034:020 He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.
034:021 Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous
shall be condemned.
034:022 Yahweh redeems the soul of his servants. None of those who take
refuge in him shall be condemned.
035:001 <<By David.>> Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me.
Fight against those who fight against me.
035:002 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.
035:003 Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me.
Tell my soul, "I am your salvation."
035:004 Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought
to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned
back and confounded.
035:005 Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh's angel
driving them on.
035:006 Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh's angel pursuing them.
035:007 For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me.
Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
035:008 Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has
hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.
035:009 My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice
in his salvation.
035:010 All my bones shall say, "Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers
the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor
and the needy from him who robs him?"
035:011 Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I
don't know about.
035:012 They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.
035:013 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth.
I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into
my own bosom.
035:014 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother.
I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
035:015 But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together.
The attackers gathered themselves together against me,
and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.
035:016 Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their
teeth at me.
035:017 Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from
their destruction, my precious life from the lions.
035:018 I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise
you among many people.
035:019 Don't let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me;
neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
035:020 For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words
against those who are quiet in the land.
035:021 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me.
They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!"
035:022 You have seen it, Yahweh. Don't keep silent. Lord, don't be
far from me.
035:023 Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!
035:024 Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness.
Don't let them gloat over me.
035:025 Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!"
Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!"
035:026 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice
at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor
who magnify themselves against me.
035:027 Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause.
Yes, let them say continually, "Yahweh be magnified, who has
pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!"
035:028 My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your
praise all day long.
036:001 <<For the Chief Musician. By David, the servant of Yahweh.>> An
oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked:
"There is no fear of God before his eyes."
036:002 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect
and hate his sin.
036:003 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit.
He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
036:004 He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is
not good. He doesn't abhor evil.
036:005 Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens.
Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
036:006 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God.
Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve
man and animal.
036:007 How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men
take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
036:008 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house.
You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
036:009 For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall
we see light.
036:010 Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you,
your righteousness to the upright in heart.
036:011 Don't let the foot of pride come against me. Don't let the hand
of the wicked drive me away.
036:012 There the workers of iniquity are fallen. They are thrust down,
and shall not be able to rise.
037:001 <<By David.>> Don't fret because of evil-doers, neither be
envious against those who work unrighteousness.
037:002 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither
like the green herb.
037:003 Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land,
and enjoy safe pasture.
037:004 Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires
of your heart.
037:005 Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:
037:006 he will make your righteousness go forth as the light,
and your justice as the noon day sun.
037:007 Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don't fret
because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man
who makes wicked plots happen.
037:008 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don't fret, it leads
only to evildoing.
037:009 For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh
shall inherit the land.
037:010 For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more.
Yes, though you look for his place, he isn't there.
037:011 But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight
themselves in the abundance of peace.
037:012 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him
with his teeth.
037:013 The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.
037:014 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow,
to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright
in the way.
037:015 Their sword shall enter into their own heart. Their bows
shall be broken.
037:016 Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance
of many wicked.
037:017 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh
upholds the righteous.
037:018 Yahweh knows the days of the perfect. Their inheritance
shall be forever.
037:019 They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil.
In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
037:020 But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall
be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish--
vanish like smoke.
037:021 The wicked borrow, and don't pay back, but the righteous
give generously.
037:022 For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land.
Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.
037:023 A man's goings are established by Yahweh. He delights
in his way.
037:024 Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up
with his hand.
037:025 I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen
the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.
037:026 All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His seed is blessed.
037:027 Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever.
037:028 For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn't forsake his saints.
They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked
shall be cut off.
037:029 The righteous shall inherit the land, and live in it forever.
037:030 The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom.
His tongue speaks justice.
037:031 The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.
037:032 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.
037:033 Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when
he is judged.
037:034 Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt
you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off,
you shall see it.
037:035 I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself
like a green tree in its native soil.
037:036 But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him,
but he could not be found.
037:037 Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future
for the man of peace.
037:038 As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together.
The future of the wicked shall be cut off.
037:039 But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh.
He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
037:040 Yahweh helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked,
and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him.
038:001 <<A Psalm by David, for a memorial.>> Yahweh, don't rebuke me
in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
038:002 For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
038:003 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation,
neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
038:004 For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden,
they are too heavy for me.
038:005 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
038:006 I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
038:007 For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness
in my flesh.
038:008 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason
of the anguish of my heart.
038:009 Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not
hidden from you.
038:010 My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light
of my eyes, it has also left me.
038:011 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague.
My kinsmen stand far away.
038:012 They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek
my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits
all day long.
038:013 But I, as a deaf man, don't hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't
open his mouth.
038:014 Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.
038:015 For in you, Yahweh, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God.
038:016 For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves
over me when my foot slips."
038:017 For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
038:018 For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
038:019 But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me
without reason are numerous.
038:020 They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me,
because I follow what is good.
038:021 Don't forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don't be far from me.
038:022 Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.
039:001 <<For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David.>> I said,
"I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue.
I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."
039:002 I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good.
My sorrow was stirred.
039:003 My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned:
I spoke with my tongue:
039:004 "Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days.
Let me know how frail I am.
039:005 Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime
is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as
a breath." Selah.
039:006 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves
in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
039:007 Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.
039:008 Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don't make me the reproach
of the foolish.
039:009 I was mute. I didn't open my mouth, because you did it.
039:010 Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow
of your hand.
039:011 When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his
wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.
039:012 "Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry.
Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you,
a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
039:013 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away,
and exist no more."
040:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> I waited
patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
040:002 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay.
He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
040:003 He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God.
Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.
040:004 Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn't
respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
040:005 Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you
have done, and your thoughts which are toward us.
They can't be declared back to you. If I would declare
and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
040:006 Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire. You have opened my ears.
You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
040:007 Then I said, "Behold, I have come. It is written about me
in the book in the scroll.
040:008 I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is
within my heart."
040:009 I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly.
Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
040:010 I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart.
I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation.
I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth
from the great assembly.
040:011 Don't withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your
loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
040:012 For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities
have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up.
They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
040:013 Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh.
040:014 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek
after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward
and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
040:015 Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell
me, "Aha! Aha!"
040:016 Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you.
Let such as love your salvation say continually,
"Let Yahweh be exalted!"
040:017 But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me.
You are my help and my deliverer. Don't delay, my God.
041:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> Blessed
is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him
in the day of evil.
041:002 Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive.
He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender
him to the will of his enemies.
041:003 Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from
his bed of illness.
041:004 I said, "Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have
sinned against you."
041:005 My enemies speak evil against me: "When will he die,
and his name perish?"
041:006 If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers
iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.
041:007 All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine
the worst for me.
041:008 "An evil disease," they say, "has afflicted him.
Now that he lies he shall rise up no more."
041:009 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread
with me, has lifted up his heel against me.
041:010 But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I
may repay them.
041:011 By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn't
triumph over me.
041:012 As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in
your presence forever.
041:013 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and
to everlasting! Amen and amen.
042:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of
Korah.>> As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul
pants after you, God.
042:002 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I
come and appear before God?
042:003 My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually
ask me, "Where is your God?"
042:004 These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me,
how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house
of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping
a holy day.
042:005 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me?
Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving
help of his presence.
042:006 My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember
you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon,
from the hill Mizar.
042:007 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls.
All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
042:008 Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime.
In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God
of my life.
042:009 I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
042:010 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me,
while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
042:011 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me?
Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help
of my countenance, and my God.
043:001 Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation.
Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
043:002 For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
043:003 Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me.
Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.
043:004 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy.
I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
043:005 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me?
Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior,
my helper, and my God.
044:001 <<For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah.
A contemplative psalm.>> We have heard with our ears, God;
our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days,
in the days of old.
044:002 You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them.
You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.
044:003 For they didn't get the land in possession by their own sword,
neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand,
and your arm, and the light of your face, because you were
favorable to them.
044:004 You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!
044:005 Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name,
will we tread them under who rise up against us.
044:006 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
044:007 But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed
those who hate us.
044:008 In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks
to your name forever. Selah.
044:009 But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don't
go out with our armies.
044:010 You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us
take spoil for themselves.
044:011 You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us
among the nations.
044:012 You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing
from their sale.
044:013 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision
to those who are around us.
044:014 You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head
among the peoples.
044:015 All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,
044:016 At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses,
because of the enemy and the avenger.
044:017 All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you,
Neither have we been false to your covenant.
044:018 Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed
from your path,
044:019 Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered
us with the shadow of death.
044:020 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth
our hands to a strange god;
044:021 won't God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
044:022 Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded
as sheep for the slaughter.
044:023 Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don't reject us forever.
044:024 Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction
and our oppression?
044:025 For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body cleaves
to the earth.
044:026 Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness' sake.
045:001 <<For the Chief Musician. Set to "The Lilies." A contemplation
by the sons of Korah. A wedding song.>> My heart overflows
with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king.
My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.
045:002 You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has
anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.
045:003 Gird your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendor
and your majesty.
045:004 In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility,
and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds.
045:005 Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows
in the heart of the king's enemies.
045:006 Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity
is the scepter of your kingdom.
045:007 You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness.
Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil
of gladness above your fellows.
045:008 All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia.
Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.
045:009 Kings' daughters are among your honorable women.
At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.
045:010 Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your
own people, and also your father's house.
045:011 So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.
045:012 The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich among
the people entreat your favor.
045:013 The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is
interwoven with gold.
045:014 She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins,
her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.
045:015 With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led. They shall
enter into the king's palace.
045:016 Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make
them princes in all the earth.
045:017 I will make your name to be remembered in all generations.
Therefore the peoples shall give you thanks forever and ever.
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046:001 <<For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah.
According to Alamoth.Alamoth is a musical term.>> God is our
refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
046:002 Therefore we won't be afraid, though the earth changes,
though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;
046:003 though the waters of it roar and are troubled, though the mountains
tremble with their swelling. Selah.
046:004 There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad,
the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
046:005 God is in her midst. She shall not be moved. God will help
her at dawn.
046:006 The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice,
and the earth melted.
046:007 Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
046:008 Come, see Yahweh's works, what desolations he has made
in the earth.
046:009 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow,
and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire.
046:010 "Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among
the nations. I will be exalted in the earth."
046:011 Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
047:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.>>
Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with
the voice of triumph!
047:002 For Yahweh Most High is awesome. He is a great King over
all the earth.
047:003 He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet.
047:004 He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom
he loved. Selah.
047:005 God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet.
047:006 Sing praise to God, sing praises. Sing praises to our King,
sing praises.
047:007 For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises
with understanding.
047:008 God reigns over the nations. God sits on his holy throne.
047:009 The princes of the peoples are gathered together, the people of
the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God.
He is greatly exalted!
048:001 <<A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.>> Great is Yahweh,
and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God,
in his holy mountain.
048:002 Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion,
on the north sides, the city of the great King.
048:003 God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.
048:004 For, behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together.