I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

By this I know that thou favorest me, because my enemy doth not triumph over me.

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

For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

For they obtained not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favor to them.

And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

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.

There they were 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.

Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

God will hear and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.

Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defense.

Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

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

Because thy loving-kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.

Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.

Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents to thee.

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

Draw nigh to my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies.

Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

Show me a token for good; that they who hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast helped me, and comforted me.

Because thou hast made the LORD who is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation;

Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.

Because of thy indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.

Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.

Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the Most High:

Fools, because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.

Then are they glad because they are quiet; so he bringeth them to their desired haven.

Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.

Because he hath inclined his ear to me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.

O give thanks to the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever.

Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.

This I had, because I kept thy precepts.

At midnight I will rise to give thanks to thee, because of thy righteous judgments.

They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.

I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.

Rivers of waters run down my eyes, because they keep not thy law.

My zeal hath consumed me; because my enemies have forgotten thy words.

I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.

Seven times a day do I praise thee, because of thy righteous judgments.

Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.

Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honey-comb, which is sweet to thy taste:

Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked;

Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous to me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Yes, I hated all my labor which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it to the man that shall be after me.

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor.

For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labor the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man may labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yes further; though a wise man thinketh to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

The labor of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.

In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows shall be darkened,

Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:

And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge: yes, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

Because of the savor of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.

Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but my own vineyard have I not kept.

They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.

Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are replenished from the east, and are sooth-sayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with extended necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,

With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evil-doers shall never be renowned.

Rejoice not thou, all Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a basilisk, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;

In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with foreign slips:

In that day shall Egypt be like women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.

And the land of Judah shall be a terror to Egypt, every one that maketh mention of it shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.

And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry to the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a savior, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.

Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labor not to comfort me, because of the devastation of the daughter of my people.

The earth also is defiled under its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we in agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not reach us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

Bread-corn is bruised; because he will not always be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.

Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and lean upon it:

Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and rely on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not to the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!

Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

The beast of the field shall honor me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.

Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish becometh putrid, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death: because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.