Psalms 1; Psalms 2; Psalms 15; Psalms 22; Psalms 23; Psalms 24; Psalms 47; Psalms 68

Psalms 1

1 Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence:

2 But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night.

3 And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

4 Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.

5 Therefore the wicked shall not rise again in judgment: nor sinners in the council of the just.

6 For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the wicked shall perish.

Psalms 2

1 Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things?

2 The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes met together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.

3 Let us break their bonds asunder: and let us cast away their yoke from us.

4 He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh at them: and the Lord shall deride them.

5 Then shall he speak to them in his anger, and trouble them in his rage.

6 But I am appointed king by him over Sion, his holy mountain, preaching his commandment.

7 The Lord hath said to me: Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee.

8 Ask of me, and I will give thee the Gentiles for thy inheritance, and the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession.

9 Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron, and shalt break them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.

10 And now, O ye kings, understand: receive instruction, you that judge the earth.

11 Serve ye the Lord with fear: and rejoice unto him with trembling.

12 Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you perish from the just way. (2-13) When his wrath shall be kindled in a short time, blessed are all they that trust in him.

Psalms 15

1 (14-1) <A psalm for David.> Lord, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle? or who shall rest in thy holy hill?

2 (14-2) He that walketh without blemish, and worketh justice:

3 (14-3) He that speaketh truth in his heart, who hath not used deceit in his tongue: Nor hath done evil to his neighbour: nor taken up a reproach against his neighbours.

4 (14-4) In his sight the malignant is brought to nothing: but he glorifieth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his neighbour, and deceiveth not;

5 (14-5) He that hath not put out his money to usury, nor taken bribes against the innocent: He that doth these things, shall not be moved for ever.

Psalms 22

1 (21-1) <Unto the end, for the morning protection, a psalm for David.> (21-2) O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my sins.

2 (21-3) O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.

3 (21-4) But thou dwellest in the holy place, the praise of Israel.

4 (21-5) In thee have our fathers hoped: they have hoped, and thou hast delivered them.

5 (21-6) They cried to thee, and they were saved: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

6 (21-7) But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.

7 (21-8) All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head.

8 (21-9) He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him, seeing he delighteth in him.

9 (21-10) For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: my hope from the breasts of my mother.

10 (21-11) I was cast upon thee from the womb. From my mother’s womb thou art my God,

11 (21-12) Depart not from me. For tribulation is very near: for there is none to help me.

12 (21-13) Many calves have surrounded me: fat bulls have besieged me.

13 (21-14) have opened their mouths against me, as a lion ravening and roaring.

14 (21-15) I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels.

15 (21-16) My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death.

16 (21-17) For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant hath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet.

17 (21-18) They have numbered all my bones. And they have looked and stared upon me.

18 (21-19) They parted my garments amongst them; and upon my vesture they cast lots.

19 (21-20) But thou, O Lord, remove not thy help to a distance from me; look towards my defence.

20 (21-21) Deliver, O God, my soul from the sword: my only one from the hand of the dog.

21 (21-22) Save me from the lion’s mouth; and my lowness from the horns of the unicorns.

22 (21-23) I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the church will I praise thee.

23 (21-24) Ye that fear the Lord, praise him: all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him.

24 (21-25) Let all the seed of Israel fear him: because he hath not slighted nor despised the supplication of the poor man. Neither hath he turned away his face form me: and when I cried to him he heard me.

25 (21-26) With thee is my praise in a great church: I will pay my vows in the sight of them that fear him.

26 (21-27) The poor shall eat and shall be filled: and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their hearts shall live for ever and ever.

27 (21-28) All the ends of the earth shall remember, and shall be converted to the Lord: And all the kindreds of the Gentiles shall adore in his sight.

28 (21-29) For the kingdom is the Lord’s; and he shall have dominion over the nations.

29 (21-30) All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and have adored: all they that go down to the earth shall fall before him.

30 (21-31) And to him my soul shall live: and my seed shall serve him.

31 (21-32) There shall be declared to the Lord a generation to come: and the heavens shall shew forth his justice to a people that shall be born, which the Lord hath made.

Psalms 23

1 (22-1) <A psalm for David.> The Lord ruleth me: and I shall want nothing.

2 (22-2) He hath set me in a place of pasture. He hath brought me up, on the water of refreshment:

3 (22-3) He hath converted my soul. He hath led me on the paths of justice, for his own name’s sake.

4 (22-4) For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they have comforted me

5 (22-5) Thou hast prepared a table before me against them that afflict me. Thou hast anointed my head with oil; and my chalice which inebreateth me, how goodly is it!

6 (22-6) And thy mercy will follow me all the days of my life. And that I may dwell in the house of the Lord unto length of days.

Psalms 24

1 (23-1) <On the first day of the week, a psalm for David.> The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof: the world, and all they that dwell therein.

2 (23-2) For he hath founded it upon the seas; and hath prepared it upon the rivers.

3 (23-3) Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord: or who shall stand in his holy place?

4 (23-4) The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.

5 (23-5) He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his Saviour.

6 (23-6) This is the generation of them that seek him, of them that seek the face of the God of Jacob.

7 (23-7) Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.

8 (23-8) Who is this King of Glory? the Lord who is strong and mighty: the Lord mighty in battle.

9 (23-9) Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.

10 (23-10) Who is this King of Glory? the Lord of hosts, he is the King of Glory.

Psalms 47

1 (46-1) <Unto the end, for the sons of Core.> (46-2) O clap your hands, all ye nations: shout unto God with the voice of joy,

2 (46-3) For the Lord is high, terrible: a great king over all the earth.

3 (46-4) He hath subdued the people under jus; and the nations under our feet.

4 (46-5) He hath chosen for us his inheritance, the beauty of Jacob which he hath love.

5 (46-6) God is ascended with jubilee, and the Lord with the sound of trumpet.

6 (46-7) Sing praises to our God, sing ye: sing praises to our king, sing ye.

7 (46-8) For God is the king of all the earth: sing ye wisely.

8 (46-9) God shall reign over the nations: God sitteth on his holy throne.

9 (46-10) The princes of the people are gathered together, with the God of Abraham: for the strong gods of the earth are exceedingly exalted.

Psalms 68

1 (67-1) <Unto the end, a psalm of a canticle for David himself.> (67-2) Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered: and let them that hate him flee from before his face.

2 (67-3) As smoke vanisheth, so let them vanish away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

3 (67-4) And let the just feast, and rejoice before God: and be delighted with gladness.

4 (67-5) Sing ye to God, sing a psalm to his name, make a way for him who ascendeth upon the west: the Lord is his name. Rejoice ye before him: but the wicked shall be troubled at his presence,

5 (67-6) Who is the father of orphans, and the judge of widows. God in his holy place:

6 (67-7) God who maketh men of one manner to dwell in a house: Who bringeth out them that were bound in strength; in like manner them that provoke, that dwell in sepulchres.

7 (67-8) O God, when thou didst go forth in the sight of thy people, when thou didst pass through the desert:

8 (67-9) The earth was moved, and the heavens dropped at the presence of the God of Sina, at the presence of the God of Israel.

9 (67-10) Thou shalt set aside for thy inheritance a free rain, O God: and it was weakened, but thou hast made it perfect.

10 (67-11) In it shall thy animals dwell; in thy sweetness, O God, thou hast provided for the poor.

11 (67-12) The Lord shall give the word to them that preach good tidings with great power.

12 (67-13) The king of powers is of the beloved, of the beloved; and the beauty of the house shall divide spoils.

13 (67-14) If you sleep among the midst of lots, you shall be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and the hinder parts of her back with the paleness of gold.

14 (67-15) When he that is in heaven appointeth kings over her, they shall be whited with snow in Selmon.

15 (67-16) The mountain of God is a fat mountain. A curdled mountain, a fat mountain.

16 (67-17) Why suspect, ye curdled mountains? A mountain in which God is well pleased to dwell: for there the Lord shall dwell unto the end.

17 (67-18) The chariot of God is attended by ten thousands; thousands of them that rejoice: the Lord is among them in Sina, in the holy place.

18 (67-19) Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive; thou hast received gifts in men. Yea for those also that do not believe, the dwelling of the Lord God.

19 (67-20) Blessed be the Lord day by day: the God of our salvation will make our journey prosperous to us.

20 (67-21) Our God is the God of salvation: and of the Lord, of the Lord are the issues from death.

21 (67-22) But God shall break the heads of his enemies: the hairy crown of them that walk on in their sins.

22 (67-23) The Lord said: I will turn them from Basan, I will turn them into the depth of the sea:

23 (67-24) That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thy enemies; the tongue of thy dogs be red with the same.

24 (67-25) They have seen thy goings, O God, the goings of my God: of my king who is in his sanctuary.

25 (67-26) Princes went before joined with singers, in the midst of young damsels playing on timbrels.

26 (67-27) In the churches bless ye God the Lord, from the fountains of Israel.

27 (67-28) There is Benjamin a youth, in ecstasy of mind. The princes of Juda are their leaders: the princes of Zabulon, the princes of Nephthali.

28 (67-29) Command thy strength, O God confirm, O God, what thou hast wrought in us.

29 (67-30) From thy temple in Jerusalem, kings shall offer presents to thee.

30 (67-31) Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds, the congregation of bulls with the kine of the people; who seek to exclude them who are tried with silver. Scatter thou the nations that delight in wars:

31 (67-32) Ambassadors shall come out of Egypt: Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands to God.

32 (67-33) Sing to God, ye kingdoms of the earth: sing ye to the Lord: Sing ye to God,

33 (67-34) Who mounteth above the heaven of heavens, to the east. Behold he will give to his voice the voice of power:

34 (67-35) Give ye glory to God for Israel, his magnificence, and his power is in the clouds.

35 (67-36) God is wonderful in his saints: the God of Israel is he who will give power and strength to his people. Blessed be God.