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Psalms 15

World English Bible · public domain · whole chapter

Psalms 14 Psalms 16

¹Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary?

²He who walks blamelessly and does what is right,

³he who doesn’t slander with his tongue,

⁴in whose eyes a vile man is despised,

⁵he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury,

¹Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary?

²He who walks blamelessly and does what is right,

³he who doesn’t slander with his tongue,

⁴in whose eyes a vile man is despised,

⁵he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury,

¹Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary?

²He who walks blamelessly and does what is right,

³he who doesn’t slander with his tongue,

⁴in whose eyes a vile man is despised,

⁵he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury,

In context

Psalms 15 is read as a whole chapter — not a single verse pulled free of what surrounds it.

Immediately before

³They have all gone aside.

⁴Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,

⁵There they were in great fear,

⁶You frustrate the plan of the poor,

⁷Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!

Immediately after

¹Preserve me, God, for I take refuge in you.

²My soul, you have said to Yahweh, “You are my Lord.

³As for the saints who are in the earth,

⁴Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god.

⁵Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup.

How this book begins

¹Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked,

²but his delight is in Yahweh’s1:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. law.

³He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water,

⁴The wicked are not so,

⁵Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment,

⁶For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous,