So foolish was I, and ignorant, even as it were a beast before thee.

He cast out the heathen before them, caused their land to be divided among them for a heritage, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

O let the sorrowful sighing of the prisoners come before thee; and according unto the power of thy arm, preserve those that are appointed to die.

Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh; stir up thy power, and come help us.

O my God, make them like unto a wheel, and as the stubble before the wind.

Righteousness shall go before him, and prepare the way for his coming.

All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O LORD, and shall glorify thy name.

O God, the proud are risen against me; and the congregation of the mighty seeketh after my soul, and have not set thee before their eyes.

{A Psalm and song of the sons of Korah, to the Chanter upon Mahalath, to give thanks, an Instruction of Heman the Ezrahite} O LORD God my Savior, I have cried day and night before thee;

Unto thee have I cried, O LORD, and early shall my prayer come before thee.

Righteousness and equity are the habitation of thy seat; mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

I shall smite down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

His seed shall endure forever, and his throne is like as the sun before me.

Before the mountains were brought forth, before the earth and the world were made, thou art God from everlasting and world without end.

Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee, and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and show ourself glad in him with psalms.

O come, let us worship and fall down, and kneel before the LORD our maker.

Glory and worship are before him; power and honour are in his Sanctuary. {TYNDALE: Praise and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place.}

Ascribe unto the LORD the honour due unto his name; bring presents, and come into his court. {TYNDALE: Give honour unto the LORD's name; bring presents and come before him.}

Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it, let all the trees of the wood leap for joy before the LORD, {TYNDALE: And let the fields rejoice and all that is therein. Moreover, let the trees of the wood ring at the presence of the LORD:}

There goeth a fire before him, to burn up his enemies on every side.

With trumpets also and shophars: O show yourselves joyful before the LORD the King.

before the LORD; for he is come to judge the earth. With righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.

O magnify the LORD our God; fall down before his footstool, for he is holy.

serve the LORD with gladness, and come before his presence with a song.

{A prayer of the afflicted, when he was in woe, and poured out his complaint before the Lord} Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my crying come unto thee.

But he had sent a man before them, even Joseph which was sold to be a bond servant,

So he said he would have destroyed them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in that gap; to turn away his wrathful indignation, lest he should destroy them.

Let them be always before the LORD, that he may root out the memorial of them from off the earth;

I will walk before the LORD, in the land of the living.

I have chosen the way of truth, thy judgments have I laid before me.

I will speak of thy testimonies even before kings, and will not be ashamed.

Before I was troubled, I went wrong, but now I keep thy word.

I keep thy commandments and testimonies; for all my ways are before thee.

{Tav} Let my complaint come before thee, O LORD; give me understanding, according unto thy word.

O let my supplication come before thee; deliver me according to thy word.

My soul fleeth unto the LORD before the morning watch, I say, before the morning watch.

We will go into his tabernacle, and fall low on our knees before his footstool.

{Of David} I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; even before the gods will I sing praises unto thee.

Thou hast fashioned me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips.

Our bones lie scattered before the pit, like as when one graveth and diggeth up the ground.

I pour out my complaint before him, and show him of my trouble.

But in vain is the net laid forth before the bird's eyes.

She calleth before the congregation in the open gates, and showeth her words through the city, saying,

The chief point of wisdom is that thou be willing to obtain wisdom, and before all thy goods to get the understanding.

Let thine eyes behold the thing that is right, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

Doth she not cry before the whole city, and in the gates where men go out and in?

"The LORD himself had me in possession in the beginning of his ways, before he began his works afore time.

I have been ordained from everlasting, and from the beginning before the earth was made.

Before the foundations of the mountains were laid, yea before all hills was I born.

I was with him, ordering all things, delighting daily, and rejoicing always before him.

The evil shall bow themselves before the good; and the ungodly shall wait at the doors of the righteous.

The fear of the LORD is the right science of wisdom; and lowliness goeth before honour.

Pride goeth before destruction; and after a proud stomach there followeth a fall.

He that giveth sentence in a matter before he hear it, is a fool, and worthy to be confounded.

Seest thou not, that they which be diligent in their business stand before kings, and not among the simple people?

When thou sittest at the table to eat with a lord, order thyself mannerly with the things that are set before thee.

A righteous man falling down before the ungodly, is like a troubled well and a spring that is destroyed.

Whoso keepeth evil will secretly, to do hurt, his malice shall be showed before the whole congregation.

Two things I require of thee, that thou will not deny me before I die.

Is there anything, whereof it may be said, "Lo, this is new?" For it was long ago in the times that have been before us.

I communed with mine own heart, saying, "Lo, I am come to a great estate, and have gotten more wisdom, than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem." Yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge,

I bought servants and maidens, and had a great household. As for cattle and sheep, I had more substance of them than all they that were before me in Jerusalem.

As for the people that have been before him, and that come after him, they are innumerable: yet is not their joy the greater through him. This is also a vain thing and a vexation of mind. (v17) When thou comest into the house of God, keep thy foot and draw nigh, that thou mayest hear: that is better than the offerings of fools, for they know not what evil they do

and let not thine heart speak anything rashly before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth, therefore let thy words be few.

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh for to sin, neither say thou before the angel that it is thy ignorance. For then God will be angry at thy voice, and destroy all the works of thine hands.

For what hath the wise more than the fool? What helpeth it the poor, that he knoweth to walk before the living?

be neither too unrighteous also nor too foolish, lest thou die before thy time.

All these things have I proved because of wisdom: For I thought to be wise, but she went farther from me than she was before;

But though an evil person offend a hundredth times, and have a long life: yet am I sure, that it shall go well with them that fear God, because they have him before their eyes.

For all these things purposed I in my mind to seek out. The righteous and wise, yea and their servants also are in the hand of God: and there is no man that knoweth either love or hate, but all things are before them.

Remember thy maker in thy youth, before the days of adversity come, and or the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, "I have no pleasure in them";

before the sun, the light, the moon and stars be darkened, and or the clouds turn again after the rain;

Before the silver lace be taken away, and or the golden band be broken; or the pot be broken at the well, and the wheel upon the cistern;

When ye appear before me, who requireth this of you to tread within my porches?

Thy princes are traitors and companions of thieves. They love gifts altogether, and gape for rewards. As for the fatherless, they help him not to his right, neither will they let the widows causes come before them.

There kneeleth the man, there falleth the man down before them; but thou, O LORD, wilt not leave them unpunished.

For before the child come to knowledge, to eschew the evil and chose the good, the land that thou so abhorest shall be desolate of both her kings.

For why? Before the child shall have knowledge to say 'Abi' and 'Im'," - that is, father, and mother - "the riches of Damascus and the substance of Samaria shall be taken away, through the king of the Assyrians."

Shalt thou multiply the people, and not increase the joy also? They shall rejoice before thee even as men make merry in harvest, and as men that have gotten the victory, when they deal the spoil.

that the Syrians shall lay hold upon them before, and the Philistines behind, and so devour Israel with open mouth. After all this, the wrath of the Lord shall not cease, but yet his hand shall be stretched out still.

Their children shall be slain before their eyes, their houses spoiled, and their wives ravished.

Hell also trembleth at thy coming; all mighty men and princes of the earth step forth before thee. All kings of the earth stand up from their seats,

For before the harvest, when the branch is grown, there shall come ripe fruit out of the flower: and he shall cut down the increase with the scythes, and the branches shall he take away with hooks.

Upon the hill shall he take away the side veil that hangeth before the face of all people, and the covering wherewith all Gentiles are covered.

And as for the fading flower, the glory of his pomp, which is upon the top of the plenteous valley: it shall happen unto him, as to an untimely fruit before the harvest come. Which as soon as it is seen, is by and by devoured, before it come well in a man's hand.

Woe be unto them that seek so deep, to hide their imagination before the LORD, which rehearse their counsels in the darkness, and say, "Who seeth us, or who knoweth us?"

Now therefore, go thy way; and write them this before them in a table, and note it in a book: that it may finally remain and be kept still forever.

But if thou wouldest say unto me: 'We trust in the LORD our God': is not he that God whose High places and altars Hezekiah took down, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem to worship only before this altar?

Now when Hezekiah had received the letter of the messengers, and read it; he went up into the house of the LORD, and opened the letter before the LORD.

And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD on this manner,

Therefore thy furiousness against me, and thy pride is come before me. I will put a ring in thy nose, and a bridle bit in the jaws of thee, and turn thee about, even the same way thou camest.

and said, "Remember, O LORD, that I have walked before thee in truth and a steadfast heart, and have done the thing that is pleasant to thee." And Hezekiah wept sore.

Behold the LORD, even the Almighty, shall come with power, and bear rule with his arm. Behold, he bringeth his treasure with him, and his works go before him.

But unto them that have the LORD before their eyes, shall strength be increased, Eagles wings shall grow upon them; When they run, they shall not fall; and when they go, they shall not be weary."

Who raiseth up the just from the rising of the Sun, and calleth him to go forth? Who casteth down the people, and subdueth the kings before him: that he may throw them all to the ground with his sword, and scatter them like stubble with his bow?

Behold, old things are come to pass, and new things I do declare; and before they come I tell you of them."

I will bring the blind into the street, that they know not: and lead them in to a foot path, that they are ignorant in. I shall make darkness light before them, and the thing that is crooked to be straight. These things will I do, and not forget them.

But I bring you witnesses, sayeth the LORD: even those that are my servants, whom I have chosen - to the intent that ye might be certified and give me faithful credence. Yea, and to consider, that I am he before whom there was never any God, and there shall be none after me.