Psalms 31 – Psalms 35
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36 – Chapter 40
Chapter 41 – Chapter 45
Chapter 46 – Chapter 50
Chapter 51 – Chapter 55
Chapter 56 – Chapter 60
Chapter 61 – Chapter 65
Chapter 66 – Chapter 70
Chapter 71 – Chapter 75
Chapter 76 – Chapter 80
Chapter 81 – Chapter 85
Chapter 86 – Chapter 90
Chapter 91 – Chapter 95
Chapter 96 – Chapter 100
Chapter 101 – Chapter 105
Chapter 106 – Chapter 110
Chapter 111 – Chapter 115
Chapter 116 – Chapter 120
Chapter 121 – Chapter 125
Chapter 126 – Chapter 130
Chapter 131 – Chapter 135
Chapter 136 – Chapter 140
Chapter 141 – Chapter 145
Chapter 146 – Chapter 150
1In thee, O Jehovah, do I take refuge;
Let me never be put to shame:
Deliver me in thy righteousness.
2Bow down thine ear unto me; deliver me speedily:
Be thou to me a strong rock,
A house of defence to save me.
3For thou art my rock and my fortress;
Therefore for thy name’s sake lead me and guide me.
4Pluck me out of the net that they have laid privily for
me;
For thou art my stronghold.
5Into thy hand I commend my spirit:
Thou hast redeemed me, O Jehovah, thou God of truth.
6I hate them that regard lying vanities;
But I trust in Jehovah.
7I will be glad and rejoice in thy lovingkindness;
For thou hast seen my affliction:
Thou hast known my soul in adversities;
8And thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy;
Thou hast set my feet in a large place.
9Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress:
Mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.
10For my life is spent with sorrow,
And my years with sighing:
My strength faileth because of mine iniquity,
And my bones are wasted away.
11Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach,
Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly,
And a fear to mine acquaintance:
They that did see me without fled from me.
12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind:
I am like a broken vessel.
13For I have heard the defaming of many,
Terror on every side:
While they took counsel together against me,
They devised to take away my life.
14But I trusted in thee, O Jehovah:
I said, Thou art my God.
15My times are in thy hand:
Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that
persecute me.
16Make thy face to shine upon thy servant:
Save me in thy lovingkindness.
17Let me not be put to shame, O Jehovah; for I have called
upon thee:
Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol.
18Let the lying lips be dumb,
Which speak against the righteous insolently,
With pride and contempt.
19Oh how great is thy goodness,
Which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee,
Which thou hast wrought for them that take refuge in thee,
Before the sons of men!
20In the covert of thy presence wilt thou hide them from
the plottings of man:
Thou wilt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of
tongues.
21Blessed be Jehovah;
For he hath showed me his marvellous lovingkindness in a strong
city.
22As for me, I said in my haste,
I am cut off from before thine eyes:
Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications
When I cried unto thee.
23Oh love Jehovah, all ye his saints:
Jehovah preserveth the faithful,
And plentifully rewardeth him that dealeth proudly.
24Be strong, and let your heart take courage,
All ye that hope in Jehovah.
1Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven,
Whose sin is covered.
2Blessed is the man unto whom Jehovah imputeth not
iniquity,
And in whose spirit there is no guile.
3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away
Through my groaning all the day long.
4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me:
My moisture was changed [as] with the drought of summer.
Selah
5I acknowledged my sin unto thee,
And mine iniquity did I not hide:
I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah;
And thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.
Selah
6For this let every one that is godly pray unto thee in a
time when thou mayest be found:
Surely when the great waters overflow they shall not reach unto
him.
7Thou art my hiding-place; thou wilt preserve me from
trouble;
Thou wilt compass me about with songs of deliverance.
Selah
8I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou
shalt go:
I will counsel thee with mine eye upon thee.
9Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no
understanding;
Whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in,
[Else] they will not come near unto thee.
10Many sorrows shall be to the wicked;
But he that trusteth in Jehovah, lovingkindness shall compass
him about.
11Be glad in Jehovah, and rejoice, ye righteous;
And shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
1Rejoice in Jehovah, O ye righteous:
Praise is comely for the upright.
2Give thanks unto Jehovah with the harp:
Sing praises unto him with the psaltery of ten strings.
3Sing unto him a new song;
Play skilfully with a loud noise.
4For the word of Jehovah is right;
And all his work is [done] in faithfulness.
5He loveth righteousness and justice:
The earth is full of the lovingkindness of Jehovah.
6By the word of Jehovah were the heavens made,
And all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
7He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap:
He layeth up the deeps in store-houses.
8Let all the earth fear Jehovah:
Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
9For he spake, and it was done;
He commanded, and it stood fast.
10Jehovah bringeth the counsel of the nations to nought;
He maketh the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
11The counsel of Jehovah standeth fast for ever,
The thoughts of his heart to all generations.
12Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah,
The people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
13Jehovah looketh from heaven;
He beholdeth all the sons of men;
14From the place of his habitation he looketh forth
Upon all the inhabitants of the earth,
15He that fashioneth the hearts of them all,
That considereth all their works.
16There is no king saved by the multitude of a host:
A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
17A horse is a vain thing for safety;
Neither doth he deliver any by his great power.
18Behold, the eye of Jehovah is upon them that fear him,
Upon them that hope in his lovingkindness;
19To deliver their soul from death,
And to keep them alive in famine.
20Our soul hath waited for Jehovah:
He is our help and our shield.
21For our heart shall rejoice in him,
Because we have trusted in his holy name.
22Let thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, be upon us,
According as we have hoped in thee.
1I will bless Jehovah at all times:
His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
2My soul shall make her boast in Jehovah:
The meek shall hear thereof, and be glad.
3Oh magnify Jehovah with me,
And let us exalt his name together.
4I sought Jehovah, and he answered me,
And delivered me from all my fears.
5They looked unto him, and were radiant;
And their faces shall never be confounded.
6This poor man cried, and Jehovah heard him,
And saved him out of all his troubles.
7The angel of Jehovah encampeth round about them that fear
him,
And delivereth them. 8Oh taste and see that Jehovah is
good:
Blessed is the man that taketh refuge in him.
9Oh fear Jehovah, ye his saints;
For there is no want to them that fear him.
10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger;
But they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good thing.
11Come, ye children, hearken unto me:
I will teach you the fear of Jehovah.
12What man is he that desireth life,
And loveth [many] days, that he may see good?
13Keep thy tongue from evil,
And thy lips from speaking guile.
14Depart from evil, and do good;
Seek peace, and pursue it.
15The eyes of Jehovah are toward the righteous,
And his ears are [open] unto their cry.
16The face of Jehovah is against them that do evil,
To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
17[The righteous] cried, and Jehovah heard,
And delivered them out of all their troubles.
18Jehovah is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart,
And saveth such as are of a contrite spirit.
19Many are the afflictions of the righteous;
But Jehovah delivereth him out of them all.
20He keepeth all his bones:
Not one of them is broken.
21Evil shall slay the wicked;
And they that hate the righteous shall be condemned.
22Jehovah redeemeth the soul of his servants;
And none of them that take refuge in him shall be condemned.
1Strive thou, O Jehovah, with them that strive with me:
Fight thou against them that fight against me.
2Take hold of shield and buckler,
And stand up for my help.
3Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them
that pursue me:
Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
4Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor that
seek after my soul:
Let them be turned back and confounded that devise my hurt.
5Let them be as chaff before the wind,
And the angel of Jehovah driving [them] on.
6Let their way be dark and slippery,
And the angel of Jehovah pursuing them.
7For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a
pit;
Without cause have they digged [a pit] for my soul.
8Let destruction come upon him unawares;
And let his net that he hath hid catch himself:
With destruction let him fall therein.
9And my soul shall be joyful in Jehovah:
It shall rejoice in his salvation.
10All my bones shall say, Jehovah, who is like unto thee,
Who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him,
Yea, the poor and the needy from him that robbeth him?
11Unrighteous witnesses rise up;
They ask me of things that I know not.
12They reward me evil for good,
[To] the bereaving of my soul.
13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was
sackcloth:
I afflicted my soul with fasting;
And my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
14I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my
brother:
I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.
15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered
themselves together:
The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew
[it] not;
They did tear me, and ceased not:
16Like the profane mockers in feasts,
They gnashed upon me with their teeth.
17Lord, how long wilt thou look on?
Rescue my soul from their destructions,
My darling from the lions.
18I will give thee thanks in the great assembly:
I will praise thee among much people.
19Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice
over me;
Neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
20For they speak not peace;
But they devise deceitful words against them that are quiet in
the land.
21Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me;
They said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
22Thou hast seen it, O Jehovah; keep not silence:
O Lord, be not far from me.
23Stir up thyself, and awake to the justice [due] unto me,
[Even] unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
24Judge me, O Jehovah my God, according to thy
righteousness;
And let them not rejoice over me.
25Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have
it:
Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
26Let them be put to shame and confounded together that
rejoice at my hurt:
Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify
themselves against me.
27Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my
righteous cause:
Yea, let them say continually, Jehovah be magnified,
Who hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
28And my tongue shall talk of thy righteousness
[And] of thy praise all the day long.
October 22, 2015 at 4:18 pm |
The psalmist indeed had the gift of writing proficiency. He looked at the things around him and with what he saw penned down words that glorified the Lord God Almighty. This is an ability that I do not have because I easily run out of words whenever I try to write something similar to what the psalmist did. I want to praise the Lord with my words but I end up saying the same words over and over again, unlike the psalmist who never seemed to run out of things to say.