Psalms 84-86

Psalm 84

¹For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

²My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.

³Yea, the sparrow hath found her an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

⁴Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah

⁵Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

⁶Passing through the valley of Weeping they make it a place of springs; yea, the early rain covereth it with blessings.

⁷They go from strength to strength, every one of them appeareth before God in Zion.

⁸O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah

⁹Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.

¹⁰For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

¹¹For the LORD God is a sun and a shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

¹²O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

Psalm 85

¹For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. LORD, Thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.

²Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah

³Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.

⁴Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine indignation toward us to cease.

⁵Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?

⁶Wilt thou not quicken us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?

⁷Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.

⁸I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

⁹Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.

¹⁰Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

¹¹Truth springeth out of the earth; and righteousness hath looked down from heaven.

¹²Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.

¹³Righteousness shall go before him; and shall make his footsteps a way to walk in.

Psalm 86

¹A Prayer Of David. Bow down thine ear, O LORD, and answer me; for I am poor and needy.

²Preserve my soul; for I am godly: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.

³Be merciful unto me, O Lord; for unto thee do I cry all the day long.

⁴Rejoice the soul of thy servant; for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

⁵For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

⁶Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and hearken unto the voice of my supplications.

⁷In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee; for thou wilt answer me.

⁸There is none like unto thee among the gods, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.

⁹All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and they shall glorify thy name.

¹⁰For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.

¹¹Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

¹²I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart; and I will glorify thy name for evermore.

¹³For great is thy mercy toward me; and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest pit.

¹⁴O God, the proud are risen up against me, and the congregation of violent men have sought after my soul, and have not set thee before them.

¹⁵But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

¹⁶O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

¹⁷Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed, because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me,