Psalms 133:1-150:6 Song of ascensions to David. Behold, how good and how pleasant the dwelling of brethren even together.

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Song of ascensions to David. Behold, how good and how pleasant the dwelling of brethren even together. ² As good oil upon the head, going down upon the beard, the beard of Aaron: coming down upon the mouth of his garments: ³ As the dew of Hermon coming down upon the mountains of Zion: for there Jehovah commanded the blessing, life even forever. ¹³⁴ ¹ Song of ascensions. Behold, praise ye Jehovah, all ye servants of Jehovah, standing in the house of Jehovah, in the nights. ² Lift up your hand to the holy place, and praise ye Jehovah. ³ Jehovah shall bless thee out of Zion: he made the heavens and the earth. ¹³⁵ ¹ Praise ye Jah. Praise ye the name of Jehovah; praise, ye servants of Jehovah, ² Standing in the house of Jehovah, in the enclosures of the house of our God. ³ Praise ye Jah; for Jehovah is good: play on the harp to his name, for it is pleasant ⁴ For Jah chose to himself Jacob; Israel for his property. ⁵ For I knew that great is Jehovah, and our Lord above all gods. ⁶ All which Jehovah delighted in he did, in the heavens and in the earth, in the seas and all the depths. ⁷ Causing the liftings up to ascend from the ends of the earth; he made lightnings for the rain; bringing forth the wind from his treasures. ⁸ He struck the first-born of Egypt., from man even to cattle. ⁹ He sent signs and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants. ¹⁰ He struck many nations, and slew strong kings; ¹¹ To Sihon, king of the Amorites, and to Og, king of Bashan, and to all the kings of Canaan: ¹² And he gave their land an inheritance, an inheritance to Israel his people. ¹³ O Jehovah, thy name is forever; O Jehovah, thy remembrance to generation and generation. ¹⁴ For Jehovah will judge his people, and he will compassion upon his servants. ¹⁵ The images of the nation are silver and gold, the work of man's hands. ¹⁶ A mouth to them, and they shall not speak; eyes to them, and they shall not see; ¹⁷ Ears to them, and they shall not hear; also there is no spirit in their mouth. ¹⁸ They making them shall be as they: every one who trusted in them. ¹⁹ O house of Israel, bless ye Jehovah: O house of Aaron, praise ye Jehovah: ²⁰ O house of Levi, praise ye Jehovah: ye fearing Jehovah, praise Jehovah. ²¹ Blessed be Jehovah from Zion, dwelling in Jerusalem. Praise ye Jah. ¹³⁶ ¹ Confess ye to Jehovah, for he is good: for his mercy is forever. ² Confess to the God of gods: for his mercy is forever. ³ Confess to the Lord of lords: for his mercy is forever. ⁴ To him alone making great wonders: for his mercy is forever. ⁵ To him making the heavens in understanding: for his mercy is forever. ⁶ To him spreading the earth upon the sea: for his mercy is forever. ⁷ To him making great lights: for his mercy is forever. ⁸ The sun for the rulings in the day: for his mercy is forever. ⁹ The moon and the stars for rulings in the night: for his mercy is forever. ¹⁰ To him striking Egypt in their first-born: for his mercy is forever. ¹¹ And he will bring forth Israel from the midst of them: for his mercy is forever. ¹² With a hand of strength, and with an arm stretched out: for his mercy is forever. ¹³ To him dividing the sea of sedge into parts: for his mercy is forever. ¹⁴ And he caused Israel to pass through in its midst: for his mercy is forever. ¹⁵ And he shook off Pharaoh and his strength into the sea of sedge: for his mercy is forever. ¹⁶ To him causing his people to go into the desert: for his mercy is forever. ¹⁷ To him striking great kings: for his mercy is forever. ¹⁸ And he will slay mighty kings: for his mercy is forever. ¹⁹ To Sihon, king of the Amorites: for his mercy is forever. ²⁰ To Og, king of Bashan: for his mercy is forever. ²¹ And he gave their land for an inheritance: for his mercy is forever, ²² An inheritance to Israel his servant: for his mercy is forever. ²³ He remembered for us our lowness: for his mercy is forever: ²⁴ And he will redeem us from our enemies: for his mercy is forever. ²⁵ He gave bread to all flesh: for his mercy is forever. ²⁶ Confess ye to the God of the heavens: for his mercy is forever. ¹³⁷ ¹ By the rivers of Babel, there we sat down: also we wept in our remembering Zion. ² Upon the willows in her midst, we hung our harps; ³ For there they carrying us away captive asked us the words of a song; and they heaping us up gladness; Sing to us from the song of Zion. ⁴ How shall we sing the song of Jehovah upon the land of a stranger? ⁵ If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand shall be forgotten. ⁶ My tongue shall cleave to in palate, if I remember thee not; if I bring not up Jerusalem upon the head of my joy. ⁷ Remember, O Jehovah, for the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; they saying, Make bare, make bare, even to the foundations in her. ⁸ O daughter of Babel laying waste; happy he recompensing to thee thy retribution thou didst to us ⁹ Happy he taking hold and dashing in pieces thy children against the rock. ¹³⁸ ¹ To David. I will praise thee with all my heart: before God I will play to thee on the harp. ² I will worship to thy holy temple, and I will praise thy name for thy mercy and for thy truth: for thou didst magnify thy word over all thy name. ³ In the day I called, and thou wilt answer me; thou wilt enlarge me with strength in my soul. ⁴ All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O Jehovah, for they heard the sayings of thy mouth. ⁵ And they shall sing in the ways of Jehovah: for great the glory of Jehovah. ⁶ If Jehovah is high, and he will see the humble one: and the lofty one he will know from far off. ⁷ If I shall go in the midst of straits, thou wilt make me alive: against the anger of mine enemies thou wilt stretch forth thy hand, and thy right hand shall save me. ⁸ Jehovah will complete for me: O Jehovah, thy mercy is forever: thou wilt not let go the works of thy hands. ¹³⁹ ¹ To the overseer, to David a chanting. O Jehovah thou didst search me, and thou wilt know. ² Thou knewest my sitting and my rising; thou didst understand for my thoughts from far of ³ Thou didst sift my way and my lying down, and thou knewest all my ways. ⁴ For not a word in my tongue, behold, O Jehovah, thou knewest all of it ⁵ Thou didst press me behind and before, and thou wilt place thine hand upon me. ⁶ Knowledge being wonderful from me; being high, I shall not be able for it ⁷ Whither shall I go from thy spirit? and whither from thy face shall I flee? ⁸ If I shall ascend to the heavens, thou art there: and shall I bend down to hades, behold thee. ⁹ Shall I lift up the wings of the dawn? shall I dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea? ¹⁰ Also there thy hand will guide me, and thy right hand will hold me. ¹¹ And saying, surely the darkness shall fall upon me; and the night shone about me. ¹² Also darkness shall not darken from thee; and the night shall shine as the day: as the darkness, so the light ¹³ For thou didst possess my reins: thou wilt cover me in my mother's womb. ¹⁴ I will praise thee; for I was wonderfully distinguished: thy works are wonders, and my soul knew greatly. ¹⁵ My bones were not hid from thee, when I was made in secret. I was variegated in the lower parts of the earth. ¹⁶ Thine eyes saw my substance unformed; and upon thy book all of them shall be written; the days they were formed, and not one in them. ¹⁷ And to me how were thy thoughts precious, O God! how were their heads strong! ¹⁸ I will count them; they shall be multiplied above the sand of the sea: I awoke, and I am yet with thee. ¹⁹ Surely thou wilt kill the unjust one, O God: and ye men of bloods, depart from me. ²⁰ For they will say to thee for mischief; thine enemies were lifted up for vanity. ²¹ Shall I not hate those hating thee, O Jehovah? and I shall loathe against those rising up against thee. ²² I hated them with completeness of hatred: they were to me for enemies. ²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me and know my thoughts: ²⁴ And see if the way of pain is in me, and guide me in the eternal way. ¹⁴⁰ ¹ To the overseer, chanting to David: Deliver me, O Jehovah, from the evil man: wilt thou guard me from the man of violences ² Who reckoned evils in the heart; all the day they will gather together wars. ³ They sharpened their tongue as a serpent; the poison of asps under their lips. Silence, ⁴ Watch me, O Jehovah, from the hands of the unjust one; from the man of violences wilt thou guard me; who purposed to overthrow my steps. ⁵ The proud hid a snare for me, and cords; they spread a net at the hand of the way; they set snares for me. Silence. ⁶ I said to Jehovah, Thou my God: give ear, O Jehovah, to the voice of my supplication. ⁷ O Jehovah my Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou didst cover for my head in the day of weapons. ⁸ Thou wilt not give, O Jehovah, the desires of the unjust one: thou wilt not bring forth his device; they will be lifted up. Silence. ⁹ The head of those surrounding me, the labor of their lips shall cover them. ¹⁰ Burning coals shall be shaken upon them; he shall cast them into fire, into whirlpools; they shall not rise up. ¹¹ A man of tongue shall not be prepared in the earth: a man of violence, evil shall hunt him to melt down the coverings. ¹² Knowing that Jehovah will do judgment to the poor one, judgment to the needy. ¹³ But the just shall confess to thy name: the upright shall dwell with thy face. ¹⁴¹ ¹ Chanting to David. O Jehovah, I called to thee; hasten to me; give ear to my voice in my calling to thee. ² My prayer shall be prepared incense before thee; the lifting up my hands the gift of the evening. ³ Set, O Jehovah, a watch to my mouth; guard over the door of my lips. ⁴ Thou wilt not incline my heart to an evil word, to work works in injustice with men doing iniquity: and I will not eat upon their dainties. ⁵ The just one shall smite me; a mercy: and he shall admonish me, an oil of the head it shall not decorate my head: for yet my prayer in their evils. ⁶ Their judges were cast down against the hands of the rock, and they heard my words, for they were sweet. ⁷ As he cutting up and cleaving asunder in the earth, our bones were scattered at the mouth of hades. ⁸ For to thee, O Jehovah my Lord, are mine eyes: in thee I put my trust; thou wilt not make my soul naked. ⁹ Watch me from the hands of the snare they will lay for me, and the snares of those working iniquity. ¹⁰ The unjust shall fall into their nets together, till I shall pass by. ¹⁴² ¹ Of the understanding to David; a prayer in his being in the cave. With my voice I will cry to Jehovah; with my voice I will entreat to Jehovah. ² I will pour out before him my complaint; I will announce my straits before him. ³ In my spirit languishing upon me, and thou knewest my beaten paths. In the way which I shall go they hid a snare for me. ⁴ Looking upon the right hand, and seeing, and none caring for me: flight perished from me; none sought for my soul ⁵ I cried to thee, O Jehovah: I said, Thou my refuge, my portion in the land of the living. ⁶ Attend to my cry, for I languished greatly: deliver me from those pursuing me, for they were strengthened above me. ⁷ Bring forth my soul out of prison to praise thy name: the just shall surround upon me; for thou wilt benefit to me. ¹⁴³ ¹ Chanting to David. O Jahovah, hear my prayer, give ear to my supplication: in thy faithfulness answer me; in thy justice. ² And thou wilt not come into judgment with thy servant, for all living shall not be justified before thee. ³ For the enemy pursued my soul; he crushed to the earth my life; he caused me to dwell in darknesses, as the dead of old. ⁴ And my spirit will languish upon me, and my heart will be desolate within me. ⁵ I remembered the days of old and I meditated in all thy work, and I will meditate upon the work of thy hands. ⁶ I spread out my hands to thee: my soul as a weary land for thee. Silence. ⁷ Quickly answer me, O Jehovah: my spirit failed: thou wilt not hide thy face from me: I was made like those going down to the pit. ⁸ Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning; for in thee I trusted: cause me to know the way that I shall go; for to thee I lifted up my soul. ⁹ Deliver me from mine enemies, O Jehovah: to thee I covered myself. ¹⁰ Teach me to do thine acceptance, for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; thou wilt guide me into a land of uprightness. ¹¹ For sake of thy name, O Jehovah, thou wilt make me live: in thy justice thou wilt bring forth my soul out of straits. ¹² And in thy mercy thou wilt cut off mine enemies, and thou destroyedst all those pressing my soul: for I am thy servant ¹⁴⁴ ¹ . To David. Blessed be Jehovah my rock, teaching my hands for the encounter, my fingers for war; ² My mercy and my fortress, my height and delivering for me; my shield, and in him I put my trust; treading down peoples under me. ³ O Jehovah, what is man and thou wilt know him? the son of man, and thou wilt reckon him? ⁴ Man was likened to vanity: his days as a shadow passing away. ⁵ O Jehovah, incline thy heavens, and thou wilt come down: touch upon the mountains and they shall smoke. ⁶ Send forth the lightning, and thou wilt scatter them: send thine arrows, and thou wilt destroy them. ⁷ Send thy hands from height; snatch me away, and deliver me from many waters, from the hand of the sons of the stranger; ⁸ Whom their mouth spake vanity, and their right hand a right hand of falsehood. ⁹ O God, a new song will I sing to thee; with an instrument of ten strings, I will play on the harp to thee. ¹⁰ Giving salvation to kings: snatch in away David his servant from the evil sword. ¹¹ Snatch me away and deliver me from the hand of the sons of the stranger, whom their mouth spake vanity, and their right hand a right hand of falsehood: ¹² That our sons as plants growing great in their youth, our daughters as corners variegated, the likeness of a temple: ¹³ Our garners being filled, bringing forth from sort to sort; our sheep bringing forth thousands, ten thousands in our streets: ¹⁴ Our oxen bearing no breaking, and no coming forth, and no complaining in our broad places. ¹⁵ Happy the people thus and thus to him: happy the people Jehovah his God. ¹⁴⁵ ¹ Praise to David. I will exalt thee my God, the King, and I will praise thy name forever and ever. ² In all the day I will praise thee, and I will praise thy name forever and ever. ³ Great is Jehovah, and being greatly praised; and to his greatness no search. ⁴ Generation to generation shall praise thy works, and they shall announce thy powers. ⁵ I will speak the splendor of the honor of thy majesty, and the words of thy wonders. ⁶ And they shall tell the strength of thy terrible things, and I will recount thy greatnesses ⁷ They shall pour forth the remembrance of the multitude of thy goodness, and they shall shout forth thy justice. ⁸ Jehovah is compassionate and merciful; slow to anger, and great of mercy. ⁹ Jehovah is good to all, and his mercies over all his works. ¹⁰ All thy works shall praise thee, 0 Jehovah, and thy godly ones shall praise thee. ¹¹ They shall tell the glory of thy kingdom, and they shall speak of thy strength; ¹² To make known to the sons of man his powers, and the glory of the majesty of his kingdom. ¹³ Thy kingdom a kingdom of all times, and thy dominion in every generation and generation. ¹⁴ Jehovah upholds to all falling, and raises up for all bowed down. ¹⁵ The eyes of all hope for thee, and thou givest to them their food in its time. ¹⁶ Opening thy hand and filling the desire to all living. ¹⁷ Jehovah is just in all his ways, and merciful in all his works. ¹⁸ Jehovah is near to all calling upon him, to all who shall call upon him in truth. ¹⁹ He will do the desire of them fearing him, and he will hear their cry and he will save them. ²⁰ Jehovah watches all loving him, and all the unjust he will destroy. ²¹ My mouth shall speak the praise of Jehovah, and all flesh shall bless his holy name forever and ever. ¹⁴⁶ ¹ Praise ye Jah. Praise Jehovah, O my soul. ² I will praise Jehovah in my life; I will play on the harp to my God. in my continuing. ³ Ye shall not trust in nobles: in the son of man, to him no salvation. ⁴ His spirit shall go forth, he shall turn back to his earth; in that day his thoughts perished. ⁵ Happy is he the God of Jacob for his help, his hope upon Jehovah his God: ⁶ He made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them: he watched the truth forever. ⁷ He did judgment for the oppressed; he gave bread to the hungering: Jehovah loosed those being bound. ⁸ Jehovah opened the eyes of the blind: Jehovah raised those being bowed down: Jehovah loved the just ⁹ Jehovah watched the strangers he will restore the orphan and the widow, and he will overturn the way of the unjust ¹⁰ Jehovah shall reign forever, thy God, O Zion, to generation and generation. Praise ye Jah. ¹⁴⁷ ¹ Praise ye Jah: for it is good to play on the harp to our God; for it is pleasant: praise is becoming. ² Jehovah builds Jerusalem: he will collect together the outcasts of Israel. ³ Healing to the broken of heart, and binding up their pains. ⁴ Counting the number to the stars, he will call names to all of them. ⁵ Great our Lord, and great of power: to his understanding no number. ⁶ Jehovah setting up again the poor, and humbling the unjust even to the earth. ⁷ Strike up to Jehovah with praise; play upon the harp to our God: ⁸ Covering the heavens with clouds, preparing rain for the earth, causing the grass to spring up on the mountains. ⁹ Giving to the cattle its food, to the sons of the ravens which call. ¹⁰ He will not delight in the strength of the horse: he will not be pleased in the legs of a man. ¹¹ Jehovah being delighted in those fearing him, in those hoping for his mercy. ¹² Praise Jehovah, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion. ¹³ For he strengthened the bars of thy gates; he blessed thy sons within thee. ¹⁴ Setting thy bound peace, he will fill thee with the fat of the wheat. ¹⁵ Sending his word upon the earth, even till his word shall run quickly. ¹⁶ Giving snow as wool: he will scatter the hoarfrost as ashes. ¹⁷ Casting his ice as morsels: before his cold who shall stand? ¹⁸ He will send his word and melt them: his wind shall blow, the waters will flow. ¹⁹ Announcing his word to Jacob, his laws and judgments to Israel. ²⁰ He did not thus to every nation: and judgments they knew them not Praise ye Jah. ¹⁴⁸ ¹ Praise ye Jah. Praise ye Jehovah from the heavens: praise him in the heights. ² Praise ye him all his messengers: praise ye him all his armies. ³ Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise ye him all the stars of light. ⁴ Praise ye him, the heavens of heavens, and the waters above the heavens. ⁵ They shall praise the name of Jehovah, for he commanded and they were created: ⁶ And he will cause them to stand even to forever: he gave a law and it shall not pass away. ⁷ Praise Jehovah from the earth, ye dragons and all depths: ⁸ Fire and hail, snow and vapor: the spirit of storm doing his word: ⁹ Mountains and all hills; the tree of fruit and all cedars: ¹⁰ The beast and all cattle; the creeping thing, and the bird of wing: ¹¹ Kings of the earth, and all peoples; chiefs and all judges of the earth: ¹² Young men and also virgins; old men with the youths: ¹³ They shall praise the name of Jehovah: for his name alone is exalted; his majesty over the earth and the heavens. ¹⁴ And he will lift up the horn to his people, praise to all his godly ones; to the sons of Israel a people drawing near to him. Praise ye Jah. ¹⁴⁹ ¹ Praise ye Jah. Sing to Jehovah a new song, his praise in the convocation of his godly ones. ² Israel shall rejoice in him making him: the sons of Zion shall exult in their king. ³ They shall praise his name in the dance, and they shall play to him upon the drum and harp. ⁴ For Jehovah delighted in his people: he will adorn the humble in salvation. ⁵ The godly ones shall triumph in glory; they shall rejoice upon their bed ⁶ The liftings up of God in their throat, and a sword of two mouths in their hand; ⁷ To do vengeance upon the nations, chastisements upon the peoples. ⁸ To bind their kings in fetters, and their honorable ones in fetters of iron; ⁹ To do upon them the judgment written: this honor to all his godly ones. Praise ye Jah. ¹⁵⁰ ¹ Praise ye Jah. Praise ye God in his holy place: praise him in the firmament of his power. ² Praise ye him in his powers: praise him according to the multitude of his greatness. ³ Praise ye him with the clangor of the trumpet: praise him with the lyre and the harp. ⁴ Praise him with the drum and the dance: praise ye him with strings and the pipe. ⁵ Praise ye him with ringing instruments of hearing: praise him with ringing instruments of loud noise. ⁶ All breath shall praise Jah. Praise ye Jah.