Psalms: Selected Verses

1. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance. - Psalm 2:8
2. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. - 2:9
3. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way. - 2:12
4. My God ... thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly. - 3:7
5. For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks? - 6:5
6. God ... will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. - 7:11-12
7. He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death. - 7:13
8. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers.... - 8:3
9. Thou hast destroyed cities. - 9:6
10. The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. - 9:17
11. Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? - 10:1
12. Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone. - 11:6
13. The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things. - 12:3
14. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. - 14:1
15. They are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. - 14:3
16. At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. - 16:11
17. There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth. - 18:8
18. He rode upon a cherub, and did fly. - 18:10
19. He made darkness his secret place. - 18:11
20. He teacheth my hands to war. - 18:34
21. Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger. - 21:9
22. The LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them. - 21:9
23. Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men. - 21:10
24. Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows. - 21:12
25. Thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. - 22:21
26. I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide. - 26:1
27. He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn. - 29:6
28. The LORD sitteth upon the flood. - 29:10
29. Do good; seek peace, and pursue it. - 34:14
30. Fight against them that fight against me. - 35:1
31. Let the angel of the LORD chase them. - 35:5
32. Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them. - 35:6
33. Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha. - 35:21
34. Thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. - 36:8
35. My loins are filled with a loathsome disease. - 38:7
36. Let them be ashamed and confounded ... that say unto me, Aha, aha. - 40:14-15
37. Through thee will we push down our enemies. - 44:5
38. In God we boast all the day long. - 44:8
39. Thou sellest thy people for nought. - 44:12
40. Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons. - 44:19
41. Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? - 44:23
42. He uttered his voice, the earth melted. - 46:6
43. The LORD most high is terrible. - 47:2
44. Man ... is like the beasts that perish. - 49:20
45. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? - 50:13
46. Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces. - 50:22
47. In sin did my mother conceive me. - 51:5
48. The righteous ... shall see ... and shall laugh at him. - 52:6
49. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. - 53:1
50. Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell - 55:15
51. Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early. - 57:8
52. The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. - 58:3
53. Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth. - 58:6
54. Let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman. - 58:8
55. The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. - 58:10
56. The heathen ... make a noise like a dog. - 59:5-6
57. Behold, they belch out with their mouth. - 59:7
58. Let them make a noise like a dog. - 59:14
59. Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe. - 60:8
60. God shall shoot at them with an arrow. - 64:7
61. Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! - 66:3
62. God ... is terrible in his doing toward the children of men. - 66:5
63. O God ... thou laidst affliction upon our loins. - 66:10-11
64. Extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH. - 68:4
65. The chariots of God are twenty thousand. - 68:7
66. God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp. - 68:21
67. That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same. - 68:23
68. I was the song of the drunkards. - 69:12
69. Let them ... say, Aha aha. - 70:3
70. How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? - 73:11
71. Thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. - 74:13
72. Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. - 74:14
73. O God ... remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. - 74:22
74. In the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red. - 75:8
75. The horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted. - 75:10
76. At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep. - 76:6
77. The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid. - 77:16
78. Man did eat angels' food. - 78:25
79. He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea. - 78:27
80. The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them. - 78:31
81. He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. - 78:49
82. He smote his enemies in the hinder parts. - 78:66
83. Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. - 81:10
84. I have said, Ye are gods. - 82:6
85. They became as dung for the earth. - 83:10
86. God is a sun. - 84:11
87. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. - 85:10
88. The dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more. - 88:5
89. Shall the dead arise and praise thee? - 88:10
90. I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. - 89:25
91. The dragon shalt thou trample under feet. - 91:13
92. My horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn. - 92:10
93. The righteous ... shall be fat. - 92:12-14
94. The world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved. - 93:1
95. The LORD ... is to be feared above all gods. - 96:4
96. A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about. - 97:3
97. I have eaten ashes like bread. - 102:9
98. He smote ... their fig trees. - 105:33
99. Aaron the saint of the LORD. - 106:16
100. The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the company of Abiram. - 106:17
101. And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked. - 106:18
102. Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed. - 106:30
103. Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions. - 106:39
104. Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe. - 108:9
105. Let Satan stand at his right hand. - 109:6
106. Let his prayer become sin. - 109:7
107. Let his days be few; and let another take his office. - 109:8
108. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. - 109:9
109. Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. - 109:9
110. Let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. - 109:14
111. He shall fill the places with the dead bodies. - 110:6
112. He hath given meat unto them that fear him. - 111:5
113. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. - 112:10
114. The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence. - 115:17
115. The proud ... Their heart is as fat as grease. - 119:69-70
116. I am for peace. - 120:7
117. The LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand. - 121:5
118. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. - 121:6
119. The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in. - 121:8
120. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them. - 127:4-5
121. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house. - 128:3
122. Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up. - 129:6
123. My soul is even as a weaned child. - 131:2
124. There will I make the horn of David to bud. - 132:17
125. It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments. - 133:2
126. To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever. - 136:10
127. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. - 137:9
128. Before the gods will I sing praise unto thee. - 138:1
129. If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. - 139:8
130. Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God. - 139:19
131. Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? - 139:21
132. I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies. - 139:22
133. Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again. - 140:10
134. Let the righteous smite me it shall be a kindness ... it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head. - 141:5
135. The Lord ... teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. - 144:1
136. O LORD ... come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. - 144:5
137. The way of the wicked he turneth upside down. - 146:9