But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.

Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.

I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.

They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.

His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.

{A Psalm of Asaph.} Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.

How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.

He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:

Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.

Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

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

As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.

The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.

It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.

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

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.

They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:

For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.

As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.

Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.

Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

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

They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.

Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.

Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.

I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.

Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:

Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.

Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

{A Song of degrees.} They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.

As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.

As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.

Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.

As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:

He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;

For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.