1650 Scottish Psalter (Lining Out of The Psalms)

1  Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against th’ ungodly nation; From the unjust and crafty man, O be thou my salvation. 2  For thou the God art of my strength; why thrusts thou me thee fro’? For th’ enemy’s oppression why do I mourning go? 3  O send thy light forth and thy truth; let them be guides to me, And bring me to thine holy hill, ev’n where thy dwellings be. 4  Then will I to God’s alta...

1  Like as the hart for water-brooks in thirst doth pant and bray; So pants my longing soul, O God, that come to thee I may. 2  My soul for God, the living God, doth thirst: when shall I near Unto thy countenance approach, and in God’s sight appear? 3  My tears have unto me been meat, both in the night and day, While unto me continually, Where is thy God? they say. 4  My soul is poured out in me,...

1  Blessed is he that wisely doth the poor man’s case consider; For when the time of trouble is, the Lord will him deliver. 2  God will him keep, yea, save alive; on earth he blessed shall live; And to his enemies’ desire thou wilt him not up give. 3  God will give strength when he on bed of languishing doth mourn; And in his sickness sore, O Lord, thou all his bed wilt turn. 4  I said, O Lord, do...

1  I waited for the Lord my God, and patiently did bear; At length to me he did incline my voice and cry to hear. 2  He took me from a fearful pit, and from the miry clay, And on a rock he set my feet, establishing my way. 3  He put a new song in my mouth, our God to magnify: Many shall see it, and shall fear, and on the Lord rely. 4  O blessed is the man whose trust upon the Lord relies; Respecti...

1  I said, I will look to my ways, lest with my tongue I sin: In sight of wicked men my mouth with bridle I’ll keep in. 2  With silence I as dumb became, I did myself restrain From speaking good; but then the more increased was my pain. 3  My heart within me waxed hot; and, while I musing was, The fire did burn; and from my tongue these words I did let pass: 4  Mine end, and measure of my days, O...

1  In thy great indignation, O Lord, rebuke me not; Nor on me lay thy chast’ning hand, in thy displeasure hot. 2  For in me fast thine arrows stick, thine hand doth press me sore: 3  And in my flesh there is no health, nor soundness any more. This grief I have, because thy wrath is forth against me gone; And in my bones there is no rest, for sin that I have done. 4  Because gone up above mine head...

17  For sinners’ arms shall broken be; but God the just sustains. 18  God knows the just man’s days, and still their heritage remains. 19  They shall not be ashamed when they the evil time do see; And when the days of famine are, they satisfied shall be. 20  But wicked men, and foes of God, as fat of lambs, decay; They shall consume, yea, into smoke they shall consume away. 21  The wicked borrows,...

1  For evil-doers fret thou not thyself unquietly; Nor do thou envy bear to those that work iniquity. 2  For, even like unto the grass, soon be cut down shall they; And, like the green and tender herb, they wither shall away. 3  Set thou thy trust upon the Lord, and be thou doing good; And so thou in the land shalt dwell, and verily have food. 4  Delight thyself in God; he’ll give thine heart’s de...

1  The wicked man’s transgression within my heart thus says, Undoubtedly the fear of God is not before his eyes. 2  Because himself he flattereth in his own blinded eye, Until the hatefulness be found of his iniquity. 3  Words from his mouth proceeding are, fraud and iniquity: He to be wise, and to do good, hath left off utterly. 4  He mischief, lying on his bed, most cunningly doth plot: He sets...

21  With mouths set wide, they ‘gainst me said, Ha, ha! our eye doth see. 22  Lord, thou hast seen, hold not thy peace; Lord, be not far from me. 23  Stir up thyself; wake, that thou may’st judgment to me afford, Ev’n to my cause, O thou that art my only God and Lord. 24  O Lord my God, do thou me judge after thy righteousness; And let them not their joy ‘gainst me triumphantly express: 25  Nor le...

1  Plead, Lord, with those that plead; and fight with those that fight with me. 2  Of shield and buckler take thou hold, stand up mine help to be. 3  Draw also out the spear, and do against them stop the way That me pursue: unto my soul, I’m thy salvation, say. 4  Let them confounded be and shamed that for my soul have sought: Who plot my hurt turned back be they, and to confusion brought. 5  Let...

14  Depart from ill, do good, seek peace, pursue it earnestly. 15  God’s eyes are on the just; his ears are open to their cry. 16  The face of God is set against those that do wickedly, That he may quite out from the earth cut off their memory. 17  The righteous cry unto the Lord, he unto them gives ear; And they out of their troubles all by him delivered are. 18  The Lord is ever nigh to them tha...

1  God will I bless all times; his praise my mouth shall still express. 2  My soul shall boast in God: the meek shall hear with joyfulness. 3  Extol the Lord with me, let us exalt his name together. 4  I sought the Lord, he heard, and did me from all fears deliver. 5  They looked to him, and lightened were: not shamed were their faces. 6  This poor man cried, God heard, and saved him from all his...

1  Ye righteous, in the Lord rejoice; it comely is and right, That upright men, with thankful voice, should praise the Lord of might. 2  Praise God with harp, and unto him sing with the psaltery; Upon a ten-stringed instrument make ye sweet melody. 3  A new song to him sing, and play with loud noise skilfully; 4  For right is God’s word, all his works are done in verity. 5  To judgment and to righ...

1  O blessed is the man to whom is freely pardoned All the transgression he hath done, whose sin is covered. 2  Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not his sin, And in whose sp’rit there is no guile, nor fraud is found therein. 3  When as I did refrain my speech, and silent was my tongue, My bones then waxed old, because I roared all day long. 4  For upon me both day and night thine hand...

1  In thee, O Lord, I put my trust, shamed let me never be; According to thy righteousness do thou deliver me. 2  Bow down thine ear to me, with speed send me deliverance: To save me, my strong rock be thou, and my house of defense. 3  Because thou art my rock, and thee I for my fortress take; Therefore do thou me lead and guide, ev’n for thine own name’s sake. 4  And since thou art my strength, t...

1  Lord, I will thee extol, for thou hast lifted me on high, And over me thou to rejoice mad’st not mine enemy. 2  O thou who art the Lord my God, I in distress to thee, With loud cries lifted up my voice, and thou hast healed me. 3  O Lord, my soul thou hast brought up, and rescued from the grave; That I to pit should not go down, alive thou didst me save. 4  O ye that are his holy ones, sing pra...

1  Give ye unto the Lord, ye sons that of the mighty be, All strength and glory to the Lord with cheerfulness give ye. 2  Unto the Lord the glory give that to his name is due; And in the beauty of holiness unto Jehovah bow. 3  The Lord’s voice on the waters is; the God of majesty Doth thunder, and on multitudes of waters sitteth he. 4  A pow’rful voice it is that comes out from the Lord most high;...

1  To thee I’ll cry, O Lord, my rock; hold not thy peace to me; Lest like those that to pit descend I by thy silence be. 2  The voice hear of my humble pray’rs, when unto thee I cry; When to thine holy oracle I lift mine hands on high. 3  With ill men draw me not away that work iniquity; That speak peace to their friends, while in their hearts doth mischief lie. 4  Give them according to their dee...

1  The Lord’s my light and saving health, who shall make me dismayed? My life’s strength is the Lord, of whom then shall I be afraid? 2  When as mine enemies and foes, most wicked persons all, To eat my flesh against me rose, they stumbled and did fall. 3  Against me though an host encamp, my heart yet fearless is: Though war against me rise, I will be confident in this. 4  One thing I of the Lord...

1  Judge me, O Lord, for I have walk’d in mine integrity: I trusted also in the Lord; slide therefore shall not I. 2  Examine me, and do me prove; try heart and reins, O God: 3  For thy love is before mine eyes, thy truth’s paths I have trode. 4  With persons vain I have not sat, nor with dissemblers gone: 5  Th’ assembly of ill men I hate; to sit with such I shun. 6  Mine hands in innocence, O Lo...

1 To thee I lift my soul, O Lord: 2 My God, I trust in thee: Let me not be asham’d; let not my foes triumph o’er me. 3 Yea, let thou none ashamed be that do on thee attend: Ashamed let them be, O Lord, who without cause offend. 4 Thy ways, Lord, shew; teach me thy paths: 5 Lead me in truth, teach me: For of my safety thou art God; all day I wait on thee. 6 Thy mercies, that most tender are, do tho...

1To thee I lift my soul: 2 O Lord, I trust in thee: My God, let me not be asham’d, nor foes triumph o’er me. 3 Let none that wait on thee be put to shame at all; But those that without cause transgress, let shame upon them fall. 4 Shew me thy ways, O Lord; thy paths, O teach thou me: 5 And do thou lead me in thy truth, therein my teacher be: For thou art God that dost to me salvation send, And I u...

1  The earth belongs unto the Lord, and all that it contains; The world that is inhabited, and all that there remains. 2  For the foundations thereof he on the seas did lay, And he hath it established upon the floods to stay. 3  Who is the man that shall ascend into the hill of God? Or who within his holy place shall have a firm abode? 4  Whose hands are clean, whose heart is pure, and unto vanity...

1  The Lord’s my shepherd, I’ll not want. 2  He makes me down to lie In pastures green: he leadeth me the quiet waters by. 3  My soul he doth restore again; and me to walk doth make Within the paths of righteousness, ev’n for his own name’s sake. 4  Yea, though I walk in death’s dark vale, yet will I fear none ill: For thou art with me; and thy rod and staff me comfort still. 5  My table thou hast...