Psalms One - Blessed is the man

Blessed is the man that walk not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he does shall prosper

The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the LORD knows the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.  (KJV)

Psalms 119-BETH

Psalms 119:9 #BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

Psalms 119:10 With my whole #heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

Psalms 119:11Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

Psalms 119:12 Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.

Psalms 119:13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.

Psalms 119:14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.

Psalms 119:15 I will #meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.

Psalms 119:16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
 (KJV)

Psalms for the Soul: Psalms Forty-Nine

To the chief Musician

 A Psalm for the sons of Korah.

 Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world both low and high, rich and poor, together. My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp. Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?  They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it cease for ever:) That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption. For he see that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

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. Nevertheless man being in honor abide not: he is like the beasts that perish.

This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.  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.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;

For when he die he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.  Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when you do well to thyself.

He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light. Man that is in honor, and understand not, is like the beasts that perish.
 (KJV)

Psalms 23 | The LORD is My Shepherd

GOD, THE GOOD SHEPHERD
        A Psalm of David

He leads me

beside the still waters.

 The LORD is my shepherd I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures he leads me beside the still waters.

He restores my soul: he lead me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for you are with  your rod and your staff they comfort me.  You prepare a table before me in the presence of mine enemies You anoint my head with oil my cup runs over.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

 Jesus in the New Testament, refers to Himself as the " Good Shepherd."

Psalms Twenty-Two | Psalms for the Soul

To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar

 A Psalm of David

 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the
words of my roaring? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you hear not; and in the night season, and am not silent.  But thou art holy, O You that inhabit the praises of Israel. Our fathers trusted in you: they trusted, and you did deliver them.

They cried unto you, and were delivered: they trusted in you, and were not confounded.  But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.  All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,  He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

But you are he that took me out of the womb: you did make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.  I was cast upon you from the womb: you are my God from my mother's belly.  Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.  They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. 

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleave to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.  I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.  They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.  Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.

Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.

For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.  My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.  All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before you.

For the kingdom is the LORD'S: and he is the governor among the nations. All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.  A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.

 (KJV)

Psalms - Twenty | Psalms for the Soul

 The LORD hear you in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend you

Send you help from the sanctuary, and strengthen you out of Zion  Remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice; Selah.  Grant you according to your own heart, and fulfill all your counsel.

We will rejoice in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfill all your petitions.

Now know I that the LORD saves his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.

Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.

They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.  Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.

 (KJV)

Psalms Eighteen- I Love the LORD | Psalms for the Soul

To the chief Musician

 A Psalm of David

The servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies  and from the hand of Saul: And he said I will love you, O LORD, my strength.

The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.  I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.  The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.  There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.  He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.  Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.  He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.  He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me. The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.

For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.  For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.  I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.  Therefore has the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; with an upright man you will show yourself upright;  With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the forward you will shew yourself  forward.  For you will save the afflicted people; but will bring down high looks.

For you will light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.  For by you I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.  As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.  For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?

It is God that gird me with strength, and make my way perfect.  He make my feet like hinds' feet, and set me upon my high places.  He teach my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

you have also given me the shield of your salvation: and your right hand has held me up, and your gentleness has made me great.  You have enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.

I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.  For you have girded me with strength to the battle: you have subdued under me those that rose up against me.

You have also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.  They cried, but there was none to save them: even to the LORD, but he answered them not.  Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; and you have made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.  As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves to me

The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.  The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.  It is God that avenge me, and subdue the people under me.

He deliver me from mine enemies: yea, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.  Therefore will I give thanks to you, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises to your name.

Great deliverance give he to his king; and show mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.

 (KJV)

The Book of Daniel

Psalms Seventeen - Psalms for the Soul

 Hear the right, O LORD, attend to my cry  give ear to my prayer, that go not out

 of feigned lips.   Let my sentence come forth from your presence; let your eyes behold the things that are equal.

You have proved mine heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.  Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

Hold up my goings in your paths, that my footsteps slip not. I have called upon you, for you will hear me, O God: incline your ear to me, and hear my speech.

Show your marvellous lovingkindness, O you that save by your right hand them which put their trust in you from those that rise up against them.

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of your wings, From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.  They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth

Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is your sword

From men which are your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.

 (KJV)

The Book of Revelations

Psalms Sixteen- God Preserves | Psalms for the Soul

Michtam of David.

A Poem

 Preserve me, O God: for in you do I put my trust.  O my soul, you have said to the LORD, You are my Lord: my goodness extend not to you  But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.  The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: you maintain my lot.

The lines are fallen to me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.  I will bless the LORD, who has given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.  I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoice my flesh also shall rest in hope.  For you will not leave my soul in hell; neither will you suffer (allow) your Holy One to see corruption.

Psalms 16:11
You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

 (KJV)

Psalms Fourteen - Psalms for the Soul

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David

 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that do good.

The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that do good, no, not one.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.  There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.  Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
 (KJV)

Psalms Six - Psalms for the Soul

 O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure. Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. My soul is also sore vexed but you, O LORD, how long? 

Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for your mercies' sake. For in death there is no remembrance of you: in the grave who shall give you thanks?

I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it wax old because of all mine enemies.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; for the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.

The LORD has heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.

Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed let them return and be ashamed suddenly.

 (KJV)

Psalms Four | Psalms for the Soul

        To the chief Musician on Neginoth
  (  a poem set to music on a string instrument)

 A Psalm of David.

 Hear me when I call O God of my righteousness
You have enlarged me when I was in distress have mercy upon me and hear my prayer.

O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity and seek after leasing? Selah.

But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself the LORD will hear when I call unto him.

Stand in awe, and sin not commune with your own heart upon your bed and be still. Selah.
Offer the sacrifices of righteousness and put your trust in the LORD.  There be many that say Who will show us any good?  LORD lift thou up the light of your countenance upon us.

You have put gladness in my heart more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep for thou LORD only make me dwell in safety.

 (KJV)

Psalms Two - Psalms for the Soul

Psalms 2:1
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?  The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.  He that sit in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.  Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.  I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me,  Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
Hebrews 1:5 and Hebrews 5:5

Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.  Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.

Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.  Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
 (KJV)

Psalms 3 | When David Fled From Absalom

Psalms of David

When he fled from Absalom his son.

LORD how are they increased that trouble me!  Many are they that rise up against me.  Many there be which say of my soul There is no help for him in God. Selah.

But thou O LORD art a shield for me my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.  I cried unto the LORD with my voice and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.


I laid me down and slept; I awake; for the LORD sustained me. I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.  Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.  Salvation belongs to the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.
 (KJV)

Psalms 1| How A Man is Blessed by God

Blessed is the man that walk not in the counsel of the ungodly nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful.

 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.  And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bring forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he does shall prosper.

The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind drive away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.  For the LORD know the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

 (KJV)