Psalms

The prayer book of the Bible

1. Verse 1My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
2. Verse 2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
3. Verse 3But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
4. Verse 4Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
5. Verse 5They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
6. Verse 6But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
7. Verse 7All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
8. Verse 8He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
9. Verse 9But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.
10. Verse 10I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.
11. Verse 11Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
12. Verse 12Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
13. Verse 13They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
14. Verse 14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
15. Verse 15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
16. Verse 16For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
17. Verse 17I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
18. Verse 18They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
19. Verse 19But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
20. Verse 20Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
21. Verse 21Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
22. Verse 22I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
23. Verse 23Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
24. Verse 24For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
25. Verse 25My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
26. Verse 26The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
27. Verse 27All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
28. Verse 28For the kingdom is the LORD’s: and he is the governor among the nations.
29. Verse 29All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
30. Verse 30A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
31. Verse 31They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.