Out of the mouth of babes and infants have you ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still the enemy and the avenger.

I will sing unto the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me.

I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was angry.

He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

Teach me your way, O LORD, and lead me in a level path, because of my enemies.

Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

Blessed be the LORD, because he has heard the voice of my supplications.

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

[A Psalm of David.] Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you envious of the workers of iniquity.

Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.

And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

My wounds are foul and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

They also that render evil for good are my adversaries; because I follow the thing that is good.

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because you did it.

By this I know that you favor me, because my enemy does not triumph over me.

I will say unto God my rock, Why have you forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

For you are the God of my strength: why do you cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you had favor unto them.

For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; because of the enemy and avenger.

And in your majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and your right hand shall teach you awesome things.

Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of your judgments.

I will praise you forever, because you have done it: and I will wait on your name; for it is good before your saints.

There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God has scattered the bones of him that encamps against you: you have put them to shame, because God has despised them.

Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abides of old. Selah. Because they do not change, therefore they fear not God.

Because of your strength will I wait upon you: for God is my defense.

You have given a banner to them that fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

Moab is my washpot; upon Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph you because of me.

Because your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.

Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings will I rejoice.

Because of your temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto you.

Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.

Draw near unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies.

Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

Show me a sign for good; that they who hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because you, LORD, have helped me, and comforted me.

Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge, even the most High, your habitation;

Because he has set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of your judgments, O LORD.

Because of the voice of my groaning my bones cling to my skin.

Because of your indignation and your wrath: for you have lifted me up, and cast me down.

Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke rashly with his lips.

Because they rebelled against the words of God, and the counsel of the most High:

Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.

Then are they glad because they are quiet; so he brings them unto their desired haven.

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

But take care of me, O GOD the Lord, for your name's sake: because your mercy is good, deliver me.

I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my supplications.

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

O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endures forever.

Horror has taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake your law.

This I had, because I kept your precepts.

At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto you because of your righteous judgments.

They that fear you will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in your word.

I understand more than the ancients, because I keep your precepts.

Rivers of waters run down my eyes, because they keep not your law.

My zeal has consumed me, because my enemies have forgotten your words.

I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not your word.

Seven times a day do I praise you because of your righteous judgments.

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

Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

The violence of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do justice.

Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

My son, eat honey because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to your taste:

Fret not yourself because of evil men, neither be you envious at the wicked;

To show partiality is not good: because for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

Therefore I hated life; because the work that is done under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and like grasping the wind.

Yea, I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun: because I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor.

For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God keeps him busy with the joy of his heart.

Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is heavy upon him.

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he fears not before God.

Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him in his labor all the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.

Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labors to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover; though a wise man thinks to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

The labor of the foolish wearies every one of them, because he knows not how to go to the city.

In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows grow dim,

Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors are in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets:

And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he pondered, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

Because of the fragrance of your good ointments your name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love you.

Look not upon me, because I am dark, because the sun has darkened me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but my own vineyard have I not kept.

They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man has his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.

Therefore you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with customs from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they make bargains with the children of aliens.

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their deeds are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

Moreover the LORD says, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and tripping as they go, and making a jingling with their feet:

Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against you, saying,

With arrows and with bows shall men come there; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

Because this people refused the waters of Shiloah that flow softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, and slain your people: the descendants of evildoers shall never be renowned.

Prepare slaughter for his children because of the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

Rejoice not, all of Philistia, because the rod of him that struck you is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.