Psalms 10:1-30:12 Why, O Lord, hast thou stood at a distance; dost thou overlook at proper occasions; in adversity?

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Why, O Lord, hast thou stood at a distance; dost thou overlook at proper occasions; in adversity? ² When the wicked exulteth with pride, the poor is set on fire; they are caught by the counsels which they devise. ³ Because the sinner is praised for the desires of his soul; therefore he who committeth injustice is blessed. ⁴ The sinner hath greatly provoked the Lord; according to his great anger will he not make inquisition? God is not before his eyes; ⁵ his ways are polluted on every occasion. Thy judgments are removed from his sight; shall he have a mastery over all his enemies? ⁶ For he said in his heart, I shall not he moved and I shall never be in adversity. ⁷ Is not his mouth full of cursing, and bitterness and deceit? ⁸ Under his tongue there is mischief and sorrow. He sat in secret places with the rich to slay the innocent; His eyes are on the watch for the distressed. ⁹ He lurketh in secret like a lion in his den; He lurketh to make a prey of the poor. To make a prey of the poor when he hath drawn him in; in his net he will humble him. ¹⁰ He will stoop and crouch at his tyrannising over the poor; ¹¹ For he said in his heart God hath forgotten; He hath turned his face from ever seeing. ¹² Arise, Lord God, let thy hand be lifted up; Forget not the oppressed. ¹³ Why hath the wicked provoked God?; For he said in his heart, He will not make inquisition. ¹⁴ Thou seest [for thou observest mischief and wrath]; That they have delivered themselves into thy hands. To thee the poor hath committed himself; Thou art the helper of the fatherless. ¹⁵ Break the arm of the sinful and malicious man. Let his sin be sought out till no more can be found. ¹⁶ Let the Lord reign for ever and ever! Perish ye nations out of his land! ¹⁷ The Lord hath hearkened to the desire of the oppressed: Thine ear hath attended to the preparation of their heart; ¹⁸ to administer justice to the fatherless and the weak: That man may no longer continue his insolence in the land. ¹¹ ¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. In the Lord I have placed my confidence, how say ye to my soul, "away to the mountains as an ostrich. ² For behold the sinners have bent a bow: they have provided arrows for a quiver; to shoot privily the upright in heart. ³ For what thou didst build up, they have pulled down." Now what hath the righteous done? ⁴ The Lord is in his holy temple. The Lord, whose throne is in heaven; whose eyes look down on the needy; whose eye lids examine the sons of men; ⁵ the Lord examineth both the righteous and the wicked. He then who loveth iniquity hateth his own soul. ⁶ Upon the wicked he will rain snares. Fire and brimstone and a tempestuous wind, shall be the portion of their cup. ⁷ Because the Lord is righteous, therefore he loved righteousness; his countenance beheld uprightness. ¹² ¹ For the conclusion, for the eighth [day] A Psalm by David. SAVE me, O Lord! for a holy one hath ceased; for truths are scarce among the sons of men. ² They spoke vanities one to another: their lips are deceitful, they spoke with a double heart: ³ May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips; and the tongue which speaketh swelling words; ⁴ them who say, "We will magnify our tongue: our lips are our own: who is Lord over us?" ⁵ Because of the oppression of the poor; because of the groans of the needy; now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set in safety and speak boldly. ⁶ The oracles of the Lord are pure oracles; tried silver, clear of dross, seven times purified. ⁷ Thou, Lord, wilt keep us and preserve us, from this generation, and forever. ⁸ The wicked are walking about: thou, in thy sublimity, hast carefully observed the sons of men. ¹³ ¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. How long, Lord, wilt thou forget me? For ever? How long wilt thou turn away thy face from me? ² How long shall I revolve counsels in my mind, and sorrows in my heart? For years? How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? ³ Look down, hearken to me, O Lord, my God. Enlighten mine eyes, that I may not sleep unto death; ⁴ lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed over him. They who afflict me will rerejoice, if I be moved. ⁵ As for me, I have trusted in thy mercy; let my heart rejoice in thy salvation: ⁶ I will sing to the Lord my benefactor; and hymn to the name of the Lord Most High. ¹⁴ ¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. The fool said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt and by their works abominable: there is none who doeth good. No not one. ² The Lord looked down from heaven on the children of men; to see if any had understanding or were seeking God. ³ They had all gone aside, they were altogether become vile: there is none who doeth good; no not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they practised deceit: the poison of asps is under the lips of them whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways: and the way of peace they did not know: there is no fear of God before their eyes. ⁴ Will they all continue senseless? They are going on in a course of iniquity: they are eating up my people as they do bread: they have not called on the Lord. ⁵ They were seized with terror, where there was no fear; because God was among a righteous generation. ⁶ Have you despised the counsel of the poor; because his trust is in the Lord? ⁷ that he would for Sion's sake send deliverance to Israel! When the Lord hath brought back the captives of his people: Let Jacob rejoice and let Israel be glad. ¹⁵ ¹ A Psalm by David. Lord! who shall sojourn at thy tabernacle? And who shall dwell on thy holy mountain? ² He who walketh blameless and Worketh righteousness: And who speaketh truth from his heart. ³ Who hath not deceived with his tongue; nor done evil to his neighbour; nor taken up a reproach against his neighbours. ⁴ In whose sight an evil doer is contemned; but who honoureth them who fear the Lord: who sweareth to his neighbour; and doth not violate his engagements: ⁵ who hath not lent his money on usury; nor taken bribes against the innocent. He whose practise is such, shall never be moved. ¹⁶ ¹ An inscription for a pillar. By David. Preserve me, Lord: for in thee I have trusted. ² I said to the Lord, Thou art my Lord: thou hast no need of my goods. ³ By the hallowed things in this land of his he had marvellously displayed all his designs. ⁴ Their infirmities were multiplied: after these hallowed things they hastened. I will no more assemble their congregations for blood, nor make mention of their names with my lips. ⁵ The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou art he who restoreth me mine inheritance. ⁶ The lines have fallen to me in the best places: for this inheritance of mine is the best for me. ⁷ I will bless the Lord who hath given me understanding: even now at night my reins have instructed me. ⁸ I saw the Lord continually before me. Because he is at my right hand that I may not be moved; ⁹ therefore my heart was gladdened; and my tongue exulted with joy: moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope; ¹⁰ that thou wilt not leave my soul in the mansion of the dead nor suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. ¹¹ Thou hast made known to me the ways of life: thou with thy presence wilt fill me with joy. At thy right hand are pleasures for evermore. ¹⁷ ¹ A Prayer of David. Hearken, Lord, to my justification; attend to my supplication: give ear to my prayer which is not made with feigned lips. ² Let my sentence come forth from thy presence: Let mine eyes behold righteous decisions. ³ Thou hast proved my heart: thou hast watched me by night: thou hast tried me: and in me there was found no injustice. ⁴ That my mouth might not speak the works of these men; I, because of the words of thy lips, kept rugged ways. ⁵ Establish my footsteps in thy paths; that my footsteps may not be moved. ⁶ I have cried, because thou, O God, didst hear me: incline thine ear to me and hear my words. ⁷ Display marvellously thy mercies, O thou, who, with thy right hand, savest from adversaries them who trust in thee. ⁸ Keep me as the apple of an eye: with the cover of thy wings ⁹ thou wilt shelter me from the face of the wicked who afflict me. These enemies of mine beset my soul: ¹⁰ they shut up their fat; their mouth spoke proudly. ¹¹ Having driven me out they now enclosed me. They set their eyes inclining to the ground. ¹² They observed me, like a lion eager for prey, and like a young lion lurking in coverts. ¹³ Arise, Lord, prevent them and cause them to stumble. Deliver my soul from the wicked: wrest thy sword ¹⁴ from thine enemies hand Dismiss them, Lord, from the land: disperse them in their life time. Though their belly was filled with thy stores; they glutted themselves with swine's flesh, and left the relicks for their children. ¹⁵ But as for me, let me appear righteous before thee; let me be satisfied with a display of thy glory. ¹⁸ ¹ For the conclusion. By David the servant of the Lord: who spake to the Lord the words of this Ode on the day when the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul; and he said: I Will love thee, Lord, my strength! ² The Lord is my support, my refuge and my deliverer. My God is my helper, in him I will trust: my protector, the horn of my salvation and my defender. ³ In songs of praise I will call on the Lord, and I shall be saved from mine enemies. ⁴ The pangs of death encompassed me; and floods of iniquity startled me. ⁵ The pangs of Hades surrounded me, and the snares of death were before me. ⁶ In my distress I called on the Lord, and to my God I raised my cry. From his holy temple he heard my voice; and my cry before him reached his ears. ⁷ Then was the earth shaken: it trembled; and the foundations of the hills were convulsed and shaken; because at mine enemies God was incensed. ⁸ A smoke ascended in his ire, and at his presence a fire flamed, by which coals were kindled to a glow. ⁹ And he bowed the heaven and came down, and darkness was under his feet. ¹⁰ He mounted on cherubs and flew; he flew on the wings of winds. ¹¹ But he made darkness his covering, His tent around him was dark water in clouds of air. ¹² At the flash of the lightning before him, the clouds burst. Hail stones and coals of fire! ¹³ Then the Lord thundered from heaven, the Most High uttered his voice: ¹⁴ He sent forth his bolts and scattered them: he multiplied his lightnings and confounded them. ¹⁵ Then were seen the head springs of waters, and the foundations of the World were disclosed, at thy rebuke. Lord; at the blowing of the blast of thine anger. ¹⁶ He sent from on high and took me; he took me to himself from many waters. ¹⁷ He will deliver me from my potent enemies; and from them who hate me; because they are stronger than I. ¹⁸ They surprised me in the day of my distress; but the Lord was my firm support; ¹⁹ and brought me out to a large place. He will deliver me because he delighted in me. ²⁰ The Lord will reward me according to my righteousness, and recompense me according to the cleanness of my hands. ²¹ Because I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God; ²² because all his judgments were before me, and his rules of rectitude were not far from me; ²³ therefore with him I shall be unblemished, and I will guard myself from mine iniquity; ²⁴ and the Lord will reward me according to my righteousness, and according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight. ²⁵ With the merciful thou will shew thyself merciful, ²⁶ and with a harmless man thou wilt be harmless; with a warrior thou wilt be a warrior, and with the wily, thou wilt practise wiles. ²⁷ Because thou wilt save a dejected people; therefore the eyes of the lofty thou wilt humble. ²⁸ Because thou, Lord, wilt light my lamp; thou, my God, wilt enlighten my darkness; ²⁹ by thee therefore I shall be delivered from a roving band; and by my God I shall overleap a wall. ³⁰ As for my God, his way is spotless; the oracles of the Lord are tried, he is the protector of all who trust in him. ³¹ For who is God, besides the Lord? And who is God, save our God? ³² It is thou, God, who girdest me with strength, and hast made my way spotless; ³³ who makest my feet like those of a hind, and who steadiest me on high places; ³⁴ who instructest my hands for battle, and hast made my arms like a bow of steel, ³⁵ and given me a defence for my safety; and thy right hand hath helped me, and thy discipline hath upheld me to the last: this discipline of thine will still teach me. ³⁶ Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, and my tread was not unsteady. ³⁷ I shall pursue mine enemies and overtake them, and not turn back till they are destroyed. ³⁸ I shall harass them that they may not be able to stand; they shall fall down under my feet. ³⁹ For thou hast girded me with strength for battle, and subdued under me all that rose up against me. ⁴⁰ Thou hast given me the backs of mine enemies, and utterly destroyed them who hate me. ⁴¹ They cried aloud, but there was no saviour; to the Lord, but he hearkened not to them. ⁴² So that I shall beat them small as dust before the wind, and trample them down like dirt in the street. ⁴³ Deliver me from the contentions of the people. Thou wilt set me at the head of nations. A people whom I knew not, have served me. ⁴⁴ Soon as they heard, they obeyed me. ⁴⁵ Strange children have paid me feigned obedience. Strange children became old and limped from their paths. ⁴⁶ Live the Lord! and blessed be my God! and let the God of my salvation be exalted: ⁴⁷ The God who hath executed vengeance for me: and subjected peoples under me; ⁴⁸ my deliverer from outrageous enemies. From them who rise up against me, thou wilt lift me up; from the man of violence thou wilt deliver me. ⁴⁹ For this cause I will praise thee, Lord, among the nations: And sing melodiously to thy name. ⁵⁰ He is magnifying the deliverances of his king, and shewing mercy to his anointed; to David and his seed forever. ¹⁹ ¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament proclaimeth the work of his hands. ² Day to day pronounceth a decree; and night to night proclaimeth knowledge. ³ Are they not speeches and are they not words, of which is not their utterance heard? ⁴ To every land their sound is gone forth: and their doctrines to the limits of the World. ⁵ In the sun he placed his tabernacle. And he is like a bridegroom coming forth from his chamber. He will rejoice as a giant to run his course. ⁶ His going forth is from the summit of heaven; and his course is to the summit thereof, and from his heat none can be hid. ⁷ The law of the Lord is perfect, it restoreth souls: The testimony of the Lord is faithful, it maketh infants wise. ⁸ The statutes of the Lord are right, they rejoice the heart. The commandment of the Lord is clear, it enlighteneth the eyes. ⁹ The fear of the Lord is pure, it endureth forever. The judgments of the Lord are true, they are justified for being so. ¹⁰ They are more to be desired than gold, or many precious stones; and sweeter than honey or the honey comb. ¹¹ These indeed thy servant keepeth; for keeping them there is a great reward. ¹² Who can understand his errors? Cleanse thou me from those of mine which are hid; ¹³ and for those of others, spare thy servant. If they gain not a dominion over me: then shall I be spotless, and clean from great transgression. ¹⁴ And the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart, will be continually acceptable in thy sight: Lord, my helper and my redeemer. ²⁰ ¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. The Lord hearken to thee in a day of distress! The name of the God of Jacob defend thee; ² May he send thee help from the Sanctuary: And assist thee out of Sion. ³ May he remember all thy sacrifice; And make thy whole burnt offerings fat. ⁴ May he grant thee thy hearts desire: And fulfil all thy counsel. ⁵ We will rejoice in thy salvation, and triumph in the name of our God. May the Lord fulfil all thy petitions! ⁶ Now I know that the Lord hath saved his anointed. From his holy heaven he will hearken to him. The salvation of his right hand is with power. ⁷ Some boast of chariots and some of horses; but by the name of the Lord our God we shall be magnified. ⁸ They were entangled and fell; but we arose and were kept upright. ⁹ O Lord, save the king, and hearken to us, when we invoke thee. ²¹ ¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. Lord, in thy strength, the king will rejoice; and exult greatly in thy salvation. ² Thou hast granted him the desire of his soul, and hast not denied him the request of his lips. ³ For thou hast pre-engaged him with kind blessings. Thou hast set on his head a crown of precious stones. ⁴ He asked of thee life; and thou hast given him length of days forever. ⁵ By thy salvation his glory is great. Thou wilt confer on him honour and majesty. ⁶ For thou wilt give him everlasting blessing; and with the joy of thy countenance make him glad. ⁷ Because the king trusteth in the Lord: therefore, through the mercy of the Most High, he cannot be shaken. ⁸ Let thine enemies feel thy hand: and thy right hand find out all that hate thee. ⁹ Thou wilt make them like an oven of fire, at the time of thy presence. The Lord with his wrath will confound them, and a fire shall devour them. ¹⁰ Thou wilt destroy their fruit from the earth, and their seed from among the sons of men. ¹¹ Because on thee they were turning evils. Were devising a counsel which they could not accomplish; ¹² because thou wilt set them behind those thou hast left; wilt prepare others to be before them. ¹³ Be thou, Lord, exalted by thy power: let us sing and extol thy acts of government. ²² ¹ For the conclusion. On the help of the morning. A Psalm by David. God, my God! attend to me! why hast thou forsaken me? have the acts of my transgressions [removed thee] far from saving me? ² my God, shall I cry to thee by day, and thou not listen, and by night, and thou not hear me? ³ Thou indeed dwellest in a holy place; thou art the praise of Israel. ⁴ In thee our fathers placed their trust; they trusted and thou didst deliver them. To thee they cried and they were saved; ⁵ in thee they trusted and were not put to shame. ⁶ As for me, I am a Worm, and no man; the scorn of men and the people's contempt. ⁷ All that see me have laughed me to scorn; they said with their lips while they shaked their head, ⁸ "He trusted in the Lord, let him deliver him; let him save him, since he delighteth in him." ⁹ Because thou art he, who drew me forth from the womb: my hope, when at the breasts of my mother; ¹⁰ I was cast on thy care from my very birth; from my mother's womb thou art my God; ¹¹ stand not at a distance from me; for trouble is near; for there is no helper. ¹² Many bulls have encompassed me; fat bulls have beset me around. ¹³ Against me they have opened their mouth, like a ravening and roaring lion. ¹⁴ I am poured out like water, and all my bones are torn asunder: my heart within me is melted like wax. ¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my palate; thou hast indeed brought me to the dust of death. ¹⁶ Because many dogs have encompassed me, an assembly of wicked men have beset me; have pierced my hands and my feet; ¹⁷ have counted all my bones, and have stared and looked at me; ¹⁸ they have parted my garments among them, and for my vesture have cast lots; ¹⁹ Therefore, Lord, delay not thou my help, draw near to my assistance; ²⁰ rescue my soul from the sword; this only begotten of mine from the paw of a dog. ²¹ Save me from the mouth of a lion, and this lowliness of mine from the unicorn's horns. ²² I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of a congregation I will sing praise to thee. ²³ Praise him, ye who fear the Lord praise him, all ye seed of Jacob. Let all the seed of Israel fear him; ²⁴ for he hath not slighted, nor abhorred the prayer of the distressed; nor turned away his face from me: but hearkened to me when I cried to him. ²⁵ My praise shall be of thee in a great congregation: I will pay my vows before them who fear him. ²⁶ The needy shall eat and be satisfied: and they who seek the Lord will praise him. Their heart shall be forever alive. ²⁷ All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord; and all the families of the nations shall worship before him: ²⁸ for the kingdom is the Lord's and he ruleth the nations. ²⁹ All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and worshipped: before him shall bow all that go down to the dust. Let my soul therefore live for him. ³⁰ My seed indeed will serve him: a generation which is coming shall be announced for the Lord: ³¹ and they will proclaim his saving mercy to a people that shall be born, whom the Lord made. ²³ ¹ A Psalm by David. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall want nothing. ² In a verdant pasture he hath fixed my abode. He hath fed me by gently flowing water ³ and restored my soul. He hath led me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. ⁴ For though I walk amidst the shades of death: I will fear no ills, because thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff have been my comfort. ⁵ Thou hast spread a table before me; in the presence of them who afflict me. With oil thou hast anointed my head; and thine exhilarating cup is the very best. ⁶ Thy mercy will surely follow me all the days of my life; and my dwelling shall be in the house of the Lord to length of days. ²⁴ ¹ A Psalm by David, on the first day of the week. The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof, the World and all its inhabitants. ² Upon the seas he laid its foundations; and established it upon the floods. ³ Who shall ascend to the hill of God, and who shall stand in his holy place? ⁴ He whose hands are clean and whose heart is pure. Who hath not devoted his soul to vanity; nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour. ⁵ Such shall receive a blessing from the Lord; and bounteous supplies from God his saviour. ⁶ Such is the generation of them who seek him; who seek the face of the God of Jacob. ⁷ Open wide your gates, ye chiefs! and be opened wide, ye everlasting doors; that the glorious king may enter. ⁸ Who is the glorious king? The Lord strong and mighty: the Lord mighty in battle. ⁹ Open wide your gates, ye chiefs; and be opened wide ye everlasting doors; that the glorious king may enter. ¹⁰ Who is this glorious king? The Lord of Hosts. He is the king of glory. ²⁵ ¹ A Psalm by David. To thee, Lord, I have lifted up my soul: ² O my God, in thee I have put my trust: let me not be shamed, nor let mine enemies deride me; ³ for none who wait on thee should be put to shame. Let them be shamed who vainly transgress. ⁴ Lord, shew me thy ways and teach me thy paths. ⁵ Lead me to thy truth, and teach me: for thou, God, art my saviour, and for thee I have waited all the day long. ⁶ Lord, remember thy compassion and thy tender mercies; for they are from everlasting. ⁷ Remember not the sins and follies of my youth; according to thy mercy remember me, Lord, for thy goodness sake. ⁸ The Lord is gracious and righteous: therefore he will instruct sinners in the way: ⁹ he will guide the meek in judgment: he will teach the meek his ways. ¹⁰ All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth; to them who seek his covenant and his testimonies. ¹¹ For the sake of thy name therefore, Lord, pardon this sin of mine, for it is manifold; ¹² What man soever habitually feareth the Lord; him He will instruct in the way he hath chosen; ¹³ his life shall be spent in the enjoyment of good things and his offspring shall inherit the land. ¹⁴ The Lord is the strength of them who fear him; and it is his covenant to display it for them. ¹⁵ Mine eyes are continually towards the Lord; because he can extricate my feet from the snare. ¹⁶ Look down upon me and compassionate me; for I am an only begotten, though distressed: ¹⁷ the troubles of my heart are multiplied: deliver me from these my distresses. ¹⁸ Look on my humiliation and my trouble and for give all my sins. ¹⁹ View mine enemies, for they are multiplied; and have hated me with unjust hatred. ²⁰ preserve my soul and deliver me: let me not be shamed, because I have trusted in thee. ²¹ To me the innocent and the upright cleaved; because I waited for thee, O Lord. ²² God redeem Israel from all their afflictions! ²⁶ ¹ By David. Judge me, Lord, for I have walked in mine integrity; and trusting in the Lord I should not be shaken. ² Examine me, Lord, and prove me: try my reins and my heart. ³ Because thy mercy is before mine eyes; and I have delighted in thy truth: ⁴ I did not sit with the council of vanity; nor can I go with them who transgress: ⁵ I hated the assembly of evil doers; and with the ungodly I cannot sit. ⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence and go round thine altar, O Lord: ⁷ that I may hear the voice of praise; and tell all thy wonderous acts. ⁸ Lord, I have loved the beauty of thy house; and the place of the mansion of thy glory. ⁹ Destroy not my soul with the wicked nor my life with blood thirsty men; ¹⁰ in whose hands are iniquities; and whose right hand is full of bribes. ¹¹ As for me, I have walked in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful to me. ¹² My foot hath been stedfast in rectitude: in assemblies, I will bless thee, O Lord. ²⁷ ¹ A Psalm of David before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my saviour. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defender of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? ² When evil doers approached me, to devour my flesh; they, who afflicted me, even mine enemies fainted and fell. ³ Though a host be drawn up against me, my heart will not be dismayed; though war rise up against me, still I exercise hope. ⁴ One favour I have asked of the Lord; and this I will earnestly seek; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord, all the days of my life; that I may contemplate the delight of the Lord; and visit his temple. ⁵ Because in his pavilion he hid me, in the day of my calamities; in the secret of his tabernacle he covered me; he set me upon a rock; ⁶ and now, behold! He hath raised up my head against mine enemies: I have gone round and offered at his tent a sacrifice of thanksgiving: with musick vocal and instrumental I will praise the Lord. ⁷ Hear, Lord, my voice when I cry; have mercy on me and hearken to me. ⁸ To thee my heart said, I have sought thy lace; thy face, O Lord, I will seek. ⁹ Turn not away thy face from me; withdraw not in anger from thy servant. Be thou my helper: leave me not, nor forsake me, O God, my saviour. ¹⁰ Since my father and my mother have left me; and the Lord hath taken me to himself: ¹¹ instruct me in thy way and lead me in the right path, because of mine enemies. ¹² Deliver me not up to the will of them who are afflicting me. Because false witnesses have risen up against me and injustice hath belied itself; ¹³ I am confident of seeing the goodness of the Lord, in the land of the living. ¹⁴ Wait for the Lord and be of good courage; let thy heart be strengthened and wait for the Lord. ²⁸ ¹ A Psalm of David. To thee, Lord, I have cried: O my God, pass me not by in silence. Shouldst thou pass me by in silence: I shall be like them who go down to the pit. ² Hear the sound of my supplication, when I pray to thee; when I lift up my hands to thy holy temple. ³ Draw not my soul in with sinners; nor destroy me with the workers of iniquity; with them who speak peace to their neighbours and harbour mischief in their hearts. ⁴ Give them according to their deeds; and according to the wickedness of their devices. According to the works of their hands give them; retribute to them their deserts. ⁵ Because they did not regard the works of the Lord; nor the operations of his hands: thou wilt utterly destroy them and not build them up again. ⁶ Blessed be the Lord, because he hath heard the voice of my prayer. ⁷ The Lord is my helper and my protector: on him my heart relied, and I am helped. My flesh also is revived, that with cheerfulness I may praise him. ⁸ The Lord is the strength of his people; and the safeguard of his anointed. ⁹ Save thy people and bless thine inheritance; feed them also and lift them up forever. ²⁹ ¹ A Psalm of David, at the exode of the tabernacle. Offer to the Lord, ye children of God; offer to the Lord the offspring of rams. Offer to the Lord glory and honour: ² Offer to the Lord, glory to his name. worship the Lord in his holy court. ³ The voice of the Lord on the waters! The God of the glory thundered! The Lord is over many waters. ⁴ The voice of the Lord is with power: the voice of the Lord is with majesty. ⁵ The voice of the Lord rending the cedars! The Lord will rend the cedars of Lebanon, and shatter them to pieces: ⁶ as a young unicorn would a calf; so will the beloved [shatter] Lebanon itself. ⁷ The voice of the Lord bursting through a flame of fire! The voice of the Lord shaking the wilderness. ⁸ The Lord will shake the wilderness of Kades. ⁹ The voice of the Lord collecting the hinds; when he shall lay the forests bare. When in his temple every one uttereth praise; ¹⁰ the Lord will cause that which was deluged to be inhabited: and the Lord will sit enthroned king forever. ¹¹ The Lord will give strength to his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace. ³⁰ ¹ For the conclusion. The Psalm of an Ode at the dedication of David's house. I Will extol thee, Lord, because thou hast upheld me, and hast not suffered mine enemies to rejoice over me. ² O Lord my God, to thee I cried and thou didst heal me. ³ Thou, Lord, hast brought my soul up out of Hades; and saved me from among them who go down to the pit. ⁴ Sing to the Lord, ye his saints; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. ⁵ Because at his wrath there is vexation; but in his favour, life; in the evening weeping may pitch its tent; and in the morning, joy. ⁶ As for me, I, in my prosperity, said, I can never be moved: ⁷ [To my comeliness, thou, Lord, in thy good pleasure hadst added strength] but thou didst turn away thy face, and I was involved in trouble. ⁸ To thee, Lord, I cried and to my God made supplication; ⁹ what profit is there in my blood; by my going down to corruption? Can dust celebrate thy praise; or can it proclaim thy truth? ¹⁰ The Lord heard and compassionated me: the Lord became my helper. ¹¹ Thou didst turn my mourning into joy; thou didst rend in pieces my sackcloth and gird me with gladness, ¹² that my glory might sound thy praise; and that I might not be absorpt in grief. Lord, my God, to thee I will give thanks for evermore.