Psalms 61:1-150:6 For the end, among the Hymns of David. O God, hearken to my petition; attend to my prayer.

CAB⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ For the end, among the Hymns of David. O God, hearken to my petition; attend to my prayer. ² From the ends of the earth have I cried to You, when my heart was in trouble; You lifted me up on a rock; You guided me; ³ because You were my hope, a tower of strength from the face of the enemy. ⁴ I will dwell in Your tabernacle forever; I will shelter myself under the shadow of Your wings. Pause. ⁵ For You, O God, have heard my prayers; You have given an inheritance to them that fear Your name. ⁶ You shall add days to the days of the king; You shall lengthen his years to all generations. ⁷ He shall endure forever before God. Which of them shall seek out His mercy and truth? ⁸ So shall I sing to Your name forever and ever, that I may daily perform my vows. ⁶² ¹ For the end, A Psalm of David to Jeduthun. Shall not my soul be subjected to God? For from Him is my salvation. ² For He is my God, and my savior; my helper, I shall not be greatly moved. ³ How long will you assault a man? You are all slaughtering as with a bowed wall and a broken hedge. ⁴ They only took counsel to set at nought my honor. I ran in thirst; with their mouth they blessed, but with their heart they cursed. Pause. ⁵ Nevertheless, my soul is subjected to God; for of Him is my patient hope. ⁶ For He is my God and my Savior; my helper, I shall not be moved. ⁷ In God is my salvation and my glory; He is the God of my help, and my hope is in God. ⁸ Hope in Him, all you congregation of the people; pour out your hearts before Him, for God is our helper. Pause. ⁹ But the sons of men are vain; the sons of men are false, so as to be deceitful in the balances; they are all alike, formed out of vanity. ¹⁰ Trust not in unrighteousness, and lust not after robberies. If wealth should flow in, set not your heart upon it. ¹¹ God has spoken once, and I have heard these two things, that power is of God; ¹² and mercy is Yours, O Lord; for You will recompense everyone according to his works. ⁶³ ¹ A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Edom. O God, my God, I cry to You early; my soul has thirsted for You: how often has my flesh longed after You, in a barren and trackless and dry land! ² Thus have I appeared before You in the sanctuary, that I might see Your power and Your glory. ³ For Your mercy is better than life: my lips shall praise You. ⁴ Thus will I bless You during my life: I will lift up my hands in Your name. ⁵ Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness; and my joyful lips shall praise Your name. ⁶ For I have remembered You on my bed; in the early seasons I have meditated on You. ⁷ For You have been my helper, and in the shelter of Your wings will I rejoice. ⁸ My soul has kept very close behind You: Your right hand has upheld me. ⁹ But they vainly sought after my soul; they shall go into the lowest parts of the earth. ¹⁰ They shall be delivered up to the power of the sword; they shall be portions for jackals. ¹¹ But the king shall rejoice in God; everyone that swears by Him shall be praised; for the mouth of them that speak unjust things has been stopped. ⁶⁴ ¹ For the end, A Psalm of David. Hear my prayer, O God, when I make my petition to You; deliver my soul from fear of the enemy. ² You have sheltered me from the conspiracy of them that do wickedly; from the multitude of them that work iniquity; ³ who have sharpened their tongues as a sword; they have bent their bow maliciously; ⁴ to shoot in secret at the blameless; they will shoot him suddenly, and will not fear. ⁵ They have set up for themselves an evil matter, they have given counsel to hide snares; they have said, Who shall see them? ⁶ They have searched out iniquity; they have wearied themselves with searching diligently, a man shall approach and the heart is deep, ⁷ and God shall be exalted, their wounds were caused by the weapon of the foolish children, ⁸ and their tongues have set him at nought, all that saw them were troubled; ⁹ and every man was alarmed, and they related the works of God, and understood His deeds. ¹⁰ The righteous shall rejoice in the Lord, and hope in Him, and all the upright in heart shall be praised. ⁶⁵ ¹ For the end, A Psalm and Song of David. Praise becomes You, O God, in Zion; and to You shall the vow be performed. ² Hear my prayer; to You all flesh shall come. ³ The words of transgressors have overpowered us; but You pardon our sins. ⁴ Blessed is he whom You have chosen and adopted; he shall dwell in Your courts; we shall be filled with the good things of Your house; Your temple is holy. ⁵ You are wonderful in righteousness. Hearken to us, O God our Savior; the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are on the sea afar off; ⁶ who establish the mountains in Your strength, being girded about with power; ⁷ who trouble the depth of the sea, the sounds of its waves. ⁸ The nations shall be troubled, and they that inhabit the ends of the earth shall be afraid of the signs; You will cause the outgoings of morning and evening to rejoice. ⁹ You have visited the earth, and saturated it; You have abundantly enriched it. The river of God is filled with water; You have prepared their food, for thus is the preparation of it. ¹⁰ Saturate her furrows, multiply her fruits; the crop springing up shall rejoice in its drops. ¹¹ You will bless the crown of the year because of Your goodness; and Your plains shall be filled with fatness. ¹² The mountains of the wilderness shall be enriched; and the hills shall gird themselves with joy. ¹³ The rams of the flock are clothed with wool, and the valleys shall abound in grain; they shall cry aloud; yea, they shall sing hymns. ⁶⁶ ¹ For the end, A Song of Psalm of resurrection. Shout unto God, all the earth. ² O sing praises to His name; give glory to His praise. ³ Say unto God, How awesome are Your works! Through the greatness of Your power Your enemies shall submit themselves to You. ⁴ Let all the earth worship You, and sing to You; let them sing to Your name. Pause. ⁵ Come and behold the works of God; He is mighty in His counsels beyond the children of men, ⁶ who turns the sea into dry land; they shall go through the river on foot; there shall we rejoice in Him, ⁷ who by His power is Lord over the ages, His eyes look upon the nations; let not them that provoke Him be exalted in themselves. Pause. ⁸ Bless our God, you Gentiles, and make the voice of his praise to be heard; ⁹ who quickens my soul in life, and does not allow my feet to be moved. ¹⁰ For You, O God, have proved us; You have tried us with fire as silver is tried. ¹¹ You have brought us into the snare; You have laid afflictions on our back. ¹² You have caused men to ride over our heads; we went through the fire and water; but You brought us out into a place of refreshment. ¹³ I will go into Your house with whole burnt offerings; I will pay You my vows, ¹⁴ which my lips framed, and my mouth uttered in my affliction. ¹⁵ I will offer to You whole burnt sacrifices full of marrow, with incense and rams; I will sacrifice to You oxen with goats. Pause. ¹⁶ Come and hear, and I will tell, all You that fear God, how great things He has done for my soul. ¹⁷ I cried to Him with my mouth, and exalted Him with my tongue. ¹⁸ If I have regarded iniquity in my heart, let not the Lord hearken to me. ¹⁹ Therefore God has hearkened to me; He has attended to the voice of my prayer. ²⁰ Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor His mercy from me. ⁶⁷ ¹ For the end, A Psalm of David among the Hymns. God be merciful to us, and bless us; and cause His face to shine upon us. Pause. ² That men may know Your way on the earth, Your salvation among all nations. ³ Let the nations, O God, give thanks to You; let all the nations give thanks to You. ⁴ Let the nations rejoice and exalt, for You shall judge the people in equity, and shall guide the nations on the earth. Pause. ⁵ Let the people, O God, give thanks to You; let all the people give thanks to You. ⁶ The earth has yielded her fruit; let God, our God, bless us. ⁷ Let God bless us, and let all the ends of the earth fear Him. ⁶⁸ ¹ For the end, A Psalm of a Song by David. Let God arise, and let His enemies be scattered; and let them that hate Him flee from before Him. ² As smoke vanishes, let them vanish: as wax melts before the fire, so let the sinners perish from before God. ³ But let the righteous rejoice; let them exalt before God: let them be delighted with joy. ⁴ Sing to God, sing praises to His name: make a way for Him that rides upon the west (the Lord is His name) and rejoice before Him. They shall be troubled before the face of Him, ⁵ who is the Father of the orphans, and Judge of the widows; such is God in His holy place. ⁶ God settles the solitary in a house; leading forth prisoners mightily, also them that act provokingly, even them that dwell in tombs. ⁷ O God, when You went forth before Your people, when You went through the wilderness; Pause: ⁸ the earth quaked; yea, the heavens dropped water at the presence of the God of Sinai, at the presence of the God of Israel. ⁹ O God, You will grant to Your inheritance a gracious rain; for it was weary, but You have refreshed it. ¹⁰ Your creatures dwell in it; You have in Your goodness prepared for the poor. ¹¹ The Lord God will give a word to them that preach it in a great company. ¹² The king of the forces of the beloved will even grant them for the beauty of the house to divide the spoils. ¹³ Even if you should lie among the lots, you shall have the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her breast with yellow gold. ¹⁴ When the heavenly One scatters kings upon it, they shall be made snow-white in Zalmon. ¹⁵ The mountain of God is a rich mountain; a swelling mountain, a rich mountain. ¹⁶ Why do you conceive evil, you swelling mountains? This is the mountain which God has delighted to dwell in; yea, the Lord will dwell in it forever. ¹⁷ The chariots of God are ten thousand fold, thousands of rejoicing ones; the Lord is among them, in Sinai, in the holy place. ¹⁸ You have ascended on high, You have led captivity captive, You have received gifts among men, yea, for they were rebellious, that You might dwell among them. ¹⁹ Blessed be the Lord God, blessed be the Lord daily; and the God of our salvation shall prosper us. Pause. ²⁰ Our God is the God of salvation; and to the Lord belong the issues from death. ²¹ But God shall crust the heads of His enemies; the hairy crown of them that go on in their trespasses. ²² The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring My people again through the depths of the sea. ²³ That your foot may be dipped in blood, and the tongue of your dogs be stained with that of your enemies. ²⁴ Your goings, O God, have been seen; the goings of my God, the King, in the sanctuary. ²⁵ The princes went first, next before the players on instruments, in the midst of damsels playing on timbrels. ²⁶ Praise God in the congregations, the Lord from the fountains of Israel. ²⁷ There is Benjamin the younger one in ecstasy, the princes of Judah their rulers, the princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali. ²⁸ O God, command Your strength; strengthen, O God, that which You have done in us. ²⁹ Because of Your temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents to You. ³⁰ Rebuke the wild beasts of the reed; let the crowd of bulls with the heifers of the nations be rebuked, so that they who have been proved with silver may not be shut out; scatter the nations that wish for wars. ³¹ Ambassadors shall arrive out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall hasten to stretch out her hand readily to God. ³² Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth; sing psalms to the Lord. Pause. ³³ Sing to God that rides on the heaven of heavens, eastward: lo, He will utter a mighty sound with His voice. ³⁴ Give glory to God: His excellency is over Israel, and His power is in the clouds. ³⁵ God is wonderful in His holy places, the God of Israel; He will give power and strength to His people; blessed be God. ⁶⁹ ¹ For the end, A Psalm of David, for alternate strains. Save me, O God; for the waters have come in to my soul. ² I am stuck fast in deep mire, and there is no standing: I have come in to the depths of the sea, and a storm has overwhelmed me. ³ I am weary of crying, my throat has become hoarse; my eyes have failed by my waiting on my God. ⁴ Those that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; my enemies that persecute me unrighteously are strengthened. Then I restored that which I took not away. ⁵ O God, You know my foolishness; and my transgressions are not hidden from You. ⁶ Let not them that wait on You, O Lord of hosts, be ashamed on my account; let not them that seek You, be ashamed on my account, O God of Israel. ⁷ For I have suffered reproach for Your sake; shame has covered my face. ⁸ I became strange to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's children. ⁹ For the zeal of Your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached You have fallen upon me. ¹⁰ And I bowed down my soul with fasting, and that was made my reproach. ¹¹ And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I became a proverb to them. ¹² Those that sit in the gate talked against me, and those that drank wine sang against me. ¹³ But I will cry to You, O Lord, in my prayer; O God, it is a propitious time: in the multitude of Your mercy hear me, in the truth of Your salvation. ¹⁴ Save me from the mire, that I stick not in it; let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters. ¹⁵ Let not the floodwater drown me, nor let the deep swallow me up; neither let the well shut its mouth upon me. ¹⁶ Hear me, O Lord; for Your mercy is good: according to the multitude of Your compassions, look upon me. ¹⁷ And turn not away Your face from Your servant; for I am afflicted; hear me speedily. ¹⁸ Draw near to my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies. ¹⁹ For You know my reproach, and my shame, and my confusion; all that afflict me are before You. ²⁰ My soul has waited for reproach and misery; and I waited for one to grieve with me, but there was none; and for one to comfort me, but I found none. ²¹ They gave me also gall for my food, and made me drink vinegar for my thirst. ²² Let their table before them be for a snare, and for a recompense, and for a stumbling block. ²³ Let their eyes be darkened that they should not see; and bow down their back continually. ²⁴ Pour out Your wrath upon them, and let the fury of Your anger take hold of them. ²⁵ Let their habitation be made desolate; and let there be no inhabitant in their tents; ²⁶ because they persecuted him whom You have smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds. ²⁷ Add iniquity to their iniquity; and let them not come into Your righteousness. ²⁸ Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and let them not be written with the righteous. ²⁹ I am poor and sorrowful; but the salvation of Your countenance has helped me. ³⁰ I will praise the name of my God with a song, I will magnify Him with praise; ³¹ and this shall please God more than a young calf having horns and hoofs. ³² Let the poor see and rejoice; seek the Lord diligently, and you shall live. ³³ For the Lord hears the poor, and does not despise His prisoners. ³⁴ Let the heavens and the earth praise Him, the sea, and all things moving in them. ³⁵ For God will save Zion, and the cities of Judah shall be built; and men shall dwell there, and inherit it. ³⁶ And the seed of His servants shall possess it, and those that love His name shall dwell in it. ⁷⁰ ¹ For the end, by David for a remembrance, that the Lord may save me. Draw near, O God, to my help. ² Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek my soul; let them be turned backward and put to shame, those that wish me evil. ³ Let them that say to me, Aha, aha, be turned back and put to shame immediately. ⁴ Let all that seek You rejoice and be glad in You: and let those that love Your salvation say continually, Let God be magnified. ⁵ But I am poor and needy; O God, help me: You are my helper and deliverer, O Lord; do not delay. ⁷¹ ¹ By David, A Psalm sung by the sons of Jonadab, and the first that were taken captive. O Lord, I have hoped in You; let me never be put to shame. ² In Your righteousness deliver me and rescue me: incline Your ear to me, and save me. ³ Be to me a protecting God, and a stronghold to save me; for You are my fortress and my refuge. ⁴ Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the sinner, from the hand of the transgressor and unjust man. ⁵ For You are my support, O Lord; O Lord, You are my hope from my youth. ⁶ On You have I been stayed from the womb: from the belly of my mother You have been my protector: of You is my praise offered continually. ⁷ I have become as it were a wonder to many, but You are my strong helper. ⁸ Let my mouth be filled with praise, that I may hymn Your glory, and Your majesty all the day. ⁹ Do not cast me off at the time of old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails. ¹⁰ For my enemies have spoken against me; and they that lay wait for my soul have taken counsel together, ¹¹ saying, God has forsaken him: persecute him, and take him; for there is none to deliver him. ¹² O God, go not far from me, O my God, draw near to my help. ¹³ Let those that plot evil against my soul be ashamed and utterly fail; let those that seek my hurt be clothed with shame and dishonor. ¹⁴ But I will hope continually, and will praise You more and more. ¹⁵ My mouth shall declare Your righteousness openly, and Your salvation all the day; for I am not acquainted with the affairs of men. ¹⁶ I will go on in the might of the Lord: O Lord, I will make mention of Your righteousness only. ¹⁷ O God, You have taught me from my youth, and until now will I declare Your wonders; ¹⁸ even until I am old and advanced in years. O God, forsake me not; until I have declared Your mighty arm to all the generation that is to come; ¹⁹ even Your power and Your righteousness, O God, up to the highest heavens, even the mighty works which You have done; O God, who is like You? ²⁰ What many and great afflictions have You shown me! Yet You turned and revived me, and brought me again from the depths of the earth. ²¹ You multiplied Your righteousness, and turned and comforted me, and brought me again out of the depths of the earth. ²² I will also therefore give thanks to You, O God, because of Your truth, on an instrument of psalmody; I will sing psalms to You on the harp, O Holy One of Israel. ²³ My lips shall rejoice when I sing to You; and my soul, which You have redeemed. ²⁴ Moreover also my tongue shall dwell all the day upon Your righteousness; when they shall be ashamed and confounded that seek my hurt. ⁷² ¹ For Solomon. O God, give Your judgment to the king, and Your righteousness to the king's son; ² that he may judge Your people with righteousness, and Your poor with judgment. ³ Let the mountains and the hills raise peace to Your people. ⁴ He shall judge the poor of the people in righteousness, and save the children of the needy; and shall bring low the false accuser. ⁵ And He shall continue as long as the sun, and before the moon forever. ⁶ He shall come down as rain upon a fleece, and as drops falling upon the earth. ⁷ In His days shall righteousness spring up; and abundance of peace till the moon be removed. ⁸ And He shall have dominion from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. ⁹ The Ethiopians shall fall down before Him, and His enemies shall lick the dust. ¹⁰ The kings of Tarshish, and the isles, shall bring presents: the kings of the Arabians and Sheba shall offer gifts. ¹¹ And all kings shall worship Him; all the Gentiles shall serve Him. ¹² For He has delivered the poor from the oppressor; and the needy who had no helper. ¹³ He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall deliver the souls of the needy. ¹⁴ He shall redeem their souls from oppression and injustice, and their name shall be precious before Him. ¹⁵ And He shall live, and the gold of Arabia shall be given to Him, and men shall pray for Him continually; and all the day shall they praise Him. ¹⁶ There shall be an establishment on the earth on the tops of the mountains; its fruit shall be exalted above Lebanon, and those of the city shall flourish as grass of the earth. ¹⁷ Let His name be blessed forever; His name shall endure longer than the sun, and all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed in Him: all nations shall call Him blessed. ¹⁸ Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, who alone does wonders. ¹⁹ And blessed is His glorious name forever, even forever and ever; and all the earth shall be filled with His glory. Amen, and Amen. ²⁰ The hymns of David the son of Jesse are ended. ⁷³ ¹ A Psalm of Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to the upright in heart! ² But my feet were almost overthrown; my goings very nearly slipped. ³ For I was jealous of the transgressors, beholding the tranquility of sinners. ⁴ For there is no sign of reluctance in their death, and they have firmness under their affliction. ⁵ They are not in the troubles of other men; and they shall not be scourged with other men. ⁶ Therefore pride has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness. ⁷ Their injustice shall go forth as out of fatness; they have fulfilled their intention. ⁸ They have taken counsel and spoken in wickedness; they have uttered unrighteousness loftily. ⁹ They have set their mouth against heaven, and their tongue has gone through upon the earth. ¹⁰ Therefore shall my people return here, and full days shall be found with them. ¹¹ And they said, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High? ¹² Behold, these are the sinners, and they that prosper always; they have possessed wealth. ¹³ And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, and washed my hands in innocence. ¹⁴ For I was plagued all the day, and my reproof was every morning. ¹⁵ If I said, I will speak thus; behold, I should have broken covenant with the generation of Your children. ¹⁶ And I undertook to understand this, but it is too hard for me, ¹⁷ until I go into the sanctuary of God, and so understand the latter end. ¹⁸ Surely You have appointed judgments to them because of their crafty dealings; You have cast them down when they were lifted up. ¹⁹ How have they become desolate! Suddenly they have failed; they have perished because of their iniquity. ²⁰ As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in Your city You will despise their image. ²¹ For my heart has rejoiced, and my heart has been gladdened. ²² But I was vile and knew not: I became brutish before You. ²³ Yet I am continually with You. You have taken hold of my right hand. ²⁴ You have guided me by Your counsel, and You have taken me to Yourself with glory. ²⁵ For whom have I in heaven but You? And what have I desired upon the earth besides You? ²⁶ My heart and my flesh have failed; but God is the strength of my heart, and God is my portion forever. ²⁷ For behold, they that remove themselves far from You shall perish; You have destroyed everyone that goes a whoring from You. ²⁸ But it is good for me to cleave close to God, to put my trust in the Lord; that I may proclaim all Your praises in the gates of the daughter of Zion. ⁷⁴ ¹ A Psalm of instruction, of Asaph. Why have You rejected us, O God, forever? Why has Your wrath been kindled against the sheep of Your pasture? ² Remember Your congregation which You have purchased from the beginning; You ransomed the rod of Your inheritance, this Mount Zion where You have dwelt. ³ Lift up Your hands against their pride continually; because of all that the enemy has done wickedly in Your holy places. ⁴ And they that hate You have boasted in the midst of Your feast; they have set up their standards for signs, ⁵ ignorantly as it were in the entrance above; ⁶ they cut down its doors at once with axes as in a wood of trees; they have broken it down with hatchet and stone cutter. ⁷ They have burned Your sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the habitation of Your name. ⁸ They have said in their heart, even all their kindred together, Come, let us abolish the feasts of the Lord from the earth. ⁹ We have not seen our signs; there is no longer a prophet; and God will not know us anymore. ¹⁰ How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach? Shall the enemy provoke Your name forever? ¹¹ Why do You turn away Your hand, and Your right hand from the midst of Your bosom forever? ¹² But God is our King of old; He has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth. ¹³ You established the sea in Your might, You broke to pieces the heads of the dragons in the water. ¹⁴ You broke to pieces the heads of the dragon; You gave him as meat to the Ethiopian nations. ¹⁵ You broke open the fountains and torrents; You dried up mighty rivers. ¹⁶ The day is Yours, and the night is Yours; You have prepared the sun and the moon. ¹⁷ You have made all the borders of the earth; You have made summer and spring. ¹⁸ Remember this Your creation; an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people have provoked Your name. ¹⁹ Deliver not to the wild beasts a soul that gives praise to You: forget not forever the souls of Your poor. ²⁰ Look upon Your covenant; for the dark places of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity. ²¹ Let not the afflicted and ashamed one be rejected; the poor and needy shall praise Your name. ²² Arise, O God, plead Your cause; remember Your reproaches that come from the foolish one all the day. ²³ Forget not the voice of Your enemies; let the pride of them that hate You continually ascend before You. ⁷⁵ ¹ For the end, Destroy not, A Psalm of a Song of Asaph. We will give thanks to You, O God, we will give thanks, and call upon Your name. ² I will declare all Your wonderful works. When I shall take a set time, I will judge righteously. ³ The earth is dissolved, and all that dwell in it; I have strengthened its pillars. Pause. ⁴ I said unto the transgressors, Do not transgress; and to the sinners, Lift not up the horn. ⁵ Lift not up your horn on high; speak not unrighteousness against God. ⁶ For good comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert mountains. ⁷ For God is the judge; He puts one down, and raises up another. ⁸ For there is a cup in the hand of the Lord, full of unmingled wine; and He has turned it from side to side, but its dregs have not been wholly poured out; all the sinners of the earth shall drink them. ⁹ But I will exalt forever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. ¹⁰ And I will break all the horns of sinners; but the horns of the righteous one shall be exalted. ⁷⁶ ¹ For the end, among the Hymns, A Psalm of Asaph; a Song for the Assyrian. God is known in Judah; His name is great in Israel. ² And His place has been in peace, and His dwelling place in Zion. ³ There He broke the power of the bows, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Pause. ⁴ You wonderfully shine forth from the everlasting mountains. ⁵ All the simple ones in heart were troubled; all the men of wealth have slept their sleep, and have found nothing in their hands. ⁶ At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob, the riders on horses slumbered. ⁷ For You are to be feared; and who shall withstand You, because of Your anger? ⁸ You caused judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still, ⁹ when God arose to judgment, to save all the meek in heart. Pause. ¹⁰ For the inward thought of man shall give thanks to You, and the memorial of his inward thought shall keep a feast to You. ¹¹ Vow, and pay your vows to the Lord our God; all that are round about Him shall bring gifts, ¹² even to Him that is awesome, and that takes away the spirits of princes; to Him that is awesome among the kings of the earth. ⁷⁷ ¹ For the end, for Idithun, A Psalm of Asaph. I cried to the Lord with my voice, yea, my voice was addressed to God; and He gave heed to me. ² In the day of my affliction I earnestly sought the Lord; even with my hands by night before Him, and I was not deceived; my soul refused to be comforted. ³ I remembered God, and rejoiced; I poured out my complaint, and my soul fainted. Pause. ⁴ All my enemies set a watch against me; I was troubled, and spoke not. ⁵ I considered the days of old, and remembered ancient ears. ⁶ And I meditated; I communed with my heart by night, and diligently searched my spirit, saying, ⁷ Will the Lord cast off forever? And will He be well pleased no more? ⁸ Will He cut off His mercy forever, even forever and ever? ⁹ Will God forget to pity? Or will He shut up His compassions in His wrath? Pause. ¹⁰ And I said, Now I have begun; this is the change of the right hand of the Most High. ¹¹ I remembered the works of the Lord; for I will remember Your wonders from the beginning. ¹² And I will meditate on all Your works, and will consider Your doings. ¹³ O God, Your way is in the sanctuary; who is a great God as our God? ¹⁴ You are the God that performs wonders; You have made known Your power among the nations. ¹⁵ You have redeemed Your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph, with Your outstretched arm. Pause. ¹⁶ The waters saw You, O God, the waters saw You, and feared; and the depths were troubled. ¹⁷ There was an abundant sound of waters; the clouds uttered a voice; for Your arrows went abroad. ¹⁸ The voice of Your thunder was abroad, and around Your lightnings appeared to the world; the earth trembled and quaked. ¹⁹ Your way is in the sea, and Your paths in many waters, and Your footsteps cannot be known. ²⁰ You guided Your people like sheep by the hand of Moses and Aaron. ⁷⁸ ¹ A Psalm of instruction, of Asaph. Give heed, O my people, to my law; incline your ear to the words of my mouth. ² I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter dark sayings which have been from the beginning. ³ All which we have heard and known, and our fathers have declared to us. ⁴ They were not hid from their children to a second generation; the fathers declaring the praises of the Lord, and His mighty acts, and His wonders which He has done. ⁵ And He raised up a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, to make it known to their children; ⁶ that another generation might know, even the sons which should be born; and they should arise and declare them to their children. ⁷ That they might set their hope on God, and not forget the works of God, but diligently seek His commandments. ⁸ That they should not be as their fathers, a perverse and provoking generation; a generation which set not its heart aright, and its spirit was not steadfast with God. ⁹ The children of Ephraim, bending and shooting with the bow, turned back in the day of battle. ¹⁰ They kept not the covenant of God, and would not walk in His law. ¹¹ And they forgot His benefits, and His miracles which He had shown them; ¹² the miracles which He did before their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the plain of Zoan. ¹³ He divided the sea, and led them through; He made the waters to stand as in a bottle. ¹⁴ And He guided them with a cloud by day, and all the night with a light of fire. ¹⁵ He split a rock in the wilderness, and made them drink as in a great deep. ¹⁶ And He brought water out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down as rivers. ¹⁷ And they sinned yet more against Him; they provoked the Most High in the wilderness. ¹⁸ And they tempted God in their hearts, in asking meat for the desire of their souls. ¹⁹ They spoke also against God, and said, Will God be able to prepare a table in the wilderness? ²⁰ Forasmuch as He struck the rock, and the waters flowed, and the torrents ran abundantly; will He be able also to give bread, or prepare a table for His people? ²¹ Therefore the Lord heard, and was provoked: and fire was kindled in Jacob, and wrath went up against Israel. ²² Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in His salvation. ²³ Yet He commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, ²⁴ and rained upon them manna to eat, and gave them the bread of heaven. ²⁵ Man ate angels' bread; He sent them provision to the full. ²⁶ He removed the south wind from heaven; and by His might He brought in the south west wind. ²⁷ And He rained upon them flesh like dust, and feathered birds like the sand on the seashore. ²⁸ And they fell into the midst of their camp, round about their tents. ²⁹ So they ate, and were completely filled; and He gave them their desire. ³⁰ They were not disappointed of their desire, but when their food was yet in their mouth, ³¹ then the indignation of God rose up against them, and slew the fattest of them, and overthrew the choice men of Israel. ³² In the midst of all this they sinned yet more, and believed not His miracles. ³³ And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years with anxiety. ³⁴ When He slew them, they sought Him; and they returned and sought diligently after God. ³⁵ And they remembered that God was their Helper, and the Most High God was their Redeemer. ³⁶ Yet they loved Him only with their mouth, and lied to Him with their tongue. ³⁷ For their heart was not right with Him, neither were they steadfast in His covenant. ³⁸ But He is compassionate, and will forgive their sins, and will not destroy them; yea, He will frequently turn away His wrath, and will not kindle all His anger. ³⁹ And He remembered that they are flesh; a wind that passes away, and returns not. ⁴⁰ How often did they provoke Him in the wilderness, and anger Him in a dry land! ⁴¹ Yea, they turned back, and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel. ⁴² They remembered not His hand, the day in which He delivered them from the hand of the oppressor. ⁴³ How He had worked His signs in Egypt, and His wonders in the field of Zoan; ⁴⁴ and had changed their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they should not drink. ⁴⁵ He sent against them the dog-fly, and it devoured them; and the frog, and it spoiled them. ⁴⁶ And He gave their fruit to the canker worm, and their labors to the locust. ⁴⁷ He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamores with frost. ⁴⁸ And He gave up their cattle to hail, and their substance to the fire. ⁴⁹ He sent out against them the fury of His anger, wrath, and indignation, and affliction, a message by evil angels. ⁵⁰ He made a way for His wrath; He spared not their souls from death, but consigned their cattle to death; ⁵¹ and He struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt; the firstfruits of their labors in the tents of Ham. ⁵² And He removed His people like sheep; He led them as a flock in the wilderness. ⁵³ And He guided them with hope, and they feared not: but the sea covered their enemies. ⁵⁴ And He brought them in to the mountain of His sanctuary, this mountain which His right hand had purchased. ⁵⁵ And He cast out the nations from before them, and made them to inherit by a line of inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. ⁵⁶ Yet they tempted and provoked the Most High God, and kept not His testimonies. ⁵⁷ And they turned back, and broke covenant, even as also their fathers; they became like a crooked bow. ⁵⁸ And they provoked Him with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their graven images. ⁵⁹ God heard and lightly regarded them, and greatly despised Israel. ⁶⁰ And He rejected the tabernacle of Shiloh, His tent where He dwelt among men. ⁶¹ And He gave their strength into captivity, and their beauty into the enemy's hand. ⁶² And He gave His people to the sword; and disdained His inheritance. ⁶³ Fire devoured their young men; and their virgins mourned not. ⁶⁴ Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows shall not be wept for. ⁶⁵ So the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, and as a mighty man who has been heated with wine. ⁶⁶ And He beat back His enemies; He brought on them a perpetual reproach. ⁶⁷ And He rejected the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim; ⁶⁸ but chose the tribe of Judah, the Mount Zion which He loved. ⁶⁹ And He built His sanctuary as the place of unicorns; He founded it forever on the earth. ⁷⁰ He chose David also His servant, and took him up from the flocks of sheep. ⁷¹ He took him from following the ewes great with young, to be the shepherd of Jacob His servant, and Israel His inheritance. ⁷² So he tended them in the innocence of his heart; and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands. ⁷⁹ ¹ A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen have come into Your inheritance; they have polluted Your holy temple; they have made Jerusalem a storehouse of fruits. ² They have given the dead bodies of Your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of Your holy ones for the wild beasts of the earth. ³ They have shed their blood as water, round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. ⁴ We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. ⁵ How long, O Lord? Will You be angry forever? Shall Your jealousy burn like fire? ⁶ Pour out Your wrath upon the heathen that have not known You, and upon the kingdoms which have not called upon Your name. ⁷ For they have devoured Jacob, and laid his place waste. ⁸ Remember not our old transgressions; let Your tender mercies come speedily to meet us; for we are greatly impoverished. ⁹ Help us, O God our Savior; for the glory of Your name, O Lord, deliver us; and be merciful to our sins, for Your name's sake. ¹⁰ Why should the heathen say, Where is their God? And let the avenging of Your servant's blood that has been shed be known among the heathen before our eyes. ¹¹ Let the groaning of the prisoners come in before You; according to the greatness of Your power, preserve the sons of the slain. ¹² Repay to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, with which they have reproached You, O Lord. ¹³ For we are Your people and the sheep of Your pasture; we will give You thanks forever; we will declare Your praise throughout all generations. ⁸⁰ ¹ For the end, for alternate strains, a testimony of Asaph, A Psalm concerning the Assyrian. Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, who guides Joseph like a flock; You who sit upon the cherubim, manifest Yourself; ² before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up Your power, and come to deliver us. ³ Turn us, O God, and cause Your face to shine; and we shall be delivered. ⁴ O Lord God of hosts, how long will You be angry with the prayer of Your servant? ⁵ You will feed us with the bread of tears; and will cause us to drink tears by measure. ⁶ You have made us a strife to our neighbors; and our enemies have mocked at us. ⁷ Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause Your face to shine; and we shall be saved. Pause. ⁸ You have transplanted a vine out of Egypt; You have cast out the heathen, and planted it. ⁹ You made a way before it, and caused its roots to strike, and the land was filled with it. ¹⁰ Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots equaled the choice cedars. ¹¹ It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river. ¹² Why have You broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it? ¹³ The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it. ¹⁴ O God of hosts, turn, we pray; look on us from heaven, and behold and visit this vine; ¹⁵ and restore that which Your right hand has planted, and look on the son of man whom You have strengthened for Yourself. ¹⁶ It is burned with fire and dug up; they shall perish at the rebuke of Your presence. ¹⁷ Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand, and upon the son of man whom You have strengthened for Yourself. ¹⁸ So will we not depart from You: You shall revive us, and we shall call upon Your name. ¹⁹ Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause Your face to shine; and we shall be saved. ⁸¹ ¹ For the end, A Psalm for Asaph, concerning the winepresses. Rejoice in God our helper; shout aloud to the God of Jacob. ² Take a psalm, and produce the timbrel, the pleasant psaltery with the harp. ³ Blow the trumpet at the new moon, in the glorious day of your feast. ⁴ For this is an ordinance for Israel, and a statute of the God of Jacob. ⁵ He made it to be a testimony in Joseph, when he came forth out of the land of Egypt; he heard a language which he understood not. ⁶ He removed his back from burdens; his hands slaved in making the baskets. ⁷ You called upon Me in trouble, and I delivered you; I heard you in the secret place of the storm; I proved you at the Water of Strife. Pause. ⁸ Hear, My people, and I will speak to you, O Israel; and I will testify to you; if you will hearken to Me; ⁹ there shall be no new god in you; neither shall you worship a strange god. ¹⁰ For I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt; open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. ¹¹ But My people hearkened not to My voice; and Israel gave no heed to Me. ¹² So I let them go after the ways of their own hearts; they will go on in their own ways. ¹³ If My people had hearkened to Me, if Israel had walked in My ways, ¹⁴ I would have put down their enemies very quickly, and would have laid My hand upon those that afflicted them. ¹⁵ The Lord's enemies would have lied to Him; but their time shall be forever. ¹⁶ And He fed them with the fat of wheat; and satisfied them with honey out of the rock. ⁸² ¹ A Psalm of Asaph. God stands in the assembly of gods; and in the midst of them will judge gods. ² How long will you judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of sinners? Pause. ³ Judge the orphan and poor; do justice to the low and needy. ⁴ Rescue the needy, and deliver the poor out of the hand of the sinner. ⁵ They know not, nor understand; they walk on in darkness; all the foundations of the earth shall be shaken. ⁶ I have said, You are gods; and all of you children of the Most High. ⁷ But you die as men, and fall as one of the princes. ⁸ Arise, O God, judge the earth; for You shall inherit all nations. ⁸³ ¹ A Song of a Psalm of Asaph. O God, who shall be compared to You? Be not silent, neither be still, O God. ² For behold, Your enemies have made a noise; and they that hate You have lifted up the head. ³ Against Your people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against Your saints. ⁴ They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more. ⁵ For they have taken counsel together with one consent; they have made a confederacy against You; ⁶ even the tents of the Edomites, and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites; ⁷ Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre. ⁸ Yea, Assyria too has come with them; they have become a help to the children of Lot. Pause. ⁹ Do to them as to Midian, and to Sisera; as to Jabin at the Brook of Kishon. ¹⁰ They were utterly destroyed at Endor; they became as dung for the earth. ¹¹ Make their princes as Oreb and Zeeb, and Zebah and Zalmunna; even all their princes, ¹² who said, let us take to ourselves the altar of God as an inheritance. ¹³ O my God, make them as a wheel, as stubble before the face of the wind. ¹⁴ As fire which shall burn up the wood, as the flame may consume the mountains; ¹⁵ so shall You persecute them with Your tempest, and trouble them in Your anger. ¹⁶ Fill their faces with dishonor; so shall they seek Your name, O Lord. ¹⁷ Let them be ashamed and troubled forevermore; yea, let them be confounded and destroyed. ¹⁸ And let them know that Your name is Lord; that You alone are Most High over all the earth. ⁸⁴ ¹ For the end, A Psalm for the sons of Korah, concerning the winepresses. How lovely is Your tabernacle, O Lord of hosts! ² My soul longs and faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh have exalted in the living God. ³ Yea, the sparrow has found himself a home, and the turtledove a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even Your altars, O Lord of hosts my King, and my God. ⁴ Blessed are they that dwell in Your house; they will praise You forevermore. Pause. ⁵ Blessed is the man whose help is from You, O Lord; in his heart he has purposed to go up ⁶ the Valley of Weeping, to the place which He has appointed, for there the Lawgiver shall grant blessings. ⁷ They shall go from strength to strength; the God of gods shall be seen in Zion. ⁸ O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer; hearken, O God of Jacob. Pause. ⁹ Behold, O God our defender, and look upon the face of Your anointed. ¹⁰ For one day in Your courts is better than thousands. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God, than dwell in the tents of sinners. ¹¹ For the Lord loves mercy and truth; God will give grace and glory; the Lord will not withhold good things from them that walk in innocence. ¹² O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in You! ⁸⁵ ¹ For the end, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. O Lord, You have taken pleasure in Your land; You have turned back the captivity of Jacob. ² You have forgiven Your people their transgressions; You have covered all their sins. Pause. ³ You have caused all Your wrath to cease; You have turned from Your fierce anger. ⁴ Turn us, O God of our salvation, and turn Your anger away from us. ⁵ Will You be angry with us forever? Will You continue Your wrath from generation to generation? ⁶ O God, turn and revive us; and Your people shall rejoice in You. ⁷ Show us Your mercy, O Lord, and grant us Your salvation. ⁸ I will hear what the Lord God will say concerning me; for He shall speak peace to His people, and to His saints, and to those that turn their heart toward Him. ⁹ Moreover His salvation is near to them that fear Him; that glory may dwell in our land. ¹⁰ Mercy and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. ¹¹ Truth has sprung out of the earth; and righteousness has looked down from heaven. ¹² For the Lord shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield its fruit. ¹³ Righteousness shall go before Him; and shall make His footsteps our pathway. ⁸⁶ ¹ A Prayer of David. O Lord, incline Your ear, and hearken to me; for I am poor and needy. ² Preserve my soul, for I am holy; save Your servant, O God, who trusts in You. ³ Pity me, O Lord; for to You will I cry all the day. ⁴ Make glad the soul of Your servant; for to You, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul. ⁵ For You, O Lord, are kind and gentle, and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon You. ⁶ Give ear to my prayer, O Lord; and attend to the voice of my supplication. ⁷ In the day of my trouble I cried to You; and You heard me. ⁸ There is none like You, O Lord, among the gods; and there are no works like Your works. ⁹ All nations whom You have made shall come and shall worship before You, O Lord; and shall glorify Your name. ¹⁰ For You are great, and do wondrous things; You alone are the great God. ¹¹ Guide me, O Lord, in Your way, and I will walk in Your truth; let my heart rejoice, that I may fear Your name. ¹² I will give You thanks, O Lord my God, with all my heart; and I will glorify Your name forever. ¹³ For Your mercy is great toward me; and You have delivered my soul from the depths of hell. ¹⁴ O God, transgressors have risen up against me, and an assembly of violent men have sought my life; and have not set You before them. ¹⁵ But You, O Lord God, are compassionate and merciful, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and true. ¹⁶ Look upon me, and have mercy upon me; give Your strength to Your servant, and save the son of Your handmaid. ¹⁷ Establish with me a token for good; and let them that hate me see it and be ashamed; because You, O Lord, have helped me, and comforted me. ⁸⁷ ¹ A Psalm of a Song for the sons of Korah. His foundations are in the holy mountains. ² The Lord loves the gates of Zion, more than all the tabernacles of Jacob. ³ Glorious things have been spoken of you, O city of God. Pause. ⁴ I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me; behold, also the Philistines, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians; these were born there. ⁵ A man shall say, Zion is my mother; and such a man was born in her; and the Highest Himself has founded her. ⁶ The Lord shall recount it in the writing of the people, and of these princes that were born in her. ⁷ The dwelling of all within you is as the dwelling of those that rejoice. ⁸⁸ ¹ A song of a Psalm for the sons of Korah for the end, upon Mahaleth for responsive strains, of instruction for Heman the Israelite. O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried by day and in the night before You. ² Let my prayer come in before You; incline Your ear to my supplication, O Lord. ³ For my soul is filled with troubles, and my life has drawn near to Hades. ⁴ I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; I became as a man without help; ⁵ free among the dead, as the slain ones cast out, who sleep in the tomb; whom You remember no more; and they are rejected from Your hand. ⁶ They laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, and in the shadow of death. ⁷ Your wrath has pressed heavily upon me, and You have brought upon me all Your billows. Pause. ⁸ You have removed my acquaintance far from me; they have made me an abomination to themselves; I have been delivered up, and have not gone forth. ⁹ My eyes are dimmed from poverty; but I cried out to You, O Lord, all the day; I spread forth my hands to You. ¹⁰ Will You work wonders for the dead? Or shall physicians raise them up, that they shall praise You? ¹¹ Shall anyone declare Your mercy in the tomb? And Your truth in destruction? ¹² Shall Your wonders be known in darkness? And Your righteousness in a forgotten land? ¹³ But I cried out to You, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer come before You. ¹⁴ Why, O Lord, do You reject my prayer, and turn Your face away from me? ¹⁵ I am poor and in troubles from my youth; and having been exalted, I was brought low and into despair. ¹⁶ Your wrath has passed over me; and Your terrors have greatly disquieted me. ¹⁷ They compassed me like water; all the day they beset me together. ¹⁸ You have put far from me every friend, and my acquaintances because of my wretchedness. ⁸⁹ ¹ A Psalm of instruction for Ethan the Israelite. I will sing of Your mercies, O Lord, forever; I will declare Your truth with my mouth to all generations. ² For You have said, Mercy shall be built up forever; Your truth shall be established in the heavens. ³ I made a covenant with My chosen ones, I swore unto David My servant. ⁴ I will establish your seed forever, and build up your throne to all generations. Pause. ⁵ The heavens shall declare Your wonders, O Lord; and Your truth in the assembly of the saints. ⁶ For who in the heavens shall be compared to the Lord? And who shall be likened to the Lord among the sons of God? ⁷ God is glorified in the council of the saints; great and terrible toward all that are round about Him. ⁸ O Lord God of hosts, who is like You? You are mighty, O Lord, and Your truth is round about You. ⁹ You rule the power of the sea; and You calm the tumult of its waves. ¹⁰ You have brought down the proud as one that is slain; and with the arm of Your power You have scattered Your enemies. ¹¹ The heavens are Yours, and the earth is Yours; You have founded the world, and the fullness of it. ¹² You have created the north and the west; Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in Your name. ¹³ Yours is the mighty arm; let Your hand be strengthened, let Your right hand be exalted. ¹⁴ Justice and judgment are the establishment of Your throne; mercy and truth shall go before Your face. ¹⁵ Blessed are the people that knows the joyful sound; they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of Your countenance. ¹⁶ And in Your name shall they rejoice all the day; and in Your righteousness shall they be exalted. ¹⁷ For You are the boast of their strength; and in Your good pleasure shall our horn be exalted, ¹⁸ for our help is of the Lord; and of the Holy One of Israel, our King. ¹⁹ Then You spoke in a vision to Your children, and said, I have laid help on a mighty one; I have exalted one chosen out of My people. ²⁰ I have found David My servant; I have anointed him by My holy mercy. ²¹ For My hand shall support him; and My arm shall strengthen him. ²² The enemy shall have no advantage against him; and the son of transgression shall not hurt him again. ²³ And I will hew down his foes before him, and put to flight those that hate him. ²⁴ But My truth and My mercy shall be with him; and in My name shall his horn be exalted. ²⁵ And I will set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. ²⁶ He shall call upon Me, saying, You are my Father, my God, and the helper of my salvation. ²⁷ And I will make him My firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. ²⁸ I will keep My mercy for him forever, and My covenant shall be firm with him. ²⁹ And I will establish his seed forever and ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. ³⁰ If his children should forsake My law, and walk not in My judgments; ³¹ if they should profane My ordinances, and not keep My commandments; ³² I will visit their transgressions with a rod, and their sins with scourges. ³³ But My mercy I will not utterly remove from him, nor wrong My truth. ³⁴ Neither will I by any means profane My covenant; and I will not make void the things that proceed out of My lips. ³⁵ Once have I sworn by My holiness, that I will not lie to David. ³⁶ His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before Me; ³⁷ and as the moon that is established forever, and as the faithful witness in heaven. Pause. ³⁸ But You have cast off and set at nought, You have rejected Your anointed. ³⁹ You have overthrown the covenant of Your servant; You have profaned his sanctuary, casting it to the ground. ⁴⁰ You have broken down all his hedges; You have made his strongholds a terror. ⁴¹ All that go by the way have spoiled him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors. ⁴² You have exalted the right hand of his enemies; You have made all his enemies to rejoice. ⁴³ You have turned back the help of his sword, and have not helped him in the battle. ⁴⁴ You have deprived him of glory; You have broken down his throne to the ground. ⁴⁵ You have shortened the days of his throne; You have poured shame upon him. Pause. ⁴⁶ How long, O Lord? Will You turn away, forever? Shall Your anger flame out as fire? ⁴⁷ Remember what my being is; for have You created all the sons of men in vain? ⁴⁸ What man is there who shall live, and not see death? Shall anyone deliver his soul from the hand of Hades? Pause. ⁴⁹ Where are Your ancient mercies, O Lord, which You swore to David in Your truth? ⁵⁰ Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I have borne in my bosom, even the reproach of many nations; ⁵¹ with which Your enemies have reviled, O Lord; with which they have reviled the recompense of Your anointed. ⁵² Blessed be the Lord forever. Amen and Amen. ⁹⁰ ¹ A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, You have been our refuge in all generations. ² Before the mountains existed, and before the earth and the world were formed, even from age to age, You are God. ³ Turn not man back to his low place, whereas You said, Return, you sons of men? ⁴ For a thousand years in Your sight are like the yesterday which is past, and as a watch in the night. ⁵ Years shall be vanity to them; let the morning pass away as grass. ⁶ In the morning let it flower, and pass away; in the evening let it droop, let it be withered and dried up. ⁷ For we have perished in Your anger, and in Your wrath we have been troubled. ⁸ You have set our transgressions before You; our age is in the light of Your countenance. ⁹ For all our days are gone, and we have passed away in Your wrath; our years have spun out their tale as a spider. ¹⁰ As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years; and if men should be in strength, eighty years; and the greater part of them would be labor and trouble; for weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened. ¹¹ Who knows the power of Your wrath? ¹² And who knows how to number his days because of the fear of Your wrath? So manifest Your right hand, and those that are instructed in wisdom in the heart. ¹³ Return, O Lord! How long? And have compassion concerning Your servants. ¹⁴ We have been satisfied in the morning with Your mercy; and we did exalt and rejoice; ¹⁵ let us rejoice in all our days, in return for the days in which You afflicted us, the years in which we saw evil. ¹⁶ And look upon Your servants, and upon Your works; and guide their children. ¹⁷ And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us; and establish for us the works of our hands. ⁹¹ ¹ Praise of a Song, by David. He that dwells in the help of the Highest, shall sojourn under the shelter of the God of heaven. ² He shall say to the Lord, You are my helper and my refuge; my God; I will trust in Him. ³ For He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler, from every troublesome matter. ⁴ He shall overshadow you with His shoulders, and You shall trust under His wings; His truth shall cover you with a shield. ⁵ You shall not be afraid of terror by night; nor of the arrow flying by day; ⁶ nor of the evil thing that walks in darkness; nor of calamity, and the evil spirit at noonday. ⁷ A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you. ⁸ Only with your eyes shall you observe and see the reward of sinners. ⁹ For You, O Lord, are my hope; You, my soul, have made the Most High your refuge. ¹⁰ No evils shall come upon you, and no scourge shall draw near to your dwelling. ¹¹ For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways. ¹² They shall bear you up on their hands, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone. ¹³ You shall tread on the asp and basilisk; and you shall trample on the lion and dragon. ¹⁴ For he has hoped in Me, and I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he has known My name. ¹⁵ He shall call upon Me, and I will hearken to him; I am with him in affliction; and I will deliver him, and glorify him. ¹⁶ I will satisfy him with length of days, and show him My salvation. ⁹² ¹ A Psalm of a Song for the Sabbath day. It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High; ² to proclaim Your mercy in the morning, and Your truth by night, ³ on a psaltery of ten strings, with a song on the harp. ⁴ For You, O Lord, have made me glad with Your work; and in the operations of Your hands will I rejoice. ⁵ How have Your works been magnified, O Lord! Your thoughts are very deep. ⁶ A foolish man will not know, and a senseless man will not understand this. ⁷ When the sinners spring up as the grass, and all the workers of iniquity have watched; it is that they may be utterly destroyed forever. ⁸ But You, O Lord, are Most High forever. ⁹ For behold, Your enemies shall perish; and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. ¹⁰ But my horn shall be exalted as the horn of a unicorn; and my old age with rich mercy. ¹¹ And my eye has seen my enemies, and my ear shall hear the wicked that rise up against me. ¹² The righteous shall flourish as a palmtree; he shall be increased as the cedar in Lebanon. ¹³ They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. ¹⁴ Then shall they be increased in a fine old age; and they shall be prosperous; that they may declare ¹⁵ that the Lord my God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in Him. ⁹³ ¹ For the day before the Sabbath, when the land was first inhabited, the praise of a Song by David. The Lord reigns; He has clothed Himself with honor; the Lord has clothed and girded Himself with strength; for He has established the world, which shall not be moved. ² Your throne is prepared of old; You are from everlasting. ³ The rivers have lifted up, O Lord, the rivers have lifted up their voices, ⁴ at the voices of many waters; the billows of the sea are wonderful; the Lord is wonderful in high places. ⁵ Your testimonies are made very sure; holiness becomes Your house, O Lord, forever. ⁹⁴ ¹ A Psalm of David for the fourth day of the week. The Lord is a God of vengeance; the God of vengeance has declared Himself. ² Be exalted, You that judge the earth; render a reward to the proud. ³ How long shall sinners, O Lord, how long shall sinners boast? ⁴ They will utter and speak unrighteousness; all the workers of iniquity shall speak so. ⁵ They have afflicted Your people, O Lord, and hurt Your heritage. ⁶ They have slain the widow and fatherless, and murdered the stranger. ⁷ And they said, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob understand. ⁸ Understand now, you simple among the people; and you fools, at length be wise. ⁹ He that planted the ear, does He not hear? Or He that formed the eye, does not He perceive? ¹⁰ He that chastises the heathen, shall He not punish, even He that teaches man knowledge? ¹¹ The Lord knows the thoughts of men, that they are vain. ¹² Blessed is the man whom You shall chasten, O Lord, and shall teach him out of Your law; ¹³ to give him rest from evil days, until the pit is dug for the wicked. ¹⁴ For the Lord will not cast off His people, neither will He forsake His inheritance; ¹⁵ until righteousness return to judgment, and all the upright in heart shall follow it. Pause. ¹⁶ Who will rise up for me against the transgressors? Or who will stand up with me against the workers of iniquity? ¹⁷ If the Lord had not helped me, my soul would soon have sojourned in Hades. ¹⁸ If I said, My foot has been moved; ¹⁹ Your mercy, O Lord, has helped me. O Lord, according to the multitude of my griefs within my heart, Your consolation has soothed my soul. ²⁰ Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with You, which frames mischief by an ordinance? ²¹ They will hunt for the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood. ²² But the Lord was my refuge; and my God the helper of my hope. ²³ And He will recompense to them their iniquity and their wickedness; the Lord our God shall utterly destroy them. ⁹⁵ ¹ The praise of a Song by David. Come, let us rejoice in the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to God our Savior. ² Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to Him with psalms. ³ For the Lord is a great God, and a great King over all gods; for the Lord will not cast off His people. ⁴ For the ends of the earth are in His hands; and the heights of the mountains are His. ⁵ For the sea is His, and He made it; and His hands formed the dry land. ⁶ Come, let us worship and fall down before Him, and weep before the Lord that made us. ⁷ For He is our God; and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand. ⁸ Today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, according to the day of trial in the wilderness; ⁹ where your fathers tested Me, and tried Me, and saw My works. ¹⁰ Forty years was I grieved with this generation, and said, They do always err in their heart, and they have not known My ways. ¹¹ So I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest. ⁹⁶ ¹ When the house was built after the Captivity, a Song of David. Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. ² Sing to the Lord, bless His name; proclaim His salvation from day to day. ³ Proclaim His glory among the Gentiles, His wonderful works among all people. ⁴ For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods. ⁵ For all the gods of the heathen are demons; but the Lord made the heavens. ⁶ Thanksgiving and beauty are before Him; holiness and majesty are in His sanctuary. ⁷ Bring to the Lord, you families of the Gentiles, bring to the Lord glory and honor. ⁸ Bring to the Lord the glory due His name; take offerings, and go into His courts. ⁹ Worship the Lord in His holy court; let all the earth tremble before Him. ¹⁰ Say among the heathen, The Lord reigns; for He has established the world so that it shall not be moved; He shall judge the people in righteousness. ¹¹ Let the heavens rejoice, and the earth exalt; let the sea be moved, and all its fullness. ¹² The plains shall rejoice, and all things in them; then shall all the trees of the wood exalt before the presence of the Lord; ¹³ for He comes, for He comes to judge the earth; He shall judge the world in righteousness, and the people with His truth. ⁹⁷ ¹ For David, when his land was established. The Lord reigns, let the earth exalt, let many islands rejoice. ² Clouds and darkness are round about Him; righteousness and judgment are the establishment of His throne. ³ Fire shall go before Him, and burn up His enemies round about. ⁴ His lightnings light the world; the earth saw, and trembled. ⁵ The mountains melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. ⁶ The heavens have declared His righteousness, and all the people have seen His glory. ⁷ Let all that worship graven images be ashamed, who boast of their idols; worship Him, all you His angels. ⁸ Zion heard and rejoiced; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced, because of Your judgments, O Lord. ⁹ For You are Lord Most High over all the earth; You are greatly exalted above all gods. ¹⁰ You that love the Lord, hate evil; the Lord preserves the souls of His saints; He shall deliver them from the hand of sinners. ¹¹ Light has sprung up for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. ¹² Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous; and give thanks for a remembrance of His holiness. ⁹⁸ ¹ A Psalm of David. Sing to the Lord a new song; for the Lord has wrought wonderful works, His right hand, and His holy arm, have wrought salvation for Him. ² The Lord has made known His salvation, He has revealed His righteousness in the sight of the nations. ³ He has remembered His mercy to Jacob, and His truth to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. ⁴ Shout to God, all the earth! Sing and rejoice, and sing psalms! ⁵ Sing to the Lord with a harp, and with the voice of a psalm. ⁶ With trumpets, and with the sound of a horn, make a joyful noise to the Lord before the king. ⁷ Let the sea be moved, and all its fullness; the world, and those that dwell in it. ⁸ The rivers shall clap their hands together; the mountains shall exalt. ⁹ For He has come to judge the earth; He shall judge the world in righteousness, and the nations in uprightness. ⁹⁹ ¹ A Psalm of David. The Lord reigns; let the people tremble! It is He that sits upon the cherubim, let the earth be moved. ² The Lord is great in Zion, and is high above all the people. ³ Let them give thanks to Your great name; for it is holy, and to be feared! ⁴ And the king's honor loves judgment; You have prepared equity, You have established judgment and justice in Jacob. ⁵ Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at His footstool; for He is holy. ⁶ Moses and Aaron among His priests, and Samuel among them that call upon His name; they called upon the Lord, and He heard them. ⁷ He spoke to them in a pillar of cloud; they kept His testimonies, and the ordinances which He gave them. ⁸ O Lord our God, You heard them; O God, You became propitious to them, though You took vengeance on all their devices. ⁹ Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at His holy mountain; for the Lord our God is holy. ¹⁰⁰ ¹ A Psalm for Thanksgiving. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth. ² Serve the Lord with gladness; come before His presence with exaltation. ³ Know that the Lord, He is God; He made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture. ⁴ Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise; give thanks to Him, praise His name. ⁵ For the Lord is good, His mercy is everlasting; and His truth endures from generation to generation. ¹⁰¹ ¹ A Psalm of David. I will sing to You, O Lord, of mercy and judgment; I will sing a psalm, ² and I will be wise in a blameless way. When will You come to me? I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house. ³ I have not set before my eyes any unlawful thing; I have hated transgressors. ⁴ A perverse heart has not cleaved to me; I have not known an evil man, forasmuch as he turns away from me. ⁵ Him that secretly speaks against his neighbor, him have I driven from me; he that is proud in look and insatiable in heart — with him I have not eaten. ⁶ My eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; he that walked in a perfect way, the same ministered to me. ⁷ He that is proud dwelled not in the midst of my house; the unjust speaker prospered not in my sight. ⁸ Early did I slay all the sinners of the land, that I might destroy out of the city of the Lord all that work iniquity. ¹⁰² ¹ A Prayer for the Poor; when he is deeply afflicted, and pours out his supplication before the Lord. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to You. ² Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my trouble; incline Your ear to me; in the day when I shall call upon You, speedily hear me. ³ For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have been parched like a stick. ⁴ I am blighted like grass, and my heart is dried up; for I have forgotten to eat my bread. ⁵ By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones has cleaved to my flesh. ⁶ I have become like a pelican of the wilderness; ⁷ I have become like an owl in a ruined house. I have watched, and have become as a sparrow dwelling alone on a roof. ⁸ All the day long my enemies have reproached me; and they that praised me have sworn against me. ⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping; ¹⁰ because of Your anger and Your wrath; for You have lifted me up, and dashed me down. ¹¹ My days have declined like a shadow; and I am withered like grass. ¹² But You, O Lord, endure forever, and Your memorial from generation to generation. ¹³ You shall arise, and have mercy upon Zion; for it is time to have mercy upon her, for the appointed time has come. ¹⁴ For Your servants have taken pleasure in her stones, and they shall pity her dust. ¹⁵ So the nations shall fear Your name, O Lord, and all kings Your glory. ¹⁶ For the Lord shall build up Zion, and shall appear in His glory. ¹⁷ He has had regard to the prayer of the lowly, and has not despised their petition. ¹⁸ Let this be written for another generation; and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord. ¹⁹ For He has looked out from the height of His sanctuary; the Lord looked upon the earth from heaven; ²⁰ to hear the groaning of the fettered ones, to loosen the sons of the slain; ²¹ to proclaim the name of the Lord in Zion, and His praise in Jerusalem; ²² when the people have gathered together, and the kings, to serve the Lord. ²³ He answered him in the way of His strength; tell me the fewness of my days. ²⁴ Do not take me away in the midst of my days; Your years are through all generations. ²⁵ In the beginning You, O Lord, laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of Your hands. ²⁶ They shall perish, but You remain; and they all shall grow old like a garment; and as a vesture shall You fold them, and they shall be changed. ²⁷ But You are the same, and Your years shall not fail. ²⁸ The children of Your servants shall dwell securely, and their seed shall prosper forever. ¹⁰³ ¹ A Psalm of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name. ² Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His praises; ³ who forgives all your transgressions, who heals all your diseases; ⁴ who redeems your life from corruption; who crowns you with mercy and compassion; ⁵ who satisfies your desire with good things; so that your youth shall be renewed like that of the eagle. ⁶ The Lord executes mercy and judgment for all that are injured. ⁷ He made known His ways to Moses, and His will to the children of Israel. ⁸ The Lord is compassionate and gracious, longsuffering, and full of mercy. ⁹ He will not always be angry; neither will He be wrathful forever. ¹⁰ He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor recompensed us according to our iniquities. ¹¹ For as the heaven is high above the earth, the Lord has so increased His mercy toward them that fear Him. ¹² As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. ¹³ As a father pities his children, the Lord pities them that fear Him. ¹⁴ For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust. ¹⁵ As for man, his days are like grass; as a flower of the field, so shall he flourish. ¹⁶ For the wind passes over it, and it shall not be; and it shall know its place no more. ¹⁷ But the mercy of the Lord is from generation to generation upon them that fear Him, and His righteousness to children's children; ¹⁸ to them that keep His covenant, and remember His commandments, to do them. ¹⁹ The Lord has prepared His throne in the heaven; and His kingdom rules over all. ²⁰ Bless the Lord, all you His angels, mighty in strength, who do His bidding, ready to hearken to the voice of His words. ²¹ Bless the Lord, all you His hosts; you ministers of His that do His will. ²² Bless the Lord, all His works, in every place of His dominion; bless the Lord, O my soul. ¹⁰⁴ ¹ A Psalm of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, You are very great; You have clothed Yourself with praise and honor; ² who cover Yourself with light as with a garment; spreading out the heaven as a curtain. ³ Who covers His chambers with waters; who makes the clouds His chariot; who walks on the wings of the wind. ⁴ Who makes His angels spirits, and His ministers a flaming fire. ⁵ Who establishes the earth on her sure foundation; it shall not ever be moved. ⁶ The deep, like a garment, is His covering; the waters shall stand on the hills. ⁷ At Your rebuke they shall flee; at the voice of Your thunder they shall be alarmed. ⁸ They go up to the mountains, and down to the plains, to the place which You founded for them. ⁹ You have set a boundary which they shall not pass, neither shall they turn again to cover the earth. ¹⁰ He sends forth His fountains among the valleys; the waters shall run between the mountains. ¹¹ They shall give drink to all the wild beasts of the field; the wild donkeys shall take of them to quench their thirst. ¹² By them shall the birds of the sky lodge; they shall utter a voice out of the midst of the rocks. ¹³ He waters the mountains from His chambers; the earth shall be satisfied with the fruit of Your works. ¹⁴ He makes grass to grow for the cattle, and green herbs for the service of men, to bring bread out of the earth; ¹⁵ and wine makes glad the heart of man, to make his face cheerful with oil; and bread strengthens man's heart. ¹⁶ The trees of the plain shall be full of sap; even the cedars of Lebanon which He has planted. ¹⁷ There the sparrows shall build their nests; and the house of the heron takes the lead among them. ¹⁸ The high mountains are a refuge for the goats, and the rock for the rabbits. ¹⁹ He appointed the moon for seasons; the sun knows its going down. ²⁰ You made the darkness, and it was night; in it all the wild beasts of the forest will be abroad; ²¹ even the young lions roar after their prey, and they seek meat for themselves from God. ²² The sun arises, and they shall be gathered together, and shall lie down in their dens. ²³ Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labor till evening. ²⁴ How great are Your works, O Lord! In wisdom have You done them all; the earth is filled with Your creation. ²⁵ So is this great and wide sea; there are things creeping innumerable, small animals and great. ²⁶ There go the ships; and this dragon whom You have made to play in it. ²⁷ All wait upon You, to give them their food in due season. ²⁸ When You have given it to them, they will gather it; and when You have opened Your hand, they shall all be filled with good. ²⁹ But when You have turned away Your face, they shall be troubled; You will take away their breath, and they shall fail, and return to their dust. ³⁰ You shall send forth Your Spirit, and they shall be created; and You shall renew the face of the earth. ³¹ Let the glory of the Lord be forever; the Lord shall rejoice in His works; ³² who looks upon the earth, and makes it tremble; who touches the mountains, and they smoke. ³³ I will sing to the Lord while I live; I will sing praise to my God while I exist. ³⁴ Let my meditation be sweet to Him, and I will rejoice in the Lord. ³⁵ Let the sinners fail from off the earth, and transgressors, so that they shall be no more. Bless the Lord, O my soul. ¹⁰⁵ ¹ Alleluia. Give thanks to the Lord, and call upon His name; declare His works among the heathen. ² Sing to Him, yea, sing praises to Him; tell of all His wonderful works. ³ Glory in His holy name; let the heart of them that seek the Lord rejoice. ⁴ Seek the Lord, and be strengthened; seek His face continually. ⁵ Remember His wonderful works that He has done; His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth; ⁶ you seed of Abraham, His servants, you children of Jacob, His elect. ⁷ He is the Lord our God; His judgments are in all the earth. ⁸ He has remembered His covenant forever, the word which He commanded for a thousand generations; ⁹ which He established as a covenant to Abraham, and He remembered His oath to Isaac. ¹⁰ And He established it to Jacob for an ordinance, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant; ¹¹ saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the line of your inheritance; ¹² when they were few in number, very few, and sojourners in it. ¹³ And they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people. ¹⁴ He allowed no man to wrong them; and He rebuked kings for their sakes; ¹⁵ saying, Touch not My anointed ones; and do My prophets no harm. ¹⁶ Moreover He called for a famine upon the land; He broke the whole support of bread. ¹⁷ He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a slave. ¹⁸ They hurt his feet with fetters; his soul came into iron, ¹⁹ until the time that his cause came on; the word of the Lord tried him as fire. ²⁰ The king sent and loosed him; even the prince of the people, and let him go free. ²¹ He made him Lord over his house, and ruler of all his substance; ²² to chastise his rulers at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom. ²³ Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. ²⁴ And He increased His people greatly, and made them stronger than their enemies. ²⁵ And He turned their heart to hate His people, to deal craftily with His servants. ²⁶ He sent forth Moses His servant, and Aaron whom He had chosen. ²⁷ He established among them His signs, and His wonders in the land of Ham. ²⁸ He sent forth darkness, and made it dark; yet they rebelled against His words. ²⁹ He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish. ³⁰ Their land produced frogs abundantly, in the chambers of their kings. ³¹ He spoke, and the dog-fly came, and lice in all their coasts. ³² He turned their rain into hail, and sent flaming fire in their land. ³³ And He smote their vines and their fig trees; and broke every tree of their coast. ³⁴ He spoke, and the locust came, and caterpillars innumerable, ³⁵ and devoured all the grass in their land, and devoured the fruit of the ground. ³⁶ He smote also every firstborn of their land, the firstfruits of all their labor. ³⁷ And He brought them out with silver and gold; and there was not a feeble one among their tribes. ³⁸ Egypt rejoiced at their departing; for the fear of them fell upon them. ³⁹ He spread out a cloud for a covering to them, and fire to give them light by night. ⁴⁰ They asked, and the quail came, and He satisfied them with the bread of heaven. ⁴¹ He split the rock, and the waters flowed; rivers ran in dry places. ⁴² For He remembered His holy word, which He promised to Abraham His servant. ⁴³ And He brought out His people with exaltation, and His elect with joy; ⁴⁴ and He gave them the lands of the heathen; and they inherited the labors of the people; ⁴⁵ that they might keep His ordinances, and diligently seek His law. ¹⁰⁶ ¹ Alleluia. Give thanks to the Lord; for He is good; for His mercy endures forever. ² Who shall tell the mighty acts of the Lord? Who shall cause all His praises to be heard? ³ Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do righteousness at all times. ⁴ Remember us, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people; visit us with Your salvation; ⁵ that we may behold the good of Your elect, that we may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, that we may glory with Your inheritance. ⁶ We have sinned with our fathers, we have transgressed, we have done unrighteously. ⁷ Our fathers in Egypt understood not Your wonders, and remembered not the multitude of Your mercy; but provoked Him as they went up by the Red Sea. ⁸ Yet He saved them for His name's sake, that He might cause His mighty power to be known. ⁹ And He rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up; so He led them through the deep as through the wilderness. ¹⁰ And He saved them out of the hand of them that hated them, and redeemed them out of the hand of the enemy. ¹¹ The water covered those that oppressed them; there was not one of them left. ¹² Then they believed His words, and celebrated His praise. ¹³ They made haste, they forgot His works; they waited not for His counsel. ¹⁴ And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the dry land. ¹⁵ And He gave them their request, and sent fullness into their souls. ¹⁶ They provoked Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the holy one of the Lord. ¹⁷ The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and closed upon the congregation of Abiram. ¹⁸ And a fire was kindled in their congregation, and a flame burned up the sinners. ¹⁹ And they made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the graven image, ²⁰ and they changed their glory into the likeness of a calf that feeds on grass. ²¹ They forgot God that saved them, who had done great deeds in Egypt; ²² wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things at the Red Sea. ²³ So He said that He would have destroyed them, had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach, to turn Him away from the fierceness of His anger, so that He should not destroy them. ²⁴ Moreover they despised the desirable land, and did not believe His word. ²⁵ And they murmured in their tents; they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord. ²⁶ So He lifted up His hand against them, to cast them down in the wilderness; ²⁷ and to cast down their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the countries. ²⁸ They were joined also to Baal of Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. And they provoked Him with their deeds; ²⁹ and destruction was multiplied among them. ³⁰ Then Phinehas stood up and made atonement, and the plague ceased. ³¹ And it was counted to him for righteousness, to all generations forever. ³² They provoked Him also at the Water of Strife, and Moses was hurt for their sakes; ³³ for they provoked his spirit, and he spoke unadvisedly with his lips. ³⁴ They destroyed not the nations which the Lord told them to destroy; ³⁵ but were mingled with the heathen, and learned their works. ³⁶ And they served their graven images; and it became an offense to them. ³⁷ And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons, ³⁸ and shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was defiled with blood, ³⁹ and was polluted with their works; and they went a whoring by their own deeds. ⁴⁰ So the Lord was very angry with His people, and He abhorred His inheritance. ⁴¹ And He delivered them into the hands of their enemies; and they that hated them ruled over them. ⁴² Ands their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought down under their hands. ⁴³ Many a time He delivered them; but they provoked Him by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquities. ⁴⁴ You the Lord looked upon their affliction, when You heard their petition. ⁴⁵ And He remembered His covenant, and relented according to the multitude of His mercy. ⁴⁶ And He caused them to be pitied in the sight of all who carried them captive. ⁴⁷ Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise. ⁴⁸ Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting; and all the people shall say, Amen, Amen. ¹⁰⁷ ¹ Alleluia. Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy endures forever. ² Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy; ³ and gathered them out of the countries, from the east, west, north, and south. ⁴ They wandered in the wilderness in a dry land; they found no way to a city of habitation. ⁵ Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. ⁶ Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction, and He delivered them out of their distresses. ⁷ And He guided them into a straight path, that they might go to a city of habitation. ⁸ Let them acknowledge to the Lord His mercies, and His wonderful works to the children of men. ⁹ For He satisfies the empty soul, and fills the hungry soul with good things, ¹⁰ even them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death, fettered in poverty and irons; ¹¹ because they rebelled against the words of God, and provoked the counsel of the Most High. ¹² So their heart was brought low with troubles; they were weak, and there was no helper. ¹³ Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction, and He saved them out of their distresses. ¹⁴ And He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their chains in pieces. ¹⁵ Let them acknowledge to the Lord His mercies, and His wonders to the children of men. ¹⁶ For He broke to pieces the bronze gates, and crushed the iron bars. ¹⁷ He helped them out of the way of their iniquity; for they were brought low because of their iniquities. ¹⁸ Their soul abhorred all food; and they drew near to the gates of death. ¹⁹ Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction, and He saved them out of their distresses. ²⁰ He sent His word, and healed them, and delivered them out of their destructions. ²¹ Let them acknowledge to the Lord His mercies, and His wonderful works to the children of men. ²² And let them offer to Him the sacrifice of praise, and proclaim His works with exaltation. ²³ They that go down to the sea in ships, doing business in many waters; ²⁴ these have seen the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep. ²⁵ He speaks, and the stormy wind arises, and its waves are lifted up. ²⁶ They go up to the heavens, and go down to the depths; their soul melts because of troubles. ²⁷ They are troubled, they stagger as a drunkard, and all their wisdom is swallowed up. ²⁸ Then they cry to the Lord in their affliction, and He brings them out of their distresses. ²⁹ And He commands the storm, and it is calmed into a gentle breeze, and its waves are still. ³⁰ And they are glad, because they are quiet; and He guides them to their desired haven. ³¹ Let them acknowledge to the Lord His mercies, and His wonderful works to the children of men. ³² Let them exalt Him in the congregation of the people, and praise Him in the seat of the elders. ³³ He turns rivers into a desert, and streams of water into a dry land; ³⁴ a fruitful land into saltness, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it. ³⁵ He turns a wilderness into pools of water, and a dry land into streams of water. ³⁶ And there He causes the hungry to dwell, and they establish for themselves cities of habitation. ³⁷ And they sow fields, and plant vineyards, and they yield a fruitful harvest. ³⁸ And He blesses them, and they multiply exceedingly, and He diminishes not the number of their cattle. ³⁹ Again they become few, and are brought low, by the pressure of evils and pain. ⁴⁰ Contempt is poured upon their princes, and He causes them to wander in a desert, and in a trackless land. ⁴¹ But He helps the poor out of poverty, and makes him families as a flock. ⁴² The upright shall see and rejoice; and all iniquity shall stop her mouth. ⁴³ Who is wise, and will observe these things, and understand the mercies of the Lord? ¹⁰⁸ ¹ Song of a Psalm by David. O God, my heart is ready, my heart is ready; I will sing and sing psalms with my glory. ² Awake, psaltery and harp; I will awake early. ³ I will give thanks to You, O Lord, among the people; I will sing praises to You among the Gentiles. ⁴ For Your mercy is great above the heavens, and Your truth reaches to the clouds. ⁵ Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; and Your glory above all the earth. ⁶ That Your beloved may be delivered; save with Your right hand, and hear me. God has spoken in His sanctuary. ⁷ I will be exalted, and will divide Shechem, and will measure out the Valley of Tents. ⁸ Gilead is Mine; and Manasseh is Mine; and Ephraim is the helmet for My head; Judah is My king; ⁹ Moab is the caldron of My hope; over Edom will I cast My sandal; the Philistines are made subject to Me. ¹⁰ Who will bring me into the fortified city? Or who will lead me to Edom? ¹¹ Will not You, O God, who have rejected us? And will not You, O God, go forth with our armies? ¹² Give us help from tribulation; for vain is the help of man. ¹³ Through God we shall do valiantly; and He will tread down our enemies. ¹⁰⁹ ¹ For the end, A Psalm of David. O God, pass not over my praise in silence; ² for the mouth of the sinner and the mouth of the crafty have been opened against me; they have spoken against me with a crafty tongue. ³ And they have compassed me with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. ⁴ Instead of loving me, they falsely accused me; but I continued to pray. ⁵ And they rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. ⁶ Set a sinner against him; and let an accuser stand at his right hand. ⁷ When he is judged, let him go forth condemned; and let his prayer become sin. ⁸ Let his days be few; and let another take his office of overseer. ⁹ Let his children be orphans, and his wife a widow. ¹⁰ Let his children wander without a dwelling place and beg; let them be cast out of their habitations. ¹¹ Let his creditor exact all that belongs to him; and let strangers spoil his labors. ¹² Let him have no helper; neither let there be anyone to have compassion on his fatherless children. ¹³ Let his children be given up to utter destruction; in one generation let his name be blotted out. ¹⁴ Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. ¹⁵ Let them be before the Lord continually; and let their memorial be blotted out from the earth. ¹⁶ Because he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the needy and poor man, that he might even slay the broken in heart. ¹⁷ He loved cursing also, and it shall come upon him; and he took not pleasure in blessing, so it shall be removed far from him. ¹⁸ Yea, he put on cursing as a garment, and it has come as water into his bowels, and as oil into his bones. ¹⁹ Let it be to him as a garment which he puts on, and as a girdle with which he girds himself continually. ²⁰ This is the dealing of the Lord with those who falsely accuse me, and of them that speak evil against my soul. ²¹ But You, O Lord, my Lord, deal mercifully with me, for Your name's sake; for Your mercy is good. ²² Deliver me, for I am poor and needy; and my heart is troubled within me. ²³ I am removed as a shadow in its going down; I am tossed up and down like locusts. ²⁴ My knees are weakened through fasting, and my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness. ²⁵ I became also a reproach to them, when they saw me they shook their heads. ²⁶ Help me, O Lord my God; and save me according to Your mercy. ²⁷ And let them know that this is Your hand, and that You, O Lord, have done it. ²⁸ Let them curse, but You shall bless; let them that rise up against me be ashamed, but let Your servant rejoice. ²⁹ Let those that falsely accuse me be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their shame as with a mantle. ³⁰ I will give thanks to the Lord abundantly with my mouth; and in the midst of many I will praise Him. ³¹ For He stood on the right hand of the poor, to save me from them that persecute my soul. ¹¹⁰ ¹ A Psalm of David. The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand, until I make Your enemies Your footstool. ² The Lord shall send out the rod of Your strength out of Zion; rule in the midst of Your enemies! ³ With You is dominion in the day of Your power, in the splendors of Your saints; I have begotten You from the womb before the morning. ⁴ The Lord has sworn, and will not relent, You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek. ⁵ The Lord at Your right hand has dashed in pieces kings in the day of His wrath. ⁶ He shall judge among the nations, He shall fill up the number of corpses, He shall crush the heads of many on the earth. ⁷ He shall drink of the brook in the way; therefore shall He lift up the head. ¹¹¹ ¹ Alleluia. I will give You thanks, O Lord, with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the congregation. ² The works of the Lord are great, sought out according to all His will. ³ His work is worthy of thanksgiving and honor; and His righteousness endures forever and ever. ⁴ He has caused His wonderful works to be remembered; the Lord is merciful and compassionate. ⁵ He has given food to them that fear Him; He will remember His covenant forever. ⁶ He has declared to His people the power of His works, to give them the inheritance of the heathen. ⁷ The works of His hands are truth and judgment; all His commandments are sure; ⁸ established forever and ever, done in truth and uprightness. ⁹ He sent redemption to His people; He commanded His covenant forever; holy and fearful is His name. ¹⁰ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and all that act accordingly have a good understanding; His praise endures forever and ever. ¹¹² ¹ Alleluia. Blessed is the man that fears the Lord; he will delight greatly in His commandments. ² His seed shall be mighty in the earth; the generation of the upright shall be blessed. ³ Glory and riches shall be in his house; and his righteousness endures forevermore. ⁴ To the upright light has sprung up in darkness; he is pitiful, and merciful, and righteous. ⁵ The good man is he that pities and lends; he will direct his affairs with judgment. ⁶ For he shall not be moved forever; the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. ⁷ He shall not be afraid of any evil report; his heart is ready to trust in the Lord. ⁸ His heart is established, he shall not fear, till he shall see his desire upon his enemies. ⁹ He has dispersed abroad; he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn shall be exalted with honor. ¹⁰ The sinner shall see and be angry, he shall gnash his teeth, and consume away; the desire of the sinner shall perish. ¹¹³ ¹ Alleluia. Praise the Lord, you servants of His, praise the name of the Lord. ² Let the name of the Lord be blessed, now and forevermore. ³ From the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the Lord is to be praised. ⁴ The Lord is high above all the nations; His glory is above the heavens. ⁵ Who is as the Lord our God? Who dwells in the high places, ⁶ and yet looks upon the low things in heaven, and on the earth; ⁷ who lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises up the needy from the dunghill; ⁸ to set him with princes, even with the princes of His people; ⁹ who settles the barren woman in a house, as a mother rejoicing over children. ¹¹⁴ ¹ Alleluia. At the going forth of Israel from Egypt, of the house of Jacob from a barbarous people, ² Judah became His sanctuary, and Israel His dominion. ³ The sea saw and fled; Jordan was turned back. ⁴ The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like lambs. ⁵ What ailed you, O sea, that you fled? And you, O Jordan, that you were turned back? ⁶ You mountains, that you skipped like rams, and you hills, like lambs? ⁷ The earth trembled at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; ⁸ who turned the rock into pools of water, and the flint into fountains of water. ¹¹⁵ ¹ Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to Your name give glory, because of Your mercy and Your truth; ² lest at any time the nations should say, Where is their God? ³ But our God has done in heaven and on earth, whatsoever He has pleased. ⁴ The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of men's hands. ⁵ They have a mouth, but they cannot speak; they have eyes, but they cannot see; ⁶ they have ears, but they cannot hear; they have noses, but they cannot smell; ⁷ they have hands, but they cannot handle; they have feet, but they cannot walk; they cannot speak through their throat. ⁸ Let those that make them become like them, and all who trust in them. ⁹ The house of Israel trusts in the Lord; He is their helper and defender. ¹⁰ The house of Aaron trusts in the Lord; He is their helper and defender. ¹¹ They that fear the Lord trust in the Lord; He is their helper and defender. ¹² The Lord has remembered us, and blessed us; He has blessed the house of Israel, He has blessed the house of Aaron. ¹³ He has blessed them that fear the Lord, both small and great. ¹⁴ May the Lord add blessings to you and to your children. ¹⁵ Blessed are you of the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth. ¹⁶ The heaven of heavens belongs to the Lord; but He has given the earth to the sons of men. ¹⁷ The dead shall not praise You, O Lord, nor any that go down to Hades. ¹⁸ But we, the living, will bless the Lord, now and forever. ¹¹⁶ ¹ Alleluia. I am well pleased, because the Lord will hearken to the voice of my supplication. ² Because He has inclined His ear to me, therefore will I call upon Him while I live. ³ The pangs of death compassed me; the dangers of hell found me; I found affliction and sorrow. ⁴ Then I called on the name of the Lord — O Lord, deliver my soul. ⁵ The Lord is merciful and righteous; yea, our God has pity. ⁶ The Lord preserves the simple; I was brought low, and He delivered me. ⁷ Return to your rest, O my soul; for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you. ⁸ For He has delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. ⁹ I shall be well-pleasing before the Lord in the land of the living. Alleluia. ¹⁰ I believed, therefore I have spoken; but I was greatly afflicted. ¹¹ And I said in my amazement, Every man is a liar. ¹² What shall I render to the Lord for all the things in which He has rewarded me? ¹³ I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord. ¹⁴ I will pay my vows to the Lord, in the presence of all His people. ¹⁵ Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. ¹⁶ O Lord, I am Your servant; I am Your servant, and the son of Your handmaid; You have burst my bonds. ¹⁷ I will offer to You the sacrifice of praise, and will call upon the name of the Lord. ¹⁸ I will pay my vows unto the Lord, in the presence of all His people, ¹⁹ in the courts of the Lord's house, in the midst of you, O Jerusalem. ¹¹⁷ ¹ Alleluia. Praise the Lord, all you nations; praise Him, all you peoples. ² For His mercy has been abundant toward us; and the truth of the Lord endures forever. ¹¹⁸ ¹ Alleluia. Give thanks to the Lord; for He is good; for His mercy endures forever. ² Let now the house of Israel say that He is good; for His mercy endures forever. ³ Let now the house of Aaron say that He is good; for His mercy endures forever. ⁴ Let now all that fear the Lord say that He is good; for His mercy endures forever. ⁵ I called on the Lord out of affliction; and He hearkened to me, and brought me into a wide place. ⁶ The Lord is my helper; and I will not fear, what shall man do to me? ⁷ The Lord is my helper; and I shall see my desire upon my enemies. ⁸ It is better to trust in the Lord than to trust in man. ⁹ It is better to hope in the Lord, than to hope in princes. ¹⁰ All the nations surrounded me; but in the name of the Lord I repulsed them. ¹¹ They completely compassed me about; but in the name of the Lord I repulsed them. ¹² They compassed me about as bees do a honeycomb, and they burst into flame as fire among thorns; but in the name of the Lord I repulsed them. ¹³ I was thrust, and sorely shaken, that I might fall; but the Lord helped me. ¹⁴ The Lord is my strength and my song, and has become my salvation. ¹⁵ The voice of exaltation and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous; the right hand of the Lord has done mightily. ¹⁶ The right hand of the Lord has exalted me; the right hand of the Lord has done powerfully. ¹⁷ I shall not die, but live, and recount the works of the Lord. ¹⁸ The Lord has chastened me sore; but He has not given me up to death. ¹⁹ Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go into them, and give praise to the Lord. ²⁰ This is the gate of the Lord; the righteous shall enter by it. ²¹ I will give thanks to You; because You have heard me, and have become my salvation. ²² The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. ²³ This was the Lord's doing; and it is marvelous in our eyes. ²⁴ This is the day that the Lord has made; let us exalt and rejoice in it. ²⁵ O Lord, save now; O Lord, send now prosperity. ²⁶ Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord; we have blessed you out of the house of the Lord. ²⁷ God is the Lord, and He has shined upon us; celebrate the feast with thick branches, binding the victims even to the horns of the altar. ²⁸ You are my God, and I will give You thanks; You are my God, and I will exalt You. I will give thanks to You, for You have heard me, and have become my salvation. ²⁹ Give thanks to the Lord; for He is good; for His mercy endures forever! ¹¹⁹ ¹ Alleluia. Blessed are the blameless in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. ² Blessed are they that search out His testimonies; they will diligently seek Him with the whole heart. ³ For they that work iniquity have not walked in His ways. ⁴ You have commanded us diligently to keep Your precepts. ⁵ O that my ways were directed to keep Your statutes. ⁶ Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect to all Your commandments. ⁷ I will give You thanks with uprightness of heart, when I have learned the judgments of Your righteousness. ⁸ I will keep Your statutes; O do not utterly forsake me! ⁹ How shall a young man direct his way? By keeping Your words. ¹⁰ With my whole heart have I diligently sought You; cast me not away from Your commandments. ¹¹ I have hidden Your oracles in my heart, that I might not sin against You. ¹² Blessed are You, O Lord; teach me Your statutes. ¹³ With my lips have I declared all the judgments of Your mouth. ¹⁴ I have delighted in the way of Your testimonies, as much as in all riches. ¹⁵ I will meditate on Your commandments, and consider Your ways. ¹⁶ I will meditate on Your statutes; I will not forget Your words. ¹⁷ Render a recompense to Your servant; so shall I live, and keep Your words. ¹⁸ Unveil my eyes, and I shall perceive the wondrous things of Your law. ¹⁹ I am a stranger in the earth; hide not Your commandments from me. ²⁰ My soul has longed exceedingly for Your judgments at all times. ²¹ You have rebuked the proud; cursed are they that turn aside from Your commandments. ²² Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have sought out Your testimonies. ²³ For princes sat and spoke against me; but Your servant was meditating on Your statutes. ²⁴ For Your testimonies are my meditation, and Your statutes are my counselors. ²⁵ My soul has cleaved to the ground; revive me according to Your word. ²⁶ I declared my ways, and You heard me; teach me Your statutes. ²⁷ Instruct me in the ways of Your statutes; and I will meditate on Your wondrous works. ²⁸ My soul has slumbered for sorrow; strengthen me with Your words. ²⁹ Remove from me the way of iniquity; and be merciful to me by Your law. ³⁰ I have chosen the way of truth; and have not forgotten Your judgments. ³¹ I have cleaved to Your testimonies, O Lord; put me not to shame. ³² I ran the way of Your commandments, when You enlarged my heart. ³³ Teach me, O Lord, the way of Your statutes, and I will seek it out continually. ³⁴ Instruct me, and I will search out Your law, and will keep it with my whole heart. ³⁵ Guide me in the path of Your commandments; for I have delighted in it. ³⁶ Incline my heart to Your testimonies, and not to covetousness. ³⁷ Turn away my eyes that I may not behold vanity; revive me in Your way. ³⁸ Confirm Your oracle to Your servant, that he may fear You. ³⁹ Take away my reproach which I have feared; for Your judgments are good. ⁴⁰ Behold, I have desired Your commandments; revive me in Your righteousness. ⁴¹ And let Your mercy come upon me, O Lord; even Your salvation, according to Your word. ⁴² And so I shall render an answer to them that reproach me; for I have trusted in Your words. ⁴³ And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in Your judgments. ⁴⁴ So shall I keep Your law continually, even forever and ever. ⁴⁵ I walked also at large; for I sought out Your commandments. ⁴⁶ And I spoke of Your testimonies before kings, and was not ashamed. ⁴⁷ And I meditated on Your commandments, which I loved exceedingly. ⁴⁸ And I lifted up my hands to Your commandments which I loved; and I meditated in Your statutes. ⁴⁹ Remember Your words to Your servant, upon which You have made me hope. ⁵⁰ This has comforted me in my affliction; for Your word has revived me. ⁵¹ The proud have transgressed exceedingly; but I swerved not from Your law. ⁵² I remembered Your judgment of old, O Lord; and was comforted. ⁵³ Despair took hold upon me, because of the sinners who forsake Your law. ⁵⁴ Your statutes were my sons in the place of my sojourning. ⁵⁵ I remembered Your name, O Lord, in the night, and kept Your law. ⁵⁶ This I had, because I diligently sought Your statutes. ⁵⁷ You are my portion, O Lord; I said that I would keep Your law. ⁵⁸ I besought Your favor with my whole heart; have mercy upon me according to Your word. ⁵⁹ I thought on Your ways, and turned my feet to Your testimonies. ⁶⁰ I prepared myself, (and was not terrified) to keep Your commandments. ⁶¹ The snares of sinners entangled me; but I forgot not Your law. ⁶² At midnight I arose, to give thanks to You for the judgments of Your righteousness. ⁶³ I am a companion of all them that fear You, and of them that keep Your commandments. ⁶⁴ O Lord, the earth is full of Your mercy; teach me Your statutes. ⁶⁵ You have wrought kindly with Your servant, O Lord, according to Your word. ⁶⁶ Teach me kindness, instruction, and knowledge; for I have believed Your commandments. ⁶⁷ Before I was afflicted, I transgressed; therefore have I kept Your word. ⁶⁸ Good are You, O Lord; therefore in Your goodness teach me Your statutes. ⁶⁹ The injustice of the proud has been multiplied against me; but I will search out Your commandments with all my heart. ⁷⁰ Their heart has been curdled like milk; but I have meditated on Your law. ⁷¹ It is good for me that You have afflicted me; that I might learn Your statutes. ⁷² The law of Your mouth is better to me than thousands of coins of gold and silver. ⁷³ Your hands have made me, and fashioned me; instruct me, that I may learn Your commandments. ⁷⁴ They that fear You will see me and rejoice; for I have hoped in Your words. ⁷⁵ I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are righteousness, and that You in truthfulness have afflicted me. ⁷⁶ Let, I pray, Your mercy be to comfort me, according to Your word to Your servant. ⁷⁷ Let Your compassions come to me, that I may live; for Your law is my meditation. ⁷⁸ Let the proud be ashamed; for they transgressed against me unjustly; but I will meditate on Your commandments. ⁷⁹ Let those that fear You, and those that know Your testimonies, turn to me. ⁸⁰ Let my heart be blameless regarding Your statutes, that I may not be ashamed. ⁸¹ My soul faints for Your salvation; I have hoped in Your words. ⁸² My eyes failed from searching for Your word, saying, When will You comfort me? ⁸³ For I have become as a bottle in the frost; yet I have not forgotten Your statutes. ⁸⁴ How many are the days of Your servant? When will You execute judgment for me on them that persecute me? ⁸⁵ Transgressors told me idle tales; but not according to Your law, O Lord. ⁸⁶ All Your commandments are truth; they persecuted me unjustly; help me! ⁸⁷ They nearly made an end of me in the earth; but I forsook not Your commandments. ⁸⁸ Revive me according to Your mercy; so shall I keep the testimonies of Your mouth. ⁸⁹ Your word, O Lord, abides in heaven forever. ⁹⁰ Your truth endures to all generations; You have founded the earth, and it abides. ⁹¹ The day continues by Your arrangement; for all things are Your servants. ⁹² Were it not that Your law is my meditation, then I should have perished in my affliction. ⁹³ I will never forget Your statutes; for with them You have revived me. ⁹⁴ I am Yours, save me; for I have sought out Your statutes. ⁹⁵ Sinners laid wait for me to destroy me; but I understood Your testimonies. ⁹⁶ I have seen an end of all perfection; but Your commandment is very broad. ⁹⁷ How I have loved Your law, O Lord! It is my meditation all the day. ⁹⁸ You have made me wiser than my enemies in Your commandment; for it is mine forever. ⁹⁹ I have more understanding than all my teachers; for Your testimonies are my meditation. ¹⁰⁰ I understand more that the aged; because I have sought out Your commandments. ¹⁰¹ I have kept back my feet from every evil way, that I might keep Your words. ¹⁰² I have not departed from Your judgments; for You have instructed me. ¹⁰³ How sweet are Your oracles to my taste! More so than honey to my mouth! ¹⁰⁴ I gain understanding by Your commandments; therefore I have hated every way of unrighteousness. ¹⁰⁵ Your law is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my paths. ¹⁰⁶ I have sworn and determined to keep the judgments of Your righteousness. ¹⁰⁷ I have been very greatly afflicted, O Lord; revive me, according to Your word. ¹⁰⁸ Accept, O Lord, the freewill offerings of my mouth, and teach me Your judgments. ¹⁰⁹ My soul is continually in Your hands; and I have not forgotten Your law. ¹¹⁰ Sinners spread a snare for me; but I erred not from Your commandments. ¹¹¹ I have inherited Your testimonies forever; for they are the joy of my heart. ¹¹² I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes forever, in return for Your mercies. ¹¹³ I have hated transgressors; but I have loved Your law. ¹¹⁴ You are my helper and my supporter; I have hoped in Your words. ¹¹⁵ Depart from me, You evildoers; for I will search out the commandments of my God. ¹¹⁶ Uphold me according to Your word, and revive me; and make me not ashamed of my hope. ¹¹⁷ Help me, and I shall be saved; and I will meditate on Your statutes continually. ¹¹⁸ You have rejected all that depart from Your statutes; for their inner thoughts are unrighteousness. ¹¹⁹ I have reckoned all the sinners of the earth as transgressors; therefore have I loved Your testimonies. ¹²⁰ Penetrate my flesh with Your fear; for I am afraid of Your judgments. ¹²¹ I have done judgment and justice; deliver me not up to them that injure me. ¹²² Receive Your servant for good; let not the proud accuse me falsely. ¹²³ My eyes have failed for Your salvation, and for the word of Your righteousness. ¹²⁴ Deal with Your servant according to Your mercy, and teach me Your statutes. ¹²⁵ I am Your servant; instruct me, and I shall know Your testimonies. ¹²⁶ It is time for the Lord to work; they have utterly broken Your law. ¹²⁷ Therefore have I loved Your commandments more than gold, or topaz. ¹²⁸ Therefore I directed myself according to all Your commandments; I have hated every unjust way. ¹²⁹ Your testimonies are wonderful; therefore my soul has sought them out. ¹³⁰ The manifestation of Your words will enlighten, and instruct the simple. ¹³¹ I opened my mouth, and drew breath; for I earnestly longed after Your commandments. ¹³² Look upon me and have mercy upon me, after the manner of them that love Your name. ¹³³ Order my steps according to Your word; and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. ¹³⁴ Deliver me from the false accusation of men; so will I keep Your commandments. ¹³⁵ Cause Your face to shine upon Your servant; and teach me Your statutes. ¹³⁶ My eyes have been bathed in streams of water, because I kept not Your law. ¹³⁷ Righteous are You, O Lord, and upright are Your judgments. ¹³⁸ You have commanded righteousness and perfect truth, as Your testimonies. ¹³⁹ Your zeal has quite wasted me; because my enemies have forgotten Your words. ¹⁴⁰ Your word has been very fully tried; and Your servant loves it. ¹⁴¹ I am young and despised; yet I have not forgotten Your statutes. ¹⁴² Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and Your law is truth. ¹⁴³ Afflictions and distresses found me; but Your commandments were my meditation. ¹⁴⁴ Your testimonies are an everlasting righteousness; instruct me, and I shall live. ¹⁴⁵ I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O Lord; I will search out Your statutes. ¹⁴⁶ I cried to You; save me, and I will keep Your testimonies. ¹⁴⁷ I arose before the dawn, and cried; I hoped in Your words. ¹⁴⁸ My eyes prevented the dawn, that I might meditate on Your oracles. ¹⁴⁹ Hear my voice, O Lord, according to Your mercy; revive me according to Your judgment. ¹⁵⁰ They have drawn near who persecuted me unlawfully; and they are far removed from Your law. ¹⁵¹ You are near, O Lord; and all Your ways are truth. ¹⁵² I have known of old concerning Your testimonies, that You have founded them forever. ¹⁵³ Look upon my affliction, and rescue me; for I have not forgotten Your law. ¹⁵⁴ Plead my cause, and ransom me; revive me because of Your word. ¹⁵⁵ Salvation is far from sinners; for they have not searched out Your statutes. ¹⁵⁶ Your mercies, O Lord, are many; revive me according to Your judgment. ¹⁵⁷ Many are they that persecute me and oppress me; but I have not declined from Your testimonies. ¹⁵⁸ I beheld men acting foolishly, and I pined away; for they kept not Your oracles. ¹⁵⁹ Behold, I have loved Your commandments, O Lord; revive me in Your mercy. ¹⁶⁰ The beginning of Your words is truth; and all the judgments of Your righteousness endure forever. ¹⁶¹ Princes persecuted me without a cause, but my heart feared because of Your words. ¹⁶² I will rejoice because of Your oracles, as one that finds much spoil. ¹⁶³ I hate and abhor unrighteousness; but I love Your law. ¹⁶⁴ Seven times in a day have I praised You because of the judgments of Your righteousness. ¹⁶⁵ Great peace have they that love Your law; and there is no stumbling block to them. ¹⁶⁶ I have waited for Your salvation, O Lord, and have loved Your commandments. ¹⁶⁷ My soul has kept Your testimonies, and loved them exceedingly. ¹⁶⁸ I have kept Your commandments and Your testimonies; for all my ways are before You, O Lord. ¹⁶⁹ Let my supplication come near before You, O Lord; instruct me according to Your oracle. ¹⁷⁰ Let my petition come in before You, O Lord; deliver me according to Your word. ¹⁷¹ Let my lips utter a hymn, when You shall have taught me Your statutes. ¹⁷² Let my tongue utter Your oracles; for all Your commandments are righteous. ¹⁷³ Let Your hand be prompt to save me; for I have chosen Your commandments. ¹⁷⁴ I have longed after Your salvation, O Lord; and Your law is my meditation. ¹⁷⁵ My soul shall live, and shall praise You; and Your judgments shall help me. ¹⁷⁶ I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Your servant; for I have not forgotten Your commandments. ¹²⁰ ¹ A Song of Degrees. In my affliction I cried to the Lord, and He hearkened to me. ² Deliver my soul, O Lord, from unjust lips, and from a deceitful tongue. ³ What should be given to you, and what should be added to you, for your crafty tongue? ⁴ Sharpened weapons of the mighty, with coals of the desert. ⁵ Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged; I have dwelled among the tents of Kedar. ⁶ My soul has long been a sojourner; ⁷ I was peaceable among them that hated peace; when I spoke to them, they warred against me without a cause. ¹²¹ ¹ A Song of Degrees. I lifted up my eyes to the mountains — from where my help shall come. ² My help shall come from the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth. ³ Let not your foot be moved; and let not your keeper slumber. ⁴ Behold, He that keeps Israel shall not slumber nor sleep. ⁵ The Lord shall keep you: the Lord is your shelter upon your right hand. ⁶ The sun shall not burn you by day, neither the moon by night. ⁷ May the Lord preserve you from all evil; the Lord shall keep your soul. ⁸ The Lord shall keep your coming in, and your going out, from this time forth and forever. ¹²² ¹ A Song of Degrees. I was glad when they said to me, Let us go into the house of the Lord. ² Our feet stood in your courts, O Jerusalem. ³ Jerusalem is built as a city whose fellowship is complete. ⁴ For from there the tribes went up, the tribes of the Lord, as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord. ⁵ For there are set thrones for judgment, even thrones for the house of David. ⁶ Pray now for the peace of Jerusalem: and let there be prosperity to them that love you. ⁷ Let peace, I pray, be within your host, and prosperity in your palaces. ⁸ For the sake of my brethren and my neighbors, I have indeed spoken peace concerning you. ⁹ Because of the house of the Lord our God, I have diligently sought your good. ¹²³ ¹ A Song of Degrees. Unto You who dwells in heaven have I lifted up my eyes. ² Behold, as the eyes of servants are directed to the hands of their masters, and as the eyes of a maidservant to the hands of her mistress; so our eyes are directed to the Lord our God, until He has mercy upon us. ³ Have pity upon us, O Lord, have pity upon us; for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. ⁴ Yea, our soul has been exceedingly filled with it: let the reproach be to them that are at ease, and contempt to the proud. ¹²⁴ ¹ A Song of Degrees. If it had not been that the Lord was among us, let Israel now say; ² if it had not been that the Lord was among us, when men rose up against us; ³ verily they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us: ⁴ verily the water would have drowned us, our soul would have gone under the torrent. ⁵ Yea, our soul would have gone under the overwhelming water. ⁶ Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us for a prey to their teeth. ⁷ Our soul has been delivered as a sparrow from the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are delivered. ⁸ Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth. ¹²⁵ ¹ A Song of Degrees. They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion: he that dwells in Jerusalem shall never be moved. ² The mountains are round about her, and so the Lord is round about His people, from this time forth and forever. ³ For the Lord will not allow the rod of sinners to be upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous should stretch forth their hands to iniquity. ⁴ Do good, O Lord, to them that are good, and to them that are upright in heart. ⁵ But them that turn aside to crooked ways the Lord will lead away with the workers of iniquity; but peace shall be upon Israel. ¹²⁶ ¹ A Song of Degrees. When the Lord turned the captivity of Zion, we became as those that are comforted. ² Then was our mouth filled with joy, and our tongue with exaltation; then would they say among the Gentiles, The Lord has done great things among them. ³ The Lord has done great things for us, we became joyful. ⁴ Turn, O Lord, our captivity, as the streams in the south. ⁵ They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. ⁶ They went on and wept as they cast their seeds; but they shall surely come with exaltation, bringing their sheaves with them. ¹²⁷ ¹ A Song of Degrees. Except the Lord build the house, they that build labor in vain: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman watches in vain. ² It is vain for you to rise early; you rise up after resting, you that eat the bread of grief; while He gives sleep to His beloved. ³ Behold, the inheritance of the Lord, children, the reward of the fruit of the womb. ⁴ As arrows in the hand of a mighty man; so are the children of those who were outcasts. ⁵ Blessed is the man who shall satisfy his desire with them; they shall not be ashamed when they shall speak to their enemies in the gates. ¹²⁸ ¹ A Song of Degrees. Blessed are all they that fear the Lord; who walk in His ways. ² You shall eat the labors of your hands. Blessed are you, and it shall be well with you. ³ Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of your house; your children as young olive-plants round about your table. ⁴ Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that fears the Lord. ⁵ May the Lord bless you out of Zion; and may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life ⁶ And may you see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel. ¹²⁹ ¹ A Song of Degrees. Many a time have they warred against me from my youth, let Israel now say: ² Many a time have they warred against me from my youth: and yet they prevailed not against me. ³ The sinners wrought upon my back: they prolonged their iniquity. ⁴ The righteous Lord has cut in pieces the necks of sinners. ⁵ Let all that hate Zion be put to shame and turned back. ⁶ Let them be as the grass of the housetops, which withers before it is plucked up. ⁷ Wherewith the reaper fills not his hand, nor he that makes up the sheaves, his bosom. ⁸ Neither do they that go by say, The blessing of the Lord be upon you; we have blessed you in the name of the Lord. ¹³⁰ ¹ A Song of Degrees. Out of the depths have I cried to You, O Lord. ² O Lord, hearken to my voice; let Your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication. ³ If You, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? ⁴ For with You is forgiveness; ⁵ for Your name's sake have I waited for You, O Lord, my soul has waited for Your word. ⁶ My soul has hoped in the Lord; from the morning watch till night. ⁷ Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord is mercy, and with Him is abundant redemption. ⁸ And He shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. ¹³¹ ¹ A Song of Degrees. O Lord, my heart is not exalted, neither have my eyes been haughtily raised: neither have I exercised myself in great matters, nor in things too wonderful for me. ² I shall have sinned if I have not been humble, but have exalted my soul; according to the relation of a weaned child to his mother, so will You recompense my soul. ³ Let Israel hope in the Lord, from this time forth and forever. ¹³² ¹ A Song of Degrees. Lord, remember David, and all his meekness: ² how he swore to the Lord, and vowed to the God of Jacob, saying, ³ I will not go into the tabernacle of my house; I will not go up to the couch of my bed; ⁴ I will not give sleep to my eyes, nor slumber to my eyelids, nor rest to my temples, ⁵ until I find a place for the Lord, a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. ⁶ Behold, we heard of it in Ephratha; we found it in the fields of the wood. ⁷ Let us enter into His tabernacles: let us worship at His footstool. ⁸ Arise, O Lord, into Your rest; You, and the ark of Your holiness. ⁹ Your priests shall clothe themselves with righteousness; and Your saints shall rejoice. ¹⁰ For the sake of Your servant David turn not away the face of Your Anointed. ¹¹ The Lord has sworn in truth to David, and He will not annul it, saying, Of the fruit of your body will I set a king upon your throne. ¹² If your children will keep My covenant, and these My testimonies which I shall teach them, their children also shall sit upon your throne forever. ¹³ For the Lord has elected Zion, He has chosen her for a habitation for Himself, saying, ¹⁴ This is My rest forever: here will I dwell; for I have chosen it. ¹⁵ I will surely bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread. ¹⁶ I will clothe her priests with salvation; and her saints shall greatly rejoice. ¹⁷ There will I cause to spring up a horn to David: I have prepared a lamp for My Anointed. ¹⁸ His enemies will I clothe with shame; but upon Himself shall My holiness flourish. ¹³³ ¹ A Song of Degrees. See now! What is so good, or what so pleasant, as for brethren to dwell together? ² It is as ointment on the head, that ran down to the beard, even the beard of Aaron; that ran down to the fringe of his clothing. ³ As the dew of Hermon that comes down on the mountains of Zion; for there, the Lord has commanded the blessing, even life forevermore. ¹³⁴ ¹ A Song of Degrees. Behold now, bless the Lord, all the servants of the Lord, who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God. ² Lift up your hands by night in the sanctuaries, and bless the Lord. ³ May the Lord, who made heaven and earth, bless you out of Zion. ¹³⁵ ¹ Alleluia. Praise the name of the Lord; praise the Lord, you His servants, ² who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God. ³ Praise the Lord; for the Lord is good: sing praises to His name; for it is good. ⁴ For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself, and Israel for His peculiar treasure. ⁵ For I know that the Lord is great, and our Lord is above all gods; ⁶ all that the Lord willed, He did in heaven, and on the earth, in the sea, and in all the deep. ⁷ Who brings up clouds from the extremity of the earth; He has made lightnings for the rain; He brings the winds out of His treasures. ⁸ Who struck the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast. ⁹ He sent signs and wonders into the midst of you, O Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his servants. ¹⁰ Who struck many nations, and slew mighty kings; ¹¹ Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan, ¹² and gave their land for an inheritance, an inheritance to Israel His people. ¹³ O Lord, Your name endures forever, and Your memorial to all generations. ¹⁴ For the Lord shall judge His people, and comfort Himself concerning His servants. ¹⁵ The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the works of men's hands. ¹⁶ They have a mouth, but they cannot speak; they have eyes, but they cannot see; ¹⁷ they have ears, but they cannot hear; for there is no breath in their mouth. ¹⁸ Let those who make them be made like them; and all those who trust in them. ¹⁹ O house of Israel, bless the Lord: O house of Aaron, bless the Lord: ²⁰ O house of Levi, bless the Lord: you that fear the Lord, bless the Lord. ²¹ Blessed in Zion is the Lord, who dwells in Jerusalem. ¹³⁶ ¹ Alleluia. Give thanks to the Lord: for He is good: for His mercy endures forever. ² Give thanks to the God of gods; for His mercy endures forever. ³ Give thanks to the Lord of lords: for His mercy endures forever. ⁴ To Him who alone has wrought great wonders; for His mercy endures forever. ⁵ To Him who made the heavens by understanding; for His mercy endures forever. ⁶ To Him who established the earth on the waters; for His mercy endures forever. ⁷ To Him who alone made great lights; for His mercy endures forever. ⁸ The sun to rule by day; for His mercy endures forever. ⁹ The moon and the stars to rule the night; for His mercy endures forever. ¹⁰ To Him who struck Egypt with their firstborn; for His mercy endures forever. ¹¹ And brought Israel out of the midst of them; for His mercy endures forever; ¹² with a strong hand, and an outstretched arm; for His mercy endures forever. ¹³ To Him who divided the Red Sea into parts; for His mercy endures forever; ¹⁴ and brought Israel through the midst of it; for His mercy endures forever; ¹⁵ and overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea; for His mercy endures forever. ¹⁶ To Him who led His people through the wilderness; for His mercy endures forever. ¹⁷ To Him who struck down great kings; for His mercy endures forever; ¹⁸ and slew mighty kings; for His mercy endures forever: ¹⁹ Sihon king of the Amorites; for His mercy endures forever; ²⁰ and Og king of Bashan; for His mercy endures forever; ²¹ and gave their land for an inheritance; for His mercy endures forever; ²² even an inheritance to Israel His servant; for His mercy endures forever. ²³ For the Lord remembered us in our low estate; for His mercy endures forever; ²⁴ and redeemed us from our enemies; for His mercy endures forever. ²⁵ Who gives food to all flesh; for His mercy endures forever. ²⁶ Give thanks to the God of heaven; for His mercy endures forever. ¹³⁷ ¹ For David, A Psalm of Jeremiah. By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat; and wept when we remembered Zion. ² We hung our harps on the willows in the midst of it. ³ For there they that had taken us captive asked of us the words of a song; and they that had carried us away asked a hymn, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. ⁴ How should we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? ⁵ If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill. ⁶ May my tongue cleave to my throat, if I do not remember you; if I do not prefer Jerusalem as the chief of my joy. ⁷ Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze it, raze it, even to its foundations. ⁸ Wretched daughter of Babylon! Blessed shall he be who shall reward you as you have rewarded us. ⁹ Blessed shall he be who shall seize and dash your infants against the rock. ¹³⁸ ¹ A Psalm for David, of Aggaeus and Zacharias. I will give You thanks, O Lord, with my whole heart; and I will sing psalms to You before the angels; for You have heard all the words of my mouth. ² I will worship toward Your holy temple, and give thanks to Your name, on account of Your mercy and Your truth; for You have magnified Your holy name above all things. ³ In whatsoever day I shall call upon You, hear me speedily; You shall abundantly provide me with Your power in my soul. ⁴ Let all the kings of the earth, O Lord, give thanks unto You; for they have heard all the words of Your mouth. ⁵ And let them sing in the ways of the Lord; for great is the glory of the Lord. ⁶ For the Lord is on high, and yet regards the lowly; and He knows high things from afar off. ⁷ Though I should walk in the midst of affliction, You will revive me; You have stretched forth Your hands against the wrath of my enemies, and Your right hand has saved me. ⁸ O Lord, You shall recompense them on my behalf: Your mercy, O Lord, endures forever: do not overlook the works of Your hands. ¹³⁹ ¹ For the end, A Psalm of David. O Lord, You have proved me, and known me. ² You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thoughts long before. ³ You have traced my path and my bed, and have foreseen all my ways. ⁴ For there is no unrighteous word on my tongue: behold, O Lord, You have known all things, ⁵ the last and the first: You have fashioned me, and laid Your hand upon me. ⁶ The knowledge of You is too wonderful for me; it is very difficult, I cannot attain to it. ⁷ Where shall I go from Your Spirit? And to where shall I flee from Your presence? ⁸ If I should go up to heaven, You are there: if I should go down to hell, You are present. ⁹ If I should spread my wings to fly straight forward, and sojourn at the extremity of the sea, it would be vain, ¹⁰ for even there Your hand would guide me, and Your right hand would hold me. ¹¹ When I said, Surely the darkness will cover me; even the night was light in my luxury. ¹² For darkness will not be darkness with You; but night will be light as day. As its darkness, so shall its light be to You. ¹³ For You, O Lord, have possessed my reins; You have helped me from my mother's womb. ¹⁴ I will give You thanks; for You are fearfully wondrous; wondrous are Your works; and my soul knows it well. ¹⁵ My bones, which You made in secret, were not hidden from You, nor my substance, in the lowest parts of the earth. ¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unwrought substance, and all men shall be written in Your book; they shall be formed by day, though there should for a time be no one among them. ¹⁷ But Your friends, O God, have been greatly honored by me; their rule has been greatly strengthened. ¹⁸ I will number them, and they shall be multiplied beyond the sand; I awake, and am still with You. ¹⁹ Oh that You would slay the wicked, O God. Depart from me, you men of blood! ²⁰ For you will say concerning their thoughts, that they shall take your cities in vain. ²¹ Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hate You? And have I not wasted away because of Your enemies? ²² I have hated them with perfect hatred; they were counted as my enemies. ²³ Prove me, O God, and know my heart; examine me, and know my paths; ²⁴ and see if there is any way of iniquity in me, and lead me in an everlasting way. ¹⁴⁰ ¹ For the end, A Psalm of David. Rescue me, O Lord, from the evil man; deliver me from the unjust man. ² Who have devised injustice in their hearts; all the day they prepared war. ³ They have sharpened their tongue as the tongue of a serpent; the poison of asps is under their lips. Pause. ⁴ Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the sinner; rescue me from unjust men; who have purposed to overthrow my goings. ⁵ The proud have hid a snare for me, and have stretched out ropes for snares for my feet; they set a stumbling block for me near the path. Pause. ⁶ I said to the Lord, You are my God; hearken, O Lord, to the voice of my supplication. ⁷ O Lord God, the strength of my salvation; You have covered my head in the day of battle. ⁸ Deliver me not, O Lord, to the sinner, according to my desire; they have devised mischief against me; forsake me not, lest they should be exalted. Pause. ⁹ As for the head of them that surround me, the mischief of their lips shall cover them. ¹⁰ Coals of fire shall fall upon them on the earth; and You shall cast them down in afflictions; they shall not bear up under them. ¹¹ A talkative man shall not prosper on the earth: evils shall hunt the unrighteous man to destruction. ¹² I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the poor, and the right of the needy ones. ¹³ Surely the righteous shall give thanks to Your name: the upright shall dwell in Your presence. ¹⁴¹ ¹ A Psalm of David. O Lord, I have cried to You; hear me: attend to the voice of my supplication, when I cry to You. ² Let my prayer be set forth before You as incense; the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice. ³ Set a watch, O Lord, on my mouth, and a strong door about by lips. ⁴ Incline not my heart to evil things, to employ pretexts for sins, with men who work iniquity: and let me not unite with their choice ones. ⁵ The righteous shall chasten me with mercy, and reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner anoint my head: for yet shall my prayer also be in their pleasures. ⁶ Their mighty ones have been swallowed up near the rock: they shall hear my words, for they are sweet. ⁷ As a lump of earth is crushed upon the ground, our bones have been scattered by the mouth of the grave. ⁸ For my eyes are upon You, O Lord God: I have hoped in You; take not my life away. ⁹ Keep me from the snare which they have set for me, and from the stumbling blocks of them that work iniquity. ¹⁰ Sinners shall fall by their own net: I am alone until I shall escape. ¹⁴² ¹ A Psalm of instruction for David, when he was in the cave — A Prayer. I cried to the Lord with my voice; with my voice I made supplication to the Lord. ² I will pour out my supplication before Him. I will declare before Him my affliction. ³ When my spirit was fainting within me, then You knew my paths; in the very way in which I was walking, they hid a snare for me. ⁴ I looked on my right hand, and behold, for there was none that noticed me; refuge failed me; and there was none that cared for my soul. ⁵ I cried unto You, O Lord, and said, You are my hope, my portion in the land of the living. ⁶ Attend to my supplication, for I am brought very low; deliver me from them that persecute me; for they are stronger than I. ⁷ Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to Your name, O Lord; the righteous shall wait for me, until You recompense me. ¹⁴³ ¹ A Psalm of David, when his son pursued him. O Lord, attend to my prayer; hearken to my supplication in Your truth; hear me in Your righteousness. ² And enter not into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight shall no man living be justified. ³ For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has brought my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in a dark place, as those that have been long dead. ⁴ Therefore my spirit was grieved in me; my heart was troubled within me. ⁵ I remembered the days of old; and I meditated on all Your doings: yea, I meditated on the works of Your hands. ⁶ I spread forth my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You, as a dry land. Pause. ⁷ Hear me speedily, O Lord; my spirit has failed; do not hide Your face from me, lest I be like them that go down to the pit. ⁸ Cause me to hear Your mercy in the morning; for I have hoped in You; make known to me, O Lord, the way in which I should walk; for I have lifted up my soul to You. ⁹ Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord; for I have fled to You for refuge. ¹⁰ Teach me to do Your will; for You are my God; Your good Spirit shall guide me in the straight way. ¹¹ You shall revive me, O Lord, for Your name's sake; in Your righteousness You shall bring my soul out of affliction. ¹² And in Your mercy You will destroy my enemies, and will destroy all those that afflict my soul; for I am Your servant. ¹⁴⁴ ¹ A Psalm of David concerning Goliath. Blessed be the Lord my God, who instructs my hands for battle, and my fingers for war. ² My mercy, and my refuge; my helper, and my deliverer; my protector, in whom I have trusted; who subdues my people under me. ³ Lord, what is man, that You are made known to him? Or the son of man, that You take account of him? ⁴ Man is likened unto vanity: his days pass as a shadow. ⁵ O Lord, bow Your heavens, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. ⁶ Send lightning, and You shall scatter them: send forth Your arrows, and You shall discomfit them. ⁷ Send forth Your hand from on high; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hand of strange children; ⁸ whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity. ⁹ O God, I will sing a new song to You: I will play to You on a psaltery of ten strings. ¹⁰ Even to Him who gives salvation to kings: who redeems His servant David from the hurtful sword. ¹¹ Deliver me, and rescue me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity; ¹² whose children are as plants, strengthened in their youth: their daughters are beautiful, sumptuously adorned after the likeness of a temple. ¹³ Their garners are full, and bursting with one kind of store after another; their sheep are prolific, multiplying in their streets. ¹⁴ Their oxen are fat: there is no falling down of a hedge, nor going out, nor cry in their folds. ¹⁵ Men bless the people to whom this lot belongs, but blessed are the people whose God is the Lord. ¹⁴⁵ ¹ David's Psalm of praise. I will exalt You, my God, my king; and I will bless Your name forever and ever. ² Every day will I bless You, and I will praise Your name forever and ever. ³ The Lord is great, and greatly to be praised; and there is no end to His greatness. ⁴ Generation after generation shall praise Your works, and tell of Your power. ⁵ And they shall speak of the glorious majesty of Your holiness, and recount Your wonders. ⁶ And they shall speak of the power of Your awesome acts; and recount of Your greatness. ⁷ They shall utter the memory of the abundance of Your goodness, and shall exalt in Your righteousness. ⁸ The Lord is compassionate, and merciful; long suffering, and abundant in mercy. ⁹ The Lord is good to those that wait on Him; and His compassions are over all His works. ¹⁰ Let all Your works, O Lord, give thanks to You; and let Your saints bless You. ¹¹ They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom, and talk of Your dominion; ¹² to make known to the sons of men Your power, and the glorious majesty of Your kingdom. ¹³ Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures throughout all generations. The Lord is faithful in His words, and holy in all His works. ¹⁴ The Lord supports all that are falling, and sets up all that are broken down. ¹⁵ The eyes of all wait upon You; and You give them their food in due season. ¹⁶ You open Your hands, and fill every living thing with pleasure. ¹⁷ The Lord is righteous in all His ways, and holy in all His works. ¹⁸ The Lord is near to all that call upon Him, to all that call upon Him in truth. ¹⁹ He will perform the desire of them that fear Him: and He will hear their supplication, and save them. ²⁰ The Lord preserves all that love Him: but all sinners He will utterly destroy. ²¹ My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh bless His holy name forever and ever. ¹⁴⁶ ¹ Alleluia, A Psalm of Aggaeus and Zacharias. Praise the Lord, O my soul!. ² While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist. ³ Trust not in princes, nor in the children of men, in whom there is no safety. ⁴ His breath shall go forth, and he shall return to his earth; in that day all his thoughts shall perish. ⁵ Blessed is he whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God: ⁶ who made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things in them; who keeps truth forever; ⁷ who executes judgment for the wronged: who gives food to the hungry. The Lord looses the fettered ones. ⁸ The Lord gives wisdom to the blind; the Lord sets up the broken down; the Lord loves the righteous:; the Lord preserves the strangers; ⁹ He will relieve the orphan and widow: but will utterly remove the way of sinners. ¹⁰ The Lord shall reign forever, even your God, O Zion, to all generations. ¹⁴⁷ ¹ Alleluia, A Psalm of Aggaeus and Zacharias. Praise the Lord! For singing psalms is a good thing; let praise be sweetly sung to our God. ² The Lord builds up Jerusalem; and He will gather together the dispersed of Israel. ³ He heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds. ⁴ He numbers the multitudes of stars; and calls them all by name. ⁵ Great is our Lord, and great is His strength; and His understanding is infinite. ⁶ The Lord lifts up the meek; but brings sinners down to the ground. ⁷ Begin the song with thanksgiving to the Lord; sing praises on the harp to our God; ⁸ who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who causes grass to spring up on the mountains, and green herb for the service of men; ⁹ and gives cattle their food, and to the young ravens that call upon Him. ¹⁰ He will not take pleasure in the strength of a horse; neither is He well-pleased with the legs of a man. ¹¹ The Lord takes pleasure in them that fear Him, and in all that hope in His mercy. ¹² Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion. ¹³ For He has strengthened the bars of your gates; He has blessed your children within you. ¹⁴ He makes your borders peaceful, and fills you with the flour of wheat. ¹⁵ He sends His oracle to the earth; His word will run swiftly. ¹⁶ He gives snow like wool; He scatters the mist like ashes. ¹⁷ Casting forth His ice like morsels; who shall stand before His cold? ¹⁸ He shall send out His word, and melt them; He shall blow with His wind, and the waters shall flow. ¹⁹ He sends His word to Jacob, His ordinances and judgments to Israel. ²⁰ He has not done so to any other nation; and He has not shown them His judgments. ¹⁴⁸ ¹ Alleluia, A Psalm of Aggaeus and Zacharias. Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise Him in the highest. ² Praise Him, all His angels: praise Him, all His hosts. ³ Praise Him, sun and moon; praise Him, all you stars and light. ⁴ Praise Him, you heavens of heavens, and the water that is above the heavens. ⁵ Let them praise the name of the Lord; for He spoke, and they were made; He commanded, and they were created. ⁶ He has established them forever, even forever and ever; He has made an ordinance, and it shall not pass away. ⁷ Praise the Lord from the earth, you serpents, and all the depths. ⁸ Fire, hail, snow, ice, and stormy wind; the things that perform His word. ⁹ Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars; ¹⁰ wild beasts, and all cattle; reptiles, and winged birds; ¹¹ kings of the earth, and all peoples; princes, and all judges of the earth; ¹² young men and virgins, old men with youths; ¹³ let them praise the name of the Lord, for His name alone is exalted; His praise is above the earth and heaven, ¹⁴ and He shall exalt the horn of His people, there is a hymn for all His saints, even of the children of Israel, a people who draw near to Him. ¹⁴⁹ ¹ Alleluia. Sing to the Lord a new song; His praise is in the assembly of the saints. ² Let Israel rejoice in Him that made him; and let the children of Zion exalt in their King. ³ Let them praise His name in the dance; let them sings praises to Him with timbrel and psaltery. ⁴ For the Lord takes pleasure in His people; and will exalt the meek with salvation. ⁵ The saints shall rejoice in glory; and shall exalt on their beds. ⁶ The high praises of God shall be in their mouth, and two-edged swords in their hands; ⁷ to execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments among the peoples; ⁸ to bind their kings with fetters, and their nobles with manacles of iron; ⁹ to execute on them the judgment written: this honor have all His saints. ¹⁵⁰ ¹ Alleluia. Praise God in His holy places; praise Him in the firmament of His power. ² Praise Him on account of His mighty acts; praise Him according to His abundant greatness. ³ Praise Him with the sound of a trumpet; praise Him with psaltery and harp. ⁴ Praise Him with timbrel and dance; praise Him with stringed instruments and the organ. ⁵ Praise Him with melodious cymbals; praise Him with loud cymbals. ⁶ Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.

^(151:0) This Psalm is a genuine one of David, though supernumerary, composed when he fought in single combat with Goliath.
^(151:1) I was small among my brothers, and youngest in my father's house: I tended my father's sheep.
^(151:2) My hands formed a musical instrument, and my fingers tuned a psaltery.
^(151:3) And who shall tell my Lord? The Lord Himself, He Himself hears.
^(151:4) He sent forth His angel, and took me from my father's sheep, and He anointed me with the oil of His anointing.
^(151:5) My brothers were handsome and tall; but the Lord did not take pleasure in them.
^(151:6) I went forth to meet the Philistine; and he cursed me by his idols.
^(151:7) But I drew his own sword, and beheaded him, and removed the reproach from the children of Israel.