witness in the sky." Selah.
089:038 But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry
with your anointed.
089:039 You have renounced the covenant of your servant.
You have defiled his crown in the dust.
089:040 You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his
strongholds to ruin.
089:041 All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach
to his neighbors.
089:042 You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries.
You have made all of his enemies rejoice.
089:043 Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven't supported
him in battle.
089:044 You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down
to the ground.
089:045 You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered
him with shame. Selah.
089:046 How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever?
Will your wrath burn like fire?
089:047 Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you
created all the children of men!
089:048 What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall
deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
089:049 Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore
to David in your faithfulness?
089:050 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear
in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
089:051 With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they
have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
089:052 Blessed be Yahweh forevermore. Amen, and Amen.
090:001 <<A Prayer by Moses, the man of God.>> Lord, you have been
our dwelling place for all generations.
090:002 Before the mountains were brought forth, before you had formed
the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting,
you are God.
090:003 You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."
090:004 For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday
when it is past, like a watch in the night.
090:005 You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout
like new grass.
090:006 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening,
it is withered and dry.
090:007 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
090:008 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins
in the light of your presence.
090:009 For all our days have passed away in your wrath.
We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
090:010 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength
eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow,
for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
090:011 Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according
to the fear that is due to you?
090:012 So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
090:013 Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!
090:014 Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we
may rejoice and be glad all our days.
090:015 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
for as many years as we have seen evil.
090:016 Let your work appear to your servants; your glory to their children.
090:017 Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work
of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.
091:001 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest
in the shadow of the Almighty.
091:002 I will say of Yahweh, "He is my refuge and my fortress;
my God, in whom I trust."
091:003 For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler,
and from the deadly pestilence.
091:004 He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will
take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.
091:005 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow
that flies by day;
091:006 nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction
that wastes at noonday.
091:007 A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your
right hand; but it will not come near you.
091:008 You will only look with your eyes, and see the recompense
of the wicked.
091:009 Because you have made Yahweh your refuge, and the Most High
your dwelling place,
091:010 no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come
near your dwelling.
091:011 For he will give his angels charge over you, to guard you
in all your ways.
091:012 They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won't dash
your foot against a stone.
091:013 You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample
the young lion and the serpent underfoot.
091:014 "Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him.
I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
091:015 He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him
in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
091:016 I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation."
092:001 <<A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day.>> It is a good thing
to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to your name, Most High;
092:002 to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your
faithfulness every night,
092:003 with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody
of the lyre.
092:004 For you, Yahweh, have made me glad through your work.
I will triumph in the works of your hands.
092:005 How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.
092:006 A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:
092:007 though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evil-doers
flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
092:008 But you, Yahweh, are on high forevermore.
092:009 For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh, for, behold, your enemies
shall perish. All the evil-doers will be scattered.
092:010 But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox.
I am anointed with fresh oil.
092:011 My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked
enemies who rise up against me.
092:012 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree.
He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
092:013 They are planted in Yahweh's house. They will flourish
in our God's courts.
092:014 They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be
full of sap and green,
092:015 to show that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there
is no unrighteousness in him.
093:001 Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is
armed with strength. The world also is established.
It can't be moved.
093:002 Your throne is established from long ago. You are from everlasting.
093:003 The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up
their voice. The floods lift up their waves.
093:004 Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea,
Yahweh on high is mighty.
093:005 Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house,
Yahweh, forevermore.
094:001 Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom
vengeance belongs, shine forth.
094:002 Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud
what they deserve.
094:003 Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?
094:004 They pour out arrogant words. All the evil-doers boast.
094:005 They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.
094:006 They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
094:007 They say, "Yah will not see, neither will Jacob's God consider."
094:008 Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools,
when will you be wise?
094:009 He who implanted the ear, won't he hear? He who formed the eye,
won't he see?
094:010 He who disciplines the nations, won't he punish?
He who teaches man knows.
094:011 Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
094:012 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out
of your law;
094:013 that you may give him rest from the days of adversity,
until the pit is dug for the wicked.
094:014 For Yahweh won't reject his people, neither will he
forsake his inheritance.
094:015 For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright
in heart shall follow it.
094:016 Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand
up for me against the evil-doers?
094:017 Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul would have soon
lived in silence.
094:018 When I said, "My foot is slipping!" Your loving kindness,
Yahweh, held me up.
094:019 In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts
delight my soul.
094:020 Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you,
which brings about mischief by statute?
094:021 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous,
and condemn the innocent blood.
094:022 But Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.
094:023 He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off
in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.
095:001 Oh come, let's sing to Yahweh. Let's shout aloud to the rock
of our salvation!
095:002 Let's come before his presence with thanksgiving.
Let's extol him with songs!
095:003 For Yahweh is a great God, a great King above all gods.
095:004 In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights
of the mountains are also his.
095:005 The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.
095:006 Oh come, let's worship and bow down. Let's kneel
before Yahweh, our Maker,
095:007 for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep
in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
095:008 Don't harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah
in the wilderness,
095:009 when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.
095:010 Forty long years I was grieved with that generation,
and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart.
They have not known my ways."
095:011 Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They won't enter into my rest."
096:001 Sing to Yahweh a new song! Sing to Yahweh, all the earth.
096:002 Sing to Yahweh! Bless his name! Proclaim his salvation
from day to day!
096:003 Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among
all the peoples.
096:004 For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised!
He is to be feared above all gods.
096:005 For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh
made the heavens.
096:006 Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are
in his sanctuary.
096:007 Ascribe to Yahweh, you families of nations, ascribe to Yahweh
glory and strength.
096:008 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering,
and come into his courts.
096:009 Worship Yahweh in holy array. Tremble before him, all the earth.
096:010 Say among the nations, "Yahweh reigns." The world is
also established. It can't be moved. He will judge
the peoples with equity.
096:011 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice.
Let the sea roar, and its fullness!
096:012 Let the field and all that is in it exult! Then all the trees
of the woods shall sing for joy
096:013 before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth.
He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples
with his truth.
097:001 Yahweh reigns! Let the earth rejoice! Let the multitude
of islands be glad!
097:002 Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice
are the foundation of his throne.
097:003 A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side.
097:004 His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees, and trembles.
097:005 The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Yahweh,
at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
097:006 The heavens declare his righteousness. All the peoples have
seen his glory.
097:007 Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast
in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!
097:008 Zion heard and was glad. The daughters of Judah rejoiced,
because of your judgments, Yahweh.
097:009 For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth.
You are exalted far above all gods.
097:010 You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He preserves the souls of
his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
097:011 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the
upright in heart.
097:012 Be glad in Yahweh, you righteous people! Give thanks to
his holy Name.
098:001 <<A Psalm.>> Sing to Yahweh a new song, for he has done
marvelous things! His right hand, and his holy arm,
have worked salvation for him.
098:002 Yahweh has made known his salvation. He has openly shown
his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
098:003 He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness
toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have
seen the salvation of our God.
098:004 Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth! Burst out and sing
for joy, yes, sing praises!
098:005 Sing praises to Yahweh with the harp, with the harp and
the voice of melody.
098:006 With trumpets and sound of the ram's horn, make a joyful noise
before the King, Yahweh.
098:007 Let the sea roar with its fullness; the world, and those
who dwell therein.
098:008 Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing
for joy together.
098:009 Let them sing before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth.
He will judge the world with righteousness, and the
peoples with equity.
099:001 Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned
among the cherubim. Let the earth be moved.
099:002 Yahweh is great in Zion. He is high above all the peoples.
099:003 Let them praise your great and awesome name. He is Holy!
099:004 The King's strength also loves justice. You do establish equity.
You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
099:005 Exalt Yahweh our God. Worship at his footstool.
He is Holy!
099:006 Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel among those who call
on his name; they called on Yahweh, and he answered them.
099:007 He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies,
the statute that he gave them.
099:008 You answered them, Yahweh our God. You are a God who forgave them,
although you took vengeance for their doings.
099:009 Exalt Yahweh, our God. Worship at his holy hill, for Yahweh,
our God, is holy!
100:001 <<A Psalm of thanksgiving.>> Shout for joy to Yahweh,
all you lands!
100:002 Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.
100:003 Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we
are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
100:004 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, into his courts with praise.
Give thanks to him, and bless his name.
100:005 For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever,
his faithfulness to all generations.
101:001 <<A Psalm by David.>> I will sing of loving kindness and justice.
To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises.
101:002 I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come
to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
101:003 I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds
of faithless men. They will not cling to me.
101:004 A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing
to do with evil.
101:005 I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor.
I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.
101:006 My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell
with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me.
101:007 He who practices deceit won't dwell within my house.
He who speaks falsehood won't be established before my eyes.
101:008 Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land;
to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh's city.
102:001 <<A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out
his complaint before Yahweh.>> Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my
cry come to you.
102:002 Don't hide your face from me in the day of my distress.
Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.
102:003 For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned
as a firebrand.
102:004 My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget
to eat my bread.
102:005 By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.
102:006 I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl
of the waste places.
102:007 I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone
on the housetop.
102:008 My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use
my name as a curse.
102:009 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,
102:010 Because of your indignation and your wrath, for you have taken
me up, and thrown me away.
102:011 My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
102:012 But you, Yahweh, will abide forever; your renown endures
to all generations.
102:013 You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have
pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.
102:014 For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity
on her dust.
102:015 So the nations will fear the name of Yahweh; all the kings
of the earth your glory.
102:016 For Yahweh has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.
102:017 He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not
despised their prayer.
102:018 This will be written for the generation to come.
A people which will be created will praise Yah.
102:019 For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary.
From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth;
102:020 to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are
condemned to death;
102:021 that men may declare the name of Yahweh in Zion, and his
praise in Jerusalem;
102:022 when the peoples are gathered together, the kingdoms,
to serve Yahweh.
102:023 He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.
102:024 I said, "My God, don't take me away in the midst of my days.
Your years are throughout all generations.
102:025 Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens
are the work of your hands.
102:026 They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will
wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak,
and they will be changed.
102:027 But you are the same. Your years will have no end.
102:028 The children of your servants will continue. Their seed
will be established before you."
103:001 <<By David.>> Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me,
praise his holy name!
103:002 Praise Yahweh, my soul, and don't forget all his benefits;
103:003 who forgives all your sins; who heals all your diseases;
103:004 who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with
loving kindness and tender mercies;
103:005 who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth
is renewed like the eagle's.
103:006 Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all
who are oppressed.
103:007 He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the children of Israel.
103:008 Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant
in loving kindness.
103:009 He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever.
103:010 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us
for our iniquities.
103:011 For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his
loving kindness toward those who fear him.
103:012 As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed
our transgressions from us.
103:013 Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has
compassion on those who fear him.
103:014 For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.
103:015 As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field,
so he flourishes.
103:016 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place
remembers it no more.
103:017 But Yahweh's loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting
with those who fear him, his righteousness to children's children;
103:018 to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to
obey his precepts.
103:019 Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens.
His kingdom rules over all.
103:020 Praise Yahweh, you angels of his, who are mighty in strength,
who fulfill his word, obeying the voice of his word.
103:021 Praise Yahweh, all you armies of his, you servants of his,
who do his pleasure.
103:022 Praise Yahweh, all you works of his, in all places of his dominion.
Praise Yahweh, my soul!
104:001 Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great.
You are clothed with honor and majesty.
104:002 He covers himself with light as with a garment.
He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
104:003 He lays the beams of his chambers in the waters.
He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings
of the wind.
104:004 He makes his messengers{or, angels} winds; his servants
flames of fire.
104:005 He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not
be moved forever.
104:006 You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters
stood above the mountains.
104:007 At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder
they hurried away.
104:008 The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place
which you had assigned to them.
104:009 You have set a boundary that they may not pass over;
that they don't turn again to cover the earth.
104:010 He sends forth springs into the valleys. They run
among the mountains.
104:011 They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys
quench their thirst.
104:012 The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches.
104:013 He waters the mountains from his chambers. The earth is filled
with the fruit of your works.
104:014 He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man
to cultivate, that he may bring forth food out of the earth:
104:015 wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face
to shine, and bread that strengthens man's heart.
104:016 Yahweh's trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon,
which he has planted;
104:017 where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home
in the fir trees.
104:018 The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are
a refuge for the rock badgers.
104:019 He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.
104:020 You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals
of the forest prowl.
104:021 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their
food from God.
104:022 The sun rises, and they steal away, and lay down in their dens.
104:023 Man goes forth to his work, to his labor until the evening.
104:024 Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all.
The earth is full of your riches.
104:025 There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable
living things, both small and large animals.
104:026 There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.
104:027 These all wait for you, that you may give them their food
in due season.
104:028 You give to them; they gather. You open your hand;
they are satisfied with good.
104:029 You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath:
they die, and return to the dust.
104:030 You send forth your Spirit: they are created. You renew
the face of the ground.
104:031 Let the glory of Yahweh endure forever. Let Yahweh rejoice
in his works.
104:032 He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains,
and they smoke.
104:033 I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live. I will sing praise
to my God while I have any being.
104:034 Let your meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.
104:035 Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more.
Bless Yahweh, my soul. Praise Yah!
105:001 Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings
known among the peoples.
105:002 Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works.
105:003 Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who
seek Yahweh rejoice.
105:004 Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
105:005 Remember his marvelous works that he has done; his wonders,
and the judgments of his mouth,
105:006 you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob,
his chosen ones.
105:007 He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.
105:008 He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded
to a thousand generations,
105:009 the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,
105:010 and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute; to Israel
for an everlasting covenant,
105:011 saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot
of your inheritance;"
105:012 when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few,
and foreigners in it.
105:013 They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom
to another people.
105:014 He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings
for their sakes,
105:015 "Don't touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!"
105:016 He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.