Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and {from} all the expectation of the people of the Jews.

Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, {which} may preserve him.

[To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.] Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me. {Michtam...: or, A golden Psalm of David}

Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat {of} the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.

Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, {even} into his ears.

For the law was given by Moses, {but} grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. {was: or, had been}

If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle {that was} against me: for there were many with me.

Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. {many: or, great}

And now the LORD shew kindness and truth unto you: and I also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing.

O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, {which} may preserve him.

{Yet} the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song {shall be} with me, {and} my prayer unto the God of my life.

Mine enemies would daily swallow {me} up: for {they be} many that fight against me, O thou most High. {enemies: Heb. observers}

Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments {are} good.

All the paths of the LORD {are} mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

AIN. I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.

Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up. {Ah...: Heb. Ah, ah, our soul}

Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that {are} with him.

All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed {her} up: certainly this {is} the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen {it}.

Whereas thou camest {but} yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth {be} with thee. {go up...: Heb. wander in going}

So that contrariwise ye {ought} rather to forgive {him}, and comfort {him}, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.