They hurried away.
048:006 Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.
048:007 With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.
048:008 As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of Yahweh of Armies,
in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah.
048:009 We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the midst
of your temple.
048:010 As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth.
Your right hand is full of righteousness.
048:011 Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice,
Because of your judgments.
048:012 Walk about Zion, and go around her. Number its towers.
048:013 Mark well her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may
tell it to the next generation.
048:014 For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide
even to death.
049:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.>>
Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants
of the world,
049:002 both low and high, rich and poor together.
049:003 My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart
shall utter understanding.
049:004 I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle
on the harp.
049:005 Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my
heels surrounds me?
049:006 Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude
of their riches--
049:007 none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give
God a ransom for him.
049:008 For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment
is ever enough,
049:009 That he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.
049:010 For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the
senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
049:011 Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever,
and their dwelling places to all generations. They name
their lands after themselves.
049:012 But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like
the animals that perish.
049:013 This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those
who approve their sayings. Selah.
049:014 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall
be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over
them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol,
far from their mansion.
049:015 But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol,
for he will receive me. Selah.
049:016 Don't be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his
house is increased.
049:017 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall
not descend after him.
049:018 Though while he lived he blessed his soul--and men praise you
when you do well for yourself--
049:019 he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall
never see the light.
049:020 A man who has riches without understanding, is like the
animals that perish.
050:001 <<A Psalm by Asaph.>> The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks,
and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
050:002 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
050:003 Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him.
It is very stormy around him.
050:004 He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may
judge his people:
050:005 "Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant
with me by sacrifice."
050:006 The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself
is judge. Selah.
050:007 "Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify
against you. I am God, your God.
050:008 I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings
are continually before me.
050:009 I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats
from your pens.
050:010 For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock
on a thousand hills.
050:011 I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals
of the field are mine.
050:012 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine,
and all that is in it.
050:013 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
050:014 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows
to the Most High.
050:015 Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you,
and you will honor me."
050:016 But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare
my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
050:017 seeing you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
050:018 When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have
participated with adulterers.
050:019 "You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
050:020 You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your
own mother's son.
050:021 You have done these things, and I kept silent.
You thought that the I was just like you. I will rebuke you,
and accuse you in front of your eyes.
050:022 "Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces,
and there be none to deliver.
050:023 Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him."
051:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan
the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.>>
Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness.
According to the multitude of your tender mercies,
blot out my transgressions.
051:002 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.
051:003 For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.
051:004 Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is
evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak,
and justified when you judge.
051:005 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my
mother conceived me.
051:006 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me
wisdom in the inmost place.
051:007 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I
will be whiter than snow.
051:008 Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have
broken may rejoice.
051:009 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.
051:010 Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
051:011 Don't throw me from your presence, and don't take your holy
Spirit from me.
051:012 Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with
a willing spirit.
051:013 Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners shall
be converted to you.
051:014 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation.
My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
051:015 Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise.
051:016 For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it.
You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
051:017 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and
contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
051:018 Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.
051:019 Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness,
in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings.
Then they will offer bulls on your altar.
052:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg
the Edomite came and told Saul, "David has come to Abimelech's
house.">> Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man?
God's loving kindness endures continually.
052:002 Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor,
working deceitfully.
052:003 You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking
the truth. Selah.
052:004 You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.
052:005 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up,
and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land
of the living. Selah.
052:006 The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,
052:007 "Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength,
but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened
himself in his wickedness."
052:008 But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God's house.
I trust in God's loving kindness forever and ever.
052:009 I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it.
I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence
of your saints.
053:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Mahalath." A contemplation
by David.>> The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God."
They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity.
There is no one who does good.
053:002 God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see
if there are any who understood, who seek after God.
053:003 Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together.
There is no one who does good, no, not one.
053:004 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people
as they eat bread, and don't call on God?
053:005 There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God
has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you.
You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.
053:006 Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God
brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice,
and Israel shall be glad.
054:001 <<For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation
by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, "Isn't David
hiding himself among us?">> Save me, God, by your name.
Vindicate me in your might.
054:002 Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth.
054:003 For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought
after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.
054:004 Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.
054:005 He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.
054:006 With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you.
I will give thanks to your name, Yahweh, for it is good.
054:007 For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen
triumph over my enemies.
055:001 <<For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments.
A contemplation by David.>> Listen to my prayer, God.
Don't hide yourself from my supplication.
055:002 Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan,
055:003 Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression
of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me.
In anger they hold a grudge against me.
055:004 My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death
have fallen on me.
055:005 Fearfulness and trembling have come on me.
Horror has overwhelmed me.
055:006 I said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away,
and be at rest.
055:007 Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in
the wilderness." Selah.
055:008 "I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm."
055:009 Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have
seen violence and strife in the city.
055:010 Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse
are also within her.
055:011 Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don't
depart from her streets.
055:012 For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have
endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself
up against me, then I would have hid myself from him.
055:013 But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.
055:014 We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God's
house with company.
055:015 Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol.
For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.
055:016 As for me, I will call on God. Yahweh will save me.
055:017 Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress.
He will hear my voice.
055:018 He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was
against me, although there are many who oppose me.
055:019 God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them.
Selah. They never change, who don't fear God.
055:020 He raises his hands against his friends. He has
violated his covenant.
055:021 His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war.
His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
055:022 Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you.
He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
055:023 But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction.
Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days,
but I will trust in you.
056:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in
Distant Lands." A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him
in Gath.>> Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up.
All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
056:002 My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are
many who fight proudly against me.
056:003 When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
056:004 In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust.
I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
056:005 All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are
against me for evil.
056:006 They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager
to take my life.
056:007 Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.
056:008 You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle.
Aren't they in your book?
056:009 Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call.
I know this, that God is for me.
056:010 In God, I will praise his word. In Yahweh, I will praise his word.
056:011 I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?
056:012 Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you.
056:013 For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my
feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light
of the living.
057:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy."
A poem by David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.>> Be
merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge
in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge,
until disaster has passed.
057:002 I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my
requests for me.
057:003 He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one
who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving
kindness and his truth.
057:004 My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire,
even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows,
and their tongue a sharp sword.
057:005 Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above
all the earth!
057:006 They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down.
They dig a pit before me. They fall into the midst of
it themselves. Selah.
057:007 My heart is steadfast, God, my heart is steadfast.
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises.
057:008 Wake up, my glory! Wake up, psaltery and harp!
I will wake up the dawn.
057:009 I will give thanks to you, Lord, among the peoples.
I will sing praises to you among the nations.
057:010 For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens,
and your truth to the skies.
057:011 Be exalted, God, above the heavens. Let your glory be over
all the earth.
058:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy."
A poem by David.>> Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones?
Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?
058:002 No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence
of your hands in the earth.
058:003 The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon
as they are born, speaking lies.
058:004 Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra
that stops its ear,
058:005 which doesn't listen to the voice of charmers, no matter
how skillful the charmer may be.
058:006 Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great
teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.
058:007 Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow,
let their arrows be made blunt.
058:008 Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away,
like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
058:009 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep
away the green and the burning alike.
058:010 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance.
He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;
058:011 so that men shall say, "Most certainly there is a reward
for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who
judges the earth."
059:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy."
A poem by David, when Saul sent, and they watched the house
to kill him.>> Deliver me from my enemies, my God.
Set me on high from those who rise up against me.
059:002 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from
the bloodthirsty men.
059:003 For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather
themselves together against me, not for my disobedience,
nor for my sin, Yahweh.
059:004 I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me.
Rise up, behold, and help me!
059:005 You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish
the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah.
059:006 They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl
around the city.
059:007 Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For,"
they say, "who hears us?"
059:008 But you, Yahweh, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations.
059:009 Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, for God is my high tower.
059:010 My God will go before me with his loving kindness.
God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.
059:011 Don't kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them
by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.
059:012 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips,
let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies
which they utter.
059:013 Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more.
Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of
the earth. Selah.
059:014 At evening let them return. Let them howl like a dog,
and go around the city.
059:015 They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night
if they aren't satisfied.
059:016 But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud
of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been
my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.
059:017 To you, my strength, I will sing praises. For God is my high tower,
the God of my mercy.
060:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lily of the Covenant."
A teaching poem by David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim
and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve
thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.>> God, you have
rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry.
Restore us, again.
060:002 You have made the land tremble. You have torn it.
Mend its fractures, for it quakes.
060:003 You have shown your people hard things. You have made us
drink the wine that makes us stagger.
060:004 You have given a banner to those who fear you, that it may be
displayed because of the truth. Selah.
060:005 So that your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand,
and answer us.
060:006 God has spoken from his sanctuary: "I will triumph.
I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.
060:007 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the defense
of my head. Judah is my scepter.
060:008 Moab is my wash basin. I will throw my shoe on Edom.
I shout in triumph over Philistia."
060:009 Who will bring me into the strong city? Who has led me to Edom?
060:010 Haven't you, God, rejected us? You don't go out with
our armies, God.
060:011 Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain.
060:012 Through God we shall do valiantly, for it is he who will tread
down our adversaries.
061:001 <<For the Chief Musician. For a stringed instrument.
By David.>> Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.
061:002 From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart
is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
061:003 For you have been a refuge for me, a strong tower from the enemy.
061:004 I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge
in the shelter of your wings. Selah.
061:005 For you, God, have heard my vows. You have given me the heritage
of those who fear your name.
061:006 You will prolong the king's life; his years shall be for generations.
061:007 He shall be enthroned in God's presence forever. Appoint your
loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.
061:008 So I will sing praise to your name forever, that I may fulfill
my vows daily.
062:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthan. A Psalm by David.>>
My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.
062:002 He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress--I will
never be greatly shaken.
062:003 How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down,
Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
062:004 They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place.
They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they
curse inwardly. Selah.
062:005 My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation
is from him.
062:006 He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress.
I will not be shaken.
062:007 With God is my salvation and my honor. The rock of my strength,
and my refuge, is in God.
062:008 Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart
before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.
062:009 Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high
degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up.
They are together lighter than a breath.
062:010 Don't trust in oppression. Don't become vain in robbery.
If riches increase, don't set your heart on them.
062:011 God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power
belongs to God.
062:012 Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward
every man according to his work.
063:001 <<A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah.>> God,
you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts
for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land,
where there is no water.
063:002 So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power
and your glory.
063:003 Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips
shall praise you.
063:004 So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands
in your name.
063:005 My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food.
My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,
063:006 when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in
the night watches.
063:007 For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow
of your wings.
063:008 My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.
063:009 But those who seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into
the lower parts of the earth.
063:010 They shall be given over to the power of the sword.
They shall be jackal food.
063:011 But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him
will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies
shall be silenced.
064:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> Hear my voice,
God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
064:002 Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy
crowd of the ones doing evil;
064:003 who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows,
deadly words,
064:004 to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him
suddenly and fearlessly.
064:005 They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying
snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?"
064:006 They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!"
Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.
064:007 But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck
down with an arrow.
064:008 Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will
shake their heads.
064:009 All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God,
and shall wisely ponder what he has done.
064:010 The righteous shall be glad in Yahweh, and shall take refuge in him.
All the upright in heart shall praise him!
065:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song.>> Praise
waits for you, God, in Zion. To you shall vows be performed.
065:002 You who hear prayer, to you all men will come.
065:003 Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions.
065:004 Blessed is one whom you choose, and cause to come near,
that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with
the goodness of your house, your holy temple.
065:005 By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of
our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth,
of those who are far away on the sea;
065:006 Who by his power forms the mountains, having armed
yourself with strength;
065:007 who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves,
and the turmoil of the nations.
065:008 They also who dwell in far-away places are afraid at your wonders.