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Psalm 52: A Song Of Confidence In God’s Enduring Love

Psalm 52:1 Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

Psalm 52:2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Psalm 52:3 Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah

Psalm 52:4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

Psalm 52:6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:

Psalm 52:7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

Psalm 52:8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever.

Psalm 52:9 I will praise thee forever because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.

Psalm 53: A Warning And A Promise

Psalm 53:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

Psalm 53:2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God

Psalm 53:3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Psalm 53:5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame because God hath despised them.

Psalm 53:6 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

Psalm 54: When Enemies Surround, Trust In God

Psalm 54:1 Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.

Psalm 54:2 Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.

Psalm 54:3 For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

Psalm 54:5 He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off thy truth.

Psalm 54:6 I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O LORD; for it is good.

Psalm 54:7 For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies.

Psalm 49: Wisdom For A World Obsessed With Wealth

Psalm 49:1 Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:

Psalm 49:2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.

Psalm 49:3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

Psalm 49:4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

Psalm 49:5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?

Psalm 49:6 They that trust in the wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

Psalm 49:8 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth forever:)

Psalm 49:9 That he should still live forever, and not see corruption.

Psalm 49:10 For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish and leave their wealth to others.

Psalm 49:11 Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue forever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

Psalm 49:12 Nevertheless man being in honor abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.

Psalm 49:13 This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approves their sayings. Selah.

Psalm 49:14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

Psalm 49:15 But God will redeem my soul from the power ofthe grave: for he shall receive me. Selah

Psalm 49:17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.

Psalm 49:18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee when thou doest well to thy self.

Psalm 49:19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

Psalm 49:20 Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.

Psalm 50: God’s Ownership Of All Creation

Psalm 50:1 The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

Psalm 50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

Psalm 50:3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

Psalm 50:4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

Psalm 50:5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

Psalm 50:6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.

Psalm 50:7 Hear, O my people and I will speak; O Israel and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.

Psalm 50:9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.

Psalm 50:10 For every beast ofthe forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

Psalm 50:11 Know all the fowls ofthe mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

Psalm 50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

Psalm 50:13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Psalm 50:14 Offer unto God thanksgiving, and pay thy vows unto the highest:

Psalm 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Psalm 50:16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

Psalm 50:17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

Psalm 50:18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consented with him and hast been partaker with adulterers.

Psalm 50:19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

Psalm 50:21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

Psalm 50:22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

Psalm 50:23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God

Psalm 51: Healing And Hope Through God’s Mercy

Psalm 51:1 Have mercy upon me, 0 God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Psalm 51:2 Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity and cleanse me from my sin

Psalm 51:3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

Psalm 51:4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

Psalm 51:6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part, thou shalt make me know wisdom.

Psalm 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Psalm 51:8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

Psalm 51:9 Hide thy face from my sins and blot out all mine iniquities.

Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Psalm 51:11 Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy holy spirit from me.

Psalm 51:12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free spirit.

Psalm 51:13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

Psalm 51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

Psalm 51:15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

Psalm 51:16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Psalm 51:18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

Psalm 51:19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

Psalm 46: Trusting God As Our Ever-Present Help In Trouble

Psalm 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Psalm 46:2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

Psalm 46:3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

Psalm 46:4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place ofthe tabernacles ofthe highest.

Psalm 46:6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

Psalm 46:7 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

Psalm 46:8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.

Psalm 46:9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.

Psalm 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

Psalm 46:11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

Psalm 47: Worshiping The Lord Most High With Joy

Psalm 47:1 O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.

Psalm 47:2 For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.

Psalm 47:3 He shall subdue the people under us and the nations under our feet.

Psalm 47:4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

Psalm 47:5 God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.

Psalm 47:7 For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.

Psalm 47:8 God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.

Psalm 47:9 The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people ofthe God of Abraham: for the shields ofthe earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted

Psalm 48: Worshiping The God Of Eternal Strength

Psalm 48:1 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

Psalm 48:2 Beautiful for situation, the joy ofthe whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King,

Psalm 48:3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

Psalm 48:4 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.

Psalm 48:5 They saw it and so they marveled; they were troubled, and hasted away.

Psalm 48:6 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

Psalm 48:7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

Psalm 48:9 We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

Psalm 48:10 According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

Psalm 48:11 Let Mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

Psalm 48:12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof

Psalm 48:13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

Psalm 48:14 For this God is our God forever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

Psalm 40: Trusting God Through The Waiting

Psalm 40:1 I waited patiently for the LORD, and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry

Psalm 40:2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

Psalm 40:3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

Psalm 40:4 Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

Psalm 40:5 Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

Psalm 40:6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

Psalm 40:7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

Psalm 40:9 Have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

Psalm 40:10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

Psalm 40:11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

Psalm 40:12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

Psalm 40:13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.

Psalm 40:14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

Psalm 40:15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

Psalm 40:17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

Psalm 41: God’s Protection For The Compassionate

Psalm 41:1 Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

Psalm 41:2 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive, and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.

Psalm 41:3 The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

Psalm 41:4 I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

Psalm 41:5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

Psalm 41:7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

Psalm 41:8 An evil disease, say they, death fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.

Psalm 41:9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

Psalm 41:10 But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.

Psalm 41:11 By this I know that thou favourest me because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.

Psalm 41:12 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face forever.

Psalm 41:13 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.

Psalm 42: Worship In The Wilderness Of The Soul

Psalm 42:1 As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, 0 God.

Psalm 42:2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall l come and appear before God?

Psalm 42:3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

Psalm 42:4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

Psalm 42:5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

Psalm 42:7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

Psalm 42:8 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

Psalm 42:9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression ofthe enemy?

Psalm 42:10 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?

Psalm 42:11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Psalm 43: From Despair To Joyful Praise

Psalm 43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

Psalm 43:2 For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Psalm 43:4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.

Psalm 43:5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God

Psalm 44: Balancing Lament And Trust In God

Psalm 44:1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

Psalm 44:2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and planted them; how thou didst afflict the people and cast them out.

Psalm 44:3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

Psalm 44:4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

Psalm 44:5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

Psalm 44:6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

Psalm 44:7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.

Psalm 44:8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name forever. Selah.

Psalm 44:9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

Psalm 44:11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat, and hast scattered us among the heathen.

Psalm 44:12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price. Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Psalm 44:14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking ofthe head among the people.

Psalm 44:15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

Psalm 44:16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.

Psalm 44:17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

Psalm 44:18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

Psalm 44:19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Psalm 44:21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

Psalm 44:23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off forever.

Psalm 44:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

Psalm 44:25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

Psalm 44:26 Arise for our help and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake

Psalm 45: Celebrating The Eternal Reign Of The King

Psalm 45:1 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Psalm 45:2 Thou art fairer than the children of men; grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee forever.

Psalm 45:3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.

Psalm 45:5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.

Psalm 45:6 Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.

Psalm 45:7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

Psalm 45:8 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

Psalm 45:9 Kings’ daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

Psalm 45:10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;

Psalm 45:11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.

Psalm 45:12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall entreat thy favour.

Psalm 45:13 The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.

Psalm 45:15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace.

Psalm 45:16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

Psalm 45:17 I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee forever and ever.