065:009 You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it.
The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain,
for so you have ordained it.
065:010 You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it
with showers. You bless it with a crop.
065:011 You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts
overflow with abundance.
065:012 The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are
clothed with gladness.
065:013 The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are
clothed with grain. They shout for joy! They also sing.
066:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A song. A Psalm.>> Make a joyful
shout to God, all the earth!
066:002 Sing to the glory of his name! Offer glory and praise!
066:003 Tell God, "How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness
of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you.
066:004 All the earth will worship you, and will sing to you;
they will sing to your name." Selah.
066:005 Come, and see God's deeds--awesome work on behalf of the
children of men.
066:006 He turned the sea into dry land. They went through the river
on foot. There, we rejoiced in him.
066:007 He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations.
Don't let the rebellious rise up against him. Selah.
066:008 Praise our God, you peoples! Make the sound of his praise heard,
066:009 who preserves our life among the living, and doesn't allow
our feet to be moved.
066:010 For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us,
as silver is refined.
066:011 You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.
066:012 You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire
and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.
066:013 I will come into your temple with burnt offerings.
I will pay my vows to you,
066:014 which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.
066:015 I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals, with the
offering of rams, I will offer bulls with goats. Selah.
066:016 Come, and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has
done for my soul.
066:017 I cried to him with my mouth. He was extolled with my tongue.
066:018 If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn't have listened.
066:019 But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice
of my prayer.
066:020 Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his
loving kindness from me.
067:001 <<For the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments.
A Psalm. A song.>> May God be merciful to us, bless us,
and cause his face to shine on us. Selah.
067:002 That your way may be known on earth, and your salvation
among all nations,
067:003 let the peoples praise you, God. Let all the peoples praise you.
067:004 Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you will judge
the peoples with equity, and govern the nations on earth. Selah.
067:005 Let the peoples praise you, God. Let all the peoples praise you.
067:006 The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God,
will bless us.
067:007 God will bless us. All the ends of the earth shall fear him.
068:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
A song.>> Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered!
Let them who hate him also flee before him.
068:002 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before
the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
068:003 But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God.
Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.
068:004 Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides
on the clouds: to Yah, his name! Rejoice before him!
068:005 A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows,
is God in his holy habitation.
068:006 God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners
with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
068:007 God, when you went forth before your people, when you marched
through the wilderness... Selah.
068:008 The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at
the presence of the God of Sinai--at the presence of God,
the God of Israel.
068:009 You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance,
when it was weary.
068:010 Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your
goodness for the poor.
068:011 The Lord announced the word. The ones who proclaim it are
a great company.
068:012 "Kings of armies flee! They flee!" She who waits at home
divides the spoil,
068:013 while you sleep among the campfires, the wings of a dove
sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold.
068:014 When the Almighty scattered kings in her, it snowed on Zalmon.
068:015 The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains.
The mountains of Bashan are rugged.
068:016 Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain
where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.
068:017 The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands.
The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.
068:018 You have ascended on high. You have led away captives.
You have received gifts among men, yes, among the rebellious also,
that Yah God might dwell there.
068:019 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, even the God
who is our salvation. Selah.
068:020 God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord,
belongs escape from death.
068:021 But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy
scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.
068:022 The Lord said, "I will bring you again from Bashan, I will bring
you again from the depths of the sea;
068:023 That you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood,
that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion
from your enemies."
068:024 They have seen your processions, God, even the processions
of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.
068:025 The singers went before, the minstrels followed after,
in the midst of the ladies playing with tambourines,
068:026 "Bless God in the congregations, even the Lord in the
assembly of Israel!"
068:027 There is little Benjamin, their ruler, the princes of Judah,
their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
068:028 Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which
you have done for us.
068:029 Because of your temple at Jerusalem, kings shall bring
presents to you.
068:030 Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls,
with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring
bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.
068:031 Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch
out her hands to God.
068:032 Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth! Sing praises to
the Lord! Selah.
068:033 To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old;
behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.
068:034 Ascribe strength to God! His excellency is over Israel,
his strength is in the skies.
068:035 You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries.
The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people.
Praise be to God!
069:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Lilies." By David.>>
Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!
069:002 I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold.
I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
069:003 I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail,
looking for my God.
069:004 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head.
Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully,
are mighty. I have to restore what I didn't take away.
069:005 God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren't hidden from you.
069:006 Don't let those who wait for you be shamed through me,
Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don't let those who seek you be brought
to dishonor through me, God of Israel.
069:007 Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has
covered my face.
069:008 I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to
my mother's children.
069:009 For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches
of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
069:010 When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
069:011 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
069:012 Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song
of the drunkards.
069:013 But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time.
God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me
in the truth of your salvation.
069:014 Deliver me out of the mire, and don't let me sink.
Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of
the deep waters.
069:015 Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep
swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.
069:016 Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good.
According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
069:017 Don't hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress.
Answer me speedily!
069:018 Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because
of my enemies.
069:019 You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor.
My adversaries are all before you.
069:020 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness.
I looked for some to take pity, but there was none;
for comforters, but I found none.
069:021 They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave
me vinegar to drink.
069:022 Let their table before them become a snare. May it become
a retribution and a trap.
069:023 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see.
Let their backs be continually bent.
069:024 Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your
anger overtake them.
069:025 Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.
069:026 For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell
of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
069:027 Charge them with crime upon crime. Don't let them come
into your righteousness.
069:028 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written
with the righteous.
069:029 But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.
069:030 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify
him with thanksgiving.
069:031 It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has
horns and hoofs.
069:032 The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God,
let your heart live.
069:033 For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn't despise his captive people.
069:034 Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything
that moves therein!
069:035 For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah.
They shall settle there, and own it.
069:036 The children also of his servants shall inherit it.
Those who love his name shall dwell therein.
070:001 <<For the Chief Musician. By David. A reminder.>> Hurry, God,
to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, Yahweh.
070:002 Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul.
Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.
070:003 Let them be turned because of their shame Who say, "Aha! Aha!"
070:004 Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you.
Let those who love your salvation continually say,
"Let God be exalted!"
070:005 But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are
my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don't delay.
071:001 In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed.
071:002 Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me.
Turn your ear to me, and save me.
071:003 Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go.
Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.
071:004 Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand
of the unrighteous and cruel man.
071:005 For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh; my confidence from my youth.
071:006 I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me
out of my mother's womb. I will always praise you.
071:007 I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.
071:008 My mouth shall be filled with your praise, with your honor
all the day.
071:009 Don't reject me in my old age. Don't forsake me when
my strength fails.
071:010 For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my
soul conspire together,
071:011 saying, "God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no
one will rescue him."
071:012 God, don't be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.
071:013 Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be
covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.
071:014 But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.
071:015 My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your
salvation all day, though I don't know its full measure.
071:016 I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh.
I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.
071:017 God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have
declared your wondrous works.
071:018 Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake me,
until I have declared your strength to the next generation,
your might to everyone who is to come.
071:019 Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens;
you have done great things. God, who is like you?
071:020 You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will
let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths
of the earth.
071:021 Increase my honor, and comfort me again.
071:022 I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God.
I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.
071:023 My lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed,
sings praises to you!
071:024 My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long,
for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want
to harm me.
072:001 <<By Solomon.>> God, give the king your justice; your righteousness
to the royal son.
072:002 He will judge your people with righteousness, and your
poor with justice.
072:003 The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people.
The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.
072:004 He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children
of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
072:005 They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the moon,
throughout all generations.
072:006 He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers
that water the earth.
072:007 In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace,
until the moon is no more.
072:008 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River
to the ends of the earth.
072:009 Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him.
His enemies shall lick the dust.
072:010 The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute.
The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
072:011 Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations
shall serve him.
072:012 For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor,
who has no helper.
072:013 He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls
of the needy.
072:014 He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence.
Their blood will be precious in his sight.
072:015 They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba.
Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him
all day long.
072:016 There shall be abundance of grain throughout the land.
Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like
the grass of the field.
072:017 His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun.
Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.
072:018 Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone
does marvelous deeds.
072:019 Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth
be filled with his glory! Amen and amen.
072:020 This ends the prayers by David, the son of Jesse.
073:001 <<A Psalm by Asaph.>> Surely God is good to Israel, to those
who are pure in heart.
073:002 But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps
had nearly slipped.
073:003 For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity
of the wicked.
073:004 For there are no struggles in their death, but their
strength is firm.
073:005 They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued
like other men.
073:006 Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck.
Violence covers them like a garment.
073:007 Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.
073:008 They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance,
they threaten oppression.
073:009 They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks
through the earth.
073:010 Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up
waters of abundance.
073:011 They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"
073:012 Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease,
they increase in riches.
073:013 Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my
hands in innocence,
073:014 For all day long have I been plagued, and punished every morning.
073:015 If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would have betrayed
the generation of your children.
073:016 When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;
073:017 Until I entered God's sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
073:018 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them
down to destruction.
073:019 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept
away with terrors.
073:020 As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake,
you will despise their fantasies.
073:021 For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.
073:022 I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.
073:023 Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held
my right hand.
073:024 You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive
me to glory.
073:025 Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I
desire besides you.
073:026 My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.
073:027 For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish.
You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.
073:028 But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made
the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
074:001 <<A contemplation by Asaph.>> God, why have you rejected us forever?
Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
074:002 Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old,
which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance;
Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
074:003 Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that
the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
074:004 Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly.
They have set up their standards as signs.
074:005 They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a
thicket of trees.
074:006 Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
074:007 They have burned your sanctuary to the ground.
They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
074:008 They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely."
They have burned up all the places in the land where
God was worshiped.
074:009 We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet,
neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
074:010 How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy
blaspheme your name forever?
074:011 Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand?
Take it out of your pocket and consume them!
074:012 Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst
of the earth.
074:013 You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads
of the sea monsters in the waters.
074:014 You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him
as food to people and desert creatures.
074:015 You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
074:016 The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared
the light and the sun.
074:017 You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made
summer and winter.
074:018 Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh.
Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
074:019 Don't deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts.
Don't forget the life of your poor forever.
074:020 Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark
places of the earth.
074:021 Don't let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy
praise your name.
074:022 Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish
man mocks you all day.
074:023 Don't forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult
of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
075:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy."
A Psalm by Asaph. A song.>> We give thanks to you, God.
We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about
your wondrous works.
075:002 When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly.
075:003 The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold
its pillars. Selah.
075:004 I said to the arrogant, "Don't boast!" I said to the wicked,
"Don't lift up the horn.
075:005 Don't lift up your horn on high. Don't speak with a stiff neck."
075:006 For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from
the south, comes exaltation.
075:007 But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.
075:008 For in the hand of Yahweh there is a cup, full of foaming
wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked
of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.
075:009 But I will declare this forever: I will sing praises to
the God of Jacob.
075:010 I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns
of the righteous shall be lifted up.
076:001 <<For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments.
A Psalm by Asaph. A song.>> In Judah, God is known.
His name is great in Israel.
076:002 His tent is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion.
076:003 There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield,
and the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.
076:004 Glorious are you, and excellent, more than mountains of game.
076:005 Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep.
None of the men of war can lift their hands.
076:006 At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast
into a deep sleep.
076:007 You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight
when you are angry?
076:008 You pronounced judgment from heaven. The earth feared,
and was silent,
076:009 when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones
of the earth. Selah.
076:010 Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your
wrath are restrained.
076:011 Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his
neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.
076:012 He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings
of the earth.
077:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by Asaph.>> My
cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him
to listen to me.
077:002 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand
was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired.
My soul refused to be comforted.
077:003 I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit
is overwhelmed. Selah.
077:004 You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can't speak.
077:005 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
077:006 I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart;
my spirit diligently inquires:
077:007 "Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?
077:008 Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise
fail for generations?
077:009 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger,
withheld his compassion?" Selah.
077:010 Then I thought, "I will appeal to this: the years of the right
hand of the Most High."
077:011 I will remember Yah's deeds; for I will remember your
wonders of old.
077:012 I will also meditate on all your work, and consider your doings.
077:013 Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God?
077:014 You are the God who does wonders. You have made your strength
known among the peoples.
077:015 You have redeemed your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob
and Joseph. Selah.
077:016 The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed.
The depths also convulsed.
077:017 The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder.
Your arrows also flashed around.
077:018 The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings
lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.
077:019 Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters.
Your footsteps were not known.