalms:50:15 @ And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

dby@Psalms:50:16 @ But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant into thy mouth,

dby@Psalms:50:17 @ Seeing thou hast hated correction and hast cast my words behind thee?

dby@Psalms:50:18 @ When thou sawest a thief, thou didst take pleasure in him, and thy portion was with adulterers;

dby@Psalms:50:19 @ Thou lettest thy mouth loose to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit;

dby@Psalms:50:20 @ Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother, thou revilest thine own mother's son:

dby@Psalms:50:21 @ These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether as thyself: [but] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.

dby@Psalms:50:22 @ Now consider this, ye that forget +God, lest I tear in pieces, and there be no deliverer.

dby@Psalms:50:23 @ Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me; and to him that ordereth [his] way will I shew the salvation of God.

dby@Psalms:51:1 @ {To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.} Be gracious unto me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness; according to the abundance of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

dby@Psalms:51:2 @ Wash me fully from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

dby@Psalms:51:3 @ For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is continually before me.

dby@Psalms:51:4 @ Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done what is evil in thy sight; that thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, be clear when thou judgest.

dby@Psalms:51:5 @ Behold, in iniquity was I brought forth, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

dby@Psalms:51:6 @ Behold, thou wilt have truth in the inward parts; and in the hidden [part] thou wilt make me to know wisdom.

dby@Psalms:51:7 @ Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

dby@Psalms:51:8 @ Make me to hear gladness and joy; [that] the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

dby@Psalms:51:9 @ Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

dby@Psalms:51:10 @ Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

dby@Psalms:51:11 @ Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not the spirit of thy holiness from me.

dby@Psalms:51:12 @ Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and let a willing spirit sustain me.

dby@Psalms:51:13 @ I will teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners shall return unto thee.

dby@Psalms:51:14 @ Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

dby@Psalms:51:15 @ Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare thy praise.

dby@Psalms:51:16 @ For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.

dby@Psalms:51:17 @ The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

dby@Psalms:51:18 @ Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem.

dby@Psalms:51:19 @ Then shalt thou have sacrifices of righteousness, burnt-offering, and whole burnt-offering; then shall they offer up bullocks upon thine altar.

dby@Psalms:52:1 @ {To the chief Musician: an instruction. Of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David came to the house of Ahimelech.} Why boastest thou thyself in evil, thou mighty man? The loving-kindness of �God [abideth] continually.

dby@Psalms:52:2 @ Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.

dby@Psalms:52:3 @ Thou hast loved evil rather than good, lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

dby@Psalms:52:4 @ Thou hast loved all devouring words, O deceitful tongue!

dby@Psalms:52:5 @ �God shall likewise destroy thee for ever; he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of [thy] tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

dby@Psalms:52:6 @ The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, [saying,]

dby@Psalms:52:7 @ Behold the man that made not God his strength, but put confidence in the abundance of his riches, [and] strengthened himself in his avarice.

dby@Psalms:52:8 @ But as for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God: I will confide in the loving-kindness of God for ever and ever.

dby@Psalms:52:9 @ I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done [it]; and I will wait on thy name, before thy godly ones, for it is good.

dby@Psalms:53:1 @ {To the chief Musician. On Mahalath: an instruction. Of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God! They have corrupted themselves, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

dby@Psalms:53:2 @ God looked down from the heavens upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

dby@Psalms:53:3 @ Every one of them is gone back, they are together become corrupt: there is none that doeth good, not even one.

dby@Psalms:53:4 @ Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people [as] they eat bread? they call not upon God.

dby@Psalms:53:5 @ There were they in great fear, where no fear was; for God scattereth the bones of him that encampeth against thee. Thou hast put [them] to shame, for God hath despised them.

dby@Psalms:53:6 @ Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God turneth again the captivity of his people, Jacob shall be glad, Israel shall rejoice.

dby@Psalms:54:1 @ {To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments: an instruction. Of David; when the Ziphites came, and said to Saul, Is not David hiding himself with us?} O God, by thy name save me, and by thy strength do me justice.

dby@Psalms:54:2 @ O God, hear my prayer; give ear to the words of my mouth.

dby@Psalms:54:3 @ For strangers are risen up against me, and the violent seek after my life: they have not set God before them. Selah.

dby@Psalms:54:4 @ Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is among them that uphold my soul.

dby@Psalms:54:5 @ He will requite evil to mine enemies: in thy truth cut them off.

dby@Psalms:54:6 @ I will freely sacrifice unto thee; I will praise thy name, O Jehovah, because it is good.

dby@Psalms:54:7 @ For he hath delivered me out of all trouble; and mine eye hath seen [its desire] upon mine enemies.

dby@Psalms:55:1 @ {To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments: an instruction. Of David.} Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.

dby@Psalms:55:2 @ Attend unto me, and answer me: I wander about in my plaint, and I moan aloud,

dby@Psalms:55:3 @ Because of the voice of the enemy; because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in anger they persecute me.

dby@Psalms:55:4 @ My heart is writhing within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

dby@Psalms:55:5 @ Fear and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.

dby@Psalms:55:6 @ And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away, and be at rest;

dby@Psalms:55:7 @ Behold, I would flee afar off, I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah;

dby@Psalms:55:8 @ I would hasten my escape from the stormy wind, from the tempest.

dby@Psalms:55:9 @ Swallow [them] up, Lord; divide their tongue: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

dby@Psalms:55:10 @ Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof; and iniquity and mischief are in the midst of it.

dby@Psalms:55:11 @ Perversities are in the midst thereof; and oppression and deceit depart not from its streets.

dby@Psalms:55:12 @ For it is not an enemy that hath reproached me -- then could I have borne it; neither is it he that hateth me that hath magnified [himself] against me -- then would I have hidden myself from him;

dby@Psalms:55:13 @ But it was thou, a man mine equal, mine intimate, my familiar friend....

dby@Psalms:55:14 @ We who held sweet intercourse together. To the house of God we walked amid the throng.

dby@Psalms:55:15 @ Let death seize upon them, let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwellings, in their midst.

dby@Psalms:55:16 @ As for me, unto God will I call; and Jehovah will save me.

dby@Psalms:55:17 @ Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray and moan aloud; and he will hear my voice.

dby@Psalms:55:18 @ He hath redeemed my soul in peace from the battle against me: for there were many about me.

dby@Psalms:55:19 @ �God will hear, and afflict them: he that is seated of old, (Selah)... because there is no change in them, and they fear not God.

dby@Psalms:55:20 @ He hath put forth his hands against such as are at peace with him; he hath profaned his covenant.

dby@Psalms:55:21 @ Smooth were the milky [words] of his mouth, but his heart was war; his words were softer than oil, yet are they drawn swords.

dby@Psalms:55:22 @ Cast thy burden upon Jehovah, and he will sustain thee: he will never suffer the righteous to be moved.

dby@Psalms:55:23 @ And thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. But as for me, I will confide in thee.

dby@Psalms:56:1 @ {To the chief Musician. On Jonathelem-rechokim. Of David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath.} Be gracious unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: all the day long fighting he oppresseth me.

dby@Psalms:56:2 @ Mine enemies would swallow [me] up all the day long; for they are many that fight against me haughtily.

dby@Psalms:56:3 @ In the day that I am afraid, I will confide in thee.

dby@Psalms:56:4 @ In God will I praise his word, in God I put my confidence: I will not fear; what can flesh do unto me?

dby@Psalms:56:5 @ All the day long they wrest my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

dby@Psalms:56:6 @ They gather themselves together, they hide themselves; they mark my steps, because they wait for my soul.

dby@Psalms:56:7 @ Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.

dby@Psalms:56:8 @ Thou countest my wanderings; put my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

dby@Psalms:56:9 @ Then shall mine enemies return backward in the day when I call: this I know, for God is for me.

dby@Psalms:56:10 @ In God will I praise [his] word; in Jehovah will I praise [his] word.

dby@Psalms:56:11 @ In God have I put my confidence: I will not fear; what can man do unto me?

dby@Psalms:56:12 @ Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render thanks unto thee.

dby@Psalms:56:13 @ For thou hast delivered my soul from death; [wilt thou] not [keep] my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

dby@Psalms:57:1 @ {To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam; when he fled from Saul in the cave.} Be gracious unto me, O God, be gracious unto me; for my soul taketh refuge in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings do I take refuge, until the calamities be overpast.

dby@Psalms:57:2 @ I will call unto God, the Most High; unto �God that performeth [all] for me.

dby@Psalms:57:3 @ He will send from the heavens and save me; he hath covered with reproach him that would swallow me up. Selah. God hath sent forth his loving-kindness and his truth.

dby@Psalms:57:4 @ My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down [among] them that breathe out flames, the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

dby@Psalms:57:5 @ Be exalted above the heavens, O God; let thy glory be above all the earth!

dby@Psalms:57:6 @ They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down: they have digged a pit before me; they are fallen into the midst thereof. Selah.

dby@Psalms:57:7 @ My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing, yea, I will sing psalms.

dby@Psalms:57:8 @ Awake, my glory; awake, lute and harp: I will wake the dawn.

dby@Psalms:57:9 @ I will give thee thanks among the peoples, O Lord; of thee will I sing psalms among the nations:

dby@Psalms:57:10 @ For thy loving-kindness is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.

dby@Psalms:57:11 @ Be exalted above the heavens, O God; let thy glory be above all the earth!

dby@Psalms:58:1 @ {To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam.} Is righteousness indeed silent? Do ye speak it? Do ye judge with equity, ye sons of men?

dby@Psalms:58:2 @ Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

dby@Psalms:58:3 @ The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

dby@Psalms:58:4 @ Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;

dby@Psalms:58:5 @ Which doth not hearken to the voice of enchanters, of one charming ever so wisely.

dby@Psalms:58:6 @ O God, break their teeth in their mouth; break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.

dby@Psalms:58:7 @ Let them melt away as waters that flow off; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as blunted:

dby@Psalms:58:8 @ Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; [like] the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun.

dby@Psalms:58:9 @ Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, -- they shall be whirled away.

dby@Psalms:58:10 @ The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the wicked:

dby@Psalms:58:11 @ And men shall say, Verily there is fruit for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.

dby@Psalms:59:1 @ {To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.} Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God; secure me on high from them that rise up against me.

dby@Psalms:59:2 @ Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from men of blood.

dby@Psalms:59:3 @ For behold, they lie in wait for my soul; strong ones are gathered against me: not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah.

dby@Psalms:59:4 @ They run and prepare themselves without [my] fault: awake to meet me, and behold.

dby@Psalms:59:5 @ Yea, do thou, Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, arise to visit all the nations: be not gracious to any plotters of iniquity. Selah.

dby@Psalms:59:6 @ They return in the evening; they howl like a dog, and go round about the city:

dby@Psalms:59:7 @ Behold, they belch out with their mouth; swords are in their lips: for who [say they] doth hear?

dby@Psalms:59:8 @ But thou, Jehovah, wilt laugh at them; thou wilt have all the nations in derision.

dby@Psalms:59:9 @ Their strength!... I will take heed to thee; for God is my high fortress.

dby@Psalms:59:10 @ God, whose loving-kindness will come to meet me, -- God shall let me see [my desire] upon mine enemies.

dby@Psalms:59:11 @ Slay them not, lest my people forget; by thy power make them wander, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.

dby@Psalms:59:12 @ [Because of] the sin of their mouth, the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and because of cursing and lying which they speak.

dby@Psalms:59:13 @ Make an end in wrath, make an end, that they may be no more; that they may know that God ruleth in Jacob, unto the ends of the earth. Selah.

dby@Psalms:59:14 @ And in the evening they shall return, they shall howl like a dog, and go round about the city.

dby@Psalms:59:15 @ They shall wander about for meat, and stay all night if they be not satisfied.

dby@Psalms:59:16 @ But as for me, I will sing of thy strength; yea, I will sing aloud of thy loving-kindness in the morning; for thou hast been to me a high fortress, and a refuge in the day of my trouble.

dby@Psalms:59:17 @ Unto thee, my strength, will I sing psalms; for God is my high fortress, the God of my mercy.

dby@Psalms:60:1 @ {To the chief Musician. On Shushan. Testimony. Michtam of David; to teach: when he strove with the Syrians of Mesopotamia, and the Syrians of Zobah, and Joab returned, and smote the Edomites in the valley of salt, twelve thousand.} O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased: restore us again.

dby@Psalms:60:2 @ Thou hast made the earth to tremble, thou hast rent it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

dby@Psalms:60:3 @ Thou hast shewn thy people hard things; thou hast made us to drink the wine of bewilderment.

dby@Psalms:60:4 @ Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth, (Selah,)

dby@Psalms:60:5 @ That thy beloved ones may be delivered. Save with thy right hand, and answer me.

dby@Psalms:60:6 @ God hath spoken in his holiness: I will exult, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

dby@Psalms:60:7 @ Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine, and Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;

dby@Psalms:60:8 @ Moab is my wash-pot; upon Edom will I cast my sandal; Philistia, shout aloud because of me.

dby@Psalms:60:9 @ Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me unto Edom?

dby@Psalms:60:10 @ [Wilt] not thou, O God, who didst cast us off? and didst not go forth, O God, with our armies?

dby@Psalms:60:11 @ Give us help from trouble; for vain is man's deliverance.

dby@Psalms:60:12 @ Through God we shall do valiantly; and he it is that will tread down our adversaries.

dby@Psalms:61:1 @ {To the chief Musician. On a stringed instrument. [A Psalm] of David.} Hear, O God, my cry; attend unto my prayer.

dby@Psalms:61:2 @ From the end of the earth will I call unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: thou wilt lead me on to a rock which is too high for me.

dby@Psalms:61:3 @ For thou hast been a refuge for me, a strong tower from before the enemy.

dby@Psalms:61:4 @ I will sojourn in thy tent for ever; I will take refuge in the covert of thy wings. Selah.

dby@Psalms:61:5 @ For thou, O God, hast heard my vows; thou hast given [me] the inheritance of those that fear thy name.

dby@Psalms:61:6 @ Thou wilt add days to the days of the king: his years shall be as many generations.

dby@Psalms:61:7 @ He shall abide before God for ever: bestow loving-kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.

dby@Psalms:61:8 @ So will I sing forth thy name for ever, performing my vows from day to day.

dby@Psalms:62:1 @ {To the chief Musician. On Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.} Upon God alone doth my soul rest peacefully; from him is my salvation.

dby@Psalms:62:2 @ He only is my rock and my salvation; my high fortress: I shall not be greatly moved.

dby@Psalms:62:3 @ How long will ye assail a man; will ye [seek], all of you, to break him down as a bowing wall or a tottering fence?

dby@Psalms:62:4 @ They only consult to thrust [him] down from his excellency; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but in their inward part they curse. Selah.

dby@Psalms:62:5 @ Upon God alone, O my soul, rest peacefully; for my expectation is from him.

dby@Psalms:62:6 @ He only is my rock and my salvation; my high fortress: I shall not be moved.

dby@Psalms:62:7 @ With God is my salvation and my glory; the rock of my strength, my refuge is in God.

dby@Psalms:62:8 @ Confide in him at all times, ye people; pour out your heart before him: God is our refuge. Selah.

dby@Psalms:62:9 @ Men of low degree are only vanity; men of high degree, a lie: laid in the balance, they go up together [lighter] than vanity.

dby@Psalms:62:10 @ Put not confidence in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if wealth increase, set not your heart upon it.

dby@Psalms:62:11 @ Once hath God spoken, twice have I heard this, that strength [belongeth] unto God.

dby@Psalms:62:12 @ And unto thee, O Lord, [belongeth] loving-kindness; for thou renderest to every man according to his work.

dby@Psalms:63:1 @ {A Psalm of David; when he was in the wilderness of Judah.} O God, thou art my �God; early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh languisheth for thee, in a dry and weary land without water:

dby@Psalms:63:2 @ To see thy power and thy glory, as I have beheld thee in the sanctuary;

dby@Psalms:63:3 @ For thy loving-kindness is better than life: my lips shall praise thee.

dby@Psalms:63:4 @ So will I bless thee while I live; I will lift up my hands in thy name.

dby@Psalms:63:5 @ My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise [thee] with joyful lips.

dby@Psalms:63:6 @ When I remember thee upon my bed, I meditate on thee in the night-watches:

dby@Psalms:63:7 @ For thou hast been my help, and in the shadow of thy wings will I sing for joy.

dby@Psalms:63:8 @ My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.

dby@Psalms:63:9 @ But those that seek my soul, to destroy [it], shall go into the lower parts of the earth;

dby@Psalms:63:10 @ They shall be given over to the power of the sword; they shall be the portion of foxes.

dby@Psalms:63:11 @ But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: for the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

dby@Psalms:64:1 @ {To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} Hear, O God, my voice in my plaint; preserve my life from fear of the enemy:

dby@Psalms:64:2 @ Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, from the tumultuous crowd of the workers of iniquity,

dby@Psalms:64:3 @ Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, [and] have aimed their arrow, a bitter word;

dby@Psalms:64:4 @ That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

dby@Psalms:64:5 @ They encourage themselves in an evil matter, they concert to hide snares; they say, Who will see them?

dby@Psalms:64:6 @ They devise iniquities: We have it ready, the plan is diligently sought out. And each one's inward [thought] and heart is deep.

dby@Psalms:64:7 @ But God will shoot an arrow at them: suddenly are they wounded;

dby@Psalms:64:8 @ By their own tongue they are made to fall over one another: all that see them shall flee away.

dby@Psalms:64:9 @ And all men shall fear, and shall declare God's doing; and they shall wisely consider his work.

dby@Psalms:64:10 @ The righteous shall rejoice in Jehovah, and trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.

dby@Psalms:65:1 @ {To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David: a Song.} Praise waiteth for thee in silence, O God, in Zion; and unto thee shall the vow be performed.

dby@Psalms:65:2 @ O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.

dby@Psalms:65:3 @ Iniquities have prevailed against me: our transgressions, thou wilt forgive them.

dby@Psalms:65:4 @ Blessed is he whom thou choosest and causest to approach: he shall dwell in thy courts. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, of thy holy temple.

dby@Psalms:65:5 @ By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation, thou confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of the distant regions of the sea....

dby@Psalms:65:6 @ Who by his strength established the mountains, being girded with power;

dby@Psalms:65:7 @ Who stilleth the raging of the seas, the raging of their waves, and the tumult of the peoples.

dby@Psalms:65:8 @ And they that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens; thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.

dby@Psalms:65:9 @ Thou hast visited the earth, thou hast watered it; thou greatly enrichest it: the river of God is full of water; thou providest their corn, when thou hast so prepared it:

dby@Psalms:65:10 @ Thou dost satiate its furrows, thou smoothest its clods, thou makest it soft with showers; thou blessest the springing thereof.

dby@Psalms:65:11 @ Thou crownest the year with thy goodness, and thy paths drop fatness:

dby@Psalms:65:12 @ They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness, and the hills are girded with gladness.

dby@Psalms:65:13 @ The meadows are clothed with flocks, and the valleys are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, yea, they sing.

dby@Psalms:66:1 @ {To the chief Musician. A Song: a Psalm.} Shout aloud unto God, all the earth:

dby@Psalms:66:2 @ Sing forth the glory of his name, make his praise glorious;

dby@Psalms:66:3 @ Say unto God, How terrible are thy works! because of the greatness of thy strength, thine enemies come cringing unto thee.

dby@Psalms:66:4 @ All the earth shall worship thee, and sing psalms unto thee: they shall sing forth thy name. Selah.

dby@Psalms:66:5 @ Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in [his] doings toward the children of men.

dby@Psalms:66:6 @ He turned the sea into dry [land]; they went through the river on foot: there did we rejoice in him.

dby@Psalms:66:7 @ He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes observe the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.

dby@Psalms:66:8 @ Bless our God, ye peoples, and make the voice of his praise to be heard;

dby@Psalms:66:9 @ Who hath set our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.

dby@Psalms:66:10 @ For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

dby@Psalms:66:11 @ Thou broughtest us into a net, thou didst lay a heavy burden upon our loins;

dby@Psalms:66:12 @ Thou didst cause men to ride over our head; we went through fire and through water: but thou hast brought us out into abundance.

dby@Psalms:66:13 @ I will go into thy house with burnt-offerings; I will perform my vows to thee,

dby@Psalms:66:14 @ Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.

dby@Psalms:66:15 @ I will offer up unto thee burnt-offerings of fatted beasts, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.

dby@Psalms:66:16 @ Come, hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.

dby@Psalms:66:17 @ I called unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.

dby@Psalms:66:18 @ Had I regarded iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not hear.

dby@Psalms:66:19 @ But God hath heard; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.

dby@Psalms:66:20 @ Blessed be God, who hath not turned away my prayer, nor his loving-kindness from me!

dby@Psalms:67:1 @ {To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm: a Song.} God be gracious unto us, and bless us, [and] cause his face to shine upon us; Selah,

dby@Psalms:67:2 @ That thy way may be known upon earth, thy salvation among all nations.

dby@Psalms:67:3 @ Let the peoples praise thee, O God, let all the peoples praise thee.

dby@Psalms:67:4 @ Let the nations rejoice and sing for joy: for thou wilt judge the peoples equitably; and the nations upon earth, thou wilt guide them. Selah.

dby@Psalms:67:5 @ Let the peoples praise thee, O God; let all the peoples praise thee.

dby@Psalms:67:6 @ The earth will yield her increase; God, our God, will bless us:

dby@Psalms:67:7 @ God will bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.

dby@Psalms:68:1 @ {To the chief Musician. Of David. A Psalm: a Song.} Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered, and let them that hate him flee before him.

dby@Psalms:68:2 @ As smoke is driven, thou wilt drive them away; as wax melteth before the fire, the wicked shall perish at the presence of God.

dby@Psalms:68:3 @ But the righteous shall rejoice: they shall exult before God and be glad with joy.

dby@Psalms:68:4 @ Sing unto God, sing forth his name; cast up a way for him that rideth in the deserts: his name is Jah; and rejoice before him.

dby@Psalms:68:5 @ A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

dby@Psalms:68:6 @ God maketh the solitary into families; those that were bound he bringeth out into prosperity: but the rebellious dwell in a parched [land].

dby@Psalms:68:7 @ O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness -- (Selah) --

dby@Psalms:68:8 @ The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God, yon Sinai, at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

dby@Psalms:68:9 @ Thou, O God, didst pour a plentiful rain upon thine inheritance, and when it was weary thou strengthenedst it.

dby@Psalms:68:10 @ Thy flock hath dwelt therein: thou hast prepared in thy goodness, for the afflicted, O God!

dby@Psalms:68:11 @ The Lord gives the word: great the host of the publishers.

dby@Psalms:68:12 @ Kings of armies flee; they flee, and she that tarrieth at home divideth the spoil.

dby@Psalms:68:13 @ Though ye have lain among the sheepfolds, [ye shall be as] wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with green gold.

dby@Psalms:68:14 @ When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it became snow-white as Zalmon.

dby@Psalms:68:15 @ [As] mount Bashan is the mount of God, a many-peaked mountain, [as] mount Bashan.

dby@Psalms:68:16 @ Why do ye look with envy, ye many-peaked mountains, upon the mount that God hath desired for his abode? yea, Jehovah will dwell [there] for ever.

dby@Psalms:68:17 @ The chariots of God are twenty thousand, thousands upon thousands; the Lord is among them: it is a Sinai in holiness.

dby@Psalms:68:18 @ Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts in Man, and even [for] the rebellious, for the dwelling [there] of Jah Elohim.

dby@Psalms:68:19 @ Blessed be the Lord: day by day doth he load us [with good], the �God who is our salvation. Selah.

dby@Psalms:68:20 @ Our �God is the �God of salvation; and with Jehovah, the Lord, are the goings forth [even] from death.

dby@Psalms:68:21 @ Verily God will smite the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of him that goeth on still in his trespasses.

dby@Psalms:68:22 @ The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring [them] again from the depth of the sea;

dby@Psalms:68:23 @ That thou mayest dip thy foot in blood: the tongue of thy dogs has its portion from enemies.

dby@Psalms:68:24 @ They have seen thy goings, O God, the goings of my �God, my King, in the sanctuary.

dby@Psalms:68:25 @ The singers went before, the players on stringed instruments after, in the midst of maidens playing on tabrets.

dby@Psalms:68:26 @ In the congregations bless ye God, the Lord, -- [ye] from the fountain of Israel.

dby@Psalms:68:27 @ There is little Benjamin, their ruler; the princes of Judah, their company; the princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.

dby@Psalms:68:28 @ Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.

dby@Psalms:68:29 @ Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee.

dby@Psalms:68:30 @ Rebuke the beast of the reeds, the assembly of the strong, with the calves of the peoples: [every one] submitteth himself with pieces of silver. Scatter the peoples that delight in war.

dby@Psalms:68:31 @ Great ones shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall quickly stretch out her hands unto God.

dby@Psalms:68:32 @ Ye kingdoms of the earth, sing unto God; sing psalms of the Lord, (Selah,)

dby@Psalms:68:33 @ Of him that rideth upon the heavens, the heavens which are of old: lo, he uttereth his voice, a mighty voice.

dby@Psalms:68:34 @ Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.

dby@Psalms:68:35 @ Terrible art thou, O God, out of thy sanctuaries, -- the �God of Israel! He it is that giveth strength and might unto the people. Blessed be God!

dby@Psalms:69:1 @ {To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. [A Psalm] of David.} Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto [my] soul.

dby@Psalms:69:2 @ I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I am come into the depths of waters, and the flood overfloweth me.

dby@Psalms:69:3 @ I am weary with my crying, my throat is parched; mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

dby@Psalms:69:4 @ They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

dby@Psalms:69:5 @ Thou, O God, knowest my foolishness, and my trespasses are not hidden from thee.

dby@Psalms:69:6 @ Let not them that wait on thee, Lord, Jehovah of hosts, be ashamed through me; let not those that seek thee be confounded through me, O God of Israel.

dby@Psalms:69:7 @ Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; confusion hath covered my face.

dby@Psalms:69:8 @ I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's sons;

dby@Psalms:69:9 @ For the zeal of thy house hath devoured me, and the reproaches of them that reproach thee have fallen upon me.

dby@Psalms:69:10 @ And I wept, my soul was fasting: that also was to my reproach; --

dby@Psalms:69:11 @ And I made sackcloth my garment: then I became a proverb to them.

dby@Psalms:69:12 @ They that sit in the gate talk of me, and [I am] the song of the drunkards.

dby@Psalms:69:13 @ But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, Jehovah, in an acceptable time: O God, in the abundance of thy loving-kindness answer me, according to the truth of thy salvation:

dby@Psalms:69:14 @ Deliver me out of the mire, let me not sink; let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the depths of waters.

dby@Psalms:69:15 @ Let not the flood of waters overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

dby@Psalms:69:16 @ Answer me, O Jehovah; for thy loving-kindness is good: according to the abundance of thy tender mercies, turn toward me;

dby@Psalms:69:17 @ And hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in trouble: answer me speedily.

dby@Psalms:69:18 @ Draw nigh unto my soul, be its redeemer; ransom me because of mine enemies.

dby@Psalms:69:19 @ Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

dby@Psalms:69:20 @ Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am overwhelmed: and I looked for sympathy, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.