Bible Verses About Psalms

Lift not vp your horne on high, neither speake with a stiffe necke.

For to come to preferment is neither from the East, nor from the West, nor from the South,

But God is the iudge: he maketh lowe and he maketh hie.

For in the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full mixt, and he powreth out of the same: surely all the wicked of the earth shall wring out and drinke the dregges thereof.

But I will declare for euer, and sing prayses vnto the God of Iaakob.

All the hornes of the wicked also will I breake: but the hornes of the righteous shalbe exalted.

To him that excelleth on Neginoth. A Psalme or song committed to Asaph. God is knowen in Iudah: his Name is great in Israel.

For in Shalem is his Tabernacle, and his dwelling in Zion.

There brake he the arrowes of the bowe, the shielde and the sword and the battell. Selah.

Thou art more bright and puissant, then the mountaines of pray.

The stout hearted are spoyled: they haue slept their sleepe, and all the men of strength haue not found their hands.

At thy rebuke, O God of Iaakob, both the chariot and horse are cast a sleepe.

Thou, euen thou art to be feared: and who shall stand in thy sight, when thou art angrie!

Thou didest cause thy iudgement to bee heard from heauen: therefore the earth feared and was still,

When thou, O God, arose to iudgement, to helpe all the meeke of the earth. Selah.

Surely the rage of man shall turne to thy praise: the remnant of the rage shalt thou restrayne.

Vowe and performe vnto the Lord your God, all ye that be rounde about him: let them bring presents vnto him that ought to be feared.

He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the Kings of the earth.

A Psalme committed to Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance: thine holy Temple haue they defiled, and made Ierusalem heapes of stones.

The dead bodies of thy seruats haue they giuen to be meat vnto foules of ye heauen: and the flesh of thy Saintes vnto the beastes of the earth.

Their blood haue they shead like waters rounde about Ierusalem, and there was none to burie them.

Wee are a reproche to our neighbours, euen a scorne and derision vnto them that are round about vs.

Lord, howe long wilt thou be angrie, for euer? shall thy gelousie burne like fire?

Powre out thy wrath vpon the heathen that haue not knowen thee, and vpon the kingdomes that haue not called vpon thy Name.

For they haue deuoured Iaakob and made his dwelling place desolate.