Holy Bible: King James Version, The

by Various

  7:9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

  7:10 My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.

  7:11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

  7:12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

  7:13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

  7:14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

  7:15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

  7:16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

  7:17 I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.

  8:1 O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

  8:2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

  8:3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

  8:4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

  8:5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

  8:6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

  8:7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

  8:8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

  8:9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

  9:1 I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.

  9:2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.

  9:3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

  9:4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.

  9:5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.

  9:6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.

  9:7 But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.

  9:8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.

  9:9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

  9:10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

  9:11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.

  9:12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

  9:13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

  9:14 That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.

  9:15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

  9:16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

  9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

  9:18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

  9:19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.

  9:20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

  10:1 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

  10:2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

  10:3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

  10:4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

  10:5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

  10:6 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.

  10:7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

  10:8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

  10:9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

  10:10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

  10:11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.

  10:12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.

  10:13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

  10:14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

  10:15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

  10:16 The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.

  10:17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

  10:18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

  11:1 In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

  11:2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

  11:3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

  11:4 The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

  11:5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

  11:6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

  11:7 For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.

  12:1 Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

  12:2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

  12:3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

  12:4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

  12:5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

  12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

  12:7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

  12:8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

  13:1 How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

  13:2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

  13:3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep t
he sleep of death;

  13:4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

  13:5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

  13:6 I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.

  14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

  14:2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

  14:3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

  14:4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

  14:5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

  14:6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

  14:7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

  15:1 Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?

  15:2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

  15:3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

  15:4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

  15:5 He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

  16:1 Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.

  16:2 O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;

  16:3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

  16:4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.

  16:5 The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.

  16:6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

  16:7 I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.

  16:8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

  16:9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.

  16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

  16:11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

  17:1 Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

  17:2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.

  17:3 Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

  17:4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

  17:5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

  17:6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.

  17:7 Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.

  17:8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

  17:9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

  17:10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

  17:11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

  17:12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  17:13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:

  17:14 From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

  17:15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

  18:1 I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

  18:2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

  18:3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

  18:4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

  18:5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

  18:6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

  18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

  18:8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

  18:9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

  18:10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

  18:11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

  18:12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

  18:13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.

  18:14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

  18:15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

  18:16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

  18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

  18:18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

  18:19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

  18:20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

  18:21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

  18:22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.

  18:23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

  18:24 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

  18:25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;

  18:26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.

  18:27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.

  18:28 For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

  18:29 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

  18:30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.

  18:31 For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?

  18:32 It is God
that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

  18:33 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.

  18:34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.