001:001 Blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
001:002 but his delight is in Yahweh's law. On his law he meditates
day and night.
001:003 He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings
forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither.
Whatever he does shall prosper.
001:004 The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the
wind drives away.
001:005 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
001:006 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way
of the wicked shall perish.
002:001 Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
002:002 The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take
counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed,{The
word "Anointed" is the same as the word for "Messiah"
or "Christ"} saying,
002:003 "Let's break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us."
002:004 He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have
them in derision.
002:005 Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them
in his wrath:
002:006 "Yet I have set my king on my holy hill of Zion."
002:007 I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, "You are my son.
Today I have become your father.
002:008 Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance,
the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
002:009 You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them
in pieces like a potter's vessel."
002:010 Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges
of the earth.
002:011 Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
002:012 Give sincere homage{or, Kiss the son}, lest he be angry,
and you perish in the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled.
Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
003:001 <<A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son.>> Yahweh,
how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise
up against me.
003:002 Many there are who say of my soul, "There is no help for him
in God." Selah.
003:003 But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one
who lifts up my head.
003:004 I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his
holy hill. Selah.
003:005 I laid myself down and slept. I awakened; for Yahweh sustains me.
003:006 I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have
set themselves against me on every side.
003:007 Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all
of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth
of the wicked.
003:008 Salvation belongs to Yahweh. Your blessing be on
your people. Selah.
004:001 <<For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm
by David.>> Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness.
Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me,
and hear my prayer.
004:002 You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor?
Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.
004:003 But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly:
Yahweh will hear when I call to him.
004:004 Stand in awe, and don't sin. Search your own heart on your bed,
and be still. Selah.
004:005 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in Yahweh.
004:006 Many say, "Who will show us any good?" Yahweh, let the light
of your face shine on us.
004:007 You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain
and their new wine are increased.
004:008 In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you,
Yahweh alone, make me live in safety.
005:001 <<For the Chief Musician, with the flutes. A Psalm by David.>>
Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation.
005:002 Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for to you
do I pray.
005:003 Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning
I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.
005:004 For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness.
Evil can't live with you.
005:005 The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all
workers of iniquity.
005:006 You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors
the blood-thirsty and deceitful man.
005:007 But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I
will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple
in reverence of you.
005:008 Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies.
Make your way straight before my face.
005:009 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth.
Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb.
They flatter with their tongue.
005:010 Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels;
Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions,
for they have rebelled against you.
005:011 But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice,
Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them.
Let them also who love your name be joyful in you.
005:012 For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround
him with favor as with a shield.
006:001 <<For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments,
upon the eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm by David.>> Yahweh,
don't rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me
in your wrath.
006:002 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me,
for my bones are troubled.
006:003 My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh--how long?
006:004 Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul, and save me for your
loving kindness' sake.
006:005 For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall
give you thanks?
006:006 I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed.
I drench my couch with my tears.
006:007 My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of
all my adversaries.
006:008 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has
heard the voice of my weeping.
006:009 Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer.
006:010 May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back,
they shall be disgraced suddenly.
007:001 <<A meditation by David, which he sang to Yahweh, concerning the words
of Cush, the Benjamite.>> Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you.
Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,
007:002 lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces,
while there is none to deliver.
007:003 Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity
in my hands,
007:004 if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, if I
have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),
007:005 let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread
my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
007:006 Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage
of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
007:007 Let the congregation of the peoples surround you.
Rule over them on high.
007:008 Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me,
Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity
that is in me.
007:009 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end,
but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched
by the righteous God.
007:010 My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
007:011 God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day.
007:012 If a man doesn't relent, he will sharpen his sword; he has
bent and strung his bow.
007:013 He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death.
He makes ready his flaming arrows.
007:014 Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief,
and brought forth falsehood.
007:015 He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.
007:016 The trouble he causes shall return to his own head.
His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
007:017 I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness,
and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.
008:001 <<For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath.
A Psalm by David.>> Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name
in all the earth, who has set your glory above the heavens!
008:002 From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength,
because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy
and the avenger.
008:003 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
008:004 what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man,
that you care for him?
008:005 For you have made him a little lower than God,{Hebrew: Elohim}
and crowned him with glory and honor.
008:006 You make him ruler over the works of your hands.
You have put all things under his feet:
008:007 All sheep and oxen, yes, and the animals of the field,
008:008 The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes
through the paths of the seas.
008:009 Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
009:001 <<For the Chief Musician. Set to "The Death of the Son."
A Psalm by David.>> I will give thanks to Yahweh with my
whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.
009:002 I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name,
O Most High.
009:003 When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.
009:004 For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the
throne judging righteously.
009:005 You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked.
You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
009:006 The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory
of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
009:007 But Yahweh reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.
009:008 He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer
judgment to the peoples in uprightness.
009:009 Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high
tower in times of trouble.
009:010 Those who know your name will put their trust in you,
for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.
009:011 Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion, and declare among
the people what he has done.
009:012 For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn't forget
the cry of the afflicted.
009:013 Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me,
and lift me up from the gates of death;
009:014 that I may show forth all your praise. In the gates of
the daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in your salvation.
009:015 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made.
In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
009:016 Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked
is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
009:017 The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations
that forget God.
009:018 For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope
of the poor perish forever.
009:019 Arise, Yahweh! Don't let man prevail. Let the nations be
judged in your sight.
009:020 Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they
are only men. Selah.
010:001 Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself
in times of trouble?
010:002 In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught
in the schemes that they devise.
010:003 For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings. He blesses
the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.
010:004 The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his
thoughts for God.
010:005 His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your
laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries,
he sneers at them.
010:006 He says in his heart, "I shall not be shaken. For generations
I shall have no trouble."
010:007 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression.
Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
010:008 He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders
the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
010:009 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait
to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws
him in his net.
010:010 The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall
under his strength.
010:011 He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face.
He will never see it."
010:012 Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don't forget the helpless.
010:013 Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart,
"God won't call me into account?"
010:014 But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it
into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
010:015 Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out
his wickedness until you find none.
010:016 Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish
out of his land.
010:017 Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble.
You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
010:018 to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is
of the earth may terrify no more.
011:001 <<For the Chief Musician. By David.>> In Yahweh, I take refuge.
How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain!"
011:002 For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their
arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at
the upright in heart.
011:003 If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?
011:004 Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven.
His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.
011:005 Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves
violence his soul hates.
011:006 On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur,
and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
011:007 For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness.
The upright shall see his face.
012:001 <<For the Chief Musician; upon an eight-stringed lyre.
A Psalm of David.>> Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases.
For the faithful fail from among the children of men.
012:002 Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips,
and with a double heart.
012:003 May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,
012:004 who have said, "With our tongue we will prevail.
Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?"
012:005 "Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning
of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set
him in safety from those who malign him."
012:006 The words of Yahweh are flawless words, as silver refined
in a clay furnace, purified seven times.
012:007 You will keep them, Yahweh. You will preserve them from
this generation forever.
012:008 The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted
among the sons of men.
013:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>>
How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
013:002 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my
heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?
013:003 Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes,
lest I sleep in death;
013:004 Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him;" Lest my
adversaries rejoice when I fall.
013:005 But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices
in your salvation.
013:006 I will sing to Yahweh, because he has been good to me.
014:001 <<For the Chief Musician. By David.>> The fool has said
in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt.
They have done abominable works. There is none who does good.
014:002 Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see
if there were any who did understand, who did seek after God.
014:003 They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt.
There is none who does good, no, not one.
014:004 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up
my people as they eat bread, and don't call on Yahweh?
014:005 There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation
of the righteous.
014:006 You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.
014:007 Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When Yahweh
restores the fortunes of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice,
and Israel shall be glad.
015:001 <<A Psalm by David.>> Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary?
Who shall live on your holy hill?
015:002 He who walks blamelessly does what is right, and speaks truth
in his heart;
015:003 He who doesn't slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend,
nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
015:004 In whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those
who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts,
and doesn't change;
015:005 he who doesn't lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe
against the innocent. He who does these things shall
never be shaken.
016:001 <<A Poem by David.>> Preserve me, God, for in you do I take refuge.
016:002 My soul, you have said to Yahweh, "You are my Lord.
Apart from you I have no good thing."
016:003 As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent
ones in whom is all my delight.
016:004 Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god.
Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take
their names on my lips.
016:005 Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.
016:006 The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have
a good inheritance.
016:007 I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart
instructs me in the night seasons.
016:008 I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand,
I shall not be moved.
016:009 Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices.
My body shall also dwell in safety.
016:010 For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you
allow your holy one to see corruption.
016:011 You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness
of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.
017:001 <<A Prayer by David.>> Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea;
Give ear to my prayer, that doesn't go out of deceitful lips.
017:002 Let my sentence come forth from your presence. Let your eyes
look on equity.
017:003 You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night.
You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my
mouth shall not disobey.
017:004 As for the works of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept
myself from the ways of the violent.
017:005 My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.
017:006 I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your
ear to me. Hear my speech.
017:007 Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take
refuge by your right hand from their enemies.
017:008 Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow
of your wings,
017:009 from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies,
who surround me.
017:010 They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth
they speak proudly.
017:011 They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes
to cast us down to the earth.
017:012 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young
lion lurking in secret places.
017:013 Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul
from the wicked by your sword;
017:014 from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion
is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones.
Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
017:015 As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness.
I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
018:001 <<For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke
to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered
him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul.
He said,>> I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
018:002 Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock,
in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation,
my high tower.
018:003 I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved
from my enemies.
018:004 The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness
made me afraid.
018:005 The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death
came on me.
018:006 In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God.
He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came
into his ears.
018:007 Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of
the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.
018:008 Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out
of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.
018:009 He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness
was under his feet.
018:010 He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings
of the wind.
018:011 He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him,
darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
018:012 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed,
hailstones and coals of fire.
018:013 Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice:
hailstones and coals of fire.
018:014 He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning
bolts, and routed them.
018:015 Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of
the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast
of the breath of your nostrils.
018:016 He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.
018:017 He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me;
for they were too mighty for me.
018:018 They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh
was my support.
018:019 He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me,
because he delighted in me.
018:020 Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness.
According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
018:021 For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly
departed from my God.
018:022 For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't put away
his statutes from me.
018:023 I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
018:024 Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness,
according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
018:025 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful.
With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
018:026 With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked
you will show yourself shrewd.
018:027 For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes
you will bring down.
018:028 For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light
up my darkness.
018:029 For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap
over a wall.
018:030 As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Yahweh is tried.
He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
018:031 For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God,
018:032 the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
018:033 He makes my feet like deer's feet, and sets me on my high places.
018:034 He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
018:035 You have also given me the shield of your salvation.
Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.
018:036 You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.
018:037 I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I
turn again until they are consumed.
018:038 I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise.
They shall fall under my feet.
018:039 For you have girded me with strength to the battle.
You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
018:040 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I
might cut off those who hate me.
018:041 They cried, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh,
but he didn't answer them.
018:042 Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind.
I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
018:043 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people.
You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I
have not known shall serve me.
018:044 As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners
shall submit themselves to me.
018:045 The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out
of their close places.
018:046 Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God
of my salvation,
018:047 even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues
peoples under me.
018:048 He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those
who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
018:049 Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations,
and will sing praises to your name.
018:050 He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness
to his anointed, to David and to his seed, forevermore.
019:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> The heavens
declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.
019:002 Day after day they pour forth speech, and night after night
they display knowledge.
019:003 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
019:004 Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words
to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,
019:005 which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a strong
man rejoicing to run his course.
019:006 His going forth is from the end of the heavens, his circuit
to its ends; There is nothing hidden from its heat.
019:007 Yahweh's law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh's testimony
is sure, making wise the simple.
019:008 Yahweh's precepts are right, rejoicing the heart.
Yahweh's commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
019:009 The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever.
Yahweh's ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
019:010 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold;
sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
019:011 Moreover by them is your servant warned. In keeping them
there is great reward.
019:012 Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
019:013 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins.
Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright.
I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
019:014 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be
acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.
020:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> May Yahweh
answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God
of Jacob set you up on high,
020:002 send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion,
020:003 remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice. Selah.
020:004 May He grant you your heart's desire, and fulfill all your counsel.
020:005 We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God,
we will set up our banners. May Yahweh grant all your requests.
020:006 Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed. He will answer him
from his holy heaven, with the saving strength of his right hand.
020:007 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust
the name of Yahweh our God.
020:008 They are bowed down and fallen, but we rise up, and stand upright.
020:009 Save, Yahweh! Let the King answer us when we call!
021:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> The king
rejoices in your strength, Yahweh! How greatly he rejoices
in your salvation!
021:002 You have given him his heart's desire, and have not withheld
the request of his lips. Selah.
021:003 For you meet him with the blessings of goodness.
You set a crown of fine gold on his head.
021:004 He asked life of you, you gave it to him, even length of days
forever and ever.
021:005 His glory is great in your salvation. You lay honor and
majesty on him.
021:006 For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad
with joy in your presence.
021:007 For the king trusts in Yahweh. Through the loving kindness
of the Most High, he shall not be moved.
021:008 Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand
will find out those who hate you.
021:009 You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger.
Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire
shall devour them.
021:010 You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity
from among the children of men.
021:011 For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against
you which cannot succeed.
021:012 For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn
bows at their face.
021:013 Be exalted, Yahweh, in your strength, so we will sing and
praise your power.
022:001 <<For the Chief Musician; set to "The Doe of the Morning."
A Psalm by David.>> My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words
of my groaning?
022:002 My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer;
in the night season, and am not silent.
022:003 But you are holy, you who inhabit the praises of Israel.
022:004 Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered them.
022:005 They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you,
and were not disappointed.
022:006 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised
by the people.
022:007 All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips.
They shake their heads, saying,
022:008 "He trusts in Yahweh; let him deliver him. Let him rescue him,
since he delights in him."
022:009 But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at
my mother's breasts.
022:010 I was thrown on you from my mother's womb. You are my God
since my mother bore me.
022:011 Don't be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is
none to help.
022:012 Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan
have encircled me.
022:013 They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing
prey and roaring.
022:014 I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint.
My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.
022:015 My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks
to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the
dust of death.
022:016 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evil-doers have
enclosed me. Like a lion, they pin my hands and feet.{or,
They have pierced my hands and feet. (DSS)}
022:017 I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.
022:018 They divide my garments among them. They cast lots for my clothing.
022:019 But don't be far off, Yahweh. You are my help:
hurry to help me.
022:020 Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power
of the dog.
022:021 Save me from the lion's mouth! Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen,
you have answered me.
022:022 I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst
of the assembly, I will praise you.
022:023 You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob,
glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!
022:024 For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of
the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him;
but when he cried to him, he heard.
022:025 Of you comes my praise in the great assembly. I will pay
my vows before those who fear him.
022:026 The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise
Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.
022:027 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh.
All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.
022:028 For the kingdom is Yahweh's. He is the ruler over the nations.
022:029 All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship.
All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him,
even he who can't keep his soul alive.
022:030 Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told
about the Lord.
022:031 They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people
that shall be born, for he has done it.
023:001 <<A Psalm by David.>> Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.
023:002 He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me
beside still waters.
023:003 He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness
for his name's sake.
023:004 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
023:005 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.
023:006 Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days
of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh's house forever.
024:001 <<A Psalm by David.>> The earth is Yahweh's, with its fullness;
the world, and those who dwell therein.
024:002 For he has founded it on the seas, and established it
on the floods.
024:003 Who may ascend to Yahweh's hill? Who may stand in his holy place?
024:004 He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted
up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
024:005 He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, righteousness from
the God of his salvation.
024:006 This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face--
even Jacob. Selah.
024:007 Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors,
and the King of glory will come in.
024:008 Who is the King of glory? Yahweh strong and mighty,
Yahweh mighty in battle.
024:009 Lift up your heads, you gates; yes, lift them up,
you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.
024:010 Who is this King of glory? Yahweh of Armies is the King
of glory! Selah.
025:001 <<By David.>> To you, Yahweh, do I lift up my soul.
025:002 My God, I have trusted in you. Don't let me be shamed.
Don't let my enemies triumph over me.
025:003 Yes, no one who waits for you shall be shamed. They shall
be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.
025:004 Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.
025:005 Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God
of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.
025:006 Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness,
for they are from old times.
025:007 Don't remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions.
Remember me according to your loving kindness,
for your goodness' sake, Yahweh.
025:008 Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners
in the way.
025:009 He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach
the humble his way.
025:010 All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such
as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
025:011 For your name's sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
025:012 What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him
in the way that he shall choose.
025:013 His soul shall dwell at ease. His seed shall inherit the land.
025:014 The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him.
He will show them his covenant.
025:015 My eyes are ever on Yahweh, for he will pluck my feet out
of the net.
025:016 Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.
025:017 The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out
of my distresses.
025:018 Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.
025:019 Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me
with cruel hatred.
025:020 Oh keep my soul, and deliver me. Let me not be disappointed,
for I take refuge in you.
025:021 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
025:022 Redeem Israel, God, out all of his troubles.
026:001 <<By David.>> Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity.
I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.
026:002 Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.
026:003 For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked
in your truth.
026:004 I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go
in with hypocrites.
026:005 I hate the assembly of evil-doers, and will not sit with the wicked.
026:006 I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about
your altar, Yahweh;
026:007 that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard,
and tell of all your wondrous works.
026:008 Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where
your glory dwells.
026:009 Don't gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;
026:010 in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.
026:011 But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me,
and be merciful to me.
026:012 My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I
will bless Yahweh.
027:001 <<By David.>> Yahweh is my light and my salvation.
Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life.
Of whom shall I be afraid?
027:002 When evil-doers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries
and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
027:003 Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear.
Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.
027:004 One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after,
that I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life,
to see Yahweh's beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
027:005 For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion.
In the covert of his tent he will hide me. He will lift me
up on a rock.
027:006 Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me.
I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing,
yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.
027:007 Hear, Yahweh, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me,
and answer me.
027:008 When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will
seek your face, Yahweh."
027:009 Don't hide your face from me. Don't put your servant away in anger.
You have been my help. Don't abandon me, neither forsake me,
God of my salvation.
027:010 When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will
take me up.
027:011 Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path,
because of my enemies.
027:012 Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false
witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
027:013 I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh
in the land of the living.
027:014 Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage.
Yes, wait for Yahweh.
028:001 <<By David.>> To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don't be
deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become
like those who go down into the pit.
028:002 Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift
up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
028:003 Don't draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of
iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief
is in their hearts.
028:004 Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of
their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands.
Bring back on them what they deserve.
028:005 Because they don't regard the works of Yahweh, nor the operation
of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.
028:006 Blessed be Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my petitions.
028:007 Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him,
and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices.
With my song I will thank him.
028:008 Yahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation
to his anointed.
028:009 Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their
shepherd also, and bear them up forever.
029:001 <<A Psalm by David.>> Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty,
ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.
029:002 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Worship Yahweh
in holy array.
029:003 Yahweh's voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders,
even Yahweh on many waters.
029:004 Yahweh's voice is powerful. Yahweh's voice is full of majesty.
029:005 The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars. Yes, Yahweh breaks
in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
029:006 He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion
like a young, wild ox.
029:007 Yahweh's voice strikes with flashes of lightning.
029:008 Yahweh's voice shakes the wilderness. Yahweh shakes
the wilderness of Kadesh.
029:009 Yahweh's voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare.
In his temple everything says, "Glory!"
029:010 Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits
as King forever.
029:011 Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless
his people with peace.
030:001 <<A Psalm. A Song for the Dedication of the Temple.
By David.>> I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up,
and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.
030:002 Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.
030:003 Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol.
You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
030:004 Sing praise to Yahweh, you saints of his. Give thanks
to his holy name.
030:005 For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.
030:006 As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved."
030:007 You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong;
but when you hid your face, I was troubled.
030:008 I cried to you, Yahweh. To Yahweh I made supplication:
030:009 "What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit?
Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
030:010 Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me. Yahweh, be my helper."
030:011 You have turned my mourning into dancing for me.
You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,
030:012 To the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent.
Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
031:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> In you,
Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed.
Deliver me in your righteousness.
031:002 Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me
a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.
031:003 For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name's
sake lead me and guide me.
031:004 Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me,
for you are my stronghold.
031:005 Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me,
Yahweh, God of truth.
031:006 I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh.
031:007 I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have
seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.
031:008 You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy.
You have set my feet in a large place.
031:009 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye,
my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
031:010 For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing.
My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones
are wasted away.
031:011 Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly
contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances.
Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
031:012 I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man.
I am like broken pottery.
031:013 For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side,
while they conspire together against me, they plot to take
away my life.
031:014 But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my God."
031:015 My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies,
and from those who persecute me.
031:016 Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in
your loving kindness.
031:017 Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you.
Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.
031:018 Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous
insolently, with pride and contempt.
031:019 Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for
those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take
refuge in you, before the sons of men!
031:020 In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from
the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling
away from the strife of tongues.
031:021 Praise be to Yahweh, for he has shown me his marvelous loving
kindness in a strong city.
031:022 As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes."
Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I
cried to you.
031:023 Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful,
and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
031:024 Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who
hope in Yahweh.
032:001 <<By David. A contemplative psalm.>> Blessed is he whose
disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
032:002 Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn't impute iniquity,
in whose spirit there is no deceit.
032:003 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning
all day long.
032:004 For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength
was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
032:005 I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my iniquity.
I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you
forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
032:006 For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time
when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow,
they shall not reach to him.
032:007 You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble.
You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
032:008 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go.
I will counsel you with my eye on you.
032:009 Don't be like the horse, or like the mule, which have
no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle,
or else they will not come near to you.
032:010 Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall
surround him who trusts in Yahweh.
032:011 Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy,
all you who are upright in heart!
033:001 Rejoice in Yahweh, you righteous! Praise is fitting
for the upright.
033:002 Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre. Sing praises to him
with the harp of ten strings.
033:003 Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy!
033:004 For the word of Yahweh is right. All his work is
done in faithfulness.
033:005 He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full
of the loving kindness of Yahweh.
033:006 By Yahweh's word, the heavens were made; all their army
by the breath of his mouth.
033:007 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap.
He lays up the deeps in storehouses.
033:008 Let all the earth fear Yahweh. Let all the inhabitants
of the world stand in awe of him.
033:009 For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.
033:010 Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing.
He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
033:011 The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his
heart to all generations.
033:012 Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom
he has chosen for his own inheritance.
033:013 Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men.
033:014 From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants
of the earth,
033:015 he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all
of their works.
033:016 There is no king saved by the multitude of an army.
A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
033:017 A horse is a vain thing for safety, neither does he deliver
any by his great power.
033:018 Behold, Yahweh's eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope
in his loving kindness;
033:019 to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine.
033:020 Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.
033:021 For our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted
in his holy name.
033:022 Let your loving kindness be on us, Yahweh, since we have hoped
in you. {}
034:001 <<By David; when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech,
who drove him away, and he departed.Psalm 34 is an acrostic poem,
with each verse starting with a letter of the alphabet
(ordered from Alef to Tav).>> I will bless Yahweh at all times.
His praise will always be in my mouth.
034:002 My soul shall boast in Yahweh. The humble shall hear of it,
and be glad.
034:003 Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let us exalt his name together.
034:004 I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from
all my fears.
034:005 They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall
never be covered with shame.
034:006 This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out
of all his troubles.
034:007 The angel of Yahweh encamps round about those who fear him,
and delivers them.
034:008 Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man
who takes refuge in him.
034:009 Oh fear Yahweh, you his saints, for there is no lack with
those who fear him.
034:010 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek
Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.
034:011 Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you
the fear of Yahweh.
034:012 Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days,
that he may see good?
034:013 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.
034:014 Depart from evil, and do good. seek peace, and pursue it.
034:015 Yahweh's eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen
to their cry.
034:016 Yahweh's face is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory
of them from the earth.
034:017 The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out
of all their troubles.
034:018 Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves
those who have a crushed spirit.
034:019 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers
him out of them all.
034:020 He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.
034:021 Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous
shall be condemned.
034:022 Yahweh redeems the soul of his servants. None of those who take
refuge in him shall be condemned.
035:001 <<By David.>> Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me.
Fight against those who fight against me.
035:002 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.
035:003 Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me.
Tell my soul, "I am your salvation."
035:004 Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought
to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned
back and confounded.
035:005 Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh's angel
driving them on.
035:006 Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh's angel pursuing them.
035:007 For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me.
Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
035:008 Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has
hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.
035:009 My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice
in his salvation.
035:010 All my bones shall say, "Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers
the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor
and the needy from him who robs him?"
035:011 Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I
don't know about.
035:012 They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.
035:013 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth.
I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into
my own bosom.
035:014 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother.
I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
035:015 But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together.
The attackers gathered themselves together against me,
and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.
035:016 Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their
teeth at me.
035:017 Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from
their destruction, my precious life from the lions.
035:018 I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise
you among many people.
035:019 Don't let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me;
neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
035:020 For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words
against those who are quiet in the land.
035:021 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me.
They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!"
035:022 You have seen it, Yahweh. Don't keep silent. Lord, don't be
far from me.
035:023 Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!
035:024 Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness.
Don't let them gloat over me.
035:025 Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!"
Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!"
035:026 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice
at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor
who magnify themselves against me.
035:027 Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause.
Yes, let them say continually, "Yahweh be magnified, who has
pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!"
035:028 My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your
praise all day long.
036:001 <<For the Chief Musician. By David, the servant of Yahweh.>> An
oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked:
"There is no fear of God before his eyes."
036:002 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect
and hate his sin.
036:003 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit.
He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
036:004 He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is
not good. He doesn't abhor evil.
036:005 Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens.
Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
036:006 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God.
Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve
man and animal.
036:007 How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men
take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
036:008 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house.
You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
036:009 For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall
we see light.
036:010 Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you,
your righteousness to the upright in heart.
036:011 Don't let the foot of pride come against me. Don't let the hand
of the wicked drive me away.
036:012 There the workers of iniquity are fallen. They are thrust down,
and shall not be able to rise.
037:001 <<By David.>> Don't fret because of evil-doers, neither be
envious against those who work unrighteousness.
037:002 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither
like the green herb.
037:003 Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land,
and enjoy safe pasture.
037:004 Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires
of your heart.
037:005 Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:
037:006 he will make your righteousness go forth as the light,
and your justice as the noon day sun.
037:007 Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don't fret
because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man
who makes wicked plots happen.
037:008 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don't fret, it leads
only to evildoing.
037:009 For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh
shall inherit the land.
037:010 For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more.
Yes, though you look for his place, he isn't there.
037:011 But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight
themselves in the abundance of peace.
037:012 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him
with his teeth.
037:013 The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.
037:014 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow,
to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright
in the way.
037:015 Their sword shall enter into their own heart. Their bows
shall be broken.
037:016 Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance
of many wicked.
037:017 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh
upholds the righteous.
037:018 Yahweh knows the days of the perfect. Their inheritance
shall be forever.
037:019 They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil.
In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
037:020 But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall
be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish--
vanish like smoke.
037:021 The wicked borrow, and don't pay back, but the righteous
give generously.
037:022 For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land.
Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.
037:023 A man's goings are established by Yahweh. He delights
in his way.
037:024 Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up
with his hand.
037:025 I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen
the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.
037:026 All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His seed is blessed.
037:027 Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever.
037:028 For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn't forsake his saints.
They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked
shall be cut off.
037:029 The righteous shall inherit the land, and live in it forever.
037:030 The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom.
His tongue speaks justice.
037:031 The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.
037:032 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.
037:033 Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when
he is judged.
037:034 Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt
you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off,
you shall see it.
037:035 I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself
like a green tree in its native soil.
037:036 But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him,
but he could not be found.
037:037 Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future
for the man of peace.
037:038 As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together.
The future of the wicked shall be cut off.
037:039 But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh.
He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
037:040 Yahweh helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked,
and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him.
038:001 <<A Psalm by David, for a memorial.>> Yahweh, don't rebuke me
in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
038:002 For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
038:003 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation,
neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
038:004 For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden,
they are too heavy for me.
038:005 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
038:006 I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
038:007 For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness
in my flesh.
038:008 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason
of the anguish of my heart.
038:009 Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not
hidden from you.
038:010 My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light
of my eyes, it has also left me.
038:011 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague.
My kinsmen stand far away.
038:012 They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek
my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits
all day long.
038:013 But I, as a deaf man, don't hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't
open his mouth.
038:014 Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.
038:015 For in you, Yahweh, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God.
038:016 For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves
over me when my foot slips."
038:017 For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
038:018 For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
038:019 But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me
without reason are numerous.
038:020 They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me,
because I follow what is good.
038:021 Don't forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don't be far from me.
038:022 Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.
039:001 <<For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David.>> I said,
"I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue.
I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."
039:002 I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good.
My sorrow was stirred.
039:003 My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned:
I spoke with my tongue:
039:004 "Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days.
Let me know how frail I am.
039:005 Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime
is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as
a breath." Selah.
039:006 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves
in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
039:007 Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.
039:008 Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don't make me the reproach
of the foolish.
039:009 I was mute. I didn't open my mouth, because you did it.
039:010 Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow
of your hand.
039:011 When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his
wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.
039:012 "Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry.
Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you,
a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
039:013 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away,
and exist no more."
040:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> I waited
patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
040:002 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay.
He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
040:003 He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God.
Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.
040:004 Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn't
respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
040:005 Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you
have done, and your thoughts which are toward us.
They can't be declared back to you. If I would declare
and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
040:006 Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire. You have opened my ears.
You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
040:007 Then I said, "Behold, I have come. It is written about me
in the book in the scroll.
040:008 I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is
within my heart."
040:009 I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly.
Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
040:010 I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart.
I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation.
I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth
from the great assembly.
040:011 Don't withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your
loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
040:012 For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities
have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up.
They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
040:013 Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh.
040:014 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek
after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward
and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
040:015 Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell
me, "Aha! Aha!"
040:016 Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you.
Let such as love your salvation say continually,
"Let Yahweh be exalted!"
040:017 But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me.
You are my help and my deliverer. Don't delay, my God.
041:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> Blessed
is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him
in the day of evil.
041:002 Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive.
He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender
him to the will of his enemies.
041:003 Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from
his bed of illness.
041:004 I said, "Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have
sinned against you."
041:005 My enemies speak evil against me: "When will he die,
and his name perish?"
041:006 If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers
iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.
041:007 All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine
the worst for me.
041:008 "An evil disease," they say, "has afflicted him.
Now that he lies he shall rise up no more."
041:009 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread
with me, has lifted up his heel against me.
041:010 But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I
may repay them.
041:011 By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn't
triumph over me.
041:012 As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in
your presence forever.
041:013 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and
to everlasting! Amen and amen.
042:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of
Korah.>> As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul
pants after you, God.
042:002 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I
come and appear before God?
042:003 My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually
ask me, "Where is your God?"
042:004 These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me,
how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house
of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping
a holy day.
042:005 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me?
Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving
help of his presence.
042:006 My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember
you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon,
from the hill Mizar.
042:007 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls.
All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
042:008 Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime.
In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God
of my life.
042:009 I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
042:010 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me,
while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
042:011 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me?
Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help
of my countenance, and my God.
043:001 Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation.
Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
043:002 For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
043:003 Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me.
Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.
043:004 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy.
I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
043:005 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me?
Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior,
my helper, and my God.
044:001 <<For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah.
A contemplative psalm.>> We have heard with our ears, God;
our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days,
in the days of old.
044:002 You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them.
You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.
044:003 For they didn't get the land in possession by their own sword,
neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand,
and your arm, and the light of your face, because you were
favorable to them.
044:004 You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!
044:005 Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name,
will we tread them under who rise up against us.
044:006 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
044:007 But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed
those who hate us.
044:008 In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks
to your name forever. Selah.
044:009 But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don't
go out with our armies.
044:010 You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us
take spoil for themselves.
044:011 You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us
among the nations.
044:012 You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing
from their sale.
044:013 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision
to those who are around us.
044:014 You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head
among the peoples.
044:015 All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,
044:016 At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses,
because of the enemy and the avenger.
044:017 All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you,
Neither have we been false to your covenant.
044:018 Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed
from your path,
044:019 Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered
us with the shadow of death.
044:020 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth
our hands to a strange god;
044:021 won't God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
044:022 Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded
as sheep for the slaughter.
044:023 Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don't reject us forever.
044:024 Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction
and our oppression?
044:025 For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body cleaves
to the earth.
044:026 Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness' sake.
045:001 <<For the Chief Musician. Set to "The Lilies." A contemplation
by the sons of Korah. A wedding song.>> My heart overflows
with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king.
My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.
045:002 You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has
anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.
045:003 Gird your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendor
and your majesty.
045:004 In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility,
and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds.
045:005 Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows
in the heart of the king's enemies.
045:006 Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity
is the scepter of your kingdom.
045:007 You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness.
Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil
of gladness above your fellows.
045:008 All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia.
Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.
045:009 Kings' daughters are among your honorable women.
At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.
045:010 Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your
own people, and also your father's house.
045:011 So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.
045:012 The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich among
the people entreat your favor.
045:013 The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is
interwoven with gold.
045:014 She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins,
her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.
045:015 With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led. They shall
enter into the king's palace.
045:016 Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make
them princes in all the earth.
045:017 I will make your name to be remembered in all generations.
Therefore the peoples shall give you thanks forever and ever.
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046:001 <<For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah.
According to Alamoth.Alamoth is a musical term.>> God is our
refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
046:002 Therefore we won't be afraid, though the earth changes,
though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;
046:003 though the waters of it roar and are troubled, though the mountains
tremble with their swelling. Selah.
046:004 There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad,
the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
046:005 God is in her midst. She shall not be moved. God will help
her at dawn.
046:006 The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice,
and the earth melted.
046:007 Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
046:008 Come, see Yahweh's works, what desolations he has made
in the earth.
046:009 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow,
and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire.
046:010 "Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among
the nations. I will be exalted in the earth."
046:011 Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
047:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.>>
Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with
the voice of triumph!
047:002 For Yahweh Most High is awesome. He is a great King over
all the earth.
047:003 He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet.
047:004 He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom
he loved. Selah.
047:005 God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet.
047:006 Sing praise to God, sing praises. Sing praises to our King,
sing praises.
047:007 For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises
with understanding.
047:008 God reigns over the nations. God sits on his holy throne.
047:009 The princes of the peoples are gathered together, the people of
the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God.
He is greatly exalted!
048:001 <<A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.>> Great is Yahweh,
and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God,
in his holy mountain.
048:002 Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion,
on the north sides, the city of the great King.
048:003 God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.
048:004 For, behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together.
048:005 They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed.
They hurried away.
048:006 Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.
048:007 With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.
048:008 As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of Yahweh of Armies,
in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah.
048:009 We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the midst
of your temple.
048:010 As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth.
Your right hand is full of righteousness.
048:011 Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice,
Because of your judgments.
048:012 Walk about Zion, and go around her. Number its towers.
048:013 Mark well her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may
tell it to the next generation.
048:014 For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide
even to death.
049:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.>>
Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants
of the world,
049:002 both low and high, rich and poor together.
049:003 My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart
shall utter understanding.
049:004 I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle
on the harp.
049:005 Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my
heels surrounds me?
049:006 Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude
of their riches--
049:007 none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give
God a ransom for him.
049:008 For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment
is ever enough,
049:009 That he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.
049:010 For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the
senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
049:011 Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever,
and their dwelling places to all generations. They name
their lands after themselves.
049:012 But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like
the animals that perish.
049:013 This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those
who approve their sayings. Selah.
049:014 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall
be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over
them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol,
far from their mansion.
049:015 But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol,
for he will receive me. Selah.
049:016 Don't be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his
house is increased.
049:017 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall
not descend after him.
049:018 Though while he lived he blessed his soul--and men praise you
when you do well for yourself--
049:019 he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall
never see the light.
049:020 A man who has riches without understanding, is like the
animals that perish.
050:001 <<A Psalm by Asaph.>> The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks,
and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
050:002 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
050:003 Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him.
It is very stormy around him.
050:004 He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may
judge his people:
050:005 "Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant
with me by sacrifice."
050:006 The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself
is judge. Selah.
050:007 "Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify
against you. I am God, your God.
050:008 I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings
are continually before me.
050:009 I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats
from your pens.
050:010 For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock
on a thousand hills.
050:011 I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals
of the field are mine.
050:012 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine,
and all that is in it.
050:013 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
050:014 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows
to the Most High.
050:015 Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you,
and you will honor me."
050:016 But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare
my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
050:017 seeing you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
050:018 When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have
participated with adulterers.
050:019 "You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
050:020 You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your
own mother's son.
050:021 You have done these things, and I kept silent.
You thought that the I was just like you. I will rebuke you,
and accuse you in front of your eyes.
050:022 "Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces,
and there be none to deliver.
050:023 Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him."
051:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan
the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.>>
Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness.
According to the multitude of your tender mercies,
blot out my transgressions.
051:002 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.
051:003 For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.
051:004 Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is
evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak,
and justified when you judge.
051:005 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my
mother conceived me.
051:006 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me
wisdom in the inmost place.
051:007 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I
will be whiter than snow.
051:008 Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have
broken may rejoice.
051:009 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.
051:010 Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
051:011 Don't throw me from your presence, and don't take your holy
Spirit from me.
051:012 Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with
a willing spirit.
051:013 Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners shall
be converted to you.
051:014 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation.
My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
051:015 Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise.
051:016 For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it.
You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
051:017 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and
contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
051:018 Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.
051:019 Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness,
in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings.
Then they will offer bulls on your altar.
052:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg
the Edomite came and told Saul, "David has come to Abimelech's
house.">> Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man?
God's loving kindness endures continually.
052:002 Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor,
working deceitfully.
052:003 You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking
the truth. Selah.
052:004 You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.
052:005 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up,
and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land
of the living. Selah.
052:006 The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,
052:007 "Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength,
but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened
himself in his wickedness."
052:008 But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God's house.
I trust in God's loving kindness forever and ever.
052:009 I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it.
I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence
of your saints.
053:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Mahalath." A contemplation
by David.>> The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God."
They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity.
There is no one who does good.
053:002 God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see
if there are any who understood, who seek after God.
053:003 Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together.
There is no one who does good, no, not one.
053:004 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people
as they eat bread, and don't call on God?
053:005 There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God
has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you.
You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.
053:006 Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God
brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice,
and Israel shall be glad.
054:001 <<For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation
by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, "Isn't David
hiding himself among us?">> Save me, God, by your name.
Vindicate me in your might.
054:002 Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth.
054:003 For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought
after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.
054:004 Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.
054:005 He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.
054:006 With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you.
I will give thanks to your name, Yahweh, for it is good.
054:007 For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen
triumph over my enemies.
055:001 <<For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments.
A contemplation by David.>> Listen to my prayer, God.
Don't hide yourself from my supplication.
055:002 Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan,
055:003 Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression
of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me.
In anger they hold a grudge against me.
055:004 My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death
have fallen on me.
055:005 Fearfulness and trembling have come on me.
Horror has overwhelmed me.
055:006 I said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away,
and be at rest.
055:007 Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in
the wilderness." Selah.
055:008 "I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm."
055:009 Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have
seen violence and strife in the city.
055:010 Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse
are also within her.
055:011 Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don't
depart from her streets.
055:012 For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have
endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself
up against me, then I would have hid myself from him.
055:013 But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.
055:014 We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God's
house with company.
055:015 Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol.
For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.
055:016 As for me, I will call on God. Yahweh will save me.
055:017 Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress.
He will hear my voice.
055:018 He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was
against me, although there are many who oppose me.
055:019 God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them.
Selah. They never change, who don't fear God.
055:020 He raises his hands against his friends. He has
violated his covenant.
055:021 His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war.
His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
055:022 Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you.
He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
055:023 But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction.
Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days,
but I will trust in you.
056:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in
Distant Lands." A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him
in Gath.>> Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up.
All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
056:002 My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are
many who fight proudly against me.
056:003 When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
056:004 In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust.
I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
056:005 All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are
against me for evil.
056:006 They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager
to take my life.
056:007 Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.
056:008 You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle.
Aren't they in your book?
056:009 Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call.
I know this, that God is for me.
056:010 In God, I will praise his word. In Yahweh, I will praise his word.
056:011 I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?
056:012 Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you.
056:013 For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my
feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light
of the living.
057:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy."
A poem by David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.>> Be
merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge
in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge,
until disaster has passed.
057:002 I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my
requests for me.
057:003 He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one
who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving
kindness and his truth.
057:004 My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire,
even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows,
and their tongue a sharp sword.
057:005 Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above
all the earth!
057:006 They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down.
They dig a pit before me. They fall into the midst of
it themselves. Selah.
057:007 My heart is steadfast, God, my heart is steadfast.
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises.
057:008 Wake up, my glory! Wake up, psaltery and harp!
I will wake up the dawn.
057:009 I will give thanks to you, Lord, among the peoples.
I will sing praises to you among the nations.
057:010 For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens,
and your truth to the skies.
057:011 Be exalted, God, above the heavens. Let your glory be over
all the earth.
058:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy."
A poem by David.>> Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones?
Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?
058:002 No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence
of your hands in the earth.
058:003 The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon
as they are born, speaking lies.
058:004 Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra
that stops its ear,
058:005 which doesn't listen to the voice of charmers, no matter
how skillful the charmer may be.
058:006 Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great
teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.
058:007 Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow,
let their arrows be made blunt.
058:008 Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away,
like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
058:009 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep
away the green and the burning alike.
058:010 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance.
He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;
058:011 so that men shall say, "Most certainly there is a reward
for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who
judges the earth."
059:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy."
A poem by David, when Saul sent, and they watched the house
to kill him.>> Deliver me from my enemies, my God.
Set me on high from those who rise up against me.
059:002 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from
the bloodthirsty men.
059:003 For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather
themselves together against me, not for my disobedience,
nor for my sin, Yahweh.
059:004 I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me.
Rise up, behold, and help me!
059:005 You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish
the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah.
059:006 They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl
around the city.
059:007 Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For,"
they say, "who hears us?"
059:008 But you, Yahweh, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations.
059:009 Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, for God is my high tower.
059:010 My God will go before me with his loving kindness.
God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.
059:011 Don't kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them
by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.
059:012 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips,
let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies
which they utter.
059:013 Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more.
Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of
the earth. Selah.
059:014 At evening let them return. Let them howl like a dog,
and go around the city.
059:015 They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night
if they aren't satisfied.
059:016 But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud
of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been
my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.
059:017 To you, my strength, I will sing praises. For God is my high tower,
the God of my mercy.
060:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lily of the Covenant."
A teaching poem by David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim
and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve
thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.>> God, you have
rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry.
Restore us, again.
060:002 You have made the land tremble. You have torn it.
Mend its fractures, for it quakes.
060:003 You have shown your people hard things. You have made us
drink the wine that makes us stagger.
060:004 You have given a banner to those who fear you, that it may be
displayed because of the truth. Selah.
060:005 So that your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand,
and answer us.
060:006 God has spoken from his sanctuary: "I will triumph.
I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.
060:007 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the defense
of my head. Judah is my scepter.
060:008 Moab is my wash basin. I will throw my shoe on Edom.
I shout in triumph over Philistia."
060:009 Who will bring me into the strong city? Who has led me to Edom?
060:010 Haven't you, God, rejected us? You don't go out with
our armies, God.
060:011 Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain.
060:012 Through God we shall do valiantly, for it is he who will tread
down our adversaries.
061:001 <<For the Chief Musician. For a stringed instrument.
By David.>> Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.
061:002 From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart
is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
061:003 For you have been a refuge for me, a strong tower from the enemy.
061:004 I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge
in the shelter of your wings. Selah.
061:005 For you, God, have heard my vows. You have given me the heritage
of those who fear your name.
061:006 You will prolong the king's life; his years shall be for generations.
061:007 He shall be enthroned in God's presence forever. Appoint your
loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.
061:008 So I will sing praise to your name forever, that I may fulfill
my vows daily.
062:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthan. A Psalm by David.>>
My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.
062:002 He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress--I will
never be greatly shaken.
062:003 How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down,
Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
062:004 They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place.
They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they
curse inwardly. Selah.
062:005 My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation
is from him.
062:006 He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress.
I will not be shaken.
062:007 With God is my salvation and my honor. The rock of my strength,
and my refuge, is in God.
062:008 Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart
before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.
062:009 Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high
degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up.
They are together lighter than a breath.
062:010 Don't trust in oppression. Don't become vain in robbery.
If riches increase, don't set your heart on them.
062:011 God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power
belongs to God.
062:012 Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward
every man according to his work.
063:001 <<A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah.>> God,
you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts
for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land,
where there is no water.
063:002 So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power
and your glory.
063:003 Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips
shall praise you.
063:004 So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands
in your name.
063:005 My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food.
My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,
063:006 when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in
the night watches.
063:007 For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow
of your wings.
063:008 My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.
063:009 But those who seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into
the lower parts of the earth.
063:010 They shall be given over to the power of the sword.
They shall be jackal food.
063:011 But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him
will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies
shall be silenced.
064:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> Hear my voice,
God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
064:002 Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy
crowd of the ones doing evil;
064:003 who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows,
deadly words,
064:004 to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him
suddenly and fearlessly.
064:005 They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying
snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?"
064:006 They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!"
Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.
064:007 But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck
down with an arrow.
064:008 Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will
shake their heads.
064:009 All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God,
and shall wisely ponder what he has done.
064:010 The righteous shall be glad in Yahweh, and shall take refuge in him.
All the upright in heart shall praise him!
065:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song.>> Praise
waits for you, God, in Zion. To you shall vows be performed.
065:002 You who hear prayer, to you all men will come.
065:003 Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions.
065:004 Blessed is one whom you choose, and cause to come near,
that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with
the goodness of your house, your holy temple.
065:005 By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of
our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth,
of those who are far away on the sea;
065:006 Who by his power forms the mountains, having armed
yourself with strength;
065:007 who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves,
and the turmoil of the nations.
065:008 They also who dwell in far-away places are afraid at your wonders.
You call the morning's dawn and the evening with songs of joy.
065:009 You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it.
The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain,
for so you have ordained it.
065:010 You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it
with showers. You bless it with a crop.
065:011 You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts
overflow with abundance.
065:012 The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are
clothed with gladness.
065:013 The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are
clothed with grain. They shout for joy! They also sing.
066:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A song. A Psalm.>> Make a joyful
shout to God, all the earth!
066:002 Sing to the glory of his name! Offer glory and praise!
066:003 Tell God, "How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness
of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you.
066:004 All the earth will worship you, and will sing to you;
they will sing to your name." Selah.
066:005 Come, and see God's deeds--awesome work on behalf of the
children of men.
066:006 He turned the sea into dry land. They went through the river
on foot. There, we rejoiced in him.
066:007 He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations.
Don't let the rebellious rise up against him. Selah.
066:008 Praise our God, you peoples! Make the sound of his praise heard,
066:009 who preserves our life among the living, and doesn't allow
our feet to be moved.
066:010 For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us,
as silver is refined.
066:011 You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.
066:012 You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire
and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.
066:013 I will come into your temple with burnt offerings.
I will pay my vows to you,
066:014 which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.
066:015 I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals, with the
offering of rams, I will offer bulls with goats. Selah.
066:016 Come, and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has
done for my soul.
066:017 I cried to him with my mouth. He was extolled with my tongue.
066:018 If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn't have listened.
066:019 But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice
of my prayer.
066:020 Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his
loving kindness from me.
067:001 <<For the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments.
A Psalm. A song.>> May God be merciful to us, bless us,
and cause his face to shine on us. Selah.
067:002 That your way may be known on earth, and your salvation
among all nations,
067:003 let the peoples praise you, God. Let all the peoples praise you.
067:004 Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you will judge
the peoples with equity, and govern the nations on earth. Selah.
067:005 Let the peoples praise you, God. Let all the peoples praise you.
067:006 The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God,
will bless us.
067:007 God will bless us. All the ends of the earth shall fear him.
068:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
A song.>> Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered!
Let them who hate him also flee before him.
068:002 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before
the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
068:003 But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God.
Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.
068:004 Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides
on the clouds: to Yah, his name! Rejoice before him!
068:005 A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows,
is God in his holy habitation.
068:006 God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners
with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
068:007 God, when you went forth before your people, when you marched
through the wilderness... Selah.
068:008 The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at
the presence of the God of Sinai--at the presence of God,
the God of Israel.
068:009 You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance,
when it was weary.
068:010 Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your
goodness for the poor.
068:011 The Lord announced the word. The ones who proclaim it are
a great company.
068:012 "Kings of armies flee! They flee!" She who waits at home
divides the spoil,
068:013 while you sleep among the campfires, the wings of a dove
sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold.
068:014 When the Almighty scattered kings in her, it snowed on Zalmon.
068:015 The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains.
The mountains of Bashan are rugged.
068:016 Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain
where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.
068:017 The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands.
The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.
068:018 You have ascended on high. You have led away captives.
You have received gifts among men, yes, among the rebellious also,
that Yah God might dwell there.
068:019 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, even the God
who is our salvation. Selah.
068:020 God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord,
belongs escape from death.
068:021 But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy
scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.
068:022 The Lord said, "I will bring you again from Bashan, I will bring
you again from the depths of the sea;
068:023 That you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood,
that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion
from your enemies."
068:024 They have seen your processions, God, even the processions
of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.
068:025 The singers went before, the minstrels followed after,
in the midst of the ladies playing with tambourines,
068:026 "Bless God in the congregations, even the Lord in the
assembly of Israel!"
068:027 There is little Benjamin, their ruler, the princes of Judah,
their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
068:028 Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which
you have done for us.
068:029 Because of your temple at Jerusalem, kings shall bring
presents to you.
068:030 Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls,
with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring
bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.
068:031 Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch
out her hands to God.
068:032 Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth! Sing praises to
the Lord! Selah.
068:033 To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old;
behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.
068:034 Ascribe strength to God! His excellency is over Israel,
his strength is in the skies.
068:035 You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries.
The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people.
Praise be to God!
069:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Lilies." By David.>>
Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!
069:002 I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold.
I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
069:003 I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail,
looking for my God.
069:004 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head.
Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully,
are mighty. I have to restore what I didn't take away.
069:005 God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren't hidden from you.
069:006 Don't let those who wait for you be shamed through me,
Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don't let those who seek you be brought
to dishonor through me, God of Israel.
069:007 Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has
covered my face.
069:008 I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to
my mother's children.
069:009 For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches
of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
069:010 When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
069:011 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
069:012 Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song
of the drunkards.
069:013 But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time.
God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me
in the truth of your salvation.
069:014 Deliver me out of the mire, and don't let me sink.
Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of
the deep waters.
069:015 Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep
swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.
069:016 Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good.
According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
069:017 Don't hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress.
Answer me speedily!
069:018 Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because
of my enemies.
069:019 You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor.
My adversaries are all before you.
069:020 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness.
I looked for some to take pity, but there was none;
for comforters, but I found none.
069:021 They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave
me vinegar to drink.
069:022 Let their table before them become a snare. May it become
a retribution and a trap.
069:023 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see.
Let their backs be continually bent.
069:024 Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your
anger overtake them.
069:025 Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.
069:026 For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell
of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
069:027 Charge them with crime upon crime. Don't let them come
into your righteousness.
069:028 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written
with the righteous.
069:029 But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.
069:030 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify
him with thanksgiving.
069:031 It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has
horns and hoofs.
069:032 The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God,
let your heart live.
069:033 For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn't despise his captive people.
069:034 Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything
that moves therein!
069:035 For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah.
They shall settle there, and own it.
069:036 The children also of his servants shall inherit it.
Those who love his name shall dwell therein.
070:001 <<For the Chief Musician. By David. A reminder.>> Hurry, God,
to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, Yahweh.
070:002 Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul.
Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.
070:003 Let them be turned because of their shame Who say, "Aha! Aha!"
070:004 Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you.
Let those who love your salvation continually say,
"Let God be exalted!"
070:005 But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are
my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don't delay.
071:001 In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed.
071:002 Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me.
Turn your ear to me, and save me.
071:003 Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go.
Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.
071:004 Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand
of the unrighteous and cruel man.
071:005 For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh; my confidence from my youth.
071:006 I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me
out of my mother's womb. I will always praise you.
071:007 I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.
071:008 My mouth shall be filled with your praise, with your honor
all the day.
071:009 Don't reject me in my old age. Don't forsake me when
my strength fails.
071:010 For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my
soul conspire together,
071:011 saying, "God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no
one will rescue him."
071:012 God, don't be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.
071:013 Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be
covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.
071:014 But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.
071:015 My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your
salvation all day, though I don't know its full measure.
071:016 I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh.
I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.
071:017 God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have
declared your wondrous works.
071:018 Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake me,
until I have declared your strength to the next generation,
your might to everyone who is to come.
071:019 Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens;
you have done great things. God, who is like you?
071:020 You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will
let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths
of the earth.
071:021 Increase my honor, and comfort me again.
071:022 I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God.
I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.
071:023 My lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed,
sings praises to you!
071:024 My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long,
for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want
to harm me.
072:001 <<By Solomon.>> God, give the king your justice; your righteousness
to the royal son.
072:002 He will judge your people with righteousness, and your
poor with justice.
072:003 The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people.
The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.
072:004 He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children
of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
072:005 They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the moon,
throughout all generations.
072:006 He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers
that water the earth.
072:007 In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace,
until the moon is no more.
072:008 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River
to the ends of the earth.
072:009 Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him.
His enemies shall lick the dust.
072:010 The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute.
The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
072:011 Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations
shall serve him.
072:012 For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor,
who has no helper.
072:013 He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls
of the needy.
072:014 He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence.
Their blood will be precious in his sight.
072:015 They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba.
Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him
all day long.
072:016 There shall be abundance of grain throughout the land.
Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like
the grass of the field.
072:017 His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun.
Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.
072:018 Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone
does marvelous deeds.
072:019 Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth
be filled with his glory! Amen and amen.
072:020 This ends the prayers by David, the son of Jesse.
073:001 <<A Psalm by Asaph.>> Surely God is good to Israel, to those
who are pure in heart.
073:002 But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps
had nearly slipped.
073:003 For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity
of the wicked.
073:004 For there are no struggles in their death, but their
strength is firm.
073:005 They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued
like other men.
073:006 Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck.
Violence covers them like a garment.
073:007 Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.
073:008 They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance,
they threaten oppression.
073:009 They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks
through the earth.
073:010 Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up
waters of abundance.
073:011 They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"
073:012 Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease,
they increase in riches.
073:013 Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my
hands in innocence,
073:014 For all day long have I been plagued, and punished every morning.
073:015 If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would have betrayed
the generation of your children.
073:016 When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;
073:017 Until I entered God's sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
073:018 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them
down to destruction.
073:019 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept
away with terrors.
073:020 As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake,
you will despise their fantasies.
073:021 For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.
073:022 I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.
073:023 Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held
my right hand.
073:024 You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive
me to glory.
073:025 Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I
desire besides you.
073:026 My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.
073:027 For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish.
You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.
073:028 But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made
the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
074:001 <<A contemplation by Asaph.>> God, why have you rejected us forever?
Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
074:002 Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old,
which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance;
Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
074:003 Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that
the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
074:004 Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly.
They have set up their standards as signs.
074:005 They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a
thicket of trees.
074:006 Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
074:007 They have burned your sanctuary to the ground.
They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
074:008 They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely."
They have burned up all the places in the land where
God was worshiped.
074:009 We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet,
neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
074:010 How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy
blaspheme your name forever?
074:011 Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand?
Take it out of your pocket and consume them!
074:012 Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst
of the earth.
074:013 You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads
of the sea monsters in the waters.
074:014 You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him
as food to people and desert creatures.
074:015 You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
074:016 The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared
the light and the sun.
074:017 You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made
summer and winter.
074:018 Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh.
Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
074:019 Don't deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts.
Don't forget the life of your poor forever.
074:020 Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark
places of the earth.
074:021 Don't let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy
praise your name.
074:022 Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish
man mocks you all day.
074:023 Don't forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult
of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
075:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy."
A Psalm by Asaph. A song.>> We give thanks to you, God.
We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about
your wondrous works.
075:002 When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly.
075:003 The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold
its pillars. Selah.
075:004 I said to the arrogant, "Don't boast!" I said to the wicked,
"Don't lift up the horn.
075:005 Don't lift up your horn on high. Don't speak with a stiff neck."
075:006 For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from
the south, comes exaltation.
075:007 But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.
075:008 For in the hand of Yahweh there is a cup, full of foaming
wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked
of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.
075:009 But I will declare this forever: I will sing praises to
the God of Jacob.
075:010 I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns
of the righteous shall be lifted up.
076:001 <<For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments.
A Psalm by Asaph. A song.>> In Judah, God is known.
His name is great in Israel.
076:002 His tent is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion.
076:003 There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield,
and the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.
076:004 Glorious are you, and excellent, more than mountains of game.
076:005 Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep.
None of the men of war can lift their hands.
076:006 At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast
into a deep sleep.
076:007 You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight
when you are angry?
076:008 You pronounced judgment from heaven. The earth feared,
and was silent,
076:009 when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones
of the earth. Selah.
076:010 Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your
wrath are restrained.
076:011 Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his
neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.
076:012 He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings
of the earth.
077:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by Asaph.>> My
cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him
to listen to me.
077:002 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand
was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired.
My soul refused to be comforted.
077:003 I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit
is overwhelmed. Selah.
077:004 You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can't speak.
077:005 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
077:006 I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart;
my spirit diligently inquires:
077:007 "Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?
077:008 Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise
fail for generations?
077:009 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger,
withheld his compassion?" Selah.
077:010 Then I thought, "I will appeal to this: the years of the right
hand of the Most High."
077:011 I will remember Yah's deeds; for I will remember your
wonders of old.
077:012 I will also meditate on all your work, and consider your doings.
077:013 Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God?