Book Five (Psalms 107-150) "Concerning God and His Word"

A Psalm of David.


1:   LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.
2:   Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

3:   Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
4:   Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
5:   Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head:

for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.

6:   When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.

7:   Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth,

as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

8:   But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.

9:   Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

10:   Let the wicked fall into their own nets,

whilst that I withal escape.