Middle Cross Baptist Church

¹ Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer:
preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
² Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked;
from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
³ who whet their tongue like a sword,
and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
⁴ that they may shoot in secret at the perfect:
suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
⁵ They encourage themselves in an evil matter:
they commune of laying snares privily;
they say, Who shall see them?
⁶ They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search:
both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

⁷ But God shall shoot at them
with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
⁸ So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves:
all that see them shall flee away.
⁹ And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God;
for they shall wisely consider of his doing.
¹⁰ The righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and shall trust in him;
and all the upright in heart shall glory.

¹ Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion:
and unto thee shall the vow be performed.
² O thou that hearest prayer,
unto thee shall all flesh come.
³ Iniquities prevail against me:
as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.
⁴ Blessed is the man whom thou choosest,
and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts:
we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.
⁵ By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation;
who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth,
and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
⁶ which by his strength setteth fast the mountains;
being girded with power:
⁷ which stilleth the noise of the seas,
the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
⁸ They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens:
thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.

⁹ Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it:
thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water:
thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
¹⁰ Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly:
thou settlest the furrows thereof:
thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
¹¹ Thou crownest the year with thy goodness;
and thy paths drop fatness.
¹² They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness:
and the little hills rejoice on every side.
¹³ The pastures are clothed with flocks;
the valleys also are covered over with corn;
they shout for joy, they also sing.