¹Happy is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,

And who does not stand on the way of sinners,

And who does not sit in the seat of mockers,

²But whose delight is in the Lord's law,

And in whose law he meditates day and night.

³And he will be like a tree planted at brooks of water,

Which yields its fruit in its season,

And whose leaves will not wither,

For everything that he does will prosper.

⁴Not so the wicked;

They are on the contrary like chaff

Which the wind drives about.

⁵That is why the wicked will not be able to stand at the judgment,

Nor will sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

⁶For the Lord knows the way of the righteous,

But the way of the wicked will cease.

³And say, “Let us break their bonds apart

And cast their cords off us.”

⁴He who dwells in the heavens will laugh;

The Lord^* will deride them.

⁵Then he will speak to them in his anger,

And in his fury he will terrify them.

⁶But I have anointed my king,

On Zion, my holy mountain.

⁷I will relate the Lord's statute.

He has said to me,

⁸Ask me,

And the ends of the earth as your possession.

¹⁰So now, you kings, act wisely;

Be admonished, you judges of the earth.

¹¹Serve the Lord with fear,

And rejoice in awe.

¹²Kiss the son

Lest he becomes angry

And you perish on the way,

When his anger is kindled but a little.

Happy are all those who trust in him.

Reference(s) in Chapter 2: v.1 ↔ Acts 4:25 ● v.2 ↔ Acts 4:26 ● v.7 ↔ Acts 13:33, Hebrews 1:5, Hebrews 5:5 ● v.8 ↔ Revelation 2:26 ● v.9 ↔ Revelation 2:27, Revelation 12:5, Revelation 19:15.

¹A Psalm of David when he was fleeing from Absalom his son.

²O Lord, how my adversaries have increased!

Many are rising up against me.

³Many say about myself,

“There is no salvation in God for him.”

Selah.

⁴But you, O Lord, are a shield around me

– My glory,

And the one who lifts up my head.

⁵I call out to the Lord with my voice,

And he answers me from his holy mountain.

Selah.

⁶I lay down and fell asleep.

Then I awoke,

For the Lord sustained me.

⁷I will not be afraid of the tens of thousands of people

Who have ranged themselves against me.

⁸Rise up, O Lord;

Save me, O God of mine,

For you have struck all my enemies on the cheek;

You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

⁹Salvation is of the Lord;

Your blessing is on your people.

Selah.

¹To the choirmaster, in singing set to stringed music.↑

A Psalm of David.

²When I call out,

Answer me, O God of my righteousness.

You have relieved me in adversity;

Have mercy on me,

And hear my prayer.

³You sons of man, how long will you put my glory to shame?

You love vanity;

You seek falsehood.

Selah.

⁴So know that the Lord has set apart a sacred one for himself;

The Lord will hear when I call out to him.

⁵Be overawed and do not sin,

Speaking in your heart on your bed,

And be silent.

Selah.

⁶Offer righteous sacrifices,

And put your trust in the Lord.

⁷Many say, “Who will show us goodness?”

Raise the light of your presence on us, O Lord.

⁸You have put gladness in my heart

– More so than at the time

When their corn and new wine became abundant.

⁹I can lie down and sleep at the same time in peace,

For you alone, O Lord, can let me dwell in safety.

Reference(s) in Chapter 4: v.5 ↔ Ephesians 4:26.

¹To the choirmaster in singing set to wind instruments.↑

A Psalm of David.

²O Lord, listen to my words;

Consider my meditation.

³Hearken to my call of crying out,

O my king and my God,

For to you I pray.

⁴O Lord, you hear my voice in the morning;

In the morning I will marshal my thoughts to you

And keep watch.

⁵For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness;

No evil dwells in you.

⁶Those who boast shall not stand in your sight;

You hate all who are engaged in iniquity.

⁷You will destroy those who speak falsehood;

The Lord abhors the man of blood and deceit.

⁸But as for me, I will go to your house in the abundance of your kindness;

I will worship facing your holy temple

In fear of you.

⁹Lead me, O Lord, in your righteousness

On account of my adversaries;

Make your way straight ahead of me.

¹⁰For there is no rectitude in his mouth;

Their inner heart consists of lusts.

¹¹Condemn them, O God,

Let them fall by their own plans.

Drive them out for the multitude of their transgressions,

For they have rebelled against you.

¹²Then all who put their trust in you will rejoice;

They will shout for joy age-abidingly,

And you will protect them,

And those who love your name

Will exult in you.

¹³For you, O Lord, will bless the righteous man;

You will surround him with delight like a shield.

Reference(s) in Chapter 5: v.10 ↔ Romans 3:13.

¹To the choirmaster in singing set to stringed music, concerning the eighth day division choir.↑

A Psalm of David.

²O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger,

And do not chasten me in your fury.

³Have mercy on me, O Lord,

For I am languishing.

Heal me, O Lord,

For my bones are agitated,

⁴And my inner being is very agitated.

And you, O Lord,

How long before you act?

⁵Return, O Lord;

Save my life

And deliver me,

For your kindness' sake.

⁶For in death there is no remembrance of you;

In the grave, who can give thanks to you?

⁷I am weary with my sighing;

All night I cause my bed to swim.

I dissolve my mattress with my tears.

⁸My eye has been ravaged with grief;

It has aged because of all my adversaries.

For the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.

¹⁰The Lord has heard my supplication;

The Lord will accept my prayer.

¹¹Let all my enemies be ashamed

And be most frightened;

Let them desist

And become ashamed in an instant.

Reference(s) in Chapter 6: v.9 ↔ Luke 13:27.

¹A Psalm of David of pre-eminence, which he sang to the Lord about the words of Cush the Benjaminite.

²O Lord my God, I have put my trust in you.

Save me from all those who pursue me,

And deliver me,

³Lest he, like a lion, tears my body in pieces,

Crushing me,

With no-one to deliver me.

⁴O Lord my God,

If I have done this,

If there is any injustice in my hands,

⁵If I have requited evil to anyone at peace with me,

Or if I have spoiled my adversary gratuitously,

⁶Then let my enemy pursue me to the death

And catch up with me

And trample on my life on the ground

And place my honour in the dust.

Selah.

⁷Arise, O Lord, in your anger;

Raise yourself at the haughtiness of my adversaries,

And rouse yourself for me by executing the justice

Which you have commanded.

⁸When the congregation of the various peoples surrounds you,

Return on high above them.

⁹The Lord will judge various peoples;

Judge me, O Lord,

According to my righteousness

And my personal integrity.

¹⁰Please may the evil of the wicked come to an end,

And may you establish the just,

When the righteous God tests hearts and kidneys.

¹¹My shield is by means of trust in God,

Who saves the upright in heart.

¹²God judges the just man,

But God is indignant every day.

¹³He certainly will return

And sharpen his sword.

He draws his bow

And aims it.

¹⁴He has also prepared his deadly weapons;

He has fashioned his arrows into burning ones.

¹⁵Look how my enemy is giving birth to iniquity

And has conceived vice

And borne falsehood.

¹⁶He has dug a hole

And hollowed it out,

But he has fallen into the pit

Which he made.

¹⁷His vice will return on his head,

And his violence will descend on his crown.

¹⁸I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness,

And I will sing psalms to the name of the Most High, the Lord.

¹To the choirmaster in singing set to percussion instruments.↑

A Psalm of David.

²O Lord our Lord,

How excellent your name is in the whole earth!

So set your majesty over the heavens.

Because of your adversaries,

To silence the enemy and avenger.

⁴When I see your heavens,

The work of your fingers

– The moon and the stars which you have established –

⁵I ask, “What is man,

⁷You put him in charge of the works of your hands;

⁸Sheep and oxen, all of them,

And also the beasts of the field,

⁹Birds of the sky

And fish of the sea

And whatever crosses the paths of the seas.

¹⁰O Lord our Lord,

How excellent your name is on the whole earth!

Reference(s) in Chapter 8: v.3 ↔ Matthew 21:16 ● v.5 ↔ Hebrews 2:6 ● v.6 ↔ Hebrews 2:7 ● v.7 ↔ 1 Corinthians 15:25, 1 Corinthians 15:27, Ephesians 1:22, Hebrews 2:7^TR, Hebrews 2:8.

¹To the choirmaster. The secret of the son.↑

A Psalm of David.

²I will praise the Lord with all my heart;

I will tell of all your wondrous deeds.

³I will rejoice and exult in you;

I will sing psalms of your most high name.

⁴When my enemies retreat back,

They will stumble and perish at your presence.

⁵For you will deal with my case and my right;

You will sit on the throne

Judging righteously.

⁶You will rebuke nations

And put an end to the wicked one.

You will eradicate their name

For the age and in perpetuity.

⁷O enemy, devastations will come to an end in perpetuity,

But as for the cities which you have destroyed,

The memory of them has perished.

⁸But the Lord is seated age-abidingly;

He will establish his throne of justice.

⁹And he will judge the world justly;

He will arbitrate between peoples equitably.

¹⁰And the Lord will be a refuge to the oppressed

– A refuge in times of affliction.

¹¹And those who know your name will trust in you,

For you have not forsaken those who seek you,

O Lord.

¹²Sing psalms to the Lord,

Who is seated in Zion;

Relate his deeds

Among the various peoples.

¹³For he who requites bloodshed

Remembers them.

He does not forget

The crying of the afflicted.

¹⁴Have mercy on me, O Lord;

Observe my affliction by those who hate me,

You who lift me up from the gates of death,

¹⁵So that I can relate all your psalms of praise

At the gates of the daughter of Zion,

And rejoice in your salvation.

¹⁶The nations will sink in the pit which they have made;

In the very net which they hid,

Their leg will be trapped.

¹⁷The Lord is known

By the justice which he executes;

The wicked man is ensnared

By the work of his own hands.

A meditation. Selah.

¹⁸The wicked will return to the grave,

As will all the nations forgetful of God.

¹⁹For the poor will not be forgotten in perpetuity,

Nor will the hope of the meek perish for eternity.

²⁰Arise, O Lord,

Do not let man prevail;

Let the nations be judged

In your presence.

²¹O Lord, put fear in them,

That the nations may know

That they are but man.

Selah.

¹Why, O Lord, do you stand at a distance?

Why do you hide in times of affliction?

²The wicked man in his pride

Ardently pursues the needy,

But they will be caught by the very devices

Which they contrived.

³For the wicked man boasts in his personal pleasure-seeking,

And the defrauder blasphemes

– He blasphemes the Lord.

⁴The wicked, in his arrogant pride,

Does not seek divine guidance;

God does not come into any of his machinations.

⁵They pervert his way all the time.

Your judgments are high up, aloof from him;

He rails at all his adversaries.

⁶He says in his heart,

“I will not falter,

Because from generation to generation

I will not be in difficulty.”

Under his tongue are vice and iniquity.

⁸He lies in ambush in enclosed areas,

He kills the innocent in hiding places;

His eyes lie hidden,

Fixed on the downcast.

⁹He lies in ambush in the hiding place,

Like a lion in a thicket.

He lies in an ambush

Ready to pounce on the poor;

He pounces on the poor

As he draws him into his net.

¹⁰ And he crouches and keeps low,

And by his dominance

The strength of the downcast fails.

¹¹He says in his heart,

“God forgets,

He is hiding his face;

He will never look.”

¹²Arise, O Lord;

O God lift up your hand.

Do not forget the afflicted.

¹³Why does the wicked blaspheme God?

He says in his heart,

“He will not investigate it.”

¹⁴You have looked,

For you have seen sorrow and grief,

So as to requite it with your hand.

The downcast commits himself to you;

You are a helper to the orphan.

¹⁵Break the arm of the wicked and evil one;

Investigate his wickedness

Which he thinks you will not find.

¹⁶The Lord is king for the age and in perpetuity;

The nations are eliminated from his land.

¹⁷You have heard the desire of the meek, O Lord,

You will establish their heart;

Your ear has hearkened to it,

¹⁸So as to provide justice to the orphan and the afflicted.

The man from the earth

Will not cause terror any more.

Reference(s) in Chapter 10: v.7 ↔ Romans 3:14.

¹To the choirmaster.↑

A Psalm of David.

I have put my trust in the Lord.

How can you say to my inner being,

“Flee to your mountain

Like a bird”?

²For behold, the wicked draw the bow;

They attach their arrow to the string,

Ready to shoot under cover of darkness

At the upright of heart.

³If the foundations are demolished,

What can the righteous man do?

⁴The Lord is in his holy temple;

The Lord's throne is in heaven.

His eyes are looking;

His eyelids are testing the sons of Adam.

⁵The Lord tests the righteous,

But his being hates the wicked

And him who loves violence.

⁶He will rain burning coals, fire and sulphur on the wicked,

And a scorching wind will be the portion of their cup.

⁷For the righteous Lord loves righteousness,

And the upright will see his face.

¹To the choirmaster concerning the eighth day division choir.↑

A Psalm of David.

²Save, O Lord,

For the benevolent man has come to an end,

For faithfulness has ceased

Among the sons of Adam.

³Each man speaks falsehood to his neighbour;

They speak with flattering lips

And with an equivocal heart.

⁴The Lord will cut off all flattering lips

And the tongue that speaks bombastic words

⁵– Those who say,

“We will be great with our tongue;

Our lips are with us.

Who is lord over us?”

⁶“Because of the oppression of the poor,

Because of the groaning of the needy,

I will now rise up,

Says the Lord;

I will place him who is railed at

In safety.”

⁷The words of the Lord are pure words;

They are silver,

Refined in a crucible for the earth,

Purified seven times.

⁸You, O Lord, will guard them;

You will preserve him from this generation age-abidingly.

⁹All around, the wicked walk about,

Whilst the basest of the sons of Adam are exalted.

¹To the choirmaster.↑

A Psalm of David.

²How long, O Lord, will you forget me entirely?

How long will you hide your face from me?

³How long must I consult within myself?

Sorrow is in my heart by day.

How long will my enemy be raised up against me?

⁴Look and answer me,

O Lord my God;

Light up my eyes

So that I do not sleep the sleep of death,

⁵Lest my enemy should say,

“I have prevailed over him”,

And my adversaries should rejoice

Because I totter.

⁶But I trust in your kindness;

My heart rejoices in your salvation.

I will sing to the Lord,

For he has dealt favourably with me.

¹To the choirmaster.↑

A Psalm of David.

The fool has said in his heart,

“There is no God^*.”

They have acted corruptly;

They have acted abominably in deed.

²The Lord peered down from heaven

At the sons of Adam,

⁴Do all those engaged in iniquity not know?

– Those who devour my people

In the same way as they devour bread?

They do not call on the Lord.

⁵There, they had a great fear,

For God^* was with a righteous generation.

⁶You iniquitous ones have put the plans of the poor man to shame,

But the Lord is his refuge.

⁷Oh for the salvation of Israel from Zion!

When the Lord reverses the captivity of his people,

Jacob will rejoice

– Israel will be glad.

Reference(s) in Chapter 14: v.1 ↔ Romans 3:10 ● v.2 ↔ Romans 3:11 ● v.3 ↔ Romans 3:12.

¹A Psalm of David.

O Lord, who will dwell in your tent?

Who can reside on your holy mountain?

²He who walks perfectly

And does what is righteous

And speaks the truth in his heart.

³He does not slander with his tongue;

He does not do wrong to his neighbour,

And he does not utter a reproach against his kin.

⁴Anyone despised in his eyes is rejected,

But he honours those who fear the Lord.

If he swears an oath and it becomes to his detriment,

He does not alter it.

⁵He does not put his money out with interest,

And he does not accept a bribe against an innocent person.

He who behaves this way

Will never be shaken.

¹A Golden Psalm of David.

Keep guard over me, O God,

For I have put my trust in you.

²I have said to the Lord,

“You are the Lord^*,

My source of goodness.

There is nothing above you.”

³As for the holy people who are in the land

And the noble ones,

All my delight is in them.

⁴May the sorrows of those who hasten after another be multiplied.

I will not pour out their libations of blood,

And I will not take their names to my lips.

⁵The Lord is the portion of my allotment

And my cup.

You will appoint my lot.

⁶The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places;

Indeed, the inheritance has been delightful for me.

⁷I will bless the Lord

Who instructs me.

Moreover, by night

My kidneys discipline me.

And there are pleasant things in perpetuity at your right hand.

Reference(s) in Chapter 16: v.8 ↔ Acts 2:25 ● v.9 ↔ Acts 2:26 ● v.10 ↔ Acts 2:27, Acts 2:31, Acts 13:35 ● v.11 ↔ Acts 2:28.

¹A Prayer of David.

Hear, O Lord, in righteousness,

Hearken to my cry;

Listen to my prayer,

Which is not with deceitful lips.

²May my justice come from your presence;

May your eyes see things that are upright.

³You have tested my heart,

You have paid a visit by night;

You have refined me and found no dross.

I have resolved that my mouth shall not transgress.

⁴As for the works of man,

By the word of your lips

I have been on guard

Against the ways of the violent man.

⁵Keep my steps on your paths,

So my steps do not falter.

⁶I have called on you,

For you answer me, O God.

Turn your ear to me;

Hear my oration.

⁷Show your wondrous kindness,

You who by your right hand save

Those who put their trust in you,

From those who rise up against them.

⁸Keep me as the apple of your eye;

Hide me in the shadow of your wings,

⁹From the wicked ones who treat me with violence

– From my mortal enemies who surround me.

¹⁰With their fatness they have closed themselves off;

With their mouth they speak haughtily.

¹¹Having followed our steps,

They have surrounded me now;

They have set their eyes

Ready to be devious on the ground.

¹²Here is a simile for this:

Like a lion that is eager to tear in pieces,

Like a young lion that crouches in hiding places.

¹³Arise, O Lord,

Confront him,

Bring him low;

Deliver my life from the wicked one

With your sword.

¹⁴Deliver me from men by your power, O Lord,

From men of the world,

Whose portion in life

Is that you fill their belly with your hidden treasure,

And their sons are satisfied,

And they leave their surplus to their children.

¹⁵As for me, I will see your face in righteousness;

I will be satisfied when I awake in your likeness.

¹To the choirmaster.↑

A Psalm of the servant of the Lord, of David who spoke the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from Saul's hand. ²And he said,

“I will cherish you,

O Lord, my strength.

³The Lord is my rock and my fortress

And my deliverer,

My God and my firm ground.

I will put my trust in him

– My shield and the horn of my salvation

And my high stronghold.

⁴I will call on the praiseworthy Lord,

And I will be saved from my enemies.

⁵The tightening grip of death surrounded me,

And the onslaughts of the reprobate alarmed me.

⁶The tightening grip of the grave encompassed me;

Deadly snares confronted me.

⁷When I was in a strait,

I called on the Lord,

And I cried out to my God.

He heard my voice from his temple,

And my cry came before him to his ears.

⁸And the earth shook and trembled,

And the foundations of mountains quaked and shook,

Because he was furious.

⁹Smoke went up in his nostrils,

And fire from his mouth came devouring;

Coals were kindled by him.

¹⁰And he stretched out the heavens and descended,

And thick darkness was under his feet.

¹¹And he rode on a cherub and flew

And swooped down on the wings of the wind.

¹²He made darkness his hiding place;

Around him as his booth

Was the darkness of water

And the thick clouds of the upper skies.

¹³At the brightness ahead of him

His thick clouds pass along

With their hail and fiery coals.

¹⁴And the Lord thundered in the heavens,

And the Most High sounded his voice

With hail and fiery coals.

¹⁵And he sent his arrows

And scattered them,

And he shot lightning bolts

And routed them.

¹⁶Then channels of water appeared,

And the foundations of the world were revealed

At your rebuke, O Lord

– At the blast of the wind from your nostrils.

¹⁷He sent help from on high,

And he took hold of me;

He drew me out of great waters.

¹⁸He delivered me from my strong enemy

And from those who hate me,

For they were stronger than I was.

¹⁹They confronted me on my day of distress,

But the Lord became a support for me,

²⁰And he brought me out to a wide place;

He delivered me,

Because he delighted in me.

²¹The Lord recompensed me

According to my righteousness;

According to the cleanness of my hands

He rewarded me.

²²For I have kept the ways of the Lord,

And I have not committed wickedness against my God.

²³For all his injunctions were before me,

And I have not neglected his statutes.

²⁴And I was perfect with him,

And I kept myself from iniquity,

²⁵And the Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness

– According to the cleanness of my hands

Before his eyes.

²⁶With the kind, you will act kindly;

With the perfect man, you will act in perfection.

²⁷With the pure, you will act in purity,

But with the perverse, you will act in a convoluted way.

²⁸For you will save an afflicted people,

And you will bring haughty eyes low.

²⁹For you light up my lamp;

The Lord my God brightens my darkness.

³⁰For through you I can run through a battalion,

And through my God I can leap over a wall.

³¹As for God, his way is perfect.

The word of the Lord has been refined.

He is a shield to all who trust in him.

³²For who is God

Apart from the Lord?

And who is a rock,

Except for our God?

³³It is God who girds me with valour,

Who makes my way perfect,

³⁴Who makes my feet like those of hinds

And stands me on my heights,

³⁵Who teaches my hands the skills of war

So a copper bow can be drawn by my arms.

³⁶And you gave me the shield of your salvation,

While your right hand gives me support,

And your meekness makes me great.

³⁷You enlarged my step under me,

And my ankles did not slip.

³⁸I pursued my enemies

And caught up with them,

And I did not return

Until I had made an end of them.

³⁹I crushed them

So that they could not get up.

They fell under my feet.

⁴⁰And you girded me with valour for war;

You brought down my opponents under me,

⁴¹And you gave me the neck of my enemies.

And as for those who hate me,

I cut them down.

⁴²They cried out,

But there was no saviour;

They looked to the Lord,

But he did not answer them.

⁴³And I pulverized them like the dust,

Carried along by the wind.

I disposed of them

Like the filth of the streets.

⁴⁴You delivered me from the contentions of a people;

You set me at the head of nations.

A people that I did not know

Will serve me.

⁴⁵At bidding coming to their ears,

They will obey me.

Foreigners will feign obedience to me.

⁴⁶Foreigners will fade away;

They will be wrenched out of their confines.

⁴⁷How the Lord lives,

And my rock is blessed,

And the God of my salvation is exalted

⁴⁸– The God who gives me vengeance,

And who subdues peoples under me,

⁴⁹Who delivers me from my enemies.

You also raise me up above those who rise up against me;

You rescue me from the man of violence.

⁵¹He magnifies acts of salvation of his king,

Also showing kindness to his anointed

– To David and to his seed

Age-abidingly.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 18: v.3 ↔ Hebrews 2:13 ● v.32 ↔ Mark 12:32 ● v.50 ↔ Romans 15:9.

¹To the choirmaster.↑

A Psalm of David.

²The heavens speak of the glory of God,

And the firmament tells of the work of his hands.

³Each day utters speech,

And each night declares knowledge.

⁴They have no speech and they have no words;

Their sound is not something heard.

Throughout the seasons he has assigned an abode for the sun.

⁶And as a bridegroom, the sun comes out of its bridal canopy

And exults as a valiant man about to run a course.

⁷Its rising is from one end of the heavens,

And its circuit is to the other end of them.

And there is nothing hidden from its heat.

⁸The law of the Lord is perfect

In restoring a person.

The testimony of the Lord is faithful,

Making the simple-minded wise.

⁹The precepts of the Lord are upright;

They gladden the heart.

The commandment of the Lord is pure;

It enlightens the eyes.

¹⁰Fear of the Lord is salutary;

It endures perpetually.

The judgments of the Lord are truth;

They are altogether righteous.

¹¹They are more to be desired than gold,

Or than a vast amount of refined gold.

And they are sweeter than honey

And honey-syrup from honeycombs.

¹²Your servant also is warned by them;

There is great reward in keeping them.

¹³Who understands errors?

Oh acquit me from things hidden.

¹⁴From presumptuous sins, too, preserve your servant;

Do not let them rule over me.

Then I shall be perfect

And acquitted from great transgression.

¹⁵May the sayings of my mouth be acceptable,

And the meditation of my heart before you,

O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

Reference(s) in Chapter 19: v.5 ↔ Romans 10:18.

¹To the choirmaster.↑

A Psalm of David.

²The Lord will answer you on the day of straitness;

The name of the God of Jacob will set you on high.

³He will send you help from the sanctuary,

And he will support you from Zion.

⁴He will remember all your meal-offerings

And regard your burnt offering as fat.

Selah.

⁵He will give to you according to your heart's desire

And fulfil all your ambitions.

⁶Let us shout for joy in your salvation

And set up a banner in the name of our God.

The Lord will fulfil all your requests.

⁷Now I know that the Lord saves his messiah;

He will answer him from his holy heavens,

By the mighty acts of salvation of his right hand.

⁸Some bring chariots to remembrance,

And others horses,

But we the name of the Lord our God.

⁹They collapse and fall down,

But we arise

And are kept firmly upright.

¹⁰O Lord, save;

The king will answer us

On the day when we call.

¹To the choirmaster.↑

A Psalm of David.

²O Lord, the king will take pleasure in your strength,

And how greatly he shall rejoice in your salvation!

³You have given him his heart's desire,

And you have not withheld the request of his lips.

Selah.

⁴For you have gone in front of him,

With blessings of goodness;

You have put a crown of pure gold on his head.

⁵He asked you for life;

You gave him it

– Length of days,

Age-long and in perpetuity.

⁶His glory is great through your salvation;

You bestow majesty and splendour on him.

⁷For you have appointed him everlasting blessings;

You have gladdened him with happiness at your presence.

⁸For the king trusts in the Lord.

And through kindness of the Most High,

He shall not falter.

⁹Your hand will find all your enemies;

Your right hand will discover those who hate you.

¹⁰You will appoint them a fiery furnace

At the time of your presence.

The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath,

And fire will consume them.

¹¹You will eliminate their fruit from the earth,

And their seed from among the sons of Adam.

¹²For they have tendered you wickedness;

They have devised machinations,

But they will not prevail.

¹³For you have appointed them to flight;

With your bowstring you aim at their face.

¹⁴Be exalted, O Lord, in your strength;

Let us sing

And sing psalms of your might.

¹To the choirmaster at Aijeleth Shahar.↑

A Psalm of David.

Why are you far from my salvation at my roaring words?

³O God of mine, I call by day,

But you do not answer,

And at night,

But I have no quietness.

⁴But you are holy,

You who dwell in the places of praise of Israel.

⁵In you our fathers trusted;

They trusted,

And you rescued them.

⁶They cried out to you,

And they were delivered.

They trusted in you

And were not ashamed.

⁷But I am a worm,

And not a man

– The reproach of men

And despised by the people.

⁸All those who see me, mock me.

They open their lips;

They shake their head,

And say,

⁹“He relied on the Lord

That he would rescue him.

Let him save him,

If he has pleasure in him.”

¹⁰For you brought me out of the womb;

From my mother's belly you caused me to trust in my mother's breasts.

¹¹I was cast on you from the womb;

From my mother's belly

You have been my God.

¹²Do not be far from me,

For adversity is nearby.

For there is no-one to help.

¹³Many bulls have surrounded me;

Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

¹⁴They gape at me,

Like a lion that tears and roars.

¹⁵I have been poured out like water,

And all my bones are out of joint.

My heart has become like wax;

It is melting in my inward parts.

¹⁶My strength has dried up like a shard,

And my tongue cleaves to my jaws.

You are about to reduce me to death's dust.

¹⁷For dogs have surrounded me;

The congregation of evildoers has hemmed me in,

Like a lion pinning down my hands and my feet.

They look on,

And stare at me.

²⁰But do not you, O Lord, be far off.

Hasten, O my strength, as my help.

²¹Deliver my life from the sword

– My most dear from the power of the dog.

²²Save me from the mouth of the lion

And from the horns of buffaloes.

You have answered me.

²⁴Praise him, you who fear the Lord;

Honour him, all you seed of Jacob,

And revere him,

All you seed of Israel.

²⁵For he does not disdain or loathe the affliction of the afflicted man,

And he does not hide his face from him.

And when such a one cries out to him,

He hears it.

²⁶My praise is on account of you in a great convocation.

I will fulfil my vows

In the presence of those who fear him.

²⁷The meek will eat and be satisfied;

Those who seek him will praise the Lord.

May your heart live in perpetuity.

²⁸And all the ends of the land will remember

And return to the Lord,

And all the families of the Gentiles

Will worship before you.

²⁹For the kingdom is the Lord's,

And he is ruler over the Gentiles.

³⁰All the opulent of the earth will eat and worship;

All those who go down to the dust will bow down before him.

But he did not keep himself alive.

³¹A seed will serve him;

It will be related concerning the Lord^* to a generation.

³²They will come and declare his righteousness

To a people reborn,

For he will have accomplished this.

Reference(s) in Chapter 22: v.2 ↔ Matthew 27:46, Mark 15:34 ● v.18 ↔ John 19:36 ● v.19 ↔ Matthew 27:35, John 19:24 ● v.23 ↔ Hebrews 2:12.

¹A Psalm of David.

The Lord is my shepherd;

I shall not lack anything.

²He has me lie down in grassy pastures;

He leads me to restful waters.

³He refreshes my inner being;

He conducts me along righteous paths

For his name's sake.

⁴Even if I walk in the Valley of the Shadow of Death,

I shall not fear evil,

For you are with me.

It is your sceptre and staff that comfort me.

⁵You have set a table before me

In the presence of my adversaries.

You have anointed my head with oil;

My cup abounds.

⁶Surely goodness and kindness will pursue me

All the days of my life,

And I will dwell in the house of the Lord

In the length of days.

¹A Psalm of David.

– The world and those who live in it.

²He founded it on the seas,

And he prepared it on running waters.

³Who can go up to the Lord's mountain,

And who can rise at his holy place?

⁴He who is of innocent hands

And pure in heart,

Who has not shown me vain impertinence

And has not sworn deceitfully.

⁵He will receive blessing from the Lord

And righteousness from the God of his salvation.

⁶This is the generation that seeks him

– Those who look for your presence, O Jacob.

Selah.

⁷Lift up your heads, O gates,

And be lifted up, O age-abiding doors,

And the king of glory will come in.

⁸Who is this king of glory?

The Lord, strong and mighty,

The Lord, mighty in battle.

⁹Lift up your heads, O gates,

And lift yourselves up, O age-abiding doors,

And the king of glory will come in.

¹⁰Who is this king of glory?

The Lord of hosts is the king of glory.

Selah.

Reference(s) in Chapter 24: v.1 ↔ 1 Corinthians 10:26, 1 Corinthians 10:28.

¹A Psalm of David.

To you, O Lord,

I direct my sentiments.

²O God of mine, in you I have trusted.

May I not be ashamed;

May my enemies not gloat over me.

³May none of those who put their hope in you be ashamed either;

Let those who act treacherously without cause be ashamed.

⁴O Lord, make your ways known to me;

Teach me your paths.

⁵Guide my steps in your truth,

And teach me,

For you are the God of my salvation.

I put my hope in you all day long.

⁶Remember your compassion and kindness, O Lord,

For they have existed since ancient time.

⁷Do not remember the sins of my youth

Nor my transgressions.

In accordance with your kindness,

Do remember me

For the sake of your goodness, O Lord.

⁸The Lord is good and upright,

On account of which he instructs sinners on the way.

⁹He guides the steps of the meek in justice,

And he teaches the meek his way.

¹⁰All the ways of the Lord are kindness and truth

To those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.

¹¹For your name's sake, O Lord,

Forgive my iniquity,

For it is great.

¹²Who is this man who fears the Lord?

He will instruct him in the way he is to choose.

¹³His very self will abide in well-being,

And his seed will inherit the earth.

¹⁴The Lord's private plan is for those who fear him,

And his covenant is to instruct them.

¹⁵My eyes are continually to the Lord,

For he will extricate my feet from the net.

¹⁶Turn to me and have mercy on me,

For I am solitary and afflicted.

¹⁷They have increased the anguish of my heart.

Deliver me out of my distress.

¹⁸See my affliction and my suffering,

And forgive all my sins.

¹⁹See how my enemies have increased,

And how they have hated me with a violent hatred.

²⁰Guard my life and deliver me;

Do not let me be ashamed,

For I have put my trust in you.

²¹Let integrity and uprightness preserve me,

For I have put my hope in you.

²²Deliver Israel, O God,

From all his adversities.

¹A Psalm of David.

Judge me, O Lord,

For I have walked in my integrity,

And I have trusted in the Lord;

I shall not stumble.

²Examine me, O Lord,

And test me.

Refine my kidneys and my heart,

³For your kindness is in front of my eyes,

And I have walked in your truth.

⁴I have not sat in collusion with vain people,

Nor will I concur with the secretive.

⁵I have hated the convocation of wrongdoers,

And I will not sit with the wicked.

⁶I will wash my hands in innocence,

So let me go round your altar, O Lord,

⁷To make declaration with a thankful voice

And to recount all your wondrous acts.

⁸O Lord, I have loved the refuge of your house

And the place of your glorious tabernacle.

⁹Do not gather my being with sinners

Nor my life with men of blood,

¹⁰In whose hands is scheming,

And whose right hand is full of bribery.

¹¹So I will walk in my integrity.

Redeem me and have mercy on me.

¹²My foot stands in uprightness,

And I will bless the Lord in the various convocations.

¹A Psalm of David.

The Lord is my light and my salvation;

Whom shall I fear?

The Lord is the stronghold of my life;

Of whom shall I be afraid?

²When evildoers approach me,

To devour my flesh

– My adversaries and my enemies –

They shall stumble and fall.

³Even if a battalion encamps against me,

My heart will not fear.

Even if a war should arise against me,

I will be confident in the situation.

⁴One thing I have requested from the Lord,

Which I seek,

Is that I should dwell in the house of the Lord

All the days of my life,

To see the Lord's pleasantness

And to contemplate his temple.

⁵For he will hide me in a booth;

On the evil day

He will conceal me in the secrecy of his tent.

He will raise me up on a rock.

⁶And now my head will be raised

Against my enemies round about me,

And I will offer in his tent the sacrifices of the battle-cry;

I will sing

And make psalm melody to the Lord.

⁷Hear me, O Lord,

As I call with my voice,

And have mercy on me,

And answer me.

⁸My heart has spoken to you.

You have said to us, “Seek my face”;

Your face, O Lord, I shall seek.

⁹Do not hide your face from me;

Do not turn your servant away in anger.

You have been my help;

Do not forsake me and do not abandon me,

O God of my salvation.

¹⁰If my father and my mother forsake me,

Then the Lord will gather me up.

¹¹Teach me, O Lord, your way,

And lead me along an equitable path,

On account of my adversaries.

¹²Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries,

For false witnesses have risen up against me

Who breathe out violence.

¹³I have believed that I will see the Lord's goodness

In the land of the living.

¹⁴Put your hope in the Lord,

Be strong,

And may he strengthen your heart,

And put your hope in the Lord.

¹A Psalm of David.

I will call on you, O Lord, my rock.

Do not turn a deaf ear to me,

Lest in being silent to me,

I should become like those

Who go down to the pit.

²Oh hear my supplications being uttered

When I shout out to you

– When I lift up my hands to your holy place of address.

³Do not draw me along with the wicked

Or perpetrators of iniquity,

Who speak peace with their neighbour,

While evil is in their heart.

⁴Render them according to their work

And according to the evil of their acts.

Render them according to the deeds of their hands;

Requite them their due.

⁵For they do not discern the works of the Lord

Nor the deeds of his hands.

He will demolish them

And not build them up.

⁶Blessed is the Lord,

For he has heard my supplications uttered.

⁷The Lord is my strength and my shield;

My heart has put its trust in him.

And I have been helped,

So my heart rejoiced,

And I will praise him with my song.

⁸The Lord is their strength,

And the stronghold of salvation is his messiah.

⁹Oh save your people,

And bless your inheritance,

And be a shepherd to them and exalt them

Age-abidingly.

¹A Psalm of David.

Ascribe what is due to the Lord,

You mighty ones

– Ascribe glory and strength to the Lord.

²Ascribe the glory of his name to the Lord;

Worship the Lord in holy splendour.

³The voice of the Lord is over the waters,

The God of glory causes thunder;

The Lord is over great waters.

⁴The voice of the Lord is with power;

The voice of the Lord is with splendour.

⁵The voice of the Lord breaks cedars;

Indeed the Lord shatters the cedars of Lebanon.

⁶And he makes them leap like a calf

– Lebanon and Sirion like the young of a buffalo.

⁷The voice of the Lord cleaves apart

With a fiery flame.

⁸The voice of the Lord shakes the desert;

The Lord shakes the desert of Kadesh.

⁹The voice of the Lord causes hinds to calve

And strips woodland bare.

And in his temple,

All of it speaks of glory.

¹⁰The Lord abode the flood,

And the Lord abides as age-abiding king.

¹¹The Lord will give strength to his people;

The Lord will bless his people with peace.

¹A Psalm. A song for the dedication of the house of David.

²I will extol you, O Lord,

For you have liberated me,

And you have not given my enemies cause for joy over me.

³O Lord my God,

I cried out to you,

And you restored me.

⁴O Lord, you have brought my being up from the grave;

You have preserved me alive

From me going down to the pit.

⁵Sing psalms to the Lord,

You sanctified ones of his,

And give thanks at holy remembrance of him.

⁶For although there is a moment in his anger,

There is life in his good pleasure.

In the evening, weeping is prevalent,

But in the morning there is rejoicing.

⁷And I have said in my prosperity,

“I will never falter.”

⁸O Lord, in your goodwill

You established my strong mountain,

But when you hid your face,

I was terrified.

⁹O Lord, I call out to you,

And it is with the Lord^* that I plead.

¹⁰What profit is there in my blood

If I go down into the pit?

Does the dust give you thanks?

Does it proclaim your truth?

¹¹Hear, O Lord,

And have mercy on me.

O Lord, be a helper to me.

¹²You have turned my mourning into dancing for me;

You have untied my sackcloth

And girded me with joy,

¹³So that one may sing psalms of glory to you

And not be silent.

O Lord my God,

I will give you thanks age-abidingly.

¹To the choirmaster.↑

A Psalm of David.

²In you, O Lord, I have put my trust.

Do not let me ever be ashamed;

Deliver me in your righteousness.

³Extend your ear to me;

Rescue me speedily.

Be a rock-founded stronghold to me

– A fortified building to save me.

⁴For you are my rock and my stronghold,

So for your name's sake,

Conduct me and lead me.

⁵Extricate me from the net

Which they have hidden for me,

For you are my fortress.

⁶I commit my spirit into your hand.

You have redeemed me,

O Lord God of truth.

⁷I have hated those who keep false idols,

And I have trusted in the Lord.

⁸I will rejoice and be happy in your kindness,

In that you have looked at my affliction;

You have known my inner self in adversities.

⁹And you have not consigned me to the hand of the enemy;

You have stood my feet in a safe place.

¹⁰Have mercy on me, O Lord,

For I am in straits;

My eye is ravaged with grief,

As are my mind and my body.

¹¹For my life has been worn down with distress,

And my years with sighing.

My strength falters in my iniquity,

And my bones have wasted away.

¹²I have been a reproach to all my adversaries,

And very much so to my neighbours,

And frightening to my acquaintances.

Those who saw me in the open

Fled from me.

¹³I have been forgotten like one deceased

– Out of mind.

I have become like an article going to waste.

¹⁴For I have heard the slander of many;

There was fear all round

When they plotted together against me

– When they contrived to take my life.

¹⁵But I put my trust in you, O Lord;

I have said,

“You are my God.”

¹⁶My times are in your hand.

Oh rescue me from the hand of my enemies

And those who pursue me.

¹⁷Shine your face on your servant;

Save me in your kindness.

¹⁸O Lord, do not let me be ashamed,

For I have called on you.

Let the wicked be ashamed;

Let them be silent at the grave.

¹⁹Let false-speaking lips be dumbfounded,

Which speak insolently against the righteous

In arrogance and in contempt.

²⁰How great your goodness is

Which you have hidden away

For those who fear you,

Which you have produced for those who trust in you

In the presence of the sons of Adam!

²¹You will hide them in the secrecy of your face;

You will conceal them in a booth from the brusque ways of man

And from hostile talk.

²²Blessed be the Lord,

For he has shown his wonderful kindness to me

In a fortified city.

²³But I said in my haste,

“I have been cut off from the presence of your eyes.”

Truly, you have heard my supplications uttered

When I cried out to you.

²⁴Love the Lord, all you people of his grace.

The Lord is a guardian of the faithful,

And an abundant retributer

Of him who behaves proudly.

²⁵Be strong and may he encourage your heart,

All you who are awaiting the Lord.

¹An Instructive Psalm of David.

And in whose spirit is no deceit.

³When I was silent,

My bones wasted away

– When I roared all day long.

⁴Because day and night your hand was heavy on me,

My moisture turned into summer drought.

Selah.

⁵I acknowledge my sin to you,

And I do not hide my iniquity.

I have said,

“I will make confession concerning my transgression to the Lord”,

And you have forgiven the iniquity of my sin.

Selah.

⁶On account of this, every man of grace will pray to you

At a time when you may be found.

Surely in the flood of great waters,

They will not be able to reach him.

⁷You are my hiding place.

You keep me from adversity;

You surround me with shouts of deliverance.

Selah.

⁸“I will instruct you,

And I will teach you the way by which you will go.

I will counsel you with my eye.

⁹Do not be like the horse or like the mule,

Which cannot be made to understand,

With a bit and bridle as their trappings to control them,

Otherwise they will not come close to you.”

¹⁰The wicked will have many pains,

But as for him who trusts in the Lord,

Kindness will surround him.

¹¹Be glad in the Lord and rejoice,

You righteous,

And shout for joy,

All you upright in heart.

Reference(s) in Chapter 32: v.1 ↔ Romans 4:7 ● v.2 ↔ Romans 4:8.

¹Shout for joy, you righteous because of the Lord;

Praise is becoming to the upright.

²Give thanks to the Lord with the harp;

Make psalm melody with the ten-stringed lute.

³Sing a new song to him;

Strike up skilfully with jubilation.

⁴For the word of the Lord is upright,

And all his dealings are performed faithfully.

⁵He loves righteousness and justice;

The earth is full of the Lord's kindness.

And by the spirit of his mouth,

All their array.

⁷He gathers up the waters of the sea into an accumulation;

He puts the depths in treasuries.

⁸Let all the earth fear the Lord;

Let all the inhabitants of the world be afraid of him.

⁹For he spoke, and it came to pass;

He commanded, and it stood firm.

¹⁰The Lord frustrates the counsel of the nations;

He thwarts the designs of the various peoples.

¹¹The counsel of the Lord stands age-abidingly;

The designs of his heart are from generation to generation.

¹²Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord

– The people whom he has chosen as his inheritance.

¹³The Lord looks on from heaven;

He sees all the sons of Adam.

¹⁴From his place of residence he observes

All the inhabitants of the earth

¹⁵– That is he who formed their hearts all together

And who discerns all their works.

¹⁶No king is saved by greatness of military force;

A warrior is not delivered by greatness of strength.

¹⁷A horse is a fallacious means of safety,

And it does not provide deliverance by its great strength.

¹⁸Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him

– On those who are waiting for his kindness,

¹⁹For their own salvation from death

And for their preservation in famine.

²⁰“Our being is waiting for the Lord;

He is our help and our shield.

²¹For in him our heart rejoices,

For we trust in his holy name.

²²O Lord, may your kindness be upon us,

According to how we have waited for you.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 33: v.6 ↔ Revelation 14:7.

¹A Psalm of David when he changed his behaviour in the presence of Abimelech, so that he drove him out and he went away.

²I will bless the Lord at all times;

Praise of him is constantly in my mouth.

³My being will be praised because of the Lord;

The meek will hear it and rejoice.

⁴Extol the Lord with me,

And let us exalt his name together.

⁵When I sought the Lord,

He answered me,

And he delivered me from all my fears.

⁶They looked to him and brightened up,

And their faces were not ashamed.

⁷There was a certain poor man

Who called out,

And the Lord heard him

And saved him from all his adversities.

⁸The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him,

And he delivers them.

Happy is the man who trusts in him.

¹⁰Fear the Lord, you holy ones of his,

For those who fear him have no lack of anything.

¹¹Lion cubs are reduced,

And they hunger,

But those who seek the Lord

Will not suffer lack of any good thing.

¹²Come, you sons, and listen to me;

I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

To cut off the memory of them from the earth.

¹⁸They call out,

And the Lord hears,

And he delivers them from all their adversities.

¹⁹The Lord is near to the brokenhearted,

And he saves those of contrite spirit.

²⁰Many are the woes of the righteous man,

But the Lord delivers him from all of them.

²²Evil will slay the wicked,

And those who hate the righteous will be held guilty.

²³The Lord redeems the life of his servants,

And none of those who trust in him

Shall be held guilty.

Reference(s) in Chapter 34: v.9 ↔ 1 Peter 2:3 ● v.13 ↔ 1 Peter 3:10 ● v.14 ↔ 1 Peter 3:10 ● v.15 ↔ 1 Peter 3:11 ● v.16 ↔ 1 Peter 3:12 ● v.17 ↔ 1 Peter 3:12 ● v.21 ↔ John 19:36.

¹A Psalm of David.

O Lord, contend with my adversaries;

Do battle with those who do battle with me.

²Take hold of buckler and shield,

And rise up to my assistance.

³And draw out the spear,

And close in on those who pursue me.

Say to my being,

“I am your salvation.”

⁴Let those who seek my life

Be ashamed and suffer ignominy;

Let those who devise my harm

Be driven back and be disgraced.

⁵Let them be like chaff before the wind,

With the angel of the Lord driving them.

⁶Let their way consist of darkness and slippery places,

With the angel of the Lord pursuing them.

⁷For they secretly prepared without cause

A pit with their net for me.

Without cause they dug it for my life.

⁸Let destruction come upon him,

Which he will be unaware of,

And let his net which he hid

Catch him.

Let him fall into it

To his destruction.

⁹Then my being will rejoice in the Lord;

It will exult in his salvation.

¹⁰All my bones say,

“O Lord, who is like you?

– Delivering the afflicted

From him who is stronger than he,

And the afflicted and poor

From him who exploits them.”

¹¹False witnesses rise up

And interrogate me concerning things

Which I do not know about.

¹²They repay me evil for good,

Leaving me destitute.

¹³Whilst I, when they were sick,

Wore sackcloth for my clothing.

I afflicted myself with fasting,

But my prayer returned to my own bosom.

¹⁴I conducted myself as to a friend or as to a brother of mine;

I was downcast in melancholy,

As one mourning for his mother.

¹⁵When I keeled over,

They rejoiced,

And slanderers gathered themselves against me more and more.

And I did not recognize their accusations

As they tore at me without stopping,

¹⁶With profane cake mockers,

Who gnash their teeth at me instead.

¹⁷O Lord^*, how long will you look on?

Rescue my life from their devastations;

Rescue my most dear from the lion cubs.

¹⁸I will give you thanks in a great convocation;

I will praise you among a numerous people.

¹⁹Do not let my enemies rejoice over me on the basis of falsehood,

Nor let those who hate me without cause gloat over me.

²⁰For they do not speak peace,

But they conceive deceitful words

Against those who are quiet in the land.

²¹And they have railed at me;

They have said,

“Ha, ha! Our eye has seen it.”

²²You have seen it, O Lord;

Do not be silent.

O Lord^*, do not be far from me.

²³Rouse yourself

And awaken to my case,

O God of mine and my Lord

– For my cause.

²⁴Judge me according to your righteousness,

O Lord my God,

And do not let them rejoice over me.

²⁵Do not let them say in their heart,

“Ha, we have our desire.”

Do not let them say,

“We have swallowed him up.”

²⁶Let those who rejoice in me being harmed

Be completely put to shame and disgraced.

And let those who triumph over me

Be clothed in shame and ignominy.

²⁷Let those who delight in my justice

Shout for joy and rejoice

And continually say,

“Let the Lord, who delights in his servant's peace,

Be magnified.”

²⁸And my tongue will utter your righteousness

And your praise, all day long.

Reference(s) in Chapter 35: v.19 ↔ John 15:25.

¹To the choirmaster.↑

A Psalm of David the servant of the Lord.

²The transgressive speech of the wicked man is,

³For he flatters himself in his own sight,

Indifferent to finding iniquity in himself

– Indifferent to being hateful.

⁴The words of his mouth are vanity and deceit.

He has ceased acting wisely

And doing what is good.

⁵He devises vanity on his couch;

He takes his stand on a way that is not good.

He does not reject evil.

⁶O Lord, your kindness is in heaven;

Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

⁷Your righteousness is like tremendous mountains;

Your justice is like a great deep.

O Lord, you save man and beast.

⁸How precious your kindness is, O God,

As the sons of Adam shelter in the shade of your wings.

⁹They will be satiated with the fat of your house,

And you will give them drink

With your pleasurable brook.

¹⁰For the fountain of life is with you;

In your light, we will see light.

¹¹Continue your kindness

With those who know you,

And your righteousness

With the upright in heart.

¹²Do not let a proud foot come upon me,

And do not let the hand of the wicked drive me off course.

¹³That is where perpetrators of iniquity have fallen;

They have been thrust down,

And they cannot get up.

Reference(s) in Chapter 36: v.2 ↔ Romans 3:18.

¹A Psalm of David.

Do not be infuriated by evildoers;

Do not be envious of perpetrators of injustice.

²For they will quickly be cut down like wild herbage

And will wither like green grass.

³Trust in the Lord and do good;

Dwell in the land

And feed on faithfulness.

⁴And delight in the Lord,

And he will grant you the requests of your heart.

⁵Entrust your way to the Lord,

And trust in him,

And he will perform it.

⁶And he will bring out your righteousness like light,

And your justice like midday.

⁷Be still before the Lord,

And wait for him.

Do not be infuriated by him who makes his way a success

– By a man who engages in intrigues.

⁸Cease from anger

And abandon fury;

Do not be infuriated,

Which just leads to acting wickedly.

⁹For those who act wickedly will be cut off,

But those who await the Lord

Will inherit the earth.

¹⁰And in just a little while,

There will not be any wicked.

As soon as you have taken stock of his position,

He will not be there.

¹¹But the meek shall inherit the earth

And delight in great peace.

¹²The wicked man schemes against the righteous man

And gnashes his teeth at him.

¹³The Lord^* will laugh at him,

For he has seen that his day will come.

¹⁴The wicked unsheathe a sword

And draw their bow,

In order to fell the poor and the needy,

And to slaughter those of an upright way.

¹⁵Their sword will go into their own heart,

And their bows will be broken up.

¹⁶The little that the righteous man has

Is better than the much of the many wicked.

¹⁷For the arms of the wicked will be broken,

But the Lord upholds the righteous.

¹⁸The Lord knows the days of those with integrity,

Whose inheritance will be age-abiding.

¹⁹They shall not be ashamed at an evil time,

And in days of famine, they will be satiated.

²⁰For the wicked will perish,

And the enemies of the Lord are like the prime part of fatted lambs.

They will be consumed;

In smoke they will be consumed.

²¹The wicked man borrows and does not repay,

But the righteous man shows compassion and gives.

²²For those blessed by him will inherit the earth,

But those cursed by him will be cut off.

²³Man's steps are made firm by the Lord,

And he delights in his way.

²⁴If he falls,

He will not be cast out,

For the Lord supports his hand.

²⁵I was once a young man,

But now I am old,

And I have not seen a righteous man forsaken,

Nor seen his seed seeking bread.

²⁶He is compassionate and lends all day,

And his seed is a blessing.

²⁷Depart from evil and do good,

And so dwell age-abidingly.

²⁸For the Lord loves justice,

And he does not forsake those of his grace.

They are kept safe age-abidingly,

But the seed of the wicked is cut off.

²⁹The righteous will inherit the earth

And will dwell on it perpetually.

³⁰The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom,

And his tongue speaks justice.

³¹The law of his God is in his heart;

None of his steps stumbles.

³²The wicked watches for the righteous

And endeavours to kill him.

³³The Lord will not leave him in his hand,

Nor will he condemn him when he is judged.

³⁴Wait for the Lord,

And guard his way,

And he will exalt you in inheriting the earth.

When the wicked are cut off,

You will see it.

³⁵I have seen a wicked, violent man

Spreading himself like a luxuriant native tree.

³⁶Then he passes away,

And behold, he is not there,

And although I might seek him,

He is not to be found.

³⁷Maintain integrity

And see to being upright,

For the final state of man is peace.

³⁸But transgressors will be completely destroyed;

The final state of the wicked is to be cut off.

³⁹But the salvation of the righteous is from the Lord;

He is their stronghold in the time of tribulation.

⁴⁰And the Lord will help them and deliver them;

He will deliver them from the wicked ones

And save them,

For they have trusted in him.

Reference(s) in Chapter 37: v.11 ↔ Matthew 5:5.

¹A Psalm of David to bring to remembrance.

²O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger,

Nor chasten me in your fury.

³For your arrows rain down on me,

And your hand descends onto me.

⁴There is nothing unscathed in my flesh

On account of your indignation;

There is no peace in my bones

On account of my sin.

⁵For my iniquities extend beyond my head;

They weigh down like a burden too heavy for me.

⁶My scars are loathsome;

They are a flux because of my folly.

⁷I am buckled,

I have been brought low in the extreme;

I go mourning all day long.

⁸For my loins are full of inflammation,

And there is nothing unscathed in my flesh.

⁹I have become languid,

And I have been crushed in the extreme.

I roar with the growling of my heart.

¹⁰O Lord^*, all my yearning is set before you,

And my sighing is not concealed from you.

¹¹My heart palpitates;

My strength has deserted me,

And the light of my eyes is not with me either.

¹²Those who love me, and my friends, stand back at my plight,

And my acquaintances station themselves at a distance,

¹³While those who seek my life lay snares,

And those intent on harming me

Speak pernicious things

And contemplate deceitful plots all day long.

¹⁴But I, like a deaf person, do not hear it,

And like a mute person,

Who does not open his mouth.

¹⁵And I was like a man who did not hear it,

In whose mouth were no reproofs.

¹⁶For I have waited for you, O Lord.

You will answer, O Lord^* my God.

¹⁷For I have said,

“So that they do not rejoice over me,

Or triumph over me when my foot falters.”

¹⁸For I am on the point of keeling over,

And my grief is in front of me all the time.

¹⁹For I will confess my iniquity;

I am anxious about my sin.

²⁰Meanwhile my enemies are alive

And have become strong.

And those who hate me on false grounds

Have become numerous.

²¹And those who requite evil instead of good

Oppose me for my pursuit of good.

²²Do not abandon me, O Lord;

O God of mine, do not be far from me.

²³Hasten to help me,

O Lord^* of my salvation.

¹To the choirmaster – to Jeduthun.↑

A Psalm of David.

²I have resolved that I will keep my ways,

Not sinning with my tongue;

I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle

As long as the wicked one is still before me.

³I was mute – in silence.

I was quiet because of my good situation,

Then sorrow came upon me.

⁴My heart was hot within me,

A fire was burning in my contemplation;

I spoke with my tongue.

⁵O Lord, make my end known to me,

And what the measure of my days is,

So that I may know how transient I am.

⁶Look, you have appointed my days to be as handbreadths,

And my lifespan is as nothing before you.

Surely all mankind is appointed to nothing but vanity.

Selah.

⁷Surely man walks around in a shadow;

Surely men are in a commotion in vanity.

He heaps things up

But does not know who will collect them.

⁸And now, O Lord^*, what have I hoped for?

My hope is pinned on you.

⁹Deliver me from all my transgressions;

Do not make me a fool's reproach.

¹⁰I was silent;

I did not open my mouth,

For you acted.

¹¹Do stop dealing me blows,

For I am consumed by the castigation of your hand.

¹²You chasten a man on account of iniquity with punishments,

And you dissolve away his elegance like a moth.

Surely all mankind is vanity.

Selah.

¹³Hear my prayer, O Lord,

And listen to my crying out.

Do not be indifferent to my tears,

– A temporary resident, like all my fathers.

¹⁴Allow me respite,

And let me be cheerful,

Before I go

And am no more.

Reference(s) in Chapter 39: v.13 ↔ Hebrews 11:13.

¹To the choirmaster.↑

A Psalm of David.

²I fervently put hope in the Lord,

And he turned to me

And heard my crying out.

³And he brought me up out of a deadly pit,

Out of the miry mud,

And he raised my feet onto a rock,

And he directed my steps.

⁴And he put a new song in my mouth

– A psalm to our God.

Many will see and fear

And trust in the Lord.

⁵Happy is the man

Who has made the Lord the object of his trust

And who has not turned to the insolent,

Nor to those who turn aside to dishonesty.

⁶O Lord my God,

Your wondrous works which you have performed

Are many,

And your thoughts to us are beyond compare.

I will announce them and speak of them,

Although they are too great to relate.

And your law is in my inner parts.’ ”

¹⁰I have brought good tidings of righteousness,

In a great convocation;

Look, I have not held my lips back.

O Lord, you know.

¹¹I have not concealed your righteousness inside my heart,

I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation;

I have not hidden away your kindness or your truth

From a great convocation.

¹²O Lord, you do not hold back your mercies from me;

Your kindness and your truth always guard me.

¹³For innumerable evils have surrounded me.

My iniquities have caught up with me,

So that I am unable to see.

They are more numerous than the hairs of my head,

And my heart has deserted me.

¹⁴Be willing, O Lord, to deliver me;

O Lord, hasten to my assistance.

¹⁵May those who seek to destroy my life

Be completely ashamed and disgraced.

May those who delight in my harm

Be driven back

And be made ignominious.

¹⁶May those who say to me, “Ha, ha”

Be devastated on account of their shame.

¹⁷May all those who seek you exult

And rejoice in you.

May those who love your salvation always say,

“Let the Lord be magnified.”

¹⁸But I am poor and needy,

Yet the Lord^* considers me.

You are my helper and my deliverer.

O God of mine, do not delay.

Reference(s) in Chapter 40: v.7 ↔ Hebrews 10:5, Hebrews 10:6, Hebrews 10:8 ● v.8 ↔ Hebrews 10:7, Hebrews 10:9 ● v.9 ↔ Hebrews 10:9.

¹To the choirmaster.↑

A Psalm of David.

²Happy is he who attends to the poor;

On the evil day,

The Lord will deliver him.

³The Lord will protect him

And preserve him alive.

And he will be pronounced happy on the earth,

And you will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.

⁴The Lord will support him on his sickbed;

You will overturn all causes of him being bedridden in his illness.

⁵I have said,

“O Lord have mercy on me;

Heal me inwardly,

For I have sinned against you.”

⁶My enemies speak an evil thing of me:

“When will he die,

And his name perish?”

⁷And if anyone comes to see what false thing he can say,

His heart accumulates iniquity;

He goes out into the open

And says it.

⁸All those who hate me

Whisper among themselves against me;

They conceive evil for me.

⁹A mischievous deed has taken shape in their plan,

Whereby, “When he lies down,

He will not rise again.”

¹⁰Even a man at peace with me,

In whom I trusted

¹¹But you, O Lord, have mercy on me,

And raise me up,

So that I can repay them.

¹²By this I know that you have pleasure in me:

My enemy will not gloat over me.

¹³As for me, you take hold of me in my integrity,

And you place me before yourself age-abidingly.

¹⁴Blessed be the Lord God of Israel

From age to age.

Amen and amen.

Reference(s) in Chapter 41: v.10 ↔ John 13:18.

¹To the choirmaster.↑

For the sons of Korah, an Instructive Psalm.

²As a roebuck longs for brooks of water,

So my being longs for you, O God.

³My being thirsts for God

– For the living God.

When will I come

And see the face of God?

⁴A tear was my daily and nightly bread

When they said to me all day,

“Where is your God?”

⁵I will remember these things,

And I will pour out my soul over myself,

For I will pass through the crowd;

I will proceed softly with them to the house of God

With a joyful voice and thanksgiving,

As a multitude celebrates a festival.

⁶How you have been brought low, my spirit,

And have agitated me!

Await God,

For I will still praise him,

For his acts of salvation performed in his own presence.

⁷O God of mine, my spirit has been brought down low on me,

So I will remember you from the land of Jordan,

And the Hermons, from Mount Mizar.

⁸The deep calls to the deep

At the call of your water-surges;

All your breakers and waves have passed over me.

⁹By day the Lord will command his kindness,

And by night a song is with me

– A prayer to the God of my life.

¹⁰Let me say to God, my rock,

“Why have you forgotten me?

Why should I go about melancholically,

In the oppression of the enemy?”

¹¹My adversaries reproach me with the crushing of my bones,

As they say to me all day long,

“Where is your God?”

¹²How you have been brought low, my spirit,

And how you have agitated me!

Await God,

For I will still praise him,

For the acts of salvation before me,

And for being my God.

¹Judge me, O God,

And defend my case against a graceless people.

Deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

²But you, O God, who are my stronghold,

Why are you averse to me?

Why do I go about dejectedly

In the oppression of the enemy?

³Send your light and your truth.

They will lead me;

Let them bring me to your holy mountain

And to your dwelling places,

⁴And I will go to the altar of God

– To the God of my joyous happiness.

And I will praise you with the harp,

O God my God.

⁵How you have been brought low, my spirit.

And have agitated me!

Await God,

For I will still praise him,

For the acts of salvation before me

And for being my God.

¹To the choirmaster.↑

For the sons of Korah, an Instructive Psalm.

²O God, we have heard with our ears

– Our fathers told us –

Of the work you performed

In days of old.

³You disinherited nations with your hand

And planted them.

You did harm to various peoples

And cast them out.

⁴For they did not take possession of the land by their sword,

Nor did their own arm save them.

Rather, your right hand did,

And your arm,

And the light of your presence,

For you had pleasure in them.

⁵You are my king, O God;

Command the salvations of Jacob.

⁶Through you we will butt our adversaries;

Through your name, we will trample down

Those who rise up against us.

⁷For I do not put trust in my bow,

And my sword will not save me.

⁸For you have saved us from our adversaries

And have put those who hate us to shame.

⁹We have praised God throughout the day,

And we will be thankful to your name age-abidingly.

Selah.

¹⁰But you are averse to us,

And you have put us to shame,

And you do not go out in our armies.

¹¹You drive us back from the adversary,

And those who hate us

Plunder away.

¹²You make us like sheep for food,

And you have scattered us among the Gentiles.

¹³You have sold your people at no value,

And you did not bid up their price.

¹⁴You make us a reproach to our neighbours

– A mockery and derision to those round about us.

¹⁵You make us a byword among the Gentiles

– A shaking of the head among the various peoples.

¹⁶All day long my ignominy is before me,

And the shame of my face covers me

¹⁷At the sound of the reproacher and the reviler

– At the presence of the enemy and the avenger.

¹⁸All this has come upon us,

But we have not forgotten you,

And we have not violated your covenant.

¹⁹Our heart has not withdrawn,

Nor do our steps deviate from your path,

²⁰Although you have crushed us in a place of jackals,

And you have covered us with a shadow of death.

²¹If we have forgotten the name of our God

Or spread our hands to a strange god,

²²Will not God search this out?

For he knows the hidden things of the heart.

²⁴Awake; why do you sleep, O Lord^*?

Arise; do not be averse for all time.

²⁵Why do you hide your face

And forget our affliction and our oppression?

²⁶For our spirit is sinking into the dust;

Our belly is stuck to the earth.

²⁷Arise and be our help,

And redeem us

For your kindness' sake.

Reference(s) in Chapter 44: v.23 ↔ Romans 8:36.

¹To the choirmaster on Shoshannim.↑

For the sons of Korah, an Instructive Psalm. A song of love.

²My heart is bubbling up with a good thing,

I speak of my works for the king;

My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

³You are very much more comely than the sons of Adam;

Grace is poured out on your lips,

Because God has blessed you age-abidingly.

⁴Gird your sword onto your thigh, O warrior,

For your splendour and your majesty.

⁵And as for your majesty,

Prosper and ride

On the principle of truth and righteous meekness,

And your right hand will show you awesome things.

⁶Your arrows are sharpened;

Various peoples will fall under you

– Those at the heart of the king's enemies.

⁹All your clothes have been scented with myrrh and aloes and cassia,

From ivory palaces,

Because they gladden you.

¹⁰The daughters of kings are among your maids-of-honour,

And a queen stands on your right in gold from Ophir.

¹¹Listen, O daughter, and look,

And incline your ear,

And forget your people,

And your father's house,

¹²While the king longs for your beauty,

For he is your Lord,

So worship him.

¹³And, O daughter of Tyre,

The rich of the people will seek your favour with a gift.

¹⁴The king's daughter is entirely glorious indoors,

And her clothing is of intricately woven gold.

¹⁵She will be brought to the king in embroidery;

Her virgin attendants following are brought to you.

¹⁶They will be brought with gladness and rejoicing,

They will come to the king's palace.

¹⁷In the place of your fathers

Will be your sons.

You will appoint them as princes

Over all the land.

¹⁸I will bring your name to remembrance

From every generation to generation,

Which is why the various peoples will praise you,

Age-abidingly and in perpetuity.

Reference(s) in Chapter 45: v.7 ↔ Hebrews 1:8 ● v.8 ↔ Hebrews 1:9.

¹To the choirmaster, for the sons of Korah concerning maidens.↑

A Song.

²God is our refuge and strength

– A help in adversities.

He is readily found.

³That is why we will not fear

When the earth undergoes change,

Or the mountains tumble into the heart of the seas.

⁴His waters roar and swell;

Mountains shake at his grandeur.

Selah.

⁵A river and its streams give joy to the City of God

– To the holy dwelling places of the Most High.

⁶God is at its centre;

It will not be shaken.

God will help it

At the approach of the morning.

⁷The Gentiles are in a commotion,

And kingdoms topple.

When he gives utterance with his voice,

The earth melts.

⁸The Lord of hosts is with us;

The God of Jacob is a high stronghold to us.

Selah.

⁹Come and see the works of the Lord,

Who has brought about desolations on the earth.

¹⁰He stops wars up to the end of the earth,

He breaks the bow and snaps the spear;

He burns chariots in fire.

¹¹Be still, and know that I am God.

I will be exalted among the Gentiles;

I will be exalted on the earth.

¹²The Lord of hosts is with us;

The God of Jacob is a high stronghold to us.

Selah.

¹To the choirmaster.↑

For the sons of Korah – a Psalm.

²Clap the hands, all you various peoples;

Shout out to God with a joyful cry.

³For the Lord Most High is to be feared

– A great king over the whole earth.

⁴May he subdue peoples under us,

And nations under our feet.

⁵May he choose our inheritance for us

– The excellence of Jacob whom he loved.

Selah.

⁶God ascended with a shout

– The Lord, with the sound of the ramshorn.

⁷Sing psalms to God,

Sing psalms,

Sing psalms to our king;

Sing psalms.

⁸For God is king of all the earth.

Sing psalms of instruction.

⁹God reigns over the Gentiles;

God sits on his holy throne.

¹⁰The dignitaries of the various peoples have gathered

– The people of the God of Abraham –

For the shields of the earth belong to God;

He is highly exalted.

¹A Song. A Psalm for the sons of Korah.

²The Lord is great

And is much to be praised

In the city of our God

– His holy mount.

³Fair in elevation,

The joy of all the land

Is Mount Zion,

As are its northern sides

– The city of the great king.

⁴God is known as a high fort

In its palaces.

⁵For behold, the kings held a meeting;

They passed across together.

⁶They saw it and were duly astonished;

They were startled and they fled in alarm.

⁷Trembling seized them there

– Writhing like a woman giving birth.

⁸With an east wind,

You shatter the ships of Tarshish.

⁹As we have heard, so we have seen,

In the city of the Lord of hosts.

In the city of our God,

Which God will establish age-abidingly.

Selah.

¹⁰We have contemplated your kindness, O God,

In the midst of your temple.

¹¹As your name is, O God,

So is your praise at the ends of the earth.

Your right hand is full of righteousness.

¹²Let Mount Zion rejoice;

Let the daughters of Judah be glad

On account of your judgments.

¹³Go round Zion

And circle round it.

Count its towers.

¹⁴Set your heart on its might.

Consider its palaces,

So that you can relate it to the generation following,

¹⁵For this God is our God,

Age-abidingly and in perpetuity.

He will guide us at death.

¹To the choirmaster.↑

A Psalm for the sons of Korah.

²Hear this, all you various peoples;

Listen, all who dwell in the world

³– Indeed, you sons of Adam,

Indeed, you sons of man

– Rich and poor together.

⁴My mouth will speak wisdom,

And the meditation of my heart will be intelligent words.

⁵I will turn my ear to a proverb;

I will strike up my riddle on the harp.

⁶Why should I fear in the days of evil?

The iniquity of those who would supplant me

Surrounds me

⁷– Of those who trust in their own wealth

And boast in the abundance of their riches.

⁸A man cannot redeem his brother at all

– He cannot give God his ransom –

⁹For the redemption of their life is precious;

He will always fail

¹⁰In redemption such that one should live on in perpetuity

And not see decay.

¹¹For he sees how wise men die,

In the same way that the foolish and the coarse perish

And leave their wealth to others.

¹²Their inward thought is that their houses are age-abiding

– That their dwellings will be from generation to generation.

They call their estates after their own names.

¹³But man will not remain in splendour;

He resembles cattle that are cut off.

¹⁴This way of theirs is their folly,

But those who come after them

Are pleased with their sayings.

Selah.

¹⁵They are put in a grave like sheep;

Death has dominion over them.

Now the upright will rule over them in the morning,

But their condition will decay in the grave

More than it did in their dwelling.

¹⁶Surely God will redeem my life

From the power of the grave,

For he will take me up.

Selah.

¹⁷Do not fear when a man becomes rich,

When the prestige of his house is increased.

¹⁸For he does not take anything with him at his death,

Nor does his honour follow him down.

¹⁹For he blesses himself in his lifetime,

And men praise you

When you do well for yourself.

²⁰You will go to the generation of his fathers,

Who will never see light.

²¹A man in splendour,

But who does not understand,

Resembles cattle

That are cut off.

¹A Psalm of Asaph.

God, God, the Lord has spoken

And called to the earth

From the rising of the sun

To its setting.

²God has shone from Zion

As the perfection of beauty.

³Our God will come and will not be silent.

A fire before him will consume away,

And around him it will be very tempestuous.

⁴He will call out to the heavens above,

And to the earth,

To judge his people.

⁵Gather my men of grace up to me

– Those who have carried out my covenant by sacrifice.

⁶And the heavens will declare his righteousness,

For God is the judge.

Selah.

⁷Listen, my people,

And I will speak, O Israel,

And I will testify against you.

I am God – your God.

⁸I will not reprove you about your sacrifices,

Nor your burnt offerings

Which are continually before me.

⁹I will not take a bull-calf from your house,

Nor he-goats from your folds,

¹⁰For all the wild animals of the forest are mine,

As are the cattle on a thousand mountains.

¹¹I know all the birds of the mountains,

And the wildlife of the countryside is with me.

¹²If I were to be hungry,

I would not tell you,

For the world and its fulness are mine.

¹³Would I eat beef of strong bulls,

Or drink the blood of he-goats?

¹⁴Give a sacrifice of a thank-offering to God,

And fulfil your vows to the Most High.

¹⁵And call on me on the day of anguish,

And I will deliver you,

And you will glorify me.

¹⁶But to the wicked, God has said,

“What concern is it to you to relate my statutes,

And for you to take up my covenant in your mouth,

¹⁷Seeing you hate correction,

And you cast my words behind you?

¹⁸If you saw a thief,

You delighted in being with him,

And you participated with adulterers.

¹⁹You let your mouth loose with evil,

And you yoke your tongue to deceit.

²⁰You sit and speak against your brother,

You publish defamation of your mother's son;

²¹You have done these things,

And I have been silent.

Did you think

That I would in any way be like you?

I will reprove you

And make the comparison in your sight.

²²Now understand this,

You who forget God,

Lest I tear you apart,

And there will be no-one to deliver you.

²³He who offers a thank-offering

Honours me,

And as for him who lays the way to heart,

I will show him the salvation of God.”

¹To the choirmaster.↑

A Psalm of David, ²when Nathan the prophet came to him, because he had gone in to Bathsheba.

³Have mercy on me, O God,

According to your kindness;

Wipe out my transgressions

According to the greatness of your compassion.

⁴Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,

And cleanse me from my sin.

⁵For I acknowledge my transgressions,

And my sin is continually before me.

⁶Against you, you only, I have sinned,

And I have done what is wrong in your sight,

⁷Behold, I was born in iniquity,

And in sin my mother conceived me.

⁸Behold, you delight in truth in the inward parts,

And you make wisdom known to me

In the part which is concealed.

⁹Expiate my sin with hyssop

So that I become clean;

Wash me

So that I become whiter than snow.

¹⁰Give me gladness and joy to hear;

Let the bones you crushed rejoice.

¹¹Hide your face from my sins,

And wipe out all my iniquities.

¹²Create me a clean heart, O God,

And make a new right-minded spirit in my inner self.

¹³Do not cast me out of your presence,

And do not take your holy spirit away from me.

¹⁴Restore the happiness of your salvation to me,

And may a willing spirit sustain me.

¹⁵I will teach transgressors your ways,

So sinners will return to you.

¹⁶Deliver me from guilt of bloodshed, O God,

O God of my salvation.

Let my tongue shout out your righteousness.

¹⁷O Lord^*, open my lips

So that my mouth may declare your praise.

¹⁸For you do not take pleasure in sacrifice

Which I would give,

Nor do you desire a burnt offering.

¹⁹The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;

A heart that is broken and contrite

God will not despise.

²⁰Do good in your delight in Zion;

May you build the walls of Jerusalem.

²¹Then you will take pleasure in sacrifices of righteousness

– A standard burnt offering and a complete burnt offering.

Then they will offer bulls on your altar.

Reference(s) in Chapter 51: v.6 ↔ Romans 3:4.

¹To the choirmaster.↑

An Instructive Psalm of David, ²when Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul and said to him, “David has gone to Ahimelech's house.”

³How you boast in wickedness, O mighty man,

Whilst the kindness of God is present all day long.

⁴Your tongue devises calamitous things

– As a sharpened razor perpetrating deceit.

⁵You have loved evil more than good,

And falsehood more than speaking righteousness.

Selah.

⁶You have loved all kinds of predatory words,

You deceitful tongue.

⁷God for his part will tear you down for perpetuity;

He will take hold of you

And sweep you away from your tent

And root you out of the land of the living.

Selah.

⁸And the righteous will look on and fear

And laugh at him.

⁹Behold the man who does not make God his stronghold,

But trusts in the abundance of his wealth

And is strong in his calamitous way!

¹⁰But I am like a flourishing olive tree in the house of God;

I have trusted in the kindness of God

Age-abidingly and in perpetuity.

¹¹I will praise you age-abidingly,

For you have taken action,

And I will put hope in your name,

For you are good towards those under your grace.

¹To the choirmaster on Mahalath.↑

An Instructive Psalm of David.

²The fool has said in his heart,

“There is no God^*.”

And they have acted corruptly;

They have committed abominable iniquity.

³God^* peered down from heaven

At the sons of Adam

⁵Do those engaged in iniquity not know?

– Those who devour my people

In the same way as they devour bread?

They do not call on God^*.

⁶There they had a great fear,

But there was no reason for fear,

For God^* has scattered the bones

Of him who encamps against you.

You have put them to shame,

Because God^* has rejected them.

⁷Oh for the salvation of Israel from Zion!

When God reverses the captivity of his people,

Jacob will rejoice

– Israel will be glad.

Reference(s) in Chapter 53: v.2 ↔ Romans 3:10 ● v.3 ↔ Romans 3:11 ● v.4 ↔ Romans 3:12.

¹To the choirmaster in singing set to stringed music.↑

An Instructive Psalm of David, ²when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, “Is not David hiding with us?”

³O God, save me in your name,

And judge me by your might.

⁴O God, hear my prayer;

Listen to the words of my mouth.

⁵For strangers have risen up against me,

And fierce men seek my life.

They have not put God before them.

Selah.

⁶Behold, God is my helper;

The Lord^* is among those

Who sustain my life.

⁷He will turn the evil onto my adversaries.

Cut them off by your truth!

⁸I will willingly sacrifice to you;

I will praise your name, O Lord,

For it is good.

⁹For you have delivered me from all adversity,

And my eye has looked on my enemies with satisfaction.

¹To the choirmaster in singing set to stringed music.↑

An Instructive Psalm of David.

²Listen, O God, to my prayer,

And do not hide from my supplication.

³Hearken to me, and answer me.

I wander in my speech,

And I am in turmoil,

⁴At the sound of the enemy

– In the face of oppression of the wicked –

For they cause havoc to rain down on me,

And they beleaguer me in anger.

⁵My heart reels inside me,

And the dread of death has fallen on me.

⁶Fear and trembling come upon me,

And fright has enveloped me.

⁷Then I said,

“If only I had flight feathers like a dove,

I would fly away and come to rest.

⁸Behold, I would fly far away;

I would lodge in the desert.

Selah.

⁹I would be quick with my escape,

From the sweeping wind

– From the storm.”

¹⁰O Lord^*, swallow them up;

Divide their tongue,

For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

¹¹Day and night they go around it on its walls,

Whilst iniquity and vice are inside it.

¹²Inside it are perversities,

Whilst violence and deceit do not depart from its streets.

¹³For it is not an enemy that reproaches me,

Which I could have borne;

It is not one who hates me who defies me,

From whom I could have hidden,

¹⁴But you – a man of my own standing –

My friend and my acquaintance,

¹⁵With whom we sweetly took joint counsel.

We went to the house of God in a bustling crowd.

¹⁶May death suddenly come upon them;

May they go down to the grave alive,

For there are wicked things in their dwellings,

And in their midst.

¹⁷As for me, I will call to God

That the Lord may save me.

¹⁸Evening and morning, and at noon,

I will lament and sigh,

And he will hear my voice.

¹⁹He has redeemed my life in peace,

From my battle,

For there were many of them in conflict with me.

²⁰God will hear them and answer them,

For he has been abiding from ancient time.

Selah.

Since they have no change of mind,

They do not fear God.

²¹He shot out his hands

Against those at peace with him;

He violated his covenant.

²²The buttered words of his mouth were flattery,

Whilst battle was in his heart.

His words were softer than oil,

Whilst they were with daggers drawn.

²³Cast your burden on the Lord,

And he will sustain you.

He will not allow the righteous to totter for ever.

²⁴But you, O God, will bring them down to the pit of decay;

Men of blood and deceit will not have half their days.

But I will trust in you.

¹To the choirmaster on Jonath-Elem-Rechokim.↑

A Golden Psalm of David when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

²Have mercy on me, O God,

For man thirsts for me;

All day long he oppresses me with fighting.

³My adversaries thirst for me all day long,

For many are they

Who haughtily do battle against me.

⁴On the day when I am afraid,

I will trust in you.

⁵Through God I will praise his word;

⁶All day long they do violence to my words;

All their thoughts are aimed at my harm.

⁷They meet and hide;

They keep watch over my footsteps,

As they lie in wait for my life.

⁸Deliver them into a void;

Bring down the various peoples in anger, O God.

⁹You can count my wanderings

And put my tears in your bottle.

Are they not in your book?

¹⁰Presently my enemies will turn back

– On the day when I call.

I know this,

For God is for me.

¹¹Through God I will praise the word;

Through the Lord I will praise the word.

¹²In God I trust;

I shall not fear.

What can man do to me?

¹³O God, my vows to you are incumbent on me;

I will fulfil thank-offerings to you.

¹⁴For you have rescued me from death.

Is it not my feet you have saved from stumbling,

So I can walk before God in the light of the living?

Reference(s) in Chapter 56: v.5 ↔ Hebrews 13:6.

¹To the choirmaster, Al-tashcheth.↑

A Golden Psalm of David when he fled from Saul into the cave.

²Have mercy on me, O God,

Have mercy on me.

For my being trusts in you,

And I will trust in the shadow of your wings

Until the dangers have passed.

³I will cry out to God the Most High

– To God who does the accomplishing for me.

⁴He will send help out from heaven and save me.

He reproached him who thirsts for me.

Selah.

God will send his kindness and his truth.

⁵My being is among lions;

I lie among incensed men

– Sons of men whose teeth are a spear and arrows,

Whose tongue is a sharp sword.

⁶May you be exalted over the heavens, O God;

May your glory be over all the earth.

⁷They have prepared a net for my steps.

My being is despondent.

They have dug a pit in front of me,

But they have fallen into it themselves.

Selah.

⁸My heart is resolved, O God,

My heart is resolved.

Let me sing

And make psalm melody.

⁹Awake, my glory,

Awake, O lute and harp;

Let me awake at dawn.

¹⁰I will give thanks to you among the various peoples, O Lord^*;

I will make psalm melody to you among the nations.

¹¹For your kindness is great,

Reaching up to heaven,

As is your truth,

Reaching up to the sky.

¹²May you be exalted above the heavens, O God;

May your glory be over all the earth.

¹To the choirmaster, Al-tashcheth.↑

A Golden Psalm of David.

²Is there indeed silence

When you should speak righteously?

Do you judge uprightly,

O sons of Adam?

³Indeed, in your heart you commit iniquitous things,

And you mete out the violence of your hands on the earth.

⁴The wicked have been estranged since their time in the womb;

They have erred since their time in the belly,

Speaking falsehood.

⁵They have venom like serpents' venom;

They are like a deaf viper

That shuts its ear,

⁶That does not listen to the voice of charmers,

Nor the sagacious spellbinder.

⁷O God, break their teeth in their mouth;

Wrench out the incisors of lions, O Lord.

⁸May they melt away as water flows its way.

As soon as one attaches his arrow to his bow,

May they be like those who are cut off.

⁹Like a snail which melts as it goes;

Like a woman's miscarriage,

May they not see the sun.

¹⁰Before your pots are aware of the blackthorn fire,

As one minute living, another minute over a fire,

He will sweep them away.

¹¹The righteous man will rejoice;

When he has seen vengeance,

He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

¹²And a man will say,

“There is indeed fruit for the righteous.

There is indeed a God

Judging on the earth.”

¹To the choirmaster, Al-tashcheth.↑

A Golden Psalm of David when Saul sent men to watch his house and to kill him.

²Deliver me from my enemies, O God of mine;

Set me on high ground

Against those who rise up against me.

³Deliver me from perpetrators of iniquity,

And save me from men of blood.

⁴For behold, they lie in wait for my life.

Cruel men are in league against me,

Not for my transgression and not for my sin,

O Lord.

⁵Without iniquity on my part,

They run and prepare themselves.

Arise to meet me and see.

⁶But you, O Lord God of hosts,

God of Israel,

Awake to visit all the Gentiles.

Do not show mercy

To any who treacherously deal in iniquity.

Selah.

⁷They return in the evening;

They growl like a dog

And go around the city.

⁸Look, they babble with their mouth.

Swords are on their lips,

But who is listening?

⁹But you, O Lord, will laugh at them;

You will mock all the Gentiles.

¹⁰As for his strength,

I will keep to you,

For God is my high stronghold.

¹¹The God of kindness to me will precede me;

God will show me satisfaction over my adversaries.

¹²Do not kill them,

Lest my people forget.

Make them wander about by your power,

And bring them down,

O Lord^* our shield.

¹³As for the sin of their mouth

– The word of their lips –

They will be taken in their pride,

And for the cursing and falsehood

Which they speak.

¹⁴Consume them in fury,

Consume them so that they are no more.

And they will know that God rules in Jacob

And to the ends of the earth.

Selah.

¹⁵And they will return in the evening

And growl like a dog,

And go around the city.

¹⁶They will wander around for food.

If they are not satiated,

They will complain.

¹⁷But I will sing of your strength

And celebrate your kindness in the morning,

For you have been a high stronghold to me

And a place of refuge on the day when I was in a strait.

¹⁸I will make psalm melody to you,

O my strength,

For God is my high stronghold

– The God of kindness to me.

¹To the choirmaster in Shushan-Eduth.↑

A Golden Psalm of David to teach, ²when he contended with Mesopotamia, and Aramaea-Zobah, when Joab returned and attacked Edom in the Valley of Salt – when he killed twelve thousand.

³O God, you are averse to us;

You have broken us up.

You have been angry;

Oh restore matters for us.

⁴You have shaken the land;

You have ruptured it.

Oh heal its fractures,

For it is faltering.

⁵You have shown your people harshness;

You have given us wine to drink causing reeling.

⁶You have given to those that fear you

A standard to rally around,

On account of the truth.

Selah.

⁷In order that your beloved ones may be delivered,

Oh save with your right hand,

And answer us.

⁸God has said in his holiness,

“I will rejoice,

I will apportion Shechem;

I will allot the Valley of Succoth.

⁹Gilead is mine,

And Manasseh is mine,

And Ephraim is the stronghold of my head.

Judah is my lawgiver.

¹⁰Moab is my washing basin,

At Edom I will cast my shoe;

Philistia, you shall suffer harm on my account.”

¹¹Who will bring me to a fortified city?

Who will lead me to Edom?

¹²Have you not, O God,

Been averse to us?

And will you not, O God,

Go out with our armies?

¹³Oh give us help in adversity,

For man's salvation is false.

¹⁴Let us act valiantly through God,

And he will trample on our adversaries.

¹To the choirmaster, in singing set to stringed music.↑

A Psalm of David.

²Hear, O God, my crying out;

Hearken to my prayer.

³From the end of the earth I will call to you,

When my heart is faint.

Lead me by a rock

That is higher than I.

⁴For you have become a refuge to me

– A strong tower in the presence of the enemy.

⁵I will dwell in your age-abiding tent;

I will trust in the secrecy of your wings.

Selah.

⁶For you, O God, have heard my vows;

You have given me the inheritance

Of those who fear your name.

⁷You will add days to the king's days,

And to his years as generation on generation.

⁸He will remain age-abidingly before God;

Appoint kindness and truth to watch over him.

⁹I will therefore make psalm melody to your name in perpetuity,

So as to fulfil my vows daily.

¹To the choirmaster on Jeduthun.↑

A Psalm of David.

²Surely my being enjoys quietness towards God;

From him is my salvation.

³Surely he is my rock and my salvation;

My high stronghold

Where I will not falter, with great assurance.

⁴How long will you men beleaguer a man?

You will all be killed.

You are like a leaning wall

And like a buckling fence.

⁵Surely they take counsel

As to how to thrust a man out of his exalted position.

They take pleasure in falsehood;

With the mouth they bless,

But inwardly they curse.

Selah.

⁶Surely I must be inwardly quiet towards God,

For from him is my hope.

⁷Surely he is my rock and my salvation

– My high stronghold where I will not be shaken.

⁸On God rests my salvation and my glory

– On the rock of my strength.

My refuge is in God.

⁹Trust in him at all times, O people;

Pour out your heart before him.

God is a refuge for us.

Selah.

¹⁰Surely the sons of Adam are vanity

– The sons of man are false.

In the balance they rise;

They are altogether constituted from vanity.

¹¹Do not trust in the proceeds of oppression,

And do not act vainly for plunder.

If wealth increases,

Do not set your heart on it.

¹²Once God spoke;

This second time I heard it,

That strength belongs to God.

¹³And kindness belongs to you, O Lord^*,

Reference(s) in Chapter 62: v.13 ↔ Romans 2:6, Revelation 2:23, Revelation 18:6, Revelation 20:12, Revelation 20:13, Revelation 22:12.

¹A Psalm of David when he was in the Judaean Desert.

²O God, you are my God;

I will seek you diligently.

My being thirsts for you;

My flesh longs for you,

In an arid and weary land without water.

³In that way I have beheld you in the sanctuary,

Having seen your strength and your glory.

⁴Since your kindness is better than life,

My lips will commend you.

⁵Thus will I bless you in my life;

At your name I will lift up my hands.

⁶My being will be satiated as if with fat and oil,

And my mouth will give praise with rejoicing lips.

⁷When I remember you on my bed,

In the night-watches,

I meditate on you.

⁸For you have become my help,

And I will be jubilant in the shadow of your wings.

⁹My being will cling behind you;

Your right hand will uphold me.

¹⁰But those who seek my life for its destruction

Will go to the lower regions of the earth.

¹¹He will be poured out

By means of the sword.

They will be the portion for foxes.

¹²But the king will rejoice in God.

Everyone who swears by him will glory,

But the mouth of those who speak falsehood

Will have been stopped.

¹To the choirmaster.↑

A Psalm of David.

²Hear, O God, my voice in my oration.

Guard my life at a time of fear of the enemy.

³Hide me from the plotting of wrongdoers

– From the rage of perpetrators of iniquity,

⁴Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword,

And who have drawn their arrow

– A bitter word –

⁵To shoot at a man of integrity in secret.

They shoot at him suddenly

And do not fear anything.

⁶They strengthen their resolve in an evil matter,

They speak about hiding snares;

They say, “Who will see them?”

⁷They look for ways to commit injustices;

They say, “We have completed a thorough search.”

And that is the inward thought of a man and his deep heart.

⁸But God will suddenly shoot an arrow at them;

They will be in a plight of their own.

⁹They will be the cause of the matter collapsing;

Their tongue will be against them,

And everyone who sees them will flee.

¹⁰And every man will be in fear,

And they will relate the work of God,

And they will learn prudence from his action.

¹¹The righteous will rejoice in the Lord

And trust in him,

And all who are upright in heart will glory.

¹To the choirmaster.↑

A Psalm of David. A Song.

²To you belong quietness and praise,

O God, in Zion,

And a vow will be fulfilled to you.

³You who hear prayer,

All flesh will come to you.

⁴Iniquitous words have increased against me.

As for our transgressions,

You will expiate them.

⁵Happy is he whom you choose and bring near;

He will dwell in your courts.

We will be satisfied by the goodness of your house

– Your holy temple.

⁶You answer us with awe-inspiring things in righteousness,

O God of our salvation,

Who are the confidence of all the distant ends of the earth and the sea,

⁷Who prepares the mountains by his power,

Being girded with might,

⁸Who calms the raging of the seas

– The raging of their waves –

And the agitation of the various peoples.

⁹And the inhabitants of the most distant regions

Will be in fear at your signs,

And you will give cause for rejoicing

To the break of the morning

And to the onset of the evening.

¹⁰You have visited the earth and made it overflow;

You have greatly enriched it with a brook of God full of water.

You prepare their corn,

For so you have prepared it.

¹¹Satiate its furrows,

Level its ridges,

Soften it with showers;

Bless its shoots.

¹²You have crowned the year of your goodness,

And your paths distil fatness.

¹³They distil to desert pastures,

And hills gird themselves with joy.

¹⁴The pastures are clothed with flocks,

And the valleys are covered with corn.

They shout for joy;

They sing too.

¹To the choirmaster.↑

A Song. A Psalm.

Shout joyfully to God,

All the earth.

²Make psalm melody of the glory of his name;

Bestow glory on his praiseworthiness.

³Say to God, “How awesome are your works!”

At the greatness of your strength,

Your enemies will feign obedience to you.

⁴All the earth will worship you

And will make psalm melody to you;

They will make psalm melody to your name.

Selah.

⁵Come and see the works of God.

He is awesome in deed to the sons of Adam.

⁶He turned the sea into dry land;

They crossed the river on foot.

Let us rejoice in him there.

⁷He rules by his might age-abidingly;

His eyes are watching the Gentiles.

Do not let the rebellious vaunt themselves.

Selah.

⁸O you various peoples,

Bless our God,

And cause the sound of his praise to be heard.

⁹He is the one who appoints our being to life

And does not consign our feet to faltering.

¹⁰For you have examined us, O God;

You have refined us,

Like the refining of silver.

¹¹You have brought us into a net;

You have placed an oppressive burden on our loins.

¹²You caused men to ride over our heads.

We have gone through fire and through water,

But you have brought us out

Into a place of abundance.

¹³I will go to your house with burnt offerings;

I will fulfil my vows to you,

¹⁴Which my lips uttered,

And my mouth spoke,

When I was in a strait.

¹⁵I will offer fat burnt offerings to you

– Rams with incense;

I will offer bulls with he-goats.

Selah.

¹⁶Come, all you who fear God and hear,

And I will relate

What he has done for my being.

¹⁷I cried out to him with my mouth,

And he was extolled under my tongue.

¹⁸If I have an eye to iniquity in my heart,

The Lord^* will not hear me.

¹⁹Truly, God has heard me;

He has hearkened to the sound of my prayer.

²⁰Blessed be God,

Who has not set my prayer aside

Or withdrawn his kindness from me.

¹To the choirmaster, in singing set to stringed music.↑

A Psalm. A Song.

²May God be merciful to us

And bless us.

May he let his face shine on us

– Selah –

³For knowledge of your ways on the earth

And of your salvation amongst all nations.

⁴May the various peoples praise you, O God,

May the various peoples praise you

– All of them.

⁵Nations will rejoice and shout for joy,

For you will judge the various peoples equitably,

And you will guide nations on the earth.

Selah.

⁶May the various peoples praise you, O God,

May the various peoples praise you

– All of them.

⁷The earth yields its produce;

God, our God, will bless us.

⁸God will bless us,

And all the ends of the earth will fear him.

¹To the choirmaster.↑

A Psalm of David. A Song.

²God will arise,

And his enemies will be scattered.

Those who hate him will flee from his presence.

³As smoke is driven away,

You will drive them away.

As wax melts in the presence of fire,

The wicked will perish in the presence of God,

⁴But the righteous will rejoice and exult before God,

And they will be glad with joy.

⁵Sing to God;

Make psalm melody to his name.

Raise up a highway

For him who rides through the arid tracts

In his name, the Lord,

And exult before him.

⁶A father to orphans,

One who provides justice to widows:

That is God in his holy dwelling.

⁷God accommodates in a household those who are alone;

He brings prisoners out into prosperity,

But the rebellious will dwell in a parched place.

⁸O God, when you went out before your people,

When you marched through desolate land

– Selah –

⁹The earth trembled

And the sky condensed precipitation

At the presence of God

– There at Sinai at the presence of God,

The God of Israel.

¹⁰O God, you sprinkled liberal showers;

When your inheritance was weary,

You invigorated it.

¹¹Your flock dwelt in it;

You made provision through your goodness

For the afflicted, O God.

¹²The Lord^* gave the word;

Those who brought good tidings

Were a great host.

¹³The kings of armies flee at every turn,

While the household at home shares out the spoil.

¹⁴Even if you lie between the sheepfolds,

You will be like the wings of a dove overlaid with silver,

With its flight feathers overlaid with yellow gold.

¹⁵When the Almighty scatters kings in it,

It will be snow-white as in Salmon.

¹⁶O mountain of God,

O mountain of Bashan,

O mountain range of many peaks,

O mountain of Bashan,

¹⁷Why do you look on with envy,

You mountain peaks,

At the mountain which God desires,

For him to live in?

Indeed the Lord will dwell there in perpetuity.

¹⁸The chariots of God are twenty thousand

– Thousands upon thousands.

The Lord^* is among them,

As at Sinai, in the sanctuary.

– Indeed the rebellious –

So that the Lord God may take up a dwelling.

²⁰Blessed is the Lord^*;

Daily God bears our salvation for us.

Selah.

²¹Our God is a God of acts of salvation,

And the Lord my Lord has the escape routes from death.

²²Surely God will dash the head of his enemies in pieces

– The hairy crown of him who walks in his guilty ways.

²³The Lord^* said,

“I will retrieve them from Bashan;

I will retrieve them from the depths of the sea

²⁴So that you may plunge your foot in blood,

And your dogs' tongues may lick it up

From the enemies as their portion.”

²⁵They have seen your ways, O God,

The ways of my God

– My king in the sanctuary.

²⁶The singers went first,

Then afterwards, the stringed instrument players,

In the midst of maidens playing drums.

²⁷In your convocations, bless God

– The Lord –

You who are from the source of Israel.

²⁸There is Benjamin,

Who is small, ruling them,

And the princes of Judah with their entourage,

And the princes of Zebulun

And the princes of Naphtali.

²⁹Your God has commanded your strength.

Show strength, O God,

In what you will do for us.

³⁰On account of your temple in Jerusalem,

Kings will bring you a gift.

³¹Rebuke the beasts of the reed marshland,

And the company of strong bulls against the calves of the people.

Let each submit himself with silver coins.

He will scatter the various peoples

Who take pleasure in battles.

³²Nobles will come from Egypt;

Ethiopia will hasten to stretch out its hands to God.

³³Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth;

Make psalm melody to the Lord^*.

Selah.

³⁴Sing to him who has been riding on the heavens of heavens

Since ancient time.

Behold, he sounds his voice

– A mighty voice.

³⁵Ascribe strength to God;

His majesty is over Israel,

And his might is in the skies.

³⁶O God, you are awesome,

Proceeding from your sanctuaries.

It is the God of Israel

Who gives strength and power to the people.

Blessed be God.

Reference(s) in Chapter 68: v.19 ↔ Ephesians 4:8.

¹To the choirmaster on Shoshannim.↑

A Psalm of David.

²Save me, O God,

For waters have come to the point of threatening my life.

³I am sinking in deep mire,

And there is no foothold.

I have come into depths of water,

And the swell is engulfing me.

⁴I am weary with crying out;

My throat is parched,

And my eyes are exhausted,

As I wait for my God.

Are more numerous than the hairs of my head.

Those who would kill me

– My enemies on false grounds –

Are mighty,

But I have not exploited them,

Otherwise I would restore it.

⁶O God, you know my foolishness,

And my misdeeds are not hidden from you.

⁷Do not let those who put hope in you

Be ashamed on my account, O my Lord the Lord of hosts.

Do not let those who seek you

Be discredited on account of me,

O God of Israel.

⁸For I have uttered a reproach against you;

Ignominy covers my face.

⁹I became estranged from my brothers,

And a foreigner to my mother's sons.

¹¹And I wept subjecting myself to fasting,

But it became a reproach against me.

¹²And I put sackcloth on as my clothing,

And I became a byword to them.

¹³Those who sit at the gate speak against me,

And those who drink strong wine

Make me the subject of their songs.

¹⁴But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Lord,

At an acceptable time, O God.

In your great kindness,

Answer me with your saving truth.

¹⁵Deliver me from the mire,

And do not let me sink.

Let me be delivered from those who hate me,

And from the watery depths.

¹⁶Do not let the swell of water engulf me,

And do not let the deep swallow me up,

And do not let the pit close its mouth over me.

¹⁷Answer me, O Lord,

For your kindness is good;

Turn to me in accordance with the abundance of your mercy.

¹⁸And do not hide your face from your servant,

For I am in a strait.

Make haste in answering me.

¹⁹Draw near to my being

And redeem it;

Ransom me on account of my enemies.

²⁰For you know my reproach,

And my shame and my ignominy.

All my adversaries are before you.

²¹Reproach broke my heart,

And I became ill,

And I hoped to be consoled,

But there was no-one,

And I hoped for comforters,

But I did not find any.

²²And they gave me hemlock for my food,

And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²⁵Pour out your indignation over them,

And may the fury of your anger overtake them.

²⁷For they pursue those whom you have struck,

And they talk to the grief of those you have wounded.

²⁸Add iniquity to their iniquity,

And let them not come into your righteousness.

²⁹May they be blotted out of the book of the living,

And not be written with the righteous.

³⁰But I am afflicted and pained.

May your salvation, O God, lift me up.

³¹I will praise the name of God in song,

And I will magnify him with thanksgiving.

³²And may it be pleasing to the Lord

More than an ox or bull-calf,

Which have horns and divide the hoof.

³³The meek will see and be glad

– Those who seek God –

And your heart will live.

³⁴For the Lord listens to the poor,

And he does not despise those of his in bondage.

³⁵Let heaven and earth praise him,

And the seas,

And everything that moves in them.

³⁶For God will save Zion,

And he will build the cities of Judah,

And they will dwell there

And take possession of it.

³⁷And the seed of his servants will inherit it,

And those who love his name will dwell in it.

Reference(s) in Chapter 69: v.5 ↔ John 15:25 ● v.10 ↔ John 2:17, Romans 15:3 ● v.22 ↔ John 19:28, John 19:29 ● v.23 ↔ Romans 11:9 ● v.24 ↔ Romans 11:10 ● v.26 ↔ Acts 1:20 ● v.29 ↔ Philippians 4:3, Revelation 3:5, Revelation 13:8, Revelation 17:8, Revelation 20:12, Revelation 20:15, Revelation 21:27.

¹To the choirmaster.↑

A Psalm of David for remembrance.

²O God, hasten to deliver me;

O Lord, hasten to my assistance.

³May those who seek my life

Be ashamed and disgraced.

May those who delight in my harm

Be driven back

And be made ignominious.

⁴May those who say, “Ha, ha”

Go back on account of their shame.

⁵May all who seek you exult

And rejoice in you,

And may those who love your salvation always say,

“Let God be magnified.”

⁶But I am poor and needy.

O God, hasten to me;

You are my help and my deliverer.

O Lord, do not delay.

¹In you, O Lord, I have put my trust;

Do not let me ever be put to shame.

²Rescue me and extricate me in your righteousness;

Incline your ear to me

And save me.

³Be to me a rock-strong dwelling place,

To go to at all times.

You have given commandment to save me,

For you are my rock and my fortress.

⁴O God of mine, rescue me from the hand of the wicked man

– From the palm of the iniquitous and violent one,

⁵For you are my hope, my Lord the Lord,

And my security from my youth.

⁶I have been dependent on you since the womb

– Since my mother's belly from which you cut me loose.

My praise has always been on your account.

⁷I became a marvel to many,

And you were my strong refuge.

⁸May my mouth be full of your praise

And of your splendour all day long.

⁹Do not cast me off in the time of my old age.

When my strength has become exhausted,

Do not abandon me.

¹⁰For my enemies have spoken against me,

And those watching out for a chance to take my life

Have taken counsel together,

¹¹And have said, “God has forsaken him.

Pursue and seize him,

For there is no-one to deliver him.”

¹²O God, do not be far from me.

O God of mine, hasten to my assistance.

¹³May those who take a stand against my life

Be put to shame and consumed.

May those who seek my harm

Be covered in reproach and ignominy.

¹⁴But I will always wait,

And I will add to all your praise.

¹⁵My mouth will relate your righteousness

And your salvation, all day long.

I do not know the number of such deeds.

¹⁶I will come in the might of my Lord the Lord;

I will bring your righteousness to remembrance

– Yours only.

¹⁷O God you have taught me from my youth,

And I have been telling of your wondrous deeds up to now.

¹⁸Now also at old age and grey hair,

Do not forsake me, O God,

Before I have told of your strength

To this generation,

And I have told of your might

To all who are to come.

¹⁹And your righteousness, O God, is sublime,

In that you have performed great deeds.

O God, who is like you?

²⁰Although you have shown us many adversities and troubles,

You will restore us to life again,

And lift me up again from the depths of the earth.

²¹You will increase my greatness

And surround and comfort me.

²²I too will give you thanks on the lute;

I will make psalm melody of your truth to you,

O God of mine,

With the harp,

O holy one of Israel.

²³My lips will rejoice

When I make psalm melody to you,

As will my being

Which you have redeemed.

²⁴My tongue, too, will utter your righteousness all day long,

Because those who seek my harm have become ashamed

– Because they have become disgraced.

¹A Psalm for Solomon.

O God, give your judicial principles to the king,

And your righteous standard to the king's son.

²He will judge your people righteously,

And those of yours who are poor, justly.

³The mountains will bring peace to the people,

As will the hills, in righteousness.

⁴He will judge those of the people who are poor;

He will save the sons of the needy

And crush the oppressor.

⁵They will fear you

When they are in the company of the sun,

And when they are in the presence of the moon,

For generation upon generation.

⁶He will come down like rain on mown grass

– Like showers that drench the earth.

⁷The righteous man will blossom in his days,

As will an abundance of peace,

Until the moon is no more.

⁸And he will have dominion from sea to sea,

And from the river to the ends of the earth.

⁹The inhabitants of the desert will bow down before him,

And his enemies will lick the dust.

¹⁰The kings of Tarshish and the coastlands will bring an offering;

The kings of Sheba and Seba will offer a gift.

¹¹And all the kings will prostrate themselves before him;

All nations will serve him.

¹²For he will deliver the poor man who cries out,

And the needy who has no-one to help him.

¹³He will have pity on the destitute and poor,

And he will save the lives of the poor.

¹⁴He will redeem their lives from oppression and violence,

And their blood will be precious in his eyes.

¹⁵May he live,

And may they give him gold of Sheba,

And may they pray for him constantly

And bless him all day long.

¹⁶May there be an abundance of grain in the land;

May his fruit sway on the mountain summits as in Lebanon,

And may plants of the city bloom like the vegetation of the earth.

¹⁷May his name be age-abiding;

May his name in the presence of the sun give rise to posterity,

And may they be blessed through him.

May all nations call him blessed.

¹⁸Blessed be the Lord God

– The God of Israel –

Who works wondrous deeds on his own.

¹⁹And blessed be his glorious name age-abidingly,

And may the whole earth be filled with his glory.

Amen and amen.

²⁰The prayers of David the son of Jesse are completed.

¹A Psalm of Asaph.

Surely God is good to Israel

– To the pure in heart.

²But as for me, my feet were almost reduced to nothing;

My steps were exhausted.

³For I was jealous of the boasters

When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

⁴For they have no concerns about their death

While their body is healthy.

⁵They are not subject to man's toiling,

Nor are they plagued in common with man.

⁶That is why pride bedecks them,

And the garment which covers them

Is their violence.

⁷Their eyes bulge from fatness;

The imaginings of their heart pass beyond all bounds.

⁸They mock,

They speak wickedly, plotting oppression;

They speak haughtily.

⁹They have set their mouth against heaven,

While their tongue traverses the earth.

¹⁰Therefore he will bring his people back here,

And water will be wrung out to them in full.

¹¹But they say,

“How does God know?”

And, “Does the Most High have any knowledge of it?”

¹²Behold, these are the wicked,

And those at ease in the age,

Who have increased in riches.

¹³Surely I cleansed my heart in vain

When I washed my hands in innocence,

¹⁴For I was plagued all day long,

And I suffered castigation each morning.

¹⁵If I had said,

“Let me speak like that”,

I would have misled a generation of your sons.

¹⁶I pondered so as to know this matter

– It was to my sorrow in my sight –

¹⁷Until I went into the sanctuary of God

And understood their final state.

¹⁸Surely you will put them in slippery places;

You will make them fall into ruin.

¹⁹How they will become a desolation in a moment!

How they will perish and meet their end in terrors!

²⁰As in waking up from a dream, O Lord^*,

On awakening, you will despise their illusion.

²¹For my heart was embittered,

And I was pierced in my kidneys.

²²But I was an imbecile

And did not know;

I was like the beasts with you.

²³Yet I am always with you;

You have taken hold of my right hand.

²⁴You will lead me in accordance with your purpose,

And afterwards, you will receive me in glory.

²⁵Whom do I have in the heavens?

I delight just to be with you;

I have not delighted in the earth.

²⁶My flesh has come to an end,

But as for my heart,

The rock of my heart and my portion

Is God age-abidingly.

²⁷For behold, those departing from you will perish;

You have cut off

Everyone who commits whoredom against you.

²⁸But as for me,

Closeness to God is good for me.

I have put my trust in my Lord the Lord

So as to tell of all your works.

¹An Instructive Psalm of Asaph.

Why, O God, have you utterly rejected us?

Why does your anger fume over the sheep of your pasture?

²Remember your congregation,

Which you acquired in ancient time.

You redeemed the sceptre of your inheritance

– Mount Zion in which you dwelt.

³Speed up your strides towards the complete ruins

– All the harm the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

⁴Your adversaries roar in the midst of your assembly;

They have set up their ensigns as portents.

⁵A man used to be known

By how he could wield axes in a thick wood,

⁶But now it is wholly its engravings

That they hack at with hatchets and mallets.

⁷They have set your sanctuary on fire;

They have desecrated your renowned tabernacle,

Bringing it down to the ground.

⁸They have resolved and said,

“Let us ravage them completely.”

They have burnt all the places of assembly of God

Down to the ground.

⁹We have not seen our signs;

There is no prophet any more,

And no-one among us knows for how long.

¹⁰How long, O God, will the adversary reproach us?

How long will the enemy utterly despise your name?

¹¹Why do you withdraw your hand

– Indeed your right hand –

From the midst of your bosom so completely?

¹²But God is my king,

Being from ancient time,

Carrying out acts of salvation

In the midst of the land.

¹³You split the sea in your strength;

You broke the heads of crocodiles in the waters.

¹⁴You crushed the heads of Leviathan;

You gave it as food for the inhabitants of the desert.

¹⁵You carved out fount and brook;

You dried up powerful rivers.

¹⁶Yours is the day;

Yours is the night also.

You prepared the night luminary

And the sun.

¹⁷You set all the boundaries of the earth.

As for summer and winter,

You fashioned them.

¹⁸Remember this:

An enemy has reproached the Lord,

And a foolish people have despised your name.

¹⁹Do not deliver the life of your turtle-dove

To the wild animals.

Do not completely forget

Your poor population.

²⁰Observe the covenant,

For the dark places of the earth

Are full of nests of violence.

²¹Do not let the ill-treated return ashamed;

May the poor and needy praise your name.

²²Arise, O God,

And contend your case;

Remember the reproach on you

From the fool all day long.

²³Do not forget the noise of your adversaries;

The tumult of those who rise up against you

Ascends continually.

¹To the choirmaster, Al-tashcheth.↑

A Psalm of Asaph. A Song.

²We give thanks to you, O God;

We give thanks that your name is near.

People relate your wondrous deeds.

³“For I will receive the assembly;

I myself will judge the upright.

⁴The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolving away;

I am the one who fixed its pillars in place.

Selah.

⁵I have said to the boasters,

‘Do not boast’,

And to the wicked,

‘Do not raise up your horn.

⁶Do not raise your horn high up,

Nor speak with a stiff neck.’ ”

⁷For exaltation does not come from the east or from the west,

Nor from the south,

⁸For God is the judge.

One he brings low;

Another he elevates.

⁹For in the hand of the Lord is a cup

With a fermented wine

– A full mixture.

On one side he pours it out,

But all the wicked of the earth

Will drain and drink its sediment.

¹⁰And I will relate it age-abidingly;

I will make psalm melody

To the God of Jacob.

¹¹And I will break off all the horns of the wicked.

But the horns of the righteous man will be exalted.

¹To the choirmaster in singing set to stringed music.↑

A Psalm of Asaph. A Song.

²God is known in Judah;

His name is great in Israel.

³And in Salem is his booth,

And his dwelling is in Zion.

⁴There, he broke the bolts of the bow,

The shield and the sword and the battle.

Selah.

⁵You are more illustrious and excellent

Than the mountains with their prey.

⁶The stout-hearted have been spoiled;

They have slumbered in their sleep.

And none of their valiant men have found their grip.

⁷At your rebuke, O God of Jacob,

Both chariot and horse sink down stupefied.

⁸You yourself are fearsome,

And who can stand before you

From the moment of your anger?

⁹You have proclaimed judgment from heaven;

The earth feared and was silent.

¹⁰When you rose up for judgment, O God,

It was to save all the meek of the earth.

Selah.

¹¹For the fury of man will be to your praise

When you suppress the remaining fury.

¹²Make vows to the Lord your God,

And fulfil them.

Let all who are round about him

Bring a gift to the fearsome one.

¹³He will cut the spirit of leaders off;

He is fearsome to the kings of the earth.

¹To the choirmaster on Jeduthun.↑

A Psalm of Asaph.

²My voice is directed to God,

And I cry out.

My voice is directed to God,

And he listens to me.

³On the day of my adversity, I sought the Lord^*.

My hand was spread out at night,

And it did not become weary.

My inner being refused to be comforted.

⁴I remember God,

But I am agitated;

I commune,

But my spirit faints.

Selah.

⁵You have taken hold of my eyelids;

I am disturbed

And cannot speak.

⁶I have considered days of antiquity

And years of ancient times.

⁷I remember my song at night;

I commune with my heart,

And my spirit searches matters.

⁸Will the Lord^* reject us throughout the ages

And not take pleasure in us any more?

⁹Will his kindness come to a complete end?

Has his communication,

Which was for generation after generation,

Ceased?

¹⁰Has God forgotten to be gracious?

Has he shut off his mercies in anger?

Selah.

¹¹Then I said, “This is me underrating

The years of the right hand of the Most High.

¹²I will make mention of the works of the Lord,

For I remember your wonder of ancient time.”

¹³So I meditated on all your work,

And I spoke of your deeds.

¹⁴O God, your way is to be found in the sanctuary.

Who is a great God like God?

¹⁵You are the God who works wondrously;

You have made your might known among the various peoples.

¹⁶By your arm you have redeemed your people

– The sons of Jacob and Joseph.

Selah.

¹⁷The waters see you, O God;

The waters see you and swirl.

The oceans rage as well.

¹⁸The clouds pour down water;

The skies emit a noise,

And your flashes fork off all around.

¹⁹There is the sound of your rolling thunder,

Lightning flashes illuminate the world;

The earth rages and shakes.

²⁰In the sea there is your way,

And your paths are in great waters,

But your tracks are not known.

²¹You have led your people like sheep,

Through the intermediacy of Moses and Aaron.

¹An Instructive Psalm of Asaph.

Listen, my people, to my law;

Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

³Which we have heard,

And we know them,

For our fathers related them to us.

⁴We will not hide them from their sons.

Up to the last generation we will relate the praiseworthy things of the Lord,

As well as his strength and his wondrous deeds

Which he has performed.

⁵Indeed, he has established a testimony in Jacob,

And he has set up a law in Israel,

Which he commanded our fathers

To make known to their sons,

⁶So that the last generation may know.

Sons that are to be born must rise up,

And tell their sons in turn.

⁷And they must put their hope in God

And not forget the works of God,

And they must keep his commandments.

⁸Furthermore they must not be like their fathers

– A refractory and rebellious generation,

A generation who did not prepare their heart,

And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

⁹The sons of Ephraim

– Armed archers –

Turned back on the day of battle.

¹⁰They did not keep God's covenant,

And they refused to walk in his law.

¹¹And they forgot his works and his wonders

Which he had shown them.

¹²He worked marvels in the sight of their fathers,

In the land of Egypt

– In the countryside of Zoan.

¹³He divided the sea and ushered them across;

He made the water stand like a mound,

¹⁴And he led them in the cloud by day,

And all night long by a fiery light.

¹⁵And he split rocks in the desert

So as to give drink as from a great depth.

¹⁶And he brought a stream out of hard terrain,

And he made waters flow down like rivers.

¹⁷But they still sinned against him again,

In rebelling against the Most High

In an arid land.

¹⁸And they tested God in their heart,

By asking for food for their appetite.

¹⁹So they spoke against God and they said,

“Can God lay a table in the desert?”

²⁰Behold, he struck a rock,

And water flowed,

And streams overflowed.

“Is he able to provide bread too?

Can he prepare meat for his people?”

²¹So when the Lord heard it,

He became irate,

And a fire was kindled against Jacob,

And anger with Israel arose too.

²²For they did not believe in God,

And they did not have faith in his salvation.

²³Then he commanded the skies above,

And he opened the gates of the heavens.

²⁵Man ate the food of the mighty ones;

He sent them provisions to satiety.

²⁶He set an east wind in motion in the sky,

And he drove a south wind by his strength.

²⁷Then he rained meat on them like dust,

And winged fowl like the sand of the sea.

²⁸And he made it fall in the middle of his encampment,

All around his tent sites.

²⁹So they ate and were very much satiated,

For he had brought them what they desired.

³⁰They were not averse to their desire.

When, with their food still in their mouths,

³¹God's anger arose over them,

He killed those of their company who were fat,

And he brought down the youths of Israel.

³²In spite of all this they still sinned,

And they did not have faith in his wonders.

³³So he ended their days in vacuity,

And their years in fear.

³⁴When he was killing them,

They sought him,

And they diligently searched for God again.

³⁵And they remembered that God was their rock,

And that the Most High God was their redeemer.

³⁶Yet they dealt with him deceitfully with their mouths,

And they dealt with him dishonestly with their tongues.

³⁷And their heart was not right with him,

And they were not faithful to his covenant.

³⁸Yet he is merciful;

He expiates iniquity,

And he did not bring them to ruin.

And he went to great lengths in averting his anger,

And he did not arouse all his fury.

³⁹For he remembered that they were flesh

– A wind that goes and does not return.

⁴⁰How often they rebelled against him in the desert

And grieved him in the wasteland!

⁴¹Then they tempted God again;

They limited the holy one of Israel.

⁴²They did not remember his intervention

– The day when he redeemed them from adversity,

⁴³When he performed his signs in Egypt

And his miracles in the countryside of Zoan,

⁴⁴When he changed their rivers to blood

So that they could not drink their liquids.

⁴⁵He sent the gadfly on them to devour them,

And frogs to molest them.

⁴⁶Then he gave their produce to the consuming locust,

And the results of their toil to the swarming locust.

⁴⁷He destroyed their vines with hail,

And their sycamore fig trees with frost.

⁴⁸And he consigned their cattle to hail,

And their livestock to bolts of lightning.

⁴⁹He sent the fury of his anger on them

– Wrath and indignation and opposition,

And a deputation of harmful angels.

⁵⁰Then he considered the course of his anger.

He did not spare their very selves from death,

And he consigned their life to pestilence.

⁵¹Then he struck down every firstborn in Egypt

– The prime of their strength in the tents of Ham.

⁵²Then he moved his people like sheep,

And he led them like a flock in the desert.

⁵³And he conducted them safely

So that they did not fear anything,

But the sea covered their enemies.

⁵⁴And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary

– The mountain which his right hand had acquired.

⁵⁵Then he drove out nations before them,

And he assigned them an inheritance by apportionment,

And he installed the tribes of Israel in their tents.

⁵⁶But they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God,

And they did not keep his testimonies.

⁵⁷And they slid back,

And they dealt treacherously like their fathers,

And they changed direction like a crooked bow shot.

⁵⁸And they provoked him to anger with their idolatrous raised sites,

And they stirred him to jealousy with their carved images.

⁵⁹God heard and became irate,

And he greatly disdained Israel.

⁶⁰And he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh

– The tent he installed among men.

⁶¹And he delivered his strength into captivity,

And his splendour into the hand of an adversary.

⁶²And he consigned his people to the sword,

Whilst he became irate over his inheritance.

⁶³Fire consumed his young men,

And his virgins had no celebration.

⁶⁴His priests fell by the sword,

And his widows did not lament.

⁶⁵Then the Lord^* awoke

As if from being asleep,

Like a warrior rejoicing from wine.

⁶⁶And he beat his adversaries back;

He gave them age-abiding reproach.

⁶⁷And he rejected the tent of Joseph,

And he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

⁶⁸But he chose the tribe of Judah,

And Mount Zion which he loves.

⁶⁹And he built his sanctuary as an elevation,

Like the earth which he founded age-abidingly.

⁷⁰Then he chose David his servant,

And he took him from the sheepfolds.

⁷¹He brought him from looking after dairy cattle

To tending Jacob his people

And Israel his inheritance.

⁷²And he tended them wholeheartedly,

And he led them in his wise care.

Reference(s) in Chapter 78: v.2 ↔ Matthew 13:35 ● v.24 ↔ John 6:31.

¹A Psalm of Asaph.

O God, the Gentiles have come into your inheritance,

They have defiled your holy temple;

They have made Jerusalem heaps of ruins.

²They have given the corpses of your servants

As food for the birds of the sky,

And the flesh of those under your grace

To the beasts of the earth.

³They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem,

And there is no-one to bury them.

⁴We were a reproach to our neighbours

– Derision and ridicule to those around us.

⁵How long, O Lord, will you constantly be angry,

And will your zeal burn like fire?

⁶Pour out your wrath on the Gentiles

Who have not known you,

And on the kingdoms

Which have not called on your name.

⁷For he has devoured Jacob,

And they have devastated his abode.

⁸Do not call former iniquities to remembrance to our account.

May your mercies go swiftly in front of us,

For we have been very much weakened.

⁹Help us, O God of our salvation,

For the sake of the glory of your name,

And deliver us and atone for our sins,

For your name's sake.

¹⁰Why should the Gentiles say,

“Where is their God?”

Let him be known among the Gentiles in our sight

By vengeance for the blood of your servants

Which has been shed.

¹¹May the prisoner's groan come before you.

According to the greatness of your power,

Preserve those condemned to die.

¹²Pay our neighbours back sevenfold in their bosom

The reproach with which they have reproached you, O Lord^*.

¹³But we, your people and the sheep of your pasture,

Will thank you age-abidingly;

From generation to generation

We will relate your praise.

¹To the choirmaster in Shoshannim-Eduth.↑

A Psalm of Asaph.

²Do listen, O shepherd of Israel,

You who lead Joseph like sheep,

And shine forth,

You who dwell between the cherubim,

³Do rouse your valour before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh,

And come to our salvation.

⁴O God, restore us,

And let your face shine,

And let us be saved.

⁵O Lord God of hosts,

How long will you be fuming

At the prayer of your people?

⁶You have fed them with bread of tears;

You have given them a third measure of tears to drink.

⁷You make us an object of contention with our neighbours,

And our enemies poke fun.

⁸O God of hosts, restore us,

And let your face shine,

And let us be saved.

⁹You removed a vine from Egypt;

You drove out Gentiles and planted it.

¹⁰You made preparations for it,

And it took root,

And it filled the land.

¹¹The mountains were covered by its shade,

And the mighty cedars by its boughs.

¹²It sent its branches as far as the sea,

And its suckers to the river.

¹³Why have you broken down its fences,

So that everyone passing through that way plucks it?

¹⁴The boar from the forest devours it,

And the wildlife of the countryside feeds on it.

¹⁵O God of hosts, do return;

Oh look from heaven and see,

And visit this vine,

¹⁶And the stock which your right hand planted,

And the offshoot which you invigorated for yourself.

¹⁷It has been burned with fire;

It has been cut off.

They will be annihilated at the rebuke of your face.

¹⁸May your hand be on the man of your right hand

– On the son of Adam whom you invigorated for yourself –

¹⁹Then we will not slide back from you.

Revitalize us, and we will call on your name.

²⁰O Lord God of hosts,

Restore us,

And let your face shine,

And let us be saved.

¹To the choirmaster in singing set to percussion instruments.↑

A Psalm of Asaph.

²Sing for joy to God our strength;

Shout out to the God of Jacob.

³Raise a melody and play the drum

And the pleasant harp with the lute.

⁴Blow the ramshorn at the new month

– At the new moon

And on the day of our festival.

⁵For it is a statute for Israel

– An injunction of the God of Jacob.

⁶He appointed it as a testimony in Joseph

When he came out in the face of the land of Egypt,

When I heard a language

Which I did not know.

⁷“I relieved his shoulder of a burden;

His hands were perishing from the brick-basket.

⁸You cried out in adversity,

And I delivered you;

I answered you with thunder secretly.

I tested you at the waters of Meribah.

Selah.

⁹Hear, O my people,

And I will testify to you.

O Israel, if you will hear me,

¹⁰Do not let there be any strange god among you,

And do not worship any foreign god.

¹¹I am the Lord your God,

Who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

Open your mouth wide

And I will fill it.

¹²But my people did not heed me,

And Israel did not want me.

¹³Then I let them go in the stubbornness of their heart,

And they walked in their own counsels.

¹⁴If only my people would listen to me,

And Israel would walk in my ways!

¹⁵I would soon have subdued their enemies

And have turned my hand against their adversaries.

¹⁶Those who hate the Lord

Would have feigned obedience to him.

And their time would have been age-abiding.

¹⁷And he would have fed them with the best of the wheat,

And I would have satisfied you with honey from a rock.”

¹A Psalm of Asaph.

God stands in a mighty congregation;

He judges in the midst of gods.

²How long will you judge iniquitously

And show partiality to the wicked?

Selah.

³Judge the case of the destitute and the orphan,

And give justice to the needy and the impoverished.

⁴Deliver the destitute and the poor;

Rescue them from the hand of the wicked.

⁵They do not know,

And they do not understand.

They walk around in darkness;

All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

And you are all sons of the Most High.”

⁷But you will die like man

And fall like any of the princes.

⁸Arise, O God;

Judge the earth,

For you will inherit all the Gentiles.

Reference(s) in Chapter 82: v.6 ↔ John 10:34.

¹A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.

²O God, do not be silent.

Do not be quiet,

And do not be still,

O God.

³For look,

Your enemies are in a commotion,

And those who hate you

Have raised their head.

⁴They are being crafty in their counsel against your people,

And they are plotting

Against those treasured up by you.

⁵They have said,

“Come, let us obliterate them

So that they aren't a people,

And the name of Israel is no longer remembered.”

⁶For they have deliberated unanimously;

They have made a covenant against you

⁷– The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,

Moab and the Hagrites,

⁸Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,

Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.

⁹Assyria has also joined up with them;

They have become an arm to the sons of Lot.

Selah.

¹⁰Do to them as with Midian

– As to Sisera, as to Jabin,

At the Brook of Kishon.

¹¹They were destroyed in En-Dor;

They became dung for the ground.

¹²Make their nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb,

And all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

¹³Who said,

“Let us take possession of God's dwellings for ourselves.”

¹⁴O God of mine, make them like chaff

– Like straw residue before the wind;

¹⁵Like fire that burns a forest

And like a flame that sets mountains on fire.

¹⁶So you will pursue them with your tempest

And terrify them with your whirlwind.

¹⁷Fill their faces with dishonour,

And let them seek your name, O Lord.

¹⁸Let them be ashamed and terrified in all perpetuity,

And be disgraced and perish.

¹⁹And they will know that you

– Only your name is the Lord –

Are the Most High over all the earth.

¹To the choirmaster in singing set to percussion instruments.↑

For the sons of Korah, a Psalm.

²How pleasant your tabernacles are,

O Lord of hosts!

³My being longs for,

And even pines for,

The courtyards of the Lord.

My heart and flesh shout out

To the living God.

⁴Even the bird has found a home,

And the swallow a nest for herself,

Where she lays her brood.

I long for your altars, O Lord of hosts

– My king and my God.

⁵Happy are those who dwell in your house;

They will repeatedly praise you.

Selah.

⁶Happy is the man

Whose strength is in you.

There are highways in their hearts.

⁷Those who pass through the Valley of Baca

Make it a water-source,

Just as the early rain covers it in blessings.

⁸They go from strength to strength;

He appears before God in Zion.

⁹O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;

Listen, O God of Jacob.

Selah.

¹⁰See our shield, O God,

And look at the face of your messiah.

¹¹For a day in your courtyards is better than a thousand elsewhere.

I would choose to stand as a doorkeeper at the house of my God

Rather than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

¹²For the Lord God is a sun and a shield,

The Lord gives grace and honour;

He does not withhold what is good

From those who walk in integrity.

¹³O Lord of hosts,

Happy is the man

Who trusts in you.

¹To the choirmaster.↑

For the sons of Korah, a Psalm.

²O Lord, you have taken pleasure in your land;

You have reversed the captivity of Jacob.

³You have forgiven the iniquity of your people;

You have pardoned all their sins.

Selah.

⁴You have retracted all your ire;

You have drawn back from the fury of your anger.

⁵Turn us around, O God of our salvation;

Set aside your displeasure with us.

⁶Will you be age-abidingly angry with us?

Will you draw out your anger from generation to generation?

⁷Will you not revive us again

So that your people rejoice in you?

⁸Show us, O Lord, your kindness,

And do give us your salvation.

⁹I will hear what God the Lord says,

For he speaks peace to his people and those of his grace,

And may they not return to foolishness.

¹⁰Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him

– For glory to dwell in our land.

¹¹Kindness and truth have met each other;

Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

¹²Truth has sprung up from the earth,

And righteousness has peered out from heaven.

¹³Indeed the Lord gives that which is good,

And our land will give its produce.

¹⁴Righteousness will go in front of him,

And he will designate his steps as the way.

¹A prayer of David.

Incline, O Lord, your ear,

And answer me,

For I am poor and needy.

²Guard my soul,

For I am under your grace.

You who are my God,

Save your servant

Who trusts in you.

³Have mercy on me, O Lord^*,

For I cry out to you all day long.

⁴Gladden the heart of your servant,

For to you, O Lord^*,

I lift up my being.

⁵For you, O Lord^*, are good and forgiving,

And abundant in kindness to all who call on you.

⁶Listen, O Lord, to my prayer,

And hearken to the sound of my supplications.

⁷On the day of my adversity,

I will call on you,

For you will answer me.

⁸There is none like you among the gods, O Lord^*,

And there is nothing like your works.

⁹All the nations which you made

Will come and worship before you, O Lord^*,

And they will glorify your name.

You alone are God.

¹¹Teach me, O Lord, your way;

I will walk in your truth.

Unite my heart to fear your name.

¹²I will praise you, O Lord^* my God, with all my heart,

And I will glorify your name age-abidingly.

¹³For your kindness towards me is great,

And you have delivered my being from the lowest underworld.

¹⁴O God, the insolent have risen up against me,

And the congregation of the violent seek my life,

And they have not placed you before them.

¹⁵But you, O Lord^*, are a God of mercy and grace,

Forbearing, and abundant in kindness and truth.

¹⁶Turn to me and be merciful to me;

Give your strength to your servant,

And save the son of your maidservant.

¹⁷Give me a favourable sign,

So that those who hate me

May see it and be ashamed,

Because you are the Lord

Who helped me and comforted me.

Reference(s) in Chapter 86: v.9 ↔ Revelation 15:3 ● v.10 ↔ Revelation 15:3 ● v.11 ↔ Revelation 15:3.

¹For the sons of Korah, a Psalm. A Song.

His foundation is on the holy mountains.

²The Lord loves the gates of Zion

More than all the tent sites of Jacob.

³Glorious things are spoken of you,

O City of God.

Selah.

⁴I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to those who know me.

Behold, to Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia,

It will be said, “This one was born there.”

⁵And to Zion it will be said,

“One man and another man were born in it,

And he who will establish it is the Most High.”

⁶The Lord will count

When registering the various peoples,

And say, “This one was born there.”

Selah.

⁷And singers and dancers likewise

– All my founts –

Are in it.

¹A Song. A Psalm to the sons of Korah. To the choirmaster with dancing and singing in response.↑

An Instructive Psalm of Heman the Ezrahite.

²O Lord God of my salvation,

By day I have cried out;

By night my cry is before you.

³May my prayer come before you;

Incline your ear to my outcry.

⁴For my being is saturated with evils,

And my life is touching the grave.

⁵I am considered as being among those

Going down to the pit.

I am like a man without strength,

⁶Among the dead, free,

Like the slain who lie in a grave,

Whom you no longer remember,

As they are cut off from your hand.

⁷You have put me in the pit,

In the lowest regions,

In the dark places

– In the depths.

⁸Your fury bears down on me;

You have afflicted me with all your breakers.

Selah.

⁹You have removed my acquaintances from me;

You have made me an abomination to them.

I am hemmed in,

And I can't come out.

¹⁰My eye languishes from affliction.

I have called on you, O Lord, daily;

I have opened out my hands to you.

¹¹Do you perform a wonder for the dead?

Do the Rephaim rise and praise you?

Selah.

¹²Is your kindness recounted in the grave?

– Or your faithfulness in the place of decease?

¹³Is your wondrous power known in the darkness?

– Or your righteousness in the land of oblivion?

¹⁴But I have cried out to you, O Lord,

And my prayer went to you early in the morning.

¹⁵Why, O Lord, are you averse to my being?

Why do you hide your face from me?

¹⁶I am afflicted,

And I have been expiring since my youth.

I have borne your terrors,

And I am bewildered.

¹⁷Your outpourings of fury have come over onto me;

Alarming things of yours have cut me down.

¹⁸They surround me like water all day long;

They encircle me in unison.

¹⁹You have removed lover and friend from me,

And my acquaintances, to darkness.

¹An Instructive Psalm of Ethan the Ezrahite.

²I will sing the Lord's acts of kindness age-abidingly;

From generation to generation I will make your faithfulness known

By the word of my mouth.

³For I have said,

“Kindness will be built up for the age.”

As for the heavens,

You will prepare your faithfulness in them.

⁴“I have made a covenant with my chosen one,

I have sworn to David my servant,

⁵‘I will establish your seed age-abidingly,

And I will build up your throne

From generation to generation.’ ”

Selah.

⁶And the heavens will praise your wondrous power, O Lord,

As also your faithfulness in the convocation of the holy ones.

⁷For who in the sky is comparable to the Lord?

Who can be likened to the Lord

Among the mighty ones?

⁸– A most formidable God in the council of the holy ones,

And fearsome to all around him?

⁹O Lord God of hosts,

Who is strong like you, O Lord,

With your faithfulness around you?

¹⁰You rule over the haughtiness of the sea;

When the waves arise,

You calm them.

¹¹You have crushed Rahab like the slain;

With your strong arm

You have scattered your enemies.

¹²Yours are the heavens;

Yours also is the earth.

As for the world and its fulness,

You founded them.

¹³North and south – you created them.

Tabor and Hermon – they rejoice in your name.

¹⁴You have a valiant arm,

Your hand is strong;

Your right hand is exalted.

¹⁵Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;

Kindness and truth go before you.

¹⁶Happy is the people that knows the sound;

O Lord, they will walk in the light of your presence.

¹⁷They will rejoice in your name all day long,

And they will be exalted in your righteousness.

¹⁸For you are the splendour of their strength,

And by your goodwill,

Our horn will be exalted.

¹⁹For the Lord is the possessor of our shield,

And the holy one of Israel is the possessor of our king.

²⁰At that time you spoke in a vision to those under your grace and said,

“I have bestowed help on the warrior;

I have exalted a chosen one out of the people.

²²With whom my hand will be established,

To whom also my arm will give courage.

²³The enemy will not come upon him,

Nor will the unjust man afflict him.

²⁴And I will beat his adversaries down before him

And strike down those who hate him.

²⁵And my faithfulness and my kindness will be with him,

And his horn will be exalted in my name.

²⁶And I will put his hand in the sea

And his right hand in the rivers.

²⁷He will call out to me,

‘You are my father,

My God, and the rock of my salvation.’

²⁸I will also place him as the firstborn

– The highest of the kings of the earth.

²⁹I will maintain my kindness to him age-abidingly,

And my covenant will remain faithful to him.

³⁰And I will appoint his seed in perpetuity,

And his throne as the days of heaven.

³¹If his sons forsake my law,

Or do not walk in my judicial pronouncements,

³²Or if they violate my statutes,

Or do not keep my commandments,

³³Then I will visit their transgression with a rod,

And their iniquity with beatings.

³⁴But I will not lay aside my kindness with him,

And I will not default on my faithfulness.

³⁵I will not break my covenant,

And I will not change the utterance of my lips.

³⁶I have sworn by my holiness once;

I will certainly not lie to David.

³⁷His seed will abide for the age,

And his throne like the sun before me,

³⁸Just as the moon is established for the age,

And is a faithful witness in the sky.”

Selah.

³⁹But you have turned away and rejected

– And become irate with –

Your anointed.

⁴⁰You have detested your servant's covenant;

You have rendered his crown powerless on the ground.

⁴¹You have broken through all his fences;

You have made his fortifications a ruin.

⁴²All kinds of travellers have plundered him;

He has become a reproach to his neighbours.

⁴³You have raised the right hand of his adversaries;

You have brought joy to all his enemies.

⁴⁴Also you have driven back the blade of his sword,

And you have not upheld him in battle.

⁴⁵You have put an end to his splendour,

And you have cast his throne down to the ground.

⁴⁶You have curtailed the days of his youth;

You have covered him with shame.

Selah.

⁴⁷How long, O Lord, will you be constantly hidden?

How long will your fury burn like fire?

⁴⁸Remember what kind of a lifetime I have.

– To what kind of vain end

You have created all the sons of Adam.

⁴⁹What man will live and will not see death?

– What man can deliver his life from the power of the grave?

Selah.

⁵⁰Where are your former acts of kindness, O Lord^*,

Which you swore to David in your faithfulness?

⁵¹Remember, O Lord^*, the reproach of your servants

– Me bearing it in my bosom –

From all kinds of mighty peoples,

⁵²In that your enemies have made reproaches, O Lord,

In that they have reproached the footsteps of your anointed.

⁵³Blessed be the Lord age-abidingly.

Amen and amen.

Reference(s) in Chapter 89: v.21 ↔ Acts 13:22 ● v.30 ↔ John 7:42 ● v.37 ↔ John 12:34, Acts 2:30.