Psalms

The prayer book of the Bible

1. Verse 1Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
2. Verse 2Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
3. Verse 3The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
4. Verse 4The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
5. Verse 5Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
6. Verse 6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
7. Verse 7Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
8. Verse 8Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.