reading Psalms from the King James Bible
1:3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
3:6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.
6:1 ...Rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
6:6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
7:15-16 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
9:18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
10:18 ...that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
14:3-4 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread...
15:2-3 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
16:9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
17:3 Thou has proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou has tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
17:8 Keep me as the apple of the eye...
18:10-11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
18:36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
19:4-6 ...In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it...
22:1-2 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
22:9-10 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts. I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.
22:12-13 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
22:21 Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
23:2-4 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil...
25:7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake...
25:21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me...
27:2-3 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
29:6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
31:4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.
31:10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
32:3-4 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer.
33:3 Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked...
36:8-10 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light. O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee...
41:1 Blessed is he that considereth the poor...
42:3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
42:7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
44:19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
44:22-23 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
45:1 ...My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
51:4 ...That thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
52:2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.
55:6-7 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest. Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness..
55:21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
59:6 ...They make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
62:3 ...As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
62:10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
65:11-13 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy...
66:5 Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
69:21-22 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
71:21 Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
72:3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills...
74:14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
75:8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
81:7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder...
82:3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
83:13 O my God, make them like a wheel...
85:10-11 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
86:15 ...full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
89:13-14 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
90:9 ...We spend our years as a tale that is told.
92:10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn...
96:12 Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice...
97:4 His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
98:7-8 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together.
101:7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
102:2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
102:6-7 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
103:5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
103:14-16 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
104:14-15 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.
104:25-26 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
107:14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
112:5 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
114:4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
115:5-7 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
116:10-11 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars.
118:12 They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns...
118:17 I shall not die, but live...
119:68 Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
119:103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
119:163 I hate and abhor lying...
120:7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
128:2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
132:15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.
136:8-9 The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever: The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever.
141:7 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
144:12-15 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace: That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets: That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets. Happy is that people, that is in such a case...
147:16-18 He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold? He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.