Scottish Psalter and Paraphrases

¹To thee I lift my soul:

²O Lord, I trust in thee:

My God, let me not be asham’d,

nor foes triumph o’er me.

³Let none that wait on thee

be put to shame at all;

But those that without cause transgress,

let shame upon them fall.

⁴Shew me thy ways, O Lord;

thy paths, O teach thou me:

⁵And do thou lead me in thy truth,

therein my teacher be:

For thou art God that dost

to me salvation send,

And I upon thee all the day

expecting do attend.

⁶Thy tender mercies, Lord,

I pray thee to remember,

And loving-kindnesses; for they

have been of old for ever.

⁷My sins and faults of youth

do thou, O Lord, forget:

After thy mercy think on me,

and for thy goodness great.

⁸God good and upright is:

the way he’ll sinners show.

⁹The meek in judgment he will guide,

and make his path to know.

¹⁰The whole paths of the Lord

are truth and mercy sure,

To those that do his cov’nant keep,

and testimonies pure.

¹¹Now, for thine own name’s sake,

O Lord, I thee entreat

To pardon mine iniquity;

for it is very great.

¹²What man is he that fears

the Lord, and doth him serve?

Him shall he teach the way that he

shall choose, and still observe.

¹³His soul shall dwell at ease;

and his posterity

Shall flourish still, and of the earth

inheritors shall be.

¹⁴With those that fear him is

the secret of the Lord;

The knowledge of his covenant

he will to them afford.

¹⁵Mine eyes upon the Lord

continually are set:

For he it is that shall bring forth

my feet out of the net.

¹⁶Turn unto me thy face,

and to me mercy show;

Because that I am desolate,

and am brought very low.

¹⁷My heart’s griefs are increas’d:

me from distress relieve.

¹⁸See mine affliction and my pain,

and all my sins forgive.

¹⁹Consider thou my foes,

because they many are;

And it a cruel hatred is

which they against me bear.

²⁰O do thou keep my soul,

do thou deliver me:

And let me never be asham’d,

because I trust in thee.

²¹Let uprightness and truth

keep me, who thee attend.

²²Redemption, Lord, to Israel

from all his troubles send.