I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.

Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.

Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.

Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.

KOPH. I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.

{A Song of degrees.} I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.

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

Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;

I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,

We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.

The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.

If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.

This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.

I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.

I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.

There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.

His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.

For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.

{A Psalm of David.} I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee.

I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.

The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.

I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.

{David's Psalm of praise.} I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.

Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.

I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.

And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness.

He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.

The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.

For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.

He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.

That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.

The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.

A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.

A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.

The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.

The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.

The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.

Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.

She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.

We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.

I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.

I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;

Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.