A Psalm by Asaph.
** Verse 1
Surely God<note type="translation" osisRef="Ps.73.1" osisID="Ps.73.1!note.1" placement="foot">
<reference type="source" osisRef="Ps.73.1">73:1
</reference>The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).</note> is good to Israel,
to those who are pure in heart.
** Verse 2
But as for me, my feet were almost gone.
My steps had nearly slipped.
** Verse 3
For I was envious of the arrogant,
when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
** Verse 4
For there are no struggles in their death,
but their strength is firm.
** Verse 5
They are free from burdens of men,
neither are they plagued like other men.
** Verse 6
Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck.
Violence covers them like a garment.
** Verse 7
Their eyes bulge with fat.
Their minds pass the limits of conceit.
** Verse 8
They scoff and speak with malice.
In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
** Verse 9
They have set their mouth in the heavens.
Their tongue walks through the earth.
** Verse 10
Therefore their people return to them,
and they drink up waters of abundance.
** Verse 11
They say, “How does God know?
Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
** Verse 12
Behold, these are the wicked.
Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
** Verse 13
Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain,
and washed my hands in innocence,
** Verse 14
For all day long I have been plagued,
and punished every morning.
** Verse 15
If I had said, “I will speak thus”,
behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
** Verse 16
When I tried to understand this,
it was too painful for me—
** Verse 17
until I entered God’s sanctuary,
and considered their latter end.
** Verse 18
Surely you set them in slippery places.
You throw them down to destruction.
** Verse 19
How they are suddenly destroyed!
They are completely swept away with terrors.
** Verse 20
As a dream when one wakes up,
so, Lord,<note type="translation" osisRef="Ps.73.20" osisID="Ps.73.20!note.1" placement="foot">
<reference type="source" osisRef="Ps.73.20">73:20
</reference>The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”</note> when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
** Verse 21
For my soul was grieved.
I was embittered in my heart.
** Verse 22
I was so senseless and ignorant.
I was a brute beast before you.
** Verse 23
Nevertheless, I am continually with you.
You have held my right hand.
** Verse 24
You will guide me with your counsel,
and afterward receive me to glory.
** Verse 25
Whom do I have in heaven?
There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.
** Verse 26
My flesh and my heart fails,
but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
** Verse 27
For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish.
You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.
** Verse 28
But it is good for me to come close to God.
I have made the Lord Yahweh<note type="translation" osisRef="Ps.73.28" osisID="Ps.73.28!note.1" placement="foot">
<reference type="source" osisRef="Ps.73.28">73:28
</reference>“Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.</note> my refuge,
that I may tell of all your works.
* Chapter 74
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A contemplation by Asaph.
** Verse 1
God, why have you rejected us forever?
Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
** Verse 2
Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old,
which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance:
Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
** Verse 3
Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins,
all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
** Verse 4
Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly.
They have set up their standards as signs.
** Verse 5
They behaved like men wielding axes,
cutting through a thicket of trees.
** Verse 6
Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
** Verse 7
They have burned your sanctuary to the ground.
They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
** Verse 8
They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.”
They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
** Verse 9
We see no miraculous signs.
There is no longer any prophet,
neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
** Verse 10
How long, God, shall the adversary reproach?
Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
** Verse 11
Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand?
Take it from your chest and consume them!
** Verse 12
Yet God is my King of old,
working salvation throughout the earth.
** Verse 13
You divided the sea by your strength.
You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
** Verse 14
You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces.
You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
** Verse 15
You opened up spring and stream.
You dried up mighty rivers.
** Verse 16
The day is yours, the night is also yours.
You have prepared the light and the sun.
** Verse 17
You have set all the boundaries of the earth.
You have made summer and winter.
** Verse 18
Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh.
Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
** Verse 19
Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts.
Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
** Verse 20
Honor your covenant,
for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
** Verse 21
Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed.
Let the poor and needy praise your name.
** Verse 22
Arise, God! Plead your own cause.
Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
** Verse 23
Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries.
The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
* Chapter 75
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Psalm by Asaph. A song.
** Verse 1
We give thanks to you, God.
We give thanks, for your Name is near.
Men tell about your wondrous works.
** Verse 2
When I choose the appointed time,
I will judge blamelessly.
** Verse 3
The earth and all its inhabitants quake.
I firmly hold its pillars.
</l><l type="selah">Selah.</l>
** Verse 4
I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!”
I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.
** Verse 5
Don’t lift up your horn on high.
Don’t speak with a stiff neck.”
** Verse 6
For neither from the east, nor from the west,
nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.
** Verse 7
But God is the judge.
He puts down one, and lifts up another.
** Verse 8
For in Yahweh’s hand there is a cup,
full of foaming wine mixed with spices.
He pours it out.
Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.
** Verse 9
But I will declare this forever:
I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
** Verse 10
I will cut off all the horns of the wicked,
but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.
* Chapter 76
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaph. A song.
** Verse 1
In Judah, God is known.
His name is great in Israel.
** Verse 2
His tabernacle is also in Salem.
His dwelling place in Zion.
** Verse 3
There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow,
the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war.
</l><l type="selah">Selah.</l>
** Verse 4
Glorious are you, and excellent,
more than mountains of game.
** Verse 5
Valiant men lie plundered,
they have slept their last sleep.
None of the men of war can lift their hands.
** Verse 6
At your rebuke, God of Jacob,
both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
** Verse 7
You, even you, are to be feared.
Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?
** Verse 8
You pronounced judgment from heaven.
The earth feared, and was silent,
** Verse 9
when God arose to judgment,
to save all the afflicted ones of the earth.
</l><l type="selah">Selah.</l>
** Verse 10
Surely the wrath of man praises you.
The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
** Verse 11
Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them!
Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.
** Verse 12
He will cut off the spirit of princes.
He is feared by the kings of the earth.
* Chapter 77
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by Asaph.
** Verse 1
My cry goes to God!
Indeed, I cry to God for help,
and for him to listen to me.
** Verse 2
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord.
My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired.
My soul refused to be comforted.
** Verse 3
I remember God, and I groan.
I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed.
</l><l type="selah">Selah.</l>
** Verse 4
You hold my eyelids open.
I am so troubled that I can’t speak.
** Verse 5
I have considered the days of old,
the years of ancient times.
** Verse 6
I remember my song in the night.
I consider in my own heart;
my spirit diligently inquires:
** Verse 7
“Will the Lord reject us forever?
Will he be favorable no more?
** Verse 8
Has his loving kindness vanished forever?
Does his promise fail for generations?
** Verse 9
Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?”
</l><l type="selah">Selah.</l>
** Verse 10
Then I thought, “I will appeal to this:
the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
** Verse 11
I will remember Yah’s deeds;
for I will remember your wonders of old.
** Verse 12
I will also meditate on all your work,
and consider your doings.
** Verse 13
Your way, God, is in the sanctuary.
What god is great like God?
** Verse 14
You are the God who does wonders.
You have made your strength known among the peoples.
** Verse 15
You have redeemed your people with your arm,
the sons of Jacob and Joseph.
</l><l type="selah">Selah.</l>
** Verse 16
The waters saw you, God.
The waters saw you, and they writhed.
The depths also convulsed.
** Verse 17
The clouds poured out water.
The skies resounded with thunder.
Your arrows also flashed around.
** Verse 18
The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind.
The lightnings lit up the world.
The earth trembled and shook.
** Verse 19
Your way was through the sea,
your paths through the great waters.
Your footsteps were not known.
** Verse 20
You led your people like a flock,
by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
* Chapter 78
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A contemplation by Asaph.
** Verse 1
Hear my teaching, my people.
Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
** Verse 2
I will open my mouth in a parable.
I will utter dark sayings of old,
** Verse 3
which we have heard and known,
and our fathers have told us.
** Verse 4
We will not hide them from their children,
telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh,
his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.
** Verse 5
For he established a covenant in Jacob,
and appointed a teaching in Israel,
which he commanded our fathers,
that they should make them known to their children;
** Verse 6
that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born;
who should arise and tell their children,
** Verse 7
that they might set their hope in God,
and not forget God’s deeds,
but keep his commandments,
** Verse 8
and might not be as their fathers—
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal,
whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
** Verse 9
The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows,
turned back in the day of battle.
** Verse 10
They didn’t keep God’s covenant,
and refused to walk in his law.
** Verse 11
They forgot his doings,
his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.
** Verse 12
He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers,
in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
** Verse 13
He split the sea, and caused them to pass through.
He made the waters stand as a heap.
** Verse 14
In the daytime he also led them with a cloud,
and all night with a light of fire.
** Verse 15
He split rocks in the wilderness,
and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
** Verse 16
He brought streams also out of the rock,
and caused waters to run down like rivers.
** Verse 17
Yet they still went on to sin against him,
to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
** Verse 18
They tempted God in their heart
by asking food according to their desire.
** Verse 19
Yes, they spoke against God.
They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
** Verse 20
Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out,
and streams overflowed.
Can he give bread also?
Will he provide meat for his people?”
** Verse 21
Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry.
A fire was kindled against Jacob,
anger also went up against Israel,
** Verse 22
because they didn’t believe in God,
and didn’t trust in his salvation.
** Verse 23
Yet he commanded the skies above,
and opened the doors of heaven.
** Verse 24
He rained down manna on them to eat,
and gave them food from the sky.
** Verse 25
Man ate the bread of angels.
He sent them food to the full.
** Verse 26
He caused the east wind to blow in the sky.
By his power he guided the south wind.
** Verse 27
He also rained meat on them as the dust,
winged birds as the sand of the seas.
** Verse 28
He let them fall in the middle of their camp,
around their habitations.
** Verse 29
So they ate, and were well filled.
He gave them their own desire.
** Verse 30
They didn’t turn from their cravings.
Their food was yet in their mouths,
** Verse 31
when the anger of God went up against them,
killed some of their strongest,
and struck down the young men of Israel.
** Verse 32
For all this they still sinned,
and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.
** Verse 33
Therefore he consumed their days in vanity,
and their years in terror.
** Verse 34
When he killed them, then they inquired after him.
They returned and sought God earnestly.
** Verse 35
They remembered that God was their rock,
the Most High God, their redeemer.
** Verse 36
But they flattered him with their mouth,
and lied to him with their tongue.
** Verse 37
For their heart was not right with him,
neither were they faithful in his covenant.
** Verse 38
But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them.
Yes, many times he turned his anger away,
and didn’t stir up all his wrath.
** Verse 39
He remembered that they were but flesh,
a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.
** Verse 40
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness,
and grieved him in the desert!
** Verse 41
They turned again and tempted God,
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
** Verse 42
They didn’t remember his hand,
nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
** Verse 43
how he set his signs in Egypt,
his wonders in the field of Zoan,
** Verse 44
he turned their rivers into blood,
and their streams, so that they could not drink.
** Verse 45
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them;
and frogs, which destroyed them.
** Verse 46
He also gave their increase to the caterpillar,
and their labor to the locust.
** Verse 47
He destroyed their vines with hail,
their sycamore fig trees with frost.
** Verse 48
He also gave over their livestock to the hail,
and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
** Verse 49
He threw on them the fierceness of his anger,
wrath, indignation, and trouble,
and a band of angels of evil.
** Verse 50
He made a path for his anger.
He didn’t spare their soul from death,
but gave their life over to the pestilence,
** Verse 51
and struck all the firstborn in Egypt,
the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
** Verse 52
But he led out his own people like sheep,
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
** Verse 53
He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid,
but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
** Verse 54
He brought them to the border of his sanctuary,
to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.
** Verse 55
He also drove out the nations before them,
allotted them for an inheritance by line,
and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
** Verse 56
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God,
and didn’t keep his testimonies,
** Verse 57
but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers.
They were twisted like a deceitful bow.
** Verse 58
For they provoked him to anger with their high places,
and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
** Verse 59
When God heard this, he was angry,
and greatly abhorred Israel,
** Verse 60
so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh,
the tent which he placed among men,
** Verse 61
and delivered his strength into captivity,
his glory into the adversary’s hand.
** Verse 62
He also gave his people over to the sword,
and was angry with his inheritance.
** Verse 63
Fire devoured their young men.
Their virgins had no wedding song.
** Verse 64
Their priests fell by the sword,
and their widows couldn’t weep.
** Verse 65
Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep,
like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
** Verse 66
He struck his adversaries backward.
He put them to a perpetual reproach.
** Verse 67
Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph,
and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,
** Verse 68
But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion which he loved.
** Verse 69
He built his sanctuary like the heights,
like the earth which he has established forever.
** Verse 70
He also chose David his servant,
and took him from the sheepfolds;
** Verse 71
from following the ewes that have their young,
he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people,
and Israel, his inheritance.
** Verse 72
So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart,
and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
* Chapter 79
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Psalm by Asaph.
** Verse 1
God, the nations have come into your inheritance.
They have defiled your holy temple.
They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
** Verse 2
They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky,
the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.
** Verse 3
They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem.
There was no one to bury them.
** Verse 4
We have become a reproach to our neighbors,
a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
** Verse 5
How long, Yahweh?
Will you be angry forever?
Will your jealousy burn like fire?
** Verse 6
Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you,
on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,
** Verse 7
for they have devoured Jacob,
and destroyed his homeland.
** Verse 8
Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us.
Let your tender mercies speedily meet us,
for we are in desperate need.
** Verse 9
Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name.
Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.
** Verse 10
Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes,
that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.
** Verse 11
Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you.
According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
** Verse 12
Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom
their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
** Verse 13
So we, your people and sheep of your pasture,
will give you thanks forever.
We will praise you forever, to all generations.
* Chapter 80
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm by Asaph.
** Verse 1
Hear us, Shepherd of Israel,
you who lead Joseph like a flock,
you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.
** Verse 2
Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, stir up your might!
Come to save us!
** Verse 3
Turn us again, God.
Cause your face to shine,
and we will be saved.
** Verse 4
Yahweh God of Armies,
how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
** Verse 5
You have fed them with the bread of tears,
and given them tears to drink in large measure.
** Verse 6
You make us a source of contention to our neighbors.
Our enemies laugh among themselves.
** Verse 7
Turn us again, God of Armies.
Cause your face to shine,
and we will be saved.
** Verse 8
You brought a vine out of Egypt.
You drove out the nations, and planted it.
** Verse 9
You cleared the ground for it.
It took deep root, and filled the land.
** Verse 10
The mountains were covered with its shadow.
Its boughs were like God’s cedars.
** Verse 11
It sent out its branches to the sea,
its shoots to the River.
** Verse 12
Why have you broken down its walls,
so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
** Verse 13
The boar out of the wood ravages it.
The wild animals of the field feed on it.
** Verse 14
Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies.
Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,
** Verse 15
the stock which your right hand planted,
the branch that you made strong for yourself.
** Verse 16
It’s burned with fire.
It’s cut down.
They perish at your rebuke.
** Verse 17
Let your hand be on the man of your right hand,
on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
** Verse 18
So we will not turn away from you.
Revive us, and we will call on your name.
** Verse 19
Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies.
Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
* Chapter 81
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph.
** Verse 1
Sing aloud to God, our strength!
Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!
** Verse 2
Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine,
the pleasant lyre with the harp.
** Verse 3
Blow the trumpet at the New Moon,
at the full moon, on our feast day.
** Verse 4
For it is a statute for Israel,
an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
** Verse 5
He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant,
when he went out over the land of Egypt,
I heard a language that I didn’t know.
** Verse 6
“I removed his shoulder from the burden.
His hands were freed from the basket.
** Verse 7
You called in trouble, and I delivered you.
I answered you in the secret place of thunder.
I tested you at the waters of Meribah.”
</l><l type="selah">Selah.</l>
** Verse 8
“Hear, my people, and I will testify to you,
Israel, if you would listen to me!
** Verse 9
There shall be no strange god in you,
neither shall you worship any foreign god.
** Verse 10
I am Yahweh, your God,
who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
** Verse 11
But my people didn’t listen to my voice.
Israel desired none of me.
** Verse 12
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts,
that they might walk in their own counsels.
** Verse 13
Oh that my people would listen to me,
that Israel would walk in my ways!
** Verse 14
I would soon subdue their enemies,
and turn my hand against their adversaries.
** Verse 15
The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him,
and their punishment would last forever.
** Verse 16
But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat.
I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”
* Chapter 82
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Psalm by Asaph.
** Verse 1
God presides in the great assembly.
He judges among the gods.
** Verse 2
“How long will you judge unjustly,
and show partiality to the wicked?”
</l><l type="selah">Selah.</l>
** Verse 3
“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless.
Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
** Verse 4
Rescue the weak and needy.
Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”
** Verse 5
They don’t know, neither do they understand.
They walk back and forth in darkness.
All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
** Verse 6
I said, “You are gods,
all of you are sons of the Most High.
** Verse 7
Nevertheless you shall die like men,
and fall like one of the rulers.”
** Verse 8
Arise, God, judge the earth,
for you inherit all of the nations.
* Chapter 83
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A song. A Psalm by Asaph.
** Verse 1
God, don’t keep silent.
Don’t keep silent,
and don’t be still, God.
** Verse 2
For, behold, your enemies are stirred up.
Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
** Verse 3
They conspire with cunning against your people.
They plot against your cherished ones.
** Verse 4
“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation,
that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
** Verse 5
For they have conspired together with one mind.
They form an alliance against you.
** Verse 6
The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;
Moab, and the Hagrites;
** Verse 7
Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek;
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
** Verse 8
Assyria also is joined with them.
They have helped the children of Lot.
</l><l type="selah">Selah.</l>
** Verse 9
Do to them as you did to Midian,
as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
** Verse 10
who perished at Endor,
who became as dung for the earth.
** Verse 11
Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
** Verse 12
who said, “Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands.”
** Verse 13
My God, make them like tumbleweed,
like chaff before the wind.
** Verse 14
As the fire that burns the forest,
as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,
** Verse 15
so pursue them with your tempest,
and terrify them with your storm.
** Verse 16
Fill their faces with confusion,
that they may seek your name, Yahweh.
** Verse 17
Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever.
Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
** Verse 18
that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh,
are the Most High over all the earth.
* Chapter 84
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.
** Verse 1
How lovely are your dwellings,
Yahweh of Armies!
** Verse 2
My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh.
My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
** Verse 3
Yes, the sparrow has found a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young,
near your altars, Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my God.
** Verse 4
Blessed are those who dwell in your house.
They are always praising you.
</l><l type="selah">Selah.</l>
** Verse 5
Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.
** Verse 6
Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs.
Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.
** Verse 7
They go from strength to strength.
Every one of them appears before God in Zion.
** Verse 8
Yahweh, God of Armies, hear my prayer.
Listen, God of Jacob.
</l><l type="selah">Selah.</l>
** Verse 9
Behold, God our shield,
look at the face of your anointed.
** Verse 10
For a day in your courts is better than a thousand.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God,
than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
** Verse 11
For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield.
Yahweh will give grace and glory.
He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
** Verse 12
Yahweh of Armies,
blessed is the man who trusts in you.
* Chapter 85
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.
** Verse 1
Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land.
You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.
** Verse 2
You have forgiven the iniquity of your people.
You have covered all their sin.
</l><l type="selah">Selah.</l>
** Verse 3
You have taken away all your wrath.
You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.
** Verse 4
Turn us, God of our salvation,
and cause your indignation toward us to cease.
** Verse 5
Will you be angry with us forever?
Will you draw out your anger to all generations?
** Verse 6
Won’t you revive us again,
that your people may rejoice in you?
** Verse 7
Show us your loving kindness, Yahweh.
Grant us your salvation.
** Verse 8
I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak,
for he will speak peace to his people, his saints;
but let them not turn again to folly.
** Verse 9
Surely his salvation is near those who fear him,
that glory may dwell in our land.
** Verse 10
Mercy and truth meet together.
Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
** Verse 11
Truth springs out of the earth.
Righteousness has looked down from heaven.
** Verse 12
Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good.
Our land will yield its increase.
** Verse 13
Righteousness goes before him,
And prepares the way for his steps.
* Chapter 86
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Prayer by David.
** Verse 1
Hear, Yahweh, and answer me,
for I am poor and needy.
** Verse 2
Preserve my soul, for I am godly.
You, my God, save your servant who trusts in you.
** Verse 3
Be merciful to me, Lord,
for I call to you all day long.
** Verse 4
Bring joy to the soul of your servant,
for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.
** Verse 5
For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
** Verse 6
Hear, Yahweh, my prayer.
Listen to the voice of my petitions.
** Verse 7
In the day of my trouble I will call on you,
for you will answer me.
** Verse 8
There is no one like you among the gods, Lord,
nor any deeds like your deeds.
** Verse 9
All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord.
They shall glorify your name.
** Verse 10
For you are great, and do wondrous things.
You are God alone.
** Verse 11
Teach me your way, Yahweh.
I will walk in your truth.
Make my heart undivided to fear your name.
** Verse 12
I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart.
I will glorify your name forever more.
** Verse 13
For your loving kindness is great toward me.
You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.<note type="translation" osisRef="Ps.86.13" osisID="Ps.86.13!note.1" placement="foot">
<reference type="source" osisRef="Ps.86.13">86:13
</reference>Sheol is the place of the dead.</note>
** Verse 14
God, the proud have risen up against me.
A company of violent men have sought after my soul,
and they don’t hold regard for you before them.
** Verse 15
But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God,
slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
** Verse 16
Turn to me, and have mercy on me!
Give your strength to your servant.
Save the son of your servant.
** Verse 17
Show me a sign of your goodness,
that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed,
because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.
* Chapter 87
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Psalm by the sons of Korah; a Song.
** Verse 1
His foundation is in the holy mountains.
** Verse 2
Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
** Verse 3
Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God.
</l><l type="selah">Selah.</l>
** Verse 4
I will record Rahab<note type="translation" osisRef="Ps.87.4" osisID="Ps.87.4!note.1" placement="foot">
<reference type="source" osisRef="Ps.87.4">87:4
</reference>Rahab is a reference to Egypt.</note> and Babylon among those who acknowledge me.
Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia:
“This one was born there.”
** Verse 5
Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one was born in her;”
the Most High himself will establish her.
** Verse 6
Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples,
“This one was born there.”
</l><l type="selah">Selah.</l>
** Verse 7
Those who sing as well as those who dance say,
“All my springs are in you.”
* Chapter 88
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Suffering of Affliction.” A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite.
** Verse 1
Yahweh, the God of my salvation,
I have cried day and night before you.
** Verse 2
Let my prayer enter into your presence.
Turn your ear to my cry.
** Verse 3
For my soul is full of troubles.
My life draws near to Sheol.<note type="translation" osisRef="Ps.88.3" osisID="Ps.88.3!note.1" placement="foot">
<reference type="source" osisRef="Ps.88.3">88:3
</reference>Sheol is the place of the dead.</note>
** Verse 4
I am counted among those who go down into the pit.
I am like a man who has no help,
** Verse 5
set apart among the dead,
like the slain who lie in the grave,
whom you remember no more.
They are cut off from your hand.
** Verse 6
You have laid me in the lowest pit,
in the darkest depths.
** Verse 7
Your wrath lies heavily on me.
You have afflicted me with all your waves.
</l><l type="selah">Selah.</l>
** Verse 8
You have taken my friends from me.
You have made me an abomination to them.
I am confined, and I can’t escape.
** Verse 9
My eyes are dim from grief.
I have called on you daily, Yahweh.
I have spread out my hands to you.
** Verse 10
Do you show wonders to the dead?
Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you?
</l><l type="selah">Selah.</l>
** Verse 11
Is your loving kindness declared in the grave?
Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
** Verse 12
Are your wonders made known in the dark?
Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
** Verse 13
But to you, Yahweh, I have cried.
In the morning, my prayer comes before you.
** Verse 14
Yahweh, why do you reject my soul?
Why do you hide your face from me?
** Verse 15
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up.
While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
** Verse 16
Your fierce wrath has gone over me.
Your terrors have cut me off.
** Verse 17
They came around me like water all day long.
They completely engulfed me.
** Verse 18
You have put lover and friend far from me,
and my friends into darkness.
* Chapter 89
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite.
** Verse 1
I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever.
With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
** Verse 2
I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever.
You established the heavens.
Your faithfulness is in them.”
** Verse 3
“I have made a covenant with my chosen one,
I have sworn to David, my servant,
** Verse 4
‘I will establish your offspring forever,
and build up your throne to all generations.’”
</l><l type="selah">Selah.</l>
** Verse 5
The heavens will praise your wonders, Yahweh,
your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
** Verse 6
For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh?
Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,
** Verse 7
a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones,
to be feared above all those who are around him?
** Verse 8
Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you?
Yah, your faithfulness is around you.
** Verse 9
You rule the pride of the sea.
When its waves rise up, you calm them.
** Verse 10
You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain.
You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
** Verse 11
The heavens are yours.
The earth also is yours,
the world and its fullness.
You have founded them.
** Verse 12
You have created the north and the south.
Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
** Verse 13
You have a mighty arm.
Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.
** Verse 14
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne.
Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
** Verse 15
Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you.
They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.
** Verse 16
In your name they rejoice all day.
In your righteousness, they are exalted.
** Verse 17
For you are the glory of their strength.
In your favor, our horn will be exalted.
** Verse 18
For our shield belongs to Yahweh,
our king to the Holy One of Israel.
** Verse 19
Then you spoke in vision to your saints,
and said, “I have given strength to the warrior.
I have exalted a young man from the people.
** Verse 20
I have found David, my servant.
I have anointed him with my holy oil,
** Verse 21
with whom my hand shall be established.
My arm will also strengthen him.
** Verse 22
No enemy will tax him.
No wicked man will oppress him.
** Verse 23
I will beat down his adversaries before him,
and strike those who hate him.
** Verse 24
But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.
In my name, his horn will be exalted.
** Verse 25
I will set his hand also on the sea,
and his right hand on the rivers.
** Verse 26
He will call to me, ‘You are my Father,
my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
** Verse 27
I will also appoint him my firstborn,
the highest of the kings of the earth.
** Verse 28
I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more.
My covenant will stand firm with him.
** Verse 29
I will also make his offspring endure forever,
and his throne as the days of heaven.
** Verse 30
If his children forsake my law,
and don’t walk in my ordinances;
** Verse 31
if they break my statutes,
and don’t keep my commandments;
** Verse 32
then I will punish their sin with the rod,
and their iniquity with stripes.
** Verse 33
But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him,
nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
** Verse 34
I will not break my covenant,
nor alter what my lips have uttered.
** Verse 35
Once I have sworn by my holiness,
I will not lie to David.
** Verse 36
His offspring will endure forever,
his throne like the sun before me.
** Verse 37
It will be established forever like the moon,
the faithful witness in the sky.”
</l><l type="selah">Selah.</l>
** Verse 38
But you have rejected and spurned.
You have been angry with your anointed.
** Verse 39
You have renounced the covenant of your servant.
You have defiled his crown in the dust.
** Verse 40
You have broken down all his hedges.
You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
** Verse 41
All who pass by the way rob him.
He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
** Verse 42
You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries.
You have made all of his enemies rejoice.
** Verse 43
Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword,
and haven’t supported him in battle.
** Verse 44
You have ended his splendor,
and thrown his throne down to the ground.
** Verse 45
You have shortened the days of his youth.
You have covered him with shame.
</l><l type="selah">Selah.</l>
** Verse 46
How long, Yahweh?
Will you hide yourself forever?
Will your wrath burn like fire?
** Verse 47
Remember how short my time is,
for what vanity you have created all the children of men!
** Verse 48
What man is he who shall live and not see death,
who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?<note type="translation" osisRef="Ps.89.48" osisID="Ps.89.48!note.1" placement="foot">
<reference type="source" osisRef="Ps.89.48">89:48
</reference>Sheol is the place of the dead.</note>
</l><l type="selah">Selah.</l>
** Verse 49
Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses,
which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
** Verse 50
Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants,
how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
** Verse 51
With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh,
with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
** Verse 52
Blessed be Yahweh forever more.
Amen, and Amen.
* Chapter 90
</div><div type="majorSection"><title canonical="false">BOOK 4
A Prayer by Moses, the man of God.<note type="translation" osisRef="Ps.90" osisID="Ps.90!note.1" placement="foot">
<reference type="source" osisRef="Ps.90">90:0
</reference>The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).</note>
** Verse 1
Lord,<note type="translation" osisRef="Ps.90.1" osisID="Ps.90.1!note.1" placement="foot">
<reference type="source" osisRef="Ps.90.1">90:1
</reference>The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”</note> you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
** Verse 2
Before the mountains were born,
before you had formed the earth and the world,
even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
** Verse 3
You turn man to destruction, saying,
“Return, you children of men.”
** Verse 4
For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past,
like a watch in the night.
** Verse 5
You sweep them away as they sleep.
In the morning they sprout like new grass.
** Verse 6
In the morning it sprouts and springs up.
By evening, it is withered and dry.
** Verse 7
For we are consumed in your anger.
We are troubled in your wrath.
** Verse 8
You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your presence.
** Verse 9
For all our days have passed away in your wrath.
We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
** Verse 10
The days of our years are seventy,
or even by reason of strength eighty years;
yet their pride is but labor and sorrow,
for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
** Verse 11
Who knows the power of your anger,
your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
** Verse 12
So teach us to count our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
** Verse 13
Relent, Yahweh!<note type="translation" osisRef="Ps.90.13" osisID="Ps.90.13!note.1" placement="foot">
<reference type="source" osisRef="Ps.90.13">90:13
</reference>“Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.</note>
How long?
Have compassion on your servants!
** Verse 14
Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness,
that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
** Verse 15
Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
for as many years as we have seen evil.
** Verse 16
Let your work appear to your servants,
your glory to their children.
** Verse 17
Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us.
Establish the work of our hands for us.
Yes, establish the work of our hands.
* Chapter 91
** Verse 1
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
** Verse 2
I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress;
my God, in whom I trust.”
** Verse 3
For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler,
and from the deadly pestilence.
** Verse 4
He will cover you with his feathers.
Under his wings you will take refuge.
His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.
** Verse 5
You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
nor of the arrow that flies by day,
** Verse 6
nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,
nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.
** Verse 7
A thousand may fall at your side,
and ten thousand at your right hand;
but it will not come near you.
** Verse 8
You will only look with your eyes,
and see the recompense of the wicked.
** Verse 9
Because you have made Yahweh your refuge,
and the Most High your dwelling place,
** Verse 10
no evil shall happen to you,
neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.
** Verse 11
For he will put his angels in charge of you,
to guard you in all your ways.
** Verse 12
They will bear you up in their hands,
so that you won’t dash your foot against a stone.
** Verse 13
You will tread on the lion and cobra.
You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.
** Verse 14
“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him.
I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
** Verse 15
He will call on me, and I will answer him.
I will be with him in trouble.
I will deliver him, and honor him.
** Verse 16
I will satisfy him with long life,
and show him my salvation.”
* Chapter 92
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day.
** Verse 1
It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh,
to sing praises to your name, Most High,
** Verse 2
to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning,
and your faithfulness every night,
** Verse 3
with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp,
and with the melody of the lyre.
** Verse 4
For you, Yahweh, have made me glad through your work.
I will triumph in the works of your hands.
** Verse 5
How great are your works, Yahweh!
Your thoughts are very deep.
** Verse 6
A senseless man doesn’t know,
neither does a fool understand this:
** Verse 7
though the wicked spring up as the grass,
and all the evildoers flourish,
they will be destroyed forever.
** Verse 8
But you, Yahweh, are on high forever more.
** Verse 9
For behold, your enemies, Yahweh,
for behold, your enemies shall perish.
All the evildoers will be scattered.
** Verse 10
But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox.
I am anointed with fresh oil.
** Verse 11
My eye has also seen my enemies.
My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.
** Verse 12
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree.
He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
** Verse 13
They are planted in Yahweh’s house.
They will flourish in our God’s courts.
** Verse 14
They will still produce fruit in old age.
They will be full of sap and green,
** Verse 15
to show that Yahweh is upright.
He is my rock,
and there is no unrighteousness in him.
* Chapter 93
** Verse 1
Yahweh reigns!
He is clothed with majesty!
Yahweh is armed with strength.
The world also is established.
It can’t be moved.
** Verse 2
Your throne is established from long ago.
You are from everlasting.
** Verse 3
The floods have lifted up, Yahweh,
the floods have lifted up their voice.
The floods lift up their waves.
** Verse 4
Above the voices of many waters,
the mighty breakers of the sea,
Yahweh on high is mighty.
** Verse 5
Your statutes stand firm.
Holiness adorns your house,
Yahweh, forever more.
* Chapter 94
** Verse 1
Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs,
you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.
** Verse 2
Rise up, you judge of the earth.
Pay back the proud what they deserve.
** Verse 3
Yahweh, how long will the wicked,
how long will the wicked triumph?
** Verse 4
They pour out arrogant words.
All the evildoers boast.
** Verse 5
They break your people in pieces, Yahweh,
and afflict your heritage.
** Verse 6
They kill the widow and the alien,
and murder the fatherless.
** Verse 7
They say, “Yah will not see,
neither will Jacob’s God consider.”
** Verse 8
Consider, you senseless among the people;
you fools, when will you be wise?
** Verse 9
He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear?
He who formed the eye, won’t he see?
** Verse 10
He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish?
He who teaches man knows.
** Verse 11
Yahweh knows the thoughts of man,
that they are futile.
** Verse 12
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah,
and teach out of your law,
** Verse 13
that you may give him rest from the days of adversity,
until the pit is dug for the wicked.
** Verse 14
For Yahweh won’t reject his people,
neither will he forsake his inheritance.
** Verse 15
For judgment will return to righteousness.
All the upright in heart shall follow it.
** Verse 16
Who will rise up for me against the wicked?
Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
** Verse 17
Unless Yahweh had been my help,
my soul would have soon lived in silence.
** Verse 18
When I said, “My foot is slipping!”
Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
** Verse 19
In the multitude of my thoughts within me,
your comforts delight my soul.
** Verse 20
Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you,
which brings about mischief by statute?
** Verse 21
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous,
and condemn the innocent blood.
** Verse 22
But Yahweh has been my high tower,
my God, the rock of my refuge.
** Verse 23
He has brought on them their own iniquity,
and will cut them off in their own wickedness.
Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.
* Chapter 95
** Verse 1
Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh.
Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!
** Verse 2
Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving.
Let’s extol him with songs!
** Verse 3
For Yahweh is a great God,
a great King above all gods.
** Verse 4
In his hand are the deep places of the earth.
The heights of the mountains are also his.
** Verse 5
The sea is his, and he made it.
His hands formed the dry land.
** Verse 6
Oh come, let’s worship and bow down.
Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,
** Verse 7
for he is our God.
We are the people of his pasture,
and the sheep in his care.
Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
** Verse 8
Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah,
as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
** Verse 9
when your fathers tempted me,
tested me, and saw my work.
** Verse 10
Forty long years I was grieved with that generation,
and said, “They are a people who err in their heart.
They have not known my ways.”
** Verse 11
Therefore I swore in my wrath,
“They won’t enter into my rest.”
* Chapter 96
** Verse 1
Sing to Yahweh a new song!
Sing to Yahweh, all the earth.
** Verse 2
Sing to Yahweh!
Bless his name!
Proclaim his salvation from day to day!
** Verse 3
Declare his glory among the nations,
his marvelous works among all the peoples.
** Verse 4
For Yahweh is great, and greatly to be praised!
He is to be feared above all gods.
** Verse 5
For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
but Yahweh made the heavens.
** Verse 6
Honor and majesty are before him.
Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
** Verse 7
Ascribe to Yahweh, you families of nations,
ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.
** Verse 8
Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name.
Bring an offering, and come into his courts.
** Verse 9
Worship Yahweh in holy array.
Tremble before him, all the earth.
** Verse 10
Say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns.”
The world is also established.
It can’t be moved.
He will judge the peoples with equity.
** Verse 11
Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice.
Let the sea roar, and its fullness!
** Verse 12
Let the field and all that is in it exult!
Then all the trees of the woods shall sing for joy
** Verse 13
before Yahweh; for he comes,
for he comes to judge the earth.
He will judge the world with righteousness,
the peoples with his truth.
* Chapter 97
** Verse 1
Yahweh reigns!
Let the earth rejoice!
Let the multitude of islands be glad!
** Verse 2
Clouds and darkness are around him.
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
** Verse 3
A fire goes before him,
and burns up his adversaries on every side.
** Verse 4
His lightning lights up the world.
The earth sees, and trembles.
** Verse 5
The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Yahweh,
at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
** Verse 6
The heavens declare his righteousness.
All the peoples have seen his glory.
** Verse 7
Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images,
who boast in their idols.
Worship him, all you gods!<note type="translation" osisRef="Ps.97.7" osisID="Ps.97.7!note.1" placement="foot">
<reference type="source" osisRef="Ps.97.7">97:7
</reference>LXX reads “angels” instead of “gods”.</note>
** Verse 8
Zion heard and was glad.
The daughters of Judah rejoiced
because of your judgments, Yahweh.
** Verse 9
For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth.
You are exalted far above all gods.
** Verse 10
You who love Yahweh, hate evil!
He preserves the souls of his saints.
He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
** Verse 11
Light is sown for the righteous,
and gladness for the upright in heart.
** Verse 12
Be glad in Yahweh, you righteous people!
Give thanks to his holy Name.
* Chapter 98
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Psalm.
** Verse 1
Sing to Yahweh a new song,
for he has done marvelous things!
His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.
** Verse 2
Yahweh has made known his salvation.
He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
** Verse 3
He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel.
All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
** Verse 4
Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth!
Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!
** Verse 5
Sing praises to Yahweh with the harp,
with the harp and the voice of melody.
** Verse 6
With trumpets and sound of the ram’s horn,
make a joyful noise before the King, Yahweh.
** Verse 7
Let the sea roar with its fullness;
the world, and those who dwell therein.
** Verse 8
Let the rivers clap their hands.
Let the mountains sing for joy together.
** Verse 9
Let them sing before Yahweh,
for he comes to judge the earth.
He will judge the world with righteousness,
and the peoples with equity.
* Chapter 99
** Verse 1
Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble.
He sits enthroned among the cherubim.
Let the earth be moved.
** Verse 2
Yahweh is great in Zion.
He is high above all the peoples.
** Verse 3
Let them praise your great and awesome name.
He is Holy!
** Verse 4
The King’s strength also loves justice.
You establish equity.
You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
** Verse 5
Exalt Yahweh our God.
Worship at his footstool.
He is Holy!
** Verse 6
Moses and Aaron were among his priests,
Samuel was among those who call on his name.
They called on Yahweh, and he answered them.
** Verse 7
He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud.
They kept his testimonies,
the statute that he gave them.
** Verse 8
You answered them, Yahweh our God.
You are a God who forgave them,
although you took vengeance for their doings.
** Verse 9
Exalt Yahweh, our God.
Worship at his holy hill,
for Yahweh, our God, is holy!
* Chapter 100
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Psalm of thanksgiving.
** Verse 1
Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands!
** Verse 2
Serve Yahweh with gladness.
Come before his presence with singing.
** Verse 3
Know that Yahweh, he is God.
It is he who has made us, and we are his.
We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
** Verse 4
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving,
and into his courts with praise.
Give thanks to him, and bless his name.
** Verse 5
For Yahweh is good.
His loving kindness endures forever,
his faithfulness to all generations.
* Chapter 101
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Psalm by David.
** Verse 1
I will sing of loving kindness and justice.
To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises.
** Verse 2
I will be careful to live a blameless life.
When will you come to me?
I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
** Verse 3
I will set no vile thing before my eyes.
I hate the deeds of faithless men.
They will not cling to me.
** Verse 4
A perverse heart will be far from me.
I will have nothing to do with evil.
** Verse 5
I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor.
I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.
** Verse 6
My eyes will be on the faithful of the land,
that they may dwell with me.
He who walks in a perfect way,
he will serve me.
** Verse 7
He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house.
He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.
** Verse 8
Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land,
to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh’s city.
* Chapter 102
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before Yahweh.
** Verse 1
Hear my prayer, Yahweh!
Let my cry come to you.
** Verse 2
Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress.
Turn your ear to me.
Answer me quickly in the day when I call.
** Verse 3
For my days consume away like smoke.
My bones are burned as a torch.
** Verse 4
My heart is blighted like grass, and withered,
for I forget to eat my bread.
** Verse 5
By reason of the voice of my groaning,
my bones stick to my skin.
** Verse 6
I am like a pelican of the wilderness.
I have become as an owl of the waste places.
** Verse 7
I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.
** Verse 8
My enemies reproach me all day.
Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.
** Verse 9
For I have eaten ashes like bread,
and mixed my drink with tears,
** Verse 10
because of your indignation and your wrath;
for you have taken me up and thrown me away.
** Verse 11
My days are like a long shadow.
I have withered like grass.
** Verse 12
But you, Yahweh, will remain forever;
your renown endures to all generations.
** Verse 13
You will arise and have mercy on Zion,
for it is time to have pity on her.
Yes, the set time has come.
** Verse 14
For your servants take pleasure in her stones,
and have pity on her dust.
** Verse 15
So the nations will fear Yahweh’s name,
all the kings of the earth your glory.
** Verse 16
For Yahweh has built up Zion.
He has appeared in his glory.
** Verse 17
He has responded to the prayer of the destitute,
and has not despised their prayer.
** Verse 18
This will be written for the generation to come.
A people which will be created will praise Yah,
** Verse 19
for he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary.
From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth,
** Verse 20
to hear the groans of the prisoner,
to free those who are condemned to death,
** Verse 21
that men may declare Yahweh’s name in Zion,
and his praise in Jerusalem,
** Verse 22
when the peoples are gathered together,
the kingdoms, to serve Yahweh.
** Verse 23
He weakened my strength along the course.
He shortened my days.
** Verse 24
I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days.
Your years are throughout all generations.
** Verse 25
Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth.
The heavens are the work of your hands.
** Verse 26
They will perish, but you will endure.
Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment.
You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.
** Verse 27
But you are the same.
Your years will have no end.
** Verse 28
The children of your servants will continue.
Their offspring will be established before you.”
* Chapter 103
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">By David.
** Verse 1
Praise Yahweh, my soul!
All that is within me, praise his holy name!
** Verse 2
Praise Yahweh, my soul,
and don’t forget all his benefits,
** Verse 3
who forgives all your sins,
who heals all your diseases,
** Verse 4
who redeems your life from destruction,
who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies,
** Verse 5
who satisfies your desire with good things,
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
** Verse 6
Yahweh executes righteous acts,
and justice for all who are oppressed.
** Verse 7
He made known his ways to Moses,
his deeds to the children of Israel.
** Verse 8
Yahweh is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
** Verse 9
He will not always accuse;
neither will he stay angry forever.
** Verse 10
He has not dealt with us according to our sins,
nor repaid us for our iniquities.
** Verse 11
For as the heavens are high above the earth,
so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.
** Verse 12
As far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
** Verse 13
Like a father has compassion on his children,
so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.
** Verse 14
For he knows how we are made.
He remembers that we are dust.
** Verse 15
As for man, his days are like grass.
As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
** Verse 16
For the wind passes over it, and it is gone.
Its place remembers it no more.
** Verse 17
But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him,
his righteousness to children’s children,
** Verse 18
to those who keep his covenant,
to those who remember to obey his precepts.
** Verse 19
Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens.
His kingdom rules over all.
** Verse 20
Praise Yahweh, you angels of his,
who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word,
obeying the voice of his word.
** Verse 21
Praise Yahweh, all you armies of his,
you servants of his, who do his pleasure.
** Verse 22
Praise Yahweh, all you works of his,
in all places of his dominion.
Praise Yahweh, my soul!
* Chapter 104
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** Verse 1
Bless Yahweh, my soul.
Yahweh, my God, you are very great.
You are clothed with honor and majesty.
** Verse 2
He covers himself with light as with a garment.
He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
** Verse 3
He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters.
He makes the clouds his chariot.
He walks on the wings of the wind.
** Verse 4
He makes his messengers<note type="translation" osisRef="Ps.104.4" osisID="Ps.104.4!note.1" placement="foot">
<reference type="source" osisRef="Ps.104.4">104:4
</reference>or, angels</note> winds,
and his servants flames of fire.
** Verse 5
He laid the foundations of the earth,
that it should not be moved forever.
** Verse 6
You covered it with the deep as with a cloak.
The waters stood above the mountains.
** Verse 7
At your rebuke they fled.
At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.
** Verse 8
The mountains rose,
the valleys sank down,
to the place which you had assigned to them.
** Verse 9
You have set a boundary that they may not pass over,
that they don’t turn again to cover the earth.
** Verse 10
He sends springs into the valleys.
They run among the mountains.
** Verse 11
They give drink to every animal of the field.
The wild donkeys quench their thirst.
** Verse 12
The birds of the sky nest by them.
They sing among the branches.
** Verse 13
He waters the mountains from his rooms.
The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.
** Verse 14
He causes the grass to grow for the livestock,
and plants for man to cultivate,
that he may produce food out of the earth:
** Verse 15
wine that makes the heart of man glad,
oil to make his face to shine,
and bread that strengthens man’s heart.
** Verse 16
Yahweh’s trees are well watered,
the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted,
** Verse 17
where the birds make their nests.
The stork makes its home in the cypress trees.
** Verse 18
The high mountains are for the wild goats.
The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.
** Verse 19
He appointed the moon for seasons.
The sun knows when to set.
** Verse 20
You make darkness, and it is night,
in which all the animals of the forest prowl.
** Verse 21
The young lions roar after their prey,
and seek their food from God.
** Verse 22
The sun rises, and they steal away,
and lie down in their dens.
** Verse 23
Man goes out to his work,
to his labor until the evening.
** Verse 24
Yahweh, how many are your works!
In wisdom, you have made them all.
The earth is full of your riches.
** Verse 25
There is the sea, great and wide,
in which are innumerable living things,
both small and large animals.
** Verse 26
There the ships go,
and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.
** Verse 27
These all wait for you,
that you may give them their food in due season.
** Verse 28
You give to them; they gather.
You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.
** Verse 29
You hide your face; they are troubled.
You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.
** Verse 30
You send out your Spirit and they are created.
You renew the face of the ground.
** Verse 31
Let Yahweh’s glory endure forever.
Let Yahweh rejoice in his works.
** Verse 32
He looks at the earth, and it trembles.
He touches the mountains, and they smoke.
** Verse 33
I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live.
I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.
** Verse 34
Let my meditation be sweet to him.
I will rejoice in Yahweh.
** Verse 35
Let sinners be consumed out of the earth.
Let the wicked be no more.
Bless Yahweh, my soul.
Praise Yah!
* Chapter 105
** Verse 1
Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name!
Make his doings known among the peoples.
** Verse 2
Sing to him, sing praises to him!
Tell of all his marvelous works.
** Verse 3
Glory in his holy name.
Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
** Verse 4
Seek Yahweh and his strength.
Seek his face forever more.
** Verse 5
Remember his marvelous works that he has done:
his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
** Verse 6
you offspring of Abraham, his servant,
you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
** Verse 7
He is Yahweh, our God.
His judgments are in all the earth.
** Verse 8
He has remembered his covenant forever,
the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
** Verse 9
the covenant which he made with Abraham,
his oath to Isaac,
** Verse 10
and confirmed it to Jacob for a statute;
to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
** Verse 11
saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan,
the lot of your inheritance,”
** Verse 12
when they were but a few men in number,
yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
** Verse 13
They went about from nation to nation,
from one kingdom to another people.
** Verse 14
He allowed no one to do them wrong.
Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
** Verse 15
“Don’t touch my anointed ones!
Do my prophets no harm!”
** Verse 16
He called for a famine on the land.
He destroyed the food supplies.
** Verse 17
He sent a man before them.
Joseph was sold for a slave.
** Verse 18
They bruised his feet with shackles.
His neck was locked in irons,
** Verse 19
until the time that his word happened,
and Yahweh’s word proved him true.
** Verse 20
The king sent and freed him,
even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.
** Verse 21
He made him lord of his house,
and ruler of all of his possessions,
** Verse 22
to discipline his princes at his pleasure,
and to teach his elders wisdom.
** Verse 23
Israel also came into Egypt.
Jacob lived in the land of Ham.
** Verse 24
He increased his people greatly,
and made them stronger than their adversaries.
** Verse 25
He turned their heart to hate his people,
to conspire against his servants.
** Verse 26
He sent Moses, his servant,
and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
** Verse 27
They performed miracles among them,
and wonders in the land of Ham.
** Verse 28
He sent darkness, and made it dark.
They didn’t rebel against his words.
** Verse 29
He turned their waters into blood,
and killed their fish.
** Verse 30
Their land swarmed with frogs,
even in the rooms of their kings.
** Verse 31
He spoke, and swarms of flies came,
and lice in all their borders.
** Verse 32
He gave them hail for rain,
with lightning in their land.
** Verse 33
He struck their vines and also their fig trees,
and shattered the trees of their country.
** Verse 34
He spoke, and the locusts came
with the grasshoppers, without number.
** Verse 35
They ate up every plant in their land,
and ate up the fruit of their ground.
** Verse 36
He struck also all the firstborn in their land,
the first fruits of all their manhood.
** Verse 37
He brought them out with silver and gold.
There was not one feeble person among his tribes.
** Verse 38
Egypt was glad when they departed,
for the fear of them had fallen on them.
** Verse 39
He spread a cloud for a covering,
fire to give light in the night.
** Verse 40
They asked, and he brought quails,
and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.
** Verse 41
He opened the rock, and waters gushed out.
They ran as a river in the dry places.
** Verse 42
For he remembered his holy word,
and Abraham, his servant.
** Verse 43
He brought his people out with joy,
his chosen with singing.
** Verse 44
He gave them the lands of the nations.
They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
** Verse 45
that they might keep his statutes,
and observe his laws.
Praise Yah!
* Chapter 106
** Verse 1
Praise Yahweh!
Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
for his loving kindness endures forever.
** Verse 2
Who can utter the mighty acts of Yahweh,
or fully declare all his praise?
** Verse 3
Blessed are those who keep justice.
Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.
** Verse 4
Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people.
Visit me with your salvation,
** Verse 5
that I may see the prosperity of your chosen,
that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation,
that I may glory with your inheritance.
** Verse 6
We have sinned with our fathers.
We have committed iniquity.
We have done wickedly.
** Verse 7
Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt.
They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses,
but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
** Verse 8
Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake,
that he might make his mighty power known.
** Verse 9
He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up;
so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.
** Verse 10
He saved them from the hand of him who hated them,
and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
** Verse 11
The waters covered their adversaries.
There was not one of them left.
** Verse 12
Then they believed his words.
They sang his praise.
** Verse 13
They soon forgot his works.
They didn’t wait for his counsel,
** Verse 14
but gave in to craving in the desert,
and tested God in the wasteland.
** Verse 15
He gave them their request,
but sent leanness into their soul.
** Verse 16
They envied Moses also in the camp,
and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint.
** Verse 17
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
and covered the company of Abiram.
** Verse 18
A fire was kindled in their company.
The flame burned up the wicked.
** Verse 19
They made a calf in Horeb,
and worshiped a molten image.
** Verse 20
Thus they exchanged their glory
for an image of a bull that eats grass.
** Verse 21
They forgot God, their Savior,
who had done great things in Egypt,
** Verse 22
wondrous works in the land of Ham,
and awesome things by the Red Sea.
** Verse 23
Therefore he said that he would destroy them,
had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach,
to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.
** Verse 24
Yes, they despised the pleasant land.
They didn’t believe his word,
** Verse 25
but murmured in their tents,
and didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice.
** Verse 26
Therefore he swore to them
that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,
** Verse 27
that he would overthrow their offspring among the nations,
and scatter them in the lands.
** Verse 28
They joined themselves also to Baal Peor,
and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
** Verse 29
Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds.
The plague broke in on them.
** Verse 30
Then Phinehas stood up and executed judgment,
so the plague was stopped.
** Verse 31
That was credited to him for righteousness,
for all generations to come.
** Verse 32
They angered him also at the waters of Meribah,
so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;
** Verse 33
because they were rebellious against his spirit,
he spoke rashly with his lips.
** Verse 34
They didn’t destroy the peoples,
as Yahweh commanded them,
** Verse 35
but mixed themselves with the nations,
and learned their works.
** Verse 36
They served their idols,
which became a snare to them.
** Verse 37
Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
** Verse 38
They shed innocent blood,
even the blood of their sons and of their daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan.
The land was polluted with blood.
** Verse 39
Thus they were defiled with their works,
and prostituted themselves in their deeds.
** Verse 40
Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people.
He abhorred his inheritance.
** Verse 41
He gave them into the hand of the nations.
Those who hated them ruled over them.
** Verse 42
Their enemies also oppressed them.
They were brought into subjection under their hand.
** Verse 43
He rescued them many times,
but they were rebellious in their counsel,
and were brought low in their iniquity.
** Verse 44
Nevertheless he regarded their distress,
when he heard their cry.
** Verse 45
He remembered for them his covenant,
and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
** Verse 46
He made them also to be pitied
by all those who carried them captive.
** Verse 47
Save us, Yahweh, our God,
gather us from among the nations,
to give thanks to your holy name,
to triumph in your praise!
** Verse 48
Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,
from everlasting even to everlasting!
Let all the people say, “Amen.”
Praise Yah!
* Chapter 107
</div><div type="majorSection"><title canonical="false">BOOK 5
** Verse 1
Give thanks to Yahweh,<note type="translation" osisRef="Ps.107.1" osisID="Ps.107.1!note.1" placement="foot">
<reference type="source" osisRef="Ps.107.1">107:1
</reference>“Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.</note> for he is good,
for his loving kindness endures forever.
** Verse 2
Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so,
whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,
** Verse 3
and gathered out of the lands,
from the east and from the west,
from the north and from the south.
** Verse 4
They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way.
They found no city to live in.
** Verse 5
Hungry and thirsty,
their soul fainted in them.
** Verse 6
Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble,
and he delivered them out of their distresses.
** Verse 7
He led them also by a straight way,
that they might go to a city to live in.
** Verse 8
Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness,
for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!
** Verse 9
For he satisfies the longing soul.
He fills the hungry soul with good.
** Verse 10
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,
being bound in affliction and iron,
** Verse 11
because they rebelled against the words of God,<note type="translation" osisRef="Ps.107.11" osisID="Ps.107.11!note.1" placement="foot">
<reference type="source" osisRef="Ps.107.11">107:11
</reference>The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).</note>
and condemned the counsel of the Most High.
** Verse 12
Therefore he brought down their heart with labor.
They fell down, and there was no one to help.
** Verse 13
Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble,
and he saved them out of their distresses.
** Verse 14
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,
and broke away their chains.
** Verse 15
Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness,
for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!
** Verse 16
For he has broken the gates of bronze,
and cut through bars of iron.
** Verse 17
Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience,
and because of their iniquities.
** Verse 18
Their soul abhors all kinds of food.
They draw near to the gates of death.
** Verse 19
Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble,
and he saves them out of their distresses.
** Verse 20
He sends his word, and heals them,
and delivers them from their graves.
** Verse 21
Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness,
for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!
** Verse 22
Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving,
and declare his deeds with singing.
** Verse 23
Those who go down to the sea in ships,
who do business in great waters,
** Verse 24
these see Yahweh’s deeds,
and his wonders in the deep.
** Verse 25
For he commands, and raises the stormy wind,
which lifts up its waves.
** Verse 26
They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths.
Their soul melts away because of trouble.
** Verse 27
They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man,
and are at their wits’ end.
** Verse 28
Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble,
and he brings them out of their distress.
** Verse 29
He makes the storm a calm,
so that its waves are still.
** Verse 30
Then they are glad because it is calm,
so he brings them to their desired haven.
** Verse 31
Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness,
for his wonderful deeds for the children of men!
** Verse 32
Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people,
and praise him in the seat of the elders.
** Verse 33
He turns rivers into a desert,
water springs into a thirsty ground,
** Verse 34
and a fruitful land into a salt waste,
for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
** Verse 35
He turns a desert into a pool of water,
and a dry land into water springs.
** Verse 36
There he makes the hungry live,
that they may prepare a city to live in,
** Verse 37
sow fields, plant vineyards,
and reap the fruits of increase.
** Verse 38
He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly.
He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.
** Verse 39
Again, they are diminished and bowed down
through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
** Verse 40
He pours contempt on princes,
and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
** Verse 41
Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction,
and increases their families like a flock.
** Verse 42
The upright will see it, and be glad.
All the wicked will shut their mouths.
** Verse 43
Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things.
They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.
* Chapter 108
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Song. A Psalm by David.
** Verse 1
My heart is steadfast, God.
I will sing and I will make music with my soul.
** Verse 2
Wake up, harp and lyre!
I will wake up the dawn.
** Verse 3
I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations.
I will sing praises to you among the peoples.
** Verse 4
For your loving kindness is great above the heavens.
Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
** Verse 5
Be exalted, God, above the heavens!
Let your glory be over all the earth.
** Verse 6
That your beloved may be delivered,
save with your right hand, and answer us.
** Verse 7
God has spoken from his sanctuary: “In triumph,
I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.
** Verse 8
Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine.
Ephraim also is my helmet.
Judah is my scepter.
** Verse 9
Moab is my wash pot.
I will toss my sandal on Edom.
I will shout over Philistia.”
** Verse 10
Who will bring me into the fortified city?
Who will lead me to Edom?
** Verse 11
Haven’t you rejected us, God?
You don’t go out, God, with our armies.
** Verse 12
Give us help against the enemy,
for the help of man is vain.
** Verse 13
Through God, we will do valiantly,
for it is he who will tread down our enemies.
* Chapter 109
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
** Verse 1
God of my praise, don’t remain silent,
** Verse 2
for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me.
They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
** Verse 3
They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,
and fought against me without a cause.
** Verse 4
In return for my love, they are my adversaries;
but I am in prayer.
** Verse 5
They have rewarded me evil for good,
and hatred for my love.
** Verse 6
Set a wicked man over him.
Let an adversary stand at his right hand.
** Verse 7
When he is judged, let him come out guilty.
Let his prayer be turned into sin.
** Verse 8
Let his days be few.
Let another take his office.
** Verse 9
Let his children be fatherless,
and his wife a widow.
** Verse 10
Let his children be wandering beggars.
Let them be sought from their ruins.
** Verse 11
Let the creditor seize all that he has.
Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.
** Verse 12
Let there be no one to extend kindness to him,
neither let there be anyone to have pity on his fatherless children.
** Verse 13
Let his posterity be cut off.
In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
** Verse 14
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh.
Don’t let the sin of his mother be blotted out.
** Verse 15
Let them be before Yahweh continually,
that he may cut off their memory from the earth;
** Verse 16
because he didn’t remember to show kindness,
but persecuted the poor and needy man,
the broken in heart, to kill them.
** Verse 17
Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him.
He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.
** Verse 18
He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment.
It came into his inward parts like water,
like oil into his bones.
** Verse 19
Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself,
for the belt that is always around him.
** Verse 20
This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh,
of those who speak evil against my soul.
** Verse 21
But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord,<note type="translation" osisRef="Ps.109.21" osisID="Ps.109.21!note.1" placement="foot">
<reference type="source" osisRef="Ps.109.21">109:21
</reference>The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”</note> for your name’s sake,
because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;
** Verse 22
for I am poor and needy.
My heart is wounded within me.
** Verse 23
I fade away like an evening shadow.
I am shaken off like a locust.
** Verse 24
My knees are weak through fasting.
My body is thin and lacks fat.
** Verse 25
I have also become a reproach to them.
When they see me, they shake their head.
** Verse 26
Help me, Yahweh, my God.
Save me according to your loving kindness;
** Verse 27
that they may know that this is your hand;
that you, Yahweh, have done it.
** Verse 28
They may curse, but you bless.
When they arise, they will be shamed,
but your servant shall rejoice.
** Verse 29
Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor.
Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
** Verse 30
I will give great thanks to Yahweh with my mouth.
Yes, I will praise him among the multitude.
** Verse 31
For he will stand at the right hand of the needy,
to save him from those who judge his soul.
* Chapter 110
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Psalm by David.
** Verse 1
Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,
until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”
** Verse 2
Yahweh will send out the rod of your strength out of Zion.
Rule among your enemies.
** Verse 3
Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array.
Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.
** Verse 4
Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind:
“You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
** Verse 5
The Lord is at your right hand.
He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.
** Verse 6
He will judge among the nations.
He will heap up dead bodies.
He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.
** Verse 7
He will drink of the brook on the way;
therefore he will lift up his head.
* Chapter 111
** Verse 1
Praise Yah!<note type="translation" osisRef="Ps.111.1" osisID="Ps.111.1!note.1" placement="foot">
<reference type="source" osisRef="Ps.111.1">111:1
</reference>Psalm 111 is an acrostic poem, with each verse after the initial “Praise Yah!” starting with a letter of the alphabet (ordered from Alef to Tav).</note>
I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart,
in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.
** Verse 2
Yahweh’s works are great,
pondered by all those who delight in them.
** Verse 3
His work is honor and majesty.
His righteousness endures forever.
** Verse 4
He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered.
Yahweh is gracious and merciful.
** Verse 5
He has given food to those who fear him.
He always remembers his covenant.
** Verse 6
He has shown his people the power of his works,
in giving them the heritage of the nations.
** Verse 7
The works of his hands are truth and justice.
All his precepts are sure.
** Verse 8
They are established forever and ever.
They are done in truth and uprightness.
** Verse 9
He has sent redemption to his people.
He has ordained his covenant forever.
His name is holy and awesome!
** Verse 10
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom.
All those who do his work have a good understanding.
His praise endures forever!
* Chapter 112
** Verse 1
Praise Yah!<note type="translation" osisRef="Ps.112.1" osisID="Ps.112.1!note.1" placement="foot">
<reference type="source" osisRef="Ps.112.1">112:1
</reference>Psalm 112 is an acrostic poem, with each verse after the initial “Praise Yah!” starting with a letter of the alphabet (ordered from Alef to Tav).</note>
Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh,
who delights greatly in his commandments.
** Verse 2
His offspring will be mighty in the land.
The generation of the upright will be blessed.
** Verse 3
Wealth and riches are in his house.
His righteousness endures forever.
** Verse 4
Light dawns in the darkness for the upright,
gracious, merciful, and righteous.
** Verse 5
It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends.
He will maintain his cause in judgment.
** Verse 6
For he will never be shaken.
The righteous will be remembered forever.
** Verse 7
He will not be afraid of evil news.
His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.
** Verse 8
His heart is established.
He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries.
** Verse 9
He has dispersed, he has given to the poor.
His righteousness endures forever.
His horn will be exalted with honor.
** Verse 10
The wicked will see it, and be grieved.
He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away.
The desire of the wicked will perish.
* Chapter 113
** Verse 1
Praise Yah!
Praise, you servants of Yahweh,
praise Yahweh’s name.
** Verse 2
Blessed be Yahweh’s name,
from this time forward and forever more.
** Verse 3
From the rising of the sun to its going down,
Yahweh’s name is to be praised.
** Verse 4
Yahweh is high above all nations,
his glory above the heavens.
** Verse 5
Who is like Yahweh, our God,
who has his seat on high,
** Verse 6
who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?
** Verse 7
He raises up the poor out of the dust,
and lifts up the needy from the ash heap,
** Verse 8
that he may set him with princes,
even with the princes of his people.
** Verse 9
He settles the barren woman in her home
as a joyful mother of children.
Praise Yah!
* Chapter 114
** Verse 1
When Israel went out of Egypt,
the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language,
** Verse 2
Judah became his sanctuary,
Israel his dominion.
** Verse 3
The sea saw it, and fled.
The Jordan was driven back.
** Verse 4
The mountains skipped like rams,
the little hills like lambs.
** Verse 5
What was it, you sea, that you fled?
You Jordan, that you turned back?
** Verse 6
You mountains, that you skipped like rams?
You little hills, like lambs?
** Verse 7
Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the God of Jacob,
** Verse 8
who turned the rock into a pool of water,
the flint into a spring of waters.
* Chapter 115
** Verse 1
Not to us, Yahweh, not to us,
but to your name give glory,
for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.
** Verse 2
Why should the nations say,
“Where is their God, now?”
** Verse 3
But our God is in the heavens.
He does whatever he pleases.
** Verse 4
Their idols are silver and gold,
the work of men’s hands.
** Verse 5
They have mouths, but they don’t speak.
They have eyes, but they don’t see.
** Verse 6
They have ears, but they don’t hear.
They have noses, but they don’t smell.
** Verse 7
They have hands, but they don’t feel.
They have feet, but they don’t walk,
neither do they speak through their throat.
** Verse 8
Those who make them will be like them;
yes, everyone who trusts in them.
** Verse 9
Israel, trust in Yahweh!
He is their help and their shield.
** Verse 10
House of Aaron, trust in Yahweh!
He is their help and their shield.
** Verse 11
You who fear Yahweh, trust in Yahweh!
He is their help and their shield.
** Verse 12
Yahweh remembers us. He will bless us.
He will bless the house of Israel.
He will bless the house of Aaron.
** Verse 13
He will bless those who fear Yahweh,
both small and great.
** Verse 14
May Yahweh increase you more and more,
you and your children.
** Verse 15
Blessed are you by Yahweh,
who made heaven and earth.
** Verse 16
The heavens are Yahweh’s heavens,
but he has given the earth to the children of men.
** Verse 17
The dead don’t praise Yah,
nor any who go down into silence,
** Verse 18
but we will bless Yah,
from this time forward and forever more.
Praise Yah!
* Chapter 116
** Verse 1
I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice,
and my cries for mercy.
** Verse 2
Because he has turned his ear to me,
therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
** Verse 3
The cords of death surrounded me,
the pains of Sheol<note type="translation" osisRef="Ps.116.3" osisID="Ps.116.3!note.1" placement="foot">
<reference type="source" osisRef="Ps.116.3">116:3
</reference>Sheol is the place of the dead.</note> got a hold of me.
I found trouble and sorrow.
** Verse 4
Then I called on Yahweh’s name:
“Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul.”
** Verse 5
Yahweh is gracious and righteous.
Yes, our God is merciful.
** Verse 6
Yahweh preserves the simple.
I was brought low, and he saved me.
** Verse 7
Return to your rest, my soul,
for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.
** Verse 8
For you have delivered my soul from death,
my eyes from tears,
and my feet from falling.
** Verse 9
I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.
** Verse 10
I believed, therefore I said,
“I was greatly afflicted.”
** Verse 11
I said in my haste,
“All people are liars.”
** Verse 12
What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?
** Verse 13
I will take the cup of salvation, and call on Yahweh’s name.
** Verse 14
I will pay my vows to Yahweh,
yes, in the presence of all his people.
** Verse 15
Precious in Yahweh’s sight is the death of his saints.
** Verse 16
Yahweh, truly I am your servant.
I am your servant, the son of your servant girl.
You have freed me from my chains.
** Verse 17
I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving,
and will call on Yahweh’s name.
** Verse 18
I will pay my vows to Yahweh,
yes, in the presence of all his people,
** Verse 19
in the courts of Yahweh’s house,
in the middle of you, Jerusalem.
Praise Yah!
* Chapter 117
** Verse 1
Praise Yahweh, all you nations!
Extol him, all you peoples!
** Verse 2
For his loving kindness is great toward us.
Yahweh’s faithfulness endures forever.
Praise Yah!
* Chapter 118
** Verse 1
Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
for his loving kindness endures forever.
** Verse 2
Let Israel now say
that his loving kindness endures forever.
** Verse 3
Let the house of Aaron now say
that his loving kindness endures forever.
** Verse 4
Now let those who fear Yahweh say
that his loving kindness endures forever.
** Verse 5
Out of my distress, I called on Yah.
Yah answered me with freedom.
** Verse 6
Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?
** Verse 7
Yahweh is on my side among those who help me.
Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me.
** Verse 8
It is better to take refuge in Yahweh,
than to put confidence in man.
** Verse 9
It is better to take refuge in Yahweh,
than to put confidence in princes.
** Verse 10
All the nations surrounded me,
but in Yahweh’s name I cut them off.
** Verse 11
They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me.
In Yahweh’s name I indeed cut them off.
** Verse 12
They surrounded me like bees.
They are quenched like the burning thorns.
In Yahweh’s name I cut them off.
** Verse 13
You pushed me back hard, to make me fall,
but Yahweh helped me.
** Verse 14
Yah is my strength and song.
He has become my salvation.
** Verse 15
The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous.
“The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.
** Verse 16
The right hand of Yahweh is exalted!
The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly!”
** Verse 17
I will not die, but live,
and declare Yah’s works.
** Verse 18
Yah has punished me severely,
but he has not given me over to death.
** Verse 19
Open to me the gates of righteousness.
I will enter into them.
I will give thanks to Yah.
** Verse 20
This is the gate of Yahweh;
the righteous will enter into it.
** Verse 21
I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me,
and have become my salvation.
** Verse 22
The stone which the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone.<note type="translation" osisRef="Ps.118.22" osisID="Ps.118.22!note.1" placement="foot">
<reference type="source" osisRef="Ps.118.22">118:22
</reference>Literally,
<rdg>head of the corner</rdg></note>
** Verse 23
This is Yahweh’s doing.
It is marvelous in our eyes.
** Verse 24
This is the day that Yahweh has made.
We will rejoice and be glad in it!
** Verse 25
Save us now, we beg you, Yahweh!
Yahweh, we beg you, send prosperity now.
** Verse 26
Blessed is he who comes in Yahweh’s name!
We have blessed you out of Yahweh’s house.
** Verse 27
Yahweh is God, and he has given us light.
Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.
** Verse 28
You are my God, and I will give thanks to you.
You are my God, I will exalt you.
** Verse 29
Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
for his loving kindness endures forever.
* Chapter 119
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">ALEPH
** Verse 1
Blessed are those whose ways are blameless,
who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
** Verse 2
Blessed are those who keep his statutes,
who seek him with their whole heart.
** Verse 3
Yes, they do nothing wrong.
They walk in his ways.
** Verse 4
You have commanded your precepts,
that we should fully obey them.
** Verse 5
Oh that my ways were steadfast
to obey your statutes!
** Verse 6
Then I wouldn’t be disappointed,
when I consider all of your commandments.
** Verse 7
I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart,
when I learn your righteous judgments.
** Verse 8
I will observe your statutes.
Don’t utterly forsake me.
** Verse 9
How can a young man keep his way pure?
By living according to your word.
** Verse 10
With my whole heart I have sought you.
Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
** Verse 11
I have hidden your word in my heart,
that I might not sin against you.
** Verse 12
Blessed are you, Yahweh.
Teach me your statutes.
** Verse 13
With my lips,
I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.
** Verse 14
I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies,
as much as in all riches.
** Verse 15
I will meditate on your precepts,
and consider your ways.
** Verse 16
I will delight myself in your statutes.
I will not forget your word.
** Verse 17
Do good to your servant.
I will live and I will obey your word.
** Verse 18
Open my eyes,
that I may see wondrous things out of your law.
** Verse 19
I am a stranger on the earth.
Don’t hide your commandments from me.
** Verse 20
My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.
** Verse 21
You have rebuked the proud who are cursed,
who wander from your commandments.
** Verse 22
Take reproach and contempt away from me,
for I have kept your statutes.
** Verse 23
Though princes sit and slander me,
your servant will meditate on your statutes.
** Verse 24
Indeed your statutes are my delight,
and my counselors.
** Verse 25
My soul is laid low in the dust.
Revive me according to your word!
** Verse 26
I declared my ways, and you answered me.
Teach me your statutes.
** Verse 27
Let me understand the teaching of your precepts!
Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.
** Verse 28
My soul is weary with sorrow;
strengthen me according to your word.
** Verse 29
Keep me from the way of deceit.
Grant me your law graciously!
** Verse 30
I have chosen the way of truth.
I have set your ordinances before me.
** Verse 31
I cling to your statutes, Yahweh.
Don’t let me be disappointed.
** Verse 32
I run in the path of your commandments,
for you have set my heart free.
** Verse 33
Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes.
I will keep them to the end.
** Verse 34
Give me understanding, and I will keep your law.
Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
** Verse 35
Direct me in the path of your commandments,
for I delight in them.
** Verse 36
Turn my heart toward your statutes,
not toward selfish gain.
** Verse 37
Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things.
Revive me in your ways.
** Verse 38
Fulfill your promise to your servant,
that you may be feared.
** Verse 39
Take away my disgrace that I dread,
for your ordinances are good.
** Verse 40
Behold, I long for your precepts!
Revive me in your righteousness.
** Verse 41
Let your loving kindness also come to me, Yahweh,
your salvation, according to your word.
** Verse 42
So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me,
for I trust in your word.
** Verse 43
Don’t snatch the word of truth out of my mouth,
for I put my hope in your ordinances.
** Verse 44
So I will obey your law continually,
forever and ever.
** Verse 45
I will walk in liberty,
for I have sought your precepts.
** Verse 46
I will also speak of your statutes before kings,
and will not be disappointed.
** Verse 47
I will delight myself in your commandments,
because I love them.
** Verse 48
I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love.
I will meditate on your statutes.
** Verse 49
Remember your word to your servant,
because you gave me hope.
** Verse 50
This is my comfort in my affliction,
for your word has revived me.
** Verse 51
The arrogant mock me excessively,
but I don’t swerve from your law.
** Verse 52
I remember your ordinances of old, Yahweh,
and have comforted myself.
** Verse 53
Indignation has taken hold on me,
because of the wicked who forsake your law.
** Verse 54
Your statutes have been my songs
in the house where I live.
** Verse 55
I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night,
and I obey your law.
** Verse 56
This is my way,
that I keep your precepts.
** Verse 57
Yahweh is my portion.
I promised to obey your words.
** Verse 58
I sought your favor with my whole heart.
Be merciful to me according to your word.
** Verse 59
I considered my ways,
and turned my steps to your statutes.
** Verse 60
I will hurry, and not delay,
to obey your commandments.
** Verse 61
The ropes of the wicked bind me,
but I won’t forget your law.
** Verse 62
At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you,
because of your righteous ordinances.
** Verse 63
I am a friend of all those who fear you,
of those who observe your precepts.
** Verse 64
The earth is full of your loving kindness, Yahweh.
Teach me your statutes.
** Verse 65
You have treated your servant well,
according to your word, Yahweh.
** Verse 66
Teach me good judgment and knowledge,
for I believe in your commandments.
** Verse 67
Before I was afflicted, I went astray;
but now I observe your word.
** Verse 68
You are good, and do good.
Teach me your statutes.
** Verse 69
The proud have smeared a lie upon me.
With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
** Verse 70
Their heart is as callous as the fat,
but I delight in your law.
** Verse 71
It is good for me that I have been afflicted,
that I may learn your statutes.
** Verse 72
The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
** Verse 73
Your hands have made me and formed me.
Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.
** Verse 74
Those who fear you will see me and be glad,
because I have put my hope in your word.
** Verse 75
Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous,
that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
** Verse 76
Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort,
according to your word to your servant.
** Verse 77
Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live;
for your law is my delight.
** Verse 78
Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully.
I will meditate on your precepts.
** Verse 79
Let those who fear you turn to me.
They will know your statutes.
** Verse 80
Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees,
that I may not be disappointed.
** Verse 81
My soul faints for your salvation.
I hope in your word.
** Verse 82
My eyes fail for your word.
I say, “When will you comfort me?”
** Verse 83
For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke.
I don’t forget your statutes.
** Verse 84
How many are the days of your servant?
When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me?
** Verse 85
The proud have dug pits for me,
contrary to your law.
** Verse 86
All of your commandments are faithful.
They persecute me wrongfully.
Help me!
** Verse 87
They had almost wiped me from the earth,
but I didn’t forsake your precepts.
** Verse 88
Preserve my life according to your loving kindness,
so I will obey the statutes of your mouth.
** Verse 89
Yahweh, your word is settled in heaven forever.
** Verse 90
Your faithfulness is to all generations.
You have established the earth, and it remains.
** Verse 91
Your laws remain to this day,
for all things serve you.
** Verse 92
Unless your law had been my delight,
I would have perished in my affliction.
** Verse 93
I will never forget your precepts,
for with them, you have revived me.
** Verse 94
I am yours.
Save me, for I have sought your precepts.
** Verse 95
The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me.
I will consider your statutes.
** Verse 96
I have seen a limit to all perfection,
but your commands are boundless.
** Verse 97
How I love your law!
It is my meditation all day.
** Verse 98
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies,
for your commandments are always with me.
** Verse 99
I have more understanding than all my teachers,
for your testimonies are my meditation.
** Verse 100
I understand more than the aged,
because I have kept your precepts.
** Verse 101
I have kept my feet from every evil way,
that I might observe your word.
** Verse 102
I have not turned away from your ordinances,
for you have taught me.
** Verse 103
How sweet are your promises to my taste,
more than honey to my mouth!
** Verse 104
Through your precepts, I get understanding;
therefore I hate every false way.
** Verse 105
Your word is a lamp to my feet,
and a light for my path.
** Verse 106
I have sworn, and have confirmed it,
that I will obey your righteous ordinances.
** Verse 107
I am afflicted very much.
Revive me, Yahweh, according to your word.
** Verse 108
Accept, I beg you, the willing offerings of my mouth.
Yahweh, teach me your ordinances.
** Verse 109
My soul is continually in my hand,
yet I won’t forget your law.
** Verse 110
The wicked have laid a snare for me,
yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.
** Verse 111
I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever,
for they are the joy of my heart.
** Verse 112
I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever,
even to the end.
** Verse 113
I hate double-minded men,
but I love your law.
** Verse 114
You are my hiding place and my shield.
I hope in your word.
** Verse 115
Depart from me, you evildoers,
that I may keep the commandments of my God.
** Verse 116
Uphold me according to your word, that I may live.
Let me not be ashamed of my hope.
** Verse 117
Hold me up, and I will be safe,
and will have respect for your statutes continually.
** Verse 118
You reject all those who stray from your statutes,
for their deceit is in vain.
** Verse 119
You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross.
Therefore I love your testimonies.
** Verse 120
My flesh trembles for fear of you.
I am afraid of your judgments.
** Verse 121
I have done what is just and righteous.
Don’t leave me to my oppressors.
** Verse 122
Ensure your servant’s well-being.
Don’t let the proud oppress me.
** Verse 123
My eyes fail looking for your salvation,
for your righteous word.
** Verse 124
Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness.
Teach me your statutes.
** Verse 125
I am your servant. Give me understanding,
that I may know your testimonies.
** Verse 126
It is time to act, Yahweh,
for they break your law.
** Verse 127
Therefore I love your commandments more than gold,
yes, more than pure gold.
** Verse 128
Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right.
I hate every false way.
** Verse 129
Your testimonies are wonderful,
therefore my soul keeps them.
** Verse 130
The entrance of your words gives light.
It gives understanding to the simple.
** Verse 131
I opened my mouth wide and panted,
for I longed for your commandments.
** Verse 132
Turn to me, and have mercy on me,
as you always do to those who love your name.
** Verse 133
Establish my footsteps in your word.
Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.
** Verse 134
Redeem me from the oppression of man,
so I will observe your precepts.
** Verse 135
Make your face shine on your servant.
Teach me your statutes.
** Verse 136
Streams of tears run down my eyes,
because they don’t observe your law.
** Verse 137
You are righteous, Yahweh.
Your judgments are upright.
** Verse 138
You have commanded your statutes in righteousness.
They are fully trustworthy.
** Verse 139
My zeal wears me out,
because my enemies ignore your words.
** Verse 140
Your promises have been thoroughly tested,
and your servant loves them.
** Verse 141
I am small and despised.
I don’t forget your precepts.
** Verse 142
Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness.
Your law is truth.
** Verse 143
Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me.
Your commandments are my delight.
** Verse 144
Your testimonies are righteous forever.
Give me understanding, that I may live.
** Verse 145
I have called with my whole heart.
Answer me, Yahweh!
I will keep your statutes.
** Verse 146
I have called to you. Save me!
I will obey your statutes.
** Verse 147
I rise before dawn and cry for help.
I put my hope in your words.
** Verse 148
My eyes stay open through the night watches,
that I might meditate on your word.
** Verse 149
Hear my voice according to your loving kindness.
Revive me, Yahweh, according to your ordinances.
** Verse 150
They draw near who follow after wickedness.
They are far from your law.
** Verse 151
You are near, Yahweh.
All your commandments are truth.
** Verse 152
Of old I have known from your testimonies,
that you have founded them forever.
** Verse 153
Consider my affliction, and deliver me,
for I don’t forget your law.
** Verse 154
Plead my cause, and redeem me!
Revive me according to your promise.
** Verse 155
Salvation is far from the wicked,
for they don’t seek your statutes.
** Verse 156
Great are your tender mercies, Yahweh.
Revive me according to your ordinances.
** Verse 157
Many are my persecutors and my adversaries.
I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.
** Verse 158
I look at the faithless with loathing,
because they don’t observe your word.
** Verse 159
Consider how I love your precepts.
Revive me, Yahweh, according to your loving kindness.
** Verse 160
All of your words are truth.
Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.
** Verse 161
Princes have persecuted me without a cause,
but my heart stands in awe of your words.
** Verse 162
I rejoice at your word,
as one who finds great plunder.
** Verse 163
I hate and abhor falsehood.
I love your law.
** Verse 164
Seven times a day, I praise you,
because of your righteous ordinances.
** Verse 165
Those who love your law have great peace.
Nothing causes them to stumble.
** Verse 166
I have hoped for your salvation, Yahweh.
I have done your commandments.
** Verse 167
My soul has observed your testimonies.
I love them exceedingly.
** Verse 168
I have obeyed your precepts and your testimonies,
for all my ways are before you.
** Verse 169
Let my cry come before you, Yahweh.
Give me understanding according to your word.
** Verse 170
Let my supplication come before you.
Deliver me according to your word.
** Verse 171
Let my lips utter praise,
for you teach me your statutes.
** Verse 172
Let my tongue sing of your word,
for all your commandments are righteousness.
** Verse 173
Let your hand be ready to help me,
for I have chosen your precepts.
** Verse 174
I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh.
Your law is my delight.
** Verse 175
Let my soul live, that I may praise you.
Let your ordinances help me.
** Verse 176
I have gone astray like a lost sheep.
Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
* Chapter 120
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Song of Ascents.
** Verse 1
In my distress, I cried to Yahweh.
He answered me.
** Verse 2
Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips,
from a deceitful tongue.
** Verse 3
What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you,
you deceitful tongue?
** Verse 4
Sharp arrows of the mighty,
with coals of juniper.
** Verse 5
Woe is me, that I live in Meshech,
that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
** Verse 6
My soul has had her dwelling too long
with him who hates peace.
** Verse 7
I am for peace,
but when I speak, they are for war.
* Chapter 121
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Song of Ascents.
** Verse 1
I will lift up my eyes to the hills.
Where does my help come from?
** Verse 2
My help comes from Yahweh,
who made heaven and earth.
** Verse 3
He will not allow your foot to be moved.
He who keeps you will not slumber.
** Verse 4
Behold, he who keeps Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
** Verse 5
Yahweh is your keeper.
Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.
** Verse 6
The sun will not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.
** Verse 7
Yahweh will keep you from all evil.
He will keep your soul.
** Verse 8
Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in,
from this time forward, and forever more.
* Chapter 122
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Song of Ascents. By David.
** Verse 1
I was glad when they said to me,
“Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”
** Verse 2
Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem!
** Verse 3
Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together,
** Verse 4
where the tribes go up, even Yah’s tribes,
according to an ordinance for Israel,
to give thanks to Yahweh’s name.
** Verse 5
For there are set thrones for judgment,
the thrones of David’s house.
** Verse 6
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
Those who love you will prosper.
** Verse 7
Peace be within your walls,
and prosperity within your palaces.
** Verse 8
For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes,
I will now say, “Peace be within you.”
** Verse 9
For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God,
I will seek your good.
* Chapter 123
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Song of Ascents.
** Verse 1
I lift up my eyes to you,
you who sit in the heavens.
** Verse 2
Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master,
as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,
so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God,
until he has mercy on us.
** Verse 3
Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us,
for we have endured much contempt.
** Verse 4
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease,
with the contempt of the proud.
* Chapter 124
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Song of Ascents. By David.
** Verse 1
If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side,
let Israel now say,
** Verse 2
if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side,
when men rose up against us,
** Verse 3
then they would have swallowed us up alive,
when their wrath was kindled against us,
** Verse 4
then the waters would have overwhelmed us,
the stream would have gone over our soul.
** Verse 5
Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.
** Verse 6
Blessed be Yahweh,
who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
** Verse 7
Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare.
The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
** Verse 8
Our help is in Yahweh’s name,
who made heaven and earth.
* Chapter 125
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Song of Ascents.
** Verse 1
Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion,
which can’t be moved, but remains forever.
** Verse 2
As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more.
** Verse 3
For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous,
so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.
** Verse 4
Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good,
to those who are upright in their hearts.
** Verse 5
But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways,
Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity.
Peace be on Israel.
* Chapter 126
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Song of Ascents.
** Verse 1
When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion,
we were like those who dream.
** Verse 2
Then our mouth was filled with laughter,
and our tongue with singing.
Then they said among the nations,
“Yahweh has done great things for them.”
** Verse 3
Yahweh has done great things for us,
and we are glad.
** Verse 4
Restore our fortunes again, Yahweh,
like the streams in the Negev.
** Verse 5
Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
** Verse 6
He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing,
will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.
* Chapter 127
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Song of Ascents. By Solomon.
** Verse 1
Unless Yahweh builds the house,
they who build it labor in vain.
Unless Yahweh watches over the city,
the watchman guards it in vain.
** Verse 2
It is vain for you to rise up early,
to stay up late,
eating the bread of toil,
for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
** Verse 3
Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh.
The fruit of the womb is his reward.
** Verse 4
As arrows in the hand of a mighty man,
so are the children of youth.
** Verse 5
Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them.
They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.
* Chapter 128
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Song of Ascents.
** Verse 1
Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh,
who walks in his ways.
** Verse 2
For you will eat the labor of your hands.
You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
** Verse 3
Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house,
your children like olive shoots around your table.
** Verse 4
Behold, this is how the man who fears Yahweh is blessed.
** Verse 5
May Yahweh bless you out of Zion,
and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.
** Verse 6
Yes, may you see your children’s children.
Peace be upon Israel.
* Chapter 129
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Song of Ascents.
** Verse 1
Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up.
Let Israel now say:
** Verse 2
many times they have afflicted me from my youth up,
yet they have not prevailed against me.
** Verse 3
The plowers plowed on my back.
They made their furrows long.
** Verse 4
Yahweh is righteous.
He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
** Verse 5
Let them be disappointed and turned backward,
all those who hate Zion.
** Verse 6
Let them be as the grass on the housetops,
which withers before it grows up,
** Verse 7
with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand,
nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
** Verse 8
Neither do those who go by say,
“The blessing of Yahweh be on you.
We bless you in Yahweh’s name.”
* Chapter 130
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Song of Ascents.
** Verse 1
Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.
** Verse 2
Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.
** Verse 3
If you, Yah, kept a record of sins,
Lord, who could stand?
** Verse 4
But there is forgiveness with you,
therefore you are feared.
** Verse 5
I wait for Yahweh.
My soul waits.
I hope in his word.
** Verse 6
My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning,
more than watchmen for the morning.
** Verse 7
Israel, hope in Yahweh,
for there is loving kindness with Yahweh.
Abundant redemption is with him.
** Verse 8
He will redeem Israel from all their sins.
* Chapter 131
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Song of Ascents. By David.
** Verse 1
Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty;
nor do I concern myself with great matters,
or things too wonderful for me.
** Verse 2
Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul,
like a weaned child with his mother,
like a weaned child is my soul within me.
** Verse 3
Israel, hope in Yahweh,
from this time forward and forever more.
* Chapter 132
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Song of Ascents.
** Verse 1
Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction,
** Verse 2
how he swore to Yahweh,
and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:
** Verse 3
“Surely I will not come into the structure of my house,
nor go up into my bed;
** Verse 4
I will not give sleep to my eyes,
or slumber to my eyelids,
** Verse 5
until I find out a place for Yahweh,
a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
** Verse 6
Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah.
We found it in the field of Jaar.
** Verse 7
“We will go into his dwelling place.
We will worship at his footstool.”
** Verse 8
Arise, Yahweh, into your resting place,
you, and the ark of your strength.
** Verse 9
Let your priests be clothed with righteousness.
Let your saints shout for joy!
** Verse 10
For your servant David’s sake,
don’t turn away the face of your anointed one.
** Verse 11
Yahweh has sworn to David in truth.
He will not turn from it:
“I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.
** Verse 12
If your children will keep my covenant,
my testimony that I will teach them,
their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”
** Verse 13
For Yahweh has chosen Zion.
He has desired it for his habitation.
** Verse 14
“This is my resting place forever.
I will live here, for I have desired it.
** Verse 15
I will abundantly bless her provision.
I will satisfy her poor with bread.
** Verse 16
I will also clothe her priests with salvation.
Her saints will shout aloud for joy.
** Verse 17
I will make the horn of David to bud there.
I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.
** Verse 18
I will clothe his enemies with shame,
but on himself, his crown will shine.”
* Chapter 133
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Song of Ascents. By David.
** Verse 1
See how good and how pleasant it is
for brothers to live together in unity!
** Verse 2
It is like the precious oil on the head,
that ran down on the beard,
even Aaron’s beard,
that came down on the edge of his robes,
** Verse 3
like the dew of Hermon,
that comes down on the hills of Zion;
for there Yahweh gives the blessing,
even life forever more.
* Chapter 134
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Song of Ascents.
** Verse 1
Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh,
who stand by night in Yahweh’s house!
** Verse 2
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary.
Praise Yahweh!
** Verse 3
May Yahweh bless you from Zion,
even he who made heaven and earth.
* Chapter 135
** Verse 1
Praise Yah!
Praise Yahweh’s name!
Praise him, you servants of Yahweh,
** Verse 2
you who stand in Yahweh’s house,
in the courts of our God’s house.
** Verse 3
Praise Yah, for Yahweh is good.
Sing praises to his name, for that is pleasant.
** Verse 4
For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself,
Israel for his own possession.
** Verse 5
For I know that Yahweh is great,
that our Lord is above all gods.
** Verse 6
Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done,
in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.
** Verse 7
He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth.
He makes lightnings with the rain.
He brings the wind out of his treasuries.
** Verse 8
He struck the firstborn of Egypt,
both of man and animal.
** Verse 9
He sent signs and wonders into the middle of you, Egypt,
on Pharaoh, and on all his servants.
** Verse 10
He struck many nations,
and killed mighty kings—
** Verse 11
Sihon king of the Amorites,
Og king of Bashan,
and all the kingdoms of Canaan—
** Verse 12
and gave their land for a heritage,
a heritage to Israel, his people.
** Verse 13
Your name, Yahweh, endures forever;
your renown, Yahweh, throughout all generations.
** Verse 14
For Yahweh will judge his people
and have compassion on his servants.
** Verse 15
The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
the work of men’s hands.
** Verse 16
They have mouths, but they can’t speak.
They have eyes, but they can’t see.
** Verse 17
They have ears, but they can’t hear,
neither is there any breath in their mouths.
** Verse 18
Those who make them will be like them,
yes, everyone who trusts in them.
** Verse 19
House of Israel, praise Yahweh!
House of Aaron, praise Yahweh!
** Verse 20
House of Levi, praise Yahweh!
You who fear Yahweh, praise Yahweh!
** Verse 21
Blessed be Yahweh from Zion,
who dwells in Jerusalem.
Praise Yah!
* Chapter 136
** Verse 1
Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
for his loving kindness endures forever.
** Verse 2
Give thanks to the God of gods,
for his loving kindness endures forever.
** Verse 3
Give thanks to the Lord of lords,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
** Verse 4
to him who alone does great wonders,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
** Verse 5
to him who by understanding made the heavens,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
** Verse 6
to him who spread out the earth above the waters,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
** Verse 7
to him who made the great lights,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
** Verse 8
the sun to rule by day,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
** Verse 9
the moon and stars to rule by night,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
** Verse 10
to him who struck down the Egyptian firstborn,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
** Verse 11
and brought out Israel from among them,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
** Verse 12
with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
** Verse 13
to him who divided the Red Sea apart,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
** Verse 14
and made Israel to pass through the middle of it,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
** Verse 15
but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
** Verse 16
to him who led his people through the wilderness,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
** Verse 17
to him who struck great kings,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
** Verse 18
and killed mighty kings,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
** Verse 19
Sihon king of the Amorites,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
** Verse 20
Og king of Bashan,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
** Verse 21
and gave their land as an inheritance,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
** Verse 22
even a heritage to Israel his servant,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
** Verse 23
who remembered us in our low estate,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
** Verse 24
and has delivered us from our adversaries,
for his loving kindness endures forever;
** Verse 25
who gives food to every creature,
for his loving kindness endures forever.
** Verse 26
Oh give thanks to the God of heaven,
for his loving kindness endures forever.
* Chapter 137
** Verse 1
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down.
Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
** Verse 2
On the willows in that land,
we hung up our harps.
** Verse 3
For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs.
Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy:
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
** Verse 4
How can we sing Yahweh’s song in a foreign land?
** Verse 5
If I forget you, Jerusalem,
let my right hand forget its skill.
** Verse 6
Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you,
if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.
** Verse 7
Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem,
who said, “Raze it!
Raze it even to its foundation!”
** Verse 8
Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction,
he will be happy who repays you,
as you have done to us.
** Verse 9
Happy shall he be,
who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.
* Chapter 138
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">By David.
** Verse 1
I will give you thanks with my whole heart.
Before the gods,<note type="translation" osisRef="Ps.138.1" osisID="Ps.138.1!note.1" placement="foot">
<reference type="source" osisRef="Ps.138.1">138:1
</reference>The word elohim, used here, usually means “God” but can also mean “gods”, “princes”, or “angels”.</note> I will sing praises to you.
** Verse 2
I will bow down toward your holy temple,
and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth;
for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.
** Verse 3
In the day that I called, you answered me.
You encouraged me with strength in my soul.
** Verse 4
All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, Yahweh,
for they have heard the words of your mouth.
** Verse 5
Yes, they will sing of the ways of Yahweh,
for Yahweh’s glory is great!
** Verse 6
For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly;
but he knows the proud from afar.
** Verse 7
Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me.
You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies.
Your right hand will save me.
** Verse 8
Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me.
Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever.
Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.
* Chapter 139
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
** Verse 1
Yahweh, you have searched me,
and you know me.
** Verse 2
You know my sitting down and my rising up.
You perceive my thoughts from afar.
** Verse 3
You search out my path and my lying down,
and are acquainted with all my ways.
** Verse 4
For there is not a word on my tongue,
but behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
** Verse 5
You hem me in behind and before.
You laid your hand on me.
** Verse 6
This knowledge is beyond me.
It’s lofty.
I can’t attain it.
** Verse 7
Where could I go from your Spirit?
Or where could I flee from your presence?
** Verse 8
If I ascend up into heaven, you are there.
If I make my bed in Sheol,<note type="translation" osisRef="Ps.139.8" osisID="Ps.139.8!note.1" placement="foot">
<reference type="source" osisRef="Ps.139.8">139:8
</reference>Sheol is the place of the dead.</note> behold, you are there!
** Verse 9
If I take the wings of the dawn,
and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,
** Verse 10
even there your hand will lead me,
and your right hand will hold me.
** Verse 11
If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me.
The light around me will be night,”
** Verse 12
even the darkness doesn’t hide from you,
but the night shines as the day.
The darkness is like light to you.
** Verse 13
For you formed my inmost being.
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
** Verse 14
I will give thanks to you,
for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful.
My soul knows that very well.
** Verse 15
My frame wasn’t hidden from you,
when I was made in secret,
woven together in the depths of the earth.
** Verse 16
Your eyes saw my body.
In your book they were all written,
the days that were ordained for me,
when as yet there were none of them.
** Verse 17
How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
How vast is their sum!
** Verse 18
If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand.
When I wake up, I am still with you.
** Verse 19
If only you, God, would kill the wicked.
Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
** Verse 20
For they speak against you wickedly.
Your enemies take your name in vain.
** Verse 21
Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you?
Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
** Verse 22
I hate them with perfect hatred.
They have become my enemies.
** Verse 23
Search me, God, and know my heart.
Try me, and know my thoughts.
** Verse 24
See if there is any wicked way in me,
and lead me in the everlasting way.
* Chapter 140
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
** Verse 1
Deliver me, Yahweh, from evil men.
Preserve me from violent men:
** Verse 2
those who devise mischief in their hearts.
They continually gather themselves together for war.
** Verse 3
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent.
Viper’s poison is under their lips.
</l><l type="selah">Selah.</l>
** Verse 4
Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked.
Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.
** Verse 5
The proud have hidden a snare for me,
they have spread the cords of a net by the path.
They have set traps for me.
</l><l type="selah">Selah.</l>
** Verse 6
I said to Yahweh, “You are my God.”
Listen to the cry of my petitions, Yahweh.
** Verse 7
Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation,
you have covered my head in the day of battle.
** Verse 8
Yahweh, don’t grant the desires of the wicked.
Don’t let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud.
</l><l type="selah">Selah.</l>
** Verse 9
As for the head of those who surround me,
let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
** Verse 10
Let burning coals fall on them.
Let them be thrown into the fire,
into miry pits, from where they never rise.
** Verse 11
An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth.
Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
** Verse 12
I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted,
and justice for the needy.
** Verse 13
Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name.
The upright will dwell in your presence.
* Chapter 141
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Psalm by David.
** Verse 1
Yahweh, I have called on you.
Come to me quickly!
Listen to my voice when I call to you.
** Verse 2
Let my prayer be set before you like incense;
the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
** Verse 3
Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth.
Keep the door of my lips.
** Verse 4
Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing,
to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity.
Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.
** Verse 5
Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness;
let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head;
don’t let my head refuse it;
Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
** Verse 6
Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock.
They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.
** Verse 7
“As when one plows and breaks up the earth,
our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”<note type="translation" osisRef="Ps.141.7" osisID="Ps.141.7!note.1" placement="foot">
<reference type="source" osisRef="Ps.141.7">141:7
</reference>Sheol is the place of the dead.</note>
** Verse 8
For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord.
I take refuge in you.
Don’t leave my soul destitute.
** Verse 9
Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me,
from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
** Verse 10
Let the wicked fall together into their own nets
while I pass by.
* Chapter 142
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer.
** Verse 1
I cry with my voice to Yahweh.
With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.
** Verse 2
I pour out my complaint before him.
I tell him my troubles.
** Verse 3
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me,
you knew my route.
On the path in which I walk,
they have hidden a snare for me.
** Verse 4
Look on my right, and see;
for there is no one who is concerned for me.
Refuge has fled from me.
No one cares for my soul.
** Verse 5
I cried to you, Yahweh.
I said, “You are my refuge,
my portion in the land of the living.”
** Verse 6
Listen to my cry,
for I am in desperate need.
Deliver me from my persecutors,
for they are too strong for me.
** Verse 7
Bring my soul out of prison,
that I may give thanks to your name.
The righteous will surround me,
for you will be good to me.
* Chapter 143
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A Psalm by David.
** Verse 1
Hear my prayer, Yahweh.
Listen to my petitions.
In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
** Verse 2
Don’t enter into judgment with your servant,
for in your sight no man living is righteous.
** Verse 3
For the enemy pursues my soul.
He has struck my life down to the ground.
He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
** Verse 4
Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me.
My heart within me is desolate.
** Verse 5
I remember the days of old.
I meditate on all your doings.
I contemplate the work of your hands.
** Verse 6
I spread out my hands to you.
My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land.
</l><l type="selah">Selah.</l>
** Verse 7
Hurry to answer me, Yahweh.
My spirit fails.
Don’t hide your face from me,
so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.
** Verse 8
Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning,
for I trust in you.
Cause me to know the way in which I should walk,
for I lift up my soul to you.
** Verse 9
Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies.
I flee to you to hide me.
** Verse 10
Teach me to do your will,
for you are my God.
Your Spirit is good.
Lead me in the land of uprightness.
** Verse 11
Revive me, Yahweh, for your name’s sake.
In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.
** Verse 12
In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies,
and destroy all those who afflict my soul,
For I am your servant.
* Chapter 144
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">By David.
** Verse 1
Blessed be Yahweh, my rock,
who trains my hands to war,
and my fingers to battle—
** Verse 2
my loving kindness, my fortress,
my high tower, my deliverer,
my shield, and he in whom I take refuge,
who subdues my people under me.
** Verse 3
Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him?
Or the son of man, that you think of him?
** Verse 4
Man is like a breath.
His days are like a shadow that passes away.
** Verse 5
Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down.
Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
** Verse 6
Throw out lightning, and scatter them.
Send out your arrows, and rout them.
** Verse 7
Stretch out your hand from above,
rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters,
out of the hands of foreigners,
** Verse 8
whose mouths speak deceit,
whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
** Verse 9
I will sing a new song to you, God.
On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises to you.
** Verse 10
You are he who gives salvation to kings,
who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.
** Verse 11
Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners,
whose mouths speak deceit,
whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
** Verse 12
Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants,
our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
** Verse 13
Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision.
Our sheep produce thousands and ten thousands in our fields.
** Verse 14
Our oxen will pull heavy loads.
There is no breaking in, and no going away,
and no outcry in our streets.
** Verse 15
Happy are the people who are in such a situation.
Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.
* Chapter 145
<div><title type="psalm" canonical="true">A praise psalm by David.<note type="translation" osisRef="Ps.145" osisID="Ps.145!note.1" placement="foot">
<reference type="source" osisRef="Ps.145">145:0
</reference>This is an acrostic psalm, with every verse (including the second half of verse 13) starting with a consecutive letter of the Hebrew alphabet.</note>
** Verse 1
I will exalt you, my God, the King.
I will praise your name forever and ever.
** Verse 2
Every day I will praise you.
I will extol your name forever and ever.
** Verse 3
Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised!
His greatness is unsearchable.
** Verse 4
One generation will commend your works to another,
and will declare your mighty acts.
** Verse 5
I will meditate on the glorious majesty of your honor,
on your wondrous works.
** Verse 6
Men will speak of the might of your awesome acts.
I will declare your greatness.
** Verse 7
They will utter the memory of your great goodness,
and will sing of your righteousness.
** Verse 8
Yahweh is gracious, merciful,
slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
** Verse 9
Yahweh is good to all.
His tender mercies are over all his works.
** Verse 10
All your works will give thanks to you, Yahweh.
Your saints will extol you.
** Verse 11
They will speak of the glory of your kingdom,
and talk about your power,
** Verse 12
to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts,
the glory of the majesty of his kingdom.
** Verse 13
Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.
Your dominion endures throughout all generations.
Yahweh is faithful in all his words,
and loving in all his deeds.<note type="translation" osisRef="Ps.145.13" osisID="Ps.145.13!note.1" placement="foot">
<reference type="source" osisRef="Ps.145.13">145:13
</reference>Some manuscripts omit these last two lines.</note>
** Verse 14
Yahweh upholds all who fall,
and raises up all those who are bowed down.
** Verse 15
The eyes of all wait for you.
You give them their food in due season.
** Verse 16
You open your hand,
and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
** Verse 17
Yahweh is righteous in all his ways,
and gracious in all his works.
** Verse 18
Yahweh is near to all those who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth.
** Verse 19
He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him.
He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
** Verse 20
Yahweh preserves all those who love him,
but he will destroy all the wicked.
** Verse 21
My mouth will speak the praise of Yahweh.
Let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.
* Chapter 146
** Verse 1
Praise Yah!
Praise Yahweh, my soul.
** Verse 2
While I live, I will praise Yahweh.
I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
** Verse 3
Don’t put your trust in princes,
in a son of man in whom there is no help.
** Verse 4
His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth.
In that very day, his thoughts perish.
** Verse 5
Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help,
whose hope is in Yahweh, his God,
** Verse 6
who made heaven and earth,
the sea, and all that is in them;
who keeps truth forever;
** Verse 7
who executes justice for the oppressed;
who gives food to the hungry.
Yahweh frees the prisoners.
** Verse 8
Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind.
Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down.
Yahweh loves the righteous.
** Verse 9
Yahweh preserves the foreigners.
He upholds the fatherless and widow,
but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.
** Verse 10
Yahweh will reign forever;
your God, O Zion, to all generations.
Praise Yah!
* Chapter 147
** Verse 1
Praise Yahweh,
for it is good to sing praises to our God;
for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.
** Verse 2
Yahweh builds up Jerusalem.
He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
** Verse 3
He heals the broken in heart,
and binds up their wounds.
** Verse 4
He counts the number of the stars.
He calls them all by their names.
** Verse 5
Great is our Lord, and mighty in power.
His understanding is infinite.
** Verse 6
Yahweh upholds the humble.
He brings the wicked down to the ground.
** Verse 7
Sing to Yahweh with thanksgiving.
Sing praises on the harp to our God,
** Verse 8
who covers the sky with clouds,
who prepares rain for the earth,
who makes grass grow on the mountains.
** Verse 9
He provides food for the livestock,
and for the young ravens when they call.
** Verse 10
He doesn’t delight in the strength of the horse.
He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.
** Verse 11
Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him,
in those who hope in his loving kindness.
** Verse 12
Praise Yahweh, Jerusalem!
Praise your God, Zion!
** Verse 13
For he has strengthened the bars of your gates.
He has blessed your children within you.
** Verse 14
He makes peace in your borders.
He fills you with the finest of the wheat.
** Verse 15
He sends out his commandment to the earth.
His word runs very swiftly.
** Verse 16
He gives snow like wool,
and scatters frost like ashes.
** Verse 17
He hurls down his hail like pebbles.
Who can stand before his cold?
** Verse 18
He sends out his word, and melts them.
He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
** Verse 19
He shows his word to Jacob,
his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
** Verse 20
He has not done this for just any nation.
They don’t know his ordinances.
Praise Yah!
* Chapter 148
** Verse 1
Praise Yah!
Praise Yahweh from the heavens!
Praise him in the heights!
** Verse 2
Praise him, all his angels!
Praise him, all his army!
** Verse 3
Praise him, sun and moon!
Praise him, all you shining stars!
** Verse 4
Praise him, you heavens of heavens,
you waters that are above the heavens.
** Verse 5
Let them praise Yahweh’s name,
for he commanded, and they were created.
** Verse 6
He has also established them forever and ever.
He has made a decree which will not pass away.
** Verse 7
Praise Yahweh from the earth,
you great sea creatures, and all depths,
** Verse 8
lightning and hail, snow and clouds,
stormy wind, fulfilling his word,
** Verse 9
mountains and all hills,
fruit trees and all cedars,
** Verse 10
wild animals and all livestock,
small creatures and flying birds,
** Verse 11
kings of the earth and all peoples,
princes and all judges of the earth,
** Verse 12
both young men and maidens,
old men and children.
** Verse 13
Let them praise Yahweh’s name,
for his name alone is exalted.
His glory is above the earth and the heavens.
** Verse 14
He has lifted up the horn of his people,
the praise of all his saints,
even of the children of Israel, a people near to him.
Praise Yah!
* Chapter 149
** Verse 1
Praise Yahweh!
Sing to Yahweh a new song,
his praise in the assembly of the saints.
** Verse 2
Let Israel rejoice in him who made them.
Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
** Verse 3
Let them praise his name in the dance!
Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!
** Verse 4
For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people.
He crowns the humble with salvation.
** Verse 5
Let the saints rejoice in honor.
Let them sing for joy on their beds.
** Verse 6
May the high praises of God be in their mouths,
and a two-edged sword in their hand,
** Verse 7
to execute vengeance on the nations,
and punishments on the peoples;
** Verse 8
to bind their kings with chains,
and their nobles with fetters of iron;
** Verse 9
to execute on them the written judgment.
All his saints have this honor.
Praise Yah!
* Chapter 150
** Verse 1
Praise Yah!
Praise God in his sanctuary!
Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!
** Verse 2
Praise him for his mighty acts!
Praise him according to his excellent greatness!
** Verse 3
Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet!
Praise him with harp and lyre!
** Verse 4
Praise him with tambourine and dancing!
Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!
** Verse 5
Praise him with loud cymbals!
Praise him with resounding cymbals!
** Verse 6
Let everything that has breath praise Yah!
Praise Yah!
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[fn:4] or, Kiss the son
[fn:3] The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”
[fn:2] The word “Anointed” is the same as the word for “Messiah” or “Christ”
[fn:1] “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.
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