Psalms 107-110

Psalm 107

¹O GIVE thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

²Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the adversary;

³And gathered them out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.

⁴They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; they found no city of habitation.

⁵Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

⁶Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.

⁷He led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

⁸Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

⁹For he satisfieth the longing soul, and the hungry soul he filleth with good.

¹⁰Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

¹¹Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the Most High:

¹²Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.

¹³Then they cried unto the LORD hi their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

¹⁴He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

¹⁵Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

¹⁶For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.

¹⁷Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

¹⁸Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

¹⁹Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.

²⁰He sendeth his word, and healeth them, and delivereth them from their destructions.

²¹Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

²²And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with singing.

²³They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;

²⁴These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.

²⁵For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.

²⁶They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul melteth away because of trouble.

²⁷They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.

²⁸Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.

²⁹He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.

³⁰Then are they glad because they be quiet: so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be.

³¹Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

³²Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders.

³³He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and watersprings into a thirsty ground;

³⁴A fruitful land into a salt desert, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

³⁵He turneth a wilderness into a pool of water, and a dry land into watersprings.

³⁶And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city of habitation;

³⁷And sow fields, and plant vineyards, and get them fruits of increase.

³⁸He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.

³⁹Again, they are minished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

⁴⁰He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.

⁴¹Yet setteth he the needy on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.

⁴²The upright shall see it, and be glad; and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

⁴³Whoso is wise shall give heed to these things, and they shall consider the mercies of the LORD.

Psalm 108

¹A Song, a Psalm Of David. My heart is fixed, O God; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises, even with my glory.

²Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake right early.

³I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the peoples: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.

⁴For thy mercy is great above the heavens, and thy truth reacheth unto the skies.

⁵Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth.

⁶That thy beloved may be delivered, save with thy right hand, and answer us.

⁷God hath spoken in his holiness; I will exult: I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

⁸Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the defence of mine head; Judah is my sceptre.

⁹Moab is my washpot; upon Edom will I cast my shoe: over Philistia will I shout.

¹⁰Who will bring me into the fenced city? who hath led me unto Edom?

¹¹Hast not thou cast us off, O God? and thou goest not forth, O God, with our hosts.

¹²Give us help against the adversary: for vain is the help of man.

¹³Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our adversaries.

Psalm 109

¹For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

²For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: they have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.

³They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

⁴For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

⁵And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

⁶Set thou a wicked man over him: and let an adversary stand at his right hand.

⁷When he is judged, let him come forth guilty; and let his prayer be turned into sin.

⁸Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

⁹Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

¹⁰Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; and let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.

¹¹Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let strangers make spoil of his labour.

¹²Let there be none to extend mercy unto him; neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.

¹³Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

¹⁴Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

¹⁵Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

¹⁶Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, and the broken in heart, to slay them.

¹⁷Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; and he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.

¹⁸He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, and it came into his inward parts like water, and like oil into his bones. Let it be unto him as the raiment

¹⁹wherewith he covereth himself, and for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

²⁰This is the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

²¹But deal thou with me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me,

²²For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

²³I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

²⁴My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

²⁵I am become also a reproach unto them: when they see me, they shake their head.

²⁶Help me, O LORD my God; O save me according to thy mercy:

²⁷That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.

²⁸Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, they shall be ashamed, but thy servant shall rejoice.

²⁹Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonour, and let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a mantle.

³⁰I will give great thanks unto the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

³¹For he shall stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from them that judge his soul.

Psalm 110

¹A Psalm of David. The LORD saith unto my lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

²The LORD shall send forth the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

³Thy people offer themselves willingly in the day of thy power: in the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning, thou hast the dew of thy youth.

⁴The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

⁵The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.

⁶He shall judge among the nations, he shall fill the places with dead bodies; he shall strike through the head in many countries.

⁷He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.