rsv Psalms:44-49
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.
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