9 1 After he had given thanks to God for the sundry victories that he had sent him against his enemies, and also proved by manifold experience, how ready God was at hand in all his troubles. 14 He being now likewise in danger of new enemies, desireth God to help him according to his wont, 17 and to destroy the malicious arrogance of his adversaries.

To him that excelleth upon ^[a]Muth Labben. A Psalm of David.

¹ I will praise the Lord with my ^[b]whole heart: I will speak of all thy marvelous works.

² I will be glad, and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy Name, O most High.

³ For that mine enemies are turned back: they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

⁴ For ^[c]thou hast maintained my right and my cause: thou art set in the throne, and judgest right.

⁵ Thou hast rebuked the heathen: thou hast destroyed the wicked: thou hast put out their name forever and ever.

^6 [d]O enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end, and thou hast destroyed the cities: their memorial is perished with them.

⁷ But the Lord ^[e]shall sit forever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.

⁸ For he shall judge the world in righteousness, and shall judge the people with equity.

⁹ The Lord also will be a refuge for the ^[f]poor, a refuge in due time, even in affliction.

¹⁰ And they that know thy Name, will trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not failed them that seek thee.

¹¹ Sing praises to the Lord, which dwelleth in Zion: show the people his works.

¹² For ^[g]when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth it, and forgetteth not the complaint of the poor.

¹³ Have mercy upon me, O Lord: consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death,

¹⁴ That I may show all thy praises within the ^[h]gates of the daughter of Zion, and rejoice in thy salvation.

¹⁵ The heathen are ^[i]sunken down in the pit that they made: in the net that they hid, is their foot taken.

^16 [j]The Lord is known by executing judgment: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands, ^[k]Higgaion. Selah.

¹⁷ The wicked shall turn into hell, and all nations that forget God.

¹⁸ For the poor shall not be always forgotten: the hope ^[l]of the afflicted shall not perish forever.

¹⁹ Up Lord: let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.

²⁰ Put them in fear, O Lord, that the heathen may know that they are but ^[m]men. Selah.

10 1 He complaineth of the fraud, rapine, tyranny, and all kinds of wrong, which worldly men use, assigning the cause thereof, that wicked men, being as it were drunken with worldly prosperity, and therefore setting apart all fear and reverence towards God, think they may do all things without controlling. 15 Therefore he calleth upon God to send some remedy against these desperate evils, 16 and at length comforteth himself with hope of deliverance.

¹ Why standest thou far off, O Lord, and hidest thee in ^[a]due time, even in affliction?

² The wicked with pride doth persecute the poor; let them be taken in the crafts that they have imagined.

³ For the wicked hath ^[b]made boast of his own heart’s desire, and the covetous blesseth himself, he contemneth the Lord.

⁴ The wicked is so proud, that he seeketh not for God: he thinketh always, There is no God.

⁵ His ways always prosper: thy judgments are high above his sight; therefore ^[c]defieth he all his enemies.

⁶ He saith in his heart, I shall ^[d]never be moved, ^[e]nor be in danger.

⁷ His mouth is full of cursing, and deceit, and fraud; under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

^8 [f]He lieth in wait in the villages; in the secret places doth he murder the innocent; his eyes are bent against the poor.

⁹ He lieth in wait secretly, even as a lion in his den; he lieth in wait to spoil the poor; he doth spoil the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

¹⁰ He croucheth and boweth; therefore heaps of the ^[g]poor do fall by his might.

¹¹ He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth away his face, and will never see.

^12 [h]Arise, O Lord God, lift up thine hand; forget not the poor.

¹³ Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he saith in his heart, Thou wilt not ^[i]regard.

¹⁴ Yet thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and wrong; that thou mayest ^[j]take it into thine hands; the poor committeth himself unto thee; for thou art the helper of the fatherless.

¹⁵ Break thou the arm of the wicked and malicious; search his wickedness, and thou shalt find ^[k]none.

¹⁶ The Lord is King forever and ever; the ^[l]heathen are destroyed forth of his land.

¹⁷ Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the poor; thou preparest their heart; thou bendest thine ear to them,

^18 [m]To judge the fatherless and poor, that earthly man ^[n]cause to fear no more.

11 1 This Psalm containeth two parts.  In the first David showeth how hard assaults of temptations he sustained, and in how great anguish of mind he was, when Saul did persecute him. 4 Then next he rejoiceth that God sent him succor in his necessity, declaring his justice as well in governing the good, and the wicked men, as the whole world.

To him that excelleth. A Psalm of David.

¹ In the Lord put I my trust; how say ye then to my soul, ^[a]Flee to your mountain as a bird?

² For lo, the wicked bend their bow, and make ready their arrows upon the string, that they may secretly shoot at them which are upright in heart.

³ For the ^[b]foundations are cast down, what hath the ^[c]righteous done?

⁴ The Lord is in his holy palace; the Lord’s throne is in the heaven; his eyes ^[d]will consider; his eyelids will try the children of men.

⁵ The Lord will try the righteous; but the wicked, and him that loveth iniquity, doth his soul hate.

⁶ Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, ^[e]fire, and brimstone, and stormy tempest; this is the ^[f]portion of their cup.

⁷ For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness: his countenance doth behold the just.

12 1 The Prophet lamenting the miserable estate of the people, and the decay of all good order, desireth God speedily to send succor to his children. 7 Then comforting himself, and others with the assurance of God’s help, he commendeth the constant verity that God observeth in keeping his promises.

To him that excelleth upon the eight tune. A Psalm of David.

¹ Help Lord, for there is not ^[a]a godly man left: for the faithful are failed from among the children of men.

² They speak deceitfully every one with his neighbor, ^[b]flattering with their lips, and speak with a double heart.

³ The Lord cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

⁴ Which have said, ^[c]With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own; who is Lord over us?

^5 [d]Now for the oppression of the needy, and for the sighs of the poor, I will up, saith the Lord, and will ^[e]set at liberty him, whom the wicked hath [snared].

⁶ The words of the Lord are pure words, as the silver, tried in a furnace of earth, fined sevenfold.

⁷ Thou wilt keep ^[f]them, O Lord; thou wilt preserve him from this generation forever.

⁸ The wicked walk on every side; when they are exalted, ^[g]it is a shame for the sons of men.

13 1 David as it were overcome with sundry and new afflictions, fleeth to God as his only refuge, 3 and so at the length being encouraged through God’s promises, he conceiveth most sure confidence against the extreme horrors of death.

To him that excelleth. A Psalm of David.

¹ How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord, ^[a]forever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

² How long shall I take ^[b]counsel within myself having weariness daily in mine heart? how long shall mine enemy be exalted above me?

³ Behold, and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, that I sleep not in death.

⁴ Lest mine enemy say, I have ^[c]prevailed against him: and they that afflict me, rejoice, when I slide.

⁵ But I trust in thy ^[d]mercy: mine heart shall rejoice in thy salvation; I will sing to the Lord, because he hath ^[e]dealt lovingly with me.

14 1 He describeth the perverse nature of men, which were so grown to licentiousness, that God was brought to utter contempt. 7 For the which thing, although he was greatly grieved, yet being persuaded that God would send some present remedy, he comforteth himself and others.

To him that excelleth. A Psalm of David.

¹ The ^(A)fool hath said in his heart, ^[a]There is no God: they have ^[b]corrupted, and done an abominable work: there is none that doeth good.

² The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that would understand, and seek God.

^3 [c]All are gone out of the way: they are all corrupt: there is none that doeth good, no not one.

⁴ Do not all the workers of iniquity know that they eat up my people, as they eat bread? they call not upon the Lord.

^5 [d]There they shall be taken with fear, because God is in the generation of the just.

⁶ You have made ^[e]a mock at the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his trust.

⁷ Oh give salvation unto ^[f]Israel out of Zion: when the Lord turneth the captivity of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

Note that of Psalm 14:5-7, which are put into the common translation, and may seem unto some to be left out in this, are not in the same Psalm in the Hebrew text, but rather are put in more fully to express the manners of the wicked, and are gathered out of Psalms 5, 10, 36, 140; Isa. 59, and are alleged by S. Paul, and placed together in Romans 3.

15 1 This Psalm teacheth on what condition God did choose the Jews for his peculiar people; and wherefore he placed his Temple among them, which was to the intent that they by living uprightly and godly, might witness that they were his special and holy people.

A Psalm of David.

¹ Lord, who shall dwell in thy Tabernacle? who shall rest in thine holy Mountain?

² He that ^[a]walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

³ He that slandereth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor receiveth a false report against his neighbor.

^4 [b]In whose eyes a vile person is contemned, but he honoreth them that fear the Lord: he that sweareth to his own hindrance and changeth not.

⁵ He that ^[c]giveth not his money unto usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent: he that doeth these things, ^[d]shall never be moved.

16 1 David prayeth to God for succor not for his works, but for his faith’s sake. 4 Protesting that he hateth all idolatry, taking God only for his comfort and felicity. 8 Who suffereth his to lack nothing.

^[a]Michtam of David.

¹ Preserve me, O GOD: for in thee do I ^[b]trust.

² O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my ^[c]well doing extendeth not to thee,

³ But to the Saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent: all my delight is in them.

⁴ The ^[d]sorrows of them, that offer to another god, shall be multiplied: ^[e]their offerings of blood will I not offer, neither make ^(A)mention of their names with my lips.

⁵ The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou shalt maintain my lot.

⁶ The ^[f]lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places: yea, I have a fair heritage.

⁷ I will praise the Lord, who hath given me counsel: my ^[g]reins also teach me in the nights.

⁸ I have set the Lord always before me: for he is at my right hand: therefore I ^[h]shall not slide.

⁹ Wherefore ^[i]mine heart is glad, and my tongue rejoiceth: my flesh also doth rest in hope.

¹⁰ For thou ^[j]wilt not leave my soul in the grave: neither wilt thou suffer thine holy One to see corruption.

¹¹ Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy ^[k]presence is the fullness of joy: and at thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore.

2 Augustus Caesar taxeth all the world. 7 Christ is born. 13 The Angels’ Song. 21 Christ is circumcised. 22 Mary purified. 28 Simeon taketh Christ in his arms. 29 His Song. 36 Anna the Prophetess. 40 The child Christ. 46 Jesus disputeth with the doctors.

¹ And ^[a]it came to pass in those days, that there came a decree from Augustus Caesar, that all the ^[b]world should be ^[c]taxed.

² (This first taxing was made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.)

³ Therefore went all to be taxed, every man to his own city.

⁴ And Joseph also went up from Galilee out of a city called Nazareth, into Judea, unto the ^[d]city of ^(A)David, which is called Bethlehem (because he was of the house and lineage of David,)

⁵ To be taxed with Mary that was given him to wife, which was with child.

⁶ ¶ And so it was, that while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.

⁷ And she brought forth her first begotten son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a cratch, because there was no room for them in the inn.

⁸ ¶ ^[e]And there were in the same country shepherds, ^[f]abiding in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock.

⁹ And lo, the Angel of the Lord ^[g]came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone about them, and they were sore afraid.

¹⁰ Then the Angel said unto them, Be not afraid: for behold, I bring you glad tidings of great joy, that shall be to all the people,

¹¹ That is, that unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.

¹² And this shall be a sign to you, Ye shall find the babe swaddled, and laid in a cratch.

¹³ And straightway there was with the Angel ^[h]a multitude of heavenly soldiers, praising God, and saying,

¹⁴ Glory be to God in the high heavens, and peace in earth, and toward men ^[i]good will.

¹⁵ And it came to pass when the Angels were gone away from them into heaven, that the shepherds said one to another, Let us go then unto Bethlehem, and see this thing that is come to pass, which the Lord hath showed unto us.

¹⁶ So they came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph and the babe laid in the cratch.

¹⁷ And when they had seen it, they published abroad the thing that was told them of that child.

¹⁸ And all that heard it, wondered at the things which were told them of the shepherds.

¹⁹ But Mary kept all those sayings, and pondered them in her heart.

²⁰ And the shepherds returned glorifying and praising God, for all that they had heard and seen, as it was spoken unto them.

²¹ ¶ ^(B)[j]And when the eight days were accomplished, that they should circumcise the child, his name was then called ^(C)Jesus, which was named of the Angel, before he was conceived in the womb.

^22 (D)[k]And when the days of ^[l]her purification, after the Law of Moses, were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord,

²³ (As it is written in the Law of the Lord, ^(E)Every man child that first openeth the womb, shall be called holy to the Lord,)

²⁴ And to give an oblation, ^(F)as it is commanded in the Law of the Lord, a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.

^25 [m]And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon: this man was just, and feared God, and waited for the consolation of Israel, and the ^[n]holy Ghost was upon him.

²⁶ And it was declared to him from God by the holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen that Anointed of the Lord.

²⁷ And he came by the motion of the spirit into the Temple, and when the ^[o]parents brought in the babe Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the Law.

²⁸ Then he took him in his arms, and praised God, and said,

²⁹ Lord, now ^[p]lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy ^[q]word,

³⁰ For ^[r]mine eyes have seen thy ^[s]salvation,

³¹ Which thou hast prepared ^[t]before the face of all people,

³² A light to be revealed to the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

³³ And Joseph and his mother marveled at those things, which were spoken touching him.

³⁴ And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is ^[u]appointed for the ^(G)[v]fall and rising again of many in Israel, and for a ^[w]sign which shall be spoken against,

³⁵ (Yea and a sword shall ^[x]pierce through thy soul) that the thoughts of many hearts may be opened.

^36 [y]And there was a Prophetess, one Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, which was of a great age, after she had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity:

³⁷ And she was widow about fourscore, and four years, and went not out of the Temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

³⁸ She then coming at the same instant upon them, confessed likewise the Lord, and spake of him to all that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.

³⁹ And when they had performed all things, according to the Law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee to their own city Nazareth.

⁴⁰ And the child grew, and waxed strong in Spirit, ^[z]and was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was with him.

⁴¹ ¶ ^[aa]Now his parents went to Jerusalem, every year, ^(H)at the feast of the Passover.

⁴² And when he was twelve years old, and they were come up to Jerusalem, after the custom of the feast,

⁴³ And had finished the days thereof, as they returned, the child Jesus remained in Jerusalem, and Joseph knew not, nor his mother,

⁴⁴ But they supposing that he had been in the company, went a day’s journey, and sought him among their kinsfolk, and acquaintances.

⁴⁵ And when they found him not, they turned back to Jerusalem, and sought him.

⁴⁶ And it came to pass three days after, that they found him in the Temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions:

⁴⁷ And all that heard him, were astonied at his understanding and answers.

^48 [ab]So when they saw him, they were amazed, and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee with very heavy hearts.

⁴⁹ Then said he unto them, How is it that ye sought me? knew ye not that I must go about my Father’s business?

⁵⁰ But they understood not the word that he spake to them.

^51 [ac]Then he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them: and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

⁵² And Jesus increased in wisdom, and stature, and in favor with God and men.