Reward them according to their deeds and wickedness of their own inventions. Recompense them after the works of their hands; pay them that they have deserved.

Give the LORD the honour due unto his name; worship the LORD with holy worship.

He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon also, and Sirion, like a young unicorn.

The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to bring forth young, and discovereth the thick bushes; in his temple doth every man speak of his honour.

{A Psalm and song of the dedication of the house of David} I will magnify thee, O LORD; for thou hast set me up, and not suffered my foes to triumph over me.

Thou, LORD, hast brought my soul out of hell: thou hast kept my life from them that go down to the pit.

Then cried I unto thee, O LORD, and got me to my LORD right humbly.

{To the Chanter, A Psalm of David} In thee, O LORD, have I put my trust; let me never be put to confusion. Deliver me in thy righteousness.

Bow down thine ear to me; make haste to deliver me. And be thou my strong rock, and a house of defense, that thou mayest save me.

For I have heard the blasphemy of the multitude, and fear is on every side, while they conspire together against me, and take their counsel to take away my life.

Let me not be confounded, O LORD, for I have called upon thee: let the ungodly be put to confusion, and put to silence in the grave.

Let the lying lips be put to silence, which cruelly, disdainfully, and despitefully speak against the righteous.

Thanks be to the LORD; for he hath showed me marvelous great kindness in a strong city.

For thy hand is heavy upon me both day and night, and my moisture is like the drought in Summer. Selah.

For this shall every saint make his prayer unto thee in due season; but in the great water-floods they shall not come nigh him.

Be ye not like to horse and mule, which have no understanding, whose mouths must be held with bit and bridle, if they will not obey thee.

Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous, for it becometh well the just to be thankful.

The LORD bringeth the counsel of the Heathen to naught, and maketh the devices of the people to be of none effect, and casteth out the counsels of princes.

But the counsel of the LORD endureth, and the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation.

Blessed are the people whose God is the LORD Jehovah; and blessed are the folk whom he hath chosen to be his inheritance.

A horse is counted but a vain thing to save a man; neither shall he deliver any man by his great strength.

that he may deliver their soul from death, and to feed them in the time of dearth.

Let thy merciful kindness, O LORD, be upon us, like as we do put our trust in thee.

The lions do lack, and suffer hunger; but they who seek the LORD shall want no manner of thing that is good.

What man is he that lusteth to live, and would fain see good days?

Eschew evil, and do good; seek peace, and ensue it.

But the face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to root out the remembrance of them from the earth.

Lay hand upon the shield and buckler, and stand up to help me.

Let them be confounded, and put to shame, that seek after my soul; let them be turned back and brought to confusion, that imagine mischief for me.

Let their way be dark and slippery, and let the angel of the LORD to persecute them.

For they have privily laid their net to destroy me without a cause; yea, and made a pit for my soul, which I never deserved.

All my bones shall say, "LORD, who is like unto thee, who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him? Yea, the poor, and him that is in misery, from him that spoileth him?"

False witnesses are risen up, and lay to my charge things that I know not.

They reward me evil for good, to the great discomfort of my soul.

Awake, and stand up to judge my quarrel; avenge thou my cause, my God and my LORD.

Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness, and let them not triumph over me.

Let them be put to confusion and shame together, that rejoice at my trouble: let them be clothed with rebuke and dishonour, that boast themselves against me.

And as for my tongue, it shall be talking of thy righteousness and of thy praise, all the day long.

{To the Chanter, of David the servant of the Lord} My heart showeth me the wickedness of the ungodly, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

The words of his mouth are unrighteous and full of deceit; he hath left off to behave himself wisely, and to do good.

There are they fallen, all that work wickedness; they are cast down, and shall not be able to stand.

Commit thy way unto the LORD, set thy hope in him, and he shall bring it to pass.

Leave off from wrath, and let go displeasure; let not thy jealousy move thee also to do evil.

But the LORD laugheth him to scorn, for he seeth that his day is coming.

The ungodly have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the simple and poor, and to slay such as are of a right conversation.

Flee from evil, and do the thing that is good, and dwell for evermore.

The ungodly watcheth the righteous, and seeketh occasion to slay him.

{To the Chanter, To Bring Remembrance} Put me not to rebuke, O LORD, in thy anger; O chasten me not in thy heavy displeasure.

For my wickednesses are gone over my head, and are like a sore burden, too heavy for me to bear.

I am brought into so great trouble and misery, that I go mourning all the day long.

They also that sought after my life laid snares for me; and they that went about to do me evil talked of wickedness, and imagined deceit all the day long.

I am ready to suffer trouble, and my heaviness is ever in my sight.

Haste thee to help me, O LORD God of my salvation.

{To the Chanter, for praising, a Psalm of David} I said, "I will take heed to my ways, that I offend not in my tongue. I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle, while the ungodly is in my sight."

I held my tongue; I was dumb. I kept silence, yea even from good words, but it was pain and grief to me.

"LORD, let me know mine end, and the number of my days: that I may be certified how long I have to live.

When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment; every man therefore is but vanity. Selah.

{To the chanter, a Psalm of David} I waited patiently for the LORD, and he inclined unto me, and heard my calling.

Blessed is the man that hath set his hope in the LORD, and turned not unto the proud, and to such as go about with lies.

O LORD my God, great are the wondrous works which thou hast done, like as be also thy thoughts, which are to us-ward; and yet there is no man that ordereth them unto thee. If I should declare them, and speak of them, they should be more than I am able to express.

that I should fulfill thy will, O my God. I am content to do it; yea, thy law is within my heart."

For innumerable troubles are come about me; my sins have taken such hold upon me, that I am not able to look up. Yea, they are more in number than the hairs of my head, and my heart hath failed me.

O LORD, let it be thy pleasure to deliver me; make haste, O LORD, to help me.

Let them be ashamed and confounded together, that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward, and put to rebuke, that wish me evil.

{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} Blessed is he, that considereth the poor; the LORD shall deliver him in the time of trouble.

The LORD shall preserve him, and keep him alive: he shall make him to prosper upon earth, and shall not deliver him into the will of his enemies.

Mine enemies speak evil upon me, "When shall he die, and his name perish?"

And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity, and his heart conceiveth falsehood within himself; and when he cometh forth, he telleth it.

All mine enemies whisper together against me; even against me do they imagine this evil.

{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} Like as the hart desireth the water brooks, so longeth my soul after thee, O God.

My soul is athirst for God, yea even for the living God; when shall I come to appear before the presence of God?

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they daily say unto me, "Where is now thy God?"

Now when I think thereupon, I pour out my heart by myself; for I went with the multitude, and brought them forth into the house of God, in the voice of praise and thanksgiving, among such as keep holy-day.

O send out thy light and thy truth, that they may lead me and bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy dwelling;

{To the Chanter, an instruction of the sons of Korah} We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us what thou hast done in their time of old.

But it is thou that savest us from our enemies, and puttest them to confusion that hate us.

We make our boast of God all day long, and will praise thy Name forever. Selah.

But now thou art far off, and puttest us to confusion, and goest not forth with our armies.

Thou makest us to turn our backs upon our enemies, so that they which hate us spoil our goods.

Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours, to be laughed to scorn and had in derision of them that are round about us.

Thou makest us to be a byword among the Heathen, and that the people shake their heads at us.

And though all this be come upon us, yet do we not forget thee, nor behave ourselves unfaithfully in thy covenant.

If we have forgotten the name of our God, and hold up our hands to any strange god,

For thy sake also we are killed all the day long, and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain.

{To the Chanter, upon Shoshannim, an instruction of the children of Korah; a song of love} My heart is inditing of a good matter; I speak the things which I have made unto the King. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Gird thee with thy sword upon thy thigh, O thou Most Mighty, according to thy worship and renown.

I will remember thy name from one generation to another; therefore shall the people give thanks unto thee, world without end.

{To the Chanter, a song of the children of Korah upon Alamoth} God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

He hath made wars to cease in all the world: he hath broken the bow, he hath knapped the spear in sunder, and burnt the chariots in the fire.

{To the Chanter, a Psalm of the children of Korah} O clap your hands together, all ye people; O sing unto God with the voice of melody!

For the LORD is high, and to be feared; he is the great King upon all the earth.

{A Song of a Psalm of the children of Korah} Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised, in the city of our God, even upon his holy hill.

They marveled, to see such things: they were astonished, and suddenly cast down.

O God, according to thy name, so is thy praise unto the world's end: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

{To the Chanter, a Psalm of the children of Korah} O Hear this, all ye people: ponder it with your ears, all ye that dwell in the world,

I will incline mine ear to the parable, and show my dark speech upon the harp.

for it costeth more to redeem their souls, so that he must let that alone forever.

For he seeth that wise men also die and perish together, as well as the ignorant and foolish, and leave their riches for others.

And yet they think that their houses shall continue forever, and that their dwelling-places shall endure from one generation to another; and call the lands after their own names.

whereas thou hatest to be reformed, and hast cast my words behind thee?