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

A Psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abilelech; who drove him away, and he departed.


1:    I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
2:    My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

3:    O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.

4:    I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

5:    They looked unto him,
and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
6:    This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
7:    The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

8:    O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
9:    O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
10:    The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.

11:    Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
12:    What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
13:    Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
14:    Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
15:    The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

16:    The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

17:    The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
18:    The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
19:    Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
20:    He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.

21:    Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

22:    The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.


8. O taste and see that the LORD is good: Quoted in 1Pe. 2:3.

12. What man is he...that do evil, Quoted in 1Pe. 3:10-12.