Psalms 50:1-119:176

MKJV(i) 1 A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, Jehovah, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to its going down. 2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone. 3 Our God comes, and He is not silent; a fire shall devour before Him, and it shall be very stormy all around Him. 4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, so that He may judge His people. 5 Gather My saints to Me; and those who cut My covenant by sacrifice. 6 And the heavens shall declare His righteousness; for God Himself is judge. Selah. 7 Hear, My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you; I am God, your God. 8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices; yea, your burnt offerings are continually before Me. 9 I will take no bull out of your house, nor he-goats out of your folds. 10 For every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. 11 I know all the birds of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are Mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness of it. 13 Will I eat the flesh of the mighty, or drink the blood of goats? 14 Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay your vows to the Most High; 15 and call on Me in the day of trouble; and I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me. 16 But to the wicked, God says, What is it to you, to declare My Precepts, and to take up My covenant in your mouth? 17 Yea, you hate to be taught, and you toss My Words behind you. 18 When you saw a thief, then you were pleased to be with him, and you have taken part with adulterers. 19 You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit. 20 You sit; you speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son. 21 These things you have done, and I have kept silence; you thought that I was like yourself, but I will rebuke you, and set in order before your eyes. 22 Now think of this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver. 23 Whoever offers praise glorifies Me; and he who sets a way, I will show him the salvation of God. 51 1 To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving-kindness; according to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me completely from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I confess my transgressions; and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done evil in Your sight; that You might be justified when You speak, and be clear when You judge. 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. 6 Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts; and in the hidden part You shall make me to know wisdom. 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which You have broken may rejoice. 9 Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away from Your presence, and take not Your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. 13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways; and sinners shall be converted to You. 14 Deliver me from the guilt of shedding blood, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness. 15 O Jehovah, open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth Your praise. 16 For You do not desire sacrifice; or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering. 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise. 18 Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem. 19 Then shall You be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering; then they shall offer bulls on Your altar. 52 1 To the Chief Musician. A contemplation. A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David has come to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you boast yourself in evil, O mighty man? The mercy of God endures forever. 2 Your tongue devises evil, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 You love evil more than good, and lying more than to speak righteousness. Selah. 4 You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue. 5 God will likewise destroy you forever; He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah. 6 And the righteous shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying, 7 Behold, the man who did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, he was strong in his wickedness. 8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever. 9 I will praise You forever, because You have done it; and I will wait on Your name; for it is good before Your saints. 53 1 To the Chief Musician on Mahalath. A contemplation. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They acted corruptly, and have worked out abominable wickedness; there is not one doing good. 2 God looked down from Heaven on the sons of mankind to see if any was discerning, who was seeking God. 3 Every one has turned away; they have altogether become filthy; not one is doing good, no, not even one. 4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? They eat up my people as they eat bread; they have not called on God. 5 There they dreaded with dread, where no dread was; for God has scattered the bones of him who camps against you; you have put them to shame because God rejects them. 6 Who will give from Zion the salvation of Israel? When God brings back the captivity of His people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. 54 1 To the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation. A Psalm of David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Does not David hide himself among us? Save me, O God, by Your name, and judge me by Your strength. 2 Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth. 3 For strangers have risen up against me, and cruel men seek after my soul; they have not set God before them. Selah. 4 Behold, God is my helper; Jehovah is with those who uphold my soul. 5 He shall reward evil to my enemies; cut them off in Your truth. 6 I will freely sacrifice to You; I will praise Your name, O Jehovah, for it is good. 7 For He has delivered me out of all trouble; and my eye has seen its desire on my enemies. 55 1 To the Chief Musician. For stringed instruments. A contemplation. A Psalm of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not Yourself from my cry. 2 Attend to me, and hear me; I wander and I moan in my complaint, 3 from the voice of the enemy, from the oppression of the wicked, for they shake trouble over me, and in wrath they hate me. 4 My heart is pained within me; and the terrors of death have fallen on me. 5 Fear and trembling have come on me, and horror has covered me. 6 And I said, Who will give to me wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest. 7 Lo, I would wander far off; I would lodge in the desert. Selah. 8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest. 9 Swallow up, O Jehovah, and divide their tongues; for I have seen violence and fighting in the city. 10 They go around her on her walls by day and night; and evil and sorrow are in her midst. 11 Covetings are in her midst; oppression and guile will not depart from her streets. 12 For it is not an enemy who reviled me; then I could have borne it; it is not one who hates me who magnified himself against me; or I would hide myself from him; 13 but it is you, a man my rank, my guide and my friend. 14 We took sweet counsel together, and walked to the house of God in company. 15 Let desolation take hold on them, and let them go down alive into hell; for evils are among them in their dwellings. 16 I, even I, will call to God, and Jehovah will save me. 17 Evening and morning, and at noon, I will pray and cry aloud; and He shall hear my voice. 18 He has delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me; for there were many with me. 19 God shall hear and answer them, even He who is enthroned of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they do not fear God. 20 He has put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him; he has broken his covenant. 21 The butterings of his mouth were forked, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords. 22 Cast your burden on Jehovah, and He will keep you; He will never allow the righteous to waver. 23 But You, O God, will bring them down into the pit of ruin; bloody and deceitful men shall not live half their days; but I will trust in You. 56 1 To the Chief Musician. Concerning the silent dove, those far off. Of David, a secret treasure, when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up; fighting daily, he presses me down. 2 My watchers panted for me daily; for many are they who proudly fight against me. 3 When I am afraid I will trust in You. 4 In God I will praise His Word; in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do to me. 5 All day long they pervert my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil. 6 They stir up strife; they hide themselves; they watch my steps as they wait for my soul. 7 Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God. 8 You number my wandering; O put my tears into Your bottle; are they not in Your Book? 9 When I cry, then my enemies will be turned back. This I know, for God is with me. 10 In God I will praise His Word; in Jehovah will I praise His Word. 11 In God I have put my trust; I will not be afraid of what man can do to me. 12 Your vows are on me, O God; I will give praises to You. 13 For You have delivered my soul from death; have You not kept my feet from falling, so that I may walk before God in the light of the living? 57 1 To the Chief Musician. Do not destroy. A secret treasure of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave. Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me; for my soul trusts in You; yea, in the shadow of Your wings I will make my hiding-place, until these great troubles pass by. 2 I will cry to God most high, to God who does all things for me. 3 He shall send from Heaven, and save me from the scorn of him who would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth His mercy and His truth. 4 My soul is among lions; I lie among those on fire, the sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. 5 Be praised above the heavens, O God; let Your glory be above all the earth. 6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down; they have dug a pit before me, they have fallen into it. Selah. 7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise. 8 Wake up, my soul! Wake up, harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn. 9 I will praise You, O Jehovah, among the peoples; I will sing to You among the nations. 10 For Your mercy is great to the heavens, and Your truth to the clouds. 11 Be exalted above the heavens, O God; let Your glory be above all the earth. 58 1 To the Chief Musician. Do not destroy. A secret treasure of David. Will you indeed speak righteousness in silence? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men? 2 Yes, in heart you work the evil, you weigh the violence of your hands in the land. 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from the womb, speaking lies. 4 Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like the deaf adder, he stops his ear, 5 which will not listen to the charmer's voice, a skillful caster of spells. 6 O God, break their teeth in their mouth; break out the big teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah. 7 Let them melt away like waters; they run off to them; he bends his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off. 8 Let them be as a snail goes into melting; as a miscarriage of a woman, they do not see the sun. 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, whether green or glowing, He shall sweep it away. 10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. 11 And man shall say, Truly, there is a reward for the righteous; truly, there is a God judging in the earth. 59 1 To the Chief Musician. Do not destroy. A secret treasure of David, when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; defend me from those who rise up against me. 2 Deliver me from the workers of evil and save me from bloody men. 3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul; the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah. 4 Without my fault they run and prepare themselves; awaken to help me, and look on me. 5 And You, O Jehovah, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the nations; do not be merciful to any plotting evil. Selah. 6 They return at evening; they make a noise like a dog, and go around the city. 7 Behold, they bellow out with their mouth; swords are in their lips; for they say, Who hears? 8 But You, O Jehovah, shall laugh at them; You will mock at all the nations. 9 O my Strength, let me look to You, for God is my strong tower. 10 The God of my mercy shall go before me; God shall let me see my desire on my enemies. 11 Do not kill them, lest my people forget; scatter them by Your power and bring them down, O Jehovah our shield. 12 For the sin of their mouth is the word of their lips, even let them be taken in their pride; and for cursing and the lying which they speak. 13 Consume them in wrath; consume, so that they may not be; and let them know that God rules in Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah. 14 And at evening they shall return; let them howl like a dog, and go around the city. 15 Let them wander up and down for food, and growl if they are not satisfied. 16 But I will sing of Your power; yes, I will sing aloud of Your mercy in the morning; for You have been my strong tower and hiding-place in the day of my trouble. 17 To You, O my strength, I will sing; for God is my strong tower and the God of my mercy. 60 1 To the Chief Musician. On the Lily of Testimony. A secret treasure of David, to teach; when he struggled with Aram-naharaim and with Aram of Zobah, when Joab returned and struck twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt. O God, You have cast us off, You have scattered us, You were angry; take us back. 2 You made the earth tremble; You tore it; heal the breaks of it, for it is shaking. 3 You have shown Your people hard things; You have made us to drink the wine of trembling. 4 You have given a banner to those who fear You, to lift it up because of the truth. Selah. 5 Save with Your right hand and answer me, that Your beloved may be delivered. 6 God has spoken in His holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem and measure out the valley of Succoth. 7 Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; and Ephraim is the strength of My head, Judah is My lawgiver; 8 Moab is My washpot; over Edom I will cast out My shoe; over Philistia I cry in triumph. 9 Who will bring me into the strong city? Who will lead me into Edom? 10 Have not You, O God, cast us off? And will You, O God, not go out with our armies? 11 Give us help against our foe; for vain is the help of man. 12 Through God we shall do great things; for it is He who shall trample our enemies. 61 1 To the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer. 2 From the end of the earth I cry to You when my heart is faint; Lead me to the Rock higher than I. 3 For You have been a shelter for me, a strong tower before the enemy. 4 I will dwell in Your tabernacle forever; I will trust in the hiding place of Your wings. Selah. 5 For You, O God, have heard my vows; You have given an inheritance to those who fear Your name. 6 You will add to the days of the king's life; his years will be for many generations. 7 He shall abide before God forever; prepare mercy and truth to preserve him. 8 So I will sing praise to Your name forever, so that I may daily pay my vows. 62 1 To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. Only to God is my soul in silence; from Him comes my salvation. 2 He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my tower; I shall not be greatly moved. 3 How long will you imagine mischief against a man? You will shatter him, all of you; you shall be like a bowing wall and a tottering fence. 4 Surely they have plotted to cast him down from his great height; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse in their heart. Selah. 5 My soul, be silent only to God; for my hope is from Him. 6 He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my strong tower; I shall not be shaken. 7 In God is my salvation and my glory; the rock of my strength; my hiding-place is in God. 8 Trust in Him at all times; you people, pour out your heart before Him; God is a hiding-place for us. Selah. 9 Surely the sons of men are vanity; the sons of men are a lie; they go up in the scales; they are altogether lighter than vanity. 10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart on them. 11 God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God. 12 Also to You, O Jehovah, belongs mercy; for You give to every man according to his work. 63 1 A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; I will seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, as in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; 2 so I have seen You in the holy place, seeing Your power and Your glory. 3 Because Your loving-kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise You. 4 So I will bless You while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name. 5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips, 6 when I remember You on my bed and think of You in the night watches. 7 Because You have been my help, therefore in the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice. 8 My soul follows hard after You; Your right hand upholds me. 9 But those who seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the depths of the earth. 10 They shall fall by the sword; they shall be a serving for jackals. 11 But the king shall rejoice in God; everyone who swears by Him shall glory; but the mouth of those who speak lies shall be stopped. 64 1 To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; guard my life from fear of the enemy. 2 Hide me from the council of those who injure, from the rebelling of the workers of iniquity, 3 who sharpen their tongue like a sword, they tread their arrows, even a bitter word, 4 so that they may shoot at the blameless one from a lurking place; suddenly they shoot at him, and fear not. 5 They encourage themselves in an evil plan; they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them? 6 They search out injustice, saying, We have finished hiding a hidden plot. Yea, the inward part of man and the heart are deep. 7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly they shall be wounded. 8 So they shall be confounded; their tongue falls on themselves; everyone seeing them shall flee. 9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall in wisdom think of His doing. 10 The righteous shall be glad in Jehovah, and shall trust in Him; and all the upright in heart shall glory. 65 1 To the Chief Musician. A Psalm and Song of David. To You silence is praise, O God, in Zion; and to You is a vow paid. 2 To You who hears prayer, all flesh comes. 3 Things of iniquity are mightier than I; as for our transgressions, You shall purge them away. 4 Blessed is the one whom You choose, and cause to come near You. He shall dwell in Your courts; we shall be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, of Your holy temple. 5 By awesome things in righteousness You will answer us, O God of our salvation; who are the hope of all the ends of the earth and the sea, of those far away. 6 The mountains are established by Your strength, banded together with might, 7 who stills the noise of the sea, the roar of their waves, and the uproar of the peoples. 8 And the inhabitants of the furthermost places are afraid of Your signs; You make the beginning of the morning and the evening rejoice. 9 You visit the earth and water it; You greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; You provide their grain, for in this way You have prepared it. 10 You fill its terraces with water; You deepen its furrows; You make it soft with showers; You bless the sprouting of it. 11 You crown the year with Your goodness, and Your paths drop fatness. 12 They drop on the pastures of the wilderness; and the little hills gird themselves with joy. 13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with grain; they shout for joy and sing. 66 1 To the Chief Musician. A Song. A Psalm. Make a joyful noise to God, all the earth. 2 Sing forth the honor of His name; make His praise glorious. 3 Say to God, How awesome are Your works! Through the greatness of Your power, Your enemies pretend obedience to You. 4 All the earth shall worship You, and shall sing to You; they praise Your name. Selah. 5 Come and see the works of God; He is awesome in His deeds toward the sons of men. 6 He turns the sea into dry land; they went through the flood on foot; there we rejoiced in Him. 7 He rules by His power forever; His eyes behold the nations; let not the rebels lift themselves up. Selah. 8 O bless our God, O peoples, and make the voice of His praise to be heard; 9 who holds our soul in life, and does not allow our feet to slide. 10 For You have proved us, O God; You have tested us, as silver is refined. 11 You have brought us into the net; You have laid affliction on our loins. 12 You have allowed men to ride at our head; we have gone through fire and through water, but You have brought us out to plenty. 13 I will go into Your house with burnt offerings; I will pay You my vows, 14 those which my lips have uttered and my mouth has spoken in my trouble. 15 I will offer to You burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bulls with goats. Selah. 16 Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will declare what He has done for my soul. 17 I cried to Him with my mouth, and exaltations were under my tongue. 18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, Jehovah will not hear; 19 Surely God has heard; He has attended to the voice of my prayer. 20 Blessed is God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor His mercy from me. 67 1 To the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song. May God be merciful to us, and bless us, and cause His face to shine on us. Selah. 2 So that Your way may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations. 3 Let the peoples praise You, O God; let all the peoples thank You. 4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy; for You shall judge the peoples righteously and govern the nations on earth. Selah. 5 Let the peoples give thanks to You, O God; let all the peoples praise You. 6 The earth shall yield its increase; and God, our own God, shall bless us. 7 God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear Him. 68 1 To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. A Song. Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered; also let those who hate Him flee before Him. 2 As smoke is driven away, You drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, let the wicked perish in the presence of God. 3 But the righteous are glad; they rejoice before God. Yes, let them exceedingly rejoice. 4 Sing to God, sing praises to His name; praise Him who rides on the heavens by His name JEHOVAH, and rejoice before Him. 5 In His holy dwelling God is the father of the fatherless, and the judge of the widows. 6 God causes the lonely to live at home; He brings out those who are bound with chains; but the rebellious dwell in a dry land. 7 O God, when You marched before Your people, when You walked through the wilderness; Selah. 8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God; Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel. 9 You, O God, sent a plentiful rain, by which You upheld Your inheritance when it was weary. 10 Your flock has dwelt in it; You, O God, have prepared in Your goodness for the poor. 11 The Lord gave the Word; the bearers of it were a great army. 12 Kings of armies fled away; and she who stayed at home divided the plunder. 13 When you lie among the sheepfolds, the wings of a dove are covered with silver, and its pinions with the shimmer of gold. 14 When the Almighty scatters kings in it, it snows on Salmon. 15 The mountain of Bashan is God's mountain; the Bashan range is a mountain of peaks. 16 Why do you gaze in envy, O mountain range, at the mountain God has chosen for His resting place? Yes, Jehovah will dwell in it forever. 17 The chariots of God are myriads, thousands of thousands; the Lord is among them, in Sinai, in the holy place. 18 You have gone up on high; You have led captivity captive; You have received gifts for men, yes, for the rebellious also, that You might dwell among them, O Jehovah God. 19 Blessed is Jehovah; He daily bears burdens for us, the God of our salvation. Selah. 20 Our God is the God of salvation; and to Jehovah are the issues of death. 21 Yea, God shall wound the head of His enemies, and the hairy crown of him who walks on in his guilt. 22 The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan; I will bring back My people from the depths of the sea; 23 so that your foot may be dipped in the blood of your enemies, and the tongue of your dogs in it. 24 They have seen Your goings, O God; the goings of my God, my King, in the holy place. 25 The singers went before, then the musicians came; among them were the virgins playing the timbrels. 26 O bless God in the congregations, the Lord, from the fountain of Israel. 27 There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the leaders of Judah and their multitude, the leaders of Zebulun, and the leaders of Naphtali. 28 Your God has commanded your strength; O God, be strong in that which You have worked out for us. 29 Because of Your temple in Jerusalem, kings shall bring a present to You. 30 Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds, the herd of bulls, with the calves of the peoples, trampling down with the pieces of silver. He scatters the people who delight in war. 31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall stretch out her hands to God. 32 Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises to the Lord. Selah. 33 To Him who rides on the heavens of heavens of old; lo, He sends out His voice, a mighty voice. 34 Give strength to God over Israel; His majesty and His strength in the skies. 35 O God, You are overwhelming out of Your holy places; the God of Israel is He who gives strength and powers to the people. Blessed is God. 69 1 To the Chief Musician. Concerning the Lilies. A Psalm of David. Save me, O God! for the waters have come in on my soul. 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. 3 I am weary from my crying; my throat is dried; my eyes fail while I wait for my God. 4 They who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they who would destroy me are mighty, my lying enemies. Then I restored what I did not take away. 5 O God, You know my foolishness, and my guiltiness is not hidden from You. 6 Do not let those who wait on You, O Jehovah, the God of Hosts, be ashamed for my sake; let not the ones who seek You be ashamed for my sake, O God of Israel, 7 because I have borne reproach for Your sake, shame has covered my face. 8 I have become a stranger to My brothers, and a foreigner to My mother's children. 9 For the zeal of Your house has eaten Me up; and the reproaches of those who reproached You have fallen on Me. 10 When I humbled my soul with fasting, it turned to my reproach. 11 I also made sackcloth my clothing, and I became a proverb to them. 12 They who sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards. 13 But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Jehovah, in a pleasing time; O God, in the multitude of Your mercy hear me, in the truth of Your salvation. 14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters. 15 Do not let the flood of waters overflow me, nor let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut its mouth on me. 16 Hear me, O Jehovah, for Your loving-kindness is good; turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies. 17 And hide not Your face from Your servant; for I am in trouble; hear me quickly. 18 Draw near my soul, and redeem it; deliver me because of my enemies. 19 You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor; my enemies are all before You. 20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; and I looked for some to mourn with me, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. 21 They also gave Me gall for my food; and in My thirst they gave Me vinegar to drink. 22 Let their table become a snare before them; and to those at ease a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see; and make their loins shake without ceasing. 24 Pour out Your wrath on them, and let the glow of Your anger take hold of them. 25 Let their dwelling be wasted; let none dwell in their tents. 26 For they persecute him whom You have stricken, and they talk to the grief of those You pierced. 27 Add iniquity to their iniquity, and let them not come into Your righteousness. 28 Let them be blotted out of the Book of Life, and not be written with the righteous. 29 But I am poor and sorrowful; let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high. 30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify Him with thanksgiving. 31 This also shall please Jehovah better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs. 32 The humble shall see and be glad; and your heart shall live, you who seek God. 33 For Jehovah hears the needy, and does not despise His prisoners. 34 Let the heavens and earth praise Him, the seas, and everything that moves in them. 35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah; so that they may dwell there, and possess it. 36 And the seed of His servants shall inherit it, and they who love His name shall dwell in it. 70 1 To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Jehovah. 2 Let them be ashamed and turned pale, those who seek after my soul; let them be turned backward and blush, those who desire my hurt. 3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame, those who say, Aha, aha! 4 Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; and let those who love Your salvation say without ending, Let God be magnified. 5 But I am poor and needy; make haste to me, O God; You are my help and my deliverer; O Jehovah, wait no longer! 71 1 In You, O Jehovah, I put my trust; let me never be put to shame. 2 Deliver me in Your righteousness, and cause me to escape; bow down Your ear to me, and save me. 3 Be a rock of refuge for me, to which I may always go; You have commanded to save me; for You are my Rock and my Fortress. 4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. 5 For You are my hope, O Lord God, my trust from my youth. 6 On You I have rested from the womb; You are He who took me out of my mother's bowels; my praise always shall be of You. 7 I am like a wonder to many, but You are my strong tower. 8 Let my mouth be filled with Your praise, with Your honor all the day. 9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength fails. 10 For my enemies speak against me; and those who watch for my soul plot together, 11 saying, God has forsaken him; pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver him. 12 O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste for my help. 13 Let them be ashamed; let those who are enemies of my soul be consumed; let them be covered with reproach and dishonor, those who seek my hurt. 14 But I will hope without ceasing, and I will add more in all Your praise. 15 My mouth shall show forth Your righteousness and Your salvation all the day; for I do not know how many they are. 16 I will go in the strength of the Lord Jehovah; I will speak of Your righteousness, of Yours alone. 17 O God, You have taught me from my youth; and before now I have declared Your wonderful works. 18 And now when I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not leave me; until I have declared Your strength to this generation, and Your power to everyone who is to come. 19 And Your righteousness, O God, is very high, who have done great things. O God, who is like You, 20 who has shown me great and evil distresses; You will turn me; You will make me live. You will turn me from the depths of the earth, You will bring me up. 21 You will increase my greatness and surround and comfort me on every side. 22 I will also praise You with a harp. O my God, I will sing Your truth; to You I will sing with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel. 23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to You, and my soul, which You have redeemed. 24 My tongue also shall muse on Your righteousness all the day long; for those who seek my evil have turned pale, they are brought to shame. 72 1 A Psalm of Solomon. Give the King Your judgments, O God, and Your righteousness to the King's son. 2 He will judge Your people in righteousness, and Your poor with judgment. 3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills by righteousness. 4 He shall judge the poor of the people; He shall save the children of the needy, and shall crush in pieces the cruel one. 5 They shall fear You as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations. 6 He shall come down like rain on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth. 7 In His days the righteous shall flourish; and abundance of peace, until the moon is not. 8 He shall also have the rule from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. 9 Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before Him; and His enemies shall lick the dust. 10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents; the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. 11 Yes, all kings shall fall down before Him; all nations shall serve Him. 12 For He shall deliver the needy when he cries; and the poor with no helper. 13 He shall have pity on the poor and needy and shall save the souls of the needy. 14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence; and their blood shall be precious in His sight. 15 And He shall live, and to Him shall be given the gold of Sheba; and prayer shall always be made for Him; He shall bless Him all the day long. 16 There shall be a fullness of grain in the earth on the top of the mountains; its fruit shall shake like Lebanon, and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth. 17 His name shall endure forever; His name shall be continued as long as the sun; and men shall be blessed in Him; all nations shall call Him blessed. 18 Blessed is Jehovah God, the God of Israel, who alone does wonderful things. 19 And blessed be His glorious name forever; and all the earth is filled with His glory! Amen and Amen. 20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended. 73 1 A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, to the pure of heart. 2 And I, my foot had almost stumbled; my steps had nearly slipped. 3 For I was jealous of the proud, when I saw the peace of the wicked. 4 For there are no bands in their death; but their strength is fat. 5 They are not in trouble like other men; neither are they plagued like other men. 6 Therefore pride enchains them; violence covers them like a robe. 7 Their eyes stand out with fatness; they have more than the heart could imagine. 8 They scoff and speak in malice of cruelty; from on high they speak. 9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth. 10 Therefore His people return here, and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. 11 And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High? 12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who are at ease in the world; they increase in riches. 13 Surely I have made my heart pure in vain, and washed my hands in innocence. 14 For all the day long I have been plagued, and chastened every morning. 15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I would deceive a generation of Your sons. 16 When I thought deeply in order to understand this, it was painful for me, 17 until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I understood their end. 18 Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down into ruin. 19 How have they been brought into grief, as in a moment! They are fully eaten up with terrors, 20 like a dream when one awakens; so, O Jehovah, when You awake, You shall despise their image. 21 For my heart was grieved and I was pricked in my reins. 22 So foolish was I, and I did not know; I was like a beast before You. 23 But I am always with You; You have held me by my right hand. 24 You shall lead me with Your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. 25 Whom have I in Heaven? And besides You I desire none on earth. 26 My flesh and my heart fail; but God is the strength of my heart, and my part forever. 27 For lo, those who are far from You shall perish; You have destroyed all who go lusting away from You. 28 And I, it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in Jehovah God, to declare all Your works. 74 1 An Instruction of Asaph. O God, have You cast us off forever? Will Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture? 2 Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old, the rod of Your inheritance which You have redeemed; this mount Zion in which You have dwelt. 3 Lift up Your feet to the never-ending ruins, even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary. 4 Your enemies roar in the midst of Your congregation; they set up their own banners for signs. 5 He is known as one bringing axes on high, on the thick trees. 6 And now all its carvings too, they break down with axes and hammers. 7 They have cast fire into Your sanctuary; they have defiled the dwelling-place of Your name to the ground. 8 They said in their hearts, Together let us rage against them; they have burned up all God's meeting-places in the land. 9 We did not see our signs; there is no prophet any more; neither is there among us any who knows how long. 10 O God, how long shall the enemy speak evil? Shall the enemy blaspheme Your name forever? 11 Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand? Draw it out of Your bosom. 12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth, 13 You divide the sea by Your strength; You break the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters. 14 You cracked open the heads of leviathan, and gave him to be food to the people living in the wilderness. 15 You divide the fountain and the flood; You dry up mighty rivers. 16 The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have prepared the light and the sun. 17 You have set all the borders of the earth; You have made summer and winter. 18 Remember this, the enemy has cursed, O Jehovah, and the foolish people have blasphemed Your name. 19 Do not deliver the soul of Your turtle dove to the multitude; forget not the congregation of Your poor forever. 20 Look to the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the houses of evil. 21 Oh let not the ill-treated ones return ashamed; let the poor and needy praise Your name. 22 Arise, O God, plead Your own cause; remember how the foolish man curses You daily. 23 Forget not the voice of Your enemies; the noise of those who rise up against You keeps on increasing. 75 1 To the Chief Musician. Do not destroy. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song. To You, O God, we have given thanks, to You we have given thanks; for Your name is near, Your wonderful works declared. 2 When I take the appointed time, I will judge uprightly. 3 The earth and all its people are melting away; I hold up its pillars. Selah. 4 I said to the proud, Do not boast; and to the wicked, Do not lift up the horn; 5 do not lift up your horn on high; nor speak with a stiff neck. 6 For lifting up comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. 7 But God is the judge; He puts down one and sets up another. 8 For in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is fully mixed; and He pours out from it; but the dregs of it, all the wicked of the earth shall drain its dregs and drink. 9 But I will declare forever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. 10 Also I will cut off all the horns of the wicked; but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up. 76 1 To the Chief Musician. For stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song. God is known in Judah, His name is great in Israel. 2 And His abode is in Salem; and His dwelling-place in Zion. 3 There He broke the fiery arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah. 4 You are more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey. 5 The stouthearted have been stripped; they slept their sleep; and none of the men of might have found their hands. 6 By Your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the horse and the chariot have sunk into a sleep. 7 You, even You, are terrifying, and who can stand when once You are angry? 8 You cause judgment to be heard from Heaven; the earth feared and was still, 9 when God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah. 10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise You; the wrath that is left, You shall bind up. 11 Vow, and pay to Jehovah your God; let all that are around Him bring presents to the Fearful One. 12 He shall cut off the spirit in princes; He is feared by the kings of the earth. 77 1 To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph. I cried to God with my voice, to God is my voice; and He gave ear to me. 2 In the day of my trouble I sought Jehovah; my hand was poured in the night, and ceased not; my soul refused to be comforted. 3 I remembered God, and was troubled; I complained, and my spirit fainted. Selah. 4 You keep my eyes awake; I am troubled and I cannot speak. 5 I have thought on the days of old, the years of ages past. 6 I remember my song in the night; I speak with my own heart, and my spirit carefully searches. 7 Will the Lord cast off forever? And will He be favorable no more? 8 Is His mercy gone forever? Has His Word failed for all generations? 9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has He in anger shut up His tender mercies? Selah. 10 And I said, This is my weakness, the years of the right hand of the Most High. 11 I will remember the works of Jehovah; surely I will remember Your wonders of old. 12 I will also think on all Your work, and talk of Your doings. 13 Your way, O God, is in holiness; who is so great a God as our God? 14 You are the God who does wonders; You have declared Your strength among the people. 15 You have with Your arm redeemed Your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah. 16 The waters saw You, O God, the waters saw You; they were afraid; the depths also were troubled. 17 The clouds poured out water; the skies sent out a sound; Your arrows also flew here and there. 18 The voice of Your thunder was in the sky; the lightnings lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook. 19 Your way is in the sea, and Your path in the great waters, and Your footsteps are not known. 20 You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. 78 1 An instruction of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law; bow down your ears to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will speak dark sayings of old, 3 which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their sons, showing to the generations to come the praises of Jehovah, and His strength, and His wonderful works that He has done. 5 For He set up a testimony in Jacob, and ordered a Law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should teach them to their sons; 6 so that the generation to come might know; sons shall be born, and they shall arise and tell their sons, 7 so that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His Commandments; 8 and might not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set their heart aright, and whose spirit was not faithful with God. 9 The sons of Ephraim, armed shooters of bows, turned back in the day of battle. 10 They did not keep the covenant of God, and refused to walk in His Law. 11 And they forgot His works and His wonders which He had shown them. 12 He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 13 He divided the sea and caused them to pass through; and He made the waters to stand in a heap. 14 And in the daytime He led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. 15 He split the rocks in the wilderness, and let them drink, as from the great depths. 16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. 17 And they sinned still more against Him, by provoking the Most High in the wilderness. 18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking food for their lust. 19 And they spoke against God; they said, Can God set a table in the wilderness? 20 Behold! He struck the rock so that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. Can He also give bread? Can He provide flesh for His people? 21 Therefore Jehovah heard, and was made furious; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel, 22 because they did not believe in God, and did not trust in His salvation; 23 though He had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of the heavens; 24 and had rained down manna on them to eat, and He gave them of the grain of the heavens. 25 Man ate the food of the mighty; He sent them meat to the full. 26 He caused an east wind to blow in the sky; and by His power He brought in the south wind. 27 and He also rained flesh on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea; 28 and He let them fall in the middle of their camp, all around their tents. 29 So they ate, and were filled to the full; for He gave them their own desire. 30 They were not turned away from their lust, but while their food was still in their mouths, 31 the wrath of God came on them and killed the fattest of them, and struck down the chosen of Israel. 32 For all this they still sinned, and did not believe because of His wonderful works. 33 Therefore He ended their days in vanity and their years in trouble. 34 When He killed them, then they looked for Him; and they turned back and sought after God. 35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God was their redeemer. 36 But they flattered Him with their mouths, and they lied to Him with their tongues. 37 For their heart was not right with Him, neither were they faithful in His covenant. 38 But He, full of pity, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them; yea, many times He turned His anger away, and did not stir up all His wrath. 39 For He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away and does not come again. 40 How often they provoked Him in the wilderness, and grieved Him in the desert! 41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and pained the Holy One of Israel. 42 They did not remember His hand, the day when He delivered them from the enemy; 43 how He had set His signs in Egypt, and His wonders in the fields of Zoan. 44 He turned their rivers into blood, and their floods, so that they could not drink. 45 He sent different kinds of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. 46 He also gave their crops to the stripping locust, and their labor to the locust. 47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with sleet. 48 He gave up their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to bolts of fire. 49 He sent on them the heat of His anger, wrath and fury and trouble, by sending evil angels. 50 He made a way to His anger; He did not save their soul from death, but gave their life over to the plague, 51 and struck all the first-born in Egypt, the first of the strong in the tents of Ham; 52 and led His people forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. 53 And He led them on safely, so that they did not fear; but the sea flooded over their enemies. 54 And He brought them within His own holy border, this mountain, which His right hand had bought. 55 He also cast out the nations before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. 56 Yet they tempted and provoked the Most High God, and kept not His testimonies; 57 but they turned back, and acted unfaithfully like their fathers; they were turned aside like a deceiving bow. 58 For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their carved images. 59 When God heard, He was angry, and turned away from Israel; 60 so that He left the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which He placed among men, 61 and delivered His strength into captivity, and His glory into the enemy's hands. 62 He also gave His people over to the sword, and was angry with His inheritance. 63 The fire burned up their young men; and their maidens were not given in marriage. 64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows were not able to weep. 65 Then the Lord awakened like one out of sleep, like a mighty man rejoicing with wine. 66 And He drove His enemies backward; He put them to a never-ending shame. 67 And He refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim; 68 but chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which He loved. 69 And He built His holy place like high palaces, like the earth which He has founded forever. 70 He also chose David His servant, and took him from the sheepfolds; 71 from following the ewes great with young He brought him to feed Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance. 72 And he fed them according to the pureness of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands. 79 1 A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations have come into Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps. 2 They have given the dead bodies of Your servants as food for the birds of the heavens, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth. 3 They have shed their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and none to bury. 4 We have become a shame to our neighbors, a scorn and mockery to those who are around us. 5 How long, O Jehovah? Will You be angry forever? Shall Your jealousy burn like fire? 6 Pour out Your wrath on the nations who have not known You, and on the kingdoms who have not called on Your name. 7 For they have eaten up Jacob, and wasted his dwelling-place. 8 O do not remember against us our former sins; let Your tender mercies meet us quickly; for we are brought very low. 9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; and deliver us, and atone for our sins, for Your name's sake. 10 Why should the nations say, Where is their God? Let Him be known among the nations before our eyes by the revenging of the blood of Your servants which is shed. 11 Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You; according to the greatness of Your power, leave a remnant of those who are to die, 12 and give to our neighbors their curse sevenfold into their bosom, the curse with which they have cursed You, O Lord. 13 Then we, Your people and sheep of Your pasture, will give You thanks forever; we will show forth Your praise to all generations. 80 1 To the Chief Musician. A Testimony Concerning the Lilies. A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, You who lead Joseph like a flock; You dwelling between the cherubs, shine forth. 2 Stir up Your strength before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, and come, save us. 3 Turn us again, O God, and cause Your face to shine, and we shall be saved! 4 O Jehovah, the God of Hosts, how long will You be angry against the prayer of Your people? 5 You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure. 6 You make us a strife for our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves. 7 Turn us again, O God of Hosts, and cause Your face to shine; and we shall be saved. 8 You have brought a vine out of Egypt; You have cast out the nations and planted it. 9 You cleared before it, and caused it to take deep root; and it filled the land. 10 The hills were covered with its shadow, and its boughs were as the great cedars. 11 It sent out its boughs to the sea, and its branches to the river. 12 Why have You broken down its hedges, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it? 13 The boar out of the wood wastes it, and the wild beast of the field eats it. 14 Return, we beg You, O God of Hosts; look down from Heaven, and behold, and visit this vine, 15 and the vineyard which Your right hand has planted, and the Son that You make strong for Yourself. 16 It is burned with fire, and cut down; they perish at the rebuke of Your holy face. 17 Let Your hand be on the Man of Your right hand, on the Son of man whom You have made strong for Yourself. 18 So we will not go back from You; make us live, and we will call on Your name. 19 Turn us again, O Jehovah, the God of Hosts; cause Your face to shine, and we shall be saved. 81 1 To the Chief Musician. On Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob. 2 Lift up a psalm, and bring the timbrel here, the pleasing lyre and harp. 3 Blow the ram's horn in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. 4 For this was a Precept for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob. 5 This He ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when He went out over the land of Egypt; I heard a language I understood not. 6 I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were delivered from the pots. 7 You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah. 8 Hear, O My people, and I will testify to you; O Israel, if you will listen to Me, 9 there shall be no strange god in you; nor shall you worship any strange god. 10 I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt; open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. 11 But My people would not listen to My voice, and Israel would have none of Me. 12 So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their own hearts; and they walked in their own conceits. 13 Oh that My people had listened to Me, and Israel had walked in My ways! 14 I would soon have humbled their enemies, and would have turned My hand against their foes. 15 The haters of Jehovah would have been found liars to Him, and their time would have lasted forever. 16 And He would have fed them also with the finest of the wheat; and with honey out of the rock I would have satisfied you. 82 1 A Psalm of Asaph. God stands in the congregation of the mighty; in the midst of the gods He judges. 2 How long will you judge unjustly and lift up the faces of the wicked? Selah. 3 Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy. 4 Deliver the poor and needy; save them out of the hand of the wicked. 5 They neither know nor will understand; they walk on in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. 6 I have said, You are gods; and all of you sons of the Most High. 7 But you shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. 8 Arise, O God, judge the earth; for You shall inherit in all nations. 83 1 A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. Keep not silence, O God; do not be speechless, and be not still, O God. 2 For lo, Your enemies roar; and those who hate You have lifted up their head. 3 They take shrewd counsel against Your people, and plot against Your hidden ones. 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, so that the name Israel may be remembered no more. 5 For with one heart they have plotted together; they have made a covenant against You-- 6 the tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarites; 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the people of Tyre; 8 and Assyria has joined with them; they have helped the sons of Lot. Selah. 9 Do to them as to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin at the torrent Kishon; 10 who perished at Endor; they became as dung for the earth. 11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb; yea, all their princes like Zebah, and like Zalmunna; 12 who said, Let us take possession for ourselves of the houses of God. 13 O my God, make them like a wheel; like the stubble before the wind. 14 As the fire burns a forest, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire, 15 so pursue them with Your tempest, and make them afraid with Your storm. 16 Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O Jehovah. 17 Let them be ashamed and troubled forever; yea, let them be put to shame, and lost; 18 so that men may know that Your name is JEHOVAH, that You alone are the Most High over all the earth. 84 1 To the Chief Musician. On Gittith. A Psalm for the sons of Korah. How lovely are Your tabernacles, O Jehovah of Hosts! 2 My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh shout for joy to the living God. 3 Even the sparrow has found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young, Your altars, O Jehovah of Hosts, my King and my God. 4 Blessed are they who dwell in Your house; they will still praise You. Selah. 5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in You; Your ways are in their hearts. 6 Passing through the valley of weeping, they will make it a fountain; the early rain also covers it with blessings. 7 They go from strength to strength, appearing in Zion before God. 8 O Jehovah, the God of Hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. 9 Behold, O God, our shield, and look on the face of Your anointed. 10 For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness. 11 For Jehovah God is a sun and shield; Jehovah will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly. 12 O Jehovah of Hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in You. 85 1 To the Chief Musician. A Psalm for the sons of Korah. O Jehovah, You have been gracious to Your land; You have brought back the captivity of Jacob. 2 You have forgiven the iniquity of Your people; You have covered all their sins. Selah. 3 You have taken away all Your wrath; You have turned from the heat of Your anger. 4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause Your anger toward us to cease. 5 Will You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations? 6 Will You not give us life again, so that Your people may rejoice in You? 7 Show us Your mercy, O Jehovah, and grant us Your salvation. 8 I will hear what God Jehovah will speak; for He will speak peace to His people, and to His saints; but let them not turn again to folly. 9 Surely His salvation is near those that fear Him, so that glory may dwell in our land. 10 Mercy and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. 11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from Heaven. 12 Yea, Jehovah shall give good; and our land shall yield its increase. 13 Righteousness shall go before Him and shall set us in the way of His steps. 86 1 A Prayer of David. Bow down Your ear, O Jehovah, hear me; for I am poor and needy. 2 Preserve my soul; for I am holy; O You my God, save Your servant who trusts in You. 3 Be merciful to me, O Lord; for I cry to You daily. 4 Give joy to the soul of Your servant; for to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul. 5 For You, Lord, are good and ready to forgive, and rich in mercy to all those who call on You. 6 Give ear, O Jehovah, to my prayer; and attend to the voice of my prayers. 7 In the day of my trouble I will call on You; for You will answer me. 8 Among the gods there is none like You, O Lord; none are like Your works. 9 All nations whom You have made shall come and worship before You, O Lord, and shall glorify Your name. 10 For You are great and do wonderful things; You alone are God. 11 Teach me Your way, O Jehovah; I will walk in Your truth; my heart rejoices to fear Your name. 12 I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and I will glorify Your name forevermore. 13 For great is Your mercy toward me; and You have delivered my soul from the lowest hell. 14 O God, the proud have risen against me, and the company of violent men have sought after my life, and have not set You before them. 15 But You, O God, are God full of pity, and gracious, long-suffering, and rich in mercy and truth. 16 Oh turn to me, and have mercy on me; give Your strength to Your servant, and save the son of Your handmaid. 17 Show me a token for good, so that they who hate me may see and be ashamed; because You, Jehovah, have helped me and comforted me. 87 1 A Psalm for the sons of Korah, A Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains. 2 Jehovah loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 3 Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah. 4 I will mention Rahab and Babylon to those who know me; behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there. 5 And to Zion it shall be said, This man and that man was born in her; and the Highest shall establish her. 6 Jehovah shall count, in recording the peoples, that this man was born there. Selah. 7 And the singers, the players of the pipe: all my springs are in You! 88 1 A Song. A Psalm for the sons of Korah. To the Chief Musician. On Mahalath, to make humble. A Poem of Heman the Ezrahite. O Jehovah, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before You. 2 Let my prayer come before You; bow down Your ear to my cry. 3 For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near the grave. 4 I am counted with those who go down to the Pit; I am like a feeble man; 5 free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom You remember no more; and by Your hand they are cut off. 6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. 7 Your wrath lies hard on me, and You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah. 8 You have taken my friends away from me; You have made me a hateful thing to them. I am shut up, and I cannot go out. 9 My eye mourns because of affliction; O Jehovah, I have called daily on You; I have stretched out my hands to You. 10 For will You do wonders to the dead? Shall the dead rise and praise You? Selah. 11 Shall Your loving-kindness be declared in the grave? Or Your faithfulness in ruin? 12 Shall Your wonders be known in the dark, and Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 13 But to You I have cried, O Jehovah; and in the morning my prayer shall go before You. 14 O Jehovah, why do You cast off my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me? 15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up; while I suffer Your terrors, I pine away. 16 Your fierce wrath goes over me; Your terrors have cut me off. 17 They surrounded me like waters all the day long; they have come together around me. 18 You have taken lover and friend far from me, and those who know me into darkness. 89 1 A Poem of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the mercies of Jehovah forever; with my mouth I will make known Your faithfulness to all generations. 2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever; You shall establish Your faithfulness in the heavens. 3 I have cut a covenant with My chosen; I have sworn to David My servant, 4 Your seed will I establish forever, and build up your throne to all generations. Selah. 5 And the heavens shall praise Your wonders, O Jehovah, Your faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. 6 For who in the sky can be ranked with Jehovah? Who among the mighty is like Jehovah? 7 God is greatly to be feared in the congregation of the saints, and to be adored by all around Him. 8 O Jehovah, the God of Hosts, who is a strong Jehovah like You? And Your faithfulness is round about You? 9 You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves arise, You still them. 10 You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; You have scattered Your enemies with Your strong arm. 11 The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; You have founded the world and its fullness. 12 The north and the south, You have created them; Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in Your name. 13 You have a mighty arm; Your hand is strong, and Your right hand is high. 14 Justice and judgment are the foundation of Your throne; mercy and truth shall go before Your face. 15 Blessed is the people that knows the joyful sound; they shall walk, O Jehovah, in the light of Your face. 16 In Your name they shall rejoice all the day; and in Your righteousness they shall be lifted up. 17 For You are the glory of their strength; and in Your favor our horn shall be lifted up. 18 For Jehovah is our shield; yea, our King is the Holy One of Israel. 19 Then You spoke in a vision to Your holy one, and You said, I have laid help on a mighty one; I have lifted up a chosen one out of the people. 20 I have found David, My servant; with My holy oil I have anointed him. 21 My hand shall be always with him; My arm also shall make him strong. 22 The enemy shall not use force on him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him. 23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague those who hate him. 24 But My faithfulness and My mercy shall be with him; and in My name his horn shall be lifted up. 25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. 26 He shall cry to Me, My Father, You are my God, and the rock of my salvation. 27 And I will make him My first-born, higher than the kings of the earth. 28 I will keep My mercy for him forever, and My covenant shall stand fast with him. 29 Also I have set his seed forever, and his throne as the days of the heavens. 30 If his children forsake My Law, and do not walk in My judgments; 31 if they profane My Precepts, and do not keep My Commandments; 32 then I will visit their wickedness with the rod, and their sin with stripes. 33 But I will not completely take My loving-kindness from him, and I will not be false in My faithfulness. 34 I will not break My covenant, nor change the thing that has gone out of My lips. 35 Once I have sworn by My holiness that I will not lie to David. 36 His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before Me. 37 It shall be established forever like the moon, and like a faithful witness in the heavens. Selah. 38 But You have cast off and rejected us; You have been angry with Your anointed. 39 You have turned away from the covenant of Your servant; You have defiled his crown to the ground. 40 You have broken down all his hedges; You have brought his strongholds to ruin. 41 All who pass by the way plunder him; he is a curse to his neighbors. 42 You have set up the right hand of his enemies; You have made all his enemies rejoice. 43 You also have turned back the edge of his sword and have not made him stand in the battle. 44 You have made his glory to cease, and have thrown his throne down to the ground. 45 The days of his youth You have shortened; You have covered him with shame. Selah. 46 How long, Jehovah? Will You hide Yourself forever? Shall Your wrath burn like fire? 47 Remember, I pray, how short my time is; why have You made all men in vain? 48 What man lives and never sees death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah. 49 O Lord, where are Your former loving-kindnesses which You swore to David in Your truth? 50 Remember, Lord, the scorn of Your servants; how I bear in my bosom the insult of all the mighty people, 51 with which Your enemies have cursed, O Jehovah; with which they have cursed the footsteps of Your anointed. 52 Blessed is Jehovah forevermore. Amen and Amen. 90 1 A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Jehovah, You have been our dwelling-place in all generations. 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting You are God. 3 You turn man to dust, and say, Return, sons of men. 4 For a thousand years in Your sight are as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 5 You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which grows up. 6 In the morning it sprouts and shoots up; in the evening it is cut down, and dries up. 7 For we are burned up by Your anger, and by Your wrath we are troubled. 8 You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your face. 9 For all our days pass away in Your wrath; we finish our years like a murmur. 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by strength they are fourscore years, yet their pride is labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 11 Who knows the power of Your anger? And as Your fear is, so is Your wrath. 12 So teach us to number our days, so that we may bring a heart of wisdom. 13 Return, O Jehovah! How long? And give pity to Your servants. 14 Satisfy us early with Your mercy, so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 15 Make us glad according to the days of our affliction, the years in which we have seen evil. 16 Let Your work appear to Your servants, and Your glory to their sons. 17 And let the beauty of Jehovah our God be on us; and establish the work of our hands on us; yea, the work of our hands, establish it. 91 1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall rest under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of Jehovah, my refuge and my fortress; my God; in Him I will trust. 3 Surely He will deliver you from the fowler's trap and from the destroying plague. 4 He shall cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you shall trust. His truth shall be your shield, and buckler. 5 You shall not fear the terror by night; nor because of the arrow that flies by day; 6 nor for the plague that walks in darkness, of the destruction laying waste at noonday. 7 A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; it shall not come near you. 8 Only with your eyes you shall look and see the reward of the wicked. 9 Because You, O Jehovah, are My refuge; if You have made the Most High Your dwelling-place, 10 no evil shall befall You, nor shall any plague come near Your dwelling. 11 For He shall give His angels charge over You, to keep You in all Your ways. 12 They shall bear You up in their hands, lest You dash your foot against a stone. 13 You shall tread on the lion and adder; the young lion and the jackal You shall trample underfoot. 14 Because He has set His love on Me, therefore I will deliver Him; I will set Him on high, because He has known My name. 15 He shall call on Me, and I will answer Him; I will be with Him in trouble; I will deliver Him, and honor Him. 16 With long life I will satisfy him, and show him My salvation. 92 1 A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day. It is good to give thanks to Jehovah, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High; 2 to show forth Your loving-kindness in the morning, and Your faithfulness every night; 3 on the ten strings, and on the harp, with sounding music on the lyre. 4 For You, Jehovah, have made Me glad with Your work; I will triumph in the works of Your hands. 5 O Jehovah, how great are Your works; Your purposes are very deep. 6 A beastly man does not know; nor does a fool understand this. 7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity blossom, it is that they shall be destroyed forever; 8 but You, Jehovah, are high forever. 9 For, lo, Your enemies, O Jehovah; for lo, Your enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. 10 But You shall lift up my horn as the wild ox; and I shall be anointed with fresh oil. 11 Also my eye shall see my desire on my enemies, and my ears shall hear the wicked who rise up against me. 12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 13 Those that are planted in the house of Jehovah shall flourish in the courts of our God. 14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flowering; 15 to show that Jehovah is upright; He is my rock, and no unrighteousness is in Him. 93 1 Jehovah reigns, He is clothed with majesty; Jehovah is clothed with strength. He clothed Himself and the world is established; it shall not be shaken. 2 Your throne is established of old; You are from everlasting. 3 The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, the floods have lifted up their voices; the floods lift up their waves. 4 Jehovah on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, than the mighty waves of the sea. 5 Your testimonies are very sure; holiness becomes Your house forever, O Jehovah. 94 1 O God of vengeance, Jehovah, the God of vengeance, shine forth! 2 Lift up Yourself, Judge of the earth; give a just repayment to the proud. 3 How long shall the wicked, O Jehovah, how long shall the wicked exult? 4 They gush; they speak impudent things; all the workers of iniquity speak proudly. 5 They crush Your people, O Jehovah, and afflict Your inheritance. 6 They kill the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. 7 Yet they say, Jehovah shall not see, nor shall the God of Jacob observe it. 8 Understand, you beastly ones among the people; and fools, when will you be wise? 9 He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see? 10 He who chastens the nations, shall He not correct, He who teaches man knowledge? 11 Jehovah knows the thoughts of man, that they are vain. 12 Blessed is the man whom You chasten, O Jehovah, to teach him out of Your Law; 13 that You may give him rest from the days of trouble, until the pit is dug for the wicked. 14 For Jehovah will not cast off His people, nor will He forsake His inheritance. 15 But judgment shall return to righteousness; and all the upright in heart shall follow it. 16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? 17 Unless Jehovah had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence. 18 When I said, My foot slips; Your mercy, O Jehovah, held me up. 19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me Your comforts delight my soul. 20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with You, which frames mischief by a law? 21 They gather themselves against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. 22 But Jehovah is my defense; and my God is the rock of my refuge. 23 And He will bring on them their own iniquity, and He will cut them off in their evil. Jehovah our God shall cut them off. 95 1 Oh come, let us sing to Jehovah; let us make a joyful noise to the Rock of our salvation. 2 Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to Him with psalms. 3 For Jehovah is a great God, and a great King above all gods. 4 In His hand are the deep places of the earth; the strength of the hills is also His. 5 The sea is His, and He made it, and His hands formed the dry land. 6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Jehovah our maker. 7 For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand. Today if you will hear His voice, 8 harden not your heart, as in the day of strife, as in the day of testing in the wilderness; 9 when your fathers tempted Me, tested Me, and saw My work. 10 For forty years I was grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people who go astray in their hearts, and they have not known My ways; 11 to whom I swore in My wrath that they should not enter into My rest. 96 1 Oh sing to Jehovah a new song; sing to Jehovah, all the earth. 2 Sing to Jehovah, bless His name; show forth His salvation from day to day. 3 Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all people. 4 For Jehovah is great, and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods. 5 For all the gods of the nations are idols; but Jehovah made the heavens. 6 Honor and majesty are before Him; strength and beauty are in His sanctuary. 7 Give to Jehovah, O families of the people; give to Jehovah glory and strength. 8 Give to Jehovah the glory due to His name; bring an offering, and come into His courts. 9 O worship Jehovah in the beauty of holiness; fear before Him, all the earth. 10 Say among the nations, Jehovah reigns; and the world shall be established; it shall not be moved; He shall judge the peoples in uprightness. 11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fullness of it. 12 Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it; then shall all the trees of the forest rejoice 13 before Jehovah; for He comes, for He comes to judge the earth; He shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with His truth. 97 1 Jehovah reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of islands be glad. 2 Clouds and darkness are all around Him; righteousness and judgment are the foundation of His throne. 3 A fire goes before Him and burns up His enemies round about. 4 His lightnings lit up the world; the earth saw and trembled. 5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of Jehovah, at the presence of Jehovah of the whole earth. 6 The heavens declare His righteousness, and all the people see His glory. 7 All those who serve graven images are ashamed, those who boast themselves in idols; all gods bow down before Him. 8 Zion heard and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of Your judgments, O Jehovah. 9 For You, Jehovah, are high above all the earth; You are lifted on high far above all gods. 10 You who love Jehovah, hate evil; He keeps the souls of His saints; He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked. 11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. 12 Rejoice in Jehovah, righteous ones; and give thanks at the memory of His holiness. 98 1 A Psalm. O sing to Jehovah a new song; for He has done marvelous things; His right hand and His holy arm have saved for Him. 2 Jehovah has made known His salvation; His righteousness He has unveiled to the eyes of the nations. 3 He has remembered His mercy and His truth toward the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of Jehovah. 4 Make a joyful noise to Jehovah, all the earth; breakout, and rejoice, and sing praise. 5 Sing to Jehovah with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm. 6 With trumpets and sound of a horn make a joyful noise before Jehovah, the King. 7 Let the sea roar, and the fullness of it; the world, and those who live in it. 8 Let the floods clap their hands; let the hills be joyful together 9 before Jehovah; for He comes to judge the earth; with righteousness He shall judge the world, and the peoples in uprightness. 99 1 Jehovah reigns; let the peoples tremble. He sits between the cherubs; let the earth quake. 2 Jehovah is great in Zion; and He is high above all the peoples. 3 Let them praise Your great and fearful name; it is holy. 4 The king's strength also loved judgment; You established uprightness; You worked judgment and righteousness in Jacob. 5 Praise Jehovah our God, and worship at His footstool; He is holy. 6 Moses and Aaron were among His priests, and Samuel among those who called on His name; they called on Jehovah, and He answered them. 7 He spoke to them in the cloudy pillar; they kept His testimonies and the ordinance that He gave them. 8 You answered them, O Jehovah our God; You were a God who forgave them, though You take vengeance for their deeds. 9 Praise Jehovah our God, and worship at His holy hill; for Jehovah our God is holy. 100 1 A Psalm of praise. Make a joyful noise to Jehovah, all you lands. 2 Worship Jehovah with gladness; come before His presence with singing. 3 Know that Jehovah, He is God. He has made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture. 4 Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise; be thankful to Him, and bless His name. 5 For Jehovah is good; His mercy is everlasting; and His truth endures to all generations. 101 1 A Psalm of David. I will sing of mercy and judgment; to You, O Jehovah, I will sing praise. 2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when will You come to me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. 3 I will set no wicked thing before my eyes. I have hated the work of those who turn aside; it shall not hold on to me. 4 A perverse heart will depart from me; I will not know the wicked. 5 Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, I will cut him off; him who has a high look and a proud heart, I will not allow. 6 My eyes shall be on the faithful of the land, so that they may dwell with me; he who walks in a perfect way, he shall serve Me. 7 He who works falsely shall not dwell within my house; he who tells lies shall not stay in my sight. 8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land, so that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of Jehovah. 102 1 A prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before Jehovah. Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and let my cry come to You. 2 Hide not Your face from me in the day when I am in trouble; bow down Your ear to me; in the day I call, answer me quickly. 3 For my days go up like smoke, and my bones glow like a firebrand. 4 My heart is stricken, and dried like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread. 5 Because of the voice of my groaning, my bones hold fast to my skin. 6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am like an owl of the desert. 7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone on the house top. 8 My enemies curse me all the day; and they who are mad against me are sworn against me. 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and have mixed my drink with weeping, 10 because of Your anger and Your wrath; for You have lifted me up and cast me down. 11 My days are like a shadow stretched out; and I wither like grass. 12 But You, O Jehovah, shall endure forever; and Your memory to all generations. 13 You shall arise, and have mercy on Zion; for the time to pity her, yea, the set time, has come. 14 For Your servants take pleasure in its stones, and pity its dust. 15 So the nations shall fear the name of Jehovah, and all the kings of the earth Your glory. 16 When Jehovah shall build up Zion, He shall appear in His glory. 17 He will turn to the prayer of the forsaken and not despise their prayer. 18 This shall be written for the generation to come; and the people who shall be created shall praise Jehovah. 19 For He has looked down from the height of His sanctuary; from Heaven Jehovah beheld the earth; 20 to hear the groaning of the prisoner, to set free the sons of death; 21 to declare the name of Jehovah in Zion, and His praise in Jerusalem; 22 when the peoples and the kingdoms have gathered together to serve Jehovah. 23 He weakened my strength in the way; He shortened my days. 24 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days; Your years are through the generation of generations. 25 Of old You have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of Your hands. 26 They shall perish, but You shall endure; yea, all of them shall become old like a garment; like a robe You shall change them, and they shall be changed; 27 but You are He, and Your years shall have no end. 28 The sons of Your servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before You. 103 1 A Psalm of David. Bless Jehovah, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name. 2 Bless Jehovah, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits; 3 who forgives all your iniquities; who heals all your diseases; 4 who redeems your life from ruin; who crowns you with loving-kindness and tender mercies; 5 who satisfies your mouth with good; your youth is renewed like the eagle's. 6 Jehovah works righteousness and judgment for all who are pressed down. 7 He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the sons of Israel. 8 Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and rich in mercy. 9 He will not always chasten, nor will He keep His anger forever. 10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. 11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, so is His mercy toward those who fear Him. 12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. 13 As a father pities his children, Jehovah pities those who fear Him. 14 For He knows our form; He remembers that we are dust. 15 As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. 16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place shall know it no more. 17 But the mercy of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness is to sons of sons; 18 to those who keep His covenant, and to those who remember to do His Commandments. 19 Jehovah has prepared His throne in the heavens; and His kingdom rules over all. 20 Bless Jehovah, O angels of His, who excel in strength, who do His command, listening to the voice of His Word. 21 Bless Jehovah, all His hosts, ministers of His who do His pleasure. 22 Bless Jehovah, all His works in all places of His rule; bless Jehovah, O my soul. 104 1 Bless Jehovah, O my soul. O Jehovah my God, You are very great; You have put on honor and majesty, 2 covering Yourself with light as with a robe; and stretching out the heavens like a curtain; 3 He lays the beams of His upper rooms in the waters. He sets the clouds as His chariots; He walks on the wings of the wind; 4 He makes His angels spirits, His ministers a flaming fire. 5 He laid the earth on its foundations; it shall not be shaken forever. 6 You covered the deep as with a robe; the waters stand above the mountains. 7 At Your rebuke they flee; at the voice of Your thunder they hurry away. 8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys to the place which You have founded for them. 9 You have set a bound that they may not pass over, so that they do not turn again to cover the earth. 10 He sends the springs into the valleys; they flow between the hills. 11 They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild asses break their thirst. 12 By them the birds of the heavens will have their place of rest; they sing among the branches. 13 He waters the hills from His upper rooms; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of Your works. 14 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and plants for the service of man, to bring forth food out of the earth, 15 and wine cheers the heart of man, and oil makes his face shine, and bread sustains the heart of man. 16 The trees of Jehovah are full, the cedars of Lebanon which He has planted; 17 where the birds make their nests; the fir trees are the house of the stork. 18 The high hills are for the wild goats, and the rocks are a refuge for the badgers. 19 He appointed the moon for seasons; the sun knows its going down. 20 You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the beasts of the forest creep forth. 21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God. 22 The sun rises; they are gathered, and go to their dens to lie down. 23 Man goes out to his work and to his labor until the evening. 24 O Jehovah, how many are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your riches. 25 This is the great and wide sea, in which are creeping things without number, both small and great animals. 26 There the ships go; You made this great sea animal to play in it. 27 These all wait on You, that You may give them their food in due season. 28 You give to them, they gather; You open Your hand; they are filled with good. 29 You hide Your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust. 30 You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; and You renew the face of the earth. 31 The glory of Jehovah shall endure forever; Jehovah shall rejoice in His works. 32 He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the hills, and they smoke. 33 I will sing to Jehovah as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. 34 My thoughts of Him shall be sweet; I will be glad in Jehovah. 35 Let the sinners perish from the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless Jehovah, O my soul. Praise Jehovah! 105 1 O give thanks to Jehovah; call on His name; make known His deeds among the people. 2 Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; talk of all His wonderful works. 3 Glory in His holy name; let the heart of those who seek Jehovah rejoice. 4 Seek Jehovah and His strength; seek His face evermore. 5 Remember His marvelous works which He has done, His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth, 6 seed of His servant Abraham, sons of Jacob His chosen. 7 He is Jehovah our God; His judgments are in all the earth. 8 He has remembered His covenant forever, the Word which He commanded to a thousand generations; 9 the covenant which He made with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac; 10 and He confirmed it to Jacob for a Law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant, 11 saying, To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance; 12 when they were a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it. 13 When they went from one nation to another, from a kingdom to another people, 14 He allowed no man to do them wrong; yea, He reproved kings for their sakes, 15 saying, Touch not my anointed, and do My prophets no harm. 16 And He called for a famine on the land; He broke the whole staff of bread. 17 He sent a man before them, Joseph, being sold for a servant; 18 whose feet they hurt with chains; he was laid in iron, 19 until the time that his word came, the Word of Jehovah refined him. 20 The king sent and set him free; the ruler of the people, and let him go free. 21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all he owned, 22 to chain his leaders at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom. 23 Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob resided in the land of Ham. 24 And He increased His people greatly and made them stronger than their enemies. 25 He turned their heart to hate His people, to deal craftily with His servants. 26 He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron whom He had chosen. 27 They showed His signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham. 28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they did not rebel against His Word. 29 He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish. 30 Their land swarmed with frogs in the rooms of their kings. 31 He spoke, and there came fly swarms and gnats in all their borders. 32 He gave them hail for rain and flaming fire in their land. 33 He struck their vines also and their fig trees, and broke the trees of their borders. 34 He spoke, and locusts came, and larvae without number; 35 and they ate up all the plants in their land, and ate the fruit of their ground. 36 He also struck all the first-born in their land, the chief of all their strength. 37 He also brought them out with silver and gold; and there was not one feeble person among their tribes. 38 Egypt was glad when they departed; for the fear of them had fallen on them. 39 He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light in the night. 40 They asked, and He brought quail, and satisfied them with the food of heaven. 41 He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river. 42 For He remembered His holy promise and Abraham His servant. 43 And He brought forth His people with joy, and His chosen with gladness, 44 and gave them the lands of the nations; and they inherited the labor of the people, 45 so that they might take heed to His Precepts and keep His Laws. Praise Jehovah! 106 1 Praise Jehovah. O give thanks to Jehovah; for He is good; for His mercy endures forever. 2 Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah, or cause all His praise to be heard? 3 Blessed are those who keep judgment, he who does righteousness at all times. 4 Remember me, O Jehovah, with the favor of Your people; O visit me with Your salvation, 5 that I may see the good of Your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, to glory with Your inheritance. 6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly. 7 Our fathers did not understand Your wonders in Egypt; they did not remember the multitude of Your mercies, but rebelled at the sea, even at the Red Sea. 8 But He saved them for His name's sake, to make His mighty power known. 9 And He rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up; so He led them through the depths, as through the wilderness. 10 And He saved them from the hand of the hater, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. 11 And the waters covered their enemies; there was not one of them left. 12 Then they believed His Words; they sang His praise. 13 They hurried and forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel; 14 but they lusted greedily in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert. 15 And He gave them what they asked, but sent leanness into their soul. 16 And they were jealous of Moses in the camp, and Aaron the saint of Jehovah. 17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. 18 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked. 19 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped the melted image. 20 And they changed their Glory into the likeness of an ox that eats grass. 21 They forgot God their Deliverer, who had done great things in Egypt; 22 wonderful works in the land of Ham, fearful things by the Red Sea. 23 And He said that He would destroy them, if Moses His chosen had not stood before Him in the breach, to turn away His wrath, so that He should not destroy them. 24 And they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His Word, 25 but murmured in their tents, and did not listen to the voice of Jehovah. 26 And He lifted up His hand to them, to overthrow them in the wilderness; 27 to overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands. 28 And they joined themselves to Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead, 29 and provoked Him to anger with their doings; and the plague broke in on them. 30 Then Phinehas stood and interceded, and the plague was stayed. 31 And it was counted to him for righteousness to all generations forevermore. 32 And they angered Him at the waters of strife so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes; 33 because they provoked his spirit so that he spoke rashly with his lips. 34 They did not destroy the nations as Jehovah commanded them; 35 but were mixed among the nations, and learned their works. 36 And they served their idols, which were a snare to them. 37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons, 38 and shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was defiled with blood. 39 And they were defiled with their works, and went lusting in their doings. 40 And the wrath of Jehovah was kindled against His people, and He detested His inheritance. 41 And He gave them into the hand of the nations; and those who hated them ruled over them. 42 And their enemies oppressed them, and they were humbled under their hand. 43 Many times He delivered them, but they rebelled in their counsel and sank in their iniquities. 44 And He looked on their affliction when He heard their cry; 45 and He remembered His covenant for them, and was moved to pity, according to the multitude of His mercies. 46 And He gave them to tender mercies before the face of all their captors. 47 Save us, O Jehovah our God, and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to Your holy name and to triumph in Your praise. 48 Blessed is Jehovah, the God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting; and let all the people say, Amen. Praise Jehovah! 107 1 O give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good; for His mercy endures forever. 2 Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy, 3 and gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south. 4 They wandered in the wilderness, in a desert by the way; they found no city to dwell in. 5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. 6 Then they cried to Jehovah in their distress, and He delivered them out of their troubles. 7 And He guided them by the right way, so as to go to a city to live in. 8 Oh that men would praise Jehovah for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the sons of man! 9 For He satisfies the thirsty soul, and fills the hungry soul with good. 10 Those who sit in the darkness and in the shadow of death, being chained in affliction and iron; 11 because they rebelled against the Words of God, and despised the advice of the Most High. 12 and He humbled their heart with labor; they fell down, and none was helping. 13 Then they cried to Jehovah in their distress, and He saved them out of their troubles. 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands in two. 15 Let them praise Jehovah for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the sons of man! 16 For He has broken the gates of bronze, and cut the bars of iron in two. 17 Fools are afflicted because of their rebellion, and because of their iniquities. 18 Their soul hates all kinds of food; and they draw near the gates of death. 19 Then they cry to Jehovah in their distress, and He saves them out of their troubles. 20 He sent His Word and heals them, and delivers them from their pitfalls. 21 Let them praise Jehovah for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the sons of man! 22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare His works with rejoicing! 23 They who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters; 24 these see the works of Jehovah and His wonders in the deep. 25 For He commands and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves. 26 They mount up to the heavens, they go down again to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble. 27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and all their wisdom is swallowed up. 28 And they cry to Jehovah in their trouble, and He brings them out of their troubles. 29 He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still. 30 And they are glad because they are quiet; so He brings them to their desired haven. 31 Let them praise Jehovah for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the sons of man! 32 And let them exalt Him in the congregation of the people, and praise Him in the gathering of the elders. 33 He sets rivers to a wilderness and water-springs to thirsty ground; 34 a fruitful land to a salty desert, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it. 35 He turns the wilderness into water-ponds, and dry ground into water-springs. 36 And He makes the hungry dwell there, so that they may prepare a city to live in; 37 and sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase. 38 He also blesses them, so that they are multiplied greatly; and does not allow their cattle to become few. 39 Again, they have become few, and humbled through harshness, affliction, and sorrow. 40 He pours scorn on nobles, and causes them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no path. 41 But He raises up the poor from affliction and sets families like a flock. 42 The upright shall see and rejoice; and all iniquity shall stop its mouth. 43 Whoever is wise, and will observe these things, they shall understand the mercies of Jehovah. 108 1 A Song, A Psalm of David. O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and I will give praise, even with my glory. 2 Awake, harp and lyre; I will awake early. 3 I will praise You, O Jehovah, among the peoples; and I will sing praises to You among the nations. 4 For Your mercy is great above the heavens; and Your truth reaches to the clouds. 5 Be lifted up, O God, above the heavens; and Your glory above all the earth; 6 so that Your beloved may be delivered; save with Your right hand, and answer me. 7 God has spoken in His holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and I will measure out the valley of Succoth. 8 Gilead is Mine; Manasseh is Mine and Ephraim is the strength of My head; Judah is My lawgiver; 9 Moab is My washpot; I will cast out My shoe over Edom; I will triumph over Philistia. 10 Who will bring me into the strong city? Who will lead me into Edom? 11 O God, have You not cast us off? And, O God, will You not go out with our armies? 12 Give us help from trouble; for vain is the deliverance of man. 13 Through God we shall do mighty things; for He shall trample our enemies. 109 1 To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. O God of my praise, do not be silent; 2 for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me; they spoke against me with a lying tongue. 3 And they surrounded me with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. 4 For my love they are my foes; but I am in prayer. 5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. 6 Set a wicked man over him; and let an adversary stand at his right hand, 7 when he is judged, let him be condemned; and let his prayer become sin. 8 Let his days be few; let another take his office. 9 Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow. 10 Let his sons always beg and be vagabonds, and seek food out of their ruins. 11 Let the money-lender lay a snare for all that is his; and let strangers take the fruit of his labor. 12 Let there be none to give mercy to him; nor any to favor his fatherless children. 13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered to Jehovah; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. 15 Let them be always before Jehovah, that He may cut off their memory from the earth, 16 because he did not remember to do mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, and sought to kill the broken-hearted. 17 Yea, he loved cursing, so let it come to him; he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him. 18 As he clothed himself with cursing, as with his robe, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. 19 Let it be to him as the robe which covers him, and for a girdle with which he is always clothed. 20 This is the reward of my foes from Jehovah, and of them who speak evil against my soul. 21 But You, Lord Jehovah, deal kindly with me for Your name's sake; because Your mercy is good, deliver me. 22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. 23 As a shadow when it is stretched out, I am gone; I am shaken off like the locust. 24 My knees stumble from fasting; and my flesh is losing its fatness. 25 And I became a shame to them; they looked on me; they shook their heads. 26 Help me, O Jehovah my God; save me according to Your mercy; 27 and they will know that this is Your hand; that You, Jehovah, have done it. 28 They will curse, but You will bless; they arise, and are ashamed; but let Your servant rejoice. 29 Let my foes be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own shame, as with a cloak. 30 I will greatly praise Jehovah with my mouth; yea, I will praise Him among the multitude. 31 For He shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those who condemn his soul. 110 1 A Psalm of David. Jehovah said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand until I place Your enemies as Your footstool. 2 Jehovah shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion; rule in the midst of Your enemies. 3 Your people shall be willing in the day of Your power, in holy adornment from the womb of the morning: You have the dew of Your youth. 4 Jehovah has sworn, and will not repent, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. 5 The Lord at Your right hand shall strike through kings in the day of His wrath. 6 He shall judge among the nations, He shall fill them with dead bodies; He shall shatter heads over much of the earth. 7 He shall drink of the brook in the way; therefore He shall lift up the head. 111 1 Praise Jehovah! I will praise Jehovah with all my heart, in the council of the upright, and of the congregation. 2 The works of Jehovah are great, sought out by all those who have pleasure in them. 3 His work is honorable and glorious; and His righteousness is standing forever. 4 He has made His wonderful works to be remembered; Jehovah is gracious and full of pity. 5 He has given food to those who fear Him; He will always be mindful of His covenant. 6 He has shown His people the power of His works, to give to them the inheritance of the nations. 7 The works of His hands are truth and judgment; all His commands are true, 8 standing fast forever and ever; they are done in truth and uprightness. 9 He sent redemption to His people; He has commanded His covenant forever; holy and awesome is His name. 10 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; all practicing them have good understanding; His praise stands forever. 112 1 Praise Jehovah! Blessed is the man who fears Jehovah, who delights greatly in His Commandments. 2 His seed shall be mighty on earth; the generation of the upright shall be blessed. 3 Wealth and riches shall be in his house, and his righteousness stands forever. 4 To the upright there arises light in the darkness; he is gracious and full of pity and righteousness. 5 A good man shows favor, and lends; he will guide his business with fairness. 6 Surely he shall not be moved forever; the righteous shall be remembered forever. 7 He shall not be afraid of bad news; his heart is fixed, trusting in Jehovah. 8 His heart is sure; he shall not be afraid though he sees his oppressors. 9 He has scattered abroad; he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn shall be lifted up with honor. 10 The wicked shall see and be vexed; he shall gnash with his teeth and melt away; the desire of the wicked shall perish. 113 1 Praise Jehovah! Praise, O servants of Jehovah, praise the name of Jehovah. 2 Blessed is the name of Jehovah from this time forth and forevermore. 3 From the rising of the sun to its going down, Jehovah's name is to be praised. 4 Jehovah is high above all nations, and His glory above the heavens. 5 Who is like Jehovah our God, who dwells on high, 6 who humbles Himself to behold the things in the heavens and in the earth! 7 He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the dunghill, 8 in order to make him sit with nobles, with the nobles of his people. 9 He causes the barren to dwell in the house as a joyful mother of sons. Praise Jehovah! 114 1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, 2 Judah was His sanctuary, and Israel was His kingdom. 3 The sea saw it and fled; Jordan was driven back. 4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. 5 What ailed you, O sea, that you fled? O Jordan, that you turned back, 6 O mountains that skipped like rams, O little hills like lambs? 7 Earth, tremble at the presence of Jehovah, at the presence of the God of Jacob, 8 who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters. 115 1 Not to us, O Jehovah, not to us, but to Your name give glory, for Your mercy and for Your truth's sake. 2 Why should the nations say, Where now is their God? 3 But our God is in Heaven; He has done whatever He has pleased. 4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. 5 They have mouths, but they do not speak; they have eyes, but they do not see; 6 they have ears, but they do not hear; they have noses, but they do not smell; 7 they have hands, but they do not handle; they have feet, but they do not walk; they do not mutter through their throat. 8 The ones who make them are like them, and everyone who trusts in them. 9 O Israel, trust in Jehovah; He is their help and their shield. 10 O house of Aaron, trust in Jehovah; He is their help and their shield. 11 You who fear Jehovah, trust in Jehovah; He is their help and their shield. 12 Jehovah has been mindful of us; He will bless us; He will bless the house of Israel; He will bless the house of Aaron. 13 He will bless those who fear Jehovah, both small and great. 14 Jehovah shall add on to you, even on you and on your sons. 15 You are blessed of Jehovah who made the heavens and the earth. 16 The heavens, even the heavens, are Jehovah's; but the earth He has given to the sons of men. 17 The dead do not praise Jehovah, nor do any who go down into silence. 18 But we will bless Jehovah from this time forth and forevermore. Praise Jehovah! 116 1 I love Jehovah because He hears my voice and my prayers. 2 Because He has bowed down His ear to me, therefore I will call on Him in my days. 3 The sorrows of death hemmed me in, and the pains of hell took hold on me; I found trouble and sorrow. 4 Then I called on the name of Jehovah; O Jehovah, I beseech You, deliver my soul. 5 Gracious is Jehovah, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. 6 Jehovah keeps the simple; I was brought low, and He helped me. 7 Return to your rest, O my soul; for Jehovah has dealt bountifully with you. 8 For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from falling. 9 I will walk before Jehovah in the land of the living. 10 I believed, therefore I have spoken; I was greatly afflicted; 11 I said in my haste, All men are liars. 12 What shall I give to Jehovah for all His benefits toward me? 13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of Jehovah. 14 I will pay my vows to Jehovah now in the presence of all His people. 15 Precious in the sight of Jehovah is the death of His saints. 16 O Jehovah, truly I am Your servant; I am Your servant, and the son of Your handmaid; You have loosed my bonds. 17 I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on the name of Jehovah. 18 I will pay my vows to Jehovah now in the presence of all His people, 19 in the courts of Jehovah's house, in the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise Jehovah! 117 1 O praise Jehovah, all nations; praise Him, all peoples. 2 For His merciful kindness is great toward us; and the truth of Jehovah endures forever. Praise Jehovah! 118 1 O give thanks to Jehovah; for He is good; because His mercy endures forever. 2 Let Israel now say that His mercy endures forever. 3 Let the house of Aaron now say that His mercy endures forever. 4 Let those who fear Jehovah now say that His mercy endures forever. 5 I called on Jehovah in distress; Jehovah answered me, and set me in a large place. 6 Jehovah is for me, I will not fear; what can man do to me? 7 Jehovah is for me among those who help me; and I will see my desire on those who hate me. 8 It is better to trust in Jehovah than to trust in man. 9 It is better to trust in Jehovah than to trust in princes. 10 All the nations surround me, but in the name of Jehovah I will destroy them. 11 They surround me; yea, they surround me, but in the name of Jehovah I will destroy them. 12 They surround me like bees; they are put out like the fire of thorns; for in the name of Jehovah I will cut them off. 13 You have thrust hard at me so that I might fall; but Jehovah helped me. 14 Jehovah is my strength and song, and He is my salvation. 15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous; the right hand of Jehovah does mighty things. 16 The right hand of Jehovah is lifted up; the right hand of Jehovah does mighty things. 17 I shall not die, but live and declare the works of Jehovah. 18 Jehovah has sorely chastened me; but He has not given me over to death. 19 Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go into them, and I will praise Jehovah. 20 This is the gate of Jehovah into which the righteous shall enter. 21 I will praise You; for You have heard me, and are my salvation. 22 The Stone which the builders refused has become the Head of the corner. 23 This is from Jehovah; it is marvelous in our eyes. 24 This is the day which Jehovah has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. 25 Save now, I beseech You, O Jehovah; O Jehovah, I beseech You, cause us to prosper now. 26 Blessed is He coming in the name of Jehovah; we have blessed You out of the house of Jehovah. 27 God is Jehovah, who gives light to us. Tie the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar. 28 You are my God, and I will exalt You; You are my God, I will praise You. 29 Oh give thanks to Jehovah; for He is good; for His mercy endures forever. 119 1 ALEPH: Blessed are the upright in the way, who walk in the Law of Jehovah. 2 Blessed are they who keep His testimonies, and who seek Him with all the heart. 3 They also do no iniquity; they walk in His ways. 4 You have commanded us to keep Your Commandments carefully. 5 O that my ways were fixed to keep Your Precepts! 6 Then I shall not be ashamed, when I have respect to all Your Commandments. 7 I will praise You with uprightness of heart when I have learned Your righteous judgments. 8 I will keep Your Precepts; do not forsake me completely. 9 BETH: With what shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your Word. 10 With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me wander from Your Commandments. 11 I have hidden Your Word in my heart, so that I might not sin against You. 12 Blessed are You, O Jehovah; teach me Your Precepts. 13 With my lips I have declared all the judgments of Your mouth. 14 I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies, as much as in all riches. 15 I will think on Your Commandments and have respect to Your ways. 16 I will delight myself in Your Precepts; I will not forget Your Word. 17 GIMEL: Deal bountifully with Your servant, that I may live and keep Your Word. 18 Open my eyes, so that I may behold wonderful things out of Your Law. 19 I am a stranger in the earth; do not hide Your Commandments from me. 20 My soul breaks for the longing that it has to Your judgments at all times. 21 You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who go astray from Your Commandments. 22 Remove cursing and scorn from me; for I have kept Your testimonies. 23 Princes also sat and spoke against me; but Your servant thought on Your Precepts. 24 Your testimonies also are my delight and my advisers. 25 DALETH: My soul clings to the dust; give me life according to Your Word. 26 I have declared my ways, and You hear me; teach me Your Precepts. 27 Make me to understand the way of Your Commandments, and I will speak of Your wonderful works. 28 My soul weeps for grief; strengthen me according to Your Word. 29 Remove from me the way of lying; and grant me Your Law graciously. 30 I have chosen the way of truth; I have laid Your judgments before me. 31 I have stuck to Your testimonies; O Jehovah, do not put me to shame. 32 I will run the way of Your Commandments, when You shall enlarge my heart. 33 HE: O Jehovah, teach me the way of Your Precepts, and I shall keep it to the end. 34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep Your Law; yea, I shall observe it with all my heart. 35 Cause me to walk in the path of Your Commandments; for I delight in them. 36 Bow my heart to Your testimonies, and not to unjust gain. 37 Turn away my eyes from seeing vanity; in Your way give me life. 38 Make Your Word sure to Your servant, who is devoted to Your fear. 39 Turn away my shame which I fear; for Your judgments are good. 40 Behold, I have longed after Your Commandments; in Your righteousness give me life. 41 VAU: Let Your mercies come to me, O Jehovah, even according to Your salvation, according to Your Word. 42 And I shall have something to answer him who mocks me; for I trust in Your Word. 43 And take not the Word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in Your judgments. 44 And I shall keep Your Law continually forever and ever. 45 And I will always walk in a broad place; for I seek Your Commandments. 46 I will speak of Your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed. 47 And I will delight myself in Your Commandments, which I have loved. 48 And I will lift up my hands to Your Commandments which I have loved; and I will think on Your Precepts. 49 ZAYIN: Remember the Word to Your servant, on which You have caused me to hope. 50 This is my comfort in my affliction; for Your Word has given me life. 51 The proud have utterly scorned me; yet I have not turned aside from Your Law. 52 I remembered Your judgments of old, O Jehovah, and have comforted myself. 53 Horror has taken hold on me because of the wicked who forsake Your Law. 54 Your Precepts have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. 55 I have remembered Your name, O Jehovah, in the night, and have kept Your Law. 56 This was done to me, because I kept Your Commandments. 57 CHETH: You are my portion, O Jehovah; I have said that I would keep Your Words. 58 I looked for Your favor with all my heart; be merciful to me according to Your Word. 59 I thought on my ways, and turned my feet to Your testimonies. 60 I made haste and did not delay to keep Your Commandments. 61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me; but I have not forgotten Your Law. 62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks to You because of Your righteous judgments. 63 I am a companion of all who fear You, and of those who keep Your Commandments. 64 O Jehovah, the earth is full of Your mercy; teach me Your Precepts. 65 TETH: You have dealt well with Your servant, O Jehovah, according to Your Word. 66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge; for I have believed Your Commandments. 67 Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now I have kept Your Word. 68 You are good, and do good; teach me Your Precepts. 69 The proud have forged a lie against me; I will keep Your Commandments with all my heart. 70 Their heart is without feeling, like fat; but I delight in Your Law. 71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted, so that I might learn Your Precepts. 72 The Law of Your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver. 73 JOD: Your hands have made me and formed me; give me understanding so that I may learn Your Commandments. 74 They who fear You will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in Your Word. 75 I know, O Jehovah, that Your judgments are right, and that You have afflicted me in faithfulness. 76 I beseech You, let Your merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to Your Word to Your servant. 77 Let Your tender mercies come to me so that I may live; for Your Law is my delight. 78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they perverted my cause with lying; I will think on Your Commandments. 79 Let those who fear You turn to me, and those who have known Your testimonies. 80 Let my heart be sound in Your Precepts, so that I may not be ashamed. 81 KAPH: My soul faints for Your salvation; I hope in Your Word. 82 My eyes fail for Your Word, saying, When will You comfort me? 83 For I am like a wineskin in the smoke; I do not forget Your Precepts. 84 How many are the days of Your servant? When will You carry out judgment on my persecutors? 85 The proud have dug pits for me, which are not according to Your Law. 86 All Your Commandments are faithful; they persecute me with lying; help me. 87 They had almost finished me on earth; but I did not forsake Your Commandments. 88 According to Your loving-kindness give me life; so shall I keep the testimony of Your mouth. 89 LAMED: Forever, O Jehovah, Your Word is settled in the heavens. 90 Your faithfulness is to all generations; You have founded the earth, and it remains. 91 They stand to this day according to Your ordinances; for all are Your servants. 92 Unless Your Law had been my delight, I should then have perished in my affliction. 93 I will never forget Your Commandments; for with them You have given me life. 94 I am Yours, save me; for I have sought Your Commandments. 95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me; but I will think on Your testimonies. 96 I have seen an end to all perfection; Your Commandment is exceedingly broad. 97 MEM: Oh how I love Your Law! It is my meditation all the day. 98 Through Your Commandments You make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers; for Your testimonies are my prayer. 100 I understand more than the old men, because I keep Your Commandments. 101 I have kept my feet from every evil way, so that I might keep Your Word. 102 I have not departed from Your judgments; for You have taught me. 103 How sweet are Your Words to my taste! More than honey to my mouth! 104 Through Your Commandments I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. 105 NUN: Your Word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path. 106 I have sworn, and I raised it, that I will keep Your righteous judgments. 107 I am afflicted very much; O Jehovah, give me life according to Your Word. 108 I pray You, take the free-will offerings of my mouth, O Jehovah, and teach me Your judgments. 109 My life is in my hand daily; yet I do not forget Your Law. 110 The wicked have laid a snare for me; yet I do not go astray from Your Commandments. 111 I have taken Your testimonies as an inheritance forever; for they are the rejoicing of my heart. 112 I have bowed down my heart to do Your Precepts always to the end. 113 SAMECH: I hate half-hearted thoughts; but Your Law do I love. 114 You are my hiding-place and my shield; I hope in Your Word. 115 Depart from me, you evil-doers, for I will keep the Commandments of my God. 116 Uphold me according to Your Word, that I may live; and let me not be ashamed of my hope. 117 Hold me up, and I shall be safe; and I will always have respect to Your Precepts. 118 You have trampled all those who go astray from Your Precepts; for their deceit is falsehood. 119 You put away all the wicked of the earth like waste; therefore I love Your testimonies. 120 My flesh trembles in fear of You; and I am afraid of Your judgments. 121 AYIN: I have done the just and right thing; leave me not to those who crush me. 122 Be surety for Your servant for good; let not the proud press me down. 123 My eyes fail for Your salvation, and for the Word of Your righteousness. 124 Deal with Your servant according to Your mercy, and teach me Your Precepts. 125 I am Your servant; give me understanding, that I may know Your testimonies. 126 It is time for Jehovah to work; for they have broken Your Law. 127 Therefore I love Your Commandments above gold; yea, even fine gold. 128 Therefore I count all Your Commandments concerning all things to be right; I hate every false way. 129 PE: Your testimonies are wonderful; therefore my soul keeps them. 130 The entrance of Your Words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple. 131 I opened my mouth and panted; for I longed for Your Commandments. 132 Look on me, and be merciful to me, as You usually do to those who love Your name. 133 Order my steps in Your Word; and do not let any iniquity rule over me. 134 Deliver me from the oppression of man; and I will keep Your Commandments. 135 Make Your face shine on Your servant; and teach me Your Precepts. 136 Rivers of water run down my eyes, because they do not keep Your Law. 137 TZADDI: You are righteous, O Jehovah, and Your judgments are right. 138 In Your testimonies You have commanded righteousness and faithfulness exceedingly. 139 My zeal has eaten me up, because my enemies have forgotten Your Words. 140 Your Word is very pure; therefore Your servant loves it. 141 I am small and despised; yet I do not forget Your Commandments. 142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and Your Law is the truth. 143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me; yet Your Commandments are my delight. 144 The righteousness of Your testimonies is everlasting; give me understanding, and I shall live. 145 QOPH: I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O Jehovah; I will keep Your Precepts. 146 I cried to You; save me, and I shall keep Your testimonies. 147 I went before the dawning of the morning and cried; I hoped in Your Word. 148 My eyes go before the night watches, so that I might think on Your Word. 149 Hear my voice according to Your loving-kindness; O Jehovah, according to Your judgment give me life. 150 They draw near, those who follow after wickedness; they are far from Your Law. 151 You are near, O Jehovah, and all Your Commandments are truth. 152 Concerning Your testimonies, I have known of old that You have founded them forever. 153 RESH: Look on my affliction, and deliver me; for I do not forget Your Law. 154 Plead my cause, and deliver me; according to Your Word give me life. 155 Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek Your Precepts. 156 Great are Your tender mercies, O Jehovah; according to Your judgments give me life. 157 Many are my persecutors and my enemies, yet I do not turn aside from Your testimonies. 158 I saw the traitors, and was grieved because they did not keep Your Word. 159 See how I love Your Commandments; O Jehovah, according to Your loving-kindness give me life. 160 Your Word is true from the beginning; and every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever. 161 SHIN: Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in fear of Your Word. 162 I rejoice at Your Word, as one who finds great spoil. 163 I hate and despise lying; but I love Your Law. 164 I praise You seven times a day because of Your righteous judgments. 165 Great peace is to those who love Your Law, and there is no stumbling block for them. 166 Jehovah, I have hoped for Your salvation, and have done Your Commandments. 167 My soul has kept Your testimonies; and I love them very much. 168 I have kept Your Commandments and Your testimonies; for all my ways are before You. 169 TAU: Let my cry come near to You, O Jehovah; give me wisdom according to Your Word. 170 Let my prayer come before You; deliver me according to Your Word. 171 My lips shall utter praise, when You have taught me Your Precepts. 172 My tongue shall speak Your Word, for all Your Commandments are righteousness. 173 Let Your hand help me; for I have chosen Your Precepts. 174 I have longed for Your salvation, O Jehovah; and Your Law is my delight. 175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise You; and let Your judgments help me. 176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Your servant; for I do not forget Your Commandments.