Yet they tested and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

Pour out your wrath upon the nations that have not known you, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon your name.

O remember not against us former iniquities: let your tender mercies speedily precede us: for we are brought very low.

Then will we not go back from you: revive us, and we will call upon your name.

This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.

But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would have none of me.

They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

[A Psalm or Song of Asaph.] Keep not silence, O God: hold not your peace, and be not still, O God.

Will you not revive us again: that your people may rejoice in you?

I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set you before them.

[A Song or Psalm for the Sons of Karah. To the Chief Musician upon mahanath leannoth. A maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.] O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you:

The enemy shall not outwit him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.

You have also turned back the edge of his sword, and have not made him to stand in the battle.

What man is he that lives, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

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

You shall not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flies by day;

A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you.

To show forth your lovingkindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night,

A senseless man knows not; neither does a fool understand this.

Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?

He that chastises the nations, shall he not correct? he that teaches man knowledge, shall he not know?

For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

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

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

Unto whom I swore in my anger that they should not enter into my rest.

Say among the nations that the LORD reigns: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.

Know you that the LORD he is God: it is he that has made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

I will set no wicked thing before my eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

A perverse heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: he that has a haughty look and a proud heart will I not endure.

He that works deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that tells lies shall not tarry in my sight.

Hide not your face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline your ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.

He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.

I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: your years are throughout all generations.

Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:

He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger forever.

He has not dealt with us according to our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed forever.

You have set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.

You make darkness, and it is night: in which all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

Saying, Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.

He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.

He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.

Our fathers understood not your wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of your mercies; but rebelled against him at the sea, even at the Red sea.

And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.

They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.

They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:

He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and permits not their cattle to decrease.

Will not you, O God, who has cast us off? and will not you, O God, go forth with our armies?

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] Hold not your peace, O God of my praise;

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

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

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

The LORD has sworn, and will not relent, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

Surely he shall not be moved forever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.

He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.

His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he sees his desire upon his enemies.

Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto your name give glory, for your mercy, and for your truth's sake.

They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:

They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:

They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.

The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.

The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?

I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.

The LORD has chastened me severely: but he has not given me over unto death.

Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all your commandments.

I will keep your statutes: O forsake me not utterly.

With my whole heart have I sought you: O let me not wander from your commandments.

Your word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

I will delight myself in your statutes: I will not forget your word.

I am a stranger in the earth: hide not your commandments from me.

I have clung unto your testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.

Incline my heart unto your testimonies, and not to covetousness.

And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in your judgments.

I will speak of your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.

The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not turned from your law.

I have remembered your name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept your law.

I made haste, and delayed not to keep your commandments.

The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten your law.

Let my heart be sound in your statutes; that I be not ashamed.

For I am become like a wineskin in the smoke; yet do I not forget your statutes.

The proud have dug pits for me, which is not after your law.

They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not your precepts.

I have not departed from your judgments: for you have taught me.

My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget your law.

The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I strayed not from your precepts.

Uphold me according unto your word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.