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rsv@Job:1:1 @ There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

rsv@Job:1:2 @ There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

rsv@Job:1:3 @ He had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and very many servants; so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.

rsv@Job:1:4 @ His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each on his day; and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

rsv@Job:1:5 @ And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did continually.

rsv@Job:1:6 @ Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them.

rsv@Job:1:7 @ The LORD said to Satan, "Whence have you come?" Satan answered the LORD, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it."

rsv@Job:1:8 @ And the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?"

rsv@Job:1:9 @ Then Satan answered the LORD, "Does Job fear God for nought?

rsv@Job:1:10 @ Hast thou not put a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

rsv@Job:1:11 @ But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse thee to thy face."

rsv@Job:1:12 @ And the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power; only upon himself do not put forth your hand." So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

rsv@Job:1:13 @ Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house;

rsv@Job:1:14 @ and there came a messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen were plowing and the asses feeding beside them;

rsv@Job:1:15 @ and the Sabe'ans fell upon them and took them, and slew the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."

rsv@Job:1:16 @ While he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, "The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and I alone have escaped to tell you."

rsv@Job:1:17 @ While he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, "The Chalde'ans formed three companies, and made a raid upon the camels and took them, and slew the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."

rsv@Job:1:18 @ While he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house;

rsv@Job:1:19 @ and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead; and I alone have escaped to tell you."

rsv@Job:1:20 @ Then Job arose, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell upon the ground, and worshiped.

rsv@Job:1:21 @ And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return; the LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD."

rsv@Job:1:22 @ In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.

rsv@Job:2:1 @ Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD.

rsv@Job:2:2 @ And the LORD said to Satan, "Whence have you come?" Satan answered the LORD, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it."

rsv@Job:2:3 @ And the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you moved me against him, to destroy him without cause."

rsv@Job:2:4 @ Then Satan answered the LORD, "Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life.

rsv@Job:2:5 @ But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face."

rsv@Job:2:6 @ And the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your power; only spare his life."

rsv@Job:2:7 @ So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD, and afflicted Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

rsv@Job:2:8 @ And he took a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and sat among the ashes.

rsv@Job:2:9 @ Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God, and die."

rsv@Job:2:10 @ But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

rsv@Job:2:11 @ Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eli'phaz the Te'manite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Na'amathite. They made an appointment together to come to condole with him and comfort him.

rsv@Job:2:12 @ And when they saw him from afar, they did not recognize him; and they raised their voices and wept; and they rent their robes and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

rsv@Job:2:13 @ And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.

rsv@Job:3:1 @ After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

rsv@Job:3:2 @ And Job said:

rsv@Job:3:3 @ "Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night which said, ` man-child is conceived.'

rsv@Job:3:4 @ Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it.

rsv@Job:3:5 @ Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

rsv@Job:3:6 @ That night--let thick darkness seize it! let it not rejoice among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

rsv@Job:3:7 @ Yea, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry be heard in it.

rsv@Job:3:8 @ Let those curse it who curse the day, who are skilled to rouse up Levi'athan.

rsv@Job:3:9 @ Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning;

rsv@Job:3:10 @ because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.

rsv@Job:3:11 @ "Why did I not die at birth, come forth from the womb and expire?

rsv@Job:3:12 @ Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?

rsv@Job:3:13 @ For then I should have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then I should have been at rest,

rsv@Job:3:14 @ with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuilt ruins for themselves,

rsv@Job:3:15 @ or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.

rsv@Job:3:16 @ Or why was I not as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never see the light?

rsv@Job:3:17 @ There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.

rsv@Job:3:18 @ There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

rsv@Job:3:19 @ The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master.

rsv@Job:3:20 @ "Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,

rsv@Job:3:21 @ who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

rsv@Job:3:22 @ who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they find the grave?

rsv@Job:3:23 @ Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God has hedged in?

rsv@Job:3:24 @ For my sighing comes as my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.

rsv@Job:3:25 @ For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me.

rsv@Job:3:26 @ I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest; but trouble comes."

rsv@Job:4:1 @ Then Eli'phaz the Te'manite answered:

rsv@Job:4:2 @ "If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended? Yet who can keep from speaking?

rsv@Job:4:3 @ Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.

rsv@Job:4:4 @ Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.

rsv@Job:4:5 @ But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.

rsv@Job:4:6 @ Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?

rsv@Job:4:7 @ "Think now, who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off+?

rsv@Job:4:8 @ As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.

rsv@Job:4:9 @ By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.

rsv@Job:4:10 @ The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

rsv@Job:4:11 @ The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.

rsv@Job:4:12 @ "Now a word was brought to me stealthily, my ear received the whisper of it.

rsv@Job:4:13 @ Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

rsv@Job:4:14 @ dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.

rsv@Job:4:15 @ A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.

rsv@Job:4:16 @ It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice:

rsv@Job:4:17 @ `an mortal man be righteous before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?

rsv@Job:4:18 @ Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;

rsv@Job:4:19 @ how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.

rsv@Job:4:20 @ Between morning and evening they are destroyed; they perish for ever without any regarding it.

rsv@Job:4:21 @ If their tent-cord is plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?'

rsv@Job:5:1 @ "Call now; is there any one who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

rsv@Job:5:2 @ Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.

rsv@Job:5:3 @ I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.

rsv@Job:5:4 @ His sons are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.

rsv@Job:5:5 @ His harvest the hungry eat, and he takes it even out of thorns; and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

rsv@Job:5:6 @ For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground;

rsv@Job:5:7 @ but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

rsv@Job:5:8 @ "As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause;

rsv@Job:5:9 @ who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:

rsv@Job:5:10 @ he gives rain upon the earth and sends waters upon the fields;

rsv@Job:5:11 @ he sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.

rsv@Job:5:12 @ He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.

rsv@Job:5:13 @ He takes the wise in their own craftiness; and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.

rsv@Job:5:14 @ They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.

rsv@Job:5:15 @ But he saves the fatherless from their mouth, the needy from the hand of the mighty.

rsv@Job:5:16 @ So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

rsv@Job:5:17 @ "Behold, happy is the man whom God reproves; therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty.

rsv@Job:5:18 @ For he wounds, but he binds up; he smites, but his hands heal.

rsv@Job:5:19 @ He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven there shall no evil touch you.

rsv@Job:5:20 @ In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

rsv@Job:5:21 @ You shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes.

rsv@Job:5:22 @ At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the beasts of the earth.

rsv@Job:5:23 @ For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.

rsv@Job:5:24 @ You shall know that your tent is safe, and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.

rsv@Job:5:25 @ You shall know also that your descendants shall be many, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.

rsv@Job:5:26 @ You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, as a shock of grain comes up to the threshing floor in its season.

rsv@Job:5:27 @ Lo, this we have searched out; it is true. Hear, and know it for your good."

rsv@Job:6:1 @ Then Job answered:

rsv@Job:6:2 @ "O that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

rsv@Job:6:3 @ For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.

rsv@Job:6:4 @ For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

rsv@Job:6:5 @ Does the wild ass bray when he has grass, or the ox low over his fodder?

rsv@Job:6:6 @ Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the slime of the purslane?

rsv@Job:6:7 @ My appetite refuses to touch them; they are as food that is loathsome to me.

rsv@Job:6:8 @ "O that I might have my request, and that God would grant my desire;

rsv@Job:6:9 @ that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

rsv@Job:6:10 @ This would be my consolation; I would even exult in pain unsparing; for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

rsv@Job:6:11 @ What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient?

rsv@Job:6:12 @ Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh bronze?

rsv@Job:6:13 @ In truth I have no help in me, and any resource is driven from me.

rsv@Job:6:14 @ "He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

rsv@Job:6:15 @ My brethren are treacherous as a torrent-bed, as freshets that pass away,

rsv@Job:6:16 @ which are dark with ice, and where the snow hides itself.

rsv@Job:6:17 @ In time of heat they disappear; when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

rsv@Job:6:18 @ The caravans turn aside from their course; they go up into the waste, and perish.

rsv@Job:6:19 @ The caravans of Tema look, the travelers of Sheba hope.

rsv@Job:6:20 @ They are disappointed because they were confident; they come thither and are confounded.

rsv@Job:6:21 @ Such you have now become to me; you see my calamity, and are afraid.

rsv@Job:6:22 @ Have I said, `Make me a gift'? Or, `From your wealth offer a bribe for me'?

rsv@Job:6:23 @ Or, `y's hand'? Or, `ppressors'?

rsv@Job:6:24 @ "Teach me, and I will be silent; make me understand how I have erred.

rsv@Job:6:25 @ How forceful are honest words! But what does reproof from you reprove?

rsv@Job:6:26 @ Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?

rsv@Job:6:27 @ You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.

rsv@Job:6:28 @ "But now, be pleased to look at me; for I will not lie to your face.

rsv@Job:6:29 @ Turn, I pray, let no wrong be done. Turn now, my vindication is at stake.

rsv@Job:6:30 @ Is there any wrong on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern calamity?

rsv@Job:7:1 @ "Has not man a hard service upon earth, and are not his days like the days of a hireling?

rsv@Job:7:2 @ Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hireling who looks for his wages,

rsv@Job:7:3 @ so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

rsv@Job:7:4 @ When I lie down I say, `en I lie down I say, "When shall I arise?' But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.

rsv@Job:7:5 @ My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.

rsv@Job:7:6 @ My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and come to their end without hope.

rsv@Job:7:7 @ "Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.

rsv@Job:7:8 @ The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while thy eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.

rsv@Job:7:9 @ As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;

rsv@Job:7:10 @ he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him any more.

rsv@Job:7:11 @ "Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

rsv@Job:7:12 @ Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that thou settest a guard over me?

rsv@Job:7:13 @ When I say, `en I say, "My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,'

rsv@Job:7:14 @ then thou dost scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

rsv@Job:7:15 @ so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.

rsv@Job:7:16 @ I loathe my life; I would not live for ever. Let me alone, for my days are a breath.

rsv@Job:7:17 @ What is man, that thou dost make so much of him, and that thou dost set thy mind upon him,

rsv@Job:7:18 @ dost visit him every morning, and test him every moment?

rsv@Job:7:19 @ How long wilt thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle?

rsv@Job:7:20 @ If I sin, what do I do to thee, thou watcher of men? Why hast thou made me thy mark? Why have I become a burden to thee?

rsv@Job:7:21 @ Why dost thou not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; thou wilt seek me, but I shall not be."

rsv@Job:8:1 @ Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

rsv@Job:8:2 @ "How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?

rsv@Job:8:3 @ Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?

rsv@Job:8:4 @ If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the power of their transgression.

rsv@Job:8:5 @ If you will seek God and make supplication to the Almighty,

rsv@Job:8:6 @ if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and reward you with a rightful habitation.

rsv@Job:8:7 @ And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.

rsv@Job:8:8 @ "For inquire, I pray you, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have found;

rsv@Job:8:9 @ for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.

rsv@Job:8:10 @ Will they not teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their understanding?

rsv@Job:8:11 @ "Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?

rsv@Job:8:12 @ While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.

rsv@Job:8:13 @ Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless man shall perish.

rsv@Job:8:14 @ His confidence breaks in sunder, and his trust is a spider's web.

rsv@Job:8:15 @ He leans against his house, but it does not stand; he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.

rsv@Job:8:16 @ He thrives before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden.

rsv@Job:8:17 @ His roots twine about the stoneheap; he lives among the rocks.

rsv@Job:8:18 @ If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, `ng, "I have never seen you.'

rsv@Job:8:19 @ Behold, this is the joy of his way; and out of the earth others will spring.

rsv@Job:8:20 @ "Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers.

rsv@Job:8:21 @ He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting.

rsv@Job:8:22 @ Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more."

rsv@Job:9:1 @ Then Job answered:

rsv@Job:9:2 @ "Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be just before God?

rsv@Job:9:3 @ If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.

rsv@Job:9:4 @ He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength --who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?--

rsv@Job:9:5 @ he who removes mountains, and they know it not, when he overturns them in his anger;

rsv@Job:9:6 @ who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;

rsv@Job:9:7 @ who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars;

rsv@Job:9:8 @ who alone stretched out the heavens, and trampled the waves of the sea;

rsv@Job:9:9 @ who made the Bear and Orion, the Plei'ades and the chambers of the south;

rsv@Job:9:10 @ who does great things beyond understanding, and marvelous things without number.

rsv@Job:9:11 @ Lo, he passes by me, and I see him not; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.

rsv@Job:9:12 @ Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? who will say to him, `u'?

rsv@Job:9:13 @ "God will not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.

rsv@Job:9:14 @ How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?

rsv@Job:9:15 @ Though I am innocent, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.

rsv@Job:9:16 @ If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.

rsv@Job:9:17 @ For he crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause;

rsv@Job:9:18 @ he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

rsv@Job:9:19 @ If it is a contest of strength, behold him! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?

rsv@Job:9:20 @ Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.

rsv@Job:9:21 @ I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.

rsv@Job:9:22 @ It is all one; therefore I say, he destroys both the blameless and the wicked.

rsv@Job:9:23 @ When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.

rsv@Job:9:24 @ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges-- if it is not he, who then is it?

rsv@Job:9:25 @ "My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good.

rsv@Job:9:26 @ They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey.

rsv@Job:9:27 @ If I say, ` I say, "I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer,'

rsv@Job:9:28 @ I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know thou wilt not hold me innocent.

rsv@Job:9:29 @ I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?

rsv@Job:9:30 @ If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

rsv@Job:9:31 @ yet thou wilt plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.

rsv@Job:9:32 @ For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.

rsv@Job:9:33 @ There is no umpire between us, who might lay his hand upon us both.

rsv@Job:9:34 @ Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me.

rsv@Job:9:35 @ Then I would speak without fear of him, for I am not so in myself.

rsv@Job:10:1 @ "I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

rsv@Job:10:2 @ I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why thou dost contend against me.

rsv@Job:10:3 @ Does it seem good to thee to oppress, to despise the work of thy hands and favor the designs of the wicked?

rsv@Job:10:4 @ Hast thou eyes of flesh? Dost thou see as man sees?

rsv@Job:10:5 @ Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man's years,

rsv@Job:10:6 @ that thou dost seek out my iniquity and search for my sin,

rsv@Job:10:7 @ although thou knowest that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of thy hand?

rsv@Job:10:8 @ Thy hands fashioned and made me; and now thou dost turn about and destroy me.

rsv@Job:10:9 @ Remember that thou hast made me of clay; and wilt thou turn me to dust again?

rsv@Job:10:10 @ Didst thou not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?

rsv@Job:10:11 @ Thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

rsv@Job:10:12 @ Thou hast granted me life and steadfast love; and thy care has preserved my spirit.

rsv@Job:10:13 @ Yet these things thou didst hide in thy heart; I know that this was thy purpose.

rsv@Job:10:14 @ If I sin, thou dost mark me, and dost not acquit me of my iniquity.

rsv@Job:10:15 @ If I am wicked, woe to me! If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look upon my affliction.

rsv@Job:10:16 @ And if I lift myself up, thou dost hunt me like a lion, and again work wonders against me;

rsv@Job:10:17 @ thou dost renew thy witnesses against me, and increase thy vexation toward me; thou dost bring fresh hosts against me.

rsv@Job:10:18 @ "Why didst thou bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me,

rsv@Job:10:19 @ and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.

rsv@Job:10:20 @ Are not the days of my life few? Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort

rsv@Job:10:21 @ before I go whence I shall not return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness,

rsv@Job:10:22 @ the land of gloom and chaos, where light is as darkness."

rsv@Job:11:1 @ Then Zophar the Na'amathite answered:

rsv@Job:11:2 @ "Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and a man full of talk be vindicated?

rsv@Job:11:3 @ Should your babble silence men, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?

rsv@Job:11:4 @ For you say, `r you say, "My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God's eyes.'

rsv@Job:11:5 @ But oh, that God would speak, and open his lips to you,

rsv@Job:11:6 @ and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.

rsv@Job:11:7 @ "Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?

rsv@Job:11:8 @ It is higher than heaven --what can you do? Deeper than Sheol--what can you know?

rsv@Job:11:9 @ Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

rsv@Job:11:10 @ If he passes through, and imprisons, and calls to judgment, who can hinder him?

rsv@Job:11:11 @ For he knows worthless men; when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?

rsv@Job:11:12 @ But a stupid man will get understanding, when a wild ass's colt is born a man.

rsv@Job:11:13 @ "If you set your heart aright, you will stretch out your hands toward him.

rsv@Job:11:14 @ If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in your tents.

rsv@Job:11:15 @ Surely then you will lift up your face without blemish; you will be secure, and will not fear.

rsv@Job:11:16 @ You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away.

rsv@Job:11:17 @ And your life will be brighter than the noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.

rsv@Job:11:18 @ And you will have confidence, because there is hope; you will be protected and take your rest in safety.

rsv@Job:11:19 @ You will lie down, and none will make you afraid; many will entreat your favor.

rsv@Job:11:20 @ But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last."

rsv@Job:12:1 @ Then Job answered:

rsv@Job:12:2 @ "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

rsv@Job:12:3 @ But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

rsv@Job:12:4 @ I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called upon God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.

rsv@Job:12:5 @ In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip.

rsv@Job:12:6 @ The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.

rsv@Job:12:7 @ "But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you;

rsv@Job:12:8 @ or the plants of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you.

rsv@Job:12:9 @ Who among all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?

rsv@Job:12:10 @ In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.

rsv@Job:12:11 @ Does not the ear try words as the palate tastes food?

rsv@Job:12:12 @ Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.

rsv@Job:12:13 @ "With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.

rsv@Job:12:14 @ If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.

rsv@Job:12:15 @ If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.

rsv@Job:12:16 @ With him are strength and wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.

rsv@Job:12:17 @ He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.

rsv@Job:12:18 @ He looses the bonds of kings, and binds a waistcloth on their loins.

rsv@Job:12:19 @ He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

rsv@Job:12:20 @ He deprives of speech those who are trusted, and takes away the discernment of the elders.

rsv@Job:12:21 @ He pours contempt on princes, and looses the belt of the strong.

rsv@Job:12:22 @ He uncovers the deeps out of darkness, and brings deep darkness to light.

rsv@Job:12:23 @ He makes nations great, and he destroys them: he enlarges nations, and leads them away.

rsv@Job:12:24 @ He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and makes them wander in a pathless waste.

rsv@Job:12:25 @ They grope in the dark without light; and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.

rsv@Job:13:1 @ "Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.

rsv@Job:13:2 @ What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.

rsv@Job:13:3 @ But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.

rsv@Job:13:4 @ As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.

rsv@Job:13:5 @ Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!

rsv@Job:13:6 @ Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.

rsv@Job:13:7 @ Will you speak falsely for God, and speak deceitfully for him?

rsv@Job:13:8 @ Will you show partiality toward him, will you plead the case for God?

rsv@Job:13:9 @ Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?

rsv@Job:13:10 @ He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.

rsv@Job:13:11 @ Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?

rsv@Job:13:12 @ Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.

rsv@Job:13:13 @ "Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.

rsv@Job:13:14 @ I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.

rsv@Job:13:15 @ Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope; yet I will defend my ways to his face.

rsv@Job:13:16 @ This will be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him.

rsv@Job:13:17 @ Listen carefully to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.

rsv@Job:13:18 @ Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be vindicated.

rsv@Job:13:19 @ Who is there that will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.

rsv@Job:13:20 @ Only grant two things to me, then I will not hide myself from thy face:

rsv@Job:13:21 @ withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not dread of thee terrify me.

rsv@Job:13:22 @ Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and do thou reply to me.

rsv@Job:13:23 @ How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.

rsv@Job:13:24 @ Why dost thou hide thy face, and count me as thy enemy?

rsv@Job:13:25 @ Wilt thou frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff+?

rsv@Job:13:26 @ For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

rsv@Job:13:27 @ Thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and watchest all my paths; thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet.

rsv@Job:13:28 @ Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

rsv@Job:14:1 @ "Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

rsv@Job:14:2 @ He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he flees like a shadow, and continues not.

rsv@Job:14:3 @ And dost thou open thy eyes upon such a one and bring him into judgment with thee?

rsv@Job:14:4 @ Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.

rsv@Job:14:5 @ Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with thee, and thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass,

rsv@Job:14:6 @ look away from him, and desist, that he may enjoy, like a hireling, his day.

rsv@Job:14:7 @ "For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease.

rsv@Job:14:8 @ Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the ground,

rsv@Job:14:9 @ yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant.

rsv@Job:14:10 @ But man dies, and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?

rsv@Job:14:11 @ As waters fail from a lake, and a river wastes away and dries up,

rsv@Job:14:12 @ so man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake, or be roused out of his sleep.

rsv@Job:14:13 @ Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest conceal me until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

rsv@Job:14:14 @ If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my release should come.

rsv@Job:14:15 @ Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee; thou wouldest long for the work of thy hands.

rsv@Job:14:16 @ For then thou wouldest number my steps, thou wouldest not keep watch over my sin;

rsv@Job:14:17 @ my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and thou wouldest cover over my iniquity.

rsv@Job:14:18 @ "But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place;

rsv@Job:14:19 @ the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so thou destroyest the hope of man.

rsv@Job:14:20 @ Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passes; thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

rsv@Job:14:21 @ His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not.

rsv@Job:14:22 @ He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself."

rsv@Job:15:1 @ Then Eli'phaz the Te'manite answered:

rsv@Job:15:2 @ "Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

rsv@Job:15:3 @ Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good?

rsv@Job:15:4 @ But you are doing away with the fear of God, and hindering meditation before God.

rsv@Job:15:5 @ For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

rsv@Job:15:6 @ Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.

rsv@Job:15:7 @ "Are you the first man that was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?

rsv@Job:15:8 @ Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself+?

rsv@Job:15:9 @ What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

rsv@Job:15:10 @ Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.

rsv@Job:15:11 @ Are the consolations of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you?

rsv@Job:15:12 @ Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,

rsv@Job:15:13 @ that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

rsv@Job:15:14 @ What is man, that he can be clean? Or he that is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?

rsv@Job:15:15 @ Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his sight;

rsv@Job:15:16 @ how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

rsv@Job:15:17 @ "I will show you, hear me; and what I have seen I will declare

rsv@Job:15:18 @ (what wise men have told, and their fathers have not hidden,

rsv@Job:15:19 @ to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them).

rsv@Job:15:20 @ The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.

rsv@Job:15:21 @ Terrifying sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.

rsv@Job:15:22 @ He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is destined for the sword.

rsv@Job:15:23 @ He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ` wanders abroad for bread, saying, "Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;

rsv@Job:15:24 @ distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king prepared for battle.

rsv@Job:15:25 @ Because he has stretched forth his hand against God, and bids defiance to the Almighty,

rsv@Job:15:26 @ running stubbornly against him with a thick-bossed shield;

rsv@Job:15:27 @ because he has covered his face with his fat, and gathered fat upon his loins,

rsv@Job:15:28 @ and has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no man should inhabit, which were destined to become heaps of ruins;

rsv@Job:15:29 @ he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will he strike root in the earth;

rsv@Job:15:30 @ he will not escape from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and his blossom will be swept away by the wind.

rsv@Job:15:31 @ Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his recompense.

rsv@Job:15:32 @ It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.

rsv@Job:15:33 @ He will shake off his unripe grape, like the vine, and cast off his blossom, like the olive tree.

rsv@Job:15:34 @ For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.

rsv@Job:15:35 @ They conceive mischief and bring forth evil and their heart prepares deceit."

rsv@Job:16:1 @ Then Job answered:

rsv@Job:16:2 @ "I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.

rsv@Job:16:3 @ Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

rsv@Job:16:4 @ I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.

rsv@Job:16:5 @ I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.

rsv@Job:16:6 @ "If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?

rsv@Job:16:7 @ Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.

rsv@Job:16:8 @ And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me; and my leanness has risen up against me, it testifies to my face.

rsv@Job:16:9 @ He has torn me in his wrath, and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.

rsv@Job:16:10 @ Men have gaped at me with their mouth, they have struck me insolently upon the cheek, they mass themselves together against me.

rsv@Job:16:11 @ God gives me up to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

rsv@Job:16:12 @ I was at ease, and he broke me asunder; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target,

rsv@Job:16:13 @ his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys, and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.

rsv@Job:16:14 @ He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior.

rsv@Job:16:15 @ I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my strength in the dust.

rsv@Job:16:16 @ My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness;

rsv@Job:16:17 @ although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

rsv@Job:16:18 @ "O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.

rsv@Job:16:19 @ Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he that vouches for me is on high.

rsv@Job:16:20 @ My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

rsv@Job:16:21 @ that he would maintain the right of a man with God, like that of a man with his neighbor.

rsv@Job:16:22 @ For when a few years have come I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

rsv@Job:17:1 @ My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.

rsv@Job:17:2 @ Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.

rsv@Job:17:3 @ "Lay down a pledge for me with thyself; who is there that will give surety for me?

rsv@Job:17:4 @ Since thou hast closed their minds to understanding, therefore thou wilt not let them triumph.

rsv@Job:17:5 @ He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property, the eyes of his children will fail.

rsv@Job:17:6 @ "He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.

rsv@Job:17:7 @ My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.

rsv@Job:17:8 @ Upright men are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.

rsv@Job:17:9 @ Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he that has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.

rsv@Job:17:10 @ But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.

rsv@Job:17:11 @ My days are past, my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.

rsv@Job:17:12 @ They make night into day; `he light,' they say, "is near to the darkness.'

rsv@Job:17:13 @ If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,

rsv@Job:17:14 @ if I say to the pit, `You are my father,' and to the worm, `My mother,' or `My sister,'

rsv@Job:17:15 @ where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?

rsv@Job:17:16 @ Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?"

rsv@Job:18:1 @ Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

rsv@Job:18:2 @ "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.

rsv@Job:18:3 @ Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?

rsv@Job:18:4 @ You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?

rsv@Job:18:5 @ "Yea, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.

rsv@Job:18:6 @ The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.

rsv@Job:18:7 @ His strong steps are shortened and his own schemes throw him down.

rsv@Job:18:8 @ For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a pitfall.

rsv@Job:18:9 @ A trap seizes him by the heel, a snare lays hold of him.

rsv@Job:18:10 @ A rope is hid for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.

rsv@Job:18:11 @ Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.

rsv@Job:18:12 @ His strength is hunger-bitten, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.

rsv@Job:18:13 @ By disease his skin is consumed, the first-born of death consumes his limbs.

rsv@Job:18:14 @ He is torn from the tent in which he trusted, and is brought to the king of terrors.

rsv@Job:18:15 @ In his tent dwells that which is none of his; brimstone is scattered upon his habitation.

rsv@Job:18:16 @ His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.

rsv@Job:18:17 @ His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.

rsv@Job:18:18 @ He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.

rsv@Job:18:19 @ He has no offspring or descendant among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.

rsv@Job:18:20 @ They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east.

rsv@Job:18:21 @ Surely such are the dwellings of the ungodly, such is the place of him who knows not God."

rsv@Job:19:1 @ Then Job answered:

rsv@Job:19:2 @ "How long will you torment me, and break me in pieces with words?

rsv@Job:19:3 @ These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me?

rsv@Job:19:4 @ And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.

rsv@Job:19:5 @ If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me,

rsv@Job:19:6 @ know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net about me.

rsv@Job:19:7 @ Behold, I cry out, `hold, I cry out, "Violence!' but I am not answered; I call aloud, but there is no justice.

rsv@Job:19:8 @ He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.

rsv@Job:19:9 @ He has stripped from me my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

rsv@Job:19:10 @ He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.

rsv@Job:19:11 @ He has kindled his wrath against me, and counts me as his adversary.

rsv@Job:19:12 @ His troops come on together; they have cast up siegeworks against me, and encamp round about my tent.

rsv@Job:19:13 @ "He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

rsv@Job:19:14 @ My kinsfolk and my close friends have failed me;

rsv@Job:19:15 @ the guests in my house have forgotten me; my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become an alien in their eyes.

rsv@Job:19:16 @ I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must beseech him with my mouth.

rsv@Job:19:17 @ I am repulsive to my wife, loathsome to the sons of my own mother.

rsv@Job:19:18 @ Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me.

rsv@Job:19:19 @ All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.

rsv@Job:19:20 @ My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

rsv@Job:19:21 @ Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!

rsv@Job:19:22 @ Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?

rsv@Job:19:23 @ "Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

rsv@Job:19:24 @ Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!

rsv@Job:19:25 @ For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand upon the earth;

rsv@Job:19:26 @ and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then from my flesh I shall see God,

rsv@Job:19:27 @ whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!

rsv@Job:19:28 @ If you say, `e him!' and, `s found in him';

rsv@Job:19:29 @ be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment."

rsv@Job:20:1 @ Then Zophar the Na'amathite answered:

rsv@Job:20:2 @ "Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me.

rsv@Job:20:3 @ I hear censure which insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.

rsv@Job:20:4 @ Do you not know this from of old, since man was placed upon earth,

rsv@Job:20:5 @ that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?

rsv@Job:20:6 @ Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,

rsv@Job:20:7 @ he will perish for ever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, `ose who have seen him will say, "Where is he?'

rsv@Job:20:8 @ He will fly away like a dream, and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

rsv@Job:20:9 @ The eye which saw him will see him no more, nor will his place any more behold him.

rsv@Job:20:10 @ His children will seek the favor of the poor, and his hands will give back his wealth.

rsv@Job:20:11 @ His bones are full of youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust.

rsv@Job:20:12 @ "Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,

rsv@Job:20:13 @ though he is loath to let it go, and holds it in his mouth,

rsv@Job:20:14 @ yet his food is turned in his stomach; it is the gall of asps within him.

rsv@Job:20:15 @ He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; God casts them out of his belly.

rsv@Job:20:16 @ He will suck the poison of asps; the tongue of a viper will kill him.

rsv@Job:20:17 @ He will not look upon the rivers, the streams flowing with honey and curds.

rsv@Job:20:18 @ He will give back the fruit of his toil, and will not swallow it down; from the profit of his trading he will get no enjoyment.

rsv@Job:20:19 @ For he has crushed and abandoned the poor, he has seized a house which he did not build.

rsv@Job:20:20 @ "Because his greed knew no rest, he will not save anything in which he delights.

rsv@Job:20:21 @ There was nothing left after he had eaten; therefore his prosperity will not endure.

rsv@Job:20:22 @ In the fulness of his sufficiency he will be in straits; all the force of misery will come upon him.

rsv@Job:20:23 @ To fill his belly to the full God will send his fierce anger into him, and rain it upon him as his food.

rsv@Job:20:24 @ He will flee from an iron weapon; a bronze arrow will strike him through.

rsv@Job:20:25 @ It is drawn forth and comes out of his body, the glittering point comes out of his gall; terrors come upon him.

rsv@Job:20:26 @ Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures; a fire not blown upon will devour him; what is left in his tent will be consumed.

rsv@Job:20:27 @ The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.

rsv@Job:20:28 @ The possessions of his house will be carried away, dragged off in the day of God's wrath.

rsv@Job:20:29 @ This is the wicked man's portion from God, the heritage decreed for him by God."

rsv@Job:21:1 @ Then Job answered:

rsv@Job:21:2 @ "Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.

rsv@Job:21:3 @ Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.

rsv@Job:21:4 @ As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?

rsv@Job:21:5 @ Look at me, and be appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

rsv@Job:21:6 @ When I think of it I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.

rsv@Job:21:7 @ Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?

rsv@Job:21:8 @ Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes.

rsv@Job:21:9 @ Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.

rsv@Job:21:10 @ Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves, and does not cast her calf.

rsv@Job:21:11 @ They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

rsv@Job:21:12 @ They sing to the tambourine and the lyre, and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.

rsv@Job:21:13 @ They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.

rsv@Job:21:14 @ They say to God, `ey say to God, "Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.

rsv@Job:21:15 @ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?'

rsv@Job:21:16 @ Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

rsv@Job:21:17 @ "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?

rsv@Job:21:18 @ That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?

rsv@Job:21:19 @ You say, `God stores up their iniquity for their sons.' Let him recompense it to themselves, that they may know it.

rsv@Job:21:20 @ Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

rsv@Job:21:21 @ For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off?

rsv@Job:21:22 @ Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those that are on high?

rsv@Job:21:23 @ One dies in full prosperity, being wholly at ease and secure,

rsv@Job:21:24 @ his body full of fat and the marrow of his bones moist.

rsv@Job:21:25 @ Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of good.

rsv@Job:21:26 @ They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.

rsv@Job:21:27 @ "Behold, I know your thoughts, and your schemes to wrong me.

rsv@Job:21:28 @ For you say, `r you say, "Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked dwelt?'

rsv@Job:21:29 @ Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony

rsv@Job:21:30 @ that the wicked man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath?

rsv@Job:21:31 @ Who declares his way to his face, and who requites him for what he has done?

rsv@Job:21:32 @ When he is borne to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb.

rsv@Job:21:33 @ The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all men follow after him, and those who go before him are innumerable.

rsv@Job:21:34 @ How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood."

rsv@Job:22:1 @ Then Eli'phaz the Te'manite answered:

rsv@Job:22:2 @ "Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

rsv@Job:22:3 @ Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?

rsv@Job:22:4 @ Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you, and enters into judgment with you?

rsv@Job:22:5 @ Is not your wickedness great? There is no end to your iniquities.

rsv@Job:22:6 @ For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

rsv@Job:22:7 @ You have given no water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

rsv@Job:22:8 @ The man with power possessed the land, and the favored man dwelt in it.

rsv@Job:22:9 @ You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

rsv@Job:22:10 @ Therefore snares are round about you, and sudden terror overwhelms you;

rsv@Job:22:11 @ your light is darkened, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

rsv@Job:22:12 @ "Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are!

rsv@Job:22:13 @ Therefore you say, `erefore you say, "What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?

rsv@Job:22:14 @ Thick clouds enwrap him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.'

rsv@Job:22:15 @ Will you keep to the old way which wicked men have trod?

rsv@Job:22:16 @ They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.

rsv@Job:22:17 @ They said to God, `ey said to God, "Depart from us,' and `d "What can the Almighty do to us?'

rsv@Job:22:18 @ Yet he filled their houses with good things-- but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

rsv@Job:22:19 @ The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent laugh them to scorn,

rsv@Job:22:20 @ saying, `f, and what they left the fire has consumed.'

rsv@Job:22:21 @ "Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you.

rsv@Job:22:22 @ Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

rsv@Job:22:23 @ If you return to the Almighty and humble yourself, if you remove unrighteousness far from your tents,

rsv@Job:22:24 @ if you lay gold in the dust, and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent bed,

rsv@Job:22:25 @ and if the Almighty is your gold, and your precious silver;

rsv@Job:22:26 @ then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and lift up your face to God.

rsv@Job:22:27 @ You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you; and you will pay your vows.

rsv@Job:22:28 @ You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.

rsv@Job:22:29 @ For God abases the proud, but he saves the lowly.

rsv@Job:22:30 @ He delivers the innocent man; you will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."

rsv@Job:23:1 @ Then Job answered:

rsv@Job:23:2 @ "Today also my complaint is bitter, his hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

rsv@Job:23:3 @ Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!

rsv@Job:23:4 @ I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.

rsv@Job:23:5 @ I would learn what he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.

rsv@Job:23:6 @ Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No; he would give heed to me.

rsv@Job:23:7 @ There an upright man could reason with him, and I should be acquitted for ever by my judge.

rsv@Job:23:8 @ "Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him;

rsv@Job:23:9 @ on the left hand I seek him, but I cannot behold him; I turn to the right hand, but I cannot see him.

rsv@Job:23:10 @ But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

rsv@Job:23:11 @ My foot has held fast to his steps; I have kept his way and have not turned aside.

rsv@Job:23:12 @ I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured in my bosom the words of his mouth.

rsv@Job:23:13 @ But he is unchangeable and who can turn him? What he desires, that he does.

rsv@Job:23:14 @ For he will complete what he appoints for me; and many such things are in his mind.

rsv@Job:23:15 @ Therefore I am terrified at his presence; when I consider, I am in dread of him.

rsv@Job:23:16 @ God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me;

rsv@Job:23:17 @ for I am hemmed in by darkness, and thick darkness covers my face.

rsv@Job:24:1 @ "Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days?

rsv@Job:24:2 @ Men remove landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.

rsv@Job:24:3 @ They drive away the ass of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

rsv@Job:24:4 @ They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.

rsv@Job:24:5 @ Behold, like wild asses in the desert they go forth to their toil, seeking prey in the wilderness as food for their children.

rsv@Job:24:6 @ They gather their fodder in the field and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.

rsv@Job:24:7 @ They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

rsv@Job:24:8 @ They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and cling to the rock for want of shelter.

rsv@Job:24:9 @ (There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and take in pledge the infant of the poor.)

rsv@Job:24:10 @ They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves;

rsv@Job:24:11 @ among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil; they tread the wine presses, but suffer thirst.

rsv@Job:24:12 @ From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God pays no attention to their prayer.

rsv@Job:24:13 @ "There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths.

rsv@Job:24:14 @ The murderer rises in the dark, that he may kill the poor and needy; and in the night he is as a thief.

rsv@Job:24:15 @ The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, `No eye will see me'; and he disguises his face.

rsv@Job:24:16 @ In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the light.

rsv@Job:24:17 @ For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.

rsv@Job:24:18 @ "You say, "They are swiftly carried away upon the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; no treader turns toward their vineyards.

rsv@Job:24:19 @ Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned.

rsv@Job:24:20 @ The squares of the town forget them; their name is no longer remembered; so wickedness is broken like a tree.'

rsv@Job:24:21 @ "They feed on the barren childless woman, and do no good to the widow.

rsv@Job:24:22 @ Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life.

rsv@Job:24:23 @ He gives them security, and they are supported; and his eyes are upon their ways.

rsv@Job:24:24 @ They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they wither and fade like the mallow; they are cut off like the heads of grain.

rsv@Job:24:25 @ If it is not so, who will prove me a liar, and show that there is nothing in what I say?"

rsv@Job:25:1 @ Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

rsv@Job:25:2 @ "Dominion and fear are with God; he makes peace in his high heaven.

rsv@Job:25:3 @ Is there any number to his armies? Upon whom does his light not arise?

rsv@Job:25:4 @ How then can man be righteous before God? How can he who is born of woman be clean?

rsv@Job:25:5 @ Behold, even the moon is not bright and the stars are not clean in his sight;

rsv@Job:25:6 @ how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!"

rsv@Job:26:1 @ Then Job answered:

rsv@Job:26:2 @ "How you have helped him who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!

rsv@Job:26:3 @ How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

rsv@Job:26:4 @ With whose help have you uttered words, and whose spirit has come forth from you?

rsv@Job:26:5 @ The shades below tremble, the waters and their inhabitants.

rsv@Job:26:6 @ Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

rsv@Job:26:7 @ He stretches out the north over the void, and hangs the earth upon nothing.

rsv@Job:26:8 @ He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.

rsv@Job:26:9 @ He covers the face of the moon, and spreads over it his cloud.

rsv@Job:26:10 @ He has described a circle upon the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

rsv@Job:26:11 @ The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astounded at his rebuke.

rsv@Job:26:12 @ By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he smote Rahab.

rsv@Job:26:13 @ By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

rsv@Job:26:14 @ Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways; and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"

rsv@Job:27:1 @ And Job again took up his discourse, and said:

rsv@Job:27:2 @ "As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter;

rsv@Job:27:3 @ as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

rsv@Job:27:4 @ my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.

rsv@Job:27:5 @ Far be it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

rsv@Job:27:6 @ I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.

rsv@Job:27:7 @ "Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him that rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

rsv@Job:27:8 @ For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life?

rsv@Job:27:9 @ Will God hear his cry, when trouble comes upon him?

rsv@Job:27:10 @ Will he take delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?

rsv@Job:27:11 @ I will teach you concerning the hand of God; what is with the Almighty I will not conceal.

rsv@Job:27:12 @ Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?

rsv@Job:27:13 @ "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage which oppressors receive from the Almighty:

rsv@Job:27:14 @ If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough to eat.

rsv@Job:27:15 @ Those who survive him the pestilence buries, and their widows make no lamentation.

rsv@Job:27:16 @ Though he heap up silver like dust, and pile up clothing like clay;

rsv@Job:27:17 @ he may pile it up, but the just will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.

rsv@Job:27:18 @ The house which he builds is like a spider's web, like a booth which a watchman makes.

rsv@Job:27:19 @ He goes to bed rich, but will do so no more; he opens his eyes, and his wealth is gone.

rsv@Job:27:20 @ Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries him off.

rsv@Job:27:21 @ The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

rsv@Job:27:22 @ It hurls at him without pity; he flees from its power in headlong flight.

rsv@Job:27:23 @ It claps its hands at him, and hisses at him from its place.

rsv@Job:28:1 @ "Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.

rsv@Job:28:2 @ Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted from the ore.

rsv@Job:28:3 @ Men put an end to darkness, and search out to the farthest bound the ore in gloom and deep darkness.

rsv@Job:28:4 @ They open shafts in a valley away from where men live; they are forgotten by travelers, they hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.

rsv@Job:28:5 @ As for the earth, out of it comes bread; but underneath it is turned up as by fire.

rsv@Job:28:6 @ Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

rsv@Job:28:7 @ "That path no bird of prey knows, and the falcon's eye has not seen it.

rsv@Job:28:8 @ The proud beasts have not trodden it; the lion has not passed over it.

rsv@Job:28:9 @ "Man puts his hand to the flinty rock, and overturns mountains by the roots.

rsv@Job:28:10 @ He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.

rsv@Job:28:11 @ He binds up the streams so that they do not trickle, and the thing that is hid he brings forth to light.

rsv@Job:28:12 @ "But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

rsv@Job:28:13 @ Man does not know the way to it, and it is not found in the land of the living.

rsv@Job:28:14 @ The deep says, `It is not in me,' and the sea says, `It is not with me.'

rsv@Job:28:15 @ It cannot be gotten for gold, and silver cannot be weighed as its price.

rsv@Job:28:16 @ It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.

rsv@Job:28:17 @ Gold and glass cannot equal it, nor can it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

rsv@Job:28:18 @ No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; the price of wisdom is above pearls.

rsv@Job:28:19 @ The topaz of Ethiopia cannot compare with it, nor can it be valued in pure gold.

rsv@Job:28:20 @ "Whence then comes wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?

rsv@Job:28:21 @ It is hid from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the birds of the air.

rsv@Job:28:22 @ Abaddon and Death say, `e have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'

rsv@Job:28:23 @ "God understands the way to it, and he knows its place.

rsv@Job:28:24 @ For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees everything under the heavens.

rsv@Job:28:25 @ When he gave to the wind its weight, and meted out the waters by measure;

rsv@Job:28:26 @ when he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder;

rsv@Job:28:27 @ then he saw it and declared it; he established it, and searched it out.

rsv@Job:28:28 @ And he said to man, `ehold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.'+"

rsv@Job:29:1 @ And Job again took up his discourse, and said:

rsv@Job:29:2 @ "Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;

rsv@Job:29:3 @ when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

rsv@Job:29:4 @ as I was in my autumn days, when the friendship of God was upon my tent;

rsv@Job:29:5 @ when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

rsv@Job:29:6 @ when my steps were washed with milk, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!

rsv@Job:29:7 @ When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square,

rsv@Job:29:8 @ the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose and stood;

rsv@Job:29:9 @ the princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth;

rsv@Job:29:10 @ the voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

rsv@Job:29:11 @ When the ear heard, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw, it approved;

rsv@Job:29:12 @ because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless who had none to help him.

rsv@Job:29:13 @ The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

rsv@Job:29:14 @ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.

rsv@Job:29:15 @ I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

rsv@Job:29:16 @ I was a father to the poor, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.

rsv@Job:29:17 @ I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made him drop his prey from his teeth.

rsv@Job:29:18 @ Then I thought, `en I thought, "I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand,

rsv@Job:29:19 @ my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches,

rsv@Job:29:20 @ my glory fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.'

rsv@Job:29:21 @ "Men listened to me, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.

rsv@Job:29:22 @ After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them.

rsv@Job:29:23 @ They waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.

rsv@Job:29:24 @ I smiled on them when they had no confidence; and the light of my countenance they did not cast down.

rsv@Job:29:25 @ I chose their way, and sat as chief, and I dwelt like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners.

rsv@Job:30:1 @ "But now they make sport of me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

rsv@Job:30:2 @ What could I gain from the strength of their hands, men whose vigor is gone?

rsv@Job:30:3 @ Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry and desolate ground;

rsv@Job:30:4 @ they pick mallow and the leaves of bushes, and to warm themselves the roots of the broom.

rsv@Job:30:5 @ They are driven out from among men; they shout after them as after a thief.

rsv@Job:30:6 @ In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

rsv@Job:30:7 @ Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together.

rsv@Job:30:8 @ A senseless, a disreputable brood, they have been whipped out of the land.

rsv@Job:30:9 @ "And now I have become their song, I am a byword to them.

rsv@Job:30:10 @ They abhor me, they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.

rsv@Job:30:11 @ Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.

rsv@Job:30:12 @ On my right hand the rabble rise, they drive me forth, they cast up against me their ways of destruction.

rsv@Job:30:13 @ They break up my path, they promote my calamity; no one restrains them.

rsv@Job:30:14 @ As through a wide breach they come; amid the crash they roll on.

rsv@Job:30:15 @ Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.

rsv@Job:30:16 @ "And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me.

rsv@Job:30:17 @ The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.

rsv@Job:30:18 @ With violence it seizes my garment; it binds me about like the collar of my tunic.

rsv@Job:30:19 @ God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

rsv@Job:30:20 @ I cry to thee and thou dost not answer me; I stand, and thou dost not heed me.

rsv@Job:30:21 @ Thou hast turned cruel to me; with the might of thy hand thou dost persecute me.

rsv@Job:30:22 @ Thou liftest me up on the wind, thou makest me ride on it, and thou tossest me about in the roar of the storm.

rsv@Job:30:23 @ Yea, I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

rsv@Job:30:24 @ "Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, and in his disaster cry for help?

rsv@Job:30:25 @ Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

rsv@Job:30:26 @ But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness came.

rsv@Job:30:27 @ My heart is in turmoil, and is never still; days of affliction come to meet me.

rsv@Job:30:28 @ I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

rsv@Job:30:29 @ I am a brother of jackals, and a companion of ostriches.

rsv@Job:30:30 @ My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.

rsv@Job:30:31 @ My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.

rsv@Job:31:1 @ "I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look upon a virgin?

rsv@Job:31:2 @ What would be my portion from God above, and my heritage from the Almighty on high?

rsv@Job:31:3 @ Does not calamity befall the unrighteous, and disaster the workers of iniquity?

rsv@Job:31:4 @ Does not he see my ways, and number all my steps?

rsv@Job:31:5 @ "If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hastened to deceit;

rsv@Job:31:6 @ (Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!)

rsv@Job:31:7 @ if my step has turned aside from the way, and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has cleaved to my hands;

rsv@Job:31:8 @ then let me sow, and another eat; and let what grows for me be rooted out.

rsv@Job:31:9 @ "If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door;

rsv@Job:31:10 @ then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.

rsv@Job:31:11 @ For that would be a heinous crime; that would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;

rsv@Job:31:12 @ for that would be a fire which consumes unto Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my increase.

rsv@Job:31:13 @ "If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me;

rsv@Job:31:14 @ what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?

rsv@Job:31:15 @ Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

rsv@Job:31:16 @ "If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

rsv@Job:31:17 @ or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

rsv@Job:31:18 @ (for from his youth I reared him as a father, and from his mother's womb I guided him);

rsv@Job:31:19 @ if I have seen any one perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without covering;

rsv@Job:31:20 @ if his loins have not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

rsv@Job:31:21 @ if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw help in the gate;

rsv@Job:31:22 @ then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket.

rsv@Job:31:23 @ For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty.

rsv@Job:31:24 @ "If I have made gold my trust, or called fine gold my confidence;

rsv@Job:31:25 @ if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, or because my hand had gotten much;

rsv@Job:31:26 @ if I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving in splendor,

rsv@Job:31:27 @ and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand;

rsv@Job:31:28 @ this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I should have been false to God above.

rsv@Job:31:29 @ "If I have rejoiced at the ruin of him that hated me, or exulted when evil overtook him

rsv@Job:31:30 @ (I have not let my mouth sin by asking for his life with a curse);

rsv@Job:31:31 @ if the men of my tent have not said, `ho is there that has not been filled with his meat?'

rsv@Job:31:32 @ (the sojourner has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the wayfarer);

rsv@Job:31:33 @ if I have concealed my transgressions from men, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,

rsv@Job:31:34 @ because I stood in great fear of the multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors--

rsv@Job:31:35 @ Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!

rsv@Job:31:36 @ Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me as a crown;

rsv@Job:31:37 @ I would give him an account of all my steps; like a prince I would approach him.

rsv@Job:31:38 @ "If my land has cried out against me, and its furrows have wept together;

rsv@Job:31:39 @ if I have eaten its yield without payment, and caused the death of its owners;

rsv@Job:31:40 @ let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.

rsv@Job:32:1 @ So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

rsv@Job:32:2 @ Then Eli'hu the son of Bar'achel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became angry. He was angry at Job because he justified himself rather than God;

rsv@Job:32:3 @ he was angry also at Job's three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong.

rsv@Job:32:4 @ Now Eli'hu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he.

rsv@Job:32:5 @ And when Eli'hu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, he became angry.

rsv@Job:32:6 @ And Eli'hu the son of Bar'achel the Buzite answered: "I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.

rsv@Job:32:7 @ I said, `said, "Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.'

rsv@Job:32:8 @ But it is the spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.

rsv@Job:32:9 @ It is not the old that are wise, nor the aged that understand what is right.

rsv@Job:32:10 @ Therefore I say, `isten to me; let me also declare my opinion.'

rsv@Job:32:11 @ "Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your wise sayings, while you searched out what to say.

rsv@Job:32:12 @ I gave you my attention, and, behold, there was none that confuted Job, or that answered his words, among you.

rsv@Job:32:13 @ Beware lest you say, `ware lest you say, "We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not man.'

rsv@Job:32:14 @ He has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your speeches.

rsv@Job:32:15 @ "They are discomfited, they answer no more; they have not a word to say.

rsv@Job:32:16 @ And shall I wait, because they do not speak, because they stand there, and answer no more?

rsv@Job:32:17 @ I also will give my answer; I also will declare my opinion.

rsv@Job:32:18 @ For I am full of words, the spirit within me constrains me.

rsv@Job:32:19 @ Behold, my heart is like wine that has no vent; like new wineskins, it is ready to burst.

rsv@Job:32:20 @ I must speak, that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer.

rsv@Job:32:21 @ I will not show partiality to any person or use flattery toward any man.

rsv@Job:32:22 @ For I do not know how to flatter, else would my Maker soon put an end to me.

rsv@Job:33:1 @ "But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words.

rsv@Job:33:2 @ Behold, I open my mouth; the tongue in my mouth speaks.

rsv@Job:33:3 @ My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely.

rsv@Job:33:4 @ The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

rsv@Job:33:5 @ Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.

rsv@Job:33:6 @ Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was formed from a piece of clay.

rsv@Job:33:7 @ Behold, no fear of me need terrify you; my pressure will not be heavy upon you.

rsv@Job:33:8 @ "Surely, you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the sound of your words.

rsv@Job:33:9 @ You say, `u say, "I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.

rsv@Job:33:10 @ Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy;

rsv@Job:33:11 @ he puts my feet in the stocks, and watches all my paths.'

rsv@Job:33:12 @ "Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you. God is greater than man.

rsv@Job:33:13 @ Why do you contend against him, saying, `He will answer none of my words'?

rsv@Job:33:14 @ For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it.

rsv@Job:33:15 @ In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while they slumber on their beds,

rsv@Job:33:16 @ then he opens the ears of men, and terrifies them with warnings,

rsv@Job:33:17 @ that he may turn man aside from his deed, and cut off pride from man;

rsv@Job:33:18 @ he keeps back his soul from the Pit, his life from perishing by the sword.

rsv@Job:33:19 @ "Man is also chastened with pain upon his bed, and with continual strife in his bones;

rsv@Job:33:20 @ so that his life loathes bread, and his appetite dainty food.

rsv@Job:33:21 @ His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen; and his bones which were not seen stick out.

rsv@Job:33:22 @ His soul draws near the Pit, and his life to those who bring death.

rsv@Job:33:23 @ If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him;

rsv@Job:33:24 @ and he is gracious to him, and says, `eliver him from going down into the Pit, I have found a ransom;

rsv@Job:33:25 @ let his flesh become fresh with youth; let him return to the days of his youthful vigor';

rsv@Job:33:26 @ then man prays to God, and he accepts him, he comes into his presence with joy. He recounts to men his salvation,

rsv@Job:33:27 @ and he sings before men, and says: `d perverted what was right, and it was not requited to me.

rsv@Job:33:28 @ He has redeemed my soul from going down into the Pit, and my life shall see the light.'

rsv@Job:33:29 @ "Behold, God does all these things, twice, three times, with a man,

rsv@Job:33:30 @ to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may see the light of life.

rsv@Job:33:31 @ Give heed, O Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

rsv@Job:33:32 @ If you have anything to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.

rsv@Job:33:33 @ If not, listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom."

rsv@Job:34:1 @ Then Eli'hu said:

rsv@Job:34:2 @ "Hear my words, you wise men, and give ear to me, you who know;

rsv@Job:34:3 @ for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.

rsv@Job:34:4 @ Let us choose what is right; let us determine among ourselves what is good.

rsv@Job:34:5 @ For Job has said, `r Job has said, "I am innocent, and God has taken away my right;

rsv@Job:34:6 @ in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.'

rsv@Job:34:7 @ What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,

rsv@Job:34:8 @ who goes in company with evildoers and walks with wicked men?

rsv@Job:34:9 @ For he has said, `r he has said, "It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.'

rsv@Job:34:10 @ "Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding, far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.

rsv@Job:34:11 @ For according to the work of a man he will requite him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him.

rsv@Job:34:12 @ Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice.

rsv@Job:34:13 @ Who gave him charge over the earth and who laid on him the whole world?

rsv@Job:34:14 @ If he should take back his spirit to himself, and gather to himself his breath,

rsv@Job:34:15 @ all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.

rsv@Job:34:16 @ "If you have understanding, hear this; listen to what I say.

rsv@Job:34:17 @ Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,

rsv@Job:34:18 @ who says to a king, `o says to a king, "Worthless one,' and to nobles, `d to nobles, "Wicked man';

rsv@Job:34:19 @ who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?

rsv@Job:34:20 @ In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.

rsv@Job:34:21 @ "For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.

rsv@Job:34:22 @ There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.

rsv@Job:34:23 @ For he has not appointed a time for any man to go before God in judgment.

rsv@Job:34:24 @ He shatters the mighty without investigation, and sets others in their place.

rsv@Job:34:25 @ Thus, knowing their works, he overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.

rsv@Job:34:26 @ He strikes them for their wickedness in the sight of men,

rsv@Job:34:27 @ because they turned aside from following him, and had no regard for any of his ways,

rsv@Job:34:28 @ so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted--

rsv@Job:34:29 @ When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?--

rsv@Job:34:30 @ that a godless man should not reign, that he should not ensnare the people.

rsv@Job:34:31 @ "For has any one said to God, ` have borne chastisement; I will not offend any more;

rsv@Job:34:32 @ teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?

rsv@Job:34:33 @ Will he then make requital to suit you, because you reject it? For you must choose, and not I; therefore declare what you know.

rsv@Job:34:34 @ Men of understanding will say to me, and the wise man who hears me will say:

rsv@Job:34:35 @ `Job speaks without knowledge, his words are without insight.'

rsv@Job:34:36 @ Would that Job were tried to the end, because he answers like wicked men.

rsv@Job:34:37 @ For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God."

rsv@Job:35:1 @ And Eli'hu said:

rsv@Job:35:2 @ "Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ` you say, "It is my right before God,'

rsv@Job:35:3 @ that you ask, `at you ask, "What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?'

rsv@Job:35:4 @ I will answer you and your friends with you.

rsv@Job:35:5 @ Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.

rsv@Job:35:6 @ If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

rsv@Job:35:7 @ If you are righteous, what do you give to him; or what does he receive from your hand?

rsv@Job:35:8 @ Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.

rsv@Job:35:9 @ "Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.

rsv@Job:35:10 @ But none says, `t none says, "Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

rsv@Job:35:11 @ who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?'

rsv@Job:35:12 @ There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.

rsv@Job:35:13 @ Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.

rsv@Job:35:14 @ How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!

rsv@Job:35:15 @ And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not greatly heed transgression,

rsv@Job:35:16 @ Job opens his mouth in empty talk, he multiplies words without knowledge."

rsv@Job:36:1 @ And Eli'hu continued, and said:

rsv@Job:36:2 @ "Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I have yet something to say on God's behalf.

rsv@Job:36:3 @ I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

rsv@Job:36:4 @ For truly my words are not false; one who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

rsv@Job:36:5 @ "Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding.

rsv@Job:36:6 @ He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.

rsv@Job:36:7 @ He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings upon the throne he sets them for ever, and they are exalted.

rsv@Job:36:8 @ And if they are bound in fetters and caught in the cords of affliction,

rsv@Job:36:9 @ then he declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.

rsv@Job:36:10 @ He opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.

rsv@Job:36:11 @ If they hearken and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.

rsv@Job:36:12 @ But if they do not hearken, they perish by the sword, and die without knowledge.

rsv@Job:36:13 @ "The godless in heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.

rsv@Job:36:14 @ They die in youth, and their life ends in shame.

rsv@Job:36:15 @ He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear by adversity.

rsv@Job:36:16 @ He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no cramping, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.

rsv@Job:36:17 @ "But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; judgment and justice seize you.

rsv@Job:36:18 @ Beware lest wrath entice you into scoffing; and let not the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.

rsv@Job:36:19 @ Will your cry avail to keep you from distress, or all the force of your strength?

rsv@Job:36:20 @ Do not long for the night, when peoples are cut off in their place.

rsv@Job:36:21 @ Take heed, do not turn to iniquity, for this you have chosen rather than affliction.

rsv@Job:36:22 @ Behold, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?

rsv@Job:36:23 @ Who has prescribed for him his way, or who can say, ` who can say, "Thou hast done wrong'?

rsv@Job:36:24 @ "Remember to extol his work, of which men have sung.

rsv@Job:36:25 @ All men have looked on it; man beholds it from afar.

rsv@Job:36:26 @ Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.

rsv@Job:36:27 @ For he draws up the drops of water, he distils his mist in rain

rsv@Job:36:28 @ which the skies pour down, and drop upon man abundantly.

rsv@Job:36:29 @ Can any one understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?

rsv@Job:36:30 @ Behold, he scatters his lightning about him, and covers the roots of the sea.

rsv@Job:36:31 @ For by these he judges peoples; he gives food in abundance.

rsv@Job:36:32 @ He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.

rsv@Job:36:33 @ Its crashing declares concerning him, who is jealous with anger against iniquity.

rsv@Job:37:1 @ "At this also my heart trembles, and leaps out of its place.

rsv@Job:37:2 @ Hearken to the thunder of his voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.

rsv@Job:37:3 @ Under the whole heaven he lets it go, and his lightning to the corners of the earth.

rsv@Job:37:4 @ After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.

rsv@Job:37:5 @ God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things which we cannot comprehend.

rsv@Job:37:6 @ For to the snow he says, `th'; and to the shower and the rain, "Be strong.'

rsv@Job:37:7 @ He seals up the hand of every man, that all men may know his work.

rsv@Job:37:8 @ Then the beasts go into their lairs, and remain in their dens.

rsv@Job:37:9 @ From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds.

rsv@Job:37:10 @ By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen fast.

rsv@Job:37:11 @ He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning.

rsv@Job:37:12 @ They turn round and round by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world.

rsv@Job:37:13 @ Whether for correction, or for his land, or for love, he causes it to happen.

rsv@Job:37:14 @ "Hear this, O Job; stop and consider the wondrous works of God.

rsv@Job:37:15 @ Do you know how God lays his command upon them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

rsv@Job:37:16 @ Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge,

rsv@Job:37:17 @ you whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind?

rsv@Job:37:18 @ Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a molten mirror?

rsv@Job:37:19 @ Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.

rsv@Job:37:20 @ Shall it be told him that I would speak? Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up?

rsv@Job:37:21 @ "And now men cannot look on the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and cleared them.

rsv@Job:37:22 @ Out of the north comes golden splendor; God is clothed with terrible majesty.

rsv@Job:37:23 @ The Almighty--we cannot find him; he is great in power and justice, and abundant righteousness he will not violate.

rsv@Job:37:24 @ Therefore men fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit."

rsv@Job:38:1 @ Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind:

rsv@Job:38:2 @ "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

rsv@Job:38:3 @ Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me.

rsv@Job:38:4 @ "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.

rsv@Job:38:5 @ Who determined its measurements--surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?

rsv@Job:38:6 @ On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone,

rsv@Job:38:7 @ when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

rsv@Job:38:8 @ "Or who shut in the sea with doors, when it burst forth from the womb;

rsv@Job:38:9 @ when I made clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,

rsv@Job:38:10 @ and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors,

rsv@Job:38:11 @ and said, `d said, "Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed'?

rsv@Job:38:12 @ "Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,

rsv@Job:38:13 @ that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?

rsv@Job:38:14 @ It is changed like clay under the seal, and it is dyed like a garment.

rsv@Job:38:15 @ From the wicked their light is withheld, and their uplifted arm is broken.

rsv@Job:38:16 @ "Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep?

rsv@Job:38:17 @ Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?

rsv@Job:38:18 @ Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this.

rsv@Job:38:19 @ "Where is the way to the dwelling of light, and where is the place of darkness,

rsv@Job:38:20 @ that you may take it to its territory and that you may discern the paths to its home?

rsv@Job:38:21 @ You know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!

rsv@Job:38:22 @ "Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,

rsv@Job:38:23 @ which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?

rsv@Job:38:24 @ What is the way to the place where the light is distributed, or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?

rsv@Job:38:25 @ "Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain, and a way for the thunderbolt,

rsv@Job:38:26 @ to bring rain on a land where no man is, on the desert in which there is no man;

rsv@Job:38:27 @ to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground put forth grass?

rsv@Job:38:28 @ "Has the rain a father, or who has begotten the drops of dew?

rsv@Job:38:29 @ From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the hoarfrost of heaven?

rsv@Job:38:30 @ The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

rsv@Job:38:31 @ "Can you bind the chains of the Plei'ades, or loose the cords of Orion?

rsv@Job:38:32 @ Can you lead forth the Maz'zaroth in their season, or can you guide the Bear with its children?

rsv@Job:38:33 @ Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?

rsv@Job:38:34 @ "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that a flood of waters may cover you?

rsv@Job:38:35 @ Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go and say to you, `d say to you, "Here we are'?

rsv@Job:38:36 @ Who has put wisdom in the clouds, or given understanding to the mists?

rsv@Job:38:37 @ Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens,

rsv@Job:38:38 @ when the dust runs into a mass and the clods cleave fast together?

rsv@Job:38:39 @ "Can you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

rsv@Job:38:40 @ when they crouch in their dens, or lie in wait in their covert?

rsv@Job:38:41 @ Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God, and wander about for lack of food?

rsv@Job:39:1 @ "Do you know when the mountain goats bring forth? Do you observe the calving of the hinds?

rsv@Job:39:2 @ Can you number the months that they fulfil, and do you know the time when they bring forth,

rsv@Job:39:3 @ when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young?

rsv@Job:39:4 @ Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open; they go forth, and do not return to them.

rsv@Job:39:5 @ "Who has let the wild ass go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift ass,

rsv@Job:39:6 @ to whom I have given the steppe for his home, and the salt land for his dwelling place?

rsv@Job:39:7 @ He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver.

rsv@Job:39:8 @ He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.

rsv@Job:39:9 @ "Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your crib?

rsv@Job:39:10 @ Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you?

rsv@Job:39:11 @ Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labor?

rsv@Job:39:12 @ Do you have faith in him that he will return, and bring your grain to your threshing floor?

rsv@Job:39:13 @ "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the pinions and plumage of love?

rsv@Job:39:14 @ For she leaves her eggs to the earth, and lets them be warmed on the ground,

rsv@Job:39:15 @ forgetting that a foot may crush them, and that the wild beast may trample them.

rsv@Job:39:16 @ She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear;

rsv@Job:39:17 @ because God has made her forget wisdom, and given her no share in understanding.

rsv@Job:39:18 @ When she rouses herself to flee, she laughs at the horse and his rider.

rsv@Job:39:19 @ "Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with strength?

rsv@Job:39:20 @ Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrible.

rsv@Job:39:21 @ He paws in the valley, and exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons.

rsv@Job:39:22 @ He laughs at fear, and is not dismayed; he does not turn back from the sword.

rsv@Job:39:23 @ Upon him rattle the quiver, the flashing spear and the javelin.

rsv@Job:39:24 @ With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground; he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

rsv@Job:39:25 @ When the trumpet sounds, he says `trumpet sounds, he says "Aha!' He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

rsv@Job:39:26 @ "Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and spreads his wings toward the south?

rsv@Job:39:27 @ Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high?

rsv@Job:39:28 @ On the rock he dwells and makes his home in the fastness of the rocky crag.

rsv@Job:39:29 @ Thence he spies out the prey; his eyes behold it afar off.

rsv@Job:39:30 @ His young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there is he."

rsv@Job:40:1 @ And the LORD said to Job:

rsv@Job:40:2 @ "Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."

rsv@Job:40:3 @ Then Job answered the LORD:

rsv@Job:40:4 @ "Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? I lay my hand on my mouth.

rsv@Job:40:5 @ I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further."

rsv@Job:40:6 @ Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind:

rsv@Job:40:7 @ "Gird up your loins like a man; I will question you, and you declare to me.

rsv@Job:40:8 @ Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be justified?

rsv@Job:40:9 @ Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

rsv@Job:40:10 @ "Deck yourself with majesty and dignity; clothe yourself with glory and splendor.

rsv@Job:40:11 @ Pour forth the overflowings of your anger, and look on every one that is proud, and abase him.

rsv@Job:40:12 @ Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked where they stand.

rsv@Job:40:13 @ Hide them all in the dust together; bind their faces in the world below.

rsv@Job:40:14 @ Then will I also acknowledge to you, that your own right hand can give you victory.

rsv@Job:40:15 @ "Behold, Be'hemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox.

rsv@Job:40:16 @ Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly.

rsv@Job:40:17 @ He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together.

rsv@Job:40:18 @ His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron.

rsv@Job:40:19 @ "He is the first of the works of God; let him who made him bring near his sword!

rsv@Job:40:20 @ For the mountains yield food for him where all the wild beasts play.

rsv@Job:40:21 @ Under the lotus plants he lies, in the covert of the reeds and in the marsh.

rsv@Job:40:22 @ For his shade the lotus trees cover him; the willows of the brook surround him.

rsv@Job:40:23 @ Behold, if the river is turbulent he is not frightened; he is confident though Jordan rushes against his mouth.

rsv@Job:40:24 @ Can one take him with hooks, or pierce his nose with a snare?

rsv@Job:41:1 @ "Can you draw out Levi'athan with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord?

rsv@Job:41:2 @ Can you put a rope in his nose, or pierce his jaw with a hook?

rsv@Job:41:3 @ Will he make many supplications to you? Will he speak to you soft words?

rsv@Job:41:4 @ Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant for ever?

rsv@Job:41:5 @ Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on leash for your maidens?

rsv@Job:41:6 @ Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?

rsv@Job:41:7 @ Can you fill his skin with harpoons, or his head with fishing spears?

rsv@Job:41:8 @ Lay hands on him; think of the battle; you will not do it again!

rsv@Job:41:9 @ Behold, the hope of a man is disappointed; he is laid low even at the sight of him.

rsv@Job:41:10 @ No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. Who then is he that can stand before me?

rsv@Job:41:11 @ Who has given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.

rsv@Job:41:12 @ "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame.

rsv@Job:41:13 @ Who can strip off his outer garment? Who can penetrate his double coat of mail?

rsv@Job:41:14 @ Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.

rsv@Job:41:15 @ His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal.

rsv@Job:41:16 @ One is so near to another that no air can come between them.

rsv@Job:41:17 @ They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated.

rsv@Job:41:18 @ His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.

rsv@Job:41:19 @ Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth.

rsv@Job:41:20 @ Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.

rsv@Job:41:21 @ His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.

rsv@Job:41:22 @ In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him.

rsv@Job:41:23 @ The folds of his flesh cleave together, firmly cast upon him and immovable.

rsv@Job:41:24 @ His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the nether millstone.

rsv@Job:41:25 @ When he raises himself up the mighty are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves.

rsv@Job:41:26 @ Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail; nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

rsv@Job:41:27 @ He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.

rsv@Job:41:28 @ The arrow cannot make him flee; for him slingstones are turned to stubble.

rsv@Job:41:29 @ Clubs are counted as stubble; he laughs at the rattle of javelins.

rsv@Job:41:30 @ His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.

rsv@Job:41:31 @ He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

rsv@Job:41:32 @ Behind him he leaves a shining wake; one would think the deep to be hoary.

rsv@Job:41:33 @ Upon earth there is not his like, a creature without fear.

rsv@Job:41:34 @ He beholds everything that is high; he is king over all the sons of pride."

rsv@Job:42:1 @ Then Job answered the LORD:

rsv@Job:42:2 @ "I know that thou canst do all things, and that no purpose of thine can be thwarted.

rsv@Job:42:3 @ `ho is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

rsv@Job:42:4 @ `ear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you declare to me.'

rsv@Job:42:5 @ I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees thee;

rsv@Job:42:6 @ therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

rsv@Job:42:7 @ After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eli'phaz the Te'manite: "My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.

rsv@Job:42:8 @ Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has."

rsv@Job:42:9 @ So Eli'phaz the Te'manite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Na'amathite went and did what the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Job's prayer.

rsv@Job:42:10 @ And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

rsv@Job:42:11 @ Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house; and they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold.

rsv@Job:42:12 @ And the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

rsv@Job:42:13 @ He had also seven sons and three daughters.

rsv@Job:42:14 @ And he called the name of the first Jemi'mah; and the name of the second Kezi'ah; and the name of the third Ker'en-hap'puch.

rsv@Job:42:15 @ And in all the land there were no women so fair as Job's daughters; and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.

rsv@Job:42:16 @ And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.

rsv@Job:42:17 @ And Job died, an old man, and full of days.

rsv@Psalms:1:1 @ Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;

rsv@Psalms:1:2 @ but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.

rsv@Psalms:1:3 @ He is like a tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

rsv@Psalms:1:4 @ The wicked are not so, but are like chaff which the wind drives away.

rsv@Psalms:1:5 @ Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;

rsv@Psalms:1:6 @ for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

rsv@Psalms:2:1 @ Why do the nations conspire, and the peoples plot in vain?

rsv@Psalms:2:2 @ The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and his anointed, saying,

rsv@Psalms:2:3 @ "Let us burst their bonds asunder, and cast their cords from us."

rsv@Psalms:2:4 @ He who sits in the heavens laughs; the LORD has them in derision.

rsv@Psalms:2:5 @ Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying,

rsv@Psalms:2:6 @ "I have set my king on Zion, my holy hill."

rsv@Psalms:2:7 @ I will tell of the decree of the LORD: He said to me, "You are my son, today I have begotten you.

rsv@Psalms:2:8 @ Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.

rsv@Psalms:2:9 @ You shall break them with a rod of iron, and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."

rsv@Psalms:2:10 @ Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.

rsv@Psalms:2:11 @ Serve the LORD with fear, with trembling

rsv@Psalms:2:12 @ kiss his feet, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way; for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

rsv@Psalms:3:1 @ A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.

rsv@Psalms:3:2 @ O LORD, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me;

rsv@Psalms:3:3 @ many are saying of me, there is no help for him in God. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:3:4 @ But thou, O LORD, art a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.

rsv@Psalms:3:5 @ I cry aloud to the LORD, and he answers me from his holy hill. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:3:6 @ I lie down and sleep; I wake again, for the LORD sustains me.

rsv@Psalms:3:7 @ I am not afraid of ten thousands of people who have set themselves against me round about.

rsv@Psalms:3:8 @ Arise, O LORD! Deliver me, O my God! For thou dost smite all my enemies on the cheek, thou dost break the teeth of the wicked. [ (Psalms strkjv@3:9) Deliverance belongs to the LORD; thy blessing be upon thy people! [Selah] ]

rsv@Psalms:4:1 @ To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:4:2 @ Answer me when I call, O God of my right! Thou hast given me room when I was in distress. Be gracious to me, and hear my prayer.

rsv@Psalms:4:3 @ O men, how long shall my honor suffer shame? How long will you love vain words, and seek after lies? [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:4:4 @ But know that the LORD has set apart the godly for himself; the LORD hears when I call to him.

rsv@Psalms:4:5 @ Be angry, but sin not; commune with your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:4:6 @ Offer right sacrifices, and put your trust in the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:4:7 @ There are many who say, "O that we might see some good! Lift up the light of thy countenance upon us, O LORD!"

rsv@Psalms:4:8 @ Thou hast put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound. [ (Psalms strkjv@4:9) In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for thou alone, O LORD, makest me dwell in safety. ]

rsv@Psalms:5:1 @ To the choirmaster: for the flutes. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:5:2 @ Give ear to my words, O LORD; give heed to my groaning.

rsv@Psalms:5:3 @ Hearken to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to thee do I pray.

rsv@Psalms:5:4 @ O LORD, in the morning thou dost hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for thee, and watch.

rsv@Psalms:5:5 @ For thou art not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not sojourn with thee.

rsv@Psalms:5:6 @ The boastful may not stand before thy eyes; thou hatest all evildoers.

rsv@Psalms:5:7 @ Thou destroyest those who speak lies; the LORD abhors bloodthirsty and deceitful men.

rsv@Psalms:5:8 @ But I through the abundance of thy steadfast love will enter thy house, I will worship toward thy holy temple in the fear of thee.

rsv@Psalms:5:9 @ Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of my enemies; make thy way straight before me.

rsv@Psalms:5:10 @ For there is no truth in their mouth; their heart is destruction, their throat is an open sepulchre, they flatter with their tongue.

rsv@Psalms:5:11 @ Make them bear their guilt, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; because of their many transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against thee.

rsv@Psalms:5:12 @ But let all who take refuge in thee rejoice, let them ever sing for joy; and do thou defend them, that those who love thy name may exult in thee. [ (Psalms strkjv@5:13) For thou dost bless the righteous, O LORD; thou dost cover him with favor as with a shield. ]

rsv@Psalms:6:1 @ To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:6:2 @ O LORD, rebuke me not in thy anger, nor chasten me in thy wrath.

rsv@Psalms:6:3 @ Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am languishing; O LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

rsv@Psalms:6:4 @ My soul also is sorely troubled. But thou, O LORD--how long?

rsv@Psalms:6:5 @ Turn, O LORD, save my life; deliver me for the sake of thy steadfast love.

rsv@Psalms:6:6 @ For in death there is no remembrance of thee; in Sheol who can give thee praise?

rsv@Psalms:6:7 @ I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.

rsv@Psalms:6:8 @ My eye wastes away because of grief, it grows weak because of all my foes.

rsv@Psalms:6:9 @ Depart from me, all you workers of evil; for the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping.

rsv@Psalms:6:10 @ The LORD has heard my supplication; the LORD accepts my prayer. [ (Psalms strkjv@6:11) All my enemies shall be ashamed and sorely troubled; they shall turn back, and be put to shame in a moment. ]

rsv@Psalms:7:1 @ A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush a Benjaminite.

rsv@Psalms:7:2 @ O LORD my God, in thee do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me,

rsv@Psalms:7:3 @ lest like a lion they rend me, dragging me away, with none to rescue.

rsv@Psalms:7:4 @ O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,

rsv@Psalms:7:5 @ if I have requited my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause,

rsv@Psalms:7:6 @ let the enemy pursue me and overtake me, and let him trample my life to the ground, and lay my soul in the dust. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:7:7 @ Arise, O LORD, in thy anger, lift thyself up against the fury of my enemies; awake, O my God; thou hast appointed a judgment.

rsv@Psalms:7:8 @ Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about thee; and over it take thy seat on high.

rsv@Psalms:7:9 @ The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.

rsv@Psalms:7:10 @ O let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous, thou who triest the minds and hearts, thou righteous God.

rsv@Psalms:7:11 @ My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

rsv@Psalms:7:12 @ God is a righteous judge, and a God who has indignation every day.

rsv@Psalms:7:13 @ If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;

rsv@Psalms:7:14 @ he has prepared his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.

rsv@Psalms:7:15 @ Behold, the wicked man conceives evil, and is pregnant with mischief, and brings forth lies.

rsv@Psalms:7:16 @ He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole which he has made.

rsv@Psalms:7:17 @ His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own pate his violence descends. [ (Psalms strkjv@7:18) I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High. ]

rsv@Psalms:8:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:8:2 @ O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth! Thou whose glory above the heavens is chanted

rsv@Psalms:8:3 @ by the mouth of babes and infants, thou hast founded a bulwark because of thy foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.

rsv@Psalms:8:4 @ When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established;

rsv@Psalms:8:5 @ what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?

rsv@Psalms:8:6 @ Yet thou hast made him little less than God, and dost crown him with glory and honor.

rsv@Psalms:8:7 @ Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet,

rsv@Psalms:8:8 @ all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,

rsv@Psalms:8:9 @ the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the sea. [ (Psalms strkjv@8:10) O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth! ]

rsv@Psalms:9:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:9:2 @ I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart; I will tell of all thy wonderful deeds.

rsv@Psalms:9:3 @ I will be glad and exult in thee, I will sing praise to thy name, O Most High.

rsv@Psalms:9:4 @ When my enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished before thee.

rsv@Psalms:9:5 @ For thou hast maintained my just cause; thou hast sat on the throne giving righteous judgment.

rsv@Psalms:9:6 @ Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked; thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.

rsv@Psalms:9:7 @ The enemy have vanished in everlasting ruins; their cities thou hast rooted out; the very memory of them has perished.

rsv@Psalms:9:8 @ But the LORD sits enthroned for ever, he has established his throne for judgment;

rsv@Psalms:9:9 @ and he judges the world with righteousness, he judges the peoples with equity.

rsv@Psalms:9:10 @ The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

rsv@Psalms:9:11 @ And those who know thy name put their trust in thee, for thou, O LORD, hast not forsaken those who seek thee.

rsv@Psalms:9:12 @ Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion! Tell among the peoples his deeds!

rsv@Psalms:9:13 @ For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

rsv@Psalms:9:14 @ Be gracious to me, O LORD! Behold what I suffer from those who hate me, O thou who liftest me up from the gates of death,

rsv@Psalms:9:15 @ that I may recount all thy praises, that in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in thy deliverance.

rsv@Psalms:9:16 @ The nations have sunk in the pit which they made; in the net which they hid has their own foot been caught.

rsv@Psalms:9:17 @ The LORD has made himself known, he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. [Higgaion. Selah]

rsv@Psalms:9:18 @ The wicked shall depart to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.

rsv@Psalms:9:19 @ For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish for ever.

rsv@Psalms:9:20 @ Arise, O LORD! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before thee! [ (Psalms strkjv@9:21) Put them in fear, O LORD! Let the nations know that they are but men! [Selah] ]

rsv@Psalms:10:1 @ Why dost thou stand afar off, O LORD? Why dost thou hide thyself in times of trouble?

rsv@Psalms:10:2 @ In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes which they have devised.

rsv@Psalms:10:3 @ For the wicked boasts of the desires of his heart, and the man greedy for gain curses and renounces the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:10:4 @ In the pride of his countenance the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, "There is no God."

rsv@Psalms:10:5 @ His ways prosper at all times; thy judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.

rsv@Psalms:10:6 @ He thinks in his heart, "I shall not be moved; throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity."

rsv@Psalms:10:7 @ His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.

rsv@Psalms:10:8 @ He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the hapless,

rsv@Psalms:10:9 @ he lurks in secret like a lion in his covert; he lurks that he may seize the poor, he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.

rsv@Psalms:10:10 @ The hapless is crushed, sinks down, and falls by his might.

rsv@Psalms:10:11 @ He thinks in his heart, "God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it."

rsv@Psalms:10:12 @ Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thy hand; forget not the afflicted.

rsv@Psalms:10:13 @ Why does the wicked renounce God, and say in his heart, "Thou wilt not call to account"?

rsv@Psalms:10:14 @ Thou dost see; yea, thou dost note trouble and vexation, that thou mayest take it into thy hands; the hapless commits himself to thee; thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.

rsv@Psalms:10:15 @ Break thou the arm of the wicked and evildoer; seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

rsv@Psalms:10:16 @ The LORD is king for ever and ever; the nations shall perish from his land.

rsv@Psalms:10:17 @ O LORD, thou wilt hear the desire of the meek; thou wilt strengthen their heart, thou wilt incline thy ear

rsv@Psalms:10:18 @ to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.

rsv@Psalms:11:1 @ To the choirmaster. Of David.

rsv@Psalms:11:2 @ In the LORD I take refuge; how can you say to me, "Flee like a bird to the mountains;

rsv@Psalms:11:3 @ for lo, the wicked bend the bow, they have fitted their arrow to the string, to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart;

rsv@Psalms:11:4 @ if the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do"?

rsv@Psalms:11:5 @ The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven; his eyes behold, his eyelids test, the children of men.

rsv@Psalms:11:6 @ The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked, and his soul hates him that loves violence.

rsv@Psalms:11:7 @ On the wicked he will rain coals of fire and brimstone; a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup. [ (Psalms strkjv@11:8) For the LORD is righteous, he loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold his face. ]

rsv@Psalms:12:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:12:2 @ Help, LORD; for there is no longer any that is godly; for the faithful have vanished from among the sons of men.

rsv@Psalms:12:3 @ Every one utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

rsv@Psalms:12:4 @ May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts,

rsv@Psalms:12:5 @ those who say, "With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is our master?"

rsv@Psalms:12:6 @ "Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan, I will now arise," says the LORD; "I will place him in the safety for which he longs."

rsv@Psalms:12:7 @ The promises of the LORD are promises that are pure, silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.

rsv@Psalms:12:8 @ Do thou, O LORD, protect us, guard us ever from this generation. [ (Psalms strkjv@12:9) On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among the sons of men. ]

rsv@Psalms:13:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:13:2 @ How long, O LORD? Wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

rsv@Psalms:13:3 @ How long must I bear pain in my soul, and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

rsv@Psalms:13:4 @ Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

rsv@Psalms:13:5 @ lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed over him"; lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.

rsv@Psalms:13:6 @ But I have trusted in thy steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. [ (Psalms strkjv@13:7) I will sing to the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me. ]

rsv@Psalms:14:1 @ To the choirmaster. Of David.

rsv@Psalms:14:2 @ The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none that does good.

rsv@Psalms:14:3 @ The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any that act wisely, that seek after God.

rsv@Psalms:14:4 @ They have all gone astray, they are all alike corrupt; there is none that does good, no, not one.

rsv@Psalms:14:5 @ Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the LORD?

rsv@Psalms:14:6 @ There they shall be in great terror, for God is with the generation of the righteous.

rsv@Psalms:14:7 @ You would confound the plans of the poor, but the LORD is his refuge. [ (Psalms strkjv@14:8) O that deliverance for Israel would come out of Zion! When the LORD restores the fortunes of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, Israel shall be glad. ]

rsv@Psalms:15:1 @ A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:15:2 @ O LORD, who shall sojourn in thy tent? Who shall dwell on thy holy hill?

rsv@Psalms:15:3 @ He who walks blamelessly, and does what is right, and speaks truth from his heart;

rsv@Psalms:15:4 @ who does not slander with his tongue, and does no evil to his friend, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;

rsv@Psalms:15:5 @ in whose eyes a reprobate is despised, but who honors those who fear the LORD; who swears to his own hurt and does not change; [ (Psalms strkjv@15:6) who does not put out his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved. ]

rsv@Psalms:16:1 @ A Miktam of David.

rsv@Psalms:16:2 @ Preserve me, O God, for in thee I take refuge.

rsv@Psalms:16:3 @ I say to the LORD, "Thou art my Lord; I have no good apart from thee."

rsv@Psalms:16:4 @ As for the saints in the land, they are the noble, in whom is all my delight.

rsv@Psalms:16:5 @ Those who choose another god multiply their sorrows; their libations of blood I will not pour out or take their names upon my lips.

rsv@Psalms:16:6 @ The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; thou holdest my lot.

rsv@Psalms:16:7 @ The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

rsv@Psalms:16:8 @ I bless the LORD who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me.

rsv@Psalms:16:9 @ I keep the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

rsv@Psalms:16:10 @ Therefore my heart is glad, and my soul rejoices; my body also dwells secure.

rsv@Psalms:16:11 @ For thou dost not give me up to Sheol, or let thy godly one see the Pit. [ (Psalms strkjv@16:12) Thou dost show me the path of life; in thy presence there is fulness of joy, in thy right hand are pleasures for evermore. ]

rsv@Psalms:17:1 @ A Prayer of David.

rsv@Psalms:17:2 @ Hear a just cause, O LORD; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit!

rsv@Psalms:17:3 @ From thee let my vindication come! Let thy eyes see the right!

rsv@Psalms:17:4 @ If thou triest my heart, if thou visitest me by night, if thou testest me, thou wilt find no wickedness in me; my mouth does not transgress.

rsv@Psalms:17:5 @ With regard to the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have avoided the ways of the violent.

rsv@Psalms:17:6 @ My steps have held fast to thy paths, my feet have not slipped.

rsv@Psalms:17:7 @ I call upon thee, for thou wilt answer me, O God; incline thy ear to me, hear my words.

rsv@Psalms:17:8 @ Wondrously show thy steadfast love, O savior of those who seek refuge from their adversaries at thy right hand.

rsv@Psalms:17:9 @ Keep me as the apple of the eye; hide me in the shadow of thy wings,

rsv@Psalms:17:10 @ from the wicked who despoil me, my deadly enemies who surround me.

rsv@Psalms:17:11 @ They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly.

rsv@Psalms:17:12 @ They track me down; now they surround me; they set their eyes to cast me to the ground.

rsv@Psalms:17:13 @ They are like a lion eager to tear, as a young lion lurking in ambush.

rsv@Psalms:17:14 @ Arise, O LORD! confront them, overthrow them! Deliver my life from the wicked by thy sword,

rsv@Psalms:17:15 @ from men by thy hand, O LORD, from men whose portion in life is of the world. May their belly be filled with what thou hast stored up for them; may their children have more than enough; may they leave something over to their babes. [ (Psalms strkjv@17:16) As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with beholding thy form. ]

rsv@Psalms:18:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD, who addressed the words of this song to the LORD on the day when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said:

rsv@Psalms:18:2 @ I love thee, O LORD, my strength.

rsv@Psalms:18:3 @ The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

rsv@Psalms:18:4 @ I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.

rsv@Psalms:18:5 @ The cords of death encompassed me, the torrents of perdition assailed me;

rsv@Psalms:18:6 @ the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me.

rsv@Psalms:18:7 @ In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.

rsv@Psalms:18:8 @ Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations also of the mountains trembled and quaked, because he was angry.

rsv@Psalms:18:9 @ Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.

rsv@Psalms:18:10 @ He bowed the heavens, and came down; thick darkness was under his feet.

rsv@Psalms:18:11 @ He rode on a cherub, and flew; he came swiftly upon the wings of the wind.

rsv@Psalms:18:12 @ He made darkness his covering around him, his canopy thick clouds dark with water.

rsv@Psalms:18:13 @ Out of the brightness before him there broke through his clouds hailstones and coals of fire.

rsv@Psalms:18:14 @ The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire.

rsv@Psalms:18:15 @ And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; he flashed forth lightnings, and routed them.

rsv@Psalms:18:16 @ Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare, at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

rsv@Psalms:18:17 @ He reached from on high, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

rsv@Psalms:18:18 @ He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

rsv@Psalms:18:19 @ They came upon me in the day of my calamity; but the LORD was my stay.

rsv@Psalms:18:20 @ He brought me forth into a broad place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

rsv@Psalms:18:21 @ The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.

rsv@Psalms:18:22 @ For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

rsv@Psalms:18:23 @ For all his ordinances were before me, and his statutes I did not put away from me.

rsv@Psalms:18:24 @ I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from guilt.

rsv@Psalms:18:25 @ Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

rsv@Psalms:18:26 @ With the loyal thou dost show thyself loyal; with the blameless man thou dost show thyself blameless;

rsv@Psalms:18:27 @ with the pure thou dost show thyself pure; and with the crooked thou dost show thyself perverse.

rsv@Psalms:18:28 @ For thou dost deliver a humble people; but the haughty eyes thou dost bring down.

rsv@Psalms:18:29 @ Yea, thou dost light my lamp; the LORD my God lightens my darkness.

rsv@Psalms:18:30 @ Yea, by thee I can crush a troop; and by my God I can leap over a wall.

rsv@Psalms:18:31 @ This God--his way is perfect; the promise of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

rsv@Psalms:18:32 @ For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?--

rsv@Psalms:18:33 @ the God who girded me with strength, and made my way safe.

rsv@Psalms:18:34 @ He made my feet like hinds' feet, and set me secure on the heights.

rsv@Psalms:18:35 @ He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

rsv@Psalms:18:36 @ Thou hast given me the shield of thy salvation, and thy right hand supported me, and thy help made me great.

rsv@Psalms:18:37 @ Thou didst give a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip.

rsv@Psalms:18:38 @ I pursued my enemies and overtook them; and did not turn back till they were consumed.

rsv@Psalms:18:39 @ I thrust them through, so that they were not able to rise; they fell under my feet.

rsv@Psalms:18:40 @ For thou didst gird me with strength for the battle; thou didst make my assailants sink under me.

rsv@Psalms:18:41 @ Thou didst make my enemies turn their backs to me, and those who hated me I destroyed.

rsv@Psalms:18:42 @ They cried for help, but there was none to save, they cried to the LORD, but he did not answer them.

rsv@Psalms:18:43 @ I beat them fine as dust before the wind; I cast them out like the mire of the streets.

rsv@Psalms:18:44 @ Thou didst deliver me from strife with the peoples; thou didst make me the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.

rsv@Psalms:18:45 @ As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me; foreigners came cringing to me.

rsv@Psalms:18:46 @ Foreigners lost heart, and came trembling out of their fastnesses.

rsv@Psalms:18:47 @ The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation,

rsv@Psalms:18:48 @ the God who gave me vengeance and subdued peoples under me;

rsv@Psalms:18:49 @ who delivered me from my enemies; yea, thou didst exalt me above my adversaries; thou didst deliver me from men of violence.

rsv@Psalms:18:50 @ For this I will extol thee, O LORD, among the nations, and sing praises to thy name. [ (Psalms strkjv@18:51) Great triumphs he gives to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his descendants for ever. ]

rsv@Psalms:19:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:19:2 @ The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.

rsv@Psalms:19:3 @ Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night declares knowledge.

rsv@Psalms:19:4 @ There is no speech, nor are there words; their voice is not heard;

rsv@Psalms:19:5 @ yet their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

rsv@Psalms:19:6 @ which comes forth like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and like a strong man runs its course with joy.

rsv@Psalms:19:7 @ Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them; and there is nothing hid from its heat.

rsv@Psalms:19:8 @ The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;

rsv@Psalms:19:9 @ the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes;

rsv@Psalms:19:10 @ the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever; the ordinances of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.

rsv@Psalms:19:11 @ More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.

rsv@Psalms:19:12 @ Moreover by them is thy servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.

rsv@Psalms:19:13 @ But who can discern his errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults.

rsv@Psalms:19:14 @ Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression. [ (Psalms strkjv@19:15) Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer. ]

rsv@Psalms:20:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:20:2 @ The LORD answer you in the day of trouble! The name of the God of Jacob protect you!

rsv@Psalms:20:3 @ May he send you help from the sanctuary, and give you support from Zion!

rsv@Psalms:20:4 @ May he remember all your offerings, and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:20:5 @ May he grant you your heart's desire, and fulfil all your plans!

rsv@Psalms:20:6 @ May we shout for joy over your victory, and in the name of our God set up our banners! May the LORD fulfil all your petitions!

rsv@Psalms:20:7 @ Now I know that the LORD will help his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with mighty victories by his right hand.

rsv@Psalms:20:8 @ Some boast of chariots, and some of horses; but we boast of the name of the LORD our God.

rsv@Psalms:20:9 @ They will collapse and fall; but we shall rise and stand upright. [ (Psalms strkjv@20:10) Give victory to the king, O LORD; answer us when we call. ]

rsv@Psalms:21:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:21:2 @ In thy strength the king rejoices, O LORD; and in thy help how greatly he exults!

rsv@Psalms:21:3 @ Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withheld the request of his lips. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:21:4 @ For thou dost meet him with goodly blessings; thou dost set a crown of fine gold upon his head.

rsv@Psalms:21:5 @ He asked life of thee; thou gavest it to him, length of days for ever and ever.

rsv@Psalms:21:6 @ His glory is great through thy help; splendor and majesty thou dost bestow upon him.

rsv@Psalms:21:7 @ Yea, thou dost make him most blessed for ever; thou dost make him glad with the joy of thy presence.

rsv@Psalms:21:8 @ For the king trusts in the LORD; and through the steadfast love of the Most High he shall not be moved.

rsv@Psalms:21:9 @ Your hand will find out all your enemies; your right hand will find out those who hate you.

rsv@Psalms:21:10 @ You will make them as a blazing oven when you appear. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath; and fire will consume them.

rsv@Psalms:21:11 @ You will destroy their offspring from the earth, and their children from among the sons of men.

rsv@Psalms:21:12 @ If they plan evil against you, if they devise mischief, they will not succeed.

rsv@Psalms:21:13 @ For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows. [ (Psalms strkjv@21:14) Be exalted, O LORD, in thy strength! We will sing and praise thy power. ]

rsv@Psalms:22:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to The Hind of the Dawn. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:22:2 @ My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?

rsv@Psalms:22:3 @ O my God, I cry by day, but thou dost not answer; and by night, but find no rest.

rsv@Psalms:22:4 @ Yet thou art holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.

rsv@Psalms:22:5 @ In thee our fathers trusted; they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

rsv@Psalms:22:6 @ To thee they cried, and were saved; in thee they trusted, and were not disappointed.

rsv@Psalms:22:7 @ But I am a worm, and no man; scorned by men, and despised by the people.

rsv@Psalms:22:8 @ All who see me mock at me, they make mouths at me, they wag their heads;

rsv@Psalms:22:9 @ "He committed his cause to the LORD; let him deliver him, let him rescue him, for he delights in him!"

rsv@Psalms:22:10 @ Yet thou art he who took me from the womb; thou didst keep me safe upon my mother's breasts.

rsv@Psalms:22:11 @ Upon thee was I cast from my birth, and since my mother bore me thou hast been my God.

rsv@Psalms:22:12 @ Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is none to help.

rsv@Psalms:22:13 @ Many bulls encompass me, strong bulls of Bashan surround me;

rsv@Psalms:22:14 @ they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion.

rsv@Psalms:22:15 @ I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax, it is melted within my breast;

rsv@Psalms:22:16 @ my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; thou dost lay me in the dust of death.

rsv@Psalms:22:17 @ Yea, dogs are round about me; a company of evildoers encircle me; they have pierced my hands and feet--

rsv@Psalms:22:18 @ I can count all my bones-- they stare and gloat over me;

rsv@Psalms:22:19 @ they divide my garments among them, and for my raiment they cast lots.

rsv@Psalms:22:20 @ But thou, O LORD, be not far off! O thou my help, hasten to my aid!

rsv@Psalms:22:21 @ Deliver my soul from the sword, my life from the power of the dog!

rsv@Psalms:22:22 @ Save me from the mouth of the lion, my afflicted soul from the horns of the wild oxen!

rsv@Psalms:22:23 @ I will tell of thy name to my brethren; in the midst of the congregation I will praise thee:

rsv@Psalms:22:24 @ You who fear the LORD, praise him! all you sons of Jacob, glorify him, and stand in awe of him, all you sons of Israel!

rsv@Psalms:22:25 @ For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; and he has not hid his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.

rsv@Psalms:22:26 @ From thee comes my praise in the great congregation; my vows I will pay before those who fear him.

rsv@Psalms:22:27 @ The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the LORD! May your hearts live for ever!

rsv@Psalms:22:28 @ All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD; and all the families of the nations shall worship before him.

rsv@Psalms:22:29 @ For dominion belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.

rsv@Psalms:22:30 @ Yea, to him shall all the proud of the earth bow down; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, and he who cannot keep himself alive.

rsv@Psalms:22:31 @ Posterity shall serve him; men shall tell of the Lord to the coming generation, [ (Psalms strkjv@22:32) and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn, that he has wrought it. ]

rsv@Psalms:23:1 @ A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:23:2 @ The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want;

rsv@Psalms:23:3 @ he makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters;

rsv@Psalms:23:4 @ he restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

rsv@Psalms:23:5 @ Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

rsv@Psalms:23:6 @ Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies; thou anointest my head with oil, my cup overflows. [ (Psalms strkjv@23:7) Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD for ever. ]

rsv@Psalms:24:1 @ A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:24:2 @ The earth is the LORD's and the fulness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein;

rsv@Psalms:24:3 @ for he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the rivers.

rsv@Psalms:24:4 @ Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD? And who shall stand in his holy place?

rsv@Psalms:24:5 @ He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false, and does not swear deceitfully.

rsv@Psalms:24:6 @ He will receive blessing from the LORD, and vindication from the God of his salvation.

rsv@Psalms:24:7 @ Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:24:8 @ Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in.

rsv@Psalms:24:9 @ Who is the King of glory? The LORD, strong and mighty, the LORD, mighty in battle!

rsv@Psalms:24:10 @ Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in. [ (Psalms strkjv@24:11) Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory! [Selah] ]

rsv@Psalms:25:1 @ A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:25:2 @ To thee, O LORD, I lift up my soul.

rsv@Psalms:25:3 @ O my God, in thee I trust, let me not be put to shame; let not my enemies exult over me.

rsv@Psalms:25:4 @ Yea, let none that wait for thee be put to shame; let them be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.

rsv@Psalms:25:5 @ Make me to know thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.

rsv@Psalms:25:6 @ Lead me in thy truth, and teach me, for thou art the God of my salvation; for thee I wait all the day long.

rsv@Psalms:25:7 @ Be mindful of thy mercy, O LORD, and of thy steadfast love, for they have been from of old.

rsv@Psalms:25:8 @ Remember not the sins of my youth, or my transgressions; according to thy steadfast love remember me, for thy goodness' sake, O LORD!

rsv@Psalms:25:9 @ Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in the way.

rsv@Psalms:25:11 @ All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.

rsv@Psalms:25:12 @ For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon my guilt, for it is great.

rsv@Psalms:25:13 @ Who is the man that fears the LORD? Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose.

rsv@Psalms:25:14 @ He himself shall abide in prosperity, and his children shall possess the land.

rsv@Psalms:25:15 @ The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.

rsv@Psalms:25:16 @ My eyes are ever toward the LORD, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

rsv@Psalms:25:17 @ Turn thou to me, and be gracious to me; for I am lonely and afflicted.

rsv@Psalms:25:18 @ Relieve the troubles of my heart, and bring me out of my distresses.

rsv@Psalms:25:19 @ Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.

rsv@Psalms:25:20 @ Consider how many are my foes, and with what violent hatred they hate me.

rsv@Psalms:25:21 @ Oh guard my life, and deliver me; let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in thee.

rsv@Psalms:25:22 @ May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for thee. [ (Psalms strkjv@25:23) Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. ]

rsv@Psalms:26:1 @ A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:26:2 @ Vindicate me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.

rsv@Psalms:26:3 @ Prove me, O LORD, and try me; test my heart and my mind.

rsv@Psalms:26:4 @ For thy steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in faithfulness to thee.

rsv@Psalms:26:5 @ I do not sit with false men, nor do I consort with dissemblers;

rsv@Psalms:26:6 @ I hate the company of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.

rsv@Psalms:26:7 @ I wash my hands in innocence, and go about thy altar, O LORD,

rsv@Psalms:26:8 @ singing aloud a song of thanksgiving, and telling all thy wondrous deeds.

rsv@Psalms:26:9 @ O LORD, I love the habitation of thy house, and the place where thy glory dwells.

rsv@Psalms:26:10 @ Sweep me not away with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men,

rsv@Psalms:26:11 @ men in whose hands are evil devices, and whose right hands are full of bribes.

rsv@Psalms:26:12 @ But as for me, I walk in my integrity; redeem me, and be gracious to me. [ (Psalms strkjv@26:13) My foot stands on level ground; in the great congregation I will bless the LORD. ]

rsv@Psalms:27:1 @ A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:27:2 @ The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

rsv@Psalms:27:3 @ When evildoers assail me, uttering slanders against me, my adversaries and foes, they shall stumble and fall.

rsv@Psalms:27:4 @ Though a host encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident.

rsv@Psalms:27:5 @ One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

rsv@Psalms:27:6 @ For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent, he will set me high upon a rock.

rsv@Psalms:27:7 @ And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies round about me; and I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make melody to the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:27:8 @ Hear, O LORD, when I cry aloud, be gracious to me and answer me!

rsv@Psalms:27:9 @ Thou hast said, "Seek ye my face." My heart says to thee, "Thy face, LORD, do I seek."

rsv@Psalms:27:10 @ Hide not thy face from me. Turn not thy servant away in anger, thou who hast been my help. Cast me not off, forsake me not, O God of my salvation!

rsv@Psalms:27:11 @ For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the LORD will take me up.

rsv@Psalms:27:12 @ Teach me thy way, O LORD; and lead me on a level path because of my enemies.

rsv@Psalms:27:13 @ Give me not up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence.

rsv@Psalms:27:14 @ I believe that I shall see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living! [ (Psalms strkjv@27:15) Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage; yea, wait for the LORD! ]

rsv@Psalms:28:1 @ A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:28:2 @ To thee, O LORD, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the Pit.

rsv@Psalms:28:3 @ Hear the voice of my supplication, as I cry to thee for help, as I lift up my hands toward thy most holy sanctuary.

rsv@Psalms:28:4 @ Take me not off with the wicked, with those who are workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbors, while mischief is in their hearts.

rsv@Psalms:28:5 @ Requite them according to their work, and according to the evil of their deeds; requite them according to the work of their hands; render them their due reward.

rsv@Psalms:28:6 @ Because they do not regard the works of the LORD, or the work of his hands, he will break them down and build them up no more.

rsv@Psalms:28:7 @ Blessed be the LORD! for he has heard the voice of my supplications.

rsv@Psalms:28:8 @ The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts; so I am helped, and my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.

rsv@Psalms:28:9 @ The LORD is the strength of his people, he is the saving refuge of his anointed. [ (Psalms strkjv@28:10) O save thy people, and bless thy heritage; be thou their shepherd, and carry them for ever. ]

rsv@Psalms:29:1 @ A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:29:2 @ Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.

rsv@Psalms:29:3 @ Ascribe to the LORD the glory of his name; worship the LORD in holy array.

rsv@Psalms:29:4 @ The voice of the LORD is upon the waters; the God of glory thunders, the LORD, upon many waters.

rsv@Psalms:29:5 @ The voice of the LORD is powerful, the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

rsv@Psalms:29:6 @ The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars, the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon.

rsv@Psalms:29:7 @ He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf, and Si'rion like a young wild ox.

rsv@Psalms:29:8 @ The voice of the LORD flashes forth flames of fire.

rsv@Psalms:29:9 @ The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness, the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

rsv@Psalms:29:10 @ The voice of the LORD makes the oaks to whirl, and strips the forests bare; and in his temple all cry, "Glory!"

rsv@Psalms:29:11 @ The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD sits enthroned as king for ever. [ (Psalms strkjv@29:12) May the LORD give strength to his people! May the LORD bless his people with peace! ]

rsv@Psalms:30:1 @ A Psalm of David. A Song at the dedication of the Temple.

rsv@Psalms:30:2 @ I will extol thee, O LORD, for thou hast drawn me up, and hast not let my foes rejoice over me.

rsv@Psalms:30:3 @ O LORD my God, I cried to thee for help, and thou hast healed me.

rsv@Psalms:30:4 @ O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol, restored me to life from among those gone down to the Pit.

rsv@Psalms:30:5 @ Sing praises to the LORD, O you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name.

rsv@Psalms:30:6 @ For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.

rsv@Psalms:30:7 @ As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved."

rsv@Psalms:30:8 @ By thy favor, O LORD, thou hadst established me as a strong mountain; thou didst hide thy face, I was dismayed.

rsv@Psalms:30:9 @ To thee, O LORD, I cried; and to the LORD I made supplication:

rsv@Psalms:30:10 @ "What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the Pit? Will the dust praise thee? Will it tell of thy faithfulness?

rsv@Psalms:30:11 @ Hear, O LORD, and be gracious to me! O LORD, be thou my helper!"

rsv@Psalms:30:12 @ Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; thou hast loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness, [ (Psalms strkjv@30:13) that my soul may praise thee and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to thee for ever. ]

rsv@Psalms:31:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:31:2 @ In thee, O LORD, do I seek refuge; let me never be put to shame; in thy righteousness deliver me!

rsv@Psalms:31:3 @ Incline thy ear to me, rescue me speedily! Be thou a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me!

rsv@Psalms:31:4 @ Yea, thou art my rock and my fortress; for thy name's sake lead me and guide me,

rsv@Psalms:31:5 @ take me out of the net which is hidden for me, for thou art my refuge.

rsv@Psalms:31:6 @ Into thy hand I commit my spirit; thou hast redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God.

rsv@Psalms:31:7 @ Thou hatest those who pay regard to vain idols; but I trust in the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:31:8 @ I will rejoice and be glad for thy steadfast love, because thou hast seen my affliction, thou hast taken heed of my adversities,

rsv@Psalms:31:9 @ and hast not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; thou hast set my feet in a broad place.

rsv@Psalms:31:10 @ Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief, my soul and my body also.

rsv@Psalms:31:11 @ For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my misery, and my bones waste away.

rsv@Psalms:31:12 @ I am the scorn of all my adversaries, a horror to my neighbors, an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me.

rsv@Psalms:31:13 @ I have passed out of mind like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.

rsv@Psalms:31:14 @ Yea, I hear the whispering of many-- terror on every side!-- as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.

rsv@Psalms:31:15 @ But I trust in thee, O LORD, I say, "Thou art my God."

rsv@Psalms:31:16 @ My times are in thy hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors!

rsv@Psalms:31:17 @ Let thy face shine on thy servant; save me in thy steadfast love!

rsv@Psalms:31:18 @ Let me not be put to shame, O LORD, for I call on thee; let the wicked be put to shame, let them go dumbfounded to Sheol.

rsv@Psalms:31:19 @ Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

rsv@Psalms:31:20 @ O how abundant is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for those who fear thee, and wrought for those who take refuge in thee, in the sight of the sons of men!

rsv@Psalms:31:21 @ In the covert of thy presence thou hidest them from the plots of men; thou holdest them safe under thy shelter from the strife of tongues.

rsv@Psalms:31:22 @ Blessed be the LORD, for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me when I was beset as in a besieged city.

rsv@Psalms:31:23 @ I had said in my alarm, "I am driven far from thy sight." But thou didst hear my supplications, when I cried to thee for help.

rsv@Psalms:31:24 @ Love the LORD, all you his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful, but abundantly requites him who acts haughtily. [ (Psalms strkjv@31:25) Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD! ]

rsv@Psalms:32:1 @ A Psalm of David. A Maskil.

rsv@Psalms:32:2 @ Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

rsv@Psalms:32:3 @ Blessed is the man to whom the LORD imputes no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

rsv@Psalms:32:4 @ When I declared not my sin, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long.

rsv@Psalms:32:5 @ For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:32:6 @ I acknowledged my sin to thee, and I did not hide my iniquity; I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD"; then thou didst forgive the guilt of my sin. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:32:7 @ Therefore let every one who is godly offer prayer to thee; at a time of distress, in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach him.

rsv@Psalms:32:8 @ Thou art a hiding place for me, thou preservest me from trouble; thou dost encompass me with deliverance. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:32:9 @ I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.

rsv@Psalms:32:10 @ Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, else it will not keep with you.

rsv@Psalms:32:11 @ Many are the pangs of the wicked; but steadfast love surrounds him who trusts in the LORD. [ (Psalms strkjv@32:12) Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart! ]

rsv@Psalms:33:1 @ Rejoice in the LORD, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright.

rsv@Psalms:33:2 @ Praise the LORD with the lyre, make melody to him with the harp of ten strings!

rsv@Psalms:33:3 @ Sing to him a new song, play skilfully on the strings, with loud shouts.

rsv@Psalms:33:4 @ For the word of the LORD is upright; and all his work is done in faithfulness.

rsv@Psalms:33:5 @ He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:33:6 @ By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all their host by the breath of his mouth.

rsv@Psalms:33:7 @ He gathered the waters of the sea as in a bottle; he put the deeps in storehouses.

rsv@Psalms:33:8 @ Let all the earth fear the LORD, let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!

rsv@Psalms:33:9 @ For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood forth.

rsv@Psalms:33:10 @ The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nought; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.

rsv@Psalms:33:11 @ The counsel of the LORD stands for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

rsv@Psalms:33:12 @ Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!

rsv@Psalms:33:13 @ The LORD looks down from heaven, he sees all the sons of men;

rsv@Psalms:33:14 @ from where he sits enthroned he looks forth on all the inhabitants of the earth,

rsv@Psalms:33:15 @ he who fashions the hearts of them all, and observes all their deeds.

rsv@Psalms:33:16 @ A king is not saved by his great army; a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.

rsv@Psalms:33:17 @ The war horse is a vain hope for victory, and by its great might it cannot save.

rsv@Psalms:33:18 @ Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love,

rsv@Psalms:33:19 @ that he may deliver their soul from death, and keep them alive in famine.

rsv@Psalms:33:20 @ Our soul waits for the LORD; he is our help and shield.

rsv@Psalms:33:21 @ Yea, our heart is glad in him, because we trust in his holy name.

rsv@Psalms:33:22 @ Let thy steadfast love, O LORD, be upon us, even as we hope in thee.

rsv@Psalms:34:1 @ A Psalm of David, when he feigned madness before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away.

rsv@Psalms:34:2 @ I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

rsv@Psalms:34:3 @ My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the afflicted hear and be glad.

rsv@Psalms:34:4 @ O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together!

rsv@Psalms:34:5 @ I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

rsv@Psalms:34:6 @ Look to him, and be radiant; so your faces shall never be ashamed.

rsv@Psalms:34:7 @ This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

rsv@Psalms:34:8 @ The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

rsv@Psalms:34:9 @ O taste and see that the LORD is good! Happy is the man who takes refuge in him!

rsv@Psalms:34:10 @ O fear the LORD, you his saints, for those who fear him have no want!

rsv@Psalms:34:11 @ The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

rsv@Psalms:34:12 @ Come, O sons, listen to me, I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:34:13 @ What man is there who desires life, and covets many days, that he may enjoy good?

rsv@Psalms:34:14 @ Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

rsv@Psalms:34:15 @ Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

rsv@Psalms:34:16 @ The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous, and his ears toward their cry.

rsv@Psalms:34:17 @ The face of the LORD is against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

rsv@Psalms:34:18 @ When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

rsv@Psalms:34:19 @ The LORD is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit.

rsv@Psalms:34:20 @ Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the LORD delivers him out of them all.

rsv@Psalms:34:21 @ He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.

rsv@Psalms:34:22 @ Evil shall slay the wicked; and those who hate the righteous will be condemned. [ (Psalms strkjv@34:23) The LORD redeems the life of his servants; none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned. ]

rsv@Psalms:35:1 @ A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:35:2 @ Contend, O LORD, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me!

rsv@Psalms:35:3 @ Take hold of shield and buckler, and rise for my help!

rsv@Psalms:35:4 @ Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers! Say to my soul, "I am your deliverance!"

rsv@Psalms:35:5 @ Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek after my life! Let them be turned back and confounded who devise evil against me!

rsv@Psalms:35:6 @ Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the LORD driving them on!

rsv@Psalms:35:7 @ Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of the LORD pursuing them!

rsv@Psalms:35:8 @ For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life.

rsv@Psalms:35:9 @ Let ruin come upon them unawares! And let the net which they hid ensnare them; let them fall therein to ruin!

rsv@Psalms:35:10 @ Then my soul shall rejoice in the LORD, exulting in his deliverance.

rsv@Psalms:35:11 @ All my bones shall say, "O LORD, who is like thee, thou who deliverest the weak from him who is too strong for him, the weak and needy from him who despoils him?"

rsv@Psalms:35:12 @ Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know not.

rsv@Psalms:35:13 @ They requite me evil for good; my soul is forlorn.

rsv@Psalms:35:14 @ But I, when they were sick-- I wore sackcloth, I afflicted myself with fasting. I prayed with head bowed on my bosom,

rsv@Psalms:35:15 @ as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; I went about as one who laments his mother, bowed down and in mourning.

rsv@Psalms:35:16 @ But at my stumbling they gathered in glee, they gathered together against me; cripples whom I knew not slandered me without ceasing;

rsv@Psalms:35:17 @ they impiously mocked more and more, gnashing at me with their teeth.

rsv@Psalms:35:18 @ How long, O LORD, wilt thou look on? Rescue me from their ravages, my life from the lions!

rsv@Psalms:35:19 @ Then I will thank thee in the great congregation; in the mighty throng I will praise thee.

rsv@Psalms:35:20 @ Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause.

rsv@Psalms:35:21 @ For they do not speak peace, but against those who are quiet in the land they conceive words of deceit.

rsv@Psalms:35:22 @ They open wide their mouths against me; they say, "Aha, Aha! our eyes have seen it!"

rsv@Psalms:35:23 @ Thou hast seen, O LORD; be not silent! O Lord, be not far from me!

rsv@Psalms:35:24 @ Bestir thyself, and awake for my right, for my cause, my God and my Lord!

rsv@Psalms:35:25 @ Vindicate me, O LORD, my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me!

rsv@Psalms:35:26 @ Let them not say to themselves, "Aha, we have our heart's desire!" Let them not say, "We have swallowed him up."

rsv@Psalms:35:27 @ Let them be put to shame and confusion altogether who rejoice at my calamity! Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me!

rsv@Psalms:35:28 @ Let those who desire my vindication shout for joy and be glad, and say evermore, "Great is the LORD, who delights in the welfare of his servant!" [ (Psalms strkjv@35:29) Then my tongue shall tell of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long. ]

rsv@Psalms:36:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:36:2 @ Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in his heart; there is no fear of God before his eyes.

rsv@Psalms:36:3 @ For he flatters himself in his own eyes that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated.

rsv@Psalms:36:4 @ The words of his mouth are mischief and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good.

rsv@Psalms:36:5 @ He plots mischief while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he spurns not evil.

rsv@Psalms:36:6 @ Thy steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, thy faithfulness to the clouds.

rsv@Psalms:36:7 @ Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God, thy judgments are like the great deep; man and beast thou savest, O LORD.

rsv@Psalms:36:8 @ How precious is thy steadfast love, O God! The children of men take refuge in the shadow of thy wings.

rsv@Psalms:36:9 @ They feast on the abundance of thy house, and thou givest them drink from the river of thy delights.

rsv@Psalms:36:10 @ For with thee is the fountain of life; in thy light do we see light.

rsv@Psalms:36:11 @ O continue thy steadfast love to those who know thee, and thy salvation to the upright of heart!

rsv@Psalms:36:12 @ Let not the foot of arrogance come upon me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away. [ (Psalms strkjv@36:13) There the evildoers lie prostrate, they are thrust down, unable to rise. ]

rsv@Psalms:37:1 @ A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:37:2 @ Fret not yourself because of the wicked, be not envious of wrongdoers!

rsv@Psalms:37:3 @ For they will soon fade like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

rsv@Psalms:37:4 @ Trust in the LORD, and do good; so you will dwell in the land, and enjoy security.

rsv@Psalms:37:5 @ Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

rsv@Psalms:37:6 @ Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act.

rsv@Psalms:37:7 @ He will bring forth your vindication as the light, and your right as the noonday.

rsv@Psalms:37:8 @ Be still before the LORD, and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over him who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!

rsv@Psalms:37:9 @ Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.

rsv@Psalms:37:10 @ For the wicked shall be cut off; but those who wait for the LORD shall possess the land.

rsv@Psalms:37:11 @ Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look well at his place, he will not be there.

rsv@Psalms:37:12 @ But the meek shall possess the land, and delight themselves in abundant prosperity.

rsv@Psalms:37:13 @ The wicked plots against the righteous, and gnashes his teeth at him;

rsv@Psalms:37:14 @ but the LORD laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming.

rsv@Psalms:37:15 @ The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows, to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those who walk uprightly;

rsv@Psalms:37:16 @ their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

rsv@Psalms:37:17 @ Better is a little that the righteous has than the abundance of many wicked.

rsv@Psalms:37:18 @ For the arms of the wicked shall be broken; but the LORD upholds the righteous.

rsv@Psalms:37:19 @ The LORD knows the days of the blameless, and their heritage will abide for ever;

rsv@Psalms:37:20 @ they are not put to shame in evil times, in the days of famine they have abundance.

rsv@Psalms:37:21 @ But the wicked perish; the enemies of the LORD are like the glory of the pastures, they vanish--like smoke they vanish away.

rsv@Psalms:37:22 @ The wicked borrows, and cannot pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives;

rsv@Psalms:37:23 @ for those blessed by the LORD shall possess the land, but those cursed by him shall be cut off.

rsv@Psalms:37:24 @ The steps of a man are from the LORD, and he establishes him in whose way he delights;

rsv@Psalms:37:25 @ though he fall, he shall not be cast headlong, for the LORD is the stay of his hand.

rsv@Psalms:37:26 @ I have been young, and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging bread.

rsv@Psalms:37:27 @ He is ever giving liberally and lending, and his children become a blessing.

rsv@Psalms:37:28 @ Depart from evil, and do good; so shall you abide for ever.

rsv@Psalms:37:29 @ For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. The righteous shall be preserved for ever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

rsv@Psalms:37:30 @ The righteous shall possess the land, and dwell upon it for ever.

rsv@Psalms:37:31 @ The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.

rsv@Psalms:37:32 @ The law of his God is in his heart; his steps do not slip.

rsv@Psalms:37:33 @ The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to slay him.

rsv@Psalms:37:34 @ The LORD will not abandon him to his power, or let him be condemned when he is brought to trial.

rsv@Psalms:37:35 @ Wait for the LORD, and keep to his way, and he will exalt you to possess the land; you will look on the destruction of the wicked.

rsv@Psalms:37:36 @ I have seen a wicked man overbearing, and towering like a cedar of Lebanon.

rsv@Psalms:37:37 @ Again I passed by, and, lo, he was no more; though I sought him, he could not be found.

rsv@Psalms:37:38 @ Mark the blameless man, and behold the upright, for there is posterity for the man of peace.

rsv@Psalms:37:39 @ But transgressors shall be altogether destroyed; the posterity of the wicked shall be cut off.

rsv@Psalms:37:40 @ The salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; he is their refuge in the time of trouble. [ (Psalms strkjv@37:41) The LORD helps them and delivers them; he delivers them from the wicked, and saves them, because they take refuge in him. ]

rsv@Psalms:38:1 @ A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering.

rsv@Psalms:38:2 @ O LORD, rebuke me not in thy anger, nor chasten me in thy wrath!

rsv@Psalms:38:3 @ For thy arrows have sunk into me, and thy hand has come down on me.

rsv@Psalms:38:4 @ There is no soundness in my flesh because of thy indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.

rsv@Psalms:38:5 @ For my iniquities have gone over my head; they weigh like a burden too heavy for me.

rsv@Psalms:38:6 @ My wounds grow foul and fester because of my foolishness,

rsv@Psalms:38:7 @ I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning.

rsv@Psalms:38:8 @ For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

rsv@Psalms:38:9 @ I am utterly spent and crushed; I groan because of the tumult of my heart.

rsv@Psalms:38:10 @ Lord, all my longing is known to thee, my sighing is not hidden from thee.

rsv@Psalms:38:11 @ My heart throbs, my strength fails me; and the light of my eyes--it also has gone from me.

rsv@Psalms:38:12 @ My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague, and my kinsmen stand afar off.

rsv@Psalms:38:13 @ Those who seek my life lay their snares, those who seek my hurt speak of ruin, and meditate treachery all the day long.

rsv@Psalms:38:14 @ But I am like a deaf man, I do not hear, like a dumb man who does not open his mouth.

rsv@Psalms:38:15 @ Yea, I am like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.

rsv@Psalms:38:16 @ But for thee, O LORD, do I wait; it is thou, O LORD my God, who wilt answer.

rsv@Psalms:38:17 @ For I pray, "Only let them not rejoice over me, who boast against me when my foot slips!"

rsv@Psalms:38:18 @ For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.

rsv@Psalms:38:19 @ I confess my iniquity, I am sorry for my sin.

rsv@Psalms:38:20 @ Those who are my foes without cause are mighty, and many are those who hate me wrongfully.

rsv@Psalms:38:21 @ Those who render me evil for good are my adversaries because I follow after good.

rsv@Psalms:38:22 @ Do not forsake me, O LORD! O my God, be not far from me! [ (Psalms strkjv@38:23) Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation! ]

rsv@Psalms:39:1 @ To the choirmaster: to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:39:2 @ I said, "I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will bridle my mouth, so long as the wicked are in my presence."

rsv@Psalms:39:3 @ I was dumb and silent, I held my peace to no avail; my distress grew worse,

rsv@Psalms:39:4 @ my heart became hot within me. As I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:

rsv@Psalms:39:5 @ "LORD, let me know my end, and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is!

rsv@Psalms:39:6 @ Behold, thou hast made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in thy sight. Surely every man stands as a mere breath! [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:39:7 @ Surely man goes about as a shadow! Surely for nought are they in turmoil; man heaps up, and knows not who will gather!

rsv@Psalms:39:8 @ "And now, Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in thee.

rsv@Psalms:39:9 @ Deliver me from all my transgressions. Make me not the scorn of the fool!

rsv@Psalms:39:10 @ I am dumb, I do not open my mouth; for it is thou who hast done it.

rsv@Psalms:39:11 @ Remove thy stroke from me; I am spent by the blows of thy hand.

rsv@Psalms:39:12 @ When thou dost chasten man with rebukes for sin, thou dost consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely every man is a mere breath! [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:39:13 @ "Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears! For I am thy passing guest, a sojourner, like all my fathers. [ (Psalms strkjv@39:14) Look away from me, that I may know gladness, before I depart and be no more!" ]

rsv@Psalms:40:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:40:2 @ I waited patiently for the LORD; he inclined to me and heard my cry.

rsv@Psalms:40:3 @ He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.

rsv@Psalms:40:4 @ He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:40:5 @ Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after false gods!

rsv@Psalms:40:6 @ Thou hast multiplied, O LORD my God, thy wondrous deeds and thy thoughts toward us; none can compare with thee! Were I to proclaim and tell of them, they would be more than can be numbered.

rsv@Psalms:40:7 @ Sacrifice and offering thou dost not desire; but thou hast given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering thou hast not required.

rsv@Psalms:40:8 @ Then I said, "Lo, I come; in the roll of the book it is written of me;

rsv@Psalms:40:9 @ I delight to do thy will, O my God; thy law is within my heart."

rsv@Psalms:40:10 @ I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; lo, I have not restrained my lips, as thou knowest, O LORD.

rsv@Psalms:40:11 @ I have not hid thy saving help within my heart, I have spoken of thy faithfulness and thy salvation; I have not concealed thy steadfast love and thy faithfulness from the great congregation.

rsv@Psalms:40:12 @ Do not thou, O LORD, withhold thy mercy from me, let thy steadfast love and thy faithfulness ever preserve me!

rsv@Psalms:40:13 @ For evils have encompassed me without number; my iniquities have overtaken me, till I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head; my heart fails me.

rsv@Psalms:40:14 @ Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me! O LORD, make haste to help me!

rsv@Psalms:40:15 @ Let them be put to shame and confusion altogether who seek to snatch away my life; let them be turned back and brought to dishonor who desire my hurt!

rsv@Psalms:40:16 @ Let them be appalled because of their shame who say to me, "Aha, Aha!"

rsv@Psalms:40:17 @ But may all who seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee; may those who love thy salvation say continually, "Great is the LORD!" [ (Psalms strkjv@40:18) As for me, I am poor and needy; but the Lord takes thought for me. Thou art my help and my deliverer; do not tarry, O my God! ]

rsv@Psalms:41:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:41:2 @ Blessed is he who considers the poor! The LORD delivers him in the day of trouble;

rsv@Psalms:41:3 @ the LORD protects him and keeps him alive; he is called blessed in the land; thou dost not give him up to the will of his enemies.

rsv@Psalms:41:4 @ The LORD sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness thou healest all his infirmities.

rsv@Psalms:41:5 @ As for me, I said, "O LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against thee!"

rsv@Psalms:41:6 @ My enemies say of me in malice: "When will he die, and his name perish?"

rsv@Psalms:41:7 @ And when one comes to see me, he utters empty words, while his heart gathers mischief; when he goes out, he tells it abroad.

rsv@Psalms:41:8 @ All who hate me whisper together about me; they imagine the worst for me.

rsv@Psalms:41:9 @ They say, "A deadly thing has fastened upon him; he will not rise again from where he lies."

rsv@Psalms:41:10 @ Even my bosom friend in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted his heel against me.

rsv@Psalms:41:11 @ But do thou, O LORD, be gracious to me, and raise me up, that I may requite them!

rsv@Psalms:41:12 @ By this I know that thou art pleased with me, in that my enemy has not triumphed over me.

rsv@Psalms:41:13 @ But thou hast upheld me because of my integrity, and set me in thy presence for ever. [ (Psalms strkjv@41:14) Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen. ]

rsv@Psalms:42:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah.

rsv@Psalms:42:2 @ As a hart longs for flowing streams, so longs my soul for thee, O God.

rsv@Psalms:42:3 @ My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God?

rsv@Psalms:42:4 @ My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me continually, "Where is your God?"

rsv@Psalms:42:5 @ These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I went with the throng, and led them in procession to the house of God, with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

rsv@Psalms:42:6 @ Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help

rsv@Psalms:42:7 @ and my God. My soul is cast down within me, therefore I remember thee from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

rsv@Psalms:42:8 @ Deep calls to deep at the thunder of thy cataracts; all thy waves and thy billows have gone over me.

rsv@Psalms:42:9 @ By day the LORD commands his steadfast love; and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

rsv@Psalms:42:10 @ I say to God, my rock: "Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

rsv@Psalms:42:11 @ As with a deadly wound in my body, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me continually, "Where is your God?" [ (Psalms strkjv@42:12) Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God. ]

rsv@Psalms:43:1 @ Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people; from deceitful and unjust men deliver me!

rsv@Psalms:43:2 @ For thou art the God in whom I take refuge; why hast thou cast me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

rsv@Psalms:43:3 @ Oh send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me, let them bring me to thy holy hill and to thy dwelling!

rsv@Psalms:43:4 @ Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; and I will praise thee with the lyre, O God, my God.

rsv@Psalms:43:5 @ Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God.

rsv@Psalms:44:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah.

rsv@Psalms:44:2 @ We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what deeds thou didst perform in their days, in the days of old:

rsv@Psalms:44:3 @ thou with thy own hand didst drive out the nations, but them thou didst plant; thou didst afflict the peoples, but them thou didst set free;

rsv@Psalms:44:4 @ for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm give them victory; but thy right hand, and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance; for thou didst delight in them.

rsv@Psalms:44:5 @ Thou art my King and my God, who ordainest victories for Jacob.

rsv@Psalms:44:6 @ Through thee we push down our foes; through thy name we tread down our assailants.

rsv@Psalms:44:7 @ For not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me.

rsv@Psalms:44:8 @ But thou hast saved us from our foes, and hast put to confusion those who hate us.

rsv@Psalms:44:9 @ In God we have boasted continually, and we will give thanks to thy name for ever. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:44:10 @ Yet thou hast cast us off and abased us, and hast not gone out with our armies.

rsv@Psalms:44:11 @ Thou hast made us turn back from the foe; and our enemies have gotten spoil.

rsv@Psalms:44:12 @ Thou hast made us like sheep for slaughter, and hast scattered us among the nations.

rsv@Psalms:44:13 @ Thou hast sold thy people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them.

rsv@Psalms:44:14 @ Thou hast made us the taunt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of those about us.

rsv@Psalms:44:15 @ Thou hast made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

rsv@Psalms:44:16 @ All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,

rsv@Psalms:44:17 @ at the words of the taunters and revilers, at the sight of the enemy and the avenger.

rsv@Psalms:44:18 @ All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten thee, or been false to thy covenant.

rsv@Psalms:44:19 @ Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps departed from thy way,

rsv@Psalms:44:20 @ that thou shouldst have broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with deep darkness.

rsv@Psalms:44:21 @ If we had forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god,

rsv@Psalms:44:22 @ would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

rsv@Psalms:44:23 @ Nay, for thy sake we are slain all the day long, and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

rsv@Psalms:44:24 @ Rouse thyself! Why sleepest thou, O Lord? Awake! Do not cast us off for ever!

rsv@Psalms:44:25 @ Why dost thou hide thy face? Why dost thou forget our affliction and oppression?

rsv@Psalms:44:26 @ For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our body cleaves to the ground. [ (Psalms strkjv@44:27) Rise up, come to our help! Deliver us for the sake of thy steadfast love! ]

rsv@Psalms:45:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah; a love song.

rsv@Psalms:45:2 @ My heart overflows with a goodly theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.

rsv@Psalms:45:3 @ You are the fairest of the sons of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you for ever.

rsv@Psalms:45:4 @ Gird your sword upon your thigh, O mighty one, in your glory and majesty!

rsv@Psalms:45:5 @ In your majesty ride forth victoriously for the cause of truth and to defend the right; let your right hand teach you dread deeds!

rsv@Psalms:45:6 @ Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; the peoples fall under you.

rsv@Psalms:45:7 @ Your divine throne endures for ever and ever. Your royal scepter is a scepter of equity;

rsv@Psalms:45:8 @ you love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows;

rsv@Psalms:45:9 @ your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia. From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad;

rsv@Psalms:45:10 @ daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor; at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.

rsv@Psalms:45:11 @ Hear, O daughter, consider, and incline your ear; forget your people and your father's house;

rsv@Psalms:45:12 @ and the king will desire your beauty. Since he is your lord, bow to him;

rsv@Psalms:45:13 @ the people of Tyre will sue your favor with gifts, the richest of the people

rsv@Psalms:45:14 @ with all kinds of wealth. The princess is decked in her chamber with gold-woven robes;

rsv@Psalms:45:15 @ in many-colored robes she is led to the king, with her virgin companions, her escort, in her train.

rsv@Psalms:45:16 @ With joy and gladness they are led along as they enter the palace of the king.

rsv@Psalms:45:17 @ Instead of your fathers shall be your sons; you will make them princes in all the earth. [ (Psalms strkjv@45:18) I will cause your name to be celebrated in all generations; therefore the peoples will praise you for ever and ever. ]

rsv@Psalms:46:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Songs.

rsv@Psalms:46:2 @ God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

rsv@Psalms:46:3 @ Therefore we will not fear though the earth should change, though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea;

rsv@Psalms:46:4 @ though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble with its tumult. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:46:5 @ There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.

rsv@Psalms:46:6 @ God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved; God will help her right early.

rsv@Psalms:46:7 @ The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts.

rsv@Psalms:46:8 @ The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:46:9 @ Come, behold the works of the LORD, how he has wrought desolations in the earth.

rsv@Psalms:46:10 @ He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow, and shatters the spear, he burns the chariots with fire!

rsv@Psalms:46:11 @ "Be still, and know that I am God. I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth!" [ (Psalms strkjv@46:12) The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. [Selah] ]

rsv@Psalms:47:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

rsv@Psalms:47:2 @ Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!

rsv@Psalms:47:3 @ For the LORD, the Most High, is terrible, a great king over all the earth.

rsv@Psalms:47:4 @ He subdued peoples under us, and nations under our feet.

rsv@Psalms:47:5 @ He chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:47:6 @ God has gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.

rsv@Psalms:47:7 @ Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises!

rsv@Psalms:47:8 @ For God is the king of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!

rsv@Psalms:47:9 @ God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne. [ (Psalms strkjv@47:10) The princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is highly exalted! ]

rsv@Psalms:48:1 @ A Songs. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

rsv@Psalms:48:2 @ Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised in the city of our God! His holy mountain,

rsv@Psalms:48:3 @ beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King.

rsv@Psalms:48:4 @ Within her citadels God has shown himself a sure defense.

rsv@Psalms:48:5 @ For lo, the kings assembled, they came on together.

rsv@Psalms:48:6 @ As soon as they saw it, they were astounded, they were in panic, they took to flight;

rsv@Psalms:48:7 @ trembling took hold of them there, anguish as of a woman in travail.

rsv@Psalms:48:8 @ By the east wind thou didst shatter the ships of Tarshish.

rsv@Psalms:48:9 @ As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God, which God establishes for ever. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:48:10 @ We have thought on thy steadfast love, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

rsv@Psalms:48:11 @ As thy name, O God, so thy praise reaches to the ends of the earth. Thy right hand is filled with victory;

rsv@Psalms:48:12 @ let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of thy judgments!

rsv@Psalms:48:13 @ Walk about Zion, go round about her, number her towers,

rsv@Psalms:48:14 @ consider well her ramparts, go through her citadels; that you may tell the next generation [ (Psalms strkjv@48:15) that this is God, our God for ever and ever. He will be our guide for ever. ]

rsv@Psalms:49:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

rsv@Psalms:49:2 @ Hear this, all peoples! Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,

rsv@Psalms:49:3 @ both low and high, rich and poor together!

rsv@Psalms:49:4 @ My mouth shall speak wisdom; the meditation of my heart shall be understanding.

rsv@Psalms:49:5 @ I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre.

rsv@Psalms:49:6 @ Why should I fear in times of trouble, when the iniquity of my persecutors surrounds me,

rsv@Psalms:49:7 @ men who trust in their wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches?

rsv@Psalms:49:8 @ Truly no man can ransom himself, or give to God the price of his life,

rsv@Psalms:49:9 @ for the ransom of his life is costly, and can never suffice,

rsv@Psalms:49:10 @ that he should continue to live on for ever, and never see the Pit.

rsv@Psalms:49:11 @ Yea, he shall see that even the wise die, the fool and the stupid alike must perish and leave their wealth to others.

rsv@Psalms:49:12 @ Their graves are their homes for ever, their dwelling places to all generations, though they named lands their own.

rsv@Psalms:49:13 @ Man cannot abide in his pomp, he is like the beasts that perish.

rsv@Psalms:49:14 @ This is the fate of those who have foolish confidence, the end of those who are pleased with their portion. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:49:15 @ Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; straight to the grave they descend, and their form shall waste away; Sheol shall be their home.

rsv@Psalms:49:16 @ But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:49:17 @ Be not afraid when one becomes rich, when the glory of his house increases.

rsv@Psalms:49:18 @ For when he dies he will carry nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

rsv@Psalms:49:19 @ Though, while he lives, he counts himself happy, and though a man gets praise when he does well for himself,

rsv@Psalms:49:20 @ he will go to the generation of his fathers, who will never more see the light. [ (Psalms strkjv@49:21) Man cannot abide in his pomp, he is like the beasts that perish. ]

rsv@Psalms:50:1 @ A Psalm of Asaph.

rsv@Psalms:50:2 @ The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

rsv@Psalms:50:3 @ Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.

rsv@Psalms:50:4 @ Our God comes, he does not keep silence, before him is a devouring fire, round about him a mighty tempest.

rsv@Psalms:50:5 @ He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:

rsv@Psalms:50:6 @ "Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!"

rsv@Psalms:50:7 @ The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:50:8 @ "Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

rsv@Psalms:50:9 @ I do not reprove you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are continually before me.

rsv@Psalms:50:10 @ I will accept no bull from your house, nor he-goat from your folds.

rsv@Psalms:50:11 @ For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.

rsv@Psalms:50:12 @ I know all the birds of the air, and all that moves in the field is mine.

rsv@Psalms:50:13 @ "If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world and all that is in it is mine.

rsv@Psalms:50:14 @ Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

rsv@Psalms:50:15 @ Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High;

rsv@Psalms:50:16 @ and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."

rsv@Psalms:50:17 @ But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips?

rsv@Psalms:50:18 @ For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.

rsv@Psalms:50:19 @ If you see a thief, you are a friend of his; and you keep company with adulterers.

rsv@Psalms:50:20 @ "You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

rsv@Psalms:50:21 @ You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

rsv@Psalms:50:22 @ These things you have done and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you.

rsv@Psalms:50:23 @ "Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I rend, and there be none to deliver! [ (Psalms strkjv@50:24) He who brings thanksgiving as his sacrifice honors me; to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God!" ]

rsv@Psalms:51:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

rsv@Psalms:51:2 @ Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy steadfast love; according to thy abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.

rsv@Psalms:51:3 @ Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!

rsv@Psalms:51:4 @ For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.

rsv@Psalms:51:5 @ Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in thy sight, so that thou art justified in thy sentence and blameless in thy judgment.

rsv@Psalms:51:6 @ Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

rsv@Psalms:51:7 @ Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.

rsv@Psalms:51:8 @ Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

rsv@Psalms:51:9 @ Fill me with joy and gladness; let the bones which thou hast broken rejoice.

rsv@Psalms:51:10 @ Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

rsv@Psalms:51:11 @ Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.

rsv@Psalms:51:12 @ Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy holy Spirit from me.

rsv@Psalms:51:13 @ Restore to me the joy of thy salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.

rsv@Psalms:51:14 @ Then I will teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners will return to thee.

rsv@Psalms:51:15 @ Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of thy deliverance.

rsv@Psalms:51:16 @ O Lord, open thou my lips, and my mouth shall show forth thy praise.

rsv@Psalms:51:17 @ For thou hast no delight in sacrifice; were I to give a burnt offering, thou wouldst not be pleased.

rsv@Psalms:51:18 @ The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

rsv@Psalms:51:19 @ Do good to Zion in thy good pleasure; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, [ (Psalms strkjv@51:20) then wilt thou delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on thy altar. ]

rsv@Psalms:52:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, "David has come to the house of Ahimelech."

rsv@Psalms:52:2 @ Why do you boast, O mighty man, of mischief done against the godly? All the day

rsv@Psalms:52:3 @ you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.

rsv@Psalms:52:4 @ You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking the truth. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:52:5 @ You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.

rsv@Psalms:52:6 @ But God will break you down for ever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:52:7 @ The righteous shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying,

rsv@Psalms:52:8 @ "See the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and sought refuge in his wealth!"

rsv@Psalms:52:9 @ But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God for ever and ever. [ (Psalms strkjv@52:10) I will thank thee for ever, because thou hast done it. I will proclaim thy name, for it is good, in the presence of the godly. ]

rsv@Psalms:53:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.

rsv@Psalms:53:2 @ The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none that does good.

rsv@Psalms:53:3 @ God looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if there are any that are wise, that seek after God.

rsv@Psalms:53:4 @ They have all fallen away; they are all alike depraved; there is none that does good, no, not one.

rsv@Psalms:53:5 @ Have those who work evil no understanding, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?

rsv@Psalms:53:6 @ There they are, in great terror, in terror such as has not been! For God will scatter the bones of the ungodly; they will be put to shame, for God has rejected them. [ (Psalms strkjv@53:7) O that deliverance for Israel would come from Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people, Jacob will rejoice and Israel be glad. ]

rsv@Psalms:54:1 @ To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Maskil of David, when the Ziphites went and told Saul, "David is in hiding among us."

rsv@Psalms:54:2 @ Save me, O God, by thy name, and vindicate me by thy might.

rsv@Psalms:54:3 @ Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.

rsv@Psalms:54:4 @ For insolent men have risen against me, ruthless men seek my life; they do not set God before them. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:54:5 @ Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is the upholder of my life.

rsv@Psalms:54:6 @ He will requite my enemies with evil; in thy faithfulness put an end to them.

rsv@Psalms:54:7 @ With a freewill offering I will sacrifice to thee; I will give thanks to thy name, O LORD, for it is good. [ (Psalms strkjv@54:8) For thou hast delivered me from every trouble, and my eye has looked in triumph on my enemies. ]

rsv@Psalms:55:1 @ To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Maskil of David.

rsv@Psalms:55:2 @ Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication!

rsv@Psalms:55:3 @ Attend to me, and answer me; I am overcome by my trouble. I am distraught

rsv@Psalms:55:4 @ by the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring trouble upon me, and in anger they cherish enmity against me.

rsv@Psalms:55:5 @ My heart is in anguish within me, the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

rsv@Psalms:55:6 @ Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.

rsv@Psalms:55:7 @ And I say, "O that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;

rsv@Psalms:55:8 @ yea, I would wander afar, I would lodge in the wilderness, [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:55:9 @ I would haste to find me a shelter from the raging wind and tempest."

rsv@Psalms:55:10 @ Destroy their plans, O Lord, confuse their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.

rsv@Psalms:55:11 @ Day and night they go around it on its walls; and mischief and trouble are within it,

rsv@Psalms:55:12 @ ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its market place.

rsv@Psalms:55:13 @ It is not an enemy who taunts me-- then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me-- then I could hide from him.

rsv@Psalms:55:14 @ But it is you, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.

rsv@Psalms:55:15 @ We used to hold sweet converse together; within God's house we walked in fellowship.

rsv@Psalms:55:16 @ Let death come upon them; let them go down to Sheol alive; let them go away in terror into their graves.

rsv@Psalms:55:17 @ But I call upon God; and the LORD will save me.

rsv@Psalms:55:18 @ Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he will hear my voice.

rsv@Psalms:55:19 @ He will deliver my soul in safety from the battle that I wage, for many are arrayed against me.

rsv@Psalms:55:20 @ God will give ear, and humble them, he who is enthroned from of old; because they keep no law, and do not fear God. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:55:21 @ My companion stretched out his hand against his friends, he violated his covenant.

rsv@Psalms:55:22 @ His speech was smoother than butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

rsv@Psalms:55:23 @ Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved. [ (Psalms strkjv@55:24) But thou, O God, wilt cast them down into the lowest pit; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in thee. ]

rsv@Psalms:56:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths. A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

rsv@Psalms:56:2 @ Be gracious to me, O God, for men trample upon me; all day long foemen oppress me;

rsv@Psalms:56:3 @ my enemies trample upon me all day long, for many fight against me proudly.

rsv@Psalms:56:5 @ In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust without a fear. What can flesh do to me?

rsv@Psalms:56:6 @ All day long they seek to injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

rsv@Psalms:56:7 @ They band themselves together, they lurk, they watch my steps. As they have waited for my life,

rsv@Psalms:56:8 @ so recompense them for their crime; in wrath cast down the peoples, O God!

rsv@Psalms:56:9 @ Thou hast kept count of my tossings; put thou my tears in thy bottle! Are they not in thy book?

rsv@Psalms:56:10 @ Then my enemies will be turned back in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me.

rsv@Psalms:56:11 @ In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise,

rsv@Psalms:56:12 @ in God I trust without a fear. What can man do to me?

rsv@Psalms:56:13 @ My vows to thee I must perform, O God; I will render thank offerings to thee. [ (Psalms strkjv@56:14) For thou hast delivered my soul from death, yea, my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of life. ]

rsv@Psalms:57:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.

rsv@Psalms:57:2 @ Be merdiful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in thee my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of thy wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by.

rsv@Psalms:57:3 @ I cry to God Most High, to God who fulfils his purpose for me.

rsv@Psalms:57:4 @ He will send from heaven and save me, he will put to shame those who trample upon me. [Selah] God will send forth his steadfast love and his faithfulness!

rsv@Psalms:57:5 @ I lie in the midst of lions that greedily devour the sons of men; their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.

rsv@Psalms:57:6 @ Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let thy glory be over all the earth!

rsv@Psalms:57:7 @ They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my way, but they have fallen into it themselves. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:57:8 @ My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast! I will sing and make melody!

rsv@Psalms:57:9 @ Awake, my soul! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn!

rsv@Psalms:57:10 @ I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, among the peoples; I will sing praises to thee among the nations.

rsv@Psalms:57:11 @ For thy steadfast love is great to the heavens, thy faithfulness to the clouds. [ (Psalms strkjv@57:12) Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let thy glory be over all the earth! ]

rsv@Psalms:58:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David.

rsv@Psalms:58:2 @ Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the sons of men uprightly?

rsv@Psalms:58:3 @ Nay, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.

rsv@Psalms:58:4 @ The wicked go astray from the womb, they err from their birth, speaking lies.

rsv@Psalms:58:5 @ They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,

rsv@Psalms:58:6 @ so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter.

rsv@Psalms:58:7 @ O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD!

rsv@Psalms:58:8 @ Let them vanish like water that runs away; like grass let them be trodden down and wither.

rsv@Psalms:58:9 @ Let them be like the snail which dissolves into slime, like the untimely birth that never sees the sun.

rsv@Psalms:58:10 @ Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!

rsv@Psalms:58:11 @ The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked. [ (Psalms strkjv@58:12) Men will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth." ]

rsv@Psalms:59:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David, when Saul sent men to watch his house in order to kill him.

rsv@Psalms:59:2 @ Deliver me from my enemies, O my God, protect me from those who rise up against me,

rsv@Psalms:59:3 @ deliver me from those who work evil, and save me from bloodthirsty men.

rsv@Psalms:59:4 @ For, lo, they lie in wait for my life; fierce men band themselves against me. For no transgression or sin of mine, O LORD,

rsv@Psalms:59:5 @ for no fault of mine, they run and make ready. Rouse thyself, come to my help, and see!

rsv@Psalms:59:6 @ Thou, LORD God of hosts, art God of Israel. Awake to punish all the nations; spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:59:7 @ Each evening they come back, howling like dogs and prowling about the city.

rsv@Psalms:59:8 @ There they are, bellowing with their mouths, and snarling with their lips-- for "Who," they think, "will hear us?"

rsv@Psalms:59:9 @ But thou, O LORD, dost laugh at them; thou dost hold all the nations in derision.

rsv@Psalms:59:10 @ O my Strength, I will sing praises to thee; for thou, O God, art my fortress.

rsv@Psalms:59:11 @ My God in his steadfast love will meet me; my God will let me look in triumph on my enemies.

rsv@Psalms:59:12 @ Slay them not, lest my people forget; make them totter by thy power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield!

rsv@Psalms:59:13 @ For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride. For the cursing and lies which they utter,

rsv@Psalms:59:14 @ consume them in wrath, consume them till they are no more, that men may know that God rules over Jacob to the ends of the earth. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:59:15 @ Each evening they come back, howling like dogs and prowling about the city.

rsv@Psalms:59:16 @ They roam about for food, and growl if they do not get their fill.

rsv@Psalms:59:17 @ But I will sing of thy might; I will sing aloud of thy steadfast love in the morning. For thou hast been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress. [ (Psalms strkjv@59:18) O my Strength, I will sing praises to thee, for thou, O God, art my fortress, the God who shows me steadfast love. ]

rsv@Psalms:60:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Shushan Eduth. A Miktam of David; for instruction; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and when Joab on his return killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.

rsv@Psalms:60:2 @ O God, thou hast rejected us, broken our defenses; thou hast been angry; oh, restore us.

rsv@Psalms:60:3 @ Thou hast made the land to quake, thou hast rent it open; repair its breaches, for it totters.

rsv@Psalms:60:4 @ Thou hast made thy people suffer hard things; thou hast given us wine to drink that made us reel.

rsv@Psalms:60:5 @ Thou hast set up a banner for those who fear thee, to rally to it from the bow. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:60:6 @ That thy beloved may be delivered, give victory by thy right hand and answer us!

rsv@Psalms:60:7 @ God has spoken in his sanctuary: "With exultation I will divide up Shechem and portion out the Vale of Succoth.

rsv@Psalms:60:9 @ Moab is my washbasin; upon Edom I cast my shoe; over Philistia I shout in triumph."

rsv@Psalms:60:10 @ Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?

rsv@Psalms:60:11 @ Hast thou not rejected us, O God? Thou dost not go forth, O God, with our armies.

rsv@Psalms:60:12 @ O grant us help against the foe, for vain is the help of man! [ (Psalms strkjv@60:13) With God we shall do valiantly; it is he who will tread down our foes. ]

rsv@Psalms:61:1 @ To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:61:2 @ Hear my cry, O God, listen to my prayer;

rsv@Psalms:61:3 @ from the end of the earth I call to thee, when my heart is faint. Lead thou me to the rock that is higher than I;

rsv@Psalms:61:4 @ for thou art my refuge, a strong tower against the enemy.

rsv@Psalms:61:5 @ Let me dwell in thy tent for ever! Oh to be safe under the shelter of thy wings! [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:61:6 @ For thou, O God, hast heard my vows, thou hast given me the heritage of those who fear thy name.

rsv@Psalms:61:7 @ Prolong the life of the king; may his years endure to all generations!

rsv@Psalms:61:8 @ May he be enthroned for ever before God; bid steadfast love and faithfulness watch over him! [ (Psalms strkjv@61:9) So will I ever sing praises to thy name, as I pay my vows day after day. ]

rsv@Psalms:62:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:62:2 @ For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation.

rsv@Psalms:62:3 @ He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly moved.

rsv@Psalms:62:4 @ How long will you set upon a man to shatter him, all of you, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence?

rsv@Psalms:62:5 @ They only plan to thrust him down from his eminence. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:62:6 @ For God alone my soul waits in silence, for my hope is from him.

rsv@Psalms:62:7 @ He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken.

rsv@Psalms:62:8 @ On God rests my deliverance and my honor; my mighty rock, my refuge is God.

rsv@Psalms:62:9 @ Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:62:10 @ Men of low estate are but a breath, men of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.

rsv@Psalms:62:11 @ Put no confidence in extortion, set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.

rsv@Psalms:62:12 @ Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God; [ (Psalms strkjv@62:13) and that to thee, O Lord, belongs steadfast love. For thou dost requite a man according to his work. ]

rsv@Psalms:63:1 @ A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah.

rsv@Psalms:63:2 @ O God, thou art my God, I seek thee, my soul thirsts for thee; my flesh faints for thee, as in a dry and weary land where no water is.

rsv@Psalms:63:3 @ So I have looked upon thee in the sanctuary, beholding thy power and glory.

rsv@Psalms:63:4 @ Because thy steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise thee.

rsv@Psalms:63:5 @ So I will bless thee as long as I live; I will lift up my hands and call on thy name.

rsv@Psalms:63:6 @ My soul is feasted as with marrow and fat, and my mouth praises thee with joyful lips,

rsv@Psalms:63:7 @ when I think of thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the watches of the night;

rsv@Psalms:63:8 @ for thou hast been my help, and in the shadow of thy wings I sing for joy.

rsv@Psalms:63:9 @ My soul clings to thee; thy right hand upholds me.

rsv@Psalms:63:10 @ But those who seek to destroy my life shall go down into the depths of the earth;

rsv@Psalms:63:11 @ they shall be given over to the power of the sword, they shall be prey for jackals. [ (Psalms strkjv@63:12) But the king shall rejoice in God; all who swear by him shall glory; for the mouths of liars will be stopped. ]

rsv@Psalms:64:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:64:2 @ Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy,

rsv@Psalms:64:3 @ hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the scheming of evildoers,

rsv@Psalms:64:4 @ who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,

rsv@Psalms:64:5 @ shooting from ambush at the blameless, shooting at him suddenly and without fear.

rsv@Psalms:64:6 @ They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, "Who can see us?

rsv@Psalms:64:7 @ Who can search out our crimes? We have thought out a cunningly conceived plot." For the inward mind and heart of a man are deep!

rsv@Psalms:64:8 @ But God will shoot his arrow at them; they will be wounded suddenly.

rsv@Psalms:64:9 @ Because of their tongue he will bring them to ruin; all who see them will wag their heads.

rsv@Psalms:64:10 @ Then all men will fear; they will tell what God has wrought, and ponder what he has done. [ (Psalms strkjv@64:11) Let the righteous rejoice in the LORD, and take refuge in him! Let all the upright in heart glory! ]

rsv@Psalms:65:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Songs.

rsv@Psalms:65:2 @ Praise is due to thee, O God, in Zion; and to thee shall vows be performed,

rsv@Psalms:65:3 @ O thou who hearest prayer! To thee shall all flesh come

rsv@Psalms:65:4 @ on account of sins. When our transgressions prevail over us, thou dost forgive them.

rsv@Psalms:65:5 @ Blessed is he whom thou dost choose and bring near, to dwell in thy courts! We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, thy holy temple!

rsv@Psalms:65:6 @ By dread deeds thou dost answer us with deliverance, O God of our salvation, who art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of the farthest seas;

rsv@Psalms:65:7 @ who by thy strength hast established the mountains, being girded with might;

rsv@Psalms:65:8 @ who dost still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, the tumult of the peoples;

rsv@Psalms:65:9 @ so that those who dwell at earth's farthest bounds are afraid at thy signs; thou makest the outgoings of the morning and the evening to shout for joy.

rsv@Psalms:65:10 @ Thou visitest the earth and waterest it, thou greatly enrichest it; the river of God is full of water; thou providest their grain, for so thou hast prepared it.

rsv@Psalms:65:11 @ Thou waterest its furrows abundantly, settling its ridges, softening it with showers, and blessing its growth.

rsv@Psalms:65:12 @ Thou crownest the year with thy bounty; the tracks of thy chariot drip with fatness.

rsv@Psalms:65:13 @ The pastures of the wilderness drip, the hills gird themselves with joy, [ (Psalms strkjv@65:14) the meadows clothe themselves with flocks, the valleys deck themselves with grain, they shout and sing together for joy. ]

rsv@Psalms:66:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Songs. A Psalm.

rsv@Psalms:66:2 @ Make a joyful noise to God, all the earth;

rsv@Psalms:66:3 @ sing the glory of his name; give to him glorious praise!

rsv@Psalms:66:4 @ Say to God, "How terrible are thy deeds! So great is thy power that thy enemies cringe before thee.

rsv@Psalms:66:5 @ All the earth worships thee; they sing praises to thee, sing praises to thy name." [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:66:6 @ Come and see what God has done: he is terrible in his deeds among men.

rsv@Psalms:66:7 @ He turned the sea into dry land; men passed through the river on foot. There did we rejoice in him,

rsv@Psalms:66:8 @ who rules by his might for ever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations-- let not the rebellious exalt themselves. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:66:9 @ Bless our God, O peoples, let the sound of his praise be heard,

rsv@Psalms:66:10 @ who has kept us among the living, and has not let our feet slip.

rsv@Psalms:66:11 @ For thou, O God, hast tested us; thou hast tried us as silver is tried.

rsv@Psalms:66:12 @ Thou didst bring us into the net; thou didst lay affliction on our loins;

rsv@Psalms:66:13 @ thou didst let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet thou hast brought us forth to a spacious place.

rsv@Psalms:66:14 @ I will come into thy house with burnt offerings; I will pay thee my vows,

rsv@Psalms:66:15 @ that which my lips uttered and my mouth promised when I was in trouble.

rsv@Psalms:66:16 @ I will offer to thee burnt offerings of fatlings, with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams; I will make an offering of bulls and goats. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:66:17 @ Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will tell what he has done for me.

rsv@Psalms:66:18 @ I cried aloud to him, and he was extolled with my tongue.

rsv@Psalms:66:19 @ If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

rsv@Psalms:66:20 @ But truly God has listened; he has given heed to the voice of my prayer. [ (Psalms strkjv@66:21) Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer or removed his steadfast love from me! ]

rsv@Psalms:67:1 @ To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Songs.

rsv@Psalms:67:2 @ May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:67:3 @ that thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving power among all nations.

rsv@Psalms:67:4 @ Let the peoples praise thee, O God; let all the peoples praise thee!

rsv@Psalms:67:5 @ Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for thou dost judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:67:6 @ Let the peoples praise thee, O God; let all the peoples praise thee!

rsv@Psalms:67:7 @ The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, has blessed us. [ (Psalms strkjv@67:8) God has blessed us; let all the ends of the earth fear him! ]

rsv@Psalms:68:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Songs.

rsv@Psalms:68:2 @ Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered; let those who hate him flee before him!

rsv@Psalms:68:3 @ As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before fire, let the wicked perish before God!

rsv@Psalms:68:4 @ But let the righteous be joyful; let them exult before God; let them be jubilant with joy!

rsv@Psalms:68:5 @ Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides upon the clouds; his name is the LORD, exult before him!

rsv@Psalms:68:6 @ Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

rsv@Psalms:68:7 @ God gives the desolate a home to dwell in; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity; but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

rsv@Psalms:68:8 @ O God, when thou didst go forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness, [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:68:9 @ the earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain, at the presence of God; yon Sinai quaked at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

rsv@Psalms:68:10 @ Rain in abundance, O God, thou didst shed abroad; thou didst restore thy heritage as it languished;

rsv@Psalms:68:11 @ thy flock found a dwelling in it; in thy goodness, O God, thou didst provide for the needy.

rsv@Psalms:68:12 @ The Lord gives the command; great is the host of those who bore the tidings:

rsv@Psalms:68:13 @ "The kings of the armies, they flee, they flee!" The women at home divide the spoil,

rsv@Psalms:68:14 @ though they stay among the sheepfolds-- the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with green gold.

rsv@Psalms:68:15 @ When the Almighty scattered kings there, snow fell on Zalmon.

rsv@Psalms:68:16 @ O mighty mountain, mountain of Bashan; O many-peaked mountain, mountain of Bashan!

rsv@Psalms:68:17 @ Why look you with envy, O many-peaked mountain, at the mount which God desired for his abode, yea, where the LORD will dwell for ever?

rsv@Psalms:68:18 @ With mighty chariotry, twice ten thousand, thousands upon thousands, the Lord came from Sinai into the holy place.

rsv@Psalms:68:19 @ Thou didst ascend the high mount, leading captives in thy train, and receiving gifts among men, even among the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.

rsv@Psalms:68:20 @ Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:68:21 @ Our God is a God of salvation; and to GOD, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

rsv@Psalms:68:22 @ But God will shatter the heads of his enemies, the hairy crown of him who walks in his guilty ways.

rsv@Psalms:68:23 @ The Lord said, "I will bring them back from Bashan, I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,

rsv@Psalms:68:24 @ that you may bathe your feet in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe."

rsv@Psalms:68:25 @ Thy solemn processions are seen, O God, the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary--

rsv@Psalms:68:26 @ the singers in front, the minstrels last, between them maidens playing timbrels:

rsv@Psalms:68:27 @ "Bless God in the great congregation, the LORD, O you who are of Israel's fountain!"

rsv@Psalms:68:28 @ There is Benjamin, the least of them, in the lead, the princes of Judah in their throng, the princes of Zeb'ulun, the princes of Naph'tali.

rsv@Psalms:68:29 @ Summon thy might, O God; show thy strength, O God, thou who hast wrought for us.

rsv@Psalms:68:30 @ Because of thy temple at Jerusalem kings bear gifts to thee.

rsv@Psalms:68:31 @ Rebuke the beasts that dwell among the reeds, the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples. Trample under foot those who lust after tribute; scatter the peoples who delight in war.

rsv@Psalms:68:32 @ Let bronze be brought from Egypt; let Ethiopia hasten to stretch out her hands to God.

rsv@Psalms:68:33 @ Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth; sing praises to the Lord, [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:68:34 @ to him who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens; lo, he sends forth his voice, his mighty voice.

rsv@Psalms:68:35 @ Ascribe power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, and his power is in the skies. [ (Psalms strkjv@68:36) Terrible is God in his sanctuary, the God of Israel, he gives power and strength to his people. Blessed be God! ]

rsv@Psalms:69:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:69:2 @ Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck.

rsv@Psalms:69:3 @ I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.

rsv@Psalms:69:4 @ I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.

rsv@Psalms:69:5 @ More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?

rsv@Psalms:69:6 @ O God, thou knowest my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from thee.

rsv@Psalms:69:7 @ Let not those who hope in thee be put to shame through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; let not those who seek thee be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.

rsv@Psalms:69:8 @ For it is for thy sake that I have borne reproach, that shame has covered my face.

rsv@Psalms:69:9 @ I have become a stranger to my brethren, an alien to my mother's sons.

rsv@Psalms:69:10 @ For zeal for thy house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult thee have fallen on me.

rsv@Psalms:69:11 @ When I humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.

rsv@Psalms:69:12 @ When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

rsv@Psalms:69:13 @ I am the talk of those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.

rsv@Psalms:69:14 @ But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O LORD. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of thy steadfast love answer me. With thy faithful help

rsv@Psalms:69:15 @ rescue me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.

rsv@Psalms:69:16 @ Let not the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the pit close its mouth over me.

rsv@Psalms:69:17 @ Answer me, O LORD, for thy steadfast love is good; according to thy abundant mercy, turn to me.

rsv@Psalms:69:18 @ Hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in distress, make haste to answer me.

rsv@Psalms:69:19 @ Draw near to me, redeem me, set me free because of my enemies!

rsv@Psalms:69:20 @ Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to thee.

rsv@Psalms:69:21 @ Insults have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

rsv@Psalms:69:22 @ They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

rsv@Psalms:69:23 @ Let their own table before them become a snare; let their sacrificial feasts be a trap.

rsv@Psalms:69:24 @ Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; and make their loins tremble continually.

rsv@Psalms:69:25 @ Pour out thy indignation upon them, and let thy burning anger overtake them.

rsv@Psalms:69:26 @ May their camp be a desolation, let no one dwell in their tents.

rsv@Psalms:69:27 @ For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten, and him whom thou hast wounded, they afflict still more.

rsv@Psalms:69:28 @ Add to them punishment upon punishment; may they have no acquittal from thee.

rsv@Psalms:69:29 @ Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous.

rsv@Psalms:69:30 @ But I am afflicted and in pain; let thy salvation, O God, set me on high!

rsv@Psalms:69:31 @ I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.

rsv@Psalms:69:32 @ This will please the LORD more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.

rsv@Psalms:69:33 @ Let the oppressed see it and be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive.

rsv@Psalms:69:34 @ For the LORD hears the needy, and does not despise his own that are in bonds.

rsv@Psalms:69:35 @ Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves therein.

rsv@Psalms:69:36 @ For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah; and his servants shall dwell there and possess it; [ (Psalms strkjv@69:37) the children of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell in it. ]

rsv@Psalms:70:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering.

rsv@Psalms:70:2 @ Be pleased, O God, to deliver me! O LORD, make haste to help me!

rsv@Psalms:70:3 @ Let them be put to shame and confusion who seek my life! Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor who desire my hurt!

rsv@Psalms:70:4 @ Let them be appalled because of their shame who say, "Aha, Aha!"

rsv@Psalms:70:5 @ May all who seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee! May those who love thy salvation say evermore, "God is great!" [ (Psalms strkjv@70:6) But I am poor and needy; hasten to me, O God! Thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not tarry! ]

rsv@Psalms:71:1 @ In thee, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame!

rsv@Psalms:71:2 @ In thy righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline thy ear to me, and save me!

rsv@Psalms:71:3 @ Be thou to me a rock of refuge, a strong fortress, to save me, for thou art my rock and my fortress.

rsv@Psalms:71:4 @ Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.

rsv@Psalms:71:5 @ For thou, O Lord, art my hope, my trust, O LORD, from my youth.

rsv@Psalms:71:6 @ Upon thee I have leaned from my birth; thou art he who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of thee.

rsv@Psalms:71:7 @ I have been as a portent to many; but thou art my strong refuge.

rsv@Psalms:71:8 @ My mouth is filled with thy praise, and with thy glory all the day.

rsv@Psalms:71:9 @ Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.

rsv@Psalms:71:10 @ For my enemies speak concerning me, those who watch for my life consult together,

rsv@Psalms:71:11 @ and say, "God has forsaken him; pursue and seize him, for there is none to deliver him."

rsv@Psalms:71:12 @ O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me!

rsv@Psalms:71:13 @ May my accusers be put to shame and consumed; with scorn and disgrace may they be covered who seek my hurt.

rsv@Psalms:71:14 @ But I will hope continually, and will praise thee yet more and more.

rsv@Psalms:71:15 @ My mouth will tell of thy righteous acts, of thy deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge.

rsv@Psalms:71:16 @ With the mighty deeds of the Lord GOD I will come, I will praise thy righteousness, thine alone.

rsv@Psalms:71:17 @ O God, from my youth thou hast taught me, and I still proclaim thy wondrous deeds.

rsv@Psalms:71:18 @ So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, till I proclaim thy might to all the generations to come. Thy power

rsv@Psalms:71:19 @ and thy righteousness, O God, reach the high heavens. Thou who hast done great things, O God, who is like thee?

rsv@Psalms:71:20 @ Thou who hast made me see many sore troubles wilt revive me again; from the depths of the earth thou wilt bring me up again.

rsv@Psalms:71:21 @ Thou wilt increase my honor, and comfort me again.

rsv@Psalms:71:22 @ I will also praise thee with the harp for thy faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praises to thee with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.

rsv@Psalms:71:23 @ My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to thee; my soul also, which thou hast rescued.

rsv@Psalms:71:24 @ And my tongue will talk of thy righteous help all the day long, for they have been put to shame and disgraced who sought to do me hurt.

rsv@Psalms:72:1 @ A Psalm of Solomon.

rsv@Psalms:72:2 @ Give the king thy justice, O God, and thy righteousness to the royal son!

rsv@Psalms:72:3 @ May he judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with justice!

rsv@Psalms:72:4 @ Let the mountains bear prosperity for the people, and the hills, in righteousness!

rsv@Psalms:72:5 @ May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the needy, and crush the oppressor!

rsv@Psalms:72:6 @ May he live while the sun endures, and as long as the moon, throughout all generations!

rsv@Psalms:72:7 @ May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth!

rsv@Psalms:72:8 @ In his days may righteousness flourish, and peace abound, till the moon be no more!

rsv@Psalms:72:9 @ May he have dominion from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth!

rsv@Psalms:72:10 @ May his foes bow down before him, and his enemies lick the dust!

rsv@Psalms:72:11 @ May the kings of Tarshish and of the isles render him tribute, may the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts!

rsv@Psalms:72:12 @ May all kings fall down before him, all nations serve him!

rsv@Psalms:72:13 @ For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper.

rsv@Psalms:72:14 @ He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the lives of the needy.

rsv@Psalms:72:15 @ From oppression and violence he redeems their life; and precious is their blood in his sight.

rsv@Psalms:72:16 @ Long may he live, may gold of Sheba be given to him! May prayer be made for him continually, and blessings invoked for him all the day!

rsv@Psalms:72:17 @ May there be abundance of grain in the land; on the tops of the mountains may it wave; may its fruit be like Lebanon; and may men blossom forth from the cities like the grass of the field!

rsv@Psalms:72:18 @ May his name endure for ever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May men bless themselves by him, all nations call him blessed!

rsv@Psalms:72:19 @ Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things.

rsv@Psalms:72:20 @ Blessed be his glorious name for ever; may his glory fill the whole earth! Amen and Amen! [ (Psalms strkjv@72:21) The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended. ]

rsv@Psalms:73:1 @ A Psalm of Asaph.

rsv@Psalms:73:2 @ Truly God is good to the upright, to those who are pure in heart.

rsv@Psalms:73:3 @ But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my steps had well nigh slipped.

rsv@Psalms:73:4 @ For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

rsv@Psalms:73:5 @ For they have no pangs; their bodies are sound and sleek.

rsv@Psalms:73:6 @ They are not in trouble as other men are; they are not stricken like other men.

rsv@Psalms:73:7 @ Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.

rsv@Psalms:73:8 @ Their eyes swell out with fatness, their hearts overflow with follies.

rsv@Psalms:73:9 @ They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.

rsv@Psalms:73:10 @ They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.

rsv@Psalms:73:11 @ Therefore the people turn and praise them; and find no fault in them.

rsv@Psalms:73:12 @ And they say, "How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"

rsv@Psalms:73:13 @ Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.

rsv@Psalms:73:14 @ All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.

rsv@Psalms:73:15 @ For all the day long I have been stricken, and chastened every morning.

rsv@Psalms:73:16 @ If I had said, "I will speak thus," I would have been untrue to the generation of thy children.

rsv@Psalms:73:17 @ But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,

rsv@Psalms:73:18 @ until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I perceived their end.

rsv@Psalms:73:19 @ Truly thou dost set them in slippery places; thou dost make them fall to ruin.

rsv@Psalms:73:20 @ How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!

rsv@Psalms:73:21 @ They are like a dream when one awakes, on awaking you despise their phantoms.

rsv@Psalms:73:22 @ When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart,

rsv@Psalms:73:23 @ I was stupid and ignorant, I was like a beast toward thee.

rsv@Psalms:73:24 @ Nevertheless I am continually with thee; thou dost hold my right hand.

rsv@Psalms:73:25 @ Thou dost guide me with thy counsel, and afterward thou wilt receive me to glory.

rsv@Psalms:73:26 @ Whom have I in heaven but thee? And there is nothing upon earth that I desire besides thee.

rsv@Psalms:73:27 @ My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.

rsv@Psalms:73:28 @ For lo, those who are far from thee shall perish; thou dost put an end to those who are false to thee. [ (Psalms strkjv@73:29) But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all thy works. ]

rsv@Psalms:74:1 @ A Maskil of Asaph.

rsv@Psalms:74:2 @ O God, why dost thou cast us off for ever? Why does thy anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

rsv@Psalms:74:3 @ Remember thy congregation, which thou hast gotten of old, which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thy heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where thou hast dwelt.

rsv@Psalms:74:4 @ Direct thy steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!

rsv@Psalms:74:5 @ Thy foes have roared in the midst of thy holy place; they set up their own signs for signs.

rsv@Psalms:74:6 @ At the upper entrance they hacked the wooden trellis with axes.

rsv@Psalms:74:7 @ And then all its carved wood they broke down with hatchets and hammers.

rsv@Psalms:74:8 @ They set thy sanctuary on fire; to the ground they desecrated the dwelling place of thy name.

rsv@Psalms:74:9 @ They said to themselves, "We will utterly subdue them"; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

rsv@Psalms:74:10 @ We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long.

rsv@Psalms:74:11 @ How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile thy name for ever?

rsv@Psalms:74:12 @ Why dost thou hold back thy hand, why dost thou keep thy right hand in thy bosom?

rsv@Psalms:74:13 @ Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

rsv@Psalms:74:14 @ Thou didst divide the sea by thy might; thou didst break the heads of the dragons on the waters.

rsv@Psalms:74:15 @ Thou didst crush the heads of Leviathan, thou didst give him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

rsv@Psalms:74:16 @ Thou didst cleave open springs and brooks; thou didst dry up ever-flowing streams.

rsv@Psalms:74:17 @ Thine is the day, thine also the night; thou hast established the luminaries and the sun.

rsv@Psalms:74:18 @ Thou hast fixed all the bounds of the earth; thou hast made summer and winter.

rsv@Psalms:74:19 @ Remember this, O LORD, how the enemy scoffs, and an impious people reviles thy name.

rsv@Psalms:74:20 @ Do not deliver the soul of thy dove to the wild beasts; do not forget the life of thy poor for ever.

rsv@Psalms:74:21 @ Have regard for thy covenant; for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.

rsv@Psalms:74:22 @ Let not the downtrodden be put to shame; let the poor and needy praise thy name.

rsv@Psalms:74:23 @ Arise, O God, plead thy cause; remember how the impious scoff at thee all the day! [ (Psalms strkjv@74:24) Do not forget the clamor of thy foes, the uproar of thy adversaries which goes up continually! ]

rsv@Psalms:75:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Psalm of Asaph. A Songs.

rsv@Psalms:75:2 @ We give thanks to thee, O God; we give thanks; we call on thy name and recount thy wondrous deeds.

rsv@Psalms:75:3 @ At the set time which I appoint I will judge with equity.

rsv@Psalms:75:4 @ When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:75:5 @ I say to the boastful, "Do not boast," and to the wicked, "Do not lift up your horn;

rsv@Psalms:75:6 @ do not lift up your horn on high, or speak with insolent neck."

rsv@Psalms:75:7 @ For not from the east or from the west and not from the wilderness comes lifting up;

rsv@Psalms:75:8 @ but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.

rsv@Psalms:75:9 @ For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, with foaming wine, well mixed; and he will pour a draught from it, and all the wicked of the earth shall drain it down to the dregs.

rsv@Psalms:75:10 @ But I will rejoice for ever, I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. [ (Psalms strkjv@75:11) All the horns of the wicked he will cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted. ]

rsv@Psalms:76:1 @ To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A Songs.

rsv@Psalms:76:2 @ In Judah God is known, his name is great in Israel.

rsv@Psalms:76:3 @ His abode has been established in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion.

rsv@Psalms:76:4 @ There he broke the flashing arrows, the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:76:5 @ Glorious art thou, more majestic than the everlasting mountains.

rsv@Psalms:76:6 @ The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil; they sank into sleep; all the men of war were unable to use their hands.

rsv@Psalms:76:7 @ At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both rider and horse lay stunned.

rsv@Psalms:76:8 @ But thou, terrible art thou! Who can stand before thee when once thy anger is roused?

rsv@Psalms:76:9 @ From the heavens thou didst utter judgment; the earth feared and was still,

rsv@Psalms:76:10 @ when God arose to establish judgment to save all the oppressed of the earth. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:76:11 @ Surely the wrath of men shall praise thee; the residue of wrath thou wilt gird upon thee.

rsv@Psalms:76:12 @ Make your vows to the LORD your God, and perform them; let all around him bring gifts to him who is to be feared, [ (Psalms strkjv@76:13) who cuts off the spirit of princes, who is terrible to the kings of the earth. ]

rsv@Psalms:77:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph.

rsv@Psalms:77:2 @ I cry aloud to God, aloud to God, that he may hear me.

rsv@Psalms:77:3 @ In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying; my soul refuses to be comforted.

rsv@Psalms:77:4 @ I think of God, and I moan; I meditate, and my spirit faints. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:77:5 @ Thou dost hold my eyelids from closing; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

rsv@Psalms:77:6 @ I consider the days of old, I remember the years long ago.

rsv@Psalms:77:7 @ I commune with my heart in the night; I meditate and search my spirit:

rsv@Psalms:77:8 @ "Will the Lord spurn for ever, and never again be favorable?

rsv@Psalms:77:9 @ Has his steadfast love for ever ceased? Are his promises at an end for all time?

rsv@Psalms:77:10 @ Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his compassion?" [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:77:11 @ And I say, "It is my grief that the right hand of the Most High has changed."

rsv@Psalms:77:12 @ I will call to mind the deeds of the LORD; yea, I will remember thy wonders of old.

rsv@Psalms:77:13 @ I will meditate on all thy work, and muse on thy mighty deeds.

rsv@Psalms:77:14 @ Thy way, O God, is holy. What god is great like our God?

rsv@Psalms:77:15 @ Thou art the God who workest wonders, who hast manifested thy might among the peoples.

rsv@Psalms:77:16 @ Thou didst with thy arm redeem thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:77:17 @ When the waters saw thee, O God, when the waters saw thee, they were afraid, yea, the deep trembled.

rsv@Psalms:77:18 @ The clouds poured out water; the skies gave forth thunder; thy arrows flashed on every side.

rsv@Psalms:77:19 @ The crash of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; thy lightnings lighted up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

rsv@Psalms:77:20 @ Thy way was through the sea, thy path through the great waters; yet thy footprints were unseen. [ (Psalms strkjv@77:21) Thou didst lead thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. ]

rsv@Psalms:78:1 @ A Maskil of Asaph.

rsv@Psalms:78:2 @ Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth!

rsv@Psalms:78:3 @ I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,

rsv@Psalms:78:4 @ things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us.

rsv@Psalms:78:5 @ We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders which he has wrought.

rsv@Psalms:78:6 @ He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children;

rsv@Psalms:78:7 @ that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children,

rsv@Psalms:78:8 @ so that they should set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;

rsv@Psalms:78:9 @ and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

rsv@Psalms:78:10 @ The E'phraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle.

rsv@Psalms:78:11 @ They did not keep God's covenant, but refused to walk according to his law.

rsv@Psalms:78:12 @ They forgot what he had done, and the miracles that he had shown them.

rsv@Psalms:78:13 @ In the sight of their fathers he wrought marvels in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zo'an.

rsv@Psalms:78:14 @ He divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap.

rsv@Psalms:78:15 @ In the daytime he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a fiery light.

rsv@Psalms:78:16 @ He cleft rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.

rsv@Psalms:78:17 @ He made streams come out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down like rivers.

rsv@Psalms:78:18 @ Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.

rsv@Psalms:78:19 @ They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.

rsv@Psalms:78:20 @ They spoke against God, saying, "Can God spread a table in the wilderness?

rsv@Psalms:78:21 @ He smote the rock so that water gushed out and streams overflowed. Can he also give bread, or provide meat for his people?"

rsv@Psalms:78:22 @ Therefore, when the LORD heard, he was full of wrath; a fire was kindled against Jacob, his anger mounted against Israel;

rsv@Psalms:78:23 @ because they had no faith in God, and did not trust his saving power.

rsv@Psalms:78:24 @ Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven;

rsv@Psalms:78:25 @ and he rained down upon them manna to eat, and gave them the grain of heaven.

rsv@Psalms:78:26 @ Man ate of the bread of the angels; he sent them food in abundance.

rsv@Psalms:78:27 @ He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens, and by his power he led out the south wind;

rsv@Psalms:78:28 @ he rained flesh upon them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas;

rsv@Psalms:78:29 @ he let them fall in the midst of their camp, all around their habitations.

rsv@Psalms:78:30 @ And they ate and were well filled, for he gave them what they craved.

rsv@Psalms:78:31 @ But before they had sated their craving, while the food was still in their mouths,

rsv@Psalms:78:32 @ the anger of God rose against them and he slew the strongest of them, and laid low the picked men of Israel.

rsv@Psalms:78:33 @ In spite of all this they still sinned; despite his wonders they did not believe.

rsv@Psalms:78:34 @ So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.

rsv@Psalms:78:35 @ When he slew them, they sought for him; they repented and sought God earnestly.

rsv@Psalms:78:36 @ They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their redeemer.

rsv@Psalms:78:37 @ But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.

rsv@Psalms:78:38 @ Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not true to his covenant.

rsv@Psalms:78:39 @ Yet he, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often, and did not stir up all his wrath.

rsv@Psalms:78:40 @ He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.

rsv@Psalms:78:41 @ How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!

rsv@Psalms:78:42 @ They tested him again and again, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

rsv@Psalms:78:43 @ They did not keep in mind his power, or the day when he redeemed them from the foe;

rsv@Psalms:78:44 @ when he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the fields of Zo'an.

rsv@Psalms:78:45 @ He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams.

rsv@Psalms:78:46 @ He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.

rsv@Psalms:78:47 @ He gave their crops to the caterpillar, and the fruit of their labor to the locust.

rsv@Psalms:78:48 @ He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamores with frost.

rsv@Psalms:78:49 @ He gave over their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.

rsv@Psalms:78:50 @ He let loose on them his fierce anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.

rsv@Psalms:78:51 @ He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.

rsv@Psalms:78:52 @ He smote all the first-born in Egypt, the first issue of their strength in the tents of Ham.

rsv@Psalms:78:53 @ Then he led forth his people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

rsv@Psalms:78:54 @ He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

rsv@Psalms:78:55 @ And he brought them to his holy land, to the mountain which his right hand had won.

rsv@Psalms:78:56 @ He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

rsv@Psalms:78:57 @ Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God, and did not observe his testimonies,

rsv@Psalms:78:58 @ but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow.

rsv@Psalms:78:59 @ For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

rsv@Psalms:78:60 @ When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.

rsv@Psalms:78:61 @ He forsook his dwelling at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among men,

rsv@Psalms:78:62 @ and delivered his power to captivity, his glory to the hand of the foe.

rsv@Psalms:78:63 @ He gave his people over to the sword, and vented his wrath on his heritage.

rsv@Psalms:78:64 @ Fire devoured their young men, and their maidens had no marriage song.

rsv@Psalms:78:65 @ Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.

rsv@Psalms:78:66 @ Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a strong man shouting because of wine.

rsv@Psalms:78:67 @ And he put his adversaries to rout; he put them to everlasting shame.

rsv@Psalms:78:68 @ He rejected the tent of Joseph, he did not choose the tribe of E'phraim;

rsv@Psalms:78:69 @ but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves.

rsv@Psalms:78:70 @ He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded for ever.

rsv@Psalms:78:71 @ He chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

rsv@Psalms:78:72 @ from tending the ewes that had young he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob his people, of Israel his inheritance. [ (Psalms strkjv@78:73) With upright heart he tended them, and guided them with skilful hand. ]

rsv@Psalms:79:1 @ A Psalm of Asaph.

rsv@Psalms:79:2 @ O God, the heathen have come into thy inheritance; they have defiled thy holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

rsv@Psalms:79:3 @ They have given the bodies of thy servants to the birds of the air for food, the flesh of thy saints to the beasts of the earth.

rsv@Psalms:79:4 @ They have poured out their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.

rsv@Psalms:79:5 @ We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those round about us.

rsv@Psalms:79:6 @ How long, O LORD? Wilt thou be angry for ever? Will thy jealous wrath burn like fire?

rsv@Psalms:79:7 @ Pour out thy anger on the nations that do not know thee, and on the kingdoms that do not call on thy name!

rsv@Psalms:79:8 @ For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.

rsv@Psalms:79:9 @ Do not remember against us the iniquities of our forefathers; let thy compassion come speedily to meet us, for we are brought very low.

rsv@Psalms:79:10 @ Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name; deliver us, and forgive our sins, for thy name's sake!

rsv@Psalms:79:11 @ Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of thy servants be known among the nations before our eyes!

rsv@Psalms:79:12 @ Let the groans of the prisoners come before thee; according to thy great power preserve those doomed to die!

rsv@Psalms:79:13 @ Return sevenfold into the bosom of our neighbors the taunts with which they have taunted thee, O Lord! [ (Psalms strkjv@79:14) Then we thy people, the flock of thy pasture, will give thanks to thee for ever; from generation to generation we will recount thy praise. ]

rsv@Psalms:80:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Testimony of Asaph. A Psalm.

rsv@Psalms:80:2 @ Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou who leadest Joseph like a flock! Thou who art enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth

rsv@Psalms:80:3 @ before E'phraim and Benjamin and Manas'seh! Stir up thy might, and come to save us!

rsv@Psalms:80:4 @ Restore us, O God; let thy face shine, that we may be saved!

rsv@Psalms:80:5 @ O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry with thy people's prayers?

rsv@Psalms:80:6 @ Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in full measure.

rsv@Psalms:80:7 @ Thou dost make us the scorn of our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves.

rsv@Psalms:80:8 @ Restore us, O God of hosts; let thy face shine, that we may be saved!

rsv@Psalms:80:9 @ Thou didst bring a vine out of Egypt; thou didst drive out the nations and plant it.

rsv@Psalms:80:10 @ Thou didst clear the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.

rsv@Psalms:80:11 @ The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches;

rsv@Psalms:80:12 @ it sent out its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the River.

rsv@Psalms:80:13 @ Why then hast thou broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?

rsv@Psalms:80:14 @ The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.

rsv@Psalms:80:15 @ Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,

rsv@Psalms:80:16 @ the stock which thy right hand planted.

rsv@Psalms:80:17 @ They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance!

rsv@Psalms:80:18 @ But let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself!

rsv@Psalms:80:19 @ Then we will never turn back from thee; give us life, and we will call on thy name! [ (Psalms strkjv@80:20) Restore us, O LORD God of hosts! let thy face shine, that we may be saved! ]

rsv@Psalms:81:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph.

rsv@Psalms:81:2 @ Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!

rsv@Psalms:81:3 @ Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet lyre with the harp.

rsv@Psalms:81:4 @ Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.

rsv@Psalms:81:5 @ For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

rsv@Psalms:81:6 @ He made it a decree in Joseph, when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a voice I had not known:

rsv@Psalms:81:7 @ "I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.

rsv@Psalms:81:8 @ In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Mer'ibah. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:81:9 @ Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!

rsv@Psalms:81:10 @ There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.

rsv@Psalms:81:11 @ I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

rsv@Psalms:81:12 @ "But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would have none of me.

rsv@Psalms:81:13 @ So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.

rsv@Psalms:81:14 @ O that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

rsv@Psalms:81:15 @ I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their foes.

rsv@Psalms:81:16 @ Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last for ever. [ (Psalms strkjv@81:17) I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you." ]

rsv@Psalms:82:1 @ A Psalm of Asaph.

rsv@Psalms:82:2 @ God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:

rsv@Psalms:82:3 @ "How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:82:4 @ Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

rsv@Psalms:82:5 @ Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."

rsv@Psalms:82:6 @ They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

rsv@Psalms:82:7 @ I say, "You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you;

rsv@Psalms:82:8 @ nevertheless, you shall die like men, and fall like any prince." [ (Psalms strkjv@82:9) Arise, O God, judge the earth; for to thee belong all the nations! ]

rsv@Psalms:83:1 @ A Songs. A Psalm of Asaph.

rsv@Psalms:83:2 @ O God, do not keep silence; do not hold thy peace or be still, O God!

rsv@Psalms:83:3 @ For lo, thy enemies are in tumult; those who hate thee have raised their heads.

rsv@Psalms:83:4 @ They lay crafty plans against thy people; they consult together against thy protected ones.

rsv@Psalms:83:5 @ They say, "Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!"

rsv@Psalms:83:6 @ Yea, they conspire with one accord; against thee they make a covenant--

rsv@Psalms:83:7 @ the tents of Edom and the Ish'maelites, Moab and the Hagrites,

rsv@Psalms:83:8 @ Gebal and Ammon and Am'alek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

rsv@Psalms:83:9 @ Assyria also has joined them; they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:83:10 @ Do to them as thou didst to Mid'ian, as to Sis'era and Jabin at the river Kishon,

rsv@Psalms:83:11 @ who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the ground.

rsv@Psalms:83:12 @ Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmun'na,

rsv@Psalms:83:13 @ who said, "Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of God."

rsv@Psalms:83:14 @ O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.

rsv@Psalms:83:15 @ As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,

rsv@Psalms:83:16 @ so do thou pursue them with thy tempest and terrify them with thy hurricane!

rsv@Psalms:83:17 @ Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

rsv@Psalms:83:18 @ Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever; let them perish in disgrace. [ (Psalms strkjv@83:19) Let them know that thou alone, whose name is the LORD, art the Most High over all the earth. ]

rsv@Psalms:84:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

rsv@Psalms:84:2 @ How lovely is thy dwelling place, O LORD of hosts!

rsv@Psalms:84:3 @ My soul longs, yea, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.

rsv@Psalms:84:4 @ Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at thy altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God.

rsv@Psalms:84:5 @ Blessed are those who dwell in thy house, ever singing thy praise! [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:84:6 @ Blessed are the men whose strength is in thee, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

rsv@Psalms:84:7 @ As they go through the valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools.

rsv@Psalms:84:8 @ They go from strength to strength; the God of gods will be seen in Zion.

rsv@Psalms:84:9 @ O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob! [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:84:10 @ Behold our shield, O God; look upon the face of thine anointed!

rsv@Psalms:84:11 @ For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

rsv@Psalms:84:12 @ For the LORD God is a sun and shield; he bestows favor and honor. No good thing does the LORD withhold from those who walk uprightly. [ (Psalms strkjv@84:13) O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in thee! ]

rsv@Psalms:85:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

rsv@Psalms:85:2 @ LORD, thou wast favorable to thy land; thou didst restore the fortunes of Jacob.

rsv@Psalms:85:3 @ Thou didst forgive the iniquity of thy people; thou didst pardon all their sin. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:85:4 @ Thou didst withdraw all thy wrath; thou didst turn from thy hot anger.

rsv@Psalms:85:5 @ Restore us again, O God of our salvation, and put away thy indignation toward us!

rsv@Psalms:85:6 @ Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? Wilt thou prolong thy anger to all generations?

rsv@Psalms:85:7 @ Wilt thou not revive us again, that thy people may rejoice in thee?

rsv@Psalms:85:8 @ Show us thy steadfast love, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.

rsv@Psalms:85:9 @ Let me hear what God the LORD will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints, to those who turn to him in their hearts.

rsv@Psalms:85:10 @ Surely his salvation is at hand for those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

rsv@Psalms:85:11 @ Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will kiss each other.

rsv@Psalms:85:12 @ Faithfulness will spring up from the ground, and righteousness will look down from the sky.

rsv@Psalms:85:13 @ Yea, the LORD will give what is good, and our land will yield its increase. [ (Psalms strkjv@85:14) Righteousness will go before him, and make his footsteps a way. ]

rsv@Psalms:86:1 @ A Prayer of David.

rsv@Psalms:86:2 @ Incline thy ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

rsv@Psalms:86:3 @ Preserve my life, for I am godly; save thy servant who trusts in thee. Thou art my God;

rsv@Psalms:86:4 @ be gracious to me, O Lord, for to thee do I cry all the day.

rsv@Psalms:86:5 @ Gladden the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

rsv@Psalms:86:6 @ For thou, O Lord, art good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call on thee.

rsv@Psalms:86:7 @ Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer; hearken to my cry of supplication.

rsv@Psalms:86:8 @ In the day of my trouble I call on thee, for thou dost answer me.

rsv@Psalms:86:9 @ There is none like thee among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like thine.

rsv@Psalms:86:10 @ All the nations thou hast made shall come and bow down before thee, O Lord, and shall glorify thy name.

rsv@Psalms:86:11 @ For thou art great and doest wondrous things, thou alone art God.

rsv@Psalms:86:12 @ Teach me thy way, O LORD, that I may walk in thy truth; unite my heart to fear thy name.

rsv@Psalms:86:13 @ I give thanks to thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify thy name for ever.

rsv@Psalms:86:14 @ For great is thy steadfast love toward me; thou hast delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

rsv@Psalms:86:15 @ O God, insolent men have risen up against me; a band of ruthless men seek my life, and they do not set thee before them.

rsv@Psalms:86:16 @ But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

rsv@Psalms:86:17 @ Turn to me and take pity on me; give thy strength to thy servant, and save the son of thy handmaid. [ (Psalms strkjv@86:18) Show me a sign of thy favor, that those who hate me may see and be put to shame because thou, LORD, hast helped me and comforted me. ]

rsv@Psalms:87:1 @ A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. A Songs.

rsv@Psalms:87:2 @ On the holy mount stands the city he founded;

rsv@Psalms:87:3 @ the LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.

rsv@Psalms:87:4 @ Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:87:5 @ Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon; behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia-- "This one was born there," they say.

rsv@Psalms:87:6 @ And of Zion it shall be said, "This one and that one were born in her"; for the Most High himself will establish her.

rsv@Psalms:87:7 @ The LORD records as he registers the peoples, "This one was born there." [Selah] [ (Psalms strkjv@87:8) Singers and dancers alike say, "All my springs are in you." ]

rsv@Psalms:88:1 @ A Songs. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.

rsv@Psalms:88:2 @ O LORD, my God, I call for help by day; I cry out in the night before thee.

rsv@Psalms:88:3 @ Let my prayer come before thee, incline thy ear to my cry!

rsv@Psalms:88:4 @ For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

rsv@Psalms:88:5 @ I am reckoned among those who go down to the Pit; I am a man who has no strength,

rsv@Psalms:88:6 @ like one forsaken among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom thou dost remember no more, for they are cut off from thy hand.

rsv@Psalms:88:7 @ Thou hast put me in the depths of the Pit, in the regions dark and deep.

rsv@Psalms:88:8 @ Thy wrath lies heavy upon me, and thou dost overwhelm me with all thy waves. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:88:9 @ Thou hast caused my companions to shun me; thou hast made me a thing of horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;

rsv@Psalms:88:10 @ my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon thee, O LORD; I spread out my hands to thee.

rsv@Psalms:88:11 @ Dost thou work wonders for the dead? Do the shades rise up to praise thee? [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:88:12 @ Is thy steadfast love declared in the grave, or thy faithfulness in Abaddon?

rsv@Psalms:88:13 @ Are thy wonders known in the darkness, or thy saving help in the land of forgetfulness?

rsv@Psalms:88:14 @ But I, O LORD, cry to thee; in the morning my prayer comes before thee.

rsv@Psalms:88:15 @ O LORD, why dost thou cast me off? Why dost thou hide thy face from me?

rsv@Psalms:88:16 @ Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer thy terrors; I am helpless.

rsv@Psalms:88:17 @ Thy wrath has swept over me; thy dread assaults destroy me.

rsv@Psalms:88:18 @ They surround me like a flood all day long; they close in upon me together. [ (Psalms strkjv@88:19) Thou hast caused lover and friend to shun me; my companions are in darkness. ]

rsv@Psalms:89:1 @ A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.

rsv@Psalms:89:2 @ I will sing of thy steadfast love, O LORD, for ever; with my mouth I will proclaim thy faithfulness to all generations.

rsv@Psalms:89:3 @ For thy steadfast love was established for ever, thy faithfulness is firm as the heavens.

rsv@Psalms:89:4 @ Thou hast said, "I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant:

rsv@Psalms:89:5 @ `your descendants for ever, and build your throne for all generations.'" [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:89:6 @ Let the heavens praise thy wonders, O LORD, thy faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones!

rsv@Psalms:89:7 @ For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD,

rsv@Psalms:89:8 @ a God feared in the council of the holy ones, great and terrible above all that are round about him?

rsv@Psalms:89:9 @ O LORD God of hosts, who is mighty as thou art, O LORD, with thy faithfulness round about thee?

rsv@Psalms:89:10 @ Thou dost rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, thou stillest them.

rsv@Psalms:89:11 @ Thou didst crush Rahab like a carcass, thou didst scatter thy enemies with thy mighty arm.

rsv@Psalms:89:12 @ The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine; the world and all that is in it, thou hast founded them.

rsv@Psalms:89:13 @ The north and the south, thou hast created them; Tabor and Hermon joyously praise thy name.

rsv@Psalms:89:14 @ Thou hast a mighty arm; strong is thy hand, high thy right hand.

rsv@Psalms:89:15 @ Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before thee.

rsv@Psalms:89:16 @ Blessed are the people who know the festal shout, who walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance,

rsv@Psalms:89:17 @ who exult in thy name all the day, and extol thy righteousness.

rsv@Psalms:89:18 @ For thou art the glory of their strength; by thy favor our horn is exalted.

rsv@Psalms:89:19 @ For our shield belongs to the LORD, our king to the Holy One of Israel.

rsv@Psalms:89:20 @ Of old thou didst speak in a vision to thy faithful one, and say: "I have set the crown upon one who is mighty, I have exalted one chosen from the people.

rsv@Psalms:89:21 @ I have found David, my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him;

rsv@Psalms:89:22 @ so that my hand shall ever abide with him, my arm also shall strengthen him.

rsv@Psalms:89:23 @ The enemy shall not outwit him, the wicked shall not humble him.

rsv@Psalms:89:24 @ I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.

rsv@Psalms:89:25 @ My faithfulness and my steadfast love shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

rsv@Psalms:89:26 @ I will set his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers.

rsv@Psalms:89:27 @ He shall cry to me, `ou art my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.'

rsv@Psalms:89:28 @ And I will make him the first-born, the highest of the kings of the earth.

rsv@Psalms:89:29 @ My steadfast love I will keep for him for ever, and my covenant will stand firm for him.

rsv@Psalms:89:30 @ I will establish his line for ever and his throne as the days of the heavens.

rsv@Psalms:89:31 @ If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my ordinances,

rsv@Psalms:89:32 @ if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments,

rsv@Psalms:89:33 @ then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with scourges;

rsv@Psalms:89:34 @ but I will not remove from him my steadfast love, or be false to my faithfulness.

rsv@Psalms:89:35 @ I will not violate my covenant, or alter the word that went forth from my lips.

rsv@Psalms:89:36 @ Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.

rsv@Psalms:89:37 @ His line shall endure for ever, his throne as long as the sun before me.

rsv@Psalms:89:38 @ Like the moon it shall be established for ever; it shall stand firm while the skies endure." [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:89:39 @ But now thou hast cast off and rejected, thou art full of wrath against thy anointed.

rsv@Psalms:89:40 @ Thou hast renounced the covenant with thy servant; thou hast defiled his crown in the dust.

rsv@Psalms:89:41 @ Thou hast breached all his walls; thou hast laid his strongholds in ruins.

rsv@Psalms:89:42 @ All that pass by despoil him; he has become the scorn of his neighbors.

rsv@Psalms:89:43 @ Thou hast exalted the right hand of his foes; thou hast made all his enemies rejoice.

rsv@Psalms:89:44 @ Yea, thou hast turned back the edge of his sword, and thou hast not made him stand in battle.

rsv@Psalms:89:45 @ Thou hast removed the scepter from his hand, and cast his throne to the ground.

rsv@Psalms:89:46 @ Thou hast cut short the days of his youth; thou hast covered him with shame. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:89:47 @ How long, O LORD? Wilt thou hide thyself for ever? How long will thy wrath burn like fire?

rsv@Psalms:89:48 @ Remember, O Lord, what the measure of life is, for what vanity thou hast created all the sons of men!

rsv@Psalms:89:49 @ What man can live and never see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:89:50 @ Lord, where is thy steadfast love of old, which by thy faithfulness thou didst swear to David?

rsv@Psalms:89:51 @ Remember, O Lord, how thy servant is scorned; how I bear in my bosom the insults of the peoples,

rsv@Psalms:89:52 @ with which thy enemies taunt, O LORD, with which they mock the footsteps of thy anointed. [ (Psalms strkjv@89:53) Blessed be the LORD for ever! Amen and Amen. ]

rsv@Psalms:90:1 @ A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.

rsv@Psalms:90:2 @ LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

rsv@Psalms:90:3 @ Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting thou art God.

rsv@Psalms:90:4 @ Thou turnest man back to the dust, and sayest, "Turn back, O children of men!"

rsv@Psalms:90:5 @ For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.

rsv@Psalms:90:6 @ Thou dost sweep men away; they are like a dream, like grass which is renewed in the morning:

rsv@Psalms:90:7 @ in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers.

rsv@Psalms:90:8 @ For we are consumed by thy anger; by thy wrath we are overwhelmed.

rsv@Psalms:90:9 @ Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

rsv@Psalms:90:10 @ For all our days pass away under thy wrath, our years come to an end like a sigh.

rsv@Psalms:90:11 @ The years of our life are threescore and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

rsv@Psalms:90:12 @ Who considers the power of thy anger, and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?

rsv@Psalms:90:13 @ So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

rsv@Psalms:90:14 @ Return, O LORD! How long? Have pity on thy servants!

rsv@Psalms:90:15 @ Satisfy us in the morning with thy steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

rsv@Psalms:90:16 @ Make us glad as many days as thou hast afflicted us, and as many years as we have seen evil.

rsv@Psalms:90:17 @ Let thy work be manifest to thy servants, and thy glorious power to their children. [ (Psalms strkjv@90:18) Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish thou the work of our hands upon us, yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. ]

rsv@Psalms:91:1 @ He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, who abides in the shadow of the Almighty,

rsv@Psalms:91:2 @ will say to the LORD, "My refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust."

rsv@Psalms:91:3 @ For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence;

rsv@Psalms:91:4 @ he will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.

rsv@Psalms:91:5 @ You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,

rsv@Psalms:91:6 @ nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.

rsv@Psalms:91:7 @ A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.

rsv@Psalms:91:8 @ You will only look with your eyes and see the recompense of the wicked.

rsv@Psalms:91:9 @ Because you have made the LORD your refuge, the Most High your habitation,

rsv@Psalms:91:10 @ no evil shall befall you, no scourge come near your tent.

rsv@Psalms:91:11 @ For he will give his angels charge of you to guard you in all your ways.

rsv@Psalms:91:12 @ On their hands they will bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone.

rsv@Psalms:91:13 @ You will tread on the lion and the adder, the young lion and the serpent you will trample under foot.

rsv@Psalms:91:14 @ Because he cleaves to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows my name.

rsv@Psalms:91:15 @ When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will rescue him and honor him.

rsv@Psalms:91:16 @ With long life I will satisfy him, and show him my salvation.

rsv@Psalms:92:1 @ A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath.

rsv@Psalms:92:2 @ It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to thy name, O Most High;

rsv@Psalms:92:3 @ to declare thy steadfast love in the morning, and thy faithfulness by night,

rsv@Psalms:92:4 @ to the music of the lute and the harp, to the melody of the lyre.

rsv@Psalms:92:5 @ For thou, O LORD, hast made me glad by thy work; at the works of thy hands I sing for joy.

rsv@Psalms:92:6 @ How great are thy works, O LORD! Thy thoughts are very deep!

rsv@Psalms:92:7 @ The dull man cannot know, the stupid cannot understand this:

rsv@Psalms:92:8 @ that, though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction for ever,

rsv@Psalms:92:9 @ but thou, O LORD, art on high for ever.

rsv@Psalms:92:10 @ For, lo, thy enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thy enemies shall perish; all evildoers shall be scattered.

rsv@Psalms:92:11 @ But thou hast exalted my horn like that of the wild ox; thou hast poured over me fresh oil.

rsv@Psalms:92:12 @ My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies, my ears have heard the doom of my evil assailants.

rsv@Psalms:92:13 @ The righteous flourish like the palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

rsv@Psalms:92:14 @ They are planted in the house of the LORD, they flourish in the courts of our God.

rsv@Psalms:92:15 @ They still bring forth fruit in old age, they are ever full of sap and green, [ (Psalms strkjv@92:16) to show that the LORD is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him. ]

rsv@Psalms:93:1 @ The LORD reigns; he is robed in majesty; the LORD is robed, he is girded with strength. Yea, the world is established; it shall never be moved;

rsv@Psalms:93:2 @ thy throne is established from of old; thou art from everlasting.

rsv@Psalms:93:3 @ The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice, the floods lift up their roaring.

rsv@Psalms:93:4 @ Mightier than the thunders of many waters, mightier than the waves of the sea, the LORD on high is mighty!

rsv@Psalms:93:5 @ Thy decrees are very sure; holiness befits thy house, O LORD, for evermore.

rsv@Psalms:94:1 @ O LORD, thou God of vengeance, thou God of vengeance, shine forth!

rsv@Psalms:94:2 @ Rise up, O judge of the earth; render to the proud their deserts!

rsv@Psalms:94:3 @ O LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?

rsv@Psalms:94:4 @ They pour out their arrogant words, they boast, all the evildoers.

rsv@Psalms:94:5 @ They crush thy people, O LORD, and afflict thy heritage.

rsv@Psalms:94:6 @ They slay the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless;

rsv@Psalms:94:7 @ and they say, "The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive."

rsv@Psalms:94:8 @ Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise?

rsv@Psalms:94:9 @ He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see?

rsv@Psalms:94:10 @ He who chastens the nations, does he not chastise? He who teaches men knowledge,

rsv@Psalms:94:11 @ the LORD, knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath.

rsv@Psalms:94:12 @ Blessed is the man whom thou dost chasten, O LORD, and whom thou dost teach out of thy law

rsv@Psalms:94:13 @ to give him respite from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.

rsv@Psalms:94:14 @ For the LORD will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage;

rsv@Psalms:94:15 @ for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.

rsv@Psalms:94:16 @ Who rises up for me against the wicked? Who stands up for me against evildoers?

rsv@Psalms:94:17 @ If the LORD had not been my help, my soul would soon have dwelt in the land of silence.

rsv@Psalms:94:18 @ When I thought, "My foot slips," thy steadfast love, O LORD, held me up.

rsv@Psalms:94:19 @ When the cares of my heart are many, thy consolations cheer my soul.

rsv@Psalms:94:20 @ Can wicked rulers be allied with thee, who frame mischief by statute?

rsv@Psalms:94:21 @ They band together against the life of the righteous, and condemn the innocent to death.

rsv@Psalms:94:22 @ But the LORD has become my stronghold, and my God the rock of my refuge.

rsv@Psalms:94:23 @ He will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the LORD our God will wipe them out.

rsv@Psalms:95:1 @ O come, let us sing to the LORD; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!

rsv@Psalms:95:2 @ Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!

rsv@Psalms:95:3 @ For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

rsv@Psalms:95:4 @ In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also.

rsv@Psalms:95:5 @ The sea is his, for he made it; for his hands formed the dry land.

rsv@Psalms:95:6 @ O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!

rsv@Psalms:95:7 @ For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. O that today you would hearken to his voice!

rsv@Psalms:95:8 @ Harden not your hearts, as at Mer'ibah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,

rsv@Psalms:95:9 @ when your fathers tested me, and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.

rsv@Psalms:95:10 @ For forty years I loathed that generation and said, "They are a people who err in heart, and they do not regard my ways."

rsv@Psalms:95:11 @ Therefore I swore in my anger that they should not enter my rest.

rsv@Psalms:96:1 @ O sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth!

rsv@Psalms:96:2 @ Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day.

rsv@Psalms:96:3 @ Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!

rsv@Psalms:96:4 @ For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods.

rsv@Psalms:96:5 @ For all the gods of the peoples are idols; but the LORD made the heavens.

rsv@Psalms:96:6 @ Honor and majesty are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

rsv@Psalms:96:7 @ Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the peoples, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength!

rsv@Psalms:96:8 @ Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; bring an offering, and come into his courts!

rsv@Psalms:96:9 @ Worship the LORD in holy array; tremble before him, all the earth!

rsv@Psalms:96:10 @ Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns! Yea, the world is established, it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity."

rsv@Psalms:96:11 @ Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, and all that fills it;

rsv@Psalms:96:12 @ let the field exult, and everything in it! Then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy

rsv@Psalms:96:13 @ before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with his truth.

rsv@Psalms:97:1 @ The LORD reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad!

rsv@Psalms:97:2 @ Clouds and thick darkness are round about him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

rsv@Psalms:97:3 @ Fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries round about.

rsv@Psalms:97:4 @ His lightnings lighten the world; the earth sees and trembles.

rsv@Psalms:97:5 @ The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.

rsv@Psalms:97:6 @ The heavens proclaim his righteousness; and all the peoples behold his glory.

rsv@Psalms:97:7 @ All worshipers of images are put to shame, who make their boast in worthless idols; all gods bow down before him.

rsv@Psalms:97:8 @ Zion hears and is glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoice, because of thy judgments, O God.

rsv@Psalms:97:9 @ For thou, O LORD, art most high over all the earth; thou art exalted far above all gods.

rsv@Psalms:97:10 @ The LORD loves those who hate evil; he preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

rsv@Psalms:97:11 @ Light dawns for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart.

rsv@Psalms:97:12 @ Rejoice in the LORD, O you righteous, and give thanks to his holy name!

rsv@Psalms:98:2 @ O sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have gotten him victory.

rsv@Psalms:98:3 @ The LORD has made known his victory, he has revealed his vindication in the sight of the nations.

rsv@Psalms:98:4 @ He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God.

rsv@Psalms:98:5 @ Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth; break forth into joyous song and sing praises!

rsv@Psalms:98:6 @ Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre, with the lyre and the sound of melody!

rsv@Psalms:98:7 @ With trumpets and the sound of the horn make a joyful noise before the King, the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:98:8 @ Let the sea roar, and all that fills it; the world and those who dwell in it!

rsv@Psalms:98:9 @ Let the floods clap their hands; let the hills sing for joy together [ (Psalms strkjv@98:10) before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity. ]

rsv@Psalms:99:1 @ The LORD reigns; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!

rsv@Psalms:99:2 @ The LORD is great in Zion; he is exalted over all the peoples.

rsv@Psalms:99:3 @ Let them praise thy great and terrible name! Holy is he!

rsv@Psalms:99:4 @ Mighty King, lover of justice, thou hast established equity; thou hast executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

rsv@Psalms:99:5 @ Extol the LORD our God; worship at his footstool! Holy is he!

rsv@Psalms:99:6 @ Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel also was among those who called on his name. They cried to the LORD, and he answered them.

rsv@Psalms:99:7 @ He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud; they kept his testimonies, and the statutes that he gave them.

rsv@Psalms:99:8 @ O LORD our God, thou didst answer them; thou wast a forgiving God to them, but an avenger of their wrongdoings.

rsv@Psalms:99:9 @ Extol the LORD our God, and worship at his holy mountain; for the LORD our God is holy!

rsv@Psalms:100:1 @ A Psalm for the thank offering.

rsv@Psalms:100:2 @ Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the lands!

rsv@Psalms:100:3 @ Serve the LORD with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!

rsv@Psalms:100:4 @ Know that the LORD is God! It is he that made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

rsv@Psalms:100:5 @ Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him, bless his name! [ (Psalms strkjv@100:6) For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures for ever, and his faithfulness to all generations. ]

rsv@Psalms:101:1 @ A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:101:2 @ I will sing of loyalty and of justice; to thee, O LORD, I will sing.

rsv@Psalms:101:3 @ I will give heed to the way that is blameless. Oh when wilt thou come to me? I will walk with integrity of heart within my house;

rsv@Psalms:101:4 @ I will not set before my eyes anything that is base. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cleave to me.

rsv@Psalms:101:5 @ Perverseness of heart shall be far from me; I will know nothing of evil.

rsv@Psalms:101:6 @ Him who slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. The man of haughty looks and arrogant heart I will not endure.

rsv@Psalms:101:7 @ I will look with favor on the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in the way that is blameless shall minister to me.

rsv@Psalms:101:8 @ No man who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no man who utters lies shall continue in my presence. [ (Psalms strkjv@101:9) Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land, cutting off all the evildoers from the city of the LORD. ]

rsv@Psalms:102:1 @ A prayer of one afflicted, when he is faint and pours out his complaint before the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:102:2 @ Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry come to thee!

rsv@Psalms:102:3 @ Do not hide thy face from me in the day of my distress! Incline thy ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call!

rsv@Psalms:102:4 @ For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.

rsv@Psalms:102:5 @ My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; I forget to eat my bread.

rsv@Psalms:102:6 @ Because of my loud groaning my bones cleave to my flesh.

rsv@Psalms:102:7 @ I am like a vulture of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places;

rsv@Psalms:102:8 @ I lie awake, I am like a lonely bird on the housetop.

rsv@Psalms:102:9 @ All the day my enemies taunt me, those who deride me use my name for a curse.

rsv@Psalms:102:10 @ For I eat ashes like bread, and mingle tears with my drink,

rsv@Psalms:102:11 @ because of thy indignation and anger; for thou hast taken me up and thrown me away.

rsv@Psalms:102:12 @ My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.

rsv@Psalms:102:13 @ But thou, O LORD, art enthroned for ever; thy name endures to all generations.

rsv@Psalms:102:14 @ Thou wilt arise and have pity on Zion; it is the time to favor her; the appointed time has come.

rsv@Psalms:102:15 @ For thy servants hold her stones dear, and have pity on her dust.

rsv@Psalms:102:16 @ The nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.

rsv@Psalms:102:17 @ For the LORD will build up Zion, he will appear in his glory;

rsv@Psalms:102:18 @ he will regard the prayer of the destitute, and will not despise their supplication.

rsv@Psalms:102:19 @ Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet unborn may praise the LORD:

rsv@Psalms:102:20 @ that he looked down from his holy height, from heaven the LORD looked at the earth,

rsv@Psalms:102:21 @ to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die;

rsv@Psalms:102:22 @ that men may declare in Zion the name of the LORD, and in Jerusalem his praise,

rsv@Psalms:102:23 @ when peoples gather together, and kingdoms, to worship the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:102:24 @ He has broken my strength in mid-course; he has shortened my days.

rsv@Psalms:102:25 @ "O my God," I say, "take me not hence in the midst of my days, thou whose years endure throughout all generations!"

rsv@Psalms:102:26 @ Of old thou didst lay the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

rsv@Psalms:102:27 @ They will perish, but thou dost endure; they will all wear out like a garment. Thou changest them like raiment, and they pass away;

rsv@Psalms:102:28 @ but thou art the same, and thy years have no end. [ (Psalms strkjv@102:29) The children of thy servants shall dwell secure; their posterity shall be established before thee. ]

rsv@Psalms:103:1 @ A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:103:2 @ Bless the LORD, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless his holy name!

rsv@Psalms:103:3 @ Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,

rsv@Psalms:103:4 @ who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,

rsv@Psalms:103:5 @ who redeems your life from the Pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,

rsv@Psalms:103:6 @ who satisfies you with good as long as you live so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

rsv@Psalms:103:7 @ The LORD works vindication and justice for all who are oppressed.

rsv@Psalms:103:8 @ He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the people of Israel.

rsv@Psalms:103:9 @ The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

rsv@Psalms:103:10 @ He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger for ever.

rsv@Psalms:103:11 @ He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor requite us according to our iniquities.

rsv@Psalms:103:12 @ For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;

rsv@Psalms:103:13 @ as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

rsv@Psalms:103:14 @ As a father pities his children, so the LORD pities those who fear him.

rsv@Psalms:103:15 @ For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.

rsv@Psalms:103:16 @ As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field;

rsv@Psalms:103:17 @ for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.

rsv@Psalms:103:18 @ But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,

rsv@Psalms:103:19 @ to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments.

rsv@Psalms:103:20 @ The LORD has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all.

rsv@Psalms:103:21 @ Bless the LORD, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, hearkening to the voice of his word!

rsv@Psalms:103:22 @ Bless the LORD, all his hosts, his ministers that do his will! [ (Psalms strkjv@103:23) Bless the LORD, all his works, in all places of his dominion. Bless the LORD, O my soul! ]

rsv@Psalms:104:1 @ Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, thou art very great! Thou art clothed with honor and majesty,

rsv@Psalms:104:2 @ who coverest thyself with light as with a garment, who hast stretched out the heavens like a tent,

rsv@Psalms:104:3 @ who hast laid the beams of thy chambers on the waters, who makest the clouds thy chariot, who ridest on the wings of the wind,

rsv@Psalms:104:4 @ who makest the winds thy messengers, fire and flame thy ministers.

rsv@Psalms:104:5 @ Thou didst set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be shaken.

rsv@Psalms:104:6 @ Thou didst cover it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

rsv@Psalms:104:7 @ At thy rebuke they fled; at the sound of thy thunder they took to flight.

rsv@Psalms:104:8 @ The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place which thou didst appoint for them.

rsv@Psalms:104:9 @ Thou didst set a bound which they should not pass, so that they might not again cover the earth.

rsv@Psalms:104:10 @ Thou makest springs gush forth in the valleys; they flow between the hills,

rsv@Psalms:104:11 @ they give drink to every beast of the field; the wild asses quench their thirst.

rsv@Psalms:104:12 @ By them the birds of the air have their habitation; they sing among the branches.

rsv@Psalms:104:13 @ From thy lofty abode thou waterest the mountains; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy work.

rsv@Psalms:104:14 @ Thou dost cause the grass to grow for the cattle, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth,

rsv@Psalms:104:15 @ and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine, and bread to strengthen man's heart.

rsv@Psalms:104:16 @ The trees of the LORD are watered abundantly, the cedars of Lebanon which he planted.

rsv@Psalms:104:17 @ In them the birds build their nests; the stork has her home in the fir trees.

rsv@Psalms:104:18 @ The high mountains are for the wild goats; the rocks are a refuge for the badgers.

rsv@Psalms:104:19 @ Thou hast made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting.

rsv@Psalms:104:20 @ Thou makest darkness, and it is night, when all the beasts of the forest creep forth.

rsv@Psalms:104:21 @ The young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God.

rsv@Psalms:104:22 @ When the sun rises, they get them away and lie down in their dens.

rsv@Psalms:104:23 @ Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until the evening.

rsv@Psalms:104:24 @ O LORD, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all; the earth is full of thy creatures.

rsv@Psalms:104:25 @ Yonder is the sea, great and wide, which teems with things innumerable, living things both small and great.

rsv@Psalms:104:26 @ There go the ships, and Leviathan which thou didst form to sport in it.

rsv@Psalms:104:27 @ These all look to thee, to give them their food in due season.

rsv@Psalms:104:28 @ When thou givest to them, they gather it up; when thou openest thy hand, they are filled with good things.

rsv@Psalms:104:29 @ When thou hidest thy face, they are dismayed; when thou takest away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

rsv@Psalms:104:30 @ When thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created; and thou renewest the face of the ground.

rsv@Psalms:104:31 @ May the glory of the LORD endure for ever, may the LORD rejoice in his works,

rsv@Psalms:104:32 @ who looks on the earth and it trembles, who touches the mountains and they smoke!

rsv@Psalms:104:33 @ I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being.

rsv@Psalms:104:34 @ May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:104:35 @ Let sinners be consumed from the earth, and let the wicked be no more! Bless the LORD, O my soul! Praise the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:105:1 @ O give thanks to the LORD, call on his name, make known his deeds among the peoples!

rsv@Psalms:105:2 @ Sing to him, sing praises to him, tell of all his wonderful works!

rsv@Psalms:105:3 @ Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice!

rsv@Psalms:105:4 @ Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his presence continually!

rsv@Psalms:105:5 @ Remember the wonderful works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered,

rsv@Psalms:105:6 @ O offspring of Abraham his servant, sons of Jacob, his chosen ones!

rsv@Psalms:105:7 @ He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.

rsv@Psalms:105:8 @ He is mindful of his covenant for ever, of the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations,

rsv@Psalms:105:9 @ the covenant which he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac,

rsv@Psalms:105:10 @ which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,

rsv@Psalms:105:11 @ saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan as your portion for an inheritance."

rsv@Psalms:105:12 @ When they were few in number, of little account, and sojourners in it,

rsv@Psalms:105:13 @ wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,

rsv@Psalms:105:14 @ he allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their account,

rsv@Psalms:105:15 @ saying, "Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!"

rsv@Psalms:105:16 @ When he summoned a famine on the land, and broke every staff of bread,

rsv@Psalms:105:17 @ he had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

rsv@Psalms:105:18 @ His feet were hurt with fetters, his neck was put in a collar of iron;

rsv@Psalms:105:19 @ until what he had said came to pass the word of the LORD tested him.

rsv@Psalms:105:20 @ The king sent and released him, the ruler of the peoples set him free;

rsv@Psalms:105:21 @ he made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his possessions,

rsv@Psalms:105:22 @ to instruct his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.

rsv@Psalms:105:23 @ Then Israel came to Egypt; Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

rsv@Psalms:105:24 @ And the LORD made his people very fruitful, and made them stronger than their foes.

rsv@Psalms:105:25 @ He turned their hearts to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants.

rsv@Psalms:105:26 @ He sent Moses his servant, and Aaron whom he had chosen.

rsv@Psalms:105:27 @ They wrought his signs among them, and miracles in the land of Ham.

rsv@Psalms:105:28 @ He sent darkness, and made the land dark; they rebelled against his words.

rsv@Psalms:105:29 @ He turned their waters into blood, and caused their fish to die.

rsv@Psalms:105:30 @ Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the chambers of their kings.

rsv@Psalms:105:31 @ He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats throughout their country.

rsv@Psalms:105:32 @ He gave them hail for rain, and lightning that flashed through their land.

rsv@Psalms:105:33 @ He smote their vines and fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.

rsv@Psalms:105:34 @ He spoke, and the locusts came, and young locusts without number;

rsv@Psalms:105:35 @ which devoured all the vegetation in their land, and ate up the fruit of their ground.

rsv@Psalms:105:36 @ He smote all the first-born in their land, the first issue of all their strength.

rsv@Psalms:105:37 @ Then he led forth Israel with silver and gold, and there was none among his tribes who stumbled.

rsv@Psalms:105:38 @ Egypt was glad when they departed, for dread of them had fallen upon it.

rsv@Psalms:105:39 @ He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light by night.

rsv@Psalms:105:40 @ They asked, and he brought quails, and gave them bread from heaven in abundance.

rsv@Psalms:105:41 @ He opened the rock, and water gushed forth; it flowed through the desert like a river.

rsv@Psalms:105:42 @ For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.

rsv@Psalms:105:43 @ So he led forth his people with joy, his chosen ones with singing.

rsv@Psalms:105:44 @ And he gave them the lands of the nations; and they took possession of the fruit of the peoples' toil,

rsv@Psalms:105:45 @ to the end that they should keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:106:1 @ Praise the LORD! O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures for ever!

rsv@Psalms:106:2 @ Who can utter the mighty doings of the LORD, or show forth all his praise?

rsv@Psalms:106:3 @ Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times!

rsv@Psalms:106:4 @ Remember me, O LORD, when thou showest favor to thy people; help me when thou deliverest them;

rsv@Psalms:106:5 @ that I may see the prosperity of thy chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thy heritage.

rsv@Psalms:106:6 @ Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

rsv@Psalms:106:7 @ Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider thy wonderful works; they did not remember the abundance of thy steadfast love, but rebelled against the Most High at the Red Sea.

rsv@Psalms:106:8 @ Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his mighty power.

rsv@Psalms:106:9 @ He rebuked the Red Sea, and it became dry; and he led them through the deep as through a desert.

rsv@Psalms:106:10 @ So he saved them from the hand of the foe, and delivered them from the power of the enemy.

rsv@Psalms:106:11 @ And the waters covered their adversaries; not one of them was left.

rsv@Psalms:106:12 @ Then they believed his words; they sang his praise.

rsv@Psalms:106:13 @ But they soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.

rsv@Psalms:106:14 @ But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness, and put God to the test in the desert;

rsv@Psalms:106:15 @ he gave them what they asked, but sent a wasting disease among them.

rsv@Psalms:106:16 @ When men in the camp were jealous of Moses and Aaron, the holy one of the LORD,

rsv@Psalms:106:17 @ the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abi'ram.

rsv@Psalms:106:18 @ Fire also broke out in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

rsv@Psalms:106:19 @ They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped a molten image.

rsv@Psalms:106:20 @ They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass.

rsv@Psalms:106:21 @ They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,

rsv@Psalms:106:22 @ wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red Sea.

rsv@Psalms:106:23 @ Therefore he said he would destroy them-- had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

rsv@Psalms:106:24 @ Then they despised the pleasant land, having no faith in his promise.

rsv@Psalms:106:25 @ They murmured in their tents, and did not obey the voice of the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:106:26 @ Therefore he raised his hand and swore to them that he would make them fall in the wilderness,

rsv@Psalms:106:27 @ and would disperse their descendants among the nations, scattering them over the lands.

rsv@Psalms:106:28 @ Then they attached themselves to the Ba'al of Pe'or, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead;

rsv@Psalms:106:29 @ they provoked the LORD to anger with their doings, and a plague broke out among them.

rsv@Psalms:106:30 @ Then Phin'ehas stood up and interposed, and the plague was stayed.

rsv@Psalms:106:31 @ And that has been reckoned to him as righteousness from generation to generation for ever.

rsv@Psalms:106:32 @ They angered him at the waters of Mer'ibah, and it went ill with Moses on their account;

rsv@Psalms:106:33 @ for they made his spirit bitter, and he spoke words that were rash.

rsv@Psalms:106:34 @ They did not destroy the peoples, as the LORD commanded them,

rsv@Psalms:106:35 @ but they mingled with the nations and learned to do as they did.

rsv@Psalms:106:36 @ They served their idols, which became a snare to them.

rsv@Psalms:106:37 @ They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons;

rsv@Psalms:106:38 @ they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.

rsv@Psalms:106:39 @ Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the harlot in their doings.

rsv@Psalms:106:40 @ Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against his people, and he abhorred his heritage;

rsv@Psalms:106:41 @ he gave them into the hand of the nations, so that those who hated them ruled over them.

rsv@Psalms:106:42 @ Their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their power.

rsv@Psalms:106:43 @ Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their purposes, and were brought low through their iniquity.

rsv@Psalms:106:45 @ He remembered for their sake his covenant, and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

rsv@Psalms:106:46 @ He caused them to be pitied by all those who held them captive.

rsv@Psalms:106:47 @ Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to thy holy name and glory in thy praise.

rsv@Psalms:106:48 @ Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! And let all the people say, "Amen!" Praise the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:107:1 @ O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures for ever!

rsv@Psalms:107:2 @ Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he has redeemed from trouble

rsv@Psalms:107:3 @ and gathered in from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.

rsv@Psalms:107:4 @ Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in;

rsv@Psalms:107:5 @ hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them.

rsv@Psalms:107:6 @ Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress;

rsv@Psalms:107:7 @ he led them by a straight way, till they reached a city to dwell in.

rsv@Psalms:107:8 @ Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wonderful works to the sons of men!

rsv@Psalms:107:9 @ For he satisfies him who is thirsty, and the hungry he fills with good things.

rsv@Psalms:107:10 @ Some sat in darkness and in gloom, prisoners in affliction and in irons,

rsv@Psalms:107:11 @ for they had rebelled against the words of God, and spurned the counsel of the Most High.

rsv@Psalms:107:12 @ Their hearts were bowed down with hard labor; they fell down, with none to help.

rsv@Psalms:107:13 @ Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress;

rsv@Psalms:107:14 @ he brought them out of darkness and gloom, and broke their bonds asunder.

rsv@Psalms:107:15 @ Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wonderful works to the sons of men!

rsv@Psalms:107:16 @ For he shatters the doors of bronze, and cuts in two the bars of iron.

rsv@Psalms:107:17 @ Some were sick through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;

rsv@Psalms:107:18 @ they loathed any kind of food, and they drew near to the gates of death.

rsv@Psalms:107:19 @ Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress;

rsv@Psalms:107:20 @ he sent forth his word, and healed them, and delivered them from destruction.

rsv@Psalms:107:21 @ Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wonderful works to the sons of men!

rsv@Psalms:107:22 @ And let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and tell of his deeds in songs of joy!

rsv@Psalms:107:23 @ Some went down to the sea in ships, doing business on the great waters;

rsv@Psalms:107:24 @ they saw the deeds of the LORD, his wondrous works in the deep.

rsv@Psalms:107:25 @ For he commanded, and raised the stormy wind, which lifted up the waves of the sea.

rsv@Psalms:107:26 @ They mounted up to heaven, they went down to the depths; their courage melted away in their evil plight;

rsv@Psalms:107:28 @ Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress;

rsv@Psalms:107:29 @ he made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed.

rsv@Psalms:107:30 @ Then they were glad because they had quiet, and he brought them to their desired haven.

rsv@Psalms:107:31 @ Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wonderful works to the sons of men!

rsv@Psalms:107:32 @ Let them extol him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

rsv@Psalms:107:33 @ He turns rivers into a desert, springs of water into thirsty ground,

rsv@Psalms:107:34 @ a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

rsv@Psalms:107:35 @ He turns a desert into pools of water, a parched land into springs of water.

rsv@Psalms:107:36 @ And there he lets the hungry dwell, and they establish a city to live in;

rsv@Psalms:107:37 @ they sow fields, and plant vineyards, and get a fruitful yield.

rsv@Psalms:107:38 @ By his blessing they multiply greatly; and he does not let their cattle decrease.

rsv@Psalms:107:39 @ When they are diminished and brought low through oppression, trouble, and sorrow,

rsv@Psalms:107:40 @ he pours contempt upon princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes;

rsv@Psalms:107:41 @ but he raises up the needy out of affliction, and makes their families like flocks.

rsv@Psalms:107:42 @ The upright see it and are glad; and all wickedness stops its mouth.

rsv@Psalms:107:43 @ Whoever is wise, let him give heed to these things; let men consider the steadfast love of the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:108:1 @ A Songs. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:108:2 @ My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast! I will sing and make melody! Awake, my soul!

rsv@Psalms:108:3 @ Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn!

rsv@Psalms:108:4 @ I will give thanks to thee, O LORD, among the peoples, I will sing praises to thee among the nations.

rsv@Psalms:108:5 @ For thy steadfast love is great above the heavens, thy faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

rsv@Psalms:108:6 @ Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let thy glory be over all the earth!

rsv@Psalms:108:7 @ That thy beloved may be delivered, give help by thy right hand, and answer me!

rsv@Psalms:108:8 @ God has promised in his sanctuary: "With exultation I will divide up Shechem, and portion out the Vale of Succoth.

rsv@Psalms:108:10 @ Moab is my washbasin; upon Edom I cast my shoe; over Philistia I shout in triumph."

rsv@Psalms:108:11 @ Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?

rsv@Psalms:108:12 @ Hast thou not rejected us, O God? Thou dost not go forth, O God, with our armies.

rsv@Psalms:108:13 @ O grant us help against the foe, for vain is the help of man! [ (Psalms strkjv@108:14) With God we shall do valiantly; it is he who will tread down our foes. ]

rsv@Psalms:109:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:109:2 @ Be not silent, O God of my praise!

rsv@Psalms:109:3 @ For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.

rsv@Psalms:109:4 @ They beset me with words of hate, and attack me without cause.

rsv@Psalms:109:5 @ In return for my love they accuse me, even as I make prayer for them.

rsv@Psalms:109:6 @ So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

rsv@Psalms:109:7 @ Appoint a wicked man against him; let an accuser bring him to trial.

rsv@Psalms:109:8 @ When he is tried, let him come forth guilty; let his prayer be counted as sin!

rsv@Psalms:109:9 @ May his days be few; may another seize his goods!

rsv@Psalms:109:10 @ May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow!

rsv@Psalms:109:11 @ May his children wander about and beg; may they be driven out of the ruins they inhabit!

rsv@Psalms:109:12 @ May the creditor seize all that he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil!

rsv@Psalms:109:13 @ Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor any to pity his fatherless children!

rsv@Psalms:109:14 @ May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation!

rsv@Psalms:109:15 @ May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out!

rsv@Psalms:109:16 @ Let them be before the LORD continually; and may his memory be cut off from the earth!

rsv@Psalms:109:17 @ For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted to their death.

rsv@Psalms:109:18 @ He loved to curse; let curses come on him! He did not like blessing; may it be far from him!

rsv@Psalms:109:19 @ He clothed himself with cursing as his coat, may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones!

rsv@Psalms:109:20 @ May it be like a garment which he wraps round him, like a belt with which he daily girds himself!

rsv@Psalms:109:21 @ May this be the reward of my accusers from the LORD, of those who speak evil against my life!

rsv@Psalms:109:22 @ But thou, O GOD my Lord, deal on my behalf for thy name's sake; because thy steadfast love is good, deliver me!

rsv@Psalms:109:23 @ For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me.

rsv@Psalms:109:24 @ I am gone, like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.

rsv@Psalms:109:25 @ My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt.

rsv@Psalms:109:26 @ I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they wag their heads.

rsv@Psalms:109:27 @ Help me, O LORD my God! Save me according to thy steadfast love!

rsv@Psalms:109:28 @ Let them know that this is thy hand; thou, O LORD, hast done it!

rsv@Psalms:109:29 @ Let them curse, but do thou bless! Let my assailants be put to shame; may thy servant be glad!

rsv@Psalms:109:30 @ May my accusers be clothed with dishonor; may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a mantle!

rsv@Psalms:109:31 @ With my mouth I will give great thanks to the LORD; I will praise him in the midst of the throng. [ (Psalms strkjv@109:32) For he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who condemn him to death. ]

rsv@Psalms:110:1 @ A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:110:2 @ The LORD says to my lord: "Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool."

rsv@Psalms:110:3 @ The LORD sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter. Rule in the midst of your foes!

rsv@Psalms:110:4 @ Your people will offer themselves freely on the day you lead your host upon the holy mountains. From the womb of the morning like dew your youth will come to you.

rsv@Psalms:110:5 @ The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind, "You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchiz'edek."

rsv@Psalms:110:6 @ The Lord is at your right hand; he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath.

rsv@Psalms:110:7 @ He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth. [ (Psalms strkjv@110:8) He will drink from the brook by the way; therefore he will lift up his head. ]

rsv@Psalms:111:1 @ Prasie the LORD. I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart, in the company of the upright, in the congregation.

rsv@Psalms:111:2 @ Great are the works of the LORD, studied by all who have pleasure in them.

rsv@Psalms:111:3 @ Full of honor and majesty is his work, and his righteousness endures for ever.

rsv@Psalms:111:4 @ He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and merciful.

rsv@Psalms:111:5 @ He provides food for those who fear him; he is ever mindful of his covenant.

rsv@Psalms:111:6 @ He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the heritage of the nations.

rsv@Psalms:111:7 @ The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy,

rsv@Psalms:111:8 @ they are established for ever and ever, to be performed with faithfulness and uprightness.

rsv@Psalms:111:9 @ He sent redemption to his people; he has commanded his covenant for ever. Holy and terrible is his name!

rsv@Psalms:111:10 @ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all those who practice it. His praise endures for ever!

rsv@Psalms:112:1 @ Praise the LORD. Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in his commandments!

rsv@Psalms:112:2 @ His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.

rsv@Psalms:112:3 @ Wealth and riches are in his house; and his righteousness endures for ever.

rsv@Psalms:112:4 @ Light rises in the darkness for the upright; the LORD is gracious, merciful, and righteous.

rsv@Psalms:112:5 @ It is well with the man who deals generously and lends, who conducts his affairs with justice.

rsv@Psalms:112:6 @ For the righteous will never be moved; he will be remembered for ever.

rsv@Psalms:112:7 @ He is not afraid of evil tidings; his heart is firm, trusting in the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:112:8 @ His heart is steady, he will not be afraid, until he sees his desire on his adversaries.

rsv@Psalms:112:9 @ He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever; his horn is exalted in honor.

rsv@Psalms:112:10 @ The wicked man sees it and is angry; he gnashes his teeth and melts away; the desire of the wicked man comes to nought.

rsv@Psalms:113:1 @ Praise the LORD! Praise, O servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:113:2 @ Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore!

rsv@Psalms:113:3 @ From the rising of the sun to its setting the name of the LORD is to be praised!

rsv@Psalms:113:4 @ The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens!

rsv@Psalms:113:5 @ Who is like the LORD our God, who is seated on high,

rsv@Psalms:113:6 @ who looks far down upon the heavens and the earth?

rsv@Psalms:113:7 @ He raises the poor from the dust, and lifts the needy from the ash heap,

rsv@Psalms:113:8 @ to make them sit with princes, with the princes of his people.

rsv@Psalms:113:9 @ He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:114:1 @ When Israel went forth from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

rsv@Psalms:114:2 @ Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

rsv@Psalms:114:3 @ The sea looked and fled, Jordan turned back.

rsv@Psalms:114:4 @ The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

rsv@Psalms:114:5 @ What ails you, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?

rsv@Psalms:114:6 @ O mountains, that you skip like rams? O hills, like lambs?

rsv@Psalms:114:7 @ Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

rsv@Psalms:114:8 @ who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.

rsv@Psalms:115:1 @ Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to thy name give glory, for the sake of thy steadfast love and thy faithfulness!

rsv@Psalms:115:2 @ Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?"

rsv@Psalms:115:3 @ Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases.

rsv@Psalms:115:4 @ Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

rsv@Psalms:115:5 @ They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see.

rsv@Psalms:115:6 @ They have ears, but do not hear; noses, but do not smell.

rsv@Psalms:115:7 @ They have hands, but do not feel; feet, but do not walk; and they do not make a sound in their throat.

rsv@Psalms:115:8 @ Those who make them are like them; so are all who trust in them.

rsv@Psalms:115:9 @ O Israel, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.

rsv@Psalms:115:10 @ O house of Aaron, put your trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.

rsv@Psalms:115:11 @ You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.

rsv@Psalms:115:12 @ The LORD has been mindful of us; he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron;

rsv@Psalms:115:13 @ he will bless those who fear the LORD, both small and great.

rsv@Psalms:115:14 @ May the LORD give you increase, you and your children!

rsv@Psalms:115:15 @ May you be blessed by the LORD, who made heaven and earth!

rsv@Psalms:115:16 @ The heavens are the LORD's heavens, but the earth he has given to the sons of men.

rsv@Psalms:115:17 @ The dead do not praise the LORD, nor do any that go down into silence.

rsv@Psalms:115:18 @ But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:116:1 @ I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my supplications.

rsv@Psalms:116:2 @ Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.

rsv@Psalms:116:3 @ The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.

rsv@Psalms:116:4 @ Then I called on the name of the LORD: "O LORD, I beseech thee, save my life!"

rsv@Psalms:116:5 @ Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; our God is merciful.

rsv@Psalms:116:6 @ The LORD preserves the simple; when I was brought low, he saved me.

rsv@Psalms:116:7 @ Return, O my soul, to your rest; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.

rsv@Psalms:116:8 @ For thou hast delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling;

rsv@Psalms:116:9 @ I walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

rsv@Psalms:116:11 @ I said in my consternation, "Men are all a vain hope."

rsv@Psalms:116:12 @ What shall I render to the LORD for all his bounty to me?

rsv@Psalms:116:13 @ I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD,

rsv@Psalms:116:14 @ I will pay my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people.

rsv@Psalms:116:15 @ Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.

rsv@Psalms:116:16 @ O LORD, I am thy servant; I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast loosed my bonds.

rsv@Psalms:116:17 @ I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:116:18 @ I will pay my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people,

rsv@Psalms:116:19 @ in the courts of the house of the LORD, in your midst, O Jerusalem. Praise the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:117:1 @ Praise the LORD, all nations! Extol him, all peoples!

rsv@Psalms:117:2 @ For great is his steadfast love toward us; and the faithfulness of the LORD endures for ever. Praise the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:118:1 @ O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his steadfast love endures for ever!

rsv@Psalms:118:2 @ Let Israel say, "His steadfast love endures for ever."

rsv@Psalms:118:3 @ Let the house of Aaron say, "His steadfast love endures for ever."

rsv@Psalms:118:4 @ Let those who fear the LORD say, "His steadfast love endures for ever."

rsv@Psalms:118:5 @ Out of my distress I called on the LORD; the LORD answered me and set me free.

rsv@Psalms:118:6 @ With the LORD on my side I do not fear. What can man do to me?

rsv@Psalms:118:7 @ The LORD is on my side to help me; I shall look in triumph on those who hate me.

rsv@Psalms:118:8 @ It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to put confidence in man.

rsv@Psalms:118:9 @ It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.

rsv@Psalms:118:10 @ All nations surrounded me; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!

rsv@Psalms:118:11 @ They surrounded me, surrounded me on every side; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!

rsv@Psalms:118:12 @ They surrounded me like bees, they blazed like a fire of thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!

rsv@Psalms:118:13 @ I was pushed hard, so that I was falling, but the LORD helped me.

rsv@Psalms:118:14 @ The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.

rsv@Psalms:118:15 @ Hark, glad songs of victory in the tents of the righteous: "The right hand of the LORD does valiantly,

rsv@Psalms:118:16 @ the right hand of the LORD is exalted, the right hand of the LORD does valiantly!"

rsv@Psalms:118:17 @ I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:118:18 @ The LORD has chastened me sorely, but he has not given me over to death.

rsv@Psalms:118:19 @ Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:118:20 @ This is the gate of the LORD; the righteous shall enter through it.

rsv@Psalms:118:21 @ I thank thee that thou hast answered me and hast become my salvation.

rsv@Psalms:118:22 @ The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.

rsv@Psalms:118:23 @ This is the LORD's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.

rsv@Psalms:118:24 @ This is the day which the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

rsv@Psalms:118:25 @ Save us, we beseech thee, O LORD! O LORD, we beseech thee, give us success!

rsv@Psalms:118:26 @ Blessed be he who enters in the name of the LORD! We bless you from the house of the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:118:27 @ The LORD is God, and he has given us light. Bind the festal procession with branches, up to the horns of the altar!

rsv@Psalms:118:28 @ Thou art my God, and I will give thanks to thee; thou art my God, I will extol thee.

rsv@Psalms:118:29 @ O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures for ever!

rsv@Psalms:119:1 @ Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:119:2 @ Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,

rsv@Psalms:119:3 @ who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways!

rsv@Psalms:119:4 @ Thou hast commanded thy precepts to be kept diligently.

rsv@Psalms:119:5 @ O that my ways may be steadfast in keeping thy statutes!

rsv@Psalms:119:6 @ Then I shall not be put to shame, having my eyes fixed on all thy commandments.

rsv@Psalms:119:7 @ I will praise thee with an upright heart, when I learn thy righteous ordinances.

rsv@Psalms:119:8 @ I will observe thy statutes; O forsake me not utterly!

rsv@Psalms:119:9 @ How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to thy word.

rsv@Psalms:119:10 @ With my whole heart I seek thee; let me not wander from thy commandments!

rsv@Psalms:119:11 @ I have laid up thy word in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.

rsv@Psalms:119:12 @ Blessed be thou, O LORD; teach me thy statutes!

rsv@Psalms:119:13 @ With my lips I declare all the ordinances of thy mouth.

rsv@Psalms:119:14 @ In the way of thy testimonies I delight as much as in all riches.

rsv@Psalms:119:15 @ I will meditate on thy precepts, and fix my eyes on thy ways.

rsv@Psalms:119:16 @ I will delight in thy statutes; I will not forget thy word.

rsv@Psalms:119:17 @ Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live and observe thy word.

rsv@Psalms:119:18 @ Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

rsv@Psalms:119:19 @ I am a sojourner on earth; hide not thy commandments from me!

rsv@Psalms:119:20 @ My soul is consumed with longing for thy ordinances at all times.

rsv@Psalms:119:21 @ Thou dost rebuke the insolent, accursed ones, who wander from thy commandments;

rsv@Psalms:119:22 @ take away from me their scorn and contempt, for I have kept thy testimonies.

rsv@Psalms:119:23 @ Even though princes sit plotting against me, thy servant will meditate on thy statutes.

rsv@Psalms:119:24 @ Thy testimonies are my delight, they are my counselors.

rsv@Psalms:119:25 @ My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to thy word!

rsv@Psalms:119:26 @ When I told of my ways, thou didst answer me; teach me thy statutes!

rsv@Psalms:119:27 @ Make me understand the way of thy precepts, and I will meditate on thy wondrous works.

rsv@Psalms:119:28 @ My soul melts away for sorrow; strengthen me according to thy word!

rsv@Psalms:119:29 @ Put false ways far from me; and graciously teach me thy law!

rsv@Psalms:119:30 @ I have chosen the way of faithfulness, I set thy ordinances before me.

rsv@Psalms:119:31 @ I cleave to thy testimonies, O LORD; let me not be put to shame!

rsv@Psalms:119:32 @ I will run in the way of thy commandments when thou enlargest my understanding!

rsv@Psalms:119:33 @ Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I will keep it to the end.

rsv@Psalms:119:34 @ Give me understanding, that I may keep thy law and observe it with my whole heart.

rsv@Psalms:119:35 @ Lead me in the path of thy commandments, for I delight in it.

rsv@Psalms:119:36 @ Incline my heart to thy testimonies, and not to gain!

rsv@Psalms:119:37 @ Turn my eyes from looking at vanities; and give me life in thy ways.

rsv@Psalms:119:38 @ Confirm to thy servant thy promise, which is for those who fear thee.

rsv@Psalms:119:39 @ Turn away the reproach which I dread; for thy ordinances are good.

rsv@Psalms:119:40 @ Behold, I long for thy precepts; in thy righteousness give me life!

rsv@Psalms:119:41 @ Let thy steadfast love come to me, O LORD, thy salvation according to thy promise;

rsv@Psalms:119:42 @ then shall I have an answer for those who taunt me, for I trust in thy word.

rsv@Psalms:119:43 @ And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for my hope is in thy ordinances.

rsv@Psalms:119:44 @ I will keep thy law continually, for ever and ever;

rsv@Psalms:119:45 @ and I shall walk at liberty, for I have sought thy precepts.

rsv@Psalms:119:46 @ I will also speak of thy testimonies before kings, and shall not be put to shame;

rsv@Psalms:119:47 @ for I find my delight in thy commandments, which I love.

rsv@Psalms:119:48 @ I revere thy commandments, which I love, and I will meditate on thy statutes.

rsv@Psalms:119:49 @ Remember thy word to thy servant, in which thou hast made me hope.

rsv@Psalms:119:50 @ This is my comfort in my affliction that thy promise gives me life.

rsv@Psalms:119:51 @ Godless men utterly deride me, but I do not turn away from thy law.

rsv@Psalms:119:52 @ When I think of thy ordinances from of old, I take comfort, O LORD.

rsv@Psalms:119:53 @ Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked, who forsake thy law.

rsv@Psalms:119:54 @ Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

rsv@Psalms:119:55 @ I remember thy name in the night, O LORD, and keep thy law.

rsv@Psalms:119:56 @ This blessing has fallen to me, that I have kept thy precepts.

rsv@Psalms:119:57 @ The LORD is my portion; I promise to keep thy words.

rsv@Psalms:119:58 @ I entreat thy favor with all my heart; be gracious to me according to thy promise.

rsv@Psalms:119:59 @ When I think of thy ways, I turn my feet to thy testimonies;

rsv@Psalms:119:60 @ I hasten and do not delay to keep thy commandments.

rsv@Psalms:119:61 @ Though the cords of the wicked ensnare me, I do not forget thy law.

rsv@Psalms:119:62 @ At midnight I rise to praise thee, because of thy righteous ordinances.

rsv@Psalms:119:63 @ I am a companion of all who fear thee, of those who keep thy precepts.

rsv@Psalms:119:64 @ The earth, O LORD, is full of thy steadfast love; teach me thy statutes!

rsv@Psalms:119:65 @ Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according to thy word.

rsv@Psalms:119:66 @ Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in thy commandments.

rsv@Psalms:119:67 @ Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now I keep thy word.

rsv@Psalms:119:68 @ Thou art good and doest good; teach me thy statutes.

rsv@Psalms:119:69 @ The godless besmear me with lies, but with my whole heart I keep thy precepts;

rsv@Psalms:119:70 @ their heart is gross like fat, but I delight in thy law.

rsv@Psalms:119:71 @ It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes.

rsv@Psalms:119:72 @ The law of thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

rsv@Psalms:119:73 @ Thy hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn thy commandments.

rsv@Psalms:119:74 @ Those who fear thee shall see me and rejoice, because I have hoped in thy word.

rsv@Psalms:119:75 @ I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that in faithfulness thou hast afflicted me.

rsv@Psalms:119:76 @ Let thy steadfast love be ready to comfort me according to thy promise to thy servant.

rsv@Psalms:119:77 @ Let thy mercy come to me, that I may live; for thy law is my delight.

rsv@Psalms:119:78 @ Let the godless be put to shame, because they have subverted me with guile; as for me, I will meditate on thy precepts.

rsv@Psalms:119:79 @ Let those who fear thee turn to me, that they may know thy testimonies.

rsv@Psalms:119:80 @ May my heart be blameless in thy statutes, that I may not be put to shame!

rsv@Psalms:119:81 @ My soul languishes for thy salvation; I hope in thy word.

rsv@Psalms:119:82 @ My eyes fail with watching for thy promise; I ask, "When wilt thou comfort me?"

rsv@Psalms:119:83 @ For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten thy statutes.

rsv@Psalms:119:84 @ How long must thy servant endure? When wilt thou judge those who persecute me?

rsv@Psalms:119:85 @ Godless men have dug pitfalls for me, men who do not conform to thy law.

rsv@Psalms:119:86 @ All thy commandments are sure; they persecute me with falsehood; help me!

rsv@Psalms:119:87 @ They have almost made an end of me on earth; but I have not forsaken thy precepts.

rsv@Psalms:119:88 @ In thy steadfast love spare my life, that I may keep the testimonies of thy mouth.

rsv@Psalms:119:89 @ For ever, O LORD, thy word is firmly fixed in the heavens.

rsv@Psalms:119:90 @ Thy faithfulness endures to all generations; thou hast established the earth, and it stands fast.

rsv@Psalms:119:91 @ By thy appointment they stand this day; for all things are thy servants.

rsv@Psalms:119:92 @ If thy law had not been my delight, I should have perished in my affliction.

rsv@Psalms:119:93 @ I will never forget thy precepts; for by them thou hast given me life.

rsv@Psalms:119:94 @ I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.

rsv@Psalms:119:95 @ The wicked lie in wait to destroy me; but I consider thy testimonies.

rsv@Psalms:119:96 @ I have seen a limit to all perfection, but thy commandment is exceedingly broad.

rsv@Psalms:119:97 @ Oh, how I love thy law! It is my meditation all the day.

rsv@Psalms:119:98 @ Thy commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me.

rsv@Psalms:119:99 @ I have more understanding than all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my meditation.

rsv@Psalms:119:100 @ I understand more than the aged, for I keep thy precepts.

rsv@Psalms:119:101 @ I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep thy word.

rsv@Psalms:119:102 @ I do not turn aside from thy ordinances, for thou hast taught me.

rsv@Psalms:119:103 @ How sweet are thy words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

rsv@Psalms:119:104 @ Through thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

rsv@Psalms:119:105 @ Thy word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

rsv@Psalms:119:106 @ I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to observe thy righteous ordinances.

rsv@Psalms:119:107 @ I am sorely afflicted; give me life, O LORD, according to thy word!

rsv@Psalms:119:108 @ Accept my offerings of praise, O LORD, and teach me thy ordinances.

rsv@Psalms:119:109 @ I hold my life in my hand continually, but I do not forget thy law.

rsv@Psalms:119:110 @ The wicked have laid a snare for me, but I do not stray from thy precepts.

rsv@Psalms:119:111 @ Thy testimonies are my heritage for ever; yea, they are the joy of my heart.

rsv@Psalms:119:112 @ I incline my heart to perform thy statutes for ever, to the end.

rsv@Psalms:119:113 @ I hate double-minded men, but I love thy law.

rsv@Psalms:119:114 @ Thou art my hiding place and my shield; I hope in thy word.

rsv@Psalms:119:115 @ Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.

rsv@Psalms:119:116 @ Uphold me according to thy promise, that I may live, and let me not be put to shame in my hope!

rsv@Psalms:119:117 @ Hold me up, that I may be safe and have regard for thy statutes continually!

rsv@Psalms:119:118 @ Thou dost spurn all who go astray from thy statutes; yea, their cunning is in vain.

rsv@Psalms:119:119 @ All the wicked of the earth thou dost count as dross; therefore I love thy testimonies.

rsv@Psalms:119:120 @ My flesh trembles for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy judgments.

rsv@Psalms:119:121 @ I have done what is just and right; do not leave me to my oppressors.

rsv@Psalms:119:122 @ Be surety for thy servant for good; let not the godless oppress me.

rsv@Psalms:119:123 @ My eyes fail with watching for thy salvation, and for the fulfilment of thy righteous promise.

rsv@Psalms:119:124 @ Deal with thy servant according to thy steadfast love, and teach me thy statutes.

rsv@Psalms:119:125 @ I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies!

rsv@Psalms:119:126 @ It is time for the LORD to act, for thy law has been broken.

rsv@Psalms:119:127 @ Therefore I love thy commandments above gold, above fine gold.

rsv@Psalms:119:128 @ Therefore I direct my steps by all thy precepts; I hate every false way.

rsv@Psalms:119:129 @ Thy testimonies are wonderful; therefore my soul keeps them.

rsv@Psalms:119:130 @ The unfolding of thy words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.

rsv@Psalms:119:131 @ With open mouth I pant, because I long for thy commandments.

rsv@Psalms:119:132 @ Turn to me and be gracious to me, as is thy wont toward those who love thy name.

rsv@Psalms:119:133 @ Keep steady my steps according to thy promise, and let no iniquity get dominion over me.

rsv@Psalms:119:134 @ Redeem me from man's oppression, that I may keep thy precepts.

rsv@Psalms:119:135 @ Make thy face shine upon thy servant, and teach me thy statutes.

rsv@Psalms:119:136 @ My eyes shed streams of tears, because men do not keep thy law.

rsv@Psalms:119:137 @ Righteous art thou, O LORD, and right are thy judgments.

rsv@Psalms:119:138 @ Thou hast appointed thy testimonies in righteousness and in all faithfulness.

rsv@Psalms:119:139 @ My zeal consumes me, because my foes forget thy words.

rsv@Psalms:119:140 @ Thy promise is well tried, and thy servant loves it.

rsv@Psalms:119:141 @ I am small and despised, yet I do not forget thy precepts.

rsv@Psalms:119:142 @ Thy righteousness is righteous for ever, and thy law is true.

rsv@Psalms:119:143 @ Trouble and anguish have come upon me, but thy commandments are my delight.

rsv@Psalms:119:144 @ Thy testimonies are righteous for ever; give me understanding that I may live.

rsv@Psalms:119:145 @ With my whole heart I cry; answer me, O LORD! I will keep thy statutes.

rsv@Psalms:119:146 @ I cry to thee; save me, that I may observe thy testimonies.

rsv@Psalms:119:147 @ I rise before dawn and cry for help; I hope in thy words.

rsv@Psalms:119:148 @ My eyes are awake before the watches of the night, that I may meditate upon thy promise.

rsv@Psalms:119:149 @ Hear my voice in thy steadfast love; O LORD, in thy justice preserve my life.

rsv@Psalms:119:150 @ They draw near who persecute me with evil purpose; they are far from thy law.

rsv@Psalms:119:151 @ But thou art near, O LORD, and all thy commandments are true.

rsv@Psalms:119:152 @ Long have I known from thy testimonies that thou hast founded them for ever.

rsv@Psalms:119:153 @ Look on my affliction and deliver me, for I do not forget thy law.

rsv@Psalms:119:154 @ Plead my cause and redeem me; give me life according to thy promise!

rsv@Psalms:119:155 @ Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek thy statutes.

rsv@Psalms:119:156 @ Great is thy mercy, O LORD; give me life according to thy justice.

rsv@Psalms:119:157 @ Many are my persecutors and my adversaries, but I do not swerve from thy testimonies.

rsv@Psalms:119:158 @ I look at the faithless with disgust, because they do not keep thy commands.

rsv@Psalms:119:159 @ Consider how I love thy precepts! Preserve my life according to thy steadfast love.

rsv@Psalms:119:160 @ The sum of thy word is truth; and every one of thy righteous ordinances endures for ever.

rsv@Psalms:119:161 @ Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of thy words.

rsv@Psalms:119:162 @ I rejoice at thy word like one who finds great spoil.

rsv@Psalms:119:163 @ I hate and abhor falsehood, but I love thy law.

rsv@Psalms:119:164 @ Seven times a day I praise thee for thy righteous ordinances.

rsv@Psalms:119:165 @ Great peace have those who love thy law; nothing can make them stumble.

rsv@Psalms:119:166 @ I hope for thy salvation, O LORD, and I do thy commandments.

rsv@Psalms:119:167 @ My soul keeps thy testimonies; I love them exceedingly.

rsv@Psalms:119:168 @ I keep thy precepts and testimonies, for all my ways are before thee.

rsv@Psalms:119:169 @ Let my cry come before thee, O LORD; give me understanding according to thy word!

rsv@Psalms:119:170 @ Let my supplication come before thee; deliver me according to thy word.

rsv@Psalms:119:171 @ My lips will pour forth praise that thou dost teach me thy statutes.

rsv@Psalms:119:172 @ My tongue will sing of thy word, for all thy commandments are right.

rsv@Psalms:119:173 @ Let thy hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen thy precepts.

rsv@Psalms:119:174 @ I long for thy salvation, O LORD, and thy law is my delight.

rsv@Psalms:119:175 @ Let me live, that I may praise thee, and let thy ordinances help me.

rsv@Psalms:119:176 @ I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant, for I do not forget thy commandments.

rsv@Psalms:120:1 @ A Song of Ascents.

rsv@Psalms:120:2 @ In my distress I cry to the LORD, that he may answer me:

rsv@Psalms:120:3 @ "Deliver me, O LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue."

rsv@Psalms:120:4 @ What shall be given to you? And what more shall be done to you, you deceitful tongue?

rsv@Psalms:120:5 @ A warrior's sharp arrows, with glowing coals of the broom tree!

rsv@Psalms:120:6 @ Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

rsv@Psalms:120:7 @ Too long have I had my dwelling among those who hate peace. [ (Psalms strkjv@120:8) I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war! ]

rsv@Psalms:121:1 @ A Song of Ascents.

rsv@Psalms:121:2 @ I lift up my eyes to the hills. From whence does my help come?

rsv@Psalms:121:3 @ My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

rsv@Psalms:121:4 @ He will not let your foot be moved, he who keeps you will not slumber.

rsv@Psalms:121:5 @ Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

rsv@Psalms:121:6 @ The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is your shade on your right hand.

rsv@Psalms:121:7 @ The sun shall not smite you by day, nor the moon by night.

rsv@Psalms:121:8 @ The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. [ (Psalms strkjv@121:9) The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and for evermore. ]

rsv@Psalms:122:1 @ A Song of Ascents. Of David.

rsv@Psalms:122:2 @ I was glad when they said to me, "Let us go to the house of the LORD!"

rsv@Psalms:122:3 @ Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem!

rsv@Psalms:122:4 @ Jerusalem, built as a city which is bound firmly together,

rsv@Psalms:122:5 @ to which the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:122:6 @ There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.

rsv@Psalms:122:7 @ Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! "May they prosper who love you!

rsv@Psalms:122:8 @ Peace be within your walls, and security within your towers!"

rsv@Psalms:122:9 @ For my brethren and companions' sake I will say, "Peace be within you!" [ (Psalms strkjv@122:10) For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good. ]

rsv@Psalms:123:1 @ A Song of Ascents.

rsv@Psalms:123:2 @ To thee I lift up my eyes, O thou who art enthroned in the heavens!

rsv@Psalms:123:3 @ Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, till he have mercy upon us.

rsv@Psalms:123:4 @ Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we have had more than enough of contempt. [ (Psalms strkjv@123:5) Too long our soul has been sated with the scorn of those who are at ease, the contempt of the proud. ]

rsv@Psalms:124:1 @ A Song of Ascents. Of David.

rsv@Psalms:124:2 @ If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, let Israel now say--

rsv@Psalms:124:3 @ if it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us,

rsv@Psalms:124:4 @ then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;

rsv@Psalms:124:5 @ then the flood would have swept us away, the torrent would have gone over us;

rsv@Psalms:124:6 @ then over us would have gone the raging waters.

rsv@Psalms:124:7 @ Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth!

rsv@Psalms:124:8 @ We have escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped! [ (Psalms strkjv@124:9) Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth. ]

rsv@Psalms:125:1 @ A Song of Ascents.

rsv@Psalms:125:2 @ Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides for ever.

rsv@Psalms:125:3 @ As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people, from this time forth and for evermore.

rsv@Psalms:125:4 @ For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, lest the righteous put forth their hands to do wrong.

rsv@Psalms:125:5 @ Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, and to those who are upright in their hearts! [ (Psalms strkjv@125:6) But those who turn aside upon their crooked ways the LORD will lead away with evildoers! Peace be in Israel! ]

rsv@Psalms:126:1 @ A Song of Ascents.

rsv@Psalms:126:2 @ When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.

rsv@Psalms:126:3 @ Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them."

rsv@Psalms:126:4 @ The LORD has done great things for us; we are glad.

rsv@Psalms:126:5 @ Restore our fortunes, O LORD, like the watercourses in the Negeb!

rsv@Psalms:126:6 @ May those who sow in tears reap with shouts of joy! [ (Psalms strkjv@126:7) He that goes forth weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him. ]

rsv@Psalms:127:1 @ A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon.

rsv@Psalms:127:2 @ Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

rsv@Psalms:127:3 @ It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.

rsv@Psalms:127:4 @ Lo, sons are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward.

rsv@Psalms:127:5 @ Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the sons of one's youth. [ (Psalms strkjv@127:6) Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate. ]

rsv@Psalms:128:1 @ A Song of Ascents.

rsv@Psalms:128:2 @ Blessed is every one who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways!

rsv@Psalms:128:3 @ You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and it shall be well with you.

rsv@Psalms:128:4 @ Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.

rsv@Psalms:128:5 @ Lo, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:128:6 @ The LORD bless you from Zion! May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life! [ (Psalms strkjv@128:7) May you see your children's children! Peace be upon Israel! ]

rsv@Psalms:129:1 @ A Song of Ascents.

rsv@Psalms:129:2 @ "Sorely have they afflicted me from my youth," let Israel now say--

rsv@Psalms:129:3 @ "Sorely have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.

rsv@Psalms:129:4 @ The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows."

rsv@Psalms:129:5 @ The LORD is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.

rsv@Psalms:129:6 @ May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward!

rsv@Psalms:129:7 @ Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

rsv@Psalms:129:8 @ with which the reaper does not fill his hand or the binder of sheaves his bosom, [ (Psalms strkjv@129:9) while those who pass by do not say, "The blessing of the LORD be upon you! We bless you in the name of the LORD!" ]

rsv@Psalms:130:1 @ A Song of Ascents.

rsv@Psalms:130:2 @ Out of the depths I cry to thee, O LORD!

rsv@Psalms:130:3 @ Lord, hear my voice! Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications!

rsv@Psalms:130:4 @ If thou, O LORD, shouldst mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?

rsv@Psalms:130:5 @ But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.

rsv@Psalms:130:6 @ I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope;

rsv@Psalms:130:7 @ my soul waits for the LORD more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.

rsv@Psalms:130:8 @ O Israel, hope in the LORD! For with the LORD there is steadfast love, and with him is plenteous redemption. [ (Psalms strkjv@130:9) And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities. ]

rsv@Psalms:131:1 @ A Song of Ascents. Of David.

rsv@Psalms:131:2 @ O LORD, my heart is not lifted up, my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.

rsv@Psalms:131:3 @ But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a child quieted at its mother's breast; like a child that is quieted is my soul. [ (Psalms strkjv@131:4) O Israel, hope in the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. ]

rsv@Psalms:132:1 @ A Song of Ascents.

rsv@Psalms:132:2 @ Remember, O LORD, in David's favor, all the hardships he endured;

rsv@Psalms:132:3 @ how he swore to the LORD and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob,

rsv@Psalms:132:4 @ "I will not enter my house or get into my bed;

rsv@Psalms:132:5 @ I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,

rsv@Psalms:132:6 @ until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob."

rsv@Psalms:132:7 @ Lo, we heard of it in Eph'rathah, we found it in the fields of Ja'ar.

rsv@Psalms:132:8 @ "Let us go to his dwelling place; let us worship at his footstool!"

rsv@Psalms:132:9 @ Arise, O LORD, and go to thy resting place, thou and the ark of thy might.

rsv@Psalms:132:10 @ Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness, and let thy saints shout for joy.

rsv@Psalms:132:11 @ For thy servant David's sake do not turn away the face of thy anointed one.

rsv@Psalms:132:12 @ The LORD swore to David a sure oath from which he will not turn back: "One of the sons of your body I will set on your throne.

rsv@Psalms:132:13 @ If your sons keep my covenant and my testimonies which I shall teach them, their sons also for ever shall sit upon your throne."

rsv@Psalms:132:14 @ For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation:

rsv@Psalms:132:15 @ "This is my resting place for ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.

rsv@Psalms:132:16 @ I will abundantly bless her provisions; I will satisfy her poor with bread.

rsv@Psalms:132:17 @ Her priests I will clothe with salvation, and her saints will shout for joy.

rsv@Psalms:132:18 @ There I will make a horn to sprout for David; I have prepared a lamp for my anointed. [ (Psalms strkjv@132:19) His enemies I will clothe with shame, but upon himself his crown will shed its luster." ]

rsv@Psalms:133:1 @ A Song of Ascents.

rsv@Psalms:133:2 @ Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!

rsv@Psalms:133:3 @ It is like the precious oil upon the head, running down upon the beard, upon the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes! [ (Psalms strkjv@133:4) It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the LORD has commanded the blessing, life for evermore. ]

rsv@Psalms:134:1 @ A Song of Ascents.

rsv@Psalms:134:2 @ Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who stand by night in the house of the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:134:3 @ Lift up your hands to the holy place, and bless the LORD! [ (Psalms strkjv@134:4) May the LORD bless you from Zion, he who made heaven and earth! ]

rsv@Psalms:135:1 @ Praise the LORD. Praise the name of the LORD, give praise, O servants of the LORD,

rsv@Psalms:135:2 @ you that stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God!

rsv@Psalms:135:3 @ Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good; sing to his name, for he is gracious!

rsv@Psalms:135:4 @ For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his own possession.

rsv@Psalms:135:5 @ For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.

rsv@Psalms:135:6 @ Whatever the LORD pleases he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps.

rsv@Psalms:135:7 @ He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.

rsv@Psalms:135:8 @ He it was who smote the first-born of Egypt, both of man and of beast;

rsv@Psalms:135:9 @ who in thy midst, O Egypt, sent signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants;

rsv@Psalms:135:10 @ who smote many nations and slew mighty kings,

rsv@Psalms:135:11 @ Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan,

rsv@Psalms:135:12 @ and gave their land as a heritage, a heritage to his people Israel.

rsv@Psalms:135:13 @ Thy name, O LORD, endures for ever, thy renown, O LORD, throughout all ages.

rsv@Psalms:135:14 @ For the LORD will vindicate his people, and have compassion on his servants.

rsv@Psalms:135:15 @ The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

rsv@Psalms:135:16 @ They have mouths, but they speak not, they have eyes, but they see not,

rsv@Psalms:135:17 @ they have ears, but they hear not, nor is there any breath in their mouths.

rsv@Psalms:135:18 @ Like them be those who make them!-- yea, every one who trusts in them!

rsv@Psalms:135:19 @ O house of Israel, bless the LORD! O house of Aaron, bless the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:135:20 @ O house of Levi, bless the LORD! You that fear the LORD, bless the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:135:21 @ Blessed be the LORD from Zion, he who dwells in Jerusalem! Praise the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:136:1 @ O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures for ever.

rsv@Psalms:136:2 @ O give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast love endures for ever.

rsv@Psalms:136:3 @ O give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:4 @ to him who alone does great wonders, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:5 @ to him who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:6 @ to him who spread out the earth upon the waters, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:7 @ to him who made the great lights, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:8 @ the sun to rule over the day, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:9 @ the moon and stars to rule over the night, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:10 @ to him who smote the first-born of Egypt, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:11 @ and brought Israel out from among them, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:12 @ with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:13 @ to him who divided the Red Sea in sunder, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:14 @ and made Israel pass through the midst of it, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:15 @ but overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:16 @ to him who led his people through the wilderness, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:17 @ to him who smote great kings, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:18 @ and slew famous kings, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:19 @ Sihon, king of the Amorites, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:20 @ and Og, king of Bashan, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:21 @ and gave their land as a heritage, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:22 @ a heritage to Israel his servant, for his steadfast love endures for ever.

rsv@Psalms:136:23 @ It is he who remembered us in our low estate, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:24 @ and rescued us from our foes, for his steadfast love endures for ever;

rsv@Psalms:136:25 @ he who gives food to all flesh, for his steadfast love endures for ever.

rsv@Psalms:136:26 @ O give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures for ever.

rsv@Psalms:137:1 @ By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion.

rsv@Psalms:137:2 @ On the willows there we hung up our lyres.

rsv@Psalms:137:3 @ For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"

rsv@Psalms:137:4 @ How shall we sing the LORD's song in a foreign land?

rsv@Psalms:137:5 @ If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither!

rsv@Psalms:137:6 @ Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy!

rsv@Psalms:137:7 @ Remember, O LORD, against the E'domites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, "Rase it, rase it! Down to its foundations!"

rsv@Psalms:137:8 @ O daughter of Babylon, you devastator! Happy shall he be who requites you with what you have done to us!

rsv@Psalms:137:9 @ Happy shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!

rsv@Psalms:138:1 @ A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:138:2 @ I give thee thanks, O LORD, with my whole heart; before the gods I sing thy praise;

rsv@Psalms:138:3 @ I bow down toward thy holy temple and give thanks to thy name for thy steadfast love and thy faithfulness; for thou hast exalted above everything thy name and thy word.

rsv@Psalms:138:4 @ On the day I called, thou didst answer me, my strength of soul thou didst increase.

rsv@Psalms:138:5 @ All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, for they have heard the words of thy mouth;

rsv@Psalms:138:6 @ and they shall sing of the ways of the LORD, for great is the glory of the LORD.

rsv@Psalms:138:7 @ For though the LORD is high, he regards the lowly; but the haughty he knows from afar.

rsv@Psalms:138:8 @ Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou dost preserve my life; thou dost stretch out thy hand against the wrath of my enemies, and thy right hand delivers me. [ (Psalms strkjv@138:9) The LORD will fulfil his purpose for me; thy steadfast love, O LORD, endures for ever. Do not forsake the work of thy hands. ]

rsv@Psalms:139:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:139:2 @ O LORD, thou hast searched me and known me!

rsv@Psalms:139:3 @ Thou knowest when I sit down and when I rise up; thou discernest my thoughts from afar.

rsv@Psalms:139:4 @ Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

rsv@Psalms:139:5 @ Even before a word is on my tongue, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

rsv@Psalms:139:6 @ Thou dost beset me behind and before, and layest thy hand upon me.

rsv@Psalms:139:7 @ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain it.

rsv@Psalms:139:8 @ Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

rsv@Psalms:139:9 @ If I ascend to heaven, thou art there! If I make my bed in Sheol, thou art there!

rsv@Psalms:139:10 @ If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

rsv@Psalms:139:11 @ even there thy hand shall lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

rsv@Psalms:139:12 @ If I say, "Let only darkness cover me, and the light about me be night,"

rsv@Psalms:139:13 @ even the darkness is not dark to thee, the night is bright as the day; for darkness is as light with thee.

rsv@Psalms:139:14 @ For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb.

rsv@Psalms:139:15 @ I praise thee, for thou art fearful and wonderful. Wonderful are thy works! Thou knowest me right well;

rsv@Psalms:139:16 @ my frame was not hidden from thee, when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth.

rsv@Psalms:139:17 @ Thy eyes beheld my unformed substance; in thy book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

rsv@Psalms:139:18 @ How precious to me are thy thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

rsv@Psalms:139:19 @ If I would count them, they are more than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee.

rsv@Psalms:139:20 @ O that thou wouldst slay the wicked, O God, and that men of blood would depart from me,

rsv@Psalms:139:21 @ men who maliciously defy thee, who lift themselves up against thee for evil!

rsv@Psalms:139:22 @ Do I not hate them that hate thee, O LORD? And do I not loathe them that rise up against thee?

rsv@Psalms:139:23 @ I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies.

rsv@Psalms:139:24 @ Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! [ (Psalms strkjv@139:25) And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting! ]

rsv@Psalms:140:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:140:2 @ Deliver me, O LORD, from evil men; preserve me from violent men,

rsv@Psalms:140:3 @ who plan evil things in their heart, and stir up wars continually.

rsv@Psalms:140:4 @ They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's, and under their lips is the poison of vipers. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:140:5 @ Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from violent men, who have planned to trip up my feet.

rsv@Psalms:140:6 @ Arrogant men have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net, by the wayside they have set snares for me. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:140:7 @ I say to the LORD, Thou art my God; give ear to the voice of my supplications, O LORD!

rsv@Psalms:140:8 @ O LORD, my Lord, my strong deliverer, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

rsv@Psalms:140:9 @ Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked; do not further his evil plot! [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:140:10 @ Those who surround me lift up their head, let the mischief of their lips overwhelm them!

rsv@Psalms:140:11 @ Let burning coals fall upon them! Let them be cast into pits, no more to rise!

rsv@Psalms:140:12 @ Let not the slanderer be established in the land; let evil hunt down the violent man speedily!

rsv@Psalms:140:13 @ I know that the LORD maintains the cause of the afflicted, and executes justice for the needy. [ (Psalms strkjv@140:14) Surely the righteous shall give thanks to thy name; the upright shall dwell in thy presence. ]

rsv@Psalms:141:1 @ A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:141:2 @ I call upon thee, O LORD; make haste to me! Give ear to my voice, when I call to thee!

rsv@Psalms:141:3 @ Let my prayer be counted as incense before thee, and the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice!

rsv@Psalms:141:4 @ Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD, keep watch over the door of my lips!

rsv@Psalms:141:5 @ Incline not my heart to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties!

rsv@Psalms:141:6 @ Let a good man strike or rebuke me in kindness, but let the oil of the wicked never anoint my head; for my prayer is continually against their wicked deeds.

rsv@Psalms:141:7 @ When they are given over to those who shall condemn them, then they shall learn that the word of the LORD is true.

rsv@Psalms:141:8 @ As a rock which one cleaves and shatters on the land, so shall their bones be strewn at the mouth of Sheol.

rsv@Psalms:141:9 @ But my eyes are toward thee, O LORD God; in thee I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless!

rsv@Psalms:141:10 @ Keep me from the trap which they have laid for me, and from the snares of evildoers! [ (Psalms strkjv@141:11) Let the wicked together fall into their own nets, while I escape. ]

rsv@Psalms:142:1 @ A Maskil of David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer.

rsv@Psalms:142:2 @ I cry with my voice to the LORD, with my voice I make supplication to the LORD,

rsv@Psalms:142:3 @ I pour out my complaint before him, I tell my trouble before him.

rsv@Psalms:142:4 @ When my spirit is faint, thou knowest my way! In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.

rsv@Psalms:142:5 @ I look to the right and watch, but there is none who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me, no man cares for me.

rsv@Psalms:142:6 @ I cry to thee, O LORD; I say, Thou art my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.

rsv@Psalms:142:7 @ Give heed to my cry; for I am brought very low! Deliver me from my persecutors; for they are too strong for me! [ (Psalms strkjv@142:8) Bring me out of prison, that I may give thanks to thy name! The righteous will surround me; for thou wilt deal bountifully with me. ]

rsv@Psalms:143:1 @ A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:143:2 @ Hear my prayer, O LORD; give ear to my supplications! In thy faithfulness answer me, in thy righteousness!

rsv@Psalms:143:3 @ Enter not into judgment with thy servant; for no man living is righteous before thee.

rsv@Psalms:143:4 @ For the enemy has pursued me; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.

rsv@Psalms:143:5 @ Therefore my spirit faints within me; my heart within me is appalled.

rsv@Psalms:143:6 @ I remember the days of old, I meditate on all that thou hast done; I muse on what thy hands have wrought.

rsv@Psalms:143:7 @ I stretch out my hands to thee; my soul thirsts for thee like a parched land. [Selah]

rsv@Psalms:143:8 @ Make haste to answer me, O LORD! My spirit fails! Hide not thy face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the Pit.

rsv@Psalms:143:9 @ Let me hear in the morning of thy steadfast love, for in thee I put my trust. Teach me the way I should go, for to thee I lift up my soul.

rsv@Psalms:143:10 @ Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies! I have fled to thee for refuge!

rsv@Psalms:143:11 @ Teach me to do thy will, for thou art my God! Let thy good spirit lead me on a level path!

rsv@Psalms:143:12 @ For thy name's sake, O LORD, preserve my life! In thy righteousness bring me out of trouble! [ (Psalms strkjv@143:13) And in thy steadfast love cut off my enemies, and destroy all my adversaries, for I am thy servant. ]

rsv@Psalms:144:1 @ A Psalm of David.

rsv@Psalms:144:2 @ Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle;

rsv@Psalms:144:3 @ my rock and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues the peoples under him.

rsv@Psalms:144:4 @ O LORD, what is man that thou dost regard him, or the son of man that thou dost think of him?

rsv@Psalms:144:5 @ Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.

rsv@Psalms:144:6 @ Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down! Touch the mountains that they smoke!

rsv@Psalms:144:7 @ Flash forth the lightning and scatter them, send out thy arrows and rout them!

rsv@Psalms:144:8 @ Stretch forth thy hand from on high, rescue me and deliver me from the many waters, from the hand of aliens,

rsv@Psalms:144:9 @ whose mouths speak lies, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

rsv@Psalms:144:10 @ I will sing a new song to thee, O God; upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to thee,

rsv@Psalms:144:11 @ who givest victory to kings, who rescuest David thy servant.

rsv@Psalms:144:12 @ Rescue me from the cruel sword, and deliver me from the hand of aliens, whose mouths speak lies, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

rsv@Psalms:144:13 @ May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace;

rsv@Psalms:144:14 @ may our garners be full, providing all manner of store; may our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields;

rsv@Psalms:144:15 @ may our cattle be heavy with young, suffering no mischance or failure in bearing; may there be no cry of distress in our streets! [ (Psalms strkjv@144:16) Happy the people to whom such blessings fall! Happy the people whose God is the LORD! ]

rsv@Psalms:145:1 @ A Song of Praise. Of David.

rsv@Psalms:145:2 @ I will extol thee, my God and King, and bless thy name for ever and ever.

rsv@Psalms:145:3 @ Every day I will bless thee, and praise thy name for ever and ever.

rsv@Psalms:145:4 @ Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.

rsv@Psalms:145:5 @ One generation shall laud thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

rsv@Psalms:145:6 @ On the glorious splendor of thy majesty, and on thy wondrous works, I will meditate.

rsv@Psalms:145:7 @ Men shall proclaim the might of thy terrible acts, and I will declare thy greatness.

rsv@Psalms:145:8 @ They shall pour forth the fame of thy abundant goodness, and shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

rsv@Psalms:145:9 @ The LORD is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

rsv@Psalms:145:10 @ The LORD is good to all, and his compassion is over all that he has made.

rsv@Psalms:145:11 @ All thy works shall give thanks to thee, O LORD, and all thy saints shall bless thee!

rsv@Psalms:145:12 @ They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and tell of thy power,

rsv@Psalms:145:13 @ to make known to the sons of men thy mighty deeds, and the glorious splendor of thy kingdom.

rsv@Psalms:145:14 @ Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endures throughout all generations. The LORD is faithful in all his words, and gracious in all his deeds.

rsv@Psalms:145:15 @ The LORD upholds all who are falling, and raises up all who are bowed down.

rsv@Psalms:145:16 @ The eyes of all look to thee, and thou givest them their food in due season.

rsv@Psalms:145:17 @ Thou openest thy hand, thou satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

rsv@Psalms:145:18 @ The LORD is just in all his ways, and kind in all his doings.

rsv@Psalms:145:19 @ The LORD is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth.

rsv@Psalms:145:20 @ He fulfils the desire of all who fear him, he also hears their cry, and saves them.

rsv@Psalms:145:21 @ The LORD preserves all who love him; but all the wicked he will destroy. [ (Psalms strkjv@145:22) My mouth will speak the praise of the LORD, and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever. ]

rsv@Psalms:146:1 @ Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul!

rsv@Psalms:146:2 @ I will praise the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have being.

rsv@Psalms:146:3 @ Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no help.

rsv@Psalms:146:4 @ When his breath departs he returns to his earth; on that very day his plans perish.

rsv@Psalms:146:5 @ Happy is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,

rsv@Psalms:146:6 @ who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps faith for ever;

rsv@Psalms:146:7 @ who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free;

rsv@Psalms:146:8 @ the LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous.

rsv@Psalms:146:9 @ The LORD watches over the sojourners, he upholds the widow and the fatherless; but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

rsv@Psalms:146:10 @ The LORD will reign for ever, thy God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:147:1 @ Praise the LORD! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for he is gracious, and a song of praise is seemly.

rsv@Psalms:147:2 @ The LORD builds up Jerusalem; he gathers the outcasts of Israel.

rsv@Psalms:147:3 @ He heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds.

rsv@Psalms:147:4 @ He determines the number of the stars, he gives to all of them their names.

rsv@Psalms:147:5 @ Great is our LORD, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.

rsv@Psalms:147:6 @ The LORD lifts up the downtrodden, he casts the wicked to the ground.

rsv@Psalms:147:7 @ Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; make melody to our God upon the lyre!

rsv@Psalms:147:8 @ He covers the heavens with clouds, he prepares rain for the earth, he makes grass grow upon the hills.

rsv@Psalms:147:9 @ He gives to the beasts their food, and to the young ravens which cry.

rsv@Psalms:147:10 @ His delight is not in the strength of the horse, nor his pleasure in the legs of a man;

rsv@Psalms:147:11 @ but the LORD takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love.

rsv@Psalms:147:12 @ Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion!

rsv@Psalms:147:13 @ For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your sons within you.

rsv@Psalms:147:14 @ He makes peace in your borders; he fills you with the finest of the wheat.

rsv@Psalms:147:15 @ He sends forth his command to the earth; his word runs swiftly.

rsv@Psalms:147:16 @ He gives snow like wool; he scatters hoarfrost like ashes.

rsv@Psalms:147:17 @ He casts forth his ice like morsels; who can stand before his cold?

rsv@Psalms:147:18 @ He sends forth his word, and melts them; he makes his wind blow, and the waters flow.

rsv@Psalms:147:19 @ He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and ordinances to Israel.

rsv@Psalms:147:20 @ He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his ordinances. Praise the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:148:1 @ Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD from the heavens, praise him in the heights!

rsv@Psalms:148:2 @ Praise him, all his angels, praise him, all his host!

rsv@Psalms:148:3 @ Praise him, sun and moon, praise him, all you shining stars!

rsv@Psalms:148:4 @ Praise him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens!

rsv@Psalms:148:5 @ Let them praise the name of the LORD! For he commanded and they were created.

rsv@Psalms:148:6 @ And he established them for ever and ever; he fixed their bounds which cannot be passed.

rsv@Psalms:148:7 @ Praise the LORD from the earth, you sea monsters and all deeps,

rsv@Psalms:148:8 @ fire and hail, snow and frost, stormy wind fulfilling his command!

rsv@Psalms:148:9 @ Mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars!

rsv@Psalms:148:11 @ Kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all rulers of the earth!

rsv@Psalms:148:12 @ Young men and maidens together, old men and children!

rsv@Psalms:148:13 @ Let them praise the name of the LORD, for his name alone is exalted; his glory is above earth and heaven.

rsv@Psalms:148:14 @ He has raised up a horn for his people, praise for all his saints, for the people of Israel who are near to him. Praise the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:149:1 @ Praise the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of the faithful!

rsv@Psalms:149:2 @ Let Israel be glad in his Maker, let the sons of Zion rejoice in their King!

rsv@Psalms:149:3 @ Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with timbrel and lyre!

rsv@Psalms:149:4 @ For the LORD takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with victory.

rsv@Psalms:149:5 @ Let the faithful exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their couches.

rsv@Psalms:149:6 @ Let the high praises of God be in their throats and two-edged swords in their hands,

rsv@Psalms:149:7 @ to wreak vengeance on the nations and chastisement on the peoples,

rsv@Psalms:149:8 @ to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron,

rsv@Psalms:149:9 @ to execute on them the judgment written! This is glory for all his faithful ones. Praise the LORD!

rsv@Psalms:150:1 @ Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty firmament!

rsv@Psalms:150:2 @ Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his exceeding greatness!

rsv@Psalms:150:3 @ Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp!

rsv@Psalms:150:5 @ Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals!

rsv@Psalms:150:6 @ Let everything that breathes praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!

rsv@Proverbs:1:1 @ The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:

rsv@Proverbs:1:2 @ That men may know wisdom and instruction, understand words of insight,

rsv@Proverbs:1:3 @ receive instruction in wise dealing, righteousness, justice, and equity;

rsv@Proverbs:1:4 @ that prudence may be given to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth--

rsv@Proverbs:1:5 @ the wise man also may hear and increase in learning, and the man of understanding acquire skill,

rsv@Proverbs:1:6 @ to understand a proverb and a figure, the words of the wise and their riddles.

rsv@Proverbs:1:7 @ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

rsv@Proverbs:1:8 @ Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and reject not your mother's teaching;

rsv@Proverbs:1:9 @ for they are a fair garland for your head, and pendants for your neck.

rsv@Proverbs:1:10 @ My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

rsv@Proverbs:1:11 @ If they say, "Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us wantonly ambush the innocent;

rsv@Proverbs:1:12 @ like Sheol let us swallow them alive and whole, like those who go down to the Pit;

rsv@Proverbs:1:13 @ we shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with spoil;

rsv@Proverbs:1:14 @ throw in your lot among us, we will all have one purse"--

rsv@Proverbs:1:15 @ my son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their paths;

rsv@Proverbs:1:16 @ for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

rsv@Proverbs:1:17 @ For in vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird;

rsv@Proverbs:1:18 @ but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they set an ambush for their own lives.

rsv@Proverbs:1:19 @ Such are the ways of all who get gain by violence; it takes away the life of its possessors.

rsv@Proverbs:1:20 @ Wisdom cries aloud in the street; in the markets she raises her voice;

rsv@Proverbs:1:21 @ on the top of the walls she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:

rsv@Proverbs:1:22 @ "How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

rsv@Proverbs:1:23 @ Give heed to my reproof; behold, I will pour out my thoughts to you; I will make my words known to you.

rsv@Proverbs:1:24 @ Because I have called and you refused to listen, have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded,

rsv@Proverbs:1:25 @ and you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof,

rsv@Proverbs:1:26 @ I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when panic strikes you,

rsv@Proverbs:1:27 @ when panic strikes you like a storm, and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.

rsv@Proverbs:1:28 @ Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.

rsv@Proverbs:1:29 @ Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD,

rsv@Proverbs:1:30 @ would have none of my counsel, and despised all my reproof,

rsv@Proverbs:1:31 @ therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way and be sated with their own devices.

rsv@Proverbs:1:32 @ For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacence of fools destroys them;

rsv@Proverbs:1:33 @ but he who listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of evil."

rsv@Proverbs:2:1 @ My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,

rsv@Proverbs:2:2 @ making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;

rsv@Proverbs:2:3 @ yes, if you cry out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,

rsv@Proverbs:2:4 @ if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures;

rsv@Proverbs:2:5 @ then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.

rsv@Proverbs:2:6 @ For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

rsv@Proverbs:2:7 @ he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

rsv@Proverbs:2:8 @ guarding the paths of justice and preserving the way of his saints.

rsv@Proverbs:2:9 @ Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;

rsv@Proverbs:2:10 @ for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

rsv@Proverbs:2:11 @ discretion will watch over you; understanding will guard you;

rsv@Proverbs:2:12 @ delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,

rsv@Proverbs:2:13 @ who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

rsv@Proverbs:2:14 @ who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil;

rsv@Proverbs:2:15 @ men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.

rsv@Proverbs:2:16 @ You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words,

rsv@Proverbs:2:17 @ who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;

rsv@Proverbs:2:18 @ for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the shades;

rsv@Proverbs:2:19 @ none who go to her come back nor do they regain the paths of life.

rsv@Proverbs:2:20 @ So you will walk in the way of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous.

rsv@Proverbs:2:21 @ For the upright will inhabit the land, and men of integrity will remain in it;

rsv@Proverbs:2:22 @ but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.

rsv@Proverbs:3:1 @ My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;

rsv@Proverbs:3:2 @ for length of days and years of life and abundant welfare will they give you.

rsv@Proverbs:3:3 @ Let not loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them about your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

rsv@Proverbs:3:4 @ So you will find favor and good repute in the sight of God and man.

rsv@Proverbs:3:5 @ Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight.

rsv@Proverbs:3:6 @ In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

rsv@Proverbs:3:7 @ Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD, and turn away from evil.

rsv@Proverbs:3:8 @ It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.

rsv@Proverbs:3:9 @ Honor the LORD with your substance and with the first fruits of all your produce;

rsv@Proverbs:3:10 @ then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.

rsv@Proverbs:3:11 @ My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline or be weary of his reproof,

rsv@Proverbs:3:12 @ for the LORD reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

rsv@Proverbs:3:13 @ Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gets understanding,

rsv@Proverbs:3:14 @ for the gain from it is better than gain from silver and its profit better than gold.

rsv@Proverbs:3:15 @ She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her.

rsv@Proverbs:3:16 @ Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.

rsv@Proverbs:3:17 @ Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

rsv@Proverbs:3:18 @ She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called happy.

rsv@Proverbs:3:19 @ The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens;

rsv@Proverbs:3:20 @ by his knowledge the deeps broke forth, and the clouds drop down the dew.

rsv@Proverbs:3:21 @ My son, keep sound wisdom and discretion; let them not escape from your sight,

rsv@Proverbs:3:22 @ and they will be life for your soul and adornment for your neck.

rsv@Proverbs:3:23 @ Then you will walk on your way securely and your foot will not stumble.

rsv@Proverbs:3:24 @ If you sit down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.

rsv@Proverbs:3:25 @ Do not be afraid of sudden panic, or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes;

rsv@Proverbs:3:26 @ for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.

rsv@Proverbs:3:27 @ Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.

rsv@Proverbs:3:28 @ Do not say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it"--when you have it with you.

rsv@Proverbs:3:29 @ Do not plan evil against your neighbor who dwells trustingly beside you.

rsv@Proverbs:3:30 @ Do not contend with a man for no reason, when he has done you no harm.

rsv@Proverbs:3:31 @ Do not envy a man of violence and do not choose any of his ways;

rsv@Proverbs:3:32 @ for the perverse man is an abomination to the LORD, but the upright are in his confidence.

rsv@Proverbs:3:33 @ The LORD's curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the abode of the righteous.

rsv@Proverbs:3:34 @ Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he shows favor.

rsv@Proverbs:3:35 @ The wise will inherit honor, but fools get disgrace.

rsv@Proverbs:4:1 @ Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight;

rsv@Proverbs:4:2 @ for I give you good precepts: do not forsake my teaching.

rsv@Proverbs:4:3 @ When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,

rsv@Proverbs:4:4 @ he taught me, and said to me, "Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live;

rsv@Proverbs:4:5 @ do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. Get wisdom; get insight.

rsv@Proverbs:4:6 @ Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you.

rsv@Proverbs:4:7 @ The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.

rsv@Proverbs:4:8 @ Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her.

rsv@Proverbs:4:9 @ She will place on your head a fair garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown."

rsv@Proverbs:4:10 @ Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many.

rsv@Proverbs:4:11 @ I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.

rsv@Proverbs:4:12 @ When you walk, your step will not be hampered; and if you run, you will not stumble.

rsv@Proverbs:4:13 @ Keep hold of instruction, do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.

rsv@Proverbs:4:14 @ Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil men.

rsv@Proverbs:4:15 @ Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.

rsv@Proverbs:4:16 @ For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made some one stumble.

rsv@Proverbs:4:17 @ For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

rsv@Proverbs:4:18 @ But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

rsv@Proverbs:4:19 @ The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble.

rsv@Proverbs:4:20 @ My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

rsv@Proverbs:4:21 @ Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.

rsv@Proverbs:4:22 @ For they are life to him who finds them, and healing to all his flesh.

rsv@Proverbs:4:23 @ Keep your heart with all vigilance; for from it flow the springs of life.

rsv@Proverbs:4:24 @ Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you.

rsv@Proverbs:4:25 @ Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.

rsv@Proverbs:4:26 @ Take heed to the path of your feet, then all your ways will be sure.

rsv@Proverbs:4:27 @ Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.

rsv@Proverbs:5:1 @ My son, be attentive to my wisdom, incline your ear to my understanding;

rsv@Proverbs:5:2 @ that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.

rsv@Proverbs:5:3 @ For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil;

rsv@Proverbs:5:4 @ but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

rsv@Proverbs:5:5 @ Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol;

rsv@Proverbs:5:6 @ she does not take heed to the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.

rsv@Proverbs:5:7 @ And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

rsv@Proverbs:5:8 @ Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house;

rsv@Proverbs:5:9 @ lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless;

rsv@Proverbs:5:10 @ lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of an alien;

rsv@Proverbs:5:11 @ and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,

rsv@Proverbs:5:12 @ and you say, "How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

rsv@Proverbs:5:13 @ I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.

rsv@Proverbs:5:14 @ I was at the point of utter ruin in the assembled congregation."

rsv@Proverbs:5:15 @ Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.

rsv@Proverbs:5:16 @ Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?

rsv@Proverbs:5:17 @ Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.

rsv@Proverbs:5:18 @ Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

rsv@Proverbs:5:19 @ a lovely hind, a graceful doe. Let her affection fill you at all times with delight, be infatuated always with her love.

rsv@Proverbs:5:20 @ Why should you be infatuated, my son, with a loose woman and embrace the bosom of an adventuress?

rsv@Proverbs:5:21 @ For a man's ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he watches all his paths.

rsv@Proverbs:5:22 @ The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the toils of his sin.

rsv@Proverbs:5:23 @ He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is lost.

rsv@Proverbs:6:1 @ My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger;

rsv@Proverbs:6:2 @ if you are snared in the utterance of your lips, caught in the words of your mouth;

rsv@Proverbs:6:3 @ then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into your neighbor's power: go, hasten, and importune your neighbor.

rsv@Proverbs:6:4 @ Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;

rsv@Proverbs:6:5 @ save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

rsv@Proverbs:6:6 @ Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.

rsv@Proverbs:6:7 @ Without having any chief, officer or ruler,

rsv@Proverbs:6:8 @ she prepares her food in summer, and gathers her sustenance in harvest.

rsv@Proverbs:6:9 @ How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?

rsv@Proverbs:6:10 @ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

rsv@Proverbs:6:11 @ and poverty will come upon you like a vagabond, and want like an armed man.

rsv@Proverbs:6:12 @ A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech,

rsv@Proverbs:6:13 @ winks with his eyes, scrapes with his feet, points with his finger,

rsv@Proverbs:6:14 @ with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord;

rsv@Proverbs:6:15 @ therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.

rsv@Proverbs:6:16 @ There are six things which the LORD hates, seven which are an abomination to him:

rsv@Proverbs:6:17 @ haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

rsv@Proverbs:6:18 @ a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil,

rsv@Proverbs:6:19 @ a false witness who breathes out lies, and a man who sows discord among brothers.

rsv@Proverbs:6:20 @ My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.

rsv@Proverbs:6:21 @ Bind them upon your heart always; tie them about your neck.

rsv@Proverbs:6:22 @ When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.

rsv@Proverbs:6:23 @ For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,

rsv@Proverbs:6:24 @ to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adventuress.

rsv@Proverbs:6:25 @ Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;

rsv@Proverbs:6:26 @ for a harlot may be hired for a loaf of bread, but an adulteress stalks a man's very life.

rsv@Proverbs:6:27 @ Can a man carry fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned?

rsv@Proverbs:6:28 @ Or can one walk upon hot coals and his feet not be scorched?

rsv@Proverbs:6:29 @ So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; none who touches her will go unpunished.

rsv@Proverbs:6:30 @ Do not men despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry?

rsv@Proverbs:6:31 @ And if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold; he will give all the goods of his house.

rsv@Proverbs:6:32 @ He who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself.

rsv@Proverbs:6:33 @ Wounds and dishonor will he get, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.

rsv@Proverbs:6:34 @ For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge.

rsv@Proverbs:6:35 @ He will accept no compensation, nor be appeased though you multiply gifts.

rsv@Proverbs:7:1 @ My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you;

rsv@Proverbs:7:2 @ keep my commandments and live, keep my teachings as the apple of your eye;

rsv@Proverbs:7:3 @ bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart.

rsv@Proverbs:7:4 @ Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call insight your intimate friend;

rsv@Proverbs:7:5 @ to preserve you from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words.

rsv@Proverbs:7:6 @ For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice,

rsv@Proverbs:7:7 @ and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man without sense,

rsv@Proverbs:7:8 @ passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house

rsv@Proverbs:7:9 @ in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness.

rsv@Proverbs:7:10 @ And lo, a woman meets him, dressed as a harlot, wily of heart.

rsv@Proverbs:7:11 @ She is loud and wayward, her feet do not stay at home;

rsv@Proverbs:7:12 @ now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait.

rsv@Proverbs:7:13 @ She seizes him and kisses him, and with impudent face she says to him:

rsv@Proverbs:7:14 @ "I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows;

rsv@Proverbs:7:15 @ so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you.

rsv@Proverbs:7:16 @ I have decked my couch with coverings, colored spreads of Egyptian linen;

rsv@Proverbs:7:17 @ I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

rsv@Proverbs:7:18 @ Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love.

rsv@Proverbs:7:19 @ For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey;

rsv@Proverbs:7:20 @ he took a bag of money with him; at full moon he will come home."

rsv@Proverbs:7:21 @ With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.

rsv@Proverbs:7:22 @ All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast

rsv@Proverbs:7:23 @ till an arrow pierces its entrails; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.

rsv@Proverbs:7:24 @ And now, O sons, listen to me, and be attentive to the words of my mouth.

rsv@Proverbs:7:25 @ Let not your heart turn aside to her ways, do not stray into her paths;

rsv@Proverbs:7:26 @ for many a victim has she laid low; yea, all her slain are a mighty host.

rsv@Proverbs:7:27 @ Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

rsv@Proverbs:8:1 @ Does not wisdom call, does not understanding raise her voice?

rsv@Proverbs:8:2 @ On the heights beside the way, in the paths she takes her stand;

rsv@Proverbs:8:3 @ beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud:

rsv@Proverbs:8:4 @ "To you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the sons of men.

rsv@Proverbs:8:5 @ O simple ones, learn prudence; O foolish men, pay attention.

rsv@Proverbs:8:6 @ Hear, for I will speak noble things, and from my lips will come what is right;

rsv@Proverbs:8:7 @ for my mouth will utter truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

rsv@Proverbs:8:8 @ All the words of my mouth are righteous; there is nothing twisted or crooked in them.

rsv@Proverbs:8:9 @ They are all straight to him who understands and right to those who find knowledge.

rsv@Proverbs:8:10 @ Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold;

rsv@Proverbs:8:11 @ for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.

rsv@Proverbs:8:12 @ I, wisdom, dwell in prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.

rsv@Proverbs:8:13 @ The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

rsv@Proverbs:8:14 @ I have counsel and sound wisdom, I have insight, I have strength.

rsv@Proverbs:8:15 @ By me kings reign, and rulers decree what is just;

rsv@Proverbs:8:16 @ by me princes rule, and nobles govern the earth.

rsv@Proverbs:8:17 @ I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

rsv@Proverbs:8:18 @ Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and prosperity.

rsv@Proverbs:8:19 @ My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver.

rsv@Proverbs:8:20 @ I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice,

rsv@Proverbs:8:21 @ endowing with wealth those who love me, and filling their treasuries.

rsv@Proverbs:8:22 @ The LORD created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old.

rsv@Proverbs:8:23 @ Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.

rsv@Proverbs:8:24 @ When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.

rsv@Proverbs:8:25 @ Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth;

rsv@Proverbs:8:26 @ before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world.

rsv@Proverbs:8:27 @ When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,

rsv@Proverbs:8:28 @ when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep,

rsv@Proverbs:8:29 @ when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

rsv@Proverbs:8:30 @ then I was beside him, like a master workman; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always,

rsv@Proverbs:8:31 @ rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the sons of men.

rsv@Proverbs:8:32 @ And now, my sons, listen to me: happy are those who keep my ways.

rsv@Proverbs:8:33 @ Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it.

rsv@Proverbs:8:34 @ Happy is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors.

rsv@Proverbs:8:35 @ For he who finds me finds life and obtains favor from the LORD;

rsv@Proverbs:8:36 @ but he who misses me injures himself; all who hate me love death."

rsv@Proverbs:9:1 @ Wisdom has built her house, she has set up her seven pillars.

rsv@Proverbs:9:2 @ She has slaughtered her beasts, she has mixed her wine, she has also set her table.

rsv@Proverbs:9:3 @ She has sent out her maids to call from the highest places in the town,

rsv@Proverbs:9:4 @ "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" To him who is without sense she says,

rsv@Proverbs:9:5 @ "Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed.

rsv@Proverbs:9:6 @ Leave simpleness, and live, and walk in the way of insight."

rsv@Proverbs:9:7 @ He who corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury.

rsv@Proverbs:9:8 @ Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

rsv@Proverbs:9:9 @ Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man and he will increase in learning.

rsv@Proverbs:9:10 @ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.

rsv@Proverbs:9:11 @ For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.

rsv@Proverbs:9:12 @ If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it.

rsv@Proverbs:9:13 @ A foolish woman is noisy; she is wanton and knows no shame.

rsv@Proverbs:9:14 @ She sits at the door of her house, she takes a seat on the high places of the town,

rsv@Proverbs:9:15 @ calling to those who pass by, who are going straight on their way,

rsv@Proverbs:9:16 @ "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" And to him who is without sense she says,

rsv@Proverbs:9:17 @ "Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant."

rsv@Proverbs:9:18 @ But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

rsv@Proverbs:10:1 @ The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

rsv@Proverbs:10:2 @ Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.

rsv@Proverbs:10:3 @ The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.

rsv@Proverbs:10:4 @ A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

rsv@Proverbs:10:5 @ A son who gathers in summer is prudent, but a son who sleeps in harvest brings shame.

rsv@Proverbs:10:6 @ Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

rsv@Proverbs:10:7 @ The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

rsv@Proverbs:10:8 @ The wise of heart will heed commandments, but a prating fool will come to ruin.

rsv@Proverbs:10:9 @ He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

rsv@Proverbs:10:10 @ He who winks the eye causes trouble, but he who boldly reproves makes peace.

rsv@Proverbs:10:11 @ The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

rsv@Proverbs:10:12 @ Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

rsv@Proverbs:10:13 @ On the lips of him who has understanding wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense.

rsv@Proverbs:10:14 @ Wise men lay up knowledge, but the babbling of a fool brings ruin near.

rsv@Proverbs:10:15 @ A rich man's wealth is his strong city; the poverty of the poor is their ruin.

rsv@Proverbs:10:16 @ The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.

rsv@Proverbs:10:17 @ He who heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof goes astray.

rsv@Proverbs:10:18 @ He who conceals hatred has lying lips, and he who utters slander is a fool.

rsv@Proverbs:10:19 @ When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is prudent.

rsv@Proverbs:10:20 @ The tongue of the righteous is choice silver; the mind of the wicked is of little worth.

rsv@Proverbs:10:21 @ The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.

rsv@Proverbs:10:22 @ The blessing of the LORD makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

rsv@Proverbs:10:23 @ It is like sport to a fool to do wrong, but wise conduct is pleasure to a man of understanding.

rsv@Proverbs:10:24 @ What the wicked dreads will come upon him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

rsv@Proverbs:10:25 @ When the tempest passes, the wicked is no more, but the righteous is established for ever.

rsv@Proverbs:10:26 @ Like vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

rsv@Proverbs:10:27 @ The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short.

rsv@Proverbs:10:28 @ The hope of the righteous ends in gladness, but the expectation of the wicked comes to nought.

rsv@Proverbs:10:29 @ The LORD is a stronghold to him whose way is upright, but destruction to evildoers.

rsv@Proverbs:10:30 @ The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land.

rsv@Proverbs:10:31 @ The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

rsv@Proverbs:10:32 @ The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse.

rsv@Proverbs:11:1 @ A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.

rsv@Proverbs:11:2 @ When pride comes, then comes disgrace; but with the humble is wisdom.

rsv@Proverbs:11:3 @ The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.

rsv@Proverbs:11:4 @ Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

rsv@Proverbs:11:5 @ The righteousness of the blameless keeps his way straight, but the wicked falls by his own wickedness.

rsv@Proverbs:11:6 @ The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the treacherous are taken captive by their lust.

rsv@Proverbs:11:7 @ When the wicked dies, his hope perishes, and the expectation of the godless comes to nought.

rsv@Proverbs:11:8 @ The righteous is delivered from trouble, and the wicked gets into it instead.

rsv@Proverbs:11:9 @ With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.

rsv@Proverbs:11:10 @ When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices; and when the wicked perish there are shouts of gladness.

rsv@Proverbs:11:11 @ By the blessing of the upright a city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

rsv@Proverbs:11:12 @ He who belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent.

rsv@Proverbs:11:13 @ He who goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets, but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing hidden.

rsv@Proverbs:11:14 @ Where there is no guidance, a people falls; but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.

rsv@Proverbs:11:15 @ He who gives surety for a stranger will smart for it, but he who hates suretyship is secure.

rsv@Proverbs:11:16 @ A gracious woman gets honor, and violent men get riches.

rsv@Proverbs:11:17 @ A man who is kind benefits himself, but a cruel man hurts himself.

rsv@Proverbs:11:18 @ A wicked man earns deceptive wages, but one who sows righteousness gets a sure reward.

rsv@Proverbs:11:19 @ He who is steadfast in righteousness will live, but he who pursues evil will die.

rsv@Proverbs:11:20 @ Men of perverse mind are an abomination to the LORD, but those of blameless ways are his delight.

rsv@Proverbs:11:21 @ Be assured, an evil man will not go unpunished, but those who are righteous will be delivered.

rsv@Proverbs:11:22 @ Like a gold ring in a swine's snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.

rsv@Proverbs:11:23 @ The desire of the righteous ends only in good; the expectation of the wicked in wrath.

rsv@Proverbs:11:24 @ One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.

rsv@Proverbs:11:25 @ A liberal man will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.

rsv@Proverbs:11:26 @ The people curse him who holds back grain, but a blessing is on the head of him who sells it.

rsv@Proverbs:11:27 @ He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but evil comes to him who searches for it.

rsv@Proverbs:11:28 @ He who trusts in his riches will wither, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.

rsv@Proverbs:11:29 @ He who troubles his household will inherit wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise.

rsv@Proverbs:11:30 @ The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, but lawlessness takes away lives.

rsv@Proverbs:11:31 @ If the righteous is requited on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!

rsv@Proverbs:12:1 @ Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

rsv@Proverbs:12:2 @ A good man obtains favor from the LORD, but a man of evil devices he condemns.

rsv@Proverbs:12:3 @ A man is not established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved.

rsv@Proverbs:12:4 @ A good wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

rsv@Proverbs:12:5 @ The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are treacherous.

rsv@Proverbs:12:6 @ The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright delivers men.

rsv@Proverbs:12:7 @ The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand.

rsv@Proverbs:12:8 @ A man is commended according to his good sense, but one of perverse mind is despised.

rsv@Proverbs:12:9 @ Better is a man of humble standing who works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.

rsv@Proverbs:12:10 @ A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

rsv@Proverbs:12:11 @ He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits has no sense.

rsv@Proverbs:12:12 @ The strong tower of the wicked comes to ruin, but the root of the righteous stands firm.

rsv@Proverbs:12:13 @ An evil man is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, but the righteous escapes from trouble.

rsv@Proverbs:12:14 @ From the fruit of his words a man is satisfied with good, and the work of a man's hand comes back to him.

rsv@Proverbs:12:15 @ The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

rsv@Proverbs:12:16 @ The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent man ignores an insult.

rsv@Proverbs:12:17 @ He who speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness utters deceit.

rsv@Proverbs:12:18 @ There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

rsv@Proverbs:12:19 @ Truthful lips endure for ever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

rsv@Proverbs:12:20 @ Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but those who plan good have joy.

rsv@Proverbs:12:21 @ No ill befalls the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble.

rsv@Proverbs:12:22 @ Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who act faithfully are his delight.

rsv@Proverbs:12:23 @ A prudent man conceals his knowledge, but fools proclaim their folly.

rsv@Proverbs:12:24 @ The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.

rsv@Proverbs:12:25 @ Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

rsv@Proverbs:12:26 @ A righteous man turns away from evil, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

rsv@Proverbs:12:27 @ A slothful man will not catch his prey, but the diligent man will get precious wealth.

rsv@Proverbs:12:28 @ In the path of righteousness is life, but the way of error leads to death.

rsv@Proverbs:13:1 @ A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

rsv@Proverbs:13:2 @ From the fruit of his mouth a good man eats good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence.

rsv@Proverbs:13:3 @ He who guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

rsv@Proverbs:13:4 @ The soul of the sluggard craves, and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

rsv@Proverbs:13:5 @ A righteous man hates falsehood, but a wicked man acts shamefully and disgracefully.

rsv@Proverbs:13:6 @ Righteousness guards him whose way is upright, but sin overthrows the wicked.

rsv@Proverbs:13:7 @ One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

rsv@Proverbs:13:8 @ The ransom of a man's life is his wealth, but a poor man has no means of redemption.

rsv@Proverbs:13:9 @ The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

rsv@Proverbs:13:10 @ By insolence the heedless make strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.

rsv@Proverbs:13:11 @ Wealth hastily gotten will dwindle, but he who gathers little by little will increase it.

rsv@Proverbs:13:12 @ Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

rsv@Proverbs:13:13 @ He who despises the word brings destruction on himself, but he who respects the commandment will be rewarded.

rsv@Proverbs:13:14 @ The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, that one may avoid the snares of death.

rsv@Proverbs:13:15 @ Good sense wins favor, but the way of the faithless is their ruin.

rsv@Proverbs:13:16 @ In everything a prudent man acts with knowledge, but a fool flaunts his folly.

rsv@Proverbs:13:17 @ A bad messenger plunges men into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.

rsv@Proverbs:13:18 @ Poverty and disgrace come to him who ignores instruction, but he who heeds reproof is honored.

rsv@Proverbs:13:19 @ A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul; but to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools.

rsv@Proverbs:13:20 @ He who walks with wise men becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

rsv@Proverbs:13:21 @ Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.

rsv@Proverbs:13:22 @ A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.

rsv@Proverbs:13:23 @ The fallow ground of the poor yields much food, but it is swept away through injustice.

rsv@Proverbs:13:24 @ He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

rsv@Proverbs:13:25 @ The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, but the belly of the wicked suffers want.

rsv@Proverbs:14:1 @ Wisdom builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.

rsv@Proverbs:14:2 @ He who walks in uprightness fears the LORD, but he who is devious in his ways despises him.

rsv@Proverbs:14:3 @ The talk of a fool is a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will preserve them.

rsv@Proverbs:14:4 @ Where there are no oxen, there is no grain; but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox.

rsv@Proverbs:14:5 @ A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.

rsv@Proverbs:14:6 @ A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.

rsv@Proverbs:14:7 @ Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge.

rsv@Proverbs:14:8 @ The wisdom of a prudent man is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.

rsv@Proverbs:14:9 @ God scorns the wicked, but the upright enjoy his favor.

rsv@Proverbs:14:10 @ The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.

rsv@Proverbs:14:11 @ The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

rsv@Proverbs:14:12 @ There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

rsv@Proverbs:14:13 @ Even in laughter the heart is sad, and the end of joy is grief.

rsv@Proverbs:14:14 @ A perverse man will be filled with the fruit of his ways, and a good man with the fruit of his deeds.

rsv@Proverbs:14:15 @ The simple believes everything, but the prudent looks where he is going.

rsv@Proverbs:14:16 @ A wise man is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool throws off restraint and is careless.

rsv@Proverbs:14:17 @ A man of quick temper acts foolishly, but a man of discretion is patient.

rsv@Proverbs:14:18 @ The simple acquire folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

rsv@Proverbs:14:19 @ The evil bow down before the good, the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

rsv@Proverbs:14:20 @ The poor is disliked even by his neighbor, but the rich has many friends.

rsv@Proverbs:14:21 @ He who despises his neighbor is a sinner, but happy is he who is kind to the poor.

rsv@Proverbs:14:22 @ Do they not err that devise evil? Those who devise good meet loyalty and faithfulness.

rsv@Proverbs:14:23 @ In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to want.

rsv@Proverbs:14:24 @ The crown of the wise is their wisdom, but folly is the garland of fools.

rsv@Proverbs:14:25 @ A truthful witness saves lives, but one who utters lies is a betrayer.

rsv@Proverbs:14:26 @ In the fear of the LORD one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.

rsv@Proverbs:14:27 @ The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, that one may avoid the snares of death.

rsv@Proverbs:14:28 @ In a multitude of people is the glory of a king, but without people a prince is ruined.

rsv@Proverbs:14:29 @ He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

rsv@Proverbs:14:30 @ A tranquil mind gives life to the flesh, but passion makes the bones rot.

rsv@Proverbs:14:31 @ He who oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

rsv@Proverbs:14:32 @ The wicked is overthrown through his evil-doing, but the righteous finds refuge through his integrity.

rsv@Proverbs:14:33 @ Wisdom abides in the mind of a man of understanding, but it is not known in the heart of fools.

rsv@Proverbs:14:34 @ Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.

rsv@Proverbs:14:35 @ A servant who deals wisely has the king's favor, but his wrath falls on one who acts shamefully.

rsv@Proverbs:15:1 @ A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

rsv@Proverbs:15:2 @ The tongue of the wise dispenses knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.

rsv@Proverbs:15:3 @ The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

rsv@Proverbs:15:4 @ A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.

rsv@Proverbs:15:5 @ A fool despises his father's instruction, but he who heeds admonition is prudent.

rsv@Proverbs:15:6 @ In the house of the righteous there is much treasure, but trouble befalls the income of the wicked.

rsv@Proverbs:15:7 @ The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so the minds of fools.

rsv@Proverbs:15:8 @ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

rsv@Proverbs:15:9 @ The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but he loves him who pursues righteousness.

rsv@Proverbs:15:10 @ There is severe discipline for him who forsakes the way; he who hates reproof will die.

rsv@Proverbs:15:11 @ Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD, how much more the hearts of men!

rsv@Proverbs:15:12 @ A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

rsv@Proverbs:15:13 @ A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

rsv@Proverbs:15:14 @ The mind of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

rsv@Proverbs:15:15 @ All the days of the afflicted are evil, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.

rsv@Proverbs:15:16 @ Better is a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble with it.

rsv@Proverbs:15:17 @ Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it.

rsv@Proverbs:15:18 @ A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.

rsv@Proverbs:15:19 @ The way of a sluggard is overgrown with thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.

rsv@Proverbs:15:20 @ A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

rsv@Proverbs:15:21 @ Folly is a joy to him who has no sense, but a man of understanding walks aright.

rsv@Proverbs:15:22 @ Without counsel plans go wrong, but with many advisers they succeed.

rsv@Proverbs:15:23 @ To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!

rsv@Proverbs:15:24 @ The wise man's path leads upward to life, that he may avoid Sheol beneath.

rsv@Proverbs:15:25 @ The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but maintains the widow's boundaries.

rsv@Proverbs:15:26 @ The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD, the words of the pure are pleasing to him.

rsv@Proverbs:15:27 @ He who is greedy for unjust gain makes trouble for his household, but he who hates bribes will live.

rsv@Proverbs:15:28 @ The mind of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.

rsv@Proverbs:15:29 @ The LORD is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

rsv@Proverbs:15:30 @ The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and good news refreshes the bones.

rsv@Proverbs:15:31 @ He whose ear heeds wholesome admonition will abide among the wise.

rsv@Proverbs:15:32 @ He who ignores instruction despises himself, but he who heeds admonition gains understanding.

rsv@Proverbs:15:33 @ The fear of the LORD is instruction in wisdom, and humility goes before honor.

rsv@Proverbs:16:1 @ The plans of the mind belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD.

rsv@Proverbs:16:2 @ All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the spirit.

rsv@Proverbs:16:3 @ Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established.

rsv@Proverbs:16:4 @ The LORD has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

rsv@Proverbs:16:5 @ Every one who is arrogant is an abomination to the LORD; be assured, he will not go unpunished.

rsv@Proverbs:16:6 @ By loyalty and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD a man avoids evil.

rsv@Proverbs:16:7 @ When a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

rsv@Proverbs:16:8 @ Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.

rsv@Proverbs:16:9 @ A man's mind plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps.

rsv@Proverbs:16:10 @ Inspired decisions are on the lips of a king; his mouth does not sin in judgment.

rsv@Proverbs:16:11 @ A just balance and scales are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are his work.

rsv@Proverbs:16:12 @ It is an abomination to kings to do evil, for the throne is established by righteousness.

rsv@Proverbs:16:13 @ Righteous lips are the delight of a king, and he loves him who speaks what is right.

rsv@Proverbs:16:14 @ A king's wrath is a messenger of death, and a wise man will appease it.

rsv@Proverbs:16:15 @ In the light of a king's face there is life, and his favor is like the clouds that bring the spring rain.

rsv@Proverbs:16:16 @ To get wisdom is better than gold; to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

rsv@Proverbs:16:17 @ The highway of the upright turns aside from evil; he who guards his way preserves his life.

rsv@Proverbs:16:18 @ Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

rsv@Proverbs:16:19 @ It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.

rsv@Proverbs:16:20 @ He who gives heed to the word will prosper, and happy is he who trusts in the LORD.

rsv@Proverbs:16:21 @ The wise of heart is called a man of discernment, and pleasant speech increases persuasiveness.

rsv@Proverbs:16:22 @ Wisdom is a fountain of life to him who has it, but folly is the chastisement of fools.

rsv@Proverbs:16:23 @ The mind of the wise makes his speech judicious, and adds persuasiveness to his lips.

rsv@Proverbs:16:24 @ Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

rsv@Proverbs:16:25 @ There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

rsv@Proverbs:16:26 @ A worker's appetite works for him; his mouth urges him on.

rsv@Proverbs:16:27 @ A worthless man plots evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.

rsv@Proverbs:16:28 @ A perverse man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

rsv@Proverbs:16:29 @ A man of violence entices his neighbor and leads him in a way that is not good.

rsv@Proverbs:16:30 @ He who winks his eyes plans perverse things, he who compresses his lips brings evil to pass.

rsv@Proverbs:16:31 @ A hoary head is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.

rsv@Proverbs:16:32 @ He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

rsv@Proverbs:16:33 @ The lot is cast into the lap, but the decision is wholly from the LORD.

rsv@Proverbs:17:1 @ Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.

rsv@Proverbs:17:2 @ A slave who deals wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully, and will share the inheritance as one of the brothers.

rsv@Proverbs:17:3 @ The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the LORD tries hearts.

rsv@Proverbs:17:4 @ An evildoer listens to wicked lips; and a liar gives heed to a mischievous tongue.

rsv@Proverbs:17:5 @ He who mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.

rsv@Proverbs:17:6 @ Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of sons is their fathers.

rsv@Proverbs:17:7 @ Fine speech is not becoming to a fool; still less is false speech to a prince.

rsv@Proverbs:17:8 @ A bribe is like a magic stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns he prospers.

rsv@Proverbs:17:9 @ He who forgives an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter alienates a friend.

rsv@Proverbs:17:10 @ A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.

rsv@Proverbs:17:11 @ An evil man seeks only rebellion, and a cruel messenger will be sent against him.

rsv@Proverbs:17:12 @ Let a man meet a she-bear robbed of her cubs, rather than a fool in his folly.

rsv@Proverbs:17:13 @ If a man returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house.

rsv@Proverbs:17:14 @ The beginning of strife is like letting out water; so quit before the quarrel breaks out.

rsv@Proverbs:17:15 @ He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the LORD.

rsv@Proverbs:17:16 @ Why should a fool have a price in his hand to buy wisdom, when he has no mind?

rsv@Proverbs:17:17 @ A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

rsv@Proverbs:17:18 @ A man without sense gives a pledge, and becomes surety in the presence of his neighbor.

rsv@Proverbs:17:19 @ He who loves transgression loves strife; he who makes his door high seeks destruction.

rsv@Proverbs:17:20 @ A man of crooked mind does not prosper, and one with a perverse tongue falls into calamity.

rsv@Proverbs:17:21 @ A stupid son is a grief to a father; and the father of a fool has no joy.

rsv@Proverbs:17:22 @ A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.

rsv@Proverbs:17:23 @ A wicked man accepts a bribe from the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.

rsv@Proverbs:17:24 @ A man of understanding sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

rsv@Proverbs:17:25 @ A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

rsv@Proverbs:17:26 @ To impose a fine on a righteous man is not good; to flog noble men is wrong.

rsv@Proverbs:17:27 @ He who restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

rsv@Proverbs:17:28 @ Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

rsv@Proverbs:18:1 @ He who is estranged seeks pretexts to break out against all sound judgment.

rsv@Proverbs:18:2 @ A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.

rsv@Proverbs:18:3 @ When wickedness comes, contempt comes also; and with dishonor comes disgrace.

rsv@Proverbs:18:4 @ The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a gushing stream.

rsv@Proverbs:18:5 @ It is not good to be partial to a wicked man, or to deprive a righteous man of justice.

rsv@Proverbs:18:6 @ A fool's lips bring strife, and his mouth invites a flogging.

rsv@Proverbs:18:7 @ A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to himself.

rsv@Proverbs:18:8 @ The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.

rsv@Proverbs:18:9 @ He who is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.

rsv@Proverbs:18:10 @ The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.

rsv@Proverbs:18:11 @ A rich man's wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall protecting him.

rsv@Proverbs:18:12 @ Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility goes before honor.

rsv@Proverbs:18:13 @ If one gives answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.

rsv@Proverbs:18:14 @ A man's spirit will endure sickness; but a broken spirit who can bear?

rsv@Proverbs:18:15 @ An intelligent mind acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

rsv@Proverbs:18:16 @ A man's gift makes room for him and brings him before great men.

rsv@Proverbs:18:17 @ He who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.

rsv@Proverbs:18:18 @ The lot puts an end to disputes and decides between powerful contenders.

rsv@Proverbs:18:19 @ A brother helped is like a strong city, but quarreling is like the bars of a castle.

rsv@Proverbs:18:20 @ From the fruit of his mouth a man is satisfied; he is satisfied by the yield of his lips.

rsv@Proverbs:18:21 @ Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

rsv@Proverbs:18:22 @ He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the LORD.

rsv@Proverbs:18:23 @ The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly.

rsv@Proverbs:18:24 @ There are friends who pretend to be friends, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

rsv@Proverbs:19:1 @ Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a man who is perverse in speech, and is a fool.

rsv@Proverbs:19:2 @ It is not good for a man to be without knowledge, and he who makes haste with his feet misses his way.

rsv@Proverbs:19:3 @ When a man's folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the LORD.

rsv@Proverbs:19:4 @ Wealth brings many new friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.

rsv@Proverbs:19:5 @ A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who utters lies will not escape.

rsv@Proverbs:19:6 @ Many seek the favor of a generous man, and every one is a friend to a man who gives gifts.

rsv@Proverbs:19:7 @ All a poor man's brothers hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues them with words, but does not have them.

rsv@Proverbs:19:8 @ He who gets wisdom loves himself; he who keeps understanding will prosper.

rsv@Proverbs:19:9 @ A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who utters lies will perish.

rsv@Proverbs:19:10 @ It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury, much less for a slave to rule over princes.

rsv@Proverbs:19:11 @ Good sense makes a man slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

rsv@Proverbs:19:12 @ A king's wrath is like the growling of a lion, but his favor is like dew upon the grass.

rsv@Proverbs:19:13 @ A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

rsv@Proverbs:19:14 @ House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

rsv@Proverbs:19:15 @ Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.

rsv@Proverbs:19:16 @ He who keeps the commandment keeps his life; he who despises the word will die.

rsv@Proverbs:19:17 @ He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay him for his deed.

rsv@Proverbs:19:18 @ Discipline your son while there is hope; do not set your heart on his destruction.

rsv@Proverbs:19:19 @ A man of great wrath will pay the penalty; for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.

rsv@Proverbs:19:20 @ Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom for the future.

rsv@Proverbs:19:21 @ Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will be established.

rsv@Proverbs:19:22 @ What is desired in a man is loyalty, and a poor man is better than a liar.

rsv@Proverbs:19:23 @ The fear of the LORD leads to life; and he who has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm.

rsv@Proverbs:19:24 @ The sluggard buries his hand in the dish, and will not even bring it back to his mouth.

rsv@Proverbs:19:25 @ Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; reprove a man of understanding, and he will gain knowledge.

rsv@Proverbs:19:26 @ He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

rsv@Proverbs:19:27 @ Cease, my son, to hear instruction only to stray from the words of knowledge.

rsv@Proverbs:19:28 @ A worthless witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.

rsv@Proverbs:19:29 @ Condemnation is ready for scoffers, and flogging for the backs of fools.

rsv@Proverbs:20:1 @ Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

rsv@Proverbs:20:2 @ The dread wrath of a king is like the growling of a lion; he who provokes him to anger forfeits his life.

rsv@Proverbs:20:3 @ It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be quarreling.

rsv@Proverbs:20:4 @ The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.

rsv@Proverbs:20:5 @ The purpose in a man's mind is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.

rsv@Proverbs:20:6 @ Many a man proclaims his own loyalty, but a faithful man who can find?

rsv@Proverbs:20:7 @ A righteous man who walks in his integrity-- blessed are his sons after him!

rsv@Proverbs:20:8 @ A king who sits on the throne of judgment winnows all evil with his eyes.

rsv@Proverbs:20:9 @ Who can say, "I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?

rsv@Proverbs:20:10 @ Diverse weights and diverse measures are both alike an abomination to the LORD.

rsv@Proverbs:20:11 @ Even a child makes himself known by his acts, whether what he does is pure and right.

rsv@Proverbs:20:12 @ The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the LORD has made them both.

rsv@Proverbs:20:13 @ Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.

rsv@Proverbs:20:14 @ "It is bad, it is bad," says the buyer; but when he goes away, then he boasts.

rsv@Proverbs:20:15 @ There is gold, and abundance of costly stones; but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

rsv@Proverbs:20:16 @ Take a man's garment when he has given surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge when he gives surety for foreigners.

rsv@Proverbs:20:17 @ Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel.

rsv@Proverbs:20:18 @ Plans are established by counsel; by wise guidance wage war.

rsv@Proverbs:20:19 @ He who goes about gossiping reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with one who speaks foolishly.

rsv@Proverbs:20:20 @ If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.

rsv@Proverbs:20:21 @ An inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning will in the end not be blessed.

rsv@Proverbs:20:22 @ Do not say, "I will repay evil"; wait for the LORD, and he will help you.

rsv@Proverbs:20:23 @ Diverse weights are an abomination to the LORD, and false scales are not good.

rsv@Proverbs:20:24 @ A man's steps are ordered by the LORD; how then can man understand his way?

rsv@Proverbs:20:25 @ It is a snare for a man to say rashly, "It is holy," and to reflect only after making his vows.

rsv@Proverbs:20:26 @ A wise king winnows the wicked, and drives the wheel over them.

rsv@Proverbs:20:27 @ The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all his innermost parts.

rsv@Proverbs:20:28 @ Loyalty and faithfulness preserve the king, and his throne is upheld by righteousness.

rsv@Proverbs:20:29 @ The glory of young men is their strength, but the beauty of old men is their gray hair.

rsv@Proverbs:20:30 @ Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts.

rsv@Proverbs:21:1 @ The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; he turns it wherever he will.

rsv@Proverbs:21:2 @ Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the heart.

rsv@Proverbs:21:3 @ To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

rsv@Proverbs:21:4 @ Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.

rsv@Proverbs:21:5 @ The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but every one who is hasty comes only to want.

rsv@Proverbs:21:6 @ The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.

rsv@Proverbs:21:7 @ The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, because they refuse to do what is just.

rsv@Proverbs:21:8 @ The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is right.

rsv@Proverbs:21:9 @ It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a contentious woman.

rsv@Proverbs:21:10 @ The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.

rsv@Proverbs:21:11 @ When a scoffer is punished, the simple becomes wise; when a wise man is instructed, he gains knowledge.

rsv@Proverbs:21:12 @ The righteous observes the house of the wicked; the wicked are cast down to ruin.

rsv@Proverbs:21:13 @ He who closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself cry out and not be heard.

rsv@Proverbs:21:14 @ A gift in secret averts anger; and a bribe in the bosom, strong wrath.

rsv@Proverbs:21:15 @ When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous, but dismay to evildoers.

rsv@Proverbs:21:16 @ A man who wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

rsv@Proverbs:21:17 @ He who loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

rsv@Proverbs:21:18 @ The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, and the faithless for the upright.

rsv@Proverbs:21:19 @ It is better to live in a desert land than with a contentious and fretful woman.

rsv@Proverbs:21:20 @ Precious treasure remains in a wise man's dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.

rsv@Proverbs:21:21 @ He who pursues righteousness and kindness will find life and honor.

rsv@Proverbs:21:22 @ A wise man scales the city of the mighty and brings down the stronghold in which they trust.

rsv@Proverbs:21:23 @ He who keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.

rsv@Proverbs:21:24 @ "Scoffer" is the name of the proud, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride.

rsv@Proverbs:21:25 @ The desire of the sluggard kills him for his hands refuse to labor.

rsv@Proverbs:21:26 @ All day long the wicked covets, but the righteous gives and does not hold back.

rsv@Proverbs:21:27 @ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with evil intent.

rsv@Proverbs:21:28 @ A false witness will perish, but the word of a man who hears will endure.

rsv@Proverbs:21:29 @ A wicked man puts on a bold face, but an upright man considers his ways.

rsv@Proverbs:21:30 @ No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel, can avail against the LORD.

rsv@Proverbs:21:31 @ The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the LORD.

rsv@Proverbs:22:1 @ A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.

rsv@Proverbs:22:2 @ The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the maker of them all.

rsv@Proverbs:22:3 @ A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple go on, and suffer for it.

rsv@Proverbs:22:4 @ The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life.

rsv@Proverbs:22:5 @ Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who guards himself will keep far from them.

rsv@Proverbs:22:6 @ Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

rsv@Proverbs:22:7 @ The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

rsv@Proverbs:22:8 @ He who sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.

rsv@Proverbs:22:9 @ He who has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

rsv@Proverbs:22:10 @ Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease.

rsv@Proverbs:22:11 @ He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.

rsv@Proverbs:22:12 @ The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the faithless.

rsv@Proverbs:22:13 @ The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!"

rsv@Proverbs:22:14 @ The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit; he with whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.

rsv@Proverbs:22:15 @ Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

rsv@Proverbs:22:16 @ He who oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to want.

rsv@Proverbs:22:17 @ Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your mind to my knowledge;

rsv@Proverbs:22:18 @ for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

rsv@Proverbs:22:19 @ That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made them known to you today, even to you.

rsv@Proverbs:22:20 @ Have I not written for you thirty sayings of admonition and knowledge,

rsv@Proverbs:22:21 @ to show you what is right and true, that you may give a true answer to those who sent you?

rsv@Proverbs:22:22 @ Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate;

rsv@Proverbs:22:23 @ for the LORD will plead their cause and despoil of life those who despoil them.

rsv@Proverbs:22:24 @ Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,

rsv@Proverbs:22:25 @ lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

rsv@Proverbs:22:26 @ Be not one of those who give pledges, who become surety for debts.

rsv@Proverbs:22:27 @ If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?

rsv@Proverbs:22:28 @ Remove not the ancient landmark which your fathers have set.

rsv@Proverbs:22:29 @ Do you see a man skilful in his work? he will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.

rsv@Proverbs:23:1 @ When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you;

rsv@Proverbs:23:2 @ and put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.

rsv@Proverbs:23:3 @ Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.

rsv@Proverbs:23:4 @ Do not toil to acquire wealth; be wise enough to desist.

rsv@Proverbs:23:5 @ When your eyes light upon it, it is gone; for suddenly it takes to itself wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.

rsv@Proverbs:23:6 @ Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies;

rsv@Proverbs:23:7 @ for he is like one who is inwardly reckoning. "Eat and drink!" he says to you; but his heart is not with you.

rsv@Proverbs:23:8 @ You will vomit up the morsels which you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words.

rsv@Proverbs:23:9 @ Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

rsv@Proverbs:23:10 @ Do not remove an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless;

rsv@Proverbs:23:11 @ for their Redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you.

rsv@Proverbs:23:12 @ Apply your mind to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.

rsv@Proverbs:23:13 @ Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.

rsv@Proverbs:23:14 @ If you beat him with the rod you will save his life from Sheol.

rsv@Proverbs:23:15 @ My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.

rsv@Proverbs:23:16 @ My soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

rsv@Proverbs:23:17 @ Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the LORD all the day.

rsv@Proverbs:23:18 @ Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

rsv@Proverbs:23:19 @ Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way.

rsv@Proverbs:23:20 @ Be not among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat;

rsv@Proverbs:23:21 @ for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

rsv@Proverbs:23:22 @ Hearken to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

rsv@Proverbs:23:23 @ Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

rsv@Proverbs:23:24 @ The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who begets a wise son will be glad in him.

rsv@Proverbs:23:25 @ Let your father and mother be glad, let her who bore you rejoice.

rsv@Proverbs:23:26 @ My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

rsv@Proverbs:23:27 @ For a harlot is a deep pit; an adventuress is a narrow well.

rsv@Proverbs:23:28 @ She lies in wait like a robber and increases the faithless among men.

rsv@Proverbs:23:29 @ Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

rsv@Proverbs:23:30 @ Those who tarry long over wine, those who go to try mixed wine.

rsv@Proverbs:23:31 @ Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.

rsv@Proverbs:23:32 @ At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.

rsv@Proverbs:23:33 @ Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind utter perverse things.

rsv@Proverbs:23:34 @ You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast.

rsv@Proverbs:23:35 @ "They struck me," you will say, "but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I will seek another drink."

rsv@Proverbs:24:1 @ Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them;

rsv@Proverbs:24:2 @ for their minds devise violence, and their lips talk of mischief.

rsv@Proverbs:24:3 @ By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established;

rsv@Proverbs:24:4 @ by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.

rsv@Proverbs:24:5 @ A wise man is mightier than a strong man, and a man of knowledge than he who has strength;

rsv@Proverbs:24:6 @ for by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.

rsv@Proverbs:24:7 @ Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.

rsv@Proverbs:24:8 @ He who plans to do evil will be called a mischief-maker.

rsv@Proverbs:24:9 @ The devising of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to men.

rsv@Proverbs:24:10 @ If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

rsv@Proverbs:24:11 @ Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.

rsv@Proverbs:24:12 @ If you say, "Behold, we did not know this," does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not requite man according to his work?

rsv@Proverbs:24:13 @ My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.

rsv@Proverbs:24:14 @ Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

rsv@Proverbs:24:15 @ Lie not in wait as a wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous; do not violence to his home;

rsv@Proverbs:24:16 @ for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

rsv@Proverbs:24:17 @ Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles;

rsv@Proverbs:24:18 @ lest the LORD see it, and be displeased, and turn away his anger from him.

rsv@Proverbs:24:19 @ Fret not yourself because of evildoers, and be not envious of the wicked;

rsv@Proverbs:24:20 @ for the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

rsv@Proverbs:24:21 @ My son, fear the LORD and the king, and do not disobey either of them;

rsv@Proverbs:24:22 @ for disaster from them will rise suddenly, and who knows the ruin that will come from them both?

rsv@Proverbs:24:23 @ These also are sayings of the wise. Partiality in judging is not good.

rsv@Proverbs:24:24 @ He who says to the wicked, "You are innocent," will be cursed by peoples, abhorred by nations;

rsv@Proverbs:24:25 @ but those who rebuke the wicked will have delight, and a good blessing will be upon them.

rsv@Proverbs:24:26 @ He who gives a right answer kisses the lips.

rsv@Proverbs:24:27 @ Prepare your work outside, get everything ready for you in the field; and after that build your house.

rsv@Proverbs:24:28 @ Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.

rsv@Proverbs:24:29 @ Do not say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will pay the man back for what he has done."

rsv@Proverbs:24:30 @ I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man without sense;

rsv@Proverbs:24:31 @ and lo, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

rsv@Proverbs:24:32 @ Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction.

rsv@Proverbs:24:33 @ A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

rsv@Proverbs:24:34 @ and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.

rsv@Proverbs:25:1 @ These also are proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezeki'ah king of Judah copied.

rsv@Proverbs:25:2 @ It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.

rsv@Proverbs:25:3 @ As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the mind of kings is unsearchable.

rsv@Proverbs:25:4 @ Take away the dross from the silver, and the smith has material for a vessel;

rsv@Proverbs:25:5 @ take away the wicked from the presence of the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

rsv@Proverbs:25:6 @ Do not put yourself forward in the king's presence or stand in the place of the great;

rsv@Proverbs:25:7 @ for it is better to be told, "Come up here," than to be put lower in the presence of the prince. What your eyes have seen

rsv@Proverbs:25:8 @ do not hastily bring into court; for what will you do in the end, when your neighbor puts you to shame?

rsv@Proverbs:25:9 @ Argue your case with your neighbor himself, and do not disclose another's secret;

rsv@Proverbs:25:10 @ lest he who hears you bring shame upon you, and your ill repute have no end.

rsv@Proverbs:25:11 @ A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.

rsv@Proverbs:25:12 @ Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear.

rsv@Proverbs:25:13 @ Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest is a faithful messenger to those who send him, he refreshes the spirit of his masters.

rsv@Proverbs:25:14 @ Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give.

rsv@Proverbs:25:15 @ With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.

rsv@Proverbs:25:16 @ If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you be sated with it and vomit it.

rsv@Proverbs:25:17 @ Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, lest he become weary of you and hate you.

rsv@Proverbs:25:18 @ A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.

rsv@Proverbs:25:19 @ Trust in a faithless man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips.

rsv@Proverbs:25:20 @ He who sings songs to a heavy heart is like one who takes off a garment on a cold day, and like vinegar on a wound.

rsv@Proverbs:25:21 @ If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;

rsv@Proverbs:25:22 @ for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and the LORD will reward you.

rsv@Proverbs:25:23 @ The north wind brings forth rain; and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.

rsv@Proverbs:25:24 @ It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a contentious woman.

rsv@Proverbs:25:25 @ Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

rsv@Proverbs:25:26 @ Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

rsv@Proverbs:25:27 @ It is not good to eat much honey, so be sparing of complimentary words.

rsv@Proverbs:25:28 @ A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.

rsv@Proverbs:26:1 @ Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

rsv@Proverbs:26:2 @ Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight.

rsv@Proverbs:26:3 @ A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the back of fools.

rsv@Proverbs:26:4 @ Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.

rsv@Proverbs:26:5 @ Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

rsv@Proverbs:26:6 @ He who sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off his own feet and drinks violence.

rsv@Proverbs:26:7 @ Like a lame man's legs, which hang useless, is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

rsv@Proverbs:26:8 @ Like one who binds the stone in the sling is he who gives honor to a fool.

rsv@Proverbs:26:9 @ Like a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

rsv@Proverbs:26:10 @ Like an archer who wounds everybody is he who hires a passing fool or drunkard.

rsv@Proverbs:26:11 @ Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool that repeats his folly.

rsv@Proverbs:26:12 @ Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

rsv@Proverbs:26:13 @ The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! There is a lion in the streets!"

rsv@Proverbs:26:14 @ As a door turns on its hinges, so does a sluggard on his bed.

rsv@Proverbs:26:15 @ The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; it wears him out to bring it back to his mouth.

rsv@Proverbs:26:16 @ The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can answer discreetly.

rsv@Proverbs:26:17 @ He who meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears.

rsv@Proverbs:26:18 @ Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death,

rsv@Proverbs:26:19 @ is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I am only joking!"

rsv@Proverbs:26:20 @ For lack of wood the fire goes out; and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.

rsv@Proverbs:26:21 @ As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.

rsv@Proverbs:26:22 @ The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.

rsv@Proverbs:26:23 @ Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are smooth lips with an evil heart.

rsv@Proverbs:26:24 @ He who hates, dissembles with his lips and harbors deceit in his heart;

rsv@Proverbs:26:25 @ when he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart;

rsv@Proverbs:26:26 @ though his hatred be covered with guile, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.

rsv@Proverbs:26:27 @ He who digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back upon him who starts it rolling.

rsv@Proverbs:26:28 @ A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

rsv@Proverbs:27:1 @ Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.

rsv@Proverbs:27:2 @ Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

rsv@Proverbs:27:3 @ A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.

rsv@Proverbs:27:4 @ Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming; but who can stand before jealousy?

rsv@Proverbs:27:5 @ Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

rsv@Proverbs:27:6 @ Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

rsv@Proverbs:27:7 @ He who is sated loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet.

rsv@Proverbs:27:8 @ Like a bird that strays from its nest, is a man who strays from his home.

rsv@Proverbs:27:9 @ Oil and perfume make the heart glad, but the soul is torn by trouble.

rsv@Proverbs:27:10 @ Your friend, and your father's friend, do not forsake; and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.

rsv@Proverbs:27:11 @ Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.

rsv@Proverbs:27:12 @ A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple go on, and suffer for it.

rsv@Proverbs:27:13 @ Take a man's garment when he has given surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge when he gives surety for foreigners.

rsv@Proverbs:27:14 @ He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing.

rsv@Proverbs:27:15 @ A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike;

rsv@Proverbs:27:16 @ to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in his right hand.

rsv@Proverbs:27:17 @ Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

rsv@Proverbs:27:18 @ He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored.

rsv@Proverbs:27:19 @ As in water face answers to face, so the mind of man reflects the man.

rsv@Proverbs:27:20 @ Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man.

rsv@Proverbs:27:21 @ The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and a man is judged by his praise.

rsv@Proverbs:27:22 @ Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.

rsv@Proverbs:27:23 @ Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds;

rsv@Proverbs:27:24 @ for riches do not last for ever; and does a crown endure to all generations?

rsv@Proverbs:27:25 @ When the grass is gone, and the new growth appears, and the herbage of the mountains is gathered,

rsv@Proverbs:27:26 @ the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field;

rsv@Proverbs:27:27 @ there will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your maidens.

rsv@Proverbs:28:1 @ The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.

rsv@Proverbs:28:2 @ When a land transgresses it has many rulers; but with men of understanding and knowledge its stability will long continue.

rsv@Proverbs:28:3 @ A poor man who oppresses the poor is a beating rain that leaves no food.

rsv@Proverbs:28:4 @ Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive against them.

rsv@Proverbs:28:5 @ Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it completely.

rsv@Proverbs:28:6 @ Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is perverse in his ways.

rsv@Proverbs:28:7 @ He who keeps the law is a wise son, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.

rsv@Proverbs:28:8 @ He who augments his wealth by interest and increase gathers it for him who is kind to the poor.

rsv@Proverbs:28:9 @ If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

rsv@Proverbs:28:10 @ He who misleads the upright into an evil way will fall into his own pit; but the blameless will have a goodly inheritance.

rsv@Proverbs:28:11 @ A rich man is wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has understanding will find him out.

rsv@Proverbs:28:12 @ When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

rsv@Proverbs:28:13 @ He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

rsv@Proverbs:28:14 @ Blessed is the man who fears the LORD always; but he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity.

rsv@Proverbs:28:15 @ Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

rsv@Proverbs:28:16 @ A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor; but he who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.

rsv@Proverbs:28:17 @ If a man is burdened with the blood of another, let him be a fugitive until death; let no one help him.

rsv@Proverbs:28:18 @ He who walks in integrity will be delivered, but he who is perverse in his ways will fall into a pit.

rsv@Proverbs:28:19 @ He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.

rsv@Proverbs:28:20 @ A faithful man will abound with blessings, but he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.

rsv@Proverbs:28:21 @ To show partiality is not good; but for a piece of bread a man will do wrong.

rsv@Proverbs:28:22 @ A miserly man hastens after wealth, and does not know that want will come upon him.

rsv@Proverbs:28:23 @ He who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with his tongue.

rsv@Proverbs:28:24 @ He who robs his father or his mother and says, "That is no transgression," is the companion of a man who destroys.

rsv@Proverbs:28:25 @ A greedy man stirs up strife, but he who trusts in the LORD will be enriched.

rsv@Proverbs:28:26 @ He who trusts in his own mind is a fool; but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.

rsv@Proverbs:28:27 @ He who gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.

rsv@Proverbs:28:28 @ When the wicked rise, men hide themselves, but when they perish, the righteous increase.

rsv@Proverbs:29:1 @ He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck will suddenly be broken beyond healing.

rsv@Proverbs:29:2 @ When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

rsv@Proverbs:29:3 @ He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but one who keeps company with harlots squanders his substance.

rsv@Proverbs:29:4 @ By justice a king gives stability to the land, but one who exacts gifts ruins it.

rsv@Proverbs:29:5 @ A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

rsv@Proverbs:29:6 @ An evil man is ensnared in his transgression, but a righteous man sings and rejoices.

rsv@Proverbs:29:7 @ A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.

rsv@Proverbs:29:8 @ Scoffers set a city aflame, but wise men turn away wrath.

rsv@Proverbs:29:9 @ If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.

rsv@Proverbs:29:10 @ Bloodthirsty men hate one who is blameless, and the wicked seek his life.

rsv@Proverbs:29:11 @ A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

rsv@Proverbs:29:12 @ If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked.

rsv@Proverbs:29:13 @ The poor man and the oppressor meet together; the LORD gives light to the eyes of both.

rsv@Proverbs:29:14 @ If a king judges the poor with equity his throne will be established for ever.

rsv@Proverbs:29:15 @ The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

rsv@Proverbs:29:16 @ When the wicked are in authority, transgression increases; but the righteous will look upon their downfall.

rsv@Proverbs:29:17 @ Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.

rsv@Proverbs:29:18 @ Where there is no prophecy the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.

rsv@Proverbs:29:19 @ By mere words a servant is not disciplined, for though he understands, he will not give heed.

rsv@Proverbs:29:20 @ Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

rsv@Proverbs:29:21 @ He who pampers his servant from childhood, will in the end find him his heir.

rsv@Proverbs:29:22 @ A man of wrath stirs up strife, and a man given to anger causes much transgression.

rsv@Proverbs:29:23 @ A man's pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.

rsv@Proverbs:29:24 @ The partner of a thief hates his own life; he hears the curse, but discloses nothing.

rsv@Proverbs:29:25 @ The fear of man lays a snare, but he who trusts in the LORD is safe.

rsv@Proverbs:29:26 @ Many seek the favor of a ruler, but from the LORD a man gets justice.

rsv@Proverbs:29:27 @ An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous, but he whose way is straight is an abomination to the wicked.

rsv@Proverbs:30:1 @ The words of Agur son of Jakeh of Massa. The man says to Ith'i-el, to Ith'i-el and Ucal:

rsv@Proverbs:30:2 @ Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man.

rsv@Proverbs:30:3 @ I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy One.

rsv@Proverbs:30:4 @ Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name? Surely you know!

rsv@Proverbs:30:5 @ Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

rsv@Proverbs:30:6 @ Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you, and you be found a liar.

rsv@Proverbs:30:7 @ Two things I ask of thee; deny them not to me before I die:

rsv@Proverbs:30:8 @ Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,

rsv@Proverbs:30:9 @ lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the LORD?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and profane the name of my God.

rsv@Proverbs:30:10 @ Do not slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.

rsv@Proverbs:30:11 @ There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

rsv@Proverbs:30:12 @ There are those who are pure in their own eyes but are not cleansed of their filth.

rsv@Proverbs:30:13 @ There are those--how lofty are their eyes, how high their eyelids lift!

rsv@Proverbs:30:14 @ There are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among men.

rsv@Proverbs:30:15 @ The leech has two daughters; "Give, give," they cry. Three things are never satisfied; four never say, "Enough":

rsv@Proverbs:30:16 @ Sheol, the barren womb, the earth ever thirsty for water, and the fire which never says, "Enough."

rsv@Proverbs:30:17 @ The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

rsv@Proverbs:30:18 @ Three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand:

rsv@Proverbs:30:19 @ the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a maiden.

rsv@Proverbs:30:20 @ This is the way of an adulteress: she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, "I have done no wrong."

rsv@Proverbs:30:21 @ Under three things the earth trembles; under four it cannot bear up:

rsv@Proverbs:30:22 @ a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is filled with food;

rsv@Proverbs:30:23 @ an unloved woman when she gets a husband, and a maid when she succeeds her mistress.

rsv@Proverbs:30:24 @ Four things on earth are small, but they are exceedingly wise:

rsv@Proverbs:30:25 @ the ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;

rsv@Proverbs:30:26 @ the badgers are a people not mighty, yet they make their homes in the rocks;

rsv@Proverbs:30:27 @ the locusts have no king, yet all of them march in rank;

rsv@Proverbs:30:28 @ the lizard you can take in your hands, yet it is in kings' palaces.

rsv@Proverbs:30:29 @ Three things are stately in their tread; four are stately in their stride:

rsv@Proverbs:30:30 @ the lion, which is mightiest among beasts and does not turn back before any;

rsv@Proverbs:30:31 @ the strutting cock, the he-goat, and a king striding before his people.

rsv@Proverbs:30:32 @ If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth.

rsv@Proverbs:30:33 @ For pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and pressing anger produces strife.

rsv@Proverbs:31:1 @ The words of Lemuel, king of Massa, which his mother taught him:

rsv@Proverbs:31:2 @ What, my son? What, son of my womb? What, son of my vows?

rsv@Proverbs:31:3 @ Give not your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings.

rsv@Proverbs:31:4 @ It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to desire strong drink;

rsv@Proverbs:31:5 @ lest they drink and forget what has been decreed, and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.

rsv@Proverbs:31:6 @ Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress;

rsv@Proverbs:31:7 @ let them drink and forget their poverty, and remember their misery no more.

rsv@Proverbs:31:8 @ Open your mouth for the dumb, for the rights of all who are left desolate.

rsv@Proverbs:31:9 @ Open your mouth, judge righteously, maintain the rights of the poor and needy.

rsv@Proverbs:31:10 @ A good wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

rsv@Proverbs:31:11 @ The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.

rsv@Proverbs:31:12 @ She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.

rsv@Proverbs:31:13 @ She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands.

rsv@Proverbs:31:14 @ She is like the ships of the merchant, she brings her food from afar.

rsv@Proverbs:31:15 @ She rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household and tasks for her maidens.

rsv@Proverbs:31:16 @ She considers a field and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.

rsv@Proverbs:31:17 @ She girds her loins with strength and makes her arms strong.

rsv@Proverbs:31:18 @ She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out at night.

rsv@Proverbs:31:19 @ She puts her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.

rsv@Proverbs:31:20 @ She opens her hand to the poor, and reaches out her hands to the needy.

rsv@Proverbs:31:21 @ She is not afraid of snow for her household, for all her household are clothed in scarlet.

rsv@Proverbs:31:22 @ She makes herself coverings; her clothing is fine linen and purple.

rsv@Proverbs:31:23 @ Her husband is known in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

rsv@Proverbs:31:24 @ She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers girdles to the merchant.

rsv@Proverbs:31:25 @ Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.

rsv@Proverbs:31:26 @ She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.

rsv@Proverbs:31:27 @ She looks well to the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.

rsv@Proverbs:31:28 @ Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:

rsv@Proverbs:31:29 @ "Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all."

rsv@Proverbs:31:30 @ Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

rsv@Proverbs:31:31 @ Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:1 @ The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:2 @ Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:3 @ What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:4 @ A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains for ever.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:5 @ The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:6 @ The wind blows to the south, and goes round to the north; round and round goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:7 @ All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:8 @ All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:9 @ What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:10 @ Is there a thing of which it is said, "See, this is new"? It has been already, in the ages before us.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:11 @ There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to happen among those who come after.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:12 @ I the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:13 @ And I applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:14 @ I have seen everything that is done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:15 @ What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be numbered.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:16 @ I said to myself, "I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me; and my mind has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge."

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:17 @ And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:18 @ For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:1 @ I said to myself, "Come now, I will make a test of pleasure; enjoy yourself." But behold, this also was vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:2 @ I said of laughter, "It is mad," and of pleasure, "What use is it?"

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:3 @ I searched with my mind how to cheer my body with wine--my mind still guiding me with wisdom--and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under heaven during the few days of their life.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:4 @ I made great works; I built houses and planted vineyards for myself;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:5 @ I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:6 @ I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:7 @ I bought male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my house; I had also great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:8 @ I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces; I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, man's delight.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:9 @ So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with me.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:10 @ And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:11 @ Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had spent in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:12 @ So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what he has already done.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:13 @ Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:14 @ The wise man has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness; and yet I perceived that one fate comes to all of them.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:15 @ Then I said to myself, "What befalls the fool will befall me also; why then have I been so very wise?" And I said to myself that this also is vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:16 @ For of the wise man as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise man dies just like the fool!

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:17 @ So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:18 @ I hated all my toil in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:19 @ and who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:20 @ So I turned about and gave my heart up to despair over all the toil of my labors under the sun,

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:21 @ because sometimes a man who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave all to be enjoyed by a man who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:22 @ What has a man from all the toil and strain with which he toils beneath the sun?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:23 @ For all his days are full of pain, and his work is a vexation; even in the night his mind does not rest. This also is vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:24 @ There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:25 @ for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:26 @ For to the man who pleases him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:1 @ For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:2 @ a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:3 @ a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:4 @ a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:5 @ a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:6 @ a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:7 @ a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:8 @ a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:9 @ What gain has the worker from his toil?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:10 @ I have seen the business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:11 @ He has made everything beautiful in its time; also he has put eternity into man's mind, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:12 @ I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:13 @ also that it is God's gift to man that every one should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:14 @ I know that whatever God does endures for ever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has made it so, in order that men should fear before him.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:15 @ That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:16 @ Moreover I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:17 @ I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:18 @ I said in my heart with regard to the sons of men that God is testing them to show them that they are but beasts.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:19 @ For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts; for all is vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:20 @ All go to one place; all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:21 @ Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down to the earth?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:22 @ So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should enjoy his work, for that is his lot; who can bring him to see what will be after him?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:1 @ Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:2 @ And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:3 @ but better than both is he who has not yet been, and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:4 @ Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:5 @ The fool folds his hands, and eats his own flesh.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:6 @ Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:8 @ a person who has no one, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, "For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:9 @ Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:10 @ For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:11 @ Again, if two lie together, they are warm; but how can one be warm alone?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:12 @ And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him. A threefold cord is not quickly broken.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:13 @ Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who will no longer take advice,

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:14 @ even though he had gone from prison to the throne or in his own kingdom had been born poor.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:15 @ I saw all the living who move about under the sun, as well as that youth, who was to stand in his place;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:16 @ there was no end of all the people; he was over all of them. Yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:1 @ Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; to draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know that they are doing evil.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:2 @ Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven, and you upon earth; therefore let your words be few.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:3 @ For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:4 @ When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:5 @ It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:6 @ Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake; why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:7 @ For when dreams increase, empty words grow many: but do you fear God.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:8 @ If you see in a province the poor oppressed and justice and right violently taken away, do not be amazed at the matter; for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:9 @ But in all, a king is an advantage to a land with cultivated fields.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:10 @ He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:11 @ When goods increase, they increase who eat them; and what gain has their owner but to see them with his eyes?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:12 @ Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much; but the surfeit of the rich will not let him sleep.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:13 @ There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt,

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:14 @ and those riches were lost in a bad venture; and he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:15 @ As he came from his mother's womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil, which he may carry away in his hand.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:16 @ This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go; and what gain has he that he toiled for the wind,

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:17 @ and spent all his days in darkness and grief, in much vexation and sickness and resentment?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:18 @ Behold, what I have seen to be good and to be fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life which God has given him, for this is his lot.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:19 @ Every man also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and find enjoyment in his toil--this is the gift of God.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:20 @ For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:1 @ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy upon men:

rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:2 @ a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them; this is vanity; it is a sore affliction.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:3 @ If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but he does not enjoy life's good things, and also has no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better off than he.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:4 @ For it comes into vanity and goes into darkness, and in darkness its name is covered;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:5 @ moreover it has not seen the sun or known anything; yet it finds rest rather than he.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:6 @ Even though he should live a thousand years twice told, yet enjoy no good--do not all go to the one place?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:7 @ All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:8 @ For what advantage has the wise man over the fool? And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:9 @ Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire; this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:10 @ Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what man is, and that he is not able to dispute with one stronger than he.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:11 @ The more words, the more vanity, and what is man the better?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:12 @ For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:1 @ A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death, than the day of birth.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:2 @ It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for this is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to heart.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:3 @ Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of countenance the heart is made glad.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:4 @ The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:5 @ It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:6 @ For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fools; this also is vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:7 @ Surely oppression makes the wise man foolish, and a bribe corrupts the mind.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:8 @ Better is the end of a thing than its beginning; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:9 @ Be not quick to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:10 @ Say not, "Why were the former days better than these?" For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:11 @ Wisdom is good with an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:12 @ For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money; and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:13 @ Consider the work of God; who can make straight what he has made crooked?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:14 @ In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:15 @ In my vain life I have seen everything; there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evil-doing.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:16 @ Be not righteous overmuch, and do not make yourself overwise; why should you destroy yourself?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:17 @ Be not wicked overmuch, neither be a fool; why should you die before your time?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:18 @ It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand; for he who fears God shall come forth from them all.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:19 @ Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers that are in a city.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:20 @ Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:21 @ Do not give heed to all the things that men say, lest you hear your servant cursing you;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:22 @ your heart knows that many times you have yourself cursed others.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:23 @ All this I have tested by wisdom; I said, "I will be wise"; but it was far from me.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:24 @ That which is, is far off, and deep, very deep; who can find it out?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:25 @ I turned my mind to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the sum of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness which is madness.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:26 @ And I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters; he who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:27 @ Behold, this is what I found, says the Preacher, adding one thing to another to find the sum,

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:28 @ which my mind has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:7:29 @ Behold, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many devices.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:1 @ Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his countenance is changed.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:2 @ Keep the king's command, and because of your sacred oath be not dismayed;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:3 @ go from his presence, do not delay when the matter is unpleasant, for he does whatever he pleases.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:4 @ For the word of the king is supreme, and who may say to him, "What are you doing?"

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:5 @ He who obeys a command will meet no harm, and the mind of a wise man will know the time and way.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:6 @ For every matter has its time and way, although man's trouble lies heavy upon him.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:7 @ For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:8 @ No man has power to retain the spirit, or authority over the day of death; there is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:9 @ All this I observed while applying my mind to all that is done under the sun, while man lords it over man to his hurt.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:10 @ Then I saw the wicked buried; they used to go in and out of the holy place, and were praised in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:11 @ Because sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the sons of men is fully set to do evil.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:12 @ Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear before him;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:13 @ but it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:14 @ There is a vanity which takes place on earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:15 @ And I commend enjoyment, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink, and enjoy himself, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of life which God gives him under the sun.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:16 @ When I applied my mind to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night one's eyes see sleep;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:8:17 @ then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out; even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:1 @ But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hate man does not know. Everything before them is vanity,

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:2 @ since one fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As is the good man, so is the sinner; and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:3 @ This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that one fate comes to all; also the hearts of men are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:4 @ But he who is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:5 @ For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward; but the memory of them is lost.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:6 @ Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and they have no more for ever any share in all that is done under the sun.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:7 @ Go, eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already approved what you do.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:8 @ Let your garments be always white; let not oil be lacking on your head.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:9 @ Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life which he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:10 @ Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:11 @ Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to the men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:12 @ For man does not know his time. Like fish which are taken in an evil net, and like birds which are caught in a snare, so the sons of men are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:13 @ I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:14 @ There was a little city with few men in it; and a great king came against it and besieged it, building great siegeworks against it.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:15 @ But there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:16 @ But I say that wisdom is better than might, though the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heeded.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:17 @ The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:9:18 @ Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:1 @ Dead flies make the perfumer's ointment give off an evil odor; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:2 @ A wise man's heart inclines him toward the right, but a fool's heart toward the left.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:3 @ Even when the fool walks on the road, he lacks sense, and he says to every one that he is a fool.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:4 @ If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for deference will make amends for great offenses.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:5 @ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were an error proceeding from the ruler:

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:6 @ folly is set in many high places, and the rich sit in a low place.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:7 @ I have seen slaves on horses, and princes walking on foot like slaves.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:8 @ He who digs a pit will fall into it; and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:9 @ He who quarries stones is hurt by them; and he who splits logs is endangered by them.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:10 @ If the iron is blunt, and one does not whet the edge, he must put forth more strength; but wisdom helps one to succeed.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:11 @ If the serpent bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage in a charmer.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:12 @ The words of a wise man's mouth win him favor, but the lips of a fool consume him.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:13 @ The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is wicked madness.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:14 @ A fool multiplies words, though no man knows what is to be, and who can tell him what will be after him?

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:15 @ The toil of a fool wearies him, so that he does not know the way to the city.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:16 @ Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning!

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:17 @ Happy are you, O land, when your king is the son of free men, and your princes feast at the proper time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:18 @ Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through indolence the house leaks.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:19 @ Bread is made for laughter, and wine gladdens life, and money answers everything.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:10:20 @ Even in your thought, do not curse the king, nor in your bedchamber curse the rich; for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:11:1 @ Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:11:2 @ Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what evil may happen on earth.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:11:3 @ If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:11:4 @ He who observes the wind will not sow; and he who regards the clouds will not reap.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:11:5 @ As you do not know how the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:11:6 @ In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand; for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:11:7 @ Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to behold the sun.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:11:8 @ For if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:11:9 @ Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:11:10 @ Remove vexation from your mind, and put away pain from your body; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:1 @ Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when you will say, "I have no pleasure in them";

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:2 @ before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:3 @ in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look through the windows are dimmed,

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:4 @ and the doors on the street are shut; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:5 @ they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along and desire fails; because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets;

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:6 @ before the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:7 @ and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:8 @ Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:9 @ Besides being wise, the Preacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging proverbs with great care.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:10 @ The Preacher sought to find pleasing words, and uprightly he wrote words of truth.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:11 @ The sayings of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings which are given by one Shepherd.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:12 @ My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:13 @ The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

rsv@Ecclesiastes:12:14 @ For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.

rsv@Songs:1:1 @ The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.

rsv@Songs:1:2 @ O that you would kiss me with the kisses of your mouth! For your love is better than wine,

rsv@Songs:1:3 @ your anointing oils are fragrant, your name is oil poured out; therefore the maidens love you.

rsv@Songs:1:4 @ Draw me after you, let us make haste. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you.

rsv@Songs:1:5 @ I am very dark, but comely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

rsv@Songs:1:6 @ Do not gaze at me because I am swarthy, because the sun has scorched me. My mother's sons were angry with me, they made me keeper of the vineyards; but, my own vineyard I have not kept!

rsv@Songs:1:7 @ Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who wanders beside the flocks of your companions?

rsv@Songs:1:8 @ If you do not know, O fairest among women, follow in the tracks of the flock, and pasture your kids beside the shepherds' tents.

rsv@Songs:1:9 @ I compare you, my love, to a mare of Pharaoh's chariots.

rsv@Songs:1:10 @ Your cheeks are comely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.

rsv@Songs:1:11 @ We will make you ornaments of gold, studded with silver.

rsv@Songs:1:12 @ While the king was on his couch, my nard gave forth its fragrance.

rsv@Songs:1:13 @ My beloved is to me a bag of myrrh, that lies between my breasts.

rsv@Songs:1:14 @ My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of Enge'di.

rsv@Songs:1:15 @ Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves.

rsv@Songs:1:16 @ Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly lovely. Our couch is green;

rsv@Songs:1:17 @ the beams of our house are cedar, our rafters are pine.

rsv@Songs:2:1 @ I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.

rsv@Songs:2:2 @ As a lily among brambles, so is my love among maidens.

rsv@Songs:2:3 @ As an apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

rsv@Songs:2:4 @ He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.

rsv@Songs:2:5 @ Sustain me with raisins, refresh me with apples; for I am sick with love.

rsv@Songs:2:6 @ O that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand embraced me!

rsv@Songs:2:7 @ I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the hinds of the field, that you stir not up nor awaken love until it please.

rsv@Songs:2:8 @ The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills.

rsv@Songs:2:9 @ My beloved is like a gazelle, or a young stag. Behold, there he stands behind our wall, gazing in at the windows, looking through the lattice.

rsv@Songs:2:10 @ My beloved speaks and says to me: "Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away;

rsv@Songs:2:11 @ for lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.

rsv@Songs:2:12 @ The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

rsv@Songs:2:13 @ The fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

rsv@Songs:2:14 @ O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the covert of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and your face is comely.

rsv@Songs:2:15 @ Catch us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom."

rsv@Songs:2:16 @ My beloved is mine and I am his, he pastures his flock among the lilies.

rsv@Songs:2:17 @ Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle, or a young stag upon rugged mountains.

rsv@Songs:3:1 @ Upon my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loves; I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he gave no answer.

rsv@Songs:3:2 @ "I will rise now and go about the city, in the streets and in the squares; I will seek him whom my soul loves." I sought him, but found him not.

rsv@Songs:3:3 @ The watchmen found me, as they went about in the city. "Have you seen him whom my soul loves?"

rsv@Songs:3:4 @ Scarcely had I passed them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

rsv@Songs:3:5 @ I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the hinds of the field, that you stir not up nor awaken love until it please.

rsv@Songs:3:6 @ What is that coming up from the wilderness, like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the fragrant powders of the merchant?

rsv@Songs:3:7 @ Behold, it is the litter of Solomon! About it are sixty mighty men of the mighty men of Israel,

rsv@Songs:3:8 @ all girt with swords and expert in war, each with his sword at his thigh, against alarms by night.

rsv@Songs:3:9 @ King Solomon made himself a palanquin from the wood of Lebanon.

rsv@Songs:3:10 @ He made its posts of silver, its back of gold, its seat of purple; it was lovingly wrought within by the daughters of Jerusalem.

rsv@Songs:3:11 @ Go forth, O daughters of Zion, and behold King Solomon, with the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, on the day of the gladness of his heart.

rsv@Songs:4:1 @ Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats, moving down the slopes of Gilead.

rsv@Songs:4:2 @ Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes that have come up from the washing, all of which bear twins, and not one among them is bereaved.

rsv@Songs:4:3 @ Your lips are like a scarlet thread, and your mouth is lovely. Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.

rsv@Songs:4:4 @ Your neck is like the tower of David, built for an arsenal, whereon hang a thousand bucklers, all of them shields of warriors.

rsv@Songs:4:5 @ Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that feed among the lilies.

rsv@Songs:4:6 @ Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, I will hie me to the mountain of myrrh and the hill of frankincense.

rsv@Songs:4:7 @ You are all fair, my love; there is no flaw in you.

rsv@Songs:4:8 @ Come with me from Lebanon, my bride; come with me from Lebanon. Depart from the peak of Ama'na, from the peak of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of lions, from the mountains of leopards.

rsv@Songs:4:9 @ You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride, you have ravished my heart with a glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.

rsv@Songs:4:10 @ How sweet is your love, my sister, my bride! how much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!

rsv@Songs:4:11 @ Your lips distil nectar, my bride; honey and milk are under your tongue; the scent of your garments is like the scent of Lebanon.

rsv@Songs:4:12 @ A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a garden locked, a fountain sealed.

rsv@Songs:4:13 @ Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates with all choicest fruits, henna with nard,

rsv@Songs:4:14 @ nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all chief spices--

rsv@Songs:4:15 @ a garden fountain, a well of living water, and flowing streams from Lebanon.

rsv@Songs:4:16 @ Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden, let its fragrance be wafted abroad. Let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits.

rsv@Songs:5:1 @ I come to my garden, my sister, my bride, I gather my myrrh with my spice, I eat my honeycomb with my honey, I drink my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink: drink deeply, O lovers!

rsv@Songs:5:2 @ I slept, but my heart was awake. Hark! my beloved is knocking. "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one; for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night."

rsv@Songs:5:3 @ I had put off my garment, how could I put it on? I had bathed my feet, how could I soil them?

rsv@Songs:5:4 @ My beloved put his hand to the latch, and my heart was thrilled within me.

rsv@Songs:5:5 @ I arose to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, upon the handles of the bolt.

rsv@Songs:5:6 @ I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone. My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he gave no answer.

rsv@Songs:5:7 @ The watchmen found me, as they went about in the city; they beat me, they wounded me, they took away my mantle, those watchmen of the walls.

rsv@Songs:5:8 @ I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love.

rsv@Songs:5:9 @ What is your beloved more than another beloved, O fairest among women? What is your beloved more than another beloved, that you thus adjure us?

rsv@Songs:5:10 @ My beloved is all radiant and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand.

rsv@Songs:5:11 @ His head is the finest gold; his locks are wavy, black as a raven.

rsv@Songs:5:12 @ His eyes are like doves beside springs of water, bathed in milk, fitly set.

rsv@Songs:5:13 @ His cheeks are like beds of spices, yielding fragrance. His lips are lilies, distilling liquid myrrh.

rsv@Songs:5:14 @ His arms are rounded gold, set with jewels. His body is ivory work, encrusted with sapphires.

rsv@Songs:5:15 @ His legs are alabaster columns, set upon bases of gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as the cedars.

rsv@Songs:5:16 @ His speech is most sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This is my beloved and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

rsv@Songs:6:1 @ Whither has your beloved gone, O fairest among women? Whither has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?

rsv@Songs:6:2 @ My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

rsv@Songs:6:3 @ I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine; he pastures his flock among the lilies.

rsv@Songs:6:4 @ You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.

rsv@Songs:6:5 @ Turn away your eyes from me, for they disturb me-- Your hair is like a flock of goats, moving down the slopes of Gilead.

rsv@Songs:6:6 @ Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, that have come up from the washing, all of them bear twins, not one among them is bereaved.

rsv@Songs:6:7 @ Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.

rsv@Songs:6:8 @ There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number.

rsv@Songs:6:9 @ My dove, my perfect one, is only one, the darling of her mother, flawless to her that bore her. The maidens saw her and called her happy; the queens and concubines also, and they praised her.

rsv@Songs:6:10 @ "Who is this that looks forth like the dawn, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army with banners?"

rsv@Songs:6:11 @ I went down to the nut orchard, to look at the blossoms of the valley, to see whether the vines had budded, whether the pomegranates were in bloom.

rsv@Songs:6:12 @ Before I was aware, my fancy set me in a chariot beside my prince.

rsv@Songs:6:13 @ Return, return, O Shu'lammite, return, return, that we may look upon you. Why should you look upon the Shu'lammite, as upon a dance before two armies?

rsv@Songs:7:1 @ How graceful are your feet in sandals, O queenly maiden! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.

rsv@Songs:7:2 @ Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.

rsv@Songs:7:3 @ Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

rsv@Songs:7:4 @ Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rab'bim. Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon, overlooking Damascus.

rsv@Songs:7:5 @ Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses.

rsv@Songs:7:6 @ How fair and pleasant you are, O loved one, delectable maiden!

rsv@Songs:7:7 @ You are stately as a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.

rsv@Songs:7:8 @ I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its branches. Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples,

rsv@Songs:7:9 @ and your kisses like the best wine that goes down smoothly, gliding over lips and teeth.

rsv@Songs:7:10 @ I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.

rsv@Songs:7:11 @ Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields, and lodge in the villages;

rsv@Songs:7:12 @ let us go out early to the vineyards, and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love.

rsv@Songs:7:13 @ The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and over our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.

rsv@Songs:8:1 @ O that you were like a brother to me, that nursed at my mother's breast! If I met you outside, I would kiss you, and none would despise me.

rsv@Songs:8:2 @ I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the juice of my pomegranates.

rsv@Songs:8:3 @ O that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand embraced me!

rsv@Songs:8:4 @ I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up nor awaken love until it please.

rsv@Songs:8:5 @ Who is that coming up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother was in travail with you, there she who bore you was in travail.

rsv@Songs:8:6 @ Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a most vehement flame.

rsv@Songs:8:7 @ Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, it would be utterly scorned.

rsv@Songs:8:8 @ We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister, on the day when she is spoken for?

rsv@Songs:8:9 @ If she is a wall, we will build upon her a battlement of silver; but if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.

rsv@Songs:8:10 @ I was a wall, and my breasts were like towers; then I was in his eyes as one who brings peace.

rsv@Songs:8:11 @ Solomon had a vineyard at Ba'al-ha'mon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.

rsv@Songs:8:12 @ My vineyard, my very own, is for myself; you, O Solomon, may have the thousand, and the keepers of the fruit two hundred.

rsv@Songs:8:13 @ O you who dwell in the gardens, my companions are listening for your voice; let me hear it.

rsv@Songs:8:14 @ Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag upon the mountains of spices.

rsv@Isaiah:1:1 @ The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzzi'ah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezeki'ah, kings of Judah.

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