001:001 Blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
001:002 but his delight is in Yahweh's law. On his law he meditates
day and night.
001:003 He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings
forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither.
Whatever he does shall prosper.
001:004 The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the
wind drives away.
001:005 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
001:006 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way
of the wicked shall perish.
002:001 Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
002:002 The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take
counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed,{The
word "Anointed" is the same as the word for "Messiah"
or "Christ"} saying,
002:003 "Let's break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us."
002:004 He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have
them in derision.
002:005 Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them
in his wrath:
002:006 "Yet I have set my king on my holy hill of Zion."
002:007 I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, "You are my son.
Today I have become your father.
002:008 Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance,
the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
002:009 You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them
in pieces like a potter's vessel."
002:010 Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges
of the earth.
002:011 Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
002:012 Give sincere homage{or, Kiss the son}, lest he be angry,
and you perish in the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled.
Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
003:001 <<A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son.>> Yahweh,
how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise
up against me.
003:002 Many there are who say of my soul, "There is no help for him
in God." Selah.
003:003 But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one
who lifts up my head.
003:004 I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his
holy hill. Selah.
003:005 I laid myself down and slept. I awakened; for Yahweh sustains me.
003:006 I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have
set themselves against me on every side.
003:007 Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all
of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth
of the wicked.
003:008 Salvation belongs to Yahweh. Your blessing be on
your people. Selah.
004:001 <<For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm
by David.>> Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness.
Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me,
and hear my prayer.
004:002 You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor?
Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.
004:003 But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly:
Yahweh will hear when I call to him.
004:004 Stand in awe, and don't sin. Search your own heart on your bed,
and be still. Selah.
004:005 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in Yahweh.
004:006 Many say, "Who will show us any good?" Yahweh, let the light
of your face shine on us.
004:007 You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain
and their new wine are increased.
004:008 In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you,
Yahweh alone, make me live in safety.
005:001 <<For the Chief Musician, with the flutes. A Psalm by David.>>
Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation.
005:002 Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for to you
do I pray.
005:003 Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning
I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.
005:004 For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness.
Evil can't live with you.
005:005 The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all
workers of iniquity.
005:006 You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors
the blood-thirsty and deceitful man.
005:007 But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I
will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple
in reverence of you.
005:008 Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies.
Make your way straight before my face.
005:009 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth.
Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb.
They flatter with their tongue.
005:010 Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels;
Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions,
for they have rebelled against you.
005:011 But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice,
Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them.
Let them also who love your name be joyful in you.
005:012 For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround
him with favor as with a shield.
006:001 <<For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments,
upon the eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm by David.>> Yahweh,
don't rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me
in your wrath.
006:002 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me,
for my bones are troubled.
006:003 My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh--how long?
006:004 Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul, and save me for your
loving kindness' sake.
006:005 For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall
give you thanks?
006:006 I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed.
I drench my couch with my tears.
006:007 My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of
all my adversaries.
006:008 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has
heard the voice of my weeping.
006:009 Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer.
006:010 May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back,
they shall be disgraced suddenly.
007:001 <<A meditation by David, which he sang to Yahweh, concerning the words
of Cush, the Benjamite.>> Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you.
Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,
007:002 lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces,
while there is none to deliver.
007:003 Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity
in my hands,
007:004 if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, if I
have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),
007:005 let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread
my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
007:006 Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage
of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
007:007 Let the congregation of the peoples surround you.
Rule over them on high.
007:008 Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me,
Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity
that is in me.
007:009 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end,
but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched
by the righteous God.
007:010 My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
007:011 God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day.
007:012 If a man doesn't relent, he will sharpen his sword; he has
bent and strung his bow.
007:013 He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death.
He makes ready his flaming arrows.
007:014 Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief,
and brought forth falsehood.
007:015 He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.
007:016 The trouble he causes shall return to his own head.
His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
007:017 I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness,
and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.
008:001 <<For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath.
A Psalm by David.>> Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name
in all the earth, who has set your glory above the heavens!
008:002 From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength,
because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy
and the avenger.
008:003 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
008:004 what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man,
that you care for him?
008:005 For you have made him a little lower than God,{Hebrew: Elohim}
and crowned him with glory and honor.
008:006 You make him ruler over the works of your hands.
You have put all things under his feet:
008:007 All sheep and oxen, yes, and the animals of the field,
008:008 The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes
through the paths of the seas.
008:009 Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
009:001 <<For the Chief Musician. Set to "The Death of the Son."
A Psalm by David.>> I will give thanks to Yahweh with my
whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.
009:002 I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name,
O Most High.
009:003 When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.
009:004 For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the
throne judging righteously.
009:005 You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked.
You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
009:006 The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory
of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
009:007 But Yahweh reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.
009:008 He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer
judgment to the peoples in uprightness.
009:009 Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high
tower in times of trouble.
009:010 Those who know your name will put their trust in you,
for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.
009:011 Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion, and declare among
the people what he has done.
009:012 For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn't forget
the cry of the afflicted.
009:013 Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me,
and lift me up from the gates of death;
009:014 that I may show forth all your praise. In the gates of
the daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in your salvation.
009:015 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made.
In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
009:016 Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked
is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
009:017 The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations
that forget God.
009:018 For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope
of the poor perish forever.
009:019 Arise, Yahweh! Don't let man prevail. Let the nations be
judged in your sight.
009:020 Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they
are only men. Selah.
010:001 Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself
in times of trouble?
010:002 In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught
in the schemes that they devise.
010:003 For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings. He blesses
the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.
010:004 The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his
thoughts for God.
010:005 His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your
laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries,
he sneers at them.
010:006 He says in his heart, "I shall not be shaken. For generations
I shall have no trouble."
010:007 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression.
Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
010:008 He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders
the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
010:009 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait
to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws
him in his net.
010:010 The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall
under his strength.
010:011 He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face.
He will never see it."
010:012 Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don't forget the helpless.
010:013 Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart,
"God won't call me into account?"
010:014 But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it
into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
010:015 Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out
his wickedness until you find none.
010:016 Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish
out of his land.
010:017 Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble.
You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
010:018 to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is
of the earth may terrify no more.
011:001 <<For the Chief Musician. By David.>> In Yahweh, I take refuge.
How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain!"
011:002 For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their
arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at
the upright in heart.
011:003 If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?
011:004 Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven.
His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.
011:005 Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves
violence his soul hates.
011:006 On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur,
and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
011:007 For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness.
The upright shall see his face.
012:001 <<For the Chief Musician; upon an eight-stringed lyre.
A Psalm of David.>> Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases.
For the faithful fail from among the children of men.
012:002 Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips,
and with a double heart.
012:003 May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,
012:004 who have said, "With our tongue we will prevail.
Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?"
012:005 "Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning
of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set
him in safety from those who malign him."
012:006 The words of Yahweh are flawless words, as silver refined
in a clay furnace, purified seven times.
012:007 You will keep them, Yahweh. You will preserve them from
this generation forever.
012:008 The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted
among the sons of men.
013:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>>
How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
013:002 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my
heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?
013:003 Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes,
lest I sleep in death;
013:004 Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him;" Lest my
adversaries rejoice when I fall.
013:005 But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices
in your salvation.
013:006 I will sing to Yahweh, because he has been good to me.
014:001 <<For the Chief Musician. By David.>> The fool has said
in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt.
They have done abominable works. There is none who does good.
014:002 Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see
if there were any who did understand, who did seek after God.
014:003 They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt.
There is none who does good, no, not one.
014:004 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up
my people as they eat bread, and don't call on Yahweh?
014:005 There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation
of the righteous.
014:006 You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.
014:007 Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When Yahweh
restores the fortunes of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice,
and Israel shall be glad.
015:001 <<A Psalm by David.>> Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary?
Who shall live on your holy hill?
015:002 He who walks blamelessly does what is right, and speaks truth
in his heart;
015:003 He who doesn't slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend,
nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
015:004 In whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those
who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts,
and doesn't change;
015:005 he who doesn't lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe
against the innocent. He who does these things shall
never be shaken.
016:001 <<A Poem by David.>> Preserve me, God, for in you do I take refuge.
016:002 My soul, you have said to Yahweh, "You are my Lord.
Apart from you I have no good thing."
016:003 As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent
ones in whom is all my delight.
016:004 Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god.
Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take
their names on my lips.
016:005 Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.
016:006 The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have
a good inheritance.
016:007 I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart
instructs me in the night seasons.
016:008 I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand,
I shall not be moved.
016:009 Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices.
My body shall also dwell in safety.
016:010 For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you
allow your holy one to see corruption.
016:011 You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness
of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.
017:001 <<A Prayer by David.>> Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea;
Give ear to my prayer, that doesn't go out of deceitful lips.
017:002 Let my sentence come forth from your presence. Let your eyes
look on equity.
017:003 You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night.
You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my
mouth shall not disobey.
017:004 As for the works of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept
myself from the ways of the violent.
017:005 My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.
017:006 I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your
ear to me. Hear my speech.
017:007 Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take
refuge by your right hand from their enemies.
017:008 Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow
of your wings,
017:009 from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies,
who surround me.
017:010 They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth
they speak proudly.
017:011 They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes
to cast us down to the earth.
017:012 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young
lion lurking in secret places.
017:013 Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul
from the wicked by your sword;
017:014 from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion
is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones.
Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
017:015 As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness.
I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
018:001 <<For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke
to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered
him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul.
He said,>> I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
018:002 Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock,
in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation,
my high tower.
018:003 I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved
from my enemies.
018:004 The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness
made me afraid.
018:005 The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death
came on me.
018:006 In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God.
He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came
into his ears.
018:007 Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of
the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.
018:008 Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out
of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.
018:009 He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness
was under his feet.
018:010 He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings
of the wind.
018:011 He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him,
darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
018:012 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed,
hailstones and coals of fire.
018:013 Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice:
hailstones and coals of fire.
018:014 He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning
bolts, and routed them.
018:015 Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of
the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast
of the breath of your nostrils.
018:016 He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.
018:017 He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me;
for they were too mighty for me.
018:018 They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh
was my support.
018:019 He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me,
because he delighted in me.
018:020 Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness.
According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
018:021 For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly
departed from my God.
018:022 For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't put away
his statutes from me.
018:023 I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
018:024 Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness,
according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
018:025 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful.
With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
018:026 With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked
you will show yourself shrewd.
018:027 For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes
you will bring down.
018:028 For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light
up my darkness.
018:029 For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap
over a wall.
018:030 As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Yahweh is tried.
He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
018:031 For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God,
018:032 the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
018:033 He makes my feet like deer's feet, and sets me on my high places.
018:034 He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
018:035 You have also given me the shield of your salvation.
Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.
018:036 You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.
018:037 I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I
turn again until they are consumed.
018:038 I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise.
They shall fall under my feet.
018:039 For you have girded me with strength to the battle.
You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
018:040 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I
might cut off those who hate me.
018:041 They cried, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh,
but he didn't answer them.
018:042 Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind.
I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
018:043 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people.
You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I
have not known shall serve me.
018:044 As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners
shall submit themselves to me.
018:045 The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out
of their close places.
018:046 Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God
of my salvation,
018:047 even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues
peoples under me.
018:048 He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those
who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
018:049 Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations,
and will sing praises to your name.
018:050 He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness
to his anointed, to David and to his seed, forevermore.
019:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> The heavens
declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.
019:002 Day after day they pour forth speech, and night after night
they display knowledge.
019:003 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
019:004 Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words
to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,
019:005 which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a strong
man rejoicing to run his course.
019:006 His going forth is from the end of the heavens, his circuit
to its ends; There is nothing hidden from its heat.
019:007 Yahweh's law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh's testimony
is sure, making wise the simple.
019:008 Yahweh's precepts are right, rejoicing the heart.
Yahweh's commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
019:009 The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever.
Yahweh's ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
019:010 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold;
sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
019:011 Moreover by them is your servant warned. In keeping them
there is great reward.
019:012 Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
019:013 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins.
Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright.
I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
019:014 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be
acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.
020:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> May Yahweh
answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God
of Jacob set you up on high,
020:002 send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion,
020:003 remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice. Selah.
020:004 May He grant you your heart's desire, and fulfill all your counsel.
020:005 We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God,
we will set up our banners. May Yahweh grant all your requests.
020:006 Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed. He will answer him
from his holy heaven, with the saving strength of his right hand.
020:007 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust
the name of Yahweh our God.
020:008 They are bowed down and fallen, but we rise up, and stand upright.
020:009 Save, Yahweh! Let the King answer us when we call!
021:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> The king
rejoices in your strength, Yahweh! How greatly he rejoices
in your salvation!
021:002 You have given him his heart's desire, and have not withheld
the request of his lips. Selah.
021:003 For you meet him with the blessings of goodness.
You set a crown of fine gold on his head.
021:004 He asked life of you, you gave it to him, even length of days
forever and ever.
021:005 His glory is great in your salvation. You lay honor and
majesty on him.
021:006 For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad
with joy in your presence.
021:007 For the king trusts in Yahweh. Through the loving kindness
of the Most High, he shall not be moved.
021:008 Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand
will find out those who hate you.
021:009 You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger.
Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire
shall devour them.
021:010 You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity
from among the children of men.
021:011 For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against
you which cannot succeed.
021:012 For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn
bows at their face.
021:013 Be exalted, Yahweh, in your strength, so we will sing and
praise your power.
022:001 <<For the Chief Musician; set to "The Doe of the Morning."
A Psalm by David.>> My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words
of my groaning?
022:002 My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer;
in the night season, and am not silent.
022:003 But you are holy, you who inhabit the praises of Israel.
022:004 Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered them.
022:005 They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you,
and were not disappointed.
022:006 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised
by the people.
022:007 All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips.
They shake their heads, saying,
022:008 "He trusts in Yahweh; let him deliver him. Let him rescue him,
since he delights in him."
022:009 But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at
my mother's breasts.
022:010 I was thrown on you from my mother's womb. You are my God
since my mother bore me.
022:011 Don't be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is
none to help.
022:012 Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan
have encircled me.
022:013 They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing
prey and roaring.
022:014 I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint.
My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.
022:015 My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks
to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the
dust of death.
022:016 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evil-doers have
enclosed me. Like a lion, they pin my hands and feet.{or,
They have pierced my hands and feet. (DSS)}
022:017 I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.
022:018 They divide my garments among them. They cast lots for my clothing.
022:019 But don't be far off, Yahweh. You are my help:
hurry to help me.
022:020 Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power
of the dog.
022:021 Save me from the lion's mouth! Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen,
you have answered me.
022:022 I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst
of the assembly, I will praise you.
022:023 You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob,
glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!
022:024 For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of
the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him;
but when he cried to him, he heard.
022:025 Of you comes my praise in the great assembly. I will pay
my vows before those who fear him.
022:026 The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise
Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.
022:027 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh.
All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.
022:028 For the kingdom is Yahweh's. He is the ruler over the nations.
022:029 All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship.
All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him,
even he who can't keep his soul alive.
022:030 Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told
about the Lord.
022:031 They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people
that shall be born, for he has done it.
023:001 <<A Psalm by David.>> Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.
023:002 He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me
beside still waters.
023:003 He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness
for his name's sake.
023:004 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
023:005 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.
023:006 Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days
of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh's house forever.
024:001 <<A Psalm by David.>> The earth is Yahweh's, with its fullness;
the world, and those who dwell therein.
024:002 For he has founded it on the seas, and established it
on the floods.
024:003 Who may ascend to Yahweh's hill? Who may stand in his holy place?
024:004 He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted
up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
024:005 He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, righteousness from
the God of his salvation.
024:006 This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face--
even Jacob. Selah.
024:007 Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors,
and the King of glory will come in.
024:008 Who is the King of glory? Yahweh strong and mighty,
Yahweh mighty in battle.
024:009 Lift up your heads, you gates; yes, lift them up,
you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.
024:010 Who is this King of glory? Yahweh of Armies is the King
of glory! Selah.
025:001 <<By David.>> To you, Yahweh, do I lift up my soul.
025:002 My God, I have trusted in you. Don't let me be shamed.
Don't let my enemies triumph over me.
025:003 Yes, no one who waits for you shall be shamed. They shall
be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.
025:004 Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.
025:005 Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God
of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.
025:006 Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness,
for they are from old times.
025:007 Don't remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions.
Remember me according to your loving kindness,
for your goodness' sake, Yahweh.
025:008 Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners
in the way.
025:009 He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach
the humble his way.
025:010 All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such
as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
025:011 For your name's sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
025:012 What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him
in the way that he shall choose.
025:013 His soul shall dwell at ease. His seed shall inherit the land.
025:014 The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him.
He will show them his covenant.
025:015 My eyes are ever on Yahweh, for he will pluck my feet out
of the net.
025:016 Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.
025:017 The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out
of my distresses.
025:018 Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.
025:019 Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me
with cruel hatred.
025:020 Oh keep my soul, and deliver me. Let me not be disappointed,
for I take refuge in you.
025:021 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
025:022 Redeem Israel, God, out all of his troubles.
026:001 <<By David.>> Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity.
I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.
026:002 Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.
026:003 For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked
in your truth.
026:004 I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go
in with hypocrites.
026:005 I hate the assembly of evil-doers, and will not sit with the wicked.
026:006 I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about
your altar, Yahweh;
026:007 that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard,
and tell of all your wondrous works.
026:008 Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where
your glory dwells.
026:009 Don't gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;
026:010 in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.
026:011 But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me,
and be merciful to me.
026:012 My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I
will bless Yahweh.
027:001 <<By David.>> Yahweh is my light and my salvation.
Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life.
Of whom shall I be afraid?
027:002 When evil-doers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries
and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
027:003 Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear.
Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.
027:004 One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after,
that I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life,
to see Yahweh's beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
027:005 For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion.
In the covert of his tent he will hide me. He will lift me
up on a rock.
027:006 Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me.
I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing,
yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.
027:007 Hear, Yahweh, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me,
and answer me.
027:008 When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will
seek your face, Yahweh."
027:009 Don't hide your face from me. Don't put your servant away in anger.
You have been my help. Don't abandon me, neither forsake me,
God of my salvation.
027:010 When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will
take me up.
027:011 Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path,
because of my enemies.
027:012 Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false
witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
027:013 I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh
in the land of the living.
027:014 Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage.
Yes, wait for Yahweh.
028:001 <<By David.>> To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don't be
deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become
like those who go down into the pit.
028:002 Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift
up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
028:003 Don't draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of
iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief
is in their hearts.
028:004 Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of
their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands.
Bring back on them what they deserve.
028:005 Because they don't regard the works of Yahweh, nor the operation
of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.
028:006 Blessed be Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my petitions.
028:007 Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him,
and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices.
With my song I will thank him.
028:008 Yahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation
to his anointed.
028:009 Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their
shepherd also, and bear them up forever.
029:001 <<A Psalm by David.>> Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty,
ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.
029:002 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Worship Yahweh
in holy array.
029:003 Yahweh's voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders,
even Yahweh on many waters.
029:004 Yahweh's voice is powerful. Yahweh's voice is full of majesty.
029:005 The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars. Yes, Yahweh breaks
in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
029:006 He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion
like a young, wild ox.
029:007 Yahweh's voice strikes with flashes of lightning.
029:008 Yahweh's voice shakes the wilderness. Yahweh shakes
the wilderness of Kadesh.
029:009 Yahweh's voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare.
In his temple everything says, "Glory!"
029:010 Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits
as King forever.
029:011 Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless
his people with peace.
030:001 <<A Psalm. A Song for the Dedication of the Temple.
By David.>> I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up,
and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.
030:002 Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.
030:003 Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol.
You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
030:004 Sing praise to Yahweh, you saints of his. Give thanks
to his holy name.
030:005 For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.
030:006 As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved."
030:007 You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong;
but when you hid your face, I was troubled.
030:008 I cried to you, Yahweh. To Yahweh I made supplication:
030:009 "What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit?
Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
030:010 Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me. Yahweh, be my helper."
030:011 You have turned my mourning into dancing for me.
You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,
030:012 To the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent.
Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
031:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> In you,
Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed.
Deliver me in your righteousness.
031:002 Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me
a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.
031:003 For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name's
sake lead me and guide me.
031:004 Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me,
for you are my stronghold.
031:005 Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me,
Yahweh, God of truth.
031:006 I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh.
031:007 I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have
seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.
031:008 You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy.
You have set my feet in a large place.
031:009 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye,
my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
031:010 For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing.
My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones
are wasted away.
031:011 Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly
contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances.
Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
031:012 I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man.
I am like broken pottery.
031:013 For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side,
while they conspire together against me, they plot to take
away my life.
031:014 But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my God."
031:015 My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies,
and from those who persecute me.
031:016 Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in
your loving kindness.
031:017 Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you.
Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.
031:018 Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous
insolently, with pride and contempt.
031:019 Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for
those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take
refuge in you, before the sons of men!
031:020 In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from
the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling
away from the strife of tongues.
031:021 Praise be to Yahweh, for he has shown me his marvelous loving
kindness in a strong city.
031:022 As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes."
Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I
cried to you.
031:023 Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful,
and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
031:024 Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who
hope in Yahweh.
032:001 <<By David. A contemplative psalm.>> Blessed is he whose
disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
032:002 Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn't impute iniquity,
in whose spirit there is no deceit.
032:003 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning
all day long.
032:004 For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength
was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
032:005 I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my iniquity.
I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you
forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
032:006 For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time
when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow,
they shall not reach to him.
032:007 You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble.
You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
032:008 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go.
I will counsel you with my eye on you.
032:009 Don't be like the horse, or like the mule, which have
no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle,
or else they will not come near to you.
032:010 Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall
surround him who trusts in Yahweh.
032:011 Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy,
all you who are upright in heart!
033:001 Rejoice in Yahweh, you righteous! Praise is fitting
for the upright.
033:002 Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre. Sing praises to him
with the harp of ten strings.
033:003 Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy!
033:004 For the word of Yahweh is right. All his work is
done in faithfulness.
033:005 He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full
of the loving kindness of Yahweh.
033:006 By Yahweh's word, the heavens were made; all their army
by the breath of his mouth.
033:007 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap.
He lays up the deeps in storehouses.
033:008 Let all the earth fear Yahweh. Let all the inhabitants
of the world stand in awe of him.
033:009 For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.
033:010 Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing.
He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
033:011 The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his
heart to all generations.
033:012 Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom
he has chosen for his own inheritance.
033:013 Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men.
033:014 From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants
of the earth,
033:015 he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all
of their works.
033:016 There is no king saved by the multitude of an army.
A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
033:017 A horse is a vain thing for safety, neither does he deliver
any by his great power.
033:018 Behold, Yahweh's eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope
in his loving kindness;
033:019 to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine.
033:020 Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.
033:021 For our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted
in his holy name.
033:022 Let your loving kindness be on us, Yahweh, since we have hoped
in you. {}
034:001 <<By David; when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech,
who drove him away, and he departed.Psalm 34 is an acrostic poem,
with each verse starting with a letter of the alphabet
(ordered from Alef to Tav).>> I will bless Yahweh at all times.
His praise will always be in my mouth.
034:002 My soul shall boast in Yahweh. The humble shall hear of it,
and be glad.
034:003 Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let us exalt his name together.
034:004 I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from
all my fears.
034:005 They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall
never be covered with shame.
034:006 This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out
of all his troubles.
034:007 The angel of Yahweh encamps round about those who fear him,
and delivers them.
034:008 Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man
who takes refuge in him.
034:009 Oh fear Yahweh, you his saints, for there is no lack with
those who fear him.
034:010 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek
Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.
034:011 Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you
the fear of Yahweh.
034:012 Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days,
that he may see good?
034:013 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.
034:014 Depart from evil, and do good. seek peace, and pursue it.
034:015 Yahweh's eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen
to their cry.
034:016 Yahweh's face is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory
of them from the earth.
034:017 The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out
of all their troubles.
034:018 Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves
those who have a crushed spirit.
034:019 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers