{
"books": [
{
"name": "Five Psalms of David",
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 1",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 0,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 1:0",
"text": "I. Ps. cli. A Thanksgiving of David."
},
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 1:1",
"text": "I was the youngest among my brethren, and a youth in my father's house."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 1:2",
"text": "I used to feed my father's flock, and I found a lion and a wolf, and slew them and rent them."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 1:3",
"text": "My hands made an organ, and my fingers fashioned a harp."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 1:4",
"text": "Who will show me my Lord? He, my Lord, is become my God."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 1:5",
"text": "He sent His angel and took me away from my father's flock, and anointed me with the oil of anointing."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 1:6",
"text": "My brethren, the fair and the tall, in them the Lord had no pleasure."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 1:7",
"text": "And I went forth to meet the Philistine, and he cursed me by his idols."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 1,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 1:8",
"text": "But I drew his sword and cut off his head, and took away the reproach from the children of Israel."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 2",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 0,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 2:0",
"text": "II. The Prayer of Hezekiah when enemies surrounded him."
},
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 2:1",
"text": "With a loud voice glorify ye God; in the assembly of many proclaim ye His glory."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 2:2",
"text": "Amid the multitude of the upright glorify His praise; and speak of His glory with the righteous."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 2:3",
"text": "Join yourselves (literally, your soul) to the good and to the perfect, to glorify the Most High."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 2:4",
"text": "Gather yourselves together to make known His strength; and be not slow in showing forth His deliverance [and His strength] and His glory to all babes."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 2:5",
"text": "That the honour of the Lord may be known, wisdom hath been given; and to tell of His works it hath been made known to men:"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 2:6",
"text": "to make known unto babes His strength, and to make them that lack understanding (literally, heart) to comprehend His glory;"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 2:7",
"text": "who are far from His entrances and distant from His gates:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 2:8",
"text": "because the Lord of Jacob is exalted, and His glory is upon all His works."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 2:9",
"text": "And a man who glorifies the Most High, in him will He take pleasure; as in one who offers fine meal, and as in one who offers he-goats and calves;"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 2:10",
"text": "and as in one who makes fat the altar with a multitude of burnt offerings; and as the smell of incense from the hands of the just."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 2:11",
"text": "From thy upright gates shall be heard His voice, and from the voice of the upright admonition."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 2:12",
"text": "And in their eating shall be satisfying in truth, and in their drinking, when they share together."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 2:13",
"text": "Their dwelling is in the law of the Most High, and their speech is to make known His strength."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 2:14",
"text": "How far from the wicked is speech of Him, and from all transgressors to know Him!"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 2:15",
"text": "Lo, the eye of the Lord taketh pity on the good, and unto them that glorify Him will He multiply mercy, and from the time of evil will He deliver their soul."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 2:16",
"text": "Blessed be the Lord, who hath delivered the wretched from the hand of the wicked; who raiseth up a horn out of Jacob and a judge of the nations out of Israel;"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 2,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 2:17",
"text": "that He may prolong His dwelling in Zion, and may adorn our age in Jerusalem."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 3",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 0,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 3:0",
"text": "III. When the People obtained permission from Cyrus to return home."
},
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 3:1",
"text": "O Lord, I have cried unto Thee; hearken Thou unto me."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 3:2",
"text": "I have lifted up my hands to Thy holy dwelling-place; incline Thine ear unto me."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 3:3",
"text": "And grant me my request; my prayer withhold not from me."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 3:4",
"text": "Build up my soul, and destroy it not; and lay it not bare before the wicked."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 3:5",
"text": "Them that recompense evil things turn Thou away from me, O judge of truth."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 3:6",
"text": "O Lord, judge me not according to my sins, because no flesh is innocent before Thee."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 3:7",
"text": "Make plain to me, O Lord, Thy law, and teach me Thy judgments;"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 3:8",
"text": "and many shall hear of Thy works, and the nations shall praise Thine honour."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 3:9",
"text": "Remember me and forget me not; and lead me not into things that be too hard for me."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 3:10",
"text": "The sins of my youth make Thou to pass from me, and my chastisement let them not remember against me."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 3:11",
"text": "Cleanse me, O Lord, from the evil leprosy, and let it no more come unto me."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 3:12",
"text": "Dry up its roots in (literally, from) me, and let not its leaves sprout within me."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 3:13",
"text": "Great art Thou, O Lord; therefore my request shall be fulfilled from before Thee."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 3:14",
"text": "To whom shall I complain that he may give unto me? and what can the strength of men add [unto me]?"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 3:15",
"text": "From before Thee, O Lord, is my confidence; I cried unto the Lord and He heard me, and healed the breaking of my heart."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 3:16",
"text": "I slumbered and slept; I dreamed and was helped, and the Lord sustained me."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 3:17",
"text": "They sorely pained my heart; I will return thanks because the Lord delivered me."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 3:18",
"text": "Now will I rejoice in their shame; I have hoped in Thee, and I shall not be ashamed."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 3:19",
"text": "Give Thou honour for ever, even for ever and ever."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"chapter": 3,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 3:20",
"text": "Deliver Israel Thine elect, and them of the house of Jacob Thy proved one."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 4",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 0,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 4:0",
"text": "IV. Spoken by David when he was contending with the lion and the wolf which took a sheep from his flock."
},
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 4:1",
"text": "O God, O God, come to my aid; help Thou me and save me; deliver Thou my soul from the slayer."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 4:2",
"text": "Shall I go down to Sheol by the mouth of the lion? or shall the wolf confound me?"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 4:3",
"text": "Was it not enough for them that they lay in wait for my father's flock, and rent in pieces a sheep of my father's drove, but they were wishing also to destroy my soul?"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 4:4",
"text": "Have pity, O Lord, and save Thy holy one from destruction; that he may rehearse Thy glories in all his times, and may praise Thy great name:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 4:5",
"text": "when Thou hast delivered him from the hands of the destroying lion and of the ravening wolf, and when Thou hast rescued my captivity from the hands of the wild beasts."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 4,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 4:6",
"text": "Quickly, O my Lord (Adonai), send from before Thee a deliverer, and draw me out of the gaping pit, which imprisons me in its depths."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 5",
"verses": [
{
"verse": 0,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 5:0",
"text": "V. Spoken by David when returning thanks to God, who had delivered him from the lion and the wolf and he had slain both of them."
},
{
"verse": 1,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 5:1",
"text": "Praise the Lord, all ye nations; glorify Him, and bless His name:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 5:2",
"text": "Who rescued the soul of His elect from the hands of death, and delivered His holy one from destruction:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 5:3",
"text": "and saved me from the nets of Sheol, and my soul from the pit that cannot be fathomed."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 5:4",
"text": "Because, ere my deliverance could go forth from before Him, I was well nigh rent in two pieces by two wild beasts."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 5:5",
"text": "But He sent His angel, and shut up from me the gaping mouths, and rescued my life from destruction."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"chapter": 5,
"name": "Five Psalms of David 5:6",
"text": "My soul shall glorify Him and exalt Him, because of all His kindnesses which He hath done and will do unto me."
}
]
}
]
}
]
}