Psalms 139:1-150:6

CLV(i) 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.