Psalm 62

*To the chief Musician, to *Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.

1  ||Truly amy soul †waiteth upon God:

From him cometh my salvation.

2  bHe only is my rock and my salvation;

He is my †defence; cI shall not be greatly moved.

3  How long will ye imagine mischief against a man?

Ye shall be slain all of you:

dAs a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.

4  They only consult to cast him down from his eexcellency:

They delight in lies:

fThey bless with their mouth, but they curse †inwardly. Selah.

5  gMy soul, wait thou only upon God;

For my expectation is from him.

6  hHe only is my rock and my salvation:

He is my defence; cI shall not be moved.

7  iIn God is my salvation and my glory:

The rock of my strength, and my krefuge, is in God.

8  lTrust in him at all times; ye people,

mPour out your heart before him:

God is ka refuge for us. Selah.

9  nSurely omen of low degree are npvanity, and omen of high degree are qa lie:

To be laid in the balance, rthey are ||altogether lighter than npvanity.

10  Trust not in oppression,

And rrbecome not vain in robbery:

sIf riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

11  God hath spoken tonce;

tTwice have I heard this;

That u||power belongeth unto God.

12  Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth xmercy:

For ythou renderest to every man according to his work.

Psalm 63

A Psalm of David, *when he was in the wilderness of Judah.

1  O God, thou art my God; aearly will I seek thee:

bMy soul thirsteth for thee,

bMy flesh longeth for thee

In a cdry and †thirsty land, †where no water is;

2  To see ccthy power and thy glory,

So as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

3  Because dthy lovingkindness is ebetter than life,

My lips shall praise thee.

4  Thus will I bless thee fwhile I live:

I gwill lift up my hands in thy name.

5  hMy soul shall be satisfied as with †marrow and fatness;

And my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:

6  When iI remember thee upon my bed,

And meditate on thee in jthe night watches.

7  Because thou hast been kmy help,

Therefore lin the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.

8  My soul followeth hard after thee:

Thy right hand mupholdeth me.

9  nBut those that seek my soul, to destroy it,

Shall go into othe lower parts of the earth.

10  †They shall fall by the sword:

They shall be a portion for foxes.

11  But pthe king shall rejoice in God;

Every one that qsweareth by him shall glory:

But rthe mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

Psalm 64

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

1  Hear my voice, O God, in my aprayer:

Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

2  Hide me from bthe secret counsel of the wicked;

From bthe insurrection of bbthe workers of iniquity:

3  cWho whet their tongue like a sword,

And dbend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

4  eThat they may shoot fin secret at the perfect:

Suddenly do they shoot at him, and fffear not.

5  gThey encourage themselves in an evil ||matter:

They commune †of laying snares privily;

hThey say, Who shall see them?

6  They search out iniquities;

||They accomplish †a diligent search:

Both ithe inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

7  But God dshall shoot at them with an arrow;

Suddenly †shall they be wounded.

8  So they shall make ktheir own tongue to fall upon themselves:

lAll that msee them shall mmflee away.

9  And all men shall mfear,

And shall ndeclare the work of God;

For they shall owisely consider of his doing.

10  pThe righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and qshall trust in him;

pAnd all rthe upright in heart shall glory.

Psalm 65

To the chief Musician, *A Psalm and Song of David.

1  Praise †waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion:

And unto thee shall athe vow be performed.

2  O thou that aahearest prayer,

Unto thee bshall all flesh come.

3  c†Iniquities prevail against me:

As for our transgressions, thou shalt dpurge them away.

4  eBlessed is the man whom thou choosest,

And causest to approach unto thee, that fhe may dwell in thy courts:

We shall be gsatisfied with the goodness of thy house,

Even of thy holy temple.

5  By ggterrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation;

Who art the confidence of all hthe ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:

6  Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains;

Being igirded with power:

7  Which jstilleth kthe noise of the seas,

kThe noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.

8  They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens:

Thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening ||to rejoice.

9  Thou visitest the earth, ||and lwaterest it:

Thou greatly enrichest it

With mthe river of God, which is full of water:

Thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.

10  Thou lwaterest the ridges thereof abundantly: ||thou settlest the furrows thereof:

†Thou makest it soft with nshowers: thou blessest the springing thereof.

11  Thou crownest †the year with thy goodness;

And thy paths odrop fatness.

12  They odrop upon pthe pastures of the wilderness:

And the pplittle hills †qrejoice on every side.

13  qqThe pastures are clothed with flocks;

The valleys also are covered over with corn;

They rshout for joy, they also sing.

Psalm 66

To the chief Musician, *A Song or Psalm.

1  aMake a joyful noise unto God, †all ye lands:

2  Sing forth the honour of his name:

bMake his praise glorious.

3  Say unto God, How cterrible art thou in thy works!

Through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies ||submit themselves unto thee.

4  dAll the earth shall worship thee,

And shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.

5  eCome and see the works of God:

He is cterrible in his doing toward the children of men.

6  fHe turned the sea into dry land:

gThey went through gthe flood on foot:

hThere did we rejoice in him.

7  He ruleth by his power for ever;

iHis eyes behold the nations:

Let not jthe rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.

8  O bless our God, ye people,

And make the voice of his praise to be heard:

9  Which †holdeth our soul in life,

And ksuffereth not our feet to be moved.

10  For thou, O God, hast lproved us:

Thou hast mtried us, as silver is tried.

11  Thou broughtest us into the nnet;

Thou laidst affliction upon our loins.

12  oThou hast caused men to ride over our heads;

We went through fire and pthrough water:

But thou broughtest us out into a †wealthy place.

13  qI will go into thy house with burnt offerings:

rI will pay thee my vows,

14  Which my lips have †uttered,

And my mouth hath spoken, swhen I was in trouble.

15  I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of †fatlings,

With the incense of rams;

I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.

16  tCome and hear, all ye that fear God,

And I will declare what he hath done for my soul.

17  I cried unto him with my mouth,

And he was uextolled with my tongue.

18  If I wregard iniquity in my heart,

xThe Lord will not hear me:

19  But verily yGod hath heard me;

He hath zattended to the voice of my prayer.

20  Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer,

Nor his mercy from me.

Psalm 67

To the chief Musician on *Neginoth, †A Psalm or Song.

1  God abe merciful unto us, and bless us;

And bcause his face to shine †upon us; Selah.

2  That thy way may be known upon earth,

cThy saving health among all nations.

3  dLet the people praise thee, O God;

Let all the people praise thee.

4  O let the nations be glad and sing for joy:

For ethou shalt judge the people righteously,

And †govern the nations upon earth. Selah.

5  dLet the people praise thee, O God;

Let all the people praise thee.

6  fThen shall the earth yield her increase;

And God, even our own God, shall bless us.

7  God shall bless us;

And gall the ends of the earth shall fear him.

Psalm 68

To the chief Musician, *A Psalm or Song of David.

1  Let aGod arise, let his enemies bbe scattered:

Let them also that hate him flee †before him.

2  cAs smoke is driven away, so drive them away:

dAs wax melteth before the fire,

So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

3  But let ethe righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God:

Yea, let them †exceedingly rejoice.

4  Sing unto God, fsing praises to his name:

gExtol him that rideth upon the heavens

By his name hJAH, and rejoice before him.

5  A ifather of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows,

Is God in his holy habitation.

6  God ksetteth the lsolitary †in families:

mHe bringeth out those which are bound with chains:

But nthe rebellious odwell in a dry land.

7  O God, pwhen thou wentest forth before thy people,

qWhen thou didst march through rthe wilderness; Selah:

8  qThe earth shook, the heavens also dropped

At the presence of God: even sSinai itself was moved

At the presence of God, the God of Israel.

9  tThou, O God, didst †send a plentiful rain,

Whereby thou didst †confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.

10  Thy ucongregation hath dwelt therein:

Thou, O God, hast wprepared of thy goodness for the poor.

11  The Lord gave the word:

Great was the †company of those that published it.

12  xKings of armies †did flee apace:

And yshe that tarried at home zdivided the spoil.

13  Though ye have lien among athe pots,

Yet shall ye be as the bwings of a dove covered with silver,

And her bfeathers with yellow gold.

14  When the Almighty cscattered kings ||in it,

It was white as snow in dSalmon.

15  The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan;

An high hill as the hill of Bashan.

16  Why eleap ye, ye high hills?

This is fthe hill gwhich God desireth to dwell in;

Yea, the Lord will dwell in it for ever.

17  hThe chariots of God are itwenty thousand, ||even thousands of angels:

The Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.

18  kThou hast ascended on high, lthou hast led captivity captive:

mThou hast received gifts †for men;

Yea, for nthe rebellious also, othat the pLord God might dwell among them.

19  Blessed be the Lord,

Who daily loadeth us with benefits,

Even the God of our salvation. Selah.

20  He that is our God is the God of salvation;

And qunto God the Lord belong rthe issues from death.

21  But sGod shall wound the head of his enemies,

And the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.

22  The Lord said, I will bring tagain from Bashan,

I will bring my people again ufrom the depths of the sea:

23  xThat thy foot may be ||dipped in the blood of thine enemies,

And ythe tongue of thy dogs in the same.

24  They have seen thy goings, O God;

Even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.

25  zThe singers went before, athe players on instruments followed after;

Among them were the damsels bplaying with timbrels.

26  cBless ye God in the congregations,

Even the Lord, ||from dthe fountain of Israel.

27  There is elittle Benjamin with their ruler,

The princes of Judah ||and their council,

fThe princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.

28  Thy God hath gcommanded thy strength:

Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.

29  Because of thy temple at Jerusalem

hShall kings ibring presents unto thee.

30  kRebuke ||the lcompany of spearmen,

The multitude of mthe bulls, with the calves of the people,

Till every one nsubmit himself with pieces of silver:

||Scatter thou the people that delight in war.

31  Princes shall come oout of pEgypt;

pqEthiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.

32  Sing unto God, rye kingdoms of the earth;

O sing praises unto the Lord; Selah:

33  To him that srideth upon tthe heavens of heavens, which were of old;

Lo, uhe doth †send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.

34  vAscribe ye strength unto God:

His excellency is over Israel,

And whis strength is in the ||xclouds.

35  O God, thou art yterrible zout of thy holy places:

The God of Israel is he

That giveth strength and power unto his people.

Blessed be God.

Psalm 69

To the chief Musician *upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of †David.

1  Save me, O God; for athe waters are come in bunto my soul.

2  acI sink in †deep mire, where there is no standing:

I am come into †deep waters, where ethe floods eeoverflow me.

3  fI am weary of my crying: my throat is dried:

gMine eyes fail hwhile I wait for my God.

4  iThey that hate me without a cause jare more than the hairs of mine head:

They that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty:

kThen I restored that which I took not away.

5  O God, thou knowest my foolishness;

And my †sins are not hid from thee.

6  Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake:

Let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.

7  Because lfor thy sake I have borne reproach;

Shame hath covered my face.

8  I mam become a stranger unto nmy brethren,

And an alien unto my mother’s children.

9  For othe zeal of thine house hath eaten me up;

And pthe reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

10  When I wept, and chastened qmy soul with fasting,

That was to my reproach.

11  I made qrsackcloth also my garment;

And I became sa proverb to them.

12  They that sit in the gate speak against me;

And I was the tsong of the †drunkards.

13  But as for me, umy prayer is unto thee, O Lord, win an acceptable time:

O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.

14  Deliver me xout of the mire, and let me not ysink:

zLet me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the ydeep waters.

15  Let not the awaterflood overflow me,

Neither let athe deep swallow me up,

And let not bthe pit cshut her mouth upon me.

16  Hear me, O Lord; dfor thy lovingkindness is good:

eTurn unto me faccording to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

17  And ghide not thy face from thy servant;

For I ham in trouble: †ihear me speedily.

18  Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it:

Deliver me because of mine enemies.

19  Thou hast known jmy reproach, and kmy shame, and my dishonour:

Mine adversaries are all before thee.

20  Reproach hath broken my heart; and lI am full of heaviness:

And mI looked for some †to take pity, but there was none;

And for ncomforters, but I found none.

21  They gave me also ogall for my meat;

And pin my thirst they gave me qvinegar to drink.

22  rLet their stable become a snare before them:

And that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

23  tLet their eyes be darkened, that they see not;

And umake their loins continually to shake.

24  Pour out thine indignation upon them,

And let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

25  xLet y†their habitation be desolate;

And †let none dwell in their tents.

26  For zthey persecute ahim whom thou hast smitten;

And they btalk to the grief of †those whom thou hast wounded.

27  cAdd ||iniquity unto their iniquity:

And let them not come into thy righteousness.

28  Let them be blotted out of dthe book of the living,

And not be ewritten with the righteous.

29  But I am poor and sorrowful:

Let thy salvation, O God, fset me up on high.

30  I will praise the name of God with a song,

And will gmagnify him with hthanksgiving.

31  hThis also shall please the Lord better than an ox

Or bullock that hath horns and ihoofs.

32  The k||humble shall see this, and be glad:

And lyour heart shall live that seek God.

33  For the Lord heareth the poor,

And mdespiseth not his prisoners.

34  nLet the heaven and earth praise him,

The seas, and every thing that †moveth therein.

35  oFor God will save Zion,

And will build the cities of Judah:

That they may dwell there, and phave it in possession.

36  qThe seed also of rhis servants shall inherit it:

And pthey that love his name shall sdwell therein.