Psalm 30:1

O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.

Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.

Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.

And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and anoth...

Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.

All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.

By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.

But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.

I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.

That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.

Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of th...

And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.

And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they wer...

We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.