Psalms 41-50 (Translated)

## Contents

* 1 Psalm 41
* 2 Psalm 42
* 3 Psalm 43
* 4 Psalm 44
* 5 Psalm 45
* 6 Psalm 46
* 7 Psalm 47
* 8 Psalm 48
* 9 Psalm 49
* 10 Psalm 50

## Psalm 41[edit]

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1  | Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.  |  |
2  | The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.  |  |
3  | The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.  |  |
4  | I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.  |  |
5  | Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?  |  |
6  | And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.  |  |
7  | All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.  |  |
8  | An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.  |  |
9  | Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.  |  |
10  | But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.  |  |
11  | By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.  |  |
12  | And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.  |  |
13  | Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.  |  |

## Psalm 42[edit]

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1  | As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.  |  |
2  | My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?  |  |
3  | My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?  |  |
4  | When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.  |  |
5  | Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.  |  |
6  | O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.  |  |
7  | Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.  |  |
8  | 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.  |  |
9  | I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?  |  |
10  | As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?  |  |
11  | Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.  |  |

## Psalm 43[edit]

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1  | Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.  |  |
2  | For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?  |  |
3  | O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.  |  |
4  | Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.  |  |
5  | Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.  |  |

## Psalm 44[edit]

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1  | We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.  |  |
2  | How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.  |  |
3  | For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.  |  |
4  | Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.  |  |
5  | Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.  |  |
6  | For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.  |  |
7  | But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.  |  |
8  | In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.  |  |
9  | But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.  |  |
10  | Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.  |  |
11  | Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.  |  |
12  | Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.  |  |
13  | Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.  |  |
14  | Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.  |  |
15  | My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,  |  |
16  | For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.  |  |
17  | All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.  |  |
18  | Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;  |  |
19  | Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.  |  |
20  | If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;  |  |
21  | Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.  |  |
22  | Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.  |  |
23  | Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.  |  |
24  | Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?  |  |
25  | For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.  |  |
26  | Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.  |  |

## Psalm 45[edit]

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1  | My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.  |  |
2  | Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.  |  |
3  | Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.  |  |
4  | And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.  |  |
5  | Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.  |  |
6  | Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.  |  |
7  | Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.  |  |
8  | All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.  |  |
9  | Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.  |  |
10  | Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;  |  |
11  | So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.  |  |
12  | And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.  |  |
13  | The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.  |  |
14  | She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.  |  |
15  | With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.  |  |
16  | Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.  |  |
17  | I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.  |  |

## Psalm 46[edit]

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1  | God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.  |  |
2  | Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;  |  |
3  | Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.  |  |
4  | There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.  |  |
5  | God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.  |  |
6  | The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.  |  |
7  | The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.  |  |
8  | Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.  |  |
9  | He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.  |  |
10  | Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.  |  |
11  | The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.  |  |

## Psalm 47[edit]

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1  | O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.  |  |
2  | For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.  |  |
3  | He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.  |  |
4  | He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.  |  |
5  | God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.  |  |
6  | Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.  |  |
7  | For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.  |  |
8  | God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.  |  |
9  | The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.  |  |

## Psalm 48[edit]

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1  | Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.  |  |
2  | Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.  |  |
3  | God is known in her palaces for a refuge.  |  |
4  | For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.  |  |
5  | They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.  |  |
6  | Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.  |  |
7  | Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.  |  |
8  | As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.  |  |
9  | We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.  |  |
10  | According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.  |  |
11  | Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.  |  |
12  | Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.  |  |
13  | Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.  |  |
14  | For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.  |  |

## Psalm 49[edit]

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1  | Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:  |  |
2  | Both low and high, rich and poor, together.  |  |
3  | My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.  |  |
4  | I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.  |  |
5  | Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?  |  |
6  | They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;  |  |
7  | None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:  |  |
8  | (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)  |  |
9  | That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.  |  |
10  | For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.  |  |
11  | Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.  |  |
12  | Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.  |  |
13  | This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.  |  |
14  | Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.  |  |
15  | But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.  |  |
16  | Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;  |  |
17  | For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.  |  |
18  | Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.  |  |
19  | He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.  |  |
20  | Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.  |  |

## Psalm 50[edit]

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1  | The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.  |  |
2  | Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.  |  |
3  | Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.  |  |
4  | He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.  |  |
5  | Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.  |  |
6  | And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.  |  |
7  | Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.  |  |
8  | I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.  |  |
9  | I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.  |  |
10  | For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.  |  |
11  | I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.  |  |
12  | If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.  |  |
13  | Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?  |  |
14  | Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:  |  |
15  | And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.  |  |
16  | But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?  |  |
17  | Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.  |  |
18  | When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.  |  |
19  | Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.  |  |
20  | Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.  |  |
21  | These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.  |  |
22  | Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.  |  |
23  | Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.  |  |