Psalms for the Soul: Psalms Fifty-three

To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil

 A Psalm of David.

 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

Psalms 53:2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

Psalms 53:3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Psalms 53:4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

Psalms 53:5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

Psalms 53:6 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
 (KJV)

Psalms for the Soul: Psalms Fifty-two

To the chief Musician, Maschil,

 A Psalm of David

when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech.
Why boastest you thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

Psalms 52:2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Psalms 52:3 Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

Psalms 52:4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

Psalms 52:5 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

Psalms 52:6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:

Psalms 52:7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

Psalms 52:8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

Psalms 52:9 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.
 (KJV)

Psalms for the Soul: Psalms Fifty-nine

To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David

 when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.

Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.

Psalms 59:2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

Psalms 59:3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.



Psalms 59:4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.

Psalms 59:5 Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.

Psalms 59:6 They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

Psalms 59:7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?

Psalms 59:8 But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.

Psalms 59:9 Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence.

Psalms 59:10 The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.

Psalms 59:11 Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

Psalms 59:12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

Psalms 59:13 Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.

Psalms 59:14 And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

Psalms 59:15 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.

Psalms 59:16 But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Psalms 59:17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy.
 (KJV)

Psalms for the Soul: Psalms Sixty

To the chief Musician upon Shushaneduth, Michtam of David

 to teach; when he strove with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah

             when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand

O God, you hast cast us off, you hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.

Psalms 60:2 You hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

Psalms 60:3 You hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

Psalms 60:4 You hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

Psalms 60:5 That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.

Psalms 60:6 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

Psalms 60:7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;

Psalms 60:8 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.

Psalms 60:9 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

Psalms 60:10 Will not you, O God, which hadst cast us off? and you, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?

Psalms 60:11 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

Psalms 60:12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
 (KJV)

Psalms for the Soul: Psalms Forty

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David

 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

Psalms 40:2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

Psalms 40:3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

Psalms 40:4 Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

Psalms 40:5 Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

Psalms 40:6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

Psalms 40:7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

Psalms 40:8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

Psalms 40:9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

Psalms 40:10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

Psalms 40:11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

Psalms 40:12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

Psalms 40:13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.

Psalms 40:14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

Psalms 40:15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

Psalms 40:16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.

Psalms 40:17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
 (KJV)

Psalms for the Soul: Psalms Fifty

A Psalm of Asaph.

The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.  He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.  Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.

Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.  Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?


Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:  And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.  But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou should take my covenant in thy mouth?  Seeing you hate instruction, and cast my words behind you.

When you saw a thief, then you consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers. You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frame deceit. You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove you, and set them in order before thine eyes.  Now consider this, you that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.


Whoso offer praise glorify me: and to him that order his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God.
 (KJV)

Psalms for the Soul: Psalms Thirty

A Psalm and Song at the dedication of the house of David.

 I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.

Psalms 30:2 O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.

Psalms 30:3 O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Psalms 30:4 Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. 

Psalms 30:5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. 

Psalms 30:6 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.

Psalms 30:7 LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.

Psalms 30:8 I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.

Psalms 30:9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

Psalms 30:10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.

Psalms 30:11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

Psalms 30:12 To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.

 (KJV)

Psalms for the Soul: Psalms Thirty-Eight

A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.

O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

Psalms 38:2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

Psalms 38:3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

Psalms 38:4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

Psalms 38:5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

Psalms 38:6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

Psalms 38:7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

Psalms 38:8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

Psalms 38:9 Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

Psalms 38:10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

Psalms 38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

Psalms 38:12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

Psalms 38:13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

Psalms 38:14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

Psalms 38:15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.

Psalms 38:16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

Psalms 38:17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. {to halt: Heb. for halting}

Psalms 38:18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

Psalms 38:19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

Psalms 38:20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.

Psalms 38:21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.

Psalms 38:22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
 (KJV)

Psalms for the Soul: Psalms Thirty-Nine

To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun

 A Psalm of David.

I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

Psalms 39:2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

Psalms 39:3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,

Psalms 39:4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

Psalms 39:5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

Psalms 39:6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. 

Psalms 39:7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

Psalms 39:8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

Psalms 39:9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

Psalms 39:10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

Psalms 39:11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

Psalms 39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Psalms 39:13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
 (KJV)

Psalms for the Soul: Psalms Forty-Seven

To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.

O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.  For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth. He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.

He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah. God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.  Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises. For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.

God reign over the heathen: God sit upon the throne of his holiness. 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.
 (KJV)

Psalms for the Soul: Psalms Forty-Six

To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth

 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea: Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.  God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early. The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth. He make wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he break the bow, and cut the spear in sunder; he burn the chariot in the fire.

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
 (KJV)

Psalms for the Soul: Psalms Fifty

A Psalm of Asaph 

The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

Psalms 50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

Psalms 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.

Psalms 50:4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

Psalms 50:5
Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

Psalms 50:6
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.

Psalms 50:7
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.

Psalms 50:8
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

Psalms 50:9
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.

Psalms 50:10
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

Psalms 50:11
I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. {mine: Heb. with me}

Psalms 50:12
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

Psalms 50:13
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Psalms 50:14
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:

Psalms 50:15
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Psalms 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?

Psalms 50:17
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

Psalms 50:18
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. {hast...: Heb. thy portion was with}

Psalms 50:19
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. {givest: Heb. sendest}

Psalms 50:20
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

Psalms 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.

Psalms 50:22
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

Psalms 50:23
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God. {that...: Heb. that disposeth his way}
 (KJV)

Psalms for the Soul: Psalms Forty-Eight

A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.


God is known in her palaces for a refuge. For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
They saw it, and so they marveled; they were troubled, and hasted away. Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

Thou break the ships of Tarshish with an east wind. 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.


We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.  According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments. Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that you may tell it to the generation following.

For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
 (KJV)

Psalms for the Soul: Psalms Thirty-six

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD.

The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

Psalms 36:2 For he flatter himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.

Psalms 36:3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.

Psalms 36:4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

Psalms 36:5 Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.

Psalms 36:6 Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.

Psalms 36:7 How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

Psalms 36:8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

Psalms 36:9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

Psalms 36:10 O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.

Psalms 36:11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

Psalms 36:12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.
 (KJV)

Psalms Thirty-Seven - Psalms for the Soul

A Psalm of David.

Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

Psalms 37:2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

Psalms 37:3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shall you dwell in the land and verily thou shalt be fed.

Psalms 37:4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

Psalms 37:5 Commit thy way unto the LORD trust also in him and he shall bring it to pass.

Psalms 37:6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

Psalms 37:7 Rest in the LORD and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prosper in his way because of the man who bring wicked devices to pass.

Psalms 37:8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

Psalms 37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.

Psalms 37:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

Psalms 37:11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

Psalms 37:12 The wicked plot against the just, and gnash upon him with his teeth.

Psalms 37:13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he see that his day is coming.

Psalms 37:14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

Psalms 37:15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

Psalms 37:16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

Psalms 37:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD uphold the righteous.

Psalms 37:18 The LORD know the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.

Psalms 37:19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

Psalms 37:20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

Psalms 37:21 The wicked borrow, and pay not again: but the righteous show mercy, and give.

Psalms 37:22 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.

Psalms 37:23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delight in his way. 

Psalms 37:24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD uphold him with his hand.

Psalms 37:25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

Psalms 37:26 He is ever merciful, and lend; and his seed is blessed.

Psalms 37:27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.

Psalms 37:28 For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

Psalms 37:29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.

Psalms 37:30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.

Psalms 37:31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

Psalms 37:32 The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to slay him.

Psalms 37:33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

Psalms 37:34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

Psalms 37:35
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. {a green...: or, a green tree that groweth in his own soil}

Psalms 37:36
Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

Psalms 37:37
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

Psalms 37:38
But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

Psalms 37:39
But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

Psalms 37:40
And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.
 (KJV)

Psalms Twenty- Eight - Psalms for the Soul

A Psalm of David.

Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Psalms 28:2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle. 

Psalms 28:3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

Psalms 28:4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.

Psalms 28:5 Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

Psalms 28:6 Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

Psalms 28:7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoice; and with my song will I praise him.

Psalms 28:8 The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed. 

Psalms 28:9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever. 

 (KJV)

Psalms Twenty-Seven | Psalms for the Soul

A Psalm of David.

 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Psalms 27:2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Psalms 27:3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

Psalms 27:4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.

(Hebrews 9:8-9,27)

Psalms 27:5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

Psalms 27:6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.

Psalms 27:7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

Psalms 27:8 When you said, Seek you my face; my heart said to you, Your face, LORD, will I seek.

Psalms 27:9 Hide not your face far from me; put not your servant away in anger: You have been my

help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

Psalms 27:10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

Psalms 27:11 Teach me your way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.

Psalms 27:12 Deliver me not over to the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

Psalms 27:13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

Psalms 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

 (KJV)

Psalms 28

Psalms Forty-Five | Psalms for the Soul

To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim,
(Shoshannim - a (straight) trumpet (from the tubular shape)

for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves

 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.  Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.  And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.  Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad. Kings' daughters were among thy honorable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;  So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.
And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.

The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold. She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee. With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.

Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou may make princes in all the earth. I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.
 (KJV)

Psalms Forty-Four | Psalms for the Soul

To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil

 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you didst in their days, in the times of old. How you didst drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; how you didst afflict the people, and cast them out.

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 favor unto them.

Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.  Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.  But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.  In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.  But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies.

You make us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
Thou sell thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.

Thou make us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Thou make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.  My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

For the voice of him that reproach and blaspheme; by reason of the enemy and avenger.  All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.  If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; Shall not God search this out? for he know the secrets of the heart.

Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. Awake, why sleep thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.  Wherefore hide thou thy face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?  For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleave unto the earth.  Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
 (KJV)

Psalms 42 | My Soul Thirst for God

To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.

 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after you, O God.
My soul thirst for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

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 holy day.

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. 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.

Deep call unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God? 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.
 (KJV)

Psalms Thirty-five - Plead My Cause

A Psalm of David.

 Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

Psalms 35:2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.

Psalms 35:3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

Psalms 35:4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

Psalms 35:5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.

Psalms 35:6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.

Psalms 35:7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

Psalms 35:8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

Psalms 35:9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.

Psalms 35:10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

Psalms 35:11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

Psalms 35:12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

Psalms 35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

Psalms 35:14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

Psalms 35:15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

Psalms 35:16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Psalms 35:17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

Psalms 35:18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.

Psalms 35:19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

Psalms 35:20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

Psalms 35:21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

Psalms 35:22 This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

Psalms 35:23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.

Psalms 35:24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

Psalms 35:25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

Psalms 35:26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

Psalms 35:27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

Psalms 35:28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
 (KJV)

Psalms Thirty-Four | Psalms for the Soul

                                     A Psalm of David, 

           when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech

                who drove him away, and he departed.

  I will bless the LORD at all times

 his praise shall continually be  in my mouth. 

Psalms 34:2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

Psalms 34:3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.

Psalms 34:4 I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.


Psalms 34:5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

Psalms 34:6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Psalms 34:7 The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

Psalms 34:8 O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

Psalms 34:9 O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.

Psalms 34:10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.

Psalms 34:11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

Psalms 34:12 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?

Psalms 34:13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

Psalms 34:14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

Psalms 34:15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

Psalms 34:16 The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

Psalms 34:17 The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

Psalms 34:18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

Psalms 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

Psalms 34:20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.

Psalms 34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

Psalms 34:22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

 (KJV)

Psalms Thirty-Three | Psalms for the Soul - Rejoice in the Lord

Psalms 33:1 Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.

Psalms 33:2 Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.

Psalms 33:3 Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.

Psalms 33:4 For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.

Psalms 33:5 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.

Psalms 33:6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

Psalms 33:7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.

Psalms 33:8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

Psalms 33:9 For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

Psalms 33:10 The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.

Psalms 33:11 The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

Psalms 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

Psalms 33:13 The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.

Psalms 33:14 From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.

Psalms 33:15 He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.

Psalms 33:16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

Psalms 33:17 An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.

Psalms 33:18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;

Psalms 33:19 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

Psalms 33:20 Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.

Psalms 33:21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

Psalms 33:22 Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.

 (KJV)

Psalms Thirty-Two | Psalms for the Soul

A Psalm of David, Maschil.

 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 

Psalms 32:2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

Psalms 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

Psalms 32:4
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

Psalms 32:5
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.


Psalms 32:6  For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

Psalms 32:7  Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

Psalms 32:8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

Psalms 32:9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

Psalms 32:10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.

Psalms 32:11 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
 (KJV)

Psalms- Twenty-Six | Psalms for the Soul

A Psalm of David Judge me, O LORD

 for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.

Psalms 26:2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

Psalms 26:3 For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.

Psalms 26:4 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.

Psalms 26:5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

Psalms 26:6 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:

Psalms 26:7 That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.



Psalms 26:8 LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.

Psalms 26:9 Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:

Psalms 26:10 In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

Psalms 26:11 But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.

Psalms 26:12 My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.
 (KJV)

Psalms Thirty-One | Psalms for the Soul

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.

Psalms 31:2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.

Psalms 31:3 For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.

Psalms 31:4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.

Psalms 31:5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

Psalms 31:6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

Psalms 31:7  I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

Psalms 31:8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.

Psalms 31:9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

Psalms 31:10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

Psalms 31:11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

Psalms 31:12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

Psalms 31:13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

Psalms 31:14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.

Psalms 31:15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

Psalms 31:16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.

Psalms 31:17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

Psalms 31:18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

Psalms 31:19
Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

Psalms 31:20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

Psalms 31:21 Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.

Psalms 31:22 For 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.

Psalms 31:23 O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

Psalms 31:24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.
 (KJV)

Psalms Thirty | Psalms for the Soul

A Psalm and Song at the Dedication of the House of David.

 I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.

Psalms 30:2 O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.

Psalms 30:3 O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Psalms 30:4 Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

Psalms 30:5 For his anger endure but a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy come in the morning.

Psalms 30:6 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.

Psalms 30:7 LORD, by your favor you have made my mountain to stand strong: you did hide your face, and I was troubled.

Psalms 30:8 I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.

Psalms 30:9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

Psalms 30:10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.

Psalms 30:11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

Psalms 30:12 To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
 (KJV)

Psalms for the Soul: Psalms Twenty-Nine

A Psalm of David

 Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength. 

Psalms 29:2
Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.

Psalms 29:3 The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thunder: the LORD is upon many waters.

Psalms 29:4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

Psalms 29:5 The voice of the LORD break the cedars; yea, the LORD break the cedars of Lebanon.

Psalms 29:6 He make them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

Psalms 29:7 The voice of the LORD divide the flames of fire.

Psalms 29:8 The voice of the LORD shake the wilderness; the LORD shake the wilderness of Kadesh.

Psalms 29:9 The voice of the LORD make the hinds to calve, and discover the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.

Psalms 29:10  The LORD sit upon the flood; yea, the LORD sit King for ever.

Psalms 29:11 The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.
 (KJV)

Psalms for the Soul: Psalms Twenty-Eight

A Psalm of David.

 Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto you, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.

Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoice; and with my song will I praise him.

The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
 (KJV)

Psalms for the Soul: Psalms Twenty-Seven

A Psalm of David

 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.

Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

When thou said, Seek you my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

Hide not your face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.

Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
 (KJV)