The Psalms and Proverbs

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The main Psalmist is David, who became king of Israel.  Proverbs comes from David's son, and succeeding king of Israel, Solomon, who was the wisest and richest king of Israel.  Though not in the title of this book, also included are Solomon's other two books, Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon (or, Canticles).

The Psalms are important for use in worshipping God, and for comfort.  There are good promises from God in the Psalms.  For example, Psalm 1:3, "Whatever he does will prosper."  Also, "Delight yourself in the Lord, and he'll give you the desires of your heart." (Psa 37:4)

In Proverbs, the author, Solomon, shares his wisdom with the reader.

Ecclesiastes is a journey of reasonings by Solomon; his search for answers to various questions, and conclusions that he comes to.  Solomon is somewhat frustrated by the death that he knows is approaching.

But now that we’re living in New Testament times, we know that eternal life is available by becoming born again.  (Romans 10:9,10).

Song of Solomon is a love story between a man and woman.

___Psalm 1

1 Blessed is the man that won’t follow the advice of the ungodly, and doesn’t stand in the way of sinners, and doesn’t sit in the seat of the scornful.

2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and he meditates in His law day and night.

3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that produces its fruit in its season, also, his leaf shall not wither, and whatever he does shall prosper.

4 The ungodly aren’t like that, but are like the chaff that the wind drives away.

5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

6 For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall be destroyed.

___Psalm 2

1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,

3 "Let us break their bands in pieces, and cast away their cords from us."

4 He that sits in the heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall have them in derision.

5 Then he shall speak to them in his anger, and vex them in his strong displeasure.

6 Yet I have set my king on my holy hill of Zion.

7 I will declare the decree, the Lord has said to me, "You are my Son, this day I've begotten you.

8 Ask of me, and I'll give you the heathen for your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

9 You shall break them with a rod of iron, you shall dash them in pieces like a potter's container."

10 Be wise now therefore, O you kings, be instructed, you judges of the earth.

11 Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

12 Kiss the Son, so he's not angry, and you're destroyed from the way, when his anger is kindled but a little.  Blessed are all of those who put their trust in him.

___Psalm 3

1 Lord, how have they increased that trouble me!  There are many who rise up against me.

2 There are many who say about my soul, "There is no help for him in God."  Selah.

3 But you, O Lord, are a shield for me, my glory, and the lifter up of my head.

4 I cried to the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill.  Selah.

5 I laid down and slept, I awoke, for the Lord protected me.

6 I will not be afraid of ten thousand people, that have set themselves against me all around.

7 Arise, O Lord, save me, O my God, for you've struck all my enemies on the cheek bone, you've broken the teeth of the ungodly.

8 Salvation belongs to the Lord, your blessing is on your people.  Selah.

___Psalm 4

1  Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness, you've enlarged me when I was in distress, have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

2 O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame?  How long will you love vanity, and seek lying?  Selah.

3 But know that the Lord has set apart him that is godly for himself, the Lord will hear when I call to him.

4 Stand in awe, and sin not, commune with your own heart on your bed, and be still.  Selah.

5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the Lord.

6 There are many that say, who will show us any good?  Lord, lift up the light of your countenance on us.

7 You've put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.

8 I will lie down in peace, and sleep, for you, Lord, only make me dwell in safety.

___Psalm 5

1 Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation.

2 Listen to the voice of my cry, my King, and my God, for to you I will pray.

3 You'll hear my voice in the morning, O Lord, in the morning I will direct my prayer to you, and will look up.

4 For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness, nor shall evil dwell with you.

5 The foolish shall not stand in your sight, you hate all workers of sin.

6 You'll destroy those who speak lying, the Lord will hate the bloody and deceitful man.

7 But as for me, I will come into your house in the multitude of your mercy, and in your fear I'll worship toward your holy temple.

8 Lead me, O Lord, in your righteousness because of my enemies, make your way straight before my face.

9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth, their inward part is absolute wickedness, their throat is an open tomb, they flatter with their tongue.

10 Destroy them, O God, let them fall by their own advice, throw them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they've rebelled against you.

11 But let all those that put their trust in you rejoice, let them always shout for joy, because you defend them, let them also that love your name be joyful in you.

12 For you, Lord, will bless the righteous, you'll surround him with favor like with a shield.

___Psalm 6

1 O Lord, don't reprimand me in your anger, nor punish me in your hot displeasure.

2 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak, O Lord, heal me, for my bones are vexed.

3 My soul is also very vexed, but you, O Lord, how long?

4 Return, O Lord, deliver my soul, oh save me for your mercies' sake.

5 For in death there is no remembrance of you, in the grave who shall give you thanks?

6 I am weary with my groaning, all the night I make my bed to swim, I water my couch with my tears.

7 My eye is consumed because of grief, it grows old because of all my enemies.

8 Depart from me, all you doers of sin, for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.

9 The Lord has heard my supplication, the Lord will receive my prayer.

10 Let all my enemies be ashamed and very vexed, let them return and be ashamed suddenly.

___Psalm 7

1 O Lord my God, I put my trust in you, save me from all of those who persecute me, and deliver me,

2 So that he doesn't tear my soul like a lion, tearing it in pieces, while there is no one to give deliverance.

3 O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is sin in my hands,

4 If I have rewarded evil to him that was at peace with me, (yes, I have delivered him that is my enemy for no good reason,)

5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it, yes, let him tread down my life on the earth, and lay my honor in the dust.  Selah.

6 Get up, O Lord, in your anger, lift up yourself because of the rage of my enemies, and awake for me to the judgment that you've commanded.

7 So the congregation of the people shall surround you, for their sakes therefore return on high.

8 The Lord shall judge the people, judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity that is in me.

9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the just, for the righteous God tests the hearts and reins.

10 My defense is of God, who saves the upright in heart.

11 God judges the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

12 If he doesn't turn, he'll whet his sword, he has bent his bow, and made it ready.

13 He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death, he ordains his arrows against the persecutors.

14 See, he travails with sin, and has conceived mischief, and produced falsehood.

15 He made a pit, and dug it, and has fallen into the ditch that he dug.

16 His mischief shall return on his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down on his own pate.

17 I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness, and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high.

___Psalm 8

1  O Lord our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth!  Who has set your glory above the heavens.

2 Out of the mouth of babies and sucklings you've ordained strength because of your enemies, so that you would still the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, that you've ordained,

4 What is man, that you are mindful of him?  And the son of man, that you visit him?

5 For you've made him a little lower than the angels, and have crowned him with glory and honor.

6 You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands, you have put all things under his feet,

7 All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field,

8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

9 O Lord our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth!

___Psalm 9

1 I will praise you, O Lord, with my whole heart, I will show forth all your marvelous works.

2 I will be glad and rejoice in you, I will sing praise to your name, O most high.

3 When my enemies have turned back, they shall fall and perish at your presence.

4 For you have maintained my right and my cause, you sat in the throne judging right.

5 You have reprimanded the heathen, you have destroyed the wicked, you have put out their name forever and always.

6 O you enemy, destructions have come to a perpetual end, and you have destroyed cities, their memorial has perished with them.

7 But the Lord shall endure forever, he has prepared his throne for judgment.

8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.

9 The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

10 And those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

11 Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion, declare among the people his doings.

12 When he makes inquisition for blood, he remembers them, he doesn't forget the cry of the humble.

13 Have mercy on me, O Lord, consider my trouble that I endure from those who hate me, you that lifts me up from the gates of death,

14 So that I'll show forth all your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion, I'll rejoice in your salvation.

15 The heathen have sunk down in the pit that they made, their own foot has been taken in the net that they hid.

16 The Lord is known by the judgment that he executes, the wicked has been trapped in the work of his own hands.  Higgaion.  Selah.

17 The wicked shall be sent to hell, and all the nations that forget God.

18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten, the expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.

19 Arise, O Lord, don't let man prevail, let the heathen be judged in your sight.

20 Put them in fear, O Lord, so that the nations will know themselves to be merely men.  Selah.

___Psalm 10

1 Why do you stand afar off, O Lord?  Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

2 The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor, let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the coveter, whom the Lord hates.

4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, won't seek for God, God is not in all his thoughts.

5 His ways are always grievous, your judgments are far above out of his sight, as for all his enemies, he puffs at them.

6 He has said in his heart, "I shall not be moved, for I shall never be in adversity."

7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud, under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

8 He sits in the lurking places of the villages, in the secret places he murders the innocent, his eyes are secretly set against the poor.

9 He lies in wait secretly like a lion in his den, he lies in wait to catch the poor, he catches the poor, when he draws him into his net.

10 He crouches, and humbles himself, so that the poor will fall by his strong ones.

11 He has said in his heart, "God has forgotten, he hides his face, he will never see it."

12 Arise, O Lord, O God, lift up your hand, don't forget the humble.

13 Why do the wicked hold God in contempt?  He has said in his heart, "You won't require it."

14 You have seen it, for you see mischief and spite, to repay it with your hand, the poor commits himself to you, you are the helper of the fatherless.

15 Break the arm of the wicked and the evil man, seek out his wickedness 'til you find none.

16 The Lord is King forever and always, the heathen have perished out of his land.

17 Lord, you've heard the desire of the humble, you'll prepare their heart, you'll cause your ear to hear,

18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, so that the man of the earth won't oppress anymore.

___Psalm 11

1 I put my trust in the Lord, how is it that you say to my soul, "Flee like a bird to your mountain?"

2 For see, the wicked bend their bow, they make their arrow ready on the string, so they can secretly shoot at the upright in heart.

3 If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?

4 The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's throne is in heaven, his eyes see, his eyelids test, the children of men.

5 The Lord tests the righteous, but the wicked and he that loves violence his soul hates.

6 On the wicked he'll rain traps, fire and sulphur, and a horrible tempest, this shall be the portion of their cup.

7 For the righteous Lord loves righteousness, his face sees the upright.

___Psalm 12

1 Help, Lord, for the godly man is gone, for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

2 Everyone speaks vanity with their neighbor, they speak with flattering lips and with a double heart.

3 The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips and the tongue that speaks proud things,

4 Who've said, with our tongue we'll prevail, our lips are our own, who is lord over us?

5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, "Now I'll arise," says the Lord, "I'll set him in safety from him that puffs at him."

6 The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

7 You'll keep them, O Lord, you'll preserve them from this generation forever.

8 The wicked walk on every side, when the filthiest men are exalted.

___Psalm 13

1 How long will you forget me, O Lord?  Forever?  How long will you hide your face from me?

2 How long shall I consider advice in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily?  How long will my enemy be exalted over me?

3 Consider and hear me, O Lord my God, illuminate my eyes, so I don't sleep the sleep of death,

4 So that my enemy doesn’t say, "I've prevailed against him," and those who trouble me rejoice when I'm moved.

5 But I've trusted in your mercy, my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.

6 I'll sing to the Lord, because he's dealt abundantly with me.

___Psalm 14

1 The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God."  They're corrupt, they've done dirty things, there's no one that does good.

2 The Lord looked down from heaven at the children of men, to see if there were any that understood, and sought God.

3 They're all turned aside, all of them together have become filthy, there is no one that does good, no, not one.

4 Do all the workers of sin have no knowledge?  Who eat up my people like they eat bread, and don't call on the Lord.

5 They were in great fear there, for God is in the generation of the righteous.

6 You've shamed the advice of the poor, because the Lord is their refuge.

7 Oh, that the salvation of Israel had come out of Zion!  When the Lord undoes the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

___Psalm 15

1 Lord, who shall live in your tent?  Who shall live in your holy hill?

2 He that walks uprightly, and does righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart.

3 He that doesn't backbite with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor.

4 In whose eyes a filthy person is held in contempt, but he honors those who fear the Lord.  He that promises, and then finds that it was to his disadvantage, and keeps his promise anyway.

5 He that doesn't loan out his money at interest, nor takes a reward against the innocent.  He that does these things shall never be moved.

___Psalm 16

1 Preserve me, O God, for I put my trust in you.

2 O my soul, you've said to the Lord, "You are my Lord, my goodness doesn't extend to you,

3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight."

4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied who hurry

toward another god, I won't offer their drink offerings of blood, nor take up their names into my lips.

5 The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup, you control what happens to me.

6 The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places, yes, I have a good heritage.

7 I will bless the Lord, who has given me advice, my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.

8 I've set the Lord always before me, because he's at my right hand, I won't be moved.

9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices, also my flesh shall rest in hope.

10 For you won't leave my soul in hell, nor will you allow your Holy one to see corruption.

11 You'll show me the path of life, in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are always more pleasures.

___Psalm 17

1 Hear what's right, O Lord, pay attention to my shout, give ear to my prayer, that doesn't go out of pretending lips.

2 Let my sentence come out from your presence, let your eyes see the things that are equal.

3 You've tested my heart, you've visited me in the night, you've tested me, and shall find nothing, I've purposed that I won't sin with what I say.

4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I've kept myself from the paths of the destroyer.

5 Hold up my goings in your paths so that my footsteps don't slip.

6 I've called on you, for you'll hear me, O God, incline your ear to me, and hear my speech.

7 Show your marvelous loving kindness, O you that saves by your right hand those who put their trust in you from those that rise up against them.

8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of your wings,

9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who surround me.

10 They're enclosed in their own fat, with their mouth they speak proudly.

11 They've surrounded us now in our steps, they've set their eyes bowing down to the earth,

12 Like a lion that is greedy of its prey, and like a young lion lurking in secret places.

13 Get up, O Lord, disappoint him, throw him down, deliver my soul from the wicked, which is your sword,

14 From men who are your hand, O Lord, from men of the world, who have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hidden treasure, they're full of children, and leave the rest of their possessions to their babies.

15 As for me, I will see your face in righteousness, when I wake up, I'll be satisfied with your likeness.

___Psalm 18

1 I will love you, O Lord, my strength.

2 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my strength, in whom I'll trust, my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

3 I'll call on the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; by this I'll be saved from my enemies.

4 The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

5 The sorrows of hell surrounded me, the traps of death went before me.

6 In my distress I called on the Lord, and cried to my God, he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, into his ears.

7 Then the earth shook and trembled, the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was angry.

8 A smoke went up from his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured, coals were kindled by it.

9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down, and darkness was under his feet.

10 And he rode on a cherub and flew, yes, he flew on the wings of the wind.

11 He made darkness his secret place, his pavilion around him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

13 The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the highest gave his voice, hail stones and coals of fire.

14 Yes, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them, and he shot out lightnings, and struck them.

15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at your reprimand, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

16 He sent from above, he took me, he pulled me out of many waters.

17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me, for they were too strong for me.

18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity, but the Lord was my anchor.

19 He also brought me out into a large place, he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

20 The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness, he has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

21 For I've kept the ways of the Lord, and haven't wickedly departed from my God.

22 For all his judgments were before me, and I didn't put away his statutes from me.

23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from my sin.

24 Therefore the Lord has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

25 With the merciful you'll show yourself merciful, with an upright man you'll show yourself upright,

26 With the pure you'll show yourself pure, and with the perverse you will show yourself perverse.

27 For you'll save the afflicted people, but will bring down high looks.

28 For you'll light my candle, the Lord my God will illuminate my darkness.

29 For by you I've run through a troop, and by my God I've jumped over a wall.

30 As for God, his way is perfect, the word of the Lord is tested, he is a shield to all of those who trust in him.

31 For who is God except the Lord?  Or who is a rock except our God?

32 It is God that clothes me with strength, and makes my way perfect.

33 He makes my feet like hinds' feet, and sets me on my high places.

34 He teaches my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms.

35 You've also given me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand has supported me, and your gentleness has made me great.

36 You've enlarged my steps under me, so that my feet didn't slip.

37 I've pursued my enemies, and overtaken them, nor did I turn back 'til they were consumed.

38 I've wounded them so that they weren't able to rise, they've fallen under my feet.

39 For you've girded me with strength for the battle, you've subdued under me those who rose up against me.

40 You've also given me the necks of my enemies, so I could destroy those who hate me.

41 They shouted, but there was no one to save them, to the Lord, but he didn't answer them.

42 Then I beat them as small as the dust before the wind, I threw them out like the dirt in the streets.

43 You've given me deliverance from the strivings of the people, and you've made me the head of the heathen, a people whom I haven't known shall serve me.

44 As soon as they hear of me, they'll obey me, the strangers shall submit themselves to me.

45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.

46 The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock, and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

47 It is God that avenges me, and subdues the people under me.

48 He delivers me from my enemies, yes, you lift me up above those that rise up against me, you've given me deliverance from the violent man.

49 Therefore I'll give thanks to you, O Lord, among the heathen, and sing praises to your name.

50 He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his descendants always increasingly.

___Psalm 19

1 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows his handiwork.

2 Day to day yields speech, and night to night shows knowledge.

3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

4 Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.  In them he has set a tabernacle for the sun,

5 Which is like a bridegroom coming out of his room, and rejoices like a strong man to run a race.

6 His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit to the ends of it, and there is nothing hidden from the heat of it.

7 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul, the testimony of the Lord is sure, making the simple wise.

8 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart, the commandment of the Lord is pure, illuminating the eyes.

9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever, the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous completely.

10 They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

11 Also your servant is warned by them, and there is great reward by keeping them.

12 Who can understand his errors?  Cleanse me from secret faults.

13 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins, don't let them have dominion over me.  Then I shall be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.

___Psalm 20

1 The Lord hear you in the day of trouble, the name of the God of Jacob defend you,

2 Send you help from the sanctuary, and strengthen you out of Zion,

3 Remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice, Selah.

4 Grant you according to your own heart, and fulfill all your advice.

5 We will rejoice in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners, may the Lord fulfill all your petitions.

6 Now know I that the Lord saves his anointed, he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.

7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.

8 They've been brought down and have fallen, but we've risen, and stand upright.

9 Save, Lord, let the king hear us when we call.

___Psalm 21

1 The king shall rejoice in your strength, O Lord, and in your salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!

2 You've given him his heart's desire, and haven't withheld the request of his lips.  Selah.

3 For you go before him with the blessings of goodness, you set a crown of pure gold on his head.

4 He asked life of you, and you gave it him, length of days forever and ever.

5 His glory is great in your salvation, you've laid honor and majesty on him.

6 For you've made him most blessed forever, you've made him very glad with your facial expression.

7 For the king trusts in the Lord, and through the mercy of the most high he shall not be moved.

8 Your hand shall find out all your enemies, your right hand shall find out those that hate you.

9 You'll make them like a fiery oven in the time of your anger, the Lord shall swallow them up in his anger, and the fire shall devour them.

10 You'll destroy their fruit from the earth, and their descendants from among the children of men.

11 For they intended evil against you, they imagined a mischievous device, that they are not able to perform.

12 Therefore you'll make them turn their back, when you'll make ready your arrows on your strings against the face of them.

13 Be exalted, Lord, in your own strength, so we will sing and praise your power.

___Psalm 22

1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?  Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't hear, and in the night season, and am not silent.

3 But you are holy, O you that inhabit the praises of Israel.

4 Our fathers trusted in you, they trusted, and you gave them deliverance.

5 They cried to you, and received deliverance, they trusted in you, and were not put to shame.

6 But I am a worm, and no man, a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

7 All of those who see me laugh at me scornfully, they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, and say,

8 "He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him, let him deliver him, since he delighted in him."

9 But you are he that took me out of the womb, you made me hope when I was on my mother's breasts.

10 I was thrown on you from the womb, you are my God from my mother's belly.

11 Don't be far from me, for trouble is near, for there is no one to help.

12 Many bulls have surrounded me, strong bulls of Bashan have surrounded me.

13 They gaped at me with their mouths, like a ravening and a roaring lion.

14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint, my heart is like wax, it has melted among my internal organs.

15 My strength has dried up like a piece of broken pottery, and my tongue sticks to my jaws, and you've brought me into the dust of death.

16 For dogs have surrounded me, the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me, they pierced my hands and my feet.

17 I can tell all my bones, they look and stare at me.

18 They divide my garments among them, and draw straws for my vesture.

19 But don't be far from me, O Lord, O my strength, hurry to help me.

20 Deliver my soul from the sword, my darling from the power of the dog.

21 Save me from the lion's mouth, for you've heard me from the horns of the wild bulls.

22 I will declare your name to my brothers, among the congregation I will praise you.

23 You that fear the Lord, praise him, all of you, the seed of Jacob, glorify him, and fear him, all of you, the seed of Israel.

24 For he has not despised nor hated the affliction of the afflicted, nor has he hidden his face from him, but when he called to him, he heard.

25 My praise shall be of you in the great congregation, I will pay my vows before those who fear him.

26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied, those who seek the Lord shall praise him, your heart shall live forever.

27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before you.

28 For the kingdom is the Lord's, and he is the governor among the nations.

29 All of those who are fat on earth shall eat and worship, all of those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, and no one can keep his own soul alive.

30 A seed shall serve him, it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

31 They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, that he has done this.

___Psalm 23

1 The Lord is my shepherd, I won’t lack what I need.

2 He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside the still waters.

3 He restores my soul, he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

4 Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I won’t fear any evil, for you are with me, your rod and your staff comfort me.

5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies, you anoint my head with oil, my cup overflows.

6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I’ll live in the house of the Lord forever.

___Psalm 24

1 The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it, the world, and those who live in it.

2 For he has founded it on the oceans, and established it on the floods.

3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord?  Or who shall stand in his holy place?

4 He that has clean hands, and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

6 This is the generation of those who seek him, that seek your face, O Jacob.  Selah.

7 Lift up your heads, O you gates, and be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.

8 Who is this King of glory?  The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.

9 Lift up your heads, O you gates, lift them up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.

10 Who is this King of glory?  The Lord of Hosts, he is the King of glory.  Selah.

___Psalm 25

1 To you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

2 O my God, I trust in you, let me not be ashamed, don't let my enemies triumph over me.

3 Yes, let none that wait on you be ashamed, let them be ashamed who transgress without cause.

4 Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths.

5 Lead me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation, I wait all the day on you.

6 Remember, O Lord, your tender mercies and your loving kindnesses, for they have been always of old.

7 Don't remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions, according to your mercy remember me for your goodness' sake, O Lord.

8 The Lord is good and upright, therefore he will teach sinners in the way.

9 He will guide the meek in judgment, and he will teach the meek his way.

10 All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

11 For your name's sake, O Lord, pardon my sins, for they are many.

12 What man is he that fears the Lord?  He shall teach him in the way that he shall choose.

13 His soul shall dwell at ease, and his descendants shall inherit the earth.

14 The secret of the Lord is with those who fear him, and he will show them his covenant.

15 My eyes are always toward the Lord, for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.

16 Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

17 The troubles of my heart have been enlarged, O bring me out of my distresses.

18 Look at my affliction and my pain, and forgive all my sins.

19 Consider my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with cruel hatred.

20 O keep my soul, and deliver me, don't let me be ashamed, for I put my trust in you.

21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait on you.

22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

___Psalm 26

1 Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity, I have trusted also in the Lord, therefore I won't slide.

2 Examine me, O Lord, and test me, try my reins and my heart.

3 For your loving kindness is before my eyes, and I have walked in your truth.

4 I haven't sat down with vain people, nor will I go in with pretenders.

5 I've hated the congregation of evil doers, and won't sit with the wicked.

6 I'll wash my hands in innocence, so I will circle your altar, O Lord,

7 So that I can publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all your wondrous works.

8 Lord, I have loved the habitation of your house, and the place where yours honor lives.

9 Don't gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men,

10 In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

11 But as for me, I will walk in my integrity, redeem me, and be merciful to me.

12 My foot stands in an even place, in the congregations I will bless the Lord.

___Psalm 27

1 The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?  The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?

2 When the wicked, my enemies, came on me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

3 Though an army should encamp against me, my heart won't fear, though war should rise against me, in this I'll be confident.

4 One thing I have desired from the Lord, I will seek after it, that I may live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to see the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.

5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion, in the secret of his tabernacle he shall hide me, he shall set me up on a rock.

6 And now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies around me, therefore I will offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy, I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord.

7 Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice, have mercy also on me, and answer me.

8 When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "Your face, Lord, I will seek."

9 Don't hide your face far from me, don't put your servant away in anger, you've been my help, don't leave me, nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.

10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.

11 Teach me your way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies.

12 Don't deliver me over to the will of my enemies, for false witnesses have risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

13 I would have fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

14 Wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, wait, I say, on the Lord.

___Psalm 28

1 I will shout to you, O Lord my rock.  Don't be silent to me, so that I won't become like those who go down into the pit, if you are silent to me.

2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy oracle.

3 Don't draw me away with the wicked, and with the workers of sin, who speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors, give them according to the work of their hands, render to them what they deserve.

5 Because they don't regard the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

6 Blessed be the Lord, because he has heard the voice of my supplications.

7 The Lord is my strength and my shield, my heart trusted in him, and I am helped, therefore my heart greatly rejoices, and with my song will I praise him.

8 The Lord is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

9 Save your people, and bless yours inheritance, feed them also, and lift them up forever.

___Psalm 29

1 Give to the Lord, O you mighty, give to the Lord glory and strength.

2 Give to the Lord the glory due to his name, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

3 The voice of the Lord is on the waters, the God of glory thunders, the Lord is on many waters.

4 The voice of the Lord is powerful, the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

5 The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars, yes, the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon.

6 He makes them also to skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild bull.

7 The voice of the Lord divides the flames of fire.

8 The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness, the Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

9 The voice of the Lord makes the hinds to calve, and discovers the forests, and in his temple everyone speaks of his glory.

10 The Lord sits on the flood, yes, the Lord sits King forever.

11 The Lord will give strength to his people, the Lord will bless his people with peace.

___Psalm 30

1 I will extol you, O Lord, for you've lifted me up, and haven't made my enemies to rejoice over me.

2 O Lord my God, I shouted to you, and you've healed me.

3 O Lord, you've brought up my soul from the grave, you've kept me alive, so that I won't go down to the pit.

4 Sing to the Lord, O you saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

5 For his anger lasts but a moment, in his favor is life, crying might continue for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

6 And in my prosperity I said, "I shall never be moved."

7 Lord, by your favor you've made my mountain to stand strong, you hid your face, and I was troubled.

8 I shouted to you, O Lord, and to the Lord I made supplication.

9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit?  Shall the dust praise you?  Shall it declare your truth?

10 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy on me, Lord, be my helper.

11 You've turned my mourning into dancing for me, you've put off my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

12 So that my glory will sing praise to you, and not be silent.  O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever.

___Psalm 31

1 I put my trust in you, O Lord, let me never be ashamed, deliver me in your righteousness.

2 Bow down your ear to me, deliver me speedily, be my strong rock, for a house of defense to save me.

3 For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name's sake lead me, and guide me.

4 Pull me out of the net that they've secretly spread for me, for you are my strength.

5 Into your hand I commit my spirit, you've redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.

6 I've hated those who pay attention to lying vanities, but I trust in the Lord.

7 I'll be glad and rejoice in your mercy, for you've considered my trouble, you've known my soul in adversities,

8 And haven't put me into the hand of the enemy, you've set my feet in a large room.

9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I'm in trouble, my eye is consumed by grief, yes, my soul and my belly.

10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing, my strength fails because of my sin, and my bones are consumed.

11 I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintance, those who saw me in public fled from me.

12 I'm forgotten from memory like a dead man, I'm like a broken container.

13 For I've heard the slander of many, fear was on every side, while they plotted together against me, they devised to take away my life.

14 But I trusted in you, O Lord, I said, "You're my God."

15 My times are in your hand, deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

16 Make your face shine on your servant, save me for your mercies' sake.

17 Don't let me not be ashamed, O Lord, for I've called on you, let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

18 Let the lying lips be put to silence, that speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

19 Oh how great is your goodness, that you've laid up for those who fear you, that you've made for those who trust in you before the sons of men!

20 You'll hide them in the secret of your presence from the pride of man, you'll keep them secretly in a covered place from the strife of tongues.

21 Blessed be the Lord, for he has shown me his marvelous kindness in a strong city.

22 For I said in my haste, "I'm cut off from before your eyes," but you heard the voice of my prayers when I called to you.

23 O love the Lord, all you his saints, for the Lord preserves the faithful, and plentifully rewards the proud doer.

24 Be of good courage, and he'll strengthen your heart, all of you who hope in the Lord.

___Psalm 32

1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

2 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord doesn't hold guilty of sin, and in whose spirit there's no deceit.

3 When I kept silence, my bones grew old through my roaring all the day long.

4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me, my moisture has turned into the drought of summer.  Selah.

5 I acknowledged my sin to you, and my iniquity I haven't hidden.  I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the Lord," and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.  Selah.

6 For this shall everyone that is godly pray to you in a time when you can be found, surely in the floods of great waters they won't come near him.

7 You're my hiding place, you'll preserve me from trouble, you'll surround me with songs of deliverance.  Selah.

8 I'll instruct you and teach you in the way that you shall go, I'll guide you with my eye.

9 Don't be like the horse, or like the mule, that have no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, so they don't come near you.

10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked, but mercy shall surround the man who trusts in the Lord.

11 Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, you righteous, and shout for joy, all of you that are upright in heart.

___Psalm 33

1 Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous, for praise looks good on the upright.

2 Praise the Lord with harp, sing to him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.

3 Sing to him a new song, play skillfully with a loud noise.

4 For the word of the Lord is right, and all his works are done in truth.

5 He loves righteousness and justice, the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.

6 The heavens were made by the word of the Lord, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

7 He gathers the waters of the sea together like a heap, he lays up the depth in storehouses.

8 Let all the earth fear the Lord, let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

9 For he spoke, and it was done, he commanded, and it stood firm.

10 The Lord brings the advice of the heathen to nothing, he makes the devices of the people not to work.

11 The advice of the Lord stands forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, and the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

13 The Lord looks from heaven, he sees all the sons of men.

14 From the place of his habitation he looks at all the inhabitants of the earth.

15 He fashions their hearts alike, he considers all their works.

16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an army, a mighty man doesn't receive deliverance by much strength.

17 A horse is unreliable for safety, nor shall he give deliverance to anyone by his great strength.

18 See, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his mercy,

19 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

20 Our soul waits for the Lord, he is our help and our shield.

21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we've trusted in his holy name.

22 Let your mercy be on us, O Lord, since we hope in you.

___Psalm 34

1 I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

2 My soul shall make its boast in the Lord, the humble shall hear of it, and be glad.

3 O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.

4 I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

5 They looked to him, and were illuminated, and their faces were not ashamed.

6 This poor man called to Him, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

7 The angel of the Lord camps around those who fear him, and gives them deliverance.

8 O taste and see that the Lord is good, blessed is the man that trusts in him.

9 O fear the Lord, you his saints, for there is no lacking what you need for those who fear him.

10 The young lions lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing.

11 Come, you children, listen to me, I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

12 What man is he that desires life, and loves many days, so that he can see good?

13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

14 Depart from evil, and do good, seek peace, and pursue it.

15 The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer.

16 The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

17 The righteous pray, and the Lord hears, and gives them deliverance out of all their troubles.

18 The Lord is near those who are of a broken heart, and saves such as are of a contrite spirit.

19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.

20 He keeps all his bones, not one of them is broken.

21 Evil shall kill the wicked, and those who hate the righteous shall be desolate.

22 The Lord redeems the soul of his servants, and none of those who trust in him shall be desolate.

___Psalm 35

1 Plead my cause, O Lord, with those who strive with me, fight against those who fight against me.

2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.

3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against those who persecute me, say to my soul, "I am your salvation."

4 Let them be confused and put to shame that seek after my soul, let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

5 Let them be like chaff before the wind, and let the angel of the Lord chase them.

6 Let their way be dark and slippery, and let the angel of the Lord persecute them.

7 For without good reason they've hidden their net in a pit for me, a pit that they've dug for my soul without good reason.

8 Let destruction come on him without warning, and let his net that he has hidden catch himself, into that very destruction let him fall.

9 And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord, it shall rejoice in his salvation.

10 All my bones shall say, "Lord, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him that is too strong for him, yes, the poor and the needy from him that spoils him?"

11 False witnesses rose up, they accused me of things that I didn't know.

12 They repaid me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was burlap, I humbled my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into my own bosom.

14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother, I bowed down heavily, like someone that mourns for his mother.

15 But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together, yes, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it, they tore me, and didn't stop,

16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed at me with their teeth.

17 Lord, how long will you look on?  Rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

18 I will give you thanks in the great congregation, I will praise you among many people.

19 Don't let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me, and don't let them wink with the eye that hate me without good reason.

20 For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful matters against those who are quiet in the land.

21 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, "Aha, aha, our eye has seen it."

22 You've seen this, O Lord, don't keep silence, O Lord, don't be far from me.

23 Stir up yourself, and awake for my judgment, for my cause, my God and my Lord.

24 Judge me, O Lord my God, according to your righteousness, and don't let them rejoice over me.

25 Don't let them say in their hearts, "Ah, so would we have it," don't let them say, "We've swallowed him up."

26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at my hurt, let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.

27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause, yes, let them say continually, "Let the Lord be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant."

28 And my tongue shall speak of your righteousness and of your praise all day long.

___Psalm 36

1 The transgression of the wicked says inside my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his sin is found to be hateful.

3 The words of his mouth are sin and deceit, he has stopped being wise, and doing good.

4 He devises mischief on his bed, he sets himself in a way that is not good, he doesn't hate evil.

5 Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens, and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

6 Your righteousness is like the great mountains, your judgments are a great deep, O Lord, you preserve man and beast.

7 How excellent is your loving kindness, O God!  Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of your wings.

8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of your house, and you'll make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

9 For with you is the fountain of life, in your light we shall see light.

10 O continue your loving kindness to those who know you, and your righteousness to the upright in heart.

11 Don't let the foot of pride come against me, and don't let the hand of the wicked remove me.

12 The workers of sin have fallen there, they've been thrown down, and won't be able to rise.

___Psalm 37

1 Don't fret because of evildoers, and don't be envious against the doers of sin.

2 For they'll soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

3 Trust in the Lord and do good, so you'll live in the land, and truly you'll be fed.

4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, and he'll give you the desires of your heart.

5 Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in him, and he'll make it happen.

6 And he shall bring out your righteousness like the light, and your justice like the noonday.

7 Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him, don't fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked devices happen.

8 Don't be angry.  Quit being angry.  Don't fret in any way to do evil.

9 For evildoers shall be destroyed, but those who wait on the Lord shall inherit the earth.

10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be, yes, you'll diligently consider his place, and it won't be.

11 But the meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

12 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

13 The Lord shall laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to throw down the poor and needy, and to kill such as are of upright conversation.

15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

16 A little that a righteous man has is better than the riches of many wicked.

17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the Lord upholds the righteous.

18 The Lord knows the days of the upright, and their inheritance shall be forever.

19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time, and in the days of famine they'll be satisfied.

20 But the wicked shall be destroyed, and the enemies of the Lord shall be like the fat of lambs, they'll be consumed, into smoke shall they consume away.

21 The wicked borrows, and doesn't pay back, but the righteous shows mercy, and gives.

22 For those who are blessed by him shall inherit the earth, and those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he delights in his way.

24 Though he falls, he won't be completely thrown down, for the Lord holds him up with his hand.

25 I've been young and now am old, yet I haven't seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

26 He's always merciful, and lends, and his descendants are blessed.

27 Depart from evil, and do good, and live forever.

28 For the Lord loves judgment, and doesn't forsake his saints, they're preserved forever, but the descendants of the wicked shall be destroyed.

29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and live in it forever.

30 The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks about justice.

31 The law of his God is in his heart, none of his steps shall slide.

32 The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.

33 The Lord will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

34 Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he'll exalt you to inherit the land, when the wicked are cut off, you'll see it.

35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

36 Yet he passed away, and see, he was not, yes, I sought him, but he couldn't be found.

37 Identify the perfect man, and observe the upright, for the end of that man is peace.

38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together, the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord, he is their strength in the time of trouble.

40 And the Lord shall help them, and give them deliverance, he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

___Psalm 38

1 O Lord, don't reprimand me in your anger, and don't punish me in your hot displeasure.

2 For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses me severely.

3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger, nor is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

4 For my sins have gone over my head, like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

6 I'm troubled, I'm bowed down greatly, I go mourning all day long.

7 For my loins are filled with a terrible disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

8 I am feeble and very broken, I have roared because of the disquietness of my heart.

9 Lord, all my desire is before you, and my groaning is not hidden from you.

10 My heart pants, my strength fails me, as for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.

11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore, and my kinsmen stand far off.

12 Also, those who seek after my life lay traps for me, and those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all day long.

13 But like a deaf man, I didn't hear, and I was like a dumb man that doesn't open his mouth.

14 Thus I was like a man that doesn't hear, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

15 For in you, O Lord, do I hope, you will hear, O Lord my God.

16 For I said, "Hear me, so that they won't rejoice over me," when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.

17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

18 For I will declare my iniquity, I will be sorry for my sin.

19 But my enemies are lively, and they are strong, and those who hate me wrongfully have multiplied.

20 Those also that repay evil for good are my adversaries, because I follow the thing that is good.

21 Don't forsake me, O Lord, O my God, don't be far from me.

22 Hurry to help me, O Lord my salvation.

___Psalm 39

1 I said, "I will take heed to my ways, so I don't sin with my tongue, I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked are before me."

2 I was dumb with silence, I kept quiet, even from good, and my sorrow was stirred.

3 My heart was hot inside me, while I was musing the fire burned, then I spoke with my tongue,

4 "Lord, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is, so I'll know how frail I am.

5 See, you've made my days like a hand breadth, and my age is like nothing before you, truly every man at his best state is completely vanity."  Selah.

6 Surely every man walks in a vain show, surely they are disquieted in vain, he heaps up riches, and doesn’t know who shall gather them.

7 And now, Lord, what do I wait for?  My hope is in you.

8 Deliver me from all my transgressions, don't make me the reproach of the foolish.

9 I was dumb, I didn't open my mouth, because you did it.

10 Remove your stroke away from me, I'm consumed by the blow of your hand.

11 When you correct man with reprimands for sin, you make his beauty to be consumed away like a moth, surely every man is vanity.  Selah.

12 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry, don't be silent at my tears, for I am a stranger with you, and a visitor, like all my ancestors were.

13 O spare me so I can recover strength, before I go from here, and be no more.

___Psalm 40

1 I waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined to me, and heard my cry.

2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet on a rock, and established my goings.

3 And he has put a new song in my mouth:  praise to our God, many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.

4 Blessed is the man that makes the Lord his trust, and doesn't respect the proud, nor those who turn aside to lies.

5 Many, O Lord my God, are your wonderful works that you've done, and your thoughts toward us.  They can't be reckoned up in order to you, if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

6 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, you've opened my ears, burnt offering and sin offering you haven't required.

7 Then I said, "See, I come, in the volume of the book it is written about me,

8 I delight to do your will, O my God, yes, your law is in my heart."

9 I've preached righteousness in the great congregation, see, I haven't silenced my lips, O Lord, you know.

10 I haven't concealed your righteousness inside my heart, I've declared your faithfulness and your salvation, I haven't concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great congregation.

11 Don't withhold you your tender mercies from me, O Lord, let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

12 For uncountable evils have surrounded me, my sins have taken hold on me, so that I'm not able to look up, they are more than the hairs of my head, therefore my heart fails me.

13 Be pleased, O Lord, to give me deliverance, O Lord, make haste to help me.

14 Let them be ashamed and confused together that seek after my soul to destroy it, let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say to me, "Aha, aha."

16 Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you, let such as love your salvation say continually, "The Lord be magnified."

17 But I am poor and needy, yet the Lord thinks about me, you are my help and my deliverer, don't delay, O my God.

___Psalm 41

1 Blessed is he that considers the poor, the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.

2 The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive, and he shall be blessed on the earth, and you won't deliver him to the will of his enemies.

3 The Lord will strengthen him on the bed of languishing, you'll make all his bed in his sickness.

4 I said, "Lord, be merciful to me, heal my soul, for I have sinned against you.

5 My enemies speak evil about me, when shall he die, and his name perish?

6 And if he comes to see me, he speaks vanity, his heart gathers sin to itself, when he goes out, he tells it.

7 All that hate me whisper together against me, they devise my hurt against me.

8 They say, 'An evil disease, sticks tightly to him, and now that he lies down he won't rise back up.'

9 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

10 But you, O Lord, be merciful to me, and raise me up, so that I can respond to them.

11 By this I know that you favor me, because my enemy doesn't triumph over me.

12 And as for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me before your face forever.

13 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting.  Amen, and Amen."

___Psalm 42

1 As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants for you, O God.

2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God, when shall I come and appear before God?

3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, "Where is your God?"

4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me, for I've 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 holy day.

5 Why are you thrown down, O my soul?  And why are you disquieted inside me?  Hope in God, for I shall yet praise him for the help of his facial expression.

6 O my God, my soul is thrown down inside me, therefore I'll remember you from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

7 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterspouts, all your waves and your billows have gone over me.

8 Yet the Lord will command his loving kindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer shall be to the God of my life.

9 I will say to God my rock, why have you forgotten me?  Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

10 As with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me, while they say daily to me, "Where is your God?"

11 Why are you thrown down, O my soul?  And why are you disquieted inside me?  Hope in God, for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my facial expression, and my God.

___Psalm 43

1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation, O give me deliverance from the deceitful and unjust man.

2 For you are the God of my strength, why do you throw me away?  Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

3 O send out your light and your truth, let them lead me, let them bring me to your holy hill, and to your tents.

4 Then I'll go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, yes, I'll praise you on the harp, O God my God.

5 Why are you thrown down, O my soul?  And why are you disquieted inside me?  Hope in God, for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my facial expression, and my God.

___Psalm 44

1  We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what works you did in their days, in ancient times.

2 How you drove out the heathen with your hand, and planted them, how you afflicted the people, and threw them out.

3 For they didn't get the land in possession by their own sword, nor did their own arm save them, but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your facial expression, because you had favor toward them.

4 You are my King, O God, command deliverances for Jacob.

5 Through you we'll push down our enemies, through your name we'll tread them under who rise up against us.

6 For I won't trust in my bow, nor shall my sword save me.

7 But you've saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated us.

8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise your name forever.  Selah.

9 But you've thrown off, and put us to shame, and don't go out with our armies.

10 You make us turn back from the enemy, and those who hate us spoil for themselves.

11 You've given us like sheep chosen for butchering, and have scattered us among the heathen.

12 You sell your people for nothing, and don't  increase your wealth by their price.

13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to those who are around us.

14 You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,

16 For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes, because of the enemy and avenger.

17 All this has come on us, yet we have not forgotten you, nor have we dealt falsely in your covenant.

18 Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps declined from your way,

19 Though you've severely broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god,

21 Won't God search this out?  For he knows the secrets of the heart.

22 Yes, for your sake we are killed all the day long, we are counted like sheep for slaughtering.

23 Awake, why do you sleep, O Lord?  Get up, don't throw us away forever.

24 Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust, our belly sticks to the earth.

26 Get up for our help, and redeem us for your mercies' sake.

___Psalm 45

1 My heart is indicting a good matter, I speak of the things that I've made concerning the king, my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

2 You are fairer than the children of men, grace is poured into your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.

3 Gird your sword on your thigh, O most mighty, with your glory and your majesty.

4 And in your majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness, and your right hand shall teach you terrible things.

5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies, by which the people fall under you.

6 Your throne, O God, is forever and always, the scepter of your kingdom is a right scepter.

7 You loved righteousness, and hate wickedness, therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness more than your fellows.

8 All your garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, by which they've made you glad.

9 Kings' daughters were among your honorable women, the queen stood at your right hand in gold of Ophir.

10 Listen, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear, forget also your own people, and your father's house,

11 So the king shall greatly desire your beauty, for he is your Lord, and worship him.

12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift, even the rich among the people shall entreat your favor.

13 The king's daughter is all glorious inside, her clothing is of crafted gold.

14 She shall be brought to the king in clothing of needlework, the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought to you.

15 With gladness and rejoicing they'll be brought, they'll enter into the king's palace.

16 Instead of your fathers shall be your children, whom you can make princes in all the earth.

17 I'll make your name to be remembered in all generations, therefore shall the people praise you forever and always.

___Psalm 46

1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

2 Therefore we won't fear, though the earth is removed, and though the mountains are carried into the middle of the sea,

3 Though the waters of it roar and are troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling of it.  Selah.

4 There is a river, the streams of which shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most high.

5 God is among her, she shall not be moved, God shall help her, and right early.

6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved, he spoke with his voice, the earth melted.

7 The Lord of hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge.  Selah.

8 Come, see the works of the Lord, what desolations he has made in the earth.

9 He makes wars to stop to the end of the earth, he breaks the bow, and cuts the spear in pieces, he burns the chariot in the fire.

10 Be still, and know that I am God, I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

11 The Lord of hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge.  Selah.

___Psalm 47

1  O clap your hands, all you people, shout to God with the voice of triumph.

2 For the Lord most high is terrible, he is a great King over all the earth.

3 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.

4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellence of Jacob whom he loved.  Selah.

5 God has gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.

6 Sing praises to God, sing praises, sing praises to our King, sing praises.

7 For God is the King of all the earth, sing praises with understanding.

8 God rules over the heathen, God sits on the throne of his holiness.

9 The princes of the people are gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham, for the shields of the earth belong to God, he is greatly exalted.

___Psalm 48

1 The Lord is great, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

4 For see, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.

5 They saw it, and so they were amazed, they were troubled, and hurried away.

6 Fear took hold on them there, and pain, like a woman in travail.

7 You broke the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

8 As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God, God will establish it forever.  Selah.

9 We have thought of your loving kindness, O God, while at your temple.

10 According to your name, O God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth, your right hand is full of righteousness.

11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of your judgments.

12 Walk around Zion, and go around her, tell the towers of it.

13 Mark well her bulwarks, consider her palaces, so you can tell it to the following generation.

14 For this God is our God forever and always, he will be our guide until death.

___Psalm 49

1 Hear this, all you people, give ear, all you inhabitants of the world,

2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.

3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom, and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

4 I will incline my ear to a parable, I will open my dark saying on the harp.

5 Why should I fear in the days of evil, when the sin of my heels shall surround me?

6 Those who trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches,

7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him,

8 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it stops forever,)

9 That he should still live forever, and not see corruption.

10 For he sees that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

11 Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue forever, and their dwelling places to all generations, they call their lands according to their own names.

12 But man being in honor doesn't remain, he is like the beasts that die.

13 This their way is their foolishness, yet their descendants approve their sayings.  Selah.

14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave, death shall feed on them, and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning, and their beauty shall be consumed in the grave from their dwelling.

15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave, for he shall receive me.  Selah.

16 Don't be afraid when someone's made rich, when the glory of his house is increased,

17 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away, his glory shall not go down after him.

18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul, and men will praise you, when you do well to yourself.

19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers, they shall never see light.

20 Man that is in honor, and doesn't understand, is like the animals that die.

___Psalm 50

1 The mighty God, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down of it.

2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined.

3 Our God shall come, and won't keep silence, a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous around him.

4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, so that he can judge his people.

5 Gather my saints together to me, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God is judge himself.  Selah.

7 "Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you, I am God, your God.

8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

9 I will take no bullock out of your house, nor he goats out of your folds.

10 For every beast of the forest is my, and the cattle on a thousand hills.

11 I know all the fowls of the mountains, and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

12 If I were hungry, I wouldn't tell you, for the world is mine, and the fullness of it.

13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

14 Offer to God thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the most high,

15 And call on me in the day of trouble, I will deliver you, and you'll glorify me."

16 But to the wicked God says, "What do you have to do with declaring my statutes, or that you should take my covenant in your mouth?

17 Seeing that you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you.

18 When you saw a thief, then you consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers.

19 You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

20 You sit and speak against your brother, you slander your own mother's son.

21 You've done these things and I kept silence, you thought that I was entirely someone like yourself, but I will reprimand you, and set them in order before your eyes."

22 Now consider this, you that forget God, so I don't tear you in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.

23 Whoever offers praise glorifies me, and I'll show the salvation of God to him that orders his conversation right.

___Psalm 51

1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your loving kindness, according to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

3 For I admit to my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

4 Against you, you only, I've sinned, and done this evil in your sight, so that you'll be justified when you speak, and be clear when you judge.

5 See, I was shaped in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

6 See, you desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part you shall make me to know wisdom.

7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean, wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

8 Make me to hear joy and gladness, so that the bones that you've broken will rejoice.

9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

11 Don't cast me away from your presence, and don't take your holy spirit from me.

12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with your free spirit.

13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners shall be converted to you.

14 Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, you God of my salvation, and my tongue shall sing out loud of your righteousness.

15 O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth your praise.

16 For you don't desire sacrifice, or I would give it, you don't delight in burnt offering.

17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart, O God, you won't despise.

18 Do good in your good pleasure to Zion, build the walls of Jerusalem.

19 Then you'll be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering, then they'll offer bullocks on your altar.

___Psalm 52

1 Why do you boast yourself about mischief, O mighty man?  The goodness of God endures continually.

2 Your tongue devises mischiefs, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

3 You loved evil more than good, and lying rather than to speak righteousness.  Selah.

4 You loved all devouring words, O you deceitful tongue.

5 God shall likewise destroy you forever, he shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, and uproot you out of the land of the living.  Selah.

6 The righteous also shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him,

7 See, this is the man that didn't make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

8 But I'm like a green olive tree in the house of God, I trust in the mercy of God forever and always.

9 I will praise you forever, because you've done it, and I will wait on your name, for it is good before your saints.

___Psalm 53

1 The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God."  They are corrupt, and have done rotten sin, there is none that does good.

2 God looked down from heaven at the children of men, to see if there were any that understood, that sought God.

3 Every one of them has gone back, they've completely become filthy, there is none that does good, no, not one.

4 Have the doers of sin no knowledge?  Who eat up my people like they eat bread, they haven't called on God.

5 They were in great fear there, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him that encamps against you, you've put them to shame, because God has despised them.

6 Oh that the salvation of Israel had come out of Zion!  When God undoes the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

___Psalm 54

1 Save me, O God, by your name, and judge me by your strength.

2 Hear my prayer, O God, give ear to the words of my mouth.

3 For strangers have risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul, they haven't set God before them.  Selah.

4 See, God is my helper, the Lord is with those who uphold my soul.

5 He shall reward evil to my enemies, cut them off in your truth.

6 I will freely sacrifice to you, I will praise your name, O Lord, for it is good.

7 For he has delivered me out of all trouble, and my eye has seen its desire on my enemies.

___Psalm 55

1 Give ear to my prayer, O God, and don't hide yourself from my supplication.

2 Give attention to me, and hear me, I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise,

3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked, for they throw iniquity on me, and in anger they hate me.

4 My heart is very pained inside me, and the terrors of death have fallen on me.

5 Fearfulness and trembling have come on me, and horror has overwhelmed me.

6 And I said, "O that I had wings like a dove!  For then I would fly away, and be at rest.

7 See, then I'd wander far off, and remain in the wilderness."  Selah.

8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.

9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues, for I've seen violence and strife in the city.

10 Day and night they go around it on the walls of it, mischief also and sorrow are in the middle of it.

11 Wickedness is in the middle of it, deceit and guile don't depart from its streets.

12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could have handled it, nor was it he that hated me that magnified himself against me, then I would have hidden myself from him,

13 But it was you, a man my equal, my guide, and my acquaintance.

14 We shared sweet advice, and walked together to the house of God.

15 Let death seize on them, and let them go down quickly into hell, for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

16 As for me, I will call on God, and the Lord shall save me.

17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, I will pray, and call out loud, and he'll hear my voice.

18 He's delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, for there were many with me.

19 God shall hear, and afflict them, he that lives from ancient times.  Selah.  Because they have no changes, therefore they don't fear God.

20 He has put out his hands against those who are at peace with him, he has broken his covenant.

21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart, his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

22 Throw your burden on the Lord, and he'll keep you, he'll never allow the righteous to be moved.

23 But you, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction, bloody and deceitful men won't live out half their days, but I'll trust in you.

___Psalm 56

1 Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up, he fighting daily oppresses me.

2 My enemies would swallow me up daily, for they are many who fight against me, O most high.

3 When I'm afraid, I'll trust in you.

4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust, I won't fear what flesh can do to me.

5 Every day they tear my words, all their thoughts are against me for evil.

6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they watch my steps, when they wait for my soul.

7 Shall they escape by sin?  In your anger throw down the people, O God.

8 You tell my wanderings, put my tears into your bottle, aren't they in your book?

9 When I cry to you, then my enemies shall turn back, this I know, for God is for me.

10 In God will I praise his word, in the Lord will I praise his word.

11 In God I have put my trust, I will not be afraid what man can do to me.

12 Your vows are on me, O God, I will give praises to you.

13 For you've delivered my soul from death, won't you deliver my feet from falling, so I can walk before God in the light of the living?

___Psalm 57

1 Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for my soul trusts in you, yes, in the shadow of your wings I'll make my refuge, until these calamities are over.

2 I will cry to God most high, to God that performs all things for me.

3 He'll send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up.  Selah.  God shall send out his mercy and his truth.

4 My soul is among lions, and I lie among those who are set on fire, the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

5 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, let your glory be above all the earth.

6 They've prepared a net for my steps, my soul is bowed down, they've dug a pit before me, into which they've fallen themselves.  Selah.

7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed, I will sing and give praise.

8 Awake up, my glory, awake, psaltery and harp, I myself will awake early.

9 I will praise you, O Lord, among the people, I will sing to you among the nations.

10 For your mercy is great to the heavens, and your truth to the clouds.

11 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, let your glory be above all the earth.

___Psalm 58

1  Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation?  Do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men?

2 Yes, in heart you work wickedness, you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

3 The wicked are estranged from the womb, they go astray as soon as they're born, speaking lies.

4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent, they are like the deaf adder that stops her ears,

5 That won't listen to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouths, break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.

7 Let them melt away like waters that run continually, when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be like cut in pieces.

8 Like a snail that melts, let every one of them pass away, like the untimely birth of a woman, so that they won't see the sun.

9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he'll take them away like with a whirlwind, both living, and in his anger.

10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance, he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

11 So that a man shall say, truly there is a reward for the righteous, truly he is a God that judges in the earth.

___Psalm 59

1  Deliver me from my enemies, O my God, defend me those who rise up against me.

2 Deliver me from the doers of sin, and save me from bloody men.

3 For see, they lie in wait for my soul, the mighty have gathered against me, not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Lord.

4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault, awake to help me, and see.

5 You therefore, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen, don't be merciful to any wicked transgressors.  Selah.

6 They return at evening, they make a noise like a dog, and go around the city.

7 See, they belch out with their mouth, swords are in their lips, for who, say they, will hear?

8 But you, O Lord, shall laugh at them, you shall have all the heathen in derision.

9 Because of his strength I will wait on you, for God is my defense.

10 The God of my mercy shall go before me, God shall let me see my desire on my enemies.

11 Don't kill them, so that my people don't forget, scatter them by your power, and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them be taken in their pride, and for cursing and lying that they speak.

13 Consume them in anger, consume them, so they won't exist, and let them know that God rules in Jacob to the ends of the earth.  Selah.

14 And at evening let them return, and let them make a noise like a dog, and go around the city.

15 Let them wander up and down for food, and grudge if they're not satisfied.

16 But I will sing of your power, yes, I will sing out loud of your mercy in the morning, for you've been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble.

17 To you, O my strength, I will sing, for God is my defense, and the God of my mercy.

___Psalm 60

1 O God, you've thrown us away, you've scattered us, you've been displeased, O turn yourself to us again.

2 You've made the earth to tremble, you've broken it, heal the holes of it, for it shakes.

3 You've shown your people hard things, you have made us drink the wine of astonishment.

4 You've given a banner to those who fear you, so it will be displayed because of the truth.  Selah.

5 So your beloved will be delivered, save with your right hand, and hear me.

6 God has spoken in his holiness, I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.

7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine, Ephraim also is the strength of my head, Judah is my lawgiver,

8 Moab is my wash pot, over Edom I will empty out my shoe, Philistia, triumph because of me.

9 Who will bring me into the strong city?  Who will lead me into Edom?

10 Won't you, O God, who had thrown us away?  And you, O God, who didn't go out with our armies?

11 Give us help from trouble, for the help of man is useless.

12 Through God we'll do valiantly, for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

___Psalm 61

1 Hear my cry, O God, give attention to my prayer.

2 From the end of the earth I'll call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed, lead me to the rock that is higher than I am.

3 For you've been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.

4 I will live in your tent forever, I will trust in the covering of your wings.  Selah.

5 For you, O God, have heard my vows, you've given me the heritage of those who fear your name.

6 You'll prolong the king's life, and his years like many generations.

7 He'll live before God forever, O prepare mercy and truth, that will preserve him.

8 So I will sing praise to your name forever, so I can daily perform my vows.

___Psalm 62

1 Truly my soul waits on God, my salvation comes from him.

2 He only is my rock and my salvation, he is my defense, I shall not be greatly moved.

3 How long will you imagine mischief against a man?  You'll be killed all of you, you'll be like a bowing wall and like a tottering fence.

4 They only consult to cast him down from his excellence, they delight in lies, they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.  Selah.

5 My soul, wait only on God, for my expectation is from him.

6 He only is my rock and my salvation, he is my defense, I shall not be moved.

7 In God is my salvation and my glory, the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

8 Trust in him at all times, you people, pour out your heart before him, God is a refuge for us.  Selah.

9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie, to be laid in the balance, they are completely lighter than vanity.

10 Don't trust in oppression, and don't become vain in robbery, if riches increase, don't set your heart on them.

11 God has spoken once, twice have I heard this, that power belongs to God.

12 Also to you, O Lord, belongs mercy, for you give to every man according to his work.

___Psalm 63

1 O God, you are my God, I'll seek you early, my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where there's no water,

2 To see your power and your glory, like I've seen you in the sanctuary.

3 Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.

4 Thus I'll bless you while I live, I'll lift up my hands in your name.

5 My soul shall be satisfied like with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,

6 When I remember you on my bed, and meditate on you in the night watches.

7 Because you've been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings I'll rejoice.

8 My soul follows close after you, your right hand upholds me.

9 But those who seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

10 They'll fall by the sword, they'll be a portion for foxes.

11 But the king shall rejoice in God, everyone that swears by him shall glory, but the mouth of those who speak lies shall be stopped.

___Psalm 64

1 Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer, preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

2 Hide me from the secret advice of the wicked, from the rebellion of the doers of sin,

3 Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, bitter words,

4 So that they can shoot in secret at the perfect, suddenly do they shoot at him, and aren't afraid.

5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter, they consult about laying traps secretly, they say, "Who shall see them?"

6 They search out sins, they accomplish a diligent search, both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow, suddenly they'll be wounded.

8 So they'll make their own tongue to fall on themselves, all that see them shall flee away.

9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God, for they shall wisely consider of his doing.

10 The righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and shall trust in him, and all the upright in heart shall glory.

___Psalm 65

1  Praise waits for you in Zion, O God, and to you shall the vow be performed.

2 O you that hears prayer, to you shall all flesh come.

3 Sins prevail against me, as for our transgressions, you'll purge them away.

4 Blessed is the man that you choose, and cause to approach to you, so he can live in your courts, we'll be satisfied with the goodness of your house, of your holy temple.

5 You'll answer us by terrible things in righteousness, O God of our salvation, who is the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of those who are afar off on the sea,

6 Who by his strength sets fast the mountains, being clothed with power,

7 Who stills the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.

8 Those also who live in the farthest parts are afraid at your tokens, you make the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.

9 You visit the earth, and water it, you greatly enrich it with the river of God, that is full of water, you prepare them corn, when you've so provided for it.

10 You water the ridges of it abundantly, you settle the furrows of it, you make it soft with showers, you bless the springing of it.

11 You crown the year with your goodness, and your paths drop fatness.

12 They drop on the pastures of the wilderness, and the little hills rejoice on every side.

13 The pastures are clothed with flocks, the valleys also are covered over with corn, they shout for joy, they also sing.

___Psalm 66

1 Make a joyful noise to God, all you lands,

2 Sing out the honor of his name, make his praise glorious.

3 Say to God, "How terrible are you in your works!  Through the greatness of your power your enemies shall submit themselves to you.

4 All the earth shall worship you, and shall sing to you, they shall sing to your name."  Selah.

5 Come and see the works of God, he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.

6 He turned the sea into dry land, they went through the flood on foot, we rejoiced there in him.

7 He rules by his power forever, his eyes see the nations, let the rebellious not lift up themselves.  Selah.

8 O bless our God, you people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard,

9 Who holds our soul in life, and doesn't allow our feet to be moved.

10 For you, O God, have proved us, you've tested us, like silver is tested.

11 You brought us into the net, you laid affliction on our midsections.

12 You've caused men to ride over our heads, we went through fire and through water, but you brought us out into a wealthy place.

13 I will go into your house with burnt offerings, I will pay you my vows,

14 That my lips have uttered, and my mouth has spoken, when I was in trouble.

15 I will offer to you burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams, I will offer bullocks with goats.  Selah.

16 Come and hear, all you that fear God, and I will declare what he has done for my soul.

17 I called to him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.

18 If I regard sin in my heart, the Lord won't hear me,

19 But truly God has heard me, he has attended to the voice of my prayer.

20 Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.

___Psalm 67

1  God be merciful to us, and bless us, and cause his face to shine on us, Selah.

2 So that your way will be known on earth, your saving health among all nations.

3 Let the people praise you, O God, let all the people praise you.

4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you'll judge the people righteously, and govern the nations on earth.  Selah.

5 Let the people praise you, O God, let all the people praise you.

6 Then the earth shall yield its increase, and God, our own God, shall bless us.

7 God shall bless us, and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.

___Psalm 68

1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered, also let those who hate him flee before him.

2 Like smoke is driven away, so drive them away, like wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

3 But let the righteous be glad, let them rejoice before God, yes, let them exceedingly rejoice.

4 Sing to God, sing praises to his name, extol him that rides on the heavens by his name Jah, and rejoice before him.

5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

6 God sets the solitary in families, he brings out those who are bound with chains, but the rebellious live in a dry land.

7 O God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness, Selah,

8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God, Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

9 You, O God, sent a plentiful rain, by which you confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary.

10 Your congregation has lived in it, you, O God, have prepared of your goodness for the poor.

11 The Lord gave the word, great was the number of those who published it.

12 Kings of armies fled apace, and she that waited at home divided the spoil.

13 Though you've lain among the pots, yet you'll be like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.

14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.

15 The hill of God is like the hill of Bashan, a high hill like the hill of Bashan.

16 Why do you jump, you high hills?  This is the hill that God desires to live in, yes, the Lord will live in it forever.

17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, thousands of angels, the Lord is among them, like in Sinai, in the holy place.

18 You've ascended on high, you've led captivity captive, you've received gifts for men, yes, for the rebellious also, so that the Lord God will live among them.

19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits, the God of our salvation.  Selah.

20 He that is our God is the God of salvation, and to God the Lord belong the issues from death.

21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of those who continue in their trespasses.

22 The Lord said, "I'll bring again from Bashan, I'll bring my people back from the depths of the sea,

23 So that your foot will be dipped in the blood of your enemies, and the tongue of your dogs in the same."

24 They've seen your goings, O God, even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.

25 The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after, among them were the young women playing with tambourines.

26 Bless God in the congregations, the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.

27 There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.

28 Your God has commanded your strength, strengthen, O God, what you've made for us.

29 Because of your temple at Jerusalem kings shall bring presents to you.

30 Reprimand the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, 'til every one submits himself with pieces of silver, scatter the people that delight in war.

31 Princes shall come out of Egypt, Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands to God.

32 Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth, O sing praises to the Lord, Selah,

33 To him that rides on the heavens of heavens, that were of old, see, he sends out his voice, and that a mighty voice.

34 Ascribe strength to God, his excellence is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.

35 O God, you are terrible out of your holy places, the God of Israel is he that gives strength and power to his people.  Blessed be God.

___Psalm 69

1 Save me, O God, for the waters have come in to my soul.

2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing, I've come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

3 I'm weary of my crying, my throat is dry, my eyes fail while I wait for my God.

4 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head, those who would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty, then I restored that which I didn't take away.

5 O God, you know my foolishness, and my sins are not hidden from you.

6 Don't let those who wait on you, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake, don't let those who seek you be confused for my sake, O God of Israel.

7 Because for your sake I've carried reproach, shame has covered my face.

8 I've become a stranger to my brothers, and an alien to my mother's children.

9 For the zeal of your house has eaten me up, and the reproaches of those who reproached you have fallen on me.

10 When I cried, and punished my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

11 I also made burlap my garment, and I became a proverb to them.

12 Those who sit in the gate speak against me, and I was the song of the drunkards.

13 But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Lord, in an acceptable time, O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation.

14 Deliver me out of the mire, and don't let me sink, let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

15 Don't let the flood waters overflow me, and don't let the deep swallow me up, and don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.

16 Hear me, O Lord, for your loving kindness is good, turn to me according to the multitude of your tender mercies.

17 And don't hide your face from your servant, for I'm in trouble, hear me speedily.

18 Draw near to my soul, and redeem it, deliver me because of my enemies.

19 You've known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor, my adversaries are all before you.

20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I'm full of heaviness, and I looked for someone to take pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found no one.

21 They gave me also gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

22 Let their table become a trap before them, and what should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

23 Let their eyes be darkened, so they don't see, and make their midsections to continually shake.

24 Pour out your indignation on them, and let your anger take hold of them.

25 Let their habitation be desolate, and let no one live in their tents.

26 For they persecute him whom you've struck, and they talk to the grief of those whom you've wounded.

27 Add sin to their sin, and don't let them come into your righteousness.

28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

29 But I am poor and sorrowful, let your salvation, O God, set me up on high.

30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

31 This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bullock that has horns and hoofs.

32 The humble shall see this, and be glad, and your heart shall live that seek God.

33 For the Lord hears the poor, and doesn't despise his prisoners.

34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and everything that moves in it.

35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah, so that they can live there, and have it in possession.

36 The descendants also of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall live in it.

___Psalm 70

1 Make haste, O God, to give me deliverance, make haste to help me, O Lord.

2 Let them be ashamed and confused that seek after my soul, let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, "Aha, aha."

4 Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you, and let such as love your salvation say continually, "Let God be magnified."

5 But I am poor and needy, make haste to me, O God, you're my help and my deliverer, O Lord, don't delay.

___Psalm 71

1 I put my trust in you, O Lord, let me never be put to confusion.

2 Give me deliverance in your righteousness, and cause me to escape, incline your ear to me, and save me.

3 Be my strong habitation, to which I can continually resort, you've given commandment to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.

4 Give me deliverance, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

5 For you are my hope, O Lord God, you are my trust from my youth.

6 I've been supported by you since the womb, you are he that took me out of my mother's belly, my praise shall continually be of you.

7 I'm like a wonder to many, but you are my strong refuge.

8 Let my mouth be filled with your praise and with your honor all day long.

9 Don't throw me away in the time of old age, don't forsake me when my strength fails.

10 For my enemies speak against me, and those who lay wait for my soul plot together,

11 Saying, "God has forsaken him, persecute and take him, for there is no one to deliver him."

12 O God, don't be far from me, O my God, hurry up for my help.

13 Let them be confused and consumed that are adversaries to my soul, let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt.

14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise you more and more.

15 My mouth shall show forth your righteousness and your salvation all the day, for I don't know the numbers about that.

16 I will go in the strength of the Lord God, I will make mention of your righteousness, of yours only.

17 O God, you've taught me from my youth, and until now I've declared your wondrous works.

18 Now also when I am old and gray-headed, O God, don't forsake me, until I have shown your strength to this generation, and your power to everyone that is to come.

19 Your righteousness also, O God, is very high, who has done great things, O God, who is like you!

20 You, who has shown me great and severe troubles, shall make me alive again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

21 You'll increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.

22 I will also praise you with the psaltery, your truth, O my God, I'll sing to you sing with the harp, O you Holy one of Israel.

23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to you, and my soul, that you've redeemed.

24 Also my tongue shall talk of your righteousness all day long, for they're confused, for they're brought to shame, that seek my hurt.

___Psalm 72

1 Give the king your judgments, O God, and your righteousness to the king's son.

2 He shall judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with judgment.

3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.

4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

5 They shall fear you as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.

6 He'll come down like rain on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth.

7 In his days the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace as long as the moon endures.

8 He'll have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth.

9 Those who live in the wilderness shall bow before him, and his enemies shall lick the dust.

10 The kings of Tarshish and of the islands shall bring presents, the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

11 Yes, all kings shall fall down before him, all nations shall serve him.

12 For he shall deliver the needy when he shouts, the poor also, and him that has no helper.

13 He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.

14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence, and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

15 And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba, prayer also shall be made for him continually, and he'll be praised daily.

16 There shall be a handful of corn on the earth on the top of the mountains, the fruit of which shall shake like Lebanon, and those of the city shall flourish like the grass of the earth.

17 His name shall endure forever, his name shall be continued as long as the sun, and men shall be blessed in him, all nations shall call him blessed.

18 Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only does wondrous things.

19 And blessed be his glorious name forever, and let the whole earth be filled with his glory, Amen, and Amen.

20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

___Psalm 73

1 Truly God is good to Israel, to such as are of a clean heart.

2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone, my steps had nearly slipped.

3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

4 For there are no bands in their death, but their strength is firm.

5 They are not in trouble like other men, nor are they plagued like other men.

6 Therefore pride surrounds them like a chain, violence covers them like a garment.

7 Their eyes stand out with fatness, they have more than heart could wish.

8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression, they speak loftily.

9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.

10 Therefore his people return here, and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

11 And they say, "How does God know?  And is there knowledge in the most high?"

12 See, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world, they increase in riches.

13 Truly I've cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.

14 For all day long I've been plagued, and punished every morning.

15 If I say, I will speak thus, see, I would offend against the generation of your children.

16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me,

17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God, then I understood their end.

18 Surely you've set them in slippery places, you threw them down into destruction.

19 How are they brought into desolation, like in a moment!  They are completely consumed with terrors.

20 Like a dream when someone awakes, so, O Lord, when you awake, you'll despise their image.

21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

22 So foolish was I, and ignorant, I was like an animal before you.

23 But I am continually with you, you've held me by my right hand.

24 You'll guide me with your advice, and afterward receive me to glory.

25 Whom do I have in heaven but you?  And there is no one on earth that I desire beside you.

26 My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.

27 For see, those who are far from you shall die, you've destroyed all of those who go a whoring from you.

28 But it is good for me to draw near to God, I've put my trust in the Lord God, so that I can declare all your works.

___Psalm 74

1 O God, why have you thrown us away forever?  Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?

2 Remember your congregation, that you've purchased of old, the rod of your inheritance, that you've redeemed, this mount Zion, in which you've lived.

3 Lift up your feet to the perpetual desolations, all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.

4 Your enemies roar among your congregations, they set up their ensigns for signs.

5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes on the thick trees.

6 But now they break down the carved work of it at once with axes and hammers.

7 They've thrown fire into your sanctuary, they have defiled by throwing down the dwelling place of your name to the ground.

8 They said in their hearts, "Let us destroy them together," they've burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

9 We don't see our signs, there is no longer any prophet, nor is there anyone among us that knows how long.

10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach?  Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

11 Why do you withdraw your hand, your right hand?  Pluck it out of your bosom.

12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the earth.

13 You divided the sea by your strength, you broke the heads of the dragons in the waters.

14 You broke the heads of whale in pieces, and gave him to be food for the people inhabiting the wilderness.

15 You split the fountain and the flood, you dried up mighty rivers.

16 The day is yours, the night also is yours, you've prepared the light and the sun.

17 You've set all the borders of the earth, you've made summer and winter.

18 Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O Lord, and that the foolish people have blasphemed your name.

19 O don't give the soul of your turtledove to the multitude of the wicked, don't forget the congregation of your poor forever.

20 Have respect to the covenant, for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

21 O don't let the oppressed return ashamed, let the poor and needy praise your name.

22 Get up, O God, plead your own cause, remember how the foolish man reproaches you daily.

23 Don't forget the voice of your enemies, the tumult of those that rise up against you increases continually.

___Psalm 75

1 We give thanks to you, O God, we give thanks to you, for your wondrous works declare that your name is near.

2 When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.

3 The earth and all the inhabitants of it are dissolved, I carry the pillars of it.  Selah.

4 I said to the fools, don't deal foolishly, and to the wicked, don't lift up the horn,

5 Don't lift up your horn on high, don't speak with a stiff neck.

6 For promotion comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

7 But God is the judge, he puts down one, and sets up another.

8 For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red, it is full of mixture, and he pours out of the same, but the dregs of it, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.

9 But I will declare forever, I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

10 I will also cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

___Psalm 76

1 God is known in Judah, his name is great in Israel.

2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.

3 There he broke the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle.  Selah.

4 You are more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.

5 The stout hearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep, and none of the men of might has found his hands.

6 At your reprimand, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are thrown into a dead sleep.

7 You, even you, are to be feared, and who may stand in your sight when once you are angry?

8 You caused judgment to be heard from heaven, the earth feared, and was still,

9 When God rose up to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth.  Selah.

10 Surely the anger of man shall praise you, the remainder of anger you'll restrain.

11 Vow, and pay to the Lord your God, let all that are around him bring presents to him that ought to be feared.

12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes, he is terrible to the kings of the earth.

___Psalm 77

1  I cried to God with my voice, to God with my voice, and he listened to me.

2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord, my sore ran in the night, and didn't stop, my soul refused to be comforted.

3 I remembered God, and was troubled, I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed.  Selah.

4 You hold my eyes waking, I am so troubled that I can't speak.

5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

6 I remember my song in the night, I commune with my own heart, and my spirit made diligent search.

7 Will the Lord throw away forever?  And will he be favorable no more?

8 Is his mercy completely gone forever?  Does his promise fail forever?

9 Has God forgotten to be gracious?  Has he in anger shut up his tender mercies?  Selah.

10 And I said, this is my illness, but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most high.

11 I will remember the works of the Lord, surely I will remember your wonders of old.

12 I will meditate also on all your work, and talk of your doings.

13 Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary, who is so great a God as our God?

14 You are the God that does wonders, you've declared your strength among the people.

15 With your arm you've redeemed your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph.  Selah.

16 The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you, they were afraid, the depths also were troubled.

17 The clouds poured out water, the skies sent out a sound, your arrows also went abroad.

18 The voice of your thunder was in the heaven, the lightnings illuminated the world, the earth trembled and shook.

19 Your way is in the sea, and your path in the great waters, and your footsteps are not known.

20 You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

___Psalm 78

1 Give ear, O my people, to my law, incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

2 I will open my mouth in a parable, I will speak dark sayings of old,

3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

4 We won't hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he has done.

5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, that he commanded our fathers, so they would make them known to their children,

6 So that the generation to come would know them, the children that would be born, who would grow up and teach them to their children,

7 So that they would set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,

8 And wouldn't be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn't set their heart right, and whose spirit was not steady with God.

9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

10 They didn't keep the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law,

11 And forgot his works, and his wonders that he had shown them.

12 He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through, and he made the waters to stand like a heap.

14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.

15 He split the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink like out of the great depths.

16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

17 And they sinned against him still more by provoking the most high in the wilderness.

18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

19 Yes, they spoke against God, they said, "Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

20 See, he struck the rock, so that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed, can he give bread also?  Can he provide flesh for his people?"

21 Therefore the Lord heard this, and was angry, so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel,

22 Because they didn't believe God, and didn't trust in his salvation,

23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

24 And had rained down manna on them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.

25 Man ate angels' food, he sent them food to the full.

26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven, and by his power he brought in the south wind.

27 He rained flesh also on them like dust, and feathered fowls like the sand of the sea,

28 And he let it fall in the middle of their camp, around their habitations.

29 So they ate, and were well filled, for he gave them their own desire,

30 They were not estranged from their lust.  But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

31 The anger of God came on them, and killed the fattest of them, and struck down the chosen men of Israel.

32 For all this they sinned still, and didn't believe for his wondrous works.

33 Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in trouble.

34 When he killed them, then they sought him, and they returned and inquired early after God.

35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

36 But they flattered him with their mouth, and they lied to him with their tongues.

37 For their heart was not right with him, nor were they steady in his covenant.

38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their sin, and didn't destroy them, yes, he turned his anger away many times, and did not stir up all his anger.

39 For he remembered that they were just flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.

40 How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

41 Yes, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

42 They didn't remember his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.

43 How he had made his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan,

44 And had turned their rivers into blood, and their floods, so that they couldn't drink.

45 He sent various sorts of flies among them, that devoured them, and frogs, that destroyed them.

46 He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost.

48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

49 He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil spirits among them.

50 He made a way for his anger, he didn't spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

51 And struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham,

52 But made his own people to go out like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

53 And he led them on safely, so that they didn't fear, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, that his right hand had purchased.

55 He threw out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to live in their tents.

56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and didn't keep his testimonies,

57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers, they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.

59 When God heard this, he was angry, and found Israel to stink very much,

60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent that he placed among men,

61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.

62 He gave his people over also to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.

63 The fire consumed their young men, and their young  women were not given to marriage.

64 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.

65 Then the Lord awoke like someone out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouts because of wine.

66 And he struck his enemies in the hinder parts, he put them to a perpetual reproach.

67 Also he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and didn't choose the tribe of Ephraim,

68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion that he loved.

69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth that he has established forever.

70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds,

71 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

___Psalm 79

1 O God, the heathen have come into your inheritance, they have defiled your holy temple, they have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

2 The dead bodies of your servants they've given to be meat to the birds of the heaven, the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.

3 They've shed their blood like water around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.

4 We've become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those who are around us.

5 How long, Lord?  Will you be angry forever?  Shall your jealousy burn like fire?

6 Pour out your anger on the heathen that have not known you, and on the kingdoms that have not called on your name.

7 For they've devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

8 O don't remember against us former sins, let your tender mercies speedily go before us, for we are brought very low.

9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name, and give us deliverance, and purge away our sins, for your name's sake.

10 Why should the heathen say, where is their God?  Let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the avenging of the blood of your servants that has been shed.

11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you, according to the greatness of your power preserve those who are appointed to die,

12 And give to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, with which they've reproached you, O Lord.

13 So we your people and sheep of your pasture will give you thanks forever, we will show forth your praise to all generations.

___Psalm 80

1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you that led Joseph like a flock, you that lives between the cherubims, shine forth.

2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up your strength, and come and save us.

3 Turn us again, O God, and cause your face to shine, and we shall be saved.

4 O Lord God of hosts, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

5 You feed them with the bread of tears, and give them tears to drink in great measure.

6 You make us a strife to our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.

7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause your face to shine, and we shall be saved.

8 You have brought a vine out of Egypt, you have thrown out the heathen, and planted it.

9 You prepared room before it, and caused it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs of it were like the goodly cedars.

11 She sent out her boughs to the sea, and her branches to the river.

12 Why then have you broken down her hedges, so that all of those who pass by the way pluck her?

13 The boar out of the wood wastes it, and the wild beasts of the field devour it.

14 Return, we beg of you, O God of hosts, look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,

15 And the vineyard that your right hand has planted, and the branch that you made strong for yourself.

16 It's been burned with fire, it's been cut down, they die at the reprimand of your countenance.

17 Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.

18 So we won't go back from you, make us alive, and we will call on your name.

19 Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts, cause your face to shine, and we shall be saved.

___Psalm 81

1  Sing out loud to God our strength, make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.

2 Take a psalm, and bring the tambourine here, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

3 Blow the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

5 He ordained this in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt, where I heard a language that I didn't understand.

6 I removed his shoulder from the burden, his hands were delivered from the pots.

7 You called in trouble, and I gave you deliverance, I answered you in the secret place of thunder, I tested you at the waters of Meribah.  Selah.

8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify to you, O Israel, if you'll listen to me,

9 No strange god shall be in you, nor shall you worship any strange god.

10 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

11 But my people wouldn't listen to my voice, and Israel wanted none of me.

12 So I gave them up to their own hearts' lust, and they walked in their own advice.

13 Oh that my people had listened to me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

14 I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

15 The haters of the Lord would have submitted themselves to him, but their time would have endured forever.

16 He would have fed them also with the finest of the wheat, and with honey out of the rock I would have satisfied you.

___Psalm 82

1 God stands in the congregation of the mighty, he judges among the gods.

2 How long will you judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked?  Selah.

3 Defend the poor and fatherless, do justice to the afflicted and needy.

4 Deliver the poor and needy, deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.

5 They don't know, nor will they understand, they walk on in darkness, all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

6 I have said, "You are gods, and all of you are children of the most high.

7 But you'll die like men, and fall like one of the princes."

8 Arise, O God, judge the earth, for you'll inherit all nations.

___Psalm 83

1 Don't keep silence, O God, don't be silent, and don't be still, O God.

2 For see, your enemies make a tumult, and those who hate you have lifted up the head.

3 They've taken crafty advice against your people, and have consulted against your hidden ones.

4 They've said, "Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, so that the name of Israel will no more be in remembrance."

5 For they have consulted together unanimously, they're confederate against you,

6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites, of Moab, and the Hagarenes,

7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre,

8 Assur also is joined with them, they have helped the children of Lot.  Selah.

9 Do to them like to the Midianites, like to Sisera, like to Jabin, at the brook of Kison,

10 Who perished at Endor, they became like manure for the earth.

11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb, yes, all their princes like Zebah, and like Zalmunna,

12 Who said, "Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession."

13 O my God, make them like a wheel, like the kindling wood before the wind.

14 Like the fire burns wood, and like the flame sets the mountains on fire,

15 So persecute them with your tempest, and make them afraid with your storm.

16 Fill their faces with shame, so that they'll seek your name, O Lord.

17 Let them be confused and troubled forever, yes, let them be put to shame, and die,

18 So that men will know that you, who's the only one with the name Jehovah, are the most high over all the earth.

___Psalm 84

1 How amiable are your tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

2 My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the Lord, my heart and my flesh cries out for the living God.

3 Yes, the sparrow has found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she can lay her young, your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.

4 Blessed are those who live in your house, they'll be still praising you.  Selah.

5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the ways of them.

6 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well, the rain also fills the pools.

7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appears before God.

8 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer, give ear, O God of Jacob.  Selah.

9 See, O God our shield, and look at the face of your anointed.

10 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand.  I'd rather be a door keeper in the house of my God, than to live in the tents of wickedness.

11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield, the Lord will give grace and glory, no good thing will he withhold from those who walk uprightly.

12 O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in you.

___Psalm 85

1 Lord, you've been favorable to your land, you've undone the captivity of Jacob.

2 You've forgiven the iniquity of your people, you have covered all their sin.  Selah.

3 You've taken away all your anger, you've turned yourself from the fierceness of your anger.

4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause your anger toward us to stop.

5 Will you be angry with us forever?  Will you draw out your anger to all generations?

6 Won't you revive us again, so that your people will rejoice in you?

7 Show us your mercy, O Lord, and grant us your salvation.

8 I will hear what God the Lord will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, and to his saints, but let them not turn back to foolishness.

9 Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, so that glory will live in our land.

10 Mercy and truth are met together, righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

11 Truth shall spring out of the earth, and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

12 Yes, the Lord shall give that which is good, and our land shall yield its increase.

13 Righteousness shall go before him, and shall set us in the way of his steps.

___Psalm 86

1 Bow down your ear, O Lord, hear me, for I am poor and needy.

2 Preserve my soul, for I am holy, O my God, save your servant that trusts in you.

3 Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I call to you daily.

4 Make the soul of your servant rejoice, for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

5 For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and plenteous in mercy to all those who call on you.

6 Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer, and attend to the voice of my supplications.

7 In the day of my trouble I'll call on you, for you'll answer me.

8 Among the gods there is none like you, O Lord, nor are there any works like your works.

9 All nations whom you've made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name.

10 For you are great, and do wondrous things, you are God alone.

11 Teach me your way, O Lord, I'll walk in your truth, unite my heart to fear your name.

12 I'll praise you, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and I'll glorify your name forever.

13 For great is your mercy toward me, and you've delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

14 O God, the proud have risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul, and haven't set you before them.

15 But you, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, patient, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

16 O turn to me, and have mercy on me, give your strength to your servant, and save the son of your handmaid.

17 Show me a token for good, so that those who hate me will see it, and be ashamed, because you, Lord, have helped me, and comforted me.

___Psalm 87

1 His foundation is in the holy mountains.

2 The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

3 Glorious things are spoken about you, O city of God.  Selah.

4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to those who know me, see Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia, this man was born there.

5 And about Zion it shall be said, "This and that man were born in her, and the highest himself shall establish her."

6 The Lord shall count, when he writes up the people, that this man was born there.  Selah.

7 As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there, all my springs are in you.

___Psalm 88

1 O Lord God of my salvation, I've cried day and night before you,

2 Let my prayer come before you, incline your ear to my cry,

3 For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to the grave.

4 I'm counted with those who go down into the pit, I am like a man that has no strength,

5 Free among the dead, like the dead that lie in the grave, whom you don't remember anymore, and they are cut off from your hand.

6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

7 Your anger lies hard on me, and you've afflicted me with all your waves.  Selah.

8 You've put away my acquaintance far from me, you've made me a dirty thing to them, I am shut up, and I can't come out.

9 My eye mourns because of affliction, Lord, I've called daily on you, I've stretched out my hands to you.

10 Will you show wonders to the dead?  Shall the dead get up and praise you?  Selah.

11 Shall your loving kindness be declared in the grave?  Or your faithfulness in destruction?

12 Shall your wonders be known in the dark?  And your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

13 But I've called to you, O Lord, and in the morning my prayer shall go before you.

14 Lord, why do you throw away my soul?  Why do you hide your face from me?

15 I'm afflicted and ready to die from my youth up, while I endure your terrors I'm distracted.

16 Your fierce anger goes over me, your terrors have cut me off.

17 They came around me daily like water, they surrounded me together.

18 You've put lover and friend far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.

___Psalm 89

1 I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever, with my mouth I'll make known your faithfulness to all generations.

2 For I've said, "Mercy shall be built up forever, your faithfulness you'll establish in the very heavens."

3 I've made a covenant with my chosen, I've sworn to David my servant,

4 I'll establish your descendants forever, and build up your throne to all generations.  Selah.

5 And the heavens shall praise your wonders, O Lord, your faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.

6 For who in the heaven can be compared to the Lord?  Who among the sons of the mighty can be likened to the Lord?

7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be shown reverence by all of those who are around him.

8 O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like you?  Or to your faithfulness around you?

9 You rule the raging of the sea, when the waves of it arise, you still them.

10 You've broken Rahab in pieces, like one that is killed, you've scattered your enemies with your strong arm.

11 The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours, as for the world and the fullness of it, you've founded them.

12 You've created the north and the south, Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in your name.

13 You have a mighty arm, strong is your hand, and high is your right hand.

14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of your throne, mercy and truth shall go before your face.

15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound, they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of your facial expression.

16 In your name they'll rejoice all day long, and in your righteousness they'll be exalted.

17 For you are the glory of their strength, and in your favor our horn shall be lifted up.

18 For the Lord is our defense, and the Holy one of Israel is our king.

19 Then you spoke in vision to your holy one, and said, "I've laid help on someone that is mighty, I've exalted someone chosen out of the people.

20 I've found David my servant, I've anointed him with my holy oil,

21 With whom my hand shall be established, my arm also shall strengthen him.

22 The enemy shall not exact on him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

23 And I will beat down his enemies before his face, and plague those who hate him.

24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him, and in my name his horn shall be exalted.

25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.

26 He shall cry to me, 'You are my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.'

27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.

28 I will keep my mercy for him forever, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

29 I will also make his descendants to endure forever, and his throne like the days of heaven.

30 If his children forsake my law, and don't walk in my judgments,

31 If they break my statutes, and don't keep my commandments,

32 Then I'll visit their transgression with the rod, and their sin with strokes of the whip.

33 But I won't completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

34 I won't break my covenant, nor alter the thing that has gone out of my lips.

35 I have sworn once by my holiness that I won't lie to David.

36 His descendants shall endure forever, and his throne like the sun before me.

37 It shall be established forever like the moon, and like a faithful witness in heaven."  Selah.

38 But you've thrown away and hated, you've been angry with your anointed.

39 You've made void the covenant of your servant, you have profaned his crown by throwing it to the ground.

40 You've broken down all his hedges, you have brought his strong holds to ruin.

41 All that pass by the way spoil him, he is a reproach to his neighbors.

42 You've set up the right hand of his adversaries, you've made all his enemies to rejoice.

43 You've also turned the edge of his sword, and haven't made him to stand in the battle.

44 You've made his glory to stop, and thrown his throne down to the ground.

45 You've shortened the days of his youth, you've covered him with shame.  Selah.

46 How long, Lord?  Will you hide yourself forever?  Shall your anger burn like fire?

47 Remember how short my time is, why have you made all men in vain?

48 What man is he that lives, and shall not see death?  Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave?  Selah.

49 Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, that you promised to David in your truth?

50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I carry in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people,

51 With which your enemies have reproached, O Lord, with which they've reproached the footsteps of your anointed.

52 Blessed be the Lord forever.  Amen, and Amen.

___Psalm 90

1 Lord, you've been our dwelling place in all generations.

2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

3 You turn man to destruction, and say, "Return, you children of men."

4 For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it's past, and like a soldier's watch in the night.

5 You carry them away like with a flood, they are like a sleep, in the morning they are like grass that grows up.

6 In the morning it flourishes, and grows up, in the evening it is cut down, and withers.

7 For we are consumed by your anger, and by your anger we are troubled.

8 You've set our sins before you, our secret sins in the light of your facial expression.

9 For all our days are passed away in your anger, we spend our years like a story that is told.

10 The days of our years are seventy years, and if because of strength they are eighty years, yet their strength is labor and sorrow, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

11 Who knows the power of your anger?  According to your fear, so is your anger.

12 Teach us to number our days in such a way that we'll apply our hearts to wisdom.

13 Return, O Lord, how long?  And let it change your mind concerning your servants.

14 O satisfy us early with your mercy, so we can rejoice and be glad all our days.

15 Make us glad according to the days in which you've afflicted us, and the years in which we've seen evil.

16 Let your work appear to your servants, and your glory to their children.

17 And let the beauty of the Lord our God be on us, and establish the work of our hands on us, yes, the work of our hands establish it.

___Psalm 91

1 He that dwells in the secret place of the most high shall live under the shadow of the Almighty.

2 I will say about the Lord, "He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, I'll trust in him."

3 Surely he'll deliver you from the trap of the bird catcher, and from the noisome pestilence.

4 He'll cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you'll trust, his truth shall be your shield and buckler.

5 You won't be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flies by day,

6 Nor for the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor for the destruction that wastes at noonday.

7 A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand, but it won't come near you.

8 Only with your eyes shall you see the reward of the wicked.

9 Because you've made the Lord your habitation, who is my refuge, the most high,

10 No evil shall happen you, nor shall any plague come near your dwelling.

11 For he'll give his angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.

12 They'll support you in their hands, so you don't dash your foot against a stone.

13 You'll tread on the lion and snake, you'll trample the young lion and the dragon under feet.

14 Because he has set his love on me, therefore I'll give him deliverance, I'll set him on high, because he has known my name.

15 He'll call on me, and I'll answer him, I'll be with him in trouble, I'll give him deliverance, and honor him.

16 I'll satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.

___Psalm 92

1 It's a good thing to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praises to your name, O most high,

2 To show forth your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night,

3 On an instrument of ten strings, and on the psaltery, on the harp with a solemn sound.

4 For you, Lord, have made me glad through your work, I'll triumph in the works of your hands.

5 O Lord, how great are your works!  And your thoughts are very deep.

6 A brutish man doesn't know, nor does a fool understand this.

7 When the wicked spring like the grass, and when all the doers of sin flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed forever,

8 But you, Lord, are most high forever.

9 For see, your enemies, O Lord, for see, your enemies shall perish, all the doers of sin shall be scattered.

10 But you'll exalt my horn like the horn of a unicorn, I'll be anointed with fresh oil.

11 My eye also shall see my desire on my enemies, and my ears shall hear my desire about the wicked that rise up against me.

12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree, they shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

13 Those that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.

14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age, they shall be fat and flourishing,

15 To show that the Lord is upright, he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

___Psalm 93

1 The Lord rules, he is clothed with majesty, the Lord is clothed with strength, with which he has clothed himself, the world also is established, so that it can't be moved.

2 Your throne is established of old, you are from everlasting.

3 The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice, the floods lift up their waves.

4 The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yes, than the mighty waves of the sea.

5 Your testimonies are very sure, holiness is appropriate for your house, O Lord, forever.

___Psalm 94

1 O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongs, O God, to whom vengeance belongs, show yourself.

2 Lift up yourself, you judge of the earth, give a repayment to the proud.

3 Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things?  And all the doers of sin boast themselves?

5 They break your people in pieces, O Lord, and afflict your heritage.

6 They kill the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

7 Yet they say, "The Lord won't see, nor shall the God of Jacob regard it."

8 Understand, you brutish among the people, and you fools, when will you be wise?

9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?  He that formed the eye, shall he not see?

10 He that chastises the heathen, shall he not correct?  He that teaches man knowledge, shall he not know?

11 The Lord knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

12 Blessed is the man whom you punish, O Lord, and teach him out of your law,

13 So that you will give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit has been dug for the wicked.

14 For the Lord won't throw away his people, nor will he forsake his inheritance.

15 But justice shall return to righteousness, and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers?  Or who will stand up for me against the doers of sin?

17 Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost lived in silence.

18 When I said, "My foot is slipping," your mercy, O Lord, held me up.

19 In the multitude of my thoughts inside me your comforts delight my soul.

20 Shall the throne of sin have fellowship with you, that frames mischief by a law?

21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

22 But the Lord is my defense, and my God is the rock of my refuge.

23 And he shall bring on them their own sin, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness, yes, the Lord our God shall cut them off.

___Psalm 95

1 O come, let us sing to the Lord, let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.

2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.

3 For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth, the strength of the hills is his also.

5 The sea is his, and he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.

6 O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our maker.

7 For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.  Today, if you'll hear his voice,

8 Don't harden your heart, like in the provocation, and like in the day of temptation in the wilderness,

9 When your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.

10 I was grieved forty years long with this generation and said, "These people err in their heart, and they haven't known my ways,"

11 To whom I swore in my anger that they would not enter into my rest.

___Psalm 96

1 O sing to the Lord a new song, sing to the Lord, all the earth.

2 Sing to the Lord, bless his name, show forth his salvation from day to day.

3 Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people.

4 For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised, he is to be feared above all gods.

5 For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the Lord made the heavens.

6 Honor and majesty are before him, strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

7 Give to the Lord, O you kindreds of the people, give to the Lord glory and strength.

8 Give to the Lord the glory due to his name, bring an offering, and come into his courts.

9 O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness, fear before him, all the earth.

10 Say among the heathen that the Lord rules, the world also shall be established so it won't be moved, he shall judge the people righteously.

11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad, let the sea roar, and the fullness of it.

12 Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it, then shall all the trees of the woods rejoice

13 Before the Lord, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth, he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

___Psalm 97

1 The Lord rules, let the earth rejoice, let the multitude of islands be glad about it.

2 Clouds and darkness are around him, righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.

3 A fire goes before him, and burns up his enemies all around.

4 His lightnings illuminated the world, the earth saw, and trembled.

5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

6 The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.

7 All of those who serve engraved images are confused, that boast themselves of idols, worship him, all you gods.

8 Zion heard, and was glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of your judgments, O Lord.

9 For you, Lord, are high above all the earth, you are exalted far above all gods.

10 You that love the Lord, hate evil, he preserves the souls of his saints, he gives them deliverance out of the hand of the wicked.

11 Light is planted for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

12 Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

___Psalm 98

1 O sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things, his right hand, and his holy arm, has gotten him the victory.

2 The Lord has made known his salvation, he has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the heathen.

3 He has remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel, all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

4 Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth, make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.

5 Sing to the Lord with the harp, with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.

6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the Lord, the King.

7 Let the sea roar, and the fullness of it, the world, and those who live in it.

8 Let the floods clap their hands, let the hills be joyful together

9 Before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth, he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with equity.

___Psalm 99

1 The Lord rules, let the people tremble, he sits between the cherubims, let the earth be moved.

2 The Lord is great in Zion, and he is high above all the people.

3 Let them praise your great and terrible name, for it is holy.

4 The king's strength also loves judgment, you establish equity, you execute judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

5 Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at his footstool, for he is holy.

6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among those who call on his name, they called on the Lord, and he answered them.

7 He spoke to them in the cloudy pillar, they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.

8 You answered them, O Lord our God, you were a God that forgave them, though you took vengeance against their inventions.

9 Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at his holy hill, for the Lord our God is holy.

___Psalm 100

1 Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all you lands.

2 Serve the Lord with gladness, come before his presence with singing.

3 Know that the Lord he is God, it is he that has made us, and not we ourselves, we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise, be thankful to him, and bless his name.

5 For the Lord is good, his mercy is everlasting, and his truth endures to all generations.

___Psalm 101

1 I'll sing of mercy and justice, to you, O Lord, I'll sing.

2 I'll behave myself wisely in a perfect way.  O when will you come to me?  I'll walk inside my house with a perfect heart.

3 I'll set no wicked thing before my eyes, I hate the work of those who turn aside, it won't stick to me.

4 A perverse heart shall depart from me, I won't know a wicked person.

5 I will cut off whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, he that has a high look and a proud heart I won't allow.

6 My eyes shall be on the faithful of the land, so that they'll live with me, he that walks in a perfect way, he shall serve me.

7 He that works deceit shall not live in my house, he that tells lies shall not remain in my sight.

8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land, so that I can cut off all wicked doers from the city of the Lord.

___Psalm 102

1 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my shout come to you.

2 Don't hide your face from me in the day when I am in trouble, incline your ear to me, in the day when I call, answer me speedily.

3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned like a hearth.

4 My heart is struck and withered like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.

5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones stick to my skin.

6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness, I am like an owl of the desert.

7 I watch, and am like a sparrow alone on the house top.

8 My enemies reproach me all day long, and those who are insane against me are sworn against me.

9 For I've eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with weeping,

10 Because of your indignation and your anger, for you've lifted me up, and thrown me down.

11 My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

12 But you, O Lord, shall endure forever, and the memory of you to all generations.

13 You'll get up, and have mercy on Zion, for the time to favor her, yes, the set time, has come.

14 For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and favor the dust of it.

15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth your glory.

16 When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.

17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.

18 This shall be written for the generation to come, and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord.

19 For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary, from heaven the Lord saw the earth,

20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner, to loose those that are appointed to death,

21 To declare the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem,

22 When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.

23 He weakened my strength in the way, he shortened my days.

24 I said, "O my God, don't take me away in the middle of my days, your years are throughout all generations.

25 Of old you've laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

26 They shall perish, but you'll endure, yes, all of them shall grow old like a garment, like a vesture you'll change them, and they'll be changed,

27 But you are the same, and your years shall have no end.

28 The children of your servants shall continue, and their descendants shall be established before you."

___Psalm 103

1 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is inside me, bless his holy name.

2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and don't forget all his benefits,

3 Who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,

4 Who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies,

5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

6 The Lord executes righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

7 He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the children of Israel.

8 The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

9 He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever.

10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

11 For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward those who fear him.

12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our sins from us.

13 Like a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear him.

14 For he knows our frame, he remembers that we are dust.

15 As for man, his days are like grass, like a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

16 For the wind passes over it, and it's gone, and the place of it shall know it no more.

17 But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,

18 To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.

19 The Lord has prepared his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all.

20 Bless the Lord, you his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, listening to the voice of his word.

21 Bless the Lord, all of you his hosts, you ministers of his, that do his pleasure.

22 Bless the Lord, all his works in all places of his dominion, bless the Lord, O my soul.

___Psalm 104

1 Bless the Lord, O my soul.  O Lord my God, you are very great, you are clothed with honor and majesty.

2 Who covers yourself with light like with a garment, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,

3 Who lays the beams of his rooms in the waters, who makes the clouds his chariot, who walks on the wings of the wind,

4 Who makes his angels spirits, his ministers a flaming fire,

5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, so that it would not be removed forever.

6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment, the waters stood above the mountains.

7 At your reprimand they fled, at the voice of your thunder they hurried away.

8 They go up by the mountains, they go down by the valleys to the place that you've founded for them.

9 You've set a bound so that they can't pass over, so that they don't return to cover the earth.

10 He sends the springs into the valleys, that run among the hills.

11 They give drink to every beast of the field, the wild asses quench their thirst.

12 The fowls of the heaven shall have their habitation by them, who sing among the branches.

13 He waters the hills from his rooms, the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your works.

14 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and vegetables for the service of man, so that he can bring forth food out of the earth,

15 And wine that makes glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shine, and bread that strengthens man's heart.

16 The trees of the Lord are full of sap, the cedars of Lebanon that he has planted,

17 Where the birds make their nests, as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats, and the rocks for the conies.

19 He appointed the moon for seasons, the sun knows its going down.

20 You make darkness, and it's night, in which all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.

22 The sun arises, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.

23 Man goes out to his work and to his labor until the evening.

24 O Lord, how many are your works!  In wisdom you've made them all, the earth is full of your riches.

25 So is this great and wide sea, in which are uncountable creeping things, both small and great beasts.

26 There go the ships, there are the whales, that you've made to play in it.

27 These all wait on you, so you'll give them their food in due season.

28 They gather what you give them, you open your hand, they are filled with good.

29 You hide your face, they are troubled, you take away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

30 You send out your spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the earth.

31 The glory of the Lord shall endure forever, the Lord shall rejoice in his works.

32 He looks at the earth, and it trembles, he touches the hills, and they smoke.

33 I will sing to the Lord as long as I live, I'll sing praise to my God while I have my being.

34 My meditation of him shall be sweet, I'll be glad in the Lord.

35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more.  Bless the Lord, O my soul.  Praise the Lord.

___Psalm 105

1 O give thanks to the Lord, call on his name, make known his deeds among the people.

2 Sing to him, sing psalms to him, talk of all his wondrous works.

3 Glory in his holy name, let the heart of those rejoice who seek the Lord.

4 Seek the Lord, and his strength, seek his face always more.

5 Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,

6 O you seed of Abraham his servant, you children of Jacob his chosen.

7 He is the Lord our God, his judgments are in all the earth.

8 He has remembered his covenant forever, the word that he commanded to a thousand generations.

9 Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac,

10 And confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

11 Saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance,"

12 When they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and strangers in it.

13 When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people,

14 He allowed no man to do them wrong, yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,

15 Saying, "Don't touch my anointed, and do my prophets no harm."

16 Also he called for a famine on the land, he broke the whole staff of bread.

17 He sent a man before them, Joseph, who was sold for a servant,

18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters, he was laid in iron,

19 Until the time that his word came, the word of the Lord tested him.

20 The king sent and loosed him, the ruler of the people, and let him go free.

21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance,

22 To bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his senators wisdom.

23 Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob visited in the land of Ham.

24 And he increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their enemies.

25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtlely with his servants.

26 He sent Moses his servant, and Aaron whom he had chosen.

27 They showed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

28 He sent darkness, and made it dark, and they didn't rebel against his word.

29 He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish.

30 Their land produced frogs in abundance, in the rooms of their kings.

31 He spoke, and there came various sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.

32 He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.

33 He struck their vines also and their fig trees, and broke the trees of their coasts.

34 He spoke, and the locusts came, and caterpillars, without number,

35 And ate up all the vegetables in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.

36 He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.

37 He brought them out also with silver and gold, and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.

38 Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them fell on them.

39 He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light in the night.

40 The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

41 He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out, they ran in the dry places like a river.

42 For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.

43 And he brought out his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness,

44 And gave them the lands of the heathen, and they inherited the labor of the people,

45 So that they would observe his statutes, and keep his laws.  Praise the Lord.

___Psalm 106

1 Praise the Lord.  O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy endures forever.

2 Who can tell the mighty acts of the Lord?  Who can show forth all his praise?

3 Blessed are those who keep judgment, and he that does righteousness at all times.

4 Remember me, O Lord, with the favor that you bear to your people, O visit me with your salvation,

5 So that I'll see the good of your chosen, so that I'll rejoice in the gladness of your nation, so that I'll glory with your inheritance.

6 We've sinned with our fathers, we've committed sin, we have done wickedly.

7 Our fathers didn't understand your wonders in Egypt, they didn't remember the multitude of your mercies, but provoked him at the sea, at the Red Sea.

8 But he saved them for his name's sake, so that he could make his mighty power to be known.

9 He reprimanded the Red Sea also, and it was dried up, so he led them through the depths, like through the wilderness.

10 And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

11 And the waters covered their enemies, there wasn't one of them left.

12 Then they believed his words, they sang his praise.

13 They soon forgot his works, they didn't wait for his advice,

14 But lusted very much in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

15 And he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.

16 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the Lord.

17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

18 And a fire was kindled in their company, the flame burned up the wicked.

19 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the image cast in foundry.

20 Thus they changed their glory into the likeness of an ox that eats grass.

21 They forgot God their savior, who had done great things in Egypt,

22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red Sea.

23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, if Moses his chosen hadn't stood before him in the gap, to turn away his anger, so that he wouldn't destroy them.

24 Yes, they despised the pleasant land, they didn't believe his word,

25 But murmured in their tents, and didn't listen to the voice of the Lord.

26 Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness,

27 To overthrow their descendants also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.

28 They joined themselves also to Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions, and the plague broke in on them.

30 Then Phinehas stood up, and executed justice, and so the plague was stopped.

31 And that was counted to him for righteousness to all generations forever.

32 They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes,

33 Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.

34 They didn't destroy the nations, concerning whom the Lord commanded them,

35 But were mixed among the heathen, and learned their works.

36 And they served their idols, which were a trap to them.

37 Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to devils,

38 And shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.

39 Thus they were defiled with their own works, and went whoring with their own inventions.

40 Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people, since he hated his own inheritance.

41 And he gave them into the hand of the heathen, and those who hated them ruled over them.

42 Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

43 He gave them deliverance many times, but they provoked him with their advice, and were brought low for their sin.

44 But he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry,

45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

46 He made them also to be pitied by all those that carried them captives.

47 Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks to your holy name, and to triumph in your praise.

48 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting, and let all the people say, "Amen."  Praise the Lord.

___Psalm 107

1 O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy endures forever.

2 Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the enemy,

3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.

4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way, they found no city to live in.

5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

6 Then they called to the Lord in their trouble, and he gave them deliverance them out of their distresses.

7 And he led them out by the right way, so they would go to a city of habitation.

8 Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

9 For he satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness.

10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and held in contempt the advice of the most high,

12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labor, they fell down, and there was no one to help.

13 Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds in pieces.

15 Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

16 For he has broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in pieces.

17 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their sins, are afflicted.

18 Their soul hates all kinds of food, and they draw near to the gates of death.

19 Then they cry to the Lord in their trouble, and he saves them out of their distresses.

20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

21 Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.

23 Those who go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters,

24 These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.

25 For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, that lifts up its waves.

26 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths, their soul is melted because of trouble.

27 They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

28 Then they call to the Lord in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distresses.

29 He makes the storm a calm, so that the waves of it are still.

30 Then are they glad because they are quiet, so he brings them to their desired haven.

31 Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

32 Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

33 He turns rivers into a wilderness, and the water springs into dry ground,

34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of those who live in it.

35 He turns the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into water springs.

36 And he makes the hungry to live there, so that they can prepare a city for habitation,

37 And plant the fields, and plant vineyards, that will yield fruits of increase.

38 He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly, and doesn't allow their cattle to decrease.

39 Again, they are diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

40 He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.

41 Yet he sets the poor on high from affliction, and makes him families like a flock.

42 The righteous shall see it, and rejoice, and all sin shall stop its mouth.

43 Whoever is wise, and will observe these things, they shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord.

___Psalm 108

1 O God, my heart is fixed, I will sing and give praise with my glory.

2 Awake, psaltery and harp, I myself will wake up early.

3 I will praise you, O Lord, among the people, and I will sing praises to you among the nations.

4 For your mercy is great above the heavens, and your truth reaches to the clouds.

5 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, and your glory above all the earth,

6 So that your beloved will receive deliverance, save with your right hand, and answer me.

7 God has spoken in his holiness, I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.

8 Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine, Ephraim also is the strength of my head, Judah is my lawgiver,

9 Moab is my wash pot, over Edom I'll empty my shoe, I'll triumph over Philistia.

10 Who will bring me into the strong city?  Who will lead me into Edom?

11 Won't you, O God, who had thrown us away?  And won't you, O God, go out with our armies?

12 Give us help from trouble, for the help of man is useless.

13 Through God we shall do valiantly, for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

___Psalm 109

1 Don't be silent, O God of my praise,

2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful have opened against me, they've spoken against me with a lying tongue.

3 They surrounded me also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a reason.

4 For my love they are my adversaries, but I give myself to prayer.

5 And they've rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

6 Set a wicked man over him, and let Satan stand at his right hand.

7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned, and let his prayer become sin.

8 Let his days be few, and let another take his office.

9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg, let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

11 Let the extortionist catch all that he has, and let the strangers spoil his labor.

12 Let there be no one to extend mercy to him, nor let there be anyone to favor his fatherless children.

13 Let his descendants be cut off, and in the generation following, let their name be blotted out.

14 Let the sin of his fathers be remembered with the Lord, and don't let the sin of his mother be blotted out.

15 Let them be before the Lord continually, so that he'll cut off the memory of them from the earth.

16 Because he didn't remember to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, so that he could kill the broken hearted.

17 As he loved cursing, so let it come to him, as he didn't delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.

18 As he clothed himself with cursing like with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

19 Let it be to him like the garment that covers him, and for a girdle with which he is girded continually.

20 Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the Lord, and of those who speak evil against my soul.

21 But do for me, O God the Lord, for your name's sake, because your mercy is good, deliver me.

22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded inside me.

23 I am gone like the shadow when it declines, I'm tossed up and down like the locust.

24 My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh has lost its fatness.

25 I became also a reproach to them, when they looked at me they shook their heads.

26 Help me, O Lord my God, O save me according to your mercy,

27 So that they'll know that this is your hand, that you, Lord, have done it.

28 Let them curse, but you bless, when they arise, let them be ashamed, but let your servant rejoice.

29 Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, like with a mantle.

30 I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth, yes, I will praise him among the multitude.

31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.

___Psalm 110

1 The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool."

2 The Lord shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion, rule among your enemies.

3 Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

4 The Lord has sworn, and will not repent, "You're a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek."

5 The Lord at your right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his anger.

6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies, he shall wound the heads over many countries.

7 He shall drink of the brook in the way, therefore shall he lift up the head.

___Psalm 111

1 Praise the Lord.  I will praise the Lord with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.

2 The works of the Lord are great, sought out by all of those who have pleasure in them.

3 His work is honorable and glorious, and his righteousness endures forever.

4 He has made his wonderful works to be remembered, the Lord is gracious and full of compassion.

5 He has given food to those who fear him, he will always be mindful of his covenant.

6 He has shown his people the power of his works, so that he can give them the heritage of the heathen.

7 The works of his hands are truth and judgment, all his commandments are sure.

8 They stand fast forever and always, and are done in truth and uprightness.

9 He sent redemption to his people, he has commanded his covenant forever, holy and reverend is his name.

10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, a good understanding have all of those who do his commandments, his praise endures forever.

___Psalm 112

1 Praise the Lord.  Blessed is the man that fears the Lord, that greatly delights in his commandments.

2 His descendants shall be mighty on earth, the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

3 Wealth and riches shall be in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.

4 To the upright, light arises in the darkness, he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

5 A good man shows favor, and lends, he will guide his affairs with discretion.

6 Surely he shall not be moved forever, the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.

7 He shall not be afraid of bad news, his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.

8 His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he sees his desire on his enemies.

9 He has dispersed, he has given to the poor, his righteousness endures forever, his horn shall be exalted with honor.

10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved, he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away, the desire of the wicked shall be destroyed.

___Psalm 113

1 Praise the Lord.  Praise, O you servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord.

2 Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and forever.

3 From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same the Lord's name is to be praised.

4 The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.

5 Who is like the Lord our God, who dwells on high,

6 Who humbles himself to see the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!

7 He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the manure pile,

8 So that he can set him with princes, with the princes of his people.

9 He makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children.  Praise you the Lord.

___Psalm 114

1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

2 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.

3 The sea saw it, and fled, Jordan was driven back.

4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.

5 What ailed you, O sea, that you fled?  You Jordan, that you were driven back?

6 You mountains, that you skipped like rams, and you little hills, like lambs?

7 Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

8 Who turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

___Psalm 115

1 Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your mercy, and for your truth's sake.

2 Why should the heathen say, where is now their God?

3 But our God is in the heavens, he has done whatever he pleased.

4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

5 They have mouths, but they don't speak, they have eyes, but they don't see,

6 They have ears, but they don't hear, they have noses, but they don't smell,

7 They have hands, but they don't handle, they have feet, but they don't walk, nor do they speak through their throat.

8 Those who make them are like them, so is everyone that trusts in them.

9 O Israel, trust in the Lord, he is their help and their shield.

10 O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord, he is their help and their shield.

11 You that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord, he is their help and their shield.

12 The Lord has been mindful of us, he will bless us, he will bless the house of Israel, he will bless the house of Aaron.

13 He will bless those who fear the Lord, both small and great.

14 The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children.

15 You are blessed by the Lord who made heaven and earth.

16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord's, but the earth he has given to the children of men.

17 The dead don't praise the Lord, nor any that go down into silence.

18 But we will bless the Lord from this time forth and forever.  Praise the Lord.

___Psalm 116

1 I love the Lord, because he has heard my voice and my supplications.

2 Because he has inclined his ear to me, therefore I'll call on him as long as I live.

3 The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the pains of hell took hold of me, I found trouble and sorrow.

4 Then I called on the name of the Lord, O Lord, I beg of you, deliver my soul.

5 Gracious is the Lord, and righteous, yes, our God is merciful.

6 The Lord preserves the simple, I was brought low, and he helped me.

7 Return to your rest, O my soul, for the Lord has dealt abundantly with you.

8 For you've delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

9 I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.

10 I believed, therefore I've spoken, I was greatly afflicted,

11 I said in my haste, "All men are liars."

12 What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits toward me?

13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord.

14 I will pay my vows to the Lord now in the presence of all his people.

15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.

16 O Lord, truly I am your servant, I am your servant, and the son of your handmaid, you have undone my bonds.

17 I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on the name of the Lord.

18 I will pay my vows to the Lord now in the presence of all his people,

19 In the courts of the Lord's house, in you, O Jerusalem.  Praise the Lord.

___Psalm 117

1 O praise the Lord, all you nations, praise him, all you people.

2 For his merciful kindness is great toward us, and the truth of the Lord endures forever.  Praise the Lord.

___Psalm 118

1 O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, because his mercy endures forever.

2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy endures forever.

3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endures forever.

4 Let those now who fear the Lord say, that his mercy endures forever.

5 I called on the Lord in distress, the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place.

6 The Lord is on my side, I will not fear, what can man do to me?

7 The Lord takes my part with those who help me, therefore I'll see my desire on those who hate me.

8 It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.

9 It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.

10 All nations surrounded me, but in the name of the Lord I'll destroy them.

11 They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me, but in the name of the Lord I'll destroy them.

12 They surrounded me like bees, they are quenched like the fire of thorns, for in the name of the Lord I'll destroy them.

13 You've thrust severely at me so that I'd fall, but the Lord helped me.

14 The Lord is my strength and song, and has become my salvation.

15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous, the right hand of the Lord does valiantly.

16 The right hand of the Lord is exalted, the right hand of the Lord does valiantly.

17 I won't die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.

18 The Lord has punished me severely, but he hasn't given me over to death.

19 Open to me the gates of righteousness, I will go into them, and I will praise the Lord,

20 This gate of the Lord, into which the righteous shall enter.

21 I will praise you, for you've heard me, and have become my salvation.

22 The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

23 This is the Lord's doing, it is marvelous in our eyes.

24 This is the day that the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it.

25 Save now, I beg of you, O Lord.  O Lord, I beg if you, send now prosperity.

26 Blessed be him that comes in the name of the Lord, we have blessed you out of the house of the Lord.

27 God is the Lord, who has shown us light, bind the sacrifice with cords, to the horns of the altar.

28 You are my God, and I'll praise you, you are my God, I will exalt you.

29 O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy endures forever.

___Psalm 119

1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.

2 Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.

3 They also don't sin, they walk in his ways.

4 You've commanded us to keep your precepts diligently.

5 O that my ways were directed to keep your statutes!

6 Then I won't be ashamed, when I have respect to all your commandments.

7 I'll praise you with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned your righteous judgments.

8 I'll keep your statutes, O don't completely forsake me.

9 How shall a young man cleanse his way?  By giving heed to your word.

10 I've sought you with my whole heart, O don't let me wander from your commandments.

11 I've hidden your word in my heart so that I won't sin against you.

12 Blessed are you, O Lord, teach me your statutes.

13 I've declared with my lips all the judgments of your mouth.

14 I've rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.

15 I'll meditate in your precepts, and have respect to your ways.

16 I'll delight myself in your statutes, I won't forget your word.

17 Deal abundantly with your servant, so I can live, and keep your word.

18 Open my eyes so that I'll see wondrous things out of your law.

19 I'm a stranger in the earth, don't hide your commandments from me.

20 My soul breaks for the longing that it has to your judgments at all times.

21 You've reprimanded the proud that are cursed, who err from your commandments.

22 Remove reproach and contempt from me, for I've kept your testimonies.

23 Princes also sat and spoke against me, but your servant meditated in your statutes.

24 Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.

25 My soul sticks to the dust, make me alive according to your word.

26 I've declared my ways, and you heard me, teach me your statutes.

27 Make me to understand the way of your precepts, so I shall talk of your wondrous works.

28 My soul melts for heaviness, strengthen me according to your word.

29 Remove the way of lying from me, and grant me your law graciously.

30 I've chosen the way of truth, I've laid your judgments before me.

31 I've stuck to your testimonies, O Lord, don't put me to shame.

32 I will run the way of your commandments, when you enlarge my heart.

33 Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes, and I'll keep it to the end.

34 Give me understanding, and I'll keep your law, yes, I'll observe it with my whole heart.

35 Make me to go in the path of your commandments, for in it I delight.

36 Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to covetousness.

37 Turn my eyes away from seeing vanity, and make me alive in your way.

38 Establish your word to your servant, who is devoted to your fear.

39 Turn away my reproach that I fear, for your judgments are good.

40 See, I've longed after your precepts, make alive me in your righteousness.

41 Let your mercies come also to me, O Lord, your salvation, according to your word.

42 So I shall have what to answer to him that reproaches me, for I trust in your word.

43 And don't take the word of truth completely out of my mouth, for I've hoped in your judgments.

44 So I shall keep your law continually forever and always.

45 And I'll walk at liberty, for I seek your precepts.

46 I will speak of your testimonies also before kings, and won't be ashamed.

47 And I'll delight myself in your commandments that I've loved.

48 I will also lift up my hands to your commandments that I have loved, and I will meditate in your statutes.

49 Remember the word to your servant, on which you have caused me to hope.

50 This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has made me alive.

51 The proud have had me greatly in derision, yet I haven't declined from your law.

52 I remembered your judgments of old, O Lord, and have comforted myself.

53 Horror has taken hold on me because of the wicked that forsake your law.

54 Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

55 I've remembered your name, O Lord, in the night, and have kept your law.

56 This I had, because I kept your precepts.

57 You are my portion, O Lord, I've said that I would keep your words.

58 I entreated your favor with my whole heart, be merciful to me according to your word.

59 I thought on my ways, and turned my feet to your testimonies.

60 I made haste, and didn't delay to keep your commandments.

61 The gangs of the wicked have robbed me, but I haven't forgotten your law.

62 At midnight I'll rise to give thanks to you because of your righteous judgments.

63 I'm a companion of all of those who fear you, and of those who keep your precepts.

64 The earth, O Lord, is full of your mercy, teach me your statutes.

65 You've dealt well with your servant, O Lord, according to your word.

66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I've believed your commandments.

67 Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I've kept your word.

68 You are good, and do good, teach me your statutes.

69 The proud have forged a lie against me, but I'll keep your precepts with my whole heart.

70 Their heart is as fat as grease, but I delight in your law.

71 It is good for me that I've been afflicted, so that I would learn your statutes.

72 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.

73 Your hands have made me and fashioned me, give me understanding, so I will learn your commandments.

74 Those who fear you will be glad when they see me, because I've hoped in your word.

75 I know, O Lord, that your judgments are right, and that you in faithfulness have afflicted me.

76 Please let your merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant.

77 Let your tender mercies come to me, so I'll live, for your law is my delight.

78 Let the proud be ashamed, for they dealt perversely with me without a reason, but I will meditate in your precepts.

79 Let those that fear you turn to me, and those that have known your testimonies.

80 Let my heart be sound in your statutes, so I'm not ashamed.

81 My soul faints for your salvation, but I hope in your word.

82 My eyes fail for your word, saying, when will you comfort me?

83 For I've become like a bottle in the smoke, yet I don't forget your statutes.

84 How many are the days of your servant?  When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me?

85 The proud have dug pits for me, which are not according to your law.

86 All your commandments are faithful, they persecute me wrongfully, help me.

87 They almost consumed me on earth, but I didn't forsake your precepts.

88 Make me alive according to your loving kindness, so I'll keep the testimony of your mouth.

89 Forever, O Lord, your word is settled in heaven.

90 Your faithfulness is to all generations, you've established the earth, and it remains.

91 They continue this day according to your ordinances, for all are your servants.

92 Unless your law had been my delight, I would then have perished in my affliction.

93 I'll never forget your precepts, for with them you've made me alive.

94 I am yours, save me, for I've sought your precepts.

95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me, but I will consider your testimonies.

96 I've seen an end of all perfection, but your commandment is very broad.

97 O how I love your law!  It is my meditation all the day.

98 You, through your commandments have made me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me.

99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.

100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep your precepts.

101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, so that I would keep your word.

102 I haven't departed from your judgments, for you've taught me.

103 How sweet are your words to my taste!  Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

104 Through your precepts I get understanding, therefore I hate every false way.

105 Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.

106 I've sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep your righteous judgments.

107 I am afflicted very much, make alive me, O Lord, according to your word.

108 Please accept the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Lord, and teach me your judgments.

109 My soul is continually in my hand, yet I don't forget your law.

110 The wicked have laid a trap for me, yet I didn't err from your precepts.

111 I've taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

112 I have inclined my heart to perform your statutes always, even to the end.

113 I hate vain thoughts, but I love your law.

114 You are my hiding place and my shield, I hope in your word.

115 Depart from me, you evildoers, for I will keep the commandments of my God.

116 Uphold me according to your word, so I'll live, and don't let me be ashamed of my hope.

117 Hold me up, and I shall be safe, and I'll have respect to your statutes continually.

118 You've walked on all those who err from your statutes, for their deceit is falsehood.

119 You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross, therefore I love your testimonies.

120 My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I'm afraid of your judgments.

121 I've done judgment and justice, don't leave me to my oppressors.

122 Be surety for your servant for good, don't let the proud oppress me.

123 My eyes fail for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.

124 Deal with your servant according to your mercy, and teach me your statutes.

125 I am your servant, give me understanding, so I will know your testimonies.

126 It is time for you, Lord, to work, for they've made void your law.

127 Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than fine gold.

128 Therefore I view all your precepts concerning all things to be right, and I hate every false way.

129 Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them.

130 The entrance of your word gives light, it gives understanding to the simple.

131 I opened my mouth, and panted, for I longed for your commandments.

132 Look at me, and be merciful to me, as you used to do to those that love your name.

133 Order my steps in your word, and don't let any sin have dominion over me.

134 Deliver me from the oppression of man, so I will keep your precepts.

135 Make your face shine on your servant, and teach me your statutes.

136 Rivers of waters run down my eyes, because they don't keep your law.

137 Righteous are you, O Lord, and upright are your judgments.

138 Your testimonies that you have commanded are righteous and very faithful.

139 My zeal has consumed me, because my enemies have forgotten your words.

140 Your word is very pure, therefore your servant loves it.

141 I am small and despised, yet I don't forget your precepts.

142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your law is the truth.

143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me, yet your commandments are my delight.

144 The righteousness of your testimonies is everlasting, give me understanding, and I'll live.

145 I called with my whole heart, hear me, O Lord, I'll keep your statutes.

146 I called to you, save me, and I'll keep your testimonies.

147 I got up before the dawning of the morning, and called, I hoped in your word.

148 My eyes go before the night watches, so I can meditate on your word.

149 Hear my voice according to your loving kindness, O Lord, make me alive according to your judgment.

150 They draw near who follow after mischief, they are far from your law.

151 You are near, O Lord, and all your commandments are truth.

152 Concerning your testimonies, I have known of old that you have founded them forever.

153 Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I do not forget your law.

154 Plead my cause, and deliver me, make me alive according to your word.

155 Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don't seek your statutes.

156 Great are your tender mercies, O Lord, make me alive according to your judgments.

157 My persecutors and my enemies are many, yet I don't decline from your testimonies.

158 I saw the transgressors, and was grieved, because they didn't keep your word.

159 Consider how I love your precepts, make alive me, O Lord, according to your loving kindness.

160 Your word is true from the beginning, and every one of your righteous judgments endures forever.

161 Princes have persecuted me without a reason, but my heart stands in awe of your word.

162 I rejoice at your word, like someone who finds great treasure.

163 I hate and abhor lying, but I love your law.

164 I praise you seven times a day because of your righteous judgments.

165 Those who love your law have great peace, and nothing shall offend them.

166 Lord, I've hoped for your salvation, and done your commandments.

167 My soul has kept your testimonies, and I love them very much.

168 I have kept your precepts and your testimonies, for all my ways are before you.

169 Let my cry come near before you, O Lord, give me understanding according to your word.

170 Let my prayer come before you, deliver me according to your word.

171 My lips shall speak praise, when you've taught me your statutes.

172 My tongue shall speak of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.

173 Let your hand help me, for I've chosen your precepts.

174 I've longed for your salvation, O Lord, and your law is my delight.

175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise you, and let your judgments help me.

176 I've gone astray like a lost sheep, seek your servant, for I don't forget your commandments.

___Psalm 120

1 In my distress, I cried to the Lord, and he heard me.

2 Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

3 What shall be given to you?  Or what shall be done to you, you false tongue?

4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

5 Woe is me, that I visit in Mesech, that I live in the tents of Kedar!

6 My soul has lived for a long time with him that hates peace.

7 I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.

___Psalm 121

1 I will lift up my eyes to the hills, where my help comes from.

2 My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

3 He will not allow your foot to be moved, he that keeps you will not slumber.

4 See, he that keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The Lord is your keeper, the Lord is your shade on your right hand.

6 The sun won't strike you by day, nor the moon by night.

7 The Lord shall preserve you from all evil, he shall preserve your soul.

8 The Lord shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time onward, and even forever.

___Psalm 122

1 I was glad when they said to me, "Let's go into the house of the Lord."

2 Our feet shall stand inside your gates, O Jerusalem.

3 Jerusalem is built like a city that is compact together,

4 Where the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, to the testimony of Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord.

5 For thrones of judgment are set there, the thrones of the house of David.

6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, they shall prosper that love you.

7 Peace be inside your walls, and prosperity inside your palaces.

8 For my brothers and companions' sakes, I will now say, "Peace be inside you."

9 Because of the house of the Lord our God I'll seek your good.

___Psalm 123

1 I lift up my eyes to you, O you that lives in the heavens.

2 See, like the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, and like the eyes of a maiden to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes wait on the Lord our God, until he has mercy on us.

3 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us, for we are very much filled with contempt.

4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

___Psalm 124

1 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, Israel can now say,

2 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us,

3 Then they would have swallowed us up quickly, when their anger was kindled against us,

4 Then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul,

5 Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

6 Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

7 Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the trap of the bird catchers, the trap has been broken, and we are escaped.

8 Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

___Psalm 125

1 Those who trust in the Lord shall be like mount Zion, that can't be removed, but remains forever.

2 As the mountains are around Jerusalem, so the Lord is around his people from now on, forever.

3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest on the lot of the righteous, so that the righteous don't put out their hands to sin.

4 Do good, O Lord, to those that are good, and to those who are upright in their hearts.

5 As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead them out with the doers of sin, but peace shall be on Israel.

___Psalm 126

1 When the Lord undid the captivity of Zion, we were like those who dream.

2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing, then they said among the heathen, "The Lord has done great things for them."

3 The Lord has done great things for us, for which we are glad.

4 Undo our captivity, O Lord, like the streams in the south.

5 Those who plant in tears shall harvest in joy.

6 He that goes out crying, carrying precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

___Psalm 127

1 Unless the Lord builds the house, they're wasting their time who build it, unless the Lord keeps the city, the staying awake of the watchman does no good.

2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows, for so he gives his beloved sleep.

3 See, children are a heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

4 Like arrows are in the hand of a mighty man, so are children of the youth.

5 Happy is the man that has his quiver full of them, they won't be ashamed, but they'll speak with the enemies in the gate.

___Psalm 128

1 Blessed is everyone that fears the Lord, that walks in his ways.

2 For you'll eat the labor of your hands, happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you.

3 Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine by the sides of your house, your children like olive plants around your table.

4 See, thus shall the man be blessed that fears the Lord.

5 The Lord shall bless you out of Zion, and you'll see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

6 Yes, you'll see your children's children, and peace on Israel.

___Psalm 129

1 They've afflicted me many times from my youth, Israel can now say,

2 They've afflicted me many times from my youth, yet they haven't prevailed against me.

3 The plowers plowed on my back, they made long their furrows.

4 The Lord is righteous, he has cut in pieces the cords of the wicked.

5 Let them all be confused and turned back that hate Zion.

6 Let them be like the grass on the housetops, that withers before it grows up,

7 With which the mower doesn't fill his hand, nor he that ties sheaves his bosom.

8 Nor do those who go by say, "The blessing of the Lord be on you, we bless you in the name of the Lord."

___Psalm 130

1 Out of the depths I've cried to you, O Lord.

2 Lord, hear my voice, let your ears be attentive to the voice of my prayers.

3 If you, Lord, would point out sins, O Lord, who shall stand?

4 But there is forgiveness with you, so that you'll be feared.

5 I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word do I hope.

6 My soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning, I say, more than those who watch for the morning.

7 Let Israel hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.

8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his sins.

___Psalm 131

1 Lord, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes lofty, nor do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.

2 Surely I've behaved and quieted myself, like a child that is weaned from his mother, my soul is like a weaned child.

3 Let Israel hope in the Lord from now on and forever.

___Psalm 132

1 A song of degrees.  Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions,

2 How he swore to the Lord, and vowed to the mighty God of Jacob,

3 Surely I won't come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed,

4 I won't give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids,

5 Until I find a place for the Lord, a habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.

6 See, we heard of it at Ephratah, we found it in the fields of the woods.

7 We will go into his tabernacles, we will worship at his footstool.

8 Arise, O Lord, into your rest, you, and the ark of your strength.

9 Let your priests be clothed with righteousness, and let your saints shout for joy.

10 For your servant David's sake don't turn away the face of your anointed.

11 The Lord has sworn in truth to David, he will not turn from it, of the fruit of your body I'll set on your throne.

12 If your children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit on your throne forever.

13 For the Lord has chosen Zion, he has desired it for his habitation.

14 This is my rest forever, here I will live, for I have desired it.

15 I will abundantly bless her provision, I will satisfy her poor with bread.

16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation, and her saints shall shout out loud for joy.

17 I will make the horn of David to bud there, I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.

18 I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown shall flourish.

___Psalm 133

1 See, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

2 It is like the precious ointment on the head, that ran down on the beard, Aaron's beard, that went down to the skirts of his garments,

3 Like the dew of Hermon, and like the dew that went down on the mountains of Zion, for the Lord commanded the blessing there, life forever.

___Psalm 134

1 See, bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who at night stand in the house of the Lord.

2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the Lord.

3 The Lord that made heaven and earth bless you out of Zion.

___Psalm 135

1 Praise the Lord.  Praise the name of the Lord, praise him, O you servants of the Lord.

2 You that stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God,

3 Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good, sing praises to his name, for it is pleasant.

4 For the Lord has chosen Jacob to himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.

5 For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.

6 The Lord did whatever he pleased in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.

7 He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth, he makes lightnings for the rain, he brings the wind out of his treasuries.

8 Who struck the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.

9 Who sent tokens and wonders among you, O Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his servants.

10 Who struck great nations, and killed mighty kings,

11 Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan,

12 And gave their land for a heritage, a heritage to Israel his people.

13 Your name, O Lord, endures forever, and your memorial, O Lord, throughout all generations.

14 For the Lord will judge his people, and he will change his mind concerning his servants.

15 The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

16 They have mouths, but they don't speak, they have eyes, but they don't see,

17 They have ears, but they don't hear, nor is there any breath in their mouths.

18 Those who make them are like them, so is everyone that trusts in them.

19 Bless the Lord, O house of Israel, bless the Lord, O house of Aaron,

20 Bless the Lord, O house of Levi, you that fear the Lord, bless the Lord.

21 Blessed be the Lord out of Zion, who lives at Jerusalem.  Praise the Lord.

___Psalm 136

1 O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy endures forever.

2 O give thanks to the God of gods, for his mercy endures forever.

3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his mercy endures forever.

4 To him who alone does great wonders, for his mercy endures forever.

5 To him that by wisdom made the heavens, for his mercy endures forever.

6 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters, for his mercy endures forever.

7 To him that made great lights, for his mercy endures forever,

8 The sun to rule by day, for his mercy endures forever,

9 The moon and stars to rule by night, for his mercy endures forever.

10 To him that struck Egypt in their firstborn, for his mercy endures forever,

11 And brought out Israel from among them, for his mercy endures forever,

12 With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, for his mercy endures forever.

13 To him who divided the red sea into parts, for his mercy endures forever,

14 And made Israel to pass through the middle of it, for his mercy endures forever,

15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the red sea, for his mercy endures forever.

16 To him who led his people through the wilderness, for his mercy endures forever.

17 To him who struck great kings, for his mercy endures forever,

18 And killed famous kings, for his mercy endures forever,

19 Sihon king of the Amorites, for his mercy endures forever,

20 And Og the king of Bashan, for his mercy endures forever,

21 And gave their land for a heritage, for his mercy endures forever,

22 A heritage to Israel his servant, for his mercy endures forever.

23 Who remembered us in our low estate, for his mercy endures forever,

24 And has redeemed us from our enemies, for his mercy endures forever.

25 Who gives food to all flesh, for his mercy endures forever.

26 O give thanks to the God of heaven, for his mercy endures forever.

___Psalm 137

1 By the rivers of Babylon, we sat down there, yes, we cried, when we remembered Zion.

2 We hung our harps on the willows in the middle of it.

3 For those who carried us away captive required of us a song there, and those who wasted us required of us mirth, saying, sing us one of the songs of Zion.

4 How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?

5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

6 If I don't remember you, let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I don't prefer Jerusalem more than my top joy.

7 Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, "Raze it, raze it, to the foundation of it."

8 O daughter of Babylon, who is to be destroyed, happy shall he be, that rewards you like you have served us.

9 Happy shall he be, that takes and smashes your little ones against the stones.

___Psalm 138

1 I will praise you with my whole heart, before the gods I will sing praise to you.

2 I will worship toward your holy temple, and praise your name, for your loving kindness and for your truth, for you've magnified your word above all your name.

3 In the day when I called, you answered me, and strengthened me with strength in my soul.

4 All the kings of the earth shall praise you, O Lord, when they hear the words of your mouth.

5 Yes, they shall sing in the ways of the Lord, for great is the glory of the Lord.

6 Though the Lord is high, yet he has respect to the lowly, but the proud he knows afar off.

7 Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you'll revive me, you'll stretch out your hand against the anger of my enemies, and your right hand shall save me.

8 The Lord will perfect that which concerns me, your mercy, O Lord, endures forever, don't forsake the works of your own hands.

___Psalm 139

1 O Lord, you've searched me, and known me.

2 You know my sitting down and my getting up, you understand my thoughts from afar.

3 You surround my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

4 For there is not a word in my vocabulary, but see, O Lord, you know it completely.

5 You have beset me behind and before, and laid your hand on me.

6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, it is high, I can't attain to it.

7 Where shall I go from your spirit?  Or where shall I flee from your presence?

8 If I ascend up into heaven, you're there, if I make my bed in hell, see, you're there.

9 If I take the wings of the morning, and live in the farthest parts of the ocean,

10 Even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.

11 If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me," even the night shall be light around me.

12 Yes, the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines like the day, the darkness and the light are both alike to you.

13 For you've possessed my reins, you have covered me in my mother's womb.

14 I will praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made, your works are marvelous, and my soul knows that very well.

15 My substance was not hidden from you, when I was made in secret, and curiously made in the lowest parts of the earth.

16 Your eyes saw my substance, yet being imperfect, and in your book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there were none of them.

17 How precious also are your thoughts to me, O God!  How great is the sum of them!

18 If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand, when I awake, I'm still with you.

19 Surely you will kill the wicked, O God, depart from me therefore, you bloody men.

20 For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain.

21 Don't I hate them, O Lord, that hate you?  And am I not grieved with those that rise up against you?

22 I hate them with perfect hatred, I count them my enemies.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart, try me, and know my thoughts,

24 And see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

___Psalm 140

1 Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man, preserve me from the violent man,

2 Who imagine mischiefs in their heart, continually they're gathered together for war.

3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent, adders' poison is under their lips.  Selah.

4 Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked, preserve me from the violent man, who have purposed to overthrow my goings.

5 The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords, they've spread a net by the wayside, they've set traps for me.  Selah.

6 I said to the Lord, "You are my God," hear the voice of my supplications, O Lord.

7 O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you've covered my head in the day of battle.

8 Don't grant the desires of the wicked, O Lord, don't further his wicked device, so that they don't exalt themselves.  Selah.

9 As for the head of those that surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

10 Let burning coals fall on them, let them be thrown into the fire, into deep pits, so that they don't rise up again.

11 Don't let an evil speaker be established in the earth, evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

12 I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks to your name, the upright shall live in your presence.

___Psalm 141

1 Lord, I call to you, make haste to me, give ear to my voice, when I call to you.

2 Let my prayer be set before you like incense, and the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

3 Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, keep the door of my lips.

4 Don't incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that sin, and don't let me eat of their dainties.

5 Let the righteous strike me, it shall be a kindness, and let him reprove me, it shall be an excellent oil, that won't break my head, for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.

6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.

7 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, like when someone cuts and splits wood on the earth.

8 But my eyes are to you, O God the Lord, my trust is in you, don't leave my soul destitute.

9 Keep me from the traps that they've laid for me, and the traps of the doers of sin.

10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I am escaping.

___Psalm 142

1 I cried to the Lord with my voice, I made my prayer to the Lord with my voice.

2 I poured out my complaint before him, I showed my trouble before him.

3 When my spirit was overwhelmed inside me, then you knew my path.  In the way in which I walked they've secretly laid a trap for me.

4 I looked on my right hand, and saw, but there was no man that would know me, refuge failed me, no man cared for my soul.

5 I cried to you, O Lord, I said, "You are my refuge and my portion in the land of the living."

6 Give attention to my cry, for I am brought very low, give me deliverance from my persecutors, for they're stronger than I am.

7 Bring my soul out of prison, so that I will praise your name, the righteous shall surround me, for you'll deal abundantly with me.

___Psalm 143

1 Hear my prayer, O Lord, give ear to my supplications, in your faithfulness answer me, and in your righteousness.

2 And don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight shall no man living be justified.

3 For the enemy has persecuted my soul, he has struck my life down to the ground, he has made me to live in darkness, like those who've been dead for a long time.

4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed inside me, my heart inside me is desolate.

5 I remember the days of old, I meditate on all your works, I muse on the work of your hands.

6 I stretch out my hands to you, my soul thirsts for you, like a thirsty land.  Selah.

7 Hear me speedily, O Lord, my spirit fails, don't hide your face from me, so that I'm not like those who go down into the pit.

8 Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you, cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

9 Deliver me, O Lord, from my enemies, I flee to you to hide me.

10 Teach me to do your will, for you are my God, your spirit is good, lead me into the land of uprightness.

11 Make me alive, O Lord, for your name's sake, for your righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.

12 And in your mercy cut off my enemies, and destroy all of those who afflict my soul, for I am your servant.

___Psalm 144

1 Blessed be the Lord my strength, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to fight,

2 My goodness, and my fortress, my high tower, and my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I trust, who subdues my people under me.

3 Lord, what is man, that you take knowledge of him!  Or the son of man, that you make account of him!

4 Man is like vanity, his days are like a shadow that passes away.

5 Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down, touch the mountains, and they'll smoke.

6 Throw out lightning, and scatter them, shoot out your arrows, and destroy them.

7 Send your hand from above, rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children,

8 Whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

9 I will sing a new song to you, O God, on a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to you.

10 It is he that gives salvation to kings, who delivers David his servant from the hurtful sword.

11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouths speak vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood,

12 So that our sons will be like plants grown up in their youth, so that our daughters will be like corner stones, polished after the likeness of a palace,

13 So that our garners will be full, affording all kinds of stored goods, so that our sheep will produce thousands and ten thousands in our streets,

14 So that our oxen will be strong to labor, so that there's no breaking in, nor going out, so there's no complaining in our streets.

15 Happy are the people, that are in such a case, yes, happy are those people, whose God is the Lord.

___Psalm 145

1 I will extol you, my God, O king, and I will bless your name forever and always.

2 Every day I'll bless you, and I'll praise your name forever and always.

3 The Lord is great, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.

4 One generation shall praise your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts.

5 I'll speak of the glorious honor of your majesty, and of your wondrous works.

6 And men shall speak of the might of your terrible acts, and I'll declare your greatness.

7 They shall abundantly tell the memory of your great goodness, and shall sing about your righteousness.

8 The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion, slow to anger, and of great mercy.

9 The Lord is good to all, and his tender mercies are over all his works.

10 All your works shall praise you, O Lord, and your saints shall bless you.

11 They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk of your power,

12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.

13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations.

14 The Lord supports all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

15 The eyes of all wait on you, and you give them their food in due season.

16 You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

17 The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

18 The Lord is near to all those who call on him, to all that call on him in truth.

19 He'll fulfill the desire of those who fear him, he'll also hear their cry, and will save them.

20 The Lord preserves all those who love him, but all the wicked he'll destroy.

21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord, and let all flesh bless his holy name forever and always.

___Psalm 146

1 Praise the Lord.  Praise the Lord, O my soul.

2 While I live I will praise the Lord, I will sing praises to my God while I have any being.

3 Don't put your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there's no help.

4 His breath goes out, he returns to his earth, in that very day his thoughts die.

5 Happy is he that has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God,

6 Who made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that's in it, who keeps truth forever,

7 Who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry.  The Lord sets the prisoners free,

8 The Lord opens the eyes of the blind, the Lord raises those who are bowed down, the Lord loves the righteous,

9 The Lord preserves the strangers, he relieves the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

10 The Lord shall rule forever, your God, O Zion, to all generations.  Praise the Lord.

___Psalm 147

1 Praise the Lord, for it is good to sing praises to our God, for it is pleasant, and praise is attractive.

2 The Lord builds up Jerusalem, he gathers together the outcasts of Israel.

3 He heals the broken in heart, and bandages their wounds.

4 He tells the number of the stars, he calls them all by their names.

5 Great is our Lord, and of great power, his understanding is infinite.

6 The Lord lifts up the meek, he throws the wicked down to the ground.

7 Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving, sing praise on the harp to our God,

8 Who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the mountains.

9 He gives to the animals their food, and to the young ravens that cry.

10 He doesn't delight in the strength of the horse, he doesn't take pleasure in the legs of a man.

11 The Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his mercy.

12 Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem, praise your God, O Zion.

13 For he has strengthened the bars of your gates, he has blessed your children inside you.

14 He makes peace in your borders, and fills you with the finest of the wheat.

15 He sends out his commandment on earth, his word runs very swiftly.

16 He gives snow like wool, he scatters the hoarfrost like ashes.

17 He throws out his ice like morsels, who can stand before his cold?

18 He sends out his word, and melts them, he causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.

19 He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his judgments to Israel.

20 He has not dealt so with any nation, and as for his judgments, they haven't known them.  Praise the Lord.

___Psalm 148

1 Praise the Lord.  Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise him in the heights.

2 Praise him, all his angels, praise him, all his hosts.

3 Praise him, sun and moon, praise him, all you stars of light.

4 Praise him, you heavens of heavens, and you waters that are above the heavens.

5 Let them praise the name of the Lord, for he commanded, and they were created.

6 He has also established them forever and always, he has made a decree that won't be exceeded.

7 Praise the Lord from the earth, you dragons, and all deeps,

8 Fire, and hail, snow, and vapor, stormy wind fulfilling his word,

9 Mountains, and all hills, fruitful trees, and all cedars,

10 Beasts, and all cattle, creeping things, and flying fowl,

11 Kings of the earth, and all people, princes, and all judges of the earth,

12 Both young men, and maidens, old men, and children,

13 Let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name alone is excellent, his glory is above the earth and heaven.

14 He also exalts the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints, of the children of Israel, a people near to him.  Praise the Lord.

___Psalm 149

1 Praise the Lord.  Sing to the Lord a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.

2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him, let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

3 Let them praise his name in the dance, let them sing praises to him with the tambourine and harp.

4 For the Lord takes pleasure in his people, he will beautify the meek with salvation.

5 Let the saints be joyful in glory, let them sing out loud on their beds.

6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two edged sword in their hand,

7 To execute vengeance on the heathen, and punishments on the people,

8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron,

9 To execute on them the judgment written, all his saints have this honor.  Praise the Lord.

___Psalm 150

1 Praise the Lord.  Praise God in his sanctuary, praise him in the firmament of his power.

2 Praise him for his mighty acts, praise him according to his excellent greatness.

3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet, praise him with the psaltery and harp.

4 Praise him with the tambourine and dance, praise him with stringed instruments and organs.

5 Praise him on the loud cymbals, praise him on the high sounding cymbals.

6 Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.  Praise the Lord.

___Proverbs chapter 1

1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel,

2 To know wisdom and instruction, to perceive the words of understanding,

3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity,

4 To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning, and a man of understanding shall attain to wise counsels,

6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

8 My son, listen to the instruction of your father, and don't forsake the law of your mother,

9 For they shall be an ornament of grace to your head, and chains around your neck.

10 My son, if sinners entice you, don't say yes.

11 If they say, "Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without a reason,

12 Let's swallow them up alive like the grave, and whole, like those that go down into the pit,

13 We'll find all precious substance, we'll fill our houses with spoil,

14 Throw in with us, let's all have one money bag,"

15 My son, don't walk in the way with them, refrain your foot from their path,

16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

18 And they lay in ambush for their own blood, they lurk secretly for their own lives.

19 So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain, who take away the lives of the owners of those possessions.

20 Wisdom shouts outside, she shouts her voice in the streets,

21 She shouts in the main place of concourse, in the openings of the gates, in the city she speaks her words, and says,

22 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity?  And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

23 Turn when I reprove, see, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make known my words to you.

24 Because I've called, and you refused, I've stretched out my hand, and no man paid attention,

25 But you've viewed all my advice as nothing, and didn't want any of my reproof,

26 I also will laugh at your calamity, I will make fun of it when your fear comes,

27 When your fear comes like desolation, and your destruction comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come on you.

28 Then they'll call on me, but I won't answer, they'll seek me early, but they won't find me,

29 Because they hated knowledge, and didn't choose the fear of the Lord,

30 They didn't want any of my advice, they despised all my reproof.

31 Therefore they'll eat of the fruit of their own ways, and be filled with their own devices.

32 For the turning away of the simple shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

33 But whoever listens to me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil."

___Proverbs chapter 2

1 My son, if you'll receive my words, and hide my commandments with you,

2 So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding,

3 Yes, if you call after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding,

4 If you seek her like for silver, and search for her like for hidden treasures,

5 Then you'll understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

6 For the Lord gives wisdom, out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

7 He lays up sound wisdom for the righteous, he is a buckler to those who walk uprightly.

8 He keeps the paths of justice, and preserves the way of his saints.

9 Then you'll understand righteousness, and justice, and equity, yes every good path.

10 When wisdom enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul,

11 Discretion shall preserve you, understanding shall keep you,

12 To give you deliverance from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks perverse things,

13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,

14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of the wicked,

15 Whose ways are crooked, and perverse in their paths,

16 To deliver you from the strange woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words,

17 Who forsakes the guide of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God.

18 For her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead.

19 No one that goes to her escapes, nor do they take hold of the paths of life.

20 So that you'll walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

21 For the upright shall live in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be uprooted from it.

___Proverbs chapter 3

1 My son, don't forget my law, but let your heart keep my commandments,

2 For they shall add length of days to you, and long life, and peace.

3 Don't let mercy and truth forsake you, tie them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart,

4 That's how you'll find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and don't lean to your own understanding.

6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he'll direct your paths.

7 Don't be wise in your own eyes, fear the Lord, and go away from evil.

8 It shall be health to your navel, and marrow to your bones.

9 Honor the Lord with your substance, and with the first fruits of all your increase,

10 Then your barns shall be filled with plenty, and your presses shall burst out with new wine.

11 My son, don't despise the punishment of the Lord, and don't be weary of his correction,

12 For whom the Lord loves, he corrects, like a father corrects the son in whom he delights.

13 Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding.

14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain of it than fine gold.

15 She is more precious than rubies, and all the things you can desire are not to be compared to her.

16 Length of days is in her right hand, and in her left hand riches and honor.

17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold on her, and happy is everyone that retains her.

19 By wisdom, the Lord has founded the earth, by understanding he has established the heavens.

20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

21 My son, don't let them depart from your eyes, keep sound wisdom and discretion,

22 So they'll be life to your soul, and grace to your neck.

23 Then you'll walk in your way safely, and your foot won't stumble.

24 When you lie down, you won't be afraid, yes, you'll lie down, and your sleep shall be sweet.

25 Don't be afraid of sudden fear, nor of the desolation of the wicked when it comes.

26 For the Lord shall be your confidence, and shall keep your foot from being taken.

27 Don't withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it's in the power of your hand to do it.

28 Don't say to your neighbor, "Go, and come back later, and tomorrow I will give, when you already have it."

29 Don't devise evil against your neighbor, since he lives securely near you.

30 Don't strive with a man without a reason, if he's done you no harm.

31 Don't envy the oppressor, and don't choose any of his ways.

32 For the perverse person is a dirty thing to the Lord, but his secret is with the righteous.

33 The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the dwelling place of the just.

34 Surely he scorns the scorners, but he gives grace to the lowly.

35 The wise shall inherit glory, but shame shall be the repayment for fools.

___Proverbs chapter 4

1 Hear the instruction of a father, you children, and pay attention to getting understanding.

2 For I give you good doctrine, don't forsake my law.

3 For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

4 He taught me also, and said to me, "Let your heart retain my words, keep my commandments, and live.

5 Get wisdom, get understanding, don't forget it, and don't decline from the words of my mouth.

6 Don't forsake her, and she'll preserve you; love her, and she'll keep you.

7 Wisdom is the main thing, therefore get wisdom, and with all your getting get understanding.

8 Exalt her, and she'll promote you, she'll bring you to honor when you embrace her.

9 She'll put an ornament of grace on your head, she'll deliver to you a crown of glory.

10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings, and the years of your life shall be many.

11 I've taught you in the way of wisdom, I've led you in right paths.

12 When you go, your steps won't be restricted, and when you run, you won't stumble.

13 Grab tight hold of instruction, don't let her go, keep her, for she is your life.

14 Don't enter into the path of the wicked, and don't go in the way of evil men.

15 Avoid it, don't go near it, turn from it, and go away.

16 For they don't sleep unless they've done mischief, and they're deprived of sleep unless they cause someone to fall.

17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

18 But the path of the just is like the shining light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.

19 The way of the wicked is like darkness, they don't know what they're stumbling at.

20 My son, pay attention to my words, incline your ear to my sayings.

21 Don't let them depart from your eyes, keep them in your heart.

22 For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.

23 Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.

24 Put a perverse mouth away from you, and put perverse lips far from you.

25 Let your eyes look straight ahead, and let your eyelids look straight before you.

26 Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established.

27 Don't turn to the right hand nor to the left, remove your foot from evil.

___Proverbs chapter 5

1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom, and submit your ear to my understanding,

2 So that you'll pay attention to discretion, and so your lips will keep knowledge.

3 For the lips of a strange woman drip like a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil,

4 But her end is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two edged sword.

5 Her feet go down to death, her steps take hold on hell.

6 So that you won't ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, so you can't know them.

7 Hear me now therefore, O you children, and don't depart from the words of my mouth.

8 Remove your way far from her, and don't go near the door of her house,

9 So that you don't give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel,

10 So that strangers aren't filled with your wealth, and your labors be in the house of a stranger,

11 And you mourn at the end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

12 And say, "Look how I've hated instruction, and how my heart despised correction,

13 And haven't obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!

14 I was almost in all evil among the congregation and assembly."

15 Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.

16 Let your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

17 Let them be only your own, and not shared with strangers.

18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

19 Let her be like the loving deer and pleasant roe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times, and always be ravished with her love.

20 And why will you be ravished, my son, with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

21 For the ways of man are in front of the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his goings.

22 His own sins shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be tied with the cords of his sins.

23 He shall die without instruction, and in the greatness of his foolishness he'll go astray.

___Proverbs chapter 6

1 My son, if you're a loan co-signer for your friend, if you've shaken hands with a stranger,

2 You're trapped by the words of your mouth, you're ensnared by the words of your mouth.

3 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, when you've come into the hand of your friend, go, humble yourself, and make your friend sure.

4 Don't give sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

5 Deliver yourself like a roe from the hand of the hunter, and like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

6 Go to the ant, you sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise,

7 Who having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

8 Provides her food in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

9 How long will you sleep, O sluggard?  When will you get up out of your sleep?

10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,

11 So your poverty shall come like someone that travels, and your want like an armed man.

12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth.

13 He winks with his eyes, he speaks with his feet, he teaches with his fingers,

14 Perverseness is in his heart, he devises mischief all the time, he plants discord.

15 Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly, suddenly he shall be broken with no remedy.

16 The Lord hates these six things, yes, seven are a dirty thing to him,

17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

18 A heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

19 A false witness that speaks lies, and he that plants discord among brothers.

20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake the law of your mother,

21 Tie them continually on your heart, and tie them around your neck.

22 When you go, it shall lead you, when you sleep, it shall keep you, and when you awaken, it shall talk with you.

23 For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

24 To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

25 Don't lust for her beauty in your heart, and don't let her take you with her eyelids.

26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread, and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

28 Can someone go on hot coals, and his feet not get burned?

29 So he that goes in to his neighbor's wife, whoever touches her shall not be innocent.

30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy his soul when he is hungry,

31 But if he's found, he shall restore sevenfold, he shall give all the possessions in his house.

32 But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding, he that does it destroys his own soul.

33 He shall get a wound and dishonor, and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

34 For jealousy is the rage of a man, therefore he won't give any slack in the day of vengeance.

35 He won't regard any ransom, nor will he rest content, though you give many gifts.

___Proverbs chapter 7

1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with you.

2 Keep my commandments and live, and my law like the apple of your eye.

3 Tie them on your fingers, write them on the table of your heart.

4 Say to wisdom, "You're my sister, and call understanding your kinswoman,"

5 So that they'll keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

7 And saw among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man without understanding,

8 Passing through the street near her corner, and he went the way to her house,

9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night,

10 And see, a woman dressed like a prostitute met him, and subtle of heart.

11 (She is loud and stubborn, her feet don't remain in her house,

12 Now she is outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.)

13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with a naughty face said to him,

14 "I have peace offerings with me, I've paid my vows today.

15 Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I've found you.

16 I've decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen from Egypt.

17 I've perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning, let us solace ourselves with loves.

19 For the owner of the house is not at home, he has gone on a long journey,

20 He has taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed."

21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

22 He goes after her immediately, like an ox goes to the slaughter, or like a fool to the correction of the stocks,

23 'Til a dart strikes through his liver, like a bird hurries to the trap, and doesn't know that it is for his life.

24 Listen to me now therefore, O you children, and pay attention to the words of my mouth.

25 Don't let your heart decline to her ways, don't go astray in her paths.

26 For she has thrown down many wounded, yes, many strong men have been killed by her.

27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the rooms of death.

___Proverbs chapter 8

1 Doesn't wisdom cry?  And understanding cause her voice to be heard?

2 She stands on the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.

3 She shouts at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.

4 "To you, O men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of man.

5 O you simple, understand wisdom, and you fools, be of an understanding heart.

6 Hear, for I will speak of excellent things, and the opening of my lips shall be right things.

7 For my mouth shall speak truth, and wickedness is a dirty thing to my lips.

8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness, there is nothing froward or perverse in them.

9 They are all plain to him that has understanding, and right to those who find knowledge.

10 Receive my instruction rather than silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.

11 For wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that can be desired are not to be compared to it.

12 I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of clever inventions.

13 The fear of the Lord is to hate evil, I hate pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

14 Advice is mine, and sound wisdom, I am understanding, I have strength.

15 Kings rule by me, and princes decree justice.

16 Princes rule by me, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.

17 I love those who love me, and those that seek me early shall find me.

18 Riches and honor are with me, yes, durable riches and righteousness.

19 My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, and my revenue than choice silver.

20 I lead in the way of righteousness, among the paths of justice,

21 So that I can cause those that love me to inherit substance, and I will fill their treasuries.

22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth was.

24 When there were no depths, I was brought out, when there were no fountains abundant with water.

25 I was brought out before the mountains were settled, before the hills,

26 While he hadn't yet made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there, when he set a circle on the face of the depth,

28 When he established the clouds above, when he strengthened the fountains of the deep,

29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment, when he appointed the foundations of the earth,

30 Then I was by him, like someone brought up with him, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him,

31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights were with the sons of men.

32 Now therefore listen to me, O you children, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and don't refuse it.

34 Blessed is the man that hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

35 For whoever finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor from the Lord.

36 But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul; all who hate me love death."

___Proverbs chapter 9

1 Wisdom has built her house, she has carved out her seven pillars,

2 She has killed her beasts, she has mixed her wine, she has also furnished her table.

3 She has sent out her maidens, she cries in the highest places of the city,

4 "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here, as for him that is short of understanding," she says to him,

5 "Come and eat of my bread, and drink of the wine that I've mixed.

6 Forsake the foolish, and live, and go in the way of understanding."

7 He that reproves a scorner gets shame for himself, and he that reprimands a wicked man gets himself a blot.

8 Don't reprove a scorner, so he won't hate you, reprimand a wise man, and he'll love you.

9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser, teach a just man, and he'll increase in learning.

10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

11 For by me, your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased.

12 If you're wise, you'll be wise not just for yourself, but if you're a scorner, you'll have to carry that alone.

13 A foolish woman is clamorous, she is simple and knows nothing.

14 For she sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

15 To call travelers who go right on their ways,

16 "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here, and as for him that lacks understanding," she says to him,

17 "Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant."

18 But he doesn't know that the dead are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

___Proverbs chapter 10

1 The proverbs of Solomon.  A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

2 There is no profit in treasures of wickedness, but righteousness yields deliverance from death.

3 The Lord won't allow the soul of the righteous to starve, but he throws away the goods of the wicked.

4 He that deals with a slack hand becomes poor, but the hand of the diligent makes him rich.

5 He that gathers in summer is a wise son, but he that sleeps in harvest is a son that causes shame.

6 Blessings are on the head of the just, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

7 The memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot.

8 The wise in heart will receive commandments, but a prating fool shall fall.

9 He that walks uprightly walks surely, but he that perverts his ways shall be known.

10 He that winks with the eye causes sorrow, but a prating fool shall fall.

11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

12 Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins.

13 Wisdom is found in the lips of him that has understanding, but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

14 Wise men store up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city, the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

16 The labor of the righteous tends to life, the fruit of the wicked to sin.

17 He is in the way of life that keeps instruction, but he that refuses reproof errs.

18 He that hides hatred with lying lips, and he that speaks a slander, is a fool.

19 In the multitude of words there's no lack of sin, but he that restrains his lips is wise.

20 The tongue of the honest man is like choice silver, the heart of the wicked is worth little.

21 The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for want of wisdom.

22 The blessing of the Lord makes people rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

23 It's fun for a fool to do mischief, but a man of understanding has wisdom.

24 The fear of the wicked shall come on him, but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

25 As the whirlwind passes, so the wicked is no more, but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

26 Like vinegar to the teeth, and like smoke to the eyes, that's how the sluggard is to those who send him.

27 The fear of the Lord gives long life, but the number of years of the wicked shall be decreased.

28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness, but the expectation of the wicked shall die.

29 The way of the Lord is strength to the upright, but destruction shall be to the workers of sin.

30 The righteous shall never be removed, but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

31 The mouth of the honest man speaks wisdom, but the perverse tongue shall be cut out.

32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked speaks perversity.

___Proverbs chapter 11

1 A false balance is dirty thing to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.

2 Shame comes along, too, when pride comes, but with the lowly is wisdom.

3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

4 Riches don't profit in the day of anger, but righteousness delivers from death.

5 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.

7 When a wicked man dies, his expectation shall perish, and the hope of unjust men perishes.

8 The righteous gets deliverance out of trouble, and the wicked comes instead of him.

9 A hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor, but the honest man shall be delivered through knowledge.

10 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices, and when the wicked die, there is shouting.

11 By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

12 He that is void of wisdom despises his neighbor, but a man of understanding is silent.

13 A talebearer reveals secrets, but he that is of a faithful spirit conceals the matter.

14 Where no advice is, the people fall, but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.

15 He that is collateral for a stranger shall be hurt for it, and he that hates co-signing of loans is sure.

16 A gracious woman retains honor, and strong men retain riches.

17 The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he that is cruel troubles his own flesh.

18 The wicked works a deceitful work, but to him that plants righteousness there'll be a sure reward.

19 Like righteousness tends to life, so he that pursues evil pursues it to his own death.

20 Those who are of a perverse heart are dirty thing to the Lord, but those who are upright in their way are his delight.

21 Though hand joins with hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished, but the descendants of the righteous shall get deliverance.

22 Like a jewel of gold in a pigs snout, so is a fair woman who is without discretion.

23 The desire of the righteous is only good, but the expectation of the wicked is anger.

24 There are those who scatter and yet increase, and there are those who withhold more than what's right, but it tends to poverty.

25 The liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that waters shall also be watered himself.

26 He that withholds corn, the people shall curse him, but blessing shall be on the head of him that sells it.

27 He that diligently seeks good procures favor, but he that seeks mischief, it shall come to him.

28 He that trusts in his riches shall fall, but the righteous shall flourish like a branch.

29 He that troubles his own house shall inherit the wind, and the fool shall be servant to the wise hearted.

30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he that wins souls is wise.

31 See, the righteous shall be repaid in the earth, much more the wicked and the sinner.

___Proverbs chapter 12

1 If you love instruction, you love knowledge, but he that hates reproof is brutish.

2 A good man obtains favor from the Lord, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.

3 A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

4 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, but she that makes ashamed is like rottenness in his bones.

5 The thoughts of the righteous are right, but the advice of the wicked is deceit.

6 The words of the wicked are to lie in ambush for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

7 The wicked are overthrown, and are not, but the house of the righteous shall stand.

8 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

9 He that is despised, and has a servant, is better than he that honors himself, and doesn't have enough bread.

10 A righteous man pays attention to the life of his beast, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

11 He that tills his land shall be satisfied with bread, but he that follows vain people is void of understanding.

12 The wicked desires the net of evil men, but the root of the righteous yields fruit.

13 The wicked are trapped by the transgression of their lips, but the just shall come out of trouble.

14 A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth, and the wages of a man's hands shall be rendered to him.

15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he that listens to advice is wise.

16 A fool's anger is presently known, but a prudent man conceals shame.

17 He that speaks truth shows forth righteousness, but a false witness deceit.

18 There is that speaks like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is health.

19 The lips of truth shall be established forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

20 Deceit is in the heart of those who imagine evil, but joy shall be for the counselors of peace.

21 No evil shall happen to the just, but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

22 Lying lips are a dirty thing to the Lord, but those who deal truly are his delight.

23 A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.

24 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule, but the slothful shall be under tribute.

25 Heaviness in the heart of man makes it stoop, but a good word makes it glad.

26 The righteous is more excellent than his neighbor, but the way of the wicked seduces them.

27 The slothful man doesn't roast what he took in hunting, but the substance of a diligent man is precious.

28 In the way of righteousness is life, and in the pathway of it there is no death.

___Proverbs chapter 13

1 A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scorner won't listen to reprimand.

2 A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth, but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.

3 He that keeps his mouth keeps his life, but he that opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

4 The soul of the sluggard desires and has nothing, but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

5 A righteous man hates lying, but a wicked man is repulsive, and comes to shame.

6 Righteousness keeps him that is upright in the way, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

7 There is that makes himself rich, yet has nothing, there is that makes himself poor, yet has great riches.

8 The ransom of a man's life are his riches, but the poor won't listen to reprimand.

9 The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

10 Contention comes only by pride, but with the well advised is wisdom.

11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, but he that gathers by labor shall increase.

12 Deferred hope makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.

13 Whoever despises the word shall be destroyed, but he that fears the commandment shall be rewarded.

14 The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the traps of death.

15 Good understanding gives favor, but the way of transgressors is hard.

16 Every prudent man deals with knowledge, but a fool lays open his foolishness.

17 A wicked messenger falls into mischief, but a faithful ambassador is health.

18 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuses instruction, but he that regards reproof shall be honored.

19 The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul, but it is a dirty thing to fools to depart from evil.

20 He that walks with wise men shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

21 Evil pursues sinners, but to the righteous, good shall be repaid.

22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

23 Much food is in the tillage of the poor, but there is that is destroyed for lack of judgment.

24 He that spares his rod hates his son, but he that loves him punishes him at times.

25 The righteous eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked shall want.

___Proverbs chapter 14

1 Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish pulls it down with her hands.

2 He that walks in his uprightness fears the Lord, but he that is perverse in his ways despises him.

3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

4 Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

5 A faithful witness won't lie, but a false witness will tell lies.

6 A scorner seeks wisdom and doesn't find it, but knowledge is easy to him that has understanding.

7 Go from the presence of a foolish man, when you perceive that the lips of knowledge aren't in him.

8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, but the foolishness of fools is deceit.

9 Fools mock at sin, but among the righteous there is favor.

10 The heart knows its own bitterness, and a stranger doesn't  intermeddle with its joy.

11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown, but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end of it are the ways of death.

13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of that mirth is heaviness.

14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

15 The simple believes every word, but the prudent man looks well to his goings.

16 A wise man fears, and departs from evil, but the fool rages, and is confident.

17 He that is soon angry deals foolishly, and a man of wicked devices is hated.

18 The simple inherit foolishness, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

19 The evil bow before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

20 The poor are hated even by their own neighbors, but the rich have many friends.

21 He that despises his neighbor sins, but he that has mercy on the poor is happy.

22 Do they not err that devise evil?  But mercy and truth shall be to those who devise good.

23 In all labor there is profit, but the talk of the lips tends only to poverty.

24 The crown of the wise is their riches, but the foolishness of fools is foolishness.

25 A true witness delivers souls, but a deceitful witness speaks lies.

26 In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence, and his children shall have a place of refuge.

27 The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from the traps of death.

28 In the multitude of people is the king's honor, but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.

29 He that is slow to anger is of great understanding, but he that is hasty of spirit exalts foolishness.

30 A sound heart is the life of the flesh, but envy is the rottenness of the bones.

31 He that oppresses the poor reproaches his maker, but he that honors him has mercy on the poor.

32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness, but the righteous has hope in his death.

33 Wisdom rests in the heart of him that has understanding, but what is among fools is made known.

34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any country.

35 The king's favor is toward a wise servant, but his anger is against him that causes shame.

___Proverbs chapter 15

1 A soft answer turns away anger, but grievous words stir up anger.

2 The tongue of the wise uses knowledge right, but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.

3 The eyes of the Lord are in every place, seeing the evil and the good.

4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it is a breach in the spirit.

5 A fool despises his father's instruction, but he that pays attention to reproof is prudent.

6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.

7 The lips of the wise disperse knowledge, but the heart of the foolish doesn't.

8 The sacrifice of the wicked is a dirty thing to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

9 The way of the wicked is a dirty thing to the Lord, but he loves him that pursues righteousness.

10 Correction is grievous to him that forsakes the way, and he that hates reproof shall die.

11 Hell and destruction are before the Lord, how much more then the hearts of the children of men?

12 A scorner doesn't love someone that reproves him, nor will he go to the wise.

13 A merry heart makes a cheerful facial expression, but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

14 The heart of him that has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.

15 All the days of the afflicted are evil, but he that is of a merry heart has a continual feast.

16 Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble with it.

17 Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is, than an ox raised in the stall and hatred with it.

18 A angry man stirs up strife, but he that is slow to anger appeases strife.

19 The way of the slothful man is like a hedge of thorns, but the way of the righteous is made plain.

20 A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

21 Foolishness is joy to him that has no wisdom, but a man of understanding walks uprightly.

22 Without advice purposes are disappointed, but in the multitude of counselors they are established.

23 A man has joy by the answer of his mouth, and a word spoken in due season, how good it is!

24 The way of life is above to the wise, so he'll depart from hell beneath.

25 The Lord will destroy the house of the proud, but he'll establish the border of the widow.

26 The thoughts of the wicked are a dirty thing to the Lord, but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

27 He that is greedy of gain troubles his own house, but he that hates gifts shall live.

28 The heart of the righteous studies to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.

29 The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

30 The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and a good report makes the bones fat.

31 The ear that hears the reproof of life lives among the wise.

32 He that refuses instruction despises his own soul, but he that hears reproof gets understanding.

33 The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom, and humility goes before honor.

___Proverbs chapter 16

1 The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, are from the Lord.

2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirits.

3 Commit your works to the Lord, and your thoughts shall be established.

4 The Lord has made all things for himself, yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

5 Everyone that is proud in heart is a dirty thing to the Lord, though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

6 By mercy and truth sin is purged, and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.

7 When a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

8 Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

9 A man's heart devises his way, but the Lord directs his steps.

10 A divine sentence is in the lips of the king, his mouth doesn't transgress in judgment.

11 A just weight and balance are the Lord's, all the weights of the bag are his work.

12 It is a dirty thing to kings to commit wickedness, for the throne is established by righteousness.

13 Righteous lips are the delight of kings, and they love him that speaks right.

14 The anger of a king is like a contract with a hit-man, but a wise man will pacify it.

15 In the light of the king's facial expression is life, and his favor is like a cloud of the latter rain.

16 How much better it is to get wisdom than gold!  And to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!

17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil, he that keeps his way preserves his soul.

18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

19 It is better to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

20 He that handles a matter wisely shall find good, and whoever trusts in the Lord is happy.

21 The wise of heart shall be called prudent, and the sweetness of the lips increases learning.

22 Understanding is a wellspring of life to him that has it, but the instruction of fools is foolishness.

23 The heart of the wise teaches his mouth and adds learning to his lips.

24 Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

25 There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end of it are the ways of death.

26 He that labors does so for himself, for his mouth craves it from him.

27 An ungodly man digs up evil, and in his lips there is like a burning fire.

28 A perverse man plants strife, and a whisperer separates main friends.

29 A violent man entices his neighbor, and leads him into the way that is not good.

30 He shuts his eyes to devise perverse things, moving his lips he makes evil happen.

31 The gray head is a crown of glory, if it's found in the way of righteousness.

32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he that rules his spirit than he that takes a city.

33 The straws can be drawn, but the whole disposing of it is from the Lord.

___Proverbs chapter 17

1 Better is a dry morsel, and quietness with it, than a house full of sacrifices with strife.

2 A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causes shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brothers.

3 The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the hearts.

4 Those who do wickedly pay attention to false lips, and a liar gives ear to a naughty tongue.

5 Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his maker, and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

6 Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children are their fathers.

7 Excellent speech is not appropriate for a fool, much less lying lips for prince.

8 A gift is like a precious stone in the eyes of him that has it, wherever it turns, it prospers.

9 He that covers a transgression seeks love, but he that repeats a matter separates very friends.

10 A reproof enters more into a wise man than a hundred stripes of the whip into a fool.

11 An evil man seeks only rebellion, therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his foolishness.

13 Whoever repays evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

14 The beginning of strife is like when someone releases water, therefore leave off with contention before you mess with it.

15 He that justifies the wicked, and he that condemns the just, both of them are a dirty thing to the Lord.

16 Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, since he has no heart for it?

17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

18 A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes surety in the presence of his friend.

19 He loves transgression that loves strife, and he that exalts his gate seeks destruction.

20 He that has a perverse heart finds no good, and he that has a perverse tongue falls into mischief.

21 He that fathers a fool does it to his sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.

22 A merry heart does good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.

23 A wicked man takes a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.

24 Wisdom is before him that has understanding, but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

25 A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her that bore him.

26 Also, to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.

27 He that has knowledge spares his words, and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.

28 Even a fool, when he remains silent, is counted wise, and he that shuts his lips is esteemed to be a man of understanding.

___Proverbs chapter 18

1 Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeks and mixes with all wisdom.

2 A fool has no delight in understanding, but that his heart can get what it wants.

3 When the wicked comes, then contempt also comes, and with ignominy reproach.

4 The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.

5 It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

6 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for strokes.

7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

8 The words of a talebearer are like wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

9 He also that is slothful in his work is a brother to him that is a great waster.

10 The name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous runs into it, and is safe.

11 The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall in his own conceit.

12 Before destruction the heart of man is proud, and humility goes before honor.

13 He that answers a matter before he hears it, it is foolishness and shame to him.

14 The spirit of a man will carry his illness, but who can carry a wounded spirit?

15 The heart of the prudent gets knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

16 A man's gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.

17 He that is first in his own cause seems just, but his neighbor comes and searches him.

18 Drawing straws causes contentions to stop, and divides between the mighty.

19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city, and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

20 A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth, and he shall be filled with the increase of his lips.

21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it.

22 Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the Lord.

23 The poor uses persuasion, but the rich answers roughly.

24 A man that has friends must show himself to be friendly, and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.

___Proverbs chapter 19

1 Better is the poor that walks in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

2 Also, if the soul is without knowledge, it is not good, and he that hurries with his feet is sinning.

3 The foolishness of man perverts his way, and his heart frets against the Lord.

4 Wealth makes many friends, but the poor is separated from his neighbor.

5 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies shall not escape.

6 Many will seek the favor of the prince, and every man is a friend to him that gives gifts.

7 All the brothers of the poor hate him, how much more do his friends go far from him?  He pursues them with words, yet they go away from him.

8 He that gets wisdom loves his own soul, he that keeps understanding shall find good.

9 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies shall be destroyed.

10 Delight is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

11 The discretion of a man defers his anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

12 The king's anger is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers, and a prudent wife is from the Lord.

15 Slothfulness throws into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall endure hunger.

16 He that keeps the commandment keeps his own soul, but he that despises his ways shall die.

17 He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord, and He will repay what he has given.

18 Punish your son while there is hope, and don't let your soul spare for his crying.

19 A man of great anger shall suffer punishment, for if you deliver him, yet you must do it again.

20 Listen to advice, and receive instruction, so you'll be wise at the end.

21 There are many devices in a man's heart, but the advice of the Lord shall stand.

22 The desire of a man is his kindness, and a poor man is better than a liar.

23 The fear of the Lord tends to life, and he that has it shall live satisfied, he won't be visited with evil.

24 A slothful man hides his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

25 Strike a scorner, and the simple will beware, and reprove someone who has understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

26 He that wastes his father, and chases away his mother, is a son that causes shame, and brings reproach.

27 Stop, my son, from hearing the instruction that causes you to err from the words of knowledge.

28 An ungodly witness scorns judgment, and the mouth of the wicked devours sin.

29 Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the backs of fools.

___Proverbs chapter 20

1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whoever is deceived by it is not wise.

2 The fear of a king is like the roaring of a lion, whoever provokes him to anger sins against his own soul.

3 It is an honor for a man to stop from fighting, but every fool will be meddling.

4 The sluggard will not plow because of the cold, therefore he'll beg in harvest, and have nothing.

5 Advice in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.

6 Most men will tell you how good they are, but who can find a faithful man?

7 The just man walks in his integrity; his children are blessed after him.

8 A king that sits in the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.

9 Who can say, I've made my heart clean, I'm pure from my sin?

10 Fraudulent weights, and fraudulent measures, are both dirty things to the Lord.

11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether what he does is pure, and whether it's right.

12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord has made both of them.

13 Don't love sleep so you don't become poor, open your eyes, and you'll be satisfied with bread.

14 "It is nothing, it is nothing," says the buyer, but when he has gone his way, then he boasts.

15 There is gold, and a multitude of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

16 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a security deposit from him for a strange woman.

17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

18 Every purpose is established by advice, and with good advice make war.

19 He that goes around as a talebearer reveals secrets, therefore don't meddle with him that flatters with his lips.

20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

21 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning, but the end of it won't be blessed.

22 Don't say, "I'll repay evil," but wait on the Lord, and he'll save you.

23 Fraudulent weights are a dirty thing to the Lord, and a fraudulent weighing scale is not good.

24 Man's goings are of the Lord, how can a man then understand his own way?

25 It is a snare to the man who devours what is holy, and after vows to make inquiry.

26 A wise king scatters the wicked, and brings the wheel over them.

27 The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

28 Mercy and truth preserve the king, and his throne is upheld by mercy.

29 The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of old men is the gray head.

30 The blueness of a wound cleanses away evil, so stokes of the whip cleanse the inward parts of the belly.

___Proverbs chapter 21

1 The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, like the rivers of water, he turns it wherever he wants.

2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord ponders the hearts.

3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

4 A high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

5 The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness, but of everyone that is hasty only to being in want.

6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed back and forth by those who seek death.

7 The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them, because they refuse to do justice.

8 The way of man is perverse and strange, but as for the pure, his work is right.

9 It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

10 The soul of the wicked desires evil, his neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

11 When the scorner is punished, the simple are made wise, and when the wise are instructed, they receive knowledge.

12 The righteous man wisely considers the house of the wicked, but God overthrows the wicked for their wickedness.

13 Whoever plugs his ears at the cry of the poor, he shall also cry himself, but shall not be heard.

14 A gift in secret pacifies anger, and a reward in the bosom pacifies strong anger.

15 It is joy to the just to do justice, but destruction shall be to the workers of sin.

16 The man that wanders out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

17 He that loves pleasure shall be a poor man, he that loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

18 The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.

19 It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

20 There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man spends it up.

21 He that pursues righteousness and mercy finds life, righteousness, and honor.

22 A wise man climbs the city of the mighty, and throws down the strength of the confidence of it.

23 Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

24 Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who deals in proud anger.

25 The desire of the slothful kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

26 He covets greedily all the day long, but the righteous gives and doesn't spare.

27 The sacrifice of the wicked is a dirty thing, how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind?

28 A false witness shall perish, but the man that hears speaks faithfully.

29 A wicked man hardens his face, but as for the upright, he directs his way.

30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor advice against the Lord.

31 The horse is prepared for the day of battle, but safety is from the Lord.

___Proverbs chapter 22

1 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold.

2 The rich and poor meet together, the Lord is the maker of them all.

3 A prudent man foresees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on, and are punished.

4 By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honor, and life.

5 Thorns and traps are in the way of the perverse person, he that keeps his soul shall be far from them.

6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he won't depart from it.

7 The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

8 He that plants sin shall harvest vanity, and the rod of his anger shall fail.

9 He that has an abundant eye shall be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor.

10 Throw out the scorner, and contention shall go out, yes, strife and reproach shall stop.

11 He that loves pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.

12 The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge, and he overthrows the words of the transgressor.

13 The slothful man says, there is a lion outside, I shall be killed in the streets.

14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit, he that is hated by the Lord shall fall into it.

15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

16 He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that gives to the rich, shall surely become needy.

17 Bow down your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge.

18 For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them inside you; by that means they'll be fitted in your lips.

19 So that your trust will be in the Lord, I have made known to you this day, even to you.

20 Haven't I written to you excellent things in advice and knowledge,

21 So that I would make you know the certainty of the words of truth, so that you would answer the words of truth to those who send to you?

22 Don't rob the poor because he is poor, and don't oppress the afflicted in the gate,

23 For the Lord will plead their cause, and will spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

24 Make no friendship with an angry man, and with a furious man you shall not go,

25 So you don't learn his ways and entrap your soul.

26 Don't be one of those who strike hands, or of those who are sureties for debts.

27 If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

28 Don't remove the ancient landmark that your fathers have set.

29 Do you see a man diligent in his business?  He shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before men of low degree.

___Proverbs chapter 23

1 When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you,

2 And if you're a man given to appetite, put a knife to your throat.

3 Don't be desirous of his dainties, for they are deceitful food.

4 Don't labor to be rich, stop from your own wisdom.

5 Will you set your eyes on what doesn't exist?  For riches certainly make themselves wings, they fly away like an eagle toward heaven.

6 Don't eat the bread of him that has an evil eye, nor desire his dainty foods,

7 For he is like he thinks in his heart, "Eat and drink," he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

8 You'll vomit out the morsel that you've eaten, and lose your sweet words.

9 Don't speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

10 Don't remove the old landmark, and don't enter into the fields of the fatherless,

11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their case against you.

12 Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

13 Don't withhold correction from the child, for if you beat him with the rod, he won't die.

14 You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from hell.

15 My son, if your heart is wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

16 Yes, my reins shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.

17 Don't let your heart envy sinners, but be in the fear of the Lord all day long.

18 For surely there is an end, and your expectation won't be destroyed.

19 Hear, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.

20 Don't be among winos, among riotous eaters of flesh,

21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

22 Listen to your father who begot you, and don't despise your mother when she is old.

23 Buy the truth, and don't sell it, also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that fathers a wise child shall have joy from him.

25 Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bore you shall rejoice.

26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

27 For a whore is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

28 She also lies in wait like for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men.

29 Who has woe?  Who has sorrow?  Who has contentions?  Who has babbling?  Who has unnecessary wounds?  Who has redness of eyes?

30 Those who spend a lot of time at the wine, those who go to seek mixed wine.

31 Don't look at the wine when it is red, when it gives its color in the cup, when it moves itself aright.

32 At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like a snake.

33 Your eyes shall see strange women, and your heart shall utter perverse things.

34 Yes, you'll be like someone that lies down in the middle of the ocean, or like he that lies down at the top of a mast.

35 "They've struck me," you'll say, "and I wasn't sick, they've beaten me, and I didn't feel it, when will I wake up?  I'll seek it yet again."

___Proverbs chapter 24

1 Don't be envious against evil men, and don't desire to be with them.

2 For their hearts study destruction, and their lips talk about mischief.

3 A house is built by wisdom, and it is established by understanding,

4 And the rooms shall be filled with all precious and pleasant riches by knowledge.

5 A wise man is strong, yes, a man of knowledge increases strength.

6 For you shall fight your war with wise advice, and in a multitude of counselors there is safety.

7 Wisdom is too high for a fool, he doesn't open his mouth in the gate.

8 He that devises to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.

9 The thought of foolishness is sin, and the scorner is a dirty thing to men.

10 If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

11 If you won't provide deliverance to those who are drawn to death, and those that are ready to be killed,

12 If you say, "See, we didn't know it," doesn't he that ponders the heart consider it?  And he that keeps your soul, doesn't he know it?  And won't he give to every man according to his works?

13 My son, eat honey, because it's good, and the honeycomb, that is sweet to your taste,

14 The knowledge of wisdom shall be like that to your soul, when you've found it, then there'll be a reward, and your

expectation won't be destroyed.

15 Don't lay wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous, don't spoil his resting place,

16 For a just man falls seven times, and rises up again, but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

17 Don't rejoice when your enemy falls, and don't let your heart be glad when he stumbles,

18 So that the Lord doesn't see it, and it doesn't displease him, and he turns away his anger from him.

19 Don't fret because of evil men, and don't envy the wicked,

20 For there's no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be extinguished.

21 My son, fear the Lord and the king, and don't meddle with those who are given to change,

22 For their calamity shall rise suddenly, and who knows the ruin of them both?

23 These things also belong to the wise.  It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

24 He that says "You are righteous" to the wicked, the people shall curse him, nations shall hate him,

25 But delight shall be for those who reprimand him, and a good blessing shall come on them.

26 Every man shall kiss the lips of him that gives a right answer.

27 Prepare your work outside, and make it fit for yourself in the field, and afterward build your house.

28 Don't be a witness against your neighbor without a good reason, and don't deceive with your lips.

29 Don't say, "I'll do to him like he has done to me, I'll repay the man according to what he has done."

30 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man who had no understanding,

31 And see, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face of it, and the stone wall of it was broken down.

32 Then I saw, and considered it well, I looked at it, and received instruction.

33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,

34 So shall your poverty come like someone who travels, and your want like an armed man.

___Proverbs chapter 25

1 These are also proverbs of Solomon that the men of Hezekiah, king of Judah, copied out.

2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.

3 The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.

4 Take away the dross from the silver, and a container for the refiner shall be produced.

5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.

6 Don't put yourself in the presence of the king, and don't stand in the place of great men,

7 For it's better to be told, "Come up here," than to be put lower in the presence of the prince whom your eyes have seen.

8 Don't go out in a hurry to argue, so it won't happen that at the end, you don't know what to do, when your neighbor has put you to shame.

9 Debate your cause with your neighbor himself, and don't reveal a secret to another,

10 So that he that hears it doesn't put you to shame, and your infamy won't go away.

11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pitchers of silver.

12 Like an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover on an obedient ear.

13 Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to those who send him, for he refreshes the soul of his masters.

14 Whoever boasts himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.

15 A prince is persuaded by long patience, and a soft tongue breaks the bone.

16 Have you found honey?  Eat as much as is sufficient for you, so you're not filled with it, and vomit it.

17 Withdraw your foot from your neighbor's house, so he's not weary of you, and so hates you.

18 A man that bears false witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

19 Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

20 Like he that takes away a garment in cold weather, and like vinegar on niter, so is he that sings songs to a heavy heart.

21 If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he's thirsty, give him water to drink,

22 For you'll heap coals of fire on his head, and the Lord shall reward you.

23 The north wind drives away rain, so does an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

24 It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

25 Like cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked is like a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.

27 It is not good to eat much honey, so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

28 He that has no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

___Proverbs chapter 26

1 Like snow in summer, and like rain in harvest, so honor is not appropriate for a fool.

2 Like the bird by wandering, like the swallow by flying, so the curse shall not come without a reason.

3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.

4 Don't answer a fool according to his foolishness, so that you're not also like him.

5 Answer a fool according to his foolishness, so that he's not wise in his own conceit.

6 He that sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off the feet, and drinks damage.

7 The legs of the lame are not equal, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

8 Like he that binds a stone in a sling, so is he that gives honor to a fool.

9 Like a thorn goes up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

10 The great God that formed all things both rewards the fool, and rewards transgressors.

11 Like a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his foolishness.

12 Do you see a man who is wise in his own conceit?  There is more hope of a fool than of him.

13 The slothful man says, there is a lion on the road, a lion is in the streets.

14 Like the door turns on its hinges, so does the slothful on his bed.

15 The slothful hides his hand in his bosom, it grieves him to bring it again to his mouth.

16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can give a reason.

17 He that passes by, and meddles with strife not belonging to him, is like someone who takes a dog by the ears.

18 Like an insane man who throws firebrands, arrows, and death,

19 So is the man that deceives his neighbor, and says, "Am I not just kidding?"

20 The fire goes out where there's no wood, so where there's no talebearer, the trouble stops.

21 Like coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

22 The words of a talebearer are like wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

23 Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a piece of broken pottery covered with silver dross.

24 He that hates pretends with his lips, and stores up deceit inside himself,

25 When he speaks fair, don't believe him, for there are seven dirty things in his heart.

26 Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shown before the whole congregation.

27 Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it, and he that rolls a stone, it will return on him.

28 A lying tongue hates those that are afflicted by it, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

___Proverbs chapter 27

1 Don't boast about tomorrow, for you don't know what a day can bring forth.

2 Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth, a stranger, and not your own lips.

3 A stone is heavy, and the sand heavy, but a fool's anger is heavier than them both.

4 Anger is cruel, and anger is outrageous, but who is able to stand before envy?

5 Open reprimand is better than secret love.

6 The wounds of a friend are faithful, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

7 The full soul hates a honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

8 Like a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man that wanders from his place.

9 Ointment and perfume make the heart rejoice, so does the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty advice.

10 Don't forsake your own friend and your father's friend, and don't go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity, for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

11 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, so I can answer him that reproaches me.

12 A prudent man foresees the evil, and hides himself, but the simple pass on, and are punished.

13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a security deposit from him for a strange woman.

14 He that blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.

15 A continual dropping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

16 Whoever hides her hides the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, that betrays itself.

17 Iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the facial expression of his friend.

18 Whoever keeps the fig tree shall eat the fruit of it, so he that waits on his master shall be honored.

19 Like in water face answers to face, so the heart of man to man.

20 Hell and destruction are never full, so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

21 Like the refining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold, so is a man to his praise.

22 Though you bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness won't depart from him.

23 Be diligent to know the condition of your flocks, and look well to your herds.

24 For riches are not forever, and does the crown endure to every generation?

25 The hay appears, and the tender grass shows itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.

26 The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.

27 And you'll have goats' milk enough for your food, for the food of your household, and for the maintenance for your maidens.

___Proverbs chapter 28

1 The wicked flee when no man pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

2 For the transgression of a land many are the princes of it, but by a man of understanding and knowledge the condition of it shall be prolonged.

3 A poor man that oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain that leaves no food.

4 Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law contend with them.

5 Evil men don't understand judgment, but those who seek the Lord understand all things.

6 Better is the poor that walks in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he's rich.

7 Whoever keeps the law is a wise son, but he that is a companion of riotous men shames his father.

8 He that by interest on loans and unjust gain increases his wealth, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

9 He that turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be a dirty thing.

10 Whoever causes the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he himself shall fall into his own pit, but the upright shall have good things in possession.

11 The rich man is wise in his own conceit, but the poor that has understanding searches him out.

12 When righteous men rejoice, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.

13 He that covers his sins shall not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy.

14 Happy is the man that always fears, but he that hardens his heart shall fall into mischief.

15 Like a roaring lion, and a ranging bear, so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.

16 The prince that lacks understanding is also a great oppressor, but he that hates covetousness shall prolong his days.

17 A man that does violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit, let no man stop him.

18 Whoever walks uprightly shall be saved, but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

19 He that tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he that follows after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

20 A faithful man shall have abundance of blessings, but he that's in a hurry to be rich shall not be innocent.

21 To have respect of persons is not good, because for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

22 He that hurries to be rich has an evil eye, and doesn't consider that poverty shall come on him.

23 He that reprimands a man shall afterward find more favor than he that flatters with the tongue.

24 Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, it is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer.

25 He that is of a proud heart stirs up strife, but he that puts his trust in the Lord shall be made fat.

26 He that trusts in his own heart is a fool, but whoever walks wisely, he shall have deliverance.

27 He that gives to the poor shall not lack, but he that hides his eyes shall have many a curse.

28 When the wicked rise, men hide themselves, but when they perish, the righteous increase.

___Proverbs chapter 29

1 He that being frequently reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and with no remedy.

2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice, but when the wicked bear rule, the people mourn.

3 Whoever loves wisdom rejoices his father, but he that keeps company with prostitutes spends his substance.

4 By justice, the king establishes the land, but he that takes bribes overthrows it.

5 A man that flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

6 In the transgression of an evil man there is a trap, but the righteous sing and rejoice.

7 The righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked don't consider it.

8 Scornful men bring a city into a trap, but wise men turn away anger.

9 If a wise man contends with a foolish man, whether he rages or laughs, there is no rest.

10 The bloodthirsty hate the upright, but the just seek his soul.

11 A fool speaks all his mind, but a wise man keeps it in 'til afterward.

12 If a ruler listens to lies, all his servants are wicked.

13 The poor and the deceitful man meet together, the Lord illuminates the eyes of both of them.

14 The throne of the king that faithfully judges the poor shall be established forever.

15 The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings his mother to shame.

16 When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increases, but the righteous shall see their fall.

17 Correct your son, and he'll give you rest, yes, he'll give delight to your soul.

18 Where there is no vision the people perish, but he that keeps the law is happy.

19 A servant won't be corrected by words, for though he understands he won't answer.

20 Do you see a man that is hasty in his words?  There is more hope for a fool than for him.

21 He that delicately raises his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.

22 An angry man stirs up strife, and a furious man is abundant in transgression.

23 A man's pride shall bring him low, but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.

24 Whoever is partner with a thief hates his own soul, he hears cursing, and doesn't betray it.

25 The fear of man brings a trap, but whoever puts his trust in the Lord shall be safe.

26 Many seek the ruler's favor, but every man's judgment comes from the Lord.

27 An unjust man is a dirty thing to the just, and he that is upright in the way is a dirty thing to the wicked.

___Proverbs chapter 30

1 The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, the prophecy, the man spoke to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal,

2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and don't have the understanding of a man.

3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.

4 Who has ascended up into heaven, or gone down?  Who has gathered the wind in his fists?  Who has bound the waters in a garment?  Who has established all the ends of the earth?  What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you can tell?

5 Every word of God is pure, he is a shield to those who put their trust in him.

6 Don't add to his words, so he doesn't reprove you, and you are found to be a liar.

7 I've required two things from you, don't deny them to me before I die,

8 Remove far from me vanity and lies, give me neither poverty nor riches, feed me with food convenient for me,

9 So that I'm not full, and deny you, and say, who is the Lord?  Or so that I'm not poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

10 Don't accuse a servant to his master, so he doesn't curse you, and you are found guilty.

11 There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn't bless their mother.

12 There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, and yet is not washed from its filthiness.

13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes!  And their eyelids are lifted up.

14 There is a generation, whose teeth are like swords, and their jaw teeth like knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

15 The horse leach has two daughters, crying, "Give, give."  There are three things that are never satisfied, yes, four things

don't say, "It is enough,"

16 The grave, and the barren womb, the earth that is not filled with water, and the fire that doesn't say, "It is enough."

17 The eye that mocks at its father, and despises to obey its mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

18 There are three things that are too wonderful for me, yes, four that I don't know,

19 The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship in the middle of the ocean, and the way of a man with a young woman.

20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman, she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, "I've done no wickedness."

21 For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four that it can't bear,

22 For a servant when he rules, and a fool when he is filled with food,

23 For an odious woman when she is married, and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

24 There are four things that are little on the earth, but they are very wise,

25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer,

26 The conies are just a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rocks,

27 The locusts have no king, yet all of them go out in swarms,

28 The spider takes hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.

29 There are three things that go well, yes, four are attractive in going,

30 A lion that is strongest among beasts, and doesn't turn

away from any,

31 A greyhound, a he goat also, and a king, against whom

there is no rising up.

32 If you've done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you've thought evil, lay your hand on your mouth.

33 Surely the churning of milk brings forth butter, and the wringing of the nose brings forth blood, so the forcing of anger brings forth strife.

___Proverbs chapter 31

1 The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.

2 What, my son?  And what, the son of my womb?  And what, the son of my vows?

3 Don't give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes strong drink,

5 So that they don't drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice of any of the afflicted.

6 Give strong drink to him that is ready to die, and wine to those who are of heavy hearts.

7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

8 Open your mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

10 Who can find a virtuous woman?  For her price is far above rubies.

11 The heart of her husband safely trusts in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.

12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

13 She seeks wool, and flax, and works willingly with her hands.

14 She is like the merchants' ships, she brings her food from far.

15 She arises also while it is still night, and gives food to her household, and a portion to her maidens.

16 She considers a field, and buys it, with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.

17 She clothes her midsection with strength, and strengthens her arms.

18 She perceives that her merchandise is good, her candle doesn't go out at night.

19 She lays her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.

20 She stretches out her hand to the poor, yes, she reaches out her hands to the needy.

21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all her household are clothed with red cloth.

22 She makes herself coverings of tapestry, her clothing is silk and purple.

23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

24 She makes fine linen, and sells it, and delivers girdles to the merchant.

25 Strength and honor are her clothing, and she'll be rejoicing in the future.

26 She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the law of kindness is in her tongue.

27 She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn't eat the bread of idleness.

28 Her children get up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praises her.

29 Many daughters have done virtuously, but you excel them all.

30 Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman that fears the Lord, she shall be praised.

31 Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates.

___Ecclesiastes chapter 1

1 The words of the preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

2 Vanity of vanities, says the preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

3 What profit has a man of all his labor that he takes under the sun?

4 One generation passes away, and another generation comes, but the earth remains forever.

5 The sun also arises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to his place where it got up.

6 The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north, it whirls around continually, and the wind returns again according to its circuits.

7 All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full, to the place from where the rivers come, there they return again.

8 All things are full of labor, man can't speak it, the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

9 The thing that has been is that which shall be, and that which has been done is what shall be done, and there is no new thing under the sun.

10 Is there anything about which it can be said, "See, this is new?"  It has already been of old time, that was before us.

11 There is no remembrance of previous things, nor shall there be any remembrance of things that will come with those that shall come after them.

12 I the preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven, God has given this severe travail to the sons of man to be exercised by it.

14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and see, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

15 That which is crooked can't be made straight, and that which is wanting can't be numbered.

16 I communed with my own heart, saying, see, I've come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all of those who've been before me in Jerusalem, yes, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know insanity and foolishness, I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

18 For in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow.

___Ecclesiastes chapter 2

1 I said in my heart, "Go on now, I will prove you with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure," and see, this is also vanity.

2 I said about laughter, "It's crazy, and of humor, what does it do?"

3 I sought in my heart to give myself to wine, yet acquainting my heart with wisdom, and to take hold of foolishness, 'til I could see what was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their life.

4 I made myself great works, I built myself houses, I planted myself vineyards,

5 I made myself gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits,

6 I made myself pools of water, to use them to water the woods that produce trees,

7 I got myself servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house, also I had great possessions of large and small cattle more than all that were in Jerusalem before me,

8 I gathered myself also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces, I got me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, like all sorts of musical instruments.

9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem, also my wisdom remained with me.

10 And whatever my eyes desired I didn't keep from them, I didn't withhold any joy from my heart, for my heart rejoiced in all my labor, and this was my portion of all my labor.

11 Then I looked at all the works that my hands had made, and on the labor that I had labored to do, and see, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

12 And I turned myself to see wisdom, and insanity, and foolishness, for what can the man do that comes after the king?  That which has already been done.

13 Then I saw that wisdom excels foolishness, as far as light excels darkness.

14 The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness, and I myself perceived also that one event happens to them all.

15 Then said I in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so it happens even to me, and why am I then wiser?"  Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

16 For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool forever, seeing that which is now, in the days to come shall all be forgotten.  And how does the wise man die?  Like the fool.

17 Therefore I hated life, because the work that is made under the sun is grievous to me, for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

18 Yes, I hated all my labor that I had done under the sun, because I would leave it to the man that shall be after me.

19 And who knows whether he'll be a wise man or a fool?  Yet he'll have rule over all my labor in which I've labored, and in which I've shown myself wise under the sun.  This is also vanity.

20 Therefore I went to cause my heart to despair of all the labor that I did under the sun.

21 For there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, yet to a man that has not labored in it, he'll leave it for his portion.  This also is vanity and a great evil.

22 For what does man have of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, in which he has labored under the sun?

23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief, yes, his heart doesn't rest in the night.  This is also vanity.

24 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor.  This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten until now, more than I?

26 For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, so that he can give to him that is good before God.  This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

___Ecclesiastes chapter 3

1 To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven,

2 A time to be born, and a time to die, a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what has been planted,

3 A time to kill, and a time to heal, a time to break down, and a time to build up,

4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh, a time to mourn, and a time to dance,

5 A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing,

6 A time to get, and a time to lose, a time to keep, and a time to throw away,

7 A time to tear, and a time to sew, a time to keep silence, and a time to speak,

8 A time to love, and a time to hate, a time of war, and a time of peace.

9 What profit does the worker have in that in which he labors?

10 I've seen the travail, that God has given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

11 He has made everything beautiful in its time, also he has set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end.

12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God.

14 I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever, nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it, and God does it, so that men should fear before him.

15 That which has been is now, and that which is to be has already been, and God requires that which is past.

16 And also I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there, and the place of righteousness, that sin was there.

17 I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

18 I said in my heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are animals.

19 For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals, one thing happens to them, like the one dies, so does the other, yes, they all have one breath, so that a man has no preeminence above an animal, for all is vanity.

20 All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all return to dust again.

21 Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the animal that goes downward to the earth?

22 So I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works, for that is his portion, for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

___Ecclesiastes chapter 4

1 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and look at the tears of those who  were oppressed, and they had no comforter, and on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter.

2 So I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are still alive.

3 Yes, better is he than both of them, who hasn't yet been, who hasn't  seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor.  This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

5 The fool folds his hands together, and eats his own flesh.

6 Better is a handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

8 There is one alone, and there is not a second, yes, he has neither child nor brother, yet there's no end of all his labor, nor is his eye satisfied with riches, nor does he say, for whom do I labor, and bereave my soul of good?  This is also vanity, yes, it is a severe travail.

9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falls, for he doesn't have someone to help him up.

11 Also, if two sleep in the same bed, then they have heat, but how can one be warm alone?

12 And if one prevails against him, two shall withstand him, and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

13 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be reprimanded.

14 For out of prison he comes to rule, whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becomes poor.

15 I considered all the living that walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up instead of him.

16 There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them, they also that come afterward shall not rejoice in him.  Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

___Ecclesiastes chapter 5

1 Keep your foot when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don't consider that they're doing evil.

2 Don't be rash with your mouth, and don't let your heart be hasty to speak anything before God, for God is in heaven, and you're on earth, therefore let your words be few.

3 For a dream comes through the multitude of business, and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.

4 When you vow a vow to God, don't fail to pay it, for he has no pleasure in fools, pay what you've vowed.

5 Better is it that you shouldn't vow, than that you should vow and not pay.

6 Don't allow not your mouth to cause your flesh to sin, and don't say before the angel, that it was an error, why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also various vanities, but fear God.

8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, don't be amazed at the matter, for he that is higher than the highest regards, and there are higher than those.

9 Also the profit of the earth is for all, the king himself is served by the field.

10 He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loves abundance with increase, this is also vanity.

11 When goods increase, they are increased who eat them, and what good is there to the owners of them, except the seeing of them with their eyes?

12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich won't allow him to sleep.

13 There is a severe evil that I've seen under the sun, specifically, riches kept for the owners of them to their hurt.

14 But those riches perish by evil travail, and he fathers a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

15 As he came out from his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labor, that he can carry away in his hand.

16 And this also is a severe evil, that in all points like he came, so shall he go, and what profit has he that has labored for the wind?

17 All his days also he eats in darkness, and he has much sorrow and anger with his sickness.

18 See that which I have seen, it is good and attractive for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor that he takes under the sun all the days of his life, that God gives him, for it is his portion.

19 Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor, this is the gift of God.

20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life, because God answers him in the joy of his heart.

___Ecclesiastes chapter 6

1 There is an evil that I've seen under the sun, and it is common among men,

2 A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lack nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God doesn't give him the ability to eat of it, but a stranger eats it, this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

3 If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul isn't filled with good, and also that he has no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better than him.

4 For he comes in with vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

5 Also he has not seen the sun, nor known anything, this has more rest than the other.

6 Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet has he seen no good, don't all go to one place?

7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

8 For what does the wise have more than the fool?  What does the poor have, that knows to walk before the living?

9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire, this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

10 That which has been is named already, and it is known that it is man, nor may he contend with him that is mightier than he is.

11 Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

12 For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life that he spends like a shadow?  For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

___Ecclesiastes chapter 7

1 A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting, for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart.

3 Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the facial expression the heart is made better.

4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

5 It is better to hear the reprimand of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool, this also is vanity.

7 Surely oppression makes a wise man crazy, and a bribe destroys the heart.

8 The end of a thing is better than the beginning of it, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

9 Don't be not hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

10 Don't say, "What is the reason that the former days were better than these?"  For you're not inquiring wisely concerning this.

11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance, and by it there is profit to those who see the sun.

12 For wisdom is a defense, and money is a defense, but the excellence of knowledge is, that wisdom gives life to those who have it.

13 Consider the work of God, for who can make straight what he has made crooked?

14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider, God also has set the one opposite the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

15 I've seen all things in the days of my vanity, there is a just man that perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongs his life in his wickedness.

16 Be not righteous over much, neither make yourself over wise, why should you destroy yourself?

17 Don't be too much wicked, and don't be foolish, why should you die before your time?

18 It is good that you should take hold of this, yes, also from this withdraw not your hand, for he that fears God shall come forth from them all.

19 Wisdom strengthens the wise more than ten mighty men that are in the city.

20 For there is not a just man on earth, that does good, and doesn't sin.

21 Also don't pay attention to all words that are spoken, so you don't hear your servant curse you,

22 For often also your own heart knows that you yourself likewise have cursed others.

23 I've proven all this by wisdom, I said, "I'll be wise, but it was far from me."

24 That which is far off, and very deep, who can find it out?

25 I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of foolishness, even of foolishness and insanity,

26 And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is traps and nets, and her hands as bands, whoever pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

27 See, I've found this, says the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account,

28 Which yet my soul seeks, but I don't find, I've found one man among a thousand, but a woman among all those I haven't found.

29 See, this only I've found, that God has made man upright, but they've sought out many inventions.

___Ecclesiastes chapter 8

1 Who is like the wise man?  And who knows the interpretation of a thing?  A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.

2 I advise you to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.

3 Don't be hasty to go out of his sight, don't stand in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him.

4 Where the word of a king is, there is power, and who can say to him, "What are you doing?"

5 Whoever keeps the commandment shall feel no evil thing, and a wise man's heart discerns both time and judgment.

6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great on him.

7 For he doesn't know that which shall be, for who can tell him when it shall be?

8 There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, nor does he have power on the day of death, and there is no discharge in that war, nor shall wickedness deliver those who are given to it.

9 I've seen all this, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun, there is a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt.

10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had done so, this is also vanity.

11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

12 Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with those who fear God, who fear before him,

13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, nor shall he prolong his days, that are like a shadow, because he doesn't fear before God.

14 There is a vanity that is done on the earth, that there are just men, to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked, again, there are wicked men, to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous, I said that this is also vanity.

15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry, for that shall abide with him of his labor the days of his life, that God gives him under the sun.

16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth, (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes,)

17 Then I saw all the work of God, that a man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because though a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it, yes further, though a wise man thinks to know it, yet he won't shall be able to find it.

___Ecclesiastes chapter 9

1 For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God, no man knows either love or hatred by all that is before them.

2 All things come alike to all, there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked, to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrifices, and to him that doesn't sacrifice, as is the good, so is the sinner, and he that swears, as he that fears an oath.

3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to all, yes, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and insanity is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

5 For the living know that they'll die, but the dead don't know anything, nor do they have anymore a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished, nor do they have anymore a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

7 Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God now accepts your works.

8 Let your garments always be white, and let your head lack no ointment.

9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you loved all the days of the life of your vanity, that he has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity, for that is your portion in this life, and in your labor that you take under the sun.

10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you're going.

11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill, but time and chance happen to them all.

12 For man also doesn't know his time, like the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the trap, so are the sons of men trapped in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

13 I've also seen this wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me,

14 There was a little city, and few men inside it, and a great king came against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it,

15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom gave deliverance to the city, yet no man remembered that same poor man.

16 Then I said, wisdom is better than strength, but the poor man's wisdom has been despised, and his words haven't been listened to.

17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that rules among fools.

18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

___Ecclesiastes chapter 10

1 Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send out a stinking smell, so does a little foolishness him that is in reputation for wisdom and honor.

2 A wise man's heart is at his right hand, but a fool's heart is at his left.

3 Yes also, when he that is a fool walks by the way, his wisdom fails him, and he says to everyone that he's a fool.

4 If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don't leave your place, for yielding pacifies great offences.

5 There's an evil that I've seen under the sun, as an error that proceeds from the ruler,

6 Foolishness is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.

7 I've seen servants on horses, and princes walking like servants on the earth.

8 He that digs a pit shall fall into it, and whoever breaks a hedge, a snake shall bite him.

9 Whoever removes stones shall be hurt by it, and he that splits wood shall be endangered by that.

10 If the iron is blunt, and he doesn't sharpen the edge, then he must apply more strength, but wisdom is profitable to direct.

11 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment, and a babbler is no better.

12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool will swallow himself up.

13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is mischievous insanity.

14 A fool also is full of words, a man can't tell what shall be, and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

15 The labor of the foolish wearies everyone of them, because he doesn't know how to go to the city.

16 Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!

17 Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

18 By much slothfulness the building decays, and through idleness of the hands the house drops through.

19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes merry, but money answers all things.

20 Don't curse the king, no not in your thought, and don't curse the rich in your bedroom, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which has wings shall tell the matter.

___Ecclesiastes chapter 11

1 Throw your bread on the waters, for you'll find it after many days.

2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight, for you don't know what evil shall be on the earth.

3 If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth, and if the tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, that's where it shall be.

4 He that observes the wind shall not plant, and he that regards the clouds shall not harvest.

5 As you don't know what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child, even so you don't know the works of God who makes all.

6 In the morning plant your seed, and in the evening don't withhold your hand, for you don't know what shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they'll both turn out well.

7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the sun,

8 But if a man lives many years, and rejoices in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they'll be many.  All that comes is vanity.

9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

10 Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh, for childhood and youth are vanity.

___Ecclesiastes chapter 12

1 Remember now your creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days haven't come, nor the years draw near, when you'll say, "I have no pleasure in them,"

2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, aren't darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain,

3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders stop because they are few, and those who look out of the windows are darkened,

4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low,

5 Also when they'll be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail, because man goes to his long home, and the mourners go around the streets,

6 Or ever the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.

7 Then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.

8 Vanity of vanities, says the preacher, all is vanity.

9 And also, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge, yes, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.

11 The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, that are given from one shepherd.

12 And further, by these, my son, be reprimanded, of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter, fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it's good, or whether it's evil.

___Song_of_Solomon chapter 1

1 The song of songs, which is Solomon's.

2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for your love is better than wine.

3 Because of the savor of your good ointments your name is like ointment poured forth, that's why the virgins love you.

4 Draw me, we will run after you, the king has brought me into his rooms, we will be glad and rejoice in you, we will remember your love more than wine, the upright love you.

5 I am black, but attractive, O you daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

6 Don't look at me, because I am black, because the sun has looked on me, my mother's children were angry with me, they made me the keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I haven't kept.

7 Tell me where you feed, O you whom my soul loves, where you make your flock to rest at noon, for why should I be like someone that turns aside by the flocks of your companions?

8 If you don't know, O you fairest among women, go your way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed your kids beside the shepherds' tents.

9 I have compared you, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.

10 Your cheeks are attractive with rows of jewels, your neck with chains of gold.

11 We will make for you borders of gold with studs of silver.

12 While the king sits at his table, my spikenard sends forth the its smell.

13 A bundle of myrrh is my well beloved to me, he shall lie all night between my breasts.

14 My beloved is to me like a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.

15 See, you are fair, my love, see, you are fair, you have doves' eyes.

16 See, you are fair, my beloved, yes, pleasant, also our bed is green.

17 The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.

___Song_of_Solomon chapter 2

1 I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.

2 Like the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

3 Like the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.  I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.

5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love.

6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me.

7 I charge you, O you daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that you don't stir up, nor awake my love, 'til he pleases.

8 The voice of my beloved!  See, he comes leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.

9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart, see, he stands behind our wall, he looks out of the windows, showing himself through the lattice.

10 My beloved spoke, and said to me, rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

11 For see, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone,

12 The flowers appear on the earth, the time of the singing of birds has come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land,

13 The fig tree puts forth its green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell.  Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

14 O my dove, who is in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see your face, let me hear your voice, for sweet is your voice, and your face is attractive.

15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines, for our vines have tender grapes.

16 My beloved is mine, and I am his, he feeds among the lilies.

17 Until the day breaks, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young hart on the mountains of Bether.

___Song_of_Solomon chapter 3

1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves, I sought him, but I didn't find him.

2 I will rise now, and go around the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loves, I sought him, but I didn't find him.

3 The watchmen that go around the city found me, to whom I said, "Did you see him whom my soul loves?"

4 It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loves, I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the room of her that conceived me.

5 I charge you, O you daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that you don't stir up, nor awake my love, 'til he pleases.

6 Who is this that comes out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

7 See his bed, which is Solomon's, sixty valiant men are around it, of the valiant of Israel.

8 They all hold swords, being expert in war, every man has his sword on his thigh because of fear in the night.

9 King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.

10 He made the pillars of it out of silver, the bottom of it of gold, the covering of it of purple, the middle of it being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.

11 Go forth, O you daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon with the crown with which his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

___Song_of_Solomon chapter 4

1 See, you are fair, my love, see, you are fair, you have doves' eyes within your locks, your hair is like a flock of goats, that appear from Mount Gilead.

2 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shaved, that came up from the washing, of which everyone bears twins, and none is barren among them.

3 Your lips are like a thread of red cloth, and your speech is attractive, your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within your locks.

4 Your neck is like the tower of David built for an armory, on which there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.

5 Your two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, that feed among the lilies.

6 Until the day breaks, and the shadows flee away, I will get myself to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

7 You are all fair, my love, there is no spot in you.

8 Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon, look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

9 You have stolen my heart, my sister, my spouse, you have stolen my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

10 How fair is your love, my sister, my spouse!  How much better is your love than wine!  And the smell of your ointments than all spices!

11 Your lips, O my spouse, drop like the honeycomb, honey and milk are under your tongue, and the smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

12 A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

13 Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits, camphire, with spikenard,

14 Spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices,

15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

16 Awake, O north wind, and come, you south, blow on my garden, so that the spices of it can flow out.  Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.

___Song_of_Solomon chapter 5

1 I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my myrrh with my spice, I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk, eat, O friends, drink, yes, drink abundantly, O beloved.

2 I sleep, but my heart stays awake, it is the voice of my beloved that knocks, saying, "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled, for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

3 I have put off my coat, how shall I put it on?  I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?"

4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.

5 I rose up to open to my beloved, and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

6 I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and had gone, my soul failed when he spoke, I sought him, but I could not find him, I called him, but he gave me no answer.

7 The watchmen that went around the city found me, they struck me, they wounded me, the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him, that I am sick of love.

9 What is your beloved more than another beloved, O you fairest among women?  What is your beloved more than another beloved, that you charge us like that?

10 My beloved is white and ruddy, the main one among ten thousand.

11 His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black like a raven.

12 His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.

13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers, his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.

14 His hands are like gold rings set with the beryl, his belly is as bright ivory plated with sapphires.

15 His legs are as pillars of marble, set on sockets of fine gold, his facial expression is like Lebanon, excellent like the cedars.

16 His mouth is most sweet, yes, he is completely lovely.  This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

___Song_of_Solomon chapter 6

1 Where has your beloved gone, O you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned aside?  So we can help you look for him.

2 My beloved has gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

3 I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine, he feeds among the lilies.

4 You are beautiful, O my love, like Tirzah, attractive as Jerusalem, terrible like an army with banners.

5 Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me, your hair is like a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.

6 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep that go up from the washing, from which everyone bears twins, and there is not one barren among them.

7 Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate, within your locks.

8 There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and virgins without number.

9 My dove, my undefiled is but one, she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bore her.  The daughters saw her, and blessed her, yes, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

10 Who is she that looks forth like the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible like an army with banners?

11 I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.

12 Before I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib.

13 Return, return, O Shulamite, return, return, so we can look at you.  What will you see in the Shulamite?  As it were the company of two armies.

___Song_of_Solomon chapter 7

1 How beautiful are your feet with shoes, O prince's daughter!  The joints of your thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

2 Your navel is like a round goblet, that doesn't lack liquor, your belly is like a heap of wheat surrounded with lilies.

3 Your two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.

4 Your neck is like a tower of ivory, your eyes like the fish pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim, your nose is like the tower of Lebanon that looks toward Damascus.

5 Your head on you is like Carmel, and the hair of your head like purple, the king is held in the galleries.

6 How fair and how pleasant you are, O love, for delights!

7 This your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts to clusters of grapes.

8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs of it, now also your breasts shall be like clusters of the vine, and the smell of your nose like apples,

9 And the roof of your mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goes down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.

11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field, let us lodge in the villages.

12 Let us get up early to the vineyards, let us see if the vine flourishes, whether the tender grape appears, and the pomegranates bud forth, I will give you my loves there.

13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.

___Song_of_Solomon chapter 8

1 O that you were like my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother!  When I would find you outside, I would kiss you, yes, I would not be despised.

2 I would lead you, and bring you into my mother's house, who would instruct me, I would cause you to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

3 His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you don't stir up, nor awake my love, until he pleases.

5 Who is this that comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved?  I raised you up under the apple tree, your mother brought you forth there, there she brought you forth that bore you.

6 Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave, the coals of it are coals of fire, that has a most vehement flame.

7 Many waters can't quench love, neither can the floods drown it, if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would completely be held in contempt.

8 We have a little sister, and she has no breasts, what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

9 If she is a wall, we will build on her a palace of silver, and if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.

10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers, then I was in his eyes as someone that found favor.

11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon, he let out the vineyard to keepers, everyone for the fruit of it was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.

12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me, you, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit of it two hundred.

13 You that lives in the gardens, the companions listen to your voice, cause me to hear it.

14 Make haste, my beloved, and be like a roe or to a young hart on the mountains of spices.