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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;
     Respecting not the proud, nor such
          as turn aside to lies.

5    O Lord my God, full many are
          the wonders thou hast done;
     Thy gracious thoughts to us-ward far
          above all thoughts are gone:

     In order none can reckon them

          to thee: if them declare,

     And speak of them I would, they more

          than can be number’d are.

6    No sacrifice nor offering

          didst thou at all desire;

     Mine ears thou bor’d: sin-off ‘ring thou

          and burnt didst not require:

7    Then to the Lord these were my words,

          I come, behold and see;

     Within the volume of the book

          it written is of me:

8    To do thy will I take delight,

          O thou my God that art;

     Yea, that most holy law of thine

          I have within my heart.

9    Within the congregation great

          I righteousness did preach:

     Lo, thou dost know, O Lord, that I

          refrained not my speech.

10   I never did within my heart

          conceal thy righteousness;

     I thy salvation have declar’d,

          and shown thy faithfulness:

     Thy kindness, which most loving is,

          concealed have not I,

     Nor from the congregation great

          have hid thy verity.

11   Thy tender mercies, Lord, from me

          O do thou not restrain;

     Thy loving-kindness, and thy truth,

          let them me still maintain.

12   For ills past reck’ning compass me,

          and mine iniquities

     Such hold upon me taken have,

          I cannot lift mine eyes:

     They more than hairs are on mine head,

          thence is my heart dismay’d.

13   Be pleased, Lord, to rescue me;

          Lord, hasten to mine aid.

14   Sham’d and confounded be they all

          that seek my soul to kill;

     Yea, let them backward driven be,

          and sham’d, that wish me ill.

15   For a reward of this their shame

          confounded let them be.

     That in this manner scoffing say,

          Aha, aha! to me.

16   In thee let all be glad, and joy,

          who seeking thee abide;

     Who thy salvation love, say still,

          The Lord be magnify’d.

17   I’m poor and needy, yet the Lord

          of me a care doth take:

     Thou art my help and saviour,

          my God, no tarrying make.

1    The Lord doth reign, and cloth’d is he

          with majesty most bright;

     His works do shew him cloth’d to be,

          and girt about with might.

     The world is also stablished,

          that it cannot depart.

2    Thy throne is fix’d of old, and thou

          from everlasting art.

3    The floods, O Lord, have lifted up,

          they lifted up their voice;

     The floods have lifted up their waves,

          and made a mighty noise.

4    But yet the Lord, that is on high,

          is more of might by far

     Than noise of many waters is,

          or great sea-billows are.

5    Thy testimonies ev’ry one

          in faithfulness excel;

     And holiness for ever, Lord,

          thine house becometh well.

1    God’s mercies I will ever sing;
          and with my mouth I shall
     Thy faithfulness make to be known
          to generations all.

2    For mercy shall be built, said I,
          for ever to endure;
     Thy faithfulness, ev’n in the heav’ns,
          thou wilt establish sure.

3    I with my chosen One have made
          a cov’nant graciously;
     And to my servant, whom I lov’d,
          to David sworn have I;

4    That I thy seed establish shall
          for ever to remain,
     And will to generations all
          thy throne build and maintain.

5    The praises of thy wonders, Lord,
          the heavens shall express;
     And in the congregation
          of saints thy faithfulness.

6    For who in heaven with the Lord
          may once himself compare?
     Who is like God among the sons
          of those that mighty are?

7    Great fear in meeting of the saints
          is due unto the Lord;
     And he of all about him should
          with rev’rence be ador’d.

8    O thou that art the Lord of hosts,
          what Lord in mightiness
     Is like to thee? who compass’d round
          art with thy faithfulness.

9    Ev’n in the raging of the sea
          thou over it dost reign;
     And when the waves thereof do swell,
          thou stillest them again.

10   Rahab in pieces thou didst break,
          like one that slaughter’d is;
     And with thy mighty arm thou hast
          dispers’d thine enemies.

11   The heav’ns are thine, thou for thine own
          the earth dost also take;
     The world, and fulness of the same,
          thy pow’r did found and make.

12   The north and south from thee alone
          their first beginning had;
     Both Tabor mount and Hermon hill
          shall in thy name be glad.

13   Thou hast an arm that’s full of pow’r,
          thy hand is great in might;
     And thy right hand exceedingly
          exalted is in height.

14   Justice and judgment of thy throne
          are made the dwelling-place;
     Mercy, accompany’d with truth,
          shall go before thy face.

15   O greatly bless’d the people are
          the joyful sound that know;
     In brightness of thy face, O Lord,
          they ever on shall go.

16   They in thy name shall all the day
          rejoice exceedingly;
     And in thy righteousness shall they
          exalted be on high.

17   Because the glory of their strength
          doth only stand in thee;
     And in thy favour shall our horn
          and pow’r exalted be.

18   For God is our defence; and he
          to us doth safety bring:
     The Holy One of Israel
          is our almighty King.

vv. 19-25 to the tune of Auld Lang Syne

(V) 19   In vision to thy Holy One
          thou saidst, I help upon
     A strong one laid; out of the folk
          I rais’d a chosen one;

(V) 20   Ev’n David, I have found him out
          a servant unto me;
     And with my holy oil my King
          anointed him to be.

(C) 21   With whom my hand shall stablish’d be;
          mine arm shall make him strong.
22   On him the foe shall not exact,
          nor son of mischief wrong.

(V) 23   I will beat down before his face
          all his malicious foes;
     I will them greatly plague who do
          with hatred him oppose.

(V) 24   My mercy and my faithfulness
          with him yet still shall be;
     And in my name his horn and pow’r
          men shall exalted see.

(C) 25   His hand and pow’r shall reach afar;
          I’ll set it in the sea;
     And his right hand established
          shall in the rivers be.

vv. 26-38 to the tune of Auld Lang Syne

(V) 26   Thou art my Father, he shall cry,
          thou art my God alone;
     And he shall say, Thou art the Rock
          of my salvation.

(V) 27   I’ll make him my first-born, more high
          than kings of any land.
28   My love I’ll ever keep for him,
          my cov’nant fast shall stand.

(C) 29   His seed I by my pow’r will make
          for ever to endure;
     And, as the days of heav’n, his throne
          shall stable be, and sure.

(V) 30   But if his children shall forsake
          my laws, and go astray,
     And in my judgments shall not walk,
          but wander from my way:

(V) 31   If they my laws break, and do not
          keep my commandements;
32   I’ll visit then their faults with rods,
          their sins with chastisements.

(C) 33   Yet I’ll not take my love from him,
          nor false my promise make.
34   My cov’nant I’ll not break, nor change
          what with my mouth I spake.

(V) 35   Once by my holiness I sware,
          to David I’ll not lie;
36   His seed and throne shall, as the sun,
          before me last for aye.

(V) 37   It, like the moon, shall ever be
          establish’d stedfastly;
     And like to that which in the heav’n
          doth witness faithfully.

(C) 38   But thou, displeased, hast cast off,

        thou didst abhor and loathe;

     With him that thine anointed is

          thou hast been very wroth.

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39   Thou hast thy servant’s covenant

          made void, and quite cast by;

     Thou hast profan’d his crown, while it

          cast on the ground doth lie.

40   Thou all his hedges hast broke down,

          his strong holds down hast torn.

41   He to all passers-by a spoil,

          to neighbours is a scorn.

42   Thou hast set up his foes’ right hand;

          mad’st all his en’mies glad:

43   Turn’d his sword’s edge, and him to stand

          in battle hast not made.

44   His glory thou hast made to cease,

          his throne to ground down cast;

45   Shorten’d his days of youth, and him

          with shame thou cover’d hast.

46   How long, Lord, wilt thou hide thyself?

          for ever, in thine ire?

     And shall thine indignation

          burn like unto a fire?

47   Remember, Lord, how short a time

          I shall on earth remain:

     O wherefore is it so that thou

          has made all men in vain?

48   What man is he that liveth here,

          and death shall never see?

     Or from the power of the grave

          what man his soul shall free?

49   Thy former loving-kindnesses,

          O Lord, where be they now?

     Those which in truth and faithfulness

          to David sworn hast thou?

50   Mind, Lord, thy servant’s sad reproach;

          how I in bosom bear

     The scornings of the people all,

          who strong and mighty are.

51   Wherewith thy raging enemies

          reproach’d, O Lord, think on;

     Wherewith they have reproach’d the steps

          of thine anointed one.

52   All blessing to the Lord our God

          let be ascribed then:

     For evermore so let it be.

          Amen, yea, and amen.

1    O come, let us sing to the Lord:

          come, let us ev’ry one

     A joyful noise make to the Rock

          of our salvation.

2    Let us before his presence come

          with praise and thankful voice;

     Let us sing psalms to him with grace,

          and make a joyful noise.

3    For God, a great God, and great King,

          above all gods he is.

4    Depths of the earth are in his hand,

          the strength of hills is his.

5    To him the spacious sea belongs,

          for he the same did make;

     The dry land also from his hands

          its form at first did take.

6    O come, and let us worship him,

          let us bow down withal,

     And on our knees before the Lord

          our Maker let us fall.

7    For he’s our God, the people we

          of his own pasture are,

     And of his hand the sheep; to-day,

          if ye his voice will hear,

8    Then harden not your hearts, as in

          the provocation,

     As in the desert, on the day

          of the tentation:

9    When me your fathers tempt’d and prov’d,

          and did my working see;

10   Ev’n for the space of forty years

          this race hath grieved me.

     I said, This people errs in heart,

          my ways they do not know:

11   To whom I sware in wrath, that to

          my rest they should not go.

1    O Lord God, unto whom alone

          all vengeance doth belong;

     O mighty God, who vengeance own’st,

          shine forth, avenging wrong.

2    Lift up thyself, thou of the earth

          the sov’reign Judge that art;

     And unto those that are so proud

          a due reward impart.

3    How long, O mighty God, shall they

          who lewd and wicked be,

     How long shall they who wicked are

          thus triumph haughtily?

4    How long shall things most hard by them

          be uttered and told?

     And all that work iniquity

          to boast themselves be bold?

5    Thy folk they break in pieces, Lord,

          thine heritage oppress:

6    The widow they and stranger slay,

          and kill the fatherless.

7    Yet say they, God it shall not see,

          nor God of Jacob know.

8    Ye brutish people! understand;

          fools! when wise will ye grow?

9    The Lord did plant the ear of man,

          and hear then shall not he?

     He only form’d the eye, and then

          shall he not clearly see?

10   He that the nations doth correct,

          shall he not chastise you?

     He knowledge unto man doth teach,

          and shall himself not know?

11   Man’s thoughts to be but vanity

          the Lord doth well discern.

12   Bless’d is the man thou chast’nest, Lord,

          and mak’st thy law to learn:

13   That thou may’st give him rest from days

          of sad adversity,

     Until the pit be digg’d for those

          that work iniquity.

14   For sure the Lord will not cast off

          those that his people be,

     Neither his own inheritance

          quit and forsake will he:

15   But judgment unto righteousness

          shall yet return again;

     And all shall follow after it

          that are right-hearted men.

16   Who will rise up for me against

          those that do wickedly?

     Who will stand up for me ‘gainst those

          that work iniquity?

17   Unless the Lord had been my help

          when I was sore opprest,

     Almost my soul had in the house

          of silence been at rest.

18   When I had uttered this word,

          (my foot doth slip away,)

     Thy mercy held me up, O Lord,

          thy goodness did me stay.

19   Amidst the multitude of thoughts

          which in my heart do fight,

     My soul, lest it be overcharg’d,

          thy comforts do delight.

20   Shall of iniquity the throne

          have fellowship with thee,

     Which mischief, cunningly contriv’d,

          doth by a law decree?

21   Against the righteous souls they join,

          they guiltless blood condemn.

22   But of my refuge God’s the rock,

          and my defence from them.

23    On them their own iniquity

          the Lord shall bring and lay,

     And cut them off in their own sin;

          our Lord God shall them slay.

1    I mercy will and judgment sing,

          Lord, I will sing to thee.

2    With wisdom in a perfect way

          shall my behaviour be.

     O when, in kindness unto me,

          wilt thou be pleas’d to come?

     I with a perfect heart will walk

          within my house at home.

3    I will endure no wicked thing

          before mine eyes to be:

     I hate their work that turn aside,

          it shall not cleave to me.

4    A stubborn and a froward heart

          depart quite from me shall;

     A person giv’n to wickedness

          I will not know at all.

5    I’ll cut him off that slandereth

          his neighbour privily:

     The haughty heart I will not bear,

          nor him that looketh high.

6    Upon the faithful of the land

          mine eyes shall be, that they

     May dwell with me: he shall me serve

          that walks in perfect way.

7    Who of deceit a worker is

          in my house shall not dwell;

     And in my presence shall he not

          remain that lies doth tell.

8    Yea, all the wicked of the land

          early destroy will I;

     All from God’s city to cut off

          that work iniquity.