Psalms 18:1-30:12 To His Eminence; By David the servant of Yah Veh: who worded to Yah Veh the words of this song in the day Yah Weh rescued him from the palm of his enemies, and from the hand of Shaul: and he says, I mercy you, O Yah Veh, my strength!

ECB⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ To His Eminence; By David the servant of Yah Veh: who worded to Yah Veh the words of this song in the day Yah Weh rescued him from the palm of his enemies, and from the hand of Shaul: and he says, I mercy you, O Yah Veh, my strength! ² Yah Veh is my rock and my stronghold and my escape; my El, my rock in whom I seek refuge; my buckler and the horn of my salvation; my secure loft. ³ I call Yah Veh, The Halaled One: - saved from my enemies. ⁴ The cords of death surround me; the wadies of Beli Yaal frighten me; ⁵ the cords of sheol surround me; the snares of death anticipate me. ⁶ In my tribulation I call on Yah Veh and cry to my Elohim; he hears my voice from his manse, and my cry comes at his face - to his ears. ⁷ And the earth shakes and quakes; the foundations of the mountains quake and shake because he is inflamed. ⁸ A smoke ascends from his nostrils and fire from his mouth consumes - it burns coals. ⁹ And he spreads the heavens, and descends; dripping darkness is under his feet: ¹⁰ he rides on a cherub and flies; yes, he flies on the wings of the wind: ¹¹ he sets darkness for his covert; his sukkoth/brush arbor surrounds him - dark waters and thick clouds of vapours: ¹² at the brilliance in front of him his thick clouds pass - hail and coals of fire. ¹³ Yah Veh thunders in the heavens; Elyon gives his voice - hail and coals of fire: ¹⁴ yes, he sends his arrows and scatters them; he shoots lightnings and agitates them. ¹⁵ And the reservoirs of waters were seen, and exposed are the foundations of the world at your rebuke, O Yah Veh - at the breath of the wind/spirit of your nostrils. ¹⁶ He sends from the heights; he takes me; he draws me from many waters: ¹⁷ he rescues me from my strong enemy - from them who hate me; for they are stronger than I. ¹⁸ They anticipate me in the day of my calamity; and Yah Veh is my support. ¹⁹ He brings me to an expanse; he rescues me, because he delights in me: ²⁰ Yah Veh deals according to my justness; - returns according to the purity of my hands: ²¹ for I guard the ways of Yah Veh - not done wickedly against my Elohim. ²² For all his judgments are in front of me and I turn not aside his statutes from me: ²³ and I am integrious in front of him and I guard myself from my perversity: ²⁴ and Yah Veh returns to me according to my justness - according to the purity of my hands in his eyes. ²⁵ With the mercied, merciful; with the mighty integrious, integrious; ²⁶ with the pure, purified; with the pervert, a wrestler. ²⁷ For you save the humble people and abase the lofted eye. ²⁸ For you - you light my lamp; Yah Veh my Elohim illuminates my darkeness. ²⁹ For by you, I run a troop; and by Elohim I leap a wall. ³⁰ El, his way is integrious; the saying of Yah Veh is refined: he is a buckler to all who seek refuge in him. ³¹ For who is Elohah, except Yah Veh? Who is a rock, except our Elohim? ³² El girts me with valour and gives my way integrious; ³³ He places my feet as the hinds and stands me on my bamahs; ³⁴ he teaches my hands to war so my arms bend a bow of steel. ³⁵ You give me the buckler of your salvation; your right upholds me; and your humbleness abounds me: ³⁶ you enlarge my paces under me; my ankles waver not. ³⁷ I pursue my enemies, and overtake them; I return not until they are finished off: ³⁸ I strike them who are not able to rise; they fall under my feet. ³⁹ For you girt me with valour to the war; you knuckle them under who rise: ⁴⁰ you give me the necks of my enemies; to exterminate them who hate me. ⁴¹ They cry, and there is no savior; - to Yah Veh, but he answers them not. ⁴² And I purlverize them as the dust at the face of the wind; I pour them out as mire in the outways. ⁴³ You slip me away from the strivings of the people; and you set me at the head of the goyim: a people I know not serve me. ⁴⁴ At the hearing of the ear, they hearken to me; the sons of strangers disavow me: ⁴⁵ the sons of strangers wither, and tremble from their borders. ⁴⁶ Yah Veh lives; blessed be my rock; and lofted be the Elohim of my salvation. ⁴⁷ El gives me vengeance - subdues all the people under me. ⁴⁸ He slips me away from my enemies; yes, you lift me above them who rise; you rescue me from the man of violence. ⁴⁹ So I spread hands to you, O Yah Veh, among the goyim, and psalm to your name. ⁵⁰ He greatens salvation to his sovereign; and works mercy to his anointed - to David, and to his seed eternally. ¹⁹ ¹ To His Eminence; A Psalm by David. The heavens scribe the honor of El; and the expanse tells his handiwork. ² Day to day gushes sayings and night to night shows knowledge. ³ There is neither saying nor word where their voice is not heard. ⁴ Their line goes throughout all the earth and their utterances to the end of the world. In them he sets a tent for the sun: ⁵ and he, as a groom coming from his canopy; rejoices as the mighty to run the path. ⁶ His source is from the end of the heavens and his circuit to the ends thereof; and naught is hid from the heat. ⁷ The torah of Yah Veh is perfect, restoring the soul; the witness of Yah Veh is trustworthy, enwisening the gullible; ⁸ the precepts of Yah Veh are straight, cheering the heart; the misvah of Yah Veh is pure, enlightening the eyes; ⁹ the awe of Yah Veh is pure, standing eternally; the judgments of Yah Veh are truth, justified altogether. ¹⁰ More to be desired than gold, yes, than much pure gold; and sweeter than honey and the droppings of the honeycomb. ¹¹ Also by them your servant enlightens; and in guarding them is a great final result. ¹² Inadvertent errors - who discerns? Exonerate me from the hidden; ¹³ also spare your servant from the arrogant that they not reign over me: and I am integrious and exonerated from the great rebellion. ¹⁴ May the sayings of my mouth and the meditation of my heart, be pleasing at your face, O Yah Veh, my rock and my redeemer. ²⁰ ¹ To His Eminence; A Psalm by David. Yah Veh answers you in the day of tribulation; the name of Elohim of Yaaqov lofts you; ² he sends you help from the holies and supports you from Siyon; ³ he remembers all your offerings and fattens your holocausts. Selah. ⁴ He gives you according to your own heart and fulfills all your counsel. ⁵ We shout in your salvation and in the name of our Elohim we raise our banners; Yah Veh fulfills all your requests. ⁶ Now I know that Yah Veh saves his anointed; he answers him from his holy heavens with the might of salvation of his right ⁷ - some in chariots - some in horses; and we remember the name of Yah Veh our Elohim. ⁸ They - they knuckle under and fall; and we rise restored. ⁹ Save, O Yah Veh; the sovereign answers us the day we call. ²¹ ¹ To His Eminence; A Psalm by David. The sovereign cheers in your strength, O Yah Veh; how mightily he twirls in your salvation: ² you give him the desire of his heart and withhold not the yearning of his lips. Selah. ³ For you anticipate him with the blessings of goodness; you set a crown of pure gold on his head; ⁴ he asks life of you and you give him length of days eternally and eternally: ⁵ great is his honor in your salvation; you place honor and majesty on him: ⁶ for you set him for blessings eternally; you cheer him with cheerfulness by your face. ⁷ For the sovereign confides in Yah Veh and through the mercy of Elyon he totters not: ⁸ your hand finds all your enemies; your right finds them who hate you: ⁹ you set them as a fiery oven at the time of your face: Yah Veh swallows them in his wrath and the fire consumes them: ¹⁰ you destroy their fruit from the earth and their seed from the sons of humanity. ¹¹ For they spread evil against you; they machinate intrigue; they are not able: ¹² for you set their shoulder; you prepare your cords against their face. ¹³ Be lofted, O Yah Veh, in your own strength; we sing and psalm your might. ²² ¹ To His Eminence; On the Hind of the Dawn: A Psalm by David. My El, my El, why forsake you me? - so far from my salvation and from the words of my roaring? ² O my Elohim, I call by day, and you answer not; and by night, and am not silent. ³ And you are holy - you who settles in the halals of Yisra El. ⁴ Our fathers confided in you - they confided and you slipped them away: ⁵ they cried to you and escaped; they confided in you and shamed not. ⁶ I am but a maggot - not a man; a reproach of humanity despised of the people. ⁷ All who see me deride me; they bust out the lip, they shake the head, ⁸ saying, Roll on Yah Veh! He rescues him! He slips him away, seeing he delights in him! ⁹ For you are he who gushed me from the belly; to confide in you at the breasts of my mother. ¹⁰ I was cast on you from the womb; you are my El from the belly of my mother. ¹¹ Be not far from me; for tribulation is near: for there is no helper. ¹² Many bullocks surround me; the mighty of Bashan surround me: ¹³ they gape on me with their mouths as a tearing and a roaring lion. ¹⁴ I am poured as water and all my bones separate; my heart is as wax melted midst my inwards; ¹⁵ my force is dried as a potsherd; my tongue adheres to my prey; you set me into the dust of death. ¹⁶ For dogs surround me; the witness of vilifiers surround me: my hands and my feet as a lion. ¹⁷ I scribe all my bones; they look and see me; ¹⁸ they allot my clothes among them and toss pebbles for my robe. ¹⁹ And you, O Yah Veh, be not far from me; O my might, hasten to help me: ²⁰ rescue my soul from the sword; my only from the hand of the dog: ²¹ save me from the mouth of the lion; from the horns of the reems, answer me. ²² I scribe your name to my brothers; midst the congregation I halal you. ²³ You who awe Yah Veh, halal him; all you seed of Yaaqov, honor him; and dodge him, all you seed of Yisra El. ²⁴ For he neither despises nor abominates the humbling of the humble; nor hides his face from him; and in crying to him, he hears. ²⁵ My halal is of you in the great congregation; I shalam my vows in front of them who awe him. ²⁶ The humble eat - satisfied; they who seek Yah Veh halal him; your heart lives eternally. ²⁷ All the finalities of the world remember and turn to Yah Veh; and all the families of the goyim prostrate at your face. ²⁸ For the sovereigndom is to Yah Veh; he is the sovereign among the goyim. ²⁹ All the fat on earth eat and prostrate; all they who descend to the dust kneel at his face; and none enlivens his own soul. ³⁰ A seed serves him; - ascribed to Adonay for a generation. ³¹ They come and tell his justness to a people yet to be birthed - whom he has worked. ²³ ¹ A Psalm by David. Yah Veh Raah; I lack not. ² He reposes me in sprouting folds; he guides me beside the waters of rest: ³ He restores my soul; he leads me in the paths of justness for sake of his name. ⁴ Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I awe no evil; for you are with me; your scion and your crutch sigh over me: ⁵ you arrange a table at my face in the presence of my tribulators; you anoint my head with ointment; my cup satiates. ⁶ Surely goodness and mercy pursue me all the days of my life; and I settle in the house of Yah Veh for a length of days. ²⁴ ¹ A Psalm by David. Unto Yah Veh is the earth and the fulness; the world and they who settle therein: ² for he founded it on the seas and established it on the rivers. ³ Who ascends into the mountain of Yah Veh? Who rises in his holy place? ⁴ He who has innocent palms and a pure heart; - who neither lifts his soul to vanity nor oaths deceitfully: ⁵ he lifts a blessing from Yah Veh and justness from Elohim of his salvation. ⁶ This is the generation of seekers who seek your face, O Yaaqov. Selah. ⁷ Lift your heads, O you portals; be lifted, you eternal portals; and the Sovereign of honor enters. ⁸ Who is this Sovereign of honor? Yah Veh strong and mighty! Yah Veh mighty in war! ⁹ Lift your heads, O you portals; be lifted, you eternal portals; and the Sovereign of honor enters. ¹⁰ Who is this Sovereign of honor? Yah Veh Sabaoth, he is the Sovereign of honor. Selah. ²⁵ ¹ By David. To you, O Yah Veh, I lift my soul; ² O my Elohim, I confide in you; may I neither shame nor my enemies jump for joy over me: ³ yes, may none who await you shame; shame them who deal vanity covertly. ⁴ Have me know your ways, O Yah Veh; teach me your paths: ⁵ aim me in your truth and teach me; for you are Elohim of my salvation: I await you all the day. ⁶ Remember, O Yah Veh, your tender mercies and your kind mercies; for they are eternal: ⁷ remember neither the sins of my youth nor my rebellions: according to your mercy remember me for sake of your goodness, O Yah Veh. ⁸ Good and straight is Yah Veh; so he teaches sinners in the way: ⁹ he aims the humble in judgment; and he teaches the humble his way. ¹⁰ All the paths of Yah Veh are mercy and truth to such as guard his covenant and his witnesses. ¹¹ For sake of your name, O Yah Veh, forgive my perversity; for it is great. ¹² What man is he who awes Yah Veh? He teaches him in the way he chooses. ¹³ His soul stays in goodness; and his seed possesses the earth: ¹⁴ the private counsel of Yah Veh is with them who awe him; and he has them know his covenant. ¹⁵ My eyes are continually toward Yah Veh; for he plucks my feet from the net. ¹⁶ Face me and grant me charism; for I am alone and humble: ¹⁷ the tribulations of my heart enlarge; bring me from my distresses. ¹⁸ See my humiliation and my toil; and lift all my sins: ¹⁹ see my enemies; for they abound by the myriads: and they hate me with hatred of violence. ²⁰ O guard my soul and rescue me that I shame not; for I seek my refuge in you: ²¹ Integrity and straightness guard me; for I await you: ²² redeem Yisra El, O Elohim, from all his tribulations. ²⁶ ¹ By David. Judge me, O Yah Veh; for I walk in my integrity: I confide in Yah Veh; I waver not. ² Proof me, O Yah Veh, proof me - refine my reins and my heart. ³ For your mercy is in front of my eyes and I walk in your truth: ⁴ I neither settle with vain men nor go with imposters: ⁵ I hate the congregation of vilifiers and settle not with the wicked: ⁶ I wash my palms in innocency; I surround your sacrifice altar, O Yah Veh: ⁷ that they hear the voice of spread hands and scribe of all your wondrous works. ⁸ O Yah Veh, I love the habitation of your house and the place of the tabernacle of your honor. ⁹ Neither gather my soul with sinners nor my life with men of blood ¹⁰ - in whose hands is intrigue and their right full of bribes. ¹¹ But as for me, I walk in my integrity; redeem me and grant me charism: ¹² my foot stands straight; I bless Yah Veh in the congregations. ²⁷ ¹ By David. Yah Veh is my light and my salvation; whom dread I? Yah Veh is the stronghold of my life; whom dread I? ² When the vilifiers - my tribulators and my enemies come on me to eat my flesh, they stumble and fall. ³ Though a camp encamp against me my heart awes not; though war rises against me in this I confide. ⁴ This one I ask of Yah Veh - I seek after: to settle in the house of Yah Veh all the days of my life; to see the pleasantness of Yah Veh and to search in his manse. ⁵ For in the day of evil he hides me in his sukkoth/brush arbor - in the covert of his tent he hides me - lifts me on a rock. ⁶ And now my head lifts above my enemies all around; and in his tent I sacrifice sacrifices of shouting; I sing, yes, I psalm to Yah Veh. ⁷ Hear, O Yah Veh, my voice - I call! Grant me charism and answer me. ⁸ My heart says to you, Seek my face; Your face, O Yah Veh, I seek. ⁹ Neither hide your face from me nor pervert your servant away in wrath; you are my help: neither leave me nor forsake me, O Elohim of my salvation. ¹⁰ When my father and my mother forsake me then Yah Veh gathers me. ¹¹ Teach me your way, O Yah Veh and lead me in a straight path because of my enemies. ¹² Give me not to the soul of my tribulators; for false witnesses rise against me - such as exhale violence. ¹³ I trusted not to see the goodness of Yah Veh in the land of the living. ¹⁴ Await Yah Veh! Prevail; and he strengthens your heart; yes, await Yah Veh. ²⁸ ¹ By David. To you I call, O Yah Veh my rock; hush not to me: if you hush to me I become as they who descend into the well. ² Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to you - when I lift my hands toward the pulpit of your holies. ³ Draw me not away with the wicked - with the doers of mischief; who word shalom to their friends but evil is in their hearts. ⁴ Give them according to their deeds and according to the evil of their exploits; give them according to the work of their hands; return to them as they deal. ⁵ For they neither discern the deeds of Yah Veh nor the work of his hands; he demolishes them and builds them not. ⁶ Blessed be Yah Veh; for he hears the voice of my supplications. ⁷ Yah Veh is my strength and my buckler; my heart confides in him and I am helped: and my heart jumps for joy; and with my song I spread hands to him. ⁸ Yah Veh is their strength and he is the stronghold of salvations of his anointed. ⁹ Save your people and bless your inheritance; befriend them also and lift them eternally. ²⁹ ¹ A Psalm by David. Give to Yah Veh, O you sons of El; give to Yah Veh honor and strength; ² give to Yah Veh the honor of his name: prostrate to Yah Veh in the majesty of his holies. ³ The voice of Yah Veh is on the waters: the El of honor thunders; Yah Veh is on many waters: ⁴ - the voice of Yah Veh in force the voice of Yah Veh in majesty: ⁵ the voice of Yah Veh breaks the cedars; yes, Yah Veh breaks the cedars of Lebanon. ⁶ He has them dance as a calf - Lebanon and Shirion as a son of reems; ⁷ the voice of Yah Veh hews the flames of fire: ⁸ the voice of Yah Veh twirls the wilderness; Yah Veh twirls the wilderness of Qadesh: ⁹ the voice of Yah Veh causes the hinds to writhe and strips the forests: and in his manse all say of his honor. ¹⁰ Yah Veh settles on the flood; yes, Yah Veh settles, Sovereign eternal! ¹¹ Yah Veh gives strength to his people; Yah Veh blesses his people with shalom. ³⁰ ¹ A Psalm; A Song: at the hanukkah of the house of David. I exalt you, O Yah Veh; for you bail me up so that my enemies not cheer over me. ² O Yah Veh my Elohim I cry to you and you heal me. ³ O Yah Veh, you ascend my soul from sheol; you enliven me that I not descend to the well. ⁴ Psalm to Yah Veh, all you his mercied; spread hands at the memorial of his holiness: ⁵ his wrath is for but a blink; in his pleasure is life: weeping stays at evening but shouting at morning: ⁶ and in my serenity I say, I totter not eternally. ⁷ O Yah Veh, at your pleasure my mountain stands in strength; you hide your face and I terrify. ⁸ I call to you, O Yah Veh; and to Yah Veh I seek charism. ⁹ What gain is there in my blood when I descend to the pit of ruin? Does dust spread hands to you? - tell your truth? ¹⁰ Hear, O Yah Veh, and grant me charism; O Yah Veh, be my helper. ¹¹ Turn my chopping into round dancing; loose my saq and girt me with cheerfulness: ¹² so that my honor may psalm to you and not hush. O Yah Veh my Elohim, I spread hands to you eternally.