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Psalm 16

¹Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
²O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
³But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
⁴Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
⁵The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
⁶The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
⁷I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
⁸I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
⁹Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
¹⁰For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
¹¹Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

Psalm 17

¹Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
²Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.
³Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
⁴Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
⁵Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
⁶I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.
⁷Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.
⁸Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
⁹From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
¹⁰They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
¹¹They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
¹²Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
¹³Arise, O Lord, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:
¹⁴From men which are thy hand, O Lord, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
¹⁵As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

¹¹I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
¹²For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
¹³This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:
¹⁴There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
¹⁵Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
¹⁶Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
¹⁷The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
¹⁸Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

¹³But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
¹⁴Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
¹⁵Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
¹⁶Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
¹⁷Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
¹⁸And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.
¹⁹Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
²⁰Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
²¹And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.
²²And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
²³Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.