jps Psalms:44-49
jps@Psalms:44:1 @ O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us; a work Thou didst in their days, in the days of old.
jps@Psalms:44:2 @ Thou with Thy hand didst drive out the nations, and didst plant them in; Thou didst break the peoples, and didst spread them abroad.
jps@Psalms:44:3 @ For not by their own sword did they get the land in possession, neither did their own arm save them; but Thy right hand, and Thine arm, and the light of Thy countenance, because Thou wast favourable unto them.
jps@Psalms:44:4 @ Thou art my King, O God; command the salvation of Jacob.
jps@Psalms:44:5 @ Through Thee do we push down our adversaries; through Thy name do we tread them under that rise up against us.
jps@Psalms:44:6 @ For I trust not in my bow, neither can my sword save me.
jps@Psalms:44:7 @ But Thou hast saved us from our adversaries, and hast put them to shame that hate us.
jps@Psalms:44:8 @ In God have we gloried all the day, and we will give thanks unto Thy name for ever. Selah
jps@Psalms:44:9 @ Yet Thou hast cast off, and brought us to confusion; and goest not forth with our hosts.
jps@Psalms:44:10 @ Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; and they that hate us spoil at their will.
jps@Psalms:44:11 @ Thou hast given us like sheep to be eaten; and hast scattered us among the nations.
jps@Psalms:44:12 @ Thou sellest Thy people for small gain, and hast not set their prices high.
jps@Psalms:44:13 @ Thou makest us a taunt to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
jps@Psalms:44:14 @ Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
jps@Psalms:44:15 @ All the day is my confusion before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
jps@Psalms:44:16 @ For the voice of him that taunteth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the revengeful.
jps@Psalms:44:17 @ All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten Thee, neither have we been false to Thy covenant.
jps@Psalms:44:18 @ Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from Thy path;
jps@Psalms:44:19 @ Though Thou hast crushed us into a place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
jps@Psalms:44:20 @ If we had forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
jps@Psalms:44:21 @ Would not God search this out? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.
jps@Psalms:44:22 @ Nay, but for Thy sake are we killed all the day; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
jps@Psalms:44:23 @ Awake, why sleepest Thou, O Lord? Arouse Thyself, cast not off for ever.
jps@Psalms:44:24 @ Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
jps@Psalms:44:25 @ For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
jps@Psalms:44:26 @ Arise for our help, and redeem us for Thy mercy's sake.
jps@Psalms:45:1 @ My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter; I say: 'My work is concerning a king'; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
jps@Psalms:45:2 @ Thou art fairer than the children of men; grace is poured upon thy lips; therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
jps@Psalms:45:3 @ Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O mighty one, thy glory and thy majesty.
jps@Psalms:45:4 @ And in thy majesty prosper, ride on, in behalf of truth and meekness and righteousness; and let thy right hand teach thee tremendous things.
jps@Psalms:45:5 @ Thine arrows are sharp--the peoples fall under thee-- they sink into the heart of the king's enemies.
jps@Psalms:45:6 @ Thy throne given of God is for ever and ever; a sceptre of equity is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
jps@Psalms:45:7 @ Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness; therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
jps@Psalms:45:8 @ Myrrh, and aloes, and cassia are all thy garments; out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.
jps@Psalms:45:9 @ Kings' daughters are among thy favourites; at thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
jps@Psalms:45:10 @ 'Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
jps@Psalms:45:11 @ So shall the king desire thy beauty; for he is thy lord; and do homage unto him.
jps@Psalms:45:12 @ And, O daughter of Tyre, the richest of the people shall entreat thy favour with a gift.'
jps@Psalms:45:13 @ All glorious is the king's daughter within the palace; her raiment is of chequer work inwrought with gold.
jps@Psalms:45:14 @ She shall be led unto the king on richly woven stuff; the virgins her companions in her train being brought unto thee.
jps@Psalms:45:15 @ They shall be led with gladness and rejoicing; they shall enter into the king's palace.
jps@Psalms:45:16 @ Instead of thy fathers shall be thy sons, whom thou shalt make princes in all the land.
jps@Psalms:45:17 @ I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations; therefore shall the peoples praise thee for ever and ever.
jps@Psalms:46:1 @ God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
jps@Psalms:46:2 @ Therefore will we not fear, though the earth do change, and though the mountains be moved into the heart of the seas;
jps@Psalms:46:3 @ Though the waters thereof roar and foam, though the mountains shake at the swelling thereof. Selah
jps@Psalms:46:4 @ There is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God, the holiest dwelling-place of the Most High.
jps@Psalms:46:5 @ God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved; God shall help her, at the approach of morning.
jps@Psalms:46:6 @ Nations were in tumult, kingdoms were moved; He uttered His voice, the earth melted.
jps@Psalms:46:7 @ The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our high tower. Selah
jps@Psalms:46:8 @ Come, behold the works of the LORD, who hath made desolations in the earth.
jps@Psalms:46:9 @ He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariots in the fire.
jps@Psalms:46:10 @ 'Let be, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.'
jps@Psalms:46:11 @ The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our high tower. Selah
jps@Psalms:47:1 @ O clap your hands, all ye peoples; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
jps@Psalms:47:2 @ For the LORD is most high, awful; a great King over all the earth.
jps@Psalms:47:3 @ He subdueth peoples under us, and nations under our feet.
jps@Psalms:47:4 @ He chooseth our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob whom He loveth. Selah
jps@Psalms:47:5 @ God is gone up amidst shouting, the LORD amidst the sound of the horn.
jps@Psalms:47:6 @ Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises unto our King, sing praises.
jps@Psalms:47:7 @ For God is the King of all the earth; sing ye praises in a skilful song.
jps@Psalms:47:8 @ God reigneth over the nations; God sitteth upon His holy throne.
jps@Psalms:47:9 @ The princes of the peoples are gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham; for unto God belong the shields of the earth; He is greatly exalted.
jps@Psalms:48:1 @ Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised, in the city of our God, His holy mountain,
jps@Psalms:48:2 @ Fair in situation, the joy of the whole earth; even mount Zion, the uttermost parts of the north, the city of the great King.
jps@Psalms:48:3 @ God in her palaces hath made Himself known for a stronghold.
jps@Psalms:48:4 @ For, lo, the kings assembled themselves, they came onward together.
jps@Psalms:48:5 @ They saw, straightway they were amazed; they were affrighted, they hasted away.
jps@Psalms:48:6 @ Trembling took hold of them there, pangs, as of a woman in travail.
jps@Psalms:48:7 @ With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.
jps@Psalms:48:8 @ As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God--God establish it for ever. Selah
jps@Psalms:48:9 @ We have thought on Thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of Thy temple.
jps@Psalms:48:10 @ As is Thy name, O God, so is Thy praise unto the ends of the earth; Thy right hand is full of righteousness.
jps@Psalms:48:11 @ Let mount Zion be glad, let the daughters of Judah rejoice, because of Thy judgments.
jps@Psalms:48:12 @ Walk about Zion, and go round about her; count the towers thereof.
jps@Psalms:48:13 @ Mark ye well her ramparts, traverse her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
jps@Psalms:48:14 @ For such is God, our God, for ever and ever; He will guide us eternally.
jps@Psalms:49:1 @ Hear this, all ye peoples; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world,
jps@Psalms:49:2 @ Both low and high, rich and poor together.
jps@Psalms:49:3 @ My mouth shall speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart shall be understanding.
jps@Psalms:49:4 @ I will incline mine ear to a parable; I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
jps@Psalms:49:5 @ Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my supplanters compasseth me about,
jps@Psalms:49:6 @ Of them that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches?
jps@Psalms:49:7 @ No man can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him--
jps@Psalms:49:8 @ For too costly is the redemption of their soul, and must be let alone for ever--
jps@Psalms:49:9 @ That he should still live alway, that he should not see the pit.
jps@Psalms:49:10 @ For he seeth that wise men die, the fool and the brutish together perish, and leave their wealth to others.
jps@Psalms:49:11 @ Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling-places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
jps@Psalms:49:12 @ But man abideth not in honour; he is like the beasts that perish.
jps@Psalms:49:13 @ This is the way of them that are foolish, and of those who after them approve their sayings. Selah
jps@Psalms:49:14 @ Like sheep they are appointed for the nether-world; death shall be their shepherd; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their form shall be for the nether-world to wear away, that there be no habitation for it.
jps@Psalms:49:15 @ But God will redeem my soul from the power of the nether-world; for He shall receive me. Selah
jps@Psalms:49:16 @ Be not thou afraid when one waxeth rich, when the wealth of his house is increased;
jps@Psalms:49:17 @ For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away; his wealth shall not descend after him.
jps@Psalms:49:18 @ Though while he lived he blessed his soul: 'Men will praise thee, when thou shalt do well to thyself';
jps@Psalms:49:19 @ It shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see the light.
jps@Psalms:49:20 @ Man that is in honour understandeth not; he is like the beasts that perish.
jps@Psalms:50:1 @ A Psalm of Asaph. God, God, the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.