Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious.

Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.

Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.

Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:

A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.

Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.

O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.

His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.

Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;

Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:

Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.

He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:

They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;

He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.

Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.

And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.

When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;

Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.

Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib.

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.

My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.

For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?

Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:

That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.

Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.