The LORD {is} my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity {that is} in me.

The just {man} walketh in his integrity: his children {are} blessed after him.

For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done {that which is} good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. {sore: Heb. with a great weeping}

The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand. {deliver: Heb. judge}

He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.

Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.

O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.

He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.

[To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, {A Psalm} of David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us?] Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength. {chief...: or, overseer} {Maschil: or, of instruction}

Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

He only {is} my rock and my salvation; {he is} my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. {defence: Heb. high place}

The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self. {judgment: Gr. day}

Let us hold fast the profession of {our} faith without wavering; (for he {is} faithful that promised;)

When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

The law of his God {is} in his heart; none of his steps shall slide. {steps: or, goings}

He only {is} my rock and my salvation: {he is} my defence; I shall not be moved.

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe. {safe: Heb. set on high}

He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou {art} my God.

Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. {ungodly: or, unmerciful} {the deceitful...: Heb. a man of deceit and iniquity}

Trust in the LORD, and do good; {so} shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. {verily: Heb. in truth, or, stableness}

The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. {ungodly: or, unmerciful} {the deceitful...: Heb. a man of deceit and iniquity}

The just {man} walketh in his integrity: his children {are} blessed after him.

For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God. {grieved: Heb. bitter}

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.

But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.

The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity {that is} in me.

And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, {and} wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:

Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.

Righteousness keepeth {him that is} upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner. {the sinner: Heb. sin}

He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; {righteously: Heb. in righteousnesses} {uprightly: Heb. uprightnesses} {oppressions: or, deceits} {blood: Heb. bloods}

But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter. {toward...: Heb. with thee}

O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and {there is} none that can deliver out of thine hand. {Thou...: Heb. It is upon thy knowledge}

Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. {Let...: Heb. Let him weigh me in balances of justice}

[Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the LORD, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite.] O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me: {words: or, business}

Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of {mine} house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten {them}:

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire {is, that} the Almighty would answer me, and {that} mine adversary had written a book. {my...: or, my sign is that the Almighty will}

And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that {there is} none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause. {to destroy...: Heb. to swallow him up}

[To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, {A Psalm} of David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us?] Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength. {chief...: or, overseer} {Maschil: or, of instruction}