Psalms 60:1-150:6 Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, for the inscription of a title, to David himself, for doctrine, (60:2) When he set fire to Mesopotamia of Syria and Sobal: and Joab returned and slew of Edom, in the vale of the saltpits, twelve thousand men. (60:3) O God, thou hast cast us off, and hast destroyed us; thou hast been angry, and hast had mercy on us.

DouayRheims⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, for the inscription of a title, to David himself, for doctrine, ^(60:2) When he set fire to Mesopotamia of Syria and Sobal: and Joab returned and slew of Edom, in the vale of the saltpits, twelve thousand men. ^(60:3) O God, thou hast cast us off, and hast destroyed us; thou hast been angry, and hast had mercy on us. ² ^(60:4) Thou hast moved the earth, and hast troubled it: heal thou the breaches thereof, for it has been moved. ³ ^(60:5) Thou hast shewn thy people hard things; thou hast made us drink the wine of sorrow. ⁴ ^(60:6) Thou hast given a warning to them that fear thee: that they may flee from before the bow: That thy beloved may be delivered. ⁵ ^(60:7) Save me with thy right hand, and hear me. ⁶ ^(60:8) God hath spoken in his holy place: I will rejoice, and I will divide Sichem; and will mete out the vale of tabernacles. ⁷ ^(60:9) Galaad is mine, and Manasses is mine: and Ephraim is the strength of my head. Juda is my king: ⁸ ^(60:10) Moab is the pot of my hope. Into Edom will I stretch out my shoe: to me the foreigners are made subject. ⁹ ^(60:11) Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom? ¹⁰ ^(60:12) Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go out with our armies? ¹¹ ^(60:13) Give us help from trouble: for vain is the salvation of man. ¹² ^(60:14) Through God we shall do mightily: and he shall bring to nothing them that afflict us. ⁶¹ ¹ Unto the end, in hymns, for David. ^(61:2) Hear, O God, my supplication: be attentive to my prayer. ² ^(61:3) To thee have I cried from the ends of the earth: when my heart was in anguish, thou hast exalted me on a rock. Thou hast conducted me; ³ ^(61:4) For thou hast been my hope; a tower of strength against the face of the enemy. ⁴ ^(61:5) In thy tabernacle I shall dwell for ever: I shall be protected under the covert of thy wings. ⁵ ^(61:6) For thou, my God, hast heard my prayer: thou hast given an inheritance to them that fear thy name. ⁶ ^(61:7) Thou wilt add days to the days of the king: his years even to generation and generation. ⁷ ^(61:8) He abideth for ever in the sight of God: his mercy and truth who shall search? ⁸ ^(61:9) So will I sing a psalm to thy name for ever and ever: that I may pay my vows from day to day. ⁶² ¹ Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of David. ^(62:2) Shall not my soul be subject to God? for from him is my salvation. ² ^(62:3) For he is my God and my saviour: he is my protector, I shall be moved no more. ³ ^(62:4) How long do you rush in upon a man? you all kill, as if you were thrusting down a leaning wall, and a tottering fence. ⁴ ^(62:5) But they have thought to cast away my price; I ran in thirst: they blessed with their mouth, but cursed with their heart. ⁵ ^(62:6) But be thou, O my soul, subject to God: for from him is my patience. ⁶ ^(62:7) For he is my God and my saviour: he is my helper, I shall not be moved. ⁷ ^(62:8) In God is my salvation and my glory: he is the God of my help, and my hope is in God. ⁸ ^(62:9) Trust in him, all ye congregation of people: pour out your hearts before him. God is our helper for ever. ⁹ ^(62:10) But vain are the sons of men, the sons of men are liars in the balances: that by vanity they may together deceive. ¹⁰ ^(62:11) Trust not in iniquity, and cover not robberies: if riches abound, set not your heart upon them. ¹¹ ^(62:12) God hath spoken once, these two things have I heard, that power belongeth to God, ¹² ^(62:13) And mercy to thee, O Lord; for thou wilt render to every man according to his works. ⁶³ ¹ A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom. ^(63:2) O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways! ² ^(63:3) In a desert land, and where there is no way, and no water: so in the sanctuary have I come before thee, to see thy power and thy glory. ³ ^(63:4) For thy mercy is better than lives: thee my lips will praise. ⁴ ^(63:5) Thus will I bless thee all my life long: and in thy name I will lift up my hands. ⁵ ^(63:6) Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness: and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips. ⁶ ^(63:7) If I have remembered thee upon my bed, I will meditate on thee in the morning: ⁷ ^(63:8) Because thou hast been my helper. And I will rejoice under the covert of thy wings: ⁸ ^(63:9) My soul hath stuck close to thee: thy right hand hath received me. ⁹ ^(63:10) But they have fought my soul in vain, they shall go into the lower parts of the earth: ¹⁰ ^(63:11) They shall be delivered into the hands of the sword, they shall be the portions of foxes. ¹¹ ^(63:12) But the king shall rejoice in God, all they shall be praised that swear by him: because the mouth is stopped of them that speak wicked things. ⁶⁴ ¹ Unto the end, a psalm for David. ^(64:2) Hear O God, my prayer, when I make supplication to thee: deliver my soul from the fear of the enemy. ² ^(64:3) Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity. ³ ^(64:4) For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing, ⁴ ^(64:5) To shoot in secret the undefiled. ⁵ ^(64:6) They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have said: Who shall see them? ⁶ ^(64:7) They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their search. Man shall come to a deep heart: ⁷ ^(64:8) And God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds: ⁸ ^(64:9) And their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them were troubled; ⁹ ^(64:10) And every man was afraid. And they declared the works of God, and understood his doings. ¹⁰ ^(64:11) The just shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall hope in him: and all the upright in heart shall be praised. ⁶⁵ ¹ To the end, a psalm of David. The canticle of Jeremias and Ezechiel to the people of the captivity, when they began to go out. ^(65:2) A hymn, O God, becometh thee in Sion: and a vow shall be paid to thee in Jerusalem. ² ^(65:3) O hear my prayer: all flesh shall come to thee. ³ ^(65:4) The words of the wicked have prevailed over us: and thou wilt pardon our transgressions. ⁴ ^(65:5) Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen and taken to thee: he shall dwell in thy courts. We shall be filled with the good things of thy house; holy is thy temple, ⁵ ^(65:6) Wonderful in justice. Hear us, O God our saviour, who art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and in the sea afar off. ⁶ ^(65:7) Thou who preparest the mountains by thy strength, being girded with power: ⁷ ^(65:8) Who troublest the depth of the sea, the noise of its waves. The Gentiles shall be troubled, ⁸ ^(65:9) And they that dwell in the uttermost borders shall be afraid at thy signs: thou shalt make the outgoings of the morning and of the evening to be joyful. ⁹ ^(65:10) Thou hast visited the earth, and hast plentifully watered it; thou hast many ways enriched it. The river of God is filled with water, thou hast prepared their food: for so is its preparation. ¹⁰ ^(65:11) Fill up plentifully the streams thereof, multiply its fruits; it shall spring up and rejoice in its showers. ¹¹ ^(65:12) Thou shalt bless the crown of the year of thy goodness: and thy fields shall be filled with plenty. ¹² ^(65:13) The beautiful places of the wilderness shall grow fat: and the hills shall be girded about with joy, ¹³ ^(65:14) The rams of the flock are clothed, and the vales shall abound with corn: they shall shout, yea they shall sing a hymn. ⁶⁶ ¹ Unto the end, a canticle of a psalm of the resurrection. Shout with joy to God, all the earth, ² Sing ye a psalm to his name; give glory to his praise. ³ Say unto God, How terrible are thy works, O Lord! in the multitude of thy strength thy enemies shall lie to thee. ⁴ Let all the earth adore thee, and sing to thee: let it sing a psalm to thy name. ⁵ Come and see the works of God; who is terrible in his counsels over the sons of men. ⁶ Who turneth the sea into dry land, in the river they shall pass on foot: there shall we rejoice in him. ⁷ Who by his power ruleth for ever: his eyes behold the nations; let not them that provoke him be exalted in themselves. ⁸ O bless our God, ye Gentiles: and make the voice of his praise to be heard. ⁹ Who hath set my soul to live: and hath not suffered my feet to be moved: ¹⁰ For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us by fire, as silver is tried. ¹¹ Thou hast brought us into a net, thou hast laid afflictions on our back: ¹² Thou hast set men over our heads. We have passed through fire and water, and thou hast brought us out into a refreshment. ¹³ I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows, ¹⁴ Which my lips have uttered, And my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble. ¹⁵ I will offer up to thee holocausts full of marrow, with burnt offerings of rams: I will offer to thee bullocks with goats. ¹⁶ Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will tell you what great things he hath done for my soul. ¹⁷ I cried to him with my mouth: and I extolled him with my tongue. ¹⁸ If I have looked at iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. ¹⁹ Therefore hath God heard me, and hath attended to the voice of my supplication. ²⁰ Blessed be God, who hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me. ⁶⁷ ¹ Unto the end, in hymns, a psalm of a canticle for David. ^(67:2) May God have mercy on us, and bless us: may he cause the light of his countenance to shine upon us, and may he have mercy on us. ² ^(67:3) That we may know thy way upon earth: thy salvation in all nations. ³ ^(67:4) Let people confess to thee, O God: let all people give praise to thee. ⁴ ^(67:5) Let the nations be glad and rejoice: for thou judgest the people with justice, and directest the nations upon earth. ⁵ ^(67:6) Let the people, O God, confess to thee: let all the people give praise to thee: ⁶ ^(67:7) The earth hath yielded her fruit. May God, our God bless us, ⁷ ^(67:8) May God bless us: and all the ends of the earth fear him. ⁶⁸ ¹ Unto the end, a psalm of a canticle for David himself. ^(68:2) Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered: and let them that hate him flee from before his face. ² ^(68:3) As smoke vanisheth, so let them vanish away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. ³ ^(68:4) And let the just feast, and rejoice before God: and be delighted with gladness. ⁴ ^(68:5) Sing ye to God, sing a psalm to his name, make a way for him who ascendeth upon the west: the Lord is his name. Rejoice ye before him: but the wicked shall be troubled at his presence, ⁵ ^(68:6) Who is the father of orphans, and the judge of widows. God in his holy place: ⁶ ^(68:7) God who maketh men of one manner to dwell in a house: Who bringeth out them that were bound in strength; in like manner them that provoke, that dwell in sepulchres. ⁷ ^(68:8) O God, when thou didst go forth in the sight of thy people, when thou didst pass through the desert: ⁸ ^(68:9) The earth was moved, and the heavens dropped at the presence of the God of Sina, at the presence of the God of Israel. ⁹ ^(68:10) Thou shalt set aside for thy inheritance a free rain, O God: and it was weakened, but thou hast made it perfect. ¹⁰ ^(68:11) In it shall thy animals dwell; in thy sweetness, O God, thou hast provided for the poor. ¹¹ ^(68:12) The Lord shall give the word to them that preach good tidings with great power. ¹² ^(68:13) The king of powers is of the beloved, of the beloved; and the beauty of the house shall divide spoils. ¹³ ^(68:14) If you sleep among the midst of lots, you shall be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and the hinder parts of her back with the paleness of gold. ¹⁴ ^(68:15) When he that is in heaven appointeth kings over her, they shall be whited with snow in Selmon. ¹⁵ ^(68:16) The mountain of God is a fat mountain. A curdled mountain, a fat mountain. ¹⁶ ^(68:17) Why suspect, ye curdled mountains? A mountain in which God is well pleased to dwell: for there the Lord shall dwell unto the end. ¹⁷ ^(68:18) The chariot of God is attended by ten thousands; thousands of them that rejoice: the Lord is among them in Sina, in the holy place. ¹⁸ ^(68:19) Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive; thou hast received gifts in men. Yea for those also that do not believe, the dwelling of the Lord God. ¹⁹ ^(68:20) Blessed be the Lord day by day: the God of our salvation will make our journey prosperous to us. ²⁰ ^(68:21) Our God is the God of salvation: and of the Lord, of the Lord are the issues from death. ²¹ ^(68:22) But God shall break the heads of his enemies: the hairy crown of them that walk on in their sins. ²² ^(68:23) The Lord said: I will turn them from Basan, I will turn them into the depth of the sea: ²³ ^(68:24) That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thy enemies; the tongue of thy dogs be red with the same. ²⁴ ^(68:25) They have seen thy goings, O God, the goings of my God: of my king who is in his sanctuary. ²⁵ ^(68:26) Princes went before joined with singers, in the midst of young damsels playing on timbrels. ²⁶ ^(68:27) In the churches bless ye God the Lord, from the fountains of Israel. ²⁷ ^(68:28) There is Benjamin a youth, in ecstasy of mind. The princes of Juda are their leaders: the princes of Zabulon, the princes of Nephthali. ²⁸ ^(68:29) Command thy strength, O God confirm, O God, what thou hast wrought in us. ²⁹ ^(68:30) From thy temple in Jerusalem, kings shall offer presents to thee. ³⁰ ^(68:31) Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds, the congregation of bulls with the kine of the people; who seek to exclude them who are tried with silver. Scatter thou the nations that delight in wars: ³¹ ^(68:32) Ambassadors shall come out of Egypt: Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands to God. ³² ^(68:33) Sing to God, ye kingdoms of the earth: sing ye to the Lord: Sing ye to God, ³³ ^(68:34) Who mounteth above the heaven of heavens, to the east. Behold he will give to his voice the voice of power: ³⁴ ^(68:35) Give ye glory to God for Israel, his magnificence, and his power is in the clouds. ³⁵ ^(68:36) God is wonderful in his saints: the God of Israel is he who will give power and strength to his people. Blessed be God. ⁶⁹ ¹ Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David. ^(69:2) Save me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul. ² ^(69:3) I stick fast in the mire of the deep and there is no sure standing. I am come into the depth of the sea, and a tempest hath overwhelmed me. ³ ^(69:4) I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse, my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God. ⁴ ^(69:5) They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away. ⁵ ^(69:6) O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my offences are not hidden from thee: ⁶ ^(69:7) Let not them be ashamed for me, who look for thee, O Lord, the Lord of hosts. Let them not be confounded on my account, who seek thee, O God of Israel. ⁷ ^(69:8) Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. ⁸ ^(69:9) I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother. ⁹ ^(69:10) For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. ¹⁰ ^(69:11) And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to me. ¹¹ ^(69:12) And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them. ¹² ^(69:13) They that sat in the gate spoke against me: and they that drank wine made me their song. ¹³ ^(69:14) But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O Lord; for the time of thy good pleasure, O God. In the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. ¹⁴ ^(69:15) Draw me out of the mire, that I may not stick fast: deliver me from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. ¹⁵ ^(69:16) Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep water swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. ¹⁶ ^(69:17) Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is kind; look upon me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. ¹⁷ ^(69:18) And turn not away thy face from thy servant: for I am in trouble, hear me speedily. ¹⁸ ^(69:19) Attend to my soul, and deliver it: save me because of my enemies. ¹⁹ ^(69:20) Thou knowest my reproach, and my confusion, and my shame. ²⁰ ^(69:21) In thy sight are all they that afflict me; my heart hath expected reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve together with me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort me, and I found none. ²¹ ^(69:22) And they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. ²² ^(69:23) Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense, and a stumblingblock. ²³ ^(69:24) Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back bend thou down always. ²⁴ ^(69:25) Pour out thy indignation upon them: and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. ²⁵ ^(69:26) Let their habitation be made desolate: and let there be none to dwell in their tabernacles. ²⁶ ^(69:27) Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds. ²⁷ ^(69:28) Add thou iniquity upon their iniquity: and let them not come into thy justice. ²⁸ ^(69:29) Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; and with the just let them not be written. ²⁹ ^(69:30) But I am poor and sorrowful: thy salvation, O God, hath set me up. ³⁰ ^(69:31) I will praise the name of God with a canticle: and I will magnify him with praise. ³¹ ^(69:32) And it shall please God better than a young calf, that bringeth forth horns and hoofs. ³² ^(69:33) Let the poor see and rejoice: seek ye God, and your soul shall live. ³³ ^(69:34) For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his prisoners. ³⁴ ^(69:35) Let the heavens and the earth praise him; the sea, and every thing that creepeth therein. ³⁵ ^(69:36) For God will save Sion, and the cities of Juda shall be built up. And they shall dwell there, and acquire it by inheritance. ³⁶ ^(69:37) And the seed of his servants shall possess it; and they that love his name shall dwell therein. ⁷⁰ ¹ Unto the end, a psalm for David, to bring to remembrance that the Lord saved him. ^(70:2) O God, come to my assistance; O Lord, make haste to help me. ² ^(70:3) Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek my soul: ^(70:4) Let them be turned backward, and blush for shame that desire evils to me: ³ ^(70:4) Let them be presently turned away blushing for shame that say to me: 'Tis well, 'tis well. ⁴ ^(70:5) Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee; and let such as love thy salvation say always: The Lord be magnified. ⁵ ^(70:6) But I am needy and poor; O God, help me. Thou art my helper and my deliverer: O lord, make no delay. ⁷¹ ¹ A psalm for David. Of the sons of Jonadab, and the former captives. In thee, O Lord, I have hoped, let me never be put to confusion: ² Deliver me in thy justice, and rescue me. Incline thy ear unto me, and save me. ³ Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a place of strength: that thou mayst make me safe. For thou art my firmament and my refuge. ⁴ Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the sinner, and out of the hand of the transgressor of the law and of the unjust. ⁵ For thou art my patience, O Lord: my hope, O Lord, from my youth. ⁶ By thee have I been confirmed from the womb: from my mother's womb thou art my protector. Of thee I shall continually sing: ⁷ I am become unto many as a wonder, but thou art a strong helper. ⁸ Let my mouth be filled with praise, that I may sing thy glory; thy greatness all the day long. ⁹ Cast me not off in the time of old age: when my strength shall fail, do not thou forsake me. ¹⁰ For my enemies have spoken against me; and they that watched my soul have consulted together, ¹¹ Saying: God hath forsaken him: pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver him. ¹² O God, be not thou far from me: O my God, make haste to my help. ¹³ Let them be confounded and come to nothing that detract my soul; let them be covered with confusion and blame that seek my hurt. ¹⁴ But I will always hope; and will add to all thy praise. ¹⁵ My mouth shall shew forth thy justice; thy salvation all the day long. Because I have not known learning, ¹⁶ I will enter into the powers of the Lord: O Lord, I will be mindful of thy justice alone. ¹⁷ Thou hast taught me, O God, from my youth: and till now I will declare thy wonderful works. ¹⁸ And unto old age and grey hairs: O God, forsake me not, Until I shew forth thy arm to all the generation that is to come: Thy power, ¹⁹ And thy justice, O God, even to the highest great things thou hast done: O God, who is like to thee? ²⁰ How great troubles hast thou shewn me, many and grievous: and turning thou hast brought me to life, and hast brought me back again from the depths of the earth: ²¹ Thou hast multiplied thy magnificence; and turning to me thou hast comforted me. ²² For I will also confess to thee thy truth with the instruments of psaltery: O God, I will sing to thee with the harp, thou holy one of Israel. ²³ My lips shall greatly rejoice, when I shall sing to thee; and my soul which thou hast redeemed. ²⁴ Yea and my tongue shall meditate on thy justice all the day; when they shall be confounded and put to shame that seek evils to me. ⁷² ¹ A psalm on Solomon. ^(72:2) Give to the king thy judgment, O God, and to the king's son thy justice: ² To judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with judgment. ³ Let the mountains receive peace for the people: and the hills justice. ⁴ He shall judge the poor of the people, and he shall save the children of the poor: and he shall humble the oppressor. ⁵ And he shall continue with the sun and before the moon, throughout all generations. ⁶ He shall come down like rain upon the fleece; and as showers falling gently upon the earth. ⁷ In his days shall justice spring up, and abundance of peace, till the moon be taken away. ⁸ And he shall rule from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. ⁹ Before him the Ethiopians shall fall down: and his enemies shall lick the ground. ¹⁰ The kings of Tharsis and the islands shall offer presents: the kings of the Arabians and of Saba shall bring gifts: ¹¹ And all kings of the earth shall adore him: all nations shall serve him. ¹² For he shall deliver the poor from the mighty: and the needy that had no helper. ¹³ He shall spare the poor and needy: and he shall save the souls of the poor. ¹⁴ He shall redeem their souls from usuries and iniquity: and their names shall be honourable in his sight. ¹⁵ And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Arabia, for him they shall always adore: they shall bless him all the day. ¹⁶ And there shall be a firmament on the earth on the tops of mountains, above Libanus shall the fruit thereof be exalted: and they of the city shall flourish like the grass of the earth. ¹⁷ Let his name be blessed for evermore: his name continueth before the sun. And in him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed: all nations shall magnify him. ¹⁸ Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone doth wonderful things. ¹⁹ And blessed be the name of his majesty for ever: and the whole earth shall be filled with his majesty. So be it. So be it. ²⁰ The praises of David, the son of Jesse, are ended. ⁷³ ¹ A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart! ² But my feet were almost moved; my steps had well nigh slipped. ³ Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners. ⁴ For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes. ⁵ They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men. ⁶ Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness. ⁷ Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart. ⁸ They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high. ⁹ They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth. ¹⁰ Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them. ¹¹ And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? ¹² Behold these are sinners; and yet, abounding in the world they have obtained riches. ¹³ And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent. ¹⁴ And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings. ¹⁵ If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children. ¹⁶ I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight: ¹⁷ Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends. ¹⁸ But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down. ¹⁹ How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity. ²⁰ As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing. ²¹ For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed: ²² And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not. ²³ I am become as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee. ²⁴ Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me. ²⁵ For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth? ²⁶ For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever. ²⁷ For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee. ²⁸ But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter of Sion. ⁷⁴ ¹ Understanding for Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off unto the end: why is thy wrath enkindled against the sheep of thy pasture? ² Remember thy congregation, which thou hast possessed from the beginning. The sceptre of thy inheritance which thou hast redeemed: mount Sion in which thou hast dwelt. ³ Lift up thy hands against their pride unto the end; see what things the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. ⁴ And they that hate thee have made their boasts, in the midst of thy solemnity. They have set up their ensigns for signs, ⁵ And they knew not both in the going out and on the highest top. As with axes in a wood of trees, ⁶ They have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down. ⁷ They have set fire to thy sanctuary: they have defiled the dwelling place of thy name on the earth. ⁸ They said in their heart, the whole kindred of them together: Let us abolish all the festival days of God from the land. ⁹ Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will know us no more. ¹⁰ How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to provoke thy name for ever? ¹¹ Why dost thou turn away thy hand: and thy right hand out of the midst of thy bosom for ever? ¹² But God is our king before ages: he hath wrought salvation in the midst of the earth. ¹³ Thou by thy strength didst make the sea firm: thou didst crush the heads of the dragons in the waters. ¹⁴ Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon: thou hast given him to be meat for the people of the Ethiopians. ¹⁵ Thou hast broken up the fountains and the torrents: thou hast dried up the Ethan rivers. ¹⁶ Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun. ¹⁷ Thou hast made all the borders of the earth: the summer and the spring were formed by thee. ¹⁸ Remember this, the enemy hath reproached the Lord: and a foolish people hath provoked thy name. ¹⁹ Deliver not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee: and forget not to the end the souls of thy poor. ²⁰ Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity. ²¹ Let not the humble be turned away with confusion: the poor and needy shall praise thy name. ²² Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with which the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day. ²³ Forget not the voices of thy enemies: the pride of them that hate thee ascendeth continually. ⁷⁵ ¹ Unto the end, corrupt not, a psalm of a canticle for Asaph. ^(75:2) We will praise thee, O God: we will praise, and we will call upon thy name. We will relate thy wondrous works: ² ^(75:3) When I shall take a time, I will judge justices. ³ ^(75:4) The earth is melted, and all that dwell therein: I have established the pillars thereof. ⁴ ^(75:5) I said to the wicked: Do not act wickedly: and to the sinners: Lift not up the horn. ⁵ ^(75:6) Lift not up your horn on high: speak not iniquity against God. ⁶ ^(75:7) For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert hills: ⁷ ^(75:8) For God is the judge. One he putteth down, and another he lifteth up: ⁸ ^(75:9) For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup of strong wine full of mixture. And he hath poured it out from this to that: but the dregs thereof are not emptied: all the sinners of the earth shall drink. ⁹ ^(75:10) But I will declare for ever: I will sing to the God of Jacob. ¹⁰ ^(75:11) And I will break all the horns of sinners: but the horns of the just shall be exalted. ⁷⁶ ¹ Unto the end, in praises, a psalm for Asaph: a canticle to the Assyrians. ^(76:2) In Judea God is known: his name is great in Israel. ² ^(76:3) And his place is in peace: and his abode in Sion: ³ ^(76:4) There hath he broken the powers of bows, the shield, the sword, and the battle. ⁴ ^(76:5) Thou enlightenest wonderfully from the everlasting hills. ⁵ ^(76:6) All the foolish of heart were troubled. They have slept their sleep; and all the men of riches have found nothing in their hands. ⁶ ^(76:7) At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, they have all slumbered that mounted on horseback. ⁷ ^(76:8) Thou art terrible, and who shall resist thee? from that time thy wrath. ⁸ ^(76:9) Thou hast caused judgment to be heard from heaven: the earth trembled and was still, ⁹ ^(76:10) When God arose in judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. ¹⁰ ^(76:11) For the thought of man shall give praise to thee: and the remainders of the thought shall keep holiday to thee. ¹¹ ^(76:12) Vow ye, and pay to the Lord your God: all you that are round about him bring presents. To him that is terrible, ¹² ^(76:13) Even to him who taketh away the spirit of princes: to the terrible with the kings of the earth. ⁷⁷ ¹ Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of Asaph. ^(77:2) I cried to the Lord with my voice; to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me. ² ^(77:3) In the days of my trouble I sought God, with my hands lifted up to him in the night, and I was not deceived. My soul refused to be comforted: ³ ^(77:4) I remembered God, and was delighted, and was exercised, and my spirit swooned away. ⁴ ^(77:5) My eyes prevented the watches: I was troubled, and I spoke not. ⁵ ^(77:6) I thought upon the days of old: and I had in my mind the eternal years. ⁶ ^(77:7) And I meditated in the night with my own heart: and I was exercised and I swept my spirit. ⁷ ^(77:8) Will God then cast off for ever? or will he never be more favourable again? ⁸ ^(77:9) Or will he cut off his mercy for ever, from generation to generation? ⁹ ^(77:10) Or will God forget to shew mercy? or will he in his anger shut up his mercies? ¹⁰ ^(77:11) And I said, Now have I begun: this is the change of the right hand of the most High. ¹¹ ^(77:12) I remembered the works of the Lord: for I will be mindful of thy wonders from the beginning. ¹² ^(77:13) And I will meditate on all thy works: and will be employed in thy inventions. ¹³ ^(77:14) Thy way, O God, is in the holy place: who is the great God like our God? ¹⁴ ^(77:15) Thou art the God that dost wonders. Thou hast made thy power known among the nations: ¹⁵ ^(77:16) With thy arm thou hast redeemed thy people the children of Jacob and of Joseph. ¹⁶ ^(77:17) The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee: and they were afraid, and the depths were troubled. ¹⁷ ^(77:18) Great was the noise of the waters: the clouds sent out a sound. For thy arrows pass: ¹⁸ ^(77:19) The voice of thy thunder in a wheel. Thy lightnings enlightened the world: the earth shook and trembled. ¹⁹ ^(77:20) Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in many waters: and thy footsteps shall not be known. ²⁰ ^(77:21) Thou hast conducted thy people like sheep, by the hand of Moses and Aaron. ⁷⁸ ¹ Understanding for Asaph. Attend, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. ² I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning. ³ How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us. ⁴ They have not been hidden from their children, in another generation. Declaring the praises of the Lord, and his powers, and his wonders which he hath done. ⁵ And he set up a testimony in Jacob: and made a law in Israel. How great things he commanded our fathers, that they should make the same known to their children: ⁶ That another generation might know them. The children that should be born and should rise up, and declare them to their children. ⁷ That they may put their hope in God and may not forget the works of God: and may seek his commandments. ⁸ That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God. ⁹ The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have turned back in the day of battle. ¹⁰ They kept not the covenant of God: and in his law they would not walk. ¹¹ And they forgot his benefits, and his wonders that he had shewn them. ¹² Wonderful things did he do in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Tanis. ¹³ He divided the sea and brought them through: and he made the waters to stand as in a vessel. ¹⁴ And he conducted them with a cloud by day: and all the night with a light of fire. ¹⁵ He struck the rock in the wilderness: and gave them to drink, as out of the great deep. ¹⁶ He brought forth water out of the rock: and made streams run down as rivers. ¹⁷ And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water. ¹⁸ And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires. ¹⁹ And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? ²⁰ Because he struck the rock, and the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. Can he also give bread, or provide a table for his people? ²¹ Therefore the Lord heard, and was angry: and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel. ²² Because they believed not in God: and trusted not in his salvation. ²³ And he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of heaven. ²⁴ And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the bread of heaven. ²⁵ Man ate the bread of angels: he sent them provisions in abundance. ²⁶ He removed the south wind from heaven: and by his power brought in the southwest wind. ²⁷ And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea. ²⁸ And they fell in the midst of their camp, round about their pavilions. ²⁹ So they did eat, and were filled exceedingly, and he gave them their desire: ³⁰ they were not defrauded of that which they craved. As yet their meat was in their mouth: ³¹ And the wrath of God came upon them. And he slew the fat ones amongst them, and brought down the chosen men of Israel. ³² In all these things they sinned still: and they behaved not for his wondrous works. ³³ And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste. ³⁴ When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and came to him early in the morning. ³⁵ And they remembered that God was their helper: and the most high God their redeemer. ³⁶ And they loved him with their mouth: and with their tongue they lied unto him: ³⁷ But their heart was not right with him: nor were they counted faithful in his covenant. ³⁸ But he is merciful, and will forgive their sins: and will not destroy them. And many a time did he turn away his anger: and did not kindle all his wrath. ³⁹ And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not. ⁴⁰ How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water? ⁴¹ And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one of Israel. ⁴² They remembered not his hand, in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of him that afflicted them: ⁴³ How he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Tanis. ⁴⁴ And he turned their rivers into blood, and their showers that they might not drink. ⁴⁵ He sent amongst them divers sorts of flies, which devoured them: and frogs which destroyed them. ⁴⁶ And he gave up their fruits to the blast, and their labours to the locust. ⁴⁷ And he destroyed their vineyards with hail, and their mulberry trees with hoarfrost. ⁴⁸ And he gave up their cattle to the hail, and their stock to the fire. ⁴⁹ And he sent upon them the wrath of his indignation: indignation and wrath and trouble, which he sent by evil angels. ⁵⁰ He made a way for a path to his anger: he spared not their souls from death, and their cattle he shut up in death. ⁵¹ And he killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: the firstfruits of all their labour in the tabernacles of Cham. ⁵² And he took away his own people as sheep: and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. ⁵³ And he brought them out in hope and they feared not: and the sea overwhelmed their enemies. ⁵⁴ And he brought them into the mountain of his sanctuary: the mountain which his right hand had purchased. And he cast out the Gentiles before them: and by lot divided to them their land by a line of distribution. ⁵⁵ And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles. ⁵⁶ Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: and they kept not his testimonies. ⁵⁷ And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow. ⁵⁸ They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to jealousy with their graven things. ⁵⁹ God heard, and despised them, and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing. ⁶⁰ And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, his tabernacle where he dwelt among men. ⁶¹ And he delivered their strength into captivity: and their beauty into the hands of the enemy. ⁶² And he shut up his people under the sword: and he despised his inheritance. ⁶³ Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not lamented. ⁶⁴ Their priests fell by the sword: and their widows did not mourn. ⁶⁵ And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine. ⁶⁶ And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts: he put them to an everlasting reproach. ⁶⁷ And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: ⁶⁸ But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved. ⁶⁹ And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land which he founded for ever. ⁷⁰ And he chose his servant David, and took him from the flocks of sheep: he brought him from following the ewes great with young, ⁷¹ To feed Jacob his servant and Israel his inheritance. ⁷² And he fed them in the innocence of his heart: and conducted them by the skilfulness of his hands. ⁷⁹ ¹ A psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathens are come into thy inheritance, they have defiled thy holy temple: they have made Jerusalem as a place to keep fruit. ² They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be meat for the fowls of the air: the flesh of thy saints for the beasts of the earth. ³ They have poured out their blood as water, round about Jerusalem and there was none to bury them. ⁴ We are become a reproach to our neighbours: a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. ⁵ How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry for ever: shall thy zeal be kindled like a fire? ⁶ Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that have not known thee: and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name. ⁷ Because they have devoured Jacob; and have laid waste his place. ⁸ Remember not our former iniquities: let thy mercies speedily prevent us, for we are become exceeding poor. ⁹ Help us, O God, our saviour: and for the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us: and forgive us our sins for thy name's sake: ¹⁰ Lest they should say among the Gentiles: Where is their God? And let him be made known among the nations before our eyes, By the revenging the blood of thy servants, which hath been shed: ¹¹ Let the sighing of the prisoners come in before thee. According to the greatness of thy arm, take possession of the children of them that have been put to death. ¹² And render to our neighbours sevenfold in their bosom: the reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. ¹³ But we thy people, and the sheep of thy pasture, will give thanks to thee for ever. We will shew forth thy praise, unto generation and generation. ⁸⁰ ¹ Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, a testimony for Asaph, a psalm. ^(80:2) Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, shine forth ² ^(80:3) Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and come to save us. ³ ^(80:4) Convert us, O God: and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved. ⁴ ^(80:5) O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant? ⁵ ^(80:6) How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure? ⁶ ^(80:7) Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: and our enemies have scoffed at us. ⁷ ^(80:8) O God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved. ⁸ ^(80:9) Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the Gentiles and planted it. ⁹ ^(80:10) Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land. ¹⁰ ^(80:11) The shadow of it covered the hills: and the branches thereof the cedars of God. ¹¹ ^(80:12) It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, and its boughs unto the river. ¹² ^(80:13) Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it? ¹³ ^(80:14) The boar out of the wood hath laid it waste: and a singular wild beast hath devoured it. ¹⁴ ^(80:15) Turn again, O God of hosts, look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard: ¹⁵ ^(80:16) And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself. ¹⁶ ^(80:17) Things set on fire and dug down shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. ¹⁷ ^(80:18) Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself. ¹⁸ ^(80:19) And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: and we will call upon thy name. ¹⁹ ^(80:20) O Lord God of hosts, convert us and shew thy face, and we shall be saved. ⁸¹ ¹ Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself. ^(81:2) Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob. ² ^(81:3) Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp. ³ ^(81:4) Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity. ⁴ ^(81:5) For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of Jacob. ⁵ ^(81:6) He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the land of Egypt: he heard a tongue which he knew not. ⁶ ^(81:7) He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets. ⁷ ^(81:8) Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee: I heard thee in the secret place of tempest: I proved thee at the waters of contradiction. ⁸ ^(81:9) Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me, ⁹ ^(81:10) There shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god. ¹⁰ ^(81:11) For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. ¹¹ ^(81:12) But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me. ¹² ^(81:13) So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions. ¹³ ^(81:14) If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways: ¹⁴ ^(81:15) I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them that troubled them. ¹⁵ ^(81:16) The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever. ¹⁶ ^(81:17) And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock. ⁸² ¹ A psalm for Asaph. God hath stood in the congregation of gods: and being in the midst of them he judgeth gods. ² How long will you judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the wicked? ³ Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor. ⁴ Rescue the poor; and deliver the needy out of the hand of the sinner. ⁵ They have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be moved. ⁶ I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most High. ⁷ But you like men shall die: and shall fall like one of the princes. ⁸ Arise, O God, judge thou the earth: for thou shalt inherit among all the nations. ⁸³ ¹ A canticle of a psalm for Asaph. ^(83:2) O God, who shall be like to thee? hold not thy peace, neither be thou still, O God. ² ^(83:3) For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. ³ ^(83:4) They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy saints. ⁴ ^(83:5) They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more. ⁵ ^(83:6) For they have contrived with one consent: they have made a covenant together against thee, ⁶ ^(83:7) The tabernacle of the Edomites, and the Ishmahelites: Moab, and the Agarens, ⁷ ^(83:8) Gebal, and Ammon and Amalec: the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre. ⁸ ^(83:9) Yea, and the Assyrian also is joined with them: they are come to the aid of the sons of Lot. ⁹ ^(83:10) Do to them as thou didst to Madian and to Sisara: as to Jabin at the brook of Cisson. ¹⁰ ^(83:11) Who perished at Endor: and became as dung for the earth. ¹¹ ^(83:12) Make their princes like Oreb, and Zeb, and Zebee, and Salmana. All their princes, ¹² ^(83:13) Who have said: Let us possess the sanctuary of God for an inheritance. ¹³ ^(83:14) O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the wind. ¹⁴ ^(83:15) As fire which burneth the wood: and as a flame burning mountains: ¹⁵ ^(83:16) So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest: and shalt trouble them in thy wrath. ¹⁶ ^(83:17) Fill their faces with shame; and they shall seek thy name, O Lord. ¹⁷ ^(83:18) Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever and ever: and let them be confounded and perish. ¹⁸ ^(83:19) And let them know that the Lord is thy name: thou alone art the most High over all the earth. ⁸⁴ ¹ Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for the sons of Core. ^(84:2) How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! ² ^(84:3) my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God. ³ ^(84:4) For the sparrow hath found herself a house, and the turtle a nest for herself where she may lay her young ones: Thy altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God. ⁴ ^(84:5) Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, O Lord: they shall praise thee for ever and ever. ⁵ ^(84:6) Blessed is the man whose help is from thee: in his heart he hath disposed to ascend by steps, ⁶ ^(84:7) In the vale of tears, in the place which he hath set. ⁷ ^(84:8) For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they shall go from virtue to virtue: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion. ⁸ ^(84:9) O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. ⁹ ^(84:10) Behold, O God our protector: and look on the face of thy Christ. ¹⁰ ^(84:11) For better is one day in thy courts above thousands. I have chosen to be an abject in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners. ¹¹ ^(84:12) For God loveth mercy and truth: the Lord will give grace and glory. ¹² ^(84:13) He will not deprive of good things them that walk in innocence: O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. ⁸⁵ ¹ Unto the end, for the sons of Core, a psalm. ^(85:2) Lord, thou hast blessed thy land: thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob. ² ^(85:3) Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people: thou hast covered all their sins. ³ ^(85:4) Thou hast mitigated all thy anger: thou hast turned away from the wrath of thy indignation. ⁴ ^(85:5) Convert us, O God our saviour: and turn off thy anger from us. ⁵ ^(85:6) Wilt thou be angry with us for ever: or wilt thou extend thy wrath from generation to generation? ⁶ ^(85:7) Thou wilt turn, O God, and bring us to life: and thy people shall rejoice in thee. ⁷ ^(85:8) Shew us, O Lord, thy mercy; and grant us thy salvation. ⁸ ^(85:9) I will hear what the Lord God will speak in me: for he will speak peace unto his people: And unto his saints: and unto them that are converted to the heart. ⁹ ^(85:10) Surely his salvation is near to them that fear him : that glory may dwell in our land. ¹⁰ ^(85:11) Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed. ¹¹ ^(85:12) Truth is sprung out of the earth: and justice hath looked down from heaven. ¹² ^(85:13) For the Lord will give goodness: and our earth shall yield her fruit. ¹³ ^(85:14) Justice shall walk before him: and,shall set his steps in the way. ⁸⁶ ¹ A prayer for David himself. Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear me: for I am needy and poor. ² Preserve my soul, for I am holy: save thy servant, O my God, that trusteth in thee. ³ Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have cried to thee all the day. ⁴ Give joy to the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Lord, I have lifted up my soul. ⁵ For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild: and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee. ⁶ Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer: and attend to the voice of my petition. ⁷ I have called upon thee in the day of my trouble: because thou hast heard me. ⁸ There is none among the gods like unto thee, O Lord: and there is none according to thy works. ⁹ All the nations thou hast made shall come and adore before thee, O Lord: and they shall glorify thy name. ¹⁰ For thou art great and dost wonderful things: thou art God alone. ¹¹ Conduct me, O Lord, in thy way, and I will walk in thy truth: let my heart rejoice that it may fear thy name. ¹² I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify thy name for ever: ¹³ For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul out of the lower hell. ¹⁴ O God, the wicked are risen up against me, and the assembly of the mighty have sought my soul: and they have not set thee before their eyes. ¹⁵ And thou, O Lord, art a God of compassion, and merciful, patient, and of much mercy, and true. ¹⁶ O look upon me, and have mercy on me: give thy command to thy servant, and save the son of thy handmaid. ¹⁷ Shew me a token for good: that they who hate me may see, and be confounded, because thou, O Lord, hast helped me and hast comforted me. ⁸⁷ ¹ For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof are the holy mountains: ² The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob. ³ Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God. ⁴ I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, these were there. ⁵ Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her. ⁶ The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of them that have been in her. ⁷ The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing. ⁸⁸ ¹ A canticle of a psalm for the sons of Core: unto the end, for Maheleth, to answer understanding of Eman the Ezrahite. ^(88:2) O Lord, the God of my salvation: I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee. ² ^(88:3) Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to my petition. ³ ^(88:4) For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell. ⁴ ^(88:5) I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help, ⁵ ^(88:6) Free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. ⁶ ^(88:7) They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death. ⁷ ^(88:8) Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me. ⁸ ^(88:9) Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth: ⁹ ^(88:10) My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee. ¹⁰ ^(88:11) Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? or shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to thee? ¹¹ ^(88:12) Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy: and thy truth in destruction? ¹² ^(88:13) Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness? ¹³ ^(88:14) But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: and in the morning my prayer shall prevent thee. ¹⁴ ^(88:15) Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy face from me? ¹⁵ ^(88:16) I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have been humbled and troubled. ¹⁶ ^(88:17) Thy wrath hath come upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me. ¹⁷ ^(88:18) They have come round about me like water all the day: they have compassed me about together. ¹⁸ ^(88:19) Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my acquaintance, because of misery. ⁸⁹ ¹ Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite. ^(89:2) The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation. ² ^(89:3) For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them. ³ ^(89:4) I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant: ⁴ ^(89:5) Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne unto generation and generation. ⁵ ^(89:6) The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: and thy truth in the church of the saints. ⁶ ^(89:7) For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: or who among the sons of God shall be like to God? ⁷ ^(89:8) God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and terrible above all them that are about him. ⁸ ^(89:9) O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee. ⁹ ^(89:10) Thou rulest the power of the sea: and appeasest the motion of the waves thereof. ¹⁰ ^(89:11) Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: with the arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies. ¹¹ ^(89:12) Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fulness thereof thou hast founded: ¹² ^(89:13) The north and the sea thou hast created. Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name: ¹³ ^(89:14) Thy arm is with might. Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy right hand exalted: ¹⁴ ^(89:15) Justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face: ¹⁵ ^(89:16) Blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance: ¹⁶ ^(89:17) And in thy name they shall rejoice all the day, and in thy justice they shall be exalted. ¹⁷ ^(89:18) For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy good pleasure shall our horn be exalted. ¹⁸ ^(89:19) For our protection is of the Lord, and of our king the holy one of Israel. ¹⁹ ^(89:20) Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints, and saidst: I have laid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of my people. ²⁰ ^(89:21) I have found David my servant: with my holy oil I have anointed him. ²¹ ^(89:22) For my hand shall help him: and my arm shall strengthen him. ²² ^(89:23) The enemy shall have no advantage over him: nor the son of iniquity have power to hurt him. ²³ ^(89:24) And I will cut down his enemies before his face; and them that hate him I will put to flight. ²⁴ ^(89:25) And my truth and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted. ²⁵ ^(89:26) And I will set his hand in the sea; and his right hand in the rivers. ²⁶ ^(89:27) He shall cry out to me: Thou art my father: my God, and the support of my salvation. ²⁷ ^(89:28) And I will make him my firstborn, high above the kings of the earth. ²⁸ ^(89:29) I will keep my mercy for him for ever: and my covenant faithful to him. ²⁹ ^(89:30) And I will make his seed to endure for evermore: and his throne as the days of heaven. ³⁰ ^(89:31) And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments: ³¹ ^(89:32) If they profane my justices: and keep not my commandments: ³² ^(89:33) I will visit their iniquities with a rod and their sins with stripes. ³³ ^(89:34) But my mercy I will not take away from him: nor will I suffer my truth to fail. ³⁴ ^(89:35) Neither will I profane my covenant: and the words that proceed from my mouth I will not make void. ³⁵ ^(89:36) Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David: ³⁶ ^(89:37) His seed shall endure for ever. ³⁷ ^(89:38) And his throne as the sun before me: and as the moon perfect for ever, and a faithful witness in heaven. ³⁸ ^(89:39) But thou hast rejected and despised: thou hast been angry with my anointed. ³⁹ ^(89:40) Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his sanctuary on the earth. ⁴⁰ ^(89:41) Thou hast broken down all his hedges: thou hast made his strength fear. ⁴¹ ^(89:42) All that pass by the way have robbed him: he is become a reproach to his neighbours. ⁴² ^(89:43) Thou hast set up the right hand of them that oppress him: thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. ⁴³ ^(89:44) Thou hast turned away the help of his sword; and hast not assisted him in battle. ⁴⁴ ^(89:45) Thou hast made his purification to cease: and thou hast cast his throne down to the ground. ⁴⁵ ^(89:46) Thou hast shortened the days of his time: thou hast covered him with confusion. ⁴⁶ ^(89:47) How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy anger burn like fire? ⁴⁷ ^(89:48) Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the children of men in vain? ⁴⁸ ^(89:49) Who is the man that shall live, and not see death: that shall deliver his soul from the hand of hell? ⁴⁹ ^(89:50) Lord, where are thy ancient mercies, according to what thou didst swear to David in thy truth? ⁵⁰ ^(89:51) Be mindful, O Lord, of the reproach of thy servants (which I have held in my bosom) of many nations: ⁵¹ ^(89:52) Wherewith thy enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the change of thy anointed. ⁵² ^(89:53) Blessed be the Lord for evermore. So be it. So be it. ⁹⁰ ¹ A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation. ² Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God. ³ Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men. ⁴ For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past. And as a watch in the night, ⁵ Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be. ⁶ In the morning man shall grow up like grass; in the morning he shall flourish and pass away: in the evening he shall fall, grow dry, and wither. ⁷ For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy indignation. ⁸ Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the light of thy countenance. ⁹ For all our days are spent; and in thy wrath we have fainted away. Our years shall be considered as a spider: ¹⁰ The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected. ¹¹ Who knoweth the power of thy anger, and for thy fear ¹² Can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom. ¹³ Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated in favour of thy servants. ¹⁴ We are filled in the morning with thy mercy: and we have rejoiced, and are delighted all our days. ¹⁵ We have rejoiced for the days in which thou hast humbled us: for the years in which we have seen evils. ¹⁶ Look upon thy servants and upon their works: and direct their children. ¹⁷ And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou direct. ⁹¹ ¹ The praise of a canticle for David. He that dwelleth in the aid of the most High, shall abide under the protection of the God of Jacob. ² He shall say to the Lord: Thou art my protector, and my refuge: my God, in him will I trust. ³ For he hath delivered me from the snare of the hunters: and from the sharp word. ⁴ He will overshadow thee with his shoulders: and under his wings thou shalt trust. ⁵ His truth shall compass thee with a shield: thou shalt not be afraid of the terror of the night. ⁶ Of the arrow that flieth in the day, of the business that walketh about in the dark: of invasion, or of the noonday devil. ⁷ A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand: but it shall not come nigh thee. ⁸ But thou shalt consider with thy eyes: and shalt see the reward of the wicked. ⁹ Because thou, O Lord, art my hope: thou hast made the most High thy refuge. ¹⁰ There shall no evil come to thee: nor shall the scourge come near thy dwelling. ¹¹ For he hath given his angels charge over thee; to keep thee in all thy ways. ¹² In their hands they shall bear thee up: lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. ¹³ Thou shalt walk upon the asp and the basilisk: and thou shalt trample under foot the lion and the dragon. ¹⁴ Because he hoped in me I will deliver him: I will protect him because he hath known my name. ¹⁵ He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I am with him in tribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him. ¹⁶ I will fill him with length of days; and I will shew him my salvation. ⁹² ¹ A psalm of a canticle on the sabbath day. ^(92:2) It is good to give praise to the Lord: and to sing to thy name, O most High. ² ^(92:3) To shew forth thy mercy in the morning, and thy truth in the night: ³ ^(92:4) Upon an instrument of ten strings, upon the psaltery: with a canticle upon the harp. ⁴ ^(92:5) For thou hast given me, O Lord, a delight in thy doings: and in the works of thy hands I shall rejoice. ⁵ ^(92:6) O Lord, how great are thy works! thy thoughts are exceeding deep. ⁶ ^(92:7) The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand these things. ⁷ ^(92:8) When the wicked shall spring up as grass: and all the workers of iniquity shall appear: That they may perish for ever and ever: ⁸ ^(92:9) But thou, O Lord, art most high for evermore. ⁹ ^(92:10) For behold thy enemies, O lord, for behold thy enemies shall perish: and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. ¹⁰ ^(92:11) But my horn shall be exalted like that of the unicorn: and my old age in plentiful mercy. ¹¹ ^(92:12) My eye also hath looked down upon my enemies: and my ear shall hear of the downfall of the malignant that rise up against me. ¹² ^(92:13) The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus. ¹³ ^(92:14) They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God. ¹⁴ ^(92:15) They shall still increase in a fruitful old age: and shall be well treated, ¹⁵ ^(92:16) That they may shew, That the Lord our God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in him. ⁹³ ¹ The Lord hath reigned, he is clothed with beauty: the Lord is clothed with strength, and hath girded himself. For he hath established the world which shall not be moved. ² My throne is prepared from of old: thou art from everlasting. ³ The floods have lifted up, O Lord: the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods have lifted up their waves, ⁴ With the noise of many waters. Wonderful are the surges of the sea: wonderful is the Lord on high. ⁵ Thy testimonies are become exceedingly credible: holiness becometh thy house, O Lord, unto length of days. ⁹⁴ ¹ The Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth: the God of revenge hath acted freely. ² Lift up thyself, thou that judgest the earth: render a reward to the proud. ³ How long shall sinners, O Lord: how long shall sinners glory? ⁴ Shall they utter, and speak iniquity: shall all speak who work injustice? ⁵ Thy people, O Lord, they have brought low: and they have afflicted thy inheritance. ⁶ They have slain the widow and the stranger: and they have murdered the fatherless. ⁷ And they have said: The Lord shall not see: neither shall the God of Jacob understand. ⁸ Understand, ye senseless among the people: and, you fools, be wise at last. ⁹ He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he that formed the eye, doth he not consider? ¹⁰ He that chastiseth nations, shall he not rebuke: he that teacheth man knowledge? ¹¹ The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men, that they are vain. ¹² Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach him out of thy law. ¹³ That thou mayst give him rest from the evil days: till a pit be dug for the wicked. ¹⁴ For the Lord will not cast off his people: neither will he forsake his own inheritance. ¹⁵ Until justice be turned into judgment: and they that are near it are all the upright in heart. ¹⁶ Who shall rise up for me against the evildoers? or who shall stand with me against the workers of iniquity? ¹⁷ Unless the Lord had been my helper, my soul had almost dwelt in hell. ¹⁸ If I said: My foot is moved: thy mercy, O Lord, assisted me. ¹⁹ According to the multitude of my sorrows in my heart, thy comforts have given joy to my soul. ²⁰ Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in commandment? ²¹ They will hunt after the soul of the just, and will condemn innocent blood. ²² But the Lord is my refuge: and my God the help of my hope. ²³ And he will render them their iniquity : and in their malice he will destroy them: the Lord our God will destroy them. Psalms Chapter 94 ⁹⁵ ¹ Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our saviour. 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 above all gods. ⁴ For in his hand are all the ends of the earth: 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 adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that made us. ⁷ For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. ⁸ To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts: ⁹ As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my works. ¹⁰ Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart. ¹¹ And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest. ⁹⁶ ¹ A canticle for David himself, when the house was built after the captivity. Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: sing to the Lord, all the earth. ² Sing ye to the Lord and bless his name: shew forth his salvation from day to day. ³ Declare his glory among the Gentiles: his wonders among all people. ⁴ For the Lord is great, and exceedingly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods. ⁵ For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils: but the Lord made the heavens. ⁶ Praise and beauty are before him: holiness and majesty in his sanctuary. ⁷ Bring ye to the Lord, O ye kindreds of the Gentiles, bring ye to the Lord glory and honour: ⁸ Bring to the Lord glory unto his name. Bring up sacrifices, and come into his courts: ⁹ Adore ye the Lord in his holy court. Let all the earth be moved at his presence. ¹⁰ Say ye among the Gentiles, the Lord hath reigned. For he hath corrected the world, which shall not be moved: he will judge the people with justice. ¹¹ Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad, let the sea be moved, and the fulness thereof: ¹² The fields and all things that are in them shall be joyful. Then shall all the trees of the woods rejoice ¹³ before the face of the Lord, because he cometh: because he cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the people with his truth. ⁹⁷ ¹ For the same David, when his land was restored again to him. The Lord hath reigned, let the earth rejoice: let many islands be glad. ² Clouds and darkness are round about him: justice and judgment are the establishment of his throne. ³ A fire shall go before him, and shall burn his enemies round about. ⁴ His lightnings have shone forth to 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 all the earth. ⁶ The heavens declared his justice: and all people saw his glory. ⁷ Let them be all confounded that adore graven things, and that glory in their idols. Adore him, all you his angels: ⁸ Sion heard, and was glad. And the daughters of Juda rejoiced, because of thy judgments, O Lord. ⁹ For thou art the most high Lord over all the earth: thou art exalted exceedingly above all gods. ¹⁰ You that love the Lord, hate evil: the Lord preserveth the souls of his saints, he will deliver them out of the hand of the sinner. ¹¹ Light is risen to the just, and joy to the right of heart. ¹² Rejoice, ye just, in the Lord: and give praise to the remembrance of his holiness. ⁹⁸ ¹ A psalm for David himself. Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: because he hath done wonderful things. His right hand hath wrought for him salvation, and his arm is holy. ² The Lord hath made known his salvation: he hath revealed his justice in the sight of the Gentiles. ³ He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. ⁴ Sing joyfully to God, all the earth; make melody, rejoice and sing. ⁵ Sing praise to the Lord on the harp, on the harp, and with the voice of a psalm: ⁶ With long trumpets, and sound of cornet. Make a joyful noise before the Lord our king: ⁷ Let the sea be moved and the fullness thereof: the world and they that dwell therein. ⁸ The rivers shall clap their hands, the mountains shall rejoice together ⁹ At the presence of the Lord: because he cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the people with equity. ⁹⁹ ¹ A psalm for David himself. The Lord hath reigned, let the people be angry: he that sitteth on the cherubims: let the earth be moved. ² The lord is great in Sion, and high above all people. ³ Let them give praise to thy great name: for it is terrible and holy: ⁴ And the king's honour loveth judgment. Thou hast prepared directions: thou hast done judgment and justice in Jacob. ⁵ Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore his footstool, for it 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 the pillar of the cloud. They kept his testimonies, and the commandment which he gave them. ⁸ Thou didst hear them, O Lord our God: thou wast a merciful God to them, and taking vengeance on all their inventions. ⁹ Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore at his holy mountain: for the Lord our God is holy. ¹⁰⁰ ¹ A psalm of praise. ^(100:2) Sing joyfully to God, all the earth: ² Serve ye the Lord with gladness. Come in before his presence with exceeding great joy. ³ Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. ⁴ Go ye into his gates with praise, into his courts with hymns: and give glory to him. Praise ye his name: ⁵ For the Lord is sweet, his mercy endureth for ever, and his truth to generation and generation. ¹⁰¹ ¹ A psalm for David himself. Mercy and judgment I will sing to thee, O Lord: I will sing, ² And I will understand in the unspotted way, when thou shalt come to me. I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house. ³ I will not set before my eyes any unjust thing: I hated the workers of iniquities. ⁴ The perverse heart did not cleave to me: and the malignant, that turned aside from me, I would not know. ⁵ The man that in private detracted his neighbour, him did I persecute. With him that had a proud eye, and an unsatiable heart, I would not eat. ⁶ My eyes were upon the faithful of the earth, to sit with me: the man that walked in the perfect way, he served me. ⁷ He that worketh pride shall not dwell in the midst of my house: he that speaketh unjust things did not prosper before my eyes. ⁸ In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land: that I might cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord. ¹⁰² ¹ The prayer of the poor man, when he was anxious, and poured out his supplication before the Lord. ^(102:2) Hear, O Lord, my prayer: and let my cry come to thee. ² ^(102:3) Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am in trouble, incline thy ear to me. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me speedily. ³ ^(102:4) For my days are vanished like smoke, and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire. ⁴ ^(102:5) I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread. ⁵ ^(102:6) Through the voice of my groaning, my bone hath cleaved to my flesh. ⁶ ^(102:7) I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: I am like a night raven in the house. ⁷ ^(102:8) I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop. ⁸ ^(102:9) All the day long my enemies reproached me: and they that praised me did swear against me. ⁹ ^(102:10) For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping. ¹⁰ ^(102:11) Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down. ¹¹ ^(102:12) My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like grass. ¹² ^(102:13) But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: and thy memorial to all generations. ¹³ ^(102:14) Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time is come. ¹⁴ ^(102:15) For the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: and they shall have pity on the earth thereof. ¹⁵ ^(102:16) All the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory. ¹⁶ ^(102:17) For the Lord hath built up Sion: and he shall be seen in his glory. ¹⁷ ^(102:18) He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition. ¹⁸ ^(102:19) Let these things be written unto another generation: and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord: ¹⁹ ^(102:20) Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: from heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth. ²⁰ ^(102:21) That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that he might release the children of the slain: ²¹ ^(102:22) That they may declare the name of the Lord in Sion: and his praise in Jerusalem; ²² ^(102:23) When the people assemble together, and kings, to serve the Lord. ²³ ^(102:24) He answered him in the way of his strength: Declare unto me the fewness of my days. ²⁴ ^(102:25) Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation. ²⁵ ^(102:26) In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: and the heavens are the works of thy hands. ²⁶ ^(102:27) They shall perish but thou remainest: and all of them shall grow old like a garment: And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed. ²⁷ ^(102:28) But thou art always the selfsame, and thy years shall not fail. ²⁸ ^(102:29) The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall be directed for ever. ¹⁰³ ¹ For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and let all that is within me bless his holy name. ² Bless the Lord, O my soul, and never forget all he hath done for thee. ³ Who forgiveth all thy iniquities: who healeth all thy diseases. ⁴ Who redeemeth thy life from destruction: who crowneth thee with mercy and compassion. ⁵ Who satisfieth thy desire with good things: thy youth shall be renewed like the eagle's. ⁶ The Lord doth mercies, and judgment for all that suffer wrong. ⁷ He hath made his ways known to Moses: his wills to the children of Israel. ⁸ The Lord is compassionate and merciful: longsuffering and plenteous in mercy. ⁹ He will not always be angry: nor will he threaten for ever. ¹⁰ He hath not dealt with us according to our sins: nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. ¹¹ For according to the height of the heaven above the earth: he hath strengthened his mercy towards them that fear him. ¹² As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our iniquities from us. ¹³ As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord compassion on them that fear him: ¹⁴ For he knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we are dust: ¹⁵ Man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish. ¹⁶ For the spirit shall pass in him, and he shall not be: and he shall know his place no more. ¹⁷ But the mercy of the Lord is from eternity and unto eternity upon them that fear him: And his justice unto children's children, ¹⁸ To such as keep his covenant, And are mindful of his commandments to do them. ¹⁹ The lord hath prepared his throne in heaven: and his kingdom shall rule over all. ²⁰ Bless the Lord, all ye his angels: you that are mighty in strength, and execute his word, hearkening to the voice of his orders. ²¹ Bless the Lord, all ye his hosts: you ministers of his that do his will. ²² Bless the Lord, all his works: in every place of his dominion, O my soul, bless thou the Lord. ¹⁰⁴ ¹ For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul: O Lord my God, thou art exceedingly great. Thou hast put on praise and beauty: ² And art clothed with light as with a garment. Who stretchest out the heaven like a pavilion: ³ Who coverest the higher rooms thereof with water. Who makest the clouds thy chariot: who walkest upon the wings of the winds. ⁴ Who makest thy angels spirits: and thy ministers a burning fire. ⁵ Who hast founded the earth upon its own bases: it shall not be moved for ever and ever. ⁶ The deep like a garment is its clothing: above the mountains shall the waters stand. ⁷ At thy rebuke they shall flee: at the voice of thy thunder they shall fear. ⁸ The mountains ascend, and the plains descend into the place which thou hast founded for them. ⁹ Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass over; neither shall they return to cover the earth. ¹⁰ Thou sendest forth springs in the vales: between the midst of the hills the waters shall pass. ¹¹ All the beasts of the field shall drink: the wild asses shall expect in their thirst. ¹² Over them the birds of the air shall dwell: from the midst of the rocks they shall give forth their voices. ¹³ Thou waterest the hills from thy upper rooms: the earth shall be filled with the fruit of thy works: ¹⁴ Bringing forth grass for cattle, and herb for the service of men. That thou mayst bring bread out of the earth: ¹⁵ And that wine may cheer the heart of man. That he may make the face cheerful with oil: and that bread may strengthen man's heart. ¹⁶ The trees of the field shall be filled, and the cedars of Libanus which he hath planted: ¹⁷ There the sparrows shall make their nests. The highest of them is the house of the heron. ¹⁸ The high hills are a refuge for the harts, the rock for the irchins. ¹⁹ He hath made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down. ²⁰ Thou hast appointed darkness, and it is night: in it shall all the beasts of the woods go about: ²¹ The young lions roaring after their prey, and seeking their meat from God. ²² The sun ariseth, and they are gathered together: and they shall lie down in their dens. ²³ Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labour until the evening. ²⁴ How great are thy works, O Lord ? thou hast made all things in wisdom: the earth is filled with thy riches. ²⁵ So is this great sea, which stretcheth wide its arms: there are creeping things without number: Creatures little and great. ²⁶ There the ships shall go. This sea dragon which thou hast formed to play therein. ²⁷ All expect of thee that thou give them food in season. ²⁸ What thou givest to them they shall gather up: when thou openest thy hand, they shall all be filled with good. ²⁹ But if thou turnest away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou shalt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to their dust. ³⁰ Thou shalt send forth thy spirit, and they shall be created: and thou shalt renew the face of the earth. ³¹ May the glory of the Lord endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works. ³² He looketh upon the earth, and maketh it tremble: he troubleth the mountains, and they smoke. ³³ I will sing to the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. ³⁴ Let my speech be acceptable to him: but I will take delight in the Lord. ³⁵ Let sinners be consumed out of the earth, and the unjust, so that they be no more: O my soul, bless thou the Lord. ¹⁰⁵ ¹ Give glory to the Lord, and call upon his name: declare his deeds among the Gentiles. ² Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous works. ³ Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord. ⁴ Seek ye the lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore. ⁵ Remember his marvellous works which he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth. ⁶ O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen. ⁷ He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth. ⁸ He hath remembered his covenant for ever: the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. ⁹ Which he made to Abraham; and his oath to Isaac: ¹⁰ And he appointed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting testament: ¹¹ Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the lot of your inheritance. ¹² When they were but a small number: yea very few, and sojourners therein: ¹³ And they passed from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people. ¹⁴ He suffered no man to hurt them: and he reproved kings for their sakes. ¹⁵ Touch ye not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets. ¹⁶ And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all the support of bread. ¹⁷ He sent a man before them: Joseph, who was sold for a slave. ¹⁸ They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul, ¹⁹ Until his word came. The word of the Lord inflamed him. ²⁰ The king sent, and he released him: the ruler of the people, and he set him at liberty. ²¹ He made him master of his house, and ruler of all his possession. ²² That he might instruct his princes as himself, and teach his ancients wisdom. ²³ And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Cham. ²⁴ And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them over their enemies. ²⁵ He turned their heart to hate his people: and to deal deceitfully with his servants. ²⁶ He sent Moses his servant: Aaron the man whom he had chosen. ²⁷ He gave them power to shew them signs, and his wonders in the land of Cham. ²⁸ He sent darkness, and made it obscure: and grieved not his words. ²⁹ He turned their waters into blood, and destroyed their fish. ³⁰ Their land brought forth frogs, in the inner chambers of their kings. ³¹ He spoke, and there came divers sorts of flies and sciniphs in all their coasts. ³² He gave them hail for rain, a burning fire in the land. ³³ And he destroyed their vineyards and their fig trees: and he broke in pieces the trees of their coasts. ³⁴ He spoke, and the locust came, and the bruchus, of which there was no number. ³⁵ And they devoured all the grass in their land, and consumed all the fruit of their ground. ³⁶ And he slew all the firstborn in their land: the firstfruits of all their labour. ³⁷ And he brought them out with silver and gold: and there was not among their tribes one that was feeble. ³⁸ Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them lay upon them. ³⁹ He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them light in the night. ⁴⁰ They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the bread of heaven. ⁴¹ He opened the rock, and waters flowed: rivers ran down in the dry land. ⁴² Because he remembered his holy word, which he had spoken to his servant Abraham. ⁴³ And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness. ⁴⁴ And he gave them the lands of the Gentiles: and they possessed the labours of the people: ⁴⁵ That they might observe his justifications, and seek after his law. ¹⁰⁶ ¹ Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. ² Who shall declare the powers of the Lord? who shall set forth all his praises? ³ Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do justice at all times. ⁴ Remember us, O Lord, in the favour of thy people: visit us with thy salvation. ⁵ That we may see the good of thy chosen, that we may rejoice in the joy of thy nation: that thou mayst be praised with thy inheritance. ⁶ We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity. ⁷ Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to the sea, even the Red Sea. ⁸ And he saved them for his own name's sake: that he might make his power known. ⁹ And he rebuked the Red Sea and it was dried up: and he led them through the depths, as in a wilderness. ¹⁰ And he saved them from the hand of them that hated them: and he redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. ¹¹ And the water covered them that afflicted them: there was not one of them left. ¹² And they believed his words: and they sang his praises. ¹³ They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited not for his counsel. ¹⁴ And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water. ¹⁵ And he gave them their request: and sent fulness into their souls. ¹⁶ And they provoked Moses in the camp, Aaron the holy one of the Lord. ¹⁷ The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the congregation of Abiron. ¹⁸ And a fire was kindled in their congregation: the flame burned the wicked. ¹⁹ They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven thing. ²⁰ And they changed their glory into the likeness of a calf that eateth grass. ²¹ They forgot God, who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt, ²² Wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red Sea. ²³ And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them. ²⁴ And they set at nought the desirable land. They believed not his word, ²⁵ And they murmured in their tents: they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord. ²⁶ And he lifted up his hand over them: to overthrow them in the desert; ²⁷ And to cast down their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the countries. ²⁸ They also were initiated to Beelphegor: and ate the sacrifices of the dead. ²⁹ And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them. ³⁰ Then Phinees stood up, and pacified him: and the slaughter ceased. ³¹ And it was reputed to him unto justice, to generation and generation for evermore. ³² They provoked him also at the waters of contradiction: and Moses was afflicted for their sakes: ³³ Because they exasperated his spirit. And he distinguished with his lips. ³⁴ They did not destroy the nations of which the Lord spoke unto them. ³⁵ And they were mingled among the heathens, and learned their works: ³⁶ And served their idols, and it became a stumblingblock to them. ³⁷ And they sacrificed their sons, and their daughters to devils. ³⁸ And they shed innocent blood: the blood of their sons and of their daughters which they sacrificed to the idols of Chanaan. And the land was polluted with blood, ³⁹ And was defiled with their works: and they went aside after their own inventions. ⁴⁰ And the Lord was exceedingly angry with his people: and he abhorred his inheritance. ⁴¹ And he delivered them into the hands of the nations: and they that hated them had dominion over them. ⁴² And their enemies afflicted them: and they were humbled under their hands: ⁴³ Many times did he deliver them. But they provoked him with their counsel: and they were brought low by their iniquities. ⁴⁴ And he saw when they were in tribulation: and he heard their prayer. ⁴⁵ And he was mindful of his covenant: and repented according to the multitude of his mercies. ⁴⁶ And he gave them unto mercies, in the sight of all those that had made them captives. ⁴⁷ Save us, O Lord, our God: and gather us from among the nations: That we may give thanks to thy holy name, and may glory in thy praise. ⁴⁸ Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say: So be it, so be it. ¹⁰⁷ ¹ Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. ² Let them say so that have been redeemed by the Lord, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy: and gathered out of the countries. ³ From the rising and from the setting of the sun, from the north and from the sea. ⁴ They wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: they found not the way of a city for their habitation. ⁵ They were hungry and thirsty: their soul fainted in them. ⁶ And they cried to the Lord in their tribulation: and he delivered them out of their distresses. ⁷ And he led them into the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation. ⁸ Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful works to the children of men. ⁹ For he hath satisfied the empty soul, and hath filled the hungry soul with good things. ¹⁰ Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in want and in iron. ¹¹ Because they had exasperated the words of God: and provoked the counsel of the most High: ¹² And their heart was humbled with labours: they were weakened, and there was none to help them. ¹³ Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he delivered them out of their distresses. ¹⁴ And he brought them out of darkness, and the shadow of death; and broke their bonds in sunder. ¹⁵ Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful works to the children of men. ¹⁶ Because he hath broken gates of brass, and burst iron bars. ¹⁷ He took them out of the way of their iniquity: for they were brought low for their injustices. ¹⁸ Their soul abhorred all manner of meat: and they drew nigh even to the gates of death. ¹⁹ And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he delivered them out of their distresses. ²⁰ He sent his word, and healed them: and delivered them from their destructions. ²¹ Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful works to the children of men. ²² And let them sacrifice the sacrifice of praise: and declare his works with joy. ²³ They that go down to the sea in ships, doing business in the great waters: ²⁴ These have seen the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. ²⁵ He said the word, and there arose a storm of wind: and the waves thereof were lifted up. ²⁶ They mount up to the heavens, and they go down to the depths: their soul pined away with evils. ²⁷ They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up. ²⁸ And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he brought them out of their distresses. ²⁹ And he turned the storm into a breeze: and its waves were still. ³⁰ And they rejoiced because they were still: and he brought them to the haven which they wished for. ³¹ Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful works to the children of men. ³² And let them exalt him in the church of the people: and praise him in the chair of the ancients. ³³ He hath turned rivers into a wilderness: and the sources of waters into dry ground: ³⁴ A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. ³⁵ He hath turned a wilderness into pools of waters, and a dry land into water springs. ³⁶ And hath placed there the hungry; and they made a city for their habitation. ³⁷ Anti they sowed fields, and planted vineyards: and they yielded fruit of birth. ³⁸ And he blessed them, and they were multiplied exceedingly: and their cattle he suffered not to decrease. ³⁹ Then they were brought to be few: and they were afflicted through the trouble of evils and sorrow. ⁴⁰ Contempt was poured forth upon their princes: and he caused them to wander where there was no passing, and out of the way. ⁴¹ And he helped the poor out of poverty: and made him families like a flock of sheep. ⁴² The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and all iniquity shall stop her mouth. ⁴³ Who is wise, and will keep these things; and will understand the mercies of the Lord? ¹⁰⁸ ¹ A canticle of a psalm for David himself. ^(108:2) My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will sing, and will give praise, with my glory. ² ^(108:3) Arise, my glory; arise, psaltery and harp: I will arise in the morning early. ³ ^(108:4) I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: and I will sing unto thee among the nations. ⁴ ^(108:5) For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth even unto the clouds. ⁵ ^(108:6) Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory over all the earth: ⁶ ^(108:7) That thy beloved may be delivered. Save with thy right hand and hear me. ⁷ ^(108:8) God hath spoken in his holiness. I will rejoice, and I will divide Sichem and I will mete out the vale of tabernacles. ⁸ ^(108:9) Galaad is mine: and Manasses is mine and Ephraim the protection of my head. Juda is my king: ⁹ ^(108:10) Moab the pot of my hope. Over Edom I will stretch out my shoe: the aliens are become my friends. ¹⁰ ^(108:11) Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom? ¹¹ ^(108:12) Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off ? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our armies? ¹² ^(108:13) O grant us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. ¹³ ^(108:14) Through God we shall do mightily: and he will bring our enemies to nothing. ¹⁰⁹ ¹ Unto the end, a psalm for David. ^(109:2) O God, be not thou silent in my praise: ² For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me. ³ They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me without cause. ⁴ Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer. ⁵ And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love. ⁶ Set thou the sinner over him: and may the devil stand at his right hand. ⁷ When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be turned to sin. ⁸ May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take. ⁹ May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. ¹⁰ Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings. ¹¹ May the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours. ¹² May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring. ¹³ May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out. ¹⁴ May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. ¹⁵ May they be before the Lord continually, and let the memory of them perish from the earth: ¹⁶ Because he remembered not to shew mercy, ¹⁷ But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death. ¹⁸ And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: and he would not have blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing, like a garment: and it went in like water into his entrails, and like oil in his bones. ¹⁹ May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually. ²⁰ This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul. ²¹ But thou, O Lord, do with me for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me, ²² For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me. ²³ I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts. ²⁴ My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil. ²⁵ And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked their heads. ²⁶ Help me, O Lord my God; save me; according to thy mercy. ²⁷ And let them know that this is thy hand: and that thou, O Lord, hast done it. ²⁸ They will curse and thou wilt bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice. ²⁹ Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with their confusion as with a double cloak. ³⁰ I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth: and in the midst of many I will praise him. ³¹ Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my soul from persecutors. ¹¹⁰ ¹ A psalm for David. The Lord said to my Lord: Sit thou at my right hand: Until I make thy enemies thy footstool. ² The Lord will send forth the sceptre of thy power out of Sion: rule thou in the midst of thy enemies. ³ With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the brightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot thee. ⁴ The Lord hath sworn, and he will not repent: Thou art a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedech. ⁵ The Lord at thy right hand hath broken kings in the day of his wrath. ⁶ He shall judge among nations, he shall fill ruins: he shall crush the heads in the land of many. ⁷ He shall drink of the torrent in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head. ¹¹¹ ¹ I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; in the council of the just, and in the congregation. ² Great are the works of the Lord: sought out according to all his wills. ³ His work is praise and magnificence: and his justice continueth for ever and ever. ⁴ He hath made a remembrance of his wonderful works, being a merciful and gracious Lord: ⁵ He hath given food to them that fear him. He will be mindful for ever of his covenant: ⁶ He will shew forth to his people the power of his works. ⁷ That he may give them the inheritance of the Gentiles: the works of his hands are truth and judgment. ⁸ All his commandments are faithful: confirmed for ever and ever, made in truth and equity. ⁹ He hath sent redemption to his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever. Holy and terrible is his name: ¹⁰ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good understanding to all that do it: his praise continueth for ever and ever. ¹¹² ¹ Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord: he shall delight exceedingly in his commandments. ² His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the righteous shall be blessed. ³ Glory and wealth shall be in his house: and his justice remaineth for ever and ever. ⁴ To the righteous a light is risen up in darkness: he is merciful, and compassionate and just. ⁵ Acceptable is the man that sheweth mercy and lendeth: he shall order his words with judgment: ⁶ Because he shall not be moved for ever. ⁷ The just shall be in everlasting remembrance: he shall not fear the evil hearing. His heart is ready to hope in the Lord: ⁸ His heart is strengthened, he shall not be moved until he look over his enemies. ⁹ He hath distributed, he hath given to the poor: his justice remaineth for ever and ever: his horn shall be exalted in glory. ¹⁰ The wicked shall see, and shall be angry, he shall gnash with his teeth and pine away: the desire of the wicked shall perish. ¹¹³ ¹ Praise the Lord, ye children: praise ye the name of the Lord. ² Blessed be the name of the Lord, from henceforth now and for ever. ³ From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, the name of the Lord is worthy of praise. ⁴ The Lord is high above all nations; and his glory above the heavens. ⁵ Who is as the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high: ⁶ And looketh down on the low things in heaven and in earth? ⁷ Raising up the needy from the earth, and lifting up the poor out of the dunghill: ⁸ That he may place him with princes, with the princes of his people. ⁹ Who maketh a barren woman to dwell in a house, the joyful mother of children. ¹¹⁴ ¹ When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a barbarous people: ² Judea was made his sanctuary, Israel his dominion. ³ The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back. ⁴ The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like the lambs of the flock. ⁵ What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou didst flee: and thou, O Jordan, that thou wast turned back? ⁶ Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye hills, like lambs of the flock? ⁷ At the presence of the Lord the earth was moved, at the presence of the God of Jacob: ⁸ Who turned the rock into pools of water, and the stony hill into fountains of waters. ¹¹⁵ ¹ Not to us, O Lord, not to us; but to thy name give glory. ² For thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake: lest the Gentiles should say: Where is their God? ³ But our God is in heaven: he hath done all things whatsoever he would. ⁴ The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men. ⁵ They have mouths and speak not: they have eyes and see not. ⁶ They have ears and hear not: they have noses and smell not. ⁷ They have hands and feel not: they have feet and walk not: neither shall they cry out through their throat. ⁸ Let them that make them become like unto them: and all such as trust in them. ⁹ The house of Israel hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector. ¹⁰ The house of Aaron hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector. ¹¹ They that fear the Lord have hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector. ¹² The Lord hath been mindful of us, and hath blessed us. He hath blessed the house of Israel: he hath blessed the house of Aaron. ¹³ He hath blessed all that fear the Lord, both little and great. ¹⁴ May the Lord add blessings upon you: upon you, and upon your children. ¹⁵ Blessed be you of the Lord, who made heaven and earth. ¹⁶ The heaven of heaven is the Lord's: but the earth he has given to the children of men. ¹⁷ The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord: nor any of them that go down to hell. ¹⁸ But we that live bless the Lord: from this time now and for ever. ¹¹⁶ ¹ I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer. ² Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: and in my days I will call upon him. ³ The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow: ⁴ And I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, deliver my soul. ⁵ The Lord is merciful and just, and our God sheweth mercy. ⁶ The Lord is the keeper of little ones: I was humbled, and he delivered me. ⁷ Turn, O my soul, into thy rest: for the Lord hath been bountiful to thee. ⁸ For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my feet from falling. ⁹ I will please the Lord in the land of the living. ¹⁰ I have believed, therefore have I spoken; but I have been humbled exceedingly. ¹¹ I said in my excess: Every man is a liar. ¹² What shall I render to the Lord, for all the things that he hath rendered to me? ¹³ I will take the chalice of salvation; and I will call upon the name of the Lord. ¹⁴ I will pay my vows to the Lord before all his people: ¹⁵ Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. ¹⁶ O Lord, for I am thy servant: I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast broken my bonds: ¹⁷ I will sacrifice to thee the sacrifice of praise, and I will call upon the name of the Lord. ¹⁸ I will pay my vows to the Lord in the sight of all his people: ¹⁹ In the courts of the house of the Lord, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. ¹¹⁷ ¹ O Praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. ² For his mercy is confirmed upon us: and the truth of the Lord remaineth for ever. ¹¹⁸ ¹ Give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. ² Let Israel now say, that he is good: that his mercy endureth for ever. ³ Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endureth for ever. ⁴ Let them that fear the Lord now say, that his mercy endureth for ever. ⁵ In my trouble I called upon the Lord: and the Lord heard me, and enlarged me. ⁶ The Lord is my helper: I will not fear what man can do unto me. ⁷ The Lord is my helper: and I will look over my enemies. ⁸ It is good to confide in the Lord, rather than to have confidence in man. ⁹ It is good to trust in the Lord, rather than to trust in princes. ¹⁰ All nations compassed me about; and, in the name of the Lord I have been revenged on them. ¹¹ Surrounding me they compassed me about: and in the name of the Lord I have been revenged on them. ¹² They surrounded me like bees, and they burned like fire among thorns: and in the name of the Lord I was revenged on them. ¹³ Being pushed I was overturned that I might fall: but the Lord supported me. ¹⁴ The Lord is my strength and my praise: and he is become my salvation. ¹⁵ The voice of rejoicing and of salvation is in the tabernacles of the just. ¹⁶ The right hand of the Lord hath wrought strength: the right hand of the Lord hath exalted me: the right hand of the Lord hath wrought strength. ¹⁷ I shall not die, but live: and shall declare the works of the Lord. ¹⁸ The Lord chastising hath chastised me: but he hath not delivered me over to death. ¹⁹ Open ye to me the gates of justice: I will go in to them, and give praise to the Lord. ²⁰ This is the gate of the Lord, the just shall enter into it. ²¹ I will give glory to thee because thou hast heard me: and art become my salvation. ²² The stone which the builders rejected; the same is become the head of the corner. ²³ This is the Lord's doing, and it is wonderful in our eyes. ²⁴ This is the day which the Lord hath made: let us be glad and rejoice therein. ²⁵ O Lord, save me: O Lord, give good success. ²⁶ Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord. We have blessed you out of the house of the Lord. ²⁷ The Lord is God, and he hath shone upon us. Appoint a solemn day, with shady boughs, even to the horn of the altar. ²⁸ Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, and I will exalt thee. I will praise thee, because thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation. ²⁹ O praise ye the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. ¹¹⁹ ¹ Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. ² Blessed are they that search his testimonies: that seek him with their whole heart. ³ For they that work iniquity, have not walked in his ways. ⁴ Thou hast commanded thy commandments to be kept most diligently. ⁵ O! that my ways may be directed to keep thy justifications. ⁶ Then shall I not be confounded, when I shall look into all thy commandments. ⁷ I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned the judgments of thy justice. ⁸ I will keep thy justifications: O! do not thou utterly forsake me. ⁹ By what doth a young man correct his way? by observing thy words. ¹⁰ With my whole heart have I sought after thee: let me not stray from thy commandments. ¹¹ Thy words have I hidden in my heart, that I may not sin against thee. ¹² Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy justifications. ¹³ With my lips I have pronounced all the judgments of thy mouth. ¹⁴ I have been delighted in the way of thy testimonies, as in all riches. ¹⁵ I will meditate on thy commandments: and I will consider thy ways. ¹⁶ I will think of thy justifications: I will not forget thy words. ¹⁷ Give bountifully to thy servant, enliven me: and I shall keep thy words. ¹⁸ Open thou my eyes: and I will consider the wondrous things of thy law. ¹⁹ I am a sojourner on the earth: hide not thy commandments from me. ²⁰ My soul hath coveted to long for thy justifications, at all times. ²¹ Thou hast rebuked the proud: they are cursed who decline from thy commandments. ²² Remove from me reproach and contempt: because I have sought after thy testimonies. ²³ For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was employed in thy justifications. ²⁴ For thy testimonies are my meditation: and thy justifications my counsel. ²⁵ My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: quicken thou me according to thy word. ²⁶ I have declared my ways, and thou hast heard me: teach me thy justifications. ²⁷ Make me to understand the way of thy justifications: and I shall be exercised in thy wondrous works. ²⁸ My soul hath slumbered through heaviness: strengthen thou me in thy words. ²⁹ Remove from me the way of iniquity: and out of thy law have mercy on me. ³⁰ I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments I have not forgotten. ³¹ I have stuck to thy testimonies, O Lord: put me not to shame. ³² I have run the way of thy commandments, when thou didst enlarge my heart. ³³ Set before me for a law the way of thy justifications, O Lord: and I will always seek after it. ³⁴ Give me understanding, and I will search thy law; and I will keep it with my whole heart. ³⁵ Lead me into the path of thy commandments; for this same I have desired. ³⁶ Incline my heart into thy testimonies and not to covetousness. ³⁷ Turn away my eyes that they may not behold vanity: quicken me in thy way. ³⁸ Establish thy word to thy servant, in thy fear. ³⁹ Turn away my reproach, which I have apprehended: for thy judgments are delightful. ⁴⁰ Behold I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy justice. ⁴¹ Let thy mercy also come upon me, O Lord: thy salvation according to thy word. ⁴² So shall I answer them that reproach me in any thing; that I have trusted in thy words. ⁴³ And take not thou the word of truth utterly out of my mouth: for in thy words, I have hoped exceedingly. ⁴⁴ So shall I always keep thy law, for ever and ever. ⁴⁵ And I walked at large: because I have sought after thy commandments. ⁴⁶ And I spoke of thy testimonies before kings: and I was not ashamed. ⁴⁷ I meditated also on thy commandments, which I loved. ⁴⁸ And I lifted up my hands to thy commandments, which I loved: and I was exercised in thy justifications. ⁴⁹ Be thou mindful of thy word to thy servant, in which thou hast given me hope. ⁵⁰ This hath comforted me in my humiliation: because thy word hath enlivened me. ⁵¹ The proud did iniquitously altogether: but I declined not from thy law. ⁵² I remembered, O Lord, thy judgments of old: and I was comforted. ⁵³ A fainting hath taken hold of me, because of the wicked that forsake thy law. ⁵⁴ Thy justifications were the subject of my song, in the place of my pilgrimage. ⁵⁵ In the night I have remembered thy name, O Lord: and have kept thy law. ⁵⁶ This happened to me: because I sought after thy justifications. ⁵⁷ O Lord, my portion, I have said, I would keep thy law. ⁵⁸ I entreated thy face with all my heart: have mercy on me according to thy word. ⁵⁹ I have thought on my ways: and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. ⁶⁰ I am ready, and am not troubled: that I may keep thy commandments. ⁶¹ The cords of the wicked have encompassed me: but I have not forgotten thy law. ⁶² I rose at midnight to give praise to thee; for the judgments of thy justification. ⁶³ I am a partaker with all them that fear thee, and that keep thy commandments. ⁶⁴ The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy justifications. ⁶⁵ Thou hast done well with thy servant, O Lord, according to thy word. ⁶⁶ Teach me goodness and discipline and knowledge; for I have believed thy commandments. ⁶⁷ Before I was humbled I offended; therefore have I kept thy word. ⁶⁸ Thou art good; and in thy goodness teach me thy justifications. ⁶⁹ The iniquity of the proud hath been multiplied over me: but I will seek thy commandments with my whole heart. ⁷⁰ Their heart is curdled like milk: but I have meditated on thy law. ⁷¹ It is good for me that thou hast humbled me, that I may learn thy justifications. ⁷² The law of thy mouth is good to me, above thousands of gold and silver. ⁷³ Thy hands have made me and formed me: give me understanding, and I will learn thy commandments. ⁷⁴ They that fear thee shall see me, and shall be glad : because I have greatly hoped in thy words. ⁷⁵ I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are equity: and in thy truth thou hast humbled me. ⁷⁶ O! let thy mercy be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant. ⁷⁷ Let thy tender mercies come unto me, and I shall live: for thy law is my meditation. ⁷⁸ Let the proud be ashamed, because they have done unjustly towards me: but I will be employed in thy commandments. ⁷⁹ Let them that fear thee turn to me: and they that know thy testimonies. ⁸⁰ Let my heart be undefiled in thy justifications, that I may not be confounded. ⁸¹ My soul hath fainted after thy salvation: and in thy word I have very much hoped. ⁸² My eyes have failed for thy word, saying: When wilt thou comfort me? ⁸³ For I am become like a bottle in the frost: I have not forgotten thy justifications. ⁸⁴ How many are the days of thy servant: when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? ⁸⁵ The wicked have told me fables: but not as thy law. ⁸⁶ All thy statutes are truth: they have persecuted me unjustly, do thou help me. ⁸⁷ They had almost made an end of me upon earth: but I have not forsaken thy commandments. ⁸⁸ Quicken thou me according to thy mercy: and I shall keep the testimonies of thy mouth. ⁸⁹ For ever, O Lord, thy word standeth firm in heaven. ⁹⁰ Thy truth unto all generations: thou hast founded the earth, and it continueth. ⁹¹ By thy ordinance the day goeth on: for all things serve thee. ⁹² Unless thy law had been my meditation, I had then perhaps perished in my abjection. ⁹³ Thy justifications I will never forget: for by them thou hast given me life. ⁹⁴ I am thine, save thou me: for I have sought thy justifications. ⁹⁵ The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I have understood thy testimonies. ⁹⁶ I have seen an end of all perfection: thy commandment is exceeding broad. ⁹⁷ O how have I loved thy law, O Lord! it is my meditation all the day. ⁹⁸ Through thy commandment, thou hast made me wiser than my enemies: for it is ever with me. ⁹⁹ I have understood more than all my teachers: because thy testimonies are my meditation. ¹⁰⁰ I have had understanding above ancients: because I have sought thy commandments. ¹⁰¹ I have restrained my feet from every evil way: that I may keep thy words. ¹⁰² I have not declined from thy judgments, because thou hast set me a law. ¹⁰³ How sweet are thy words to my palate! more than honey to my mouth. ¹⁰⁴ By thy commandments I have had understanding: therefore have I hated every way of iniquity. ¹⁰⁵ Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my paths. ¹⁰⁶ I have sworn and am determined to keep the judgments of thy justice. ¹⁰⁷ I have been humbled, O Lord, exceedingly: quicken thou me according to thy word. ¹⁰⁸ The free offerings of my mouth make acceptable, O Lord: and teach me thy judgments. ¹⁰⁹ My soul is continually in my hands: and I have not forgotten thy law. ¹¹⁰ Sinners have laid a snare for me: but I have not erred from thy precepts. ¹¹¹ I have purchased thy testimonies for an inheritance for ever: because they are the joy of my heart. ¹¹² I have inclined my heart to do thy justifications for ever, for the reward. ¹¹³ I have hated the unjust: and have loved thy law. ¹¹⁴ Thou art my helper and my protector: and in thy word I have greatly hoped. ¹¹⁵ Depart from me, ye malignant: and I will search the commandments of my God. ¹¹⁶ Uphold me according to thy word, and I shall live: and let me not be confounded in my expectation. ¹¹⁷ Help me, and I shall be saved: and I will meditate always on thy justifications. ¹¹⁸ Thou hast despised all them that fall off from thy judgments; for their thought is unjust. ¹¹⁹ I have accounted all the sinners of the earth prevaricators: therefore have I loved thy testimonies. ¹²⁰ Pierce thou my flesh with thy fear: for I am afraid of thy judgments. ¹²¹ I have done judgment and justice: give me not up to them that slander me. ¹²² Uphold thy servant unto good: let not the proud calumniate me. ¹²³ My eyes have fainted after thy salvation: and for the word of thy justice. ¹²⁴ Deal with thy servant according to thy mercy: and teach me thy justifications. ¹²⁵ I am thy servant: give me understanding that I may know thy testimonies. ¹²⁶ It is time, O Lord, to do: they have dissipated thy law. ¹²⁷ Therefore have I loved thy commandments above gold and the topaz. ¹²⁸ Therefore was I directed to all thy commandments: I have hated all wicked ways. ¹²⁹ Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore my soul hath sought them. ¹³⁰ The declaration of thy words giveth light: and giveth understanding to little ones. ¹³¹ I opened my mouth, and panted: because I longed for thy commandments. ¹³² Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me according to the judgment of them that love thy name. ¹³³ Direct my steps according to thy word: and let no iniquity have dominion over me. ¹³⁴ Redeem me from the calumnies of men: that I may keep thy commandments. ¹³⁵ Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: and teach me thy justifications. ¹³⁶ My eyes have sent forth springs of water: because they have not kept thy law. ¹³⁷ Thou art just, O Lord: and thy judgment is right. ¹³⁸ Thou hast commanded justice thy testimonies: and thy truth exceedingly. ¹³⁹ My zeal hath made me pine away: because my enemies forgot thy words. ¹⁴⁰ Thy word is exceedingly refined: and thy servant hath loved it. ¹⁴¹ I am very young and despised; but I forget not thy justifications. ¹⁴² Thy justice is justice for ever: and thy law is the truth. ¹⁴³ Trouble and anguish have found me: thy commandments are my meditation. ¹⁴⁴ Thy testimonies are justice for ever: give me understanding, and I shall live. ¹⁴⁵ I cried with my whole heart, hear me, O Lord: I will seek thy justifications. ¹⁴⁶ I cried unto thee, save me: that I may keep thy commandments. ¹⁴⁷ I prevented the dawning of the day, and cried: because in thy words I very much hoped. ¹⁴⁸ My eyes to thee have prevented the morning: that I might meditate on thy words. ¹⁴⁹ Hear thou my voice, O Lord, according to thy mercy: and quicken me according to thy judgment. ¹⁵⁰ They that persecute me have drawn nigh to iniquity; but they are gone far off from thy law. ¹⁵¹ Thou art near, O Lord: and all thy ways are truth. ¹⁵² I have known from the beginning concerning thy testimonies: that thou hast founded them for ever. ¹⁵³ See my humiliation and deliver me for I have not forgotten thy law. ¹⁵⁴ Judge my judgment and redeem me: quicken thou me for thy word's sake. ¹⁵⁵ Salvation is far from sinners; because they have not sought thy justifications. ¹⁵⁶ Many, O Lord, are thy mercies: quicken me according to thy judgment. ¹⁵⁷ Many are they that persecute me and afflict me; but I have not declined from thy testimonies. ¹⁵⁸ I beheld the transgressors, and pined away; because they kept not thy word. ¹⁵⁹ Behold I have loved thy commandments, O Lord; quicken me thou in thy mercy. ¹⁶⁰ The beginning of thy words is truth: all the judgments of thy justice are for ever. ¹⁶¹ Princes have persecuted me without cause: and my heart hath been in awe of thy words. ¹⁶² I will rejoice at thy words, as one that hath found great spoil. ¹⁶³ I have hated and abhorred iniquity; but I have loved thy law. ¹⁶⁴ Seven times a day I have given praise to thee, for the judgments of thy justice. ¹⁶⁵ Much peace have they that love thy law, and to them there is no stumbling. block. ¹⁶⁶ I looked for thy salvation, O Lord: and I loved thy commandments. ¹⁶⁷ My soul hath kept thy testimonies and hath loved them exceedingly. ¹⁶⁸ I have kept thy commandments and thy testimonies: because all my ways are in thy sight. ¹⁶⁹ Let my supplication, O Lord, come near in thy sight: give me understanding according to thy word. ¹⁷⁰ Let my request come in before thee; deliver thou me according to thy word. ¹⁷¹ My lips shall utter a hymn, when thou shalt teach me thy justifications. ¹⁷² My tongue shall pronounce thy word: because all thy commandments are justice. ¹⁷³ Let thy hand be with me to save me; for I have chosen thy precepts. ¹⁷⁴ I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my meditation. ¹⁷⁵ My soul shall live and shall praise thee: and thy judgments shall help me. ¹⁷⁶ I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost: seek thy servant, because I have not forgotten thy commandments. ¹²⁰ ¹ A gradual canticle. In my trouble I cried to the Lord: and he heard me. ² O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue. ³ What shall be given to thee, or what shall be added to thee, to a deceitful tongue? ⁴ The sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals that lay waste. ⁵ Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged! I have dwelt with the inhabitants of Cedar: ⁶ My soul hath been long a sojourner. ⁷ With them that hated peace I was peaceable: when I spoke to them they fought against me without cause. ¹²¹ ¹ A gradual canticle. I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains, from whence help shall come to me. ² My help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. ³ May he not suffer thy foot to be moved: neither let him slumber that keepeth thee. ⁴ Behold he shall neither slumber nor sleep, that keepeth Israel. ⁵ The Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy protection upon thy right hand. ⁶ The sun shall not burn thee by day: nor the moon by night. ⁷ The Lord keepeth thee from all evil: may the Lord keep thy soul. ⁸ May the Lord keep thy coming in and thy going out; from henceforth now and for ever. ¹²² ¹ A gradual canticle. I rejoiced at the things that were said to me: We shall go into the house of the Lord. ² Our feet were standing in thy courts, O Jerusalem. ³ Jerusalem, which is built as a city, which is compact together. ⁴ For thither did the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord: the testimony of Israel, to praise the name of the Lord. ⁵ Because their seats have sat in judgment, seats upon the house of David. ⁶ Pray ye for the things that are for the peace of Jerusalem: and abundance for them that love thee. ⁷ Let peace be in thy strength: and abundance in thy towers. ⁸ For the sake of my brethren, and of my neighbours, I spoke peace of thee. ⁹ Because of the house of the Lord our God, I have sought good things for thee. ¹²³ ¹ A gradual canticle. To thee have I lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven. ² Behold as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters, As the eyes of the handmaid are on the hands of her mistress: so are our eyes unto the Lord our God, until he have mercy on us. ³ Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for we are greatly filled with contempt. ⁴ For our soul is greatly filled: we are a reproach to the rich, and contempt to the proud. ¹²⁴ ¹ A gradual canticle. If it had not been that the Lord was with us, let Israel now say: ² If it had not been that the Lord was with us, When men rose up against us, ³ Perhaps they had swallowed us up alive. When their fury was enkindled against us, ⁴ Perhaps the waters had swallowed us up. ⁵ Our soul hath passed through a torrent: perhaps our soul had passed through a water insupportable. ⁶ Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us to be a prey to their teeth. ⁷ Our soul hath been delivered as a sparrow out of 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 gradual canticle. They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Sion: he shall not be moved for ever that dwelleth ² In Jerusalem. Mountains are round about it: so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth now and for ever. ³ For the Lord will not leave the rod of sinners upon the lot of the just: that the just may not stretch forth their hands to iniquity. ⁴ Do good, O Lord, to those that are good, and to the upright of heart. ⁵ But such as turn aside into bonds, the Lord shall lead out with the workers of iniquity: peace upon Israel. ¹²⁶ ¹ A gradual canticle. When the Lord brought back the captivity of Sion, we became like men comforted. ² Then was our mouth filled with gladness; and our tongue with joy. Then shall they say among the Gentiles: The Lord hath done great things for them. ³ The Lord hath done great things for us: we are become joyful. ⁴ Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as a stream in the south. ⁵ They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. ⁶ Going they went and wept, casting their seeds. ^(126:7) But coming they shall come with joyfulness, carrying their sheaves. ¹²⁷ ¹ A gradual canticle of Solomon. Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it. ² It is vain for you to rise before light, rise ye after you have sitten, you that eat the bread of sorrow. When he shall give sleep to his beloved, ³ Behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the fruit of the womb. ⁴ As arrows in the hand of the mighty, so the children of them that have been shaken. ⁵ Blessed is the man that hath filled the desire with them; he shall not be confounded when he shall speak to his enemies in the gate. ¹²⁸ ¹ A gradual canticle. Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways. ² For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee. ³ Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table. ⁴ Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. ⁵ May the Lord bless thee out of Sion: and mayst thou see the good things of Jerusalem all the days of thy life. ⁶ And mayst thou see thy children's children, peace upon Israel. ¹²⁹ ¹ A gradual canticle. Often have they fought against me from my youth, let Israel now say. ² Often have they fought against me from my youth: but they could not prevail over me. ³ The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened their iniquity. ⁴ The Lord who is just will cut the necks of sinners: ⁵ Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Sion. ⁶ Let them be as grass upon the tops of houses: which withereth before it be plucked up: ⁷ Who with the mower filleth not his hand: nor he that gathereth sheaves his bosom. ⁸ And they that passed by have not said: The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we have blessed you in the name of the Lord. ¹³⁰ ¹ A gradual canticle. Out of the depths I have cried to thee, O Lord: ² Lord, hear my voice. Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication. ³ If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it. ⁴ For with thee there is merciful forgiveness: and by reason of thy law, I have waited for thee, O Lord. My soul hath relied on his word: ⁵ My soul hath hoped in the Lord. ⁶ From the morning watch even until night, let Israel hope in the Lord. ⁷ Because with the Lord there is mercy: and with him plentiful redemption. ⁸ And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. ¹³¹ ¹ A gradual canticle of David. Lord, my heart is not exalted: nor are my eyes lofty. Neither have I walked in great matters, nor in wonderful things above me. ² If I was not humbly minded, but exalted my soul: As a child that is weaned is towards his mother, so reward in my soul. ³ Let Israel hope in the Lord, from henceforth now and for ever. ¹³² ¹ A gradual canticle. O Lord, remember David, and all his meekness. ² How he swore to the Lord, he vowed a vow to the God of Jacob: ³ If I shall enter into the tabernacle of my house: if I shall go up into the bed wherein I lie: ⁴ If I shall give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids, ⁵ Or rest to my temples: until I find out a place for the Lord, a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. ⁶ Behold we have heard of it in Ephrata: we have found it in the fields of the wood. ⁷ We will go into his tabernacle: we will adore in the place where his feet stood. ⁸ Arise, O Lord, into thy resting place: thou and the ark, which thou hast sanctified. ⁹ Let thy priests be clothed with justice: and let thy saints rejoice. ¹⁰ For thy servant David's sake, turn not away the face of thy anointed. ¹¹ The Lord hath sworn truth to David, and he will not make it void: of the fruit of thy womb I will set upon thy throne. ¹² If thy children will keep my covenant, and these my testimonies which I shall teach them: Their children also for evermore shall sit upon thy throne. ¹³ For the Lord hath chosen Sion: he hath chosen it for his dwelling. ¹⁴ This is my rest for ever and ever: here will I dwell, for I have chosen it. ¹⁵ Blessing I will bless her widow: I will satisfy her poor with bread. ¹⁶ I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her saints shall rejoice with exceeding great joy. ¹⁷ There will I bring forth a horn to David: I have prepared a lamp for my anointed. ¹⁸ His enemies I will clothe with confusion: but upon him shall my sanctification flourish. ¹³³ ¹ A gradual canticle of David. Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity: ² Like the precious ointment on the head, that ran down upon the beard, the beard of Aaron, Which ran down to the skirt of his garment: ³ As the dew of Hermon, which descendeth upon mount Sion. For there the Lord hath commanded blessing, and life for evermore. ¹³⁴ ¹ A gradual canticle. Behold now bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord: Who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God. ² In the nights lift up your hands to the holy places, and bless ye the Lord. ³ May the Lord out of Sion bless thee, he that made heaven and earth. ¹³⁵ ¹ Alleluia. Praise ye the name of the Lord: O you his servants, praise the Lord: ² You that stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God. ³ Praise ye the Lord, for the Lord is good: sing ye to his name, for it is sweet. ⁴ For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself: Israel for his own possession. ⁵ For I have known that the Lord is great, and our God is above all gods. ⁶ Whatsoever the Lord pleased he hath done, in heaven, in earth, in the sea, and in all the deeps. ⁷ He bringeth up clouds from the end of the earth: he hath made lightnings for the rain. He bringeth forth winds out of his stores: ⁸ He slew the firstborn of Egypt from man even unto beast. ⁹ He sent forth signs and wonders in the midst of thee, O Egypt: upon Pharao, and upon all his servants. ¹⁰ He smote many nations, and slew mighty kings: ¹¹ Sehon king of the Amorrhites, and Og king of Basan, and all the kingdoms of Chanaan. ¹² And gave their land for an inheritance, for an inheritance to his people Israel. ¹³ Thy name, O Lord, is for ever: thy memorial, O Lord, unto all generations. ¹⁴ For the Lord will judge his people, and will be entreated in favour of his servants. ¹⁵ The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of men's hands. ¹⁶ They have a mouth, but they speak not: they have eyes, but they see not. ¹⁷ They have ears, but they hear not: neither is there any breath in their mouths. ¹⁸ Let them that make them be like to them: and every one that trusteth in them. ¹⁹ Bless the Lord, O house of Israel: bless the Lord, O house of Aaron. ²⁰ Bless the Lord, O house of Levi: you that fear the Lord, bless the Lord. ²¹ Blessed be the Lord out of Sion, who dwelleth in Jerusalem. ¹³⁶ ¹ Alleluia. Praise the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. ² Praise ye the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever. ³ Praise ye the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever. ⁴ Who alone doth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever. ⁵ Who made the heavens in understanding: for his mercy endureth for ever. ⁶ Who established the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever. ⁷ Who made the great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever. ⁸ The sun to rule the day: for his mercy endureth for ever. ⁹ The moon and the stars to rule the night: for his mercy endureth for ever. ¹⁰ Who smote Egypt with their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever. ¹¹ Who brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for ever. ¹² With a mighty hand and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever. ¹³ Who divided the Red Sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever. ¹⁴ And brought out Israel through the midst thereof: for his mercy endureth for ever. ¹⁵ And overthrew Pharao and his host in the Red Sea: for his mercy endureth for ever. ¹⁶ Who led his people through the desert: for his mercy endureth for ever. ¹⁷ Who smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for ever. ¹⁸ And slew strong kings: for his mercy endureth for ever. ¹⁹ Sehon king of the Amorrhites: for his mercy endureth for ever. ²⁰ And Og king of Basan: for his mercy endureth for ever. ²¹ And he gave their land for an inheritance: for his mercy endureth for ever. ²² For an inheritance to his servant Israel: for his mercy endureth for ever. ²³ For he was mindful of us in our affliction: for his mercy endureth for ever. ²⁴ And he redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever. ²⁵ Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever. ²⁶ Give glory to the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever. ^(136:27) Give glory to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever. ¹³⁷ ¹ Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion: ² On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments. ³ For there they that led us into captivity required of us the words of songs. And they that carried us away, said: Sing ye to us a hymn of the songs of Sion. ⁴ How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land? ⁵ If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten. ⁶ Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy. ⁷ Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. ⁸ O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us. ⁹ Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy little ones against the rock. ¹³⁸ ¹ For David himself. I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: for thou hast heard the words of my mouth. I will sing praise to thee in the sight of the angels: ² I will worship towards thy holy temple, and I will give glory to thy name. For thy mercy, and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy holy name above all. ³ In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me: thou shalt multiply strength in my soul. ⁴ May all the kings of the earth give glory to thee: for they have heard all the words of thy 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 high, and looketh on the low: and the high he knoweth afar off. ⁷ If I shall walk in the midst of tribulation, thou wilt quicken me: and thou hast stretched forth thy hand against the wrath of my enemies: and thy right hand hath saved me. ⁸ The Lord will repay for me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: O despise not the works of thy hands. ¹³⁹ ¹ Unto the end, a psalm of David. Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me: ² Thou hast known my sitting down, and my rising up. ³ Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out. ⁴ And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my tongue. ⁵ Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things, the last and those of old: thou hast formed me, and hast laid thy hand upon me. ⁶ Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot reach to it. ⁷ Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy face? ⁸ If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present. ⁹ If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea: ¹⁰ Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall hold me. ¹¹ And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures. ¹² But darkness shall not be dark to thee, and night shall be light all the day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are alike to thee. ¹³ For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my mother's womb. ¹⁴ I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: wonderful are thy works, and my soul knoweth right well. ¹⁵ My bone is not hidden from thee, which thou hast made in secret: and my substance in the lower parts of the earth. ¹⁶ Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, and no one in them. ¹⁷ But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened. ¹⁸ I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the sand, I rose up and am still with thee. ¹⁹ If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me: ²⁰ Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in vain. ²¹ Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pined away because of thy enemies? ²² I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become enemies to me. ²³ Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths. ²⁴ And see if there be in me the way of iniquity: and lead me in the eternal way. ¹⁴⁰ ¹ Unto the end, a psalm of David. ^(140:2) Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: rescue me from the unjust man. ² ^(140:3) Who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all the day long they designed battles. ³ ^(140:4) They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of asps is under their lips. ⁴ ^(140:5) Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the wicked: and from unjust men deliver me. Who have proposed to supplant my steps: ⁵ ^(140:6) The proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the wayside. ⁶ ^(140:7) I said to the Lord: Thou art my God: hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication. ⁷ ^(140:8) O Lord, Lord, the strength of my salvation: thou hast overshadowed my head in the day of battle. ⁸ ^(140:9) Give me not up, O Lord, from my desire to the wicked: they have plotted against me; do not thou forsake me, lest they should triumph. ⁹ ^(140:10) The head of them compassing me about: the labour of their lips shall overwhelm them. ¹⁰ ^(140:11) Burning coals shall fall upon them; thou wilt cast them down into the fire: in miseries they shall not be able to stand. ¹¹ ^(140:12) A man full of tongue shall not be established in the earth: evil shall catch the unjust man unto destruction. ¹² ^(140:13) I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will revenge the poor. ¹³ ^(140:14) But as for the just, they shall give glory to thy name: and the upright shall dwell with thy countenance. ¹⁴¹ ¹ I have cried to thee, O Lord, hear me: hearken to my voice, when I cry to thee. ² Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy sight; the lifting up of my hands, as evening sacrifice. ³ Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my lips. ⁴ Incline not my heart to evil words; to make excuses in sins. With men that work iniquity: and I will not communicate with the choicest of them. ⁵ The just man shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer shall still be against the things with which they are well pleased: ⁶ Their judges falling upon the rock have been swallowed up. They shall hear my words, for they have prevailed: ⁷ As when the thickness of the earth is broken up upon the ground: Our bones are scattered by the side of hell. ⁸ But to thee, O Lord, Lord, are my eyes: in thee have I put my trust, take not away my soul. ⁹ Keep me from the snare, which they have laid for me, and from the stumblingblocks of them that work iniquity. ¹⁰ The wicked shall fall in his net: I am alone until I pass. ¹⁴² ¹ Of understanding for David, A prayer when he was in the cave. [1 Samuel 24] ^(142:2) I cried to the Lord with my voice: with my voice I made supplication to the Lord. ² ^(142:3) In his sight I pour out my prayer, and before him I declare my trouble: ³ ^(142:4) When my spirit failed me, then thou knewest my paths. In this way wherein I walked, they have hidden a snare for me. ⁴ ^(142:5) I looked on my right hand, and beheld, and there was no one that would know me. Flight hath failed me: and there is no one that hath regard to my soul. ⁵ ^(142:6) I cried to thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my hope, my portion in the land of the living. ⁶ ^(142:7) Attend to my supplication: for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I. ⁷ ^(142:8) Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the just wait for me, until thou reward me. ¹⁴³ ¹ A psalm of David, when his son Absalom pursued him. [2 Samuel 17] Hear, O Lord, my prayer: give ear to my supplication in thy truth: hear me in thy justice. ² And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified. ³ For the enemy hath persecuted my soul: he hath brought down my life to the earth. He hath made me to dwell in darkness as those that have been dead of old: ⁴ And my spirit is in anguish within me: my heart within me is troubled. ⁵ I remembered the days of old, I meditated on all thy works: I meditated upon the works of thy hands. ⁶ I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without water unto thee. ⁷ Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. ⁸ Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning; for in thee have I hoped. Make the way known to me, wherein I should walk: for I have lifted up my soul to thee. ⁹ Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord, to thee have I fled: ¹⁰ Teach me to do thy will, for thou art my God. Thy good spirit shall lead me into the right land: ¹¹ For thy name's sake, O Lord, thou wilt quicken me in thy justice. Thou wilt bring my soul out of trouble: ¹² And in thy mercy thou wilt destroy my enemies. And thou wilt cut off all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant. ¹⁴⁴ ¹ Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war. ² My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me. ³ Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him? ⁴ Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow. ⁵ Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. ⁶ Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them. ⁷ Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children: ⁸ Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity. ⁹ To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee. ¹⁰ Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword: ¹¹ Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity: ¹² Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple: ¹³ Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth: ¹⁴ Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets. ¹⁵ They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord. ¹⁴⁵ ¹ Praise, for David himself. I will extol thee, O God my king: and I will bless thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever. ² Every day will I bless thee: and I will praise thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever. ³ Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: and of his greatness there is no end. ⁴ Generation and generation shall praise thy works: and they shall declare thy power. ⁵ They shall speak of the magnificence of the glory of thy holiness: and shall tell thy wondrous works. ⁶ And they shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and shall declare thy greatness. ⁷ They shall publish the memory of the abundance of thy sweetness: and shall rejoice in thy justice. ⁸ The Lord is gracious and merciful: patient and plenteous in mercy. ⁹ The Lord is sweet to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. ¹⁰ Let all thy works, O lord, praise thee: and let thy saints bless thee. ¹¹ They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom: and shall tell of thy power: ¹² To make thy might known to the sons of men: and the glory of the magnificence of thy kingdom. ¹³ Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages: and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations. The Lord is faithful in all his words: and holy in all his works. ¹⁴ The Lord lifteth up all that fall: and setteth up all that are cast down. ¹⁵ The eyes of all hope in thee, O Lord: and thou givest them meat in due season. ¹⁶ Thou openest thy hand, and fillest with blessing every living creature. ¹⁷ The Lord is just in all his ways: and holy in all his works. ¹⁸ The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him: to all that call upon him in truth. ¹⁹ He will do the will of them that fear him: and he will hear their prayer, and save them. ²⁰ The Lord keepeth all them that love him; but all the wicked he will destroy. ²¹ My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh bless his holy name forever; yea, for ever and ever. ¹⁴⁶ ¹ Alleluia, of Aggeus and Zacharias. ^(146:2) Praise the Lord, O my soul, ² In my life I will praise the Lord: I will sing to my God as long as I shall be. ^(146:3) Put not your trust in princes: ³ In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation. ⁴ His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: in that day all their thoughts shall perish. ⁵ Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his helper, whose hope is in the Lord his God: ⁶ Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are in them. ⁷ Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that suffer wrong: who giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them that are fettered: ⁸ The Lord enlighteneth the blind. The Lord lifteth up them that are cast down: the Lord loveth the just. ⁹ The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy. ¹⁰ The Lord shall reign for ever: thy God, O Sion, unto generation and generation. ¹⁴⁷ ¹ Alleluia. Praise ye the Lord, because psalm is good: to our God be joyful and comely praise. ² The Lord buildeth up Jerusalem: he will gather together the dispersed of Israel. ³ Who healeth the broken of heart, and bindeth up their bruises. ⁴ Who telleth the number of the stars: and calleth them all by their names. ⁵ Great is our Lord, and great is his power: and of his wisdom there is no number. ⁶ The Lord lifteth up the meek, and bringeth the wicked down even to the ground. ⁷ Sing ye to the Lord with praise: sing to our God upon the harp. ⁸ Who covereth the heaven with clouds, and prepareth rain for the earth. Who maketh grass to grow on the mountains, and herbs for the service of men. ⁹ Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him. ¹⁰ He shall not delight in the strength of the horse: nor take pleasure in the legs of a man. ¹¹ The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him: and in them that hope in his mercy. ¹² Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem: praise thy God, O Sion. ¹³ Because he hath strengthened the bolts of thy gates, he hath blessed thy children within thee. ¹⁴ Who hath placed peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the fat of corn. ¹⁵ Who sendeth forth his speech to the earth: his word runneth swiftly. ¹⁶ Who giveth snow like wool: scattereth mists like ashes. ¹⁷ He sendeth his crystal like morsels: who shall stand before the face of his cold? ¹⁸ He shall send out his word, and shall melt them: his wind shall blow, and the waters shall run. ¹⁹ Who declareth his word to Jacob: his justices and his judgments to Israel. ²⁰ He hath not done in like manner to every nation: and his judgments he hath not made manifest to them. Alleluia. ¹⁴⁸ ¹ Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise ye him in the high places. ² Praise ye him, all his angels, praise ye him, all his hosts. ³ Praise ye him, O sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars and light. ⁴ Praise him, ye heavens of heavens: and let all the waters that are above the heavens ⁵ Praise the name of the Lord. For he spoke, and they were made: he commanded, and they were created. ⁶ He hath established them for ever, and for ages of ages: he hath made a decree, and it shall not pass away. ⁷ Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all ye deeps: ⁸ Fire, hail, snow, ice, stormy winds, which fulfil his word: ⁹ Mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars: ¹⁰ Beasts and all cattle: serpents and feathered fowls: ¹¹ Kings of the earth and all people: princes and all judges of the earth: ¹² Young men and maidens: let the old with the younger, praise the name of the Lord: ¹³ For his name alone is exalted. ¹⁴ The praise of him is above heaven and earth: and he hath exalted the horn of his people. A hymn to all his saints to the children of Israel, a people approaching to him. Alleluia. ¹⁴⁹ ¹ Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: let his praise be in the church of the saints. ² Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: and let the children of Sion be joyful in their king. ³ Let them praise his name in choir: let them sing to him with the timbrel and the psaltery. ⁴ For the Lord is well pleased with his people: and he will exalt the meek unto salvation. ⁵ The saints shall rejoice in glory: they shall be joyful in their beds. ⁶ The high praises of God shall be in their mouth: and two-edged swords in their hands: ⁷ To execute vengeance upon the nations, chastisements among the people: ⁸ To bind their kings with fetters, and their nobles with manacles of iron. ⁹ To execute upon them the judgment that is written: this glory is to all his saints. Alleluia. ¹⁵⁰ ¹ Praise ye the Lord in his holy places: praise ye him in the firmament of his power. ² Praise ye him for his mighty acts: praise ye him according to the multitude of his greatness. ³ Praise him with the sound of trumpet: praise him with psaltery and harp. ⁴ Praise him with timbrel and choir: praise him with strings and organs. ⁵ Praise him on high sounding cymbals: praise him on cymbals of joy: ⁶ Let every spirit praise the Lord. Alleluia.