135 1 He exhorteth all the faithful, of what estate soever they be, to praise God for his marvelous works. 12 And specially for his graces toward his people, wherein he hath declared his Majesty, 15 To the confusion of all idolaters and their idols.

Praise ye the Lord.

¹ Praise, the Name of the Lord; ye servants of the Lord, praise him.

² Ye that ^[a]stand in the House of the Lord, and in the ^[b]courts of the House of our God,

³ Praise ye the Lord: for the Lord is good: sing praises unto his Name: for it is a comely thing.

⁴ For the Lord hath ^[c]chosen Jacob to himself, and Israel for his chief treasure.

⁵ For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.

⁶ Whatsoever pleased the Lord, that ^[d]did he in heaven and in earth, in the sea, and in all the depths.

⁷ He bringeth up the clouds from the ends of the earth, and maketh the ^(A)lightnings with the rain: he draweth forth the wind out of his treasures.

^8 (B)He smote the firstborn of Egypt both of man and beast.

⁹ He hath sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants.

^10 (C)He smote many nations, and slew mighty Kings:

¹¹ As Sihon King of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan:

¹² And ^[e]gave their land for an inheritance, even an inheritance unto Israel his people.

¹³ Thy Name, O Lord, endureth forever: O Lord, thy remembrance is from generation to generation.

¹⁴ For the Lord will ^[f]judge his people, and be pacified toward his servants.

¹⁵ The ^[g]idols of the heathen are silver and gold, even the work of men’s hands.

¹⁶ They have a mouth, and speak not: they have eyes and see not.

¹⁷ They have ears and hear not, neither is there any breath in their mouth.

¹⁸ They that make them, are like unto them: so are all that trust in them.

¹⁹ Praise the Lord, ye house of Israel: praise the Lord, ye house of Aaron.

²⁰ Praise the Lord, ye house of Levi; ye that fear the Lord, praise the Lord.

²¹ Praised be the Lord out of Zion, which dwelleth in Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord.

136 1 A most earnest exhortation to give thanks unto God for the creation and governance of all things, which standeth in confessing that he giveth us all of his mere liberality.

¹ Praise ye the Lord, because he is good: for his ^[a]mercy endureth forever.

² Praise ye the God of gods: for his mercy endureth forever:

³ Praise ye the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth forever:

⁴ Which only doeth great wonders; for his mercy endureth forever:

⁵ Which by his wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth forever:

⁶ Which hath stretched out the earth upon the waters: for his ^[b]mercy endureth forever:

⁷ Which made great lights: for his mercy endureth forever:

⁸ As the Sun to rule the day; for his mercy endureth forever:

⁹ The Moon and the stars to govern the night: for his mercy endureth forever:

¹⁰ Which smote Egypt with their firstborn, (for his mercy endureth forever)

¹¹ And ^[c]brought out Israel from among them; for his mercy endureth forever:

¹² With a mighty hand and ^[d]stretched out arm; for his mercy endureth forever:

¹³ Which divideth the Sea into two parts; for his mercy endureth forever:

¹⁴ And made Israel to pass through the midst of it; for his mercy endureth forever:

¹⁵ And overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the red Sea; for his mercy endureth forever:

¹⁶ Which led his people through the ^[e]wilderness; for his mercy endureth forever:

¹⁷ Which smote great Kings: for his mercy endureth forever:

¹⁸ And slew ^[f]mighty Kings: for his mercy endureth forever:

¹⁹ As Sihon King of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth forever:

²⁰ And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endureth forever:

²¹ And gave their land for an heritage; for his mercy endureth forever:

²² Even an heritage unto Israel his servant; for his mercy endureth forever:

²³ Which remembered us in our ^[g]base estate; for his mercy endureth forever:

²⁴ And hath rescued us from our oppressors; for his mercy endureth forever:

²⁵ Which giveth food to all ^[h]flesh; for his mercy endureth forever:

^26 [i]Praise ye the God of heaven; for his mercy endureth forever.

137 1 The people of God in their banishment seeing God’s true Religion decay, lived in great anguish and sorrow of heart: the which grief the Chaldeans did so little pity, 3 That they rather increased the same daily with taunts, reproaches and blasphemies against God. 7 Wherefore the Israelites desire God, first to punish the Edomites, who provoked the Babylonians against them, 8 And moved by the Spirit of God, prophesy the destruction of Babylon, where they were handled so tyrannously. 

¹ By the rivers of Babel we ^[a]sat, and there we wept, when we remembered Zion.

² We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst ^[b]thereof.

³ Then they that led us captive, ^[c]required of us songs and mirth, when we had hanged up our harps, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

⁴ How shall we sing, said we, a song of the Lord in a strange land?

^5 [d]If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget to play.

⁶ If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth: yea, if I prefer not Jerusalem to my ^[e]chief joy.

⁷ Remember the children of ^[f]Edom, O Lord, in the ^[g]day of Jerusalem, which said, Raze it, raze it to the foundation thereof.

⁸ O daughter of Babel, worthy to be destroyed, blessed shall he be that rewardeth thee, as thou hast served us.

^9 [h]Blessed shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy children against the stones.

138 1 David with great courage praiseth the goodness of God toward him, the which is so great,  4 That it is known to foreign princes, who shall praise the Lord together with him. 6 And he is assured to have the like comfort of God in the time following, as he had heretofore.

A Psalm of David.

¹ I will praise thee with my whole heart: even before the ^[a]gods will I praise thee.

² I will worship toward thine holy ^[b]Temple and praise thy Name, because of thy loving-kindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy Name above all things by thy word.

³ When I called, then thou heardest me, and hast ^[c]increased strength in my soul.

⁴ All the ^[d]kings of the earth shall praise thee, O Lord: for they have heard the words of thy mouth.

⁵ And they shall sing of the ways of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord is great.

⁶ For the Lord is high, yet he beholdeth the lowly, but the proud he knoweth ^[e]afar off.

⁷ Though I walk in the midst of trouble, yet wilt thou revive me: thou wilt stretch forth thine hand upon the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.

⁸ The Lord will ^[f]perform his work toward me: O Lord, thy mercy endureth forever: forsake not the works of thine hands.

139 1 David cleanseth his heart from all hypocrisy, showeth that there is nothing so hid, which God seeth not. 13 Which he confirmeth by the creation of man. 14 After declaring his zeal and fear of God, he professeth to be enemy to all them that contemn God.

To him that excelleth. A Psalm of David.

¹ O Lord, thou hast tried me, and known me.

² Thou knowest my ^[a]sitting and my rising: thou understandest my thought afar off.

³ Thou ^[b]compassest my paths, and my lying down, and art accustomed to all my ways.

⁴ For there is not a word in my ^[c]tongue, but lo, thou knowest it wholly, O Lord.

⁵ Thou holdest me strait behind and before, and layest thine ^[d]hand upon me.

⁶ Thy knowledge is too wonderful for me: it is so high that I cannot attain unto it.

⁷ Whither shall I go from thy ^[e]Spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

⁸ If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I lie down in hell, thou art there.

⁹ Let me take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea:

¹⁰ Yet thither shall thine hand ^[f]lead me, and thy right hand hold me.

¹¹ If I say, Yet the darkness shall hide me, even the night shall be ^[g]light about me.

¹² Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee: but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and light are both alike.

¹³ For thou hast ^[h]possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.

¹⁴ I will praise thee, for I am ^[i]fearfully and wondrously made: marvelous are thy works, and my soul knoweth it well.

¹⁵ My bones are not hid from thee, though I was made in a secret place, and fashioned ^[j]beneath in the earth.

¹⁶ Thine eyes did see me, when I was without form: ^[k]for in thy book were all things written, which in continuance were fashioned, when there was none of them before.

¹⁷ How ^[l]dear therefore are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

¹⁸ If I should count them, they are more than the sand: when I awake, ^[m]I am still with thee.

¹⁹ Oh that thou wouldest [slay], O God, the wicked and bloody men, to whom I say, Depart ye from me:

²⁰ Which speak wickedly of thee, and being thine enemies are lifted up in vain.

²¹ Do not I ^[n]hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and do not I earnestly contend with those that rise up against thee?

²² I hate them with an unfeigned hatred, as they were mine utter enemies.

²³ Try me, O God, and know mine heart: prove me and know my thoughts,

²⁴ And consider if there be any ^[o]way of wickedness in me, and lead me in the ^[p]way forever.

140 1 David complaineth of the cruelty, falsehood and injuries of his enemies. 8 Against the which he prayeth unto the Lord, and assureth himself of his help and succor. 12 Wherefore he provoketh the just to praise the Lord, and to assure themselves of his tuition.

To him that excelleth. A Psalm of David.

¹ Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: preserve me from the ^[a]cruel man:

² Which imagine evil things in their ^[b]heart, and make war continually.

³ They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: ^[c]adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.

⁴ Keep ^[d]me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the cruel man, which purposeth to cause my steps to slide.

⁵ The proud have laid a snare for me, and spread a net with cords in my pathway, and set gins for me. Selah.

⁶ Therefore I said unto the Lord, Thou art my God: hear, O Lord, the voice of my prayers.

⁷ O Lord God the strength of my salvation, thou ^[e]hast covered my head in the day of battle.

⁸ Let not the wicked have his desire, O Lord; ^[f]perform not his wicked thought, lest they be proud. Selah.

⁹ As for ^[g]the chief of them that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips come upon them.

¹⁰ Let coals fall upon them: let ^[h]him cast them into the fire, and into the deep pits that they rise not.

¹¹ For the backbiter shall not be established upon the earth, evil shall ^[i]hunt the cruel man to destruction.

¹² I know that the Lord will avenge the afflicted, and judge the poor.

¹³ Surely the righteous shall praise thy Name, and the just shall ^[j]dwell in thy presence.

5 2 One lying at the pool, 5 is healed of Christ on the Sabbath. 10 The Jews that rashly find fault with that his deed, 17 he convinceth with the authority of his Father,  19, 20 He proveth his divine power by many reasons, 45 and with Moses’ testimony.

¹ After ^(A)that, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went to Jerusalem.

^2 [a]And there is at Jerusalem by the place of the sheep, a ^[b]pool called in Hebrew ^[c]Bethesda, having five porches:

³ In the which lay a great multitude of sick folk, of blind, halt, and withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

⁴ For an Angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first, after the stirring of the water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.

⁵ And a certain man was there, which had been diseased eight and thirty years.

⁶ When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he now long time had been diseased, he said unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?

⁷ The sick man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

⁸ Jesus said unto him, Rise: take up thy bed, and walk.

⁹ And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and the same day was the Sabbath.

^10 [d]The Jews therefore said to him that was made whole, It is the Sabbath day: ^(B)it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.

¹¹ He answered them, He that made me whole he said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.

¹² Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?

¹³ And he that was healed, knew not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away from the multitude that was in that place.

¹⁴ And after that, Jesus found him in the Temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

¹⁵ ¶ The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus that had made him whole.

¹⁶ And therefore the Jews did persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the Sabbath day.

^17 [e]But Jesus answered them, My father worketh hitherto, and I work.

^18 (C)Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him: not only because he had broken the Sabbath: but said also that God was ^[f]his Father, and made himself equal with God.

¹⁹ Then answered Jesus, and said unto them, Verily, verily I say unto you, The Son can do nothing ^[g]of himself, save that he ^[h]seeth the Father do: for whatsoever things he doeth, the same things doeth the Son ^[i]in like manner.

²⁰ For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth him all things, whatsoever he himself doeth, and he will show him greater works than these, that ye should marvel.

^21 [j]For likewise as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them, so the Son quickeneth whom he will.

²² For the Father ^[k]judgeth ^[l]no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son,

²³ Because that all men should honor the Son, as they honor the Father: he that honoreth not the Son, the same honoreth not the Father which hath sent him.

^24 [m]Verily, verily I say unto you, he that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but hath passed from death to life.

^25 [n]Verily, verily I say unto you, the hour shall come, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear it shall live.

²⁶ For as the Father hath life in himself, so likewise hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.

²⁷ And hath given him ^[o]power also to execute judgment, in that he is the ^[p]Son of man.

^28 [q]Marvel not at this: for the hour shall come, in the which all that are in the graves, shall hear his voice.

^29 [r]And they shall come ^[s]forth, ^(D)that have done good, unto the ^[t]resurrection of life: but they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of condemnation.

^30 [u]I can ^[v]do nothing of mine own self: ^[w]as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just, because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father who hath sent me.

³¹ If I ^(E)should bear witness of myself, my witness were not ^[x]true.

^32 (F)There is another that beareth witness of me, and I know that the witness, which he beareth of me, is true.

^33 (G)[y]Ye sent unto John, and he bore witness unto the truth.

³⁴ But I receive not the record of man: nevertheless these things I say, that ye might be saved.

³⁵ He was a burning and a shining candle: and ye would for ^[z]a season have rejoiced in his light.

³⁶ But I have greater witness than the witness of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father sent me.

³⁷ And the ^(H)Father himself, which hath sent me, beareth witness of me. Ye have not heard his voice at any time, ^(I)neither have ye seen his shape.

³⁸ And his word have you not abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believed not.

^39 (J)Search the Scriptures: for in them ye think to have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me.

⁴⁰ But ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

⁴¹ I receive not the praise of men.

⁴² But I know you, that ye have not the ^[aa]love of God in you.

⁴³ I am come in my Father’s Name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him will ye receive.

⁴⁴ How can ye believe, which receive ^(K)honor one of another, and seek not the honor that cometh of God alone?

^45 [ab]Do not think that I will accuse you to my Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.

⁴⁶ For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he ^(L)wrote of me.

⁴⁷ But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words.