Psalms 68
68
PSALM 68
Common Meter: 8,6,8,6
To the chief Musician,
A Psalm or Song of David.
1Let God arise, and scatterèd
let all his en'mies be;
And let all those that do him hate
before his presence flee.
2As smoke is driv'n, so drive thou them;
as fire melts wax away,
Before God's face let wicked men
so perish and decay.
3But let the righteous be glad:
let them before God's sight
Be very joyful; yea, let them
rejoice with all their might.
4To God sing, to his name sing praise;
extol him with your voice,
That rides on heav'n, by his name Jah,
before his face rejoice.
5Because the Lord a father is
unto the fatherless;
God is the widow's judge, within
his place of holiness.
6God doth the solitary set
in fam'lies: and from bands
The chain'd doth free; but rebels do
inhabit parched lands.
7O God, what time thou didst go forth
before thy people's face;
And when through the great wilderness
thy glorious marching was;
8Then at God's presence shook the earth,
then drops from heaven fell;
This Sinai shook before the Lord,
the God of Israel.
9O God, thou to thine heritage
didst send a plenteous rain,
Whereby thou, when it weary was,
didst it refresh again.
10Thy congregation then did make
their habitation there:
Of thine own goodness for the poor,
O God, thou didst prepare.
11The Lord himself did give the word,
the word abroad did spread;
Great was the company of them
the same who published.
12Kings of great armies foiled were,
and forced to flee away;
And women, who remained at home,
did distribute the prey.
13Though ye have lien among the pots,
like doves ye shall appear,
Whose wings with silver, and with gold
whose feathers covered are.
14When there th' Almighty scatter'd kings,
like Salmon's snow 'twas white.
15God's hill is like to Bashan hill,
like Bashan hill for height.
16Why do ye leap, ye mountains high?
this is the hill where God
Desires to dwell; yea, God in it
for aye will make abode.
17God's chariots twenty thousand are,
thousands of angels strong;
In's holy place God is, as in
mount Sinai, them among.
18Thou hast, O Lord, most glorious,
ascended up on high;
And in triumph victorious led
captive captivity:
Thou hast received gifts for men,
for such as did rebel;
Yea, ev'n for them, that God the Lord
in midst of them might dwell.
19Blessed be the Lord, who is to us
of our salvation God;
Who daily with his benefits
us plenteously doth load.
20He of salvation is the God,
who is our God most strong;
And unto God the Lord from death
the issues do belong.
21But surely God shall wound the head
of those that are his foes;
The hairy scalp of him that still
on in his trespass goes.
22God said, My people I will bring
again from Bashan hill;
Yea, from the sea's devouring depths
them bring again I will;
23That in the blood of enemies
thy foot imbrued may be,
And of thy dogs dipped in the same
the tongues thou mayest see.
24Thy goings they have seen, O God;
the steps of majesty
Of my God, and my mighty King,
within the sanctuary.
25Before went singers, players next
on instruments took way;
And them among the damsels were
that did on timbrels play.
26Within the congregations
bless God with one accord:
From Isr'el's fountain do ye bless
and praise the mighty Lord.
27With their prince, little Benjamin,
princes and council there
Of Judah were, there Zabulon's
and Napht'li's princes were.
28Thy God commands thy strength; make strong
what thou wrought'st for us, Lord.
29For thy house at Jerusalem
kings shall thee gifts afford.
30The spearmen's host, the multitude
of bulls, which fiercely look,
Those calves which people have forth sent,
O Lord our God, rebuke,
Till ev'ry one submit himself,
and silver pieces bring:
The people that delight in war
disperse, O God and King.
31Those that be princes great shall then
come out of Egypt lands;
And Ethiopia to God
shall soon stretch out her hands.
32O all ye kingdoms of the earth,
sing praises to this King;
For he is Lord that ruleth all,
unto him praises sing.
33To him that rides on heav'ns of heav'ns,
which he of old did found;
Lo, he sends out his voice, a voice
in might that doth abound.
34Strength unto God do ye ascribe;
for his excellency
Is over Israel, his strength
is in the clouds most high.
35Thou'rt from thy temple dreadful, Lord;
Isr'el's own God is he,
Who gives his people strength and pow'r:
O let God blessed be.
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Psalms 68
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PSALM 68.
1Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David.
2Save me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul.
3I stick fast in the mire of the deep: and there is no sure standing. I am come into the depth of the sea: and a tempest hath overwhelmed me.
4I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse: my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.
5They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.
6O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my offences are not hidden from thee:
7Let not them be ashamed for me, who look for thee, O Lord, the Lord of hosts. Let them not be confounded on my account, who seek thee, O God of Israel.
8Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
9I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother.
10For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
11And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to me.
12And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them.
13They that sat in the gate spoke against me: and they that drank wine made me their song.
14But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O Lord; for the time of thy good pleasure, O God. In the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
15Draw me out of the mire, that I may not stick fast: deliver me from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
16Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
17Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is kind; look upon me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
18And turn not away thy face from thy servant: for I am in trouble, hear me speedily.
19Attend to my soul, and deliver it: save me because of my enemies.
20Thou knowest my reproach, and my confusion, and my shame.
21In thy sight are all they that afflict me; my heart hath expected reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve together with me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort me, and I found none.
22And they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
23Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense, and a stumbling-block.
24Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back bend thou down always.
25Pour out thy indignation upon them: and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
26Let their habitation be made desolate: and let there be none to dwell in their tabernacles.
27Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.
28Add thou iniquity upon their iniquity: and let them not come into thy justice.
29Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; and with the just let them not be written.
30But I am poor and sorrowful: thy salvation, O God, hath set me up.
31I will praise the name of God with a canticle: and I will magnify him with praise.
32And it shall please God better than a young calf, that bringeth forth horns and hoofs.
33Let the poor see and rejoice: seek ye God, and your soul shall live.
34For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his prisoners.
35Let the heavens and the earth praise him; the sea, and every thing that creepeth therein.
36For God will save Sion, and the cities of Juda shall be built up. And they shall dwell there, and acquire it by inheritance.
37And the seed of his servants shall possess it; and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
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