Psalm 150

1  †Praise ye the Lord.

Praise God ain his sanctuary:

Praise him in bthe firmament of his power.

2  Praise him for his cdmighty acts:

Praise him according to his excellent dgreatness.

3  Praise him with the sound of the ||trumpet:

aPraise him with the epsaltery and eharp.

4  ePraise him with the ftimbrel and ||dance:

Praise him with gstringed instruments and horgans.

5  Praise him upon the loud icymbals:

Praise him upon the high sounding icymbals.

6  kLet every thing that hath breath praise the lLord.

mPraise ye the Lord.

The Proverbs

1 *The aproverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

2  To know wisdom and binstruction;

To cperceive the words of dunderstanding;

3  To receive the binstruction of wisdom,

eJustice, and judgment, and †equity;

4  To give fsubtilty to the gsimple,

To the young man knowledge and ||discretion.

5  A wise man will hear, and hwill increase ilearning;

And a man of understanding shall iiattain unto jwise counsels:

6  To cunderstand a aproverb, and ||the interpretation;

The words of the wise, and their kdark sayings.

7  lThe fear of the Lord is ||the beginning of knowledge:

But llfools despise wisdom and binstruction.

8  mMy son, hear the binstruction of thy father,

And nforsake not the law of thy mother:

9  For they shall be †an ornament of grace unto thy head,

And ochains about thy pneck.

10  My son, qif sinners entice thee,

Consent thou not.

11  If they say, Come with us, let us rlay wait for blood,

Let us slurk privily for the innocent without cause:

12  Let us uswallow them up alive vas the grave;

And whole, was those that go down into the pit:

13  We shall find all precious substance,

We shall fill our houses with spoil:

14  Cast in thy lot among us;

Let us all have one purse:

15  My son, qxwalk not thou in the way with them;

Refrain thy foot from their path:

16  yFor their feet run to evil,

And make haste to shed blood.

17  Surely in vain zthe net is spread †in the sight of any bird.

18  And they clay wait for their own blood;

They clurk privily for their own lives.

19  So are the ways of every one dthat is greedy of gain;

Which taketh away the life of ddthe owners thereof.

20  †eWisdom crieth without;

She uttereth her voice in the streets:

21  She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in eethe openings of the gates:

In the city she uttereth her words, saying,

22  How long, ye fsimple ones, will ye love simplicity?

And the gscorners delight in their scorning,

And fools hhate knowledge?

23  Turn you at my reproof:

Behold, iI will jpour out my spirit unto you,

I will make known my words unto you.

24  kBecause I have called, and ye lrefused;

I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

25  But ye have mset at nought all my counsel,

And nwould none of my reproof:

26  I also will olaugh at your calamity;

I will omock when your fear cometh;

27  When your fear cometh as pdesolation,

And your destruction cometh as a whirlwind;

When distress and anguish cometh upon you.

28  qThen shall they call upon me, but I will not answer;

They shall rseek me early, but they shall not find me:

29  For that they hhated knowledge,

And did not schoose the fear of the Lord:

30  They uwould none of my counsel:

They tdespised all my reproof.

31  Therefore shall they eat of uthe fruit of their own way,

And be wfilled with their own devices.

32  For the ||xturning away of the simple shall slay them,

And the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

33  But ywhoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely,

And zshall be quiet from fear of evil.

2 aMy son, if thou wilt receive my words,

aAnd bhide my commandments with thee;

2  So that thou bbincline thine ear unto wisdom,

And apply thine heart to understanding;

3  Yea, if thou criest after cknowledge,

And †liftest up thy voice for understanding;

4  If thou seekest her das silver,

And searchest for her as for ehid treasures;

5  kThen shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord,

And find the knowledge of God.

6  For fthe Lord giveth wisdom:

Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

7  He blayeth up gsound wisdom for the righteous:

He is a hbuckler to them that iwalk uprightly.

8  He iikeepeth the paths of judgment,

And jpreserveth the way of his saints.

9  kThen shalt thou understand lrighteousness, and judgment,

And mequity; yea, every good path.

10  When wisdom entereth into thine heart,

And knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

11  nDiscretion oshall preserve thee,

Understanding shall keep thee:

12  To deliver thee from the way of the evil man,

From the man that speaketh pfroward things;

13  Who leave the paths of uprightness,

To qwalk in the ways of darkness;

14  rWho rejoice to do evil,

And sdelight in the pfrowardness of the wicked;

15  Whose ways are tcrooked,

And they ufroward in their paths:

16  wTo deliver thee from the xstrange woman,

wEven from ythe stranger which zflattereth with her words;

17  Which forsaketh athe guide of her youth,

And forgetteth the covenant of her God.

18  For bher house inclineth unto death,

And her cpaths unto dthe dead.

19  None that go unto her return again,

Neither take they hold of the paths of life.

20  That thou mayest walk in the way of good men,

And keep the paths of the righteous.

21  For the upright eshall dwell in the land,

And the perfect shall remain in it.

22  But the wicked fshall be cut off from the earth,

And gthe transgressors shall be ||rooted out of it.