9 For those that evil-doers are

shall be cut off and fall:

But those that wait upon the Lord
the earth inherit shall.

10 For yet a little while, and then
the wicked shall not be;
His place thou shalt consider well,
but it thou shalt not see.
11 But, by inheritance, the earth

the meek ones shall possess ;
They also shall delight themselves
in an abundant peace.

12 The wicked plots against the just, and at him whets his teeth,

13 The Lord shall laugh at him, because
his day he coming seeth.

14 The wicked have drawn out the sword,
and bent their bow, to slay
The poor and needy, and to kill
men of an upright way.

15 But their own sword, which they have
shall enter their own heart; [drawn,
Their bows which they have bent shall
and into pieces part.

16 A little that a just man hath

is more, and better far, Than is the wealth of many such as lewd and wicked are.

[break,

17 For sinners' arms shall broken be; but God the just sustains.

18 God knows the just man's days, and still their heritage remains.

19 They shall not be asham'd, when they

the evil time do see;

And when the days of famine are, they satisfied shall be.

20 But wicked men, and foes of God, as fat of lambs decay;

They shall consume, yea into smoke they shall consume away. 21 The wicked borrows, but the same again he doth not pay; Whereas the righteous mercy shows, and gives his own away.

22 For such as blessed be of him

the earth inherit shall; And they that cursed are of him shall be destroyed all.

23 A good man's footsteps by the Lord are ordered aright;

And in the way wherein he walks he greatly doth delight.

24 Although he fall, yet shall he not be cast down utterly;

Because the Lord with his own hand upholds him mightily. 25 1 have been young, and now am old; yet have I never seen

The just man left, nor that his seed for bread have beggars been.

26 He's ever merciful, and lends :
his seed is bless'd therefore.
27 Depart from evil, and do good,
and dwell for evermore.

28 For God loves judgment, and his saints
leaves not in any case;
They are kept ever; but cut off
shall be the sinner's race.

29 The just inherit shall the land,
and ever in it dwell.

30 The just man's mouth doth wisdom

his tongue doth judgment tell. [speak; 31 In's heart the law is of his God,

his steps slide not away.
32 The wicked man doth watch the just,
and seeketh him to slay.

33 Yet him the Lord will not forsake,
nor leave him in his hands;
The righteous will he not condemn,
when he in judgment stands.
34 Wait on the Lord, and keep his way,
and thee exalt shall he

Th' earth to inherit; when cut off
the wicked thou shalt see.

35 I saw the wicked great in pow'r, spread like a green bay-tree:

36 He pass'd, yea, was not; him I sought,
but found he could not be.

37 Mark thou the perfect, and behold
the man of uprightness;
Because that surely of this man
the latter end is peace.

38 But those men that transgressors are,
shall be destroyed together;
The latter end of wicked men
shall be cut off for ever.
39 But the salvation of the just
is from the Lord above;
He, in the time of their distress,
40 The Lord shall help, and them deliver:
their stay and strength doth prove.
he shall them free and save
From wicked men; because in him
their confidence they have.
PSALM 38.

IN thy great indignation,

O Lord, rebuke me not;

Nor on me lay thy chast'ning hand
in thy displeasure hot.

2 For in me fast thine arrows stick,
thine hand doth press me sore:

3 And in my flesh there is no health,
nor soundness any more.

4

This grief I have, because thy wrath
is forth against me gone;
And in my bones there is no rest
for sin that I have done.

Because gone up above mine head

my great transgressions be; And, as a weighty burden, they

too heavy are for me.

5 My wounds do stink, and are corrupt:
my folly makes it so.

6 I troubled am, and much bow'd down;
all day I mourning go.

7 For a disease that loathsome is

so fills my loins with pain,
That in my weak and weary flesh
no soundness doth remain.

8 So feeble and infirm am I,
and broken am so sore;
That, through disquiet of my heart,
I have been made to roar.

9 O Lord, all that I do desire

is still before thine eye;
And of my heart the secret groans
not hidden are from thee.

10 My heart doth pant incessantly,
my strength doth quite decay:
As for mine eyes, their wonted light
is from me gone away.
11 My lovers and my friends do stand
at distance from my sore;

And those do stand aloof that were
kinsmen and kind before.

12 Yea, they that seek my life lay snares;
who seek to do me wrong

Speak things mischievous, and deceits
13 But, as one deaf, that heareth not,
imagine all day long.
I suffer'd all to pass;

I as a dumb man did become,
whose mouth not open'd was.

14 As one that hears not, in whose mouth
are no reproofs at all:

15 For, Lord, I hope in thee; my God,
thou'lt hear me when I call.

16 For I said, Hear me, lest they should
rejoice o'er me with pride:
And o'er me magnify themselves,
when as my foot doth slide.

17 For I am near to halt, my grief
is still before mine eye:

18 For I'll declare my sin, and grieve
for mine iniquity.

19 But yet mine en'mies lively are,
and strong are they beside;
And they that hate me wrongfully
are greatly multiplied.

20 And they for good that render ill,
as en'mies me withstood;

B

Yea, ev'n for this, because that I do follow what is good.

21 Forsake me not, O Lord: my God, far from me never be.

22 O Lord, thou my salvation art, haste to give help to me.

I

PSALM 39.

SAID, I will look to my ways, lest with my tongue I sin;

In sight of wicked men my mouth with bridle I'll keep in.

2 With silence I as dumb became; I did myself restrain

From speaking good; but then the more
increased was my pain.

3 My heart within me waxed hot;
and while I musing was,

The fire did burn; and from my tongue
these words I did let pass:

4 Mine end, and measure of my days,
O Lord, unto me show,
What is the same; that I thereby
my frailty well may know.

5 Lo, thou my days an hand-breadth mad'st;
mine age is in thine eye

As nothing: sure each man at best is wholly vanity.

6 Sure each man walks in a vain show, they vex themselves in vain;

He heaps up wealth, and doth not know to whom it shall pertain.

7 And now, O Lord, what wait I for?
my hope is fix'd on thee.

8 Free me from all my trespasses;
9 Dumb was I, op'ning not my mouth,
the fool's scorn make not me.
because this work was thine.

10 Thy stroke take from me, by the blow
of thine hand I do pine.

11 When with rebukes thou dost correct man for iniquity,

Thou wastes his beauty like a moth:
sure each man's vanity.

12 Attend my cry, Lord, at my tears,
and pray'rs not silent be:
I sojourn as my fathers all,

and stranger am with thee.

13 O spare thou me, that I my strength
recover may again,

Before from hence I do depart,
and here no more remain.

PSALM 40.
WAITED for the Lord my God,
and patiently did bear;
At length to me he did incline
my voice and cry to hear.

2 He took me from a fearful pit,
and from the miry clay,
And on a rock he set my feet,
establishing my way.

3 He put a new song

in

my mouth,
our God to magnify:
Many shall see it, and shall fear,

and on the Lord rely.

4 O blessed is the man whose trust
upon the Lord relies;
Respecting not the proud, nor such
as turn aside to lies.

5 O Lord my God, full many are
the wonders thou hast done;
Thy gracious thoughts to us-ward far
above all thoughts are gone:
In order none can reckon them
to thee; if them declare,

And speak of them I would, they more
than can be number'd are.

6 No sacrifice, nor offering,

didst thou at all desire;

Mine ears thou bor'd: sin-off'ring thou
and burnt didst not require.

7 Then to the Lord these were my words,
I come; behold and see,
Within the volume of thy book
it written is of me:

8 To do thy will I take delight,
O thou my God that art;
Yea, that most holy law of thine
I have within my heart.
9 Within the congregation great
I righteousness did preach:
Lo, thou dost know, Ó Lord, that I
refrained not my speech.
10 I never did within my heart

conceal thy righteousness: I thy salvation have declar'd,

and shown thy faithfulness: The kindness, which most loving is, concealed have not 1,

Nor from the congregation great have hid thy verity.

11 Thy tender mercies, Lord, from me, O do thou not restrain:

Thy loving-kindness, and thy truth, let them me still maintain:

12 For ills past reck'ning compass me, and mine iniquities

Such hold upon me taken have,

I cannot lift mine eyes:

They more than hairs are on mine head, thence is my heart dismay'd.

13 Be pleased, Lord, to rescue me:
Lord, hasten to mine aid.

14 Sham'd and confounded be they all
That seek my soul to kill;
Yea, let them backward driven be,
and sham'd that wish me ill.
15 For a reward of this their shame,
Confounded let them be,

That in this manner scoffing say,
Aha, aha! to me.

16 In thee let all be glad, and joy,
who seeking thee abide:
Who thy salvation love, say still,
The Lord be magnified.

17 I'm poor and needy, yet the Lord
of me a care doth take:
Thou art my help and Saviour,
my God, no tarrying make.
PSALM 41.

BLESSED is he that wisely doth

the poor man's case consider; For when the time of trouble is, the Lord will him deliver.

2 God will him keep, yea, save alive; on earth he bless'd shall live; And to his enemies' desire

thou wilt him not up give.

3 God will give strength, when he on bed
of languishing doth mourn;
And in his sickness sore, O Lord,
thou all his bed will turn.

4 I said, O Lord, do thou extend
thy mercy unto me:

O do thou heal my soul; for why?
I have offended thee.

5 Those that to me are enemies
of me do evil say;

When shall he die, that so his name
may perish quite away?
To see me if he comes, he speaks
vain words; but then his heart
Heaps raischief to it, which he tells,
when forth he doth depart.

My haters, jointly whispering,
'gainst me my hurt devise.

8 Mischief, say they, cleaves fast to him; he lieth, and shall not rise.

9 Yea, ev'n mine own familiar friend, on whom I did rely,

Who ate my bread, ev'n he his heel against me lifted high.

10 But, Lord, be merciful to me,

and up against me raise, That I may justly them requite according to their ways. 11 By this I know that certainly I favour'd am by thee,

Because my hateful enemy

triumphs not over me.

12 But as for me, thou me uphold'st
in mine integrity;

And me before thy countenance
thou sett'st continually
13 The Lord, the God of Israel,
be bless'd for ever then,
From age to age eternally.
Amen, yea, and Amen.
PSALM 42.

LIKE as the hart for water-brooks,
in thirst doth pant and bray;
So pants my longing soul, O God,
that come to thee I may.

2 My soul for God, the living God,
doth thirst: when shall I near
Unto thy countenance approach,
and in God's sight appear?

3 My tears have unto me been meat
both in the night and day,
While unto me continually,
Where is thy God? they say.
4 My soul is poured out in me,
when this I think upon;
Because that with the multitude
I heretofore had gone:
With them into God's house I went
with voice of joy and praise;
Yea, with the multitude that kept
the solemn holy days.

5 O why art thou cast down, my soul?
why in me so dismay'd?
Trust God, for I shall praise him yet;
his count'nance is mine aid.

6 My God, my soul's cast down in me;
thee therefore mind I will
From Jordan's land, the Hermonites,
and ev'n from Mizar hill.

7 At the noise of thy water-spouts
deep unto deep doth call;
Thy breaking waves pass over me,
yea, and thy billows all.

8 His loving-kindness yet the Lord
command will in the day:

His song's with me by night: to God,
by whom I live, I'll pray..

9 And I will say to God, my rock,
Why me forgett'st thou so?
Why, for my foes' oppression,
thus mourning do I go?

10 'Tis as a sword within my bones,
when my foes me upbraid;

Ev'n when by them, Where is thy God?
'tis daily to me said.

11 0 why art thou cast down, my soul?

why, thus with grief opprest, Art thou disquieted in me?

in God still hope and rest:

For yet I know I shall him praise,
who graciously to me

The health is of my countenance;
yea, mine own God is he.

PSALM 43.

Still trust in God; for him to praise
good cause I yet shall have;
He of my countenance is the health,
my God that doth me save
PSALM 44.

GOD, we with our ears have heard,
our fathers have us told,

What works thou in their days bada dex,

ev'n in the days of old.

2 Thy hand did drive the heathen out, and plant them in their place; Thou didst afflict the nations,

but them thou didst increase.

3 For neither got their sword the land,
nor did their arm them save:
But thy right hand, arm, countenance;
for thou them favour gave.

4 Thou art my King: for Jacob, Lord,
deliv'rances command.

5 Through thee we shall push down our that do against us stand: foes

We, through thy name, shall tread down

those

that ris'n against us have.

6 For in my bow I shall not trust,
nor shall my sword me save.

7 But from our foes thou hast us sav'd,
our haters put to shame.

8 In God we all the day do boast,
and ever praise thy name.

9 But now we are cast off by thee,
and us thou putt'st to shame;
And when our armies do go forth,
thou go'st not with the same.
10 Thou mak'st us from the enemy,
faint-hearted to turn back;

And they who hate us, for themselves
our spoils away do take.

11 Like sheep for meat thou gavest us;
'mong heathen cast we be.

12 Thou didst for nought thy people sell;
their price enrich'd not thee.
13 Thou mak'st us a reproach to be
unto our neighbours near;
Derision and a scorn to them
that round about us are.

14 A by-word also thou dost us
among the heathen make;
The people, in contempt and spite,
at us their heads do shake.
15 Before me my confusion
continually abides;

And of my bashful countenance

the shame me ever hides.

16 For voice of him that doth reproach,
and speaketh blasphemy;

By reason of the avenging foe,
and cruel enemy.

17 All this is come on us, yet we
have not forgotten thee;
Nor falsely in thy covenant
behav'd ourselves have we.

18 Back from thy way our heart not turn'd,
our steps no straying made:

JUDGE me, O God, and plead my cause 19 Though us thou break'st in dragon's

against th' ungodly nation:

From the unjust and crafty man,

O be thou my salvation.

2 For thou the God art of my strength;
why thrust'st thou me thee fro'?
For th' enemy's oppression

why do I mourning go?

3 O send thy light forth, and thy truth;
let them be guides to me,
And bring me to thine holy hill,
Ev'n where thy dwellings be.

4 Then will I to God's altar go,

to God my chiefest joy;

place,

and cover'dst with death's shade.

20 If we God's name forgot, or stretch'd to a strange god our hands:

21 Shall not God search this out? for he heart's secrets understands.

22 Yea, for thy sake we're kill'd all day;
counted as slaughter-sheep.

23 Rise, Lord, cast us not ever off;
awake, why dost thou sleep?
24 O wherefore hidest thou thy face?
forgett'st our case distress'd,

Yea, God, my God, thy name to praise 25 And our oppression ? for our soul

my harp I will employ.

5 Why art thou then cast down, my soul?
what should discourage thee?

And why with vexing thoughts art thou
disquieted in me?

is to the dust down pressed:

PSALM 45.

MY heart brings forth a goodly thing;

my words that I indite

Concern the King: my tongue's a pen of one that swift doth write.

2 Thou fairer art than sons of men; into thy lips is store

Of grace infus'd: God therefore thee hath bless'd for evermore.

30 thou that art the mighty One, thy sword gird on thy thigh: Ev'n with thy glory excellent, and with thy majesty.

4 For meekness, truth, and righteousness, in state ride prosp'rously:

And thy right hand shall thee instruct
in things that fearful be.

5 Thine arrows sharply pierce the heart
of th' en'mies of the King;
And under thy subjection
the people down do bring.
6 For ever and for ever is,

O God, thy throne of might: The sceptre of thy kingdom is a sceptre that is right.

7 Thou lovest right and hatest ill; for God, thy God, most high, Above thy fellows hath with th' oil of joy anointed thee.

8 Of aloes, myrrh, and cassia,
a smell thy garments had,
Out of the iv'ry palaces,
whereby they made thee glad.
9 Among thy women honourable,
king's daughters were at hand:
Upon thy right hand did the queen,
in gold of Ophir, stand.
10 O daughter, hearken and regard,
and do thine ear incline;
Likewise forget thy father's house,
and people that are thine:

11 Then of the King desir'd shall be
thy beauty veh'mently:
Because he is thy Lord, do thou
him worship rev'rently.

12 The daughter there of Tyre shall be
with gifts and off'rings great:
Those of the people that are rich
thy favour shall intreat.

13 Behold, the daughter of the King
all glorious is within;

And with embroideries of gold

her garments wrought have been. 14 She shall be brought unto the King in robes with needle wrought; Her fellow-virgins following, shall unto thee be brought.

15 They shall be brought with gladness and mirth on ev'ry side,

Into the palace of the King, and there they shall abide.

16 Instead of those thy fathers dear, thy children thou may'st take, And in all places of the earth them noble princes make.

[great,

17 Thy name remember'd I will make, through ages all to be;

The people, therefore, evermore

shall praises give to thee.

Another of the same.

MY heart inditing is

good matter in a song:

I speak the things that I have made,
which to the King belong:
My tongue shall be as quick,
his honour to indite,
As is the pen of any scribe
that useth fast to write.

2 Thou'rt fairest of all men ;·

grace in thy lips do flow: And blessings therefore evermore on thee doth God bestow. 3 Thy sword gird on thy thigh, thou that art most of might:

Appear in dreadful majesty,
and in thy glory bright.

4 For meekness, truth, and right,
ride prosp'rously in state;
And thy right hand shall teach to thee
things terrible and great.

5 Thy shafts shall pierce their hearts
that foes are to the King;
Whereby into subjection
the people thou shalt bring.
6 Thy royal seat, O Lord,
for ever shalt remain;
The sceptre of thy kingdom doth
all righteousness maintain.

7 Thou lov'st right, and hat'st ill;
for God, thy God, most high,
Above thy fellows hath with th' oil
of joy anointed thee.

8 Of myrrh and spices sweet
a smell thy garments had,
Out of the iv'ry palaces
whereby they made thee glad.
9 And in thy glorious train

kings' daughters waiting stand;
And thy fair queen, in Ophir gold,
doth stand at thy right hand.
10 O daughter, take good heer,

incline and give good ear;
Thou must forget thy kindred all,
and father's house most dear.
11 Thy beauty to the King

shall then delightful be;
And do thou humbly worship him,
because thy Lord is he.

12 The daughter then of Tyre

there with a gift shall be;
And all the wealthy of the land
shall make their suit to thee.
13 The daughter of the King

all glorious is within;
And with embroideries of gold,
her garments wrought have been.
14 She cometh to the King

in robes with needle wrought;
The virgins that do follow her
shall unto thee be brought.
15 They shall be brought with joy,
and mirth on ev'ry side,
Into the palace of the King,
and there they shall abide.
16 And in thy fathers' stead,

thy children thou may'st take,
And in all places of the earth
them noble princes make.
17 I will show forth thy name
to generations all;"
Therefore the people evermore
to thee give praises shall.

Go

PSALM 46.

OD is our refuge and our strength,
in straits a present aid;

2 Therefore, although the earth remove,
we will not be afraid:

3

Though hills amidst the seas be cast:
Though waters roaring make,

And troubled be; yea, though the hills
by swelling scas do shake.

4 A river is, whose streams do glad
the city of our God;

The holy place wherein the Lord
most high hath his abode.

5 God in the midst of her doth dwell;

nothing shall her remove:

The Lord to her an helper will,
and that right early, prove.

6 The heathen rag'd tumultuously,
the kingdoms moved were:
The Lord God uttered his voice,
the earth did melt for fear.

7 The Lord of hosts upon our side
doth constantly remain:
The God of Jacob's our refuge,
us safely to maintain

11

18 Come, and behold what wondrous works have by the Lord been wrought: Come, see what desolations

he on the earth hath brought.

9 Unto the ends of all the earth

wars into peace he turns:

The bow he breaks, the spear he cuts,

in fire the chariot burns.

10 Be still, and know that I am God;
among the heathen I

Will be exalted; I on earth
will be exalted high.

11 Our God, who is the Lord of hosts,
is still upon our side:

The God of Jacob, our refuge

for ever will abide.

PSALM 47.

ALL people, clap your hands; to God
with voice of triumph shout:

2 For dreadful is the Lord most high,
great King the earth throughout
3 The Heathen people under us
he surely shall subdue;
And he shall make the nations
under our feet to bow.

4 The lot of our inheritance
choose out for us shall he,
Of Jacob, whom he loved well,
ev'n the excellency.

5 God is with shouts gone up, the Lord
with trumpets sounding high.

6 Sing praise to God, sing praise, sing praise to our King sing ye.

[praise,

7 For God is King of all the earth:
with knowledge praise express.

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

9 The princes of the people are
assembled willingly;

Ev'n of the God of Abraham
they who the people be:

For why? the shields that do defend
the earth are only his :

They to the Lord belong; yea he
exalted greatly is.

PSALM 48.

GREAT is the Lord, and greatly he

is to be praised still,

Within the city of our God,
upon his holy hill.

2 Mount Sion stands most beautiful,
the joy of all the land;
The city of the mighty King

on her north side doth stand.

3 The Lord within her palaces
is for a refuge known.

4 For, lo, the kings that gather'd were,
together by have gone.

5 But, when they did behold the same,
they, wond'ring, would not stay;
But, being troubled at the sight,
they thence did haste away.

6 Great terror there took hold on them,
they were possess'd with fear;
Their grief came like a woman's pain
when she a child doth bear.

7 Thou Tarshish ships with cast wind As we have heard it told, [break'st: So in the city of the Lord,

our eyes did it behold:

In our God's city, which his hand

for ever 'stablish will.

9 We of thy loving-kindness thought,
Lord, in thy temple still.

10 O Lord, according to thy name,
through all the earth's thy praise:
And thy right hand, O Lord, is full
of righteousness always.

11 Because thy judgments are made known,
let Sion mount rejoice;

Of Judah let the daughters all

send forth a cheerful voice.

Of beauty is, from thence the Lord
hath shined gloriously.

3 Our God shall come, and shall no more
be silent, but speak out:
Before him fire shall waste, great storms
shall compass him about.

4 He to the heavens from above, and to the earth below,

Shall call, that he his judgments may before his people show.

5 Let all my saints together be unto me gathered;

Those that by sacrifice with me

a covenant have made.

6 And then the heavens shall declare
his righteousness abroad;
Because the Lord himself doth come;
none else is judge but God.

7 Hear, O my people, and I'll speak;
O Israel, by name,
Against thee I will testify;

God, even thy God, I am.

8 I, for thy sacrifices few,

reprove thee never will,

Nor for burnt-off rings, to have been
before me offer'd still.

9 I'll take no bullock nor he-goats,
from house nor fold of thine:

10 For beasts of forests, cattle all
on thousand hills, are mine.
11 The fowls are all to me well known,
that mountains high do yield:
And I do challenge as mine own
the wild beasts of the field.

12 If I were hungry I would not
to thee for need complain;
For earth, and all its fulness, doth
to me of right pertain.

13 That I, to eat the flesh of balls,

take pleasure dost thou think?
Or that I need, to quench my thirst,
the blood of goats to drink?

14 Nay, rather unto me, thy God,

thanksgiving offer thou:

To the most High perform thy word,

PSALM 51.

AFTER thy loving-kindness, Lord,

have mercy upon me;

For thy compassion's great, blot out
all mine iniquity.

2 Me cleanse from sin, and th'roughly wash

from mine iniquity.

3 For my transgressions I confess ; my sin I ever see.

'Gainst thee, thee only, have I sinn'd,
in thy sight done this ill;

That when thou speak'st thou mays't be
and clear in judging still.
[just,

5 Behold, I in iniquity

was form'd the womb within; My mother also me conceiv'd in guiltiness and sin.

6 Behold, thou in the inward parts with truth delighted art;

And wisdom thou shalt make me know within the hidden part.

7 Do thou with hyssop sprinkle me, I shall be cleansed so;

Yea wash thou me, and then I shall be whiter than the snow.

3 Of gladness and of joyfulness make me to hear the voice;

That so these very bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

9 All mine iniquities blot out, thy face hide from my sin.

10 Create a clean heart, Lord; renew a right sp'rit me within.

11 Cast me not from thy sight; nor take thy holy Spirit away.

12 Restore me thy salvation's joy;

with thy free Sp'rit me stay. 13 Then will I teach thy ways unto those that transgressors be;

And those that sinners are, shall then be turned unto thee.

14 O God, of my salvation God,

me from blood-guiltiness Set free; then shall my tongue aloud sing of thy righteousness.

15 My closed lips, O Lord, by thee let them be opened;

Then shall thy praises by my mouth abroad be published.

16 For thou desir'st not sacrifice, else would I give it thee;

Nor wilt thou with burnt-offering at all delighted be.

17 A broken spirit is to God

a pleasing sacrifice:

A broken and a contrite heart,

Lord, thou wilt not despise.

7 Lo, this the man is, that did not
make God his strength at all:
But he in his abundant wealth
his confidence did place;
And he took strength unto himself
from his own wickedness.

8 But I am in the house of God
like to an olive green:
My confidence for ever hath
upon God's mercy been.
9 And I for ever will thee praise,
because thou hast done this:

I on thy name will wait; for good
before thy saints it is.

PSALM 53.

THAT there is not a God, the fool

doth in his heart conclude:
They are corrupt, their works are vile
2 The Lord upon the sons of men
not one of them doth good.
from heav'n did cast his eyes,
To see if any one there was
that sought God, and was wise.
3 They altogether filthy are,

they all are backward gone;
And there is none that doeth good,
no, not so much as one.

4 These workers of iniquity,
do they not know at all,
That they my people eat as bread,
and on God do not call?

5 Ev'n there they were afraid, and stood
with trembling, all dismay'd,
Whereas there was no cause at all
why they should be afraid :
For God his bones that thee besieg'd
hath scatter'd all abroad;
Thou hast confounded them, for they
despised are of God.

6 Let Isr'el's help from Sion come!
When back the Lord shall bring
His captives, Jacob shall rejoice,
and Israel shall sing.

PSALM 54.

SAVE me, O God, by thy great name,
and judge me by thy strength.

2 My prayer hear, O God; give ear
unto my words at length.

3 For they that strangers are to me
do up against me rise;
Oppressors seek my soul, and God
set not before their
eyes.

4 The Lord my God my helper is,
lo, therefore I am bold:
He taketh part with ev'ry one
that doth my soul uphold.

18 Show kindness, and do good, O Lord, 5 Unto mine enemies he shall

to Sion, thine own hill;

The walls of thy Jerusalem

build up of thy good will.

19Then righteous off rings shall thee please, and off'rings burnt, which they,

With whole burnt-off'rings, and with shall on thy altar lay.

PSALM 52.

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WHY dost thou boast, O mighty man,

of mischief and of ill?

The goodness of Almighty God endureth ever still.

2 Thy tongue mischievous

deviseth subtilely;

calumnies

Like to a razor sharp to cut, working deceitfully.

3 Ill more than good, and more than truth thou lovest to speak wrong:

4 Thou lovest all-devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

5 So God shall thee destroy for ay, remove thee, pluck thee out

Quite from thy house, out of the land of life he shall thee root.

6 The righteous shall it see, and fear; and laugh at him they shall :

6

mischief and ill repay:

O for thy truth's sake cut them off,
and sweep them clean away.

I will a sacrifice to thee

give with free willingness:

do
There mischief is, and sorrow there
in midst of it is found.

11 Abundant wickedness there is
within her inward part;

And from her streets deceitfulness
and guile do not depart.

12 He was no foe that me reproach'd;
then that endure I could:

Nor hater that did 'gainst me boast;
From him me hide I would:

13

13 But thou, man, who mine equal, guide, and mine acquaintance wast.

14 We join'd sweet counsel, to God's house in company we past.

15 Let death upon them seize, and down let them go quick to hell:

For wickedness doth much abound

among them where they dwell. 16 I'll call on God: God will me save. 17 I'll pray, and make a noise

At ev'ning, morning, and at noon; and he shall hear my voice.

18 He hath my soul delivered,

that it in peace might be
From battle that against me was:
for many were with me.

19 The Lord shall hear, and them afflict,
of old who hath abode :

Because they never changes have,
therefore they fear not God.

20 'Gainst those that were at peace with

he hath put forth his hand; The covenant that he hath made, by breaking he profan'd.

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21More smooth than butter were his words, while in his heart was war;

His speeches were more soft than oil, and yet drawn swords they were. 22 Cast thou thy burden on the Lord, and he shall thee sustain ;

Yea, he shall cause the righteous man
unmoved to remain.

23 But thou, O Lord my God, those men
in justice shall o'erthrow,
And in destruction's dungeon dark
at last shalt lay them low.
The bloody and deceitful men
shall not live half their days;
But upon thee with confidence
I will depend always.
PSALM 56.

Thy name, O Lord, because 'tis good, SHOW mercy, Lord, to me, for man

with praise I will confess.

7 For he hath me delivered

from all adversities;

And his desire mine eye hath seen
upon mine enemies.

PSALM 55.

LORD, hear my pray'r; hide not thyself
from my entreating voice.

2 Attend and hear me; in my plaint
3 Because of th' en'my's voice, and for
I mourn and make a noise;
lewd men's oppression great:

On me they cast iniquity,

and they in wrath me hate.

4 Sore pain'd within me is my heart;
death's terrors on me fall;

5 On me comes trembling, fear and dread
o'erwhelmed me withal.

6 O that I, like a dove, had wings,
said I, then would I flee