Book Four (Psalms 90-106) "Concerning Israel and the Nations of the Earth"


1:   O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
2:   Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
3:   LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
4:   How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
5:   They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
6:   They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
7:   Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

8:   Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
9:   He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
10:   He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
11:   The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

12:   Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
13:   That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

14:   For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
15:   But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
16:   Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
17:   Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

18:   When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
19:   In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
20:   Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
21:   They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

22:   But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
23:   And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.