Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

{A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day.} It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:

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:

The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.

They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

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

Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;

But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.

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:

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

Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice

The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy.

Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.

Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.

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

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

{A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD.} Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

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

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

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

At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.

These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.

He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.

Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.

When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.

To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.

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

And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.

He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.

Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.

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

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

They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:

And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.

Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.

Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.

Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.

The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.

Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

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

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.

That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.

For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.

{A Psalm of David.} The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.

The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.

The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;

When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;

The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.

What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?

Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me?

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

It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.

It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.

Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.

This is the LORD'S doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.

This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.

Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.

HE. Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.

Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

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

And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.

The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.

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

It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

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

Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.

MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

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