Psalms 119:109–116

³And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the Lord delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?

³¹I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

¹⁴Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

⁵For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?

³And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.

²³Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

¹¹⁷Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.

¹⁵²Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.

⁸³For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.

³⁶As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

⁹⁵The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.

⁵The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

⁹Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

¹⁰With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

⁸⁵The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.

²²Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

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

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

¹⁰He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

¹¹He hath said 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 humble.

¹³Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

¹⁴Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

¹⁵Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

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

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

¹⁸To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

⁶Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.

⁷Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

¹⁰¶ Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

¹⁹¶ And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.

²⁰And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.

²¹And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of any, but teachest the way of God truly:

²²Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Cæsar, or no?

²³But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why tempt ye me?

²⁴Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Cæsar’s.

²⁵And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Cæsar the things which be Cæsar’s, and unto God the things which be God’s.

²⁶And they could not take hold of his words before the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.

²¹Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.

⁵¹The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.

⁸⁷They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.

¹¹If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

¹²Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

¹⁶Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts.

⁴To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

¹⁷⁴I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my delight.

⁹²Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

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

⁴Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.

¹²⁷Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.

⁷⁴They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.

⁸The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

¹⁵And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

¹⁴I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.

¹⁷¶ No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.

⁸Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

¹⁶²I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.

¹⁸To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

¹²Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

³³Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.

⁵⁸That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.

²³Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the Lord God of Israel.

³⁶Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

⁴Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.

⁴⁴So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.

¹³Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

¹³For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

³Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.

¹⁰Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

⁸A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

¹⁴O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

⁷Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

⁵Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

²¹For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

⁹⁷O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

¹⁰³How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

¹¹The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

¹HE that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

²I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

⁷Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

²And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

³But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.

⁵I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

⁶My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.

⁸¹My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.

⁷⁴They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.

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

³³Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

²³And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

⁸Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.

¹⁰⁶I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.

¹⁹Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.

⁵I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

⁴¹Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

⁹Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:

¹⁵And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

⁵And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

²O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.

⁶Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.

¹⁰¶ Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

²⁴Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.

¹¹For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

¹⁷For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the Lord upholdeth the righteous.

⁴Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul.

⁸My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.

¹BEHOLD my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

¹⁷But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

¹⁸When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O Lord, held me up.

¹²And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.

³²Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;

³³As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.