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Psalm 71

¹In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.
²Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
³Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.
⁴Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
⁵For thou art my hope, O Lord God: thou art my trust from my youth.
⁶By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.
⁷I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.
⁸Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.
⁹Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
¹⁰For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
¹¹Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
¹²O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
¹³Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
¹⁴But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.
¹⁵My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
¹⁶I will go in the strength of the Lord God: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
¹⁷O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
¹⁸Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
¹⁹Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
²⁰Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
²¹Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
²²I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.
²³My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
²⁴My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.

21And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
²And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.
³And Naboth said to Ahab, The Lord forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.
⁴And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
⁵But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?
⁶And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.
⁷And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
⁸So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.
⁹And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:
¹⁰And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.

4From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
²Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
³Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
⁴Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
⁵Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
⁶But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
⁷Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
⁸Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
⁹Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
¹⁰Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
¹¹Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
¹²There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?