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To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.
58:1 Do ye indeed
 speak righteousness, O congregation?  do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of
 men?
58:2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands
 in the earth.
58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb:  they go astray as soon as they
 be born, speaking lies.
58:4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent:  they are like the
 deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
58:5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so
 wisely.
58:6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth:  break out the great teeth of
 the young lions, O LORD.
58:7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually:  when he
 bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
58:8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away:  like
 the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
58:9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a
 whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance:  he shall
 wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
58:11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous:
  verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

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To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent,
 and they watched the house to kill him.
59:1 Deliver me from mine enemies, O my
 God:  defend me from them that rise up against me.
59:2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
59:3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul:  the mighty are gathered against
 me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.
59:4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault:  awake to help me,
 and behold.
59:5 Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit
 all the heathen:  be not merciful to any wicked transgressors.  Selah.
59:6 They return at evening:  they make a noise like a dog, and go round
 about the city.
59:7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth:  swords are in their lips: 
 for who, say they, doth hear?
59:8 But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen
 in derision.
59:9 Because of his strength will I wait upon thee:  for God is my
 defence.
59:10 The God of my mercy shall prevent me:  God shall let me see my
 desire upon mine enemies.
59:11 Slay them not, lest my people forget:  scatter them by thy power; and
 bring them down, O Lord our shield.
59:12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them
 even be taken in their pride:  and for cursing and lying which they
 speak.
59:13 Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: 
 and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. 
 Selah.
59:14 And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a
 dog, and go round about the city.
59:15 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not
 satisfied.
59:16 But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in
 the morning:  for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my
 trouble.
59:17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing:  for God is my defence, and
 the God of my mercy.

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To the chief Musician upon Shushaneduth, Michtam of David, to teach;
 when he strove with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah, when Joab returned,
 and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand.
60:1 O God, thou hast
 cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn
 thyself to us again.
60:2 Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it:  heal the
 breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
60:3 Thou hast showed thy people hard things:  thou hast made us to drink
 the wine of astonishment.
60:4 Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be
 displayed because of the truth.  Selah.
60:5 That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear
 me.
60:6 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem,
 and mete out the valley of Succoth.
60:7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the
 strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
60:8 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe:  Philistia,
 triumph thou because of me.
60:9 Who will bring me into the strong city?  who will lead me into Edom?
60:10 Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off?  and thou, O God,
 which didst not go out with our armies?
60:11 Give us help from trouble:  for vain is the help of man.
60:12 Through God we shall do valiantly:  for he it is that shall tread
 down our enemies.

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To the chief Musician upon Neginah, A Psalm of David.
61:1 Hear my cry, O
 God; attend unto my prayer.
61:2 From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is
 overwhelmed:  lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
61:3 For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the
 enemy.
61:4 I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever:  I will trust in the covert of
 thy wings.  Selah.
61:5 For thou, O God, hast heard my vows:  thou hast given me the heritage
 of those that fear thy name.
61:6 Thou wilt prolong the king's life:  and his years as many
 generations.
61:7 He shall abide before God for ever:  O prepare mercy and truth, which
 may preserve him.
61:8 So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform
 my vows.

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To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.
62:1 Truly my soul
 waiteth upon God:  from him cometh my salvation.
62:2 He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not
 be greatly moved.
62:3 How long will ye imagine mischief against a man?  ye shall be slain all
 of you:  as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
62:4 They only consult to cast him down from his excellency:  they delight
 in lies:  they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.  Selah.
62:5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
62:6 He only is my rock and my salvation:  he is my defence; I shall not
 be moved.
62:7 In God is my salvation and my glory:  the rock of my strength, and
 my refuge, is in God.
62:8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him:
  God is a refuge for us.  Selah.
62:9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a
 lie:  to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than
 vanity.
62:10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery:  if riches
 increase, set not your heart upon them.
62:11 God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth
 unto God.
62:12 Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy:  for thou renderest to
 every man according to his work.

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A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
63:1 O God, thou
 art my God; early will I seek thee:  my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh
 longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
63:2 To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the
 sanctuary.
63:3 Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise
 thee.
63:4 Thus will I bless thee while I live:  I will lift up my hands in thy
 name.
63:5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth
 shall praise thee with joyful lips:
63:6 When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night
 watches.
63:7 Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings
 will I rejoice.
63:8 My soul followeth hard after thee:  thy right hand upholdeth me.
63:9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower
 parts of the earth.
63:10 They shall fall by the sword:  they shall be a portion for foxes.
63:11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him
 shall glory:  but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

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To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
64:1 Hear my voice, O God, in my
 prayer:  preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
64:2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of
 the workers of iniquity:
64:3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot
 their arrows, even bitter words:
64:4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect:  suddenly do they shoot
 at him, and fear not.
64:5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter:  they commune of laying
 snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
64:6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search:  both
 the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
64:7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be
 wounded.
64:8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves:  all that
 see them shall flee away.
64:9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they
 shall wisely consider of his doing.
64:10 The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and
 all the upright in heart shall glory.

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To the chief Musician, A Psalm and Song of David.
65:1 Praise waiteth for
 thee, O God, in Sion:  and unto thee shall the vow be performed.
65:2 O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
65:3 Iniquities prevail against me:  as for our transgressions, thou shalt
 purge them away.
65:4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto
 thee, that he may dwell in thy courts:  we shall be satisfied with the
 goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.
65:5 By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our
 salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of
 them that are afar off upon the sea:
65:6 Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with
 power:
65:7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the
 tumult of the people.
65:8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: 
 thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
65:9 Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it:  thou greatly enrichest it
 with the river of God, which is full of water:  thou preparest them corn,
 when thou hast so provided for it.
65:10 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly:  thou settlest the
 furrows thereof:  thou makest it soft with showers:  thou blessest the
 springing thereof.
65:11 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.
65:12 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness:  and the little hills
 rejoice on every side.
65:13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered
 over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.

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To the chief Musician, A Song or Psalm.
66:1 Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:
66:2 Sing forth the honour of his name:  make his praise glorious.
66:3 Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works!  through the
 greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.
66:4 All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall
 sing to thy name.  Selah.
66:5 Come and see the works of God:  he is terrible in his doing toward
 the children of men.
66:6 He turned the sea into dry land:  they went through the flood on
 foot:  there did we rejoice in him.
66:7 He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations:  let not
 the rebellious exalt themselves.  Selah.
66:8 O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be
 heard:
66:9 Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.
66:10 For thou, O God, hast proved us:  thou hast tried us, as silver is
 tried.
66:11 Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our
 loins.
66:12 Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and
 through water:  but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.
66:13 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings:  I will pay thee my
 vows,
66:14 Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in
 trouble.
66:15 I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense
 of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats.  Selah.
66:16 Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath
 done for my soul.
66:17 I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.
66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
66:19 But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my
 prayer.
66:20 Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy
 from me.

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To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song.
67:1 God be merciful
 unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.
67:2 That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all
 nations.
67:3 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.
67:4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy:  for thou shalt judge the
 people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth.  Selah.
67:5 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.
67:6 Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own
 God, shall bless us.
67:7 God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.

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To the chief Musician, A Psalm or Song of David.
68:1 Let God arise, let
 his enemies be scattered:  let them also that hate him flee before him.
68:2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away:  as wax melteth before
 the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
68:3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God:  yea, let
 them exceedingly rejoice.
68:4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name:  extol him that rideth upon
 the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his
 holy habitation.
68:6 God setteth the solitary in families:  he bringeth out those which are
 bound with chains:  but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
68:7 O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march
 through the wilderness; Selah:
68:8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: 
 even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
68:9 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm
 thine inheritance, when it was weary.
68:10 Thy congregation hath dwelt therein:  thou, O God, hast prepared of
 thy goodness for the poor.
68:11 The Lord gave the word:  great was the company of those that
 published it.
68:12 Kings of armies did flee apace:  and she that tarried at home divided
 the spoil.
68:13 Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of
 a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
68:14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in
 Salmon.
68:15 The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill
 of Bashan.
68:16 Why leap ye, ye high hills?  this is the hill which God desireth
 to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.
68:17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels:
  the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.
68:18 Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive:  thou
 hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD
 God might dwell among them.
68:19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even
 the God of our salvation.  Selah.
68:20 He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord
 belong the issues from death.
68:21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of
 such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
68:22 The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my
 people again from the depths of the sea:
68:23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the
 tongue of thy dogs in the same.
68:24 They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my
 King, in the sanctuary.
68:25 The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after;
 among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
68:26 Bless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain
 of Israel.
68:27 There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah
 and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
68:28 Thy God hath commanded thy strength:  strengthen, O God, that which
 thou hast wrought for us.
68:29 Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto
 thee.
68:30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the
 calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of
 silver:  scatter thou the people that delight in war.
68:31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her
 hands unto God.
68:32 Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto the Lord;
 Selah:
68:33 To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old;
 lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
68:34 Ascribe ye strength unto God:  his excellency is over Israel, and
 his strength is in the clouds.
68:35 O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places:  the God of Israel
 is he that giveth strength and power unto his people.  Blessed be
 God.

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To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.
69:1 Save me, O
 God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
69:2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing:  I am come into deep
 waters, where the floods overflow me.
69:3 I am weary of my crying:  my throat is dried:  mine eyes fail while I
 wait for my God.
69:4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head:
  they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: 
 then I restored that which I took not away.
69:5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
69:6 Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my
 sake:  let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of
 Israel.
69:7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
69:8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's
 children.
69:9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of
 them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
69:10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my
 reproach.
69:11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
69:12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of
 the drunkards.
69:13 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable
 time:  O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy
 salvation.
69:14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink:  let me be delivered
 from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
69:15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me
 up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
69:16 Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good:  turn unto me
 according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
69:17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me
 speedily.
69:18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it:  deliver me because of mine
 enemies.
69:19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour:  mine
 adversaries are all before thee.
69:20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness:  and I
 looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters,
 but I found none.
69:21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me
 vinegar to drink.
69:22 Let their table become a snare before them:  and that which should
 have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins
 continually to shake.
69:24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take
 hold of them.
69:25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
69:26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the
 grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
69:27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity:  and let them not come into thy
 righteousness.
69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written
 with the righteous.
69:29 But I am poor and sorrowful:  let thy salvation, O God, set me up on
 high.
69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with
 thanksgiving.
69:31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that
 hath horns and hoofs.
69:32 The humble shall see this, and be glad:  and your heart shall live
 that seek God.
69:33 For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
69:34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that
 moveth therein.
69:35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah:  that they
 may dwell there, and have it in possession.
69:36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it:  and they that love
 his name shall dwell therein.

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To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.
70:1 Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.
70:2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul:  let them
 be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
70:3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.
70:4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee:  and let such
 as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
70:5 But I am poor and needy:  make haste unto me, O God: thou art my
 help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.

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71:1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust:  let me never be put to confusion.
71:2 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape:  incline thine
 ear unto me, and save me.
71:3 Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort:  thou
 hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.
71:4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of
 the unrighteous and cruel man.
71:5 For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD:  thou art my trust from my youth.
71:6 By thee have I been holden up from the womb:  thou art he that took me
 out of my mother's bowels:  my praise shall be continually of thee.
71:7 I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.
71:8 Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the
 day.
71:9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength
 faileth.
71:10 For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul
 take counsel together,
71:11 Saying, God hath forsaken him:  persecute and take him; for there is
 none to deliver him.
71:12 O God, be not far from me:  O my God, make haste for my help.
71:13 Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul;
 let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
71:14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.
71:15 My mouth shall show forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all
 the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
71:16 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD:  I will make mention of thy
 righteousness, even of thine only.
71:17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth:  and hitherto have I
 declared thy wondrous works.
71:18 Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I
 have showed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every
 one that is to come.
71:19 Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great
 things:  O God, who is like unto thee!
71:20 Thou, which hast showed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me
 again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
71:21 Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
71:22 I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God:
  unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.
71:23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul,
 which thou hast redeemed.
71:24 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long:  for
 they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.

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A Psalm for Solomon.
72:1 Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy
 righteousness unto the king's son.
72:2 He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with
 judgment.
72:3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by
 righteousness.
72:4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of
 the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
72:5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all
 generations.
72:6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass:  as showers that
 water the earth.
72:7 In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so
 long as the moon endureth.
72:8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto
 the ends of the earth.
72:9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies
 shall lick the dust.
72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents:  the
 kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
72:11 Yea, all kings shall fall down before him:  all nations shall serve
 him.
72:12 For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and
 him that hath no helper.
72:13 He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the
 needy.
72:14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence:  and precious
 shall their blood be in his sight.
72:15 And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: 
 prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be
 praised.
72:16 There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the
 mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon:  and they of the
 city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
72:17 His name shall endure for ever:  his name shall be continued as long
 as the sun:  and men shall be blessed in him:  all nations shall call him
 blessed.
72:18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous
 things.
72:19 And blessed be his glorious name for ever:  and let the whole earth
 be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
72:20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

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A Psalm of Asaph.
73:1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are
 of a clean heart.
73:2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh
 slipped.
73:3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the
 wicked.
73:4 For there are no bands in their death:  but their strength is firm.
73:5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like
 other men.
73:6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth
 them as a garment.
73:7 Their eyes stand out with fatness:  they have more than heart could
 wish.
73:8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression:  they
 speak loftily.
73:9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh
 through the earth.
73:10 Therefore his people return hither:  and waters of a full cup are
 wrung out to them.
73:11 And they say, How doth God know?  and is there knowledge in the most
 High?
73:12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they
 increase in riches.
73:13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in
 innocency.
73:14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
73:15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the
 generation of thy children.
73:16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
73:17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
73:18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places:  thou castedst them
 down into destruction.
73:19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment!  they are
 utterly consumed with terrors.
73:20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou
 shalt despise their image.
73:21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
73:22 So foolish was I, and ignorant:  I was as a beast before thee.
73:23 Nevertheless I am continually with thee:  thou hast holden me by
 my right hand.
73:24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to
 glory.
73:25 Whom have I in heaven but thee?  and there is none upon earth
 that I desire beside thee.
73:26 My flesh and my heart faileth:  but God is the strength of my
 heart, and my portion for ever.
73:27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish:  thou hast
 destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
73:28 But it is good for me to draw near to God:  I have put my trust in
 the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.

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Maschil of Asaph.
74:1 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever?  why
 doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
74:2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod
 of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein
 thou hast dwelt.
74:3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the
 enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
74:4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their
 ensigns for signs.
74:5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick
 trees.
74:6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and
 hammers.
74:7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting
 down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
74:8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together:  they have
 burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
74:9 We see not our signs:  there is no more any prophet:  neither is
 there among us any that knoweth how long.
74:10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach?  shall the enemy
 blaspheme thy name for ever?
74:11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand?  pluck it out of
 thy bosom.
74:12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the
 earth.
74:13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength:  thou brakest the heads of
 the dragons in the waters.
74:14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to
 be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
74:15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood:  thou driedst up mighty
 rivers.
74:16 The day is thine, the night also is thine:  thou hast prepared the
 light and the sun.
74:17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth:  thou hast made summer and
 winter.
74:18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that
 the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
74:19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the
 wicked:  forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
74:20 Have respect unto the covenant:  for the dark places of the earth are
 full of the habitations of cruelty.
74:21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed:  let the poor and needy praise
 thy name.
74:22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause:  remember how the foolish man
 reproacheth thee daily.
74:23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies:  the tumult of those that rise
 up against thee increaseth continually.

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To the chief Musician, Altaschith, A Psalm or Song of Asaph.
75:1 Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks:  for that
 thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.
75:2 When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
75:3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved:  I bear up the
 pillars of it.  Selah.
75:4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly:  and to the wicked, Lift not
 up the horn:
75:5 Lift not up your horn on high:  speak not with a stiff neck.
75:6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor
 from the south.
75:7 But God is the judge:  he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
75:8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it
 is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same:  but the dregs thereof,
 all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
75:9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
75:10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of
 the righteous shall be exalted.

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To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song of Asaph.
76:1 In Judah is God known:  his name is great in Israel.
76:2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
76:3 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and
 the battle.  Selah.
76:4 Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.
76:5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep:  and none of
 the men of might have found their hands.
76:6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into
 a dead sleep.
76:7 Thou, even thou, art to be feared:  and who may stand in thy sight
 when once thou art angry?
76:8 Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared,
 and was still,
76:9 When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth.  Selah.
76:10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee:  the remainder of wrath
 shalt thou restrain.
76:11 Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God:  let all that be round about him
 bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
76:12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes:  he is terrible to the kings
 of the earth.

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To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph.
77:1 I cried unto God
 with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.
77:2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord:  my sore ran in the night,
 and ceased not:  my soul refused to be comforted.
77:3 I remembered God, and was troubled:  I complained, and my spirit was
 overwhelmed.  Selah.
77:4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking:  I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
77:5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
77:6 I call to remembrance my song in the night:  I commune with mine own
 heart:  and my spirit made diligent search.
77:7 Will the Lord cast off for ever?  and will he be favourable no more?
77:8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever?  doth his promise fail for
 evermore?
77:9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious?  hath he in anger shut up his tender
 mercies?  Selah.
77:10 And I said, This is my infirmity:  but I will remember the years
 of the right hand of the most High.
77:11 I will remember the works of the LORD:  surely I will remember thy
 wonders of old.
77:12 I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
77:13 Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary:  who is so great a God as
 our God?
77:14 Thou art the God that doest wonders:  thou hast declared thy
 strength among the people.
77:15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and
 Joseph.  Selah.
77:16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: 
 the depths also were troubled.
77:17 The clouds poured out water:  the skies sent out a sound:  thine
 arrows also went abroad.
77:18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven:  the lightnings
 lightened the world:  the earth trembled and shook.
77:19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy
 footsteps are not known.
77:20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

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Maschil of Asaph.
78:1 Give ear, O my people, to my law:  incline your
 ears to the words of my mouth.
78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable:  I will utter dark sayings of old:
78:3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
78:4 We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation
 to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works
 that he hath done.
78:5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel,
 which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their
 children:
78:6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children
 which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their
 children:
78:7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God,
 but keep his commandments:
78:8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious
 generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose
 spirit was not stedfast with God.
78:9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned
 back in the day of battle.
78:10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
78:11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had showed them.
78:12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of
 Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
78:13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the
 waters to stand as an heap.
78:14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a
 light of fire.
78:15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out
 of the great depths.
78:16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down
 like rivers.
78:17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the
 wilderness.
78:18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
78:19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the
 wilderness?
78:20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams
 overflowed; can he give bread also?  can he provide flesh for his people?
78:21 Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth:  so a fire was kindled
 against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
78:22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
78:23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of
 heaven,
78:24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the
 corn of heaven.
78:25 Man did eat angels' food:  he sent them meat to the full.
78:26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven:  and by his power he
 brought in the south wind.
78:27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as
 the sand of the sea:
78:28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their
 habitations.
78:29 So they did eat, and were well filled:  for he gave them their own
 desire;
78:30 They were not estranged from their lust.  But while their meat was
 yet in their mouths,
78:31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and
 smote down the chosen men of Israel.
78:32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous
 works.
78:33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in
 trouble.
78:34 When he slew them, then they sought him:  and they returned and
 inquired early after God.
78:35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their
 redeemer.
78:36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto
 him with their tongues.
78:37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in
 his covenant.
78:38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and
 destroyed them not:  yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did
 not stir up all his wrath.
78:39 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth
 away, and cometh not again.
78:40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in
 the desert!
78:41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of
 Israel.
78:42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them
 from the enemy.
78:43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of
 Zoan:
78:44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they
 could not drink.
78:45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and
 frogs, which destroyed them.
78:46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour
 unto the locust.
78:47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with
 frost.
78:48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot
 thunderbolts.
78:49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation,
 and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
78:50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but
 gave their life over to the pestilence;
78:51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in
 the tabernacles of Ham:
78:52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the
 wilderness like a flock.
78:53 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not:  but the sea
 overwhelmed their enemies.
78:54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this
 mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
78:55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an
 inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
78:56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his
 testimonies:
78:57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers:  they were
 turned aside like a deceitful bow.
78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him
 to jealousy with their graven images.
78:59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
78:60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he
 placed among men;
78:61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the
 enemy's hand.
78:62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his
 inheritance.
78:63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to
 marriage.
78:64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
78:65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that
 shouteth by reason of wine.
78:66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts:  he put them to a
 perpetual reproach.
78:67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe
 of Ephraim:
78:68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
78:69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which
 he hath established for ever.
78:70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
78:71 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob
 his people, and Israel his inheritance.
78:72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided
 them by the skilfulness of his hands.