The Book of Psalms 21 |
The Douay-Rheims Version Online Bible (DRV) |
Psalms 21:1 | Unto the end, for the morning protection, a psalm for David. |
Psalms 21:2 | O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my sins. |
Psalms 21:3 | O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me. |
Psalms 21:4 | But thou dwellest in the holy place, the praise of Israel. |
Psalms 21:5 | In thee have our fathers hoped: they have hoped, and thou hast delivered them. |
Psalms 21:6 | They cried to thee, and they were saved: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. |
Psalms 21:7 | But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people. |
Psalms 21:8 | All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head. |
Psalms 21:9 | He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him, seeing he delighteth in him. |
Psalms 21:10 | For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: my hope from the breasts of my mother. |
Psalms 21:11 | I was cast upon thee from the womb. From my mother's womb thou art my God, |
Psalms 21:12 | depart not from me. For tribulation is very near: for there is none to help me. |
Psalms 21:13 | Many calves have surrounded me: fat bulls have besieged me. |
Psalms 21:14 | They have opened their mouths against me, as a lion ravening and roaring. |
Psalms 21:15 | I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels. |
Psalms 21:16 | My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death. |
Psalms 21:17 | For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant hath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet. |
Psalms 21:18 | They have numbered all my bones. And they have looked and stared upon me. |
Psalms 21:19 | They parted my garments amongst them; and upon my vesture they cast lots. |
Psalms 21:20 | But thou, O Lord, remove not thy help to a distance from me; look towards my defence. |
Psalms 21:21 | Deliver, O God, my soul from the sword: my only one from the hand of the dog. |
Psalms 21:22 | Save me from the lion's mouth; and my lowness from the horns of the unicorns. |
Psalms 21:23 | I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the church will I praise thee. |
Psalms 21:24 | Ye that fear the Lord, praise him: all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him. |
Psalms 21:25 | Let all the seed of Israel fear him: because he hath not slighted nor despised the supplication of the poor man. Neither hath he turned away his face from me: and when I cried to him he heard me. |
Psalms 21:26 | With thee is my praise in a great church: I will pay my vows in the sight of them that fear him. |
Psalms 21:27 | The poor shall eat and shall be filled: and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their hearts shall live for ever and ever. |
Psalms 21:28 | All the ends of the earth shall remember, and shall be converted to the Lord: And all the kindreds of the Gentiles shall adore in his sight. |
Psalms 21:29 | For the kingdom is the Lord's; and he shall have dominion over the nations. |
Psalms 21:30 | All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and have adored: all they that go down to the earth shall fall before him. |
Psalms 21:31 | And to him my soul shall live: and my seed shall serve him. |
Psalms 21:32 | There shall be declared to the Lord a generation to come: and the heavens shall shew forth his justice to a people that shall be born, which the Lord hath made. |