Psalms 9-16

Psalm 9

¹For the Chief Musician; set to Muthlabben. A Psalm of David. I will give thanks unto the LORD with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvelous works.

²I will be glad and exult in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou Most High.

³When mine enemies turn back, they stumble and perish at thy presence.

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

⁵Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.

⁶The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for ever; and the cities which thou hast overthrown, their very memorial is perished.

⁷But the LORD sitteth as king for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.

⁸And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the peoples in uprightness.

⁹The LORD also will be a high tower for the oppressed, a high tower in times of trouble;

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

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

¹²For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the poor.

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

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

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

¹⁶The LORD hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higaion. Selah

¹⁷The wicked shall return to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

¹⁸For the needy shall not alway be forgotten, nor the expectation of the poor perish for ever.

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

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

Psalm 10

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

²In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

³For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and the covetous renounceth, yea, contemneth the LORD.

⁴The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith, He will not require it. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

⁵His ways are firm at all times; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.

⁶He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved: to all generations I shall not be in adversity.

⁷His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

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

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

¹⁰He croucheth, he boweth down, and the helpless fall by his strong ones.

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

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

¹³Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, and say in his heart, Thou wilt not require it?

¹⁴Thon hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to take it into thy hand: the helpless committeth himself unto thee; thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.

¹⁵Break thou the arm of the wicked; and as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

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

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

¹⁸To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man which is of the earth may be terrible no more.

Psalm 11

¹For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

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

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

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

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

⁶Upon the wicked he shall rain snares; fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.

⁷For the LORD is righteous; he loveth righteousness: the upright shall behold his face.

Psalm 12

¹For the Chief Musician; set to the Sheminith. A Psalm of David. Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

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

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

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

⁵For the spoiling of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety at whom they puff.

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

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

⁸The wicked walk on every side, when vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

Psalm 13

¹For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long, O LORD, wilt thou forget me for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

²How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart all the day? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

³Consider and answer me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

⁴Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; lest mine adversaries rejoice when I am moved.

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

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

Psalm 14

¹For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. 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.

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

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

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

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

⁶Ye put to shame the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

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

Psalm 15

¹A Psalm of David. LORD, who shall sojourn in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?

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

³He that slandereth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his friend, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

⁴In whose eyes a reprobate is despised; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

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

Psalm 16

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

²I have said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: I have no good beyond thee.

³As for the saints that are in the earth, they are the excellent in whom is all my delight.

⁴Their sorrows shall be multiplied that exchange the LORD for another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take their names upon my lips.

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

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

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

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

⁹Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall dwell in safety.

¹⁰For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol; neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption.

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