Psalms 143:1-150:6 Chanting to David. O Jahovah, hear my prayer, give ear to my supplication: in thy faithfulness answer me; in thy justice.

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ 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.