Psalms:42-72
mkjv@Psalms:42:1 @ To the Chief Musician. A contemplation; for the sons of Korah. As the hart pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after You, O God.
mkjv@Psalms:42:2 @ My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; when shall I come and appear before God?
mkjv@Psalms:42:3 @ My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day, Where [is] your God?
mkjv@Psalms:42:4 @ When I remember these [things], I pour out my soul on me; for I had gone with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping the feast.
mkjv@Psalms:42:5 @ Why are you cast down, O my soul, and moan within me? Hope in God; for I shall praise Him [for] the salvation of His face.
mkjv@Psalms:42:6 @ O my God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore I will remember You from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermons, from mount Mizar.
mkjv@Psalms:42:7 @ Deep calls to deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; all Your waves and Your billows have gone over me.
mkjv@Psalms:42:8 @ The LORD will command His loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night His song [shall be] with me, my prayer to the God of my life.
mkjv@Psalms:42:9 @ I will say to God my rock, Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the cruelty of the enemy?
mkjv@Psalms:42:10 @ [As] with a sword in my bones, my enemies shame me; while they say daily to me, Where [is] your God?
mkjv@Psalms:42:11 @ Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why do you moan within me? Hope in God; for I still praise Him, the salvation of my face, and my God.
mkjv@Psalms:43:1 @ Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
mkjv@Psalms:43:2 @ For You [are] the God of my strength; why do You cast me off? Why do I go mourning under the affliction of the enemy?
mkjv@Psalms:43:3 @ Oh send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to Your holy hill, and to Your tabernacles.
mkjv@Psalms:43:4 @ Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; yea, on the harp I will praise You, O God, my God.
mkjv@Psalms:43:5 @ Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why do you moan within me? Hope in God; for I still praise Him, the salvation of my face, and my God.
mkjv@Psalms:44:1 @ To the Chief Musician. For the sons of Korah, a contemplation. We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work which You did in their days, in the days of old.
mkjv@Psalms:44:2 @ You drove out the nations [with] Your hand, and planted them; You brought evil on peoples and cast them out.
mkjv@Psalms:44:3 @ For they did not get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but [it was] Your right hand, and Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them.
mkjv@Psalms:44:4 @ You [are] my king, O God; command victories for Jacob.
mkjv@Psalms:44:5 @ Through You we will push our enemies; through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us.
mkjv@Psalms:44:6 @ For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
mkjv@Psalms:44:7 @ But You have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame, those who hated us.
mkjv@Psalms:44:8 @ In God we boast all the day long, and praise Your name forever. Selah.
mkjv@Psalms:44:9 @ Now You have cast us off, and have shamed us, and You do not go forth with our armies.
mkjv@Psalms:44:10 @ You make us turn back from the adversary; and our haters plunder for themselves.
mkjv@Psalms:44:11 @ You have given us like sheep [for] food, and have scattered us among the nations.
mkjv@Psalms:44:12 @ You have sold Your people for nothing, and You did not increase by their price.
mkjv@Psalms:44:13 @ You make us a curse to our neighbors, a scorn and a mockery to those who are round about us.
mkjv@Psalms:44:14 @ You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the people.
mkjv@Psalms:44:15 @ My shame [is] always before me, and the shame of my face has covered me:
mkjv@Psalms:44:16 @ because of the voice of the slanderer and the blasphemer; before the enemy and avenger.
mkjv@Psalms:44:17 @ All this has come on us; yet we have not forgotten You nor dealt falsely in Your covenant.
mkjv@Psalms:44:18 @ Our heart is not turned back, nor have our steps turned aside from Your way,
mkjv@Psalms:44:19 @ though You have crushed us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.
mkjv@Psalms:44:20 @ If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god,
mkjv@Psalms:44:21 @ shall not God search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.
mkjv@Psalms:44:22 @ Yea, for Your sake we are put to death all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
mkjv@Psalms:44:23 @ Awaken! Why do You sleep, O LORD? Arise! Do not cast [us] off forever.
mkjv@Psalms:44:24 @ Why do You hide Your face, [and] forget our affliction and distress?
mkjv@Psalms:44:25 @ For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly holds fast to the earth.
mkjv@Psalms:44:26 @ Arise [for] our help, and redeem us for the sake of Your mercy.
mkjv@Psalms:45:1 @ To the Chief Musician. Concerning the Lilies, for the sons of Korah, a contemplation; A Song of Loves. My heart is overflowing [with] a good matter; I speak of my works to the King; my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer.
mkjv@Psalms:45:2 @ You are the fairest of the sons of men; grace is poured into Your lips; therefore God has blessed You forever.
mkjv@Psalms:45:3 @ Gird Your sword on [Your] thigh, O mighty one, [with] Your glory and Your majesty.
mkjv@Psalms:45:4 @ And ride prosperously [in] Your majesty, because of truth and meekness [and] righteousness; and Your right hand shall teach You fearful things.
mkjv@Psalms:45:5 @ Your arrows [are] sharp in the heart of the King's enemies; peoples fall under You.
mkjv@Psalms:45:6 @ Your throne, O God, [is] forever and ever; the staff of Your kingdom [is] a staff of righteousness.
mkjv@Psalms:45:7 @ You love righteousness, and hate wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your fellows.
mkjv@Psalms:45:8 @ All Your garments [smell] of myrrh, and aloes [and] cassia, out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made You glad.
mkjv@Psalms:45:9 @ Kings' daughters [are] among Your precious ones; on Your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.
mkjv@Psalms:45:10 @ Listen, O daughter, and look; and bow down your ear; and forget your own people and your father's house.
mkjv@Psalms:45:11 @ And cause the King greatly to desire your beauty, for He [is] your Lord, and you shall worship Him.
mkjv@Psalms:45:12 @ And the daughter of Tyre [shall be there] with a gift; even the rich among the peoples shall stroke your face.
mkjv@Psalms:45:13 @ The king's daughter [is] all glorious within; her clothing [is] trimmed with gold.
mkjv@Psalms:45:14 @ She shall be brought to the king in clothing of needlework; the virgins, her companions after her, shall be brought to You.
mkjv@Psalms:45:15 @ They shall be led with joy and gladness; they shall enter into the King's palace.
mkjv@Psalms:45:16 @ Your sons shall be in the place of your fathers; you will make them princes in all the land.
mkjv@Psalms:45:17 @ I will make Your name to be remembered in all generations; therefore the people shall praise You forever and ever.
mkjv@Psalms:46:1 @ To the Chief Musician. For the sons of Korah. A Song For the Virgins. God [is] our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
mkjv@Psalms:46:2 @ Therefore we will not fear when the earth changes, and when mountains [are] slipping into the heart of the seas.
mkjv@Psalms:46:3 @ Let its waters roar and foam; let the mountains shake with the swelling of it. Selah.
mkjv@Psalms:46:4 @ [There is] a river, its channels gladden the city of God glad, the holy [place] of the tabernacles of the Most High.
mkjv@Psalms:46:5 @ God [is] in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God shall help her at the turning of the morning.
mkjv@Psalms:46:6 @ The nations raged, the kingdoms were shaken; He uttered His voice, the earth melted.
mkjv@Psalms:46:7 @ The LORD of hosts [is] with us; the God of Jacob [is] our refuge. Selah.
mkjv@Psalms:46:8 @ Come, behold the works of the LORD, who makes ruins on the earth;
mkjv@Psalms:46:9 @ who makes wars to cease to the ends of the earth; He breaks the bow, and cuts the spear in two; He burns the chariots in the fire.
mkjv@Psalms:46:10 @ Be still, and know that I [am] God! I will be praised among the nations, I will be praised in the earth.
mkjv@Psalms:46:11 @ The LORD of hosts [is] with us; the God of Jacob [is] our refuge. Selah.
mkjv@Psalms:47:1 @ To the Chief Musician. A Psalm for the sons of Korah. Clap your hand, all you peoples; shout to God with the voice of triumph.
mkjv@Psalms:47:2 @ For the LORD Most High [is] awesome, a great king over all the earth.
mkjv@Psalms:47:3 @ He shall humble the peoples under us, and nations under our feet.
mkjv@Psalms:47:4 @ He shall choose our inheritance for us, the majesty of Jacob whom He loved. Selah.
mkjv@Psalms:47:5 @ God has gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
mkjv@Psalms:47:6 @ Sing praise to God, sing praise; sing praise to our King, sing praise.
mkjv@Psalms:47:7 @ For God [is] King of all the earth; sing praises with understanding.
mkjv@Psalms:47:8 @ God reigns over the nations, God sits on the throne of His holiness.
mkjv@Psalms:47:9 @ The rulers of the peoples are gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham; for the shields of the earth [are] God's; He is lifted up on high.
mkjv@Psalms:48:1 @ A Song and Psalm for the Sons of Korah. Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of His holiness.
mkjv@Psalms:48:2 @ Beautiful on high, the joy of the whole earth, [is] mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
mkjv@Psalms:48:3 @ God is known in her strongholds for a refuge.
mkjv@Psalms:48:4 @ For, lo, the kings were gathered; they passed by together.
mkjv@Psalms:48:5 @ They saw, so they marvelled; they were troubled, [and] hurried away.
mkjv@Psalms:48:6 @ Fear took hold on them there, [and] pain, like a woman in labor.
mkjv@Psalms:48:7 @ You break the ships of Tarshish with an east wind;
mkjv@Psalms:48:8 @ as we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah.
mkjv@Psalms:48:9 @ We have thought of Your loving-kindness, O God, in the midst of Your temple.
mkjv@Psalms:48:10 @ According to Your name, O God, so [is] Your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness; let mount Zion rejoice!
mkjv@Psalms:48:11 @ Let the daughters of Judah shout for joy because of Your judgments!
mkjv@Psalms:48:12 @ Walk around Zion, and go all around it; count the towers of it,
mkjv@Psalms:48:13 @ Set your heart on its ramparts, pass between its strongholds; so that you may tell [it] to the coming generation.
mkjv@Psalms:48:14 @ For this God [is] our God forever and ever; He will be [our] guide [even] to death.
mkjv@Psalms:49:1 @ To the Chief Musician. A Psalm for the sons of Korah. Hear this, all you peoples; give ear, all inhabitants of the world;
mkjv@Psalms:49:2 @ both sons of mankind, and sons of man, rich and poor together;
mkjv@Psalms:49:3 @ my mouth shall speak of wise things; and the thoughts of my heart [shall be] of understanding.
mkjv@Psalms:49:4 @ I will bow down my ear to a parable; I will open my dark saying on the harp.
mkjv@Psalms:49:5 @ Why should I fear in the days of evil, [when] the perversity of my ambushers will surround me?
mkjv@Psalms:49:6 @ Those who trust in their wealth, and their many riches, boast themselves.
mkjv@Psalms:49:7 @ A man cannot at all redeem a brother, nor give to God a ransom for him,
mkjv@Psalms:49:8 @ for the redemption of their soul [is] precious, and it ceases forever,
mkjv@Psalms:49:9 @ yea, he shall yet live forever; he shall never see corruption.
mkjv@Psalms:49:10 @ For he sees wise men die; likewise the fool and the animal-like ones perish, and leave their wealth to others.
mkjv@Psalms:49:11 @ Their inward [thought is that] their houses shall [go on] forever, and their dwelling-places to all generations; they call [their] lands after their own names.
mkjv@Psalms:49:12 @ But man, though high in honor, does not remain; he is like the animals [that] perish.
mkjv@Psalms:49:13 @ This way of theirs [is] their foolishness; yet their followers delight in their sayings. Selah.
mkjv@Psalms:49:14 @ Like sheep they are appointed to the grave; death shall reign [for] them; and the upright shall have the rule over them in the morning; and their form [is] for rotting; the grave [is] their home.
mkjv@Psalms:49:15 @ But God will redeem my soul from the hand of the grave; for He will take me. Selah.
mkjv@Psalms:49:16 @ Be not afraid when one becomes rich, when the glory of his house increases;
mkjv@Psalms:49:17 @ for when he dies he shall take nothing away; his glory shall not go down after him.
mkjv@Psalms:49:18 @ For in his life he blessed his soul; yea, they praise you when you do well to yourself.
mkjv@Psalms:49:19 @ He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
mkjv@Psalms:49:20 @ Man in honor, but without understanding, is like the animals; they shall perish.
mkjv@Psalms:50:1 @ A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, the LORD, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to [its] going down.
mkjv@Psalms:50:2 @ Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone.
mkjv@Psalms:50:3 @ Our God comes, and He is not silent; a fire shall devour before Him, and it shall be very stormy all around Him.
mkjv@Psalms:50:4 @ He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, so that He may judge His people.
mkjv@Psalms:50:5 @ Gather My saints to Me; and those who cut My covenant by sacrifice.
mkjv@Psalms:50:6 @ And the heavens shall declare His righteousness; for God Himself [is] judge. Selah.
mkjv@Psalms:50:7 @ Hear, My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you; I [am] God, your God.
mkjv@Psalms:50:8 @ I will not reprove you for your sacrifices; yea, your burnt offerings [are] continually before Me.
mkjv@Psalms:50:9 @ I will take no bull out of your house, [nor] he-goats out of your folds.
mkjv@Psalms:50:10 @ For every beast of the forest [is] Mine, [and] the cattle on a thousand hills.
mkjv@Psalms:50:11 @ I know all the birds of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field [are] Mine.
mkjv@Psalms:50:12 @ If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world [is] Mine, and the fullness of it.
mkjv@Psalms:50:13 @ Will I eat the flesh of the mighty, or drink the blood of goats?
mkjv@Psalms:50:14 @ Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay your vows to the Most High;
mkjv@Psalms:50:15 @ and call on Me in the day of trouble; and I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.
mkjv@Psalms:50:16 @ But to the wicked, God says, What [is it] to you, to declare My statutes, and to take up My covenant in your mouth?
mkjv@Psalms:50:17 @ Yea, you hate to be taught, and you toss My words behind you.
mkjv@Psalms:50:18 @ When you saw a thief, then you were pleased to be with him, and you [have taken] part with adulterers.
mkjv@Psalms:50:19 @ You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
mkjv@Psalms:50:20 @ You sit; you speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
mkjv@Psalms:50:21 @ These [things] you have done, and I have kept silence; you thought [that] I was like yourself, [but] I will rebuke you, and set in order before your eyes.
mkjv@Psalms:50:22 @ Now think of this, you who forget God, lest I tear [you] in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
mkjv@Psalms:50:23 @ Whoever offers praise glorifies Me; and he who sets a way, I will show him the salvation of God.
mkjv@Psalms:51:1 @ To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving-kindness; according to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
mkjv@Psalms:51:2 @ Wash me completely from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
mkjv@Psalms:51:3 @ For I confess my transgressions; and my sin [is] ever before me.
mkjv@Psalms:51:4 @ Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done evil in Your sight; that You might be justified when You speak, [and] be clear when You judge.
mkjv@Psalms:51:5 @ Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
mkjv@Psalms:51:6 @ Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts; and in the hidden [part] You shall make me to know wisdom.
mkjv@Psalms:51:7 @ Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
mkjv@Psalms:51:8 @ Make me to hear joy and gladness; [that] the bones [which] You have broken may rejoice.
mkjv@Psalms:51:9 @ Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
mkjv@Psalms:51:10 @ Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
mkjv@Psalms:51:11 @ Cast me not away from Your presence, and take not Your Holy Spirit from me.
mkjv@Psalms:51:12 @ Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me [with] a willing spirit.
mkjv@Psalms:51:13 @ [Then] I will teach transgressors Your ways; and sinners shall be converted to You.
mkjv@Psalms:51:14 @ Deliver me from the guilt of shedding blood, O God, O God of my salvation, [and] my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.
mkjv@Psalms:51:15 @ O LORD, open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth Your praise.
mkjv@Psalms:51:16 @ For You do not desire sacrifice; or else I would give [it]; You do not delight in burnt offering.
mkjv@Psalms:51:17 @ The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
mkjv@Psalms:51:18 @ Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem.
mkjv@Psalms:51:19 @ Then shall You be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering; then they shall offer bulls on Your altar.
mkjv@Psalms:52:1 @ To the Chief Musician. A contemplation. A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David has come to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you boast yourself in evil, O mighty man? The mercy of God [endures forever.
mkjv@Psalms:52:2 @ Your tongue devises evil, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
mkjv@Psalms:52:3 @ You love evil more than good, [and] lying more than to speak righteousness. Selah.
mkjv@Psalms:52:4 @ You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue.
mkjv@Psalms:52:5 @ God will likewise destroy you forever; He shall take you away, and pluck you out of [your] tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
mkjv@Psalms:52:6 @ And the righteous shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, [saying],
mkjv@Psalms:52:7 @ Behold, the man [who] did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, he was strong in his wickedness.
mkjv@Psalms:52:8 @ But I [am] like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever.
mkjv@Psalms:52:9 @ I will praise You forever, because You have done [it]; and I will wait [on] Your name; for [it is] good before Your saints.
mkjv@Psalms:53:1 @ To the Chief Musician on Mahalath. A contemplation. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, [There is] no God. They acted corruptly, and have worked out abominable wickedness; [there is] not one doing good.
mkjv@Psalms:53:2 @ God looked down from Heaven on the sons of mankind to see if [any] was discerning, who was seeking God.
mkjv@Psalms:53:3 @ Every one has turned away; they have altogether become filthy; not one is doing good, no, not even one.
mkjv@Psalms:53:4 @ Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? They eat up my people [as] they eat bread; they have not called on God.
mkjv@Psalms:53:5 @ There they dreaded [with] dread, [where] no dread was; for God has scattered the bones of him who camps against you; you have put [them] to shame because God rejects them.
mkjv@Psalms:53:6 @ Who will give from Zion the salvation of Israel? When God brings back the captivity of His people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
mkjv@Psalms:54:1 @ To the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation. A Psalm of David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Does not David hide himself among us? Save me, O God, by Your name, and judge me by Your strength.
mkjv@Psalms:54:2 @ Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
mkjv@Psalms:54:3 @ For strangers have risen up against me, and cruel men seek after my soul; they have not set God before them. Selah.
mkjv@Psalms:54:4 @ Behold, God [is] my helper; the LORD [is] with those who uphold my soul.
mkjv@Psalms:54:5 @ He shall reward evil to my enemies; cut them off in Your truth.
mkjv@Psalms:54:6 @ I will freely sacrifice to You; I will praise Your name, O LORD, for [it is] good.
mkjv@Psalms:54:7 @ For He has delivered me out of all trouble; and my eye has seen [its desire] on my enemies.
mkjv@Psalms:55:1 @ To the Chief Musician. For stringed instruments. A contemplation. A Psalm of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not Yourself from my cry.
mkjv@Psalms:55:2 @ Attend to me, and hear me; I wander and I moan in my complaint,
mkjv@Psalms:55:3 @ from the voice of the enemy, from the oppression of the wicked, for they shake trouble over me, and in wrath they hate me.
mkjv@Psalms:55:4 @ My heart is pained within me; and the terrors of death have fallen on me.
mkjv@Psalms:55:5 @ Fear and trembling have come on me, and horror has covered me.
mkjv@Psalms:55:6 @ And I said, Who will give to me wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.
mkjv@Psalms:55:7 @ Lo, I would wander far off; I would lodge in the desert. Selah.
mkjv@Psalms:55:8 @ I would hasten my escape from the windy storm [and] tempest.
mkjv@Psalms:55:9 @ Swallow up, O LORD, [and] divide their tongues; for I have seen violence and fighting in the city.
mkjv@Psalms:55:10 @ They go around her on her walls by day and night; and evil and sorrow [are] in her midst.
mkjv@Psalms:55:11 @ Covetings [are] in her midst; oppression and guile will not depart from her streets.
mkjv@Psalms:55:12 @ For [it is] not an enemy [who] reviled me; then I could have borne [it]; [it is] not one who hates me [who] magnified [himself] against me; or I would hide myself from him;
mkjv@Psalms:55:13 @ but [it is] you, a man my rank, my guide and my friend.
mkjv@Psalms:55:14 @ We took sweet counsel together, [and] walked to the house of God in company.
mkjv@Psalms:55:15 @ Let desolation take hold on them, [and] let them go down alive [into] hell; for evils [are] among them in their dwellings.
mkjv@Psalms:55:16 @ I, [even] I, will call to God, and the LORD will save me.
mkjv@Psalms:55:17 @ Evening and morning, and at noon, I will pray and cry aloud; and He shall hear my voice.
mkjv@Psalms:55:18 @ He has delivered my soul in peace from the battle [that was] against me; for there were many with me.
mkjv@Psalms:55:19 @ God shall hear and answer them, even He who is enthroned of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they do not fear God.
mkjv@Psalms:55:20 @ He has put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him; he has broken his covenant.
mkjv@Psalms:55:21 @ The butterings of his mouth [were] forked, but war [was] in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they [were] drawn swords.
mkjv@Psalms:55:22 @ Cast your burden on the LORD, and He will keep you; He will never allow the righteous to waver.
mkjv@Psalms:55:23 @ But You, O God, will bring them down into the pit of ruin; bloody and deceitful men shall not [live] half their days; but I will trust in You.
mkjv@Psalms:56:1 @ To the Chief Musician. Concerning the silent dove-- those far off. Of David, a secret treasure--when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up; fighting daily, he presses me down.
mkjv@Psalms:56:2 @ My watchers panted for me daily; for many [are] they who proudly fight against me.
mkjv@Psalms:56:3 @ When I am afraid I will trust in You.
mkjv@Psalms:56:4 @ In God I will praise His word; in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do to me.
mkjv@Psalms:56:5 @ All day long they pervert my words; all their thoughts [are] against me for evil.
mkjv@Psalms:56:6 @ They stir up strife; they hide themselves; they watch my steps as they wait for my soul.
mkjv@Psalms:56:7 @ Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.
mkjv@Psalms:56:8 @ You number my wandering; O put my tears into Your bottle; [are they] not in Your Book?
mkjv@Psalms:56:9 @ When I cry, then my enemies will be turned back. This I know, for God [is] with me.
mkjv@Psalms:56:10 @ In God I will praise [His] word; in the LORD will I praise [His] word.
mkjv@Psalms:56:11 @ In God I have put my trust; I will not be afraid of what man can do to me.
mkjv@Psalms:56:12 @ Your vows [are] on me, O God; I will give praises to You.
mkjv@Psalms:56:13 @ For You have delivered my soul from death; [have You] not [kept] my feet from falling, [so that] I may walk before God in the light of the living?
mkjv@Psalms:57:1 @ To the Chief Musician. Do not destroy. A secret treasure of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave. Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me; for my soul trusts in You; yea, in the shadow of Your wings I will make my hiding-place, until [these] great troubles pass by.
mkjv@Psalms:57:2 @ I will cry to God most high, to God who does all [things] for me.
mkjv@Psalms:57:3 @ He shall send from Heaven, and save me [from] the scorn of him who would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth His mercy and His truth.
mkjv@Psalms:57:4 @ My soul [is] among lions; I lie [among] those on fire, the sons of men whose teeth [are] spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
mkjv@Psalms:57:5 @ Be praised above the heavens, O God; [let] Your glory [be] above all the earth.
mkjv@Psalms:57:6 @ They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down; [they have] dug a pit before me, they have fallen into it. Selah.
mkjv@Psalms:57:7 @ My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise.
mkjv@Psalms:57:8 @ Wake up, my soul! Wake up, harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn.
mkjv@Psalms:57:9 @ I will praise You, O LORD, among the peoples; I will sing to You among the nations.
mkjv@Psalms:57:10 @ For Your mercy [is] great to the heavens, and Your truth to the clouds.
mkjv@Psalms:57:11 @ Be exalted above the heavens, O God; [let] Your glory [be] above all the earth.
mkjv@Psalms:58:1 @ To the Chief Musician. Do not destroy. A secret treasure of David. Will you indeed speak righteousness in silence? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?
mkjv@Psalms:58:2 @ Yes, in heart you work the evil, you weigh the violence of your hands in the land.
mkjv@Psalms:58:3 @ The wicked are estranged from the womb; [they go] astray from the womb, speaking lies.
mkjv@Psalms:58:4 @ Their poison [is] like the poison of a snake; like the deaf adder, he stops his ear,
mkjv@Psalms:58:5 @ which will not listen to the charmer's voice, a skillful caster of spells.
mkjv@Psalms:58:6 @ O God, break their teeth in their mouth; break out the big teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
mkjv@Psalms:58:7 @ Let them melt away like waters; they run off to them; he bends his arrows, [let them be] as though [they were] cut off.
mkjv@Psalms:58:8 @ [Let them be] as a snail goes [into] melting; [as] a miscarriage of a woman, they do not see the sun.
mkjv@Psalms:58:9 @ Before your pots can feel the thorns, whether green or glowing, He shall sweep it away.
mkjv@Psalms:58:10 @ The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
mkjv@Psalms:58:11 @ And man shall say, Truly, [there is] a reward for the righteous; truly, [there is] a God judging in the earth.
mkjv@Psalms:59:1 @ To the Chief Musician. Do not destroy. A secret treasure of David, when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; defend me from those who rise up against me.
mkjv@Psalms:59:2 @ Deliver me from the workers of evil and save me from bloody men.
mkjv@Psalms:59:3 @ For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul; the mighty are gathered against me; not [for] my transgression, nor [for] my sin, O LORD.
mkjv@Psalms:59:4 @ Without [my] fault they run and prepare themselves; awaken to help me, and look [on me].
mkjv@Psalms:59:5 @ And You, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the nations; do not be merciful to any plotting evil. Selah.
mkjv@Psalms:59:6 @ They return at evening; they make a noise like a dog, and go around the city.
mkjv@Psalms:59:7 @ Behold, they bellow out with their mouth; swords [are] in their lips; for [they say], Who hears?
mkjv@Psalms:59:8 @ But You, O Jehovah, shall laugh at them; You will mock at all the nations.
mkjv@Psalms:59:9 @ O my Strength, let me look to You, for God [is] my strong tower.
mkjv@Psalms:59:10 @ The God of my mercy shall go before me; God shall let me see [my desire] on my enemies.
mkjv@Psalms:59:11 @ Do not kill them, lest my people forget; scatter them by Your power and bring them down, O LORD our shield.
mkjv@Psalms:59:12 @ [For] the sin of their mouth [is] the word of their lips, even let them be taken in their pride; and for cursing and the lying [which] they speak.
mkjv@Psalms:59:13 @ Consume [them] in wrath; consume, so that they may not be; and let them know that God rules in Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah.
mkjv@Psalms:59:14 @ And at evening they shall return; let them howl like a dog, and go around the city.
mkjv@Psalms:59:15 @ Let them wander up and down for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.
mkjv@Psalms:59:16 @ But I will sing of Your power; yes, I will sing aloud of Your mercy in the morning; for You have been my strong tower and hiding-place in the day of my trouble.
mkjv@Psalms:59:17 @ To You, O my strength, I will sing; for God [is] my strong tower [and] the God of my mercy.
mkjv@Psalms:60:1 @ To the Chief Musician. On the Lily of Testimony. A secret treasure of David, to teach; when he struggled with Aram-naharaim and with Aram of Zobah, when Joab returned and struck twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt. O God, You have cast us off, You have scattered us, You were angry; take us back. ![[pBiblx2]](/img/menu.png)