| Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain. | Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. |
| Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in obedience to him. | Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways. |
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| Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord; Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy. | Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. |
| I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope. | I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. |
| How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity! | Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! |
| The Lord will vindicate me; your love, Lord, endures forever— do not abandon the works of your hands. | The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands. |
| You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. | O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. |
| Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. | For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether. |
| Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. | Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. |
| For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. | For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. |
| Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. | Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. |
| Lord, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for mercy; in your faithfulness and righteousness come to my relief. | Hear my prayer, O Lord, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness. |
| I spread out my hands to you; I thirst for you like a parched land. | I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah. |
| Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life. | Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee. |
| Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good Spirit lead me on level ground. | Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. |
| I will exalt you, my God the King; I will praise your name for ever and ever. | I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever. |
| Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom. | Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable. |
| The Lord is righteous in all his ways and faithful in all he does. | The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. |
| The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. | The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. |
| The Lord gives sight to the blind, the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down, the Lord loves the righteous. | The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind: the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down: the Lord loveth the righteous. |
| The Lord watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked. | The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. |
| He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. | He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. |
| For the Lord takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with victory. | For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation. |
| Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. | Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. |
| Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers. | Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. |
