Psalms 26 Cross References - MSTC

¹ {A Psalm of David} Be thou my Judge, O LORD, for I walk innocently. My trust hath been also in the LORD; therefore shall I not fall. ² Examine me, O LORD, and prove me: try out my reins and my heart. ³ For thy loving-kindness is ever before mine eyes; and I will walk in thy truth. ⁴ I have not dwelt with vain persons; neither will I have fellowship with the deceitful. ⁵ I hate the congregation of the wicked, and will not sit among the ungodly. ⁶ I wash my hands with innocency, O LORD, and so will I go to thine altar, ⁷ that I may show the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works. ⁸ LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth. ⁹ O shut not up my soul with the sinners, nor my life with the bloodthirsty, ¹⁰ in whose hands is wickedness, and their righthand is full of gifts. ¹¹ But as for me, I will walk innocently: O deliver me, and be merciful unto me. ¹² My foot standeth right: I will praise the LORD in the congregations.

⁹ He will keep the feet of his saints but the wicked shall keep silence in darkness. For in his own might shall no man be strong.

¹⁵ The LORD be judge, and judge between thee and me, and see and plead my cause, and judge me free out of thine hand."

³ "Oh LORD, remember yet how I have walked before thee truly and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight," and wept a great pace.

⁵ Offer the sacrifice of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.

⁸ The LORD shall judge the people; give sentence with me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to the innocence that is in me.

² Even he that leadeth an uncorrupt life, and doeth the thing which is right, and speaketh the truth from his heart.

⁷ And why? Because the king putteth his trust in the LORD; and in the mercy of the most highest he shall not miscarry.

² My God, I have put my trust in thee. O let me not be confounded, neither let mine enemies triumph over me.

²¹ Let perfectness and righteous dealing wait upon me, for my hope hath been in thee.

¹¹ But as for me, I will walk innocently: O deliver me, and be merciful unto me.

⁷ The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart hath trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart danceth for joy, and in my song will I praise him.

¹⁴ But my hope hath been in thee, O LORD; I have said, "Thou art my God."

²⁴ Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness, and let them not triumph over me.

³¹ The law of his God is in his heart; therefore shall not his footsteps slide.

¹ Give sentence with me, O God, and defend my cause against the ungodly people; O deliver me from the deceitful and wicked man.

¹ {To the Chanter, in Neginoth, an instruction of David when the Ziphites came, and said unto Saul: David is hid among us} Save me, O God, for thy name's sake, and avenge me in thy strength.

² He only is my strength, my salvation, my defense, so that I shall not greatly fall.

⁶ He only is my strength, my salvation, my defense: so that I shall not fall.

¹⁸ When I said, "My foot hath slipped, thy mercy, O LORD, held me up."

³ He will not suffer thy foot to be moved, and he that keepeth thee will not sleep.

⁷ The LORD preserveth thee from all evil; yea, it is the LORD that keepeth thy soul. ⁸ The LORD preserveth thy going out and thy coming in, from this time forth for evermore.

⁷ Whoso leadeth a godly and an innocent life; happy shall his children be whom he leaveth behind him.

²⁵ He that feareth men, shall have a fall; but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall come to honour.

³ With me is it but a very small thing, that I should be judged of you, either of man's day. No I judge not mine own self. ⁴ I know nought by myself: yet am I not thereby justified. It is the Lord that judgeth me. ⁵ Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, which will lighten things that are hid in darkness: and open the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise of God. ⁶ These things, brethren, I have described in mine own person, and Apollos, for your sakes — that ye might learn by us that no man count of himself beyond that which is above written: that one swell not against another for any man's cause.

¹² Our rejoicing is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in singleness of heart and with godly pureness — and not in fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God — we have had our conversation in the world, and most of all to you-wards.

²³ and let us keep the profession of our hope, without wavering — for he is faithful that promised -

⁵ which are kept by the power of God through salvation, which salvation is prepared already to be showed in the last time,

¹⁰ Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence for to make your calling and election sure. For if ye do such things, ye shall never err.

²³ "How great are my misdeeds and sins? Let me know my transgressions and offenses.

⁴ Doth not he see my ways, and tell all my goings? ⁵ If I have cleaved unto vanity, or if my feet have run to deceive, ⁶ let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may see my innocence.

⁹ O let the wickedness of the ungodly come to an end; but guide thou the just. For the righteous God trieth the very hearts and reins.

³ Thou hast proved and visited mine heart in the night season; thou hast tried me, and shalt find no wickedness in me, for I am utterly purposed that my mouth shall not offend.

¹⁰ For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou hast tried us like as silver is tried.

²³ Try me, O God, and seek the ground of mine heart; prove me, and examine my thoughts. ²⁴ Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me; and lead me in the way everlasting.

¹² And now, O LORD of Hosts, thou righteous searcher which knowest the reins and the very hearts: let me see them punished, for unto thee I commit my cause.

⁹ And the same third part will I bring through the fire, and will cleanse them, as the silver is cleansed: Yea and try them, like as gold is tried. Then shall they call upon my name, and I will hear them: I will say, 'It is my people.' And they shall say, 'LORD, my God.'"

⁵ Lead me forth in thy truth, and learn me. For thou art the God of my salvation; in thee hath been my hope all the day long.

¹ {To the Chanter, an exhortation of David when Doeg the Edomite came to Saul, and showed him, saying: David is come to the house of Abimelech} Thy boastest thou thyself, thou tyrant, that thou canst do mischief, whereas the goodness of God endureth yet daily?

¹⁰ Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. ¹¹ Truth shall flourish out of the earth, and righteousness hath looked down from heaven. ¹² Yea, the LORD shall show loving-kindness, and our land shall give her increase. ¹³ Righteousness shall go before him, and prepare the way for his coming.

¹¹ Lead me in thy way, O LORD, that I may walk in thy truth: O let my heart delight in fearing thy name.

² O let me have understanding in the ways of Godliness, until the time that thou come unto me! I will walk in my house with a perfect heart.

¹⁴² Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is truth.

⁵ O house of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

²⁰ If any man want light, let him look upon the law and the testimony whether they speak not after this meaning.

⁴⁴ But I say unto you, Love your enemies. Bless them that curse you. Do good to them that hate you. Pray for them which do you wrong and persecute you; ⁴⁵ that ye may be the children of your father that is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to arise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth his rain on the just and unjust. ⁴⁶ For if ye love them which love you, what reward shall ye have? Do not the Publicans even so? ⁴⁷ And if ye be friendly to your brethren only, what singular thing do ye? Do not the Publicans likewise? ⁴⁸ Ye shall therefore be perfect even as your father which is in heaven is perfect.

³⁶ Be ye therefore merciful, as your father is merciful.

⁶ Jesus said unto him, "I am the way, the truth and the life. And no man cometh unto the father, but by me.

¹⁸ But we all behold the glory of the Lord with his face open, and we are changed unto the same similitude, from glory to glory, even of the spirit of the Lord.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, if one be dead for all, that then are all dead: ¹⁵ and that he died for all, because that they which live, should not henceforth live unto themselves: but unto him which died for them and rose again.

⁹ Ye know the liberality of our Lord Jesus Christ, which though he were rich, yet for your sakes became poor: that ye through his poverty might be made rich.

²⁰ But ye have not so learned Christ; ²¹ If so be ye have heard of him, and are taught in him, even as the truth is in Jesus: ²² so then, as concerning the conversation in time past, lay from you that old man, which is corrupt through the deceivable lusts, ²³ and be ye renewed in the spirit of your minds, ²⁴ and put on that new man, which after the image of God is shapen in righteousness, and true holiness. ²⁵ Wherefore, put away lying, and speak every man truth unto his neighbor, forasmuch as we are members one of another.

³² Be ye courteous one to another, and merciful, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake forgave you.

¹² Now therefore as elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long suffering, ¹³ forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel to another; even as Christ forgave you, even so do ye.

⁷ but and if we walk in light even as he is in light, then have we fellowship together, and the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin.

⁷ Dearly beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God. And all that love are born of God, and knoweth God. ⁸ And he that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is love. ⁹ Herein appeared the love of God to us ward, because that God sent his only begotten son into the world, that we should live through him. ¹⁰ Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his son to make a satisfaction for our sins. ¹¹ Dearly beloved, if God so loved us, then we ought also to love one another. ¹² No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfect in us.

¹⁹ We love him, because he loved us first. ²⁰ If a man say, "I love God," and yet hate his brother, he is a liar. For how can he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, love God whom he hath not seen? ²¹ And this commandment have we of him: that he which loveth God, should love his brother also.

⁴ I rejoiced greatly, that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment of the father.

³ I rejoiced greatly when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, how thou in truth walkest. ⁴ I have no greater joy than for to hear how that my sons walk in verity.

¹¹ Dearly beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good: He that doeth well is of God: but he that doeth evil seeth not God.

¹ O Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, and hath not sat in the seat of the scornful.

⁶³ I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and keep thy commandments.

¹¹⁵ Away from me, ye wicked! I will keep the commandments of my God!

⁶ Forsake ignorance, and ye shall live: and see that ye go in the way of understanding."

¹¹ He that tilleth his land, shall have plenteousness of bread; but he that followeth idleness, is a very fool.

²⁰ He that goeth in the company of wise men, shall be wise; but whoso is a companion of fools shall be hurt.

¹⁷ I dwell not among the council of scorners, neither is my delight therein: but I dwell only in the fear of thy hand, for thou hast filled me with bitterness.

³³ Be not deceived: malicious speakings corrupt good manners.

¹⁷ Wherefore, "Come out from among them, and separate yourselves," saith the Lord, "and touch none unclean thing: so will I receive you,

⁶ I have hated them that hold of superstitious vanities, and my trust hath been in the LORD.

³ I will take no wicked thing in hand. I hate the sin of unfaithfulness; it shall not cleave unto me. ⁴ A froward heart shall depart from me; I will not know a wicked person. ⁵ Who so privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I destroy. Whoso hath also a proud look and high stomach, I will not suffer him. ⁶ Mine eyes shall look for such as be faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me. Whoso leadeth a godly life, he shall be my servant. ⁷ There shall no deceitful person dwell in my house; he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight. ⁸ I shall soon destroy all the ungodly that are in the land, that I may root out all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.

²¹ Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? ²² Yea, I hate them right sore, even as though they were mine enemies.

¹¹ When the Pharisees saw that, they said unto his disciples, "Why eateth your master with publicans and sinners?" ¹² When Jesus heard that, he said unto them, "The whole need not the physician, but they that are sick.

⁹ I wrote unto you in an epistle that ye should not company with fornicators. ¹⁰ And I meant not at all of the fornicators of this world, either of the covetous, or of extortioners, either of the idolaters — for then must ye needs have gone out of the world - ¹¹ but now I write unto you that ye company not together. If any that is called a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or a worshipper of images, either a railer, either a drunkard, or an extortioner: with him that is such see that ye eat not.

¹⁹ that Aaron and his sons may wash both their hands and their feet thereout, ²⁰ when they go into the tabernacle of witness, or when they go unto the altar to minister and to burn the LORD's offering, lest they die.

⁴ Even he that hath clean hands, and a pure heart, and that hath not lift up his mind unto vanity, nor sworn to deceive his neighbour.

⁴ and that I may go unto the altar of God, even unto the God of my joy and gladness: and upon the harp will I give thanks unto thee, O God, my God.

¹³ and I said, "Then have I cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency?

¹⁶ Thus saith the LORD God: Wash and be clean; put away the wickedness of your imaginations out of my sight. Cease to do evil and learn to do well. ¹⁷ Study to do righteously, and help the oppressed. Avenge the fatherless and defend the cause of widows. Come, let us show each his grief to other and make an atonement, saith the LORD. ¹⁸ And so though your sins be like to purple, they shall be made as white as snow; and though they be as red as scarlet, they shall be made like white wool.

¹¹ Now hath Judah offended: yea the abomination is done in Israel and in Jerusalem, for Judah hath defiled the Sanctuary of the LORD, which he loved, and hath kept the daughter of a strange God. ¹² But the LORD shall destroy the man that doth this, yea both the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacle of Jacob, with him that offereth up meat offering unto the LORD of Hosts. ¹³ Now have ye brought it to this point again, that the altar of the LORD is covered with tears, weeping, and mourning: so that I will no more regard the meat offering, neither will I receive or accept anything at your hands.

²³ Therefore when thou offerest thy gift at the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; ²⁴ leave there thine offering before the altar, and go thy way first, and be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

²⁸ Let a man therefore examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. ²⁹ For he that eateth or drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh his own damnation, because he maketh no difference of the Lord's body.

⁸ I will, therefore, that the men pray every where, lifting up pure hands without wrath, or doubting.

⁵ not of the deeds of righteousness which we wrought, but of his mercy, he saved us, by the fountain of the new birth, and with the renewing of the holy ghost,

¹⁹ Seeing, brethren, that by the means of the blood of Jesus, we may be bold to enter into that holy place, ²⁰ by the new and living way, which he hath prepared for us, through the veil, that is to say by his flesh. ²¹ And seeing also that we have a high priest which is ruler over the house of God, ²² let us draw nigh with a true heart in a full faith sprinkled in our hearts, from an evil conscience, and washed in our bodies with pure water,

² take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou hast brought in out of the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee and put it in a maund and go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to make his name dwell there. ³ And thou shalt come unto the priest that shall be in those days and say unto him, 'I knowledge this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us.' ⁴ And the priest shall take the maund out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God. ⁵ And thou shalt answer and say before the LORD thy God, 'The Syrians would have destroyed my father, and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there with a few folk and grew there unto a nation great, mighty and full of people. ⁶ And the Egyptians vexed us and troubled us, and laded us with cruel bondage. ⁷ And we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and looked on our adversity, labour and oppression. ⁸ And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm and with great terribleness and with signs and wonders. ⁹ And he hath brought us into this place and hath given us this land that floweth with milk and honey. ¹⁰ And now, lo: I have brought the first fruits of the land which the LORD hath given me.' And set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God,

²⁴ And then she took him with her, when she had weaned him, with three bullocks and an ephah of flour and a bottle of wine, and brought him into the house of the LORD in Shiloh, how be it the child was yet young.

²⁷ And for this lad I prayed, and the LORD hath given me my desire which I asked of him:

²⁶ And the fourth day they assembled in the valley of blessing, for there they blessed the LORD. And therefore they called the name of the said place the valley of blessing unto this day. ²⁷ And so all the men of Judah and Jerusalem returned and Jehoshaphat among the thickest of them, for to go again to Jerusalem with gladness: for the LORD had made them to rejoice of their enemies. ²⁸ And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets, even unto the house of the LORD. ²⁹ And the fear of God fell in the kingdoms of all lands, when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel.

¹ {To the Chanter upon Muthlabben, a Psalm of David} I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will speak of all thy marvelous works.

¹⁴ That I may show all thy praises within the ports of the daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in thy salvation.

¹³ I will go into thine house with burnt-offerings, to pay thee my vows, ¹⁴ which I promised with my lips, and spake with my mouth, when I was in trouble. ¹⁵ I will offer unto thee fat burnt-sacrifices with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks and goats. Selah.

¹⁷ Thou, O God, hast taught me from my youth up until now; therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works. ¹⁸ Forsake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am grey-headed, until I have showed thy strength unto children's children, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come. ¹⁹ Thy righteousness, O God, is very high, and great things are they that thou hast done; O God, who is like unto thee?

¹⁸ Blessed be the LORD God, even the God of Israel, which only doeth wondrous things.

² Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and show ourself glad in him with psalms.

⁴ O go your way into his gates then with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise; be thankful unto him, and speak good of his name. ⁵ For the LORD is gracious, his mercy is everlasting, and his truth endureth from generation to generation.

² O let your songs be of him; praise him, and let your talking be of all his wondrous works.

¹² What reward shall I give unto the LORD, for all the benefits that he hath done unto me? ¹³ I will receive the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. ¹⁴ I will pay my vows, now, in the presence of all his people;

¹⁸ I will pay my vows unto the LORD in the sight of all his people, ¹⁹ in the courts of the LORD's house, even in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

¹⁹ Open me the gates of righteousness, that I may go in there through, and give thanks unto the LORD.

²⁷ God is the LORD, and hath showed us light; O garnish the solemn feast with green branches, even unto the horns of the altar.

²⁷ Make me to understand the way of thy commandments, and so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.

² Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and praise the LORD.

⁴ Which only doeth great wonders! For his mercy endureth forever. ⁵ Which by his wisdom made the heavens! For his mercy endureth forever.

⁵ As for me, I will be talking of thy worship, thy glory, thy praise, and wondrous works;

³⁷ And when he was now come where he should go down from the Mount Olivet, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice, and to laud God with a loud voice, for all the miracles that they had seen, ³⁸ saying, "Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest." ³⁹ And some of the Pharisees of the company, said unto him, "Master, rebuke thy disciples." ⁴⁰ He answered, and said unto them, "I tell you, if these should hold their peace, the stones would cry."

²¹ And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark, and in the ark thou shalt put the witness which I will give thee. ²² "There I will meet thee and will commune with thee from upon the mercy seat from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of witness, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.

³⁴ And the cloud covered the tabernacle of witness, and the glory of the LORD filled the habitation: ³⁵ so that Moses could not enter into the tabernacle of witness, because the cloud abode therein, and the glory of the LORD filled the habitation.

²⁵ Then said the king unto Zadok, "Carry the Ark of God again into the city. If I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again, and show me both it and the tabernacle thereof also.

³ And yet because I have lust to the house of my God, I have several gold and silver which I give to the house of my God above all I have prepared for the holy house:

¹⁴ so that the priests could not endure to minister by the reason of the cloud. For the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.

⁴ One thing have I desired of the LORD, which I will require, even that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the fair beauty of the LORD, and to visit his temple. ⁵ For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his tabernacle; yea in the secret place of his dwelling shall he hide me, and set me up upon a rock of stone. ⁶ And now shall he lift up mine head above mine enemies round about me. Therefore will I offer in his dwelling an oblation with great gladness; I will sing and speak praises unto the LORD.

⁴ Now when I think thereupon, I pour out my heart by myself; for I went with the multitude, and brought them forth into the house of God, in the voice of praise and thanksgiving, among such as keep holy-day.

² Thus do I look for thee in thy Sanctuary, that I might behold thy power and glory. ³ For thy loving-kindness is better than life itself; my lips shall praise thee.

¹ {Upon Gittith, a Psalm of the sons of Korah} O how amiable are thy dwellings, thou LORD of Hosts! ² My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God.

¹⁰ For one day in thy court is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of the ungodly.

¹ {A song of the stairs} I was glad when they said unto me, "We will go in to the house of the LORD." ² Our feet shall stand in thy gates, O Jerusalem. ³ Jerusalem is built as a city, that is at unity in itself. ⁴ For there the tribes go up, even the tribes of the LORD, to testify unto Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.

⁹ Yea because of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek to do thee good.

²⁰ Deliver us, O LORD, and we will sing praises in thy house, all the days of our life."

²² Then said Hezekiah, "O what a great thing is this, that I shall go up in to the house of the LORD."

⁴⁶ And it fortuned, after three days, that they found him in the temple sitting in the midst of the doctors: both hearing them, and posing them.

⁴⁹ And he said unto them, "How is it that ye sought me? Wist ye not that I must go about my father's business?"

⁴⁵ And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought, ⁴⁶ saying unto them, "It is written, 'My house is the house of prayer.' But ye have made it a den of thieves." ⁴⁷ And he taught daily in the temple. The high priests and the scribes and the chief of the people, went about to destroy him;

¹⁴ and found sitting in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep, and doves, and changers of money sitting. ¹⁵ And he made a scourge of small cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen, and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables. ¹⁶ And said unto them that sold doves, "Have these things hence, and make not my father's house a house of merchandise." ¹⁷ And his disciples remembered, how that it was written, "The zeal of thine house, hath even eaten me."

¹⁸ Then said the king to Doeg, "Turn thou and smite the priests." And Doeg the Edomite turned and ran upon the priests, and slew that same day four score and five persons that did wear each man a linen ephod. ¹⁹ And Nob, the city of the priests, he smote with the edge of the sword: both man and woman, child and suckling, with ox, ass and sheep.

²⁹ And if any man rise to persecute thee and to seek thy soul, the soul of my lord be bound in a bundle of life with the LORD thy God. And the souls of thy enemies be slung in the middle of a sling.

⁷ And thus said this Shimei as he cursed, "Come forth, come forth thou blood shedder and thou unthrifty man!

¹ Then there fell a hunger in the days of David: three years, year by year. And David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, "It is for Saul's sake and the house of blood, because he slew the Gibeonites."

¹ {A Psalm of David} Unto thee will I cry, O LORD, my strength; think no scorn of me, lest, if thou make as though thou hearest not, I become like them that go down into the pit. ² Hear the voice of my humble petitions, when I cry unto thee, when I hold up my hands towards the mercy seat of thy holy temple. ³ O pluck me not away, neither destroy me with the ungodly and wicked doers, which speak friendly to their neighbours, but imagine mischief in their hearts.

¹⁴ Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou that art the God of my health; that my tongue may praise thy righteousness.

²³ But as for them, thou, O God, shalt bring them into the pit of destruction. The bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. Nevertheless, my trust shall be in thee, O LORD.

¹⁹ Wilt thou not slay the wicked, O God, that the bloodthirsty might depart from me?

¹⁸ Turn you therefore, and consider what difference is betwixt the righteous and ungodly: betwixt him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.

⁵¹ and will divide him, and give him his reward with hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

³² and before him shall be gathered all nations. And he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth the sheep from the goats.

⁴⁴ Then shall they also answer him, saying, 'Master, when saw we thee a hungered, or athirst, or harborless, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and have not ministered unto thee?'

⁴⁶ And these shall go into everlasting pain: And the righteous into life eternal.

¹⁴ Blessed are they that do his commandments, that their power may be in the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. ¹⁵ For without shall be dogs and enchanters, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth or maketh lies.

⁸ Thou shalt take no gifts, for gifts blind the seeing and pervert the words of the righteous.

¹⁹ Wrest not the law, nor know any person, neither take any reward: for gifts blind the wise and pervert the words of the righteous.

³ Nevertheless, his sons followed not his steps: but turned aside after lucre and took rewards, and perverted the right.

¹⁴ Surely thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest ungodliness and wrong, that thou mayest take the matter into thy hand. The poor committeth himself unto thee, for thou art the helper of the friendless.

² For lo, the ungodly bend their bow, and make ready their arrows within the quiver, that they may privily shoot at them which are true of heart.

⁴ He imagineth mischief upon his bed, and hath set himself in no good way; neither doth he abhor any thing that is evil.

² Thy tongue imagineth wickedness, and with lies it cutteth like a sharp razor.

⁹ Destroy their tongues, O LORD, and divide them; for I see unrighteousness and strife in the city. ¹⁰ This goeth day and night about the walls; mischief and vice are in the midst of it. ¹¹ Wickedness is therein; deceit and guile go not out of her streets.

¹⁶ For their feet run to evil, and are hasty to shed blood.

¹⁶ For they cannot sleep, except they have first done some mischief: neither take they any rest, except they have first done some harm.

¹⁵ He that leadeth a godly life - say I - and speaketh the truth; He that abhorreth to do violence and deceit; he that keepeth his hand that he touch no reward; which stoppeth his ears, that he hear no counsel against the innocent; which holdeth down his eyes, that he see none evil.

¹² Yea, gifts have been received in thee to shed blood. Thou hast taken usury and increase, thou hast oppressed thy neighbours by extortion, and forgotten me, sayeth the LORD God. ¹³ Behold, I have smitten my hands upon thy covetousness, that thou hast used, and upon the blood which hath been shed in thee.

¹² As for the multitude of your wickednesses and your stout sins, I know them right well. Enemies are ye of the righteous; ye take rewards; ye oppress the poor in judgment.

¹ Woe unto them that imagine to do harm, and devise ungraciousness upon their beds, to perform it in the clear day: for their power is against God. ² When they covet to have land, they take it by violence; they rob men of their houses. Thus they oppress a man for his house, and every man for his heritage. ³ Therefore thus sayeth the LORD: Behold, against this household have I devised a plague, whereout ye shall not pluck your necks. Ye shall no more go so proudly, for it will be a perilous time.

³ yet they say they do well when they do evil. As the prince will, so sayeth the judge: that he may do him a pleasure again. The great man speaketh what his heart desireth; and the hearers allow him.

³ Then assembled together the chief priests and the scribes and the elders of the people into the palace of the high priest, called Caiaphas: ⁴ and held a counsel, how they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.

¹² When day was come, certain of the Jews gathered themselves together, and made a vow saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

² And see, your king walketh before you. But I am old and grayheaded: and behold my sons are with you and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day. ³ Behold, here I am. Answer me before the LORD and before his anointed, whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass have I taken? Whom have I done wrong to? Or whom have I oppressed? And of whose hand have I received any bribe, to blind mine eyes therewith? And I will restore it you again." ⁴ And they said, "Thou hast done us no wrong, nor oppressed us; neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand." ⁵ Then said he to them, "The LORD is witness unto you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have found nought in my hands." And they answered, "We are witnesses."

²⁰ And of this manner did Hezekiah, throughout all Judah; and did that was good, right and truth, before the LORD his God. ²¹ And in all the works that he began in the service of the house of God, to seek his God after the law and commandment, that did he with all his heart, and prospered.

¹⁵ For the old captains that were before me, had been chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, and forty sicles of silver: yea and their servants had oppressed the people. But so did not I, and that because of the fear of God.

¹⁴ Think upon me, O my God, herein, and wipe not out my mercy, that I have showed on the house of my God, and on the officers thereof!

²² And I said unto the Levites which were clean, that they should come and keep the gates, to hallow the Sabbath day. Think upon me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to thy great mercy!

³¹ and to offer the wood at times appointed, and the firstfruits. Think thou upon me, O my God, for the best!

¹ In the land of Uz, there was a man called Job: an innocent and virtuous man, such a one as feared God, and eschewed evil.

¹ {A Psalm of David} Be thou my Judge, O LORD, for I walk innocently. My trust hath been also in the LORD; therefore shall I not fall.

⁷ But no man may deliver his brother, nor make agreement unto God for him,

¹⁵ But God shall deliver my soul from the power of hell, when he receiveth me. Selah.

¹⁸ Draw nigh unto my soul, and save it; O deliver me, because of mine enemies.

³ Who forgiveth all thy sin, and healeth all thine infirmities? ⁴ Who saveth thy life from destruction, and crowneth thee with mercy, and loving-kindness?

⁷ He showed his ways unto Moses, and his works unto the children of Israel. ⁸ The LORD is full of compassion and mercy; longsuffering, and of great goodness.

³ and said, "Remember, O LORD, that I have walked before thee in truth and a steadfast heart, and have done the thing that is pleasant to thee." And Hezekiah wept sore.

⁶ Both were perfect before God, and walked in all the laws and ordinances of the Lord, that no man could find fault with them.

¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and so is God, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

¹⁴ which gave himself for us, to redeem us from all unrighteousness, and to purge us a peculiar people unto himself, fervently given unto good works.

¹⁸ Forasmuch as ye know how that ye were not redeemed with corruptible gold and silver from your vain conversation, which ye received by the traditions of the fathers, ¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb undefiled, and without spot,

²² I will declare thy name unto my brethren; in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. ²³ O praise the LORD, ye that fear him! Magnify him, all ye seed of Jacob, and fear him, all ye seed of Israel. ²⁴ For he hath not despised nor abhorred the low estate of the poor: he hath not hid his face from him, but when he called unto him, he heard him. ²⁵ My praise is of thee in the great congregation; my vows will I perform in the sight of them that fear him.

⁷ that I may show the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.

¹¹ Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in the right way, because of mine enemies.

² He brought me out of the horrible pit, out of the mire and clay; he set my feet upon the rock, and ordered my goings.

³² — That they would exalt him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders,

¹ {Praise the Everlasting} I will give thanks unto the LORD with my whole heart: secretly among the faithful, and in the congregation.

⁴ For there the tribes go up, even the tribes of the LORD, to testify unto Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.

⁹ He that leadeth an innocent life, walketh surely; but whoso goeth a wrong way, shall be known.

¹² saying, "I will declare thy name unto my brethren, and in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee."