The Book Of Psalms
Psalms 41-50
Psalm 41
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of
David.
41:1 | Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. |
41:2 | The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. |
41:3 | The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. |
41:4 | I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee. |
41:5 | Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish? |
41:6 | And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it. |
41:7 | All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt. |
41:8 | An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more. |
41:9 | Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. |
41:10 | But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them. |
41:11 | By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. |
41:12 | And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever. |
41:13 | Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen. |
Psalm 42
To the chief Musician, Maschil, for
the sons of Korah.
42:1 | As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. |
42:2 | My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? |
42:3 | My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? |
42:4 | When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday. |
42:5 | Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. |
42:6 | O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. |
42:7 | Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. |
42:8 | Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. |
42:9 | I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? |
42:10 | As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God? |
42:11 | Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. |
Psalm 43
43:1 | Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. |
43:2 | For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? |
43:3 | O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. |
43:4 | Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God. |
43:5 | Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. |
Psalm 44
To the chief Musician for the sons
of Korah, Maschil.
44:1 | We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. |
44:2 | How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. |
44:3 | For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them. |
44:4 | Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. |
44:5 | Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. |
44:6 | For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. |
44:7 | But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us. |
44:8 | In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah. |
44:9 | But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. |
44:10 | Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves. |
44:11 | Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen. |
44:12 | Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price. |
44:13 | Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. |
44:14 | Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. |
44:15 | My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, |
44:16 | For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger. |
44:17 | All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. |
44:18 | Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; |
44:19 | Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. |
44:20 | If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; |
44:21 | Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. |
44:22 | Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. |
44:23 | Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. |
44:24 | Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? |
44:25 | For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. |
44:26 | Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake. |
Psalm 45
To the chief Musician upon
Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves.
45:1 | My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. |
45:2 | Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. |
45:3 | Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. |
45:4 | And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. |
45:5 | Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee. |
45:6 | Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. |
45:7 | Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. |
45:8 | All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad. |
45:9 | Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir. |
45:10 | Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house; |
45:11 | So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him. |
45:12 | And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour. |
45:13 | The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold. |
45:14 | She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee. |
45:15 | With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace. |
45:16 | Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth. |
45:17 | I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever. |
Psalm 46
To the chief Musician for the sons
of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.
46:1 | God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. |
46:2 | Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; |
46:3 | Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah. |
46:4 | There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High. |
46:5 | God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early. |
46:6 | The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. |
46:7 | The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. |
46:8 | Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth. |
46:9 | He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. |
46:10 | Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. |
46:11 | The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. |
Psalm 47
To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
47:1 | O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. |
47:2 | For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth. |
47:3 | He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet. |
47:4 | He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah. |
47:5 | God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet. |
47:6 | Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises. |
47:7 | For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding. |
47:8 | God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness. |
47:9 | The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted. |
Psalm 48
A Song and Psalm for the sons of
Korah.
48:1 | Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. |
48:2 | Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. |
48:3 | God is known in her palaces for a refuge. |
48:4 | For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together. |
48:5 | They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away. |
48:6 | Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail. |
48:7 | Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind. |
48:8 | As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah. |
48:9 | We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple. |
48:10 | According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness. |
48:11 | Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments. |
48:12 | Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. |
48:13 | Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following. |
48:14 | For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death. |
Psalm 49
To the chief Musician, A Psalm for
the sons of Korah.
49:1 | Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world: |
49:2 | Both low and high, rich and poor, together. |
49:3 | My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding. |
49:4 | I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp. |
49:5 | Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about? |
49:6 | They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; |
49:7 | None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: |
49:8 | (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:) |
49:9 | That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption. |
49:10 | For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. |
49:11 | Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names. |
49:12 | Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish. |
49:13 | This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah. |
49:14 | Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. |
49:15 | But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah. |
49:16 | Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased; |
49:17 | For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him. |
49:18 | Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself. |
49:19 | He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light. |
49:20 | Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish. |
Psalm 50
A Psalm of Asaph.
50:1 | The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. |
50:2 | Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. |
50:3 | Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. |
50:4 | He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people. |
50:5 | Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. |
50:6 | And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah. |
50:7 | Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. |
50:8 | I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. |
50:9 | I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. |
50:10 | For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. |
50:11 | I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. |
50:12 | If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. |
50:13 | Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? |
50:14 | Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: |
50:15 | And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. |
50:16 | But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? |
50:17 | Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my words behind thee. |
50:18 | When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. |
50:19 | Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. |
50:20 | Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son. |
50:21 | These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. |
50:22 | Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver. |
50:23 | Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God. |