Psalms Ninety - At Life's End

A Prayer of Moses the man of God.

 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men.

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.





You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grow up. In the morning it flourish, and grow up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

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. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. 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.  (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 Thirteen - Psalms for the Soul

 How long will you forget me, O LORD? Forever? 

How long will you hide your face from me?

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

 But I have trusted in your mercy; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.

 I will sing unto the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me.

 (KJV)