Bible Verses About Psalms

Be Thou exalted above the heavens, O God, Above all the earth Thine honour.

A net they have prepared for my steps, Bowed down hath my soul, They have digged before me a pit, They have fallen into its midst. Selah.

Prepared is my heart, O God, Prepared is my heart, I sing and praise.

Awake, mine honour, awake, psaltery and harp, I awake the morning dawn.

I thank Thee among the peoples, O Lord, I praise Thee among the nations.

For great unto the heavens is Thy kindness, And unto the clouds Thy truth.

Be thou exalted above the heavens, O God. Above all the earth Thine honour!

To the Overseer. --`Destroy not.' --A secret treasure, by David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men?

Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.

The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.

Their poison is as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,

Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful.

O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.

They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.

As a snail that melteth he goeth on, As an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.

Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.

The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked.

And man saith: `Surely fruit is for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!'

To the Overseer. --`Concerning the Lily of Testimony,' a secret treasure of David, to teach, in his striving with Aram-Naharaim, and with Aram-Zobah, and Joab turneth back and smiteth Edom in the valley of Salt--twelve thousand. O God, Thou hadst cast us off, Thou hadst broken us--hadst been angry! --Thou dost turn back to us.

Thou hast caused the land to tremble, Thou hast broken it, Heal its breaches, for it hath moved.

Thou hast shewn Thy people a hard thing, Thou hast caused us to drink wine of trembling.

Thou hast given to those fearing thee an ensign. To be lifted up as an ensign Because of truth. Selah.

That Thy beloved ones may be drawn out, Save with Thy right hand, and answer us.

God hath spoken in His holiness: I exult--I apportion Shechem, And the valley of Succoth I measure,

Mine is Gilead, and mine is Manasseh, And Ephraim is the strength of my head, Judah is my lawgiver,