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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. ]
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