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{\MT THE PSALMS OF SOLOMON



\par }\PoetryChap{1}{\Q \VerseOne{1}I cried unto the Lord when I was in distress,

\par }{\Q Unto God when sinners assailed.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}Suddenly the alarm of war was heard before me;

\par }{\Q {\ADD{I said}}, He will hearken to me, for I am full of righteousness.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}I thought in my heart that I was full of righteousness,

\par }{\Q Because I was well off and had become rich in children.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{4}Their wealth spread to the whole earth,

\par }{\Q And their glory unto the end of the earth.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}They were exalted unto the stars;

\par }{\Q They said they would never fall.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}But they became insolent in their prosperity,

\par }{\Q And they were without understanding,


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Their sins were in secret,

\par }{\Q And even I had no knowledge
{\ADD{of them}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Their transgressions
{\ADD{went}} beyond those of the heathen before them;

\par }{\Q They utterly polluted the holy things of the Lord.




\par }\Chap{2}{\D A Psalm. Of Solomon. Concerning Jerusalem.
\par }
{\Q \VerseOne{1}When the sinner waxed proud, with a battering ram he cast down fortified walls,

\par }{\Q And thou didst not restrain
{\ADD{him}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}Alien nations ascended thine altar,

\par }{\Q They trampled
{\ADD{it}} proudly with their sandals;


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Because the sons of Jerusalem had defiled the holy things of the Lord,

\par }{\Q Had profaned with iniquities the offerings of God.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Therefore he said: Cast them far from me;

\par }{\Q I take no pleasure in them.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}The beauty of her glory was set at nought before God,

\par }{\Q It was utterly dishonored.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{6}The sons and the daughters were in grievous captivity,

\par }{\Q Sealed
{\ADD{was}} their neck, branded
{\ADD{was it}} among the nations.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}According to their sins hath he done unto them,

\par }{\Q For he hath left them in the hands of them that prevailed.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}He hath turned away his face from pitying them,

\par }{\Q Young and old and their children together;

\par }{\Q For they had done evil one and all, in not hearkening.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}And the heavens were angry, and the earth abhorred them;

\par }{\Q For no man upon it had done what they did,


\par }{\Q \VS{10}And the earth recognized all thy righteous judgments, O God.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{11}They set the sons of Jerusalem to be mocked at in return for
{\ADD{the}} harlots in her;

\par }{\Q Every wayfarer entered in in the full light of day.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}They made mock with their transgressions, as they themselves were wont to do;

\par }{\Q In the full light of day they revealed their iniquities.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}And the daughters of Jerusalem were defiled in accordance with thy judgment,

\par }{\Q Because they had defiled themselves with unnatural intercourse.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}I am pained in my bowels and my inward parts for these things.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{15}{\ADD{And yet}} I will justify thee, O God, in uprightness of heart,

\par }{\Q For in thy judgments is thy righteousness
{\ADD{displayed}}, O God.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}For thou hast rendered to the sinners according to their deeds,

\par }{\Q Yea according to their sins, which were very wicked.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}Thou hast uncovered their sins, that thy judgment might be manifest;

\par }{\Q Thou hast wiped out their memorial from the earth.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}God is a righteous judge, and he is no respecter of persons.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}For the nations reproached Jerusalem, trampling it down;

\par }{\Q Her beauty was dragged down from the throne of glory.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}She girded on sackcloth instead of comely raiment,

\par }{\Q A rope
{\ADD{was}} about her head instead of a crown.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}She put off the glorious diadem which God had set upon her,

\par }{\Q In dishonor was her beauty cast upon the ground.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{22}And I saw and entreated the Lord and said,

\par }{\Q Long enough, O Lord, hath thy hand been heavy on Jerusalem, in bringing the nations upon
{\ADD{them}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{23}For they have made sport unsparingly in wrath and fierce anger;

\par }{\Q And they will make an utter end, unless thou, O Lord, rebuke them in thy wrath.


\par }{\Q \VS{24}For they have done it not in zeal, but in lust of soul,

\par }{\Q Pouring out their wrath upon us with a view to rapine.


\par }{\Q \VS{25}Delay not, O God, to recompense them on
{\ADD{their}} heads,

\par }{\Q To turn the pride of the dragon into dishonor.


\par }{\Q \VS{26}And I had not long to wait before God showed me the insolent one,

\par }{\Q Slain on the mountains of Egypt,

\par }{\Q Esteemed of less account than the least on land and sea;


\par }{\Q \VS{27}His body,
{\ADD{too,}} borne hither and thither on the billows with much insolence,

\par }{\Q With none to bury
{\ADD{him}}, because he had rejected him with dishonor.


\par }{\Q \VS{28}He reflected not that he was man,

\par }{\Q And reflected not on the latter end;


\par }{\Q \VS{29}He said, I will be lord of land and sea;

\par }{\Q And he recognized not that it is God who is great,

\par }{\Q Mighty in his great strength.


\par }{\Q \VS{30}He is king over the heavens,

\par }{\Q And judgeth kings and kingdoms.


\par }{\Q \VS{31}{\ADD{It is he}} who setteth me up in glory,

\par }{\Q And bringeth down the proud to eternal destruction in dishonor,

\par }{\Q Because they knew him not.


\par }{\Q \VS{32}And now behold, ye princes of the earth, the judgment of the Lord,

\par }{\Q For a great king and righteous
{\ADD{is he}}, judging
{\ADD{all}} that is under heaven.


\par }{\Q \VS{33}Bless God, ye that fear the Lord with wisdom,

\par }{\Q For the mercy of the Lord will be upon them that fear him, in the judgment;


\par }{\Q \VS{34}So that he will distinguish between the righteous and the sinner,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{And}} recompense the sinners forever according to their deeds;


\par }{\Q \VS{35}And have mercy on the righteous,
{\ADD{delivering him}} from the affliction of the sinner,

\par }{\Q And recompensing the sinner for what he hath done to the righteous.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{36}For the Lord is good to them that call upon him in patience,

\par }{\Q Doing according to his mercy to his pious ones,

\par }{\Q Establishing
{\ADD{them}} at all times before him in strength.


\par }{\Q \VS{37}Blessed be the Lord forever before his servants.




\par }\Chap{3}{\D A Psalm. Of Solomon. Concerning the righteous.
\par }
{\Q \VerseOne{1}Why sleepest thou, O my soul, and blessest not the Lord?


\par }{\Q \VS{2}Sing a new song, unto God who is worthy to be praised.

\par }{\Q Sing and be wakeful against his waking,

\par }{\Q For good is a psalm
{\ADD{sung}} to God from a glad heart.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}The righteous remember the Lord at all times,

\par }{\Q With thanksgiving and declaration of the righteousness of the Lord’s judgments.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}The righteous despiseth not the chastening of the Lord;

\par }{\Q His will is always before the Lord.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}The righteous stumbleth and holdeth the Lord righteous:

\par }{\Q He falleth and looketh out for what God will do to him;

\par }{\Q He seeketh out whence his deliverance will come.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}The truth of the righteous is from God their deliverer;

\par }{\Q There lodgeth not in the house of the righteous sin upon sin.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}The righteous continually searcheth his house,

\par }{\Q To remove utterly
{\ADD{all}} iniquity
{\ADD{done}} by him in error.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}He maketh atonement for
{\ADD{sins of}} ignorance by fasting and afflicting his soul,

\par }{\Q And the Lord counteth guiltless every pious man and his house.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}The sinner stumbleth and curseth his life,

\par }{\Q The day when he was begotten, and his mother’s travail.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}He addeth sins to sins, while he liveth;

\par }{\Q He falleth—verily grievous is his fall—and riseth no more.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}The destruction of the sinner is forever,

\par }{\Q And he shall not be remembered, when the righteous is visited.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}This is the portion of sinners forever.

\par }{\Q But they that fear the Lord shall rise to life eternal,

\par }{\Q And their life
{\ADD{shall be}} in the light of the Lord, and shall come to an end no more.




\par }\Chap{4}{\D A Conversation of Solomon with the Men-pleasers.
\par }
{\Q \VerseOne{1}Wherefore sittest thou, O profane
{\ADD{man}}, in the council of the pious,

\par }{\Q Seeing that thy heart is far removed from the Lord,

\par }{\Q Provoking with transgressions the God of Israel?


\par }{\Q \VS{2}Extravagant in speech, extravagant in outward seeming beyond all
{\ADD{men}},

\par }{\Q Is he that is severe of speech in condemning sinners in judgment.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}And his hand is first upon him as
{\ADD{though he acted}} in zeal,

\par }{\Q And
{\ADD{yet}} he is himself guilty in respect of manifold sins and of wantonness.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}His eyes are upon every woman without distinction;

\par }{\Q His tongue lieth when he maketh contract with an oath.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}By night and in secret he sinneth as though unseen,

\par }{\Q With his eyes he talketh to every woman of evil compacts.

\par }{\Q He is swift to enter every house with cheerfulness as though guileless.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Let God remove those that live in hypocrisy in the company of the pious,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{Even}} the life of such a one with corruption of his flesh and penury.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Let God reveal the deeds of the men-pleasers,

\par }{\Q The deeds of such a one with laughter and derision;


\par }{\Q \VS{8}That the pious may count righteous the judgment of their God,

\par }{\Q When sinners are removed from before the righteous,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{Even the}} man-pleaser who uttereth law guilefully.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{9}And their eyes
{\ADD{are fixed}} upon any man’s house that is
{\ADD{still}} secure,

\par }{\Q That they may, like
{\ADD{the}} Serpent, destroy the wisdom of one another with words of transgressors,


\par }{\Q \VS{10}His words are deceitful that
{\ADD{he}} may accomplish
{\ADD{his}} wicked desire.

\par }{\Q He never ceaseth from scattering
{\ADD{families}} as though
{\ADD{they were}} orphans,


\par }{\Q \VS{11}Yea, he layeth waste a house on account of
{\ADD{his}} lawless desire.

\par }{\Q He deceiveth with words,
{\ADD{saying,}} There is none that seeth, or judgeth.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}He filleth one
{\ADD{house}} with lawlessness,

\par }{\Q And
{\ADD{then}} his eyes
{\ADD{are fixed}} upon the next house,

\par }{\Q To destroy it with words that give wing to
{\ADD{desire}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}{\ADD{Yet}} with all these his soul, like Hades, is not sated.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{14}Let his portion, O Lord, be dishonored before thee;

\par }{\Q Let him go forth groaning and come home cursed.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}Let his life be
{\ADD{spent}} in anguish, and penury, and want, O Lord;

\par }{\Q Let his sleep be
{\ADD{beset}} with pains and his waking with perplexities.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}Let sleep be withdrawn from his eyelids at night;

\par }{\Q Let him fail dishonorably in every work of his hands.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}Let him come home empty-handed to his house,

\par }{\Q And his house be void of everything wherewith he could sate his appetite.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}{\ADD{Let}} his old age
{\ADD{be spent}} in childless loneliness until his removal
{\ADD{by death}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}Let the flesh of the men-pleasers be rent by wild beasts,

\par }{\Q And
{\ADD{let}} the bones of the lawless
{\ADD{lie}} dishonored in the sight of the sun.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}Let ravens peck out the eyes of the hypocrites.

\par }{\Q For they have laid waste many houses of men, in dishonor,

\par }{\Q And scattered
{\ADD{them}} in
{\ADD{their}} lust;


\par }{\Q \VS{21}And they have not remembered God,

\par }{\Q Nor feared God in all these things;

\par }{\Q But they have provoked God’s anger and vexed him.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}May he remove them from off the earth,

\par }{\Q Because with deceit they beguiled the souls of the flawless.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{23}Blessed are they that fear the Lord in their flawlessness;

\par }{\Q The Lord shall deliver them from guileful men and sinners,

\par }{\Q And deliver us from every stumbling block of the lawless
{\ADD{men}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{24}Let God destroy them that insolently work all unrighteousness,

\par }{\Q For a great and mighty judge is the Lord our God in righteousness.


\par }{\Q \VS{25}Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon all them that love thee.




\par }\Chap{5}{\D A Psalm. Of Solomon.
\par }
{\Q \VerseOne{1}O Lord God, I will praise thy name with joy,

\par }{\Q In the midst of them that know thy righteous judgments.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}For thou art good and merciful, the refuge of the poor;

\par }{\Q When I cry to thee, do not silently disregard me.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}For no man taketh spoil from a mighty man;

\par }{\Q Who, then, can take aught of all that thou hast made, except thou thyself givest?


\par }{\Q \VS{4}For man and his portion
{\ADD{lie}} before thee in the balance;

\par }{\Q He cannot add to, so as to enlarge, what hath been prescribed by thee, O God.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{5}When we are in distress we call upon thee for help,

\par }{\Q And thou dost not turn back our petition,

\par }{\Q For thou art our God.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Cause not thy hand to be heavy upon us,

\par }{\Q Lest through necessity we sin.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Even though thou restore us not, we will not keep away;

\par }{\Q But unto thee will we come.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{8}For if I hunger, unto thee will I cry, O God;

\par }{\Q And thou wilt give to me.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Birds and fish dost thou nourish,

\par }{\Q In that thou givest rain to the steppes that green grass may spring up,


\par }{\Q \VS{10}{\ADD{So}} to prepare fodder in the steppe for every living thing;

\par }{\Q And if they hunger, unto thee do they lift up their face.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}Kings and rulers and peoples thou dost nourish, O God;

\par }{\Q And who is the help of the poor and needy, if not thou, O Lord?


\par }{\Q \VS{12}And thou wilt hearken—for who is good and gentle but thou—

\par }{\Q Making glad the soul of the humble by opening thy hand in mercy.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}Man’s goodness is
{\ADD{bestowed}} grudgingly and
{\ADD{on}} the morrow;

\par }{\Q And if he repeat
{\ADD{it}} without murmuring, even that is marvelous.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}But thy gift is great in goodness and wealth,

\par }{\Q And he whose hope is
{\ADD{set}} on thee shall have no lack of gifts.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}Upon the whole earth is thy mercy, O Lord, in goodness.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}Happy is he whom God remembereth in
{\ADD{granting to him}} a due sufficiency;

\par }{\Q If a man abound over much, he sinneth.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}Sufficient are moderate means with righteousness,

\par }{\Q And hereby the blessing of the Lord
{\ADD{becometh}} abundance with righteousness.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}They that fear the Lord rejoice in good
{\ADD{gifts}},

\par }{\Q And thy goodness is upon Israel in thy kingdom.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}Blessed is the glory of the Lord for he is our king.




\par }\Chap{6}{\D In Hope. Of Solomon.
\par }
{\Q \VerseOne{1}Happy is the man whose heart is fixed to call upon the name of the Lord;

\par }{\Q When he remembereth the name of the Lord, he will be saved.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}His ways are made even by the Lord,

\par }{\Q And the works of his hands are preserved by the Lord his God.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{3}At what he seeth in his bad dreams, his soul shall not be troubled;

\par }{\Q When he passeth through rivers and the tossing of the seas, he shall not be dismayed.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}He ariseth from his sleep, and blesseth the name of the Lord:

\par }{\Q When his heart is at peace, he singeth to the name of his God,


\par }{\Q \VS{5}And he entreateth the Lord for all his house.

\par }{\Q And the Lord heareth the prayer of everyone that feareth God,


\par }{\Q \VS{6}And every request of the soul that hopeth for him doth the Lord accomplish.

\par }{\Q Blessed is the Lord, who showeth mercy to those who love him in sincerity.




\par }\Chap{7}{\D Of Solomon. Of turning.
\par }
{\Q \VerseOne{1}Make not thy dwelling afar from us, O God;

\par }{\Q Lest they assail us that hate us without cause.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}For thou hast rejected them, O God;

\par }{\Q Let not their foot trample upon thy holy inheritance.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Chasten us thyself in thy good pleasure;

\par }{\Q But give
{\ADD{us}} not up to the nations;


\par }{\Q \VS{4}For, if thou sendest pestilence,

\par }{\Q Thou thyself givest it charge concerning us;


\par }{\Q \VS{5}For thou art merciful,

\par }{\Q And wilt not be angry to the point of consuming us.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}While thy name dwelleth in our midst, we shall find mercy;

\par }{\Q And the nations shall not prevail against us.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}For thou art our shield,

\par }{\Q And when we call upon thee, thou hearkenest to us;


\par }{\Q \VS{8}For thou wilt pity the seed of Israel forever, and thou wilt not reject
{\ADD{them}}:


\par }{\Q \VS{9}But we
{\ADD{shall be}} under thy yoke forever,

\par }{\Q And
{\ADD{under}} the rod of thy chastening.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Thou wilt establish us in the time that thou helpest us,

\par }{\Q Showing mercy to the house of Jacob on the day wherein thou didst promise
{\ADD{to help them}}.




\par }\Chap{8}{\D Of Solomon. Of the chief Musician.
\par }
{\Q \VerseOne{1}Distress and the sound of war hath my ear heard;

\par }{\Q The sound of a trumpet announcing slaughter and calamity,


\par }{\Q \VS{2}The sound of much people as of an exceeding high wind,

\par }{\Q As a tempest with mighty fire sweeping through the Negeb.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}And I said in my heart,

\par }{\Q Where then will God judge him?


\par }{\Q \VS{4}A sound I hear
{\ADD{moving}} toward Jerusalem, the holy city.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}My loins were broken at what I heard,

\par }{\Q My knees tottered, my heart was afraid:

\par }{\Q My bones were dismayed like flax.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}I said, They establish their ways in righteousness.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}I thought upon the judgments of God since the creation of heaven and earth;

\par }{\Q I held God righteous in his judgments which have been from of old.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}God laid bare their sins in the full light of day;

\par }{\Q All the earth came to know the righteous judgments of God.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}In secret places underground their iniquities
{\ADD{were committed}} to provoke
{\ADD{him}} to anger;

\par }{\Q They wrought confusion, son with mother and father with daughter;


\par }{\Q \VS{10}They committed adultery, every man with his neighbor’s wife.

\par }{\Q They concluded covenants with one another with an oath touching these things.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{11}They plundered the sanctuary of God,

\par }{\Q As though there was no avenger.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}They trod the altar of the Lord,
{\ADD{coming straight}} from all manner of uncleanness;

\par }{\Q And with menstrual blood they defiled the sacrifices, as
{\ADD{though these were}} common flesh.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}They left no sin undone, wherein they surpassed not the heathen.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{14}Therefore God mingled for them a spirit of wandering;

\par }{\Q And gave them to drink a cup of undiluted wine, that they might become drunken.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}He brought him that is from the end of the earth, that smiteth mightily;

\par }{\Q He decreed war against Jerusalem, and against her land.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}The princes of the land went to meet him with joy:

\par }{\Q They said unto him, Blessed be thy way! Come ye, enter ye in with peace.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}They made the rough ways even, before his entering in;

\par }{\Q They opened the gates to Jerusalem, they crowned its walls.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{18}As a father
{\ADD{entereth}} the house of his sons,
{\ADD{so}} he entered
{\ADD{Jerusalem}} in peace;

\par }{\Q He established his feet
{\ADD{there}} in great safety.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}He captured her fortresses and the wall of Jerusalem;

\par }{\Q For God himself led him in safety, while they wandered.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}He destroyed their princes and everyone wise in counsel;

\par }{\Q He poured out the blood of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, like the water of uncleanness.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}He led away their sons and daughters, whom they had begotten in defilement.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}They did according to their uncleanness, even as their fathers
{\ADD{had done}}:

\par }{\Q They defiled Jerusalem and the things that had been hallowed to the name of God.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{23}{\ADD{But}} God hath shown himself righteous in his judgments upon the nations of the earth;

\par }{\Q And the pious
{\ADD{servants}} of God are like innocent lambs in their midst.


\par }{\Q \VS{24}Worthy to be praised is the Lord that judgeth the whole earth in his righteousness.


\par }{\Q \VS{25}Behold, now, O God, thou hast shown us thy judgment in thy righteousness;

\par }{\Q Our eyes have seen thy judgments, O God.


\par }{\Q \VS{26}We have justified thy name that is honored forever;

\par }{\Q For thou art the God of righteousness, judging Israel with chastening.


\par }{\Q \VS{27}Turn, O God, thy mercy upon us,

\par }{\Q And have pity upon us;


\par }{\Q \VS{28}Gather together the dispersed of Israel, with mercy and goodness;

\par }{\Q For thy faithfulness is with us.


\par }{\Q \VS{29}And
{\ADD{though}} we have stiffened our neck,

\par }{\Q Yet thou art our chastener;


\par }{\Q \VS{30}Overlook us not, O our God,

\par }{\Q Lest the nations swallow us up, as though there were none to deliver.


\par }{\Q \VS{31}But thou art our God from the beginning,

\par }{\Q And upon thee is our hope
{\ADD{set}}, O Lord;


\par }{\Q \VS{32}And we will not depart from thee,

\par }{\Q For good are thy judgments upon us.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{33}Ours and our children’s be thy good pleasure forever;

\par }{\Q O Lord our Savior, we shall never more be moved.


\par }{\Q \VS{34}The Lord is worthy to be praised for his judgments with the mouth of his pious ones;

\par }{\Q And blessed be Israel of the Lord forever.




\par }\Chap{9}{\D Of Solomon. For rebuke.
\par }
{\Q \VerseOne{1}When Israel was led away captive into a strange land,

\par }{\Q When they fell away from the Lord who redeemed them,

\par }{\Q They were cast away from the inheritance, which the Lord had given them.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}Among every nation
{\ADD{were}} the dispersed of Israel according to the word of God,

\par }{\Q That thou mightest be justified, O God, in thy righteousness by reason of our transgressions:

\par }{\Q For thou art a just judge over all the peoples of the earth.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}For from thy knowledge none that doeth unjustly is hidden,

\par }{\Q And the righteous deeds of thy pious ones
{\ADD{are}} before thee, O Lord;

\par }{\Q Where, then, can a man hide himself from thy knowledge, O God?


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{4}Our works are subject to our own choice and power,

\par }{\Q To do right or wrong in the works of our hands;

\par }{\Q And in thy righteousness thou visitest the sons of men.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}He that doeth righteousness layeth up life for himself with the Lord;

\par }{\Q And he that doeth wrongly forfeiteth his life to destruction;

\par }{\Q For the judgments of the Lord are
{\ADD{given}} in righteousness to
{\ADD{every}} man and
{\ADD{his}} house.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Unto whom art thou good, O God, except to them that call upon the Lord?

\par }{\Q He cleanseth from sins a soul when it maketh confession, when it maketh acknowledgement;

\par }{\Q For shame is upon us and upon our faces on account of all these things.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}And to whom doth he forgive sins, except to them that have sinned?

\par }{\Q Thou blessest the righteous, and dost not reprove them for the sins that they have committed;

\par }{\Q And thy goodness is upon them that sin, when they repent.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{8}And, now, thou art our God, and we the people whom thou hast loved:

\par }{\Q Behold and show pity, O God of Israel, for we are thine;

\par }{\Q And remove not thy mercy from us, lest they assail us.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}For thou didst choose the seed of Abraham before all the nations,

\par }{\Q And didst set thy name upon us, O Lord,

\par }{\Q And thou wilt not reject
{\ADD{us}} forever.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Thou madest a covenant with our fathers concerning us;

\par }{\Q And we hope in thee, when our soul turneth
{\ADD{unto thee}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}The mercy of the Lord be upon the house of Israel forever and ever.




\par }\Chap{10}{\D A Hymn. Of Solomon.
\par }
{\Q \VerseOne{1}Happy is the man whom the Lord remembereth with reproving,

\par }{\Q And whom he restraineth from the way of evil with strokes,

\par }{\Q That he may be cleansed from sin, that it may not be multiplied.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}He that maketh ready his back for strokes shall be cleansed,

\par }{\Q For the Lord is good to them that endure chastening.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}For he maketh straight the ways of the righteous, and doth not pervert
{\ADD{them}} by his chastening.

\par }{\Q And the mercy of the Lord
{\ADD{is}} upon them that love him in truth,


\par }{\Q \VS{4}And the Lord remembereth his servants in mercy.

\par }{\Q For the testimony
{\ADD{is}} in the law of the eternal covenant,

\par }{\Q The testimony of the Lord
{\ADD{is}} on the ways of men in
{\ADD{his}} visitation.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{5}Just and kind is our Lord in his judgments forever,

\par }{\Q And Israel shall praise the name of the Lord in gladness.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}And the pious shall give thanks in the assembly of the people;

\par }{\Q And on the poor shall God have mercy in the gladness of Israel;


\par }{\Q \VS{7}For good and merciful is God forever,

\par }{\Q And the assemblies of Israel shall glorify the name of the Lord.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}The salvation of the Lord be upon the house of Israel unto everlasting gladness!




\par }\Chap{11}{\D Of Solomon. Unto expectation.
\par }
{\Q \VerseOne{1}Blow ye in Zion on the trumpet to summon
{\ADD{the}} saints,

\par }{\Q Cause ye to be heard in Jerusalem the voice of him that bringeth good tidings;

\par }{\Q For God hath had pity on Israel in visiting them.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}Stand on the height, O Jerusalem, and behold thy children,

\par }{\Q From the East and the West, gathered together by the Lord;


\par }{\Q \VS{3}From the North they come in the gladness of their God,

\par }{\Q From the isles afar off God hath gathered them.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}High mountains hath he abased into a plain for them;

\par }{\Q The hills fled at their entrance.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}The woods gave them shelter as they passed by;

\par }{\Q Every sweet-smelling tree God caused to spring up for them,


\par }{\Q \VS{6}That Israel might pass by in the visitation of the glory of their God.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Put on, O Jerusalem, thy glorious garments;

\par }{\Q Make ready thy holy robe;

\par }{\Q For God hath spoken good concerning Israel, forever and ever.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Let the Lord do what he hath spoken concerning Israel and Jerusalem;

\par }{\Q Let the Lord raise up Israel by his glorious name.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}The mercy of the Lord be upon Israel forever and ever.




\par }\Chap{12}{\D Of Solomon. Against the tongue of transgressors.
\par }
{\Q \VerseOne{1}O Lord, deliver my soul from
{\ADD{the}} lawless and wicked man,

\par }{\Q From the tongue that is lawless and slanderous,

\par }{\Q And speaketh lies and deceit.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}Manifoldly twisted are the words of the tongue of the wicked man,

\par }{\Q Even as among a people a fire that burneth up their beauty.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}So he delighteth to fill houses with a lying tongue,

\par }{\Q To cut down the trees of gladness which setteth on fire transgressors,

\par }{\Q To involve households in warfare by means of slanderous lips.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}May God remove far from the innocent the lips of transgressors by
{\ADD{bringing them to}} want,

\par }{\Q And may the bones of slanderers be scattered
{\ADD{far}} away from them that fear the Lord!

\par }{\Q In flaming fire perish the slanderous tongue
{\ADD{far}} away from the pious!


\par }{\Q \VS{5}May the Lord preserve the quiet soul that hateth the unrighteous;

\par }{\Q And may the Lord establish the man that followeth peace at home.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}The salvation of the Lord be upon Israel his servant forever;

\par }{\Q And let the sinners perish together at the presence of the Lord;

\par }{\Q But let the Lord’s pious ones inherit the promises of the Lord.




\par }\Chap{13}{\D Of Solomon. A Psalm. Comfort for the righteous.
\par }
{\Q \VerseOne{1}The right hand of the Lord hath covered me;

\par }{\Q The right hand of the Lord hath spared us.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}The arm of the Lord hath saved us from the sword that passed through,

\par }{\Q From famine and the death of sinners.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Noisome beasts ran upon them:

\par }{\Q With their teeth they tare their flesh,

\par }{\Q And with their molars crushed their bones;


\par }{\Q \VS{4}But from all these things the Lord delivered us.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}The righteous was troubled on account of his errors,

\par }{\Q Lest he should be taken away along with the sinners;


\par }{\Q \VS{6}For terrible is the overthrow of the sinner;

\par }{\Q But not one of all these things toucheth the righteous.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}For not alike are the chastening of the righteous
{\ADD{for sins done}} in ignorance,

\par }{\Q And the overthrow of the sinners.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Secretly is the righteous chastened,

\par }{\Q Lest the sinner rejoice over the righteous.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}For he correcteth the righteous as a beloved son,

\par }{\Q And his chastisement is as that of a firstborn.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}For the Lord spareth his pious ones,

\par }{\Q And blotteth out their errors by his chastening.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}For the life of the righteous shall be forever;

\par }{\Q But sinners shall be taken away into destruction,

\par }{\Q And their memorial shall be found no more.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}But upon the pious is the mercy of the Lord,

\par }{\Q And upon them that fear him his mercy.




\par }\Chap{14}{\D A Hymn. Of Solomon.
\par }
{\Q \VerseOne{1}Faithful is the Lord to them that love him in truth,

\par }{\Q To them that endure his chastening,


\par }{\Q \VS{2}To them that walk in the righteousness of his commandments,

\par }{\Q In the law which he commanded us that we might live.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}The pious of the Lord shall live by it forever;

\par }{\Q The Paradise of the Lord, the trees of life, are his pious ones.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Their planting is rooted forever;

\par }{\Q They shall not be plucked up all the days of heaven:


\par }{\Q \VS{5}For the portion and the inheritance of God is Israel.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{6}But not so are the sinners and transgressors,

\par }{\Q Who love
{\ADD{the brief}} day
{\ADD{spent}} in companionship with their sin;


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Their delight is in fleeting corruption,

\par }{\Q And they remember not God.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}For the ways of men are known before him at all times,

\par }{\Q And he knoweth the secrets of the heart before they come to pass.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Therefore their inheritance is Hades and darkness and destruction,

\par }{\Q And they shall not be found in the day when the righteous obtain mercy;


\par }{\Q \VS{10}But the pious of the Lord shall inherit life in gladness.




\par }\Chap{15}{\D A Psalm. Of Solomon. With a Song.
\par }
{\Q \VerseOne{1}When I was in distress I called upon the name of the Lord,

\par }{\Q I hoped for the help of the God of Jacob and was saved;

\par }{\Q For the hope and refuge of the poor art thou, O God.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}For who, O God, is strong except to give thanks unto thee in truth?

\par }{\Q And wherein is a man powerful except in giving thanks to thy name?


\par }{\Q \VS{3}A new psalm with song in gladness of heart,

\par }{\Q The fruit of the lips with the well-tuned instrument of the tongue,

\par }{\Q The firstfruits of the lips from a pious and righteous heart—


\par }{\Q \VS{4}He that offereth these things shall never be shaken by evil;

\par }{\Q The flame of fire and the wrath against the unrighteous shall not touch him,


\par }{\Q \VS{5}When it goeth forth from the face of the Lord against sinners,

\par }{\Q To destroy all the substance of sinners;


\par }{\Q \VS{6}For the mark of God is upon the righteous that they may be saved.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Famine and sword and pestilence
{\ADD{shall be}} far from the righteous,

\par }{\Q For they shall flee away from the pious as men pursued in war;


\par }{\Q \VS{8}But they shall pursue sinners and overtake
{\ADD{them}},

\par }{\Q And they that do lawlessness shall not escape the judgment of God;


\par }{\Q \VS{9}As by enemies experienced
{\ADD{in war}} shall they be overtaken,

\par }{\Q For the mark of destruction is upon their forehead.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}And the inheritance of sinners is destruction and darkness,

\par }{\Q And their iniquities shall pursue them unto Hades beneath.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}Their inheritance shall not be found of their children,

\par }{\Q For sins shall lay waste the houses of sinners.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}And sinners shall perish forever in the day of the Lord’s judgment,

\par }{\Q When God visiteth the earth with his judgment.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}But they that fear the Lord shall find mercy therein,

\par }{\Q And shall live by the compassion of their God;

\par }{\Q But sinners shall perish forever.




\par }\Chap{16}{\D A Hymn. Of Solomon. For Help to the Pious.
\par }
{\Q \VerseOne{1}When my soul slumbered
{\ADD{being afar}} from the Lord,

\par }{\Q I had all but slipped down to the pit;

\par }{\Q When
{\ADD{I was}} far from God,


\par }{\Q \VS{2}My soul had been well nigh poured out unto death;

\par }{\Q {\ADD{I had been}} nigh unto the gates of Hades with the sinner,


\par }{\Q \VS{3}When my soul departed from the Lord God of Israel—

\par }{\Q Had not the Lord helped me with his everlasting mercy.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}He pricked me, as a horse is pricked, that I might serve him:

\par }{\Q My savior and helper at all times saved me.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}I will give thanks unto thee, O God, for thou hast helped me to
{\ADD{my}} salvation;

\par }{\Q And hast not counted me with sinners to
{\ADD{my}} destruction.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Remove not thy mercy from me, O God,

\par }{\Q Nor thy memorial from my heart until I die.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Rule me, O God,
{\ADD{keeping me back}} from wicked sin,

\par }{\Q And from every wicked woman that causeth the simple to stumble.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}And let not the beauty of a lawless woman beguile me,

\par }{\Q Nor any one that is subject to unprofitable sin.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Establish the works of my hands before thee,

\par }{\Q And preserve my goings in the remembrance of thee.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Protect my tongue and my lips with words of truth;

\par }{\Q Anger and unreasoning wrath put far from me.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}Murmuring, and impatience in affliction, remove far from me,

\par }{\Q When, if I sin, thou chastenest me that I may return
{\ADD{unto thee}}.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{12}But with good will and cheerfulness support my soul;

\par }{\Q When thou strengthenest my soul, what is given
{\ADD{to me}} will be sufficient for me.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}For if thou givest not strength,

\par }{\Q Who can endure chastisement with poverty?


\par }{\Q \VS{14}When a man is rebuked by means of his corruption,

\par }{\Q Thy testing
{\ADD{of him}} is in his flesh and in the affliction of poverty.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}If the righteous endureth in all these
{\ADD{trials}}, he shall receive mercy from the Lord.




\par }\Chap{17}{\D A Psalm. Of Solomon. With Song. Of the King.
\par }
{\Q \VerseOne{1}O Lord, thou art our King forever and ever,

\par }{\Q For in thee, O God, doth our soul glory.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}How long are the days of man’s life upon the earth?

\par }{\Q As are his days, so is the hope
{\ADD{set}} upon him.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}But we hope in God, our deliverer;

\par }{\Q For the might of our God is forever with mercy,

\par }{\Q And the kingdom of our God is forever over the nations in judgment.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Thou, O Lord, didst choose David
{\ADD{to be}} king over Israel,

\par }{\Q And swaredst to him touching his seed,

\par }{\Q That never should his kingdom fail before thee.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{5}But, for our sins, sinners rose up against us;

\par }{\Q They assailed us and thrust us out;

\par }{\Q What thou hadst not promised to them,

\par }{\Q They took away
{\ADD{from us}} with violence.

\par }{\Q They in no wise glorified thy honorable name;


\par }{\Q \VS{6}They set a
{\ADD{worldly}} monarchy in place of
{\ADD{that which was}} their excellency;

\par }{\Q They laid waste the throne of David in tumultuous arrogance.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}But thou, O God, didst cast them down and remove their seed from the earth,

\par }{\Q In that there rose up against them a man that was alien to our race.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}According to their sins didst thou recompense them, O God;

\par }{\Q So that it befell them according to their deeds.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}God showed them no pity;

\par }{\Q He sought out their seed and let not one of them go free.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Faithful is the Lord in all his judgments which he doeth upon the earth.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}The lawless one laid waste our land so that none inhabited it,

\par }{\Q They destroyed young and old and their children together.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}In the heat of his anger he sent them away even unto the west,

\par }{\Q And
{\ADD{he exposed}} the rulers of the land unsparingly to derision.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}Being an alien the enemy acted proudly,

\par }{\Q And his heart was alien from our God.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}And all things
{\ADD{whatsoever he did in}} Jerusalem,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{Were}} as also the nations
{\ADD{do}} in their strong
{\ADD{cities}}.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{15}And the children of the covenant in the midst of the mingled peoples
{\ADD{surpassed them in evil.}}

\par }{\Q There was not among them one that wrought in the midst of Jerusalem mercy and truth.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}They that loved the synagogues of the pious fled from them,

\par }{\Q As sparrows that fly from their nest.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}They wandered in deserts that their lives might be saved from harm,

\par }{\Q And precious in the eyes of them that lived abroad was any that escaped alive from them.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}Over the whole earth were they scattered by lawless
{\ADD{men}}.

\par }{\Q For the heavens withheld the rain from dropping upon the earth,


\par }{\Q \VS{19}Springs were stopped
{\ADD{that sprang}} perennially out of the deeps,
{\ADD{that ran down}} from lofty mountains.

\par }{\Q For there was none among them that wrought righteousness and justice;


\par }{\Q \VS{20}From the chief of them to the least
{\ADD{of them}} all were sinful;

\par }{\Q The king was a transgressor, and the judge disobedient, and the people sinful.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{21}Behold, O Lord, and raise up unto them their king, the son of David;

\par }{\Q At the time that thou choosest, O God, that he may reign over Israel thy servant;


\par }{\Q \VS{22}And gird him with strength, that he may shatter unrighteous rulers,

\par }{\Q And that he may purge Jerusalem from nations that trample
{\ADD{her}} down to destruction.


\par }{\Q \VS{23}Wisely, righteously he shall thrust out sinners from
{\ADD{the}} inheritance,

\par }{\Q He shall destroy the pride of the sinner as a potter’s vessel.


\par }{\Q \VS{24}With a rod of iron he shall break in pieces all their substance,

\par }{\Q He shall destroy the godless nations with the word of his mouth;


\par }{\Q \VS{25}At his rebuke nations shall flee before him,

\par }{\Q And he shall reprove sinners for the thoughts of their heart.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{26}And he shall gather together a holy people, whom he shall lead in righteousness,

\par }{\Q And he shall judge the tribes of the people that hath been sanctified by the Lord his God.


\par }{\Q \VS{27}And he shall not suffer unrighteousness to lodge anymore in their midst,

\par }{\Q Nor shall there dwell with them any man that knoweth wickedness;

\par }{\Q For he shall know them, that they are all sons of their God.


\par }{\Q \VS{28}And he shall divide them according to their tribes upon the land,

\par }{\Q And neither sojourner nor alien shall sojourn with them anymore.


\par }{\Q \VS{29}He shall judge peoples and nations in the wisdom of his righteousness.
\par }{\QS Interlude\par }


{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{30}And he shall have the heathen nations to serve him under his yoke;

\par }{\Q And he shall glorify the Lord in a place to be seen of all the earth;

\par }{\Q And he shall purge Jerusalem, making it holy as of old:


\par }{\Q \VS{31}So that nations shall come from the ends of the earth to see his glory,

\par }{\Q Bringing as gifts her sons who had fainted,

\par }{\Q And to see the glory of the Lord, wherewith God hath glorified her.


\par }{\Q \VS{32}And he
{\ADD{shall be}} a righteous king, taught of God, over them,

\par }{\Q And there shall be no unrighteousness in his days in their midst;

\par }{\Q For all shall be holy and their king the anointed of the Lord.


\par }{\Q \VS{33}For he shall not put his trust in horse and rider and bow,

\par }{\Q Nor shall he multiply for himself gold and silver for war,

\par }{\Q Nor shall he gather confidence from a multitude for the day of battle.


\par }{\Q \VS{34}The Lord himself is his king, the hope of him that is mighty through
{\ADD{his}} hope in God.

\par }{\Q All nations
{\ADD{shall be}} in fear before him.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{35}For he will smite the earth with the word of his mouth forever.

\par }{\Q He will bless the people of the Lord with wisdom and gladness,


\par }{\Q \VS{36}And he himself
{\ADD{will be}} pure from sin, so that he may rule a great people.

\par }{\Q He will rebuke rulers, and remove sinners by the might of his word;


\par }{\Q \VS{37}And
{\ADD{relying}} upon his God, throughout his days he will not stumble;

\par }{\Q For God will make him mighty by means of the Holy Spirit,

\par }{\Q And wise by means of the spirit of understanding, with strength and righteousness.


\par }{\Q \VS{38}And the blessing of the Lord
{\ADD{will be}} with him: he will be strong

\par }{\Q And stumble not;


\par }{\Q \VS{39}His hope
{\ADD{will be}} in the Lord:

\par }{\Q Who then can prevail against him?


\par }{\Q \VS{40}{\ADD{He will be}} mighty in his works, and strong in the fear of God,

\par }{\Q Shepherding the flock of the Lord faithfully and righteously;

\par }{\Q And will suffer none among them to stumble in their pasture.


\par }{\Q \VS{41}He will lead them all aright,

\par }{\Q And there will be no pride among them that any among them should be oppressed.


\par }{\Q \VS{42}This
{\ADD{will be}} the majesty of the king of Israel whom God knoweth;

\par }{\Q He will raise him up over the house of Israel to correct him.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{43}His words
{\ADD{shall be}} more refined than costly gold, the choicest;

\par }{\Q In the assemblies he will judge the peoples, the tribes of the sanctified.

\par }{\Q His words
{\ADD{shall be}} like the words of the holy ones in the midst of sanctified peoples.


\par }{\Q \VS{44}Blessed be they that shall be in those days,

\par }{\Q In that they shall see the good fortune of Israel which God shall bring to pass in the gathering together of the tribes.


\par }{\Q \VS{45}May the Lord hasten his mercy upon Israel!

\par }{\Q May he deliver us from the uncleanness of unholy enemies!


\par }{\Q \VS{46}The Lord himself is our king forever and ever.




\par }\Chap{18}{\D A Psalm. Of Solomon. Again of the Anointed of the Lord.
\par }
{\Q \VerseOne{1}Lord, thy mercy is over the works of thy hands forever;

\par }{\Q Thy goodness is over Israel with a rich gift.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}Thine eyes look upon them, so that none of them suffereth want;

\par }{\Q Thine ears listen to the hopeful prayer of the poor.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Thy judgments
{\ADD{are executed}} upon the whole earth in mercy;

\par }{\Q And thy love
{\ADD{is}} toward the seed of Abraham, the children of Israel.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}Thy chastisement is upon us as
{\ADD{upon}} a firstborn, only begotten son,

\par }{\Q To turn back the obedient soul from folly
{\ADD{that is wrought}} in ignorance.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{5}May God cleanse Israel against the day of mercy and blessing,

\par }{\Q Against the day of choice when he bringeth back his anointed.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}Blessed shall they be that shall be in those days,

\par }{\Q In that they shall see the goodness of the Lord which he shall perform for the generation that is to come,


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Under the rod of chastening of the Lord’s anointed in the fear of his God,

\par }{\Q In the spirit of wisdom and righteousness and strength;


\par }{\Q \VS{8}That he may direct
{\ADD{every}} man in the works of righteousness by the fear of God,

\par }{\Q That he may establish them all before the Lord,


\par }{\Q \VS{9}A good generation
{\ADD{living}} in the fear of God in the days of mercy.
\par }{\QS Interlude\par }


{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{10}Great is our God and glorious, dwelling in the highest.

\par }{\Q {\ADD{It is he}} who hath established in
{\ADD{their}} courses the lights
{\ADD{of heaven}} for determining seasons from year to year,

\par }{\Q And they have not turned aside from the way which he appointed them.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}In the fear of God
{\ADD{they pursue}} their path every day,

\par }{\Q From the day God created them and forevermore.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}And they have erred not since the day he created them.

\par }{\Q Since the generations of old they have not withdrawn from their path,

\par }{\Q Unless God commanded them
{\ADD{so to do}} by the command of his servants.


\par }