Bible For Young People Vol. 1 — Psalms 65, 77, 84, 86, 90, 93

PSALM 65

PRAISE waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: And unto thee shall the vow be performed.

O thou that hearest prayer, Unto thee shall all flesh come.

Iniquities prevail against me: As for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.

Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, And causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.

By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation;

Who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea: Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains;

Being girded with power: Which stilleth the noise of the seas, The noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.

They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: Thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.

Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: Thou greatly enrichest it With the river of God, which is full of water: Thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.

Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: Thou settlest the furrows thereof: Thou makest it soft with showers: Thou blessest the springing thereof.

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, they also sing.

PSALM 77

I CRIED unto God with my voice, Even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: My sore ran in the night, and ceased not: My soul refused to be comforted.

I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed.

Selah.

Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

I have considered the days of old, The years of ancient times.

I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: And my spirit made diligent search.

Will the Lord cast off for ever?

And will he be favourable no more?

Is his mercy clean gone for ever?

Doth his promise fail for evermore?

Hath God forgotten to be gracious?

Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?

Selah.

And I said, This is my infirmity: But I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

I will remember the works of the LORD: Surely I will remember thy wonders of old.

I will meditate also of all thy work, And talk of thy doings.

Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: Who is so great a God as our God?

Thou art the God that doest wonders: Thou hast declared thy strength among the people.

Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, The sons of Jacob and Joseph.

Selah.

The waters saw thee, O God, The waters saw thee; they were afraid: The depths also were troubled.

The clouds poured out water: The skies sent out a sound: Thine arrows also went abroad.

The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: The lightnings lightened the world: The earth trembled and shook.

Thy way is in the sea, And thy path in the great waters, And thy footsteps are not known.

Thou leddest thy people like a flock By the hand of Moses and Aaron.

PSALM 84

HOW amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: My heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, Even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: They will be still praising thee.

Selah.

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee;

In whose heart are the ways of them.

Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well;

The rain also filleth the pools.

They go from strength to strength, Every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: Give ear, O God of Jacob.

Selah.

Behold, O God our shield, And look upon the face of thine anointed.

For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand.

I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

For the LORD God is a sun and shield: The LORD will give grace and glory: No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

O LORD of hosts, Blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

PSALM 86

BOW down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: For I am poor and needy.

Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.

Be merciful unto me, O Lord: For I cry unto thee daily.

Rejoice the soul of thy servant: For unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive;

And plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer;

And attend to the voice of my supplications.

In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: For thou wilt answer me.

Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord;

Neither are there any works like unto thy works.

All nations whom thou hast made Shall come and worship before thee, O Lord;

And shall glorify thy name.

For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: Thou art God alone.

Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: Unite my heart to fear thy name.

I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: And I will glorify thy name for evermore.

For great is thy mercy toward me: And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

O God, the proud are risen against me, And the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul;

And have not set thee before them.

But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, Longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me;

Give thy strength unto thy servant, And save the son of thine handmaid.

Shew me a token for good;

That they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: Because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.

PSALM 90

LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place In all generations.

Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

Thou turnest man to destruction;

And sayest, Return, ye children of men.

For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up;

In the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

For we are consumed by thine anger, And by thy wrath are we troubled.

Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We spend our years as a tale that is told.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten;

And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow;

For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Who knoweth the power of thine anger?

Even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

So teach us to number our days, That we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Return, O LORD, how long?

And let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

O satisfy us early with thy mercy;

That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, And the years wherein we have seen evil.

Let thy work appear unto thy servants, And thy glory unto their children.

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: And establish thou the work of our hands upon us;

Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

PSALM 91

HE that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: My God; in him will I trust.

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, And from the noisome pestilence.

He shall cover thee with his feathers, And under his wings shalt thou trust: His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night;

Nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness;

Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

A thousand shall fall at thy side, And ten thousand at thy right hand;

But it shall not come nigh thee.

Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold And see the reward of the wicked.

Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, Even the most High, thy habitation;

There shall no evil befall thee, Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

For he shall give his angels charge over thee, To keep thee in all thy ways.

They shall bear thee up in their hands, Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: The young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble;

I will deliver him, and honour him.

With long life will I satisfy him, And shew him my salvation.

PSALM 93

THE LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty;

The LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: The world also is established, that it cannot be moved.

Thy throne is established of old: Thou art from everlasting.

The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice;

The floods lift up their waves.

The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, Yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

Thy testimonies are very sure: Holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.