Psalms 26; Psalms 40; Psalms 58; Psalms 61; Psalms 62; Psalms 64

1 (25-1) <Unto the end, a psalm for David.> Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked in my innocence: and I have put my trust in the Lord, and shall not be weakened.

2 (25-2) Prove me, O Lord, and try me; burn my reins and my heart.

3 (25-3) For thy mercy is before my eyes; and I am well pleased with thy truth.

4 (25-4) I have not sat with the council of vanity: neither will I go in with the doers of unjust things.

5 (25-5) I have hated the assembly of the malignant; and with the wicked I will not sit.

6 (25-6) I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy altar, O Lord:

7 (25-7) That I may hear the voice of thy praise: and tell of all thy wondrous works.

8 (25-8) I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house; and the place where thy glory dwelleth.

9 (25-9) Take not away my soul, O God, with the wicked: nor my life with bloody men:

10 (25-10) In whose hands are iniquities: their right hand is filled with gifts.

11 (25-11) But as for me, I have walked in my innocence: redeem me, and have mercy on me.

12 (25-12) My foot hath stood in the direct way: in the churches I will bless thee, O Lord.

1 (39-1) <Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.> (39-2) With expectation I have waited for the Lord, and he was attentive to me.

2 (39-3) And he heard my prayers, and brought me out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs. And he set my feet upon a rock, and directed my steps.

3 (39-4) And he put a new canticle into my mouth, a song to our God. Many shall see, and shall fear: and they shall hope in the Lord.

4 (39-5) Blessed is the man whose trust is in the name of the Lord; and who hath not had regard to vanities, and lying follies.

5 (39-6) Thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, O Lord my God: and in thy thoughts there is no one like to thee. I have declared and I have spoken they are multiplied above number.

6 (39-7) Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast pierced ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require:

7 (39-8) Then said I, Behold I come. In the head of the book it is written of me

8 (39-9) That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.

9 (39-10) I have declared thy justice in a great church, lo, I will not restrain my lips: O Lord, thou knowest it.

10 (39-11) I have not hid thy justice within my heart: I have declared thy truth and thy salvation. I have not concealed thy mercy and thy truth from a great council.

11 (39-12) Withhold not thou, O Lord, thy tender mercies from me: thy mercy and thy truth have always upheld me.

12 (39-13) For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me.

13 (39-14) Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me. look down, O Lord, to help me.

14 (39-15) Let them be confounded and ashamed together, that seek after my soul to take it away. Let them be turned backward and be ashamed that desire evils to me.

15 (39-16) Let them immediately bear their confusion, that say to me: ’T is well, t’ is well.

16 (39-17) Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say always: The Lord be magnified.

17 (39-18) But I am a beggar and poor: the Lord is careful for me. Thou art my helper and my protector: O my God, be not slack.

1 (57-1) <Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title.> (57-2) If in very deed ye speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men.

2 (57-3) For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.

3 (57-4) The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.

4 (57-5) Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:

5 (57-6) Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.

6 (57-7) God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.

7 (57-8) They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.

8 (57-9) Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.

9 (57-10) Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.

10 (57-11) The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.

11 (57-12) And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.

1 (60-1) <Unto the end, in hymns, for David.> (60-2) Hear, O God, my supplication: be attentive to my prayer.

2 (60-3) To thee have I cried from the ends of the earth: when my heart was in anguish, thou hast exalted me on a rock. Thou hast conducted me;

3 (60-4) For thou hast been my hope; a tower of strength against the face of the enemy.

4 (60-5) In thy tabernacle I shall dwell for ever: I shall be protected under the covert of thy wings.

5 (60-6) For thou, my God, hast heard my prayer: thou hast given an inheritance to them that fear thy name.

6 (60-7) Thou wilt add days to the days of the king: his years even to generation and generation.

7 (60-8) He abideth for ever in the sight of God: his mercy and truth who shall search?

8 (60-9) So will I sing a psalm to thy name for ever and ever: that I may pay my vows from day to day.

1 (61-1) <Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of David.> (61-2) Shall not my soul be subject to God? for from him is my salvation.

2 (61-3) For he is my God and my saviour: he is my protector, I shall be moved no more.

3 (61-4) How long do you rush in upon a man? you all kill, as if you were thrusting down a leaning wall, and a tottering fence.

4 (61-5) But they have thought to cast away my price; I ran in thirst: they blessed with their mouth, but cursed with their heart.

5 (61-6) But be thou, O my soul, subject to God: for from him is my patience.

6 (61-7) For he is my God and my saviour: he is my helper, I shall not be moved.

7 (61-8) In God is my salvation and my glory: he is the God of my help, and my hope is in God.

8 (61-9) Trust in him, all ye congregation of people: pour out your hearts before him. God is our helper for ever.

9 (61-10) But vain are the sons of men, the sons of men are liars in the balances: that by vanity they may together deceive.

10 (61-11) Trust not in iniquity, and cover not robberies: if riches abound, set not your heart upon them.

11 (61-12) God hath spoken once, these two things have I heard, that power belongeth to God,

12 (61-13) And mercy to thee, O Lord; for thou wilt render to every man according to his works.

1 (63-1) <Unto the end, a psalm for David.> (63-2) Hear O God, my prayer, when I make supplication to thee: deliver my soul from the fear of the enemy.

2 (63-3) Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity.

3 (63-4) For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing,

4 (63-5) To shoot in secret the undefiled.

5 (63-6) They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have said: Who shall see them?

6 (63-7) They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their search. Man shall come to a deep heart:

7 (63-8) And God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds:

8 (63-9) And their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them were troubled;

9 (63-10) And every man was afraid. And they declared the works of God, and understood his doings.

10 (63-11) The just shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall hope in him: and all the upright in heart shall be praised.