Book One (Psalms 1-41) "Concerning Man"

A Psalm of David.


1:    I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.
2:    I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.

3:    When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

4:   For thou hast maintained my right and my cause;

thou satest in the throne judging right.
5:    Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.

6:    O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.

7:    But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.
8:    And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.

9:    The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
10:    And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

11:    Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.

12:   When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

13:    Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

14:   That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.

15:    The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

16:   The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

17:    The wicked shall be turned into hell,

and all the nations that forget God.

18:    For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

19:   Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
20:   Put them in fear, O LORD:

that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.


8. he shall judge the world in righteousness, Quoted in Ac. 17:31.