Psalms:40-45

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* I waited patiently for the LORD ; and he inclined unto me , and heard my cry . * He brought me up also out of an horrible pit , out of the miry clay , and set my feet upon a rock , and established my goings . * And he hath put a new song in my mouth , even praise unto our God : many shall see it , and fear , and shall trust in the LORD . * Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust , and respecteth not the proud , nor such as turn aside to lies . * Many , O LORD my God , are thy wonderful works which thou hast done , and thy thoughts which are to us-ward : they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee : if I would declare and speak of them , they are more than can be numbered . * Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire ; mine ears hast thou opened : burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required . * Then said I , Lo , I come : in the volume of the book it is written of me , * I delight to do thy will , O my God : yea , thy law is within my heart . * I have preached righteousness in the great congregation : lo , I have not refrained my lips , O LORD , thou knowest . * I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart ; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation : I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation . * Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me , O LORD : let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me . * For innumerable evils have compassed me about : mine iniquities have taken hold upon me , so that I am not able to look up ; they are more than the hairs of mine head : therefore my heart faileth me . * Be pleased , O LORD , to deliver me : O LORD , make haste to help me . * Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it ; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil . * Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me , Aha , aha . * Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee : let such as love thy salvation say continually , The LORD be magnified . * But I am poor and needy ; yet the Lord thinketh upon me : thou art my help and my deliverer ; make no tarrying , O my God . * Blessed is he that considereth the poor : the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble . * The LORD will preserve him , and keep him alive ; and he shall be blessed upon the earth : and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies . * The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing : thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness . * I said , LORD , be merciful unto me : heal my soul ; for I have sinned against thee . * Mine enemies speak evil of me , When shall he die , and his name perish ? * And if he come to see me , he speaketh vanity : his heart gathereth iniquity to itself ; when he goeth abroad , he telleth it . * All that hate me whisper together against me : against me do they devise my hurt . * An evil disease , say they , cleaveth fast unto him : and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more . * Yea , mine own familiar friend , in whom I trusted , which did eat of my bread , hath lifted up his heel against me . * But thou , O LORD , be merciful unto me , and raise me up , that I may requite them . * By this I know that thou favourest me , because mine enemy doth not triumph over me . * And as for me , thou upholdest me in mine integrity , and settest me before thy face for ever . * Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting , and to everlasting . Amen , and Amen . * As the hart panteth after the water brooks , so panteth my soul after thee , O God . * My soul thirsteth for God , for the living God : when shall I come and appear before God ? * My tears have been my meat day and night , while they continually say unto me , Where is thy God ? * When I remember these things , I pour out my soul in me : for I had gone with the multitude , I went with them to the house of God , with the voice of joy and praise , with a multitude that kept holyday . * Why art thou cast down , O my soul ? and why art thou disquieted in me ? hope thou in God : for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance . * O my God , my soul is cast down within me : therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan , and of the Hermonites , from the hill Mizar . * Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts : all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me . * Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime , and in the night his song shall be with me , and my prayer unto the God of my life . * I will say unto God my rock , Why hast thou forgotten me ? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy ? * As with a sword in my bones , mine enemies reproach me ; while they say daily unto me , Where is thy God ? * Why art thou cast down , O my soul ? and why art thou disquieted within me ? hope thou in God : for I shall yet praise him , who is the health of my countenance , and my God . * Judge me , O God , and plead my cause against an ungodly nation : O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man . * For thou art the God of my strength : why dost thou cast me off ? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy ? * O send out thy light and thy truth : let them lead me ; let them bring me unto thy holy hill , and to thy tabernacles . * Then will I go unto the altar of God , unto God my exceeding joy : yea , upon the harp will I praise thee , O God my God . * Why art thou cast down , O my soul ? and why art thou disquieted within me ? hope in God : for I shall yet praise him , who is the health of my countenance , and my God . * We have heard with our ears , O God , our fathers have told us , what work thou didst in their days , in the times of old . * How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand , and plantedst them ; how thou didst afflict the people , and cast them out . * For they got not the land in possession by their own sword , neither did their own arm save them : but thy right hand , and thine arm , and the light of thy countenance , because thou hadst a favour unto them . * Thou art my King , O God : command deliverances for Jacob . * Through thee will we push down our enemies : through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us . * For I will not trust in my bow , neither shall my sword save me . * But thou hast saved us from our enemies , and hast put them to shame that hated us . * In God we boast all the day long , and praise thy name for ever . Selah . * But thou hast cast off , and put us to shame ; and goest not forth with our armies . * Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy : and they which hate us spoil for themselves . * Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat ; and hast scattered us among the heathen . * Thou sellest thy people for nought , and dost not increase thy wealth by their price . * Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours , a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us . * Thou makest us a byword among the heathen , a shaking of the head among the people . * My confusion is continually before me , and the shame of my face hath covered me , * For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth ; by reason of the enemy and avenger . * All this is come upon us ; yet have we not forgotten thee , neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant . * Our heart is not turned back , neither have our steps declined from thy way ; * Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons , and covered us with the shadow of death . * If we have forgotten the name of our God , or stretched out our hands to a strange god ; * Shall not God search this out ? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart . * Yea , for thy sake are we killed all the day long ; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter . * Awake , why sleepest thou , O Lord ? arise , cast us not off for ever . * Wherefore hidest thou thy face , and forgettest our affliction and our oppression ? * For our soul is bowed down to the dust : our belly cleaveth unto the earth . * Arise for our help , and redeem us for thy mercies ' sake . * My heart is inditing a good matter : I speak of the things which I have made touching the king : my tongue is the pen of a ready writer . * Thou art fairer than the children of men : grace is poured into thy lips : therefore God hath blessed thee for ever . * Gird thy sword upon thy thigh , O most mighty , with thy glory and thy majesty . * And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness ; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things . * Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king 's enemies ; whereby the people fall under thee . * Thy throne , O God , is for ever and ever : the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre . * Thou lovest righteousness , and hatest wickedness : therefore God , thy God , hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows . * All thy garments smell of myrrh , and aloes , and cassia , out of the ivory palaces , whereby they have made thee glad . * Kings ' daughters were among thy honourable women : upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir . * Hearken , O daughter , and consider , and incline thine ear ; forget also thine own people , and thy father 's house ; * So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty : for he is thy Lord ; and worship thou him . * And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift ; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour . * The king 's daughter is all glorious within : her clothing is of wrought gold . * She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework : the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee . * With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought : they shall enter into the king 's palace . * Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children , whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth . * I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations : therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever . * God is our refuge and strength , a very present help in trouble .

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