Psalms 127:1-150:6 {A Song of Ascents, Solomonic{ If Yahweh Himself is not building a house, Its builders toil futilely in it. If Yahweh Himself is not guarding a city, The sentinel is alert futilely."

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ {A Song of Ascents, Solomonic{ If Yahweh Himself is not building a house, Its builders toil futilely in it. If Yahweh Himself is not guarding a city, The sentinel is alert futilely." ² Futile is it for you to rise early, And stay up late, Eating the bread of grievous labor; Yet so is He giving to His beloved in their sleep." ³ Behold, sons are an allotment from Yahweh; The fruit of the belly is a reward." ⁴ Like arrows in the hand of a master, So are the sons of youthful parents." ⁵ Happy is the master who fills his quiver with them; They shall not be ashamed When they are speaking with enemies in the gateway. ¹²⁸ ¹ {A Song of Ascents{ Happy is everyone who is fearing Yahweh, Who is walking in His ways." ² The fruit of the labor of your palms shall you surely eat; Happy are you, and it will be well for you." ³ Your wife will be like a fruitful vine In the recesses of your house, Your sons like transplanted olive shoots Round about your table." ⁴ Behold that so a master is being blessed, Who is fearing Yahweh." ⁵ May Yahweh bless you from Zion; Thus see the goodness of Jerusalem All the days of your life, ⁶ And see the sons of your sons. Peace be on Israel. ¹²⁹ ¹ {A Song of Ascents{ Many times have they distressed me from my youth, May Israel now say, ² Many times have they distressed me from my youth, Yet they did not prevail against me." ³ On my arched back have the wicked plowed; They have lengthened their plowing lines. ⁴ Yahweh is just; He has cut away the ropes of the wicked. ⁵ They shall be put to shame and turned away backward, All who are hating Zion." ⁶ They shall become like grass on the housetops, Which dries up before it unfurls, ⁷ With which neither the one reaping can fill his palm, Nor the one binding sheaves his bosom pouch." ⁸ And those passing by do not even say, Yahweh's blessing be on you. Yet we do bless you all in the Name of Yahweh." ¹³⁰ ¹ {A Song of Ascents{ From the depths I call out to You, O Yahweh;" ² O Yahweh, do hear my voice; Let Your ears be attentive To the sound of my supplications." ³ If You should keep account of depravities, O Yah, O Yahweh, who should stand? ⁴ For with You is pardon That You may be devoutly feared. ⁵ I am expectant for Yahweh; my soul is expectant, And I wait for His word." ⁶ My soul longs for Yahweh More than sentinels for the morning, Yea, sentinels for the morning." ⁷ Wait, Israel, for Yahweh, For with Yahweh is benignity, And with Him abundant ransom." ⁸ And He Himself shall ransom Israel From all its depravities. ¹³¹ ¹ {A Song of Ascents, Davidic{ O Yahweh, my heart is not haughty; Nor are my eyes set high, And I do not walk in ways too great Or too difficult for me." ² Assuredly I have poised and stilled my soul Like a weaned child with his mother; Like a weaned child is my soul to me. ³ Wait, Israel, for Yahweh, Henceforth and unto the eon." ¹³² ¹ {A Song of Ascents{ Remember, O Yahweh, concerning David, All his humiliation, ² How he swore to Yahweh And vowed to the Sturdy One of Jacob: ³ I shall assuredly not come into my tent house, Assuredly not go up to the cot of my berth, ⁴ Assuredly not give sleep to my eyes, Or slumber to my eyelids, ⁵ Until I should find a place for Yahweh, A Grand Tabernacle for the Sturdy One of Jacob." ⁶ Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah; We found it in the fields of Jaar." ⁷ Let us go to His Grand Tabernacle; Let us worship at His footstool. ⁸ Do arise, O Yahweh, to Your resting place, You and the coffer of Your strength." ⁹ Your priests, may they be clothed with righteousness, And Your benign ones, may they be jubilant." ¹⁰ For the sake of David, Your servant, O do not turn back from the face of Your anointed one." ¹¹ Yahweh has sworn to David the truth; He shall not turn back from it:Out of the fruit of your loin Shall I set One on your throne. ¹² If your sons should keep My covenant And My testimonies that I shall teach them, Their sons also unto the future, They shall sit on your throne." ¹³ For Yahweh has chosen Zion; He yearns for it as His dwelling place: ¹⁴ This is My resting place unto the future; Here shall I dwell, for I yearn for it." ¹⁵ Its provision shall I bless, yea bless; Its needy ones shall I satisfy with bread;" ¹⁶ Its priests shall I clothe with salvation, And its benign ones, they shall be jubilant, yea jubilant;" ¹⁷ There shall I make the horn of David sprout; I will arrange a lamp for My anointed one. ¹⁸ His enemies shall I clothe with shame, Yet his insignia shall blossom upon him." ¹³³ ¹ {A Song of Ascents, Davidic{ Behold, how good and how pleasant For brothers to dwell as one." ² It is like the good oil upon the head, Descending upon the beard, Aaron's beard, which is descending over the slit of his coats." ³ It is like the night mist of Hermon, Which is descending upon the mountain ranges of Zion, For there Yahweh has determined the blessing to be, Life for the eon." ¹³⁴ ¹ {A Song of Ascents{ Behold, bless Yahweh, all servants of Yahweh, Who are standing in Yahweh's House by night." ² Lift your hands toward the Sanctuary, And bless Yahweh." ³ May Yahweh bless you from Zion, Maker of the heavens and earth." ¹³⁵ ¹ Praise Yah. Praise the Name of Yahweh; Praise Him, servants of Yahweh, ² Who are standing in Yahweh's House, In the courts of the House of our Elohim." ³ Praise Yah, for Yahweh is good; Make melody to His Name, for it is pleasant." ⁴ For Yah chose Jacob for Himself, Israel for His special possession." ⁵ For I myself know that Yahweh is great, And our Lord is greater than all elohim." ⁶ All that Yahweh delights He does, In the heavens and on earth, In the seas and every abyss;" ⁷ He Who is causing vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth, He has made sluices for the rain, Who is bringing forth the wind from His treasure vaults." ⁸ He Who smote the firstborn of Egypt From human unto beast, ⁹ He sent signs and miracles Into your midst, Egypt, Against Pharaoh and all his servants;" ¹⁰ He Who smote many nations And killed staunch kings, ¹¹ Sihon, king of the Amorite, And Og, king of Bashan, And all the kingdoms of Canaan, ¹² He gave their country as an allotment, An allotment for Israel, His people." ¹³ O Yahweh, Your Name is for the eon; O Yahweh, Your Remembrance is for generation after generation." ¹⁴ For Yahweh shall adjudicate His people, And He shall show Himself merciful over His servants." ¹⁵ The fetishes of the nations are silver and gold, The work of human hands." ¹⁶ They have a mouth, but they cannot speak; They have eyes, but they cannot see;" ¹⁷ They have ears, but they cannot listen; Indeed, there is really no spirit in their mouth." ¹⁸ Like them, may their makers become, All who are trusting in them." ¹⁹ House of Israel, bless Yahweh; House of Aaron, bless Yahweh;" ²⁰ House of the Levite, bless Yahweh; You who are fearing Yahweh, bless Yahweh." ²¹ Blessed be Yahweh from Zion, Who is tabernacling in Jerusalem. Praise Yah." ¹³⁶ ¹ Give acclamation to Yahweh, for He is good, For His benignity is eonian;" ² Give acclamation to the Elohim of elohim, For His benignity is eonian;" ³ Give acclamation to the Lord of lords, For His benignity is eonian;" ⁴ To the One alone working great marvels, For His benignity is eonian;" ⁵ To the One making the heavens with understanding, For His benignity is eonian;" ⁶ To the One situating the earth above the waters, For His benignity is eonian;" ⁷ To the One making the great lights, For His benignity is eonian;" ⁸ The sun for ruling over the day, For His benignity is eonian;" ⁹ The moon and stars for ruling over the night, For His benignity is eonian;" ¹⁰ To the One smiting Egypt in their firstborn, For His benignity is eonian;" ¹¹ And Who brought forth Israel from their midst, For His benignity is eonian;" ¹² By a steadfast hand and by an outstretched arm, For His benignity is eonian;" ¹³ To the One severing the Sea of Weeds into severed parts, For His benignity is eonian;" ¹⁴ And Who caused Israel to pass through its midst, For His benignity is eonian;" ¹⁵ And Who shook off Pharaoh and his army into the Sea of Weeds, For His benignity is eonian;" ¹⁶ To the One conducting His people through the wilderness, For His benignity is eonian;" ¹⁷ To the One smiting great kings, For His benignity is eonian;" ¹⁸ And Who killed prestigious kings, For His benignity is eonian;" ¹⁹ Sihon king of the Amorite, For His benignity is eonian;" ²⁰ And Og king of Bashan, For His benignity is eonian;" ²¹ He gave their country as an allotment, For His benignity is eonian;" ²² An allotment to Israel, His servant, For His benignity is eonian;" ²³ Who in our lowliness remembered us, For His benignity is eonian;" ²⁴ And Who tore us off from our foes, For His benignity is eonian;" ²⁵ Who is giving nourishment to all flesh, For His benignity is eonian;" ²⁶ Give acclamation to the El of the heavens, For His benignity is eonian." ¹³⁷ ¹ By the streams of Babylon, There we sat down and lamented, While we remembered Zion." ² On the oleanders in its midst We hung our harps, ³ For there our captors asked us for words of song, And our enslavers for rejoicing:Sing for us from a song of Zion." ⁴ How should we sing a song of Yahweh On foreign ground? ⁵ If I should forget you, Jerusalem, May my right hand forget its skill." ⁶ May my tongue cling to my palate, If I should not remember you, If I should not elevate Jerusalem Over my principal rejoicings." ⁷ Remember, O Yahweh, against Edom's sons, In Jerusalem's day, Those who were saying, Raze it, raze it, Even to its foundation." ⁸ Daughter of Babylon, the devastator, Happy is he who shall repay you With your dealing which you dealt to us." ⁹ Happy is he who shall hold and shatter your unweaned children Against the crag. ¹³⁸ ¹ {Davidic{ I shall acclaim You, O Yahweh, with all my heart; In front of the elohim shall I make melody to You." ² I shall worship toward Your holy Temple And shall acclaim Your Name For Your benignity and for Your faithfulness, For You have magnified Your Name, Your promise, over all else." ³ In the day I call, then You answer me; You make me dauntless with strength in my soul." ⁴ May all the kings of the earth acclaim You, O Yahweh, When they hear the promises of Your mouth;" ⁵ And may they sing of Yahweh's ways, For great is the glory of Yahweh." ⁶ Though Yahweh is exalted, yet He discerns the lowly, And He knows the haughty one from afar." ⁷ If I walk within distress, You revive me; You send forth Your hand against the anger of my enemies, And You save me with Your right hand." ⁸ Yahweh, He shall perfect in my future; O Yahweh, Your benignity is for the eon. The works of Your hands, O do not relax. {Permanent{ " ¹³⁹ ¹ {A Davidic Psalm{ O Yahweh, You have investigated me and are knowing me;" ² You Yourself know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought from afar; ³ My path and my pallet You have measured off, And for all my ways You have made provision." ⁴ For though there be no declaration on my tongue, Behold, O Yahweh, You know it all." ⁵ Back and front, You have besieged me, And You set Your palm upon me." ⁶ Such knowledge is marvelous beyond me; It is impregnable; I cannot reach to it. ⁷ Whither could I go from Your spirit, And whither could I run away from Your presence? ⁸ If I should climb to the heavens, You are there, And should I make my berth in the unseen, behold, You are there." ⁹ Should I wear the wings of dawn, Should I tabernacle in the hindmost sea, ¹⁰ Even there Your hand would guide me, And Your right hand, it would hold me." ¹¹ If I said, Surely darkness, it snuffed me up, And night is belted about me, ¹² Even darkness, it is not darkening to You, And the night, as the day, is giving light; Darkness is as light." ¹³ For You Yourself achieved the making of my innermost being; You overshadowed me in my mother's belly. ¹⁴ I shall acclaim You, for You are fearfully distinguished; Marvelous are Your works. You have known my soul very thoroughly;" ¹⁵ My skeleton was not suppressed from You, When I was made in concealment; I was woven together as in the nether parts of the earth." ¹⁶ Your eyes saw my embryo, And my days, all of them were written upon Your scroll; The days were formed When there was not one of them." ¹⁷ How precious are Your thoughts to me, O El, How plentiful are their sums:" ¹⁸ If I number them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with You." ¹⁹ O that You would despatch the wicked, O Eloah, And bloodthirsty men would withdraw from me, ²⁰ Those who speak of You with evil scheming; They bear words of hypocrisy against You. ²¹ Do I not hate those hating You, O Yahweh, And with those rising against You, am I not disgusted? ²² With complete hatred I hate them; They have become enemies to me. ²³ Search me out, O El, and know my heart; Test me, and know my disquieting thoughts." ²⁴ See if a grievous way is in me, And guide me in the way eonian. {Permanent{ " ¹⁴⁰ ¹ {A Davidic Psalm{ Liberate me, O Yahweh, from the evil person; From the man of violence may You preserve me;" ² Those who devise evil deeds in their heart, All day long they stir up warfare;" ³ They whet their tongue like a serpent; The venom of an asp is under their lips. {Interlude{ ⁴ Keep me, O Yahweh, from the hands of the wicked one; From the man of violence may You preserve me, Those who devise ways to trip up my footsteps." ⁵ Proud men bury a snare for me, And they spread lines, a net at the side of my route; They set traps for me. {Interlude{ " ⁶ I avow to Yahweh, You are my El; Do give ear, O Yahweh, to the voice of my supplications." ⁷ O Yahweh, my Lord, the Strength of my salvation, You overshadow my head in the day of the weapon." ⁸ Do not grant, O Yahweh, the yearnings of the wicked one; Do not promote his scheme. Let them not be exalted." ⁹ As for the heads of those round about me, May the misery done by their lips cover them." ¹⁰ May glowing embers slip down over them; May He cast them into the fire, Into chasms, so they may rise no more." ¹¹ May a man of slander no more become established in the land; A man of violence, may evil hunt him with jolt after jolt." ¹² I know that Yahweh shall execute adjudication for the humbled, Right judgment for the needy." ¹³ Yea, the righteous, they shall acclaim Your Name; The upright shall dwell in Your presence." ¹⁴¹ ¹ {A Davidic Psalm{ O Yahweh, I call on You; do hurry to me; Do give ear to my voice when I call on You." ² May my prayer be established as incense before You, The lifting of my palms as the evening approach present." ³ Do set, O Yahweh, a sentinel for my mouth, A preserver at the door of my lips." ⁴ O do not turn my heart aside to evil speaking, To practice activities in wickedness with men who are contrivers of lawlessness. And may I dine not at all on their pleasant things;" ⁵ Should the righteous one beat me, it were a kindness, And should he reprove me; it were oil on my head; May my head not repudiate it at all. But still, my prayer is against their evil deeds;" ⁶ When they are released into the hands of Our Crag, their Grand Judge, Then they will hear my sayings and see that they are pleasant." ⁷ As when one is harrowing and rending the earth, So our bones are dispersed at the mouth of the unseen." ⁸ Indeed toward You, O Yahweh my Lord, are my eyes directed; In You I take refuge; do not empty out my soul." ⁹ Keep me from the grip of the snare they have set to trap me, And from the traps of contrivers of lawlessness." ¹⁰ May the wicked ones each fall into his own nooses, While I pass by altogether." ¹⁴² ¹ {Contemplating, Davidic{ {When he was in the Cave; a Prayer{ With my voice am I crying out to Yahweh; With my voice am I supplicating to Yahweh." ² I am pouring out my concern before Him; My distress am I telling before Him. ³ When my spirit droops within me, Then it is You Yourself Who knows my tracks; In the path that I am walking, They have buried a snare for me." ⁴ I look to the right, and I see, Yet there is no one recognizing my need; Hope of fleeing has perished from me; There is no one caring for my soul." ⁵ I cry out to You, O Yahweh; I say, You are my Refuge, My Portion in the land of the living." ⁶ Do attend to my appeal, For I am exceedingly impoverished; Rescue me from my persecutors, For they are tougher than I." ⁷ Bring my soul forth from this enclosure To acclaim Your Name; The righteous shall compass about me, For You shall deal bountifully with me." ¹⁴³ ¹ {A Davidic Psalm{ O Yahweh, hear my prayer; Do give ear to my supplications; In Your faithfulness answer me, in Your righteousness." ² O do not enter into judgment with Your servant, For no living one at all can be righteous before You." ³ For the enemy has persecuted my soul; He has crushed my life to the earth; He has made me sit in utter darkness like the eonian dead. ⁴ My spirit is drooping within me; In my midst my heart is dejected. ⁵ Yet I remember the days aforetime; I soliloquize upon all Your deeds; Upon the works of Your hands am I meditating. ⁶ I spread forth my hands to You; My soul looks to You like a fainting land. {Interlude{ ⁷ Quickly answer me, O Yahweh; my spirit is exhausted; O do not conceal Your face from me, Or I would become comparable with descenders to the crypt." ⁸ Let me hear of Your benignity in each morning, For I trust in You; Let me know that way I should go, For I lift up my soul to You." ⁹ Rescue me from my enemies, O Yahweh; To You I look for cover." ¹⁰ Teach me to do what is acceptable to You, For You are my Elohim; May You guide me with Your good spirit in an upright land." ¹¹ For Your Name's sake, O Yahweh, may You revive me; In Your righteousness, may You bring my soul forth from distress." ¹² In Your benignity may You efface my enemies; And You will destroy all the foes of my soul, For I am Your servant." ¹⁴⁴ ¹ {Davidic{ Blessed be Yahweh, my Rock, Who is teaching my hands for the attack, My fingers for the battle, ² My Benignity and my Fastness, My Impregnable Retreat and my Deliverance for me, My Shield; in Him I take refuge, The One bringing down the peoples under me." ³ O Yahweh, what is a human that You should acknowledge him, A son of a mortal that You should take account of him? ⁴ A human is like a transitory breath, His days like a passing shadow." ⁵ O Yahweh, stretch out Your heavens that You may descend; Touch the mountains that they may smoke." ⁶ Make lightning flash that You may scatter them; Send Your arrows that You may discomfit them. ⁷ Put forth Your hands from the height; Set me loose and rescue me from the great waters, From the hand of a foreigner's sons, ⁸ Whose mouth speaks hypocrisy, And their right hand is a false right hand." ⁹ O Elohim, let me sing a new song to You; On a zither of ten strings let me make melody to You, ¹⁰ Who are giving salvation to kings, Who are setting loose His servant David from the vicious sword." ¹¹ Set me loose and rescue me from the hand of a foreigner's sons, Whose mouth speaks hypocrisy, And their right hand is a false right hand:" ¹² That our sons be like plants grown great in their youth, Our daughters like cornerposts sculptured as in palace style, ¹³ Our garners be filled with harvested crops from one sort to every sort, Our flock become thousands, ten thousands in our open places, ¹⁴ And our domestic animals strong for bearing burdens There will be no breaching of walls, And there will be no going forth in defeat; There will be no fearful yelling in our squares." ¹⁵ Happy is the people for whom it is thus; Happy is the people whose Elohim is Yahweh. ¹⁴⁵ ¹ {A Davidic Praise{ I shall exalt You, my Elohim the King; Let me bless Your Name for the eon and further." ² In every day I shall bless You; Let me praise Your Name for the eon and further. ³ Great is Yahweh, and praised exceedingly, And as to His greatness there is no fathoming." ⁴ May one generation laud Your works to another generation, And of Your masterful deeds may they tell." ⁵ On the honor glorious of Your splendor And the words of Your marvelous works let me meditate. ⁶ The strength of Your fear inspiring deeds may they affirm, And Your great achievements let me relate." ⁷ The remembrance of Your great goodness, may they utter, And in Your righteousness may they be jubilant." ⁸ Gracious and compassionate is Yahweh, Slow to anger and with great benignity." ⁹ Yahweh is good to all, And His compassions are over all His works." ¹⁰ May all Your works acclaim You, O Yahweh, And let Your benign ones bless You." ¹¹ The glory of Your kingdom, may they affirm, And of Your powerful mastery may they speak, ¹² To make known His masterful deeds to the sons of humanity, And the glorious honor of His kingdom." ¹³ Your kingdom is a kingdom for all the eons, And Your dominion for every generation after generation. Faithful is Yahweh in all His words, And benign in all His works." ¹⁴ Supporting is Yahweh all who are falling And is making erect all who are bent down. ¹⁵ The eyes of all place hopefulness on You, And You are giving them their food in its season, ¹⁶ Opening Your hand And satisfying every living creature with benevolence. ¹⁷ Righteous is Yahweh in all His ways, And benign in all His works." ¹⁸ Near is Yahweh to all calling on Him, To all who are calling on Him in truth." ¹⁹ Benevolence for those fearing Him is He providing, And their imploring is He hearing and is saving them." ²⁰ Guarding is Yahweh all who are loving Him, Yet all the wicked shall He exterminate." ²¹ The praise of Yahweh, may my mouth speak, And may all flesh bless His holy Name For the eon and further." ¹⁴⁶ ¹ Praise Yah; Praise Yahweh, O my soul." ² Let me praise Yahweh throughout my life; Let me make melody to my Elohim through all my future. ³ Do not trust in patrons, In a son of humanity with whom there is no salvation." ⁴ His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return to his ground; In that day his reflections perish." ⁵ Happy is he who has the El of Jacob as his Help; His hopefulness is set on Yahweh his Elohim, ⁶ Maker of the heavens and earth, The sea and all that is in them, The Guardian of truth for the eons;" ⁷ He is the One executing right judgment for those being exploited, The Giver of bread to the famished, Yahweh, letting loose those who are bound, ⁸ Yahweh, unclosing the eyes of the blind, Yahweh, making erect those who are bent down, Yahweh, loving those who are righteous, ⁹ Yahweh, Guardian over the sojourners; The orphan and the widow shall He bolster up, Yet the way of the wicked shall He overturn." ¹⁰ Yahweh shall reign for the eon, Your Elohim, O Zion, for generation after generation. Praise Yah." ¹⁴⁷ ¹ Praise Yah. Indeed it is good to make melody to our Elohim; Indeed it is pleasant to make comely praise. ² Yahweh is building up Jerusalem; He is collecting together the expelled of Israel, ³ The One healing the broken heart And binding up their grievous wounds; ⁴ The One counting the number of stars, He is calling them all by their names." ⁵ Great is our Lord and vast in vigor; As to His understanding, there is no enumeration of it." ⁶ Yahweh is bolstering up the humbled ones, Abasing the wicked to the earth." ⁷ Respond to Yahweh with acclamation; Make melody to our Elohim with the harp, ⁸ The One covering the heavens with thick clouds, The One preparing rain for the earth, The One sprouting grass on the mountains, ⁹ Giving its nourishment to the beasts, To the raven's young when they should call." ¹⁰ Not in the horse's mastery is He delighting; Not in the legs of a man is He placing approval; ¹¹ Yahweh is placing approval in those fearing Him, In those waiting for His benignity." ¹² Laud Yahweh, O Jerusalem; Praise your Elohim, O Zion, ¹³ For He has fortified the bars of your gates And has blessed your sons within you. ¹⁴ The One giving peace in your territory, He is satisfying you with the fat of wheat;" ¹⁵ The One sending His command to the earth, His word is running quickly;" ¹⁶ The One giving snow like wool, He is dispersing hoarfrost like ashes, ¹⁷ Flinging down His ice like morsels of bread; Who can stand before His cold blast? ¹⁸ He is sending His word and melts them; He is reversing His wind, and the waters flow." ¹⁹ He is telling His words to Jacob, His statutes and His ordinances to Israel." ²⁰ He has not done so for any other nation, And His ordinances, they do not know them at all. Praise Yah." ¹⁴⁸ ¹ Praise Yah. Praise Yahweh from the heavens; Praise Him in the heights. ² Praise Him, all His messengers; Praise Him, all His hosts." ³ Praise Him, sun and moon; Praise Him, all stars of light." ⁴ Praise Him, heavens of the heavens, And the waters that are above the heavens." ⁵ May they praise the Name of Yahweh, For He Himself determined, and they were created." ⁶ He makes them stand for the future, for the eon; He has set down a statute, and it shall not pass away." ⁷ Praise Yahweh from the earth, Sea monsters and every abyss, ⁸ Fire and hail, snow and fume, Tempestuous wind, performing His word, ⁹ Mountains and all hills, Fruit trees and all cedars, ¹⁰ Wild animal and every domestic beast, Reptile and winged bird, ¹¹ Kings of the earth and all national groups, Chiefs and all judges of the earth, ¹² Choice young men and virgins too, Old men along with youths." ¹³ May they praise the Name of Yahweh, For an Impregnable Retreat is His Name, His alone; His splendor is over the earth and heavens;" ¹⁴ He has raised up a horn for His people, Praise for all His benign ones, For the sons of Israel, a people near Him. Praise Yah." ¹⁴⁹ ¹ Praise Yah. Sing to Yahweh a new song, His praise in the assembly of the benign ones." ² May Israel rejoice in its Maker; May the sons of Zion exult in their King. ³ May they praise His Name in chorus; With tambourine and harp may they make melody to Him. ⁴ For Yahweh is placing approval on His people; He is making the humble beautiful with salvation. ⁵ May the benign ones be joyous in this glory; May they be jubilant upon their beds. ⁶ May exaltations of El be in their throat And a serrated sword in their hand, ⁷ To execute vengeance on the nations, Corrections on the national groups;" ⁸ To bind their kings with manacles And their glorious nobles with fetters of iron, ⁹ To execute the written judgment against them, This is the honor of all His benign ones. Praise Yah." ¹⁵⁰ ¹ Praise Yah. Praise El in His sanctuary; Praise Him in His powerful atmosphere. ² Praise Him in accord with His masterful deeds; Praise Him according to His vast greatness. ³ Praise Him with the blowing of a trumpet; Praise Him with zither and harp. ⁴ Praise Him with tambourine and in chorus; Praise Him with lute and shepherd's pipe. ⁵ Praise Him with resounding cymbals; Praise Him with shouting cymbals. ⁶ May all that has breath praise Yah. Praise Yah.