The Book Of Psalms
Psalms 81-90
Psalm 81
To the chief Musician upon Gittith,
A Psalm of Asaph.
81:1 | Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. |
81:2 | Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. |
81:3 | Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. |
81:4 | For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. |
81:5 | This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not. |
81:6 | I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots. |
81:7 | Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah. |
81:8 | Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; |
81:9 | There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. |
81:10 | I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. |
81:11 | But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. |
81:12 | So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels. |
81:13 | Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! |
81:14 | I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. |
81:15 | The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. |
81:16 | He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. |
Psalm 82
A Psalm of Asaph.
82:1 | God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods. |
82:2 | How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. |
82:3 | Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. |
82:4 | Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked. |
82:5 | They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. |
82:6 | I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. |
82:7 | But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. |
82:8 | Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations. |
Psalm 83
A Song or Psalm of Asaph.
83:1 | Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. |
83:2 | For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. |
83:3 | They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. |
83:4 | They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. |
83:5 | For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: |
83:6 | The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; |
83:7 | Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; |
83:8 | Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah. |
83:9 | Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison: |
83:10 | Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth. |
83:11 | Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna: |
83:12 | Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession. |
83:13 | O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. |
83:14 | As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire; |
83:15 | So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm. |
83:16 | Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD. |
83:17 | Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: |
83:18 | That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth. |
Psalm 84
To the chief Musician upon Gittith,
A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
84:1 | How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! |
84:2 | My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. |
84:3 | Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God. |
84:4 | Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah. |
84:5 | Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. |
84:6 | Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. |
84:7 | They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. |
84:8 | O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. |
84:9 | Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed. |
84:10 | For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. |
84:11 | For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. |
84:12 | O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. |
Psalm 85
To the chief Musician, A Psalm for
the sons of Korah.
85:1 | Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. |
85:2 | Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah. |
85:3 | Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger. |
85:4 | Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease. |
85:5 | Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations? |
85:6 | Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee? |
85:7 | Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation. |
85:8 | I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly. |
85:9 | Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land. |
85:10 | Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. |
85:11 | Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. |
85:12 | Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase. |
85:13 | Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps. |
Psalm 86
A Prayer of David.
86:1 | Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy. |
86:2 | Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee. |
86:3 | Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily. |
86:4 | Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. |
86:5 | For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee. |
86:6 | Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications. |
86:7 | In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me. |
86:8 | Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works. |
86:9 | All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name. |
86:10 | For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone. |
86:11 | Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name. |
86:12 | I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore. |
86:13 | For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell. |
86:14 | O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them. |
86:15 | But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. |
86:16 | O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid. |
86:17 | Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me. |
Psalm 87
A Psalm or Song for the sons of
Korah.
87:1 | His foundation is in the holy mountains. |
87:2 | The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. |
87:3 | Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. |
87:4 | I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there. |
87:5 | And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her. |
87:6 | The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah. |
87:7 | As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee. |
Psalm 88
A Song or Psalm for the sons of
Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Herman the Ezrahite.
88:1 | O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: |
88:2 | Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; |
88:3 | For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. |
88:4 | I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: |
88:5 | Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. |
88:6 | Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. |
88:7 | Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. |
88:8 | Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. |
88:9 | Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee. |
88:10 | Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. |
88:11 | Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction? |
88:12 | Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? |
88:13 | But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. |
88:14 | LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? |
88:15 | I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. |
88:16 | Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. |
88:17 | They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. |
88:18 | Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. |
Psalm 89
Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
89:1 | I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. |
89:2 | For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens. |
89:3 | I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, |
89:4 | Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah. |
89:5 | And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. |
89:6 | For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD? |
89:7 | God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. |
89:8 | O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee? |
89:9 | Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. |
89:10 | Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm. |
89:11 | The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. |
89:12 | The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. |
89:13 | Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. |
89:14 | Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face. |
89:15 | Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance. |
89:16 | In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted. |
89:17 | For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted. |
89:18 | For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king. |
89:19 | Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. |
89:20 | I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him: |
89:21 | With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him. |
89:22 | The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him. |
89:23 | And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him. |
89:24 | But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted. |
89:25 | I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. |
89:26 | He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. |
89:27 | Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. |
89:28 | My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. |
89:29 | His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. |
89:30 | If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; |
89:31 | If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; |
89:32 | Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. |
89:33 | Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. |
89:34 | My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. |
89:35 | Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. |
89:36 | His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. |
89:37 | It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah. |
89:38 | But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. |
89:39 | Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. |
89:40 | Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin. |
89:41 | All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours. |
89:42 | Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. |
89:43 | Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle. |
89:44 | Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground. |
89:45 | The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah. |
89:46 | How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire? |
89:47 | Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? |
89:48 | What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah. |
89:49 | Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth? |
89:50 | Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people; |
89:51 | Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed. |
89:52 | Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen. |
Psalm 90
A Prayer of Moses the man of God.
90:1 | Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. |
90:2 | Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. |
90:3 | Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. |
90:4 | For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. |
90:5 | Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. |
90:6 | In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. |
90:7 | For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. |
90:8 | Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. |
90:9 | For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. |
90:10 | The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. |
90:11 | Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. |
90:12 | So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. |
90:13 | Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. |
90:14 | O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. |
90:15 | Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. |
90:16 | Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. |
90:17 | And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. |