known among the peoples.
077:015 You have redeemed your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob
and Joseph. Selah.
077:016 The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed.
The depths also convulsed.
077:017 The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder.
Your arrows also flashed around.
077:018 The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings
lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.
077:019 Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters.
Your footsteps were not known.
077:020 You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
078:001 <<A contemplation by Asaph.>> Hear my teaching, my people.
Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
078:002 I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark
sayings of old,
078:003 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
078:004 We will not hide them from their children, telling to
the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength,
and his wondrous works that he has done.
078:005 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed
a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers,
that they should make them known to their children;
078:006 that the generation to come might know, even the children
who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,
078:007 that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works
of God, but keep his commandments,
078:008 and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious
generation, a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal,
whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
078:009 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows,
turned back in the day of battle.
078:010 They didn't keep God's covenant, and refused to walk in his law.
078:011 They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them.
078:012 He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers,
in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
078:013 He split the sea, and caused them to pass through.
He made the waters stand as a heap.
078:014 In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night
with a light of fire.
078:015 He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly
as out of the depths.
078:016 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters
to run down like rivers.
078:017 Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against
the Most High in the desert.
078:018 They tempted God in their heart by asking food according
to their desire.
078:019 Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare
a table in the wilderness?
078:020 Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out,
and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also?
Will he provide flesh for his people?"
078:021 Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled
against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,
078:022 because they didn't believe in God, and didn't trust
in his salvation.
078:023 Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.
078:024 He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food
from the sky.
078:025 Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.
078:026 He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power
he guided the south wind.
078:027 He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds
as the sand of the seas.
078:028 He let them fall in the midst of their camp,
around their habitations.
078:029 So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.
078:030 They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet
in their mouths,
078:031 when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of
the fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel.
078:032 For all this they still sinned, and didn't believe in
his wondrous works.
078:033 Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their
years in terror.
078:034 When he killed them, then they inquired after him.
They returned and sought God earnestly.
078:035 They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God,
their redeemer.
078:036 But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him
with their tongue.
078:037 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they
faithful in his covenant.
078:038 But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy them.
Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn't stir up
all his wrath.
078:039 He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away,
and doesn't come again.
078:040 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness,
and grieved him in the desert!
078:041 They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the
Holy One of Israel.
078:042 They didn't remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed
them from the adversary;
078:043 how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,
078:044 he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams,
so that they could not drink.
078:045 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them;
and frogs, which destroyed them.
078:046 He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor
to the locust.
078:047 He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig
trees with frost.
078:048 He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks
to hot thunderbolts.
078:049 He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation,
and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.
078:050 He made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their soul
from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
078:051 and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their
strength in the tents of Ham.
078:052 But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them
in the wilderness like a flock.
078:053 He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea
overwhelmed their enemies.
078:054 He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain,
which his right hand had taken.
078:055 He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them
for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel
to dwell in their tents.
078:056 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God,
and didn't keep his testimonies;
078:057 but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers.
They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
078:058 For they provoked him to anger with their high places,
and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
078:059 When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;
078:060 So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he
placed among men;
078:061 and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into
the adversary's hand.
078:062 He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry
with his inheritance.
078:063 Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.
078:064 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep.
078:065 Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man
who shouts by reason of wine.
078:066 He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to
a perpetual reproach.
078:067 Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn't choose
the tribe of Ephraim,
078:068 But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
078:069 He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth
which he has established forever.
078:070 He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
078:071 from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be
the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.
078:072 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart,
and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
079:001 <<A Psalm by Asaph.>> God, the nations have come into
your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple.
They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
079:002 They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food
for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals
of the earth.
079:003 Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem.
There was no one to bury them.
079:004 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and
derision to those who are around us.
079:005 How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy
burn like fire?
079:006 Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you;
on the kingdoms that don't call on your name;
079:007 For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.
079:008 Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us.
Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are
in desperate need.
079:009 Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name.
Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name's sake.
079:010 Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let it
be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance
for your servants' blood is being poured out.
079:011 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you.
According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who
are sentenced to death.
079:012 Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their
reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
079:013 So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you
thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.
080:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lilies of
the Covenant." A Psalm by Asaph.>> Hear us, Shepherd of Israel,
you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above
the cherubim, shine forth.
080:002 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might!
Come to save us!
080:003 Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we
will be saved.
080:004 Yahweh God of Armies, How long will you be angry against
the prayer of your people?
080:005 You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them
tears to drink in large measure.
080:006 You make us a source of contention to our neighbors.
Our enemies laugh among themselves.
080:007 Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine,
and we will be saved.
080:008 You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations,
and planted it.
080:009 You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root,
and filled the land.
080:010 The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were
like God's cedars.
080:011 It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.
080:012 Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass
by the way pluck it?
080:013 The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals
of the field feed on it.
080:014 Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven,
and see, and visit this vine,
080:015 the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you
made strong for yourself.
080:016 It's burned with fire. It's cut down. They perish at your rebuke.
080:017 Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son
of man whom you made strong for yourself.
080:018 So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call
on your name.
080:019 Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine,
and we will be saved.
081:001 <<For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath.
By Asaph.>> Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful
shout to the God of Jacob!
081:002 Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre
with the harp.
081:003 Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon,
on our feast day.
081:004 For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
081:005 He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over
the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn't know.
081:006 "I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed
from the basket.
081:007 You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you
in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters
of Meribah." Selah.
081:008 "Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you
would listen to me!
081:009 There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship
any foreign god.
081:010 I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
081:011 But my people didn't listen to my voice. Israel desired
none of me.
081:012 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts,
that they might walk in their own counsels.
081:013 Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk
in my ways!
081:014 I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand
against their adversaries.
081:015 The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment
would last forever.
081:016 But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat.
I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock."
082:001 <<A Psalm by Asaph.>> God presides in the great assembly.
He judges among the gods.
082:002 "How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality
to the wicked?" Selah.
082:003 "Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless.
Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
082:004 Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand
of the wicked."
082:005 They don't know, neither do they understand.
They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations
of the earth are shaken.
082:006 I said, "You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.
082:007 Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one
of the rulers."
082:008 Arise, God, judge the earth, for you inherit all of the nations.
083:001 <<A song. A Psalm by Asaph.>> God, don't keep silent.
Don't keep silent, and don't be still, God.
083:002 For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you
have lifted up their heads.
083:003 They conspire with cunning against your people.
They plot against your cherished ones.
083:004 "Come," they say, "and let's destroy them as a nation,
that the name of Israel may be remembered no more."
083:005 For they have conspired together with one mind.
They form an alliance against you.
083:006 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;
083:007 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
083:008 Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children
of Lot. Selah.
083:009 Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin,
at the river Kishon;
083:010 who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.
083:011 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; yes, all their princes
like Zebah and Zalmunna;
083:012 who said, "Let us take possession of God's pasturelands."
083:013 My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind.
083:014 As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets
the mountains on fire,
083:015 so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.
083:016 Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek
your name, Yahweh.
083:017 Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them
be confounded and perish;
083:018 that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh,
are the Most High over all the earth.
084:001 <<For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath.
A Psalm by the sons of Korah.>> How lovely are your dwellings,
Yahweh of Armies!
084:002 My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh.
My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
084:003 Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest
for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars,
Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my God.
084:004 Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always
praising you. Selah.
084:005 Blessed are those whose strength is in you; who have set
their hearts on a pilgrimage.
084:006 Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place
of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.
084:007 They go from strength to strength. Everyone of them appears
before God in Zion.
084:008 Yahweh, God of Armies, hear my prayer. Listen, God of Jacob. Selah.
084:009 Behold, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed.
084:010 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God,
than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
084:011 For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give
grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those
who walk blamelessly.
084:012 Yahweh of Armies, blessed is the man who trusts in you.
085:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.>> Yahweh,
you have been favorable to your land. You have restored
the fortunes of Jacob.
085:002 You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered
all their sin. Selah.
085:003 You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from
the fierceness of your anger.
085:004 Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation
toward us to cease.
085:005 Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger
to all generations?
085:006 Won't you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?
085:007 Show us your loving kindness, Yahweh. Grant us your salvation.
085:008 I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak
peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn
again to folly.
085:009 Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory
may dwell in our land.
085:010 Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have
kissed each other.
085:011 Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked
down from heaven.
085:012 Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will
yield its increase.
085:013 Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.
086:001 <<A Prayer by David.>> Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am
poor and needy.
086:002 Preserve my soul, for I am godly. You, my God, save your
servant who trusts in you.
086:003 Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.
086:004 Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I
lift up my soul.
086:005 For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving
kindness to all those who call on you.
086:006 Hear, Yahweh, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions.
086:007 In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you
will answer me.
086:008 There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds
like your deeds.
086:009 All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord.
They shall glorify your name.
086:010 For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone.
086:011 Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth.
Make my heart undivided to fear your name.
086:012 I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart.
I will glorify your name forevermore.
086:013 For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered
my soul from the lowest Sheol.
086:014 God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent
men have sought after my soul, and they don't hold regard
for you before them.
086:015 But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger,
and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
086:016 Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to
your servant. Save the son of your handmaid.
086:017 Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may
see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me,
and comforted me.
087:001 <<A Psalm by the sons of Korah; a Song.>> His foundation
is in the holy mountains.
087:002 Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
087:003 Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Selah.
087:004 I will record Rahab{Rahab is a reference to Egypt.} and Babylon
among those who acknowledge me. Behold, Philistia, Tyre,
and also Ethiopia: "This one was born there."
087:005 Yes, of Zion it will be said, "This one and that one was born
in her;" the Most High himself will establish her.
087:006 Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples, "This one
was born there." Selah.
087:007 Those who sing as well as those who dance say, "All my springs
are in you."
088:001 <<A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician.
To the tune of "The Suffering of Affliction." A contemplation
by Heman, the Ezrahite.>> Yahweh, the God of my salvation,
I have cried day and night before you.
088:002 Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry.
088:003 For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.
088:004 I am counted among those who go down into the pit.
I am like a man who has no help,
088:005 set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave,
whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.
088:006 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
088:007 Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all
your waves. Selah.
088:008 You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination
to them. I am confined, and I can't escape.
088:009 My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh.
I have spread out my hands to you.
088:010 Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the dead rise up and
praise you? Selah.
088:011 Is your loving kindness declared in the grave?
Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
088:012 Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness
in the land of forgetfulness?
088:013 But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer
comes before you.
088:014 Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your
face from me?
088:015 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up.
While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
088:016 Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.
088:017 They came around me like water all day long.
They completely engulfed me.
088:018 You have put lover and friend far from me, and my
friends into darkness.
089:001 <<A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite.>> I will sing
of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth,
I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
089:002 I indeed declare, "Love stands firm forever. You established
the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them."
089:003 "I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn
to David, my servant,
089:004 'I will establish your seed forever, and build up your throne
to all generations.'" Selah.
089:005 The heavens will praise your wonders, Yahweh; your faithfulness
also in the assembly of the holy ones.
089:006 For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among
the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,
089:007 a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared
above all those who are around him?
089:008 Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you?
Yah, your faithfulness is around you.
089:009 You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up,
you calm them.
089:010 You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain.
You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
089:011 The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; the world
and its fullness. You have founded them.
089:012 The north and the south, you have created them.
Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
089:013 You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right
hand is exalted.
089:014 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne.
Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
089:015 Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you.
They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.
089:016 In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness,
they are exalted.
089:017 For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor,
our horn will be exalted.
089:018 For our shield belongs to Yahweh; our king to the Holy One of Israel.
089:019 Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, "I have
bestowed strength on the warrior. I have exalted a young
man from the people.
089:020 I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with
my holy oil,
089:021 with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will
also strengthen him.
089:022 No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.
089:023 I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike
those who hate him.
089:024 But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.
In my name, his horn will be exalted.
089:025 I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand
on the rivers.
089:026 He will call to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the rock
of my salvation!'
089:027 I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings
of the earth.
089:028 I will keep my loving kindness for him forevermore.
My covenant will stand firm with him.
089:029 I will also make his seed endure forever, and his throne
as the days of heaven.
089:030 If his children forsake my law, and don't walk in my ordinances;
089:031 if they break my statutes, and don't keep my commandments;
089:032 then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their
iniquity with stripes.
089:033 But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him,
nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
089:034 I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
089:035 Once have I sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.
089:036 His seed will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.
089:037 It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful
witness in the sky." Selah.
089:038 But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry
with your anointed.
089:039 You have renounced the covenant of your servant.
You have defiled his crown in the dust.
089:040 You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his
strongholds to ruin.
089:041 All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach
to his neighbors.
089:042 You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries.
You have made all of his enemies rejoice.
089:043 Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven't supported
him in battle.
089:044 You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down
to the ground.
089:045 You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered
him with shame. Selah.
089:046 How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever?
Will your wrath burn like fire?
089:047 Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you
created all the children of men!
089:048 What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall
deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
089:049 Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore
to David in your faithfulness?
089:050 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear
in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
089:051 With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they
have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
089:052 Blessed be Yahweh forevermore. Amen, and Amen.
090:001 <<A Prayer by Moses, the man of God.>> Lord, you have been
our dwelling place for all generations.
090:002 Before the mountains were brought forth, before you had formed
the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting,
you are God.
090:003 You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."
090:004 For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday
when it is past, like a watch in the night.
090:005 You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout
like new grass.
090:006 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening,
it is withered and dry.
090:007 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
090:008 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins
in the light of your presence.
090:009 For all our days have passed away in your wrath.
We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
090:010 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength
eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow,
for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
090:011 Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according
to the fear that is due to you?
090:012 So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
090:013 Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!
090:014 Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we
may rejoice and be glad all our days.
090:015 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
for as many years as we have seen evil.
090:016 Let your work appear to your servants; your glory to their children.
090:017 Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work
of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.
091:001 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest
in the shadow of the Almighty.
091:002 I will say of Yahweh, "He is my refuge and my fortress;
my God, in whom I trust."
091:003 For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler,
and from the deadly pestilence.
091:004 He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will
take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.
091:005 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow
that flies by day;
091:006 nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction
that wastes at noonday.
091:007 A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your
right hand; but it will not come near you.
091:008 You will only look with your eyes, and see the recompense
of the wicked.
091:009 Because you have made Yahweh your refuge, and the Most High
your dwelling place,
091:010 no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come
near your dwelling.
091:011 For he will give his angels charge over you, to guard you
in all your ways.
091:012 They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won't dash
your foot against a stone.
091:013 You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample
the young lion and the serpent underfoot.
091:014 "Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him.
I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
091:015 He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him
in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
091:016 I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation."
092:001 <<A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day.>> It is a good thing
to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to your name, Most High;
092:002 to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your
faithfulness every night,
092:003 with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody
of the lyre.
092:004 For you, Yahweh, have made me glad through your work.
I will triumph in the works of your hands.
092:005 How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.
092:006 A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:
092:007 though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evil-doers
flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
092:008 But you, Yahweh, are on high forevermore.
092:009 For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh, for, behold, your enemies
shall perish. All the evil-doers will be scattered.
092:010 But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox.
I am anointed with fresh oil.
092:011 My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked
enemies who rise up against me.
092:012 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree.
He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
092:013 They are planted in Yahweh's house. They will flourish
in our God's courts.
092:014 They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be
full of sap and green,
092:015 to show that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there
is no unrighteousness in him.
093:001 Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is
armed with strength. The world also is established.
It can't be moved.
093:002 Your throne is established from long ago. You are from everlasting.
093:003 The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up
their voice. The floods lift up their waves.
093:004 Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea,
Yahweh on high is mighty.
093:005 Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house,
Yahweh, forevermore.
094:001 Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom
vengeance belongs, shine forth.
094:002 Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud
what they deserve.
094:003 Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?
094:004 They pour out arrogant words. All the evil-doers boast.
094:005 They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.
094:006 They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
094:007 They say, "Yah will not see, neither will Jacob's God consider."
094:008 Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools,
when will you be wise?
094:009 He who implanted the ear, won't he hear? He who formed the eye,
won't he see?
094:010 He who disciplines the nations, won't he punish?
He who teaches man knows.
094:011 Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
094:012 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out
of your law;
094:013 that you may give him rest from the days of adversity,
until the pit is dug for the wicked.
094:014 For Yahweh won't reject his people, neither will he
forsake his inheritance.
094:015 For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright
in heart shall follow it.
094:016 Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand
up for me against the evil-doers?
094:017 Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul would have soon
lived in silence.
094:018 When I said, "My foot is slipping!" Your loving kindness,
Yahweh, held me up.
094:019 In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts
delight my soul.
094:020 Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you,
which brings about mischief by statute?
094:021 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous,
and condemn the innocent blood.
094:022 But Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.
094:023 He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off
in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.
095:001 Oh come, let's sing to Yahweh. Let's shout aloud to the rock
of our salvation!
095:002 Let's come before his presence with thanksgiving.
Let's extol him with songs!
095:003 For Yahweh is a great God, a great King above all gods.
095:004 In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights
of the mountains are also his.
095:005 The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.
095:006 Oh come, let's worship and bow down. Let's kneel
before Yahweh, our Maker,
095:007 for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep
in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
095:008 Don't harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah
in the wilderness,
095:009 when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.
095:010 Forty long years I was grieved with that generation,
and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart.
They have not known my ways."
095:011 Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They won't enter into my rest."
096:001 Sing to Yahweh a new song! Sing to Yahweh, all the earth.
096:002 Sing to Yahweh! Bless his name! Proclaim his salvation
from day to day!
096:003 Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among
all the peoples.
096:004 For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised!
He is to be feared above all gods.
096:005 For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh
made the heavens.
096:006 Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are
in his sanctuary.
096:007 Ascribe to Yahweh, you families of nations, ascribe to Yahweh
glory and strength.
096:008 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering,
and come into his courts.
096:009 Worship Yahweh in holy array. Tremble before him, all the earth.
096:010 Say among the nations, "Yahweh reigns." The world is
also established. It can't be moved. He will judge
the peoples with equity.
096:011 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice.
Let the sea roar, and its fullness!
096:012 Let the field and all that is in it exult! Then all the trees
of the woods shall sing for joy
096:013 before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth.
He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples
with his truth.
097:001 Yahweh reigns! Let the earth rejoice! Let the multitude
of islands be glad!
097:002 Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice
are the foundation of his throne.
097:003 A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side.
097:004 His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees, and trembles.
097:005 The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Yahweh,
at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
097:006 The heavens declare his righteousness. All the peoples have
seen his glory.
097:007 Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast
in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!
097:008 Zion heard and was glad. The daughters of Judah rejoiced,
because of your judgments, Yahweh.
097:009 For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth.
You are exalted far above all gods.
097:010 You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He preserves the souls of
his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
097:011 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the
upright in heart.
097:012 Be glad in Yahweh, you righteous people! Give thanks to
his holy Name.
098:001 <<A Psalm.>> Sing to Yahweh a new song, for he has done
marvelous things! His right hand, and his holy arm,
have worked salvation for him.
098:002 Yahweh has made known his salvation. He has openly shown
his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
098:003 He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness
toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have
seen the salvation of our God.
098:004 Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth! Burst out and sing
for joy, yes, sing praises!
098:005 Sing praises to Yahweh with the harp, with the harp and
the voice of melody.
098:006 With trumpets and sound of the ram's horn, make a joyful noise
before the King, Yahweh.
098:007 Let the sea roar with its fullness; the world, and those
who dwell therein.
098:008 Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing
for joy together.
098:009 Let them sing before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth.
He will judge the world with righteousness, and the
peoples with equity.
099:001 Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned
among the cherubim. Let the earth be moved.
099:002 Yahweh is great in Zion. He is high above all the peoples.
099:003 Let them praise your great and awesome name. He is Holy!
099:004 The King's strength also loves justice. You do establish equity.
You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
099:005 Exalt Yahweh our God. Worship at his footstool.
He is Holy!
099:006 Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel among those who call
on his name; they called on Yahweh, and he answered them.
099:007 He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies,
the statute that he gave them.
099:008 You answered them, Yahweh our God. You are a God who forgave them,
although you took vengeance for their doings.
099:009 Exalt Yahweh, our God. Worship at his holy hill, for Yahweh,
our God, is holy!
100:001 <<A Psalm of thanksgiving.>> Shout for joy to Yahweh,
all you lands!
100:002 Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.
100:003 Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we
are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
100:004 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, into his courts with praise.
Give thanks to him, and bless his name.
100:005 For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever,
his faithfulness to all generations.
101:001 <<A Psalm by David.>> I will sing of loving kindness and justice.
To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises.
101:002 I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come
to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
101:003 I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds
of faithless men. They will not cling to me.
101:004 A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing
to do with evil.
101:005 I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor.
I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.
101:006 My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell
with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me.
101:007 He who practices deceit won't dwell within my house.
He who speaks falsehood won't be established before my eyes.
101:008 Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land;
to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh's city.
102:001 <<A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out
his complaint before Yahweh.>> Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my
cry come to you.
102:002 Don't hide your face from me in the day of my distress.
Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.
102:003 For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned
as a firebrand.
102:004 My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget
to eat my bread.
102:005 By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.
102:006 I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl
of the waste places.
102:007 I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone
on the housetop.
102:008 My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use
my name as a curse.
102:009 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,
102:010 Because of your indignation and your wrath, for you have taken
me up, and thrown me away.
102:011 My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
102:012 But you, Yahweh, will abide forever; your renown endures
to all generations.
102:013 You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have
pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.
102:014 For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity
on her dust.
102:015 So the nations will fear the name of Yahweh; all the kings
of the earth your glory.
102:016 For Yahweh has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.
102:017 He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not
despised their prayer.
102:018 This will be written for the generation to come.
A people which will be created will praise Yah.
102:019 For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary.
From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth;
102:020 to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are
condemned to death;
102:021 that men may declare the name of Yahweh in Zion, and his
praise in Jerusalem;
102:022 when the peoples are gathered together, the kingdoms,
to serve Yahweh.
102:023 He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.
102:024 I said, "My God, don't take me away in the midst of my days.
Your years are throughout all generations.
102:025 Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens
are the work of your hands.
102:026 They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will
wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak,
and they will be changed.
102:027 But you are the same. Your years will have no end.
102:028 The children of your servants will continue. Their seed
will be established before you."
103:001 <<By David.>> Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me,
praise his holy name!
103:002 Praise Yahweh, my soul, and don't forget all his benefits;
103:003 who forgives all your sins; who heals all your diseases;
103:004 who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with
loving kindness and tender mercies;
103:005 who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth
is renewed like the eagle's.
103:006 Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all
who are oppressed.
103:007 He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the children of Israel.
103:008 Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant
in loving kindness.
103:009 He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever.
103:010 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us
for our iniquities.
103:011 For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his
loving kindness toward those who fear him.
103:012 As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed
our transgressions from us.
103:013 Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has
compassion on those who fear him.
103:014 For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.
103:015 As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field,
so he flourishes.
103:016 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place
remembers it no more.
103:017 But Yahweh's loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting
with those who fear him, his righteousness to children's children;
103:018 to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to
obey his precepts.
103:019 Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens.
His kingdom rules over all.
103:020 Praise Yahweh, you angels of his, who are mighty in strength,
who fulfill his word, obeying the voice of his word.
103:021 Praise Yahweh, all you armies of his, you servants of his,
who do his pleasure.
103:022 Praise Yahweh, all you works of his, in all places of his dominion.
Praise Yahweh, my soul!
104:001 Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great.
You are clothed with honor and majesty.
104:002 He covers himself with light as with a garment.
He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
104:003 He lays the beams of his chambers in the waters.
He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings
of the wind.
104:004 He makes his messengers{or, angels} winds; his servants
flames of fire.
104:005 He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not
be moved forever.
104:006 You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters
stood above the mountains.
104:007 At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder
they hurried away.
104:008 The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place
which you had assigned to them.
104:009 You have set a boundary that they may not pass over;
that they don't turn again to cover the earth.
104:010 He sends forth springs into the valleys. They run
among the mountains.
104:011 They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys
quench their thirst.
104:012 The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches.
104:013 He waters the mountains from his chambers. The earth is filled
with the fruit of your works.
104:014 He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man
to cultivate, that he may bring forth food out of the earth:
104:015 wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face
to shine, and bread that strengthens man's heart.
104:016 Yahweh's trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon,
which he has planted;
104:017 where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home
in the fir trees.
104:018 The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are
a refuge for the rock badgers.
104:019 He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.
104:020 You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals
of the forest prowl.
104:021 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their
food from God.
104:022 The sun rises, and they steal away, and lay down in their dens.
104:023 Man goes forth to his work, to his labor until the evening.
104:024 Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all.
The earth is full of your riches.
104:025 There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable
living things, both small and large animals.
104:026 There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.
104:027 These all wait for you, that you may give them their food
in due season.
104:028 You give to them; they gather. You open your hand;
they are satisfied with good.
104:029 You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath:
they die, and return to the dust.
104:030 You send forth your Spirit: they are created. You renew
the face of the ground.
104:031 Let the glory of Yahweh endure forever. Let Yahweh rejoice
in his works.
104:032 He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains,
and they smoke.
104:033 I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live. I will sing praise
to my God while I have any being.
104:034 Let your meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.
104:035 Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more.
Bless Yahweh, my soul. Praise Yah!
105:001 Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings
known among the peoples.
105:002 Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works.
105:003 Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who
seek Yahweh rejoice.
105:004 Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
105:005 Remember his marvelous works that he has done; his wonders,
and the judgments of his mouth,
105:006 you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob,
his chosen ones.
105:007 He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.
105:008 He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded
to a thousand generations,
105:009 the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,
105:010 and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute; to Israel
for an everlasting covenant,
105:011 saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot
of your inheritance;"
105:012 when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few,
and foreigners in it.
105:013 They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom
to another people.
105:014 He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings
for their sakes,
105:015 "Don't touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!"
105:016 He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.
105:017 He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.
105:018 They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,
105:019 until the time that his word happened, and Yahweh's word
proved him true.
105:020 The king sent and freed him; even the ruler of peoples,
and let him go free.
105:021 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions;
105:022 to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach
his elders wisdom.
105:023 Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
105:024 He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger
than their adversaries.
105:025 He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire
against his servants.
105:026 He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
105:027 They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
105:028 He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn't rebel
against his words.
105:029 He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish.
105:030 Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the chambers of their kings.
105:031 He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders.
105:032 He gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land.
105:033 He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered
the trees of their country.
105:034 He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number,
105:035 ate up every plant in their land; and ate up the fruit
of their ground.
105:036 He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits
of all their manhood.
105:037 He brought them forth with silver and gold. There was not
one feeble person among his tribes.
105:038 Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had
fallen on them.
105:039 He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.
105:040 They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with
the bread of the sky.
105:041 He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river
in the dry places.
105:042 For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.
105:043 He brought forth his people with joy, his chosen with singing.
105:044 He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor
of the peoples in possession,
105:045 that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws.
Praise Yah!
106:001 Praise Yahweh! Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
for his loving kindness endures forever.
106:002 Who can utter the mighty acts of Yahweh, or fully declare
all his praise?
106:003 Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does
what is right at all times.
106:004 Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people.
Visit me with your salvation,
106:005 that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may
rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory
with your inheritance.
106:006 We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity.
We have done wickedly.
106:007 Our fathers didn't understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn't
remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were
rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}.
106:008 Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might
make his mighty power known.
106:009 He rebuked the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds} also, and it was dried up;
so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.
106:010 He saved them from the hand of him who hated them, and redeemed
them from the hand of the enemy.
106:011 The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one
of them left.
106:012 Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.
106:013 They soon forgot his works. They didn't wait for his counsel,
106:014 but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God
in the wasteland.
106:015 He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.
106:016 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, Yahweh's saint.
106:017 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered
the company of Abiram.
106:018 A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned
up the wicked.
106:019 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped a molten image.
106:020 Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull
that eats grass.
106:021 They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,
106:022 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by
the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}.
106:023 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses,
his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away
his wrath, so that he wouldn't destroy them.
106:024 Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn't believe his word,
106:025 but murmured in their tents, and didn't listen to Yahweh's voice.
106:026 Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them
in the wilderness,
106:027 that he would overthrow their seed among the nations,
and scatter them in the lands.
106:028 They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices
of the dead.
106:029 Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds.
The plague broke in on them.
106:030 Then Phinehas stood up, and executed judgment, so the
plague was stopped.
106:031 That was credited to him for righteousness, for all
generations to come.
106:032 They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses
was troubled for their sakes;
106:033 because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke
rashly with his lips.
106:034 They didn't destroy the peoples, as Yahweh commanded them,
106:035 but mixed themselves with the nations, and learned their works.
106:036 They served their idols, which became a snare to them.
106:037 Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
106:038 They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of
their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan.
The land was polluted with blood.
106:039 Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted
themselves in their deeds.
106:040 Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people.
He abhorred his inheritance.
106:041 He gave them into the hand of the nations. Those who hated
them ruled over them.
106:042 Their enemies also oppressed them. They were brought into
subjection under their hand.
106:043 Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious
in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.
106:044 Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.
106:045 He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according
to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
106:046 He made them also to be pitied by all those who carried them captive.
106:047 Save us, Yahweh, our God, gather us from among the nations,
to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise!
106:048 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even
to everlasting! Let all the people say, "Amen." Praise Yah!
107:001 Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving
kindness endures forever.
107:002 Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so, whom he has redeemed from
the hand of the adversary,
107:003 And gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west,
from the north and from the south.
107:004 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way.
They found no city to live in.
107:005 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
107:006 Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he delivered
them out of their distresses,
107:007 he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city
to live in.
107:008 Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful
works to the children of men!
107:009 For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry
soul with good.
107:010 Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound
in affliction and iron,
107:011 because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned
the counsel of the Most High.
107:012 Therefore he brought down their heart with labor.
They fell down, and there was none to help.
107:013 Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them
out of their distresses.
107:014 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,
and broke their bonds in sunder.
107:015 Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful
works to the children of men!
107:016 For he has broken the gates of brass, and cut through bars of iron.
107:017 Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because
of their iniquities.
107:018 Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to
the gates of death.
107:019 Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, he saves them out
of their distresses.
107:020 He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them
from their graves.
107:021 Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful
works to the children of men!
107:022 Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare
his works with singing.
107:023 Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business
in great waters;
107:024 These see Yahweh's works, and his wonders in the deep.
107:025 For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts
up its waves.
107:026 They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths.
Their soul melts away because of trouble.
107:027 They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man,
and are at their wits' end.
107:028 Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brings them
out of their distress.
107:029 He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.
107:030 Then they are glad because it is calm, so he brings them
to their desired haven.
107:031 Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful
works for the children of men!
107:032 Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people,
and praise him in the seat of the elders.
107:033 He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,
107:034 and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness
of those who dwell in it.
107:035 He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land
into water springs.
107:036 There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city
to live in,
107:037 sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.
107:038 He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly.
He doesn't allow their livestock to decrease.
107:039 Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression,
trouble, and sorrow.
107:040 He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander
in a trackless waste.
107:041 Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases
their families like a flock.
107:042 The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will
shut their mouths.
107:043 Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things.
They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.
108:001 <<A Song. A Psalm by David.>> My heart is steadfast, God.
I will sing and I will make music with my soul.
108:002 Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn.
108:003 I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations.
I will sing praises to you among the peoples.
108:004 For your loving kindness is great above the heavens.
Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
108:005 Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over
all the earth.
108:006 That your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand,
and answer us.
108:007 God has spoken from his sanctuary: "In triumph, I will
divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.
108:008 Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is my helmet.
Judah is my scepter.
108:009 Moab is my wash pot. I will toss my sandal on Edom.
I will shout over Philistia."
108:010 Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led
me to Edom?
108:011 Haven't you rejected us, God? You don't go forth, God,
with our armies.
108:012 Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.
108:013 Through God, we will do valiantly. For it is he who will tread
down our enemies.
109:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> God of my praise,
don't remain silent,
109:002 for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of
deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
109:003 They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought
against me without a cause.
109:004 In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I
am in prayer.
109:005 They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
109:006 Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at
his right hand.
109:007 When he is judged, let him come forth guilty. Let his prayer
be turned into sin.
109:008 Let his days be few. Let another take his office.
109:009 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
109:010 Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought
from their ruins.
109:011 Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder
the fruit of his labor.
109:012 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, neither let there
be any to have pity on his fatherless children.
109:013 Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following
let their name be blotted out.
109:014 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh.
Don't let the sin of his mother be blotted out.
109:015 Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off
the memory of them from the earth;
109:016 because he didn't remember to show kindness, but persecuted
the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.
109:017 Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn't delight
in blessing, and it was far from him.
109:018 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment.
It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.
109:019 Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself,
for the belt that is always around him.
109:020 This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those
who speak evil against my soul.
109:021 But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord, for your name's sake,
because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;
109:022 for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.
109:023 I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
109:024 My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.
109:025 I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me,
they shake their head.
109:026 Help me, Yahweh, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness;
109:027 that they may know that this is your hand; that you, Yahweh,
have done it.
109:028 They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will
be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice.
109:029 Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover
themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
109:030 I will give great thanks to Yahweh with my mouth. Yes, I will
praise him among the multitude.
109:031 For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him
from those who judge his soul.
110:001 <<A Psalm by David.>> Yahweh says to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,
until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet."
110:002 Yahweh will send forth the rod of your strength out of Zion.
Rule in the midst of your enemies.
110:003 Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power,
in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have
the dew of your youth.
110:004 Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind:
"You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek."
110:005 The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day
of his wrath.
110:006 He will judge among the nations. He will heap up dead bodies.
He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.
110:007 He will drink of the brook in the way; therefore he will lift
up his head.
111:001 Praise Yah!{Psalm 111 is an acrostic poem, with each verse
after the initial "Praise Yah!" starting with a letter of
the alphabet (ordered from Alef to Tav).} I will give thanks
to Yahweh with my whole heart, in the council of the upright,
and in the congregation.
111:002 Yahweh's works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.
111:003 His work is honor and majesty. His righteousness endures forever.
111:004 He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered.
Yahweh is gracious and merciful.
111:005 He has given food to those who fear him. He always
remembers his covenant.
111:006 He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them
the heritage of the nations.
111:007 The works of his hands are truth and justice.
All his precepts are sure.
111:008 They are established forever and ever. They are done in
truth and uprightness.
111:009 He has sent redemption to his people. He has ordained his
covenant forever. His name is holy and awesome!
111:010 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom.
All those who do his work have a good understanding.
His praise endures forever!
112:001 Praise Yah!{Psalm 112 is an acrostic poem, with each verse after
the initial "Praise Yah!" starting with a letter of the alphabet
(ordered from Alef to Tav).} Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh,
who delights greatly in his commandments.
112:002 His seed will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright
will be blessed.
112:003 Wealth and riches are in his house. His righteousness
endures forever.
112:004 Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious,
merciful, and righteous.
112:005 It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends.
He will maintain his cause in judgment.
112:006 For he will never be shaken. The righteous will
be remembered forever.
112:007 He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast,
trusting in Yahweh.
112:008 His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end
when he sees his adversaries.
112:009 He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness
endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
112:010 The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with
his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.
113:001 Praise Yah! Praise, you servants of Yahweh, praise the
name of Yahweh.
113:002 Blessed be the name of Yahweh, from this time forth and forevermore.
113:003 From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same,
Yahweh's name is to be praised.
113:004 Yahweh is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens.
113:005 Who is like Yahweh, our God, who has his seat on high,
113:006 Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?
113:007 He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy
from the ash heap;
113:008 that he may set him with princes, even with the princes
of his people.
113:009 He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother
of children. Praise Yah!
114:001 When Israel went forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from
a people of foreign language;
114:002 Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
114:003 The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.
114:004 The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.
114:005 What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan,
that you turned back?
114:006 You mountains, that you skipped like rams; you little hills,
like lambs?
114:007 Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence
of the God of Jacob,
114:008 who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into
a spring of waters.
115:001 Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory,
for your loving kindness, and for your truth's sake.
115:002 Why should the nations say, "Where is their God, now?"
115:003 But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.
115:004 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
115:005 They have mouths, but they don't speak. They have eyes,
but they don't see.
115:006 They have ears, but they don't hear. They have noses,
but they don't smell.
115:007 They have hands, but they don't feel. They have feet, but they
don't walk, neither do they speak through their throat.
115:008 Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who
trusts in them.
115:009 Israel, trust in Yahweh! He is their help and their shield.
115:010 House of Aaron, trust in Yahweh! He is their help and their shield.
115:011 You who fear Yahweh, trust in Yahweh! He is their help
and their shield.
115:012 Yahweh remembers us. He will bless us. He will bless the house
of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron.
115:013 He will bless those who fear Yahweh, both small and great.
115:014 May Yahweh increase you more and more, you and your children.
115:015 Blessed are you by Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.
115:016 The heavens are the heavens of Yahweh; but the earth has
he given to the children of men.
115:017 The dead don't praise Yah, neither any who go down into silence;
115:018 But we will bless Yah, from this time forth and forevermore.
Praise Yah!
116:001 I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my
cries for mercy.
116:002 Because he has turned his ear to me, therefore I will call
on him as long as I live.
116:003 The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold
of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
116:004 Then called I on the name of Yahweh: "Yahweh, I beg you,
deliver my soul."
116:005 Gracious is Yahweh, and righteous; yes, our God is merciful.
116:006 Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.
116:007 Return to your rest, my soul, for Yahweh has dealt
bountifully with you.
116:008 For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears,
and my feet from falling.
116:009 I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.
116:010 I believed, therefore I said, "I was greatly afflicted."
116:011 I said in my haste, "All men are liars."
116:012 What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?
116:013 I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of Yahweh.
116:014 I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of
all his people.
116:015 Precious in the sight of Yahweh is the death of his saints.
116:016 Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son
of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains.
116:017 I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will
call on the name of Yahweh.
116:018 I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of
all his people,
116:019 in the courts of Yahweh's house, in the midst of you, Jerusalem.
Praise Yah!
117:001 Praise Yahweh, all you nations! Extol him, all you peoples!
117:002 For his loving kindness is great toward us. Yahweh's faithfulness
endures forever. Praise Yah!
118:001 Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving
kindness endures forever.
118:002 Let Israel now say that his loving kindness endures forever.
118:003 Let the house of Aaron now say that his loving kindness
endures forever.
118:004 Now let those who fear Yahweh say that his loving
kindness endures forever.
118:005 Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.
118:006 Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man
do to me?
118:007 Yahweh is on my side among those who help me. Therefore I
will look in triumph at those who hate me.
118:008 It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in man.
118:009 It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put
confidence in princes.
118:010 All the nations surrounded me, but in the name of Yahweh, I
cut them off.
118:011 They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In the name
of Yahweh I indeed cut them off.
118:012 They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the
burning thorns. In the name of Yahweh I cut them off.
118:013 You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me.
118:014 Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation.
118:015 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of
the righteous. "The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.
118:016 The right hand of Yahweh is exalted! The right hand of
Yahweh does valiantly!"
118:017 I will not die, but live, and declare Yah's works.
118:018 Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me
over to death.
118:019 Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them.
I will give thanks to Yah.
118:020 This is the gate of Yahweh; the righteous will enter into it.
118:021 I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me, and have
become my salvation.
118:022 The stone which the builders rejected has become the head
of the corner.
118:023 This is Yahweh's doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.
118:024 This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be
glad in it!
118:025 Save us now, we beg you, Yahweh! Yahweh, we beg you,
send prosperity now.
118:026 Blessed is he who comes in the name of Yahweh! We have blessed
you out of the house of Yahweh.
118:027 Yahweh is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice
with cords, even to the horns of the altar.
118:028 You are my God, and I will give thanks to you.
You are my God, I will exalt you.
118:029 Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving
kindness endures forever.
119:001 <<ALEPH>> Blessed are those whose ways are blameless,
who walk according to Yahweh's law.
119:002 Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with
their whole heart.
119:003 Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways.
119:004 You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.
119:005 Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!
119:006 Then I wouldn't be disappointed, when I consider all
of your commandments.
119:007 I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I
learn your righteous judgments.
119:008 I will observe your statutes. Don't utterly forsake me.
119:009 How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according
to your word.
119:010 With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don't let me wander
from your commandments.
119:011 I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not
sin against you.
119:012 Blessed are you, Yahweh. Teach me your statutes.
119:013 With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.
119:014 I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much
as in all riches.
119:015 I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.
119:016 I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not
forget your word.
119:017 Do good to your servant. I will live and I will obey your word.
119:018 Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.
119:019 I am a stranger on the earth. Don't hide your commandments from me.
119:020 My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.
119:021 You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander
from your commandments.
119:022 Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have
kept your statutes.
119:023 Though princes sit and slander me, your servant will meditate
on your statutes.
119:024 Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.
119:025 My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according
to your word!
119:026 I declared my ways, and you answered me. Teach me your statutes.
119:027 Let me understand the teaching of your precepts!
Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.
119:028 My soul is weary with sorrow: strengthen me according
to your word.
119:029 Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!
119:030 I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances
before me.
119:031 I cling to your statutes, Yahweh. Don't let me be disappointed.
119:032 I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set
my heart free.
119:033 Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes. I will keep them
to the end.
119:034 Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will
obey it with my whole heart.
119:035 Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.
119:036 Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.
119:037 Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things.
Revive me in your ways.
119:038 Fulfill your promise to your servant, that you may be feared.
119:039 Take away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good.
119:040 Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness.
119:041 Let your loving kindness also come to me, Yahweh, your salvation,
according to your word.
119:042 So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I
trust in your word.
119:043 Don't snatch the word of truth out of my mouth, for I put
my hope in your ordinances.
119:044 So I will obey your law continually, forever and ever.
119:045 I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.
119:046 I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will
not be disappointed.
119:047 I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.
119:048 I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love.
I will meditate on your statutes.
119:049 Remember your word to your servant, because you gave me hope.
119:050 This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.
119:051 The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don't swerve from your law.
119:052 I remember your ordinances of old, Yahweh, and have comforted myself.
119:053 Indignation has taken hold on me, because of the wicked
who forsake your law.
119:054 Your statutes have been my songs, in the house where I live.
119:055 I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night, and I
obey your law.
119:056 This is my way, that I keep your precepts.
119:057 Yahweh is my portion. I promised to obey your words.
119:058 I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me
according to your word.
119:059 I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.
119:060 I will hurry, and not delay, to obey your commandments.
119:061 The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won't forget your law.
119:062 At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of
your righteous ordinances.
119:063 I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who
observe your precepts.
119:064 The earth is full of your loving kindness, Yahweh.
Teach me your statutes.
119:065 Do good to your servant, according to your word, Yahweh.
119:066 Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe
in your commandments.
119:067 Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.
119:068 You are good, and do good. Teach me your statutes.
119:069 The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart,
I will keep your precepts.
119:070 Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.
119:071 It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may
learn your statutes.
119:072 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces
of gold and silver.
119:073 Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding,
that I may learn your commandments.
119:074 Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I have put
my hope in your word.
119:075 Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in
faithfulness you have afflicted me.
119:076 Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort, according to
your word to your servant.
119:077 Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live;
for your law is my delight.
119:078 Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown
me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.
119:079 Let those who fear you turn to me. They will know your statutes.
119:080 Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may
not be disappointed.
119:081 My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.
119:082 My eyes fail for your word. I say, "When will you comfort me?"
119:083 For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke.
I don't forget your statutes.
119:084 How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute
judgment on those who persecute me?
119:085 The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.
119:086 All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute
me wrongfully. Help me!
119:087 They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn't
forsake your precepts.
119:088 Preserve my life according to your loving kindness, so I
will obey the statutes of your mouth.
119:089 Yahweh, your word is settled in heaven forever.
119:090 Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established
the earth, and it remains.
119:091 Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you.
119:092 Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished
in my affliction.
119:093 I will never forget your precepts, for with them,
you have revived me.
119:094 I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.
119:095 The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me.
I will consider your statutes.
119:096 I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands
are boundless.
119:097 How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
119:098 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your
commandments are always with me.
119:099 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your
testimonies are my meditation.
119:100 I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
119:101 I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might
observe your word.
119:102 I have not turned aside from your ordinances, for you
have taught me.
119:103 How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey
to my mouth!
119:104 Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate
every false way.
119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
119:106 I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey
your righteous ordinances.
119:107 I am afflicted very much. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your word.
119:108 Accept, I beg you, the willing offerings of my mouth.
Yahweh, teach me your ordinances.
119:109 My soul is continually in my hand, yet I won't forget your law.
119:110 The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven't gone astray
from your precepts.
119:111 I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they
are the joy of my heart.
119:112 I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever,
even to the end.
119:113 I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.
119:114 You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.
119:115 Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments
of my God.
119:116 Uphold me according to your word, that I may live.
Let me not be ashamed of my hope.
119:117 Hold me up, and I will be safe, and will have respect for
your statutes continually.
119:118 You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their
deceit is in vain.
119:119 You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross.
Therefore I love your testimonies.
119:120 My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.
119:121 I have done what is just and righteous. Don't leave me
to my oppressors.
119:122 Ensure your servant's well-being. Don't let the proud oppress me.
119:123 My eyes fail looking for your salvation, for your righteous word.
119:124 Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness.
Teach me your statutes.
119:125 I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may
know your testimonies.
119:126 It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.
119:127 Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes,
more than pure gold.
119:128 Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right.
I hate every false way.
119:129 Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them.
119:130 The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding
to the simple.
119:131 I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed
for your commandments.
119:132 Turn to me, and have mercy on me, as you always do to those
who love your name.
119:133 Establish my footsteps in your word. Don't let any iniquity
have dominion over me.
119:134 Redeem me from the oppression of man, so I will observe
your precepts.
119:135 Make your face shine on your servant. Teach me your statutes.
119:136 Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don't
observe your law.
119:137 You are righteous, Yahweh. Your judgments are upright.
119:138 You have commanded your statutes in righteousness.
They are fully trustworthy.
119:139 My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.
119:140 Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your
servant loves them.
119:141 I am small and despised. I don't forget your precepts.
119:142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness.
Your law is truth.
119:143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments
are my delight.
119:144 Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding,
that I may live.
119:145 I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, Yahweh! I will
keep your statutes.
119:146 I have called to you. Save me! I will obey your statutes.
119:147 I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.
119:148 My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might
meditate on your word.
119:149 Hear my voice according to your loving kindness.
Revive me, Yahweh, according to your ordinances.
119:150 They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far
from your law.
119:151 You are near, Yahweh. All your commandments are truth.
119:152 Of old I have known from your testimonies, that you have
founded them forever.
119:153 Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don't forget your law.
119:154 Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.
119:155 Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don't seek your statutes.
119:156 Great are your tender mercies, Yahweh. Revive me according
to your ordinances.
119:157 Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven't swerved
from your testimonies.
119:158 I look at the faithless with loathing, because they don't
observe your word.
119:159 Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, Yahweh, according to
your loving kindness.
119:160 All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous
ordinances endures forever.
119:161 Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands
in awe of your words.
119:162 I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great spoil.
119:163 I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.
119:164 Seven times a day, I praise you, because of your
righteous ordinances.
119:165 Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes
them to stumble.
119:166 I have hoped for your salvation, Yahweh. I have
done your commandments.
119:167 My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.
119:168 I have obeyed your precepts and your testimonies, for all my
ways are before you.
119:169 Let my cry come before you, Yahweh. Give me understanding
according to your word.
119:170 Let my supplication come before you. Deliver me according
to your word.
119:171 Let my lips utter praise, for you teach me your statutes.
119:172 Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments
are righteousness.
119:173 Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.
119:174 I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.
119:175 Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your
ordinances help me.
119:176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant,
for I don't forget your commandments.
120:001 <<A Song of Ascents.>> In my distress, I cried to Yahweh.
He answered me.
120:002 Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
120:003 What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you,
you deceitful tongue?
120:004 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
120:005 Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among
the tents of Kedar!
120:006 My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.
120:007 I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.
121:001 <<A Song of Ascents.>> I will lift up my eyes to the hills.
Where does my help come from?
121:002 My help comes from Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.
121:003 He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you
will not slumber.
121:004 Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
121:005 Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.
121:006 The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.
121:007 Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.
121:008 Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this
time forth, and forevermore.
122:001 <<A Song of Ascents. By David.>> I was glad when they said to me,
"Let's go to Yahweh's house!"
122:002 Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem;
122:003 Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together;
122:004 where the tribes go up, even Yah's tribes, according to an
ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to the name of Yahweh.
122:005 For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones
of David's house.
122:006 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.
122:007 Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.
122:008 For my brothers' and companions' sakes, I will now say,
"Peace be within you."
122:009 For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, I will seek your good.
123:001 <<A Song of Ascents.>> To you I do lift up my eyes, you who sit
in the heavens.
123:002 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master,
as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes
look to Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.
123:003 Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have
endured much contempt.
123:004 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who
are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
124:001 <<A Song of Ascents. By David.>> If it had not been Yahweh
who was on our side, let Israel now say,
124:002 if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose
up against us;
124:003 then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath
was kindled against us;
124:004 then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would
have gone over our soul;
124:005 then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.
124:006 Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
124:007 Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare.
The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
124:008 Our help is in the name of Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.
125:001 <<A Song of Ascents.>> Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion,
which can't be moved, but remains forever.
125:002 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so Yahweh surrounds his
people from this time forth and forevermore.
125:003 For the scepter of wickedness won't remain over the allotment
of the righteous; so that the righteous won't use their hands
to do evil.
125:004 Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good, to those who are upright
in their hearts.
125:005 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways,
Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity.
Peace be on Israel.
126:001 <<A Song of Ascents.>> When Yahweh brought back those who returned
to Zion, we were like those who dream.
126:002 Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing.
Then they said among the nations, "Yahweh has done great
things for them."
126:003 Yahweh has done great things for us, and we are glad.
126:004 Restore our fortunes again, Yahweh, like the streams in the Negev.
126:005 Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
126:006 He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly
come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.
127:001 <<A Song of Ascents. By Solomon.>> Unless Yahweh builds
the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh
watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.
127:002 It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late,
eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
127:003 Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb
is his reward.
127:004 As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.
127:005 Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them.
They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies
in the gate.
128:001 <<A Song of Ascents.>> Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh,
who walks in his ways.
128:002 For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy,
and it will be well with you.
128:003 Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost
parts of your house; your children like olive plants,
around your table.
128:004 Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears Yahweh.
128:005 May Yahweh bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good
of Jerusalem all the days of your life.
128:006 Yes, may you see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel.
129:001 <<A Song of Ascents.>> Many times they have afflicted me
from my youth up. Let Israel now say,
129:002 many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they
have not prevailed against me.
129:003 The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.
129:004 Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
129:005 Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those
who hate Zion.
129:006 Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers
before it grows up;
129:007 with which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, nor he who
binds sheaves, his bosom.
129:008 Neither do those who go by say, "The blessing of Yahweh be on you.
We bless you in the name of Yahweh."
130:001 <<A Song of Ascents.>> Out of the depths I have cried
to you, Yahweh.
130:002 Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice
of my petitions.
130:003 If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
130:004 But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.
130:005 I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.
130:006 My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning;
more than watchmen for the morning.
130:007 Israel, hope in Yahweh, for with Yahweh there is loving kindness.
With him is abundant redemption.
130:008 He will redeem Israel from all their sins.
131:001 <<A Song of Ascents. By David.>> Yahweh, my heart isn't haughty,
nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters,
or things too wonderful for me.
131:002 Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child
with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
131:003 Israel, hope in Yahweh, from this time forth and forevermore.
132:001 <<A Song of Ascents.>> Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction,
132:002 how he swore to Yahweh, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:
132:003 "Surely I will not come into the structure of my house,
nor go up into my bed;
132:004 I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids;
132:005 until I find out a place for Yahweh, a dwelling for the
Mighty One of Jacob."
132:006 Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the
field of Jaar:
132:007 "We will go into his dwelling place. We will worship
at his footstool.
132:008 Arise, Yahweh, into your resting place; you, and the ark
of your strength.
132:009 Let your priest be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints
shout for joy!"
132:010 For your servant David's sake, don't turn away the face
of your anointed one.
132:011 Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it:
"I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.
132:012 If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony
that I will teach them, their children also will sit on
your throne forevermore."
132:013 For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
132:014 "This is my resting place forever. Here I will live, for I
have desired it.
132:015 I will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her
poor with bread.
132:016 Her priests I will also clothe with salvation. Her saints
will shout aloud for joy.
132:017 There I will make the horn of David to bud. I have ordained
a lamp for my anointed.
132:018 I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself,
his crown will be resplendent."
133:001 <<A Song of Ascents. By David.>> See how good and how pleasant
it is for brothers to live together in unity!
133:002 It is like the precious oil on the head, that ran down on the beard,
even Aaron's beard; that came down on the edge of his robes;
133:003 like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion:
for there Yahweh gives the blessing, even life forevermore.
134:001 <<A Song of Ascents.>> Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants
of Yahweh, who stand by night in Yahweh's house!
134:002 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!
134:003 May Yahweh bless you from Zion; even he who made heaven and earth.
135:001 Praise Yah! Praise the name of Yahweh! Praise him,
you servants of Yahweh,
135:002 you who stand in the house of Yahweh, in the courts of
our God's house.
135:003 Praise Yah, for Yahweh is good. Sing praises to his name,
for that is pleasant.
135:004 For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.
135:005 For I know that Yahweh is great, that our Lord is above all gods.
135:006 Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth,
in the seas and in all deeps;
135:007 who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth;
who makes lightnings with the rain; who brings forth the wind
out of his treasuries;
135:008 Who struck the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and animal;
135:009 Who sent signs and wonders into the midst of you, Egypt, on Pharaoh,
and on all his servants;
135:010 who struck many nations, and killed mighty kings,
135:011 Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all
the kingdoms of Canaan,
135:012 and gave their land for a heritage, a heritage to Israel, his people.
135:013 Your name, Yahweh, endures forever; your renown, Yahweh,
throughout all generations.
135:014 For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion
on his servants.
135:015 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work
of men's hands.
135:016 They have mouths, but they can't speak. They have eyes,
but they can't see.
135:017 They have ears, but they can't hear; neither is there any breath
in their mouths.
135:018 Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who
trusts in them.
135:019 House of Israel, praise Yahweh! House of Aaron, praise Yahweh!
135:020 House of Levi, praise Yahweh! You who fear Yahweh, praise Yahweh!
135:021 Blessed be Yahweh from Zion, Who dwells at Jerusalem.
Praise Yah!
136:001 Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good; for his loving
kindness endures forever.
136:002 Give thanks to the God of gods; for his loving kindness
endures forever.
136:003 Give thanks to the Lord of lords; for his loving
kindness endures forever:
136:004 To him who alone does great wonders; for his loving
kindness endures forever:
136:005 To him who by understanding made the heavens; for his loving
kindness endures forever:
136:006 To him who spread out the earth above the waters; for his loving
kindness endures forever:
136:007 To him who made the great lights; for his loving
kindness endures forever:
136:008 The sun to rule by day; for his loving kindness endures forever;
136:009 The moon and stars to rule by night; for his loving
kindness endures forever:
136:010 To him who struck down the Egyptian firstborn; for his loving
kindness endures forever;
136:011 And brought out Israel from among them; for his loving
kindness endures forever;
136:012 With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm; for his loving
kindness endures forever:
136:013 To him who divided the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds} apart;
for his loving kindness endures forever;
136:014 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it; for his loving
kindness endures forever;
136:015 But overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds};
for his loving kindness endures forever:
136:016 To him who led his people through the wilderness; for his loving
kindness endures forever:
136:017 To him who struck great kings; for his loving kindness
endures forever;
136:018 And killed mighty kings; for his loving kindness endures forever:
136:019 Sihon king of the Amorites; for his loving kindness endures forever;
136:020 Og king of Bashan; for his loving kindness endures forever;
136:021 And gave their land as an inheritance; for his loving
kindness endures forever;
136:022 Even a heritage to Israel his servant; for his loving
kindness endures forever:
136:023 Who remembered us in our low estate; for his loving
kindness endures forever;
136:024 And has delivered us from our adversaries; for his loving
kindness endures forever:
136:025 Who gives food to every creature; for his loving
kindness endures forever.
136:026 Oh give thanks to the God of heaven; for his loving
kindness endures forever.
137:001 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept,
when we remembered Zion.
137:002 On the willows in the midst of it, we hung up our harps.
137:003 For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs.
Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: "Sing us one
of the songs of Zion!"
137:004 How can we sing Yahweh's song in a foreign land?
137:005 If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill.
137:006 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don't remember you;
if I don't prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.
137:007 Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom, the day of Jerusalem;
who said, "Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!"
137:008 Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy
who rewards you, as you have served us.
137:009 Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones
against the rock.
138:001 <<By David.>> I will give you thanks with my whole heart.
Before the gods, I will sing praises to you.
138:002 I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks
to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth;
for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.
138:003 In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me
with strength in my soul.
138:004 All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, Yahweh, for they
have heard the words of your mouth.
138:005 Yes, they will sing of the ways of Yahweh; for great
is Yahweh's glory.
138:006 For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly;
but the proud, he knows from afar.
138:007 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will revive me.
You will stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies.
Your right hand will save me.
138:008 Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving
kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don't forsake the works
of your own hands.
139:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> Yahweh,
you have searched me, and you know me.
139:002 You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive
my thoughts from afar.
139:003 You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted
with all my ways.
139:004 For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh,
you know it altogether.
139:005 You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.
139:006 This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.
139:007 Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee
from your presence?
139:008 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed
in Sheol, behold, you are there!
139:009 If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost
parts of the sea;
139:010 Even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand
will hold me.
139:011 If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light
around me will be night;"
139:012 even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines
as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
139:013 For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in
my mother's womb.
139:014 I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
139:015 My frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret,
woven together in the depths of the earth.
139:016 Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written,
the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were
none of them.
139:017 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is
the sum of them!
139:018 If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand.
When I wake up, I am still with you.
139:019 If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me,
you bloodthirsty men!
139:020 For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your
name in vain.
139:021 Yahweh, don't I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved
with those who rise up against you?
139:022 I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
139:023 Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
139:024 See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in
the everlasting way.
140:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> Deliver me,
Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man;
140:002 those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually
gather themselves together for war.
140:003 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent.
Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.
140:004 Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me
from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.
140:005 The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords
of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
140:006 I said to Yahweh, "You are my God." Listen to the cry
of my petitions, Yahweh.
140:007 Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered
my head in the day of battle.
140:008 Yahweh, don't grant the desires of the wicked. Don't let
their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah.
140:009 As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief
of their own lips cover them.
140:010 Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire,
into miry pits, from where they never rise.
140:011 An evil speaker won't be established in the earth.
Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
140:012 I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted,
and justice for the needy.
140:013 Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name.
The upright will dwell in your presence.
141:001 <<A Psalm by David.>> Yahweh, I have called on you.
Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.
141:002 Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up
of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
141:003 Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
141:004 Don't incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds
of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don't let me eat
of their delicacies.
141:005 Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me,
it is like oil on the head; don't let my head refuse it;
Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
141:006 Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock.
They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.
141:007 "As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are
scattered at the mouth of Sheol."
141:008 For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. In you, I take refuge.
Don't leave my soul destitute.
141:009 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me,
from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
141:010 Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, while I pass by.
142:001 <<A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave.
A Prayer.>> I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice,
I ask Yahweh for mercy.
142:002 I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.
142:003 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my path.
In the way in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.
142:004 Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned
for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.
142:005 I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my refuge, my portion
in the land of the living."
142:006 Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. deliver me
from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me.
142:007 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name.
The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me.
143:001 <<A Psalm by David.>> Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to
my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
143:002 Don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight
no man living is righteous.
143:003 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life
down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places,
as those who have been long dead.
143:004 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within
me is desolate.
143:005 I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings.
I contemplate the work of your hands.
143:006 I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you,
like a parched land. Selah.
143:007 Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide
your face from me, so that I don't become like those who go
down into the pit.
143:008 Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I
trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk,
for I lift up my soul to you.
143:009 Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.
143:010 Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good.
Lead me in the land of uprightness.
143:011 Revive me, Yahweh, for your name's sake. In your righteousness,
bring my soul out of trouble.
143:012 In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all
those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.
144:001 <<By David.>> Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands
to war, and my fingers to battle:
144:002 my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer,
my shield, and he in whom I take refuge; who subdues my
people under me.
144:003 Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man,
that you think of him?
144:004 Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
144:005 Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains,
and they will smoke.
144:006 Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows,
and rout them.
144:007 Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me
out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners;
144:008 whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right
hand of falsehood.
144:009 I will sing a new song to you, God. On a ten-stringed lyre,
I will sing praises to you.
144:010 You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David,
his servant, from the deadly sword.
144:011 Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners,
whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right
hand of falsehood.
144:012 Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters
like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
144:013 Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision.
Our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields.
144:014 Our oxen will pull heavy loads. There is no breaking in,
and no going away, and no outcry in our streets.
144:015 Happy are the people who are in such a situation.
Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh. {}
145:001 <<A praise psalm by David.This is an acrostic psalm,
with every verse (including the second half of verse 13)
starting with a consecutive letter of the Hebrew alphabet.>>
I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name
forever and ever.
145:002 Every day I will praise you. I will extol your name
forever and ever.
145:003 Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised!
His greatness is unsearchable.
145:004 One generation will commend your works to another, and will
declare your mighty acts.
145:005 Of the glorious majesty of your honor, of your wondrous works,
I will meditate.
145:006 Men will speak of the might of your awesome acts.
I will declare your greatness.
145:007 They will utter the memory of your great goodness, and will
sing of your righteousness.
145:008 Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of
great loving kindness.
145:009 Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.
145:010 All your works will give thanks to you, Yahweh. Your saints
will extol you.
145:011 They will speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk
about your power;
145:012 to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, the glory
of the majesty of his kingdom.
145:013 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Your dominion endures
throughout all generations. Yahweh is faithful in all his words,
and loving in all his deeds.{Some manuscripts omit these
last two lines.}
145:014 Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who
are bowed down.
145:015 The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food
in due season.
145:016 You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
145:017 Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.
145:018 Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call
on him in truth.
145:019 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him.
He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
145:020 Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but all the wicked
he will destroy.
145:021 My mouth will speak the praise of Yahweh. Let all flesh bless
his holy name forever and ever.
146:001 Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh, my soul.
146:002 While I live, I will praise Yahweh. I will sing praises
to my God as long as I exist.
146:003 Don't put your trust in princes, each a son of man in whom
there is no help.
146:004 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth.
In that very day, his thoughts perish.
146:005 Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope
is in Yahweh, his God:
146:006 who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
who keeps truth forever;
146:007 who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry.
Yahweh frees the prisoners.
146:008 Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those
who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.
146:009 Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless
and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
146:010 Yahweh will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations.
Praise Yah!
147:001 Praise Yah, for it is good to sing praises to our God;
for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.
147:002 Yahweh builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the
outcasts of Israel.
147:003 He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
147:004 He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all
by their names.
147:005 Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding
is infinite.
147:006 Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down
to the ground.
147:007 Sing to Yahweh with thanksgiving. Sing praises on the harp
to our God,
147:008 who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth,
who makes grass grow on the mountains.
147:009 He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens
when they call.
147:010 He doesn't delight in the strength of the horse.
He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.
147:011 Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope
in his loving kindness.
147:012 Praise Yahweh, Jerusalem! Praise your God, Zion!
147:013 For he has strengthened the bars of your gates.
He has blessed your children within you.
147:014 He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest
of the wheat.
147:015 He sends out his commandment to the earth. His word
runs very swiftly.
147:016 He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes.
147:017 He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold?
147:018 He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind
to blow, and the waters flow.
147:019 He shows his word to Jacob; his statutes and his ordinances
to Israel.
147:020 He has not done this for just any nation. They don't know
his ordinances. Praise Yah!
148:001 Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh from the heavens! Praise him
in the heights!
148:002 Praise him, all his angels! Praise him, all his army!
148:003 Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!
148:004 Praise him, you heavens of heavens, You waters that are
above the heavens.
148:005 Let them praise the name of Yahweh, For he commanded,
and they were created.
148:006 He has also established them forever and ever. He has made
a decree which will not pass away.
148:007 Praise Yahweh from the earth, you great sea creatures,
and all depths!
148:008 Lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind,
fulfilling his word;
148:009 mountains and all hills; fruit trees and all cedars;
148:010 wild animals and all livestock; small creatures and flying birds;
148:011 kings of the earth and all peoples; princes and all judges
of the earth;
148:012 both young men and maidens; old men and children:
148:013 let them praise the name of Yahweh, for his name alone is exalted.
His glory is above the earth and the heavens.
148:014 He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all
his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near
to him. Praise Yah!
149:001 Praise Yahweh! Sing to Yahweh a new song, his praise in
the assembly of the saints.
149:002 Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children
of Zion be joyful in their King.
149:003 Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises
to him with tambourine and harp!
149:004 For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns
the humble with salvation.
149:005 Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy
on their beds.
149:006 May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged
sword in their hand;
149:007 To execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples;
149:008 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with
fetters of iron;
149:009 to execute on them the written judgment. All his saints
have this honor. Praise Yah!
150:001 Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his
heavens for his acts of power!
150:002 Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him according to
his excellent greatness!
150:003 Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him
with harp and lyre!
150:004 Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed
instruments and flute!
150:005 Praise him with loud cymbals! Praise him with resounding cymbals!
150:006 Let everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!