Psalms:42-72
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:56:4 @ When I am afraid, I put my trust in thee.
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.